What the corpus says about Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000)

What was said about it (26)

1. [The Big Picture · Did Disney’s ‘Mulan’ Experiment Work? A Binge Mode Investigation · 0:28:58 · Jason Concepcion (0.80)] Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon ⇒ Mulan (the host's read) · lineage · The remake's wuxia/mystical style follows the wave of Chinese films that grew popular after Crouching Tiger and the Zhang Yimou films. · "they've gotten very big, kind of post, crouching tiger hidden dragon, and the Jang Yi-Mu films"
2. [Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon · 0:23:14 · David Sims (0.40)] Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon ↔ Westerns (genre) · lineage · Lee reviving an old genre like making a Western, but engineered for a worldwide audience. · "It was like if somebody made a Western, but it also was implicitly built to and engineered to appeal to a worldwide audience as much as it appealed to an American one."
3. [Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon · 1:07:21 · Griffin Newman (0.30)] Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon ↔ Last Action Hero · lineage · Jen worshipping Shu Lien and living her dreamed-of story is very Last Action Hero. · "It's very last action hero."
4. [Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon · 1:46:30 · David Ehrlich (0.35)] Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon ↔ Brokeback Mountain · lineage · CTHD as the first of Lee's 'fuck mountain diptych' of transgressive sex movies, with Brokeback. · "This is the 1st of Angley's fuck mountain diptych."
5. [Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon · 0:30:13 · David Ehrlich (0.45)] Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon ↔ Sense and Sensibility · theme · Ang Lee's bottled-emotion movies; CTHD as Sense and Sensibility with a magic sword. · "This is one of his great bottled emotion movies, which is like a big running theme for people who don't know how to express those. Sensibility with a magic sword."
6. [Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon · 0:37:29 · Griffin Newman (0.30)] Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon ↔ Sense and Sensibility · theme · After 15 minutes the movie goes full Jane Austen. · "But like 15 minutes later, when the movie goes full, Jane Austen"
7. [Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon · 0:42:52 · David Ehrlich (0.55)] Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon ↔ Lady Bird · theme · Seen as a coming-of-age story where Jen is the surrogate daughter holding the adults together and apart. · "I never really looked at it through this lens until I was just, you know, on ambient and trying to apply ladybird quotes to everything"
8. [Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon · 1:30:33 · David Sims (0.30)] Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon ↔ The Remains of the Day · theme · The repressed never-expressed love is very Remains of the Day. · "Yeah, I mean, it's very remain to the day."
9. [Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon · 1:31:01 · David Ehrlich (0.45)] Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon ↔ Lady Bird · theme · Jen compared to Christine 'Lady Bird' McPherson: a dimensional woman who is villain and hero at once. · "She reminds me a lot of Christine Ladybird, whatever the fuck her last name is, McPherson."
10. [Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon · 1:37:46 · David Ehrlich (0.50)] Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon ↔ Lady Bird · theme · Jen and Shu Lien's big fight is Lady Bird fighting with her mother. · "And it is also ladybird fighting with her mother."
11. [Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon · 1:38:16 · David Sims (0.35)] Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon ↔ Wonder Woman · theme · CTHD tapped into female strength that Wonder Woman had to catch up to 18 years later. · "this movie was tapping into things that Wonder Woman would have to like run around to 18 years later."
12. [Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon · 1:44:26 · David Sims (0.30)] Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon ↔ Roman Holiday · theme · The ending, loving in hearts but never together, is like Roman Holiday. · "But no, it's like a Roman holiday sort of."
13. [Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon · 0:24:55 · David Sims (0.40)] Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon ↔ The Matrix · craft · CTHD's choreographer is the same as The Matrix's. · "obviously this has the same actual choreographer as that movie"
14. [Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon · 0:52:07 · Griffin Newman (0.35)] Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon ↔ Breakfast at Tiffany's · craft · Jen staring at the sword is a Breakfast at Tiffany's moment. · "A little breakfast at Tiffany's moment, just staring."
15. [Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon · 0:58:36 · David Ehrlich (0.30)] Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon ↔ John Wick · craft · Only the John Wick / Atomic Blonde filmmakers in the West think about action with this depth. · "John Wick, John Wick 2, Atomic Blonde, that their whole companies is based around the action built up."
16. [Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon · 0:56:34 · David Ehrlich (0.35)] Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon ↔ American action movies (genre) · contrast · Compared to CTHD, American action looks awful because Hollywood lacks the trained talent and time. · "it's because you just don't have the talent required to pull it off."
17. [Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon · 0:58:20 · David Sims (0.35)] Iron Fist (TV series, said "Iron Fest") ↔ Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon · contrast · Iron Fist's star was shown each fight the morning of and had 30 minutes to learn it, against the year of rehearsal Crouching Tiger's actresses had. · "they pretty much like on the morning when I got to set, they'd show me what the fight was. We just had 30 minutes to learn."
18. [Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon · 1:35:00 · David Sims (0.35)] Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon ↔ Marvel movies (genre) · contrast · In Marvel fights the set-up is justified but the fight itself is devoid of story or character; in CTHD fights carry story. · "But it's like we've justified why they now need to fight, but then the fight is totally devoid of story or character."
19. [Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon · 0:20:17 · David Sims (0.40)] Ride with the Devil ↔ Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon · career · CTHD follows closely after the flop Ride with the Devil, as a re-centering back to his own thing. · "It does feel like a bit of a like, let me get back to my shit."
20. [Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon · 0:34:33 · David Sims (0.35)] Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon ↔ Bulletproof Monk · career · After CTHD Chow made no film for three years, then Bulletproof Monk. · "And after this, he doesn't make a movie for 3 years, and when he does it, it's bulletproof monk."
21. [Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon · 1:25:59 · David Ehrlich (0.35)] Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon ↔ Lust, Caution · career · CTHD's sensuality was the most Lee had filmed until Lust, Caution. · "prior to lost caution, far and away, the most sensual thing that Angley had ever filmed."
22. [Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon · 0:02:22 · David Sims (0.40)] Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon ↔ Hulk · industry · Domestic grosses of CTHD, Hulk, Life of Pi were very similar. · "This Life of Pi and Hulk all ended up very similar."
23. [Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon · 1:10:46 · David Sims (0.30)] Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon ↔ The Artist · industry · Foreign hits that do well overseas get dismissed by us, like The Artist. · "And I think, I think, like, the artist was kind of viewed that way"
24. [Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon · 1:36:26 · David Sims (0.40)] Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon ↔ Fearless · industry · Fearless was marketed as another Chinese movie for people who liked CTHD. · "which was sort of advertised as like, if you like Crashing Tiger, here's another Chinese movie for you."
25. [Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon · 1:38:48 · David Sims (0.35)] Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon ⇒ Hero (the host's read) · industry · Without CTHD's success Hero would not have been released in the US. · "Well, you know, without this movie, you don't have hero coming out in the United States."
26. [Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon · 1:41:10 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon ↔ Slumdog Millionaire · industry · CTHD spawned 'Crouching Blank, Hidden Blank' naming, as Slumdog did for 15 years. · "In the same way that like some dog millionaire for 15 years after is just like, oh, look, it's slum dog blank over here."

