What the corpus says about Thor: The Dark World (2013)

The 60 lines php artisan corpus:ask hands a model, in the order it gets them, and nothing else. The model writes a clerk's answer from these and only these.

What was said about it (26)

  1. [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."
  2. [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."
  3. [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."
  4. [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."
  5. [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."
  6. [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."
  7. [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."
  8. [Blank Check — Patreon · Thor: The Dark World · 0:18:22 · David Sims (0.30)] Thor: The Dark World ↔ Crazy Rich Asians · theme · Like Crazy Rich Asians, the real romance is the lead and the mother figure; Thor's love is figurehead-level. · "Crazy Rich Asians is really the romance between her and the mother"
  9. [Blank Check — Patreon · Thor: The Dark World · 0:29:33 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Thor: The Dark World ↔ Crazy Rich Asians · theme · The fish-out-of-water romance with a world of high society and Frigga as the mother echoes Crazy Rich Asians. · "Well, because this is also her kind of crazy rich Asians where it's like, this is a world that I don't know."
  10. [Blank Check — Patreon · Thor: The Dark World · 1:26:37 · David Sims (0.40)] Thor: The Dark World ↔ Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery · theme · Skarsgard's penis-showing in the Dark World is likened to the Swedish made penis enlarger pump gag. · "This feels like the Austin Powers, Swedish made penis enlarger pump."
  11. [Blank Check — Patreon · Thor: The Dark World · 1:32:23 · David Sims (0.35)] Thor: The Dark World ↔ While You Were Sleeping · theme · Jane's fake-out (it was all a dream) is likened to While You Were Sleeping with Peter Gallagher and Bill Pullman. · "Well, Jane Foster was sleeping."
  12. [Blank Check — Patreon · Thor: The Dark World · 1:38:25 · David Sims (0.60)] Thor: The Dark World ↔ Alita: Battle Angel · theme · Griffin's line from his Alita review frames this film: he is defenseless before silly sci-fi epics that dump lore through a simple hero's journey, like Jupiter Ascending, Valerian, Aquaman. · "Think of films like Jupe, ascending, Valerian, Aquaman, colorful mega budget, nonsense splash into a grand canvas."
  13. [Blank Check — Patreon · Thor: The Dark World · 1:38:25 · David Sims (0.60)] Thor: The Dark World ↔ Jupiter Ascending · theme · Same family of lore-heavy, simple hero's-journey spectacle. · "Think of films like Jupe, ascending, Valerian, Aquaman"
  14. [Blank Check — Patreon · Thor: The Dark World · 1:50:18 · unknown (0.30)] Thor: The Dark World ↔ Star Wars (Return of the Jedi / Jabba's palace) · theme · A fire-world portal is called Mustafar, kicking off a long Star Wars riff on Jabba's palace and Sy Snootles voiced as a Tony Lip bouncer. · "Yeah, it's Mustafar."
  15. [Blank Check — Patreon · Thor: The Dark World · 0:11:39 · David Sims (0.40)] Game of Thrones ⇒ Thor: The Dark World (the host's read) · craft · The film aims for a grounded, muddy fantasy in the Game of Thrones manner, away from Branagh's version. · "We want to make a more grounded fantasy away from the bran off."
  16. [Blank Check — Patreon · Thor: The Dark World · 0:18:52 · Griffin Newman (0.45)] Thor: The Dark World ↔ Thor · craft · The Dark World goes further in both directions on design (older looks plus more tech) while Branagh's Thor split the difference in a murky middle. · "I think, like, Branagh is splitting the difference too hard and staying in a weird murky middle ground."
  17. [Blank Check — Patreon · Thor: The Dark World · 0:25:52 · unknown (0.30)] Thor: The Dark World ↔ Game of Thrones · craft · Asgard's courtyard business and street-level scenes feel like Game of Thrones. · "Like I still don't understand like this very Game of Thronesy."
  18. [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."
  19. [Blank Check — Patreon · Thor: The Dark World · 1:09:40 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Thor: The Dark World ↔ The Lord of the Rings · craft · The ether lodging in Jane and slowly corrupting her is like the One Ring and Frodo. · "It's sort of almost the like the ring for Frodo-esque."
  20. [Blank Check — Patreon · Thor: The Dark World · 1:46:58 · David Sims (0.40)] Thor: The Dark World ↔ Monsters, Inc. · craft · The portal-hopping final fight is like the door-chasing end of Monsters, Inc. · "It's like the end of Monsters Inc. where they keep on going through the doors."
  21. [Blank Check — Patreon · Thor: The Dark World · 1:47:36 · unknown (0.30)] Thor: The Dark World ↔ The Simpsons · craft · The portal landing in odd places reminds the speaker of a Simpsons Homer/Bart stunt episode. · "Do you remember when Bart starts jumping on his bike and Homer does it and then he falls down the cliff for like ever?"
  22. [Blank Check — Patreon · Thor: The Dark World · 1:54:27 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Thor: The Dark World ↔ The Fate of the Furious · craft · The London flat where Thor and Jane land looks like the penthouse where the Fast & Furious gang drinks Budweisers at the end of Fate. · "It sort of looks like the flat where they Fast and Furious gang gathers at the end of fate."
  23. [Blank Check — Patreon · Thor: The Dark World · 1:58:58 · David Sims (0.35)] Thor: The Dark World ↔ Mission: Impossible – Fallout · craft · Credits that run least to most important, with the star last, as in Fallout, parallel the cast roll here. · "I like it that in the Mission Impossible Fallout, they save Tom for last."
  24. [Blank Check — Patreon · Thor: The Dark World · 1:59:20 · unknown (0.30)] Thor: The Dark World ↔ Dreamgirls · craft · Same idea as Dreamgirls, which builds to introducing Jennifer Hudson. · "Dream Girls does a similar thing where they build up..."
  25. [Blank Check — Patreon · Guardians of the Galaxy · 0:26:24 · unknown (0.30)] Guardians of the Galaxy ↔ Thor: The Dark World · contrast · A dark elf in a cage reminds them of Thor 2, though they note the Cree villains are a different race from the Dark Elves. · "These are the same dark elves from the Thorn."
  26. [Blank Check — Patreon · Thor: The Dark World · 0:12:16 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Thor: Ragnarok ↔ Thor: The Dark World · contrast · Ragnarok flushes nearly all the mythos out of Thor other than Thor and Loki, which the speakers dislike. · "And they flush almost everything out of the mythos other than Thorn Loke."

