What the corpus says about Hulk (2003)

The 55 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 (12)

[Blank Check — Patreon · In the Cut · 0:09:37 · Griffin Newman (0.60)] In the Cut ↔ Hulk · programming · Both were 2003 films that were derided on release; Hulk is called David's derided film of the year. · "It was your derided film of 2000."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Incredible Hulk · 0:42:44 · Griffin or David (0.30)] The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift ↔ Hulk · programming · Hulk-van talk reminds a speaker of Bow Wow's Hulk-fist BMW in Tokyo Drift. · "And then, of course, in Fast and Furious, Tokyo Drift, Lil Bow Wow drives a whole car."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Incredible Hulk · 0:04:49 · Griffin or David (0.35)] The Incredible Hulk ↔ Hulk · lineage · A speaker says the opening credits re-establish the origin so the film can claim to be a new beginning rather than a direct sequel to Ang Lee's film. · "So this is why people say, oh, it this isn't a direct sequel to Angly because they make the..."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Incredible Hulk · 0:06:37 · Griffin or David (0.35)] Hulk ⇒ The Incredible Hulk (the host's read) · lineage · Despite the reboot claim, the same three relationships (Hulk, Betty, Thunderbolt Ross) carry through, as does the South America opening. · "And those 3 relationships feel very much on a continuity with everything that happens in English film."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Ice Storm · 0:35:56 · David Sims (0.55)] The Ice Storm ↔ Hulk · lineage · After loving Hulk, a host went back to the Lee filmography and read The Ice Storm as the family psychodrama behind it. · "And then this movie is like, oh, here's all the weird family psychodrama, which is already contextualized through the Marvel Comics prism."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Vanilla Sky · 0:24:25 · unknown (0.35)] Hulk ↔ Vanilla Sky · theme · The strongest example of defending a movie against dismissive friends in the speaker's adolescence was Ang Lee's Hulk, like defending Vanilla Sky. · "Drew the line was Anglies Hulk."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Incredible Hulk · 1:46:28 · Griffin or David (0.30)] Hulk ↔ The Incredible Hulk · contrast · Ang Lee's Hulk makes jumping and falling spiritual in the desert, while this film's rooftop jumping looks like the Flatiron District. · "It's way cooler in the Angling Hulk when jumping and falling is like spiritual."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Incredible Hulk · 0:25:34 · Griffin or David (0.30)] Hulk ↔ The Incredible Hulk · verdict · Ruffalo, Bixby and Bana all share a haunted Banner; this film prioritizes action over that. · "Right, but let's say, like Ruffalo, Bixby, and Bana all get the same thing that's most important, which is this guy's kind of haunted."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Incredible Hulk · 0:51:43 · Griffin or David (0.30)] Hulk ↔ The Incredible Hulk · verdict · Ang Lee's film is about four-person relationships so lack of scale works there; this one is a perfunctory action film. · "No, and that's an asset to the Angli Hulk because it's just about those relationships."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon · 0:02:22 · David Sims (0.40)] Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon ↔ Hulk · industry · Domestic grosses of CTHD, Hulk, Life of Pi were very similar. · "This Life of Pi and Hulk all ended up very similar."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Ice Storm’ · 0:36:45 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] Ang Lee ↔ Hulk · theme · Even in a Hulk movie he dislikes, Fennessey sees Lee chasing a battle between two sides of a man. · "There's the 2 sides of a man that he's really interested in that."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Ice Storm’ · 0:09:13 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] Ang Lee ↔ Hulk · career · Fennessey cites Lee's varied filmography, a superhero movie among martial arts, dramas and comedies. · "He's made a superhero movie."

Films put beside it more than once (1)

[pairs] Hulk ↔ The Incredible Hulk · said 5 times in 1 episode

Fun items about it (2)

[Blank Check — Patreon · The Avengers · 1:12:35 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Hulk · fun · See the scene where Banner reveals he shot himself and the Hulk spat the bullet out; he stays calm by always being angry (1:12:30, then 1:54:08 payoff). · "He shot himself in the head and he turned into the Hulk and the Hulk spit the bullet out."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Incredible Hulk · 0:01:10 · Griffin or David (0.30)] Hulk (Ang Lee) · fun · The hosts screened Ang Lee's Hulk on 35mm with James Schamus days before; a projectionist change-over was visible and the Q&A is on the Patreon feed. · "That talk that Q&A will be released on this very Patreon feed."

