What the corpus says about Game of Thrones (2011)

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What was said about it (11)

[The Rewatchables · ‘The War of the Roses’ · 0:56:37 · unknown (0.30)] The War of the Roses ⇒ Game of Thrones (the host's read) · lineage · The actual historical Wars of the Roses was a big inspiration for Game of Thrones. · "Big inspiration for Game of Thrones."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Natural’ · 0:11:03 · Mallory Rubin (0.80)] The Natural ↔ Game of Thrones · theme · A darker book-faithful Natural fits the anti-hero era of prestige TV like Game of Thrones. · "Even think about something like Game of Thrones."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Natural’ · 0:24:32 · Mallory Rubin (0.70)] The Natural ↔ Game of Thrones · craft · The skeptical-journalist role echoes a Game of Thrones line about a suspicious mind. · "And I found myself thinking about that with the whole journalistic depiction in the film"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Thor: The Dark World · 0:11:39 · David Sims (0.40)] Game of Thrones ⇒ Thor: The Dark World (the host's read) · craft · The film aims for a grounded, muddy fantasy in the Game of Thrones manner, away from Branagh's version. · "We want to make a more grounded fantasy away from the bran off."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Thor: The Dark World · 0:25:52 · unknown (0.30)] Thor: The Dark World ↔ Game of Thrones · craft · Asgard's courtyard business and street-level scenes feel like Game of Thrones. · "Like I still don't understand like this very Game of Thronesy."
[The Big Picture · Oscar Nomination Predictions, ‘Mean Girls,’ and ‘All of Us Strangers’ · 0:17:09 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60)] Poor Things ↔ Game of Thrones · industry · A bar manager made a Poor Things martini because he liked the film, just as he did for Game of Thrones, which is not studio viral marketing. · "sometimes they did it for Game of Thrones. And then they just did it for poor things."
[The Big Picture · Janicza Bravo and Brett Gelman Channel Rejection and Anxiety to Make ‘Lemon’ | The Big Picture · 0:07:54 · Alison Herman (0.70)] Juneteenth (Atlanta episode) ↔ Game of Thrones · industry · Alison jokes that the episode is the season's Battle of the Bastards, a money shot, and that she is obliged to plug Game of Thrones. · "It's like the Game of Thrones money shot, but I am contractually obligated to make that reference in this podcast."
[The Big Picture · ‘Black Panther: Wakanda Forever’ Is Here! · 1:06:00 · Sean Fennessey (0.85)] Black Panther: Wakanda Forever ↔ Game of Thrones · succession story · Sean says a version centered on who should rule Wakanda is the kind of heir story Game of Thrones told expertly, though not House of the Dragon. · "Game of Thrones was very good at posing who should be the heir."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War · 1:43:09 · unknown (0.30)] Peter Dinklage ↔ Game of Thrones · career · Dinklage is locked up by Game of Thrones, and his post-Thrones career is eagerly awaited. · "I cannot wait to see his post Game of Thrones career"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Thor: The Dark World · 0:11:37 · David Sims (0.45)] Alan Taylor ↔ Game of Thrones · career · Taylor was hired as the Game of Thrones helmsman; the studio's note was to make the film feel more like Game of Thrones. · "We want to make this feel more like Game of Thrones."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Thor: The Dark World · 0:31:39 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Kramer Morgenthau ↔ Game of Thrones · people · The cinematographer has shot Game of Thrones, Terminator Genisys and Creed II. · "Kramer. who has shot some Game of Thrones."

Films put beside it more than once (2)

[pairs] Game of Thrones ↔ Thor: The Dark World · said 2 times in 1 episode
[pairs] Game of Thrones ↔ The Natural · said 2 times in 1 episode

One hop out: what recommends the films most often joined to it (37)