Films put beside it more than once (6)

  1. [pairs] Thor: The Dark World ↔ Thor: Ragnarok · said 4 times in 1 episode
  2. [pairs] Thor: The Dark World ↔ Thor · said 3 times in 2 episodes
  3. [pairs] Thor: The Dark World ↔ Guardians of the Galaxy · said 3 times in 2 episodes
  4. [pairs] Thor: The Dark World ↔ Captain America: The Winter Soldier · said 2 times in 2 episodes
  5. [pairs] Thor: The Dark World ↔ The Lord of the Rings · said 2 times in 1 episode
  6. [pairs] Thor: The Dark World ↔ The Avengers · said 2 times in 1 episode

Fun items about it (6)

  1. [Blank Check — Patreon · Thor: The Dark World · 1:17:53 · unknown (0.30)] Thor: The Dark World · fun · See the scene where Jane slaps Loki on first meeting him again, 'for New York'. · "That was for New York."
  2. [Blank Check — Patreon · Thor: The Dark World · 1:25:07 · David Sims (0.40)] Thor: The Dark World · fun · The brothers-in-a-boat scene: a speaker admits being choked up, the movie hit the brother spot. · "this movie hit me right in this brother spot."
  3. [Blank Check — Patreon · Thor: The Dark World · 1:47:48 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Thor: The Dark World · fun · The portal fight is where the hammer, with Thor out of the world, zooms around looking for him, then zooms back. · "I also like that every time Thor's out of the world, the hammer just kind of like starts zooming around because he doesn't know where to go."
  4. [Blank Check — Patreon · Thor: The Dark World · 1:48:56 · David Sims (0.40)] Thor: The Dark World · fun · The climactic portal fight, set up as a gimmick for forty-five minutes: characters zap between Greenwich, Vanaheim and Frostland; a Frost Beast turns up; Thor throws a car at Malekith. · "He throws the car on him."
  5. [Blank Check — Patreon · Thor: The Dark World · 1:52:11 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Thor: The Dark World · fun · Malekith is portaled in pieces, and says he's fine, like Monty Python's Black Knight. · "I like how Melachi tries to be like, I'm fine."
  6. [Blank Check — Patreon · Thor: The Dark World · 1:54:01 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Thor: The Dark World · fun · Griffin overhypes the final fight from the opening credits. · "I shouldn't have started talking up the gimmick at the opening credits of this one."

