What the corpus says about Watchmen (2009)

The 36 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 (7)

[The Big Picture · Celebrating ‘Scott Pilgrim vs. the World’ 10 Years Later · 0:11:55 · Jason Concepcion (0.80)] Scott Pilgrim vs. the World ↔ Watchmen · contrast · Jason says Snyder's Watchmen lifts panels straight off the page and loses the magic, while Scott Pilgrim translates the feel of a comic into film. · "There's a, there's many, many scenes in Zack Snyder's Watchmen that are ripped directly from the pages of the book."
[The Big Picture · The Past, Present, and Future of Superhero Movies | The Big Picture · 0:10:20 · David Shoemaker (0.40)] Watchmen ↔ Iron Man · industry · Snyder, while promoting Watchmen, doubted Marvel's B-list characters; then Iron Man made $300 million. · "I can't believe Iron Man made $300 million."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Incredible Hulk · 0:59:36 · Griffin or David (0.30)] Watchmen ↔ The Incredible Hulk · industry · A Hulk nudity joke leads to complaining that Watchmen's Dr. Manhattan penis was rendered when the comic gave it one line. · "You got to realize that for like 20 years they were like, they're never going to be able to make a Watchman movie that they do their censor it and they won't even show his dick."
[The Big Picture · The Past, Present, and Future of Superhero Movies | The Big Picture · 0:06:00 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Watchmen ↔ Zack Snyder · craft · Snyder's Watchmen was his favorite of his superhero efforts, helped by being faithful to a single finite graphic novel. · "that's my favorite Zack Snyder superhero endeavor for sure."
[The Big Picture · The Past, Present, and Future of Superhero Movies | The Big Picture · 0:06:11 · David Shoemaker (0.55)] Dave Gibbons ⇒ Watchmen (the host's read) · craft · Gibbons' same-size panels made the Watchmen comic a structural feat, which Snyder followed faithfully in the film. · "and, you know, he was able to, uh, I mean, Dave Gibbons is one of the great comic book illustrators, but is a very low key sort of British style that all the panels in the book were the same size."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 1:17:10 · unknown (0.40)] Matthew Goode ↔ Watchmen · verdict · Goode is fine generally but a poor fit for Ozymandias. · "I think he is really poor fit in that film."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 1:17:06 · unknown (0.40)] Michael Fassbender ↔ Watchmen · what-if · Fassbender would have been a better Ozymandias than Matthew Goode. · "he would have been a better Ozzie Mandius."

Fun items about it (1)

[The Big Picture · The Past, Present, and Future of Superhero Movies | The Big Picture · 0:10:20 · David Shoemaker (0.40)] Watchmen · fun · Snyder, around Watchmen, scoffed at a Captain America or Thor movie. · "I can't believe Iron Man made $300 million."

One hop out: what recommends the films most often joined to it (24)

