What the corpus says about Black Hat (2015)

What was said about it (8)

1. [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."
2. [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."
3. [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."
4. [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."
5. [The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:12:51 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Ferrari ↔ Black Hat · career · Ferrari fuses the classical Mann with the digital abstractions of Black Hat, per critic Bilge Ebiri. · "the digital abstractions of black hat and public enemies and Miami Vice and collateral"
6. [Blank Check · Miami Vice - Pilot Episode · 1:10:33 · unknown (0.40)] Public Enemies ↔ Black Hat · verdict · Split by a hair: Public Enemies has higher highs, Black Hat is more consistent. · "I think public enemies has higher highs."
7. [Blank Check — Patreon · The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo · 1:42:01 · unknown (0.30)] Black Hat ↔ The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo · go-on-computer compared · Black Hat is the ultimate he-go-on-computer movie, the end of an era Dragon Tattoo began. · "I mean, that's the ultimate he go on computer movie."
8. [The Big Picture · Physical Media Strikes Back · 0:38:13 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Black Hat ↔ Michael Mann · what-if · Arrow's Black Hat 4K includes a recut that moves a significant sequence to the front, making it more coherent. · "there's a recut version of the movie."

Fun items about it (1)

1. [The Big Picture · Physical Media Strikes Back · 0:38:13 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Black Hat · fun · The Arrow Black Hat 4K includes a recut with a significant sequence moved to the front, making it more coherent but maybe less disorienting. · "there's a recut version of the movie."

One hop out: what recommends the films most often joined to it (30)

