What the corpus says about RoboCop (1987)

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)

[Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 1:05:18 · Ben Hosley (0.40)] Edge of Tomorrow ↔ RoboCop · programming · The hosts recorded a RoboCop commentary in the slot where Edge was originally scheduled, and the opening news montage reminds them of RoboCop's. · "I mean, we just saw it with like Robocop."
[Blank Check — Patreon · 2025 March Madness Update 1 · 1:04:32 · unknown (0.40)] RoboCop ↔ Psycho · programming · Robocop has one good covered movie and three bad; Psycho offers more to discuss. · "it is one good movie we have covered and 3 bad, whereas Psycho, it's like, there's a lot of interesting shit there."
[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?"
[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 · RoboCop (2014) · 0:47:57 · David Sims (0.50)] RoboCop ↔ Terminator Salvation · lineage · Non-Nolan grim-and-grounded reboots like this one end up self-serious but made by a dumb person and noted to death. · "you get Terminator salvation, you get these movies that are just like self-serious but made by a dumb person"
[Blank Check — Patreon · RoboCop (2014) · 0:48:47 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] RoboCop ↔ Casino Royale · lineage · Filmmakers sell the remake as the Casino Royale or Batman Begins of RoboCop while the Easter eggs sneer at the original. · "It's like the Casino Royale."
[Blank Check — Patreon · RoboCop (2014) · 1:43:43 · David Sims (0.40)] RoboCop ↔ Total Recall · lineage · The Wiseman remake of Total Recall is cited as an equally boring office-building finale, a remake sibling to this film. · "This is so similar to the Wiseman Total Recall."
[Blank Check — Patreon · RoboCop (2014) · 0:22:35 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] RoboCop ⇒ RoboCop (the host's read) · theme · The OCP change to OmniCorp is read as a change made because the original seems corny today. · "the differentiations they make feel driven by like, well, if you watch the original now, it's kind of corny."
[Blank Check — Patreon · RoboCop (2014) · 1:34:19 · Griffin Newman (0.30)] RoboCop ↔ The Mandalorian and Grogu · theme · A stoic armored parent who secretly cares is called basically RoboCop 3. · "It's basically RoboCop 3."
[Blank Check — Patreon · 2025 March Madness Update 1 · 1:05:15 · unknown (0.40)] RoboCop ↔ Total Recall · theme · The RoboCop remake and Total Recall remake are emblematic of peak shitty 2010 remakes. · "That era kind of total recall robocop."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien 3 · 1:54:13 · unknown (0.50)] Alien 3 ↔ RoboCop · theme · Both franchises have a looming company willing to feed people into the grinder. · "Like, like, alien and Robocop as franchises both have these like big looming companies that are willing to throw like any human beings into the grinder."
[Blank Check · Decision to Leave · 1:14:03 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Decision to Leave ↔ RoboCop · craft · The husband's cartoon fall off the mountain is compared to the Dick Jones stop-motion fall at the end of Robocop. · "He does like a like a end of Robocop Dick Jones fall, basically."
[Blank Check — Patreon · RoboCop (2014) · 0:33:17 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] RoboCop ↔ RoboCop · craft · The original's way of showing the conversion was good, but the remake skips the time lapse and wakes him already built. · "the way they did it was really a good way to do it."
