What the corpus says about Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015)

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What was said about it (14)

  1. [Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The Winter Soldier · 2:09:22 · unknown (0.35)] Captain America: The Winter Soldier ↔ Avengers: Age of Ultron · programming · Ultron resets Captain America's status quo ahead of Civil War. · "Well, it's because Age of Ultron also sort of resets Captain America a little bit."
  2. [Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The Winter Soldier · 2:12:03 · unknown (0.35)] Captain America: The Winter Soldier ⇒ Avengers: Age of Ultron (the host's read) · programming · The post-credits scene sets up the twins and Strucker's experiments. · "You know what they're setting up here, Benny."
  3. [Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War · 1:17:18 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Avengers: Age of Ultron ↔ Avengers: Infinity War · lineage · The Vision and Wanda romance set up in Ultron gets no onscreen payoff here. · "Now, here is the non-payoff of the romance, the major Ultron."
  4. [Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War · 2:00:15 · unknown (0.30)] Avengers: Age of Ultron ⇒ Avengers: Infinity War (the host's read) · lineage · The Hulkbuster armor pays off Banner being almost defeated by it before. · "it's paying off the fact that he was, you know, almost defeated by this armor before."
  5. [Blank Check — Patreon · Guardians of the Galaxy · 1:10:34 · unknown (0.30)] Guardians of the Galaxy ↔ Avengers: Age of Ultron · craft · Infinity Stone exposition scenes tend to halt a movie, but this one works because the heroes are chasing the stone. · "I tend to feel like the Infinity Stone scenes always grind the movie to a hold, however shorter long they are."
  6. [Blank Check — Patreon · Guardians of the Galaxy · 1:53:52 · unknown (0.30)] The Avengers ↔ Avengers: Age of Ultron · craft · The first Avengers' bright final daylight action is a big plus; Ultron is daylight but gloomy. · "That's another big plus to Avengers, the the 1st one, totally, total daylight stuff."
  7. [Blank Check — Patreon · Eclipse · 0:33:27 · unknown (0.40)] Avengers: Age of Ultron ↔ X-Men: Days of Future Past · contrast · Age of Ultron's Quicksilver just blips around and is not very interesting looking next to Singer's. · "I just remember Quicksilver in Age of Ultron just kind of like blipping."
  8. [Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 1:11:10 · unknown (0.40)] Alien: Covenant ↔ Avengers: Age of Ultron · contrast · The David and Walter scene resembles Ultron and Vision talking at the end of Age of Ultron. · "much like Ultron and vision at the end of that movie"
  9. [Blank Check — Patreon · The Avengers · 1:39:42 · David Sims (0.50)] The Avengers ⇒ Avengers: Age of Ultron (the host's read) · contrast · Age of Ultron opens with the team already together and Fury in hiding, so it is a sequel to five films rather than to Avengers. · "Avengers 2 can't be a sequel to Avengers one. It has to be a sequel to 5 other moments."
  10. [Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War · 2:00:51 · Griffin Newman (0.35)] Avengers: Age of Ultron ↔ Avengers: Infinity War · industry · Whedon said he cut a great Hulk gag from Ultron and gave it back to Marvel. · "I came up with a Hulk moment, a Hulk gag that was so good and it just didn't fit into the story."
  11. [Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War · 1:19:29 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Paul Bettany ↔ Avengers: Age of Ultron · career · Wondering when Whedon decided to use Bettany for Ultron's voice. · "when he put that where he's like, I have Paul Bettany."
  12. [Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The Winter Soldier · 2:11:20 · unknown (0.40)] Thomas Kretschmann ↔ Avengers: Age of Ultron · career · Kretschmann's Strucker is a charismatic tiny role in Ultron. · "I really enjoy him in Ultron, even though it's a tiny role where he's like, I'm going to surrender."
  13. [Blank Check — Patreon · The Avengers · 0:46:15 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Joss Whedon ↔ Avengers: Age of Ultron · verdict · Whedon's Ultron has some problems, but he does a lot right in this film. · "if you're going to DFI Joss Whedon, this is the one."
  14. [Blank Check — Patreon · Iron Man 3 · 0:53:20 · unknown (0.30)] Gwyneth Paltrow ↔ Avengers: Age of Ultron · industry · Her Marvel contract ended with this film, so she is absent from Ultron and Civil War. · "Her contract ends in this movie."

