What the corpus says about There Will Be Blood (2007)

The 42 lines php artisan corpus:ask hands a model, in the order it gets them, and nothing else. The model writes a clerk's answer from these and only these.

What was said about it (6)

[The Rewatchables · ‘Pulp Fiction’ (Part 2) · 2:02:10 · unknown (0.00)] Pulp Fiction ↔ There Will Be Blood · theme · Milkshakes as a cinematic beverage: Pulp or There Will Be Blood. · "Is it this or there will be blood?"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Zodiac · 0:17:09 · Leslye Headland (0.40)] Zodiac ↔ There Will Be Blood · craft · Zodiac, There Will Be Blood and No Country shared a nihilistic mood in 2007. · "There's something in the air that year."
[The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies · 0:21:14 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Close Encounters of the Third Kind ↔ There Will Be Blood · contrast · Spielberg heroes are usually morally upright, unlike Daniel Plainview. · "There's not a lot of Daniel Plainviews in there."
[The Big Picture · 5. ‘No Country for Old Men’ and ‘W.’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:06:29 · Brian Raftery (0.90)] No Country for Old Men ↔ There Will Be Blood · industry · Both were bleak 2007 contenders at the Oscars, where none of the nominees went down easy. · "I mean, none of that year's contenders went down easy."
[The Big Picture · Emergency Mailbag: The Oscars Are Streaming and Hollywood Is Fighting Over Trolls | The Big Picture · 0:57:14 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] No Country for Old Men ↔ There Will Be Blood · industry · No Country beat There Will Be Blood for best picture, then ratings were low and the Academy changed the rules. · "And it beat, there will be blood, which is painful for me, but still, no country for all men, incredible film."
[Blank Check · Decision to Leave · 0:18:28 · Tatiana Maslany (0.90)] Tatiana Maslany ↔ There Will Be Blood · verdict · She has seen it about 50 times and puts it on to watch one scene then gets sucked in. · "But even like there will be blood is one that I've seen probably like 50 times."

Films put beside it more than once (1)

[pairs] There Will Be Blood ↔ No Country for Old Men · said 2 times in 2 episodes

One hop out: what recommends the films most often joined to it (28)

