What the corpus says about Steve Jobs (2015)

The 45 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 (10)

[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 · Aaron Sorkin Top 5s and ‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’ · 1:00:49 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] The Trial of the Chicago 7 ↔ Steve Jobs · theme · Both ask whether the result was worth how people were treated, and how change is made. · "But that same idea, that sort of like, was it worth it, idea, is in a lot of his other work."
[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"
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Social Network · 0:11:39 · David Sims (0.40)] The Social Network ↔ Steve Jobs · people · Steve Jobs is set aside as a Sorkin script written after The Social Network, so it does not count as a successor. · "Don't count those, right? Because those are Sorkin scripts."
[The Big Picture · Aaron Sorkin Top 5s and ‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’ · 0:55:53 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] Steve Jobs ↔ Daniel Pemberton · craft · Pemberton's score is singled out as incredible among the film's strengths. · "Incredible score by Daniel Pemberton."
[The Big Picture · Aaron Sorkin Top 5s and ‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’ · 0:55:55 · Sean Fennessey (0.70)] Steve Jobs ↔ Danny Boyle · craft · Boyle does the most he can with what is essentially a stage play, with the act two intercut. · "I think Boyle is doing the absolute most he can do with a script that is more or less a stage play."
[The Big Picture · Aaron Sorkin Top 5s and ‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’ · 0:58:35 · Amanda Dobbins (0.65)] Steve Jobs ↔ Jeff Daniels · craft · The Daniels and Fassbender intercut compresses a therapy breakthrough about control into two minutes. · "The Steve Jobs character has like a 3 year therapy breakthrough in under 2 minutes"
[The Rewatchables · ‘This Is the End’ · 0:02:32 · Bill Simmons (0.40)] Seth Rogen ↔ Steve Jobs · career · The 08-to-Steve-Jobs run for Rogen stands up against the great actor runs. · "the 15, like, up to the Steve Jobs run for Rogan is actually sneaky"
[The Big Picture · Aaron Sorkin Top 5s and ‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’ · 0:57:40 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60)] Steve Jobs ↔ Michael Fassbender · people · Fassbender gives a menacing, dark performance that makes Jobs's failures off-putting. · "there was something very menacing about his performance"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 0:27:16 · unknown (0.30)] Katherine Waterston ↔ Steve Jobs · people · Waterston was in Steve Jobs, another Fassbender collaboration. · "Like, I like her in Steve Jobs, another Fastbender collab."

Films put beside it more than once (1)

[pairs] Steve Jobs ↔ The Social Network · said 2 times in 2 episodes

Fun items about it (3)

[The Big Picture · Aaron Sorkin Top 5s and ‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’ · 0:55:18 · Sean Fennessey (0.70)] Steve Jobs · fun · Seth Rogen as Wozniak should have won an Oscar. · "It's absurd to me that Seth Rogan was not nominated for an Oscar."
[The Big Picture · Aaron Sorkin Top 5s and ‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’ · 0:55:27 · Sean Fennessey (0.70)] Steve Jobs · fun · Kate Winslet has more of a Polish accent in the later sequences than the first; a filming-order theory. · "I don't totally understand why she has a Polish accent in the future, but not in the past."
[The Big Picture · Aaron Sorkin Top 5s and ‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’ · 1:01:08 · Amanda Dobbins (0.55)] Steve Jobs · fun · The iPod is invented on top of a parking roof. · "Can't believe we didn't talk about how he just invents the iPod on top of a parking roof?"

One hop out: what recommends the films most often joined to it (24)

