What the corpus says about Waterworld (1995)
The 24 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 (3)
- [Blank Check · Dune · 0:07:48 · unknown (0.40)] Dune ↔ Waterworld · industry · Studios padded odd-length movies with unfinished deleted scenes to fill TV slots, as discussed in the Waterworld episode. · "We talked about this, Waterworld episode behind the paywall"
- [Blank Check · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World · 1:30:04 · David Sims (0.50)] Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World ↔ Waterworld · production-lesson · Weir wanted to shoot entirely on open water, but the studio pointed to Waterworld's floating-ship logistics as a cautionary tale. · "he wants to shoot entirely on the water and they're like, look, that's Waterworld."
- [The Big Picture · Physical Media Strikes Back · 0:15:40 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] Waterworld ↔ Kevin Costner · episode prep · Bought Waterworld 4K for a planned Kevin Costner podcast episode. · "I did buy the Waterworld 4K because I'm planning a massive Kevin Costner episode this year."
Fun items about it (1)
- [The Big Picture · Physical Media Strikes Back · 0:15:58 · Sean Fennessey (0.55)] Waterworld · fun · Bought the $25 Waterworld 4K on sale for Costner episode prep; it is part of movie history. · "I can justify to myself the $25 during the sale"
One hop out: what recommends the films most often joined to it (16)
- [Blank Check · Dune · 0:22:17 · John Hodgman (0.85)] Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope ⇒ Dune (the host's read) · programming · Dune was positioned and released as the studio's answer to Star Wars, the next big space epic. · "Uh, this movie is released with the energy of, here you go, here's the new Star Wars."
- [Blank Check · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World · 0:40:33 · David Sims (0.60)] Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World ↔ Hornblower (TV films) · programming · Britons grew up on Hornblower in the 90s; it is the near-only other Napoleonic naval storytelling, and Griffin's friend was steered to it as a substitute. · "I want to watch like a master and commander thing, but not master and commander because I've seen enough master and commander."
- [Blank Check · Dune · 2:50:47 · unknown (0.40)] Dune ↔ Dune: Prophecy · programming · An HBO Max Dune series is coming, which the hosts are excited for. · "10 hours at the HBO Max series coming?"
- [Blank Check · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World · 0:16:54 · David Sims (0.50)] Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World ↔ The Truman Show · theme · Asked how the studio sold a Weir boat movie, the hosts note the poster could not say 'from the director of The Truman Show' but both films have sailing scenes. · "They do both have sailing scenes."
- [Blank Check · Dune · 3:02:27 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Dune ↔ Blue Velvet · programming · Next week's episode is Blue Velvet with Jamie Loftus. · "Tune in next week for Blue Velvet with Jamie Loftus?"
- [Blank Check · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World · 0:41:35 · unknown (0.40)] Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World ↔ Waterloo · theme · Napoleonic-era films from the 40s to 60s were mostly about land war, like Waterloo, so naval ones are scarce. · "I think most of the Napoleonic stuff back then, it's more the land."
- [Blank Check · Dune · 0:19:09 · unknown (0.50)] Dune ↔ Dune · lineage · The episode cannot be done without comparing Lynch's film to the Villeneuve movies. · "We can't do this episode without comparing this movie to the Villanova films"
- [Blank Check · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World · 2:10:24 · unknown (0.45)] Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World ↔ Star Trek (franchise, generally) · theme · The 'are you being too prideful?' friend who can challenge the captain is a Star Trek trope; Maturin/Aubrey is different from Kirk and Bones because they are a marriage. · "any fucking Star Trek has that too, of like, there's the one guy who can say like, captain."
- [Blank Check · Dune · 0:22:22 · John Hodgman (0.70)] Dune ⇒ Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope (the host's read) · lineage · The Dune book's messaging is credited as one of the things that inspired Star Wars. · "And not only that, the messaging of this is one of the things that inspired Star Wars."
- [Blank Check · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World · 2:11:27 · David Sims (0.50)] Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World ↔ Star Trek (franchise, generally) · theme · The San Francisco Chronicle's negative review said the leads' interaction was reminiscent of the Star Trek characters in later sequels, meant as a criticism of preening cutesiness. · "Their interaction takes on a preening quality, reminiscent of the interaction of the Star Trek characters 4 or 5 movies down the line."
- [Blank Check · Dune · 1:17:01 · David Sims (0.30)] Dune ⇒ Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope (the host's read) · theme · Dune's Fremen/revolution material is the denser source that Star Wars abstracts; the Force is Dune without the drugs. · "the Force in Star Wars is like doom without the drugs."