[The Big Picture · 5. ‘No Country for Old Men’ and ‘W.’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:07:47 · Brian Raftery (0.90)] Cormac McCarthy ⇒ No Country for Old Men (the host's read) · lineage · The film adapts McCarthy's 2005 novel and the Coens refused to water it down. · "You can tell the cones were determined not to water down McCarthy's book."
[The Big Picture · The Top Five Movies of 2022 · 1:31:29 · Sean Fennessey (0.85)] Close Encounters of the Third Kind ⇒ Nope (the host's read) · lineage · Sean says Nope is as much a Spielberg movie as any he has seen in a long time, with Close Encounters the usual touchstone, and notes the shared theme of looking up and trying to see. · "nope is as much a Spielberg movie as any movie I've seen in a long, long time."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Pulp Fiction’ (Part 2) · 2:37:16 · unknown (0.00)] Pulp Fiction ↔ Black Sabbath · programming · Best double features: Black Sabbath (anthology), Saturday Night Fever, Inglourious Basterds, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. · "So you get an anthology movie."
[The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 1:20:45 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Zodiac ↔ Almost Famous · programming · AI cut-your-own-runtime fantasy: trim Zodiac to 97 minutes; instead Bill watched the bootleg Almost Famous with 35 extra minutes. · "we watch the bootleg cut the 2nd time, which has like 35 minutes of additional scenes."
[Blank Check · Fargo · 2:02:52 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Peter Stormare ↔ No Country for Old Men · theme · Gaear caring about Jerry's cruelty is compared to Tommy Lee Jones's sheriff not knowing whether he belongs in this world. · "This is like his Tommy Lee Jones in no country sort of like conundrum where he's like, I don't even know if I belong in this world."
[The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies · 0:19:05 · Sean Fennessey (0.85)] Close Encounters of the Third Kind ⇒ E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (the host's read) · theme · Close Encounters sets a template for science fiction and for stories about families and divorce. · "It sets a different kind of template for science fiction storytelling, for stories about families, for stories about obsession, for stories about divorce"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Pulp Fiction’ (Part 2) · 2:37:26 · unknown (0.00)] Pulp Fiction ↔ Inglourious Basterds · programming · Inglourious Basterds paired for its short-story structure; Once Upon a Time for bookending Tarantino's career. · "I have bastards because I feel like structurally it's it's got some the short story aspect of his very, it locks in together."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Zodiac · 0:50:16 · Leslye Headland (0.80)] L.A. Confidential ⇒ Zodiac (the host's read) · lineage · Leslye says Zodiac feels like it follows in the footsteps of L.A. Confidential. · "zodiac feels like it follows in the footsteps of that."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) · 0:21:37 · Sean Fennessey (0.55)] Panic Room ↔ No Country for Old Men · theme · Rooting for a morally complicated figure (Whitaker) recalls No Country and The Godfather. · "is it really that far afield from like no country for old men or the godfather"
[Blank Check · Raiders of the Lost Ark · 0:25:05 · Brian Michael Bendis (0.70)] Raiders of the Lost Ark ↔ Close Encounters of the Third Kind · craft · The novelization written by Spielberg internalized the story, which Bendis loved. · "it internalizes the story for a young person who's only seeing externalizing it."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Misery’ · 0:59:07 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] Pulp Fiction ⇒ Misery (the host's read) · programming · Butch's Girlfriend Award for weak link of the film is borrowed from Pulp Fiction. · "The Butch's girlfriend Award, Butch's girlfriend from Pulp Fiction."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Zodiac · 0:50:39 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Robert Graysmith ⇒ Zodiac (the host's read) · lineage · The Salerno script, which Vanderbilt took over, adapted Graysmith's nonfiction book (with a speculative sequel bolted on). · "So it's sort of like an adaptation of Graysmith's nonfiction book and a speculative sequence."
[The Big Picture · 5. ‘No Country for Old Men’ and ‘W.’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:04:13 · Brian Raftery (0.95)] No Country for Old Men ↔ W. · theme · Both arrived as the Bush era wound down and prompted audiences to take stock of the 21st century. · "No country for old men in W arrived just as the Bush era was winding down, and both movies prompted audiences to take stock of the 21st century so far."
[Blank Check · Raiders of the Lost Ark · 0:25:54 · Brian Michael Bendis (0.80)] Close Encounters of the Third Kind ↔ Walt Simonson · craft · Walt Simonson drew the Close Encounters comic adaptation, whose behind-the-scenes showed directing versus the page. · "Walt Simonson doing the close encounters adaptation, and it is wonderful."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Ice Storm’ · 1:27:53 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] The Ice Storm ↔ Pulp Fiction · programming · Next episodes will cover two famous movies; Ryan and Simmons tease Pulp Fiction. · "I've been watching a lot of pulp fiction lately."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Zodiac · 0:04:09 · Leslye Headland (0.90)] Zodiac ↔ The Shining · theme · Both are on Leslye's four-film Mount Rushmore. · "It's Zodiac, the Shining, back to the future, the apartment."
[The Big Picture · 5. ‘No Country for Old Men’ and ‘W.’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:10:17 · Brian Raftery (0.95)] No Country for Old Men ↔ No Country for Old Men · theme · It works as neo-Western, chase movie and killer-on-the-loose flick but is monumental for another reason. · "A neo Western, a chase movie, a killer on the loose flick, and it does all of those things perfectly."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ · 0:03:58 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Reservoir Dogs ↔ Pulp Fiction · programming · Reservoir Dogs found much of its audience after Pulp Fiction, via rentals. · "After Pulp Fiction and then circled back and rented Reservoir Dogs."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Zodiac · 0:04:09 · Leslye Headland (0.90)] Zodiac ↔ Back to the Future · theme · Both are on Leslye's four-film Mount Rushmore. · "It's Zodiac, the Shining, back to the future, the apartment."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ · 1:23:02 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Reservoir Dogs ↔ No Country for Old Men · craft · Not showing the heist works as in No Country; slowly unfurling beats showing. · "No, we've learned this from no country for old men."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Pulp Fiction’ (Part 2) · 0:04:26 · Sean Fennessey (0.35)] Reservoir Dogs ⇒ Pulp Fiction (the host's read) · lineage · Pulp's opening two-song credits echo the radio dial concept from Reservoir Dogs. · "Well, the radio, the concept of the radio had been in Reservoir Dogs, but I think switching the songs in the middle, because you hear him change the dial."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Zodiac · 0:04:09 · Leslye Headland (0.90)] Zodiac ↔ The Apartment · theme · Both are on Leslye's four-film Mount Rushmore. · "It's Zodiac, the Shining, back to the future, the apartment."
[The Big Picture · 5. ‘No Country for Old Men’ and ‘W.’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:03:19 · Brian Raftery (0.95)] W. ↔ No Country for Old Men · craft · Raftery links Stone's film to the Coens' as a different take on one man in over his head setting off destruction. · "That kind of domino effect was explored in a very different movie from the year before."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Pulp Fiction’ (Part 2) · 0:06:07 · Bill Simmons (0.40)] Pulp Fiction ⇒ Pulp Fiction imitators (the host's read) · lineage · The Royale-in-Paris, Amsterdam conversation is the most parodied and copied stretch of screenwriting of the last 30 years. · "Yeah. I would argue this is the most ripped off four and a half minutes of screenwriting in the past 30 years."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Zodiac · 0:56:14 · unknown (0.30)] L.A. Confidential ↔ Zodiac · theme · The vanishing Avery is likened to the Kevin Spacey character in L.A. Confidential. · "Like, like the Kevin Spacey character."
[The Big Picture · 5. ‘No Country for Old Men’ and ‘W.’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:20:57 · Brian Raftery (0.95)] No Country for Old Men ↔ No Country for Old Men · craft · Its message of powerlessness fit audiences after 9/11, Katrina, Iraq and the economy. · "911, Katrina, Iraq, the economy."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Pulp Fiction’ (Part 2) · 0:09:49 · Bill Simmons (0.40)] Lee Majors ⇒ Pulp Fiction (the host's read) · lineage · The setup of Vincent taking the boss's wife out echoes a Hollywood story about Lee Majors asking someone to take Farrah Fawcett out while he was away. · "Because Lee Majors is going out of town."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Zodiac · 2:07:42 · Leslye Headland (0.50)] Alfred Hitchcock ↔ Zodiac · theme · Leslye says Fincher uses full Hitchcock in the Fleischer basement scene, which is wholly subjective. · "No, Fincher is using full Hitchcock to do a scene that is entirely subjective."