1. [The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:37:27 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Ferrari ↔ The Martian · programming · Ferrari feels like a late-summer release that should have had The Martian's slot, not Christmas. · "This felt like it should have had the Martian spot."
2. [The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies · 0:50:57 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] Munich ↔ Miami Vice · programming · Mann was busy making Miami Vice, 'maybe that was part of the problem'. · "I'm pretty sure Michael Mann was making your beloved Miami Vice when... Maybe that was part of the problem."
3. [The Rewatchables · ‘Thief’ · 1:19:48 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Thief ↔ Public Enemies · programming · Remaining Mann candidates for future episodes. · "We got do, we got Manhunter, Black Hat, and Public Enemies left, I think."
4. [Blank Check — Patreon · The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo · 0:16:06 · Fran Hoepfner (0.40)] The Girl in the Spider's Web ↔ The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo · lineage · Spider's Web is the reboot after Fincher's film; the speaker finds it ill advised to abandon Mara. · "especially when the thing that everyone liked most about this movie was that performance and how quickly they abandoned it."
5. [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."
6. [The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:05:18 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Brock Yates ⇒ Ferrari (the host's read) · lineage · Ferrari adapts the Brock Yates book on Enzo Ferrari. · "by Brock Yates"
7. [Blank Check · Miami Vice - Pilot Episode · 1:07:11 · unknown (0.40)] Miami Vice ⇒ ER (the host's read) · lineage · Miami Vice's influence made TV look like Mann movies; ER's steadicam is where that finishes. · "An ER, you've got steady cam shots and that's when it's really done and dusted."
8. [Blank Check — Patreon · The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo · 0:49:09 · unknown (0.30)] Stieg Larsson ⇒ The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (the host's read) · lineage · The film is Zaillian's abridged adaptation of Larsson's novel, which loses nothing major. · "I think this is an excellent piece of adaptation that does not really, like, skip anything major."
9. [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."
10. [The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:10:16 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Ferrari ↔ Heat · theme · Ferrari carries Mann's themes of men pushing themselves to greatness with their obsessions. · "men pushing themselves as hard as they can with the tools that they are obsessed with to achieve greatness"
11. [The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:39:11 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Miami Vice ↔ Calderone's Return · lineage · Calderone's Return is the 1984 Miami Vice double episode that the Rewatchables did. · "How do you feel about Calderon's return, the double episode of Miami Vice from 1984."
12. [Blank Check — Patreon · The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo · 0:54:19 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Swedish, 2009) ⇒ The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (the host's read) · lineage · The Fincher film is the American remake of the Swedish original; its director says he was not worried. · "Everyone who loves film will go see the original."
13. [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."
14. [The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:17:09 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] Michael Mann ↔ Ferrari · theme · Enzo Ferrari, with his department heads and team who report to him, reads as a stand-in for Michael Mann the filmmaker. · "Enzo Ferrari is Michael Mann."
15. [The Rewatchables · ‘Thief’ · 0:44:28 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Thief ↔ Miami Vice · theme · Same send-the-wife-away beat in Miami Vice's Calderon's revenge. · "Miami Vice, which I think he had a pretty big imprint on season one."
16. [Blank Check — Patreon · The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo · 1:25:22 · Griffin Newman (0.30)] The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo ↔ Michael Clayton · theme · Both open on a protagonist already broken by past failure. · "It's the Michael Clayton thing I love of like, you start this movie with a character"
17. [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"
18. [The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:12:05 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] Ferrari ↔ The Insider · craft · Ferrari has the best script Mann has worked with since The Insider. · "this has the best script he's worked with since insider"
19. [The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:59:04 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Miami Vice ↔ Babylon · theme · Chris likes reclamation projects, films that critics first dismissed, as he does Miami Vice. · "I like reclamation projects."
20. [Blank Check — Patreon · The Killer · 0:02:09 · unknown (host) (0.30)] The Killer ↔ The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo · craft · The speaker listened to the Dragon Tattoo score while reading the comic because The Killer score was not out. · "it's not out there, so I just listened Dragon Tattoo."
21. [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"
22. [The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:15:43 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Ferrari ↔ Steve Jobs · craft · Steve Jobs did the compression idea best among recent biopics, and Mann's compressed 1957 setting for Ferrari is ingenious. · "Steve Jobs obviously had, maybe, maybe did the best job of this by kind of splitting the, the atom"
23. [The Rewatchables · ‘The Insider’ · 0:52:07 · Sean Fennessey (0.35)] The Insider ↔ Miami Vice · craft · Mann's pop-abstract music choices, such as the Linkin Park and Jay-Z cues in Miami Vice, are a recurring misfire for some. · "Is this your, is this a subtle dig at Lincoln Park, Jay-Z being used in Miami Vice?"
24. [Blank Check — Patreon · The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo · 0:52:03 · unknown (0.30)] The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Swedish, 2009) ↔ The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo · craft · The Swedish version is a near one-to-one transposition with no act structure; Fincher's feels dramatic. · "the Swedish one is almost so one-to-one that it has no ax structure."
25. [The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:16:14 · Amanda Dobbins (0.40)] Ferrari ↔ Killers of the Flower Moon · craft · Ferrari's quick impressionistic opening flashback recalls the silent-film-style opening of Killers of the Flower Moon. · "it reminded me a bit of the opening sequence of the Killers of the Flower Moon, where it's kind of shot in this old school, like silent film style."
26. [Blank Check — Patreon · Zodiac · 1:09:57 · unknown (0.40)] Miami Vice ↔ Zodiac · craft · Both used the Thomson Viper digital camera. · "man, use that on Miami Vice as well."
27. [Blank Check — Patreon · The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo · 1:11:05 · unknown (0.30)] Sven Nykvist ⇒ The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (the maker said so) · craft · Someone on the shoot (Fincher, or the DP by the garbled name) wanted a Sven Nykvist look: warm fires, cold rooms. · "I wanted to do a whole Sven Nikfist thing"
28. [The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:20:07 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60)] Ferrari ↔ Heat · craft · Penelope Cruz's let-it-rip scene with Driver recalls Diane Venora in Heat. · "it reminded me a little bit of Dina Vanora in heat where she's just like letting it loose."
29. [Blank Check — Patreon · In the Cut · 1:24:25 · Griffin or David (unclear) (0.35)] Dion Beebe ↔ Miami Vice · craft · Beebe shot Miami Vice and defines the Michael Mann digital look. · "He defines the Michael Mann digital look."
30. [Blank Check — Patreon · The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo · 1:11:51 · unknown (0.30)] Lola Visual Effects ↔ The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo · craft · Lola tracked a hair gap into reshot footage. · "So Lola, the special effects house, who's like one of the best, they do like all the de-aging, they're like top level."