Films put beside it more than once (3)

1. [pairs] Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon ↔ Sense and Sensibility · said 3 times in 1 episode
2. [pairs] Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon ↔ Lady Bird · said 3 times in 1 episode
3. [pairs] Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon ↔ Gladiator · said 2 times in 1 episode

Fun items about it (6)

1. [Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon · 0:00:20 · Griffin Newman (0.30)] Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon · fun · Cold-open gag: the fake tagline about two warriors who would never podcast. · "A timeless story of strength, secrets, and 2 warriors who would never podcast."
2. [Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon · 0:13:17 · David Ehrlich (0.70)] Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon · fun · Ehrlich took a train from Connecticut to Lincoln Plaza Cinemas the opening day, brought four friends, and went again. · "Scratching Tiger came out of Lincoln Plaza Cinemas on December 8th, 2000, and I got on a train from Connecticut to New York."
3. [Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon · 0:15:15 · David Ehrlich (0.55)] Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon · fun · Ehrlich's first Ang Lee film; he had not seen Ice Storm or Ride with the Devil and had only seen Sense and Sensibility because his mom made him. · "This was my 1st Angly movie unquestionably."
4. [Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon · 0:16:22 · Griffin Newman (0.60)] Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon · fun · Griffin and his dad disliked it at 11, but his memory of it kept improving: perfect recall played better and better. · "Sure. And my dad and I were both like, what's the fucking deal with that thing?"
5. [Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon · 0:17:40 · Griffin Newman (0.60)] Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon · fun · 11-year-old Griffin's literal mind: they don't explain why they can fly. · "I was so literal minded where I was like, but they don't explain why they can fly."
6. [Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon · 0:18:43 · David Ehrlich (0.65)] Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon · fun · Ehrlich's first-ever movie review, for his high school newspaper, was of CTHD. · "This brings me back to the very 1st movie review I ever wrote"