Who said it, by their latest sketch (4)

[speaker] Sean Fennessey · latest sketch, The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · Loves gory, funny, fast genre movies with craft and confidence, especially 87-minute films that never overstay. Can't stand ponderous elevated horror that fills out its runtime with introspection and sad family history. A sucker for the Carpenter-era lineage, Die Hard homages, and directors who break studio dogma. · stances: Resident Evil is one of the best films of the year; Horror movies have become a drag; fun genre experiences are needed; Short running times are a virtue; Video-game films work best when great filmmakers get creative license
[speaker] Brian Raftery · latest sketch, The Big Picture · 5. ‘No Country for Old Men’ and ‘W.’ | Mission Accomplished · Loves slow-burn tension and scenes built on dialogue, naming the Ellis kitchen scene the best of the 2000s. Is drawn to films that capture their national moment. Has little patience for the word classic, and dry humor about presidents and haircuts. · stances: No Country for Old Men is about inevitability and powerlessness; Its 2007 release resonated with Bush-era anxiety; W. was undone by timing, not quality; Stone's late-2000s movies are best read through the decade's politics
[speaker] Leslye Headland · latest sketch, Blank Check — Patreon · Zodiac · Loves Zodiac as part of a Mount Rushmore (Zodiac, The Shining, Back to the Future, The Apartment) and watched it daily at a low point in her life. Adores blocking and staging as the true mark of the greats, loves Fincher's digital photography, and sees Fight Club as an evergreen Strangelove-style satire. Also a fan of L.A. Confidential as a nook-and-cranny movie. · stances: Zodiac is a masterpiece and a movie to live inside; Fincher's real genius is blocking and staging, not flash; Fight Club is a durable satire; Digital can look gorgeous
[speaker] Tatiana Maslany · latest sketch, Blank Check · Decision to Leave · Here for vibes, performance and small moments rather than plot. Loves A Woman Under the Influence (about 40 viewings), There Will Be Blood (about 50) and The Nightmare Before Christmas. Reveres actors who can do very little and be compelling; hates bad writing most of all to act. · stances: Subtitled performances show what acting really is; The hardest thing to act is bad writing; Tang Wei plays honest, not mysterious, which is why it works; Sand-beaching is partly guilt and partly power