[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 · Celebrating ‘Scott Pilgrim vs. the World’ 10 Years Later · 1:20:24 · Edgar Wright (0.95)] Scott Pilgrim vs. the World ↔ Metric · programming · Edgar says Metric and Broken Social Scene were a no-brainer because the film was shot in Toronto. · "metric and broken social scene were both like, still are, like, you know, like really important Canadian bands from Toronto."
[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."
[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 · Celebrating ‘Scott Pilgrim vs. the World’ 10 Years Later · 0:02:46 · Sean Fennessey (0.90)] Scott Pilgrim vs. the World ⇒ Baby Driver (the host's read) · lineage · Sean says Wright's music-synced action staging, perfected in Baby Driver, begins with Scott Pilgrim. · "The perfectly synchronized music to action staging the Wright Perfected and Baby Driver starts with Scott Pilgrim."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Incredible Hulk · 0:36:32 · Griffin or David (0.30)] The Incredible Hulk ↔ Captain America (First Avenger / MCU) · programming · The WWII super-soldier line makes theater audiences excited for a Captain America reference, a habit Iron Man 2 repeats. · "Iron Man 2 is the guiltiest of that."
[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."
[The Big Picture · Celebrating ‘Scott Pilgrim vs. the World’ 10 Years Later · 0:03:08 · Sean Fennessey (0.90)] The Matrix ⇒ Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (the host's read) · lineage · Sean breaks the staging down into influences: Bruce Lee, The Matrix, and Phantom of the Paradise. · "It's one part Bruce Lee, one part the Matrix, one part Phantom of the Paradise."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Incredible Hulk · 1:31:34 · Griffin or David (0.35)] The Incredible Hulk ⇒ Captain America (First Avenger / MCU) (the host's read) · programming · The hero jumping out of a hangar plane becomes a recurring Marvel image, starting here and used in Black Panther and Captain America. · "And this is the 1st of what then becomes the Marvel trope where a hero is either pushed out of or jumps out of the back of like a hangar plane."
[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 · Celebrating ‘Scott Pilgrim vs. the World’ 10 Years Later · 0:03:08 · Sean Fennessey (0.90)] Phantom of the Paradise ⇒ Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (the host's read) · lineage · Phantom of the Paradise is named as one ingredient of the film's rock-and-spectacle mix. · "It's one part Bruce Lee, one part the Matrix, one part Phantom of the Paradise."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Incredible Hulk · 1:51:33 · Griffin or David (0.35)] The Consultant ↔ The Incredible Hulk · programming · The short on the Thor Blu-ray explains Tony's cameo as a ploy to sabotage the recruitment of Blonsky. · "They see him as a war hero and blame the devastation of Harlem and Bruce Banner."
[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 · Celebrating ‘Scott Pilgrim vs. the World’ 10 Years Later · 0:17:53 · Sean Fennessey (0.85)] Scott Pilgrim vs. the World ⇒ Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (the host's read) · lineage · Sean says Deadpool, the Lego movie and Spider-Verse could not happen without this film having broken the fourth wall first. · "Deadpool, for example, can't happen or like the Lego movie can't happen or into the Spider-Verse."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Incredible Hulk · 0:04:49 · Griffin or David (0.35)] The Incredible Hulk ↔ Hulk · lineage · A speaker says the opening credits re-establish the origin so the film can claim to be a new beginning rather than a direct sequel to Ang Lee's film. · "So this is why people say, oh, it this isn't a direct sequel to Angly because they make the..."
[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 · Celebrating ‘Scott Pilgrim vs. the World’ 10 Years Later · 0:17:53 · Sean Fennessey (0.85)] Scott Pilgrim vs. the World ⇒ Deadpool (the host's read) · lineage · Same claim: Deadpool's fourth-wall breaking was made possible by this movie breaking it down. · "Deadpool, for example, can't happen or like the Lego movie can't happen or into the Spider-Verse."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Incredible Hulk · 0:06:37 · Griffin or David (0.35)] Hulk ⇒ The Incredible Hulk (the host's read) · lineage · Despite the reboot claim, the same three relationships (Hulk, Betty, Thunderbolt Ross) carry through, as does the South America opening. · "And those 3 relationships feel very much on a continuity with everything that happens in English film."
[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 · Celebrating ‘Scott Pilgrim vs. the World’ 10 Years Later · 0:17:53 · Sean Fennessey (0.85)] Scott Pilgrim vs. the World ⇒ The Lego Movie (the host's read) · lineage · Same claim: the Lego movie's self-aware tone follows Scott Pilgrim. · "Deadpool, for example, can't happen or like the Lego movie can't happen or into the Spider-Verse."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Incredible Hulk · 0:14:45 · Griffin or David (0.30)] Louis Leterrier ↔ The Incredible Hulk · lineage · Leterrier is said to have based the film closely on Jeph Loeb's comic Hulk: Gray. · "So apparently Louis Letierrier based this very intently on Jeff Loeb's Hulk Gray, which no one remembers or likes."
[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."
[The Big Picture · Celebrating ‘Scott Pilgrim vs. the World’ 10 Years Later · 0:33:29 · Van Lathan (0.70)] 1980s bully movies ⇒ Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (the host's read) · lineage · Van loves the Lucas Lee fight because it recalls cheesy 80s bully fights and flips them, Scott winning through wiliness. · "the fights that I love from, uh, bully fights are like from 80s, cheesy 80s movies."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Incredible Hulk · 0:25:11 · Griffin or David (0.25)] The Incredible Hulk ⇒ The Avengers (the host's read) · lineage · Ruffalo's first Hulk scene in a slum echoes this film's Rocinha opening, though otherwise the continuity is thrown out. · "The only tale is that when the Mark Ruffalo hook was introduced, they find the little hot."