One hop out: what recommends the films most often joined to it (11)

1. [Blank Check — Patreon · The Avengers · 0:40:40 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Tom Hiddleston ↔ Lady Bird · lineage · Loki's plan reads as a kid trying to impress his parents. · "He's like Ladybird."
2. [The Big Picture · ‘Mamma Mia!’ Meets ‘The Strangers'! It’s a Movie Swap! · 0:10:10 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50)] Sense and Sensibility ↔ Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse · programming · The 2019 swap pairing Spider-Verse and Sense and Sensibility taught Amanda how she watches animation and became a reference for later animated films. · "it taught me a lot about how I watch animation, what I respond to"
3. [The Big Picture · ‘Gladiator II’ Is Here. Are We Not Entertained? · 0:06:45 · Sean Fennessey (0.80)] Gladiator ⇒ Gladiator II (the host's read) · lineage · The sequel is very similar in structure and story to the original. · "it's pretty well known that this movie is very similar in structure and story to the original."
4. [The Big Picture · ‘Captain Marvel’ Is a ’90s Nostalgia Play. Did It Work? | Exit Survey · 0:25:50 · Sean Fennessey (0.75)] Captain Marvel ↔ Lady Bird · theme · Lady Bird and Mid90s were personal reminiscences of the 90s; Captain Marvel is the Happy Meal version. · "it's funny to see, you know, the McDonald's Happy Meal version of those movies in a lot of ways."
5. [The Big Picture · ‘Gladiator II’ Is Here. Are We Not Entertained? · 0:15:52 · Mallory Rubin (0.60)] Gladiator ⇒ Gladiator II (the host's read) · lineage · The sequel's plot, structure, approach and pacing mirror the first, forcing a one-to-one comparison. · "it's just the movie is so similar to the 1st one in terms of plot, structure, approach, focus, pacing."
6. [The Big Picture · ‘Gladiator II’ Is Here. Are We Not Entertained? · 0:21:39 · Mallory Rubin (0.50)] Gladiator ⇒ Gladiator II (the host's read) · lineage · Because it mirrors the first film, outcomes for characters become predictable by inversion. · "I almost felt like it became impossible not to know what was going to happen to certain people"
7. [The Big Picture · ‘Gladiator II’ Is Here. Are We Not Entertained? · 0:52:34 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] Gladiator ⇒ Gladiator II (the host's read) · lineage · Lucius's hand in the grain is a callback to Maximus's hand in the wheat. · "And it's an obvious callback to Maximus walking through the kind of afterlife feeling the wheat."
8. [Blank Check — Patreon · Spartacus · 1:03:34 · Richard Lawson (0.60)] Spartacus ⇒ Gladiator (the host's read) · lineage · Richard, seeing Spartacus for the first time, says it is the main thing Gladiator riffs on. · "this is really the main thing the gladiators are riffing on."
9. [Blank Check — Patreon · Spartacus · 1:13:26 · unknown (0.40)] Woody Strode → Gladiator · theme · Speaker imagines Ridley Scott deciding to keep the Draba-type character alive the whole movie. · "Ridley Scott was like, what if we keep him alive the whole movie?"
10. [Blank Check · As Good as It Gets · 1:05:43 · Chris Gethard (0.60)] Joaquin Phoenix ↔ Gladiator · craft · Chris likes Phoenix's Gladiator performance. · "I'll say, I really appreciated his performance in Gladiator."
11. [The Big Picture · ‘Gladiator II’ Is Here. Are We Not Entertained? · 0:06:38 · Sean Fennessey (0.85)] Gladiator II ↔ Gladiator · craft · Gladiator II brings back the original film's cinematographer, John Mathieson, as part of a returning crew. · "The cinematographer, John Matheson, is back."

