What the corpus says about Joker (2019)

What was said about it (16)

1. [Blank Check · As Good as It Gets · 1:03:44 · unknown (0.30)] Joker ↔ Batman · lineage · A new Joker ties right into Nicholson's Joker. · "Wow, topical ties right into the jack."
2. [The Big Picture · The Snubs and Surprises of the 92nd Academy Award Nominations | The Oscars Show · 0:03:45 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] Joker ↔ Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King · contrast · Most-nominated films that also win Best Picture tend to be noisy movies like Return of the King, and Joker is noisy too. · "Tends to happen with noisy movies like Lord of the Rings, the Return of the King."
3. [The Big Picture · The Snubs and Surprises of the 92nd Academy Award Nominations | The Oscars Show · 0:52:56 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Joker ↔ Green Book · contrast · Joker and 1917 are not bad compared to past Best Picture winners Green Book and Driving Miss Daisy. · "Like compared to Green Book, compared to driving Miss Daisy."
4. [The Big Picture · 'Shazam!’ and the Future of the DCEU · 0:08:06 · Sean Fennessey (0.90)] Shazam! ↔ Joker · contrast · Fennessey says Joker is standalone and has virtually nothing in common with Shazam!. · "Joker, which is coming in October, which also feels quite standalone and seems to have virtually nothing in common with a movie like Shazam"
5. [The Big Picture · 'Shazam!’ and the Future of the DCEU · 0:08:25 · Sean Fennessey (0.90)] Birds of Prey ↔ Joker · contrast · Fennessey says Birds of Prey looks tonally and visually unlike Shazam! and Joker. · "that tonally and visually looks completely different from those other 2 movies"
6. [Blank Check · Star 80 · 0:01:44 · Julie Klausner (0.40)] Star 80 ↔ Joker · people · A great performance in a harrowing role is called career-ruinous in the way people overstate Joker typecasting. · "I think it's an incredible performance, but I think it's the kind of performance that's like ruinous for a career."
7. [The Big Picture · The Snubs and Surprises of the 92nd Academy Award Nominations | The Oscars Show · 0:03:18 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60)] Joker ↔ Parasite · verdict · Anyone ranking Joker above Parasite, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Little Women or Uncut Gems has bad taste. · "I think that anyone who thinks that this movie is better than parasite or once upon a time in Hollywood or Little Women are uncut gems has bad taste and doesn't know things about movies straight up."
8. [The Big Picture · 300th Episode Ask-Us-Anything Mailbag Spectacular · 0:35:05 · Sean Fennessey (0.80)] Avengers: Endgame ↔ Joker · industry · 2019 had several event films (Joker, Once Upon a Time, Endgame) before the 'flame out'. · "the grand orgy before the flame out, before the fall of Empire"
9. [The Big Picture · The Snubs and Surprises of the 92nd Academy Award Nominations | The Oscars Show · 0:02:28 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] 1917 ↔ Joker · industry · Speaker expected 1917 rather than Joker to lead nominations, since 1917 is technically accomplished. · "I think I expected that to go to 1917, which is a little bit recency bias and also just because I expected 1917 to grab every single technical nomination"
10. [The Big Picture · The Snubs and Surprises of the 92nd Academy Award Nominations | The Oscars Show · 0:04:44 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Joker ↔ Black Panther · industry · A Joker Best Picture win would follow Black Panther in the Academy honoring comic book movies. · "And it would be one year after Black Panther, which sort of ushered in."
11. [The Big Picture · 'Shazam!’ and the Future of the DCEU · 0:10:08 · Miles Surrey (0.85)] Martin Scorsese ⇒ Joker (the host's read) · lineage · Miles imagines Joker as a Scorsese pastiche that may not work. · "it's like a Scorsese Pestiche that just kind of doesn't work"
12. [Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War · 2:24:45 · David Sims (0.50)] Joaquin Phoenix ↔ Joker · career · The Joker appealed because it was pitched as a Scorsese-style film he could work in, unlike green screen. · "The Joker thing for him is totally the fact that they sold it to him as, we're going to shoot it like a Scorsett."
13. [The Big Picture · The Snubs and Surprises of the 92nd Academy Award Nominations | The Oscars Show · 0:46:47 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50)] Joker ↔ Joaquin Phoenix · people · Phoenix is the frontrunner for Joker, though the speaker does not care about the movie. · "I really don't care about the movie, but that's my guy."