[Blank Check — Patreon · RoboCop (2014) · 0:33:41 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] RoboCop ↔ Venom · craft · Keeping his face visible is a studio note, like Topher Grace in Venom, so the visor keeps swinging up and down. · "So in this, it's like Topher Grace Venom where they're like, well, his visor comes up anytime he speaks."
[Blank Check — Patreon · RoboCop (2014) · 0:46:51 · Griffin Newman (0.30)] The Wizard of Oz ⇒ RoboCop (the host's read) · craft · The training-sequence song joke riffs on the Tin Man and If I Only Had a Heart. · "If I only had a heart is what it's."
[Blank Check — Patreon · RoboCop (2014) · 0:52:38 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] RoboCop ↔ Batman Begins · craft · The black rubber suit and the motorcycle read as Nolan's Batman, not as a robot. · "And then the suit looks very Nolan Batman."
[Blank Check — Patreon · RoboCop (2014) · 0:54:31 · David Sims (0.40)] RoboCop ↔ Batman: Arkham Asylum · craft · The scanning and target-tagging scenes feel video-gamey, specifically like the Arkham games. · "Like this is like Arkham Asylum."
[Blank Check · Flesh+Blood · 0:19:12 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Flesh and Blood ↔ RoboCop · contrast · Unlike Flesh+Blood, RoboCop, Total Recall and Basic Instinct have an arc and some resolution. · "Whereas in Robocop, in total recall, in basic instinct, even, like, right, he's, you know, these are movies with more of an arc for a character."
[Blank Check — Patreon · RoboCop (2014) · 0:18:05 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] RoboCop ↔ RoboCop · contrast · In the original, Murphy loses his identity and must rediscover it; here he never does, and the host calls that stupid. · "he never loses his identity."
[Blank Check — Patreon · RoboCop (2014) · 0:30:20 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] RoboCop ↔ RoboCop · contrast · A remake that pushes seriousness and cuts the humor, though the humor is what people remember about the original. · "you're like, huh, because the humor's the stuff that people remember."
[Blank Check — Patreon · RoboCop (2014) · 0:35:42 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] RoboCop ⇒ RoboCop (the host's read) · contrast · The remake keeps the hand as a clever Easter egg that inverts Bob Morton's order to junk the hand. · "in this one they keep the hand."
[Blank Check — Patreon · RoboCop (2014) · 0:48:26 · David Sims (0.40)] RoboCop ⇒ RoboCop (the host's read) · contrast · The remake's Easter eggs, like the hand and the I'd buy that for a dollar line, feel dismissive of the original. · "Like all the jokes they make feel dismissive of the original film."
[Blank Check — Patreon · RoboCop (2014) · 1:04:40 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] RoboCop ↔ Robocop 2 · contrast · The speakers say RoboCop 2's satire goes big where this film does not. · "The fun of Robocop 2 is how big they can go with the satire."
[Blank Check — Patreon · RoboCop (2014) · 1:19:44 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] RoboCop ↔ RoboCop · contrast · Keaton's villain stays the same until a rooftop face-off; the speakers imagine Ronny Cox's version in his place. · "if Michael Keaton is fucking Ronnie Cox, you know. The movie like doesn't have a villain."
[Blank Check — Patreon · RoboCop (2014) · 1:19:58 · David Sims (0.40)] RoboCop ↔ RoboCop · contrast · The original's villains were iconic and specific; this one has a gangster, corruption, and a businessman, but no physical antagonist. · "He has no physical antagonist."
[Blank Check · Flesh+Blood · 0:19:25 · David Sims (0.45)] RoboCop ↔ Total Recall · career · RoboCop, Total Recall and Basic Instinct let him have cake and eat it: deconstructions that also work as straight entertainment. · "What I've called before, movies where he gets to have his cake needed too."

