What the corpus says about Iron Man (2008)

The 60 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 (26)

  1. [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."
  2. [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."
  3. [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."
  4. [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."
  5. [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."
  6. [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."
  7. [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."
  8. [Blank Check — Patreon · Iron Man · 1:53:20 · unknown (0.30)] RoboCop ⇒ Iron Man (the host's read) · lineage · The Ironmonger voice and suit recall ED-209, and the finale is ED-209 versus RoboCop. · "You know what the voice is? He's Ed 209."
  9. [The Big Picture · Emergency Mailbag: The Oscars Are Streaming and Hollywood Is Fighting Over Trolls | The Big Picture · 1:05:03 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] The Incredible Hulk ↔ Iron Man · theme · The two characters appearing in the first two MCU films were Hulk and Iron Man. · "It's the Incredible Hulk and Iron Man, you fools."
  10. [The Big Picture · The Past, Present, and Future of Superhero Movies | The Big Picture · 0:07:52 · Jason Concepcion (0.50)] Batman Begins ↔ Iron Man · theme · Both the late-90s Batman films and the X-Men films hid the comic-book look; Marvel instead embraced what was authentic about its characters. · "They're very abashed to be like, this is a comic book movie."
  11. [Blank Check — Patreon · The Avengers · 0:27:40 · unknown (0.40)] Iron Man ↔ Iron Man 2 · theme · Stark arc: Iron Man 1 changing worldview, Iron Man 2 hubristic, Avengers trying not to care. · "Then Iron Man 2 is just like, he doesn't give a fuck anymore."
  12. [Blank Check — Patreon · Iron Man · 0:18:36 · unknown (0.30)] Iron Man ↔ Iron Man 3 · theme · Pepper is the secret of why the first film works and of why Iron Man 3 works. · "Iron Man works best as a character through Pepper."
  13. [Blank Check — Patreon · Iron Man · 0:32:20 · unknown (0.30)] Iron Man ↔ Venom · theme · Marvel third acts have the villain become a bigger version of the hero and they punch; Venom does the same. · "even like Venom, which I know isn't Marvel, does the exact same thing"
  14. [Blank Check — Patreon · Iron Man · 1:25:03 · unknown (0.30)] Iron Man ⇒ Iron Man 3 (the host's read) · theme · Iron Man 3 later parodies the Osama-type Mandarin expectation that Iron Man originally planned (Ten Rings leader, no magic). · "And then Iron Man 3 wisely parodies that expectation."
  15. [Blank Check — Patreon · Iron Man · 1:33:38 · unknown (0.30)] Iron Man ↔ Iron Man 3 · theme · Each sequel repeats the Tony-alone-in-the-basement-with-robots plot; Iron Man 3 does it better. · "Tony Stark is very weird. He mostly sits in his basement building robots."
  16. [Blank Check — Patreon · The Avengers · 2:01:33 · David Sims (0.40)] The Avengers → Iron Man · craft · Iron Man gives Marvel the template; Avengers sets the 80% spectacle / 20% funny template for the rest. · "It's like 80%'s got spectacle, 20% funny."
  17. [Blank Check — Patreon · Iron Man · 0:08:41 · unknown (0.30)] Iron Man ⇒ Teen Titans Go! To the Movies (the host's read) · craft · That film parodies the page-flipping Marvel logo, which opens Iron Man. · "They, uh, they do a really good parody of that in, um, Teen Titans go the movies."
  18. [Blank Check — Patreon · Iron Man · 0:48:15 · unknown (0.30)] Iron Man ↔ The Avengers · craft · Lacks a recognizable hero theme (uses the AC/DC song instead); a hoped-for harmonizing of every hero's theme would have been exciting at Avengers. · "I love Alan Sylvestri's Avengers theme."
  19. [Blank Check — Patreon · Iron Man · 0:55:05 · unknown (0.30)] Iron Man ↔ Star Trek · craft · Both use real industrial locations (a factory) as sets rather than green screen; Star Trek's engineering was a Budweiser plant. · "like in Star Trek, which is the year after this, where engineering is a Budweiser factor."
  20. [Blank Check — Patreon · Iron Man · 1:08:43 · unknown (0.30)] Iron Man ↔ Ghostbusters · craft · Like Ghostbusters, it lets you learn each piece of tech step by step so the payoff means something. · "This is like the same shit that makes Ghostbusters great"
  21. [Blank Check — Patreon · Iron Man · 1:55:33 · unknown (0.30)] Iron Man ↔ Avengers: Infinity War · craft · Prefers Iron Man's visible plate-and-gear machinery to Infinity War's seamless nanobite suit. · "I like it so much more when it's the thing where like one plate has to like rise up"
  22. [The Big Picture · Celebrating ‘Scott Pilgrim vs. the World’ 10 Years Later · 0:18:38 · Jason Concepcion (0.80)] Scott Pilgrim vs. the World ↔ Iron Man · contrast · Jason says Iron Man and Watchmen spend time on origin and world setup, while Scott Pilgrim drops you in the middle with no explanation. · "Scott Pilgrim just drops you into it."
  23. [Blank Check — Patreon · Iron Man 2 · 0:58:09 · unknown (0.30)] Iron Man 2 ↔ Iron Man · contrast · The first film is Tony alone in the lab being weird; this one has a drunken party and fight, the opposite of what people liked. · "The 1st one is him alone in the lab being weird. and they get to that eventually in this movie, like eventually."
  24. [Blank Check — Patreon · Iron Man · 0:09:26 · unknown (Griffin or David) (0.30)] Iron Man ↔ Disney-era MCU films · contrast · Iron Man shows a promiscuous, drinking Stark that the Disney-era films would not. · "introducing the character through the whiskey glass is something I think would not happen in the Disney days."
  25. [Blank Check — Patreon · Iron Man · 0:37:20 · unknown (0.30)] Iron Man ↔ Batman Begins · contrast · Studios used to fuck with comic origin movies to squeeze them into classic arcs, as in the Batman films, while Iron Man tore up the shooting draft. · "And so that's why you have the Batman movies where it's like fucking with the origin movie by movie or whatever."
  26. [Blank Check — Patreon · Iron Man · 1:54:44 · unknown (0.30)] Iron Man ↔ The Avengers · contrast · Iron Man's lo-fi highway fight vs the later hole-in-the-sky stakes inflation seeded by Avengers. · "And now the stakes don't mean anything because every movie has that level of things."

