What the corpus says about The Last of the Mohicans (1992)

The 54 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 (11)

[The Rewatchables · ‘The Insider’ · 0:08:22 · Chris Ryan (0.60)] The Last of the Mohicans ↔ Heat · lineage · Heat is described as the urban version of Last of the Mohicans, a step in Mann's progression toward The Insider. · "Then you've got heat, which in some ways is the urban version of Last of the Mohicans."
[Blank Check · Lady in the Water · 1:16:46 · David Sims (0.40)] Lady in the Water ↔ The Last of the Mohicans · theme · Relaying the myth through third-hand translation is compared to the Last of the Mohicans scene of language relay. · "It's like the scene in the Last of the Mohicans where Daniel Day-Louis has to have the British guys speak French to the Native Americans who only speak French."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Insider’ · 0:08:27 · Chris Ryan (0.60)] The Insider ↔ The Last of the Mohicans · craft · The Insider is where Mann starts making wild formal decisions, after the romantic landscape painting of Mohicans and the urban Heat. · "And then Insider marks where man starts making all these really wild formal decisions."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Insider’ · 0:08:38 · Chris Ryan (0.60)] The Insider ↔ The Last of the Mohicans · craft · The same cinematographer, Dante Spinotti, shot both Mann films. · "Dante Spinati, who shot last night, he can shot. He also shoots the insider"
[The Big Picture · The Great ‘Avatar’ Debate · 0:55:56 · unknown (0.40)] Avatar ↔ The Last of the Mohicans · contrast · Avatar's body-swap makes Jake literally become the people, unlike a Mohicans-style interloper. · "imagine if there was a movie about, like, if, like, the last of the Mohicans was about Daniel Day-Lewis entering the constructed body of a Native American."
[The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:11:44 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] The Last of the Mohicans ↔ Black Hat · career · Mann's look ranges from the classical Mohicans to the pinhole cameras of Black Hat. · "this sort of classical look of last the Mohicans all the way to the, you know, the sort of pinhole cameras of black hat."
[Blank Check · Miami Vice - Pilot Episode · 1:10:51 · unknown (0.40)] The Last of the Mohicans ↔ Miami Vice · verdict · Ranked below Miami Vice; defended against listeners who blamed guest Dana Stevens for a flat episode. · "Not my kind of movie."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Tombstone’ · 1:09:49 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] The Last of the Mohicans ↔ Daniel Day-Lewis · craft · Day-Lewis learned to make muskets for his method. · "Daniel, Day Lewis was like, I'm going to go learn how to make, you know, muskets"
[The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 1:02:29 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] The Last of the Mohicans ↔ Michael Mann · career · Mohicans becomes an outlier in Mann's filmography because of the direction he took afterward. · "it winds up becoming more of an outlier because of the direction he went in afterwards."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Tombstone’ · 1:09:32 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] The Last of the Mohicans ↔ Michael Mann · people · Mohicans was a rare Western that felt like Michael Mann meets MTV. · "That's why Last of the Mohicans was so interesting when it came out because it was like Michael Mann meets MTV."
[The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 1:02:53 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] The Last of the Mohicans ↔ Daniel Day-Lewis · people · Daniel Day-Lewis at his hottest is part of the pitch for Mohicans. · "Danley Lewis at his hottest."

Films put beside it more than once (1)

[pairs] The Last of the Mohicans ↔ The Insider · said 2 times in 1 episode

Fun items about it (1)

[The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 1:02:47 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Last of the Mohicans · fun · Gift number five: Sean says see it in a rep theater; the score is gorgeous. · "If you ever get a chance to see this in a rep theater, please go see it."