One hop out: what recommends the films most often joined to it (35)

[Blank Check — Patreon · The Incredible Hulk · 0:23:12 · Griffin or David (0.35)] Iron Man ↔ The Incredible Hulk · programming · Both Iron Man's post-credits Fury scene and Tony's Hulk cameo got audiences cheering, building the idea of a shared universe. · "I was so invested in the idea, which seems hilarious now of a cinematic universe."
[The Big Picture · Did Disney’s ‘Mulan’ Experiment Work? A Binge Mode Investigation · 0:28:58 · Jason Concepcion (0.80)] Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon ⇒ Mulan (the host's read) · lineage · The remake's wuxia/mystical style follows the wave of Chinese films that grew popular after Crouching Tiger and the Zhang Yimou films. · "they've gotten very big, kind of post, crouching tiger hidden dragon, and the Jang Yi-Mu films"
[Blank Check — Patreon · In the Cut · 0:07:38 · Griffin or David (unclear) (0.35)] Jane Campion ↔ In the Cut · programming · Today's episode of the Campion miniseries; the piano is behind them and In the Cut is next. · "It's also funny now that the piano is behind us and we're covering in the cut."
[The Big Picture · ‘Fast 9’ and the ‘Fast & Furious’ Rankings · 0:05:46 · Shea Serrano (0.90)] Fast Five ↔ The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift · lineage · Justin Lin sets the franchise on its trajectory in Tokyo Drift, seeds it in Fast & Furious, and perfects it in Fast Five. · "He figures it out perfectly in fast five."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Ice Storm’ · 0:50:18 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] The Ice Storm ⇒ Swingtown (TV) (the host's read) · programming · Swingtown tried to tap the key party idea but belonged on Cinemax. · "That show has to be on Cinemax."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Incredible Hulk · 0:36:32 · Griffin or David (0.30)] The Incredible Hulk ↔ Captain America (First Avenger / MCU) · programming · The WWII super-soldier line makes theater audiences excited for a Captain America reference, a habit Iron Man 2 repeats. · "Iron Man 2 is the guiltiest of that."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon · 0:23:14 · David Sims (0.40)] Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon ↔ Westerns (genre) · lineage · Lee reviving an old genre like making a Western, but engineered for a worldwide audience. · "It was like if somebody made a Western, but it also was implicitly built to and engineered to appeal to a worldwide audience as much as it appealed to an American one."
[Blank Check — Patreon · In the Cut · 0:13:38 · Griffin or David (unclear) (0.35)] Unfaithful ↔ In the Cut · programming · Unfaithful is described as closing out the erotic-thriller era that In the Cut lands at the tail end of. · "And unfaithful is him kind of closing the loop a little bit. And it's like that era is done."
[The Big Picture · ‘Fast 9’ and the ‘Fast & Furious’ Rankings · 0:43:16 · Sean Fennessey (0.90)] The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift ⇒ F9 (the host's read) · lineage · F9 gives Tokyo Drift a big shout out and brings back Han. · "it's a movie that has a huge cult fan base that gets a pretty big shout out in F9."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Ice Storm’ · 1:09:25 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Brokeback Mountain ↔ The Ice Storm · programming · Simmons eyes Brokeback Mountain as a contender for Fucked Up Family February 2023. · "Brokeback Mountain is definitely one of the contenders."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Incredible Hulk · 1:31:34 · Griffin or David (0.35)] The Incredible Hulk ⇒ Captain America (First Avenger / MCU) (the host's read) · programming · The hero jumping out of a hangar plane becomes a recurring Marvel image, starting here and used in Black Panther and Captain America. · "And this is the 1st of what then becomes the Marvel trope where a hero is either pushed out of or jumps out of the back of like a hangar plane."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon · 0:24:55 · David Sims (0.40)] King Hu ⇒ Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (the host's read) · lineage · CTHD plays in the milieu of King Hu and the wuxia classics, but with a more modern sensibility. · "this movie is playing in a, in a Milu that is inherent to like King Hu movies and Musha, like the classics"
[Blank Check — Patreon · In the Cut · 0:13:49 · Griffin or David (unclear) (0.35)] In the Cut ↔ Swimming Pool · programming · Swimming Pool is the only other notable erotic thriller of 2003. · "the only other one in 2003 of any note is the French movie swimming pool, which is a pretty good movie."
