What the corpus says about Nope (2022)

The 49 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 (16)

[The Big Picture · The Top Five Movies of 2022 · 1:31:29 · Sean Fennessey (0.80)] Nope ↔ The Fabelmans · programming · Sean finds it fascinating that in one year Spielberg made a movie about why he makes movies and Peele made the most Spielbergian movie in ages. · "it's fascinating that this is a year in which Spielberg made a movie about how he figured out why he wanted to make movies"
[The Big Picture · The Top Five Movies of 2022 · 1:31:29 · Sean Fennessey (0.85)] Close Encounters of the Third Kind ⇒ Nope (the host's read) · lineage · Sean says Nope is as much a Spielberg movie as any he has seen in a long time, with Close Encounters the usual touchstone, and notes the shared theme of looking up and trying to see. · "nope is as much a Spielberg movie as any movie I've seen in a long, long time."
[The Big Picture · The 2022 Movie Draft · 0:41:32 · Sean Fennessey (0.80)] Nope ↔ The Fabelmans · theme · Sean says Nope, like The Fabelmans, explores self and what you do in the act of making movies. · "similar to the Fablemans, like exploration of self and like what you do in the act of making movies"
[The Big Picture · The 2022 Movie Draft · 0:43:04 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] Nope ↔ Get Out · career · Get Out is a neat, legible, pop statement while Us and Nope are messier with more strands, which Sean likes. · "The get out is such a complete statement. Like, it's a movie that is very legible."
[The Big Picture · The 2022 Movie Draft · 0:43:17 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] Nope ↔ Us · career · Us and Nope are described as messier and less neat than Get Out, with more strands. · "But us and Nope, or like a little messier, have a lot of strands around them."
[The Big Picture · The Top Five Movies of 2022 · 1:34:20 · Sean Fennessey (0.70)] Nope ↔ Phantom Thread · career · Sean wonders if Peele will go the Phantom Thread route, the Visit route, or keep making Inception-scale films, and hopes for a Spielbergian approach. · "in 10 or 15 years whether or not Jordan Peele is making his phantom thread."
[The Big Picture · The Top Five Movies of 2022 · 0:59:47 · Adam Nayman (0.85)] Nope ↔ Us · people · Adam thought Peele could have gone either way after Us, and now rates Nope above his other two horror films. · "But I mean, this film, I think, is better than the other two."
[The Big Picture · The Top Five Movies of 2022 · 0:44:38 · Adam Nayman (0.85)] Decision to Leave ↔ Nope · verdict · Adam places two genre films at four and three, both praised as perfectly directed for what they are. · "for the kind of genre film they are, this is my number 3 film, they are perfectly directed."
[The Big Picture · The Top Five Movies of 2022 · 1:00:01 · Chris Ryan (0.85)] Tár ↔ Nope · verdict · Chris puts Tar at three and Banshees at two; Adam has Nope at three; the four lists overlap on Tar (Chris 3, Amanda 2, Sean 2) and on Nope (Adam 3, Sean 1). · "Number 3 is for me is tar."
[The Big Picture · The Top Five Movies of 2022 · 1:30:24 · Sean Fennessey (0.85)] Top Gun: Maverick ↔ Nope · verdict · Sean puts Nope at number one over his number three Top Gun, arguing Nope makes you think while Maverick deliberately does not; he says you can love one without knocking the other. · "It is like, I loved Top Gun Maverick, but it doesn't ask you to think about a single goddamn thing."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining · 0:51:58 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Nope ↔ The Shining · over-read puzzle · Kubrick was not leaving breadcrumbs, unlike filmmakers like Peele who now construct puzzle movies. · "Whereas I think Kubrick was not intentionally like leaving a trail of breadcrumbs"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Lolita · 1:22:07 · unknown (0.00)] Lolita ↔ Nope · off-screen events · Both films put their biggest events off screen and tell them in talk. · "the nope thing where you're like, oh, like the biggest events are happening off screen and you're both telling us and not."
[The Big Picture · The Top Five Movies of 2022 · 1:33:38 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Eadweard Muybridge ⇒ Nope (the host's read) · lineage · Sean reads Nope as launching from the black jockey in Muybridge's original film strip, an invented family tied to a hundred years of film history. · "related to the black jockey that we see in the Edward Weybridge, you know, original film strip, and then use that as the launch point for 100 years of film history"
[The Big Picture · The Top Five Movies of 2022 · 1:31:24 · Sean Fennessey (0.85)] Nope ↔ Hoyte van Hoytema · craft · Sean praises Hoyte van Hoytema's cinematography on Nope as out of this world. · "Hoyt von Hoytzmo cinematography is out of this world."
[The Big Picture · The Top Five Movies of 2022 · 1:35:17 · Adam Nayman (0.90)] Nope ↔ Gowan · craft · Adam says Gowan's Strange Animal on Nope's soundtrack is his favorite thing about the movie and asks Peele why 80s Canadian rock is on it. · "not just Corey Hart, but Gowan's strange animal, which is my favorite thing about the movie."
[The Big Picture · The Top Five Movies of 2022 · 1:35:17 · Adam Nayman (0.90)] Nope ↔ Corey Hart · craft · Adam notes Corey Hart is among the 80s Canadian rock staples on Nope's soundtrack. · "not just Corey Hart, but Gowan's strange animal, which is my favorite thing about the movie."