One hop out: what recommends the films most often joined to it (35)

[The Rewatchables · ‘The Insider’ · 0:21:08 · Chris Ryan (0.45)] All the President's Men ⇒ The Insider (the host's read) · lineage · The Insider is hoped to capture the same wave of reaction that All the President's Men did. · "they're hoping to capture that same kind of that wave that people have when they saw all the president's men."
[The Big Picture · The Great ‘Avatar’ Debate · 0:26:06 · Sean Fennessey (0.90)] Edgar Rice Burroughs ⇒ Avatar (the maker said so: Cameron's 1994 80-page treatment) · lineage · Cameron's Avatar treatment drew on childhood sci-fi reading, Burroughs and Haggard. · "drawing inspiration from, quote, every single science fiction book that he had read in his childhood, and also Edgar Rice Burroughs, H. Rider Haggard."
[The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:13:24 · Amanda Dobbins (0.40)] Black Hat ↔ The Rewatchables · programming · Sean and Chris did a Rewatchables episode on Black Hat that Amanda hadn't heard. · "I didn't hear that one."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Thief’ · 1:19:45 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Thief ↔ Heat · programming · Rewatchable does Mann films: five done, others remaining. · "How many Michael Mann movies have we done now?"
[Blank Check · Lady in the Water · 1:44:42 · unknown (0.30)] Lady in the Water ↔ Tin Cup · lineage · A golf-course version with a lake and a caddy is pitched as basically Tin Cup. · "So it's tin cup, basically."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Insider’ · 0:39:53 · Bill Simmons (0.30)] Robert Redford ↔ The Insider · lineage · The golf-range scene where the hero realizes he is followed is likened to a Redford footstep scene. · "That's the Redford, it's so good."
[The Big Picture · The Great ‘Avatar’ Debate · 0:26:24 · unknown (0.40)] John Carter of Mars ⇒ Avatar (the host's read) · lineage · Avatar reads like a John Carter of Mars style story. · "Yeah, it's very like John Carter of Mars or whatever."
[The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:57:49 · Chris Ryan (0.70)] Miami Vice ↔ Black Hat · theme · Both have messy, stitched-together production histories, a hallmark of the last 15 years of Mann's career. · "when you see black hat, you're like, this definitely feels stitched together in strange ways."
[The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:13:26 · Amanda Dobbins (0.40)] Heat ↔ The Rewatchables · programming · Chris listened to the Reheat Rewatchables episode, celebrating 100 episodes, the morning of recording. · "I also listened to the reheat this morning"
[Blank Check · Lady in the Water · 1:45:08 · unknown (0.30)] Lady in the Water ↔ Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest · lineage · A pirate ship setting is pitched for the story because of that summer's Pirates. · "How about on a pirate ship?"
[The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:56:00 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] The Insider ↔ Sydney Pollack · lineage · The Insider is described as a Sydney Pollack movie with more tension, angst and masculinity. · "this is a Sydney Pollock movie."
[The Big Picture · The Great ‘Avatar’ Debate · 0:42:25 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] The Wizard of Oz ⇒ Avatar (the host's read) · lineage · Avatar is described as a deep Wizard of Oz homage. · "In case you were wondering, this is a deep wizard of a homage, among other things."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Social Network · 1:16:35 · unknown (0.35)] Black Hat ↔ The Social Network · theme · Black Hat is read as Michael Mann realizing the cops-and-criminals tough guys no longer rule once everything is on a computer, a thread the speakers tie to Facebook. · "Black Hat, I think, is a movie about Michael Mann realizing that the guys he spent his entire career writing about cops and criminals."
[The Big Picture · 300th Episode Ask-Us-Anything Mailbag Spectacular · 2:07:39 · Garrett Bradley (0.90)] Heat ↔ Time · programming · Bradley's last great thing was rewatching Heat, which prompted talk of the 90s. · "I rewatched Heat"
[Blank Check · Lady in the Water · 0:22:20 · David Sims (0.50)] Lady in the Water ↔ Manchester by the Sea · theme · A man loses his family in a past tragedy and becomes the super of a building, which the speaker notes as the same plot. · "In all caps, I wrote, this is the plot of Manchester by the Sea."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Insider’ · 0:22:48 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] The Insider ↔ JFK · theme · JFK became the assassination movie though half of it is false, whereas The Insider really captures its specific moment with the cigarette industry. · "This movie really does capture this specific moment with the cigarette industry that played out with the lawsuits and everything."
[The Big Picture · The Great ‘Avatar’ Debate · 0:52:25 · unknown (0.40)] Avatar ↔ Aliens · lineage · Cameron's 1995 pitch for Avatar was much closer to Aliens in tone. · "It was much closer to aliens in tone."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Thief’ · 0:02:54 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Thief ⇒ Heat (the host's read) · lineage · Thief is the notebook sketch for Mann's later work, with Heat sharing DNA. · "the building blocks for what you wind up seeing in heat and collateral and Miami Vice in so many of his films to come."
