What the corpus says about X-Men (2000)

What was said about it (9)

1. [The Big Picture · The Past, Present, and Future of Superhero Movies | The Big Picture · 0:01:16 · Jason Concepcion (0.70)] Blade ⇒ X-Men (the host's read) · lineage · Blade is credited as the film that set the tone for the modern superhero era, with X-Men following two years later. · "the 1st superhero movie that really set the tone for what we consider the modern era of superhero films is Blade, 1998"
2. [The Big Picture · ‘Captain Marvel’ Is a ’90s Nostalgia Play. Did It Work? | Exit Survey · 0:34:38 · Sean Fennessey (0.75)] Captain Marvel ↔ X-Men · craft · Expository Marvel dialogue needs a stentorian Shakespearean actor like Patrick Stewart or Ian McKellen, which Larson is not. · "there's a reason that the X-Men movies cast people like Patrick Stewart and Ian McCellen"
3. [The Big Picture · The Past, Present, and Future of Superhero Movies | The Big Picture · 0:42:59 · David Shoemaker (0.50)] Logan ↔ X-Men · contrast · Logan works by taking two characters and good supporting actors instead of shoehorning everyone in, as the X-Men films did. · "I'm just going to take 2 of the characters and surround them with good supporting actors"
4. [Blank Check · Raiders of the Lost Ark · 2:41:41 · Brian Michael Bendis (0.50)] Spider-Man ↔ X-Men · industry · Early superhero films ran out of action money, like the first X-Men. · "that's what the 1st X-Men movie is."
5. [The Big Picture · The Past, Present, and Future of Superhero Movies | The Big Picture · 0:03:24 · Jason Concepcion (0.60)] X-Men ↔ Iron Man · industry · The X-Men films' approach of introducing everyone at once was the standard until Marvel changed it. · "that approach is really the kind of, what the standard approach for superhero films was up until that time"
6. [The Big Picture · The Past, Present, and Future of Superhero Movies | The Big Picture · 0:46:35 · Jason Concepcion (0.50)] X-Men ↔ Joss Whedon · lineage · Whedon's Astonishing X-Men comic captured Cyclops better than the movies did. · "he's really the 1st guy that captured what makes Cyclops an interesting character."
7. [The Big Picture · The Past, Present, and Future of Superhero Movies | The Big Picture · 0:09:13 · Jason Concepcion (0.50)] Kevin Feige ↔ X-Men · career · Feige began as an assistant producer on the X-Men films before running the MCU. · "started as like an assistant producer on those X-Men films and was put in charge of these properties"
8. [Blank Check — Patreon · Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation · 0:04:53 · unknown (0.30)] Christopher McQuarrie ↔ X-Men · career · A speaker says McQuarrie and Ed Solomon wrote X-Men although a Singer assistant is solely credited. · "the X-Men movie was written by Christopher Macquarie and Ed Solomon"
9. [Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail · 0:35:38 · unknown (0.00)] Lauren Schuler Donner ↔ X-Men · career · Her producing career leans masculine and she got tied to X-Men. · "even if you look at her career prior to like X-Men and everything, it's mostly pretty masculine films."

Fun items about it (3)

1. [The Big Picture · The Past, Present, and Future of Superhero Movies | The Big Picture · 0:05:10 · David Shoemaker (0.40)] X-Men · fun · The first X-Men casting was driven by Wizard magazine's casting column; Glenn Danzig was floated as Wolverine. · "Glenn Danzig, I remember that was like one of the really crazy ones that was thrown."
2. [The Big Picture · The Past, Present, and Future of Superhero Movies | The Big Picture · 0:46:49 · Jason Concepcion (0.50)] X-Men · fun · Why Cyclops is a downer: his eyes would kill everyone he loves. · "every time he opens his eyes, he threatens to kill everyone that he cares about."
3. [Blank Check — Patreon · Marvel Nerdfest · 0:23:46 · David Sims (0.50)] X-Men · fun · Krakoa era: mutants become a nation; issue one ends with Magneto saying we're your new gods. · "the 1st issue ends with Magneto just saying we're your new gods."

One hop out: what recommends the films most often joined to it (23)

1. [The Big Picture · The Past, Present, and Future of Superhero Movies | The Big Picture · 0:43:44 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Blade ↔ The New Mutants · theme · The New Mutants being a horror movie recalls Blade's feeling of a pure genre film wearing superhero clothes. · "hearkens back to that blade feeling where it's just a genre movie."