Films put beside it more than once (3)

  1. [pairs] Avengers: Age of Ultron ↔ Avengers: Infinity War · said 3 times in 1 episode
  2. [pairs] Avengers: Age of Ultron ↔ The Avengers · said 2 times in 2 episodes
  3. [pairs] Avengers: Age of Ultron ↔ Captain America: The Winter Soldier · said 2 times in 1 episode

One hop out: what recommends the films most often joined to it (40)

  1. [The Big Picture · The Past, Present, and Future of Superhero Movies | The Big Picture · 0:49:22 · David Shoemaker (0.40)] Black Panther ↔ Avengers: Infinity War · programming · Black Panther looks like the best bet to carry the MCU into the next phase after Infinity War. · "Black Panther certainly looks to be the best bet to carry the series into phase four"
  2. [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."
  3. [The Big Picture · The Past, Present, and Future of Superhero Movies | The Big Picture · 0:13:42 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] The Avengers ↔ Thor · programming · Thor was treated as a loss leader, a stepping stone to the Avengers. · "Thor was treated as a loss leader, essentially."
  4. [Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 1:04:43 · unknown (0.30)] Alien: Covenant ↔ Blade Runner 2049 · programming · Both came out in 2017, by two generations of sci-fi. · "This is the same year as Blade Runner 2049."
  5. [The Big Picture · The Past, Present, and Future of Superhero Movies | The Big Picture · 0:17:03 · Jason Concepcion (0.40)] Guardians of the Galaxy ⇒ Ant-Man (the host's read) · programming · After Guardians' success with unknown characters, Ant-Man was an easy next gamble. · "you do Ant-Man after that because you're just like, yeah, let's do Ant-Man."
  6. [The Big Picture · The Past, Present, and Future of Superhero Movies | The Big Picture · 0:52:39 · David Shoemaker (0.40)] Guardians of the Galaxy ↔ Avengers: Infinity War · programming · Guardians 3 is certain and Star-Lord is now a primary MCU figure. · "Chris Pratt, obviously, there will be a Guardians 3."
  7. [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."
  8. [Blank Check — Patreon · Iron Man 3 · 0:16:00 · unknown (0.30)] Iron Man 3 ↔ The Avengers · programming · Phase 2 begins here and Avengers' victory lap gave Feige room to let each film feel individual. · "They're on such a victory lap that it feels like this is the one little chunk of time where Kevin Feige lets go a little bit."
  9. [Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 2:04:21 · unknown (0.40)] Alien: Covenant ↔ Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 · programming · Covenant's weekend opened behind Guardians Vol. 2, #1 for the second weekend. · "Oh, it's Gardens of Galaxy volume two."
  10. [The Big Picture · The Past, Present, and Future of Superhero Movies | The Big Picture · 0:52:39 · David Shoemaker (0.40)] Guardians of the Galaxy ↔ Avengers: Infinity War · programming · Guardians 3 is certain and Star-Lord is now a primary MCU figure. · "Chris Pratt, obviously, there will be a Guardians 3."
  11. [The Big Picture · The Past, Present, and Future of Superhero Movies | The Big Picture · 0:57:00 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Avengers: Infinity War ↔ Ant-Man and the Wasp · programming · Whether Ant-Man and the Wasp matters as much as Infinity War is a test of Marvel overexposure. · "At what point does Ant-man and the Wasp not matter as much as Infinity War?"
  12. [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."
  13. [Blank Check — Patreon · The Avengers · 1:29:09 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] The Avengers ↔ Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. · programming · Coulson was brought back for the TV show but kept out of the movies, signaling the TV show is only loosely connected. · "you can be in the TV show, like, because we need, you know, a star for the show"
  14. [Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 0:06:57 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Prometheus ⇒ Alien: Covenant (the host's read) · lineage · Covenant is half the Prometheus sequel Scott wanted and half a concession to a more normal Alien movie. · "this is half, like Ridley Scott doing the Prometheus sequel he wanted to do and half"
  15. [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."
  16. [Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War · 0:25:32 · Griffin Newman (0.70)] Black Panther ↔ Avengers: Infinity War · programming · Griffin loved Black Panther just before, then felt Infinity War was one Marvel movie too big. · "Having, you know, loved Black Panther, which came out right before this."
  17. [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"
  18. [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."
  19. [Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 0:29:38 · unknown (0.30)] Alien: Covenant ↔ Alien · lineage · Each Alien film has a different workforce; the original had blue-collar miners. · "Like that's, you know, blue collar minors."
