What the corpus says about Captain America: The First Avenger (2011)

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What was said about it (26)

  1. [Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The First Avenger · 2:08:02 · unknown (0.40)] Captain America: The First Avenger ↔ Transformers: Dark of the Moon · programming · Cap was released July 22 instead of July 4th because Transformers 3 owned that date and nobody would go near it. · "The July 4th movie was Transformers 3."
  2. [Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The First Avenger · 2:08:10 · David Sims (0.45)] Captain America: The First Avenger ↔ Thor · programming · Cap opened to about 65 million like Thor, finished near 176 worldwide domestic and around 370 vs Thor's 450. · "Cap opens pretty much exactly the same as Thor, 65."
  3. [Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The First Avenger · 2:09:10 · unknown (0.40)] Captain America: The First Avenger ↔ Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 · programming · In the 2011 box-office ranking Cap is number one and Deathly Hallows Part 2 is number two. · "Oh, oh, it's Deathly Hollis part two."
  4. [The Big Picture · ‘Captain Marvel’ Is a ’90s Nostalgia Play. Did It Work? | Exit Survey · 0:03:27 · Sean Fennessey (0.80)] Captain America: The First Avenger ⇒ Captain Marvel (the host's read) · lineage · The film goes back to the Steve Rogers style of origin story. · "here's how Steve Rogers became a super soldier style of storytelling."
  5. [Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The First Avenger · 0:13:53 · Griffin Newman (0.45)] Captain America: The First Avenger ↔ The Rocketeer · lineage · Johnston was hired on the strength of The Rocketeer, which shares the period, beautiful-period-vibe sensibility. · "Joe Johnson's the guy who directed the Rockets here."
  6. [Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The First Avenger · 0:19:47 · David Sims (0.40)] Iron Man 2 ⇒ Captain America: The First Avenger (the host's read) · lineage · The Stark Expo of the 1940s is the origin of the Expo seen in Iron Man 2, now as the full World's Fair version. · "Like what we see in Iron Man 2, but now it's like the full like 40s World Fair version."
  7. [Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The First Avenger · 0:47:45 · David Sims (0.50)] Truth: Red, White & Black (comic) ⇒ Captain America: The First Avenger (the host's read) · lineage · The one-off serum process loosely connects to the Truth miniseries retcon about earlier black experimentees. · "Truth is a book that essentially theorizes that there was like a Tuskegee airman."
  8. [Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The First Avenger · 0:50:23 · unknown (0.40)] Captain America: The First Avenger ↔ The Rocketeer · lineage · A real period home interior and a Nazi-chase beat read as very Rocketeer. · "It's very rocketeer."
  9. [Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The First Avenger · 0:59:19 · unknown (0.35)] Captain America: The First Avenger ↔ Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade · lineage · The big musical number in an action movie feels like Last Crusade, then is corrected to Temple of Doom. · "It's part of this movie feeling very last crusade to me."
  10. [Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The First Avenger · 0:59:24 · unknown (0.35)] Captain America: The First Avenger ↔ Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom · lineage · The correction: the Indiana Jones film with the musical number is Temple of Doom. · "Although the one with the musical number is Temple of Doom."
  11. [Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The First Avenger · 1:27:32 · David Sims (0.40)] Captain America: The First Avenger ⇒ Black Panther (the host's read) · lineage · Vibranium, the shield metal, leads to Wakanda; adamantium is the X-Men analogue the MCU couldn't use. · "So instead they use vibranium as their super metal."
  12. [Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The First Avenger · 1:34:27 · unknown (0.40)] Captain America: The First Avenger ⇒ Captain America: The Winter Soldier (the host's read) · lineage · Zola surviving and joining the other side is the seed for Winter Soldier. · "Because you need Zola to join the other side."
  13. [The Big Picture · ‘Captain Marvel’ Is a ’90s Nostalgia Play. Did It Work? | Exit Survey · 0:14:28 · Sean Fennessey (0.75)] Captain Marvel ↔ Captain America: The First Avenger · theme · Captain America's plucky do-gooder works because Chris Evans gets to be a good guy; Captain Marvel's girl-power messaging feels falsely applied by comparison. · "when the movie is Captain America the 1st Avenger, and Steve Rogers is this plucky, patriotic do-gooder, we are like, huh, what a good guy."