[Blank Check · Lady in the Water · 1:00:55 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Lady in the Water ↔ The Lorax · theme · A creature living in a tree stump who kicks herself in the behind and flies to the sky is likened to the Lorax. · "She was like, the Lorax."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Insider’ · 0:26:41 · Bill Simmons (0.45)] The Insider ↔ The Blair Witch Project · theme · Both are 1999 movies that could not happen a few years later because the internet changed things. · "I think that's a similar thing that just 4 years later, that movie doesn't happen."
[The Big Picture · The Great ‘Avatar’ Debate · 0:53:51 · unknown (0.40)] The Wizard of Oz ⇒ Avatar (the host's read) · lineage · Avatar is an original story but inspired by Oz and John Ford movies. · "It's just like hugely inspired by not just the Wizard of Oz, but like lots of John Ford movies"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Thief’ · 1:15:06 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Thief ⇒ Heat (the maker said so: the Siegel piece, Caan telling Pacino) · lineage · Caan said scenes cut from Thief went to Heat. · "All the scenes that weren't used in our picture came over to you guys."
[Blank Check · Lady in the Water · 1:14:45 · Richard Lawson (0.40)] Lady in the Water ↔ The Poseidon Adventure · theme · Cleveland's underwater swim is likened to Shelley Winters's pool swim in The Poseidon Adventure. · "And I wrote down Shelley Winters and Poseidon Adventure."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Insider’ · 1:12:51 · Chris Ryan (0.30)] The Insider ↔ Pump Up the Volume · theme · Smoking riffs: Christian Slater as a good screen smoker in Heathers and Pump Up the Volume. · "Christian Slater, really good smoker."
[The Big Picture · The Great ‘Avatar’ Debate · 0:53:51 · unknown (0.40)] John Ford ⇒ Avatar (the host's read) · lineage · Same line: Avatar draws on John Ford films and the history of movies. · "lots of John Ford movies and you can see like the history of movies"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Se7en’ · 0:04:37 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Seven ↔ Heat · lineage · Grouped with Usual Suspects, Heat and Casino as the four defining 1995 movies, three of which were shut out at the Oscars. · "Our usual suspects, which we recently did, Heat Casino in seven."
[Blank Check · Lady in the Water · 1:15:15 · unknown (0.30)] Lady in the Water ↔ Unbreakable · theme · Cleveland Heep's murdered family backstory is likened to the crime in Unbreakable. · "much like the crime and unbreakable."
[The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:55:48 · Chris Ryan (0.30)] The Insider ↔ The Pelican Brief · theme · Joking pair of journalism movies that brought down administrations or cigarettes. · "Pelican Breeds good point."
[Blank Check — Patreon · RoboCop (2014) · 0:38:34 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Avatar ⇒ RoboCop (the host's read) · lineage · The robot-waking sequence is beat for beat the first act of Avatar, down to testing the new body's powers. · "It is crazy actually how much this sequence is like beat for beat, the Avatar, right?"
[The Big Picture · The 2022 Movie Draft · 1:06:53 · Chris Ryan (0.80)] Heat ⇒ Ambulance (the host's read) · lineage · Chris says the first half of Ambulance is Michael Bay trying to make Heat, before the second half becomes a great chase movie. · "The 1st half of this movie is basically like Michael Bay being like, I want to make heat."
[Blank Check · Lady in the Water · 1:25:38 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Lady in the Water ↔ The Revenant · theme · Jokes that Hugh Glass in The Revenant was really attacked by a scrunt. · "I didn't like the revenant because in real life, Hugh Glass was attacked by a scrunt."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Insider’ · 0:08:40 · Chris Ryan (0.60)] Dante Spinotti ↔ The Insider · craft · Spinotti shoots most of the film handheld from someone's collar to visualize the characters' life-changing decisions. · "He also shoots the insider, but they're essentially trying to visualize what it's like for people to make decisions."
[The Big Picture · The Great ‘Avatar’ Debate · 0:55:09 · unknown (0.40)] Avatar ↔ Dances with Wolves · theme · Avatar belongs to the interloper-story family but is not like Dances with Wolves or The Last Samurai. · "something like Dances with Wolves, Last Samurai, whichever one of these movies you want to throw out there. Interloper movies."
[The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:08:38 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] Heat ⇒ Michael Mann (the maker said so: Mann publicly talking about it) · lineage · Mann has said he wants to adapt his Heat novel as a sequel and prequel to Heat. · "he's been publicly talking about his desire to find a way to adapt his novel of heat to the sequel and prequel to heat."
[Blank Check · Lady in the Water · 1:33:45 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Lady in the Water ↔ Signs · theme · Both end abruptly on one image after someone heals a body through prayer or love, with only a token time jump. · "Because signs does the same thing where it just ends."

