What the corpus says about Miami Vice - Pilot (Brother's Keeper) (1984)

What was said about it (22)

1. [Blank Check · Miami Vice - Pilot Episode · 1:16:10 · Ben Hosley (0.30)] E/R ↔ Miami Vice - Pilot (Brother's Keeper) · programming · The E/R sitcom pilot aired the same night as Miami Vice with a rating of 23 versus 22.8. · "Airing the same night as Miami Vice, which is number two, with 22.8 million."
2. [Blank Check · Miami Vice - Pilot Episode · 1:16:48 · unknown (0.30)] Some Kind of Hero ↔ Miami Vice - Pilot (Brother's Keeper) · programming · Some Kind of Hero was a movie on a rival network in Miami Vice's slot. · "The movie Some Kind of Hero."
3. [Blank Check · Miami Vice - Pilot Episode · 0:16:28 · David Sims (0.40)] Hill Street Blues ⇒ Miami Vice - Pilot (Brother's Keeper) (the host's read) · lineage · Hill Street Blues raised TV through writing and performance; Miami Vice added the cinematic look on top of that standard. · "try to write, like, Hill Street blues level scripts and have real grounded performances and make it all look fucking awesome."
4. [Blank Check · Miami Vice - Pilot Episode · 1:06:48 · unknown (0.40)] Miami Vice - Pilot (Brother's Keeper) ↔ L.A. Takedown · lineage · Watching the pilot feels like a Mann bonus, like The Jericho Mile or L.A. Takedown. · "It feels like watching Jericho Mile or watching LA Town."
5. [Blank Check · Miami Vice - Pilot Episode · 0:15:37 · David Sims (0.50)] Miami Vice - Pilot (Brother's Keeper) ↔ I Am Love · theme · Defending visual beauty against the 'style over substance' charge, using I Am Love's perfume-commercial dismissal. · "I remember when that came out, people were like, it's just like a two-hour perfume commercial."
6. [Blank Check · Miami Vice - Pilot Episode · 1:06:37 · unknown (0.30)] Miami Vice - Pilot (Brother's Keeper) ↔ The Incredibles · theme · The cynical ending, where the big guy gets away, echoes The Incredibles on systemic issues. · "Right, it's like the Incredibles too."
7. [Blank Check · Miami Vice - Pilot Episode · 0:21:32 · David Sims (0.40)] Miami Vice - Pilot (Brother's Keeper) ↔ The X-Files (pilot) · craft · Classic pilots feel like a little complete movie, as with the X-Files pilot. · "it's gonna feel like a little movie about these 2 people meeting and having an adventure"
8. [Blank Check · Miami Vice - Pilot Episode · 0:25:21 · unknown (0.30)] Lost ↔ Miami Vice - Pilot (Brother's Keeper) · craft · Lost's pilot is great, the second episode flatter, and the real direction arrives with Walkabout. · "Like, the Lost Pilot is a great pilot."
9. [Blank Check · Miami Vice - Pilot Episode · 0:28:50 · unknown (0.30)] Seinfeld ↔ Miami Vice - Pilot (Brother's Keeper) · craft · Watching a show figure itself out: the Seinfeld pilot lacks Elaine and calls Kramer Kessler. · "Elaine's not in it."
10. [Blank Check · Miami Vice - Pilot Episode · 0:50:44 · unknown (0.30)] Miami Vice - Pilot (Brother's Keeper) ↔ Aliens · craft · The pilot's extended opening titles build slowly like Aliens' opening. · "It feels like the opening to aliens where it like takes a long time to come together."
11. [Blank Check · Miami Vice - Pilot Episode · 0:30:08 · unknown (0.30)] Arrested Development ↔ Miami Vice - Pilot (Brother's Keeper) · contrast · Some pilots only introduce a format and the show is not good until episode three. · "Good pilot, good pilot, and then it's introducing you to the format of that show."
12. [Blank Check · Miami Vice - Pilot Episode · 0:39:49 · David Sims (0.40)] Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip ↔ Miami Vice - Pilot (Brother's Keeper) · contrast · A pilot can be so hot the show cannot sustain it. · "There are also things, like, Studio 60 on the Sun says trip."
13. [Blank Check · Miami Vice - Pilot Episode · 0:41:18 · David Sims (0.40)] Miami Vice - Pilot (Brother's Keeper) ↔ Miami Vice · contrast · The pilot did what Mann's film could have done for it, but the film drops viewers into the middle of the partnership instead of an origin story. · "Instead of doing an origin story kind of like, here's how these 2 cops get together."
14. [Blank Check · Miami Vice - Pilot Episode · 0:22:43 · David Sims (0.50)] Freaks and Geeks ↔ Miami Vice - Pilot (Brother's Keeper) · verdict · Offered as the standard of a great pilot that works alone and sets up a series. · "Freaks and geeks is usually my answer."
15. [Blank Check · Miami Vice - Pilot Episode · 0:22:49 · unknown (0.30)] Six Feet Under ↔ Miami Vice - Pilot (Brother's Keeper) · verdict · The Six Feet Under pilot is a self-contained movie whose ending needs no more series. · "I think that pilot is basically a fantastic movie, like the ending is like pretty phenomenal."
16. [Blank Check · Miami Vice - Pilot Episode · 0:24:00 · David Sims (0.40)] The Sopranos ↔ Miami Vice - Pilot (Brother's Keeper) · verdict · The Sopranos pilot, with its ducks arc, is emotionally complete while setting up the show. · "The Sopranos pilot is bulletproof."
17. [Blank Check · Miami Vice - Pilot Episode · 0:21:13 · David Sims (0.40)] Miami Vice - Pilot (Brother's Keeper) ↔ The Jericho Mile · industry · Pilots were often shot as potential TV movies, as with The Jericho Mile and Battlestar Galactica. · "Some TV movies as well, like Jericho Mile, but like, you know, Balestar Galactica was released as a film."
18. [Blank Check · Miami Vice - Pilot Episode · 0:18:56 · unknown (0.30)] Miami Vice - Pilot (Brother's Keeper) ↔ Michael Mann · craft · Mann brought his neon sensibility to TV; the no-earth-tones rule. · "And he's bringing those kind of neon sensibilities."
19. [Blank Check · Miami Vice - Pilot Episode · 0:49:39 · Griffin Newman or David Sims (unclear) (0.40)] Jan Hammer ↔ Miami Vice - Pilot (Brother's Keeper) · craft · A speaker singles out Jan Hammer's famous opening theme and the show's music in general as what they want to rewatch the pilot for. · "famous opening theme by Jan Hammer. great music in general."
20. [Blank Check · Miami Vice - Pilot Episode · 0:51:14 · unknown (0.40)] Miami Vice - Pilot (Brother's Keeper) ↔ Michael Mann · craft · The script lacks Mann's polished dialogue but carries his pet themes. · "It doesn't have the same sort of like diamond cut dialogue of man's best work."
21. [Blank Check · Miami Vice - Pilot Episode · 1:03:50 · unknown (0.40)] Miami Vice - Pilot (Brother's Keeper) ↔ Michael Mann · craft · The Phil Collins drive is the most remembered Miami Vice scene and shows Mann's magic. · "And that is, that does feel like the Michael Mann magic where he's like, you're allowed to do this."
22. [Blank Check · Miami Vice - Pilot Episode · 0:51:52 · unknown (0.40)] Nick Nolte ↔ Miami Vice - Pilot (Brother's Keeper) · what-if · Nolte and Jeff Bridges were first choices, but movie stars would not go to TV. · "Nick Nolty, Jeff Bridges were their 1st choices."