  14. [Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The First Avenger · 0:27:50 · unknown (0.40)] Captain America: The First Avenger ↔ Doctor Strange · theme · Cap's Brooklyn move parallels Strange's East Village, updated for real estate realism by the time of the movie. · "Because like Dr. Strange is supposed to live in the East Village"
  15. [Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The First Avenger · 0:37:34 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Captain America: The First Avenger ↔ Spider-Man (Marvel character) · theme · Because it is a movie about little guys, Captain America lands for the speaker as Spider-Man in a big body. · "He's just Spider-Man and a big old body."
  16. [Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The First Avenger · 1:05:18 · unknown (0.40)] Captain America: The First Avenger ↔ Fantastic Four (Chris Evans films) · theme · A Fantastic Four idea, the government using heroes as a PR tool, is exactly the war-bond mascot story here. · "And I like the idea of making a movie that's about like the government being like, we need you to go out there and like fight monsters because it'll like help morale."
  17. [Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The First Avenger · 0:10:16 · David Sims (0.45)] Captain America: The First Avenger ↔ Thor · craft · Both Marvel origin films avoid dropping the audience straight into a stylized world and open on a grounded genre set-up. · "This is the exact same structural thing as Thor, where it's like, let's not drop people into crazy stylized world."
  18. [Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The First Avenger · 0:10:43 · unknown (0.30)] Aliens ⇒ Captain America: The First Avenger (the host's read) · craft · The frozen-find cold open structurally echoes the discovery sequence that opens Aliens. · "this is also actually very similar to is the opening of aliens."
  19. [Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The First Avenger · 0:17:06 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Captain America: The First Avenger ↔ The Curious Case of Benjamin Button · craft · The skinny-Steve effect arrived only a couple of years after Benjamin Button, which did the head-swap effectively. · "And this is only a couple years after Benjamin Button when they did that so effectively."
  20. [Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The First Avenger · 0:36:53 · David Sims (0.35)] Captain America: The First Avenger ↔ Behind the Candelabra · craft · Erskine walking in on the unmasked Red Skull... actually Toby Jones's Zola reaction, as when Matt Damon walks in on Liberace without his toupee. · "this feels like the scene in, uh, behind the candelabra where Matt Damon walks in on Liberace without his toupee."
  21. [Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The First Avenger · 0:43:02 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Captain America: The First Avenger ↔ Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow · craft · The film's design is only about 10 percent heightened, stopping short of Sky Captain kitsch. · "Like, it could be Sky Captain."
  22. [Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The First Avenger · 1:36:05 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Captain America: The First Avenger ↔ Suicide Squad · craft · Eating on screen shows pro actors; Viola Davis's steak in Suicide Squad is the best thing in that movie. · "You remember how well Viola Davis ate that steak in Suicide Squad?"
  23. [Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The First Avenger · 1:41:14 · unknown (0.40)] Captain America: The First Avenger ↔ Captain America: The Winter Soldier · craft · The suit returns in Winter Soldier with better tailoring and layers. · "I just think when they bring the classic suit back in Winter Soldier, it's a better tailoring."
  24. [Blank Check — Patreon · Iron Man 2 · 1:25:25 · unknown (0.30)] Iron Man 2 ↔ Captain America: The First Avenger · craft · The shield-on-the-desk and Thor hammer tags are called ham-fisted universe building. · "I just feel very ham fisted."
  25. [Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The Winter Soldier · 0:04:21 · unknown (0.40)] Captain America: The Winter Soldier ↔ Captain America: The First Avenger · contrast · The first film is stylized like an old serial; this one is a grounded Washington thriller. · "And the 1st Captain America is so heightened and stylized because it's doing the old cereal thing."
  26. [Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The Winter Soldier · 1:58:08 · unknown (0.40)] Captain America: The Winter Soldier ↔ Captain America: The First Avenger · contrast · The Helicarrier finale in the old suit feels like the first film's underwhelming finale. · "I mean, the 1st Captain America certainly does have an underwhelming finale."