- [Blank Check · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World · 2:24:13 · John Hodgman (0.90)] Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World ↔ Moby-Dick · theme · Hodgman, mid-read of Moby-Dick, says the Pequod crew, like this crew, are so far from civilization that land taboos break and ships become their own societies. · "how the crew of the Pequod, which is a much smaller crew because they don't have gunners on it. a whaling boat."
- [Blank Check · Dune · 1:58:13 · unknown (0.35)] Jupiter Ascending ↔ Dune · theme · Jupiter Ascending shares the palace-intrigue, gilded sci-fi mode. · "I think it's a goofier movie, but Jupiter ascending has the same thing of like palace intrigue."
- [Blank Check · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World · 2:26:59 · unknown (0.40)] Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World ↔ Cabin Boy · theme · The film's 12-year-old midshipmen and literal ship boys recall Cabin Boy, whose joke is an adult man doing a cabin boy's job. · "that's the joke of cabin boy, much like get a life is like, what if an adult man was doing this thing?"
- [Blank Check · Twin Peaks: The Return (Episode 8) · 1:25:56 · unknown (0.30)] Twin Peaks: The Return, Part 8 ↔ Dune · craft · The purple sea gets a joke identification as Dune, with the worm floating by. · "The worm floats by. That's the planet Dune."
- [Blank Check · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World · 1:28:32 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Russell Boyd ↔ Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World · craft · Boyd, back with Weir after years apart, won the Oscar for this film's cinematography. · "And of course, Russell Boyd won the office."
Who said it, by their latest sketch (2)
- [speaker] Sean Fennessey · latest sketch, The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · Loves gory, funny, fast genre movies with craft and confidence, especially 87-minute films that never overstay. Can't stand ponderous elevated horror that fills out its runtime with introspection and sad family history. A sucker for the Carpenter-era lineage, Die Hard homages, and directors who break studio dogma. · stances: Resident Evil is one of the best films of the year; Horror movies have become a drag; fun genre experiences are needed; Short running times are a virtue; Video-game films work best when great filmmakers get creative license
- [speaker] David Sims · latest sketch, Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · Prepares history: novel, casting, budgets, box office. Reveres the film and thinks it reads as a normal ground-level story. A sucker for Hollywood deal backstory and box office game. · stances: Praises Keitel and Dafoe casting; Respects Scorsese's persistence and Corman discipline; The film is now well regarded though not 'canonical Marty'
The shows' running bits (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 Waterworld (1995) 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 Waterworld (1995) 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 · Dune · 0:07:48 · unknown (0.40)] Dune ↔ Waterworld · industry · Studios padded odd-length movies with unfinished deleted scenes to fill TV slots, as discussed in the Waterworld episode. · "We talked about this, Waterworld episode behind the paywall"
[Blank Check · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World · 1:30:04 · David Sims (0.50)] Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World ↔ Waterworld · production-lesson · Weir wanted to shoot entirely on open water, but the studio pointed to Waterworld's floating-ship logistics as a cautionary tale. · "he wants to shoot entirely on the water and they're like, look, that's Waterworld."
[The Big Picture · Physical Media Strikes Back · 0:15:40 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] Waterworld ↔ Kevin Costner · episode prep · Bought Waterworld 4K for a planned Kevin Costner podcast episode. · "I did buy the Waterworld 4K because I'm planning a massive Kevin Costner episode this year."
[The Big Picture · Physical Media Strikes Back · 0:15:58 · Sean Fennessey (0.55)] Waterworld · fun · Bought the $25 Waterworld 4K on sale for Costner episode prep; it is part of movie history. · "I can justify to myself the $25 during the sale"
[Blank Check · Dune · 0:22:17 · John Hodgman (0.85)] Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope ⇒ Dune (the host's read) · programming · Dune was positioned and released as the studio's answer to Star Wars, the next big space epic. · "Uh, this movie is released with the energy of, here you go, here's the new Star Wars."
[Blank Check · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World · 0:40:33 · David Sims (0.60)] Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World ↔ Hornblower (TV films) · programming · Britons grew up on Hornblower in the 90s; it is the near-only other Napoleonic naval storytelling, and Griffin's friend was steered to it as a substitute. · "I want to watch like a master and commander thing, but not master and commander because I've seen enough master and commander."
[Blank Check · Dune · 2:50:47 · unknown (0.40)] Dune ↔ Dune: Prophecy · programming · An HBO Max Dune series is coming, which the hosts are excited for. · "10 hours at the HBO Max series coming?"
[Blank Check · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World · 0:16:54 · David Sims (0.50)] Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World ↔ The Truman Show · theme · Asked how the studio sold a Weir boat movie, the hosts note the poster could not say 'from the director of The Truman Show' but both films have sailing scenes. · "They do both have sailing scenes."
[Blank Check · Dune · 3:02:27 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Dune ↔ Blue Velvet · programming · Next week's episode is Blue Velvet with Jamie Loftus. · "Tune in next week for Blue Velvet with Jamie Loftus?"
