What the corpus says about Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016)

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 (9)

[Blank Check — Patreon · The Social Network · 0:44:07 · unknown (0.40)] The Social Network ⇒ Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (the maker said so) · theme · Snyder's reported reasoning: the modern-day Lex Luthor would be Mark Zuckerberg. · "yeah, the modern day Lex Luthor would be Mark Zuckerberg."
[The Big Picture · The Past, Present, and Future of Superhero Movies | The Big Picture · 0:30:16 · Jason Concepcion (0.40)] Man of Steel ↔ Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice · craft · BvS's newscaster lines patching the Metropolis destruction from Man of Steel show DC's lack of confidence. · "that kind of thing shows the lack of confidence that DC really has in its voice"
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Incredible Hulk · 1:33:33 · Griffin or David (0.30)] Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice ↔ The Incredible Hulk · craft · The Abomination, like BvS's Doomsday, looks like a mud monster with no texture. · "It's the same problem as Doomsday in Batman versus Superman, where it's just like, he just looks like a mud monster."
[The Big Picture · 'Shazam!’ and the Future of the DCEU · 0:03:02 · Sean Fennessey (0.90)] Shazam! ↔ Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice · contrast · Fennessey says Shazam!'s tone differs significantly from Superman versus Batman and the Justice League films. · "I think tonally this movie is pretty significantly different from Superman versus Batman and the Justice League films"
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Lego Batman Movie · 0:47:32 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] The Lego Batman Movie ↔ Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice · contrast · Seeing Batman and Superman together here does not provoke the same cynicism as it did in Batman v Superman. · "I don't give a shit, like, about in the same way I did in Batman V Superman."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Gone Girl · 1:06:28 · unknown (0.30)] Gone Girl ⇒ Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (the host's read) · people · While making Gone Girl, Affleck reportedly joked to his agent that he needed a heroic-chin movie after the evil-chin one. · "the joke was the chin things in the script, he calls up his agent, while making Gone Girl, and says, like, I'm doing the evil chin movie now, you got to find me a heroic chin movie."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Social Network · 0:43:43 · unknown (0.35)] The Social Network ⇒ Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (the host's read) · people · Snyder offered Eisenberg Jimmy Olsen in BvS in the wake of The Social Network. · "Zack Snyder offers, uh, Jimmy Olsen. to Jesse Eisenberg in the wake of this movie, for BVS."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Social Network · 0:44:48 · David Sims (0.45)] Max Landis ⇒ Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (the host's read) · people · David's pet theory is that Eisenberg chose to play Max Landis as Lex Luthor. · "It also feels like he chose to play Max Landis more than he chose to play."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Marvel Nerdfest · 0:13:24 · David Sims (0.50)] Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice ↔ Zack Snyder · verdict · BvS underperformed because Snyder's vision is specific and does not cross over to kids. · "BVS does not make a $1000000000, which it should objectively."

Films put beside it more than once (1)

[pairs] Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice ↔ The Social Network · said 2 times in 1 episode

One hop out: what recommends the films most often joined to it (33)

[The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) · 0:40:17 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] Panic Room ↔ The Social Network · programming · Fincher movies are rewatchable and date-movie friendly, with the exception of Se7en; Social Network is the perfect date movie. · "Like social network, perfect date movie."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The War of the Roses’ · 1:37:30 · Craig Horlbeck (0.50)] The War of the Roses ↔ Gone Girl · lineage · Roses is described as a prequel to Gone Girl; it could have pivoted to Turner killing Douglas and going on the run. · "This movie's kind of a prequel to Gone Girl."
[Blank Check · Judging The Judge · 1:20:04 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Man of Steel ⇒ The Judge (the host's read) · lineage · The tornado father-son fight echoes the father-son tornado scene in Man of Steel, another Warner Bros. film. · "an homage to everyone's favorite father son scene from Man of Steel."
[The Big Picture · 'Shazam!’ and the Future of the DCEU · 0:07:21 · Miles Surrey (0.85)] Shazam! ↔ Black Adam (planned) · programming · Miles expects Shazam! to lead into Shazam 2 or a Black Adam movie. · "it's just leading into Shazam 2 or maybe like a Black Adam movie"
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Incredible Hulk · 0:23:12 · Griffin or David (0.35)] Iron Man ↔ The Incredible Hulk · programming · Both Iron Man's post-credits Fury scene and Tony's Hulk cameo got audiences cheering, building the idea of a shared universe. · "I was so invested in the idea, which seems hilarious now of a cinematic universe."