Films put beside it more than once (6)

  1. [pairs] Captain America: The First Avenger ↔ Captain America: The Winter Soldier · said 5 times in 2 episodes
  2. [pairs] Captain America: The First Avenger ↔ Iron Man · said 3 times in 2 episodes
  3. [pairs] Captain America: The First Avenger ↔ The Rocketeer · said 3 times in 1 episode
  4. [pairs] Captain America: The First Avenger ↔ Iron Man 2 · said 2 times in 2 episodes
  5. [pairs] Captain America: The First Avenger ↔ Thor · said 2 times in 1 episode
  6. [pairs] Captain America: The First Avenger ↔ The Avengers · said 2 times in 1 episode

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

  1. [Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The Winter Soldier · 0:14:14 · unknown (0.35)] Captain America: The Winter Soldier ↔ Iron Man 3 · programming · Marvel gives each film a different genre; Winter Soldier is the political thriller, Iron Man 3 the noir/buddy film. · "Right. So this is when they're like, Iron Man 3 is sort of like a noir and like a buddy film, Dark World is like high fantasy."
  2. [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."
  3. [Blank Check — Patreon · Guardians of the Galaxy · 0:59:57 · unknown (0.30)] Guardians of the Galaxy ↔ Captain Marvel · programming · Captain Marvel provides context for the Nova Corps Cree and a not-yet-crazy Ronan, and Jude Law's Yon-Rogg. · "But the idea in Captain Marvel is he's not crazy yet."
  4. [Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The Winter Soldier · 1:16:27 · unknown (0.45)] Captain America: The Winter Soldier ↔ Iron Man 2 · programming · Gary Shandling's Hydra senator is an odd pull-back to Iron Man 2 for a franchise otherwise ignoring that film. · "when they're like trying to ignore as much of Iron Man 2 as possible"
  5. [Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The Winter Soldier · 0:14:14 · unknown (0.35)] Captain America: The Winter Soldier ↔ Thor: The Dark World · programming · Dark World is the high-fantasy entry in the same one-genre-per-film scheme. · "Dark World is like high fantasy."
  6. [Blank Check — Patreon · Iron Man · 1:18:06 · unknown (0.30)] Iron Man ↔ Iron Man 2 · programming · Griffin has a point about Paltrow in Iron Man 2 and promises a separate Iron Man 2 commentary. · "We're going to do an Iron Man 2 commentary so we can talk about the movie I want to talk about there."
  7. [Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The Winter Soldier · 0:34:42 · unknown (0.40)] Samuel L. Jackson ↔ Captain Marvel · programming · Hosts are excited to see Jackson as a younger Nick Fury again. · "Can't wait for him to do stuff again in like Captain Marvel and shit."
  8. [Blank Check — Patreon · Iron Man 2 · 0:12:08 · unknown (0.30)] Iron Man 2 ↔ The Avengers · programming · Feige pushed more cinematic-universe setup after the first film, but held most back; the Fury scene and shield joke are the result. · "Let's build shield outlets, like give them, you know, a little more of what they want."
  9. [Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The Winter Soldier · 0:16:47 · unknown (0.40)] Captain America: The Winter Soldier ↔ Marvel Cinematic Universe · programming · Fury is in charge of SHIELD only in this film and Avengers; afterward mostly cameos. · "So this is only the only other movie where Fury is like in charge of S.E.L.D. and kind of just like in the movie."
  10. [Blank Check — Patreon · Iron Man · 1:48:57 · unknown (0.30)] Iron Man ↔ Thor · programming · The hosts preview the next trio: Thor, Captain America, Avengers; one hates Thor. · "So what our next three is going to be Thor, Captain America, Avengers."
  11. [Blank Check — Patreon · The Avengers · 1:29:32 · David Sims (0.40)] Captain Marvel ↔ The Avengers · programming · Captain Marvel is a 1990s prequel in which Fury still has both eyes, bringing back Coulson/Fury; they predict nineties-reference gags. · "So in that one, Nick Fury has 2 eyes."
