What the corpus says about Back to the Future (1985)

The 51 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 (10)

[Blank Check · Flesh+Blood · 1:25:59 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Flesh and Blood ↔ Back to the Future · programming · Flesh+Blood opened Labor Day weekend 1985 when Back to the Future was number one. · "Back to the future?"
[Blank Check · Flesh+Blood · 1:26:31 · David Sims (0.40)] Back to the Future ↔ Teen Wolf · programming · Michael J. Fox held the top two spots at the box office in 1985. · "He's number one and 2 at the box office."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Old School’ · 0:45:01 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Old School ↔ Back to the Future · theme · The house used as the frat house in Pasadena also appeared in Back to the Future, Back to the Future Part II, and Teen Wolf. · "It's been used for 3 Michael J. Fox movies."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Zodiac · 0:04:09 · Leslye Headland (0.90)] Zodiac ↔ Back to the Future · theme · Both are on Leslye's four-film Mount Rushmore. · "It's Zodiac, the Shining, back to the future, the apartment."
[The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 0:29:57 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Resident Evil ↔ Back to the Future · people · Abrams's quality recalls Michael J. Fox's in a non-horror film. · "Now Back to the Future is not a horror movie."
[Blank Check · After Hours · 2:17:34 · unknown host (0.40)] Teen Wolf ↔ Back to the Future · shared star · Michael J. Fox held the number one and two spots at the 1985 box office. · "Michael J. Fox is one and two."
[Blank Check · Sherlock Jr. / The Navigator · 0:16:01 · James Urbaniak (0.80)] The Fabelmans ↔ Back to the Future · period look · The prom set full of extras looked like Back to the Future. · "And it looked like back to the future."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ · 1:36:21 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] Ferris Bueller's Day Off ↔ Back to the Future · year context · Hughes has the biggest cultural footprint of 80s directors, involved in five of the fifteen biggest 80s movies, plus Home Alone. · "out of the 15 biggest 80s movies. I think he was involved in five."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Pulp Fiction’ (Part 2) · 0:24:17 · unknown (0.00)] Eric Stoltz ↔ Back to the Future · what-if · Stoltz was the original Marty before being knocked out for Michael J. Fox. · "Yeah, because back to the future was that was going to be the one and then they knocked him out for Michael J. Fox."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ · 0:09:57 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] Matthew Broderick ↔ Back to the Future · what-if · If Broderick took Family Ties, would Michael J. Fox have played Ferris and Broderick Marty McFly. · "if Matthew Broderick's in family ties, does that mean he's then in back to the future? and Michael J. Fox's Ferris Bueller?"

Films put beside it more than once (1)

[pairs] Back to the Future ↔ Teen Wolf · said 2 times in 2 episodes

One hop out: what recommends the films most often joined to it (31)

[The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop II’ · 0:13:20 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Beverly Hills Cop II ↔ Ferris Bueller's Day Off · lineage · The studio floated a TV series version like what happened with Ferris Bueller. · "they were talking about making it into a TV show, which was kind of like the way Ferris Bueller went and stuff like that."
[Blank Check · Flesh+Blood · 0:43:23 · David Sims (0.40)] Flesh and Blood ↔ Willow · lineage · The painted poster looks like fantasy-adventure posters of the era. · "it has this poster that looks like, you know, the poster for Willow or Legend"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Old School’ · 0:04:35 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Will Ferrell ↔ Old School · lineage · Frank the Tank is an extension of his SNL Dodge Stratus guy, the suburban insanity of domesticity. · "Frank the Tank is kind of the Dodge Stratus extension."
[The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 0:21:02 · Sean Fennessey (0.70)] Evil Dead II ⇒ Resident Evil (the maker said so: a conversation with Cregger on the show last year) · lineage · Cregger said he wanted an Evil Dead 2 style rock-em sock-em movie and got crazy with the camera. · "I'm doing it because I think this movie is going to be fucking awesome."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ · 0:12:38 · Amanda Dobbins (0.70)] Ferris Bueller's Day Off ⇒ Easy A (the maker said so) · lineage · Director Will Gluck has said Ferris Bueller is his favorite movie, and Olive's Mohawk and guitar bits echo it. · "I think the director, Will Gluck, has like talked about how Ferris Bueller is, I think, his favorite movie."