Films put beside it more than once (3)

[pairs] RoboCop ↔ Total Recall · said 3 times in 3 episodes
[pairs] RoboCop ↔ Batman Begins · said 2 times in 1 episode
[pairs] RoboCop ↔ Flesh and Blood · said 2 times in 1 episode

One hop out: what recommends the films most often joined to it (26)

[The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 0:35:45 · Sean Fennessey (0.70)] Sean Fennessey ↔ Total Recall · programming · Pick 3 (round 1), category blockbuster: Verhoeven masterpiece, sci-fi satire, Schwarzenegger's best. · "In Blockbuster, I'm gonna go with Total Recall"
[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 · Flesh+Blood · 1:25:59 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Flesh and Blood ↔ Back to the Future · programming · Flesh+Blood opened Labor Day weekend 1985 when Back to the Future was number one. · "Back to the future?"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien 3 · 1:35:21 · unknown (0.40)] Alien 3 ↔ Resident Evil · programming · Resident Evil should not be programmed next to Alien; wait for in-person sessions. · "Also, you can't put it next to Alien because Resident Evil does, well, not, that will not be good for Resident Evil."
[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 · The 1990 Movie Draft · 0:36:12 · Sean Fennessey (0.70)] Total Recall ↔ Paul Verhoeven · craft · The film walks the line between schlock and incisive satire. · "really walks this very delicate line between schlock and incisive satire"
[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 · Flesh+Blood · 0:43:23 · David Sims (0.40)] Flesh and Blood ↔ Willow · lineage · The painted poster looks like fantasy-adventure posters of the era. · "it has this poster that looks like, you know, the poster for Willow or Legend"
[The Big Picture · ‘The Killer’ Is Cold-Blooded Genius. And Something More · 0:59:46 · Adam Nayman (0.85)] David Fincher ↔ Alien 3 · lineage · Alien 3 is the primal scene of Fincher's chip on his shoulder, producers treating him like a shoe salesman. · "there's the chip on the shoulder and the primal scene of alien 3, right?"
[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."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Game · 1:16:12 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] The Game ↔ Total Recall · craft · The test-then-start gag is like Total Recall's malfunction. · "It's it's the total recall thing where they tell you exactly what's going to happen right at the moment where the thing is supposed to start."
[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 · Flesh+Blood · 0:27:54 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Flesh and Blood ↔ The Loveless · theme · Both take a romanticized genre and show how gross it really was. · "Which is where I think this movie shares a similarity with the Loveless."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ · 0:24:13 · David Sims (0.30)] Alien 3 ⇒ Alien Resurrection (the host's read) · lineage · Resurrection follows Alien 3, but its Ripley is a different character from the one who died. · "As much as she was quote unquote resurrected, obviously, that's a different character explicitly."
[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 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 · Flesh+Blood · 1:05:02 · Griffin Newman (0.45)] Flesh and Blood ↔ Strange Days · theme · Like Strange Days, the film treats sexual assault as psychological aftermath rather than a plot device. · "In the Strange Days episode, we talked about the sexual assault scene in that movie, right?"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ · 0:30:17 · Matt Singer (0.40)] Aliens ⇒ Alien 3 (the host's read) · lineage · Alien 3 follows Aliens; watched back to back, Aliens ends on a new family that Alien 3 then kills. · "you watch aliens and that has this ending of, you know, this new family that has been created."
[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."
[Blank Check · Flesh+Blood · 1:13:10 · David Sims (0.40)] Flesh and Blood ↔ A Bug's Life · theme · Steven's crazy siege inventions are compared to Flick's. · "He's like flick from a bug's life where he's coming up with these crazy inventions"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ · 0:56:20 · Griffin Newman (0.35)] David Twohy ⇒ Alien 3 (the host's read) · lineage · Twohy brought the prison-planet concept into the development. · "Twowey is the one who brings in the prison planet concept, okay?"
[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"
[Blank Check · Flesh+Blood · 0:44:02 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Flesh and Blood ↔ Hieronymus Bosch · craft · The film's opening is said to look like a Bosch painting. · "Like, now we're in a bosh painting."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ · 1:18:07 · Matt Singer (0.35)] Psycho ⇒ Alien 3 (the host's read) · lineage · Charles Dance's shower-curtain death is read as Fincher's own 'Hitchcock moment', after a cast member said Fincher called it that; the Psycho identification is the speaker's. · "Fincher would talk to him about his influence and be like, well, this is my Hitchcock moment."
[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"
[Blank Check · Flesh+Blood · 0:44:18 · David Sims (0.45)] Flesh and Blood ↔ Monty Python and the Holy Grail · craft · The film's muddy, grimy medieval look is likened to Holy Grail. · "The movie that this is aesthetically most similar to weirdly is Monty Python, the Holy Grail."