  12. [Blank Check — Patreon · Iron Man 2 · 2:07:38 · unknown (0.30)] Iron Man 2 ↔ Thor · programming · Its post-credit scene is called the weakest, existing only to announce Thor's film, much like the Captain Marvel tag after Infinity War. · "Because essentially it's just like Thor, Thor, will be the star of a new movie."
  13. [Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The Winter Soldier · 1:16:27 · unknown (0.45)] Captain America: The Winter Soldier ↔ Iron Man 2 · programming · Gary Shandling's Hydra senator is an odd pull-back to Iron Man 2 for a franchise otherwise ignoring that film. · "when they're like trying to ignore as much of Iron Man 2 as possible"
  14. [Blank Check — Patreon · Iron Man · 2:01:42 · unknown (Griffin) (0.50)] Iron Man ↔ Captain Marvel · programming · Mentions Captain Marvel's upcoming 90s setting and Kamala Khan idolizing her as a possible future movie. · "And then like models herself after Captain Marvel."
  15. [Blank Check — Patreon · Iron Man · 2:01:42 · unknown (Griffin) (0.50)] Iron Man ↔ Captain Marvel · programming · Mentions Captain Marvel's upcoming 90s setting and Kamala Khan idolizing her as a possible future movie. · "And then like models herself after Captain Marvel."
  16. [Blank Check — Patreon · Iron Man · 1:18:06 · unknown (0.30)] Iron Man ↔ Iron Man 2 · programming · Griffin has a point about Paltrow in Iron Man 2 and promises a separate Iron Man 2 commentary. · "We're going to do an Iron Man 2 commentary so we can talk about the movie I want to talk about there."
  17. [Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The Winter Soldier · 1:34:33 · unknown (0.40)] Captain America: The Winter Soldier ↔ Agents of S.H.I.L.E.L.D. · programming · The TV show had to stall its whole first season because the film's Hydra reveal could not be tipped. · "Of course, the 1st season of SHIELD began in 2013 and had to essentially stall for almost its entire 1st season because they knew that this was coming, but they couldn't tip it."
  18. [Blank Check — Patreon · Iron Man 3 · 0:18:57 · unknown (0.30)] Iron Man ⇒ Iron Man 3 (the host's read) · lineage · The Iron Man trilogy is closed into a circle by the flashback to the party and Becca Hall and Pierce. · "as individualistic as this movie is, it actually like... It's bringing the 1st 2 complete."
  19. [The Big Picture · ‘Captain Marvel’ Is a ’90s Nostalgia Play. Did It Work? | Exit Survey · 0:09:03 · Sean Fennessey (0.85)] The Avengers ⇒ Captain Marvel (the host's read) · lineage · The Tesseract, the glowing box, was a MacGuffin in the first Avengers and in Infinity War. · "you may remember the Tesseract from the 1st Avengers film, and then, of course, the most recent Avengers film, Avengers Infinity War"
  20. [Blank Check — Patreon · Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation · 1:01:43 · unknown (0.30)] Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation ↔ Iron Man 2 · lineage · The thigh-grab move is traced back to Iron Man 2 by one speaker. · "I mean, I always think of Iron Man 2."
  21. [Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The Winter Soldier · 1:34:59 · unknown (0.35)] Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. ↔ Captain America: The Winter Soldier · programming · Marvel then told ABC SHIELD would not exist for the film universe. · "Just so you know, Shield's not going to exist enough."
  22. [Blank Check — Patreon · Iron Man · 0:09:11 · unknown (Griffin or David) (0.30)] Iron Man ⇒ modern superhero movies (the host's read) · lineage · Called the prototype format every later superhero film riffs on. · "this is the prototype for the modern superhero movie."
  23. [The Big Picture · ‘Captain Marvel’ Is a ’90s Nostalgia Play. Did It Work? | Exit Survey · 0:09:16 · Sean Fennessey (0.80)] Captain Marvel ↔ Avengers: Infinity War · lineage · The film is connective tissue, dragging continuity toward the next Avengers movie. · "this movie is basically a connective tissue movie."
