What the corpus says about Reality Bites (1994)

What was said about it (20)

1. [The Rewatchables · ‘Reality Bites’ 25th Anniversary · 0:03:13 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] Reality Bites ↔ Singles · lineage · Simmons builds a four-movie Gen X Mount Rushmore. · "For movies, I would go singles, reality bites before sunrise and kicking and screaming."
2. [The Rewatchables · ‘Reality Bites’ 25th Anniversary · 0:03:30 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Reality Bites ↔ Before Sunrise · lineage · Part of the same four-film Gen X set. · "Kind of like, if you were going to explain Generation X in 4 movies, I would pick those for, which one would you knock out singles?"
3. [The Rewatchables · ‘Reality Bites’ 25th Anniversary · 0:03:37 · Chuck Klosterman (0.70)] Slacker ↔ Reality Bites · lineage · Klosterman says Slacker belongs in the Gen X group because its script appears in the Gen X Reader. · "there's a anthology book called the Gen X Reader, and some of the slacker script is in that book."
4. [The Rewatchables · ‘The Big Chill’ · 0:12:44 · unknown (0.40)] The Big Chill ⇒ Reality Bites (the host's read) · theme · Reality Bites is the young-person reaction to the sold-out generation The Big Chill depicts. · "And then that's why like reality bites hits and you see reality bites and you're like, oh, that's why Troy is like, fuck everything."
5. [The Rewatchables · ‘Reality Bites’ 25th Anniversary · 0:05:15 · Chris Ryan (0.45)] Singles ↔ Reality Bites · theme · Without the Seattle music, Singles would not even be connected to Reality Bites. · "Whereas singles, had they used a different soundtrack."
6. [The Rewatchables · ‘Reality Bites’ 25th Anniversary · 0:20:06 · Chuck Klosterman (0.50)] Reality Bites ↔ High Fidelity · theme · Frampton Comes Alive as a signal of mainstream taste echoes a Frampton cover scene in High Fidelity. · "In the book High Fidelity,"
7. [The Rewatchables · ‘Reality Bites’ 25th Anniversary · 1:36:21 · Chris Ryan (0.30)] Reality Bites ↔ Singles · theme · In the Hawke clip, Singles lacked the central performance and script voice Reality Bites has. · "But singles was trying to cop onto this grunge movement, this thing that was happening in Seattle."
8. [The Rewatchables · ‘Reality Bites’ 25th Anniversary · 0:08:35 · Chuck Klosterman (0.50)] Dazed and Confused ↔ Reality Bites · craft · Two kinds of generational movie: looking back at a past era (Dazed, Graffiti) versus real time (Reality Bites, Saturday Night Fever). · "And then there are the movies where they actually try to do it in real time, like Saturday Night Fever is like this, and reality bites is like the clearest example."
9. [The Rewatchables · ‘Reality Bites’ 25th Anniversary · 0:04:58 · Chris Ryan (0.45)] Singles ↔ Reality Bites · contrast · Reality Bites is the aggressive real-time generational movie; Singles only reads Gen X through its soundtrack. · "it seemed like a much more aggressive attempt to be generational."
10. [The Rewatchables · ‘Reality Bites’ 25th Anniversary · 0:05:31 · Chris Ryan (0.45)] Singles ↔ Reality Bites · contrast · Singles' leads felt inauthentic as Seattle residents; Reality Bites leads seemed like real college kids. · "Campbell Scott, Matt Dylan, and Bridget Fonda are not, like, Seattle residents."