The shows' running bits (3)

[bits] The Big Picture: Drafts (Hosts and guests draft films in rounds; every pick is a recommendation with an argument); Hall of Fame (A star's or director's best, ranked and argued); Countdowns (Ranked lists, top five or top ten)
[bits] Blank Check: The box office game (Guessing the film's opening weekend and what it was up against); The sung theme ("Blank Check with Griffin and David", sung; the transcriber garbles it)
[bits] The Rewatchables: Apex Mountain (The moment a star peaks; where on the mountain a performance sits); Who Won the Movie (The hosts name the person who came out of the film best off); The Ebert review (Roger Ebert's original review and star rating read aloud. Ebert is cited, never on the show); Casting what-ifs (Who was almost cast, or who should have been); Most rewatchable scene (The scene each host would stop on while flipping channels); Aged best / aged worst (What holds up and what does not); Picking Nits (The little things in a film the hosts love that they don't think totally work: the nits); Double feature (The film each host would pair it with; a programming pick)

The whole prompt

As the model gets it, from app/Ai/Prompts/CorpusAsk.md

You are a clerk at Video Culture, a video store. A customer just finished There Will Be Blood (2007) and wants to know what to watch next.

Below is what people who love movies said on three podcasts (Blank Check, The Rewatchables, The Big Picture) about There Will Be Blood (2007) and the films around it, one line each. Every line starts with where it came from, in brackets: [show · episode · time · speaker (how sure we are it was them)]. A [pairs] line says how often two films were put side by side. A [speaker] line says what that person likes. A [bits] line lists a show's running bits: a format, not an opinion.