14. [The Big Picture · The Snubs and Surprises of the 92nd Academy Award Nominations | The Oscars Show · 0:51:41 · Sean Fennessey (0.45)] Joker ↔ Todd Phillips · people · Todd Phillips is a threat for Best Director. · "I think we got to look out for Todd Phillips."
15. [Blank Check · As Good as It Gets · 1:03:35 · unknown (0.40)] Joaquin Phoenix ↔ Joker · what-if · Breaking news that Phoenix is in talks to play the Joker in Todd Phillips's standalone film. · "guess who's in talks to play the Joker in Todd Phillips's standalone Joker movie?"
16. [The Big Picture · 300th Episode Ask-Us-Anything Mailbag Spectacular · 0:20:02 · Amanda Dobbins (0.90)] Joker ↔ Chris Ryan · anecdote · Amanda saw Joker with Chris Ryan on release day in a near-empty theater. · "I saw Joker with Chris Ryan on Friday afternoon"

Fun items about it (4)

1. [The Big Picture · 300th Episode Ask-Us-Anything Mailbag Spectacular · 0:20:28 · Amanda Dobbins (0.90)] Joker · fun · Opening-day Joker had four people in the theater and a dog in a stroller; Bobby riffs on a 'Joker dog' sequel. · "there was a dog in a stroller, not counting as a person"
2. [The Big Picture · The Snubs and Surprises of the 92nd Academy Award Nominations | The Oscars Show · 0:03:13 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60)] Joker · fun · Host calls it intellectually bankrupt and the emperor's new clothes. · "I think that this is an intellectually bankrupt movie."
3. [The Big Picture · The Snubs and Surprises of the 92nd Academy Award Nominations | The Oscars Show · 0:04:13 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50)] Joker · fun · The 'tiny Batman movie' Scorsese cosplay winning Best Picture would be an Academy thing to do. · "the Scorsese cosplay, look, it's tiny Batman movie, winning best picture, would be an academy-esque thing to do."
4. [The Big Picture · The Snubs and Surprises of the 92nd Academy Award Nominations | The Oscars Show · 0:42:11 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Joker · fun · Fans may tune in angry, which fits the film's theme. · "The movie is about a kind of discontent, a kind of isolation and not getting what you want feeling."

One hop out: what recommends the films most often joined to it (17)

1. [The Big Picture · The Tom Cruise Hall of Fame · 1:40:22 · unclear (one of the hosts) (0.30)] 1917 ↔ Roger Deakins · craft · A host likens the question of cutting Top Gun to a past Big Picture episode, a podcast celebrating Roger Deakins's cinematography on 1917, that asked whether to cut 1917. · "should we cut 1917 from a Roger Deacons podcast celebrating his work on 1917"
2. [The Rewatchables · ‘Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me’ · 0:53:34 · unknown (0.40)] Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me ↔ Avengers: Endgame · theme · Both brush off time-travel logic with a joke. · "that's exactly what Avengers Endgame does too"
3. [Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up · 0:27:31 · Griffin Newman (0.60)] Hanging Up ↔ Birds of Prey · theme · Both make you wish the final act, where the characters finally share scenes, had been the whole movie. · "you go, I wish this had been the entire movie."
4. [The Big Picture · The Past, Present, and Future of Superhero Movies | The Big Picture · 0:49:22 · David Shoemaker (0.40)] Black Panther ↔ Avengers: Infinity War · programming · Black Panther looks like the best bet to carry the MCU into the next phase after Infinity War. · "Black Panther certainly looks to be the best bet to carry the series into phase four"
5. [The Big Picture · The Snubs and Surprises of the 92nd Academy Award Nominations | The Oscars Show · 0:53:35 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] Roger Deakins ↔ 1917 · craft · Next episode covers 1917 and the life's work of Roger Deakins. · "we'll also be talking about the life's work of one great man named Roger Deacons."
6. [Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War · 1:46:32 · unknown (0.30)] Avengers: Infinity War ↔ Avengers: Endgame · theme · Doctor Strange's 14 million futures: Endgame is the one pathway he sees. · "A movie endgame is the one pathway."
7. [Blank Check — Patreon · The Lego Batman Movie · 1:19:14 · David Sims (0.50)] The Lego Batman Movie ↔ Birds of Prey · craft · The Joker's funhouse set, color palette, bright lights and self-aware humor recall Birds of Prey. · "I even think, like, the color palette and the use of, like, bright lights and shit."