Films put beside it more than once (2)

[pairs] Nope ↔ The Fabelmans · said 2 times in 2 episodes
[pairs] Nope ↔ Us · said 2 times in 2 episodes

Fun items about it (4)

[The Big Picture · The 2022 Movie Draft · 0:43:36 · Sean Fennessey (0.90)] Nope · fun · Sean saw it in 70mm at the Egyptian for his birthday, loud and amazing, and plans to rewatch it every couple of years until he dies. · "I probably will watch this movie every couple years till I die."
[The Big Picture · The Top Five Movies of 2022 · 0:59:36 · Adam Nayman (0.80)] Nope · fun · Adam notes Peele's humility when told he's made three great horror movies in a row: he asks about John Carpenter. · "Peel's like, what about John Carpenter?"
[The Big Picture · The Top Five Movies of 2022 · 1:33:59 · Sean Fennessey (0.70)] Nope · fun · Sean admires the premise: an invented family that may be descended from the Black jockey in Muybridge's film strip, launching 100 years of film history and people whose names we don't know. · "that's a genius idea for a drama, let alone a UFO movie."
[The Big Picture · The Top Five Movies of 2022 · 1:35:30 · Adam Nayman (0.85)] Nope · fun · Adam wants Jordan Peele to explain the 80s Canadian rock on the soundtrack, especially Gowan's Strange Animal, his favorite thing about the movie, and wonders if Peele got trapped at a cottage on Canada Day. · "was he trapped at someone's cottage on Canada day?"

One hop out: what recommends the films most often joined to it (21)