Films put beside it more than once (6)

  1. [pairs] Iron Man ↔ The Avengers · said 5 times in 2 episodes
  2. [pairs] Iron Man ↔ The Incredible Hulk · said 4 times in 3 episodes
  3. [pairs] Iron Man ↔ Iron Man 3 · said 4 times in 2 episodes
  4. [pairs] Iron Man ↔ Iron Man 2 · said 3 times in 3 episodes
  5. [pairs] Iron Man ↔ Batman Begins · said 3 times in 2 episodes
  6. [pairs] Iron Man ↔ Captain America: The First Avenger · said 3 times in 2 episodes

Fun items about it (6)

  1. [Blank Check · Judging The Judge · 0:22:09 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Iron Man · fun · A host recalls his father's reaction to Downey being cast as Iron Man: scraping the bottom of the barrel, the movie is a predetermined flop. · "they're really scraping the bottom of the barrel, huh?"
  2. [Blank Check · Judging The Judge · 0:22:50 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Iron Man · fun · Downey made the least money of any actor on the first film (Terrence Howard got three times as much), then wanted a proportionate raise for the second. · "Terrence Howard got 3 times as much as him."
  3. [The Big Picture · The Past, Present, and Future of Superhero Movies | The Big Picture · 0:55:00 · Jason Concepcion (0.40)] Iron Man · fun · Iron Man called the highest Q rating for a character nobody cared about in comics. · "Iron Man is probably the most the highest Q rating for a character that nobody gave a flying F about"
  4. [Blank Check — Patreon · The Avengers · 0:57:55 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Iron Man · fun · Downey doesn't want to wear the suit; so the suit transformations become all CGI and you never get the flip-up helmet shot. · "Downey Jr. just clearly doesn't want to wear any portion of the suit."
  5. [Blank Check — Patreon · The Incredible Hulk · 0:22:54 · Griffin or David (0.35)] Iron Man · fun · Tie-in memory: a guy in the theater at the Iron Man post-credits scene said 'it's Dr. Strange'; at Hulk someone else yelled 'it's Tony' at the bar cameo and the audience cheered. · "And the whole audience cheered."
  6. [Blank Check — Patreon · Iron Man · 0:13:56 · unknown (0.30)] Iron Man · fun · Tom Cruise wanted to do Iron Man forever, and it was set at New Line for Nick Cassavetes before Marvel took the character back. · "Tom Cruise wanted to do Iron Man forever."