[The Rewatchables · ‘Pulp Fiction’ (Part 2) · 2:02:10 · unknown (0.00)] Pulp Fiction ↔ There Will Be Blood · theme · Milkshakes as a cinematic beverage: Pulp or There Will Be Blood. · "Is it this or there will be blood?"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Zodiac · 0:17:09 · Leslye Headland (0.40)] Zodiac ↔ There Will Be Blood · craft · Zodiac, There Will Be Blood and No Country shared a nihilistic mood in 2007. · "There's something in the air that year."
[The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies · 0:21:14 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Close Encounters of the Third Kind ↔ There Will Be Blood · contrast · Spielberg heroes are usually morally upright, unlike Daniel Plainview. · "There's not a lot of Daniel Plainviews in there."
[The Big Picture · 5. ‘No Country for Old Men’ and ‘W.’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:06:29 · Brian Raftery (0.90)] No Country for Old Men ↔ There Will Be Blood · industry · Both were bleak 2007 contenders at the Oscars, where none of the nominees went down easy. · "I mean, none of that year's contenders went down easy."
[The Big Picture · Emergency Mailbag: The Oscars Are Streaming and Hollywood Is Fighting Over Trolls | The Big Picture · 0:57:14 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] No Country for Old Men ↔ There Will Be Blood · industry · No Country beat There Will Be Blood for best picture, then ratings were low and the Academy changed the rules. · "And it beat, there will be blood, which is painful for me, but still, no country for all men, incredible film."
[Blank Check · Decision to Leave · 0:18:28 · Tatiana Maslany (0.90)] Tatiana Maslany ↔ There Will Be Blood · verdict · She has seen it about 50 times and puts it on to watch one scene then gets sucked in. · "But even like there will be blood is one that I've seen probably like 50 times."
[pairs] There Will Be Blood ↔ No Country for Old Men · said 2 times in 2 episodes
[The Big Picture · 5. ‘No Country for Old Men’ and ‘W.’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:07:47 · Brian Raftery (0.90)] Cormac McCarthy ⇒ No Country for Old Men (the host's read) · lineage · The film adapts McCarthy's 2005 novel and the Coens refused to water it down. · "You can tell the cones were determined not to water down McCarthy's book."
[The Big Picture · The Top Five Movies of 2022 · 1:31:29 · Sean Fennessey (0.85)] Close Encounters of the Third Kind ⇒ Nope (the host's read) · lineage · Sean says Nope is as much a Spielberg movie as any he has seen in a long time, with Close Encounters the usual touchstone, and notes the shared theme of looking up and trying to see. · "nope is as much a Spielberg movie as any movie I've seen in a long, long time."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Pulp Fiction’ (Part 2) · 2:37:16 · unknown (0.00)] Pulp Fiction ↔ Black Sabbath · programming · Best double features: Black Sabbath (anthology), Saturday Night Fever, Inglourious Basterds, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. · "So you get an anthology movie."
[The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 1:20:45 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Zodiac ↔ Almost Famous · programming · AI cut-your-own-runtime fantasy: trim Zodiac to 97 minutes; instead Bill watched the bootleg Almost Famous with 35 extra minutes. · "we watch the bootleg cut the 2nd time, which has like 35 minutes of additional scenes."
[Blank Check · Fargo · 2:02:52 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Peter Stormare ↔ No Country for Old Men · theme · Gaear caring about Jerry's cruelty is compared to Tommy Lee Jones's sheriff not knowing whether he belongs in this world. · "This is like his Tommy Lee Jones in no country sort of like conundrum where he's like, I don't even know if I belong in this world."
[The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies · 0:19:05 · Sean Fennessey (0.85)] Close Encounters of the Third Kind ⇒ E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (the host's read) · theme · Close Encounters sets a template for science fiction and for stories about families and divorce. · "It sets a different kind of template for science fiction storytelling, for stories about families, for stories about obsession, for stories about divorce"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Pulp Fiction’ (Part 2) · 2:37:26 · unknown (0.00)] Pulp Fiction ↔ Inglourious Basterds · programming · Inglourious Basterds paired for its short-story structure; Once Upon a Time for bookending Tarantino's career. · "I have bastards because I feel like structurally it's it's got some the short story aspect of his very, it locks in together."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Zodiac · 0:50:16 · Leslye Headland (0.80)] L.A. Confidential ⇒ Zodiac (the host's read) · lineage · Leslye says Zodiac feels like it follows in the footsteps of L.A. Confidential. · "zodiac feels like it follows in the footsteps of that."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) · 0:21:37 · Sean Fennessey (0.55)] Panic Room ↔ No Country for Old Men · theme · Rooting for a morally complicated figure (Whitaker) recalls No Country and The Godfather. · "is it really that far afield from like no country for old men or the godfather"