[The Big Picture · The Top Five Movies of 2022 · 1:23:37 · Sean Fennessey (0.75)] Aftersun ↔ The Fabelmans · programming · Sean calls Aftersun an interesting pairing with The Fabelmans, both memory movies about childhood; Aftersun is told while the memory is fresher. · "Interesting pairing with the fablemans, this movie."
[The Big Picture · The Final Girl Film Canon and ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ · 0:55:08 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] Us ↔ Midsummer · theme · Us and Midsummer are prestige films that actively explore what it means to be a final girl though not pure slashers. · "I think Danny in Midsummer really, really fits the bill"
[The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies · 0:19:05 · Sean Fennessey (0.85)] Close Encounters of the Third Kind ⇒ E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (the host's read) · theme · Close Encounters sets a template for science fiction and for stories about families and divorce. · "It sets a different kind of template for science fiction storytelling, for stories about families, for stories about obsession, for stories about divorce"
[Blank Check · Decision to Leave · 0:35:35 · Griffin Newman (0.60)] Mist (1967 Korean hit song) ⇒ Decision to Leave (the maker said so) · lineage · Park loved the 1967 song The Mist since childhood and the movie is built around it and the lady-in-the-mist idea. · "A Korean 1967 hit song called The Miss. Yeah. which is about a protagonist who's trying to understand the world around them."
[The Big Picture · The 10 Best Horror Movies of the Decade | The Big Picture · 1:48:36 · unknown (Alexander or Karaszewski) (0.40)] Parasite ↔ Get Out · theme · Parasite is smart social satire that slips easily into horror, which fits the episode's broader horror talk. · "it's smart social satire that just very easily slips into horror"
[Blank Check · Raiders of the Lost Ark · 0:36:23 · Brian Michael Bendis (0.80)] Raiders of the Lost Ark ↔ The Fabelmans · theme · Bendis says he sees the movie differently after The Fabelmans. · "I honestly don't think I've heard a serious conversation about this movie Post Fabelman's"
[The Big Picture · Our Alternative Academy Awards | The Oscars Show · 1:24:07 · Wesley Morris (0.40)] Us ↔ Harriet · theme · Lupita's invented two-character performance was overlooked for Erivo playing a familiar enslaved figure, the lone nominated actor of color for a slavery role. · "They nominated one actor of color and is for playing a slave."
[Blank Check · Raiders of the Lost Ark · 0:25:05 · Brian Michael Bendis (0.70)] Raiders of the Lost Ark ↔ Close Encounters of the Third Kind · craft · The novelization written by Spielberg internalized the story, which Bendis loved. · "it internalizes the story for a young person who's only seeing externalizing it."
[Blank Check · Decision to Leave · 0:37:24 · Griffin Newman (0.60)] Martin Beck novels (Swedish) ⇒ Decision to Leave (the maker said so) · lineage · The anti-macho gentleman cop concept comes from Martin Beck, the Swedish police novels, falling for the lady from the mist. · "So basically, what if Martin Beck, this Swedish police officer character falls in love with, like the lady from the Mist, sort of, right?"
[The Big Picture · Janicza Bravo and Brett Gelman Channel Rejection and Anxiety to Make ‘Lemon’ | The Big Picture · 0:04:44 · Alison Herman (0.90)] Juneteenth (Atlanta episode) ↔ Get Out · theme · Alison says it reminds her of Get Out in using white affluence to create dread, though Get Out is more visceral. · "it almost reminds me of get out, like using the trappings of white affluence to inspire this feeling of dread and discomfort"
[Blank Check · Raiders of the Lost Ark · 2:28:09 · unknown (0.50)] The Fabelmans ⇒ Raiders of the Lost Ark (the host's read) · theme · Marion's monkey scenes mirror Spielberg's mother's relationship with the monkey shown in The Fabelmans. · "the relationship Marion has with the monkey, in that brief amount of screen time, feels so mirrored to his mother's relationship with the monkey"
[Blank Check · Raiders of the Lost Ark · 0:25:54 · Brian Michael Bendis (0.80)] Close Encounters of the Third Kind ↔ Walt Simonson · craft · Walt Simonson drew the Close Encounters comic adaptation, whose behind-the-scenes showed directing versus the page. · "Walt Simonson doing the close encounters adaptation, and it is wonderful."
[Blank Check · Decision to Leave · 0:52:23 · Griffin Newman (0.70)] Decision to Leave ↔ Vertigo · lineage · Park says interviewers always ask about Vertigo but it was not his conscious influence. · "He says, I think everyone basically is interviewing him being like, is this like a vertigo thing?"
[The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 0:53:33 · Chris Ryan (0.60)] Resident Evil ↔ Get Out · craft · Chris cites Get Out's opening lonely-road accident as a box-checking scary space like the film's opening. · "get out very famously, more or less opens with an accident like that on a lonely road"
[Blank Check · Raiders of the Lost Ark · 2:28:40 · unknown (0.50)] The Fabelmans ⇒ Raiders of the Lost Ark (the host's read) · theme · Marion is partly Spielberg's mother, which keeps her from being an idealized tough-girl fantasy. · "it does feel like to some degree she's like his mom."
[Blank Check · Decision to Leave · 0:52:37 · Griffin Newman (0.70)] Brief Encounter ⇒ Decision to Leave (the maker said so: Park's interview remarks read on the show) · lineage · Park cites David Lean's Brief Encounter as the romantic vibe he was thinking of instead of Vertigo. · "He says, brief encounter, the David Lean film. is more what he's thinking of in terms of vibe."
[The Big Picture · The 2022 Movie Draft · 0:39:16 · Amanda Dobbins (0.85)] The Fabelmans ↔ American Graffiti · theme · Amanda compares the high school interlude in the middle of The Fabelmans to American Graffiti. · "the lovely American graffiti high school, like interlude in the middle."
[Blank Check · Decision to Leave · 1:20:56 · Griffin Newman (0.60)] Decision to Leave ↔ Insomnia · lineage · A sleepless cop is called part of the sleepy-cop canon, with Pacino's Insomnia as the reference. · "But this movie is in the detective dormer canon of sleepy cops who can't go to sleep."
[Blank Check · Decision to Leave · 1:18:21 · Tatiana Maslany (0.50)] Tang Wei ↔ Decision to Leave · theme · Her performance plays against the femme fatale type by being honest and disarming rather than mysterious. · "Totally. Like, I don't... What's weird is that she's not acting like a femme fatale."
[The Big Picture · The Top Five Movies of 2022 · 0:45:18 · Sean Fennessey (0.85)] Decision to Leave ↔ Basic Instinct · theme · Sean likens Decision to Leave to Park's version of Basic Instinct, a perfectly directed little romantic noir. · "I liked this one as like his basic instinct, you know, like, this is a perfectly directed little romantic noir."
[Blank Check · Decision to Leave · 1:14:03 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Decision to Leave ↔ RoboCop · craft · The husband's cartoon fall off the mountain is compared to the Dick Jones stop-motion fall at the end of Robocop. · "He does like a like a end of Robocop Dick Jones fall, basically."