11. [The Rewatchables · ‘Reality Bites’ 25th Anniversary · 0:15:24 · Chuck Klosterman (0.50)] Reality Bites ↔ Slacker · contrast · Reality Bites was seen at the time as the sellout, mainstream version of Slacker. · "this is the most mainstream version of what a movie like Slacker was."
12. [The Rewatchables · ‘Reality Bites’ 25th Anniversary · 1:28:22 · Chuck Klosterman (0.50)] Reality Bites ↔ Kicking and Screaming · contrast · Kicking and Screaming ends with a futile romantic gesture, which makes it the superior movie. · "kicking and screaming has such like a powerful ending precisely because the great romantic gesture is just ultimately futile."
13. [The Rewatchables · ‘Reality Bites’ 25th Anniversary · 1:15:31 · Bill Simmons (0.55)] Reality Bites ↔ Singles · verdict · Singles looks like a sketch about dead technology: payphones, answering machines, video-cassette dating. · "Singles is almost like someone, it looks like now, like someone has made a sketch about technology we no longer use."
14. [The Rewatchables · ‘Reality Bites’ 25th Anniversary · 0:43:31 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Reality Bites ↔ Friends (TV) · industry · Friends season one captured the mid-90s roommate money tension that Reality Bites does. · "That's why I defend season one of Friends, because I thought it did a nice job of, in these weird ways of, uh, what it was like to have a roommate in the mid 90s."
15. [The Rewatchables · ‘Reality Bites’ 25th Anniversary · 0:44:36 · Bill Simmons (0.40)] Reality Bites ↔ Melrose Place (TV) · industry · The Melrose Place AIDS scene lampoons the TV treatment of the issue while the film makes AIDS a character. · "this movie, out of any movie I've seen from this era, does the best job of just kind of making that a character."
16. [The Rewatchables · ‘Reality Bites’ 25th Anniversary · 1:01:00 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Reality Bites ↔ Beautiful Girls · industry · Stiller could not clear Kiss's Beth; two years later Beautiful Girls got it. · "And what's weird is 2 years later, beautiful girls got the rights to the sun."
17. [The Rewatchables · ‘Reality Bites’ 25th Anniversary · 0:59:17 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Reality Bites ↔ Pulp Fiction · what-if · Tarantino wanted My Sharona for Pulp Fiction but Reality Bites got the rights first. · "Quentin Tarantino, was supposed to use my Sharona."
18. [The Rewatchables · ‘Reality Bites’ 25th Anniversary · 1:38:11 · Ethan Hawke (0.70)] Talking Heads ↔ Reality Bites · craft · The Talking Heads song that opens the film throws you into that moment in America. · "even when it starts out, that talking head song, we're on a roll, no. Like, it jettisons you into that moment in America, I think."
19. [The Rewatchables · ‘Reality Bites’ 25th Anniversary · 1:04:37 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Ethan Hawke ↔ Reality Bites · career · A shot from Reality Bites, not another film, runs in his Oscar in-memoriam montage as shorthand. · "When he dies in the Oscar montage, it's a shot from reality bites."
20. [The Rewatchables · ‘Pulp Fiction’ (Part 2) · 0:49:51 · Bill Simmons (0.40)] Quentin Tarantino ↔ Reality Bites · industry · Reality Bites got My Sharona for its convenience store scene; licensing chose it over the gang rape scene, and Tarantino says he is glad. · "Reality Bites also wanted it for the convenience store scene."

