What the corpus says about Miami Vice (1984)

The 50 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 (17)

[The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies · 0:50:57 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] Munich ↔ Miami Vice · programming · Mann was busy making Miami Vice, 'maybe that was part of the problem'. · "I'm pretty sure Michael Mann was making your beloved Miami Vice when... Maybe that was part of the problem."
[Blank Check · Miami Vice - Pilot Episode · 1:07:11 · unknown (0.40)] Miami Vice ⇒ ER (the host's read) · lineage · Miami Vice's influence made TV look like Mann movies; ER's steadicam is where that finishes. · "An ER, you've got steady cam shots and that's when it's really done and dusted."
[The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:39:11 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Miami Vice ↔ Calderone's Return · lineage · Calderone's Return is the 1984 Miami Vice double episode that the Rewatchables did. · "How do you feel about Calderon's return, the double episode of Miami Vice from 1984."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Thief’ · 0:44:28 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Thief ↔ Miami Vice · theme · Same send-the-wife-away beat in Miami Vice's Calderon's revenge. · "Miami Vice, which I think he had a pretty big imprint on season one."
[The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:57:49 · Chris Ryan (0.70)] Miami Vice ↔ Black Hat · theme · Both have messy, stitched-together production histories, a hallmark of the last 15 years of Mann's career. · "when you see black hat, you're like, this definitely feels stitched together in strange ways."
[The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:59:04 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Miami Vice ↔ Babylon · theme · Chris likes reclamation projects, films that critics first dismissed, as he does Miami Vice. · "I like reclamation projects."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Insider’ · 0:52:07 · Sean Fennessey (0.35)] The Insider ↔ Miami Vice · craft · Mann's pop-abstract music choices, such as the Linkin Park and Jay-Z cues in Miami Vice, are a recurring misfire for some. · "Is this your, is this a subtle dig at Lincoln Park, Jay-Z being used in Miami Vice?"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Zodiac · 1:09:57 · unknown (0.40)] Miami Vice ↔ Zodiac · craft · Both used the Thomson Viper digital camera. · "man, use that on Miami Vice as well."
[The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:12:51 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Ferrari ↔ Miami Vice · career · Ferrari fuses the classical Mann with the digital abstractions of Miami Vice, per critic Bilge Ebiri. · "the digital abstractions of black hat and public enemies and Miami Vice and collateral"
[The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:48:14 · Sean Fennessey (0.70)] Ferrari ↔ Miami Vice · verdict · Sean puts Ferrari and Miami Vice in the same zone: much to recommend, with a few choices that derail it. · "I think Miami Vice and Ferrari are kind of right in the same zone."
[Blank Check · Miami Vice - Pilot Episode · 0:13:46 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] MTV ⇒ Miami Vice (the host's read) · industry · The show began as the legendary 'MTV cops' pitch from an NBC executive. · "he wrote a brainstorming memo that read MTV cops."
[Blank Check — Patreon · In the Cut · 1:24:25 · Griffin or David (unclear) (0.35)] Dion Beebe ↔ Miami Vice · craft · Beebe shot Miami Vice and defines the Michael Mann digital look. · "He defines the Michael Mann digital look."
[Blank Check · Miami Vice - Pilot Episode · 0:14:34 · unknown (0.30)] Michael Mann ↔ Miami Vice · career · Mann was the de facto showrunner for roughly the first two seasons though credited only as executive producer. · "He's kind of the showrunner, I think, for the 1st 2 seasons."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ · 0:21:22 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Don Johnson ↔ Miami Vice · career · Don Johnson reconciled with Griffith in the Miami Vice ponytail year; his hitman amnesia arc. · "But Don Johnson is on Miami Vice."
[The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:58:12 · Chris Ryan (0.70)] Miami Vice ↔ Michael Mann · career · Miami Vice is the apex of Mann's digital filmmaking and hugely influential on newer filmmakers. · "is obviously just been a hugely influential movie for a lot of, uh, newer filmmakers."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Ice Storm’ · 1:24:35 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Miami Vice ↔ Michael Mann · industry · Simmons and Ryan joke that their persistence made the Miami Vice movie beloved. · "made the Miami Vice, the movie, um, more powerful than the TV show"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · 1:09:56 · unknown (0.30)] Michael Mann ↔ Miami Vice · what-if · A joke: Michael Mann could redo the kills with more money, as he did Miami Vice. · "Michael Mann do it when he's redoing Miami Vice."