Who said it, by their latest sketch (4)

[speaker] Sean Fennessey · latest sketch, The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · Loves gory, funny, fast genre movies with craft and confidence, especially 87-minute films that never overstay. Can't stand ponderous elevated horror that fills out its runtime with introspection and sad family history. A sucker for the Carpenter-era lineage, Die Hard homages, and directors who break studio dogma. · stances: Resident Evil is one of the best films of the year; Horror movies have become a drag; fun genre experiences are needed; Short running times are a virtue; Video-game films work best when great filmmakers get creative license
[speaker] Adam Nayman · latest sketch, The Big Picture · The Final Girl Film Canon and ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ · Self-described slasher fan who likes a movie that plays with tropes intelligently; admires Miasma's playfulness and sincerity but dislikes its showbiz satire. Soft spot for Texas Chain Saw, wrestling and Toronto sports. Wary of the idea that references alone make a movie smart. · stances: Miasma is academic but playfully so; Better filmmakers deserve less intention-guessing; Don't need to love slashers to love Miasma
[speaker] Chris Ryan · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · A franchise and genre scholar who likes Jason, the early sequels, and Manhattan; attention to trivia, tropes and critic reception. Treats slashers as a canon with tiers. · stances: Parts 1, 2, 4 and Manhattan are the good ones; The series finds its legs at 4
[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

The shows' running bits (2)

[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)

