What the corpus says about Doctor Strange (2016)

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What was said about it (11)

  1. [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"
  2. [Blank Check — Patreon · Thor: The Dark World · 0:51:02 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Thor: The Dark World ↔ Doctor Strange · craft · Doctor Strange does tactile magic well, with sparks, whereas Thor's magic read as CGI doodles elsewhere; the Dark World's has texture. · "I think Doctor Strange does really well, but they make magic look tactile, which is hard to do."
  3. [Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War · 0:37:31 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Doctor Strange ↔ Avengers: Infinity War · contrast · Doctor Strange has the worst joke writing in any Marvel film, while the Avengers films do his comedy better. · "I think Doctor Strange also suffers from the worst joke writing in any Marvel film."
  4. [Blank Check — Patreon · Thor: The Dark World · 1:36:31 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Thor: The Dark World ↔ Doctor Strange · verdict · Doctor Strange fails on comedy, trying too hard to make Strange like Tony Stark; they should have owned being po-faced like this earnest film. · "That movie conclusively fails on the comedy front."
  5. [Blank Check — Patreon · Trolls: The Experience · 1:40:53 · unknown (0.40)] Trolls ↔ Doctor Strange · industry · Trolls (2016) opened the same weekend as Doctor Strange, the election weekend. · "This came out the same weekend as Dr. Strange."
  6. [Blank Check — Patreon · Guardians of the Galaxy · 0:17:11 · unknown (0.30)] Guardians of the Galaxy ↔ Doctor Strange · industry · Feige's goal of growing the universe: Guardians is the cosmic layer, Doctor Strange the magical one, areas once thought too silly or expensive. · "Like Doctor Strange is like sort of the magical element."
  7. [Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War · 0:37:00 · John Hodgman (0.40)] Doctor Strange ↔ Robert Downey Jr. · theme · Strange's origin as a brought-low egotist who rebuilds mirrors Tony Stark's. · "the true origin story of Doctor Strange is so parallel to Tony Stark"
  8. [Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War · 0:36:24 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Benedict Cumberbatch ↔ Doctor Strange · contrast · Disliked him in Doctor Strange, prefers him in the two Avengers films. · "And I disliked him in Doctor Strange quite a bit."
  9. [Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War · 0:54:22 · unknown (0.35)] Rachel McAdams ↔ Doctor Strange · career · McAdams's Doctor Strange role as Christine Palmer rules her out as Invisible Woman. · "forgetting that she is in Doctor Strange"
  10. [Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War · 2:20:59 · unknown (0.35)] Joaquin Phoenix ↔ Doctor Strange · what-if · Feige wanted Joaquin Phoenix to play Strange. · "Oh, and he wanted Joaquin to be strange."
  11. [Blank Check — Patreon · Iron Man 3 · 1:07:56 · unknown (0.30)] Doctor Strange ↔ Michelle Yeoh · what-if · The Tilda Swinton Ancient One part should have gone to Michelle Yeoh; erasure vs. smart Mandarin twist. · "The Tilda Swinton parts should have been Michelle Yeo."

Films put beside it more than once (1)