Who said it, by their latest sketch (4)

1. [speaker] David Sims · latest sketch, Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · Prepares history: novel, casting, budgets, box office. Reveres the film and thinks it reads as a normal ground-level story. A sucker for Hollywood deal backstory and box office game. · stances: Praises Keitel and Dafoe casting; Respects Scorsese's persistence and Corman discipline; The film is now well regarded though not 'canonical Marty'
2. [speaker] David Ehrlich · latest sketch, Blank Check — Patreon · Eyes Wide Shut · Has been obsessed with the film for a long time and calls it his favorite Kubrick and a focal point on the horizon of his life. Put it on his Sight and Sound ballot. Not a fan of best-vs-favorite dichotomies. · stances: Best and favorite are the same thing for a subjective art form; The film is an invitation to project yourself onto; The ending is a renewal, not a return to normal
3. [speaker] Griffin Newman · latest sketch, Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · Calls Last Temptation his college-era favorite Scorsese; loves Scorsese's smaller 80s and the film's closing transcendence and Gabriel score. Cannot stand fundamentalist outrage at it. A sucker for casting trivia and Tom Cruise-silliness. · stances: Hot take: Last Temptation structurally mirrors New York, New York as a better version; Outrage over the film is stupid; it is respectful to Jesus; Scorsese's smaller 80s work beats his later baroque phases
4. [speaker] Jason Concepcion · latest sketch, The Big Picture · Did Disney’s ‘Mulan’ Experiment Work? A Binge Mode Investigation · Loves a musical, Donnie Yen action, and the 1998 Mulan with its Eddie Murphy humor. Finds the remake kind of boring and wants a grounded, historical version. Sucker for political and economic framing of film controversy. · stances: The remake is fine in a vacuum, a disappointment as a Mulan; Wants a more historical, less magical take; Sees the Mulan controversy as a symptom of the West-China economic experiment; Missing music means missing storytelling

The shows' running bits (2)

1. [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)
2. [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)