[The Big Picture · Aaron Sorkin Top 5s and ‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’ · 0:56:04 · Sean Fennessey (0.80)] The Social Network ⇒ Steve Jobs (the host's read) · lineage · Steve Jobs is called a worthy sequel to The Social Network on big tech and innovation. · "I think this is in many ways a worthy sequel to the social network"
[The Big Picture · ‘The Killer’ Is Cold-Blooded Genius. And Something More · 0:17:53 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60)] The Killer ↔ Gone Girl · lineage · It is the closest Fincher has come to a pure thriller since Gone Girl, maybe Dragon Tattoo. · "he hasn't made a movie quite like this, I guess, since Gone Girl, but even, I mean, you could maybe even going back further to Dragon Tattoo is maybe a little closer to this kind of a pure thriller."
[The Big Picture · 'Shazam!’ and the Future of the DCEU · 0:03:27 · Miles Surrey (0.85)] Shazam! ↔ Amblin · lineage · Miles says Shazam! has the throwback coming-of-age feel of 1980s Amblin movies. · "something you would see from like ambling in like the 80s"
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Incredible Hulk · 0:36:32 · Griffin or David (0.30)] The Incredible Hulk ↔ Captain America (First Avenger / MCU) · programming · The WWII super-soldier line makes theater audiences excited for a Captain America reference, a habit Iron Man 2 repeats. · "Iron Man 2 is the guiltiest of that."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Social Network · 0:11:24 · David Sims (0.50)] The Social Network ↔ Blackberry · lineage · Blackberry is named as the only movie to come close to The Social Network in the 13 years since. · "I think Blackberry is the only thing that has come close and then now 13 years since this movie came out."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Gone Girl · 0:20:39 · unknown (0.30)] Reese Witherspoon ⇒ Gone Girl (the host's read) · lineage · Witherspoon took the book and had the idea of bringing Fincher on board. · "takes this book, has the smart idea, bring Fincher on board."
[The Big Picture · 'Shazam!’ and the Future of the DCEU · 0:04:17 · Sean Fennessey (0.90)] Big ⇒ Shazam! (the host's read) · lineage · Fennessey calls Shazam! essentially Big as a superhero movie. · "the movie is clearly pitched as sort of what if big but superhero"
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Incredible Hulk · 1:31:34 · Griffin or David (0.35)] The Incredible Hulk ⇒ Captain America (First Avenger / MCU) (the host's read) · programming · The hero jumping out of a hangar plane becomes a recurring Marvel image, starting here and used in Black Panther and Captain America. · "And this is the 1st of what then becomes the Marvel trope where a hero is either pushed out of or jumps out of the back of like a hangar plane."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Social Network · 0:11:44 · David Sims (0.60)] The Social Network ⇒ The Big Short (the host's read) · lineage · David says The Big Short is the most obvious movie ripping off The Social Network, and that people do not make the connection enough. · "I think the big short, which is not a movie I love, is the most obvious movie that's ripping off the social network, even though people maybe don't make that connection enough."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Gone Girl · 0:34:23 · Esther Zuckerman (0.70)] Gone Girl (Gillian Flynn novel) ⇒ Gone Girl (the host's read) · lineage · The film adapts Flynn's novel, and the first-person diary trickery was the open question about how it would work on screen. · "Because it is such like a little fun piece of 1st person narration trickery."
[The Big Picture · 'Shazam!’ and the Future of the DCEU · 0:14:30 · David F. Sandberg (0.95)] Big ⇒ Shazam! (the maker said so: Sandberg, in this interview, on the studio pitch) · lineage · Sandberg says the studio pitched it to him as Big with superpowers. · "it's basically uh, big, but with superpowers"
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Incredible Hulk · 1:51:33 · Griffin or David (0.35)] The Consultant ↔ The Incredible Hulk · programming · The short on the Thor Blu-ray explains Tony's cameo as a ploy to sabotage the recruitment of Blonsky. · "They see him as a war hero and blame the devastation of Harlem and Bruce Banner."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Social Network · 0:15:37 · David Sims (0.50)] The Accidental Billionaires (Ben Mezrich book) ↔ The Social Network · lineage · The film is technically an adapted screenplay but the speakers say Sorkin was working from the same research and the book proposal, not using the book as a template. · "But it's basically like this movie is using the same research that the book has called rather than Aaron Sorkin reading this book and using it as a template if that makes sense."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Gone Girl · 0:36:35 · unknown (0.30)] A Simple Plan ⇒ Gone Girl (the maker said so) · lineage · Flynn used A Simple Plan as her model for adapting her own novel, then worried she could not match it. · "And she said, so I tried to use that as a model and then I freaked myself out because I was like, well, this is too good. I won't do this well."