  24. [Blank Check — Patreon · Iron Man 3 · 0:21:49 · unknown (0.30)] Iron Man 2 ↔ Robocop 2 · lineage · Iron Man 2 forces Tony to be a wreck again for no earned reason, which they liken to Robocop 2 resetting its hero. · "doing the Robocop 2 thing."

Who said it, by their latest sketch (3)

  1. [speaker] David Sims · latest sketch, Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · Prepares history: novel, casting, budgets, box office. Reveres the film and thinks it reads as a normal ground-level story. A sucker for Hollywood deal backstory and box office game. · stances: Praises Keitel and Dafoe casting; Respects Scorsese's persistence and Corman discipline; The film is now well regarded though not 'canonical Marty'
  2. [speaker] 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
  3. [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 (1)

  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)

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 Captain America: The First Avenger (2011) 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 Captain America: The First Avenger (2011) 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 · Captain America: The First Avenger · 2:08:02 · unknown (0.40)] Captain America: The First Avenger ↔ Transformers: Dark of the Moon · programming · Cap was released July 22 instead of July 4th because Transformers 3 owned that date and nobody would go near it. · "The July 4th movie was Transformers 3."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The First Avenger · 2:08:10 · David Sims (0.45)] Captain America: The First Avenger ↔ Thor · programming · Cap opened to about 65 million like Thor, finished near 176 worldwide domestic and around 370 vs Thor's 450. · "Cap opens pretty much exactly the same as Thor, 65."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The First Avenger · 2:09:10 · unknown (0.40)] Captain America: The First Avenger ↔ Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 · programming · In the 2011 box-office ranking Cap is number one and Deathly Hallows Part 2 is number two. · "Oh, oh, it's Deathly Hollis part two."
[The Big Picture · ‘Captain Marvel’ Is a ’90s Nostalgia Play. Did It Work? | Exit Survey · 0:03:27 · Sean Fennessey (0.80)] Captain America: The First Avenger ⇒ Captain Marvel (the host's read) · lineage · The film goes back to the Steve Rogers style of origin story. · "here's how Steve Rogers became a super soldier style of storytelling."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The First Avenger · 0:13:53 · Griffin Newman (0.45)] Captain America: The First Avenger ↔ The Rocketeer · lineage · Johnston was hired on the strength of The Rocketeer, which shares the period, beautiful-period-vibe sensibility. · "Joe Johnson's the guy who directed the Rockets here."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The First Avenger · 0:19:47 · David Sims (0.40)] Iron Man 2 ⇒ Captain America: The First Avenger (the host's read) · lineage · The Stark Expo of the 1940s is the origin of the Expo seen in Iron Man 2, now as the full World's Fair version. · "Like what we see in Iron Man 2, but now it's like the full like 40s World Fair version."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The First Avenger · 0:47:45 · David Sims (0.50)] Truth: Red, White & Black (comic) ⇒ Captain America: The First Avenger (the host's read) · lineage · The one-off serum process loosely connects to the Truth miniseries retcon about earlier black experimentees. · "Truth is a book that essentially theorizes that there was like a Tuskegee airman."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The First Avenger · 0:50:23 · unknown (0.40)] Captain America: The First Avenger ↔ The Rocketeer · lineage · A real period home interior and a Nazi-chase beat read as very Rocketeer. · "It's very rocketeer."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The First Avenger · 0:59:19 · unknown (0.35)] Captain America: The First Avenger ↔ Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade · lineage · The big musical number in an action movie feels like Last Crusade, then is corrected to Temple of Doom. · "It's part of this movie feeling very last crusade to me."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The First Avenger · 0:59:24 · unknown (0.35)] Captain America: The First Avenger ↔ Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom · lineage · The correction: the Indiana Jones film with the musical number is Temple of Doom. · "Although the one with the musical number is Temple of Doom."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The First Avenger · 1:27:32 · David Sims (0.40)] Captain America: The First Avenger ⇒ Black Panther (the host's read) · lineage · Vibranium, the shield metal, leads to Wakanda; adamantium is the X-Men analogue the MCU couldn't use. · "So instead they use vibranium as their super metal."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The First Avenger · 1:34:27 · unknown (0.40)] Captain America: The First Avenger ⇒ Captain America: The Winter Soldier (the host's read) · lineage · Zola surviving and joining the other side is the seed for Winter Soldier. · "Because you need Zola to join the other side."