Films put beside it more than once (2)

1. [pairs] Reality Bites ↔ Singles · said 6 times in 1 episode
2. [pairs] Reality Bites ↔ Slacker · said 2 times in 1 episode

Fun items about it (6)

1. [The Rewatchables · ‘Reality Bites’ 25th Anniversary · 0:12:34 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Reality Bites · fun · Selling out: a Grantland coworker had never heard the expression. · "And then we realized he literally didn't know what it meant."
2. [The Rewatchables · ‘Reality Bites’ 25th Anniversary · 0:23:00 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Reality Bites · fun · The Good Times game: remembering episode premises; nephew Kyle at 25 missed half the references. · "I watched with nephew Kyle, who's 25 and didn't get half of them."
3. [The Rewatchables · ‘Reality Bites’ 25th Anniversary · 0:30:22 · Bill Simmons (0.55)] Reality Bites · fun · A scene where Lelaina explains to Michael why she picks Troy was cut because the fountain's noise could not be removed. · "But it's filmed in front of a huge water fountain, which you see in an earlier part of the movie, and they could not get the sound of the water out."
4. [The Rewatchables · ‘Reality Bites’ 25th Anniversary · 0:31:52 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Reality Bites · fun · Box office: $33.4 million on an $11.5 million budget. · "A box office success made 33.4 million."
5. [The Rewatchables · ‘Reality Bites’ 25th Anniversary · 0:50:09 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Reality Bites · fun · Troy's 'witty pop culture comebacks' picked as what aged the worst. · "Troy's witty pop culture comebacks?"
6. [The Rewatchables · ‘Reality Bites’ 25th Anniversary · 0:50:32 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Reality Bites · fun · Heavy product placement (Diet Coke, Rolling Rock, Big Gulps) was one way they paid for the movie. · "There's a frightening amount of product placement in this movie, and I think it's intentional"

One hop out: what recommends the films most often joined to it (9)

1. [The Rewatchables · ‘The Big Chill’ · 1:55:03 · unknown (0.40)] Singles ↔ The Big Chill · theme · Friendship movies loved alongside Kicking and Screaming; realism in a moment. · "I love singles."
2. [Blank Check — Patreon · Fight Club · 2:57:12 · Alex Ross Perry (0.45)] Slacker ↔ Fight Club · programming · Klosterman, as read, names Slacker or Fight Club as the decade's most generationally defining film. · "either slacker or fight club, could justifiably be called the decade's most generationally defining."
3. [The Rewatchables · ‘The Big Chill’ · 0:04:50 · unknown (0.40)] The Big Chill ⇒ Beautiful Girls (the host's read) · lineage · Named among the later films that tried and failed to be the Big Chill for a new generation, along with About Alex. · "I remember beautiful girls tried in the mid 90s and there's a movie called About Alex and the mid 2010s."
4. [The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 1:04:18 · Chris Ryan (0.85)] House Party ↔ Dazed and Confused · lineage · For its rap-era teens, House Party was a Dazed and Confused before Dazed came out. · "This was like my days to confused before Days to Confuse came out."
5. [The Rewatchables · ‘Reality Bites’ 25th Anniversary · 0:05:25 · Bill Simmons (0.40)] Pearl Jam ↔ Singles · craft · Pearl Jam appear as a band in Singles, part of the music that made it feel Gen X. · "especially you have, you have Pearl Jam playing another band"
6. [The Rewatchables · ‘Friday Night Lights’ · 0:53:42 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Friday Night Lights (2004 film) ↔ Dazed and Confused · theme · The this-is-the-peak-of-your-life theme also drives Dazed and Confused. · "But even like movies, other, like days been confused. It was a theme for the for that movie too."
7. [The Rewatchables · ‘This Is the End’ · 0:41:19 · Craig Horlbeck (0.40)] This Is the End ↔ Dazed and Confused · theme · The film takes the one-crazy-night party movie and marries it to Night of the Living Dead. · "taking one crazy night party, like Project Decks or Days and Confused, and then marrying it to Night of Living Dead is pretty fucking potent."
8. [The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ · 1:18:50 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Ferris Bueller's Day Off ↔ Dazed and Confused · theme · Other nominees for the all-in-one-day genre include Dazed and Confused, Dog Day Afternoon, Before Sunrise/Sunset, Do the Right Thing. · "Dazed and Confused, dog day afternoon. Um, the before sunrise before sunset movies. Do the right thing is on that list."
9. [The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 0:16:24 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Dazed and Confused ↔ Summer Catch · craft · Both films cut around a star who cannot pitch: Wiley Wiggins as Mitch Kramer and Freddie Prinze Jr. · "The windup and then cutting to the guy behind him where it's clearly the stunt double pitcher because, you know, the guy couldn't."