[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 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 · Aaron Sorkin Top 5s and ‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’ · 1:35:06 · Sean Fennessey (0.70)] The Trial of the Chicago 7 ↔ Moonlight · programming · Moonlight is the model of a film that was right for its moment, against which Chicago 7's timeliness is weighed. · "I always felt like Moonlight was a movie for its time in a very sentimental way"
[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."
[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 · Aaron Sorkin Top 5s and ‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’ · 1:54:31 · Sean Fennessey (0.55)] The Trial of the Chicago 7 ↔ Mank · programming · Chicago 7 is a big fat fastball for the Oscars alongside Mank, Nomadland and Hillbilly Elegy. · "this is a big fat, fastball right down the middle."
[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."
[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 · 300th Episode Ask-Us-Anything Mailbag Spectacular · 2:09:02 · Sean Fennessey (0.80)] Aaron Sorkin ↔ The Trial of the Chicago 7 · programming · Next episode: Aaron Sorkin and The Trial of the Chicago 7. · "examining one of our stars, one of our beloveds, a great and complicated Aaron Sorkin"
[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."
[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 · Aaron Sorkin Top 5s and ‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’ · 1:31:23 · Sean Fennessey (0.80)] The Trial of the Chicago 7 ↔ Medium Cool · lineage · The Chicago trial and DNC events were told before in Haskell Wexler's part-documentary Medium Cool. · "Medium cool, Haskell Wexler's part documentary, part narrative feature in 1969 kind of reflects on the events at the DNC that year."
[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."
[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 · Aaron Sorkin Top 5s and ‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’ · 1:31:32 · Sean Fennessey (0.80)] The Trial of the Chicago 7 ⇒ Punishment Park (the host's read) · lineage · Punishment Park is recommended as a very loose take on this trial. · "There's this great movie called Punishment Park that I would recommend to anybody that is very loosely based on this trial."
[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."
[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 · Aaron Sorkin Top 5s and ‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’ · 1:31:45 · Sean Fennessey (0.80)] The Trial of the Chicago 7 ↔ Chicago 10 · lineage · The trial was also rendered in Brett Morgen's animated documentary Chicago 10, the HBO movie and Bananas. · "You can see it in a Brett Morgan animated documentary called Chicago 10."
[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."
[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 · Aaron Sorkin Top 5s and ‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’ · 1:22:15 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] The Trial of the Chicago 7 ↔ A Few Good Men · theme · Both are courtroom dramas of principled argument; Cruise's charisma is key and Chicago 7 needs scene-chewers too. · "You have to have people that want to gnaw on the scenery, that want to yell, that want to be in the center of the frame."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Social Network · 0:11:03 · David Sims (0.60)] The Social Network ↔ Dumb Money · theme · Dumb Money has no pretension of being the next Social Network but its attitude is that of the earlier film; the speakers say the film became a genre. · "there's nothing about that movie's attitude that's like, this is the next social network, but the attitude of that movie is like social network."
[The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:44:37 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] Ferrari ↔ Collateral · craft · Collateral's one-night compression is the same pleasure as Ferrari's compression. · "I think much like Ferrari, the compression."
[The Big Picture · Aaron Sorkin Top 5s and ‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’ · 1:22:57 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] The Trial of the Chicago 7 ↔ A Few Good Men · theme · Unlike A Few Good Men, Chicago 7 is full of obvious themes to dissect. · "There's all of these obvious themes"

Who said it, by their latest sketch (5)

[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] 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] 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] 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] David Sims · latest sketch, Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · Prepares history: novel, casting, budgets, box office. Reveres the film and thinks it reads as a normal ground-level story. A sucker for Hollywood deal backstory and box office game. · stances: Praises Keitel and Dafoe casting; Respects Scorsese's persistence and Corman discipline; The film is now well regarded though not 'canonical Marty'

The shows' running bits (2)