Who said it, by their latest sketch (3)

[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] 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] Ben Hosley · latest sketch, Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · Producer who occasionally talks; admits no religious background, has a Catholic mother's family, and cannot see the Bible as part of culture. · stances: Left out of Bible culture; Wants a clear demarcation between a bed and a deathbed

The shows' running bits (2)

[bits] The Big Picture: Drafts (Hosts and guests draft films in rounds; every pick is a recommendation with an argument); Hall of Fame (A star's or director's best, ranked and argued); Countdowns (Ranked lists, top five or top ten)
[bits] Blank Check: The box office game (Guessing the film's opening weekend and what it was up against); The sung theme ("Blank Check with Griffin and David", sung; the transcriber garbles it)

The whole prompt

As the model gets it, from app/Ai/Prompts/CorpusAsk.md

You are a clerk at Video Culture, a video store. A customer just finished RoboCop (1987) 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 RoboCop (1987) 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 · Edge of Tomorrow · 1:05:18 · Ben Hosley (0.40)] Edge of Tomorrow ↔ RoboCop · programming · The hosts recorded a RoboCop commentary in the slot where Edge was originally scheduled, and the opening news montage reminds them of RoboCop's. · "I mean, we just saw it with like Robocop."
[Blank Check — Patreon · 2025 March Madness Update 1 · 1:04:32 · unknown (0.40)] RoboCop ↔ Psycho · programming · Robocop has one good covered movie and three bad; Psycho offers more to discuss. · "it is one good movie we have covered and 3 bad, whereas Psycho, it's like, there's a lot of interesting shit there."
[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?"
[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 · RoboCop (2014) · 0:47:57 · David Sims (0.50)] RoboCop ↔ Terminator Salvation · lineage · Non-Nolan grim-and-grounded reboots like this one end up self-serious but made by a dumb person and noted to death. · "you get Terminator salvation, you get these movies that are just like self-serious but made by a dumb person"
[Blank Check — Patreon · RoboCop (2014) · 0:48:47 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] RoboCop ↔ Casino Royale · lineage · Filmmakers sell the remake as the Casino Royale or Batman Begins of RoboCop while the Easter eggs sneer at the original. · "It's like the Casino Royale."
[Blank Check — Patreon · RoboCop (2014) · 1:43:43 · David Sims (0.40)] RoboCop ↔ Total Recall · lineage · The Wiseman remake of Total Recall is cited as an equally boring office-building finale, a remake sibling to this film. · "This is so similar to the Wiseman Total Recall."
[Blank Check — Patreon · RoboCop (2014) · 0:22:35 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] RoboCop ⇒ RoboCop (the host's read) · theme · The OCP change to OmniCorp is read as a change made because the original seems corny today. · "the differentiations they make feel driven by like, well, if you watch the original now, it's kind of corny."
[Blank Check — Patreon · RoboCop (2014) · 1:34:19 · Griffin Newman (0.30)] RoboCop ↔ The Mandalorian and Grogu · theme · A stoic armored parent who secretly cares is called basically RoboCop 3. · "It's basically RoboCop 3."
[Blank Check — Patreon · 2025 March Madness Update 1 · 1:05:15 · unknown (0.40)] RoboCop ↔ Total Recall · theme · The RoboCop remake and Total Recall remake are emblematic of peak shitty 2010 remakes. · "That era kind of total recall robocop."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien 3 · 1:54:13 · unknown (0.50)] Alien 3 ↔ RoboCop · theme · Both franchises have a looming company willing to feed people into the grinder. · "Like, like, alien and Robocop as franchises both have these like big looming companies that are willing to throw like any human beings into the grinder."
[Blank Check · Decision to Leave · 1:14:03 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Decision to Leave ↔ RoboCop · craft · The husband's cartoon fall off the mountain is compared to the Dick Jones stop-motion fall at the end of Robocop. · "He does like a like a end of Robocop Dick Jones fall, basically."
[Blank Check — Patreon · RoboCop (2014) · 0:33:17 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] RoboCop ↔ RoboCop · craft · The original's way of showing the conversion was good, but the remake skips the time lapse and wakes him already built. · "the way they did it was really a good way to do it."
[Blank Check — Patreon · RoboCop (2014) · 0:33:41 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] RoboCop ↔ Venom · craft · Keeping his face visible is a studio note, like Topher Grace in Venom, so the visor keeps swinging up and down. · "So in this, it's like Topher Grace Venom where they're like, well, his visor comes up anytime he speaks."