The whole prompt

You are a clerk at Video Culture, a video store. A customer just finished Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000) 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 Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000) 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 Big Picture · Did Disney’s ‘Mulan’ Experiment Work? A Binge Mode Investigation · 0:28:58 · Jason Concepcion (0.80)] Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon ⇒ Mulan (the host's read) · lineage · The remake's wuxia/mystical style follows the wave of Chinese films that grew popular after Crouching Tiger and the Zhang Yimou films. · "they've gotten very big, kind of post, crouching tiger hidden dragon, and the Jang Yi-Mu films"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon · 0:23:14 · David Sims (0.40)] Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon ↔ Westerns (genre) · lineage · Lee reviving an old genre like making a Western, but engineered for a worldwide audience. · "It was like if somebody made a Western, but it also was implicitly built to and engineered to appeal to a worldwide audience as much as it appealed to an American one."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon · 1:07:21 · Griffin Newman (0.30)] Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon ↔ Last Action Hero · lineage · Jen worshipping Shu Lien and living her dreamed-of story is very Last Action Hero. · "It's very last action hero."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon · 1:46:30 · David Ehrlich (0.35)] Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon ↔ Brokeback Mountain · lineage · CTHD as the first of Lee's 'fuck mountain diptych' of transgressive sex movies, with Brokeback. · "This is the 1st of Angley's fuck mountain diptych."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon · 0:30:13 · David Ehrlich (0.45)] Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon ↔ Sense and Sensibility · theme · Ang Lee's bottled-emotion movies; CTHD as Sense and Sensibility with a magic sword. · "This is one of his great bottled emotion movies, which is like a big running theme for people who don't know how to express those. Sensibility with a magic sword."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon · 0:37:29 · Griffin Newman (0.30)] Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon ↔ Sense and Sensibility · theme · After 15 minutes the movie goes full Jane Austen. · "But like 15 minutes later, when the movie goes full, Jane Austen"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon · 0:42:52 · David Ehrlich (0.55)] Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon ↔ Lady Bird · theme · Seen as a coming-of-age story where Jen is the surrogate daughter holding the adults together and apart. · "I never really looked at it through this lens until I was just, you know, on ambient and trying to apply ladybird quotes to everything"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon · 1:30:33 · David Sims (0.30)] Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon ↔ The Remains of the Day · theme · The repressed never-expressed love is very Remains of the Day. · "Yeah, I mean, it's very remain to the day."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon · 1:31:01 · David Ehrlich (0.45)] Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon ↔ Lady Bird · theme · Jen compared to Christine 'Lady Bird' McPherson: a dimensional woman who is villain and hero at once. · "She reminds me a lot of Christine Ladybird, whatever the fuck her last name is, McPherson."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon · 1:37:46 · David Ehrlich (0.50)] Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon ↔ Lady Bird · theme · Jen and Shu Lien's big fight is Lady Bird fighting with her mother. · "And it is also ladybird fighting with her mother."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon · 1:38:16 · David Sims (0.35)] Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon ↔ Wonder Woman · theme · CTHD tapped into female strength that Wonder Woman had to catch up to 18 years later. · "this movie was tapping into things that Wonder Woman would have to like run around to 18 years later."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon · 1:44:26 · David Sims (0.30)] Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon ↔ Roman Holiday · theme · The ending, loving in hearts but never together, is like Roman Holiday. · "But no, it's like a Roman holiday sort of."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon · 0:24:55 · David Sims (0.40)] Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon ↔ The Matrix · craft · CTHD's choreographer is the same as The Matrix's. · "obviously this has the same actual choreographer as that movie"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon · 0:52:07 · Griffin Newman (0.35)] Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon ↔ Breakfast at Tiffany's · craft · Jen staring at the sword is a Breakfast at Tiffany's moment. · "A little breakfast at Tiffany's moment, just staring."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon · 0:58:36 · David Ehrlich (0.30)] Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon ↔ John Wick · craft · Only the John Wick / Atomic Blonde filmmakers in the West think about action with this depth. · "John Wick, John Wick 2, Atomic Blonde, that their whole companies is based around the action built up."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon · 0:56:34 · David Ehrlich (0.35)] Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon ↔ American action movies (genre) · contrast · Compared to CTHD, American action looks awful because Hollywood lacks the trained talent and time. · "it's because you just don't have the talent required to pull it off."