Films put beside it more than once (1)

[pairs] Miami Vice ↔ Ferrari · said 2 times in 1 episode

Fun items about it (6)

[Blank Check · Miami Vice - Pilot Episode · 0:13:46 · unknown (0.30)] Miami Vice (TV series) · fun · The legend: an NBC executive's brainstorming memo read 'MTV cops' and Yerkovich said set it in Miami. · "Yeah, he wrote a brainstorming memo that read MTV cops."
[Blank Check · Miami Vice - Pilot Episode · 0:16:52 · unknown (0.40)] Miami Vice (TV series) · fun · Credited with bringing Italian men's fashion mainstream to the US. · "This show kind of single-handedly elevates men's fashion in the United States."
[Blank Check · Miami Vice - Pilot Episode · 1:06:15 · unknown (0.30)] Miami Vice (TV series) · fun · The ending is cynical: they catch the guy and he gets bailed out immediately. · "The guy immediately gets bailed out."
[The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:57:30 · Chris Ryan (0.60)] Miami Vice · fun · Production chaos: Colin Farrell doesn't remember making it, and there was a real shootout in Panama. · "Colin Farrell doesn't remember making this movie"
[The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:58:55 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50)] Miami Vice · fun · The go-fast boat scene: Colin Farrell takes Gong Li to Havana for mojitos. · "he drives around a go fast boat to Havana."
[The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:59:31 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Miami Vice · fun · Chris saw Miami Vice in the theater with Sean, who said 'dog, no' on day one; the Mogwai opening. · "Chris and I saw it together and I was like, dog, no."

One hop out: what recommends the films most often joined to it (18)