8. [Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War · 0:25:32 · Griffin Newman (0.70)] Black Panther ↔ Avengers: Infinity War · programming · Griffin loved Black Panther just before, then felt Infinity War was one Marvel movie too big. · "Having, you know, loved Black Panther, which came out right before this."
9. [Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War · 2:09:10 · unknown (0.40)] Avengers: Infinity War ↔ Avengers: Endgame · theme · Thanos's Titan speech echoes his first line about knowing what it is to be right and still lose. · "And this is the echo to, I know what it's like."
10. [The Big Picture · ‘Black Panther: Wakanda Forever’ Is Here! · 0:17:32 · Sean Fennessey (0.85)] Black Panther: Wakanda Forever ↔ Black Panther · lineage · The first film's theme was isolation versus justice (Killmonger vs. T'Challa); the sequel has a real-world theme too, about allyship between Latinx and Black communities, but is not done as well. · "his movies always have a big dynamic real world theme in them in a way that I don't think many Marvel movies do."
11. [Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War · 2:28:37 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Avengers: Infinity War ↔ Avengers: Endgame · theme · Endgame's returning heroes prove Thanos wrong: you love even the tertiary characters. · "Feige being like C, Thanos was wrong."
12. [Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The First Avenger · 1:27:32 · David Sims (0.40)] Captain America: The First Avenger ⇒ Black Panther (the host's read) · lineage · Vibranium, the shield metal, leads to Wakanda; adamantium is the X-Men analogue the MCU couldn't use. · "So instead they use vibranium as their super metal."
13. [Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War · 1:27:37 · unknown (0.35)] Avengers: Infinity War ↔ Avengers: Endgame · craft · Because Thanos is the protagonist here, killing him at the top of Endgame is a deliberate anticlimax. · "killing him after this would be an anticlimax"
14. [The Rewatchables · ‘Internal Affairs’ · 1:35:07 · Van Lathan (0.35)] Black Panther ↔ Internal Affairs · theme · Peck is the man compared to Garcia, like a Killmonger thing: he talks shit to the very end. · "It's kind of like a whole, like, Black Panther, Killmonger thing, where you leave."
15. [The Big Picture · ‘Black Panther: Wakanda Forever’ Is Here! · 0:32:14 · Van Lathan (0.85)] Black Panther ⇒ Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (the host's read) · theme · Van explains that in the first film T'Challa saw his father on the ancestral plane because he had questions for him, while Shuri saw Killmonger because she wanted revenge, the same motive Killmonger had. · "Shuri did not want to be the Black Panther to protect Wakanda."
16. [The Big Picture · Oscars 2019: Instant Reactions to ‘Green Book’ and the Two Warring Academies | The Oscars Show · 0:23:11 · unknown (0.40)] Roma ↔ Black Panther · theme · Two Black Panther craft wins early made the night feel like one Hollywood, with Roma and Netflix bursting both. · "I was like, okay, the 2 Hollywoods, that's definitely the theme, but in the middle kind of bursting the two, is is Roma and Netflix"
17. [The Big Picture · Oscars 2019: Instant Reactions to ‘Green Book’ and the Two Warring Academies | The Oscars Show · 0:32:49 · Amanda Dobbins (0.40)] Kendrick Lamar ↔ Black Panther · theme · Kendrick Lamar skipping the Oscars read as a referendum that the Academy did not acknowledge Black Panther enough. · "you didn't really acknowledge Black Panther in the way that you should have at this award show"

Who said it, by their latest sketch (5)

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] David Sims · latest sketch, Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · Prepares history: novel, casting, budgets, box office. Reveres the film and thinks it reads as a normal ground-level story. A sucker for Hollywood deal backstory and box office game. · stances: Praises Keitel and Dafoe casting; Respects Scorsese's persistence and Corman discipline; The film is now well regarded though not 'canonical Marty'
4. [speaker] Julie Klausner · latest sketch, Blank Check · Star 80 · A serious Fosse devotee who loves Cabaret, All That Jazz, Sweet Charity and Liza with a Z, and praises collaborations with women. She finds Star 80 powerful but ugly, a prurient pornographic film made by a man who will not look at the victim, and she is haunted by it. · stances: Star 80 is powerful but not great and not fabulous; It sexualizes violence against Stratton with no female point of view; Judge creative men by how they collaborate with women; Sweet Charity ranks above Star 80; Cabaret's restraint with Liza shows Fosse's best instincts
5. [speaker] Miles Surrey · latest sketch, The Big Picture · 'Shazam!’ and the Future of the DCEU · Miles prefers the grounded first half of Shazam! to the CGI villain half, has some Marvel fatigue, and likes the DC standalone approach. He was less taken with Wonder Woman than most. He enjoys talking about actors who transform. · stances: Shazam! is best as a what-if about a kid with powers; Superhero final fights are derivative; Marvel fatigue makes DC's standalone approach appealing

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 Joker (2019) 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 Joker (2019) 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 · As Good as It Gets · 1:03:44 · unknown (0.30)] Joker ↔ Batman · lineage · A new Joker ties right into Nicholson's Joker. · "Wow, topical ties right into the jack."