Who said it, by their latest sketch (3)

[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] 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] 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'

The shows' running bits (3)

[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)
[bits] The Rewatchables: Apex Mountain (The moment a star peaks; where on the mountain a performance sits); Who Won the Movie (The hosts name the person who came out of the film best off); The Ebert review (Roger Ebert's original review and star rating read aloud. Ebert is cited, never on the show); Casting what-ifs (Who was almost cast, or who should have been); Most rewatchable scene (The scene each host would stop on while flipping channels); Aged best / aged worst (What holds up and what does not); Picking Nits (The little things in a film the hosts love that they don't think totally work: the nits); Double feature (The film each host would pair it with; a programming pick)

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 The Last of the Mohicans (1992) 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 The Last of the Mohicans (1992) 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 Rewatchables · ‘The Insider’ · 0:08:22 · Chris Ryan (0.60)] The Last of the Mohicans ↔ Heat · lineage · Heat is described as the urban version of Last of the Mohicans, a step in Mann's progression toward The Insider. · "Then you've got heat, which in some ways is the urban version of Last of the Mohicans."
[Blank Check · Lady in the Water · 1:16:46 · David Sims (0.40)] Lady in the Water ↔ The Last of the Mohicans · theme · Relaying the myth through third-hand translation is compared to the Last of the Mohicans scene of language relay. · "It's like the scene in the Last of the Mohicans where Daniel Day-Louis has to have the British guys speak French to the Native Americans who only speak French."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Insider’ · 0:08:27 · Chris Ryan (0.60)] The Insider ↔ The Last of the Mohicans · craft · The Insider is where Mann starts making wild formal decisions, after the romantic landscape painting of Mohicans and the urban Heat. · "And then Insider marks where man starts making all these really wild formal decisions."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Insider’ · 0:08:38 · Chris Ryan (0.60)] The Insider ↔ The Last of the Mohicans · craft · The same cinematographer, Dante Spinotti, shot both Mann films. · "Dante Spinati, who shot last night, he can shot. He also shoots the insider"
[The Big Picture · The Great ‘Avatar’ Debate · 0:55:56 · unknown (0.40)] Avatar ↔ The Last of the Mohicans · contrast · Avatar's body-swap makes Jake literally become the people, unlike a Mohicans-style interloper. · "imagine if there was a movie about, like, if, like, the last of the Mohicans was about Daniel Day-Lewis entering the constructed body of a Native American."
[The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:11:44 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] The Last of the Mohicans ↔ Black Hat · career · Mann's look ranges from the classical Mohicans to the pinhole cameras of Black Hat. · "this sort of classical look of last the Mohicans all the way to the, you know, the sort of pinhole cameras of black hat."
[Blank Check · Miami Vice - Pilot Episode · 1:10:51 · unknown (0.40)] The Last of the Mohicans ↔ Miami Vice · verdict · Ranked below Miami Vice; defended against listeners who blamed guest Dana Stevens for a flat episode. · "Not my kind of movie."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Tombstone’ · 1:09:49 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] The Last of the Mohicans ↔ Daniel Day-Lewis · craft · Day-Lewis learned to make muskets for his method. · "Daniel, Day Lewis was like, I'm going to go learn how to make, you know, muskets"
[The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 1:02:29 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] The Last of the Mohicans ↔ Michael Mann · career · Mohicans becomes an outlier in Mann's filmography because of the direction he took afterward. · "it winds up becoming more of an outlier because of the direction he went in afterwards."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Tombstone’ · 1:09:32 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] The Last of the Mohicans ↔ Michael Mann · people · Mohicans was a rare Western that felt like Michael Mann meets MTV. · "That's why Last of the Mohicans was so interesting when it came out because it was like Michael Mann meets MTV."