Who said it, by their latest sketch (4)

1. [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
2. [speaker] Chuck Klosterman · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘Reality Bites’ 25th Anniversary · Obsessed with how the 90s defined selling out, indie rock ethos, and how art and commerce collided; dislikes the English-major Troy type. Loves Kicking and Screaming over Reality Bites. · stances: Selling out was the central 90s tension; Kicking and Screaming is superior; Hawke won the movie
3. [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
4. [speaker] Ethan Hawke · no sketch

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] The Rewatchables: Apex Mountain (The moment a star peaks; where on the mountain a performance sits); Who Won the Movie (The hosts name the person who came out of the film best off); The Ebert review (Roger Ebert's original review and star rating read aloud. Ebert is cited, never on the show); Casting what-ifs (Who was almost cast, or who should have been); Most rewatchable scene (The scene each host would stop on while flipping channels); Aged best / aged worst (What holds up and what does not); Picking Nits (The little things in a film the hosts love that they don't think totally work: the nits); Double feature (The film each host would pair it with; a programming pick)

The whole prompt

You are a clerk at Video Culture, a video store. A customer just finished Reality Bites (1994) 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 Reality Bites (1994) 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 Rewatchables · ‘Reality Bites’ 25th Anniversary · 0:03:13 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] Reality Bites ↔ Singles · lineage · Simmons builds a four-movie Gen X Mount Rushmore. · "For movies, I would go singles, reality bites before sunrise and kicking and screaming."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Reality Bites’ 25th Anniversary · 0:03:30 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Reality Bites ↔ Before Sunrise · lineage · Part of the same four-film Gen X set. · "Kind of like, if you were going to explain Generation X in 4 movies, I would pick those for, which one would you knock out singles?"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Reality Bites’ 25th Anniversary · 0:03:37 · Chuck Klosterman (0.70)] Slacker ↔ Reality Bites · lineage · Klosterman says Slacker belongs in the Gen X group because its script appears in the Gen X Reader. · "there's a anthology book called the Gen X Reader, and some of the slacker script is in that book."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Big Chill’ · 0:12:44 · unknown (0.40)] The Big Chill ⇒ Reality Bites (the host's read) · theme · Reality Bites is the young-person reaction to the sold-out generation The Big Chill depicts. · "And then that's why like reality bites hits and you see reality bites and you're like, oh, that's why Troy is like, fuck everything."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Reality Bites’ 25th Anniversary · 0:05:15 · Chris Ryan (0.45)] Singles ↔ Reality Bites · theme · Without the Seattle music, Singles would not even be connected to Reality Bites. · "Whereas singles, had they used a different soundtrack."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Reality Bites’ 25th Anniversary · 0:20:06 · Chuck Klosterman (0.50)] Reality Bites ↔ High Fidelity · theme · Frampton Comes Alive as a signal of mainstream taste echoes a Frampton cover scene in High Fidelity. · "In the book High Fidelity,"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Reality Bites’ 25th Anniversary · 1:36:21 · Chris Ryan (0.30)] Reality Bites ↔ Singles · theme · In the Hawke clip, Singles lacked the central performance and script voice Reality Bites has. · "But singles was trying to cop onto this grunge movement, this thing that was happening in Seattle."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Reality Bites’ 25th Anniversary · 0:08:35 · Chuck Klosterman (0.50)] Dazed and Confused ↔ Reality Bites · craft · Two kinds of generational movie: looking back at a past era (Dazed, Graffiti) versus real time (Reality Bites, Saturday Night Fever). · "And then there are the movies where they actually try to do it in real time, like Saturday Night Fever is like this, and reality bites is like the clearest example."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Reality Bites’ 25th Anniversary · 0:04:58 · Chris Ryan (0.45)] Singles ↔ Reality Bites · contrast · Reality Bites is the aggressive real-time generational movie; Singles only reads Gen X through its soundtrack. · "it seemed like a much more aggressive attempt to be generational."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Reality Bites’ 25th Anniversary · 0:05:31 · Chris Ryan (0.45)] Singles ↔ Reality Bites · contrast · Singles' leads felt inauthentic as Seattle residents; Reality Bites leads seemed like real college kids. · "Campbell Scott, Matt Dylan, and Bridget Fonda are not, like, Seattle residents."