[The Big Picture · ‘Fast 9’ and the ‘Fast & Furious’ Rankings · 0:44:25 · Shea Serrano (0.90)] The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift ↔ Fast Five · lineage · Shea realizes Tokyo Drift is the keystone: remove it and the rest falls apart. · "If that's that's the one movie, if you take it out, all of the rest of it falls apart."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Ice Storm’ · 1:26:54 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] The Ice Storm ↔ The Squid and the Whale · programming · Fennessey says Squid and the Whale was the biggest near-miss for Fucked Up Family February. · "I think was probably the biggest one that could have made it."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Incredible Hulk · 1:51:33 · Griffin or David (0.35)] The Consultant ↔ The Incredible Hulk · programming · The short on the Thor Blu-ray explains Tony's cameo as a ploy to sabotage the recruitment of Blonsky. · "They see him as a war hero and blame the devastation of Harlem and Bruce Banner."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon · 1:07:21 · Griffin Newman (0.30)] Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon ↔ Last Action Hero · lineage · Jen worshipping Shu Lien and living her dreamed-of story is very Last Action Hero. · "It's very last action hero."
[Blank Check — Patreon · In the Cut · 0:51:40 · Griffin or David (unclear) (0.35)] In the Cut ↔ Hollow Man · programming · The DVD box set pairing In the Cut with Hollow Man, Flatliners, Abandon and Trapped is called a blank-checky set. · "It is a weirdly blank checky box set."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Ice Storm’ · 1:27:53 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] The Ice Storm ↔ Pulp Fiction · programming · Next episodes will cover two famous movies; Ryan and Simmons tease Pulp Fiction. · "I've been watching a lot of pulp fiction lately."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Incredible Hulk · 0:14:45 · Griffin or David (0.30)] Louis Leterrier ↔ The Incredible Hulk · lineage · Leterrier is said to have based the film closely on Jeph Loeb's comic Hulk: Gray. · "So apparently Louis Letierrier based this very intently on Jeff Loeb's Hulk Gray, which no one remembers or likes."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon · 1:46:30 · David Ehrlich (0.35)] Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon ↔ Brokeback Mountain · lineage · CTHD as the first of Lee's 'fuck mountain diptych' of transgressive sex movies, with Brokeback. · "This is the 1st of Angley's fuck mountain diptych."
[Blank Check — Patreon · In the Cut · 0:52:19 · Griffin or David (unclear) (0.35)] In the Cut ↔ Paul Verhoeven · programming · The box set mixes a Campion, a Verhoeven, a Schumacher and an Aja. · "It's just wild that it's a campion, a Verhoven, a Schumacher, a fucking Agoya."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Ice Storm · 1:07:49 · unknown (0.40)] Swingtown (TV) ↔ The Ice Storm · programming · CBS's Swingtown was a third of the way to interesting and watered the key-party era down. · "Wasn't that good, but it was sort of like a 3rd of the way to being interesting."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Incredible Hulk · 0:25:11 · Griffin or David (0.25)] The Incredible Hulk ⇒ The Avengers (the host's read) · lineage · Ruffalo's first Hulk scene in a slum echoes this film's Rocinha opening, though otherwise the continuity is thrown out. · "The only tale is that when the Mark Ruffalo hook was introduced, they find the little hot."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon · 0:30:13 · David Ehrlich (0.45)] Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon ↔ Sense and Sensibility · theme · Ang Lee's bottled-emotion movies; CTHD as Sense and Sensibility with a magic sword. · "This is one of his great bottled emotion movies, which is like a big running theme for people who don't know how to express those. Sensibility with a magic sword."