One hop out: what recommends the films most often joined to it (16)

  1. [The Big Picture · The Past, Present, and Future of Superhero Movies | The Big Picture · 0:13:42 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] The Avengers ↔ Thor · programming · Thor was treated as a loss leader, a stepping stone to the Avengers. · "Thor was treated as a loss leader, essentially."
  2. [Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The Winter Soldier · 0:14:14 · unknown (0.35)] Captain America: The Winter Soldier ↔ Iron Man 3 · programming · Marvel gives each film a different genre; Winter Soldier is the political thriller, Iron Man 3 the noir/buddy film. · "Right. So this is when they're like, Iron Man 3 is sort of like a noir and like a buddy film, Dark World is like high fantasy."
  3. [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."
  4. [The Big Picture · The Past, Present, and Future of Superhero Movies | The Big Picture · 0:24:27 · Jason Concepcion (0.40)] Wonder Woman ↔ Batman Begins · lineage · Wonder Woman is the first DC movie since the Nolan films that understands what it is. · "Wonder Woman is the 1st movie that they've made."
  5. [Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The First Avenger · 2:08:02 · unknown (0.40)] Captain America: The First Avenger ↔ Transformers: Dark of the Moon · programming · Cap was released July 22 instead of July 4th because Transformers 3 owned that date and nobody would go near it. · "The July 4th movie was Transformers 3."
  6. [Blank Check — Patreon · Iron Man 3 · 0:16:00 · unknown (0.30)] Iron Man 3 ↔ The Avengers · programming · Phase 2 begins here and Avengers' victory lap gave Feige room to let each film feel individual. · "They're on such a victory lap that it feels like this is the one little chunk of time where Kevin Feige lets go a little bit."
  7. [Blank Check — Patreon · Iron Man 3 · 0:16:00 · unknown (0.30)] Iron Man 3 ↔ The Avengers · programming · Phase 2 begins here and Avengers' victory lap gave Feige room to let each film feel individual. · "They're on such a victory lap that it feels like this is the one little chunk of time where Kevin Feige lets go a little bit."
  8. [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."
  9. [Blank Check — Patreon · RoboCop (2014) · 0:47:48 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Batman Begins ⇒ RoboCop (the host's read) · lineage · The remake is part of the grounded-and-serious wave that followed Nolan; the speakers say this film marks the end of it. · "The Batman begins effect."
  10. [Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The First Avenger · 2:08:10 · David Sims (0.45)] Captain America: The First Avenger ↔ Thor · programming · Cap opened to about 65 million like Thor, finished near 176 worldwide domestic and around 370 vs Thor's 450. · "Cap opens pretty much exactly the same as Thor, 65."
  11. [Blank Check — Patreon · The Avengers · 1:29:09 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] The Avengers ↔ Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. · programming · Coulson was brought back for the TV show but kept out of the movies, signaling the TV show is only loosely connected. · "you can be in the TV show, like, because we need, you know, a star for the show"
  12. [Blank Check — Patreon · Iron Man 3 · 2:21:21 · unknown (0.30)] Iron Man 3 ↔ Pain & Gain · programming · Pain & Gain opened the same spring with a big second-week drop; The Rock's performance is called the smartest use of him. · "Smartest anyone has ever used him."
  13. [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."
  14. [Blank Check — Patreon · The Lego Batman Movie · 1:26:28 · David Sims (0.50)] The Lego Batman Movie ↔ Batman Begins · theme · The pit-and-rope lesson in Batman Begins is the one other time Batman learns anything about himself. · "Then it begins does."
  15. [Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The First Avenger · 2:09:10 · unknown (0.40)] Captain America: The First Avenger ↔ Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 · programming · In the 2011 box-office ranking Cap is number one and Deathly Hallows Part 2 is number two. · "Oh, oh, it's Deathly Hollis part two."
  16. [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."