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 Nope (2022) 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 Nope (2022) 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 Top Five Movies of 2022 · 1:31:29 · Sean Fennessey (0.80)] Nope ↔ The Fabelmans · programming · Sean finds it fascinating that in one year Spielberg made a movie about why he makes movies and Peele made the most Spielbergian movie in ages. · "it's fascinating that this is a year in which Spielberg made a movie about how he figured out why he wanted to make movies"
[The Big Picture · The Top Five Movies of 2022 · 1:31:29 · Sean Fennessey (0.85)] Close Encounters of the Third Kind ⇒ Nope (the host's read) · lineage · Sean says Nope is as much a Spielberg movie as any he has seen in a long time, with Close Encounters the usual touchstone, and notes the shared theme of looking up and trying to see. · "nope is as much a Spielberg movie as any movie I've seen in a long, long time."
[The Big Picture · The 2022 Movie Draft · 0:41:32 · Sean Fennessey (0.80)] Nope ↔ The Fabelmans · theme · Sean says Nope, like The Fabelmans, explores self and what you do in the act of making movies. · "similar to the Fablemans, like exploration of self and like what you do in the act of making movies"
[The Big Picture · The 2022 Movie Draft · 0:43:04 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] Nope ↔ Get Out · career · Get Out is a neat, legible, pop statement while Us and Nope are messier with more strands, which Sean likes. · "The get out is such a complete statement. Like, it's a movie that is very legible."
[The Big Picture · The 2022 Movie Draft · 0:43:17 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] Nope ↔ Us · career · Us and Nope are described as messier and less neat than Get Out, with more strands. · "But us and Nope, or like a little messier, have a lot of strands around them."
[The Big Picture · The Top Five Movies of 2022 · 1:34:20 · Sean Fennessey (0.70)] Nope ↔ Phantom Thread · career · Sean wonders if Peele will go the Phantom Thread route, the Visit route, or keep making Inception-scale films, and hopes for a Spielbergian approach. · "in 10 or 15 years whether or not Jordan Peele is making his phantom thread."
[The Big Picture · The Top Five Movies of 2022 · 0:59:47 · Adam Nayman (0.85)] Nope ↔ Us · people · Adam thought Peele could have gone either way after Us, and now rates Nope above his other two horror films. · "But I mean, this film, I think, is better than the other two."
[The Big Picture · The Top Five Movies of 2022 · 0:44:38 · Adam Nayman (0.85)] Decision to Leave ↔ Nope · verdict · Adam places two genre films at four and three, both praised as perfectly directed for what they are. · "for the kind of genre film they are, this is my number 3 film, they are perfectly directed."
[The Big Picture · The Top Five Movies of 2022 · 1:00:01 · Chris Ryan (0.85)] Tár ↔ Nope · verdict · Chris puts Tar at three and Banshees at two; Adam has Nope at three; the four lists overlap on Tar (Chris 3, Amanda 2, Sean 2) and on Nope (Adam 3, Sean 1). · "Number 3 is for me is tar."
[The Big Picture · The Top Five Movies of 2022 · 1:30:24 · Sean Fennessey (0.85)] Top Gun: Maverick ↔ Nope · verdict · Sean puts Nope at number one over his number three Top Gun, arguing Nope makes you think while Maverick deliberately does not; he says you can love one without knocking the other. · "It is like, I loved Top Gun Maverick, but it doesn't ask you to think about a single goddamn thing."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining · 0:51:58 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Nope ↔ The Shining · over-read puzzle · Kubrick was not leaving breadcrumbs, unlike filmmakers like Peele who now construct puzzle movies. · "Whereas I think Kubrick was not intentionally like leaving a trail of breadcrumbs"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Lolita · 1:22:07 · unknown (0.00)] Lolita ↔ Nope · off-screen events · Both films put their biggest events off screen and tell them in talk. · "the nope thing where you're like, oh, like the biggest events are happening off screen and you're both telling us and not."
[The Big Picture · The Top Five Movies of 2022 · 1:33:38 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Eadweard Muybridge ⇒ Nope (the host's read) · lineage · Sean reads Nope as launching from the black jockey in Muybridge's original film strip, an invented family tied to a hundred years of film history. · "related to the black jockey that we see in the Edward Weybridge, you know, original film strip, and then use that as the launch point for 100 years of film history"
[The Big Picture · The Top Five Movies of 2022 · 1:31:24 · Sean Fennessey (0.85)] Nope ↔ Hoyte van Hoytema · craft · Sean praises Hoyte van Hoytema's cinematography on Nope as out of this world. · "Hoyt von Hoytzmo cinematography is out of this world."
[The Big Picture · The Top Five Movies of 2022 · 1:35:17 · Adam Nayman (0.90)] Nope ↔ Gowan · craft · Adam says Gowan's Strange Animal on Nope's soundtrack is his favorite thing about the movie and asks Peele why 80s Canadian rock is on it. · "not just Corey Hart, but Gowan's strange animal, which is my favorite thing about the movie."