[Blank Check — Patreon · RoboCop (2014) · 0:46:51 · Griffin Newman (0.30)] The Wizard of Oz ⇒ RoboCop (the host's read) · craft · The training-sequence song joke riffs on the Tin Man and If I Only Had a Heart. · "If I only had a heart is what it's."
[Blank Check — Patreon · RoboCop (2014) · 0:52:38 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] RoboCop ↔ Batman Begins · craft · The black rubber suit and the motorcycle read as Nolan's Batman, not as a robot. · "And then the suit looks very Nolan Batman."
[Blank Check — Patreon · RoboCop (2014) · 0:54:31 · David Sims (0.40)] RoboCop ↔ Batman: Arkham Asylum · craft · The scanning and target-tagging scenes feel video-gamey, specifically like the Arkham games. · "Like this is like Arkham Asylum."
[Blank Check · Flesh+Blood · 0:19:12 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Flesh and Blood ↔ RoboCop · contrast · Unlike Flesh+Blood, RoboCop, Total Recall and Basic Instinct have an arc and some resolution. · "Whereas in Robocop, in total recall, in basic instinct, even, like, right, he's, you know, these are movies with more of an arc for a character."
[Blank Check — Patreon · RoboCop (2014) · 0:18:05 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] RoboCop ↔ RoboCop · contrast · In the original, Murphy loses his identity and must rediscover it; here he never does, and the host calls that stupid. · "he never loses his identity."
[Blank Check — Patreon · RoboCop (2014) · 0:30:20 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] RoboCop ↔ RoboCop · contrast · A remake that pushes seriousness and cuts the humor, though the humor is what people remember about the original. · "you're like, huh, because the humor's the stuff that people remember."
[Blank Check — Patreon · RoboCop (2014) · 0:35:42 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] RoboCop ⇒ RoboCop (the host's read) · contrast · The remake keeps the hand as a clever Easter egg that inverts Bob Morton's order to junk the hand. · "in this one they keep the hand."
[Blank Check — Patreon · RoboCop (2014) · 0:48:26 · David Sims (0.40)] RoboCop ⇒ RoboCop (the host's read) · contrast · The remake's Easter eggs, like the hand and the I'd buy that for a dollar line, feel dismissive of the original. · "Like all the jokes they make feel dismissive of the original film."
[Blank Check — Patreon · RoboCop (2014) · 1:04:40 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] RoboCop ↔ Robocop 2 · contrast · The speakers say RoboCop 2's satire goes big where this film does not. · "The fun of Robocop 2 is how big they can go with the satire."
[Blank Check — Patreon · RoboCop (2014) · 1:19:44 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] RoboCop ↔ RoboCop · contrast · Keaton's villain stays the same until a rooftop face-off; the speakers imagine Ronny Cox's version in his place. · "if Michael Keaton is fucking Ronnie Cox, you know. The movie like doesn't have a villain."
[Blank Check — Patreon · RoboCop (2014) · 1:19:58 · David Sims (0.40)] RoboCop ↔ RoboCop · contrast · The original's villains were iconic and specific; this one has a gangster, corruption, and a businessman, but no physical antagonist. · "He has no physical antagonist."
[Blank Check · Flesh+Blood · 0:19:25 · David Sims (0.45)] RoboCop ↔ Total Recall · career · RoboCop, Total Recall and Basic Instinct let him have cake and eat it: deconstructions that also work as straight entertainment. · "What I've called before, movies where he gets to have his cake needed too."
[pairs] RoboCop ↔ Total Recall · said 3 times in 3 episodes
[pairs] RoboCop ↔ Batman Begins · said 2 times in 1 episode
[pairs] RoboCop ↔ Flesh and Blood · said 2 times in 1 episode
[The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 0:35:45 · Sean Fennessey (0.70)] Sean Fennessey ↔ Total Recall · programming · Pick 3 (round 1), category blockbuster: Verhoeven masterpiece, sci-fi satire, Schwarzenegger's best. · "In Blockbuster, I'm gonna go with Total Recall"
[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 · Flesh+Blood · 1:25:59 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Flesh and Blood ↔ Back to the Future · programming · Flesh+Blood opened Labor Day weekend 1985 when Back to the Future was number one. · "Back to the future?"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien 3 · 1:35:21 · unknown (0.40)] Alien 3 ↔ Resident Evil · programming · Resident Evil should not be programmed next to Alien; wait for in-person sessions. · "Also, you can't put it next to Alien because Resident Evil does, well, not, that will not be good for Resident Evil."