  1. [pairs] Doctor Strange ↔ Thor: The Dark World · said 2 times in 1 episode

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

  1. [Blank Check — Patreon · Guardians of the Galaxy · 1:00:57 · unknown (0.30)] Benicio del Toro ↔ Thor: The Dark World · programming · Del Toro's Collector first appears in the Dark World post-credits and has been used little since. · "How much is he in dark world?"
  2. [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"
  3. [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."
  4. [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."
  5. [Blank Check — Patreon · Trolls: The Experience · 0:10:54 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Trolls ↔ Trolls World Tour · programming · Trolls had to be watched first because the sequel releases the day this episode comes out. · "knowing that the day this episode comes out, trolls world tour will also be unleashed upon the world."
  6. [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."
  7. [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."
  8. [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."
  9. [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."
  10. [Blank Check — Patreon · Trolls: The Experience · 1:34:57 · unknown (0.35)] Trolls ↔ Trolls World Tour · programming · Katzenberg milked properties into cartoon shows, specials and sequels; Universal owns Trolls outright now and will continue. · "Casenberg always milks every property dry."
  11. [Blank Check — Patreon · Thor: The Dark World · 0:50:31 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] The Nutcracker and the Four Realms ↔ Thor: The Dark World · programming · Joking that a 'four realms' film from the director of Captain America should have had nine realms. · "He won't settle for four."
  12. [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?"
  13. [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."
  14. [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."
  15. [Blank Check — Patreon · Trolls: The Experience · 0:59:43 · unknown (0.35)] Trolls ↔ Fraggle Rock (TV series) · lineage · The Trolls society of different-sized species has a Fraggle Rock structure. · "a fraggle rock structuring of society where there are different species of different sizes"
  16. [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."
  17. [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."
  18. [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."
  19. [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."
  20. [Blank Check — Patreon · Trolls: The Experience · 1:01:36 · unknown (0.35)] Adventure Time (TV series) ⇒ Trolls (the host's read) · lineage · Trolls' look is the end of a chain from webcomics and Adult Swim through Adventure Time to mainstream kids animation. · "So you end up getting things like adventure time that feel more like what adult swim used to feel like than what a children's show used to feel like."
  21. [Blank Check — Patreon · Thor: The Dark World · 0:17:10 · David Sims (0.40)] Thor: The Dark World ↔ The Lord of the Rings · lineage · The Dark Elf war prologue and design is Lord of the Rings style ancient-story fantasy. · "This is some sort of like Lord of the Rings stuff where it's sort of like, you know, this is an ancient story."
  22. [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."
  23. [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."
  24. [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."
  25. [Blank Check — Patreon · Trolls: The Experience · 1:02:37 · unknown (0.35)] Shrek ⇒ Trolls (the host's read) · lineage · Trolls has Shrek-distilled humor: self-referential asides for the parents. · "this weird, annoying Shrek, you know, as you say, Shrek, distilled or whatever, like type of humor"
  26. [Blank Check — Patreon · Thor: The Dark World · 0:20:47 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] The Avengers ⇒ Thor: The Dark World (the host's read) · lineage · The Dark World is the correction to Joss Whedon cracking Loki: he becomes co-lead, Thor 1A to Loki 1B. · "This is the correction to Joss Whedon cracking Loki, where they're like, we get it now."
  27. [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."
  28. [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."
  29. [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."
  30. [Blank Check — Patreon · Trolls: The Experience · 1:10:23 · unknown (0.30)] Trolls ↔ Antz (said as 'ants') · lineage · The mismatched-pair quest through the big world is compared to the plot of Antz. · "much like the plot of ants"
  31. [Blank Check — Patreon · Thor: The Dark World · 0:30:50 · David Sims (0.40)] The Avengers ⇒ Thor: The Dark World (the host's read) · lineage · Avengers ends with the team scattering, which is why the Phase 2 sequels can stand alone. · "And also, Joss Wheaton's like master stroke at the end of Avengers is like, we're not a team."
  32. [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"
  33. [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."
  34. [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."
  35. [Blank Check — Patreon · Trolls: The Experience · 1:14:02 · unknown (0.35)] Trolls ↔ Cyrano de Bergerac · lineage · The middle of Trolls turns into a gender-flipped Cyrano with the trolls hiding in Bridget's wig. · "And then the movie becomes like Cyrano?"
  36. [Blank Check — Patreon · Thor: The Dark World · 2:02:06 · David Sims (0.40)] Doctor Who ⇒ Thor: The Dark World (the host's read) · lineage · Marvel in general is indebted to Doctor Who's tone of lightness, comedy, hope and teamwork, especially the Russell T Davies era. · "I think Marvel in general is very kind of indebted to Doctor Who with the same tone of like lightness and comedy and hope and team teamwork."
  37. [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"
  38. [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."
  39. [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."
  40. [Blank Check — Patreon · Trolls: The Experience · 1:19:16 · unknown (0.35)] Trolls ↔ Cinderella · lineage · The roller skate left behind makes the Bergen prince plot a Cinderella story. · "So then it becomes a Cinderella thing"

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] John Hodgman · latest sketch, Blank Check · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World · A boat man and old-fashioned nerd who loves wooden schooners, nautical procedure and Moby-Dick; he adores Patrick O'Brian and the film's authenticity but admits he is not a book expert. He is a sucker for sailing terminology and for explaining knots and anchors. · stances: The film gets sailing powerlessness and control right; Sleeping on a boat with no motor noise is creepy; Loves the sound design and rope work; Offers boating facts relentlessly

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 Doctor Strange (2016) and wants to know what to watch next.