[The Big Picture · 'Shazam!’ and the Future of the DCEU · 0:06:26 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] Shazam! ↔ Wonder Woman · theme · Both films, in Miles's view, start clever and then end in a punching match with a monster or villain. · "That was also one of my struggles, honestly, with Wonder Woman"
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Incredible Hulk · 0:04:49 · Griffin or David (0.35)] The Incredible Hulk ↔ Hulk · lineage · A speaker says the opening credits re-establish the origin so the film can claim to be a new beginning rather than a direct sequel to Ang Lee's film. · "So this is why people say, oh, it this isn't a direct sequel to Angly because they make the..."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Social Network · 0:26:04 · unknown (0.35)] The Accidental Billionaires (Ben Mezrich book) ↔ The Social Network · lineage · Sorkin had no finished book and worked from notes and a general structure, with little to do with the book that exists. · "but he doesn't really have much to do with the actual book that exists."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Gone Girl · 0:39:03 · unknown (0.30)] Steve Kloves → Gone Girl · lineage · Flynn asked Kloves how he handled the Harry Potter adaptations; the speaker does not say it shaped the script. · "She goes to Steve Cloves and is like, how did you adapt the Harry Potter books?"
[The Big Picture · 'Shazam!’ and the Future of the DCEU · 0:29:53 · David F. Sandberg (0.95)] Annabelle: Creation ↔ Shazam! · theme · Sandberg liked that, like Annabelle: Creation, Shazam! sits in a shared universe but stands as its own story. · "even though it is a sequel in this part of the universe, it was a prequel with all new characters and like a new story"
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Incredible Hulk · 0:06:37 · Griffin or David (0.35)] Hulk ⇒ The Incredible Hulk (the host's read) · lineage · Despite the reboot claim, the same three relationships (Hulk, Betty, Thunderbolt Ross) carry through, as does the South America opening. · "And those 3 relationships feel very much on a continuity with everything that happens in English film."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Social Network · 0:27:56 · unknown (0.35)] Mark Zuckerberg ⇒ The Social Network (the maker said so) · lineage · Sorkin says a larger share of the movie than people expect is lifted directly from depositions and emails; the speaker reports he has pointed this out. · "But that's always a big thing he's pointed out is like a larger percentage of the movie that people, than people would expect is me just using direct transcripts verbatim."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Gone Girl · 2:12:35 · unknown (0.30)] Glengarry Glen Ross ↔ Gone Girl · theme · Fincher reportedly said the book's Tanner Bolt reads like Baldwin in Glengarry and would have turned the audience against him. · "The way it reads on paper is you imagine him being more of a like Baldwin and Glengarry Glenn Bross."
[The Big Picture · 'Shazam!’ and the Future of the DCEU · 0:23:14 · David F. Sandberg (0.95)] Annabelle: Creation ↔ Shazam! · craft · Sandberg brought back his Annabelle: Creation costume designer, who had not done a superhero suit before. · "costume designer, Leah Butler, who I worked with on Alba Creation"
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Incredible Hulk · 0:14:45 · Griffin or David (0.30)] Louis Leterrier ↔ The Incredible Hulk · lineage · Leterrier is said to have based the film closely on Jeph Loeb's comic Hulk: Gray. · "So apparently Louis Letierrier based this very intently on Jeff Loeb's Hulk Gray, which no one remembers or likes."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Social Network · 0:48:25 · unknown (0.35)] Mark Zuckerberg ⇒ The Social Network (the host's read) · lineage · The Facebook-creation blog post is almost entirely verbatim in the movie. · "It's almost entirely verbatim in the movie."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Gone Girl · 2:18:15 · unknown (0.30)] Lolita ⇒ Gone Girl (the maker said so: In the commentary) · theme · On the commentary Fincher says he wanted a Claire Quilty type for Desi and found it in Neil Patrick Harris. · "Fincher said he wanted a Claire quilty type and he's like, what's a modern Claire quilty type?"