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon · 0:58:20 · David Sims (0.35)] Iron Fist (TV series, said "Iron Fest") ↔ Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon · contrast · Iron Fist's star was shown each fight the morning of and had 30 minutes to learn it, against the year of rehearsal Crouching Tiger's actresses had. · "they pretty much like on the morning when I got to set, they'd show me what the fight was. We just had 30 minutes to learn."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon · 1:35:00 · David Sims (0.35)] Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon ↔ Marvel movies (genre) · contrast · In Marvel fights the set-up is justified but the fight itself is devoid of story or character; in CTHD fights carry story. · "But it's like we've justified why they now need to fight, but then the fight is totally devoid of story or character."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon · 0:20:17 · David Sims (0.40)] Ride with the Devil ↔ Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon · career · CTHD follows closely after the flop Ride with the Devil, as a re-centering back to his own thing. · "It does feel like a bit of a like, let me get back to my shit."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon · 0:34:33 · David Sims (0.35)] Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon ↔ Bulletproof Monk · career · After CTHD Chow made no film for three years, then Bulletproof Monk. · "And after this, he doesn't make a movie for 3 years, and when he does it, it's bulletproof monk."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon · 1:25:59 · David Ehrlich (0.35)] Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon ↔ Lust, Caution · career · CTHD's sensuality was the most Lee had filmed until Lust, Caution. · "prior to lost caution, far and away, the most sensual thing that Angley had ever filmed."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon · 0:02:22 · David Sims (0.40)] Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon ↔ Hulk · industry · Domestic grosses of CTHD, Hulk, Life of Pi were very similar. · "This Life of Pi and Hulk all ended up very similar."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon · 1:10:46 · David Sims (0.30)] Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon ↔ The Artist · industry · Foreign hits that do well overseas get dismissed by us, like The Artist. · "And I think, I think, like, the artist was kind of viewed that way"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon · 1:36:26 · David Sims (0.40)] Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon ↔ Fearless · industry · Fearless was marketed as another Chinese movie for people who liked CTHD. · "which was sort of advertised as like, if you like Crashing Tiger, here's another Chinese movie for you."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon · 1:38:48 · David Sims (0.35)] Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon ⇒ Hero (the host's read) · industry · Without CTHD's success Hero would not have been released in the US. · "Well, you know, without this movie, you don't have hero coming out in the United States."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon · 1:41:10 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon ↔ Slumdog Millionaire · industry · CTHD spawned 'Crouching Blank, Hidden Blank' naming, as Slumdog did for 15 years. · "In the same way that like some dog millionaire for 15 years after is just like, oh, look, it's slum dog blank over here."
[pairs] Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon ↔ Sense and Sensibility · said 3 times in 1 episode
[pairs] Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon ↔ Lady Bird · said 3 times in 1 episode
[pairs] Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon ↔ Gladiator · said 2 times in 1 episode
[Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon · 0:00:20 · Griffin Newman (0.30)] Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon · fun · Cold-open gag: the fake tagline about two warriors who would never podcast. · "A timeless story of strength, secrets, and 2 warriors who would never podcast."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon · 0:13:17 · David Ehrlich (0.70)] Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon · fun · Ehrlich took a train from Connecticut to Lincoln Plaza Cinemas the opening day, brought four friends, and went again. · "Scratching Tiger came out of Lincoln Plaza Cinemas on December 8th, 2000, and I got on a train from Connecticut to New York."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon · 0:15:15 · David Ehrlich (0.55)] Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon · fun · Ehrlich's first Ang Lee film; he had not seen Ice Storm or Ride with the Devil and had only seen Sense and Sensibility because his mom made him. · "This was my 1st Angly movie unquestionably."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon · 0:16:22 · Griffin Newman (0.60)] Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon · fun · Griffin and his dad disliked it at 11, but his memory of it kept improving: perfect recall played better and better. · "Sure. And my dad and I were both like, what's the fucking deal with that thing?"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon · 0:17:40 · Griffin Newman (0.60)] Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon · fun · 11-year-old Griffin's literal mind: they don't explain why they can fly. · "I was so literal minded where I was like, but they don't explain why they can fly."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon · 0:18:43 · David Ehrlich (0.65)] Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon · fun · Ehrlich's first-ever movie review, for his high school newspaper, was of CTHD. · "This brings me back to the very 1st movie review I ever wrote"