[Blank Check — Patreon · In the Cut · 1:34:30 · Griffin or David (unclear) (0.35)] In the Cut ↔ Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King · programming · 2003 was crowded: Lord of the Rings, Lost in Translation, Kill Bill, Finding Nemo and more. · "because that's the year, obviously, of like Lord of the Rings."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Ice Storm’ · 0:08:18 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Rick Moody's novel ⇒ The Ice Storm (the host's read) · lineage · Based on Rick Moody's 1994 book; the author cried at the end of a cut and said they got it. · "It's based on Rick Moody's 1994 book, who saw a cut of it and cried at the end and was like, my God, they got it."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Incredible Hulk · 1:34:36 · Griffin or David (0.30)] The Incredible Hulk ⇒ The Avengers (the host's read) · lineage · Avengers' line about Hulk 'breaking Harlem' is false: the Abomination did it. · "That's the one thing they reference in Avengers, where he says, I kind of broke Harlem."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon · 0:37:29 · Griffin Newman (0.30)] Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon ↔ Sense and Sensibility · theme · After 15 minutes the movie goes full Jane Austen. · "But like 15 minutes later, when the movie goes full, Jane Austen"
[Blank Check — Patreon · In the Cut · 1:35:27 · Griffin or David (unclear) (0.35)] In the Cut ↔ Sideways · programming · Sideways, the following year, was a TIFF launch; In the Cut was not. · "Because the following year is sideways."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Ice Storm’ · 0:12:44 · Bill Simmons (0.90)] The Brady Bunch Movie ⇒ The Ice Storm (the host's read) · lineage · Simmons traces a mid-90s wave of 70s nostalgia (Brady Bunch movies, Reality Bites) that led to harder looks like Ice Storm. · "They make the Brady Bunch movie, which is a parody of the Brady Bunch."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Incredible Hulk · 1:47:14 · Griffin Newman or David Sims (0.40)] The Incredible Hulk ⇒ The Incredible Hulk (the host's read) · lineage · A speaker says the film reuses the old TV show's score, the sad-guitar cue from Bixby walking away, even though Craig Armstrong scored it. · "They used the score from the Incredible Hulk at some point in this movie."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon · 0:42:52 · David Ehrlich (0.55)] Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon ↔ Lady Bird · theme · Seen as a coming-of-age story where Jen is the surrogate daughter holding the adults together and apart. · "I never really looked at it through this lens until I was just, you know, on ambient and trying to apply ladybird quotes to everything"
[Blank Check — Patreon · In the Cut · 2:09:11 · Griffin or David (unclear) (0.35)] In the Cut ↔ Bright Star · programming · Next week's Campion miniseries episode is Bright Star. · "Tune in next week or Bright Star."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Ice Storm’ · 0:13:48 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] The Ice Storm ↔ Nixon · lineage · Simmons says the nostalgia turned to re-examination in the mid-90s, citing Oliver Stone's Nixon. · "So mid 90s, it starts to be like, hmm."

Who said it, by their latest sketch (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'
[speaker] Griffin Newman · latest sketch, Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · Calls Last Temptation his college-era favorite Scorsese; loves Scorsese's smaller 80s and the film's closing transcendence and Gabriel score. Cannot stand fundamentalist outrage at it. A sucker for casting trivia and Tom Cruise-silliness. · stances: Hot take: Last Temptation structurally mirrors New York, New York as a better version; Outrage over the film is stupid; it is respectful to Jesus; Scorsese's smaller 80s work beats his later baroque phases
[speaker] Sean Fennessey · latest sketch, The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · Loves gory, funny, fast genre movies with craft and confidence, especially 87-minute films that never overstay. Can't stand ponderous elevated horror that fills out its runtime with introspection and sad family history. A sucker for the Carpenter-era lineage, Die Hard homages, and directors who break studio dogma. · stances: Resident Evil is one of the best films of the year; Horror movies have become a drag; fun genre experiences are needed; Short running times are a virtue; Video-game films work best when great filmmakers get creative license

The shows' running bits (2)

[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] The Rewatchables: Apex Mountain (The moment a star peaks; where on the mountain a performance sits); Who Won the Movie (The hosts name the person who came out of the film best off); The Ebert review (Roger Ebert's original review and star rating read aloud. Ebert is cited, never on the show); Casting what-ifs (Who was almost cast, or who should have been); Most rewatchable scene (The scene each host would stop on while flipping channels); Aged best / aged worst (What holds up and what does not); Picking Nits (The little things in a film the hosts love that they don't think totally work: the nits); Double feature (The film each host would pair it with; a programming pick)