Who said it, by their latest sketch (3)

[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] 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] 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 (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)

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 Watchmen (2009) 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 Watchmen (2009) 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 · Celebrating ‘Scott Pilgrim vs. the World’ 10 Years Later · 0:11:55 · Jason Concepcion (0.80)] Scott Pilgrim vs. the World ↔ Watchmen · contrast · Jason says Snyder's Watchmen lifts panels straight off the page and loses the magic, while Scott Pilgrim translates the feel of a comic into film. · "There's a, there's many, many scenes in Zack Snyder's Watchmen that are ripped directly from the pages of the book."
[The Big Picture · The Past, Present, and Future of Superhero Movies | The Big Picture · 0:10:20 · David Shoemaker (0.40)] Watchmen ↔ Iron Man · industry · Snyder, while promoting Watchmen, doubted Marvel's B-list characters; then Iron Man made $300 million. · "I can't believe Iron Man made $300 million."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Incredible Hulk · 0:59:36 · Griffin or David (0.30)] Watchmen ↔ The Incredible Hulk · industry · A Hulk nudity joke leads to complaining that Watchmen's Dr. Manhattan penis was rendered when the comic gave it one line. · "You got to realize that for like 20 years they were like, they're never going to be able to make a Watchman movie that they do their censor it and they won't even show his dick."
[The Big Picture · The Past, Present, and Future of Superhero Movies | The Big Picture · 0:06:00 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Watchmen ↔ Zack Snyder · craft · Snyder's Watchmen was his favorite of his superhero efforts, helped by being faithful to a single finite graphic novel. · "that's my favorite Zack Snyder superhero endeavor for sure."
[The Big Picture · The Past, Present, and Future of Superhero Movies | The Big Picture · 0:06:11 · David Shoemaker (0.55)] Dave Gibbons ⇒ Watchmen (the host's read) · craft · Gibbons' same-size panels made the Watchmen comic a structural feat, which Snyder followed faithfully in the film. · "and, you know, he was able to, uh, I mean, Dave Gibbons is one of the great comic book illustrators, but is a very low key sort of British style that all the panels in the book were the same size."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 1:17:10 · unknown (0.40)] Matthew Goode ↔ Watchmen · verdict · Goode is fine generally but a poor fit for Ozymandias. · "I think he is really poor fit in that film."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 1:17:06 · unknown (0.40)] Michael Fassbender ↔ Watchmen · what-if · Fassbender would have been a better Ozymandias than Matthew Goode. · "he would have been a better Ozzie Mandius."
[The Big Picture · The Past, Present, and Future of Superhero Movies | The Big Picture · 0:10:20 · David Shoemaker (0.40)] Watchmen · fun · Snyder, around Watchmen, scoffed at a Captain America or Thor movie. · "I can't believe Iron Man made $300 million."
[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 · Celebrating ‘Scott Pilgrim vs. the World’ 10 Years Later · 1:20:24 · Edgar Wright (0.95)] Scott Pilgrim vs. the World ↔ Metric · programming · Edgar says Metric and Broken Social Scene were a no-brainer because the film was shot in Toronto. · "metric and broken social scene were both like, still are, like, you know, like really important Canadian bands from Toronto."
[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."
[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 · Celebrating ‘Scott Pilgrim vs. the World’ 10 Years Later · 0:02:46 · Sean Fennessey (0.90)] Scott Pilgrim vs. the World ⇒ Baby Driver (the host's read) · lineage · Sean says Wright's music-synced action staging, perfected in Baby Driver, begins with Scott Pilgrim. · "The perfectly synchronized music to action staging the Wright Perfected and Baby Driver starts with Scott Pilgrim."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Incredible Hulk · 0:36:32 · Griffin or David (0.30)] The Incredible Hulk ↔ Captain America (First Avenger / MCU) · programming · The WWII super-soldier line makes theater audiences excited for a Captain America reference, a habit Iron Man 2 repeats. · "Iron Man 2 is the guiltiest of that."
[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."