[The Big Picture · The Snubs and Surprises of the 92nd Academy Award Nominations | The Oscars Show · 0:03:45 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] Joker ↔ Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King · contrast · Most-nominated films that also win Best Picture tend to be noisy movies like Return of the King, and Joker is noisy too. · "Tends to happen with noisy movies like Lord of the Rings, the Return of the King."
[The Big Picture · The Snubs and Surprises of the 92nd Academy Award Nominations | The Oscars Show · 0:52:56 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Joker ↔ Green Book · contrast · Joker and 1917 are not bad compared to past Best Picture winners Green Book and Driving Miss Daisy. · "Like compared to Green Book, compared to driving Miss Daisy."
[The Big Picture · 'Shazam!’ and the Future of the DCEU · 0:08:06 · Sean Fennessey (0.90)] Shazam! ↔ Joker · contrast · Fennessey says Joker is standalone and has virtually nothing in common with Shazam!. · "Joker, which is coming in October, which also feels quite standalone and seems to have virtually nothing in common with a movie like Shazam"
[The Big Picture · 'Shazam!’ and the Future of the DCEU · 0:08:25 · Sean Fennessey (0.90)] Birds of Prey ↔ Joker · contrast · Fennessey says Birds of Prey looks tonally and visually unlike Shazam! and Joker. · "that tonally and visually looks completely different from those other 2 movies"
[Blank Check · Star 80 · 0:01:44 · Julie Klausner (0.40)] Star 80 ↔ Joker · people · A great performance in a harrowing role is called career-ruinous in the way people overstate Joker typecasting. · "I think it's an incredible performance, but I think it's the kind of performance that's like ruinous for a career."
[The Big Picture · The Snubs and Surprises of the 92nd Academy Award Nominations | The Oscars Show · 0:03:18 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60)] Joker ↔ Parasite · verdict · Anyone ranking Joker above Parasite, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Little Women or Uncut Gems has bad taste. · "I think that anyone who thinks that this movie is better than parasite or once upon a time in Hollywood or Little Women are uncut gems has bad taste and doesn't know things about movies straight up."
[The Big Picture · 300th Episode Ask-Us-Anything Mailbag Spectacular · 0:35:05 · Sean Fennessey (0.80)] Avengers: Endgame ↔ Joker · industry · 2019 had several event films (Joker, Once Upon a Time, Endgame) before the 'flame out'. · "the grand orgy before the flame out, before the fall of Empire"
[The Big Picture · The Snubs and Surprises of the 92nd Academy Award Nominations | The Oscars Show · 0:02:28 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] 1917 ↔ Joker · industry · Speaker expected 1917 rather than Joker to lead nominations, since 1917 is technically accomplished. · "I think I expected that to go to 1917, which is a little bit recency bias and also just because I expected 1917 to grab every single technical nomination"
[The Big Picture · The Snubs and Surprises of the 92nd Academy Award Nominations | The Oscars Show · 0:04:44 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Joker ↔ Black Panther · industry · A Joker Best Picture win would follow Black Panther in the Academy honoring comic book movies. · "And it would be one year after Black Panther, which sort of ushered in."
[The Big Picture · 'Shazam!’ and the Future of the DCEU · 0:10:08 · Miles Surrey (0.85)] Martin Scorsese ⇒ Joker (the host's read) · lineage · Miles imagines Joker as a Scorsese pastiche that may not work. · "it's like a Scorsese Pestiche that just kind of doesn't work"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War · 2:24:45 · David Sims (0.50)] Joaquin Phoenix ↔ Joker · career · The Joker appealed because it was pitched as a Scorsese-style film he could work in, unlike green screen. · "The Joker thing for him is totally the fact that they sold it to him as, we're going to shoot it like a Scorsett."