One hop out: what recommends the films most often joined to it (19)

  1. [The Big Picture · The Top 10 Fantasy Films, The Toy Movie Hall of Fame, and ‘Masters of the Universe,’ · 1:09:02 · unknown (0.40)] Thor: Ragnarok ⇒ Masters of the Universe (the host's read) · lineage · The movie looks inspired by Ragnarok, which gave executives a template of color, weirdness, and joke tone to copy. · "And it speaks to this movie feels very, um, inspired by Thor Ragnarok to me."
  2. [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."
  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 · 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."
  5. [The Big Picture · The Past, Present, and Future of Superhero Movies | The Big Picture · 0:12:02 · David Shoemaker (0.40)] Jason Aaron ⇒ Thor: Ragnarok (the host's read) · lineage · Ragnarok is influenced by Jason Aaron's Thor comics. · "Ragnarok is certainly influenced by the Jason Aaron stuff."
  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. [The Big Picture · The Past, Present, and Future of Superhero Movies | The Big Picture · 0:33:16 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Justice League ↔ Thor · programming · Justice League must make Cyborg, Aquaman, and the Flash into linchpins the way Thor and Captain America are. · "They have to be the Thor, they have to be the Captain America."
  8. [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."
  9. [Blank Check — Patreon · Thor: The Dark World · 0:13:27 · unknown (0.30)] Thor: Ragnarok ↔ Iron Man 3 · lineage · Ragnarok relates to The Dark World as Iron Man 3 relates to Iron Man, a hard tonal reset on the prior entry. · "Ragnarok is very much the Iron Man 3 to this movie's Iron Man."
  10. [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."
  11. [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."
  12. [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"
  13. [Blank Check — Patreon · The Avengers · 1:18:58 · David Sims (0.40)] The Avengers ⇒ Thor: Ragnarok (the host's read) · theme · Ben's favorite Marvel movie; Hulk's journey into space follows from here. · "Ragnarok is 100% Ben's favorite Marvel movie."
  14. [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."
  15. [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."
  16. [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."
  17. [Blank Check — Patreon · Thor: The Dark World · 0:20:42 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Chris Hemsworth ⇒ Thor: Ragnarok (the host's read) · craft · Ragnarok is the correction to Hemsworth proving he's funny in other movies. · "Thor Ragnarok is the correction to Hemsworth proving that he's funny in other movies."
  18. [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."
  19. [Blank Check — Patreon · Thor · 1:50:54 · David Sims (0.50)] Thor ↔ Fast Five · programming · Thor's opening was the Memorial Day-season release, with Fast Five as the number two film in its 2nd weekend. · "Number 2 is one of the best movies of this year."

Who said it, by their latest sketch (2)