Fun items about it (5)

1. [Blank Check · Miami Vice - Pilot Episode · 0:20:25 · unknown (0.40)] Miami Vice - Pilot (Brother's Keeper) · fun · Surprisingly self-contained: an emotional two-parter with an arc, not a stylish procedural. · "It is a classic pilot, you know, like they kind of don't make them anymore."
2. [Blank Check · Miami Vice - Pilot Episode · 0:50:58 · unknown (0.30)] Miami Vice - Pilot (Brother's Keeper) · fun · Best when nobody's talking: music and driving, which TV was not doing then. · "It's good when people are talking."
3. [Blank Check · Miami Vice - Pilot Episode · 0:59:38 · unknown (0.40)] Miami Vice - Pilot (Brother's Keeper) · fun · The diner scene: when Crockett tells his partner's wife, the camera holds a wide shot with no cutaway. · "you just stay in this wide shot of the guy standing by the door."
4. [Blank Check · Miami Vice - Pilot Episode · 1:03:44 · unknown (0.40)] Miami Vice - Pilot (Brother's Keeper) · fun · The Phil Collins In the Air Tonight silent drive is the scene people remember most. · "I feel like that's what people still remember about Miami Vice more than anything."
5. [Blank Check · Miami Vice - Pilot Episode · 1:05:45 · unknown (0.30)] Miami Vice - Pilot (Brother's Keeper) · fun · Third-act twist: Tubbs took his dead brother's name to avenge him. · "I like the revealed that that Tubbs is has taken his brother's name to sort of avenge his brother's death."