2. [Blank Check — Patreon · Guardians of the Galaxy · 0:59:57 · unknown (0.30)] Guardians of the Galaxy ↔ Captain Marvel · programming · Captain Marvel provides context for the Nova Corps Cree and a not-yet-crazy Ronan, and Jude Law's Yon-Rogg. · "But the idea in Captain Marvel is he's not crazy yet."
3. [Blank Check — Patreon · The Incredible Hulk · 0:23:12 · Griffin or David (0.35)] Iron Man ↔ The Incredible Hulk · programming · Both Iron Man's post-credits Fury scene and Tony's Hulk cameo got audiences cheering, building the idea of a shared universe. · "I was so invested in the idea, which seems hilarious now of a cinematic universe."
4. [The Big Picture · The Past, Present, and Future of Superhero Movies | The Big Picture · 0:43:15 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Deadpool ⇒ Logan (the host's read) · lineage · Deadpool started the shift to telling the best story true to one character, which Logan continued. · "this started with Deadpool, the Ryan Reynolds standalone Deadpool movie"
5. [The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 1:31:21 · unknown (0.40)] Darkman ⇒ Spider-Man (the host's read) · lineage · Raimi's Spider-Man strengths start in Darkman. · "all the stuff that is cool about the Remy Spider-Man movies starts here"
6. [Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The Winter Soldier · 0:34:42 · unknown (0.40)] Samuel L. Jackson ↔ Captain Marvel · programming · Hosts are excited to see Jackson as a younger Nick Fury again. · "Can't wait for him to do stuff again in like Captain Marvel and shit."
7. [Blank Check — Patreon · Iron Man · 1:18:06 · unknown (0.30)] Iron Man ↔ Iron Man 2 · programming · Griffin has a point about Paltrow in Iron Man 2 and promises a separate Iron Man 2 commentary. · "We're going to do an Iron Man 2 commentary so we can talk about the movie I want to talk about there."
8. [The Big Picture · ‘Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse’: One of the Best Superhero Movies Ever | Exit Survey · 0:09:39 · Micah Peters (0.80)] Steve Ditko and Stan Lee ⇒ Spider-Man (the host's read) · lineage · Ditko and Lee made Spider-Man a teen hero for younger readers, not yet accepted by the Avengers or Fantastic Four. · "I mean, like it was Steve, uh, Ditco and Stanley basically making a character that appealed to younger readers."
9. [Blank Check — Patreon · The Avengers · 1:29:32 · David Sims (0.40)] Captain Marvel ↔ The Avengers · programming · Captain Marvel is a 1990s prequel in which Fury still has both eyes, bringing back Coulson/Fury; they predict nineties-reference gags. · "So in that one, Nick Fury has 2 eyes."
10. [Blank Check — Patreon · Iron Man · 1:48:57 · unknown (0.30)] Iron Man ↔ Thor · programming · The hosts preview the next trio: Thor, Captain America, Avengers; one hates Thor. · "So what our next three is going to be Thor, Captain America, Avengers."
11. [Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · 0:42:24 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Willem Dafoe ↔ Spider-Man · theme · Dafoe's mania under a calm surface links Norman Osborn and his Jesus. · "There is a little mania inside that guy."
12. [Blank Check — Patreon · Iron Man · 2:01:42 · unknown (Griffin) (0.50)] Iron Man ↔ Captain Marvel · programming · Mentions Captain Marvel's upcoming 90s setting and Kamala Khan idolizing her as a possible future movie. · "And then like models herself after Captain Marvel."
13. [Blank Check — Patreon · Iron Man · 2:01:42 · unknown (Griffin) (0.50)] Iron Man ↔ Captain Marvel · programming · Mentions Captain Marvel's upcoming 90s setting and Kamala Khan idolizing her as a possible future movie. · "And then like models herself after Captain Marvel."
14. [The Big Picture · ‘Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse’: One of the Best Superhero Movies Ever | Exit Survey · 0:10:07 · Micah Peters (0.80)] Miles Morales ↔ Spider-Man · theme · Spider-Man was created as a relatable everyman who was white, which capped the idea that anyone could be under the mask; Miles fulfills it. · "like, so that kind of puts a cap on the like, it could be anyone underneath the mask."