  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

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 Thor: The Dark World (2013) 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 Thor: The Dark World (2013) 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 · 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 · 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."
[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 · 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 · 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."
[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 · 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 · Thor: The Dark World · 0:18:22 · David Sims (0.30)] Thor: The Dark World ↔ Crazy Rich Asians · theme · Like Crazy Rich Asians, the real romance is the lead and the mother figure; Thor's love is figurehead-level. · "Crazy Rich Asians is really the romance between her and the mother"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Thor: The Dark World · 0:29:33 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Thor: The Dark World ↔ Crazy Rich Asians · theme · The fish-out-of-water romance with a world of high society and Frigga as the mother echoes Crazy Rich Asians. · "Well, because this is also her kind of crazy rich Asians where it's like, this is a world that I don't know."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Thor: The Dark World · 1:26:37 · David Sims (0.40)] Thor: The Dark World ↔ Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery · theme · Skarsgard's penis-showing in the Dark World is likened to the Swedish made penis enlarger pump gag. · "This feels like the Austin Powers, Swedish made penis enlarger pump."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Thor: The Dark World · 1:32:23 · David Sims (0.35)] Thor: The Dark World ↔ While You Were Sleeping · theme · Jane's fake-out (it was all a dream) is likened to While You Were Sleeping with Peter Gallagher and Bill Pullman. · "Well, Jane Foster was sleeping."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Thor: The Dark World · 1:38:25 · David Sims (0.60)] Thor: The Dark World ↔ Alita: Battle Angel · theme · Griffin's line from his Alita review frames this film: he is defenseless before silly sci-fi epics that dump lore through a simple hero's journey, like Jupiter Ascending, Valerian, Aquaman. · "Think of films like Jupe, ascending, Valerian, Aquaman, colorful mega budget, nonsense splash into a grand canvas."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Thor: The Dark World · 1:38:25 · David Sims (0.60)] Thor: The Dark World ↔ Jupiter Ascending · theme · Same family of lore-heavy, simple hero's-journey spectacle. · "Think of films like Jupe, ascending, Valerian, Aquaman"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Thor: The Dark World · 1:50:18 · unknown (0.30)] Thor: The Dark World ↔ Star Wars (Return of the Jedi / Jabba's palace) · theme · A fire-world portal is called Mustafar, kicking off a long Star Wars riff on Jabba's palace and Sy Snootles voiced as a Tony Lip bouncer. · "Yeah, it's Mustafar."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Thor: The Dark World · 0:11:39 · David Sims (0.40)] Game of Thrones ⇒ Thor: The Dark World (the host's read) · craft · The film aims for a grounded, muddy fantasy in the Game of Thrones manner, away from Branagh's version. · "We want to make a more grounded fantasy away from the bran off."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Thor: The Dark World · 0:18:52 · Griffin Newman (0.45)] Thor: The Dark World ↔ Thor · craft · The Dark World goes further in both directions on design (older looks plus more tech) while Branagh's Thor split the difference in a murky middle. · "I think, like, Branagh is splitting the difference too hard and staying in a weird murky middle ground."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Thor: The Dark World · 0:25:52 · unknown (0.30)] Thor: The Dark World ↔ Game of Thrones · craft · Asgard's courtyard business and street-level scenes feel like Game of Thrones. · "Like I still don't understand like this very Game of Thronesy."
[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 · Thor: The Dark World · 1:09:40 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Thor: The Dark World ↔ The Lord of the Rings · craft · The ether lodging in Jane and slowly corrupting her is like the One Ring and Frodo. · "It's sort of almost the like the ring for Frodo-esque."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Thor: The Dark World · 1:46:58 · David Sims (0.40)] Thor: The Dark World ↔ Monsters, Inc. · craft · The portal-hopping final fight is like the door-chasing end of Monsters, Inc. · "It's like the end of Monsters Inc. where they keep on going through the doors."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Thor: The Dark World · 1:47:36 · unknown (0.30)] Thor: The Dark World ↔ The Simpsons · craft · The portal landing in odd places reminds the speaker of a Simpsons Homer/Bart stunt episode. · "Do you remember when Bart starts jumping on his bike and Homer does it and then he falls down the cliff for like ever?"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Thor: The Dark World · 1:54:27 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Thor: The Dark World ↔ The Fate of the Furious · craft · The London flat where Thor and Jane land looks like the penthouse where the Fast & Furious gang drinks Budweisers at the end of Fate. · "It sort of looks like the flat where they Fast and Furious gang gathers at the end of fate."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Thor: The Dark World · 1:58:58 · David Sims (0.35)] Thor: The Dark World ↔ Mission: Impossible – Fallout · craft · Credits that run least to most important, with the star last, as in Fallout, parallel the cast roll here. · "I like it that in the Mission Impossible Fallout, they save Tom for last."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Thor: The Dark World · 1:59:20 · unknown (0.30)] Thor: The Dark World ↔ Dreamgirls · craft · Same idea as Dreamgirls, which builds to introducing Jennifer Hudson. · "Dream Girls does a similar thing where they build up..."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Guardians of the Galaxy · 0:26:24 · unknown (0.30)] Guardians of the Galaxy ↔ Thor: The Dark World · contrast · A dark elf in a cage reminds them of Thor 2, though they note the Cree villains are a different race from the Dark Elves. · "These are the same dark elves from the Thorn."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Thor: The Dark World · 0:12:16 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Thor: Ragnarok ↔ Thor: The Dark World · contrast · Ragnarok flushes nearly all the mythos out of Thor other than Thor and Loki, which the speakers dislike. · "And they flush almost everything out of the mythos other than Thorn Loke."