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 Hulk (2003) 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 Hulk (2003) 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 · In the Cut · 0:09:37 · Griffin Newman (0.60)] In the Cut ↔ Hulk · programming · Both were 2003 films that were derided on release; Hulk is called David's derided film of the year. · "It was your derided film of 2000."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Incredible Hulk · 0:42:44 · Griffin or David (0.30)] The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift ↔ Hulk · programming · Hulk-van talk reminds a speaker of Bow Wow's Hulk-fist BMW in Tokyo Drift. · "And then, of course, in Fast and Furious, Tokyo Drift, Lil Bow Wow drives a whole car."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Incredible Hulk · 0:04:49 · Griffin or David (0.35)] The Incredible Hulk ↔ Hulk · lineage · A speaker says the opening credits re-establish the origin so the film can claim to be a new beginning rather than a direct sequel to Ang Lee's film. · "So this is why people say, oh, it this isn't a direct sequel to Angly because they make the..."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Incredible Hulk · 0:06:37 · Griffin or David (0.35)] Hulk ⇒ The Incredible Hulk (the host's read) · lineage · Despite the reboot claim, the same three relationships (Hulk, Betty, Thunderbolt Ross) carry through, as does the South America opening. · "And those 3 relationships feel very much on a continuity with everything that happens in English film."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Ice Storm · 0:35:56 · David Sims (0.55)] The Ice Storm ↔ Hulk · lineage · After loving Hulk, a host went back to the Lee filmography and read The Ice Storm as the family psychodrama behind it. · "And then this movie is like, oh, here's all the weird family psychodrama, which is already contextualized through the Marvel Comics prism."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Vanilla Sky · 0:24:25 · unknown (0.35)] Hulk ↔ Vanilla Sky · theme · The strongest example of defending a movie against dismissive friends in the speaker's adolescence was Ang Lee's Hulk, like defending Vanilla Sky. · "Drew the line was Anglies Hulk."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Incredible Hulk · 1:46:28 · Griffin or David (0.30)] Hulk ↔ The Incredible Hulk · contrast · Ang Lee's Hulk makes jumping and falling spiritual in the desert, while this film's rooftop jumping looks like the Flatiron District. · "It's way cooler in the Angling Hulk when jumping and falling is like spiritual."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Incredible Hulk · 0:25:34 · Griffin or David (0.30)] Hulk ↔ The Incredible Hulk · verdict · Ruffalo, Bixby and Bana all share a haunted Banner; this film prioritizes action over that. · "Right, but let's say, like Ruffalo, Bixby, and Bana all get the same thing that's most important, which is this guy's kind of haunted."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Incredible Hulk · 0:51:43 · Griffin or David (0.30)] Hulk ↔ The Incredible Hulk · verdict · Ang Lee's film is about four-person relationships so lack of scale works there; this one is a perfunctory action film. · "No, and that's an asset to the Angli Hulk because it's just about those relationships."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon · 0:02:22 · David Sims (0.40)] Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon ↔ Hulk · industry · Domestic grosses of CTHD, Hulk, Life of Pi were very similar. · "This Life of Pi and Hulk all ended up very similar."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Ice Storm’ · 0:36:45 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] Ang Lee ↔ Hulk · theme · Even in a Hulk movie he dislikes, Fennessey sees Lee chasing a battle between two sides of a man. · "There's the 2 sides of a man that he's really interested in that."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Ice Storm’ · 0:09:13 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] Ang Lee ↔ Hulk · career · Fennessey cites Lee's varied filmography, a superhero movie among martial arts, dramas and comedies. · "He's made a superhero movie."
[pairs] Hulk ↔ The Incredible Hulk · said 5 times in 1 episode
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Avengers · 1:12:35 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Hulk · fun · See the scene where Banner reveals he shot himself and the Hulk spat the bullet out; he stays calm by always being angry (1:12:30, then 1:54:08 payoff). · "He shot himself in the head and he turned into the Hulk and the Hulk spit the bullet out."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Incredible Hulk · 0:01:10 · Griffin or David (0.30)] Hulk (Ang Lee) · fun · The hosts screened Ang Lee's Hulk on 35mm with James Schamus days before; a projectionist change-over was visible and the Q&A is on the Patreon feed. · "That talk that Q&A will be released on this very Patreon feed."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Incredible Hulk · 0:23:12 · Griffin or David (0.35)] Iron Man ↔ The Incredible Hulk · programming · Both Iron Man's post-credits Fury scene and Tony's Hulk cameo got audiences cheering, building the idea of a shared universe. · "I was so invested in the idea, which seems hilarious now of a cinematic universe."