[The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:37:27 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Ferrari ↔ The Martian · programming · Ferrari feels like a late-summer release that should have had The Martian's slot, not Christmas. · "This felt like it should have had the Martian spot."
[The Big Picture · The ‘Babylon’ Watch-Along · 1:53:26 · unknown (0.30)] Babylon ↔ Snack Shack · programming · A pool-snacks tangent leads to a recommendation of Snack Shack, produced by Rian Johnson's T Street. · "Um, Basically being released independently is produced by Ryan Johnson's company, T Street, and it's a, here we see Margot Robbie losing her nerve and breaking down."
[The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:13:24 · Amanda Dobbins (0.40)] Black Hat ↔ The Rewatchables · programming · Sean and Chris did a Rewatchables episode on Black Hat that Amanda hadn't heard. · "I didn't hear that one."
[The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:05:18 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Brock Yates ⇒ Ferrari (the host's read) · lineage · Ferrari adapts the Brock Yates book on Enzo Ferrari. · "by Brock Yates"
[The Big Picture · The ‘Babylon’ Watch-Along · 2:30:05 · unknown (0.30)] Babylon ↔ Road House · programming · After a crocodile-fear tangent triggered by Babylon's crocodile scene, a speaker pushes Roadhouse for its crocodile scene. · "I mean, they're just... pretty exciting crocodile scene."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Social Network · 1:16:35 · unknown (0.35)] Black Hat ↔ The Social Network · theme · Black Hat is read as Michael Mann realizing the cops-and-criminals tough guys no longer rule once everything is on a computer, a thread the speakers tie to Facebook. · "Black Hat, I think, is a movie about Michael Mann realizing that the guys he spent his entire career writing about cops and criminals."
[The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:10:16 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Ferrari ↔ Heat · theme · Ferrari carries Mann's themes of men pushing themselves to greatness with their obsessions. · "men pushing themselves as hard as they can with the tools that they are obsessed with to achieve greatness"
[The Big Picture · The ‘Babylon’ Watch-Along · 1:13:47 · unknown (0.30)] Singin' in the Rain ⇒ Babylon (the host's read) · lineage · A speaker calls the sound-stage scene a direct Singin' in the Rain homage, 'on steroids times a 1000'. · "Again, like a very, very direct homage."
[The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:17:09 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] Michael Mann ↔ Ferrari · theme · Enzo Ferrari, with his department heads and team who report to him, reads as a stand-in for Michael Mann the filmmaker. · "Enzo Ferrari is Michael Mann."
[The Big Picture · The ‘Babylon’ Watch-Along · 2:51:30 · unknown (0.30)] Singin' in the Rain ⇒ Babylon (the host's read) · lineage · The speaker says Babylon is deliberately built around Singin' in the Rain, with specific scenes mirrored on purpose. · "But it is so intentionally built around singing in the rain that I do think the mirroring of the specific scenes are intentional."
[The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:12:05 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] Ferrari ↔ The Insider · craft · Ferrari has the best script Mann has worked with since The Insider. · "this has the best script he's worked with since insider"
[The Big Picture · The ‘Babylon’ Watch-Along · 3:06:12 · unknown (0.30)] Zack Snyder's Justice League ⇒ Babylon (the maker said so: the hosts' own account of the show) · lineage · The Snyder Cut watch-along, born of a lost bet, started the show's watch-along concept that led to this one. · "The Snyder, the Snyder Cut thing was a bet that we lost, that Sean was like, if that, that's how the watch along concept started."
[The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:15:43 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Ferrari ↔ Steve Jobs · craft · Steve Jobs did the compression idea best among recent biopics, and Mann's compressed 1957 setting for Ferrari is ingenious. · "Steve Jobs obviously had, maybe, maybe did the best job of this by kind of splitting the, the atom"
[The Big Picture · The 2022 Movie Draft · 0:57:53 · Amanda Dobbins (0.85)] Pearl ↔ Babylon · theme · Amanda says Pearl completes a trilogy of 2022 films about the transition to silent film, with Babylon and Downton Abbey: A New Era. · "this completes the trilogy of silent film transition in movies this year between Babylon, Downton, Abbey, and New Era, and Pearl."
[The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:16:14 · Amanda Dobbins (0.40)] Ferrari ↔ Killers of the Flower Moon · craft · Ferrari's quick impressionistic opening flashback recalls the silent-film-style opening of Killers of the Flower Moon. · "it reminded me a bit of the opening sequence of the Killers of the Flower Moon, where it's kind of shot in this old school, like silent film style."
[The Big Picture · The 2022 Movie Draft · 0:57:53 · Amanda Dobbins (0.85)] Downton Abbey: A New Era ↔ Babylon · theme · Both 2022 films are about the silent-to-sound transition in movies. · "this completes the trilogy of silent film transition in movies this year between Babylon, Downton, Abbey, and New Era, and Pearl."
[The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:20:07 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60)] Ferrari ↔ Heat · craft · Penelope Cruz's let-it-rip scene with Driver recalls Diane Venora in Heat. · "it reminded me a little bit of Dina Vanora in heat where she's just like letting it loose."
[The Big Picture · The ‘Babylon’ Watch-Along · 0:15:13 · unknown (0.30)] Brad Pitt ↔ Babylon · theme · Babylon is called a smart use of Brad Pitt's skills, with the movie-star persona built in. · "This is a very smart utilization of Brad Pitt's skills."

Who said it, by their latest sketch (5)

[speaker] Chris Ryan · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · A franchise and genre scholar who likes Jason, the early sequels, and Manhattan; attention to trivia, tropes and critic reception. Treats slashers as a canon with tiers. · stances: Parts 1, 2, 4 and Manhattan are the good ones; The series finds its legs at 4
[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] Bill Simmons · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · Loves the Friday series as a communal, rental-era memory and tells childhood stories about the ads and theaters. Likes casting what-ifs and sports analogies for everything. Skeptical of horror at Christmas and of anything that wastes the premise. · stances: Friday the 13th is not the best entry but the origin story had to be told; Friday 2 is a leap over the original
[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] 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

The shows' running bits (3)

[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)

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 Miami Vice (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 (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.