[The Big Picture · 'Shazam!’ and the Future of the DCEU · 0:26:01 · Sean Fennessey (0.70)] Terminator 2: Judgment Day ⇒ Shazam! (the host's read) · craft · Fennessey asks whether an effects shot echoes the T-1000 reassembling in Terminator 2; Sandberg agrees he references other films. · "this is basically that shot in Terminator 2, when the T 1000 gets, you know, comes back together and rises up"
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Incredible Hulk · 0:25:11 · Griffin or David (0.25)] The Incredible Hulk ⇒ The Avengers (the host's read) · lineage · Ruffalo's first Hulk scene in a slum echoes this film's Rocinha opening, though otherwise the continuity is thrown out. · "The only tale is that when the Mark Ruffalo hook was introduced, they find the little hot."

Who said it, by their latest sketch (4)

[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] Griffin Newman · latest sketch, Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · Calls Last Temptation his college-era favorite Scorsese; loves Scorsese's smaller 80s and the film's closing transcendence and Gabriel score. Cannot stand fundamentalist outrage at it. A sucker for casting trivia and Tom Cruise-silliness. · stances: Hot take: Last Temptation structurally mirrors New York, New York as a better version; Outrage over the film is stupid; it is respectful to Jesus; Scorsese's smaller 80s work beats his later baroque phases
[speaker] Jason Concepcion · latest sketch, The Big Picture · Did Disney’s ‘Mulan’ Experiment Work? A Binge Mode Investigation · Loves a musical, Donnie Yen action, and the 1998 Mulan with its Eddie Murphy humor. Finds the remake kind of boring and wants a grounded, historical version. Sucker for political and economic framing of film controversy. · stances: The remake is fine in a vacuum, a disappointment as a Mulan; Wants a more historical, less magical take; Sees the Mulan controversy as a symptom of the West-China economic experiment; Missing music means missing storytelling
[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

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 Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016) 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 Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016) and the films around it, one line each. Every line starts with where it came from, in brackets: [show · episode · time · speaker (how sure we are it was them)]. A [pairs] line says how often two films were put side by side. A [speaker] line says what that person likes. A [bits] line lists a show's running bits: a format, not an opinion.

[Blank Check — Patreon · The Social Network · 0:44:07 · unknown (0.40)] The Social Network ⇒ Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (the maker said so) · theme · Snyder's reported reasoning: the modern-day Lex Luthor would be Mark Zuckerberg. · "yeah, the modern day Lex Luthor would be Mark Zuckerberg."
[The Big Picture · The Past, Present, and Future of Superhero Movies | The Big Picture · 0:30:16 · Jason Concepcion (0.40)] Man of Steel ↔ Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice · craft · BvS's newscaster lines patching the Metropolis destruction from Man of Steel show DC's lack of confidence. · "that kind of thing shows the lack of confidence that DC really has in its voice"
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Incredible Hulk · 1:33:33 · Griffin or David (0.30)] Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice ↔ The Incredible Hulk · craft · The Abomination, like BvS's Doomsday, looks like a mud monster with no texture. · "It's the same problem as Doomsday in Batman versus Superman, where it's just like, he just looks like a mud monster."
[The Big Picture · 'Shazam!’ and the Future of the DCEU · 0:03:02 · Sean Fennessey (0.90)] Shazam! ↔ Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice · contrast · Fennessey says Shazam!'s tone differs significantly from Superman versus Batman and the Justice League films. · "I think tonally this movie is pretty significantly different from Superman versus Batman and the Justice League films"
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Lego Batman Movie · 0:47:32 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] The Lego Batman Movie ↔ Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice · contrast · Seeing Batman and Superman together here does not provoke the same cynicism as it did in Batman v Superman. · "I don't give a shit, like, about in the same way I did in Batman V Superman."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Gone Girl · 1:06:28 · unknown (0.30)] Gone Girl ⇒ Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (the host's read) · people · While making Gone Girl, Affleck reportedly joked to his agent that he needed a heroic-chin movie after the evil-chin one. · "the joke was the chin things in the script, he calls up his agent, while making Gone Girl, and says, like, I'm doing the evil chin movie now, you got to find me a heroic chin movie."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Social Network · 0:43:43 · unknown (0.35)] The Social Network ⇒ Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (the host's read) · people · Snyder offered Eisenberg Jimmy Olsen in BvS in the wake of The Social Network. · "Zack Snyder offers, uh, Jimmy Olsen. to Jesse Eisenberg in the wake of this movie, for BVS."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Social Network · 0:44:48 · David Sims (0.45)] Max Landis ⇒ Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (the host's read) · people · David's pet theory is that Eisenberg chose to play Max Landis as Lex Luthor. · "It also feels like he chose to play Max Landis more than he chose to play."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Marvel Nerdfest · 0:13:24 · David Sims (0.50)] Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice ↔ Zack Snyder · verdict · BvS underperformed because Snyder's vision is specific and does not cross over to kids. · "BVS does not make a $1000000000, which it should objectively."