[Blank Check · Raiders of the Lost Ark · 0:25:05 · Brian Michael Bendis (0.70)] Raiders of the Lost Ark ↔ Close Encounters of the Third Kind · craft · The novelization written by Spielberg internalized the story, which Bendis loved. · "it internalizes the story for a young person who's only seeing externalizing it."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Misery’ · 0:59:07 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] Pulp Fiction ⇒ Misery (the host's read) · programming · Butch's Girlfriend Award for weak link of the film is borrowed from Pulp Fiction. · "The Butch's girlfriend Award, Butch's girlfriend from Pulp Fiction."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Zodiac · 0:50:39 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Robert Graysmith ⇒ Zodiac (the host's read) · lineage · The Salerno script, which Vanderbilt took over, adapted Graysmith's nonfiction book (with a speculative sequel bolted on). · "So it's sort of like an adaptation of Graysmith's nonfiction book and a speculative sequence."
[The Big Picture · 5. ‘No Country for Old Men’ and ‘W.’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:04:13 · Brian Raftery (0.95)] No Country for Old Men ↔ W. · theme · Both arrived as the Bush era wound down and prompted audiences to take stock of the 21st century. · "No country for old men in W arrived just as the Bush era was winding down, and both movies prompted audiences to take stock of the 21st century so far."
[Blank Check · Raiders of the Lost Ark · 0:25:54 · Brian Michael Bendis (0.80)] Close Encounters of the Third Kind ↔ Walt Simonson · craft · Walt Simonson drew the Close Encounters comic adaptation, whose behind-the-scenes showed directing versus the page. · "Walt Simonson doing the close encounters adaptation, and it is wonderful."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Ice Storm’ · 1:27:53 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] The Ice Storm ↔ Pulp Fiction · programming · Next episodes will cover two famous movies; Ryan and Simmons tease Pulp Fiction. · "I've been watching a lot of pulp fiction lately."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Zodiac · 0:04:09 · Leslye Headland (0.90)] Zodiac ↔ The Shining · theme · Both are on Leslye's four-film Mount Rushmore. · "It's Zodiac, the Shining, back to the future, the apartment."
[The Big Picture · 5. ‘No Country for Old Men’ and ‘W.’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:10:17 · Brian Raftery (0.95)] No Country for Old Men ↔ No Country for Old Men · theme · It works as neo-Western, chase movie and killer-on-the-loose flick but is monumental for another reason. · "A neo Western, a chase movie, a killer on the loose flick, and it does all of those things perfectly."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ · 0:03:58 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Reservoir Dogs ↔ Pulp Fiction · programming · Reservoir Dogs found much of its audience after Pulp Fiction, via rentals. · "After Pulp Fiction and then circled back and rented Reservoir Dogs."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Zodiac · 0:04:09 · Leslye Headland (0.90)] Zodiac ↔ Back to the Future · theme · Both are on Leslye's four-film Mount Rushmore. · "It's Zodiac, the Shining, back to the future, the apartment."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ · 1:23:02 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Reservoir Dogs ↔ No Country for Old Men · craft · Not showing the heist works as in No Country; slowly unfurling beats showing. · "No, we've learned this from no country for old men."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Pulp Fiction’ (Part 2) · 0:04:26 · Sean Fennessey (0.35)] Reservoir Dogs ⇒ Pulp Fiction (the host's read) · lineage · Pulp's opening two-song credits echo the radio dial concept from Reservoir Dogs. · "Well, the radio, the concept of the radio had been in Reservoir Dogs, but I think switching the songs in the middle, because you hear him change the dial."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Zodiac · 0:04:09 · Leslye Headland (0.90)] Zodiac ↔ The Apartment · theme · Both are on Leslye's four-film Mount Rushmore. · "It's Zodiac, the Shining, back to the future, the apartment."
[The Big Picture · 5. ‘No Country for Old Men’ and ‘W.’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:03:19 · Brian Raftery (0.95)] W. ↔ No Country for Old Men · craft · Raftery links Stone's film to the Coens' as a different take on one man in over his head setting off destruction. · "That kind of domino effect was explored in a very different movie from the year before."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Pulp Fiction’ (Part 2) · 0:06:07 · Bill Simmons (0.40)] Pulp Fiction ⇒ Pulp Fiction imitators (the host's read) · lineage · The Royale-in-Paris, Amsterdam conversation is the most parodied and copied stretch of screenwriting of the last 30 years. · "Yeah. I would argue this is the most ripped off four and a half minutes of screenwriting in the past 30 years."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Zodiac · 0:56:14 · unknown (0.30)] L.A. Confidential ↔ Zodiac · theme · The vanishing Avery is likened to the Kevin Spacey character in L.A. Confidential. · "Like, like the Kevin Spacey character."