15. [The Big Picture · ‘Captain Marvel’ Is a ’90s Nostalgia Play. Did It Work? | Exit Survey · 0:03:27 · Sean Fennessey (0.80)] Captain America: The First Avenger ⇒ Captain Marvel (the host's read) · lineage · The film goes back to the Steve Rogers style of origin story. · "here's how Steve Rogers became a super soldier style of storytelling."
16. [Blank Check — Patreon · Iron Man 3 · 0:18:57 · unknown (0.30)] Iron Man ⇒ Iron Man 3 (the host's read) · lineage · The Iron Man trilogy is closed into a circle by the flashback to the party and Becca Hall and Pierce. · "as individualistic as this movie is, it actually like... It's bringing the 1st 2 complete."
17. [The Big Picture · The Past, Present, and Future of Superhero Movies | The Big Picture · 0:30:39 · David Shoemaker (0.50)] Spider-Man ↔ Hellboy · craft · The best superhero movies tie the origin to the villain and arc, as in Spider-Man's Green Goblin and Hellboy's Nazis. · "the best superhero movies that have ever been made or the ones in where the origin story is tied in directly to the arc of the movie"
18. [The Big Picture · ‘Captain Marvel’ Is a ’90s Nostalgia Play. Did It Work? | Exit Survey · 0:09:03 · Sean Fennessey (0.85)] The Avengers ⇒ Captain Marvel (the host's read) · lineage · The Tesseract, the glowing box, was a MacGuffin in the first Avengers and in Infinity War. · "you may remember the Tesseract from the 1st Avengers film, and then, of course, the most recent Avengers film, Avengers Infinity War"
19. [Blank Check — Patreon · Iron Man · 0:09:11 · unknown (Griffin or David) (0.30)] Iron Man ⇒ modern superhero movies (the host's read) · lineage · Called the prototype format every later superhero film riffs on. · "this is the prototype for the modern superhero movie."
20. [The Big Picture · ‘Captain Marvel’ Is a ’90s Nostalgia Play. Did It Work? | Exit Survey · 0:09:16 · Sean Fennessey (0.80)] Captain Marvel ↔ Avengers: Infinity War · lineage · The film is connective tissue, dragging continuity toward the next Avengers movie. · "this movie is basically a connective tissue movie."
21. [Blank Check — Patreon · Iron Man · 0:27:36 · unknown (probably David) (0.40)] Stan Lee ⇒ Iron Man (the maker said so: Stan Lee interviews) · lineage · The film follows the first comic issue's origin; Lee wanted to make an industrialist war profiteer compelling to hippie kids. · "here's like an industrialist, war profiteer, Laos, and make him like compelling to these, like, hippie kids."
22. [The Big Picture · ‘Captain Marvel’ Is a ’90s Nostalgia Play. Did It Work? | Exit Survey · 0:18:39 · Sean Fennessey (0.70)] Pulp Fiction ⇒ Captain Marvel (the host's read) · lineage · Samuel L. Jackson driving around mid-90s Los Angeles evokes Jules Winfield, a clever but surface 90s nod. · "a Samuel L. Jackson character in the mid 90s driving around in a car in Los Angeles, a la Jules Winfield in Pulp Fiction."
23. [Blank Check — Patreon · Iron Man · 1:05:06 · unknown (0.30)] Iron Man ↔ Batman Begins · lineage · The suit-development process scenes are a funny version of Batman Begins' gadget-building. · "This is like funny version of Batman begins."