[pairs] Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice ↔ The Social Network · said 2 times in 1 episode
[The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) · 0:40:17 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] Panic Room ↔ The Social Network · programming · Fincher movies are rewatchable and date-movie friendly, with the exception of Se7en; Social Network is the perfect date movie. · "Like social network, perfect date movie."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The War of the Roses’ · 1:37:30 · Craig Horlbeck (0.50)] The War of the Roses ↔ Gone Girl · lineage · Roses is described as a prequel to Gone Girl; it could have pivoted to Turner killing Douglas and going on the run. · "This movie's kind of a prequel to Gone Girl."
[Blank Check · Judging The Judge · 1:20:04 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Man of Steel ⇒ The Judge (the host's read) · lineage · The tornado father-son fight echoes the father-son tornado scene in Man of Steel, another Warner Bros. film. · "an homage to everyone's favorite father son scene from Man of Steel."
[The Big Picture · 'Shazam!’ and the Future of the DCEU · 0:07:21 · Miles Surrey (0.85)] Shazam! ↔ Black Adam (planned) · programming · Miles expects Shazam! to lead into Shazam 2 or a Black Adam movie. · "it's just leading into Shazam 2 or maybe like a Black Adam movie"
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Incredible Hulk · 0:23:12 · Griffin or David (0.35)] Iron Man ↔ The Incredible Hulk · programming · Both Iron Man's post-credits Fury scene and Tony's Hulk cameo got audiences cheering, building the idea of a shared universe. · "I was so invested in the idea, which seems hilarious now of a cinematic universe."
[The Big Picture · Aaron Sorkin Top 5s and ‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’ · 0:56:04 · Sean Fennessey (0.80)] The Social Network ⇒ Steve Jobs (the host's read) · lineage · Steve Jobs is called a worthy sequel to The Social Network on big tech and innovation. · "I think this is in many ways a worthy sequel to the social network"
[The Big Picture · ‘The Killer’ Is Cold-Blooded Genius. And Something More · 0:17:53 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60)] The Killer ↔ Gone Girl · lineage · It is the closest Fincher has come to a pure thriller since Gone Girl, maybe Dragon Tattoo. · "he hasn't made a movie quite like this, I guess, since Gone Girl, but even, I mean, you could maybe even going back further to Dragon Tattoo is maybe a little closer to this kind of a pure thriller."
[The Big Picture · 'Shazam!’ and the Future of the DCEU · 0:03:27 · Miles Surrey (0.85)] Shazam! ↔ Amblin · lineage · Miles says Shazam! has the throwback coming-of-age feel of 1980s Amblin movies. · "something you would see from like ambling in like the 80s"
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Incredible Hulk · 0:36:32 · Griffin or David (0.30)] The Incredible Hulk ↔ Captain America (First Avenger / MCU) · programming · The WWII super-soldier line makes theater audiences excited for a Captain America reference, a habit Iron Man 2 repeats. · "Iron Man 2 is the guiltiest of that."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Social Network · 0:11:24 · David Sims (0.50)] The Social Network ↔ Blackberry · lineage · Blackberry is named as the only movie to come close to The Social Network in the 13 years since. · "I think Blackberry is the only thing that has come close and then now 13 years since this movie came out."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Gone Girl · 0:20:39 · unknown (0.30)] Reese Witherspoon ⇒ Gone Girl (the host's read) · lineage · Witherspoon took the book and had the idea of bringing Fincher on board. · "takes this book, has the smart idea, bring Fincher on board."
