What the corpus says about Justice League (2017)

The 53 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 (13)

  1. [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."
  2. [The Big Picture · The Past, Present, and Future of Superhero Movies | The Big Picture · 0:32:00 · David Shoemaker (0.40)] Suicide Squad ↔ Justice League · craft · Suicide Squad's street-level crooks fighting a celestial god is a story-scale mistake. · "Like, why are they fighting an like a celestial god."
  3. [Blank Check — Patreon · Marvel Nerdfest · 0:19:39 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness ↔ Justice League · contrast · Stewart's Professor X with the old chair and sting is like Elfman reusing the Batman and Superman themes: clever or fan service. · "I'm going to use my Batman theme."
  4. [Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War · 1:59:37 · unknown (0.30)] Justice League ↔ Avengers: Infinity War · contrast · Justice League tried to deliver team-up goosebumps three movies into its universe, too early. · "Justice League tried, like, 3 movies into their universe, essentially, to have the goosebump moments of, oh, they're all together"
  5. [Blank Check — Patreon · The Avengers · 0:54:08 · David Sims (0.50)] The Avengers ↔ Justice League · contrast · In Avengers each character has a voice; in Justice League anyone could say any line. · "in the Justice League, in this scene, anyone could say any line and it would sound fine."
  6. [The Big Picture · The Past, Present, and Future of Superhero Movies | The Big Picture · 0:57:20 · David Shoemaker (0.40)] Avengers: Infinity War ↔ Justice League · verdict · If Justice League were a true flop it would send shockwaves through the genre. · "If Justice League is a flop, a true flop, um, I think that'll send shockwaves through the through the genre."
  7. [The Big Picture · 'Shazam!’ and the Future of the DCEU · 0:06:43 · Miles Surrey (0.85)] Justice League ↔ Shazam! · industry · DC pivoted to standalone films after Justice League underperformed against expectations. · "they did a pretty quick pivot from, like, fast tracking their Justice League movie"
  8. [Blank Check — Patreon · Thor · 1:02:49 · Griffin Newman (0.35)] Justice League ↔ The Avengers · industry · Marvel spent five setup films; DC's Justice League tried eight characters off two movies. · "the Justice League is like, we have like 8 characters and we did 2 movies."
  9. [The Big Picture · The Past, Present, and Future of Superhero Movies | The Big Picture · 0:36:11 · David Shoemaker (0.40)] The Dark Knight Rises ↔ Justice League · what-if · Imagined bit: Aquaman confronting Bruce Wayne over the fish killed by the nuclear blast in The Dark Knight Rises. · "Do you know how many fucking fish died when you exploded that nuclear weapon over the ocean?"
  10. [Blank Check — Patreon · Eclipse · 0:33:24 · unknown (0.30)] Zack Snyder ↔ Justice League · craft · Snyder's approach to a speedster: lightning effects and cranked-up slow-mo. · "Snyder does his super cranked up thing."
  11. [The Big Picture · The Past, Present, and Future of Superhero Movies | The Big Picture · 0:23:07 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] Justice League ↔ Joss Whedon · people · Whedon finished Justice League after Snyder left, inserting snappy Marvel-style dialogue into a grim DC. · "Justice League was finished by Joss Whedon, who was the writer director of the Avengers film"
  12. [The Big Picture · 'Shazam!’ and the Future of the DCEU · 0:08:28 · Sean Fennessey (0.90)] Zack Snyder ↔ Justice League · industry · Fennessey ties the stormy shared look of earlier DC films to Zack Snyder, which DC is now abandoning. · "the same kind of stormy visual aesthetic that Zack Snyder created"
  13. [Blank Check — Patreon · The Avengers · 2:01:43 · David Sims (0.50)] Joss Whedon ↔ Justice League · industry · Warner brought Whedon in after filming to retroactively make it more like Avengers, with reshoots adding jokes and replicated family cutaways. · "they bring in Joss Whedon after they've filmed the entire movie and go like, can you retroactively make it into more like Avengers?"

Films put beside it more than once (2)

  1. [pairs] Justice League ↔ The Avengers · said 2 times in 2 episodes
  2. [pairs] Justice League ↔ Avengers: Infinity War · said 2 times in 2 episodes

Fun items about it (1)

  1. [The Big Picture · The Past, Present, and Future of Superhero Movies | The Big Picture · 0:33:18 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] Justice League · fun · Sean cannot name the actor playing Cyborg; Ray Fisher is supplied. · "I can't name the man who's playing cyborg, which is that's bad news."