[The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 1:02:53 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] The Last of the Mohicans ↔ Daniel Day-Lewis · people · Daniel Day-Lewis at his hottest is part of the pitch for Mohicans. · "Danley Lewis at his hottest."
[pairs] The Last of the Mohicans ↔ The Insider · said 2 times in 1 episode
[The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 1:02:47 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Last of the Mohicans · fun · Gift number five: Sean says see it in a rep theater; the score is gorgeous. · "If you ever get a chance to see this in a rep theater, please go see it."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Insider’ · 0:21:08 · Chris Ryan (0.45)] All the President's Men ⇒ The Insider (the host's read) · lineage · The Insider is hoped to capture the same wave of reaction that All the President's Men did. · "they're hoping to capture that same kind of that wave that people have when they saw all the president's men."
[The Big Picture · The Great ‘Avatar’ Debate · 0:26:06 · Sean Fennessey (0.90)] Edgar Rice Burroughs ⇒ Avatar (the maker said so: Cameron's 1994 80-page treatment) · lineage · Cameron's Avatar treatment drew on childhood sci-fi reading, Burroughs and Haggard. · "drawing inspiration from, quote, every single science fiction book that he had read in his childhood, and also Edgar Rice Burroughs, H. Rider Haggard."
[The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:13:24 · Amanda Dobbins (0.40)] Black Hat ↔ The Rewatchables · programming · Sean and Chris did a Rewatchables episode on Black Hat that Amanda hadn't heard. · "I didn't hear that one."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Thief’ · 1:19:45 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Thief ↔ Heat · programming · Rewatchable does Mann films: five done, others remaining. · "How many Michael Mann movies have we done now?"
[Blank Check · Lady in the Water · 1:44:42 · unknown (0.30)] Lady in the Water ↔ Tin Cup · lineage · A golf-course version with a lake and a caddy is pitched as basically Tin Cup. · "So it's tin cup, basically."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Insider’ · 0:39:53 · Bill Simmons (0.30)] Robert Redford ↔ The Insider · lineage · The golf-range scene where the hero realizes he is followed is likened to a Redford footstep scene. · "That's the Redford, it's so good."
[The Big Picture · The Great ‘Avatar’ Debate · 0:26:24 · unknown (0.40)] John Carter of Mars ⇒ Avatar (the host's read) · lineage · Avatar reads like a John Carter of Mars style story. · "Yeah, it's very like John Carter of Mars or whatever."
[The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:57:49 · Chris Ryan (0.70)] Miami Vice ↔ Black Hat · theme · Both have messy, stitched-together production histories, a hallmark of the last 15 years of Mann's career. · "when you see black hat, you're like, this definitely feels stitched together in strange ways."
[The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:13:26 · Amanda Dobbins (0.40)] Heat ↔ The Rewatchables · programming · Chris listened to the Reheat Rewatchables episode, celebrating 100 episodes, the morning of recording. · "I also listened to the reheat this morning"
[Blank Check · Lady in the Water · 1:45:08 · unknown (0.30)] Lady in the Water ↔ Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest · lineage · A pirate ship setting is pitched for the story because of that summer's Pirates. · "How about on a pirate ship?"
[The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:56:00 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] The Insider ↔ Sydney Pollack · lineage · The Insider is described as a Sydney Pollack movie with more tension, angst and masculinity. · "this is a Sydney Pollock movie."