[The Big Picture · The Top Five Movies of 2022 · 1:35:17 · Adam Nayman (0.90)] Nope ↔ Corey Hart · craft · Adam notes Corey Hart is among the 80s Canadian rock staples on Nope's soundtrack. · "not just Corey Hart, but Gowan's strange animal, which is my favorite thing about the movie."
[pairs] Nope ↔ The Fabelmans · said 2 times in 2 episodes
[pairs] Nope ↔ Us · said 2 times in 2 episodes
[The Big Picture · The 2022 Movie Draft · 0:43:36 · Sean Fennessey (0.90)] Nope · fun · Sean saw it in 70mm at the Egyptian for his birthday, loud and amazing, and plans to rewatch it every couple of years until he dies. · "I probably will watch this movie every couple years till I die."
[The Big Picture · The Top Five Movies of 2022 · 0:59:36 · Adam Nayman (0.80)] Nope · fun · Adam notes Peele's humility when told he's made three great horror movies in a row: he asks about John Carpenter. · "Peel's like, what about John Carpenter?"
[The Big Picture · The Top Five Movies of 2022 · 1:33:59 · Sean Fennessey (0.70)] Nope · fun · Sean admires the premise: an invented family that may be descended from the Black jockey in Muybridge's film strip, launching 100 years of film history and people whose names we don't know. · "that's a genius idea for a drama, let alone a UFO movie."
[The Big Picture · The Top Five Movies of 2022 · 1:35:30 · Adam Nayman (0.85)] Nope · fun · Adam wants Jordan Peele to explain the 80s Canadian rock on the soundtrack, especially Gowan's Strange Animal, his favorite thing about the movie, and wonders if Peele got trapped at a cottage on Canada Day. · "was he trapped at someone's cottage on Canada day?"
[The Big Picture · The Top Five Movies of 2022 · 1:23:37 · Sean Fennessey (0.75)] Aftersun ↔ The Fabelmans · programming · Sean calls Aftersun an interesting pairing with The Fabelmans, both memory movies about childhood; Aftersun is told while the memory is fresher. · "Interesting pairing with the fablemans, this movie."
[The Big Picture · The Final Girl Film Canon and ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ · 0:55:08 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] Us ↔ Midsummer · theme · Us and Midsummer are prestige films that actively explore what it means to be a final girl though not pure slashers. · "I think Danny in Midsummer really, really fits the bill"
[The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies · 0:19:05 · Sean Fennessey (0.85)] Close Encounters of the Third Kind ⇒ E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (the host's read) · theme · Close Encounters sets a template for science fiction and for stories about families and divorce. · "It sets a different kind of template for science fiction storytelling, for stories about families, for stories about obsession, for stories about divorce"
[Blank Check · Decision to Leave · 0:35:35 · Griffin Newman (0.60)] Mist (1967 Korean hit song) ⇒ Decision to Leave (the maker said so) · lineage · Park loved the 1967 song The Mist since childhood and the movie is built around it and the lady-in-the-mist idea. · "A Korean 1967 hit song called The Miss. Yeah. which is about a protagonist who's trying to understand the world around them."
[The Big Picture · The 10 Best Horror Movies of the Decade | The Big Picture · 1:48:36 · unknown (Alexander or Karaszewski) (0.40)] Parasite ↔ Get Out · theme · Parasite is smart social satire that slips easily into horror, which fits the episode's broader horror talk. · "it's smart social satire that just very easily slips into horror"
[Blank Check · Raiders of the Lost Ark · 0:36:23 · Brian Michael Bendis (0.80)] Raiders of the Lost Ark ↔ The Fabelmans · theme · Bendis says he sees the movie differently after The Fabelmans. · "I honestly don't think I've heard a serious conversation about this movie Post Fabelman's"
[The Big Picture · Our Alternative Academy Awards | The Oscars Show · 1:24:07 · Wesley Morris (0.40)] Us ↔ Harriet · theme · Lupita's invented two-character performance was overlooked for Erivo playing a familiar enslaved figure, the lone nominated actor of color for a slavery role. · "They nominated one actor of color and is for playing a slave."
[Blank Check · Raiders of the Lost Ark · 0:25:05 · Brian Michael Bendis (0.70)] Raiders of the Lost Ark ↔ Close Encounters of the Third Kind · craft · The novelization written by Spielberg internalized the story, which Bendis loved. · "it internalizes the story for a young person who's only seeing externalizing it."
[Blank Check · Decision to Leave · 0:37:24 · Griffin Newman (0.60)] Martin Beck novels (Swedish) ⇒ Decision to Leave (the maker said so) · lineage · The anti-macho gentleman cop concept comes from Martin Beck, the Swedish police novels, falling for the lady from the mist. · "So basically, what if Martin Beck, this Swedish police officer character falls in love with, like the lady from the Mist, sort of, right?"
[The Big Picture · Janicza Bravo and Brett Gelman Channel Rejection and Anxiety to Make ‘Lemon’ | The Big Picture · 0:04:44 · Alison Herman (0.90)] Juneteenth (Atlanta episode) ↔ Get Out · theme · Alison says it reminds her of Get Out in using white affluence to create dread, though Get Out is more visceral. · "it almost reminds me of get out, like using the trappings of white affluence to inspire this feeling of dread and discomfort"