[pairs] Thor: The Dark World ↔ Thor: Ragnarok · said 4 times in 1 episode
[pairs] Thor: The Dark World ↔ Thor · said 3 times in 2 episodes
[pairs] Thor: The Dark World ↔ Guardians of the Galaxy · said 3 times in 2 episodes
[pairs] Thor: The Dark World ↔ Captain America: The Winter Soldier · said 2 times in 2 episodes
[pairs] Thor: The Dark World ↔ The Lord of the Rings · said 2 times in 1 episode
[pairs] Thor: The Dark World ↔ The Avengers · said 2 times in 1 episode
[Blank Check — Patreon · Thor: The Dark World · 1:17:53 · unknown (0.30)] Thor: The Dark World · fun · See the scene where Jane slaps Loki on first meeting him again, 'for New York'. · "That was for New York."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Thor: The Dark World · 1:25:07 · David Sims (0.40)] Thor: The Dark World · fun · The brothers-in-a-boat scene: a speaker admits being choked up, the movie hit the brother spot. · "this movie hit me right in this brother spot."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Thor: The Dark World · 1:47:48 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Thor: The Dark World · fun · The portal fight is where the hammer, with Thor out of the world, zooms around looking for him, then zooms back. · "I also like that every time Thor's out of the world, the hammer just kind of like starts zooming around because he doesn't know where to go."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Thor: The Dark World · 1:48:56 · David Sims (0.40)] Thor: The Dark World · fun · The climactic portal fight, set up as a gimmick for forty-five minutes: characters zap between Greenwich, Vanaheim and Frostland; a Frost Beast turns up; Thor throws a car at Malekith. · "He throws the car on him."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Thor: The Dark World · 1:52:11 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Thor: The Dark World · fun · Malekith is portaled in pieces, and says he's fine, like Monty Python's Black Knight. · "I like how Melachi tries to be like, I'm fine."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Thor: The Dark World · 1:54:01 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Thor: The Dark World · fun · Griffin overhypes the final fight from the opening credits. · "I shouldn't have started talking up the gimmick at the opening credits of this one."
[The Big Picture · The Top 10 Fantasy Films, The Toy Movie Hall of Fame, and ‘Masters of the Universe,’ · 1:09:02 · unknown (0.40)] Thor: Ragnarok ⇒ Masters of the Universe (the host's read) · lineage · The movie looks inspired by Ragnarok, which gave executives a template of color, weirdness, and joke tone to copy. · "And it speaks to this movie feels very, um, inspired by Thor Ragnarok to me."
[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 · 0:13:42 · 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 · 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 · 0:12:02 · David Shoemaker (0.40)] Jason Aaron ⇒ Thor: Ragnarok (the host's read) · lineage · Ragnarok is influenced by Jason Aaron's Thor comics. · "Ragnarok is certainly influenced by the Jason Aaron stuff."
[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 · 0:33:16 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Justice League ↔ Thor · programming · Justice League must make Cyborg, Aquaman, and the Flash into linchpins the way Thor and Captain America are. · "They have to be the Thor, they have to be the Captain America."
[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 · Thor: The Dark World · 0:13:27 · unknown (0.30)] Thor: Ragnarok ↔ Iron Man 3 · lineage · Ragnarok relates to The Dark World as Iron Man 3 relates to Iron Man, a hard tonal reset on the prior entry. · "Ragnarok is very much the Iron Man 3 to this movie's Iron Man."
[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 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 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 · 1:18:58 · David Sims (0.40)] The Avengers ⇒ Thor: Ragnarok (the host's read) · theme · Ben's favorite Marvel movie; Hulk's journey into space follows from here. · "Ragnarok is 100% Ben's favorite Marvel movie."
[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 · 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 · 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 · Thor: The Dark World · 0:20:42 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Chris Hemsworth ⇒ Thor: Ragnarok (the host's read) · craft · Ragnarok is the correction to Hemsworth proving he's funny in other movies. · "Thor Ragnarok is the correction to Hemsworth proving that he's funny in other movies."
[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 · Thor · 1:50:54 · David Sims (0.50)] Thor ↔ Fast Five · programming · Thor's opening was the Memorial Day-season release, with Fast Five as the number two film in its 2nd weekend. · "Number 2 is one of the best movies of this year."
[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
[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 Thor: The Dark World (2013); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Thor: The Dark World (2013) 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.