  20. [Blank Check — Patreon · Guardians of the Galaxy · 2:13:19 · unknown (0.30)] Guardians of the Galaxy ↔ Howard the Duck · programming · The credits tag with Howard the Duck leads to talk about the comic being better than the Lucas film and Kevin Smith's animated show. · "Not the George Lucas film."
  21. [Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War · 2:55:04 · David Sims (0.40)] Ant-Man and the Wasp ↔ Avengers: Infinity War · programming · Ant-Man and the Wasp is the sorbet to watch after Infinity War. · "A nice little sorbet, though."
  22. [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."
  23. [Blank Check — Patreon · The Avengers · 1:34:57 · David Sims (0.40)] The Avengers ⇒ Guardians of the Galaxy (the host's read) · programming · Thanos' Chitauri subcontracting sets up the cosmic films; Guardians is next on their Marvel list. · "We're gonna we're gonna cover Peter movie soon."
  24. [Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 0:29:41 · unknown (0.30)] Alien: Covenant ↔ Aliens · lineage · Aliens had Marines. · "Aliens, you got Marines."
  25. [Blank Check — Patreon · Thor: The Dark World · 1:59:51 · David Sims (0.30)] Thor: The Dark World ↔ Guardians of the Galaxy · programming · The Collector mid-credits scene already shows the Guardians' comic space weirdness; the speaker thinks James Gunn directed it. · "I think gun directed this. It's 100% difficult."
  26. [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."
  27. [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."
  28. [Blank Check — Patreon · Thor · 1:02:12 · Griffin Newman (0.35)] Thor ↔ The Avengers · programming · The Hawkeye cameo, with no interaction, made the speaker doubt the Avengers team-up would work. · "The thing you want to see is how they talk and interact with each other."
  29. [Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 0:29:45 · unknown (0.30)] Alien: Covenant ↔ Alien 3 · lineage · Alien 3 had convicts. · "Alien 3 convicts."
  30. [Blank Check — Patreon · The Avengers · 1:34:57 · David Sims (0.40)] The Avengers ⇒ Guardians of the Galaxy (the host's read) · programming · Thanos' Chitauri subcontracting sets up the cosmic films; Guardians is next on their Marvel list. · "We're gonna we're gonna cover Peter movie soon."
  31. [Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War · 0:25:44 · unknown (0.30)] The Avengers ⇒ Avengers: Infinity War (the host's read) · lineage · The Hulk echoes Tony Stark's words from the first Avengers; the movie is full of callbacks. · "echoing Tony Stark's words from the Avengers 2012"
  32. [Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The Winter Soldier · 1:59:18 · unknown (0.40)] Captain America: The Winter Soldier ↔ Disney+ Falcon and Bucky show · programming · Smaller side-character projects are the future on Disney Plus. · "That feels like what Disney Plus is going to be with the like Falcon and Bucky show and the Scarlet Wish show."
  33. [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."
  34. [Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 0:29:48 · unknown (0.30)] Alien: Covenant ↔ Alien Resurrection · lineage · The fourth film had pirates. · "Alien four, I guess."
  35. [The Big Picture · ‘Captain Marvel’ Is a ’90s Nostalgia Play. Did It Work? | Exit Survey · 0:43:32 · Sean Fennessey (0.80)] Guardians of the Galaxy ⇒ Captain Marvel (the host's read) · lineage · As a prequel, Captain Marvel brings back Guardians characters Ronan (Lee Pace) and Korath (Djimon Hounsou). · "this is, of course, a prequel, so their characters appear in this film again."
  36. [Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War · 0:44:01 · unknown (0.30)] The Avengers ↔ Avengers: Infinity War · lineage · In 2012 Banner could become the Hulk at will; now he cannot at all. · "where Bruce Banner could turn into the Hulk at Will, and now he can't turn into it at all"
  37. [Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The Winter Soldier · 1:59:26 · unknown (0.40)] Captain America: The Winter Soldier ↔ Loki · programming · The Loki show hired a Rick and Morty writer; time-traveling premise. · "have you heard the premise of the Loki show and they hired a Rick and Morty writer?"
  38. [Blank Check — Patreon · The Incredible Hulk · 0:24:59 · Griffin or David (0.25)] William Hurt ↔ The Avengers · programming · Hurt's Ross is the one thread kept through the MCU and the film otherwise sits apart from Ruffalo's Hulk. · "The only kind of thread they keep."
  39. [Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 0:29:59 · unknown (0.30)] Alien: Covenant ↔ Prometheus · lineage · Prometheus had pioneering scientists; Covenant has crunchy colonists. · "Prometheus, you know, where we're in, where it's full on like pioneering scientist types."