Who said it, by their latest sketch (4)

  1. [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
  2. [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
  3. [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'
  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

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

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 Iron Man (2008) 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 Iron Man (2008) 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.

[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."
[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 — 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 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."
[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."
[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."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Iron Man · 1:53:20 · unknown (0.30)] RoboCop ⇒ Iron Man (the host's read) · lineage · The Ironmonger voice and suit recall ED-209, and the finale is ED-209 versus RoboCop. · "You know what the voice is? He's Ed 209."
[The Big Picture · Emergency Mailbag: The Oscars Are Streaming and Hollywood Is Fighting Over Trolls | The Big Picture · 1:05:03 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] The Incredible Hulk ↔ Iron Man · theme · The two characters appearing in the first two MCU films were Hulk and Iron Man. · "It's the Incredible Hulk and Iron Man, you fools."
[The Big Picture · The Past, Present, and Future of Superhero Movies | The Big Picture · 0:07:52 · Jason Concepcion (0.50)] Batman Begins ↔ Iron Man · theme · Both the late-90s Batman films and the X-Men films hid the comic-book look; Marvel instead embraced what was authentic about its characters. · "They're very abashed to be like, this is a comic book movie."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Avengers · 0:27:40 · unknown (0.40)] Iron Man ↔ Iron Man 2 · theme · Stark arc: Iron Man 1 changing worldview, Iron Man 2 hubristic, Avengers trying not to care. · "Then Iron Man 2 is just like, he doesn't give a fuck anymore."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Iron Man · 0:18:36 · unknown (0.30)] Iron Man ↔ Iron Man 3 · theme · Pepper is the secret of why the first film works and of why Iron Man 3 works. · "Iron Man works best as a character through Pepper."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Iron Man · 0:32:20 · unknown (0.30)] Iron Man ↔ Venom · theme · Marvel third acts have the villain become a bigger version of the hero and they punch; Venom does the same. · "even like Venom, which I know isn't Marvel, does the exact same thing"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Iron Man · 1:25:03 · unknown (0.30)] Iron Man ⇒ Iron Man 3 (the host's read) · theme · Iron Man 3 later parodies the Osama-type Mandarin expectation that Iron Man originally planned (Ten Rings leader, no magic). · "And then Iron Man 3 wisely parodies that expectation."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Iron Man · 1:33:38 · unknown (0.30)] Iron Man ↔ Iron Man 3 · theme · Each sequel repeats the Tony-alone-in-the-basement-with-robots plot; Iron Man 3 does it better. · "Tony Stark is very weird. He mostly sits in his basement building robots."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Avengers · 2:01:33 · David Sims (0.40)] The Avengers → Iron Man · craft · Iron Man gives Marvel the template; Avengers sets the 80% spectacle / 20% funny template for the rest. · "It's like 80%'s got spectacle, 20% funny."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Iron Man · 0:08:41 · unknown (0.30)] Iron Man ⇒ Teen Titans Go! To the Movies (the host's read) · craft · That film parodies the page-flipping Marvel logo, which opens Iron Man. · "They, uh, they do a really good parody of that in, um, Teen Titans go the movies."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Iron Man · 0:48:15 · unknown (0.30)] Iron Man ↔ The Avengers · craft · Lacks a recognizable hero theme (uses the AC/DC song instead); a hoped-for harmonizing of every hero's theme would have been exciting at Avengers. · "I love Alan Sylvestri's Avengers theme."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Iron Man · 0:55:05 · unknown (0.30)] Iron Man ↔ Star Trek · craft · Both use real industrial locations (a factory) as sets rather than green screen; Star Trek's engineering was a Budweiser plant. · "like in Star Trek, which is the year after this, where engineering is a Budweiser factor."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Iron Man · 1:08:43 · unknown (0.30)] Iron Man ↔ Ghostbusters · craft · Like Ghostbusters, it lets you learn each piece of tech step by step so the payoff means something. · "This is like the same shit that makes Ghostbusters great"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Iron Man · 1:55:33 · unknown (0.30)] Iron Man ↔ Avengers: Infinity War · craft · Prefers Iron Man's visible plate-and-gear machinery to Infinity War's seamless nanobite suit. · "I like it so much more when it's the thing where like one plate has to like rise up"