[The Big Picture · Did Disney’s ‘Mulan’ Experiment Work? A Binge Mode Investigation · 0:28:58 · Jason Concepcion (0.80)] Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon ⇒ Mulan (the host's read) · lineage · The remake's wuxia/mystical style follows the wave of Chinese films that grew popular after Crouching Tiger and the Zhang Yimou films. · "they've gotten very big, kind of post, crouching tiger hidden dragon, and the Jang Yi-Mu films"
[Blank Check — Patreon · In the Cut · 0:07:38 · Griffin or David (unclear) (0.35)] Jane Campion ↔ In the Cut · programming · Today's episode of the Campion miniseries; the piano is behind them and In the Cut is next. · "It's also funny now that the piano is behind us and we're covering in the cut."
[The Big Picture · ‘Fast 9’ and the ‘Fast & Furious’ Rankings · 0:05:46 · Shea Serrano (0.90)] Fast Five ↔ The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift · lineage · Justin Lin sets the franchise on its trajectory in Tokyo Drift, seeds it in Fast & Furious, and perfects it in Fast Five. · "He figures it out perfectly in fast five."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Ice Storm’ · 0:50:18 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] The Ice Storm ⇒ Swingtown (TV) (the host's read) · programming · Swingtown tried to tap the key party idea but belonged on Cinemax. · "That show has to be on Cinemax."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Incredible Hulk · 0:36:32 · Griffin or David (0.30)] The Incredible Hulk ↔ Captain America (First Avenger / MCU) · programming · The WWII super-soldier line makes theater audiences excited for a Captain America reference, a habit Iron Man 2 repeats. · "Iron Man 2 is the guiltiest of that."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon · 0:23:14 · David Sims (0.40)] Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon ↔ Westerns (genre) · lineage · Lee reviving an old genre like making a Western, but engineered for a worldwide audience. · "It was like if somebody made a Western, but it also was implicitly built to and engineered to appeal to a worldwide audience as much as it appealed to an American one."
[Blank Check — Patreon · In the Cut · 0:13:38 · Griffin or David (unclear) (0.35)] Unfaithful ↔ In the Cut · programming · Unfaithful is described as closing out the erotic-thriller era that In the Cut lands at the tail end of. · "And unfaithful is him kind of closing the loop a little bit. And it's like that era is done."
[The Big Picture · ‘Fast 9’ and the ‘Fast & Furious’ Rankings · 0:43:16 · Sean Fennessey (0.90)] The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift ⇒ F9 (the host's read) · lineage · F9 gives Tokyo Drift a big shout out and brings back Han. · "it's a movie that has a huge cult fan base that gets a pretty big shout out in F9."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Ice Storm’ · 1:09:25 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Brokeback Mountain ↔ The Ice Storm · programming · Simmons eyes Brokeback Mountain as a contender for Fucked Up Family February 2023. · "Brokeback Mountain is definitely one of the contenders."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Incredible Hulk · 1:31:34 · Griffin or David (0.35)] The Incredible Hulk ⇒ Captain America (First Avenger / MCU) (the host's read) · programming · The hero jumping out of a hangar plane becomes a recurring Marvel image, starting here and used in Black Panther and Captain America. · "And this is the 1st of what then becomes the Marvel trope where a hero is either pushed out of or jumps out of the back of like a hangar plane."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon · 0:24:55 · David Sims (0.40)] King Hu ⇒ Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (the host's read) · lineage · CTHD plays in the milieu of King Hu and the wuxia classics, but with a more modern sensibility. · "this movie is playing in a, in a Milu that is inherent to like King Hu movies and Musha, like the classics"
[Blank Check — Patreon · In the Cut · 0:13:49 · Griffin or David (unclear) (0.35)] In the Cut ↔ Swimming Pool · programming · Swimming Pool is the only other notable erotic thriller of 2003. · "the only other one in 2003 of any note is the French movie swimming pool, which is a pretty good movie."