[The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies · 0:50:57 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] Munich ↔ Miami Vice · programming · Mann was busy making Miami Vice, 'maybe that was part of the problem'. · "I'm pretty sure Michael Mann was making your beloved Miami Vice when... Maybe that was part of the problem."
[Blank Check · Miami Vice - Pilot Episode · 1:07:11 · unknown (0.40)] Miami Vice ⇒ ER (the host's read) · lineage · Miami Vice's influence made TV look like Mann movies; ER's steadicam is where that finishes. · "An ER, you've got steady cam shots and that's when it's really done and dusted."
[The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:39:11 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Miami Vice ↔ Calderone's Return · lineage · Calderone's Return is the 1984 Miami Vice double episode that the Rewatchables did. · "How do you feel about Calderon's return, the double episode of Miami Vice from 1984."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Thief’ · 0:44:28 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Thief ↔ Miami Vice · theme · Same send-the-wife-away beat in Miami Vice's Calderon's revenge. · "Miami Vice, which I think he had a pretty big imprint on season one."
[The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:57:49 · Chris Ryan (0.70)] Miami Vice ↔ Black Hat · theme · Both have messy, stitched-together production histories, a hallmark of the last 15 years of Mann's career. · "when you see black hat, you're like, this definitely feels stitched together in strange ways."
[The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:59:04 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Miami Vice ↔ Babylon · theme · Chris likes reclamation projects, films that critics first dismissed, as he does Miami Vice. · "I like reclamation projects."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Insider’ · 0:52:07 · Sean Fennessey (0.35)] The Insider ↔ Miami Vice · craft · Mann's pop-abstract music choices, such as the Linkin Park and Jay-Z cues in Miami Vice, are a recurring misfire for some. · "Is this your, is this a subtle dig at Lincoln Park, Jay-Z being used in Miami Vice?"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Zodiac · 1:09:57 · unknown (0.40)] Miami Vice ↔ Zodiac · craft · Both used the Thomson Viper digital camera. · "man, use that on Miami Vice as well."
[The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:12:51 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Ferrari ↔ Miami Vice · career · Ferrari fuses the classical Mann with the digital abstractions of Miami Vice, per critic Bilge Ebiri. · "the digital abstractions of black hat and public enemies and Miami Vice and collateral"
[The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:48:14 · Sean Fennessey (0.70)] Ferrari ↔ Miami Vice · verdict · Sean puts Ferrari and Miami Vice in the same zone: much to recommend, with a few choices that derail it. · "I think Miami Vice and Ferrari are kind of right in the same zone."
[Blank Check · Miami Vice - Pilot Episode · 0:13:46 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] MTV ⇒ Miami Vice (the host's read) · industry · The show began as the legendary 'MTV cops' pitch from an NBC executive. · "he wrote a brainstorming memo that read MTV cops."
[Blank Check — Patreon · In the Cut · 1:24:25 · Griffin or David (unclear) (0.35)] Dion Beebe ↔ Miami Vice · craft · Beebe shot Miami Vice and defines the Michael Mann digital look. · "He defines the Michael Mann digital look."
[Blank Check · Miami Vice - Pilot Episode · 0:14:34 · unknown (0.30)] Michael Mann ↔ Miami Vice · career · Mann was the de facto showrunner for roughly the first two seasons though credited only as executive producer. · "He's kind of the showrunner, I think, for the 1st 2 seasons."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ · 0:21:22 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Don Johnson ↔ Miami Vice · career · Don Johnson reconciled with Griffith in the Miami Vice ponytail year; his hitman amnesia arc. · "But Don Johnson is on Miami Vice."
[The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:58:12 · Chris Ryan (0.70)] Miami Vice ↔ Michael Mann · career · Miami Vice is the apex of Mann's digital filmmaking and hugely influential on newer filmmakers. · "is obviously just been a hugely influential movie for a lot of, uh, newer filmmakers."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Ice Storm’ · 1:24:35 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Miami Vice ↔ Michael Mann · industry · Simmons and Ryan joke that their persistence made the Miami Vice movie beloved. · "made the Miami Vice, the movie, um, more powerful than the TV show"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · 1:09:56 · unknown (0.30)] Michael Mann ↔ Miami Vice · what-if · A joke: Michael Mann could redo the kills with more money, as he did Miami Vice. · "Michael Mann do it when he's redoing Miami Vice."