Who said it, by their latest sketch (5)

1. [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
2. [speaker] David Shoemaker · latest sketch, The Big Picture · Pro Wrestling Goes to the Movies, Plus Stephen Merchant on ‘Fighting · Believes the best wrestling movies are documentaries and cult oddities; loves weird, tonally pure b-movies like Body Slam and Paradise Alley. Dislikes tone-deaf studio efforts like Ready to Rumble. A sucker for wrestling's blur of real and fake. · stances: Documentaries beat fiction for wrestling; The Wrestler is the best wrestling movie; Fiction fails when it treats a fake sport in a fake world; Wrestling history (Gold Dust Trio, Sputnik Monroe) deserves movies
3. [speaker] Brian Michael Bendis · latest sketch, Blank Check · Raiders of the Lost Ark · Raised on Lucas and Spielberg and says the magic-trick-then-show-how-it-was-done openness of that era shaped his craft. Loves Raiders over Temple of Doom even though Temple of Doom met him at a pivotal age; adores Reds, Siskel and Ebert, John Williams, Karen Allen. Cannot stand writers telling the audience the theme outright and hates snakes. · stances: Raiders is the better film but Temple of Doom shaped him; Exposition must carry the character's own perspective; Lucas and Spielberg were the first open-source filmmakers; Spielberg is generous with credit and should be emulated; Marion Ravenwood is among cinema's great characters; Willie Scott is the anti-Marion mistake; The post-Fabelmans view reshapes Raiders
4. [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'
5. [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

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 X-Men (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 X-Men (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 · The Past, Present, and Future of Superhero Movies | The Big Picture · 0:01:16 · Jason Concepcion (0.70)] Blade ⇒ X-Men (the host's read) · lineage · Blade is credited as the film that set the tone for the modern superhero era, with X-Men following two years later. · "the 1st superhero movie that really set the tone for what we consider the modern era of superhero films is Blade, 1998"
[The Big Picture · ‘Captain Marvel’ Is a ’90s Nostalgia Play. Did It Work? | Exit Survey · 0:34:38 · Sean Fennessey (0.75)] Captain Marvel ↔ X-Men · craft · Expository Marvel dialogue needs a stentorian Shakespearean actor like Patrick Stewart or Ian McKellen, which Larson is not. · "there's a reason that the X-Men movies cast people like Patrick Stewart and Ian McCellen"
[The Big Picture · The Past, Present, and Future of Superhero Movies | The Big Picture · 0:42:59 · David Shoemaker (0.50)] Logan ↔ X-Men · contrast · Logan works by taking two characters and good supporting actors instead of shoehorning everyone in, as the X-Men films did. · "I'm just going to take 2 of the characters and surround them with good supporting actors"
[Blank Check · Raiders of the Lost Ark · 2:41:41 · Brian Michael Bendis (0.50)] Spider-Man ↔ X-Men · industry · Early superhero films ran out of action money, like the first X-Men. · "that's what the 1st X-Men movie is."
[The Big Picture · The Past, Present, and Future of Superhero Movies | The Big Picture · 0:03:24 · Jason Concepcion (0.60)] X-Men ↔ Iron Man · industry · The X-Men films' approach of introducing everyone at once was the standard until Marvel changed it. · "that approach is really the kind of, what the standard approach for superhero films was up until that time"
[The Big Picture · The Past, Present, and Future of Superhero Movies | The Big Picture · 0:46:35 · Jason Concepcion (0.50)] X-Men ↔ Joss Whedon · lineage · Whedon's Astonishing X-Men comic captured Cyclops better than the movies did. · "he's really the 1st guy that captured what makes Cyclops an interesting character."
[The Big Picture · The Past, Present, and Future of Superhero Movies | The Big Picture · 0:09:13 · Jason Concepcion (0.50)] Kevin Feige ↔ X-Men · career · Feige began as an assistant producer on the X-Men films before running the MCU. · "started as like an assistant producer on those X-Men films and was put in charge of these properties"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation · 0:04:53 · unknown (0.30)] Christopher McQuarrie ↔ X-Men · career · A speaker says McQuarrie and Ed Solomon wrote X-Men although a Singer assistant is solely credited. · "the X-Men movie was written by Christopher Macquarie and Ed Solomon"
[Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail · 0:35:38 · unknown (0.00)] Lauren Schuler Donner ↔ X-Men · career · Her producing career leans masculine and she got tied to X-Men. · "even if you look at her career prior to like X-Men and everything, it's mostly pretty masculine films."
[The Big Picture · The Past, Present, and Future of Superhero Movies | The Big Picture · 0:05:10 · David Shoemaker (0.40)] X-Men · fun · The first X-Men casting was driven by Wizard magazine's casting column; Glenn Danzig was floated as Wolverine. · "Glenn Danzig, I remember that was like one of the really crazy ones that was thrown."
[The Big Picture · The Past, Present, and Future of Superhero Movies | The Big Picture · 0:46:49 · Jason Concepcion (0.50)] X-Men · fun · Why Cyclops is a downer: his eyes would kill everyone he loves. · "every time he opens his eyes, he threatens to kill everyone that he cares about."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Marvel Nerdfest · 0:23:46 · David Sims (0.50)] X-Men · fun · Krakoa era: mutants become a nation; issue one ends with Magneto saying we're your new gods. · "the 1st issue ends with Magneto just saying we're your new gods."