One hop out: what recommends the films most often joined to it (30)

  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. [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."
  3. [Blank Check — Patreon · Marvel Nerdfest · 0:39:57 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness ↔ Blank Check · lineage · Scarlet Witch manipulating computers with magic recalls the hosts' Hacker Witch bit. · "She manipulates the computer using magic, thereby witch hacker."
  4. [The Big Picture · 'Shazam!’ and the Future of the DCEU · 0:07:21 · Miles Surrey (0.85)] Shazam! ↔ Black Adam (planned) · programming · Miles expects Shazam! to lead into Shazam 2 or a Black Adam movie. · "it's just leading into Shazam 2 or maybe like a Black Adam movie"
  5. [Blank Check · Planet of the Apes · 1:29:37 · unknown (0.40)] Suicide Squad ↔ Planet of the Apes · lineage · Studios sometimes force sequels no one asked for; Apes was a rare time they didn't. · "Again, it's like, you got out of suicide squad alive."
  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 · 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."
  8. [The Big Picture · ‘Black Panther: Wakanda Forever’ Is Here! · 0:38:18 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60)] Black Panther: Wakanda Forever ↔ Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness · theme · Sean sees Riri Williams as the second recent puckish teen hero, after America Chavez, whom the audience has no prior relationship with. · "we just had this with America Chavez in Doctor Strange in the multiverse of Madness."
  9. [The Big Picture · 'Shazam!’ and the Future of the DCEU · 0:03:27 · Miles Surrey (0.85)] Shazam! ↔ Amblin · lineage · Miles says Shazam! has the throwback coming-of-age feel of 1980s Amblin movies. · "something you would see from like ambling in like the 80s"
  10. [Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The First Avenger · 1:36:05 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Captain America: The First Avenger ↔ Suicide Squad · craft · Eating on screen shows pro actors; Viola Davis's steak in Suicide Squad is the best thing in that movie. · "You remember how well Viola Davis ate that steak in Suicide Squad?"
  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 · 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"
  13. [Blank Check — Patreon · Marvel Nerdfest · 0:33:12 · David Sims (0.50)] Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness ↔ Spider-Man 3 · craft · Opening tentacle scene has shots that lead into each other; the Illuminati fight is less fluid than Raimi's usual action. · "this doesn't feel as like fluid as Raimi's action usually does"
  14. [The Big Picture · 'Shazam!’ and the Future of the DCEU · 0:04:17 · Sean Fennessey (0.90)] Big ⇒ Shazam! (the host's read) · lineage · Fennessey calls Shazam! essentially Big as a superhero movie. · "the movie is clearly pitched as sort of what if big but superhero"
  15. [Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give · 1:33:57 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] It's Complicated ↔ Suicide Squad · craft · Meyers's many makeup tests for Steve Martin are compared to Killer Croc's makeup tests. · "that's what they do with like killer croc and suicide squad."
  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 · 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."
  18. [The Big Picture · 'Shazam!’ and the Future of the DCEU · 0:14:30 · David F. Sandberg (0.95)] Big ⇒ Shazam! (the maker said so: Sandberg, in this interview, on the studio pitch) · lineage · Sandberg says the studio pitched it to him as Big with superpowers. · "it's basically uh, big, but with superpowers"
  19. [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."
  20. [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."
  21. [The Big Picture · 'Shazam!’ and the Future of the DCEU · 0:06:26 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] Shazam! ↔ Wonder Woman · theme · Both films, in Miles's view, start clever and then end in a punching match with a monster or villain. · "That was also one of my struggles, honestly, with Wonder Woman"
  22. [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."
  23. [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."
  24. [The Big Picture · 'Shazam!’ and the Future of the DCEU · 0:29:53 · David F. Sandberg (0.95)] Annabelle: Creation ↔ Shazam! · theme · Sandberg liked that, like Annabelle: Creation, Shazam! sits in a shared universe but stands as its own story. · "even though it is a sequel in this part of the universe, it was a prequel with all new characters and like a new story"
  25. [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"
  26. [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."
  27. [The Big Picture · 'Shazam!’ and the Future of the DCEU · 0:23:14 · David F. Sandberg (0.95)] Annabelle: Creation ↔ Shazam! · craft · Sandberg brought back his Annabelle: Creation costume designer, who had not done a superhero suit before. · "costume designer, Leah Butler, who I worked with on Alba Creation"
  28. [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"
  29. [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."
  30. [The Big Picture · 'Shazam!’ and the Future of the DCEU · 0:26:01 · Sean Fennessey (0.70)] Terminator 2: Judgment Day ⇒ Shazam! (the host's read) · craft · Fennessey asks whether an effects shot echoes the T-1000 reassembling in Terminator 2; Sandberg agrees he references other films. · "this is basically that shot in Terminator 2, when the T 1000 gets, you know, comes back together and rises up"