One hop out: what recommends the films most often joined to it (10)

1. [Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ · 0:09:08 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Aliens ↔ Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol · programming · Both franchises are auteur-rich without one definitive director, which is why the Patreon series covered them. · "Uh, but like Mission Impossible Aliens, perfect examples of franchises that uh, have a tours, but do not have one definitive director."
2. [The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 12 - 'The Royal Tenenbaums’ · 0:37:53 · unknown (0.40)] The Royal Tenenbaums ↔ Arrested Development · lineage · Recommended for those who liked the sitcom about a crazy, wealthy family. · "If you liked that sitcom about a crazy, wealthy family, then there's definitely a lot to match this up with."
3. [Blank Check — Patreon · The Ice Storm · 0:14:22 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] The Ice Storm ↔ Freaks and Geeks · lineage · Recognizing the Ice Storm as a 40-something's nostalgia piece led to the same realization with Freaks and Geeks. · "the next thing I remember thinking that about and having that realization about was, uh, was freaks and geeks."
4. [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."
5. [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."
6. [Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ · 0:50:21 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Alien ⇒ Aliens (the host's read) · lineage · Cameron's sequel to Ridley Scott's film shifted the genre, which raised expectations for any follow-up. · "some other fucking guy is coming in and making a sequel to Ridley Scott's movie."
7. [Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 0:29:41 · unknown (0.30)] Alien: Covenant ↔ Aliens · lineage · Aliens had Marines. · "Aliens, you got Marines."
8. [Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 0:40:52 · unknown (0.40)] Aliens ⇒ Alien: Covenant (the host's read) · lineage · The shoulder-mounted GoPro cameras are carried over from the Marines in Aliens. · "which the Marines all have in aliens"
9. [Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 1:55:53 · unknown (0.40)] Aliens ⇒ Alien: Covenant (the host's read) · lineage · The loader and airlock set piece homages the power loader fight in Aliens. · "But something about this feels closer to the power loader fight."
10. [Blank Check — Patreon · Alien 3 · 0:21:41 · unknown (0.50)] Aliens ⇒ Alien 3 (the host's read) · lineage · Alien 3 opens by wiping out the status quo that ended Aliens. · "Seconds of this movie, it literally just burns the status quo established at the end of the last one."

Who said it, by their latest sketch (2)

1. [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'
2. [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)

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)