[The Big Picture · The Past, Present, and Future of Superhero Movies | The Big Picture · 0:43:44 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Blade ↔ The New Mutants · theme · The New Mutants being a horror movie recalls Blade's feeling of a pure genre film wearing superhero clothes. · "hearkens back to that blade feeling where it's just a genre movie."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Guardians of the Galaxy · 0:59:57 · unknown (0.30)] Guardians of the Galaxy ↔ Captain Marvel · programming · Captain Marvel provides context for the Nova Corps Cree and a not-yet-crazy Ronan, and Jude Law's Yon-Rogg. · "But the idea in Captain Marvel is he's not crazy yet."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Incredible Hulk · 0:23:12 · Griffin or David (0.35)] Iron Man ↔ The Incredible Hulk · programming · Both Iron Man's post-credits Fury scene and Tony's Hulk cameo got audiences cheering, building the idea of a shared universe. · "I was so invested in the idea, which seems hilarious now of a cinematic universe."
[The Big Picture · The Past, Present, and Future of Superhero Movies | The Big Picture · 0:43:15 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Deadpool ⇒ Logan (the host's read) · lineage · Deadpool started the shift to telling the best story true to one character, which Logan continued. · "this started with Deadpool, the Ryan Reynolds standalone Deadpool movie"
[The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 1:31:21 · unknown (0.40)] Darkman ⇒ Spider-Man (the host's read) · lineage · Raimi's Spider-Man strengths start in Darkman. · "all the stuff that is cool about the Remy Spider-Man movies starts here"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The Winter Soldier · 0:34:42 · unknown (0.40)] Samuel L. Jackson ↔ Captain Marvel · programming · Hosts are excited to see Jackson as a younger Nick Fury again. · "Can't wait for him to do stuff again in like Captain Marvel and shit."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Iron Man · 1:18:06 · unknown (0.30)] Iron Man ↔ Iron Man 2 · programming · Griffin has a point about Paltrow in Iron Man 2 and promises a separate Iron Man 2 commentary. · "We're going to do an Iron Man 2 commentary so we can talk about the movie I want to talk about there."
[The Big Picture · ‘Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse’: One of the Best Superhero Movies Ever | Exit Survey · 0:09:39 · Micah Peters (0.80)] Steve Ditko and Stan Lee ⇒ Spider-Man (the host's read) · lineage · Ditko and Lee made Spider-Man a teen hero for younger readers, not yet accepted by the Avengers or Fantastic Four. · "I mean, like it was Steve, uh, Ditco and Stanley basically making a character that appealed to younger readers."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Avengers · 1:29:32 · David Sims (0.40)] Captain Marvel ↔ The Avengers · programming · Captain Marvel is a 1990s prequel in which Fury still has both eyes, bringing back Coulson/Fury; they predict nineties-reference gags. · "So in that one, Nick Fury has 2 eyes."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Iron Man · 1:48:57 · unknown (0.30)] Iron Man ↔ Thor · programming · The hosts preview the next trio: Thor, Captain America, Avengers; one hates Thor. · "So what our next three is going to be Thor, Captain America, Avengers."
[Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · 0:42:24 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Willem Dafoe ↔ Spider-Man · theme · Dafoe's mania under a calm surface links Norman Osborn and his Jesus. · "There is a little mania inside that guy."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Iron Man · 2:01:42 · unknown (Griffin) (0.50)] Iron Man ↔ Captain Marvel · programming · Mentions Captain Marvel's upcoming 90s setting and Kamala Khan idolizing her as a possible future movie. · "And then like models herself after Captain Marvel."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Iron Man · 2:01:42 · unknown (Griffin) (0.50)] Iron Man ↔ Captain Marvel · programming · Mentions Captain Marvel's upcoming 90s setting and Kamala Khan idolizing her as a possible future movie. · "And then like models herself after Captain Marvel."
[The Big Picture · ‘Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse’: One of the Best Superhero Movies Ever | Exit Survey · 0:10:07 · Micah Peters (0.80)] Miles Morales ↔ Spider-Man · theme · Spider-Man was created as a relatable everyman who was white, which capped the idea that anyone could be under the mask; Miles fulfills it. · "like, so that kind of puts a cap on the like, it could be anyone underneath the mask."