Who said it, by their latest sketch (5)

  1. [speaker] Sean Fennessey · latest sketch, The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · Loves gory, funny, fast genre movies with craft and confidence, especially 87-minute films that never overstay. Can't stand ponderous elevated horror that fills out its runtime with introspection and sad family history. A sucker for the Carpenter-era lineage, Die Hard homages, and directors who break studio dogma. · stances: Resident Evil is one of the best films of the year; Horror movies have become a drag; fun genre experiences are needed; Short running times are a virtue; Video-game films work best when great filmmakers get creative license
  2. [speaker] David Shoemaker · latest sketch, The Big Picture · Pro Wrestling Goes to the Movies, Plus Stephen Merchant on ‘Fighting · Believes the best wrestling movies are documentaries and cult oddities; loves weird, tonally pure b-movies like Body Slam and Paradise Alley. Dislikes tone-deaf studio efforts like Ready to Rumble. A sucker for wrestling's blur of real and fake. · stances: Documentaries beat fiction for wrestling; The Wrestler is the best wrestling movie; Fiction fails when it treats a fake sport in a fake world; Wrestling history (Gold Dust Trio, Sputnik Monroe) deserves movies
  3. [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'
  4. [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
  5. [speaker] Miles Surrey · latest sketch, The Big Picture · 'Shazam!’ and the Future of the DCEU · Miles prefers the grounded first half of Shazam! to the CGI villain half, has some Marvel fatigue, and likes the DC standalone approach. He was less taken with Wonder Woman than most. He enjoys talking about actors who transform. · stances: Shazam! is best as a what-if about a kid with powers; Superhero final fights are derivative; Marvel fatigue makes DC's standalone approach appealing

The shows' running bits (2)

  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)
  2. [bits] Blank Check: The box office game (Guessing the film's opening weekend and what it was up against); The sung theme ("Blank Check with Griffin and David", sung; the transcriber garbles it)

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 Justice League (2017) 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 Justice League (2017) and the films around it, one line each. Every line starts with where it came from, in brackets: [show · episode · time · speaker (how sure we are it was them)]. A [pairs] line says how often two films were put side by side. A [speaker] line says what that person likes. A [bits] line lists a show's running bits: a format, not an opinion.