[The Big Picture · ‘Captain Marvel’ Is a ’90s Nostalgia Play. Did It Work? | Exit Survey · 0:14:28 · Sean Fennessey (0.75)] Captain Marvel ↔ Captain America: The First Avenger · theme · Captain America's plucky do-gooder works because Chris Evans gets to be a good guy; Captain Marvel's girl-power messaging feels falsely applied by comparison. · "when the movie is Captain America the 1st Avenger, and Steve Rogers is this plucky, patriotic do-gooder, we are like, huh, what a good guy."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The First Avenger · 0:27:50 · unknown (0.40)] Captain America: The First Avenger ↔ Doctor Strange · theme · Cap's Brooklyn move parallels Strange's East Village, updated for real estate realism by the time of the movie. · "Because like Dr. Strange is supposed to live in the East Village"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The First Avenger · 0:37:34 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Captain America: The First Avenger ↔ Spider-Man (Marvel character) · theme · Because it is a movie about little guys, Captain America lands for the speaker as Spider-Man in a big body. · "He's just Spider-Man and a big old body."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The First Avenger · 1:05:18 · unknown (0.40)] Captain America: The First Avenger ↔ Fantastic Four (Chris Evans films) · theme · A Fantastic Four idea, the government using heroes as a PR tool, is exactly the war-bond mascot story here. · "And I like the idea of making a movie that's about like the government being like, we need you to go out there and like fight monsters because it'll like help morale."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The First Avenger · 0:10:16 · David Sims (0.45)] Captain America: The First Avenger ↔ Thor · craft · Both Marvel origin films avoid dropping the audience straight into a stylized world and open on a grounded genre set-up. · "This is the exact same structural thing as Thor, where it's like, let's not drop people into crazy stylized world."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The First Avenger · 0:10:43 · unknown (0.30)] Aliens ⇒ Captain America: The First Avenger (the host's read) · craft · The frozen-find cold open structurally echoes the discovery sequence that opens Aliens. · "this is also actually very similar to is the opening of aliens."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The First Avenger · 0:17:06 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Captain America: The First Avenger ↔ The Curious Case of Benjamin Button · craft · The skinny-Steve effect arrived only a couple of years after Benjamin Button, which did the head-swap effectively. · "And this is only a couple years after Benjamin Button when they did that so effectively."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The First Avenger · 0:36:53 · David Sims (0.35)] Captain America: The First Avenger ↔ Behind the Candelabra · craft · Erskine walking in on the unmasked Red Skull... actually Toby Jones's Zola reaction, as when Matt Damon walks in on Liberace without his toupee. · "this feels like the scene in, uh, behind the candelabra where Matt Damon walks in on Liberace without his toupee."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The First Avenger · 0:43:02 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Captain America: The First Avenger ↔ Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow · craft · The film's design is only about 10 percent heightened, stopping short of Sky Captain kitsch. · "Like, it could be Sky Captain."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The First Avenger · 1:36:05 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Captain America: The First Avenger ↔ Suicide Squad · craft · Eating on screen shows pro actors; Viola Davis's steak in Suicide Squad is the best thing in that movie. · "You remember how well Viola Davis ate that steak in Suicide Squad?"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The First Avenger · 1:41:14 · unknown (0.40)] Captain America: The First Avenger ↔ Captain America: The Winter Soldier · craft · The suit returns in Winter Soldier with better tailoring and layers. · "I just think when they bring the classic suit back in Winter Soldier, it's a better tailoring."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Iron Man 2 · 1:25:25 · unknown (0.30)] Iron Man 2 ↔ Captain America: The First Avenger · craft · The shield-on-the-desk and Thor hammer tags are called ham-fisted universe building. · "I just feel very ham fisted."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The Winter Soldier · 0:04:21 · unknown (0.40)] Captain America: The Winter Soldier ↔ Captain America: The First Avenger · contrast · The first film is stylized like an old serial; this one is a grounded Washington thriller. · "And the 1st Captain America is so heightened and stylized because it's doing the old cereal thing."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The Winter Soldier · 1:58:08 · unknown (0.40)] Captain America: The Winter Soldier ↔ Captain America: The First Avenger · contrast · The Helicarrier finale in the old suit feels like the first film's underwhelming finale. · "I mean, the 1st Captain America certainly does have an underwhelming finale."