[The Big Picture · ‘Fast 9’ and the ‘Fast & Furious’ Rankings · 0:44:25 · Shea Serrano (0.90)] The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift ↔ Fast Five · lineage · Shea realizes Tokyo Drift is the keystone: remove it and the rest falls apart. · "If that's that's the one movie, if you take it out, all of the rest of it falls apart."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Ice Storm’ · 1:26:54 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] The Ice Storm ↔ The Squid and the Whale · programming · Fennessey says Squid and the Whale was the biggest near-miss for Fucked Up Family February. · "I think was probably the biggest one that could have made it."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Incredible Hulk · 1:51:33 · Griffin or David (0.35)] The Consultant ↔ The Incredible Hulk · programming · The short on the Thor Blu-ray explains Tony's cameo as a ploy to sabotage the recruitment of Blonsky. · "They see him as a war hero and blame the devastation of Harlem and Bruce Banner."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon · 1:07:21 · Griffin Newman (0.30)] Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon ↔ Last Action Hero · lineage · Jen worshipping Shu Lien and living her dreamed-of story is very Last Action Hero. · "It's very last action hero."
[Blank Check — Patreon · In the Cut · 0:51:40 · Griffin or David (unclear) (0.35)] In the Cut ↔ Hollow Man · programming · The DVD box set pairing In the Cut with Hollow Man, Flatliners, Abandon and Trapped is called a blank-checky set. · "It is a weirdly blank checky box set."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Ice Storm’ · 1:27:53 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] The Ice Storm ↔ Pulp Fiction · programming · Next episodes will cover two famous movies; Ryan and Simmons tease Pulp Fiction. · "I've been watching a lot of pulp fiction lately."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Incredible Hulk · 0:14:45 · Griffin or David (0.30)] Louis Leterrier ↔ The Incredible Hulk · lineage · Leterrier is said to have based the film closely on Jeph Loeb's comic Hulk: Gray. · "So apparently Louis Letierrier based this very intently on Jeff Loeb's Hulk Gray, which no one remembers or likes."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon · 1:46:30 · David Ehrlich (0.35)] Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon ↔ Brokeback Mountain · lineage · CTHD as the first of Lee's 'fuck mountain diptych' of transgressive sex movies, with Brokeback. · "This is the 1st of Angley's fuck mountain diptych."
[Blank Check — Patreon · In the Cut · 0:52:19 · Griffin or David (unclear) (0.35)] In the Cut ↔ Paul Verhoeven · programming · The box set mixes a Campion, a Verhoeven, a Schumacher and an Aja. · "It's just wild that it's a campion, a Verhoven, a Schumacher, a fucking Agoya."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Ice Storm · 1:07:49 · unknown (0.40)] Swingtown (TV) ↔ The Ice Storm · programming · CBS's Swingtown was a third of the way to interesting and watered the key-party era down. · "Wasn't that good, but it was sort of like a 3rd of the way to being interesting."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Incredible Hulk · 0:25:11 · Griffin or David (0.25)] The Incredible Hulk ⇒ The Avengers (the host's read) · lineage · Ruffalo's first Hulk scene in a slum echoes this film's Rocinha opening, though otherwise the continuity is thrown out. · "The only tale is that when the Mark Ruffalo hook was introduced, they find the little hot."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon · 0:30:13 · David Ehrlich (0.45)] Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon ↔ Sense and Sensibility · theme · Ang Lee's bottled-emotion movies; CTHD as Sense and Sensibility with a magic sword. · "This is one of his great bottled emotion movies, which is like a big running theme for people who don't know how to express those. Sensibility with a magic sword."