[Blank Check · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World · 0:41:35 · unknown (0.40)] Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World ↔ Waterloo · theme · Napoleonic-era films from the 40s to 60s were mostly about land war, like Waterloo, so naval ones are scarce. · "I think most of the Napoleonic stuff back then, it's more the land."
[Blank Check · Dune · 0:19:09 · unknown (0.50)] Dune ↔ Dune · lineage · The episode cannot be done without comparing Lynch's film to the Villeneuve movies. · "We can't do this episode without comparing this movie to the Villanova films"
[Blank Check · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World · 2:10:24 · unknown (0.45)] Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World ↔ Star Trek (franchise, generally) · theme · The 'are you being too prideful?' friend who can challenge the captain is a Star Trek trope; Maturin/Aubrey is different from Kirk and Bones because they are a marriage. · "any fucking Star Trek has that too, of like, there's the one guy who can say like, captain."
[Blank Check · Dune · 0:22:22 · John Hodgman (0.70)] Dune ⇒ Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope (the host's read) · lineage · The Dune book's messaging is credited as one of the things that inspired Star Wars. · "And not only that, the messaging of this is one of the things that inspired Star Wars."
[Blank Check · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World · 2:11:27 · David Sims (0.50)] Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World ↔ Star Trek (franchise, generally) · theme · The San Francisco Chronicle's negative review said the leads' interaction was reminiscent of the Star Trek characters in later sequels, meant as a criticism of preening cutesiness. · "Their interaction takes on a preening quality, reminiscent of the interaction of the Star Trek characters 4 or 5 movies down the line."
[Blank Check · Dune · 1:17:01 · David Sims (0.30)] Dune ⇒ Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope (the host's read) · theme · Dune's Fremen/revolution material is the denser source that Star Wars abstracts; the Force is Dune without the drugs. · "the Force in Star Wars is like doom without the drugs."
[Blank Check · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World · 2:24:13 · John Hodgman (0.90)] Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World ↔ Moby-Dick · theme · Hodgman, mid-read of Moby-Dick, says the Pequod crew, like this crew, are so far from civilization that land taboos break and ships become their own societies. · "how the crew of the Pequod, which is a much smaller crew because they don't have gunners on it. a whaling boat."
[Blank Check · Dune · 1:58:13 · unknown (0.35)] Jupiter Ascending ↔ Dune · theme · Jupiter Ascending shares the palace-intrigue, gilded sci-fi mode. · "I think it's a goofier movie, but Jupiter ascending has the same thing of like palace intrigue."
[Blank Check · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World · 2:26:59 · unknown (0.40)] Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World ↔ Cabin Boy · theme · The film's 12-year-old midshipmen and literal ship boys recall Cabin Boy, whose joke is an adult man doing a cabin boy's job. · "that's the joke of cabin boy, much like get a life is like, what if an adult man was doing this thing?"
[Blank Check · Twin Peaks: The Return (Episode 8) · 1:25:56 · unknown (0.30)] Twin Peaks: The Return, Part 8 ↔ Dune · craft · The purple sea gets a joke identification as Dune, with the worm floating by. · "The worm floats by. That's the planet Dune."
[Blank Check · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World · 1:28:32 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Russell Boyd ↔ Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World · craft · Boyd, back with Weir after years apart, won the Oscar for this film's cinematography. · "And of course, Russell Boyd won the office."
[speaker] Sean Fennessey · latest sketch, The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · Loves gory, funny, fast genre movies with craft and confidence, especially 87-minute films that never overstay. Can't stand ponderous elevated horror that fills out its runtime with introspection and sad family history. A sucker for the Carpenter-era lineage, Die Hard homages, and directors who break studio dogma. · stances: Resident Evil is one of the best films of the year; Horror movies have become a drag; fun genre experiences are needed; Short running times are a virtue; Video-game films work best when great filmmakers get creative license
[speaker] David Sims · latest sketch, Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · Prepares history: novel, casting, budgets, box office. Reveres the film and thinks it reads as a normal ground-level story. A sucker for Hollywood deal backstory and box office game. · stances: Praises Keitel and Dafoe casting; Respects Scorsese's persistence and Corman discipline; The film is now well regarded though not 'canonical Marty'
[bits] The Big Picture: Drafts (Hosts and guests draft films in rounds; every pick is a recommendation with an argument); Hall of Fame (A star's or director's best, ranked and argued); Countdowns (Ranked lists, top five or top ten)
[bits] Blank Check: The box office game (Guessing the film's opening weekend and what it was up against); The sung theme ("Blank Check with Griffin and David", sung; the transcriber garbles it)
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 Waterworld (1995); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Waterworld (1995) 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.