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Avengers · 0:40:40 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Tom Hiddleston ↔ Lady Bird · lineage · Loki's plan reads as a kid trying to impress his parents. · "He's like Ladybird."
[The Big Picture · ‘Mamma Mia!’ Meets ‘The Strangers'! It’s a Movie Swap! · 0:10:10 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50)] Sense and Sensibility ↔ Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse · programming · The 2019 swap pairing Spider-Verse and Sense and Sensibility taught Amanda how she watches animation and became a reference for later animated films. · "it taught me a lot about how I watch animation, what I respond to"
[The Big Picture · ‘Gladiator II’ Is Here. Are We Not Entertained? · 0:06:45 · Sean Fennessey (0.80)] Gladiator ⇒ Gladiator II (the host's read) · lineage · The sequel is very similar in structure and story to the original. · "it's pretty well known that this movie is very similar in structure and story to the original."
[The Big Picture · ‘Captain Marvel’ Is a ’90s Nostalgia Play. Did It Work? | Exit Survey · 0:25:50 · Sean Fennessey (0.75)] Captain Marvel ↔ Lady Bird · theme · Lady Bird and Mid90s were personal reminiscences of the 90s; Captain Marvel is the Happy Meal version. · "it's funny to see, you know, the McDonald's Happy Meal version of those movies in a lot of ways."
[The Big Picture · ‘Gladiator II’ Is Here. Are We Not Entertained? · 0:15:52 · Mallory Rubin (0.60)] Gladiator ⇒ Gladiator II (the host's read) · lineage · The sequel's plot, structure, approach and pacing mirror the first, forcing a one-to-one comparison. · "it's just the movie is so similar to the 1st one in terms of plot, structure, approach, focus, pacing."
[The Big Picture · ‘Gladiator II’ Is Here. Are We Not Entertained? · 0:21:39 · Mallory Rubin (0.50)] Gladiator ⇒ Gladiator II (the host's read) · lineage · Because it mirrors the first film, outcomes for characters become predictable by inversion. · "I almost felt like it became impossible not to know what was going to happen to certain people"
[The Big Picture · ‘Gladiator II’ Is Here. Are We Not Entertained? · 0:52:34 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] Gladiator ⇒ Gladiator II (the host's read) · lineage · Lucius's hand in the grain is a callback to Maximus's hand in the wheat. · "And it's an obvious callback to Maximus walking through the kind of afterlife feeling the wheat."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Spartacus · 1:03:34 · Richard Lawson (0.60)] Spartacus ⇒ Gladiator (the host's read) · lineage · Richard, seeing Spartacus for the first time, says it is the main thing Gladiator riffs on. · "this is really the main thing the gladiators are riffing on."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Spartacus · 1:13:26 · unknown (0.40)] Woody Strode → Gladiator · theme · Speaker imagines Ridley Scott deciding to keep the Draba-type character alive the whole movie. · "Ridley Scott was like, what if we keep him alive the whole movie?"
[Blank Check · As Good as It Gets · 1:05:43 · Chris Gethard (0.60)] Joaquin Phoenix ↔ Gladiator · craft · Chris likes Phoenix's Gladiator performance. · "I'll say, I really appreciated his performance in Gladiator."
[The Big Picture · ‘Gladiator II’ Is Here. Are We Not Entertained? · 0:06:38 · Sean Fennessey (0.85)] Gladiator II ↔ Gladiator · craft · Gladiator II brings back the original film's cinematographer, John Mathieson, as part of a returning crew. · "The cinematographer, John Matheson, is back."
[speaker] David Sims · latest sketch, Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · Prepares history: novel, casting, budgets, box office. Reveres the film and thinks it reads as a normal ground-level story. A sucker for Hollywood deal backstory and box office game. · stances: Praises Keitel and Dafoe casting; Respects Scorsese's persistence and Corman discipline; The film is now well regarded though not 'canonical Marty'
[speaker] David Ehrlich · latest sketch, Blank Check — Patreon · Eyes Wide Shut · Has been obsessed with the film for a long time and calls it his favorite Kubrick and a focal point on the horizon of his life. Put it on his Sight and Sound ballot. Not a fan of best-vs-favorite dichotomies. · stances: Best and favorite are the same thing for a subjective art form; The film is an invitation to project yourself onto; The ending is a renewal, not a return to normal
[speaker] Griffin Newman · latest sketch, Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · Calls Last Temptation his college-era favorite Scorsese; loves Scorsese's smaller 80s and the film's closing transcendence and Gabriel score. Cannot stand fundamentalist outrage at it. A sucker for casting trivia and Tom Cruise-silliness. · stances: Hot take: Last Temptation structurally mirrors New York, New York as a better version; Outrage over the film is stupid; it is respectful to Jesus; Scorsese's smaller 80s work beats his later baroque phases
[speaker] Jason Concepcion · latest sketch, The Big Picture · Did Disney’s ‘Mulan’ Experiment Work? A Binge Mode Investigation · Loves a musical, Donnie Yen action, and the 1998 Mulan with its Eddie Murphy humor. Finds the remake kind of boring and wants a grounded, historical version. Sucker for political and economic framing of film controversy. · stances: The remake is fine in a vacuum, a disappointment as a Mulan; Wants a more historical, less magical take; Sees the Mulan controversy as a symptom of the West-China economic experiment; Missing music means missing storytelling
[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)

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 Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000) 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.