[The Big Picture · Celebrating ‘Scott Pilgrim vs. the World’ 10 Years Later · 0:03:08 · Sean Fennessey (0.90)] The Matrix ⇒ Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (the host's read) · lineage · Sean breaks the staging down into influences: Bruce Lee, The Matrix, and Phantom of the Paradise. · "It's one part Bruce Lee, one part the Matrix, one part Phantom of the Paradise."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Incredible Hulk · 1:31:34 · Griffin or David (0.35)] The Incredible Hulk ⇒ Captain America (First Avenger / MCU) (the host's read) · programming · The hero jumping out of a hangar plane becomes a recurring Marvel image, starting here and used in Black Panther and Captain America. · "And this is the 1st of what then becomes the Marvel trope where a hero is either pushed out of or jumps out of the back of like a hangar plane."
[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 · Celebrating ‘Scott Pilgrim vs. the World’ 10 Years Later · 0:03:08 · Sean Fennessey (0.90)] Phantom of the Paradise ⇒ Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (the host's read) · lineage · Phantom of the Paradise is named as one ingredient of the film's rock-and-spectacle mix. · "It's one part Bruce Lee, one part the Matrix, one part Phantom of the Paradise."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Incredible Hulk · 1:51:33 · Griffin or David (0.35)] The Consultant ↔ The Incredible Hulk · programming · The short on the Thor Blu-ray explains Tony's cameo as a ploy to sabotage the recruitment of Blonsky. · "They see him as a war hero and blame the devastation of Harlem and Bruce Banner."
[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 · Celebrating ‘Scott Pilgrim vs. the World’ 10 Years Later · 0:17:53 · Sean Fennessey (0.85)] Scott Pilgrim vs. the World ⇒ Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (the host's read) · lineage · Sean says Deadpool, the Lego movie and Spider-Verse could not happen without this film having broken the fourth wall first. · "Deadpool, for example, can't happen or like the Lego movie can't happen or into the Spider-Verse."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Incredible Hulk · 0:04:49 · Griffin or David (0.35)] The Incredible Hulk ↔ Hulk · lineage · A speaker says the opening credits re-establish the origin so the film can claim to be a new beginning rather than a direct sequel to Ang Lee's film. · "So this is why people say, oh, it this isn't a direct sequel to Angly because they make the..."
[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 · Celebrating ‘Scott Pilgrim vs. the World’ 10 Years Later · 0:17:53 · Sean Fennessey (0.85)] Scott Pilgrim vs. the World ⇒ Deadpool (the host's read) · lineage · Same claim: Deadpool's fourth-wall breaking was made possible by this movie breaking it down. · "Deadpool, for example, can't happen or like the Lego movie can't happen or into the Spider-Verse."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Incredible Hulk · 0:06:37 · Griffin or David (0.35)] Hulk ⇒ The Incredible Hulk (the host's read) · lineage · Despite the reboot claim, the same three relationships (Hulk, Betty, Thunderbolt Ross) carry through, as does the South America opening. · "And those 3 relationships feel very much on a continuity with everything that happens in English film."
[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 · Celebrating ‘Scott Pilgrim vs. the World’ 10 Years Later · 0:17:53 · Sean Fennessey (0.85)] Scott Pilgrim vs. the World ⇒ The Lego Movie (the host's read) · lineage · Same claim: the Lego movie's self-aware tone follows Scott Pilgrim. · "Deadpool, for example, can't happen or like the Lego movie can't happen or into the Spider-Verse."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Incredible Hulk · 0:14:45 · Griffin or David (0.30)] Louis Leterrier ↔ The Incredible Hulk · lineage · Leterrier is said to have based the film closely on Jeph Loeb's comic Hulk: Gray. · "So apparently Louis Letierrier based this very intently on Jeff Loeb's Hulk Gray, which no one remembers or likes."
[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."
[The Big Picture · Celebrating ‘Scott Pilgrim vs. the World’ 10 Years Later · 0:33:29 · Van Lathan (0.70)] 1980s bully movies ⇒ Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (the host's read) · lineage · Van loves the Lucas Lee fight because it recalls cheesy 80s bully fights and flips them, Scott winning through wiliness. · "the fights that I love from, uh, bully fights are like from 80s, cheesy 80s movies."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Incredible Hulk · 0:25:11 · Griffin or David (0.25)] The Incredible Hulk ⇒ The Avengers (the host's read) · lineage · Ruffalo's first Hulk scene in a slum echoes this film's Rocinha opening, though otherwise the continuity is thrown out. · "The only tale is that when the Mark Ruffalo hook was introduced, they find the little hot."
[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] 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] 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)

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 Watchmen (2009); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Watchmen (2009) 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.