[The Big Picture · The Great ‘Avatar’ Debate · 0:42:25 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] The Wizard of Oz ⇒ Avatar (the host's read) · lineage · Avatar is described as a deep Wizard of Oz homage. · "In case you were wondering, this is a deep wizard of a homage, among other things."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Social Network · 1:16:35 · unknown (0.35)] Black Hat ↔ The Social Network · theme · Black Hat is read as Michael Mann realizing the cops-and-criminals tough guys no longer rule once everything is on a computer, a thread the speakers tie to Facebook. · "Black Hat, I think, is a movie about Michael Mann realizing that the guys he spent his entire career writing about cops and criminals."
[The Big Picture · 300th Episode Ask-Us-Anything Mailbag Spectacular · 2:07:39 · Garrett Bradley (0.90)] Heat ↔ Time · programming · Bradley's last great thing was rewatching Heat, which prompted talk of the 90s. · "I rewatched Heat"
[Blank Check · Lady in the Water · 0:22:20 · David Sims (0.50)] Lady in the Water ↔ Manchester by the Sea · theme · A man loses his family in a past tragedy and becomes the super of a building, which the speaker notes as the same plot. · "In all caps, I wrote, this is the plot of Manchester by the Sea."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Insider’ · 0:22:48 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] The Insider ↔ JFK · theme · JFK became the assassination movie though half of it is false, whereas The Insider really captures its specific moment with the cigarette industry. · "This movie really does capture this specific moment with the cigarette industry that played out with the lawsuits and everything."
[The Big Picture · The Great ‘Avatar’ Debate · 0:52:25 · unknown (0.40)] Avatar ↔ Aliens · lineage · Cameron's 1995 pitch for Avatar was much closer to Aliens in tone. · "It was much closer to aliens in tone."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Thief’ · 0:02:54 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Thief ⇒ Heat (the host's read) · lineage · Thief is the notebook sketch for Mann's later work, with Heat sharing DNA. · "the building blocks for what you wind up seeing in heat and collateral and Miami Vice in so many of his films to come."
[Blank Check · Lady in the Water · 1:00:55 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Lady in the Water ↔ The Lorax · theme · A creature living in a tree stump who kicks herself in the behind and flies to the sky is likened to the Lorax. · "She was like, the Lorax."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Insider’ · 0:26:41 · Bill Simmons (0.45)] The Insider ↔ The Blair Witch Project · theme · Both are 1999 movies that could not happen a few years later because the internet changed things. · "I think that's a similar thing that just 4 years later, that movie doesn't happen."
[The Big Picture · The Great ‘Avatar’ Debate · 0:53:51 · unknown (0.40)] The Wizard of Oz ⇒ Avatar (the host's read) · lineage · Avatar is an original story but inspired by Oz and John Ford movies. · "It's just like hugely inspired by not just the Wizard of Oz, but like lots of John Ford movies"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Thief’ · 1:15:06 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Thief ⇒ Heat (the maker said so: the Siegel piece, Caan telling Pacino) · lineage · Caan said scenes cut from Thief went to Heat. · "All the scenes that weren't used in our picture came over to you guys."
[Blank Check · Lady in the Water · 1:14:45 · Richard Lawson (0.40)] Lady in the Water ↔ The Poseidon Adventure · theme · Cleveland's underwater swim is likened to Shelley Winters's pool swim in The Poseidon Adventure. · "And I wrote down Shelley Winters and Poseidon Adventure."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Insider’ · 1:12:51 · Chris Ryan (0.30)] The Insider ↔ Pump Up the Volume · theme · Smoking riffs: Christian Slater as a good screen smoker in Heathers and Pump Up the Volume. · "Christian Slater, really good smoker."
[The Big Picture · The Great ‘Avatar’ Debate · 0:53:51 · unknown (0.40)] John Ford ⇒ Avatar (the host's read) · lineage · Same line: Avatar draws on John Ford films and the history of movies. · "lots of John Ford movies and you can see like the history of movies"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Se7en’ · 0:04:37 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Seven ↔ Heat · lineage · Grouped with Usual Suspects, Heat and Casino as the four defining 1995 movies, three of which were shut out at the Oscars. · "Our usual suspects, which we recently did, Heat Casino in seven."