Below is what people who love movies said on three podcasts (Blank Check, The Rewatchables, The Big Picture) about Doctor Strange (2016) and the films around it, one line each. Every line starts with where it came from, in brackets: [show · episode · time · speaker (how sure we are it was them)]. A [pairs] line says how often two films were put side by side. A [speaker] line says what that person likes. A [bits] line lists a show's running bits: a format, not an opinion.

[Blank Check — Patreon · 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 · Thor: The Dark World · 0:51:02 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Thor: The Dark World ↔ Doctor Strange · craft · Doctor Strange does tactile magic well, with sparks, whereas Thor's magic read as CGI doodles elsewhere; the Dark World's has texture. · "I think Doctor Strange does really well, but they make magic look tactile, which is hard to do."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War · 0:37:31 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Doctor Strange ↔ Avengers: Infinity War · contrast · Doctor Strange has the worst joke writing in any Marvel film, while the Avengers films do his comedy better. · "I think Doctor Strange also suffers from the worst joke writing in any Marvel film."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Thor: The Dark World · 1:36:31 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Thor: The Dark World ↔ Doctor Strange · verdict · Doctor Strange fails on comedy, trying too hard to make Strange like Tony Stark; they should have owned being po-faced like this earnest film. · "That movie conclusively fails on the comedy front."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Trolls: The Experience · 1:40:53 · unknown (0.40)] Trolls ↔ Doctor Strange · industry · Trolls (2016) opened the same weekend as Doctor Strange, the election weekend. · "This came out the same weekend as Dr. Strange."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Guardians of the Galaxy · 0:17:11 · unknown (0.30)] Guardians of the Galaxy ↔ Doctor Strange · industry · Feige's goal of growing the universe: Guardians is the cosmic layer, Doctor Strange the magical one, areas once thought too silly or expensive. · "Like Doctor Strange is like sort of the magical element."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War · 0:37:00 · John Hodgman (0.40)] Doctor Strange ↔ Robert Downey Jr. · theme · Strange's origin as a brought-low egotist who rebuilds mirrors Tony Stark's. · "the true origin story of Doctor Strange is so parallel to Tony Stark"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War · 0:36:24 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Benedict Cumberbatch ↔ Doctor Strange · contrast · Disliked him in Doctor Strange, prefers him in the two Avengers films. · "And I disliked him in Doctor Strange quite a bit."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War · 0:54:22 · unknown (0.35)] Rachel McAdams ↔ Doctor Strange · career · McAdams's Doctor Strange role as Christine Palmer rules her out as Invisible Woman. · "forgetting that she is in Doctor Strange"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War · 2:20:59 · unknown (0.35)] Joaquin Phoenix ↔ Doctor Strange · what-if · Feige wanted Joaquin Phoenix to play Strange. · "Oh, and he wanted Joaquin to be strange."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Iron Man 3 · 1:07:56 · unknown (0.30)] Doctor Strange ↔ Michelle Yeoh · what-if · The Tilda Swinton Ancient One part should have gone to Michelle Yeoh; erasure vs. smart Mandarin twist. · "The Tilda Swinton parts should have been Michelle Yeo."
[pairs] Doctor Strange ↔ Thor: The Dark World · said 2 times in 1 episode
[Blank Check — Patreon · Guardians of the Galaxy · 1:00:57 · unknown (0.30)] Benicio del Toro ↔ Thor: The Dark World · programming · Del Toro's Collector first appears in the Dark World post-credits and has been used little since. · "How much is he in dark world?"
[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 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."
[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."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Trolls: The Experience · 0:10:54 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Trolls ↔ Trolls World Tour · programming · Trolls had to be watched first because the sequel releases the day this episode comes out. · "knowing that the day this episode comes out, trolls world tour will also be unleashed upon the world."
[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."
[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 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."
[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 · Trolls: The Experience · 1:34:57 · unknown (0.35)] Trolls ↔ Trolls World Tour · programming · Katzenberg milked properties into cartoon shows, specials and sequels; Universal owns Trolls outright now and will continue. · "Casenberg always milks every property dry."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Thor: The Dark World · 0:50:31 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] The Nutcracker and the Four Realms ↔ Thor: The Dark World · programming · Joking that a 'four realms' film from the director of Captain America should have had nine realms. · "He won't settle for four."
[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 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."
[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 · Trolls: The Experience · 0:59:43 · unknown (0.35)] Trolls ↔ Fraggle Rock (TV series) · lineage · The Trolls society of different-sized species has a Fraggle Rock structure. · "a fraggle rock structuring of society where there are different species of different sizes"