[Blank Check · Flesh+Blood · 0:27:54 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Flesh and Blood ↔ The Loveless · theme · Both take a romanticized genre and show how gross it really was. · "Which is where I think this movie shares a similarity with the Loveless."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Old School’ · 0:05:23 · Bill Simmons (0.40)] Animal House ⇒ Old School (the host's read) · lineage · Old School is the latest in a frat-movie cycle that returns every 10 to 15 years, starting with Animal House. · "It is in keeping with the kind of every 10 to 15 years frat movie that we now get."
[The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 0:30:19 · Chris Ryan (0.60)] Resident Evil ↔ Charlie Chaplin · lineage · The design recalls Chaplin and Keaton's slip-and-fall, rooted-for ne'er-do-well. · "there's so much Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton to me in the design of the movie"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ · 1:14:56 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] Ferris Bueller's Day Off ⇒ The Ferris Bueller Show (TV, 1990) (the host's read) · lineage · A 1990 NBC series with Jennifer Aniston as Jeanie, which the hosts call bad. · "The Ferris Bueller Show, 1990, NBC."
[Blank Check · Flesh+Blood · 1:05:02 · Griffin Newman (0.45)] Flesh and Blood ↔ Strange Days · theme · Like Strange Days, the film treats sexual assault as psychological aftermath rather than a plot device. · "In the Strange Days episode, we talked about the sexual assault scene in that movie, right?"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Old School’ · 0:05:45 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Ivan Reitman ⇒ Old School (the host's read) · lineage · Phillips and Armstrong's movie owes a lot to Ivan Reitman's 80s comedies; it is their son. · "it owes a lot to the Ivan Reitman comedies of the 80s."
[The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 0:40:30 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] The Thing ⇒ Resident Evil (the host's read) · lineage · The farmhouse sequence and the dog at the barn are homages to Carpenter's The Thing. · "You can see the homage to Carpenters the Thing in all this part."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ · 1:24:16 · Bill Simmons (0.55)] Weird Science ↔ Ferris Bueller's Day Off · theme · Hughes always adds a sentimental scene at the end, like Ferris, and Weird Science's 'like me for me' speech. · "Like Hughes will always give you a little bit of green beans on the side."
[Blank Check · Flesh+Blood · 1:13:10 · David Sims (0.40)] Flesh and Blood ↔ A Bug's Life · theme · Steven's crazy siege inventions are compared to Flick's. · "He's like flick from a bug's life where he's coming up with these crazy inventions"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Old School’ · 0:06:03 · Bill Simmons (0.40)] Old School ↔ Stripes · lineage · Old School sits in the Animal House-to-early-80s run of comedy plus nudity that includes Stripes. · "there is a run, basically, that starts with Animal House and goes all the way."
[The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 0:43:16 · Chris Ryan (0.60)] John Carpenter ⇒ Resident Evil (the host's read) · lineage · Carpenter looms over the movie; it sits in a lineage with Romero, 28 Days Later, Alien, Cronenberg. · "It's very obvious the way that Carpenter looms over a movie like this."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ · 1:42:25 · Shea Serrano (0.60)] Easy A ↔ Ferris Bueller's Day Off · theme · Characters like Olive, Beanie Feldstein in Book Smart and Ferris Bueller let parents trust they will be okay. · "Beanie Felstein and Booksmart, Ferris Bueller, these sorts of like, they're going to be okay."
[Blank Check · Flesh+Blood · 0:44:02 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Flesh and Blood ↔ Hieronymus Bosch · craft · The film's opening is said to look like a Bosch painting. · "Like, now we're in a bosh painting."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Old School’ · 0:09:56 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Frat House ⇒ Old School (the host's read) · lineage · Phillips' frat documentary is a template for the movie. · "Frat House, which is this really interesting kind of template for the movie that we're going to talk about."
[The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 0:43:23 · Chris Ryan (0.60)] Resident Evil ↔ 28 Days Later · lineage · Listed among strands to pull from: Romero zombies, 28 Days Later, Alien, Cronenberg body horror. · "You could pull the Romero zombie movies."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ · 0:04:37 · Chris Ryan (0.60)] Ferris Bueller's Day Off ↔ Michael Jordan documentary (The Last Dance) · theme · Chris frames Ferris and Cameron as Jordan and Pippen, and Rooney as Jerry Krause. · "Hey, Ferris is MJ and and Cameron's Pippin, but they do need each other."