[The Big Picture · Celebrating ‘Scott Pilgrim vs. the World’ 10 Years Later · 0:18:38 · Jason Concepcion (0.80)] Scott Pilgrim vs. the World ↔ Iron Man · contrast · Jason says Iron Man and Watchmen spend time on origin and world setup, while Scott Pilgrim drops you in the middle with no explanation. · "Scott Pilgrim just drops you into it."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Iron Man 2 · 0:58:09 · unknown (0.30)] Iron Man 2 ↔ Iron Man · contrast · The first film is Tony alone in the lab being weird; this one has a drunken party and fight, the opposite of what people liked. · "The 1st one is him alone in the lab being weird. and they get to that eventually in this movie, like eventually."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Iron Man · 0:09:26 · unknown (Griffin or David) (0.30)] Iron Man ↔ Disney-era MCU films · contrast · Iron Man shows a promiscuous, drinking Stark that the Disney-era films would not. · "introducing the character through the whiskey glass is something I think would not happen in the Disney days."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Iron Man · 0:37:20 · unknown (0.30)] Iron Man ↔ Batman Begins · contrast · Studios used to fuck with comic origin movies to squeeze them into classic arcs, as in the Batman films, while Iron Man tore up the shooting draft. · "And so that's why you have the Batman movies where it's like fucking with the origin movie by movie or whatever."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Iron Man · 1:54:44 · unknown (0.30)] Iron Man ↔ The Avengers · contrast · Iron Man's lo-fi highway fight vs the later hole-in-the-sky stakes inflation seeded by Avengers. · "And now the stakes don't mean anything because every movie has that level of things."
[pairs] Iron Man ↔ The Avengers · said 5 times in 2 episodes
[pairs] Iron Man ↔ The Incredible Hulk · said 4 times in 3 episodes
[pairs] Iron Man ↔ Iron Man 3 · said 4 times in 2 episodes
[pairs] Iron Man ↔ Iron Man 2 · said 3 times in 3 episodes
[pairs] Iron Man ↔ Batman Begins · said 3 times in 2 episodes
[pairs] Iron Man ↔ Captain America: The First Avenger · said 3 times in 2 episodes
[Blank Check · Judging The Judge · 0:22:09 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Iron Man · fun · A host recalls his father's reaction to Downey being cast as Iron Man: scraping the bottom of the barrel, the movie is a predetermined flop. · "they're really scraping the bottom of the barrel, huh?"
[Blank Check · Judging The Judge · 0:22:50 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Iron Man · fun · Downey made the least money of any actor on the first film (Terrence Howard got three times as much), then wanted a proportionate raise for the second. · "Terrence Howard got 3 times as much as him."
[The Big Picture · The Past, Present, and Future of Superhero Movies | The Big Picture · 0:55:00 · Jason Concepcion (0.40)] Iron Man · fun · Iron Man called the highest Q rating for a character nobody cared about in comics. · "Iron Man is probably the most the highest Q rating for a character that nobody gave a flying F about"
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Avengers · 0:57:55 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Iron Man · fun · Downey doesn't want to wear the suit; so the suit transformations become all CGI and you never get the flip-up helmet shot. · "Downey Jr. just clearly doesn't want to wear any portion of the suit."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Incredible Hulk · 0:22:54 · Griffin or David (0.35)] Iron Man · fun · Tie-in memory: a guy in the theater at the Iron Man post-credits scene said 'it's Dr. Strange'; at Hulk someone else yelled 'it's Tony' at the bar cameo and the audience cheered. · "And the whole audience cheered."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Iron Man · 0:13:56 · unknown (0.30)] Iron Man · fun · Tom Cruise wanted to do Iron Man forever, and it was set at New Line for Nick Cassavetes before Marvel took the character back. · "Tom Cruise wanted to do Iron Man forever."
[The Big Picture · The Past, Present, and Future of Superhero Movies | The Big Picture · 0:13:42 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] The Avengers ↔ Thor · programming · Thor was treated as a loss leader, a stepping stone to the Avengers. · "Thor was treated as a loss leader, essentially."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The Winter Soldier · 0:14:14 · unknown (0.35)] Captain America: The Winter Soldier ↔ Iron Man 3 · programming · Marvel gives each film a different genre; Winter Soldier is the political thriller, Iron Man 3 the noir/buddy film. · "Right. So this is when they're like, Iron Man 3 is sort of like a noir and like a buddy film, Dark World is like high fantasy."