[pairs] Captain America: The First Avenger ↔ Captain America: The Winter Soldier · said 5 times in 2 episodes
[pairs] Captain America: The First Avenger ↔ Iron Man · said 3 times in 2 episodes
[pairs] Captain America: The First Avenger ↔ The Rocketeer · said 3 times in 1 episode
[pairs] Captain America: The First Avenger ↔ Iron Man 2 · said 2 times in 2 episodes
[pairs] Captain America: The First Avenger ↔ Thor · said 2 times in 1 episode
[pairs] Captain America: The First Avenger ↔ The Avengers · said 2 times in 1 episode
[Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The Winter Soldier · 0:14:14 · unknown (0.35)] Captain America: The Winter Soldier ↔ Iron Man 3 · programming · Marvel gives each film a different genre; Winter Soldier is the political thriller, Iron Man 3 the noir/buddy film. · "Right. So this is when they're like, Iron Man 3 is sort of like a noir and like a buddy film, Dark World is like high fantasy."
[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."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Guardians of the Galaxy · 0:59:57 · unknown (0.30)] Guardians of the Galaxy ↔ Captain Marvel · programming · Captain Marvel provides context for the Nova Corps Cree and a not-yet-crazy Ronan, and Jude Law's Yon-Rogg. · "But the idea in Captain Marvel is he's not crazy yet."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The Winter Soldier · 1:16:27 · unknown (0.45)] Captain America: The Winter Soldier ↔ Iron Man 2 · programming · Gary Shandling's Hydra senator is an odd pull-back to Iron Man 2 for a franchise otherwise ignoring that film. · "when they're like trying to ignore as much of Iron Man 2 as possible"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The Winter Soldier · 0:14:14 · unknown (0.35)] Captain America: The Winter Soldier ↔ Thor: The Dark World · programming · Dark World is the high-fantasy entry in the same one-genre-per-film scheme. · "Dark World is like high fantasy."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Iron Man · 1:18:06 · unknown (0.30)] Iron Man ↔ Iron Man 2 · programming · Griffin has a point about Paltrow in Iron Man 2 and promises a separate Iron Man 2 commentary. · "We're going to do an Iron Man 2 commentary so we can talk about the movie I want to talk about there."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The Winter Soldier · 0:34:42 · unknown (0.40)] Samuel L. Jackson ↔ Captain Marvel · programming · Hosts are excited to see Jackson as a younger Nick Fury again. · "Can't wait for him to do stuff again in like Captain Marvel and shit."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Iron Man 2 · 0:12:08 · unknown (0.30)] Iron Man 2 ↔ The Avengers · programming · Feige pushed more cinematic-universe setup after the first film, but held most back; the Fury scene and shield joke are the result. · "Let's build shield outlets, like give them, you know, a little more of what they want."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The Winter Soldier · 0:16:47 · unknown (0.40)] Captain America: The Winter Soldier ↔ Marvel Cinematic Universe · programming · Fury is in charge of SHIELD only in this film and Avengers; afterward mostly cameos. · "So this is only the only other movie where Fury is like in charge of S.E.L.D. and kind of just like in the movie."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Iron Man · 1:48:57 · unknown (0.30)] Iron Man ↔ Thor · programming · The hosts preview the next trio: Thor, Captain America, Avengers; one hates Thor. · "So what our next three is going to be Thor, Captain America, Avengers."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Avengers · 1:29:32 · David Sims (0.40)] Captain Marvel ↔ The Avengers · programming · Captain Marvel is a 1990s prequel in which Fury still has both eyes, bringing back Coulson/Fury; they predict nineties-reference gags. · "So in that one, Nick Fury has 2 eyes."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Iron Man 2 · 2:07:38 · unknown (0.30)] Iron Man 2 ↔ Thor · programming · Its post-credit scene is called the weakest, existing only to announce Thor's film, much like the Captain Marvel tag after Infinity War. · "Because essentially it's just like Thor, Thor, will be the star of a new movie."