[Blank Check · Flesh+Blood · 0:44:18 · David Sims (0.45)] Flesh and Blood ↔ Monty Python and the Holy Grail · craft · The film's muddy, grimy medieval look is likened to Holy Grail. · "The movie that this is aesthetically most similar to weirdly is Monty Python, the Holy Grail."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Old School’ · 0:34:48 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Animal House ⇒ Old School (the host's read) · lineage · Animal House started the habit of a winnable conflict set-piece that comedies copied for ten years, and Old School revived it. · "I think Animal House started it and then the next 10 years of comedy is ripped off"
[The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 0:54:00 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Resident Evil ↔ George A. Romero · lineage · The skyscraper stage recalls later Romero films where a whole city is overrun. · "the more elevated later Romero movies where it feels like an entire city has been taken over."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ · 0:05:32 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Ferris Bueller's Day Off ↔ Raiders of the Lost Ark / Indiana Jones · theme · Ferris is to high schoolers what Indiana Jones is to archaeologists, an aspirational model. · "Ferris Bueller is to high schoolers as Indiana Jones is to archaeologists."
[Blank Check · Flesh+Blood · 1:13:31 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Flesh and Blood ↔ Excalibur · craft · The siege-tower set piece is presented like a grand medieval epic. · "Is it's presenting it to you like you're watching."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Old School’ · 0:42:01 · Bill Simmons (0.40)] Old School ↔ Old School 2 (unmade sequel script) · lineage · A 2006 sequel script about spring break was turned down by Ferrell and Vaughn as repetitive. · "It felt like it was repeating."
[The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 1:00:42 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Die Hard ⇒ Resident Evil (the host's read) · lineage · The shoes-melting beat is called a Die Hard nod (walking on broken glass). · "You have that wonderful diehard nod where his shoes are starting to melt and he has to take his shoes off."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ · 1:01:12 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] Ferris Bueller's Day Off ↔ Weird Science · theme · Shermer High is the location for Weird Science, Sixteen Candles, Breakfast Club, and Ferris. · "Shermer High is the location for weird science, um, 16 candles, Breakfast Club, and Ferris Bueller."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Old School’ · 0:43:10 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] Wayne's World 2 ↔ Old School · lineage · Asked which comedy sequel they'd want, Old School 2 beats Wedding Crashers 2; Wayne's World 2 is the great comedy sequel. · "I think is a genius movie."
[The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 1:20:44 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Resident Evil ↔ The Last of Us · lineage · Chris sees it as a breakthrough for video-game films, like The Last of Us for TV. · "I see this movie as, it is the last of us 4 movies"

Who said it, by their latest sketch (6)

[speaker] Bill Simmons · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · Loves the Friday series as a communal, rental-era memory and tells childhood stories about the ads and theaters. Likes casting what-ifs and sports analogies for everything. Skeptical of horror at Christmas and of anything that wastes the premise. · stances: Friday the 13th is not the best entry but the origin story had to be told; Friday 2 is a leap over the original
[speaker] Chris Ryan · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · A franchise and genre scholar who likes Jason, the early sequels, and Manhattan; attention to trivia, tropes and critic reception. Treats slashers as a canon with tiers. · stances: Parts 1, 2, 4 and Manhattan are the good ones; The series finds its legs at 4
[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] James Urbaniak · latest sketch, Blank Check · Sherlock Jr. / The Navigator · Loves old-timey stuff, the history and styles of acting, Robert Altman, Tony Randall and the Simpsons-quoting camaraderie of fellow nerds. He admires Keaton as a non-indicating, anti-sentimental, serene and modern performer, favoring cool restraint over Chaplin's warmth. He dislikes hammy over-indication and is a sucker for the specific, throwaway behavioral bit. · stances: Keaton is modern, clean, streamlined and the ultimate non-indicator; Keaton is cool where Chaplin is warm and practical where Chaplin is showy; Silent acting streams coexisted: naturalistic and semaphore; Seeing a Spielberg shoot revealed that great directors create an environment that allows things to happen
[speaker] Leslye Headland · latest sketch, Blank Check — Patreon · Zodiac · Loves Zodiac as part of a Mount Rushmore (Zodiac, The Shining, Back to the Future, The Apartment) and watched it daily at a low point in her life. Adores blocking and staging as the true mark of the greats, loves Fincher's digital photography, and sees Fight Club as an evergreen Strangelove-style satire. Also a fan of L.A. Confidential as a nook-and-cranny movie. · stances: Zodiac is a masterpiece and a movie to live inside; Fincher's real genius is blocking and staging, not flash; Fight Club is a durable satire; Digital can look gorgeous

The shows' running bits (3)

[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)
[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 Back to the Future (1985) 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 Back to the Future (1985) 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 · Flesh+Blood · 1:25:59 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Flesh and Blood ↔ Back to the Future · programming · Flesh+Blood opened Labor Day weekend 1985 when Back to the Future was number one. · "Back to the future?"