The whole prompt

You are a clerk at Video Culture, a video store. A customer just finished Miami Vice - Pilot (Brother's Keeper) (1984) 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 Miami Vice - Pilot (Brother's Keeper) (1984) 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 · Miami Vice - Pilot Episode · 1:16:10 · Ben Hosley (0.30)] E/R ↔ Miami Vice - Pilot (Brother's Keeper) · programming · The E/R sitcom pilot aired the same night as Miami Vice with a rating of 23 versus 22.8. · "Airing the same night as Miami Vice, which is number two, with 22.8 million."
[Blank Check · Miami Vice - Pilot Episode · 1:16:48 · unknown (0.30)] Some Kind of Hero ↔ Miami Vice - Pilot (Brother's Keeper) · programming · Some Kind of Hero was a movie on a rival network in Miami Vice's slot. · "The movie Some Kind of Hero."
[Blank Check · Miami Vice - Pilot Episode · 0:16:28 · David Sims (0.40)] Hill Street Blues ⇒ Miami Vice - Pilot (Brother's Keeper) (the host's read) · lineage · Hill Street Blues raised TV through writing and performance; Miami Vice added the cinematic look on top of that standard. · "try to write, like, Hill Street blues level scripts and have real grounded performances and make it all look fucking awesome."
[Blank Check · Miami Vice - Pilot Episode · 1:06:48 · unknown (0.40)] Miami Vice - Pilot (Brother's Keeper) ↔ L.A. Takedown · lineage · Watching the pilot feels like a Mann bonus, like The Jericho Mile or L.A. Takedown. · "It feels like watching Jericho Mile or watching LA Town."
[Blank Check · Miami Vice - Pilot Episode · 0:15:37 · David Sims (0.50)] Miami Vice - Pilot (Brother's Keeper) ↔ I Am Love · theme · Defending visual beauty against the 'style over substance' charge, using I Am Love's perfume-commercial dismissal. · "I remember when that came out, people were like, it's just like a two-hour perfume commercial."
[Blank Check · Miami Vice - Pilot Episode · 1:06:37 · unknown (0.30)] Miami Vice - Pilot (Brother's Keeper) ↔ The Incredibles · theme · The cynical ending, where the big guy gets away, echoes The Incredibles on systemic issues. · "Right, it's like the Incredibles too."
[Blank Check · Miami Vice - Pilot Episode · 0:21:32 · David Sims (0.40)] Miami Vice - Pilot (Brother's Keeper) ↔ The X-Files (pilot) · craft · Classic pilots feel like a little complete movie, as with the X-Files pilot. · "it's gonna feel like a little movie about these 2 people meeting and having an adventure"
[Blank Check · Miami Vice - Pilot Episode · 0:25:21 · unknown (0.30)] Lost ↔ Miami Vice - Pilot (Brother's Keeper) · craft · Lost's pilot is great, the second episode flatter, and the real direction arrives with Walkabout. · "Like, the Lost Pilot is a great pilot."
[Blank Check · Miami Vice - Pilot Episode · 0:28:50 · unknown (0.30)] Seinfeld ↔ Miami Vice - Pilot (Brother's Keeper) · craft · Watching a show figure itself out: the Seinfeld pilot lacks Elaine and calls Kramer Kessler. · "Elaine's not in it."
[Blank Check · Miami Vice - Pilot Episode · 0:50:44 · unknown (0.30)] Miami Vice - Pilot (Brother's Keeper) ↔ Aliens · craft · The pilot's extended opening titles build slowly like Aliens' opening. · "It feels like the opening to aliens where it like takes a long time to come together."
[Blank Check · Miami Vice - Pilot Episode · 0:30:08 · unknown (0.30)] Arrested Development ↔ Miami Vice - Pilot (Brother's Keeper) · contrast · Some pilots only introduce a format and the show is not good until episode three. · "Good pilot, good pilot, and then it's introducing you to the format of that show."
[Blank Check · Miami Vice - Pilot Episode · 0:39:49 · David Sims (0.40)] Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip ↔ Miami Vice - Pilot (Brother's Keeper) · contrast · A pilot can be so hot the show cannot sustain it. · "There are also things, like, Studio 60 on the Sun says trip."
[Blank Check · Miami Vice - Pilot Episode · 0:41:18 · David Sims (0.40)] Miami Vice - Pilot (Brother's Keeper) ↔ Miami Vice · contrast · The pilot did what Mann's film could have done for it, but the film drops viewers into the middle of the partnership instead of an origin story. · "Instead of doing an origin story kind of like, here's how these 2 cops get together."
[Blank Check · Miami Vice - Pilot Episode · 0:22:43 · David Sims (0.50)] Freaks and Geeks ↔ Miami Vice - Pilot (Brother's Keeper) · verdict · Offered as the standard of a great pilot that works alone and sets up a series. · "Freaks and geeks is usually my answer."
[Blank Check · Miami Vice - Pilot Episode · 0:22:49 · unknown (0.30)] Six Feet Under ↔ Miami Vice - Pilot (Brother's Keeper) · verdict · The Six Feet Under pilot is a self-contained movie whose ending needs no more series. · "I think that pilot is basically a fantastic movie, like the ending is like pretty phenomenal."
[Blank Check · Miami Vice - Pilot Episode · 0:24:00 · David Sims (0.40)] The Sopranos ↔ Miami Vice - Pilot (Brother's Keeper) · verdict · The Sopranos pilot, with its ducks arc, is emotionally complete while setting up the show. · "The Sopranos pilot is bulletproof."
[Blank Check · Miami Vice - Pilot Episode · 0:21:13 · David Sims (0.40)] Miami Vice - Pilot (Brother's Keeper) ↔ The Jericho Mile · industry · Pilots were often shot as potential TV movies, as with The Jericho Mile and Battlestar Galactica. · "Some TV movies as well, like Jericho Mile, but like, you know, Balestar Galactica was released as a film."
[Blank Check · Miami Vice - Pilot Episode · 0:18:56 · unknown (0.30)] Miami Vice - Pilot (Brother's Keeper) ↔ Michael Mann · craft · Mann brought his neon sensibility to TV; the no-earth-tones rule. · "And he's bringing those kind of neon sensibilities."