[The Big Picture · The Snubs and Surprises of the 92nd Academy Award Nominations | The Oscars Show · 0:46:47 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50)] Joker ↔ Joaquin Phoenix · people · Phoenix is the frontrunner for Joker, though the speaker does not care about the movie. · "I really don't care about the movie, but that's my guy."
[The Big Picture · The Snubs and Surprises of the 92nd Academy Award Nominations | The Oscars Show · 0:51:41 · Sean Fennessey (0.45)] Joker ↔ Todd Phillips · people · Todd Phillips is a threat for Best Director. · "I think we got to look out for Todd Phillips."
[Blank Check · As Good as It Gets · 1:03:35 · unknown (0.40)] Joaquin Phoenix ↔ Joker · what-if · Breaking news that Phoenix is in talks to play the Joker in Todd Phillips's standalone film. · "guess who's in talks to play the Joker in Todd Phillips's standalone Joker movie?"
[The Big Picture · 300th Episode Ask-Us-Anything Mailbag Spectacular · 0:20:02 · Amanda Dobbins (0.90)] Joker ↔ Chris Ryan · anecdote · Amanda saw Joker with Chris Ryan on release day in a near-empty theater. · "I saw Joker with Chris Ryan on Friday afternoon"
[The Big Picture · 300th Episode Ask-Us-Anything Mailbag Spectacular · 0:20:28 · Amanda Dobbins (0.90)] Joker · fun · Opening-day Joker had four people in the theater and a dog in a stroller; Bobby riffs on a 'Joker dog' sequel. · "there was a dog in a stroller, not counting as a person"
[The Big Picture · The Snubs and Surprises of the 92nd Academy Award Nominations | The Oscars Show · 0:03:13 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60)] Joker · fun · Host calls it intellectually bankrupt and the emperor's new clothes. · "I think that this is an intellectually bankrupt movie."
[The Big Picture · The Snubs and Surprises of the 92nd Academy Award Nominations | The Oscars Show · 0:04:13 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50)] Joker · fun · The 'tiny Batman movie' Scorsese cosplay winning Best Picture would be an Academy thing to do. · "the Scorsese cosplay, look, it's tiny Batman movie, winning best picture, would be an academy-esque thing to do."
[The Big Picture · The Snubs and Surprises of the 92nd Academy Award Nominations | The Oscars Show · 0:42:11 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Joker · fun · Fans may tune in angry, which fits the film's theme. · "The movie is about a kind of discontent, a kind of isolation and not getting what you want feeling."
[The Big Picture · The Tom Cruise Hall of Fame · 1:40:22 · unclear (one of the hosts) (0.30)] 1917 ↔ Roger Deakins · craft · A host likens the question of cutting Top Gun to a past Big Picture episode, a podcast celebrating Roger Deakins's cinematography on 1917, that asked whether to cut 1917. · "should we cut 1917 from a Roger Deacons podcast celebrating his work on 1917"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me’ · 0:53:34 · unknown (0.40)] Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me ↔ Avengers: Endgame · theme · Both brush off time-travel logic with a joke. · "that's exactly what Avengers Endgame does too"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up · 0:27:31 · Griffin Newman (0.60)] Hanging Up ↔ Birds of Prey · theme · Both make you wish the final act, where the characters finally share scenes, had been the whole movie. · "you go, I wish this had been the entire movie."
[The Big Picture · The Past, Present, and Future of Superhero Movies | The Big Picture · 0:49:22 · David Shoemaker (0.40)] Black Panther ↔ Avengers: Infinity War · programming · Black Panther looks like the best bet to carry the MCU into the next phase after Infinity War. · "Black Panther certainly looks to be the best bet to carry the series into phase four"
[The Big Picture · The Snubs and Surprises of the 92nd Academy Award Nominations | The Oscars Show · 0:53:35 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] Roger Deakins ↔ 1917 · craft · Next episode covers 1917 and the life's work of Roger Deakins. · "we'll also be talking about the life's work of one great man named Roger Deacons."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War · 1:46:32 · unknown (0.30)] Avengers: Infinity War ↔ Avengers: Endgame · theme · Doctor Strange's 14 million futures: Endgame is the one pathway he sees. · "A movie endgame is the one pathway."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Lego Batman Movie · 1:19:14 · David Sims (0.50)] The Lego Batman Movie ↔ Birds of Prey · craft · The Joker's funhouse set, color palette, bright lights and self-aware humor recall Birds of Prey. · "I even think, like, the color palette and the use of, like, bright lights and shit."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War · 0:25:32 · Griffin Newman (0.70)] Black Panther ↔ Avengers: Infinity War · programming · Griffin loved Black Panther just before, then felt Infinity War was one Marvel movie too big. · "Having, you know, loved Black Panther, which came out right before this."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War · 2:09:10 · unknown (0.40)] Avengers: Infinity War ↔ Avengers: Endgame · theme · Thanos's Titan speech echoes his first line about knowing what it is to be right and still lose. · "And this is the echo to, I know what it's like."