[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."
[The Big Picture · The Past, Present, and Future of Superhero Movies | The Big Picture · 0:24:27 · Jason Concepcion (0.40)] Wonder Woman ↔ Batman Begins · lineage · Wonder Woman is the first DC movie since the Nolan films that understands what it is. · "Wonder Woman is the 1st movie that they've made."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The First Avenger · 2:08:02 · unknown (0.40)] Captain America: The First Avenger ↔ Transformers: Dark of the Moon · programming · Cap was released July 22 instead of July 4th because Transformers 3 owned that date and nobody would go near it. · "The July 4th movie was Transformers 3."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Iron Man 3 · 0:16:00 · unknown (0.30)] Iron Man 3 ↔ The Avengers · programming · Phase 2 begins here and Avengers' victory lap gave Feige room to let each film feel individual. · "They're on such a victory lap that it feels like this is the one little chunk of time where Kevin Feige lets go a little bit."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Iron Man 3 · 0:16:00 · unknown (0.30)] Iron Man 3 ↔ The Avengers · programming · Phase 2 begins here and Avengers' victory lap gave Feige room to let each film feel individual. · "They're on such a victory lap that it feels like this is the one little chunk of time where Kevin Feige lets go a little bit."
[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 · RoboCop (2014) · 0:47:48 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Batman Begins ⇒ RoboCop (the host's read) · lineage · The remake is part of the grounded-and-serious wave that followed Nolan; the speakers say this film marks the end of it. · "The Batman begins effect."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The First Avenger · 2:08:10 · David Sims (0.45)] Captain America: The First Avenger ↔ Thor · programming · Cap opened to about 65 million like Thor, finished near 176 worldwide domestic and around 370 vs Thor's 450. · "Cap opens pretty much exactly the same as Thor, 65."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Avengers · 1:29:09 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] The Avengers ↔ Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. · programming · Coulson was brought back for the TV show but kept out of the movies, signaling the TV show is only loosely connected. · "you can be in the TV show, like, because we need, you know, a star for the show"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Iron Man 3 · 2:21:21 · unknown (0.30)] Iron Man 3 ↔ Pain & Gain · programming · Pain & Gain opened the same spring with a big second-week drop; The Rock's performance is called the smartest use of him. · "Smartest anyone has ever used him."
[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 · The Lego Batman Movie · 1:26:28 · David Sims (0.50)] The Lego Batman Movie ↔ Batman Begins · theme · The pit-and-rope lesson in Batman Begins is the one other time Batman learns anything about himself. · "Then it begins does."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The First Avenger · 2:09:10 · unknown (0.40)] Captain America: The First Avenger ↔ Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 · programming · In the 2011 box-office ranking Cap is number one and Deathly Hallows Part 2 is number two. · "Oh, oh, it's Deathly Hollis part two."
[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."
[speaker] Griffin Newman · latest sketch, Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · Calls Last Temptation his college-era favorite Scorsese; loves Scorsese's smaller 80s and the film's closing transcendence and Gabriel score. Cannot stand fundamentalist outrage at it. A sucker for casting trivia and Tom Cruise-silliness. · stances: Hot take: Last Temptation structurally mirrors New York, New York as a better version; Outrage over the film is stupid; it is respectful to Jesus; Scorsese's smaller 80s work beats his later baroque phases
[speaker] Jason Concepcion · latest sketch, The Big Picture · Did Disney’s ‘Mulan’ Experiment Work? A Binge Mode Investigation · Loves a musical, Donnie Yen action, and the 1998 Mulan with its Eddie Murphy humor. Finds the remake kind of boring and wants a grounded, historical version. Sucker for political and economic framing of film controversy. · stances: The remake is fine in a vacuum, a disappointment as a Mulan; Wants a more historical, less magical take; Sees the Mulan controversy as a symptom of the West-China economic experiment; Missing music means missing storytelling
[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 Iron Man (2008); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Iron Man (2008) 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.