Who said it, by their latest sketch (3)

1. [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
2. [speaker] Amanda Dobbins · latest sketch, The Big Picture · ‘Mamma Mia!’ Meets ‘The Strangers'! It’s a Movie Swap! · Loves The Strangers' withholding craft and a good tense horror film without gore, but likes fun, communal movies like Mamma Mia. She dislikes supernatural or gory horror, which irritates her more than it scares her. She is a sucker for stars and for Googling a movie mid-recording. · stances: The Strangers is scary because of what it doesn't show or explain; Ending explanation weakens it; no answer would be better; Prefers 'withholding' filmmaking; Defends Mamma Mia as joyful and intentional
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

The shows' running bits (3)

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)
3. [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

You are a clerk at Video Culture, a video store. A customer just finished Black Hat (2015) 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 Black Hat (2015) 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 · ‘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 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."
[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 · ‘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."
[The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:12:51 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Ferrari ↔ Black Hat · career · Ferrari fuses the classical Mann with the digital abstractions of Black Hat, per critic Bilge Ebiri. · "the digital abstractions of black hat and public enemies and Miami Vice and collateral"
[Blank Check · Miami Vice - Pilot Episode · 1:10:33 · unknown (0.40)] Public Enemies ↔ Black Hat · verdict · Split by a hair: Public Enemies has higher highs, Black Hat is more consistent. · "I think public enemies has higher highs."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo · 1:42:01 · unknown (0.30)] Black Hat ↔ The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo · go-on-computer compared · Black Hat is the ultimate he-go-on-computer movie, the end of an era Dragon Tattoo began. · "I mean, that's the ultimate he go on computer movie."
[The Big Picture · Physical Media Strikes Back · 0:38:13 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Black Hat ↔ Michael Mann · what-if · Arrow's Black Hat 4K includes a recut that moves a significant sequence to the front, making it more coherent. · "there's a recut version of the movie."
[The Big Picture · Physical Media Strikes Back · 0:38:13 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Black Hat · fun · The Arrow Black Hat 4K includes a recut with a significant sequence moved to the front, making it more coherent but maybe less disorienting. · "there's a recut version of the movie."
[The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:37:27 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Ferrari ↔ The Martian · programming · Ferrari feels like a late-summer release that should have had The Martian's slot, not Christmas. · "This felt like it should have had the Martian spot."
[The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies · 0:50:57 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] Munich ↔ Miami Vice · programming · Mann was busy making Miami Vice, 'maybe that was part of the problem'. · "I'm pretty sure Michael Mann was making your beloved Miami Vice when... Maybe that was part of the problem."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Thief’ · 1:19:48 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Thief ↔ Public Enemies · programming · Remaining Mann candidates for future episodes. · "We got do, we got Manhunter, Black Hat, and Public Enemies left, I think."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo · 0:16:06 · Fran Hoepfner (0.40)] The Girl in the Spider's Web ↔ The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo · lineage · Spider's Web is the reboot after Fincher's film; the speaker finds it ill advised to abandon Mara. · "especially when the thing that everyone liked most about this movie was that performance and how quickly they abandoned it."
[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."
[The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:05:18 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Brock Yates ⇒ Ferrari (the host's read) · lineage · Ferrari adapts the Brock Yates book on Enzo Ferrari. · "by Brock Yates"
[Blank Check · Miami Vice - Pilot Episode · 1:07:11 · unknown (0.40)] Miami Vice ⇒ ER (the host's read) · lineage · Miami Vice's influence made TV look like Mann movies; ER's steadicam is where that finishes. · "An ER, you've got steady cam shots and that's when it's really done and dusted."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo · 0:49:09 · unknown (0.30)] Stieg Larsson ⇒ The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (the host's read) · lineage · The film is Zaillian's abridged adaptation of Larsson's novel, which loses nothing major. · "I think this is an excellent piece of adaptation that does not really, like, skip anything major."
[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 Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:10:16 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Ferrari ↔ Heat · theme · Ferrari carries Mann's themes of men pushing themselves to greatness with their obsessions. · "men pushing themselves as hard as they can with the tools that they are obsessed with to achieve greatness"
[The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:39:11 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Miami Vice ↔ Calderone's Return · lineage · Calderone's Return is the 1984 Miami Vice double episode that the Rewatchables did. · "How do you feel about Calderon's return, the double episode of Miami Vice from 1984."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo · 0:54:19 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Swedish, 2009) ⇒ The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (the host's read) · lineage · The Fincher film is the American remake of the Swedish original; its director says he was not worried. · "Everyone who loves film will go see the original."