  40. [Blank Check — Patreon · Guardians of the Galaxy · 0:35:50 · unknown (0.30)] Guardians of the Galaxy ↔ Star Trek: The Original Series · lineage · It has a Star Trek vibe, essentially a comedy with 60s Trek aesthetics. · "It's like someone doing a comedy with 60s trek aesthetics."

Who said it, by their latest sketch (2)

  1. [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
  2. [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 (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 Avengers: Age of Ultron (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 Avengers: Age of Ultron (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.

[Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The Winter Soldier · 2:09:22 · unknown (0.35)] Captain America: The Winter Soldier ↔ Avengers: Age of Ultron · programming · Ultron resets Captain America's status quo ahead of Civil War. · "Well, it's because Age of Ultron also sort of resets Captain America a little bit."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The Winter Soldier · 2:12:03 · unknown (0.35)] Captain America: The Winter Soldier ⇒ Avengers: Age of Ultron (the host's read) · programming · The post-credits scene sets up the twins and Strucker's experiments. · "You know what they're setting up here, Benny."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War · 1:17:18 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Avengers: Age of Ultron ↔ Avengers: Infinity War · lineage · The Vision and Wanda romance set up in Ultron gets no onscreen payoff here. · "Now, here is the non-payoff of the romance, the major Ultron."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War · 2:00:15 · unknown (0.30)] Avengers: Age of Ultron ⇒ Avengers: Infinity War (the host's read) · lineage · The Hulkbuster armor pays off Banner being almost defeated by it before. · "it's paying off the fact that he was, you know, almost defeated by this armor before."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Guardians of the Galaxy · 1:10:34 · unknown (0.30)] Guardians of the Galaxy ↔ Avengers: Age of Ultron · craft · Infinity Stone exposition scenes tend to halt a movie, but this one works because the heroes are chasing the stone. · "I tend to feel like the Infinity Stone scenes always grind the movie to a hold, however shorter long they are."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Guardians of the Galaxy · 1:53:52 · unknown (0.30)] The Avengers ↔ Avengers: Age of Ultron · craft · The first Avengers' bright final daylight action is a big plus; Ultron is daylight but gloomy. · "That's another big plus to Avengers, the the 1st one, totally, total daylight stuff."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Eclipse · 0:33:27 · unknown (0.40)] Avengers: Age of Ultron ↔ X-Men: Days of Future Past · contrast · Age of Ultron's Quicksilver just blips around and is not very interesting looking next to Singer's. · "I just remember Quicksilver in Age of Ultron just kind of like blipping."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 1:11:10 · unknown (0.40)] Alien: Covenant ↔ Avengers: Age of Ultron · contrast · The David and Walter scene resembles Ultron and Vision talking at the end of Age of Ultron. · "much like Ultron and vision at the end of that movie"
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Avengers · 1:39:42 · David Sims (0.50)] The Avengers ⇒ Avengers: Age of Ultron (the host's read) · contrast · Age of Ultron opens with the team already together and Fury in hiding, so it is a sequel to five films rather than to Avengers. · "Avengers 2 can't be a sequel to Avengers one. It has to be a sequel to 5 other moments."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War · 2:00:51 · Griffin Newman (0.35)] Avengers: Age of Ultron ↔ Avengers: Infinity War · industry · Whedon said he cut a great Hulk gag from Ultron and gave it back to Marvel. · "I came up with a Hulk moment, a Hulk gag that was so good and it just didn't fit into the story."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War · 1:19:29 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Paul Bettany ↔ Avengers: Age of Ultron · career · Wondering when Whedon decided to use Bettany for Ultron's voice. · "when he put that where he's like, I have Paul Bettany."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The Winter Soldier · 2:11:20 · unknown (0.40)] Thomas Kretschmann ↔ Avengers: Age of Ultron · career · Kretschmann's Strucker is a charismatic tiny role in Ultron. · "I really enjoy him in Ultron, even though it's a tiny role where he's like, I'm going to surrender."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Avengers · 0:46:15 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Joss Whedon ↔ Avengers: Age of Ultron · verdict · Whedon's Ultron has some problems, but he does a lot right in this film. · "if you're going to DFI Joss Whedon, this is the one."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Iron Man 3 · 0:53:20 · unknown (0.30)] Gwyneth Paltrow ↔ Avengers: Age of Ultron · industry · Her Marvel contract ended with this film, so she is absent from Ultron and Civil War. · "Her contract ends in this movie."