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Reality Bites’ 25th Anniversary · 0:15:24 · Chuck Klosterman (0.50)] Reality Bites ↔ Slacker · contrast · Reality Bites was seen at the time as the sellout, mainstream version of Slacker. · "this is the most mainstream version of what a movie like Slacker was."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Reality Bites’ 25th Anniversary · 1:28:22 · Chuck Klosterman (0.50)] Reality Bites ↔ Kicking and Screaming · contrast · Kicking and Screaming ends with a futile romantic gesture, which makes it the superior movie. · "kicking and screaming has such like a powerful ending precisely because the great romantic gesture is just ultimately futile."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Reality Bites’ 25th Anniversary · 1:15:31 · Bill Simmons (0.55)] Reality Bites ↔ Singles · verdict · Singles looks like a sketch about dead technology: payphones, answering machines, video-cassette dating. · "Singles is almost like someone, it looks like now, like someone has made a sketch about technology we no longer use."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Reality Bites’ 25th Anniversary · 0:43:31 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Reality Bites ↔ Friends (TV) · industry · Friends season one captured the mid-90s roommate money tension that Reality Bites does. · "That's why I defend season one of Friends, because I thought it did a nice job of, in these weird ways of, uh, what it was like to have a roommate in the mid 90s."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Reality Bites’ 25th Anniversary · 0:44:36 · Bill Simmons (0.40)] Reality Bites ↔ Melrose Place (TV) · industry · The Melrose Place AIDS scene lampoons the TV treatment of the issue while the film makes AIDS a character. · "this movie, out of any movie I've seen from this era, does the best job of just kind of making that a character."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Reality Bites’ 25th Anniversary · 1:01:00 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Reality Bites ↔ Beautiful Girls · industry · Stiller could not clear Kiss's Beth; two years later Beautiful Girls got it. · "And what's weird is 2 years later, beautiful girls got the rights to the sun."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Reality Bites’ 25th Anniversary · 0:59:17 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Reality Bites ↔ Pulp Fiction · what-if · Tarantino wanted My Sharona for Pulp Fiction but Reality Bites got the rights first. · "Quentin Tarantino, was supposed to use my Sharona."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Reality Bites’ 25th Anniversary · 1:38:11 · Ethan Hawke (0.70)] Talking Heads ↔ Reality Bites · craft · The Talking Heads song that opens the film throws you into that moment in America. · "even when it starts out, that talking head song, we're on a roll, no. Like, it jettisons you into that moment in America, I think."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Reality Bites’ 25th Anniversary · 1:04:37 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Ethan Hawke ↔ Reality Bites · career · A shot from Reality Bites, not another film, runs in his Oscar in-memoriam montage as shorthand. · "When he dies in the Oscar montage, it's a shot from reality bites."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Pulp Fiction’ (Part 2) · 0:49:51 · Bill Simmons (0.40)] Quentin Tarantino ↔ Reality Bites · industry · Reality Bites got My Sharona for its convenience store scene; licensing chose it over the gang rape scene, and Tarantino says he is glad. · "Reality Bites also wanted it for the convenience store scene."
[pairs] Reality Bites ↔ Singles · said 6 times in 1 episode
[pairs] Reality Bites ↔ Slacker · said 2 times in 1 episode
[The Rewatchables · ‘Reality Bites’ 25th Anniversary · 0:12:34 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Reality Bites · fun · Selling out: a Grantland coworker had never heard the expression. · "And then we realized he literally didn't know what it meant."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Reality Bites’ 25th Anniversary · 0:23:00 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Reality Bites · fun · The Good Times game: remembering episode premises; nephew Kyle at 25 missed half the references. · "I watched with nephew Kyle, who's 25 and didn't get half of them."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Reality Bites’ 25th Anniversary · 0:30:22 · Bill Simmons (0.55)] Reality Bites · fun · A scene where Lelaina explains to Michael why she picks Troy was cut because the fountain's noise could not be removed. · "But it's filmed in front of a huge water fountain, which you see in an earlier part of the movie, and they could not get the sound of the water out."