[The Big Picture · 'Shazam!’ and the Future of the DCEU · 0:04:17 · Sean Fennessey (0.90)] Big ⇒ Shazam! (the host's read) · lineage · Fennessey calls Shazam! essentially Big as a superhero movie. · "the movie is clearly pitched as sort of what if big but superhero"
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Incredible Hulk · 1:31:34 · Griffin or David (0.35)] The Incredible Hulk ⇒ Captain America (First Avenger / MCU) (the host's read) · programming · The hero jumping out of a hangar plane becomes a recurring Marvel image, starting here and used in Black Panther and Captain America. · "And this is the 1st of what then becomes the Marvel trope where a hero is either pushed out of or jumps out of the back of like a hangar plane."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Social Network · 0:11:44 · David Sims (0.60)] The Social Network ⇒ The Big Short (the host's read) · lineage · David says The Big Short is the most obvious movie ripping off The Social Network, and that people do not make the connection enough. · "I think the big short, which is not a movie I love, is the most obvious movie that's ripping off the social network, even though people maybe don't make that connection enough."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Gone Girl · 0:34:23 · Esther Zuckerman (0.70)] Gone Girl (Gillian Flynn novel) ⇒ Gone Girl (the host's read) · lineage · The film adapts Flynn's novel, and the first-person diary trickery was the open question about how it would work on screen. · "Because it is such like a little fun piece of 1st person narration trickery."
[The Big Picture · 'Shazam!’ and the Future of the DCEU · 0:14:30 · David F. Sandberg (0.95)] Big ⇒ Shazam! (the maker said so: Sandberg, in this interview, on the studio pitch) · lineage · Sandberg says the studio pitched it to him as Big with superpowers. · "it's basically uh, big, but with superpowers"
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Incredible Hulk · 1:51:33 · Griffin or David (0.35)] The Consultant ↔ The Incredible Hulk · programming · The short on the Thor Blu-ray explains Tony's cameo as a ploy to sabotage the recruitment of Blonsky. · "They see him as a war hero and blame the devastation of Harlem and Bruce Banner."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Social Network · 0:15:37 · David Sims (0.50)] The Accidental Billionaires (Ben Mezrich book) ↔ The Social Network · lineage · The film is technically an adapted screenplay but the speakers say Sorkin was working from the same research and the book proposal, not using the book as a template. · "But it's basically like this movie is using the same research that the book has called rather than Aaron Sorkin reading this book and using it as a template if that makes sense."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Gone Girl · 0:36:35 · unknown (0.30)] A Simple Plan ⇒ Gone Girl (the maker said so) · lineage · Flynn used A Simple Plan as her model for adapting her own novel, then worried she could not match it. · "And she said, so I tried to use that as a model and then I freaked myself out because I was like, well, this is too good. I won't do this well."
[The Big Picture · 'Shazam!’ and the Future of the DCEU · 0:06:26 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] Shazam! ↔ Wonder Woman · theme · Both films, in Miles's view, start clever and then end in a punching match with a monster or villain. · "That was also one of my struggles, honestly, with Wonder Woman"
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Incredible Hulk · 0:04:49 · Griffin or David (0.35)] The Incredible Hulk ↔ Hulk · lineage · A speaker says the opening credits re-establish the origin so the film can claim to be a new beginning rather than a direct sequel to Ang Lee's film. · "So this is why people say, oh, it this isn't a direct sequel to Angly because they make the..."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Social Network · 0:26:04 · unknown (0.35)] The Accidental Billionaires (Ben Mezrich book) ↔ The Social Network · lineage · Sorkin had no finished book and worked from notes and a general structure, with little to do with the book that exists. · "but he doesn't really have much to do with the actual book that exists."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Gone Girl · 0:39:03 · unknown (0.30)] Steve Kloves → Gone Girl · lineage · Flynn asked Kloves how he handled the Harry Potter adaptations; the speaker does not say it shaped the script. · "She goes to Steve Cloves and is like, how did you adapt the Harry Potter books?"