[Blank Check — Patreon · In the Cut · 1:34:30 · Griffin or David (unclear) (0.35)] In the Cut ↔ Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King · programming · 2003 was crowded: Lord of the Rings, Lost in Translation, Kill Bill, Finding Nemo and more. · "because that's the year, obviously, of like Lord of the Rings."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Ice Storm’ · 0:08:18 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Rick Moody's novel ⇒ The Ice Storm (the host's read) · lineage · Based on Rick Moody's 1994 book; the author cried at the end of a cut and said they got it. · "It's based on Rick Moody's 1994 book, who saw a cut of it and cried at the end and was like, my God, they got it."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Incredible Hulk · 1:34:36 · Griffin or David (0.30)] The Incredible Hulk ⇒ The Avengers (the host's read) · lineage · Avengers' line about Hulk 'breaking Harlem' is false: the Abomination did it. · "That's the one thing they reference in Avengers, where he says, I kind of broke Harlem."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon · 0:37:29 · Griffin Newman (0.30)] Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon ↔ Sense and Sensibility · theme · After 15 minutes the movie goes full Jane Austen. · "But like 15 minutes later, when the movie goes full, Jane Austen"
[Blank Check — Patreon · In the Cut · 1:35:27 · Griffin or David (unclear) (0.35)] In the Cut ↔ Sideways · programming · Sideways, the following year, was a TIFF launch; In the Cut was not. · "Because the following year is sideways."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Ice Storm’ · 0:12:44 · Bill Simmons (0.90)] The Brady Bunch Movie ⇒ The Ice Storm (the host's read) · lineage · Simmons traces a mid-90s wave of 70s nostalgia (Brady Bunch movies, Reality Bites) that led to harder looks like Ice Storm. · "They make the Brady Bunch movie, which is a parody of the Brady Bunch."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Incredible Hulk · 1:47:14 · Griffin Newman or David Sims (0.40)] The Incredible Hulk ⇒ The Incredible Hulk (the host's read) · lineage · A speaker says the film reuses the old TV show's score, the sad-guitar cue from Bixby walking away, even though Craig Armstrong scored it. · "They used the score from the Incredible Hulk at some point in this movie."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon · 0:42:52 · David Ehrlich (0.55)] Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon ↔ Lady Bird · theme · Seen as a coming-of-age story where Jen is the surrogate daughter holding the adults together and apart. · "I never really looked at it through this lens until I was just, you know, on ambient and trying to apply ladybird quotes to everything"
[Blank Check — Patreon · In the Cut · 2:09:11 · Griffin or David (unclear) (0.35)] In the Cut ↔ Bright Star · programming · Next week's Campion miniseries episode is Bright Star. · "Tune in next week or Bright Star."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Ice Storm’ · 0:13:48 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] The Ice Storm ↔ Nixon · lineage · Simmons says the nostalgia turned to re-examination in the mid-90s, citing Oliver Stone's Nixon. · "So mid 90s, it starts to be like, hmm."
[speaker] David Sims · latest sketch, Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · Prepares history: novel, casting, budgets, box office. Reveres the film and thinks it reads as a normal ground-level story. A sucker for Hollywood deal backstory and box office game. · stances: Praises Keitel and Dafoe casting; Respects Scorsese's persistence and Corman discipline; The film is now well regarded though not 'canonical Marty'
[speaker] Griffin Newman · latest sketch, Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · Calls Last Temptation his college-era favorite Scorsese; loves Scorsese's smaller 80s and the film's closing transcendence and Gabriel score. Cannot stand fundamentalist outrage at it. A sucker for casting trivia and Tom Cruise-silliness. · stances: Hot take: Last Temptation structurally mirrors New York, New York as a better version; Outrage over the film is stupid; it is respectful to Jesus; Scorsese's smaller 80s work beats his later baroque phases
[speaker] Sean Fennessey · latest sketch, The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · Loves gory, funny, fast genre movies with craft and confidence, especially 87-minute films that never overstay. Can't stand ponderous elevated horror that fills out its runtime with introspection and sad family history. A sucker for the Carpenter-era lineage, Die Hard homages, and directors who break studio dogma. · stances: Resident Evil is one of the best films of the year; Horror movies have become a drag; fun genre experiences are needed; Short running times are a virtue; Video-game films work best when great filmmakers get creative license
[bits] The Big Picture: Drafts (Hosts and guests draft films in rounds; every pick is a recommendation with an argument); Hall of Fame (A star's or director's best, ranked and argued); Countdowns (Ranked lists, top five or top ten)
[bits] The Rewatchables: Apex Mountain (The moment a star peaks; where on the mountain a performance sits); Who Won the Movie (The hosts name the person who came out of the film best off); The Ebert review (Roger Ebert's original review and star rating read aloud. Ebert is cited, never on the show); Casting what-ifs (Who was almost cast, or who should have been); Most rewatchable scene (The scene each host would stop on while flipping channels); Aged best / aged worst (What holds up and what does not); Picking Nits (The little things in a film the hosts love that they don't think totally work: the nits); Double feature (The film each host would pair it with; a programming pick)

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 Hulk (2003); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Hulk (2003) 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.