[The Big Picture · 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."
[The Big Picture · The Past, Present, and Future of Superhero Movies | The Big Picture · 0:32:00 · David Shoemaker (0.40)] Suicide Squad ↔ Justice League · craft · Suicide Squad's street-level crooks fighting a celestial god is a story-scale mistake. · "Like, why are they fighting an like a celestial god."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Marvel Nerdfest · 0:19:39 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness ↔ Justice League · contrast · Stewart's Professor X with the old chair and sting is like Elfman reusing the Batman and Superman themes: clever or fan service. · "I'm going to use my Batman theme."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War · 1:59:37 · unknown (0.30)] Justice League ↔ Avengers: Infinity War · contrast · Justice League tried to deliver team-up goosebumps three movies into its universe, too early. · "Justice League tried, like, 3 movies into their universe, essentially, to have the goosebump moments of, oh, they're all together"
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Avengers · 0:54:08 · David Sims (0.50)] The Avengers ↔ Justice League · contrast · In Avengers each character has a voice; in Justice League anyone could say any line. · "in the Justice League, in this scene, anyone could say any line and it would sound fine."
[The Big Picture · The Past, Present, and Future of Superhero Movies | The Big Picture · 0:57:20 · David Shoemaker (0.40)] Avengers: Infinity War ↔ Justice League · verdict · If Justice League were a true flop it would send shockwaves through the genre. · "If Justice League is a flop, a true flop, um, I think that'll send shockwaves through the through the genre."
[The Big Picture · 'Shazam!’ and the Future of the DCEU · 0:06:43 · Miles Surrey (0.85)] Justice League ↔ Shazam! · industry · DC pivoted to standalone films after Justice League underperformed against expectations. · "they did a pretty quick pivot from, like, fast tracking their Justice League movie"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Thor · 1:02:49 · Griffin Newman (0.35)] Justice League ↔ The Avengers · industry · Marvel spent five setup films; DC's Justice League tried eight characters off two movies. · "the Justice League is like, we have like 8 characters and we did 2 movies."
[The Big Picture · The Past, Present, and Future of Superhero Movies | The Big Picture · 0:36:11 · David Shoemaker (0.40)] The Dark Knight Rises ↔ Justice League · what-if · Imagined bit: Aquaman confronting Bruce Wayne over the fish killed by the nuclear blast in The Dark Knight Rises. · "Do you know how many fucking fish died when you exploded that nuclear weapon over the ocean?"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Eclipse · 0:33:24 · unknown (0.30)] Zack Snyder ↔ Justice League · craft · Snyder's approach to a speedster: lightning effects and cranked-up slow-mo. · "Snyder does his super cranked up thing."
[The Big Picture · The Past, Present, and Future of Superhero Movies | The Big Picture · 0:23:07 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] Justice League ↔ Joss Whedon · people · Whedon finished Justice League after Snyder left, inserting snappy Marvel-style dialogue into a grim DC. · "Justice League was finished by Joss Whedon, who was the writer director of the Avengers film"
[The Big Picture · 'Shazam!’ and the Future of the DCEU · 0:08:28 · Sean Fennessey (0.90)] Zack Snyder ↔ Justice League · industry · Fennessey ties the stormy shared look of earlier DC films to Zack Snyder, which DC is now abandoning. · "the same kind of stormy visual aesthetic that Zack Snyder created"
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Avengers · 2:01:43 · David Sims (0.50)] Joss Whedon ↔ Justice League · industry · Warner brought Whedon in after filming to retroactively make it more like Avengers, with reshoots adding jokes and replicated family cutaways. · "they bring in Joss Whedon after they've filmed the entire movie and go like, can you retroactively make it into more like Avengers?"
[pairs] Justice League ↔ The Avengers · said 2 times in 2 episodes
[pairs] Justice League ↔ Avengers: Infinity War · said 2 times in 2 episodes
[The Big Picture · The Past, Present, and Future of Superhero Movies | The Big Picture · 0:33:18 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] Justice League · fun · Sean cannot name the actor playing Cyborg; Ray Fisher is supplied. · "I can't name the man who's playing cyborg, which is that's bad news."
[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"
[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 · Marvel Nerdfest · 0:39:57 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness ↔ Blank Check · lineage · Scarlet Witch manipulating computers with magic recalls the hosts' Hacker Witch bit. · "She manipulates the computer using magic, thereby witch hacker."
[The Big Picture · 'Shazam!’ and the Future of the DCEU · 0:07:21 · Miles Surrey (0.85)] Shazam! ↔ Black Adam (planned) · programming · Miles expects Shazam! to lead into Shazam 2 or a Black Adam movie. · "it's just leading into Shazam 2 or maybe like a Black Adam movie"
[Blank Check · Planet of the Apes · 1:29:37 · unknown (0.40)] Suicide Squad ↔ Planet of the Apes · lineage · Studios sometimes force sequels no one asked for; Apes was a rare time they didn't. · "Again, it's like, you got out of suicide squad alive."
[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 · 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."
[The Big Picture · ‘Black Panther: Wakanda Forever’ Is Here! · 0:38:18 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60)] Black Panther: Wakanda Forever ↔ Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness · theme · Sean sees Riri Williams as the second recent puckish teen hero, after America Chavez, whom the audience has no prior relationship with. · "we just had this with America Chavez in Doctor Strange in the multiverse of Madness."
[The Big Picture · 'Shazam!’ and the Future of the DCEU · 0:03:27 · Miles Surrey (0.85)] Shazam! ↔ Amblin · lineage · Miles says Shazam! has the throwback coming-of-age feel of 1980s Amblin movies. · "something you would see from like ambling in like the 80s"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The First Avenger · 1:36:05 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Captain America: The First Avenger ↔ Suicide Squad · craft · Eating on screen shows pro actors; Viola Davis's steak in Suicide Squad is the best thing in that movie. · "You remember how well Viola Davis ate that steak in Suicide Squad?"