[pairs] Avengers: Age of Ultron ↔ Avengers: Infinity War · said 3 times in 1 episode
[pairs] Avengers: Age of Ultron ↔ The Avengers · said 2 times in 2 episodes
[pairs] Avengers: Age of Ultron ↔ Captain America: The Winter Soldier · said 2 times in 1 episode
[The Big Picture · The Past, Present, and Future of Superhero Movies | The Big Picture · 0:49:22 · David Shoemaker (0.40)] Black Panther ↔ Avengers: Infinity War · programming · Black Panther looks like the best bet to carry the MCU into the next phase after Infinity War. · "Black Panther certainly looks to be the best bet to carry the series into phase four"
[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."
[The Big Picture · The Past, Present, and Future of Superhero Movies | The Big Picture · 0:13:42 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] The Avengers ↔ Thor · programming · Thor was treated as a loss leader, a stepping stone to the Avengers. · "Thor was treated as a loss leader, essentially."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 1:04:43 · unknown (0.30)] Alien: Covenant ↔ Blade Runner 2049 · programming · Both came out in 2017, by two generations of sci-fi. · "This is the same year as Blade Runner 2049."
[The Big Picture · The Past, Present, and Future of Superhero Movies | The Big Picture · 0:17:03 · Jason Concepcion (0.40)] Guardians of the Galaxy ⇒ Ant-Man (the host's read) · programming · After Guardians' success with unknown characters, Ant-Man was an easy next gamble. · "you do Ant-Man after that because you're just like, yeah, let's do Ant-Man."
[The Big Picture · The Past, Present, and Future of Superhero Movies | The Big Picture · 0:52:39 · David Shoemaker (0.40)] Guardians of the Galaxy ↔ Avengers: Infinity War · programming · Guardians 3 is certain and Star-Lord is now a primary MCU figure. · "Chris Pratt, obviously, there will be a Guardians 3."
[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 3 · 0:16:00 · unknown (0.30)] Iron Man 3 ↔ The Avengers · programming · Phase 2 begins here and Avengers' victory lap gave Feige room to let each film feel individual. · "They're on such a victory lap that it feels like this is the one little chunk of time where Kevin Feige lets go a little bit."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 2:04:21 · unknown (0.40)] Alien: Covenant ↔ Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 · programming · Covenant's weekend opened behind Guardians Vol. 2, #1 for the second weekend. · "Oh, it's Gardens of Galaxy volume two."
[The Big Picture · The Past, Present, and Future of Superhero Movies | The Big Picture · 0:52:39 · David Shoemaker (0.40)] Guardians of the Galaxy ↔ Avengers: Infinity War · programming · Guardians 3 is certain and Star-Lord is now a primary MCU figure. · "Chris Pratt, obviously, there will be a Guardians 3."
[The Big Picture · The Past, Present, and Future of Superhero Movies | The Big Picture · 0:57:00 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Avengers: Infinity War ↔ Ant-Man and the Wasp · programming · Whether Ant-Man and the Wasp matters as much as Infinity War is a test of Marvel overexposure. · "At what point does Ant-man and the Wasp not matter as much as Infinity War?"
[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 · The Avengers · 1:29:09 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] The Avengers ↔ Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. · programming · Coulson was brought back for the TV show but kept out of the movies, signaling the TV show is only loosely connected. · "you can be in the TV show, like, because we need, you know, a star for the show"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 0:06:57 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Prometheus ⇒ Alien: Covenant (the host's read) · lineage · Covenant is half the Prometheus sequel Scott wanted and half a concession to a more normal Alien movie. · "this is half, like Ridley Scott doing the Prometheus sequel he wanted to do and half"
[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 · Avengers: Infinity War · 0:25:32 · Griffin Newman (0.70)] Black Panther ↔ Avengers: Infinity War · programming · Griffin loved Black Panther just before, then felt Infinity War was one Marvel movie too big. · "Having, you know, loved Black Panther, which came out right before this."
[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 · 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 · Alien: Covenant · 0:29:38 · unknown (0.30)] Alien: Covenant ↔ Alien · lineage · Each Alien film has a different workforce; the original had blue-collar miners. · "Like that's, you know, blue collar minors."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Guardians of the Galaxy · 2:13:19 · unknown (0.30)] Guardians of the Galaxy ↔ Howard the Duck · programming · The credits tag with Howard the Duck leads to talk about the comic being better than the Lucas film and Kevin Smith's animated show. · "Not the George Lucas film."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War · 2:55:04 · David Sims (0.40)] Ant-Man and the Wasp ↔ Avengers: Infinity War · programming · Ant-Man and the Wasp is the sorbet to watch after Infinity War. · "A nice little sorbet, though."