[The Big Picture · ‘Black Panther: Wakanda Forever’ Is Here! · 0:17:32 · Sean Fennessey (0.85)] Black Panther: Wakanda Forever ↔ Black Panther · lineage · The first film's theme was isolation versus justice (Killmonger vs. T'Challa); the sequel has a real-world theme too, about allyship between Latinx and Black communities, but is not done as well. · "his movies always have a big dynamic real world theme in them in a way that I don't think many Marvel movies do."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War · 2:28:37 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Avengers: Infinity War ↔ Avengers: Endgame · theme · Endgame's returning heroes prove Thanos wrong: you love even the tertiary characters. · "Feige being like C, Thanos was wrong."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The First Avenger · 1:27:32 · David Sims (0.40)] Captain America: The First Avenger ⇒ Black Panther (the host's read) · lineage · Vibranium, the shield metal, leads to Wakanda; adamantium is the X-Men analogue the MCU couldn't use. · "So instead they use vibranium as their super metal."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War · 1:27:37 · unknown (0.35)] Avengers: Infinity War ↔ Avengers: Endgame · craft · Because Thanos is the protagonist here, killing him at the top of Endgame is a deliberate anticlimax. · "killing him after this would be an anticlimax"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Internal Affairs’ · 1:35:07 · Van Lathan (0.35)] Black Panther ↔ Internal Affairs · theme · Peck is the man compared to Garcia, like a Killmonger thing: he talks shit to the very end. · "It's kind of like a whole, like, Black Panther, Killmonger thing, where you leave."
[The Big Picture · ‘Black Panther: Wakanda Forever’ Is Here! · 0:32:14 · Van Lathan (0.85)] Black Panther ⇒ Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (the host's read) · theme · Van explains that in the first film T'Challa saw his father on the ancestral plane because he had questions for him, while Shuri saw Killmonger because she wanted revenge, the same motive Killmonger had. · "Shuri did not want to be the Black Panther to protect Wakanda."
[The Big Picture · Oscars 2019: Instant Reactions to ‘Green Book’ and the Two Warring Academies | The Oscars Show · 0:23:11 · unknown (0.40)] Roma ↔ Black Panther · theme · Two Black Panther craft wins early made the night feel like one Hollywood, with Roma and Netflix bursting both. · "I was like, okay, the 2 Hollywoods, that's definitely the theme, but in the middle kind of bursting the two, is is Roma and Netflix"
[The Big Picture · Oscars 2019: Instant Reactions to ‘Green Book’ and the Two Warring Academies | The Oscars Show · 0:32:49 · Amanda Dobbins (0.40)] Kendrick Lamar ↔ Black Panther · theme · Kendrick Lamar skipping the Oscars read as a referendum that the Academy did not acknowledge Black Panther enough. · "you didn't really acknowledge Black Panther in the way that you should have at this award show"
[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] 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] Julie Klausner · latest sketch, Blank Check · Star 80 · A serious Fosse devotee who loves Cabaret, All That Jazz, Sweet Charity and Liza with a Z, and praises collaborations with women. She finds Star 80 powerful but ugly, a prurient pornographic film made by a man who will not look at the victim, and she is haunted by it. · stances: Star 80 is powerful but not great and not fabulous; It sexualizes violence against Stratton with no female point of view; Judge creative men by how they collaborate with women; Sweet Charity ranks above Star 80; Cabaret's restraint with Liza shows Fosse's best instincts
[speaker] Miles Surrey · latest sketch, The Big Picture · 'Shazam!’ and the Future of the DCEU · Miles prefers the grounded first half of Shazam! to the CGI villain half, has some Marvel fatigue, and likes the DC standalone approach. He was less taken with Wonder Woman than most. He enjoys talking about actors who transform. · stances: Shazam! is best as a what-if about a kid with powers; Superhero final fights are derivative; Marvel fatigue makes DC's standalone approach appealing
[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 Joker (2019); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Joker (2019) 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.