[Blank Check · Flesh+Blood · 1:26:31 · David Sims (0.40)] Back to the Future ↔ Teen Wolf · programming · Michael J. Fox held the top two spots at the box office in 1985. · "He's number one and 2 at the box office."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Old School’ · 0:45:01 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Old School ↔ Back to the Future · theme · The house used as the frat house in Pasadena also appeared in Back to the Future, Back to the Future Part II, and Teen Wolf. · "It's been used for 3 Michael J. Fox movies."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Zodiac · 0:04:09 · Leslye Headland (0.90)] Zodiac ↔ Back to the Future · theme · Both are on Leslye's four-film Mount Rushmore. · "It's Zodiac, the Shining, back to the future, the apartment."
[The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 0:29:57 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Resident Evil ↔ Back to the Future · people · Abrams's quality recalls Michael J. Fox's in a non-horror film. · "Now Back to the Future is not a horror movie."
[Blank Check · After Hours · 2:17:34 · unknown host (0.40)] Teen Wolf ↔ Back to the Future · shared star · Michael J. Fox held the number one and two spots at the 1985 box office. · "Michael J. Fox is one and two."
[Blank Check · Sherlock Jr. / The Navigator · 0:16:01 · James Urbaniak (0.80)] The Fabelmans ↔ Back to the Future · period look · The prom set full of extras looked like Back to the Future. · "And it looked like back to the future."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ · 1:36:21 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] Ferris Bueller's Day Off ↔ Back to the Future · year context · Hughes has the biggest cultural footprint of 80s directors, involved in five of the fifteen biggest 80s movies, plus Home Alone. · "out of the 15 biggest 80s movies. I think he was involved in five."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Pulp Fiction’ (Part 2) · 0:24:17 · unknown (0.00)] Eric Stoltz ↔ Back to the Future · what-if · Stoltz was the original Marty before being knocked out for Michael J. Fox. · "Yeah, because back to the future was that was going to be the one and then they knocked him out for Michael J. Fox."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ · 0:09:57 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] Matthew Broderick ↔ Back to the Future · what-if · If Broderick took Family Ties, would Michael J. Fox have played Ferris and Broderick Marty McFly. · "if Matthew Broderick's in family ties, does that mean he's then in back to the future? and Michael J. Fox's Ferris Bueller?"
[pairs] Back to the Future ↔ Teen Wolf · said 2 times in 2 episodes
[The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop II’ · 0:13:20 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Beverly Hills Cop II ↔ Ferris Bueller's Day Off · lineage · The studio floated a TV series version like what happened with Ferris Bueller. · "they were talking about making it into a TV show, which was kind of like the way Ferris Bueller went and stuff like that."
[Blank Check · Flesh+Blood · 0:43:23 · David Sims (0.40)] Flesh and Blood ↔ Willow · lineage · The painted poster looks like fantasy-adventure posters of the era. · "it has this poster that looks like, you know, the poster for Willow or Legend"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Old School’ · 0:04:35 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Will Ferrell ↔ Old School · lineage · Frank the Tank is an extension of his SNL Dodge Stratus guy, the suburban insanity of domesticity. · "Frank the Tank is kind of the Dodge Stratus extension."
[The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 0:21:02 · Sean Fennessey (0.70)] Evil Dead II ⇒ Resident Evil (the maker said so: a conversation with Cregger on the show last year) · lineage · Cregger said he wanted an Evil Dead 2 style rock-em sock-em movie and got crazy with the camera. · "I'm doing it because I think this movie is going to be fucking awesome."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ · 0:12:38 · Amanda Dobbins (0.70)] Ferris Bueller's Day Off ⇒ Easy A (the maker said so) · lineage · Director Will Gluck has said Ferris Bueller is his favorite movie, and Olive's Mohawk and guitar bits echo it. · "I think the director, Will Gluck, has like talked about how Ferris Bueller is, I think, his favorite movie."