[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 Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:17:09 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] Michael Mann ↔ Ferrari · theme · Enzo Ferrari, with his department heads and team who report to him, reads as a stand-in for Michael Mann the filmmaker. · "Enzo Ferrari is Michael Mann."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Thief’ · 0:44:28 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Thief ↔ Miami Vice · theme · Same send-the-wife-away beat in Miami Vice's Calderon's revenge. · "Miami Vice, which I think he had a pretty big imprint on season one."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo · 1:25:22 · Griffin Newman (0.30)] The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo ↔ Michael Clayton · theme · Both open on a protagonist already broken by past failure. · "It's the Michael Clayton thing I love of like, you start this movie with a character"
[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 · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:12:05 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] Ferrari ↔ The Insider · craft · Ferrari has the best script Mann has worked with since The Insider. · "this has the best script he's worked with since insider"
[The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:59:04 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Miami Vice ↔ Babylon · theme · Chris likes reclamation projects, films that critics first dismissed, as he does Miami Vice. · "I like reclamation projects."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Killer · 0:02:09 · unknown (host) (0.30)] The Killer ↔ The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo · craft · The speaker listened to the Dragon Tattoo score while reading the comic because The Killer score was not out. · "it's not out there, so I just listened Dragon Tattoo."
[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 · 0:15:43 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Ferrari ↔ Steve Jobs · craft · Steve Jobs did the compression idea best among recent biopics, and Mann's compressed 1957 setting for Ferrari is ingenious. · "Steve Jobs obviously had, maybe, maybe did the best job of this by kind of splitting the, the atom"
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Insider’ · 0:52:07 · Sean Fennessey (0.35)] The Insider ↔ Miami Vice · craft · Mann's pop-abstract music choices, such as the Linkin Park and Jay-Z cues in Miami Vice, are a recurring misfire for some. · "Is this your, is this a subtle dig at Lincoln Park, Jay-Z being used in Miami Vice?"
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo · 0:52:03 · unknown (0.30)] The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Swedish, 2009) ↔ The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo · craft · The Swedish version is a near one-to-one transposition with no act structure; Fincher's feels dramatic. · "the Swedish one is almost so one-to-one that it has no ax structure."
[The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:16:14 · Amanda Dobbins (0.40)] Ferrari ↔ Killers of the Flower Moon · craft · Ferrari's quick impressionistic opening flashback recalls the silent-film-style opening of Killers of the Flower Moon. · "it reminded me a bit of the opening sequence of the Killers of the Flower Moon, where it's kind of shot in this old school, like silent film style."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Zodiac · 1:09:57 · unknown (0.40)] Miami Vice ↔ Zodiac · craft · Both used the Thomson Viper digital camera. · "man, use that on Miami Vice as well."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo · 1:11:05 · unknown (0.30)] Sven Nykvist ⇒ The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (the maker said so) · craft · Someone on the shoot (Fincher, or the DP by the garbled name) wanted a Sven Nykvist look: warm fires, cold rooms. · "I wanted to do a whole Sven Nikfist thing"
[The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:20:07 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60)] Ferrari ↔ Heat · craft · Penelope Cruz's let-it-rip scene with Driver recalls Diane Venora in Heat. · "it reminded me a little bit of Dina Vanora in heat where she's just like letting it loose."
[Blank Check — Patreon · In the Cut · 1:24:25 · Griffin or David (unclear) (0.35)] Dion Beebe ↔ Miami Vice · craft · Beebe shot Miami Vice and defines the Michael Mann digital look. · "He defines the Michael Mann digital look."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo · 1:11:51 · unknown (0.30)] Lola Visual Effects ↔ The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo · craft · Lola tracked a hair gap into reshot footage. · "So Lola, the special effects house, who's like one of the best, they do like all the de-aging, they're like top level."
[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] Amanda Dobbins · latest sketch, The Big Picture · ‘Mamma Mia!’ Meets ‘The Strangers'! It’s a Movie Swap! · Loves The Strangers' withholding craft and a good tense horror film without gore, but likes fun, communal movies like Mamma Mia. She dislikes supernatural or gory horror, which irritates her more than it scares her. She is a sucker for stars and for Googling a movie mid-recording. · stances: The Strangers is scary because of what it doesn't show or explain; Ending explanation weakens it; no answer would be better; Prefers 'withholding' filmmaking; Defends Mamma Mia as joyful and intentional
[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
[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 Black Hat (2015); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Black Hat (2015) 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.