[Blank Check · Miami Vice - Pilot Episode · 0:49:39 · Griffin Newman or David Sims (unclear) (0.40)] Jan Hammer ↔ Miami Vice - Pilot (Brother's Keeper) · craft · A speaker singles out Jan Hammer's famous opening theme and the show's music in general as what they want to rewatch the pilot for. · "famous opening theme by Jan Hammer. great music in general."
[Blank Check · Miami Vice - Pilot Episode · 0:51:14 · unknown (0.40)] Miami Vice - Pilot (Brother's Keeper) ↔ Michael Mann · craft · The script lacks Mann's polished dialogue but carries his pet themes. · "It doesn't have the same sort of like diamond cut dialogue of man's best work."
[Blank Check · Miami Vice - Pilot Episode · 1:03:50 · unknown (0.40)] Miami Vice - Pilot (Brother's Keeper) ↔ Michael Mann · craft · The Phil Collins drive is the most remembered Miami Vice scene and shows Mann's magic. · "And that is, that does feel like the Michael Mann magic where he's like, you're allowed to do this."
[Blank Check · Miami Vice - Pilot Episode · 0:51:52 · unknown (0.40)] Nick Nolte ↔ Miami Vice - Pilot (Brother's Keeper) · what-if · Nolte and Jeff Bridges were first choices, but movie stars would not go to TV. · "Nick Nolty, Jeff Bridges were their 1st choices."
[Blank Check · Miami Vice - Pilot Episode · 0:20:25 · unknown (0.40)] Miami Vice - Pilot (Brother's Keeper) · fun · Surprisingly self-contained: an emotional two-parter with an arc, not a stylish procedural. · "It is a classic pilot, you know, like they kind of don't make them anymore."
[Blank Check · Miami Vice - Pilot Episode · 0:50:58 · unknown (0.30)] Miami Vice - Pilot (Brother's Keeper) · fun · Best when nobody's talking: music and driving, which TV was not doing then. · "It's good when people are talking."
[Blank Check · Miami Vice - Pilot Episode · 0:59:38 · unknown (0.40)] Miami Vice - Pilot (Brother's Keeper) · fun · The diner scene: when Crockett tells his partner's wife, the camera holds a wide shot with no cutaway. · "you just stay in this wide shot of the guy standing by the door."
[Blank Check · Miami Vice - Pilot Episode · 1:03:44 · unknown (0.40)] Miami Vice - Pilot (Brother's Keeper) · fun · The Phil Collins In the Air Tonight silent drive is the scene people remember most. · "I feel like that's what people still remember about Miami Vice more than anything."
[Blank Check · Miami Vice - Pilot Episode · 1:05:45 · unknown (0.30)] Miami Vice - Pilot (Brother's Keeper) · fun · Third-act twist: Tubbs took his dead brother's name to avenge him. · "I like the revealed that that Tubbs is has taken his brother's name to sort of avenge his brother's death."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ · 0:09:08 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Aliens ↔ Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol · programming · Both franchises are auteur-rich without one definitive director, which is why the Patreon series covered them. · "Uh, but like Mission Impossible Aliens, perfect examples of franchises that uh, have a tours, but do not have one definitive director."
[The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 12 - 'The Royal Tenenbaums’ · 0:37:53 · unknown (0.40)] The Royal Tenenbaums ↔ Arrested Development · lineage · Recommended for those who liked the sitcom about a crazy, wealthy family. · "If you liked that sitcom about a crazy, wealthy family, then there's definitely a lot to match this up with."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Ice Storm · 0:14:22 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] The Ice Storm ↔ Freaks and Geeks · lineage · Recognizing the Ice Storm as a 40-something's nostalgia piece led to the same realization with Freaks and Geeks. · "the next thing I remember thinking that about and having that realization about was, uh, was freaks and geeks."
[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 — 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."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ · 0:50:21 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Alien ⇒ Aliens (the host's read) · lineage · Cameron's sequel to Ridley Scott's film shifted the genre, which raised expectations for any follow-up. · "some other fucking guy is coming in and making a sequel to Ridley Scott's movie."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 0:29:41 · unknown (0.30)] Alien: Covenant ↔ Aliens · lineage · Aliens had Marines. · "Aliens, you got Marines."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 0:40:52 · unknown (0.40)] Aliens ⇒ Alien: Covenant (the host's read) · lineage · The shoulder-mounted GoPro cameras are carried over from the Marines in Aliens. · "which the Marines all have in aliens"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 1:55:53 · unknown (0.40)] Aliens ⇒ Alien: Covenant (the host's read) · lineage · The loader and airlock set piece homages the power loader fight in Aliens. · "But something about this feels closer to the power loader fight."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien 3 · 0:21:41 · unknown (0.50)] Aliens ⇒ Alien 3 (the host's read) · lineage · Alien 3 opens by wiping out the status quo that ended Aliens. · "Seconds of this movie, it literally just burns the status quo established at the end of the last one."
[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 Miami Vice - Pilot (Brother's Keeper) (1984); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Miami Vice - Pilot (Brother's Keeper) (1984) 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.