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The Winter Soldier · 1:16:27 · unknown (0.45)] Captain America: The Winter Soldier ↔ Iron Man 2 · programming · Gary Shandling's Hydra senator is an odd pull-back to Iron Man 2 for a franchise otherwise ignoring that film. · "when they're like trying to ignore as much of Iron Man 2 as possible"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Iron Man · 2:01:42 · unknown (Griffin) (0.50)] Iron Man ↔ Captain Marvel · programming · Mentions Captain Marvel's upcoming 90s setting and Kamala Khan idolizing her as a possible future movie. · "And then like models herself after Captain Marvel."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Iron Man · 2:01:42 · unknown (Griffin) (0.50)] Iron Man ↔ Captain Marvel · programming · Mentions Captain Marvel's upcoming 90s setting and Kamala Khan idolizing her as a possible future movie. · "And then like models herself after Captain Marvel."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Iron Man · 1:18:06 · unknown (0.30)] Iron Man ↔ Iron Man 2 · programming · Griffin has a point about Paltrow in Iron Man 2 and promises a separate Iron Man 2 commentary. · "We're going to do an Iron Man 2 commentary so we can talk about the movie I want to talk about there."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The Winter Soldier · 1:34:33 · unknown (0.40)] Captain America: The Winter Soldier ↔ Agents of S.H.I.L.E.L.D. · programming · The TV show had to stall its whole first season because the film's Hydra reveal could not be tipped. · "Of course, the 1st season of SHIELD began in 2013 and had to essentially stall for almost its entire 1st season because they knew that this was coming, but they couldn't tip it."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Iron Man 3 · 0:18:57 · unknown (0.30)] Iron Man ⇒ Iron Man 3 (the host's read) · lineage · The Iron Man trilogy is closed into a circle by the flashback to the party and Becca Hall and Pierce. · "as individualistic as this movie is, it actually like... It's bringing the 1st 2 complete."
[The Big Picture · ‘Captain Marvel’ Is a ’90s Nostalgia Play. Did It Work? | Exit Survey · 0:09:03 · Sean Fennessey (0.85)] The Avengers ⇒ Captain Marvel (the host's read) · lineage · The Tesseract, the glowing box, was a MacGuffin in the first Avengers and in Infinity War. · "you may remember the Tesseract from the 1st Avengers film, and then, of course, the most recent Avengers film, Avengers Infinity War"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation · 1:01:43 · unknown (0.30)] Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation ↔ Iron Man 2 · lineage · The thigh-grab move is traced back to Iron Man 2 by one speaker. · "I mean, I always think of Iron Man 2."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The Winter Soldier · 1:34:59 · unknown (0.35)] Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. ↔ Captain America: The Winter Soldier · programming · Marvel then told ABC SHIELD would not exist for the film universe. · "Just so you know, Shield's not going to exist enough."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Iron Man · 0:09:11 · unknown (Griffin or David) (0.30)] Iron Man ⇒ modern superhero movies (the host's read) · lineage · Called the prototype format every later superhero film riffs on. · "this is the prototype for the modern superhero movie."
[The Big Picture · ‘Captain Marvel’ Is a ’90s Nostalgia Play. Did It Work? | Exit Survey · 0:09:16 · Sean Fennessey (0.80)] Captain Marvel ↔ Avengers: Infinity War · lineage · The film is connective tissue, dragging continuity toward the next Avengers movie. · "this movie is basically a connective tissue movie."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Iron Man 3 · 0:21:49 · unknown (0.30)] Iron Man 2 ↔ Robocop 2 · lineage · Iron Man 2 forces Tony to be a wreck again for no earned reason, which they liken to Robocop 2 resetting its hero. · "doing the Robocop 2 thing."
[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] 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)

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 Captain America: The First Avenger (2011); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Captain America: The First Avenger (2011) 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.