[The Big Picture · 5. ‘No Country for Old Men’ and ‘W.’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:20:57 · Brian Raftery (0.95)] No Country for Old Men ↔ No Country for Old Men · craft · Its message of powerlessness fit audiences after 9/11, Katrina, Iraq and the economy. · "911, Katrina, Iraq, the economy."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Pulp Fiction’ (Part 2) · 0:09:49 · Bill Simmons (0.40)] Lee Majors ⇒ Pulp Fiction (the host's read) · lineage · The setup of Vincent taking the boss's wife out echoes a Hollywood story about Lee Majors asking someone to take Farrah Fawcett out while he was away. · "Because Lee Majors is going out of town."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Zodiac · 2:07:42 · Leslye Headland (0.50)] Alfred Hitchcock ↔ Zodiac · theme · Leslye says Fincher uses full Hitchcock in the Fleischer basement scene, which is wholly subjective. · "No, Fincher is using full Hitchcock to do a scene that is entirely subjective."
[speaker] Sean Fennessey · latest sketch, The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · Loves gory, funny, fast genre movies with craft and confidence, especially 87-minute films that never overstay. Can't stand ponderous elevated horror that fills out its runtime with introspection and sad family history. A sucker for the Carpenter-era lineage, Die Hard homages, and directors who break studio dogma. · stances: Resident Evil is one of the best films of the year; Horror movies have become a drag; fun genre experiences are needed; Short running times are a virtue; Video-game films work best when great filmmakers get creative license
[speaker] Brian Raftery · latest sketch, The Big Picture · 5. ‘No Country for Old Men’ and ‘W.’ | Mission Accomplished · Loves slow-burn tension and scenes built on dialogue, naming the Ellis kitchen scene the best of the 2000s. Is drawn to films that capture their national moment. Has little patience for the word classic, and dry humor about presidents and haircuts. · stances: No Country for Old Men is about inevitability and powerlessness; Its 2007 release resonated with Bush-era anxiety; W. was undone by timing, not quality; Stone's late-2000s movies are best read through the decade's politics
[speaker] Leslye Headland · latest sketch, Blank Check — Patreon · Zodiac · Loves Zodiac as part of a Mount Rushmore (Zodiac, The Shining, Back to the Future, The Apartment) and watched it daily at a low point in her life. Adores blocking and staging as the true mark of the greats, loves Fincher's digital photography, and sees Fight Club as an evergreen Strangelove-style satire. Also a fan of L.A. Confidential as a nook-and-cranny movie. · stances: Zodiac is a masterpiece and a movie to live inside; Fincher's real genius is blocking and staging, not flash; Fight Club is a durable satire; Digital can look gorgeous
[speaker] Tatiana Maslany · latest sketch, Blank Check · Decision to Leave · Here for vibes, performance and small moments rather than plot. Loves A Woman Under the Influence (about 40 viewings), There Will Be Blood (about 50) and The Nightmare Before Christmas. Reveres actors who can do very little and be compelling; hates bad writing most of all to act. · stances: Subtitled performances show what acting really is; The hardest thing to act is bad writing; Tang Wei plays honest, not mysterious, which is why it works; Sand-beaching is partly guilt and partly power
[bits] The Big Picture: Drafts (Hosts and guests draft films in rounds; every pick is a recommendation with an argument); Hall of Fame (A star's or director's best, ranked and argued); Countdowns (Ranked lists, top five or top ten)
[bits] Blank Check: The box office game (Guessing the film's opening weekend and what it was up against); The sung theme ("Blank Check with Griffin and David", sung; the transcriber garbles it)
[bits] The Rewatchables: Apex Mountain (The moment a star peaks; where on the mountain a performance sits); Who Won the Movie (The hosts name the person who came out of the film best off); The Ebert review (Roger Ebert's original review and star rating read aloud. Ebert is cited, never on the show); Casting what-ifs (Who was almost cast, or who should have been); Most rewatchable scene (The scene each host would stop on while flipping channels); Aged best / aged worst (What holds up and what does not); Picking Nits (The little things in a film the hosts love that they don't think totally work: the nits); Double feature (The film each host would pair it with; a programming pick)

Recommend three to six films, and only films that appear in these lines. A series, a TV film, or a franchise counts too when a line recommends it or pairs it with There Will Be Blood (2007); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend There Will Be Blood (2007) itself. For each one, give one short reason in your own words and say whose reason it is: the show, named exactly as the brackets name it, and the speaker when the line names one (an "unknown" speaker is just the show). If the lines are thin, say so plainly rather than stretching them.

Keep a contrast a contrast. When a line sets two films apart, the reason is how they differ; never turn it into a way they're alike. A line with ⇒ puts the source first and what drew on it second, and one marked "the maker said so" is still the host reporting it: say who said it, and never state an influence as fact.

You know only what's on these lines. Add no fact they don't state: not who directed a film, not what kind of film it is, not when it came out, unless a line says so. Say nothing about the store or how anything rents here.

Talk the way a clerk talks to a customer at the counter: plain text, titles written plainly with no asterisks or other markup, no headings, no lists of more than six, no JSON.