[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 · 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 · Marvel Nerdfest · 0:33:12 · David Sims (0.50)] Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness ↔ Spider-Man 3 · craft · Opening tentacle scene has shots that lead into each other; the Illuminati fight is less fluid than Raimi's usual action. · "this doesn't feel as like fluid as Raimi's action usually does"
[The Big Picture · 'Shazam!’ and the Future of the DCEU · 0:04:17 · Sean Fennessey (0.90)] Big ⇒ Shazam! (the host's read) · lineage · Fennessey calls Shazam! essentially Big as a superhero movie. · "the movie is clearly pitched as sort of what if big but superhero"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give · 1:33:57 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] It's Complicated ↔ Suicide Squad · craft · Meyers's many makeup tests for Steve Martin are compared to Killer Croc's makeup tests. · "that's what they do with like killer croc and suicide squad."
[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 · 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."
[The Big Picture · 'Shazam!’ and the Future of the DCEU · 0:14:30 · David F. Sandberg (0.95)] Big ⇒ Shazam! (the maker said so: Sandberg, in this interview, on the studio pitch) · lineage · Sandberg says the studio pitched it to him as Big with superpowers. · "it's basically uh, big, but with superpowers"
[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 · 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."
[The Big Picture · 'Shazam!’ and the Future of the DCEU · 0:06:26 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] Shazam! ↔ Wonder Woman · theme · Both films, in Miles's view, start clever and then end in a punching match with a monster or villain. · "That was also one of my struggles, honestly, with Wonder Woman"
[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 · 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."
[The Big Picture · 'Shazam!’ and the Future of the DCEU · 0:29:53 · David F. Sandberg (0.95)] Annabelle: Creation ↔ Shazam! · theme · Sandberg liked that, like Annabelle: Creation, Shazam! sits in a shared universe but stands as its own story. · "even though it is a sequel in this part of the universe, it was a prequel with all new characters and like a new story"
[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 · 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."
[The Big Picture · 'Shazam!’ and the Future of the DCEU · 0:23:14 · David F. Sandberg (0.95)] Annabelle: Creation ↔ Shazam! · craft · Sandberg brought back his Annabelle: Creation costume designer, who had not done a superhero suit before. · "costume designer, Leah Butler, who I worked with on Alba Creation"
[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 · 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."
[The Big Picture · 'Shazam!’ and the Future of the DCEU · 0:26:01 · Sean Fennessey (0.70)] Terminator 2: Judgment Day ⇒ Shazam! (the host's read) · craft · Fennessey asks whether an effects shot echoes the T-1000 reassembling in Terminator 2; Sandberg agrees he references other films. · "this is basically that shot in Terminator 2, when the T 1000 gets, you know, comes back together and rises up"
[speaker] Sean Fennessey · latest sketch, The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · Loves gory, funny, fast genre movies with craft and confidence, especially 87-minute films that never overstay. Can't stand ponderous elevated horror that fills out its runtime with introspection and sad family history. A sucker for the Carpenter-era lineage, Die Hard homages, and directors who break studio dogma. · stances: Resident Evil is one of the best films of the year; Horror movies have become a drag; fun genre experiences are needed; Short running times are a virtue; Video-game films work best when great filmmakers get creative license
[speaker] David Shoemaker · latest sketch, The Big Picture · Pro Wrestling Goes to the Movies, Plus Stephen Merchant on ‘Fighting · Believes the best wrestling movies are documentaries and cult oddities; loves weird, tonally pure b-movies like Body Slam and Paradise Alley. Dislikes tone-deaf studio efforts like Ready to Rumble. A sucker for wrestling's blur of real and fake. · stances: Documentaries beat fiction for wrestling; The Wrestler is the best wrestling movie; Fiction fails when it treats a fake sport in a fake world; Wrestling history (Gold Dust Trio, Sputnik Monroe) deserves movies
[speaker] David Sims · latest sketch, Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · Prepares history: novel, casting, budgets, box office. Reveres the film and thinks it reads as a normal ground-level story. A sucker for Hollywood deal backstory and box office game. · stances: Praises Keitel and Dafoe casting; Respects Scorsese's persistence and Corman discipline; The film is now well regarded though not 'canonical Marty'
[speaker] Griffin Newman · latest sketch, Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · Calls Last Temptation his college-era favorite Scorsese; loves Scorsese's smaller 80s and the film's closing transcendence and Gabriel score. Cannot stand fundamentalist outrage at it. A sucker for casting trivia and Tom Cruise-silliness. · stances: Hot take: Last Temptation structurally mirrors New York, New York as a better version; Outrage over the film is stupid; it is respectful to Jesus; Scorsese's smaller 80s work beats his later baroque phases
[speaker] Miles Surrey · latest sketch, The Big Picture · 'Shazam!’ and the Future of the DCEU · Miles prefers the grounded first half of Shazam! to the CGI villain half, has some Marvel fatigue, and likes the DC standalone approach. He was less taken with Wonder Woman than most. He enjoys talking about actors who transform. · stances: Shazam! is best as a what-if about a kid with powers; Superhero final fights are derivative; Marvel fatigue makes DC's standalone approach appealing
[bits] The Big Picture: Drafts (Hosts and guests draft films in rounds; every pick is a recommendation with an argument); Hall of Fame (A star's or director's best, ranked and argued); Countdowns (Ranked lists, top five or top ten)
[bits] Blank Check: The box office game (Guessing the film's opening weekend and what it was up against); The sung theme ("Blank Check with Griffin and David", sung; the transcriber garbles it)

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 Justice League (2017); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Justice League (2017) 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.