[Blank Check · Raiders of the Lost Ark · 2:28:09 · unknown (0.50)] The Fabelmans ⇒ Raiders of the Lost Ark (the host's read) · theme · Marion's monkey scenes mirror Spielberg's mother's relationship with the monkey shown in The Fabelmans. · "the relationship Marion has with the monkey, in that brief amount of screen time, feels so mirrored to his mother's relationship with the monkey"
[Blank Check · Raiders of the Lost Ark · 0:25:54 · Brian Michael Bendis (0.80)] Close Encounters of the Third Kind ↔ Walt Simonson · craft · Walt Simonson drew the Close Encounters comic adaptation, whose behind-the-scenes showed directing versus the page. · "Walt Simonson doing the close encounters adaptation, and it is wonderful."
[Blank Check · Decision to Leave · 0:52:23 · Griffin Newman (0.70)] Decision to Leave ↔ Vertigo · lineage · Park says interviewers always ask about Vertigo but it was not his conscious influence. · "He says, I think everyone basically is interviewing him being like, is this like a vertigo thing?"
[The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 0:53:33 · Chris Ryan (0.60)] Resident Evil ↔ Get Out · craft · Chris cites Get Out's opening lonely-road accident as a box-checking scary space like the film's opening. · "get out very famously, more or less opens with an accident like that on a lonely road"
[Blank Check · Raiders of the Lost Ark · 2:28:40 · unknown (0.50)] The Fabelmans ⇒ Raiders of the Lost Ark (the host's read) · theme · Marion is partly Spielberg's mother, which keeps her from being an idealized tough-girl fantasy. · "it does feel like to some degree she's like his mom."
[Blank Check · Decision to Leave · 0:52:37 · Griffin Newman (0.70)] Brief Encounter ⇒ Decision to Leave (the maker said so: Park's interview remarks read on the show) · lineage · Park cites David Lean's Brief Encounter as the romantic vibe he was thinking of instead of Vertigo. · "He says, brief encounter, the David Lean film. is more what he's thinking of in terms of vibe."
[The Big Picture · The 2022 Movie Draft · 0:39:16 · Amanda Dobbins (0.85)] The Fabelmans ↔ American Graffiti · theme · Amanda compares the high school interlude in the middle of The Fabelmans to American Graffiti. · "the lovely American graffiti high school, like interlude in the middle."
[Blank Check · Decision to Leave · 1:20:56 · Griffin Newman (0.60)] Decision to Leave ↔ Insomnia · lineage · A sleepless cop is called part of the sleepy-cop canon, with Pacino's Insomnia as the reference. · "But this movie is in the detective dormer canon of sleepy cops who can't go to sleep."
[Blank Check · Decision to Leave · 1:18:21 · Tatiana Maslany (0.50)] Tang Wei ↔ Decision to Leave · theme · Her performance plays against the femme fatale type by being honest and disarming rather than mysterious. · "Totally. Like, I don't... What's weird is that she's not acting like a femme fatale."
[The Big Picture · The Top Five Movies of 2022 · 0:45:18 · Sean Fennessey (0.85)] Decision to Leave ↔ Basic Instinct · theme · Sean likens Decision to Leave to Park's version of Basic Instinct, a perfectly directed little romantic noir. · "I liked this one as like his basic instinct, you know, like, this is a perfectly directed little romantic noir."
[Blank Check · Decision to Leave · 1:14:03 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Decision to Leave ↔ RoboCop · craft · The husband's cartoon fall off the mountain is compared to the Dick Jones stop-motion fall at the end of Robocop. · "He does like a like a end of Robocop Dick Jones fall, basically."
[speaker] Sean Fennessey · latest sketch, The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · Loves gory, funny, fast genre movies with craft and confidence, especially 87-minute films that never overstay. Can't stand ponderous elevated horror that fills out its runtime with introspection and sad family history. A sucker for the Carpenter-era lineage, Die Hard homages, and directors who break studio dogma. · stances: Resident Evil is one of the best films of the year; Horror movies have become a drag; fun genre experiences are needed; Short running times are a virtue; Video-game films work best when great filmmakers get creative license
[speaker] Adam Nayman · latest sketch, The Big Picture · The Final Girl Film Canon and ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ · Self-described slasher fan who likes a movie that plays with tropes intelligently; admires Miasma's playfulness and sincerity but dislikes its showbiz satire. Soft spot for Texas Chain Saw, wrestling and Toronto sports. Wary of the idea that references alone make a movie smart. · stances: Miasma is academic but playfully so; Better filmmakers deserve less intention-guessing; Don't need to love slashers to love Miasma
[speaker] Chris Ryan · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · A franchise and genre scholar who likes Jason, the early sequels, and Manhattan; attention to trivia, tropes and critic reception. Treats slashers as a canon with tiers. · stances: Parts 1, 2, 4 and Manhattan are the good ones; The series finds its legs at 4
[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
[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 Nope (2022); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Nope (2022) 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.