[pairs] Miami Vice ↔ Ferrari · said 2 times in 1 episode
[Blank Check · Miami Vice - Pilot Episode · 0:13:46 · unknown (0.30)] Miami Vice (TV series) · fun · The legend: an NBC executive's brainstorming memo read 'MTV cops' and Yerkovich said set it in Miami. · "Yeah, he wrote a brainstorming memo that read MTV cops."
[Blank Check · Miami Vice - Pilot Episode · 0:16:52 · unknown (0.40)] Miami Vice (TV series) · fun · Credited with bringing Italian men's fashion mainstream to the US. · "This show kind of single-handedly elevates men's fashion in the United States."
[Blank Check · Miami Vice - Pilot Episode · 1:06:15 · unknown (0.30)] Miami Vice (TV series) · fun · The ending is cynical: they catch the guy and he gets bailed out immediately. · "The guy immediately gets bailed out."
[The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:57:30 · Chris Ryan (0.60)] Miami Vice · fun · Production chaos: Colin Farrell doesn't remember making it, and there was a real shootout in Panama. · "Colin Farrell doesn't remember making this movie"
[The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:58:55 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50)] Miami Vice · fun · The go-fast boat scene: Colin Farrell takes Gong Li to Havana for mojitos. · "he drives around a go fast boat to Havana."
[The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:59:31 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Miami Vice · fun · Chris saw Miami Vice in the theater with Sean, who said 'dog, no' on day one; the Mogwai opening. · "Chris and I saw it together and I was like, dog, no."
[The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:37:27 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Ferrari ↔ The Martian · programming · Ferrari feels like a late-summer release that should have had The Martian's slot, not Christmas. · "This felt like it should have had the Martian spot."
[The Big Picture · The ‘Babylon’ Watch-Along · 1:53:26 · unknown (0.30)] Babylon ↔ Snack Shack · programming · A pool-snacks tangent leads to a recommendation of Snack Shack, produced by Rian Johnson's T Street. · "Um, Basically being released independently is produced by Ryan Johnson's company, T Street, and it's a, here we see Margot Robbie losing her nerve and breaking down."
[The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:13:24 · Amanda Dobbins (0.40)] Black Hat ↔ The Rewatchables · programming · Sean and Chris did a Rewatchables episode on Black Hat that Amanda hadn't heard. · "I didn't hear that one."
[The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:05:18 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Brock Yates ⇒ Ferrari (the host's read) · lineage · Ferrari adapts the Brock Yates book on Enzo Ferrari. · "by Brock Yates"
[The Big Picture · The ‘Babylon’ Watch-Along · 2:30:05 · unknown (0.30)] Babylon ↔ Road House · programming · After a crocodile-fear tangent triggered by Babylon's crocodile scene, a speaker pushes Roadhouse for its crocodile scene. · "I mean, they're just... pretty exciting crocodile scene."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Social Network · 1:16:35 · unknown (0.35)] Black Hat ↔ The Social Network · theme · Black Hat is read as Michael Mann realizing the cops-and-criminals tough guys no longer rule once everything is on a computer, a thread the speakers tie to Facebook. · "Black Hat, I think, is a movie about Michael Mann realizing that the guys he spent his entire career writing about cops and criminals."
[The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:10:16 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Ferrari ↔ Heat · theme · Ferrari carries Mann's themes of men pushing themselves to greatness with their obsessions. · "men pushing themselves as hard as they can with the tools that they are obsessed with to achieve greatness"
[The Big Picture · The ‘Babylon’ Watch-Along · 1:13:47 · unknown (0.30)] Singin' in the Rain ⇒ Babylon (the host's read) · lineage · A speaker calls the sound-stage scene a direct Singin' in the Rain homage, 'on steroids times a 1000'. · "Again, like a very, very direct homage."