[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 · The Avengers · 1:34:57 · David Sims (0.40)] The Avengers ⇒ Guardians of the Galaxy (the host's read) · programming · Thanos' Chitauri subcontracting sets up the cosmic films; Guardians is next on their Marvel list. · "We're gonna we're gonna cover Peter movie soon."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 0:29:41 · unknown (0.30)] Alien: Covenant ↔ Aliens · lineage · Aliens had Marines. · "Aliens, you got Marines."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Thor: The Dark World · 1:59:51 · David Sims (0.30)] Thor: The Dark World ↔ Guardians of the Galaxy · programming · The Collector mid-credits scene already shows the Guardians' comic space weirdness; the speaker thinks James Gunn directed it. · "I think gun directed this. It's 100% difficult."
[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 · 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 · Thor · 1:02:12 · Griffin Newman (0.35)] Thor ↔ The Avengers · programming · The Hawkeye cameo, with no interaction, made the speaker doubt the Avengers team-up would work. · "The thing you want to see is how they talk and interact with each other."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 0:29:45 · unknown (0.30)] Alien: Covenant ↔ Alien 3 · lineage · Alien 3 had convicts. · "Alien 3 convicts."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Avengers · 1:34:57 · David Sims (0.40)] The Avengers ⇒ Guardians of the Galaxy (the host's read) · programming · Thanos' Chitauri subcontracting sets up the cosmic films; Guardians is next on their Marvel list. · "We're gonna we're gonna cover Peter movie soon."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War · 0:25:44 · unknown (0.30)] The Avengers ⇒ Avengers: Infinity War (the host's read) · lineage · The Hulk echoes Tony Stark's words from the first Avengers; the movie is full of callbacks. · "echoing Tony Stark's words from the Avengers 2012"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The Winter Soldier · 1:59:18 · unknown (0.40)] Captain America: The Winter Soldier ↔ Disney+ Falcon and Bucky show · programming · Smaller side-character projects are the future on Disney Plus. · "That feels like what Disney Plus is going to be with the like Falcon and Bucky show and the Scarlet Wish show."
[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 · Alien: Covenant · 0:29:48 · unknown (0.30)] Alien: Covenant ↔ Alien Resurrection · lineage · The fourth film had pirates. · "Alien four, I guess."
[The Big Picture · ‘Captain Marvel’ Is a ’90s Nostalgia Play. Did It Work? | Exit Survey · 0:43:32 · Sean Fennessey (0.80)] Guardians of the Galaxy ⇒ Captain Marvel (the host's read) · lineage · As a prequel, Captain Marvel brings back Guardians characters Ronan (Lee Pace) and Korath (Djimon Hounsou). · "this is, of course, a prequel, so their characters appear in this film again."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War · 0:44:01 · unknown (0.30)] The Avengers ↔ Avengers: Infinity War · lineage · In 2012 Banner could become the Hulk at will; now he cannot at all. · "where Bruce Banner could turn into the Hulk at Will, and now he can't turn into it at all"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The Winter Soldier · 1:59:26 · unknown (0.40)] Captain America: The Winter Soldier ↔ Loki · programming · The Loki show hired a Rick and Morty writer; time-traveling premise. · "have you heard the premise of the Loki show and they hired a Rick and Morty writer?"
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Incredible Hulk · 0:24:59 · Griffin or David (0.25)] William Hurt ↔ The Avengers · programming · Hurt's Ross is the one thread kept through the MCU and the film otherwise sits apart from Ruffalo's Hulk. · "The only kind of thread they keep."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 0:29:59 · unknown (0.30)] Alien: Covenant ↔ Prometheus · lineage · Prometheus had pioneering scientists; Covenant has crunchy colonists. · "Prometheus, you know, where we're in, where it's full on like pioneering scientist types."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Guardians of the Galaxy · 0:35:50 · unknown (0.30)] Guardians of the Galaxy ↔ Star Trek: The Original Series · lineage · It has a Star Trek vibe, essentially a comedy with 60s Trek aesthetics. · "It's like someone doing a comedy with 60s trek aesthetics."
[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] 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)

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 Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Avengers: Age of Ultron (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.