[Blank Check · Lady in the Water · 1:15:15 · unknown (0.30)] Lady in the Water ↔ Unbreakable · theme · Cleveland Heep's murdered family backstory is likened to the crime in Unbreakable. · "much like the crime and unbreakable."
[The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:55:48 · Chris Ryan (0.30)] The Insider ↔ The Pelican Brief · theme · Joking pair of journalism movies that brought down administrations or cigarettes. · "Pelican Breeds good point."
[Blank Check — Patreon · RoboCop (2014) · 0:38:34 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Avatar ⇒ RoboCop (the host's read) · lineage · The robot-waking sequence is beat for beat the first act of Avatar, down to testing the new body's powers. · "It is crazy actually how much this sequence is like beat for beat, the Avatar, right?"
[The Big Picture · The 2022 Movie Draft · 1:06:53 · Chris Ryan (0.80)] Heat ⇒ Ambulance (the host's read) · lineage · Chris says the first half of Ambulance is Michael Bay trying to make Heat, before the second half becomes a great chase movie. · "The 1st half of this movie is basically like Michael Bay being like, I want to make heat."
[Blank Check · Lady in the Water · 1:25:38 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Lady in the Water ↔ The Revenant · theme · Jokes that Hugh Glass in The Revenant was really attacked by a scrunt. · "I didn't like the revenant because in real life, Hugh Glass was attacked by a scrunt."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Insider’ · 0:08:40 · Chris Ryan (0.60)] Dante Spinotti ↔ The Insider · craft · Spinotti shoots most of the film handheld from someone's collar to visualize the characters' life-changing decisions. · "He also shoots the insider, but they're essentially trying to visualize what it's like for people to make decisions."
[The Big Picture · The Great ‘Avatar’ Debate · 0:55:09 · unknown (0.40)] Avatar ↔ Dances with Wolves · theme · Avatar belongs to the interloper-story family but is not like Dances with Wolves or The Last Samurai. · "something like Dances with Wolves, Last Samurai, whichever one of these movies you want to throw out there. Interloper movies."
[The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:08:38 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] Heat ⇒ Michael Mann (the maker said so: Mann publicly talking about it) · lineage · Mann has said he wants to adapt his Heat novel as a sequel and prequel to Heat. · "he's been publicly talking about his desire to find a way to adapt his novel of heat to the sequel and prequel to heat."
[Blank Check · Lady in the Water · 1:33:45 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Lady in the Water ↔ Signs · theme · Both end abruptly on one image after someone heals a body through prayer or love, with only a token time jump. · "Because signs does the same thing where it just ends."
[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] 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] 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'
[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)
[bits] The Rewatchables: Apex Mountain (The moment a star peaks; where on the mountain a performance sits); Who Won the Movie (The hosts name the person who came out of the film best off); The Ebert review (Roger Ebert's original review and star rating read aloud. Ebert is cited, never on the show); Casting what-ifs (Who was almost cast, or who should have been); Most rewatchable scene (The scene each host would stop on while flipping channels); Aged best / aged worst (What holds up and what does not); Picking Nits (The little things in a film the hosts love that they don't think totally work: the nits); Double feature (The film each host would pair it with; a programming pick)

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 The Last of the Mohicans (1992); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend The Last of the Mohicans (1992) 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.