[The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:17:09 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] Michael Mann ↔ Ferrari · theme · Enzo Ferrari, with his department heads and team who report to him, reads as a stand-in for Michael Mann the filmmaker. · "Enzo Ferrari is Michael Mann."
[The Big Picture · The ‘Babylon’ Watch-Along · 2:51:30 · unknown (0.30)] Singin' in the Rain ⇒ Babylon (the host's read) · lineage · The speaker says Babylon is deliberately built around Singin' in the Rain, with specific scenes mirrored on purpose. · "But it is so intentionally built around singing in the rain that I do think the mirroring of the specific scenes are intentional."
[The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:12:05 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] Ferrari ↔ The Insider · craft · Ferrari has the best script Mann has worked with since The Insider. · "this has the best script he's worked with since insider"
[The Big Picture · The ‘Babylon’ Watch-Along · 3:06:12 · unknown (0.30)] Zack Snyder's Justice League ⇒ Babylon (the maker said so: the hosts' own account of the show) · lineage · The Snyder Cut watch-along, born of a lost bet, started the show's watch-along concept that led to this one. · "The Snyder, the Snyder Cut thing was a bet that we lost, that Sean was like, if that, that's how the watch along concept started."
[The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:15:43 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Ferrari ↔ Steve Jobs · craft · Steve Jobs did the compression idea best among recent biopics, and Mann's compressed 1957 setting for Ferrari is ingenious. · "Steve Jobs obviously had, maybe, maybe did the best job of this by kind of splitting the, the atom"
[The Big Picture · The 2022 Movie Draft · 0:57:53 · Amanda Dobbins (0.85)] Pearl ↔ Babylon · theme · Amanda says Pearl completes a trilogy of 2022 films about the transition to silent film, with Babylon and Downton Abbey: A New Era. · "this completes the trilogy of silent film transition in movies this year between Babylon, Downton, Abbey, and New Era, and Pearl."
[The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:16:14 · Amanda Dobbins (0.40)] Ferrari ↔ Killers of the Flower Moon · craft · Ferrari's quick impressionistic opening flashback recalls the silent-film-style opening of Killers of the Flower Moon. · "it reminded me a bit of the opening sequence of the Killers of the Flower Moon, where it's kind of shot in this old school, like silent film style."
[The Big Picture · The 2022 Movie Draft · 0:57:53 · Amanda Dobbins (0.85)] Downton Abbey: A New Era ↔ Babylon · theme · Both 2022 films are about the silent-to-sound transition in movies. · "this completes the trilogy of silent film transition in movies this year between Babylon, Downton, Abbey, and New Era, and Pearl."
[The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:20:07 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60)] Ferrari ↔ Heat · craft · Penelope Cruz's let-it-rip scene with Driver recalls Diane Venora in Heat. · "it reminded me a little bit of Dina Vanora in heat where she's just like letting it loose."
[The Big Picture · The ‘Babylon’ Watch-Along · 0:15:13 · unknown (0.30)] Brad Pitt ↔ Babylon · theme · Babylon is called a smart use of Brad Pitt's skills, with the movie-star persona built in. · "This is a very smart utilization of Brad Pitt's skills."
[speaker] Chris Ryan · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · A franchise and genre scholar who likes Jason, the early sequels, and Manhattan; attention to trivia, tropes and critic reception. Treats slashers as a canon with tiers. · stances: Parts 1, 2, 4 and Manhattan are the good ones; The series finds its legs at 4
[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] Bill Simmons · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · Loves the Friday series as a communal, rental-era memory and tells childhood stories about the ads and theaters. Likes casting what-ifs and sports analogies for everything. Skeptical of horror at Christmas and of anything that wastes the premise. · stances: Friday the 13th is not the best entry but the origin story had to be told; Friday 2 is a leap over the original
[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] 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
[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 Miami Vice (1984); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Miami Vice (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.