[bits] The Big Picture: Drafts (Hosts and guests draft films in rounds; every pick is a recommendation with an argument); Hall of Fame (A star's or director's best, ranked and argued); Countdowns (Ranked lists, top five or top ten)
[bits] 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 Steve Jobs (2015) 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 Steve Jobs (2015) 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 · 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 · Aaron Sorkin Top 5s and ‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’ · 1:00:49 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] The Trial of the Chicago 7 ↔ Steve Jobs · theme · Both ask whether the result was worth how people were treated, and how change is made. · "But that same idea, that sort of like, was it worth it, idea, is in a lot of his other work."
[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"
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Social Network · 0:11:39 · David Sims (0.40)] The Social Network ↔ Steve Jobs · people · Steve Jobs is set aside as a Sorkin script written after The Social Network, so it does not count as a successor. · "Don't count those, right? Because those are Sorkin scripts."
[The Big Picture · Aaron Sorkin Top 5s and ‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’ · 0:55:53 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] Steve Jobs ↔ Daniel Pemberton · craft · Pemberton's score is singled out as incredible among the film's strengths. · "Incredible score by Daniel Pemberton."
[The Big Picture · Aaron Sorkin Top 5s and ‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’ · 0:55:55 · Sean Fennessey (0.70)] Steve Jobs ↔ Danny Boyle · craft · Boyle does the most he can with what is essentially a stage play, with the act two intercut. · "I think Boyle is doing the absolute most he can do with a script that is more or less a stage play."
[The Big Picture · Aaron Sorkin Top 5s and ‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’ · 0:58:35 · Amanda Dobbins (0.65)] Steve Jobs ↔ Jeff Daniels · craft · The Daniels and Fassbender intercut compresses a therapy breakthrough about control into two minutes. · "The Steve Jobs character has like a 3 year therapy breakthrough in under 2 minutes"
[The Rewatchables · ‘This Is the End’ · 0:02:32 · Bill Simmons (0.40)] Seth Rogen ↔ Steve Jobs · career · The 08-to-Steve-Jobs run for Rogen stands up against the great actor runs. · "the 15, like, up to the Steve Jobs run for Rogan is actually sneaky"
[The Big Picture · Aaron Sorkin Top 5s and ‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’ · 0:57:40 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60)] Steve Jobs ↔ Michael Fassbender · people · Fassbender gives a menacing, dark performance that makes Jobs's failures off-putting. · "there was something very menacing about his performance"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 0:27:16 · unknown (0.30)] Katherine Waterston ↔ Steve Jobs · people · Waterston was in Steve Jobs, another Fassbender collaboration. · "Like, I like her in Steve Jobs, another Fastbender collab."
[pairs] Steve Jobs ↔ The Social Network · said 2 times in 2 episodes
[The Big Picture · Aaron Sorkin Top 5s and ‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’ · 0:55:18 · Sean Fennessey (0.70)] Steve Jobs · fun · Seth Rogen as Wozniak should have won an Oscar. · "It's absurd to me that Seth Rogan was not nominated for an Oscar."
[The Big Picture · Aaron Sorkin Top 5s and ‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’ · 0:55:27 · Sean Fennessey (0.70)] Steve Jobs · fun · Kate Winslet has more of a Polish accent in the later sequences than the first; a filming-order theory. · "I don't totally understand why she has a Polish accent in the future, but not in the past."
[The Big Picture · Aaron Sorkin Top 5s and ‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’ · 1:01:08 · Amanda Dobbins (0.55)] Steve Jobs · fun · The iPod is invented on top of a parking roof. · "Can't believe we didn't talk about how he just invents the iPod on top of a parking roof?"
[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 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 · Aaron Sorkin Top 5s and ‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’ · 1:35:06 · Sean Fennessey (0.70)] The Trial of the Chicago 7 ↔ Moonlight · programming · Moonlight is the model of a film that was right for its moment, against which Chicago 7's timeliness is weighed. · "I always felt like Moonlight was a movie for its time in a very sentimental way"
[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."
[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 · Aaron Sorkin Top 5s and ‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’ · 1:54:31 · Sean Fennessey (0.55)] The Trial of the Chicago 7 ↔ Mank · programming · Chicago 7 is a big fat fastball for the Oscars alongside Mank, Nomadland and Hillbilly Elegy. · "this is a big fat, fastball right down the middle."
[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."
[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 · 300th Episode Ask-Us-Anything Mailbag Spectacular · 2:09:02 · Sean Fennessey (0.80)] Aaron Sorkin ↔ The Trial of the Chicago 7 · programming · Next episode: Aaron Sorkin and The Trial of the Chicago 7. · "examining one of our stars, one of our beloveds, a great and complicated Aaron Sorkin"
[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."
[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 · Aaron Sorkin Top 5s and ‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’ · 1:31:23 · Sean Fennessey (0.80)] The Trial of the Chicago 7 ↔ Medium Cool · lineage · The Chicago trial and DNC events were told before in Haskell Wexler's part-documentary Medium Cool. · "Medium cool, Haskell Wexler's part documentary, part narrative feature in 1969 kind of reflects on the events at the DNC that year."
[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."
[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 · Aaron Sorkin Top 5s and ‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’ · 1:31:32 · Sean Fennessey (0.80)] The Trial of the Chicago 7 ⇒ Punishment Park (the host's read) · lineage · Punishment Park is recommended as a very loose take on this trial. · "There's this great movie called Punishment Park that I would recommend to anybody that is very loosely based on this trial."
[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."
[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 · Aaron Sorkin Top 5s and ‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’ · 1:31:45 · Sean Fennessey (0.80)] The Trial of the Chicago 7 ↔ Chicago 10 · lineage · The trial was also rendered in Brett Morgen's animated documentary Chicago 10, the HBO movie and Bananas. · "You can see it in a Brett Morgan animated documentary called Chicago 10."
[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."
[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 · Aaron Sorkin Top 5s and ‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’ · 1:22:15 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] The Trial of the Chicago 7 ↔ A Few Good Men · theme · Both are courtroom dramas of principled argument; Cruise's charisma is key and Chicago 7 needs scene-chewers too. · "You have to have people that want to gnaw on the scenery, that want to yell, that want to be in the center of the frame."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Social Network · 0:11:03 · David Sims (0.60)] The Social Network ↔ Dumb Money · theme · Dumb Money has no pretension of being the next Social Network but its attitude is that of the earlier film; the speakers say the film became a genre. · "there's nothing about that movie's attitude that's like, this is the next social network, but the attitude of that movie is like social network."
[The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:44:37 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] Ferrari ↔ Collateral · craft · Collateral's one-night compression is the same pleasure as Ferrari's compression. · "I think much like Ferrari, the compression."
[The Big Picture · Aaron Sorkin Top 5s and ‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’ · 1:22:57 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] The Trial of the Chicago 7 ↔ A Few Good Men · theme · Unlike A Few Good Men, Chicago 7 is full of obvious themes to dissect. · "There's all of these obvious themes"
[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] 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] 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] 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] David Sims · latest sketch, Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · Prepares history: novel, casting, budgets, box office. Reveres the film and thinks it reads as a normal ground-level story. A sucker for Hollywood deal backstory and box office game. · stances: Praises Keitel and Dafoe casting; Respects Scorsese's persistence and Corman discipline; The film is now well regarded though not 'canonical Marty'
[bits] The Big Picture: Drafts (Hosts and guests draft films in rounds; every pick is a recommendation with an argument); Hall of Fame (A star's or director's best, ranked and argued); Countdowns (Ranked lists, top five or top ten)
[bits] 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 Steve Jobs (2015); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Steve Jobs (2015) 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.