[Blank Check · Flesh+Blood · 0:27:54 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Flesh and Blood ↔ The Loveless · theme · Both take a romanticized genre and show how gross it really was. · "Which is where I think this movie shares a similarity with the Loveless."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Old School’ · 0:05:23 · Bill Simmons (0.40)] Animal House ⇒ Old School (the host's read) · lineage · Old School is the latest in a frat-movie cycle that returns every 10 to 15 years, starting with Animal House. · "It is in keeping with the kind of every 10 to 15 years frat movie that we now get."
[The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 0:30:19 · Chris Ryan (0.60)] Resident Evil ↔ Charlie Chaplin · lineage · The design recalls Chaplin and Keaton's slip-and-fall, rooted-for ne'er-do-well. · "there's so much Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton to me in the design of the movie"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ · 1:14:56 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] Ferris Bueller's Day Off ⇒ The Ferris Bueller Show (TV, 1990) (the host's read) · lineage · A 1990 NBC series with Jennifer Aniston as Jeanie, which the hosts call bad. · "The Ferris Bueller Show, 1990, NBC."
[Blank Check · Flesh+Blood · 1:05:02 · Griffin Newman (0.45)] Flesh and Blood ↔ Strange Days · theme · Like Strange Days, the film treats sexual assault as psychological aftermath rather than a plot device. · "In the Strange Days episode, we talked about the sexual assault scene in that movie, right?"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Old School’ · 0:05:45 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Ivan Reitman ⇒ Old School (the host's read) · lineage · Phillips and Armstrong's movie owes a lot to Ivan Reitman's 80s comedies; it is their son. · "it owes a lot to the Ivan Reitman comedies of the 80s."
[The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 0:40:30 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] The Thing ⇒ Resident Evil (the host's read) · lineage · The farmhouse sequence and the dog at the barn are homages to Carpenter's The Thing. · "You can see the homage to Carpenters the Thing in all this part."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ · 1:24:16 · Bill Simmons (0.55)] Weird Science ↔ Ferris Bueller's Day Off · theme · Hughes always adds a sentimental scene at the end, like Ferris, and Weird Science's 'like me for me' speech. · "Like Hughes will always give you a little bit of green beans on the side."
[Blank Check · Flesh+Blood · 1:13:10 · David Sims (0.40)] Flesh and Blood ↔ A Bug's Life · theme · Steven's crazy siege inventions are compared to Flick's. · "He's like flick from a bug's life where he's coming up with these crazy inventions"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Old School’ · 0:06:03 · Bill Simmons (0.40)] Old School ↔ Stripes · lineage · Old School sits in the Animal House-to-early-80s run of comedy plus nudity that includes Stripes. · "there is a run, basically, that starts with Animal House and goes all the way."
[The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 0:43:16 · Chris Ryan (0.60)] John Carpenter ⇒ Resident Evil (the host's read) · lineage · Carpenter looms over the movie; it sits in a lineage with Romero, 28 Days Later, Alien, Cronenberg. · "It's very obvious the way that Carpenter looms over a movie like this."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ · 1:42:25 · Shea Serrano (0.60)] Easy A ↔ Ferris Bueller's Day Off · theme · Characters like Olive, Beanie Feldstein in Book Smart and Ferris Bueller let parents trust they will be okay. · "Beanie Felstein and Booksmart, Ferris Bueller, these sorts of like, they're going to be okay."
[Blank Check · Flesh+Blood · 0:44:02 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Flesh and Blood ↔ Hieronymus Bosch · craft · The film's opening is said to look like a Bosch painting. · "Like, now we're in a bosh painting."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Old School’ · 0:09:56 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Frat House ⇒ Old School (the host's read) · lineage · Phillips' frat documentary is a template for the movie. · "Frat House, which is this really interesting kind of template for the movie that we're going to talk about."
[The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 0:43:23 · Chris Ryan (0.60)] Resident Evil ↔ 28 Days Later · lineage · Listed among strands to pull from: Romero zombies, 28 Days Later, Alien, Cronenberg body horror. · "You could pull the Romero zombie movies."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ · 0:04:37 · Chris Ryan (0.60)] Ferris Bueller's Day Off ↔ Michael Jordan documentary (The Last Dance) · theme · Chris frames Ferris and Cameron as Jordan and Pippen, and Rooney as Jerry Krause. · "Hey, Ferris is MJ and and Cameron's Pippin, but they do need each other."