[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."
[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."
[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 · 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 · Trolls: The Experience · 1:01:36 · unknown (0.35)] Adventure Time (TV series) ⇒ Trolls (the host's read) · lineage · Trolls' look is the end of a chain from webcomics and Adult Swim through Adventure Time to mainstream kids animation. · "So you end up getting things like adventure time that feel more like what adult swim used to feel like than what a children's show used to feel like."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Thor: The Dark World · 0:17:10 · David Sims (0.40)] Thor: The Dark World ↔ The Lord of the Rings · lineage · The Dark Elf war prologue and design is Lord of the Rings style ancient-story fantasy. · "This is some sort of like Lord of the Rings stuff where it's sort of like, you know, this is an ancient story."
[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 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 · 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."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Trolls: The Experience · 1:02:37 · unknown (0.35)] Shrek ⇒ Trolls (the host's read) · lineage · Trolls has Shrek-distilled humor: self-referential asides for the parents. · "this weird, annoying Shrek, you know, as you say, Shrek, distilled or whatever, like type of humor"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Thor: The Dark World · 0:20:47 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] The Avengers ⇒ Thor: The Dark World (the host's read) · lineage · The Dark World is the correction to Joss Whedon cracking Loki: he becomes co-lead, Thor 1A to Loki 1B. · "This is the correction to Joss Whedon cracking Loki, where they're like, we get it now."
[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 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 · 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 · Trolls: The Experience · 1:10:23 · unknown (0.30)] Trolls ↔ Antz (said as 'ants') · lineage · The mismatched-pair quest through the big world is compared to the plot of Antz. · "much like the plot of ants"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Thor: The Dark World · 0:30:50 · David Sims (0.40)] The Avengers ⇒ Thor: The Dark World (the host's read) · lineage · Avengers ends with the team scattering, which is why the Phase 2 sequels can stand alone. · "And also, Joss Wheaton's like master stroke at the end of Avengers is like, we're not a team."
[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 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."
[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 · Trolls: The Experience · 1:14:02 · unknown (0.35)] Trolls ↔ Cyrano de Bergerac · lineage · The middle of Trolls turns into a gender-flipped Cyrano with the trolls hiding in Bridget's wig. · "And then the movie becomes like Cyrano?"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Thor: The Dark World · 2:02:06 · David Sims (0.40)] Doctor Who ⇒ Thor: The Dark World (the host's read) · lineage · Marvel in general is indebted to Doctor Who's tone of lightness, comedy, hope and teamwork, especially the Russell T Davies era. · "I think Marvel in general is very kind of indebted to Doctor Who with the same tone of like lightness and comedy and hope and team teamwork."
[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 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 · 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."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Trolls: The Experience · 1:19:16 · unknown (0.35)] Trolls ↔ Cinderella · lineage · The roller skate left behind makes the Bergen prince plot a Cinderella story. · "So then it becomes a Cinderella thing"
[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] John Hodgman · latest sketch, Blank Check · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World · A boat man and old-fashioned nerd who loves wooden schooners, nautical procedure and Moby-Dick; he adores Patrick O'Brian and the film's authenticity but admits he is not a book expert. He is a sucker for sailing terminology and for explaining knots and anchors. · stances: The film gets sailing powerlessness and control right; Sleeping on a boat with no motor noise is creepy; Loves the sound design and rope work; Offers boating facts relentlessly
[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 Doctor Strange (2016); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Doctor Strange (2016) itself. For each one, give one short reason in your own words and say whose reason it is: the show, named exactly as the brackets name it, and the speaker when the line names one (an "unknown" speaker is just the show). If the lines are thin, say so plainly rather than stretching them.

Keep a contrast a contrast. When a line sets two films apart, the reason is how they differ; never turn it into a way they're alike. A line with ⇒ puts the source first and what drew on it second, and one marked "the maker said so" is still the host reporting it: say who said it, and never state an influence as fact.

You know only what's on these lines. Add no fact they don't state: not who directed a film, not what kind of film it is, not when it came out, unless a line says so. Say nothing about the store or how anything rents here.

Talk the way a clerk talks to a customer at the counter: plain text, titles written plainly with no asterisks or other markup, no headings, no lists of more than six, no JSON.