[The Big Picture · 'Shazam!’ and the Future of the DCEU · 0:29:53 · David F. Sandberg (0.95)] Annabelle: Creation ↔ Shazam! · theme · Sandberg liked that, like Annabelle: Creation, Shazam! sits in a shared universe but stands as its own story. · "even though it is a sequel in this part of the universe, it was a prequel with all new characters and like a new story"
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Incredible Hulk · 0:06:37 · Griffin or David (0.35)] Hulk ⇒ The Incredible Hulk (the host's read) · lineage · Despite the reboot claim, the same three relationships (Hulk, Betty, Thunderbolt Ross) carry through, as does the South America opening. · "And those 3 relationships feel very much on a continuity with everything that happens in English film."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Social Network · 0:27:56 · unknown (0.35)] Mark Zuckerberg ⇒ The Social Network (the maker said so) · lineage · Sorkin says a larger share of the movie than people expect is lifted directly from depositions and emails; the speaker reports he has pointed this out. · "But that's always a big thing he's pointed out is like a larger percentage of the movie that people, than people would expect is me just using direct transcripts verbatim."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Gone Girl · 2:12:35 · unknown (0.30)] Glengarry Glen Ross ↔ Gone Girl · theme · Fincher reportedly said the book's Tanner Bolt reads like Baldwin in Glengarry and would have turned the audience against him. · "The way it reads on paper is you imagine him being more of a like Baldwin and Glengarry Glenn Bross."
[The Big Picture · 'Shazam!’ and the Future of the DCEU · 0:23:14 · David F. Sandberg (0.95)] Annabelle: Creation ↔ Shazam! · craft · Sandberg brought back his Annabelle: Creation costume designer, who had not done a superhero suit before. · "costume designer, Leah Butler, who I worked with on Alba Creation"
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Incredible Hulk · 0:14:45 · Griffin or David (0.30)] Louis Leterrier ↔ The Incredible Hulk · lineage · Leterrier is said to have based the film closely on Jeph Loeb's comic Hulk: Gray. · "So apparently Louis Letierrier based this very intently on Jeff Loeb's Hulk Gray, which no one remembers or likes."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Social Network · 0:48:25 · unknown (0.35)] Mark Zuckerberg ⇒ The Social Network (the host's read) · lineage · The Facebook-creation blog post is almost entirely verbatim in the movie. · "It's almost entirely verbatim in the movie."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Gone Girl · 2:18:15 · unknown (0.30)] Lolita ⇒ Gone Girl (the maker said so: In the commentary) · theme · On the commentary Fincher says he wanted a Claire Quilty type for Desi and found it in Neil Patrick Harris. · "Fincher said he wanted a Claire quilty type and he's like, what's a modern Claire quilty type?"
[The Big Picture · 'Shazam!’ and the Future of the DCEU · 0:26:01 · Sean Fennessey (0.70)] Terminator 2: Judgment Day ⇒ Shazam! (the host's read) · craft · Fennessey asks whether an effects shot echoes the T-1000 reassembling in Terminator 2; Sandberg agrees he references other films. · "this is basically that shot in Terminator 2, when the T 1000 gets, you know, comes back together and rises up"
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Incredible Hulk · 0:25:11 · Griffin or David (0.25)] The Incredible Hulk ⇒ The Avengers (the host's read) · lineage · Ruffalo's first Hulk scene in a slum echoes this film's Rocinha opening, though otherwise the continuity is thrown out. · "The only tale is that when the Mark Ruffalo hook was introduced, they find the little hot."
[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] Griffin Newman · latest sketch, Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · Calls Last Temptation his college-era favorite Scorsese; loves Scorsese's smaller 80s and the film's closing transcendence and Gabriel score. Cannot stand fundamentalist outrage at it. A sucker for casting trivia and Tom Cruise-silliness. · stances: Hot take: Last Temptation structurally mirrors New York, New York as a better version; Outrage over the film is stupid; it is respectful to Jesus; Scorsese's smaller 80s work beats his later baroque phases
[speaker] Jason Concepcion · latest sketch, The Big Picture · Did Disney’s ‘Mulan’ Experiment Work? A Binge Mode Investigation · Loves a musical, Donnie Yen action, and the 1998 Mulan with its Eddie Murphy humor. Finds the remake kind of boring and wants a grounded, historical version. Sucker for political and economic framing of film controversy. · stances: The remake is fine in a vacuum, a disappointment as a Mulan; Wants a more historical, less magical take; Sees the Mulan controversy as a symptom of the West-China economic experiment; Missing music means missing storytelling
[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
[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 Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016) 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.