[Blank Check · Flesh+Blood · 0:44:18 · David Sims (0.45)] Flesh and Blood ↔ Monty Python and the Holy Grail · craft · The film's muddy, grimy medieval look is likened to Holy Grail. · "The movie that this is aesthetically most similar to weirdly is Monty Python, the Holy Grail."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Old School’ · 0:34:48 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Animal House ⇒ Old School (the host's read) · lineage · Animal House started the habit of a winnable conflict set-piece that comedies copied for ten years, and Old School revived it. · "I think Animal House started it and then the next 10 years of comedy is ripped off"
[The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 0:54:00 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Resident Evil ↔ George A. Romero · lineage · The skyscraper stage recalls later Romero films where a whole city is overrun. · "the more elevated later Romero movies where it feels like an entire city has been taken over."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ · 0:05:32 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Ferris Bueller's Day Off ↔ Raiders of the Lost Ark / Indiana Jones · theme · Ferris is to high schoolers what Indiana Jones is to archaeologists, an aspirational model. · "Ferris Bueller is to high schoolers as Indiana Jones is to archaeologists."
[Blank Check · Flesh+Blood · 1:13:31 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Flesh and Blood ↔ Excalibur · craft · The siege-tower set piece is presented like a grand medieval epic. · "Is it's presenting it to you like you're watching."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Old School’ · 0:42:01 · Bill Simmons (0.40)] Old School ↔ Old School 2 (unmade sequel script) · lineage · A 2006 sequel script about spring break was turned down by Ferrell and Vaughn as repetitive. · "It felt like it was repeating."
[The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 1:00:42 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Die Hard ⇒ Resident Evil (the host's read) · lineage · The shoes-melting beat is called a Die Hard nod (walking on broken glass). · "You have that wonderful diehard nod where his shoes are starting to melt and he has to take his shoes off."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ · 1:01:12 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] Ferris Bueller's Day Off ↔ Weird Science · theme · Shermer High is the location for Weird Science, Sixteen Candles, Breakfast Club, and Ferris. · "Shermer High is the location for weird science, um, 16 candles, Breakfast Club, and Ferris Bueller."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Old School’ · 0:43:10 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] Wayne's World 2 ↔ Old School · lineage · Asked which comedy sequel they'd want, Old School 2 beats Wedding Crashers 2; Wayne's World 2 is the great comedy sequel. · "I think is a genius movie."
[The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 1:20:44 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Resident Evil ↔ The Last of Us · lineage · Chris sees it as a breakthrough for video-game films, like The Last of Us for TV. · "I see this movie as, it is the last of us 4 movies"
[speaker] Bill Simmons · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · Loves the Friday series as a communal, rental-era memory and tells childhood stories about the ads and theaters. Likes casting what-ifs and sports analogies for everything. Skeptical of horror at Christmas and of anything that wastes the premise. · stances: Friday the 13th is not the best entry but the origin story had to be told; Friday 2 is a leap over the original
[speaker] Chris Ryan · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · A franchise and genre scholar who likes Jason, the early sequels, and Manhattan; attention to trivia, tropes and critic reception. Treats slashers as a canon with tiers. · stances: Parts 1, 2, 4 and Manhattan are the good ones; The series finds its legs at 4
[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] James Urbaniak · latest sketch, Blank Check · Sherlock Jr. / The Navigator · Loves old-timey stuff, the history and styles of acting, Robert Altman, Tony Randall and the Simpsons-quoting camaraderie of fellow nerds. He admires Keaton as a non-indicating, anti-sentimental, serene and modern performer, favoring cool restraint over Chaplin's warmth. He dislikes hammy over-indication and is a sucker for the specific, throwaway behavioral bit. · stances: Keaton is modern, clean, streamlined and the ultimate non-indicator; Keaton is cool where Chaplin is warm and practical where Chaplin is showy; Silent acting streams coexisted: naturalistic and semaphore; Seeing a Spielberg shoot revealed that great directors create an environment that allows things to happen
[speaker] Leslye Headland · latest sketch, Blank Check — Patreon · Zodiac · Loves Zodiac as part of a Mount Rushmore (Zodiac, The Shining, Back to the Future, The Apartment) and watched it daily at a low point in her life. Adores blocking and staging as the true mark of the greats, loves Fincher's digital photography, and sees Fight Club as an evergreen Strangelove-style satire. Also a fan of L.A. Confidential as a nook-and-cranny movie. · stances: Zodiac is a masterpiece and a movie to live inside; Fincher's real genius is blocking and staging, not flash; Fight Club is a durable satire; Digital can look gorgeous
[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)
[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 Back to the Future (1985); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Back to the Future (1985) 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.