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Reality Bites’ 25th Anniversary · 0:31:52 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Reality Bites · fun · Box office: $33.4 million on an $11.5 million budget. · "A box office success made 33.4 million."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Reality Bites’ 25th Anniversary · 0:50:09 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Reality Bites · fun · Troy's 'witty pop culture comebacks' picked as what aged the worst. · "Troy's witty pop culture comebacks?"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Reality Bites’ 25th Anniversary · 0:50:32 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Reality Bites · fun · Heavy product placement (Diet Coke, Rolling Rock, Big Gulps) was one way they paid for the movie. · "There's a frightening amount of product placement in this movie, and I think it's intentional"
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Big Chill’ · 1:55:03 · unknown (0.40)] Singles ↔ The Big Chill · theme · Friendship movies loved alongside Kicking and Screaming; realism in a moment. · "I love singles."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Fight Club · 2:57:12 · Alex Ross Perry (0.45)] Slacker ↔ Fight Club · programming · Klosterman, as read, names Slacker or Fight Club as the decade's most generationally defining film. · "either slacker or fight club, could justifiably be called the decade's most generationally defining."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Big Chill’ · 0:04:50 · unknown (0.40)] The Big Chill ⇒ Beautiful Girls (the host's read) · lineage · Named among the later films that tried and failed to be the Big Chill for a new generation, along with About Alex. · "I remember beautiful girls tried in the mid 90s and there's a movie called About Alex and the mid 2010s."
[The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 1:04:18 · Chris Ryan (0.85)] House Party ↔ Dazed and Confused · lineage · For its rap-era teens, House Party was a Dazed and Confused before Dazed came out. · "This was like my days to confused before Days to Confuse came out."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Reality Bites’ 25th Anniversary · 0:05:25 · Bill Simmons (0.40)] Pearl Jam ↔ Singles · craft · Pearl Jam appear as a band in Singles, part of the music that made it feel Gen X. · "especially you have, you have Pearl Jam playing another band"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Friday Night Lights’ · 0:53:42 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Friday Night Lights (2004 film) ↔ Dazed and Confused · theme · The this-is-the-peak-of-your-life theme also drives Dazed and Confused. · "But even like movies, other, like days been confused. It was a theme for the for that movie too."
[The Rewatchables · ‘This Is the End’ · 0:41:19 · Craig Horlbeck (0.40)] This Is the End ↔ Dazed and Confused · theme · The film takes the one-crazy-night party movie and marries it to Night of the Living Dead. · "taking one crazy night party, like Project Decks or Days and Confused, and then marrying it to Night of Living Dead is pretty fucking potent."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ · 1:18:50 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Ferris Bueller's Day Off ↔ Dazed and Confused · theme · Other nominees for the all-in-one-day genre include Dazed and Confused, Dog Day Afternoon, Before Sunrise/Sunset, Do the Right Thing. · "Dazed and Confused, dog day afternoon. Um, the before sunrise before sunset movies. Do the right thing is on that list."
[The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 0:16:24 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Dazed and Confused ↔ Summer Catch · craft · Both films cut around a star who cannot pitch: Wiley Wiggins as Mitch Kramer and Freddie Prinze Jr. · "The windup and then cutting to the guy behind him where it's clearly the stunt double pitcher because, you know, the guy couldn't."
[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] Chuck Klosterman · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘Reality Bites’ 25th Anniversary · Obsessed with how the 90s defined selling out, indie rock ethos, and how art and commerce collided; dislikes the English-major Troy type. Loves Kicking and Screaming over Reality Bites. · stances: Selling out was the central 90s tension; Kicking and Screaming is superior; Hawke won the movie
[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] Ethan Hawke · no sketch
[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] 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 Reality Bites (1994); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Reality Bites (1994) 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.