[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 · The 1990 Movie Draft · 0:36:12 · Sean Fennessey (0.70)] Total Recall ↔ Paul Verhoeven · craft · The film walks the line between schlock and incisive satire. · "really walks this very delicate line between schlock and incisive satire"
[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 · Flesh+Blood · 0:43:23 · David Sims (0.40)] Flesh and Blood ↔ Willow · lineage · The painted poster looks like fantasy-adventure posters of the era. · "it has this poster that looks like, you know, the poster for Willow or Legend"
[The Big Picture · ‘The Killer’ Is Cold-Blooded Genius. And Something More · 0:59:46 · Adam Nayman (0.85)] David Fincher ↔ Alien 3 · lineage · Alien 3 is the primal scene of Fincher's chip on his shoulder, producers treating him like a shoe salesman. · "there's the chip on the shoulder and the primal scene of alien 3, right?"
[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."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Game · 1:16:12 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] The Game ↔ Total Recall · craft · The test-then-start gag is like Total Recall's malfunction. · "It's it's the total recall thing where they tell you exactly what's going to happen right at the moment where the thing is supposed to start."
[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 · Flesh+Blood · 0:27:54 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Flesh and Blood ↔ The Loveless · theme · Both take a romanticized genre and show how gross it really was. · "Which is where I think this movie shares a similarity with the Loveless."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ · 0:24:13 · David Sims (0.30)] Alien 3 ⇒ Alien Resurrection (the host's read) · lineage · Resurrection follows Alien 3, but its Ripley is a different character from the one who died. · "As much as she was quote unquote resurrected, obviously, that's a different character explicitly."
[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 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 · Flesh+Blood · 1:05:02 · Griffin Newman (0.45)] Flesh and Blood ↔ Strange Days · theme · Like Strange Days, the film treats sexual assault as psychological aftermath rather than a plot device. · "In the Strange Days episode, we talked about the sexual assault scene in that movie, right?"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ · 0:30:17 · Matt Singer (0.40)] Aliens ⇒ Alien 3 (the host's read) · lineage · Alien 3 follows Aliens; watched back to back, Aliens ends on a new family that Alien 3 then kills. · "you watch aliens and that has this ending of, you know, this new family that has been created."
[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."
[Blank Check · Flesh+Blood · 1:13:10 · David Sims (0.40)] Flesh and Blood ↔ A Bug's Life · theme · Steven's crazy siege inventions are compared to Flick's. · "He's like flick from a bug's life where he's coming up with these crazy inventions"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ · 0:56:20 · Griffin Newman (0.35)] David Twohy ⇒ Alien 3 (the host's read) · lineage · Twohy brought the prison-planet concept into the development. · "Twowey is the one who brings in the prison planet concept, okay?"
[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"
[Blank Check · Flesh+Blood · 0:44:02 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Flesh and Blood ↔ Hieronymus Bosch · craft · The film's opening is said to look like a Bosch painting. · "Like, now we're in a bosh painting."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ · 1:18:07 · Matt Singer (0.35)] Psycho ⇒ Alien 3 (the host's read) · lineage · Charles Dance's shower-curtain death is read as Fincher's own 'Hitchcock moment', after a cast member said Fincher called it that; the Psycho identification is the speaker's. · "Fincher would talk to him about his influence and be like, well, this is my Hitchcock moment."
[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"
[Blank Check · Flesh+Blood · 0:44:18 · David Sims (0.45)] Flesh and Blood ↔ Monty Python and the Holy Grail · craft · The film's muddy, grimy medieval look is likened to Holy Grail. · "The movie that this is aesthetically most similar to weirdly is Monty Python, the Holy Grail."
[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] 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] Ben Hosley · latest sketch, Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · Producer who occasionally talks; admits no religious background, has a Catholic mother's family, and cannot see the Bible as part of culture. · stances: Left out of Bible culture; Wants a clear demarcation between a bed and a deathbed
[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 RoboCop (1987); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend RoboCop (1987) 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.

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