[The Big Picture · ‘Captain Marvel’ Is a ’90s Nostalgia Play. Did It Work? | Exit Survey · 0:03:27 · Sean Fennessey (0.80)] Captain America: The First Avenger ⇒ Captain Marvel (the host's read) · lineage · The film goes back to the Steve Rogers style of origin story. · "here's how Steve Rogers became a super soldier style of storytelling."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Iron Man 3 · 0:18:57 · unknown (0.30)] Iron Man ⇒ Iron Man 3 (the host's read) · lineage · The Iron Man trilogy is closed into a circle by the flashback to the party and Becca Hall and Pierce. · "as individualistic as this movie is, it actually like... It's bringing the 1st 2 complete."
[The Big Picture · The Past, Present, and Future of Superhero Movies | The Big Picture · 0:30:39 · David Shoemaker (0.50)] Spider-Man ↔ Hellboy · craft · The best superhero movies tie the origin to the villain and arc, as in Spider-Man's Green Goblin and Hellboy's Nazis. · "the best superhero movies that have ever been made or the ones in where the origin story is tied in directly to the arc of the movie"
[The Big Picture · ‘Captain Marvel’ Is a ’90s Nostalgia Play. Did It Work? | Exit Survey · 0:09:03 · Sean Fennessey (0.85)] The Avengers ⇒ Captain Marvel (the host's read) · lineage · The Tesseract, the glowing box, was a MacGuffin in the first Avengers and in Infinity War. · "you may remember the Tesseract from the 1st Avengers film, and then, of course, the most recent Avengers film, Avengers Infinity War"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Iron Man · 0:09:11 · unknown (Griffin or David) (0.30)] Iron Man ⇒ modern superhero movies (the host's read) · lineage · Called the prototype format every later superhero film riffs on. · "this is the prototype for the modern superhero movie."
[The Big Picture · ‘Captain Marvel’ Is a ’90s Nostalgia Play. Did It Work? | Exit Survey · 0:09:16 · Sean Fennessey (0.80)] Captain Marvel ↔ Avengers: Infinity War · lineage · The film is connective tissue, dragging continuity toward the next Avengers movie. · "this movie is basically a connective tissue movie."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Iron Man · 0:27:36 · unknown (probably David) (0.40)] Stan Lee ⇒ Iron Man (the maker said so: Stan Lee interviews) · lineage · The film follows the first comic issue's origin; Lee wanted to make an industrialist war profiteer compelling to hippie kids. · "here's like an industrialist, war profiteer, Laos, and make him like compelling to these, like, hippie kids."
[The Big Picture · ‘Captain Marvel’ Is a ’90s Nostalgia Play. Did It Work? | Exit Survey · 0:18:39 · Sean Fennessey (0.70)] Pulp Fiction ⇒ Captain Marvel (the host's read) · lineage · Samuel L. Jackson driving around mid-90s Los Angeles evokes Jules Winfield, a clever but surface 90s nod. · "a Samuel L. Jackson character in the mid 90s driving around in a car in Los Angeles, a la Jules Winfield in Pulp Fiction."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Iron Man · 1:05:06 · unknown (0.30)] Iron Man ↔ Batman Begins · lineage · The suit-development process scenes are a funny version of Batman Begins' gadget-building. · "This is like funny version of Batman begins."
[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
[speaker] David Shoemaker · latest sketch, The Big Picture · Pro Wrestling Goes to the Movies, Plus Stephen Merchant on ‘Fighting · Believes the best wrestling movies are documentaries and cult oddities; loves weird, tonally pure b-movies like Body Slam and Paradise Alley. Dislikes tone-deaf studio efforts like Ready to Rumble. A sucker for wrestling's blur of real and fake. · stances: Documentaries beat fiction for wrestling; The Wrestler is the best wrestling movie; Fiction fails when it treats a fake sport in a fake world; Wrestling history (Gold Dust Trio, Sputnik Monroe) deserves movies
[speaker] Brian Michael Bendis · latest sketch, Blank Check · Raiders of the Lost Ark · Raised on Lucas and Spielberg and says the magic-trick-then-show-how-it-was-done openness of that era shaped his craft. Loves Raiders over Temple of Doom even though Temple of Doom met him at a pivotal age; adores Reds, Siskel and Ebert, John Williams, Karen Allen. Cannot stand writers telling the audience the theme outright and hates snakes. · stances: Raiders is the better film but Temple of Doom shaped him; Exposition must carry the character's own perspective; Lucas and Spielberg were the first open-source filmmakers; Spielberg is generous with credit and should be emulated; Marion Ravenwood is among cinema's great characters; Willie Scott is the anti-Marion mistake; The post-Fabelmans view reshapes Raiders
[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] 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
[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 X-Men (2000); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend X-Men (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.