[The Rewatchables · ‘The Natural’ · 1:46:33 · Bill Simmons (0.90)] The Natural ↔ Major League · programming · Major League and Field of Dreams are the next two Rewatchables. · "we're going to be doing Major League and Field of Dreams over the next couple weeks."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Guardians of the Galaxy · 1:00:57 · unknown (0.30)] Benicio del Toro ↔ Thor: The Dark World · programming · Del Toro's Collector first appears in the Dark World post-credits and has been used little since. · "How much is he in dark world?"
[The Big Picture · The Great ‘Avatar’ Debate · 1:37:26 · unknown (0.40)] Avatar: The Way of Water ↔ Black Panther: Wakanda Forever · programming · Both sequels arrive within a month of each other. · "Now, both getting sequels within a month of each other."
[The Big Picture · Janicza Bravo and Brett Gelman Channel Rejection and Anxiety to Make ‘Lemon’ | The Big Picture · 0:04:44 · Alison Herman (0.85)] Eyes Wide Shut ⇒ Juneteenth (Atlanta episode) (the host's read) · lineage · Donald Glover's character describes the party as a Spike-directed reboot of Eyes Wide Shut. · "this is like a spikely directed reboot of eyes wide shut"
[The Big Picture · Best Picture Power Rankings and a ‘Poor Things’ Deep Dive. Plus: Julianne Moore and Todd Haynes! · 2:19:43 · Todd Haynes (0.65)] Todd Haynes ↔ Poor Things · programming · Haynes recently saw Poor Things and loved it, singling out Mark Ruffalo. · "I just saw poor things recently and man, I loved it."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Natural’ · 1:46:38 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] The Natural ↔ Bull Durham · programming · Bull Durham is being saved for a magical time (heard as Boulder). · "Boulder, we're saving for when it's a really magical time."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The Winter Soldier · 0:14:14 · unknown (0.35)] Captain America: The Winter Soldier ↔ Thor: The Dark World · programming · Dark World is the high-fantasy entry in the same one-genre-per-film scheme. · "Dark World is like high fantasy."
[The Big Picture · ‘Black Panther: Wakanda Forever’ Is Here! · 0:17:32 · Sean Fennessey (0.85)] Black Panther: Wakanda Forever ↔ Black Panther · lineage · The first film's theme was isolation versus justice (Killmonger vs. T'Challa); the sequel has a real-world theme too, about allyship between Latinx and Black communities, but is not done as well. · "his movies always have a big dynamic real world theme in them in a way that I don't think many Marvel movies do."
[The Big Picture · Janicza Bravo and Brett Gelman Channel Rejection and Anxiety to Make ‘Lemon’ | The Big Picture · 0:08:37 · Sean Fennessey (0.90)] Juneteenth (Atlanta episode) ↔ Curb Your Enthusiasm · lineage · Sean ties the episode and Lemon's awkward comedy to Larry David's Curb. · "I was thinking of curb your enthusiasm and the way that Larry David would throw people into social situations that make you want to tear your skin off."
[The Big Picture · Oscar Nomination Predictions, ‘Mean Girls,’ and ‘All of Us Strangers’ · 0:28:46 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] The Zone of Interest ↔ Poor Things · lineage · Five adapted-screenplay nominees are interesting recontextualizations of their sources, and Zone of Interest is the outside contender that is also one. · "The one on the outside, I think, is also a best picture contender that is also a recontextualization, which is the zone of interest."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Natural’ · 0:10:12 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] The Natural ↔ Field of Dreams · lineage · The Natural's ending, a catch with your son, echoes the wheat-field catch in Field of Dreams. · "And the concept of when I have a son someday will have a catch and then we'll be playing in the backyard."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Thor: The Dark World · 0:50:31 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] The Nutcracker and the Four Realms ↔ Thor: The Dark World · programming · Joking that a 'four realms' film from the director of Captain America should have had nine realms. · "He won't settle for four."
[The Big Picture · ‘Black Panther: Wakanda Forever’ Is Here! · 0:32:14 · Van Lathan (0.85)] Black Panther ⇒ Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (the host's read) · theme · Van explains that in the first film T'Challa saw his father on the ancestral plane because he had questions for him, while Shuri saw Killmonger because she wanted revenge, the same motive Killmonger had. · "Shuri did not want to be the Black Panther to protect Wakanda."
[The Big Picture · Janicza Bravo and Brett Gelman Channel Rejection and Anxiety to Make ‘Lemon’ | The Big Picture · 0:04:26 · Sean Fennessey (0.90)] Juneteenth (Atlanta episode) ↔ Lemon · theme · Sean calls Juneteenth a sister to Lemon because both explore awkward encounters between privilege and non-privilege. · "it really makes Juneteenth a sister of some kind to lemon and that movie explores it as well."
[The Big Picture · Best Picture Power Rankings and a ‘Poor Things’ Deep Dive. Plus: Julianne Moore and Todd Haynes! · 0:41:25 · Sean Fennessey (0.55)] Dogtooth ⇒ Poor Things (the host's read) · lineage · Both are about who gets to dictate the rules; Poor Things is described as a sequel to Dogtooth's fathers-and-language themes. · "It's like the sequel to that movie in some ways because the Godwin character"
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Natural’ · 0:13:28 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] Bernard Malamud ⇒ The Natural (the host's read) · lineage · The film is adapted from his 1952 novel, but its ending is very different. · "Written in 1952 by Bernard Malamud."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Thor: The Dark World · 1:59:51 · David Sims (0.30)] Thor: The Dark World ↔ Guardians of the Galaxy · programming · The Collector mid-credits scene already shows the Guardians' comic space weirdness; the speaker thinks James Gunn directed it. · "I think gun directed this. It's 100% difficult."
[The Big Picture · ‘Black Panther: Wakanda Forever’ Is Here! · 0:37:09 · Van Lathan (0.85)] Captain America: Civil War ⇒ Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (the host's read) · theme · Van says Black Panther was handled better in Civil War than in his own movie, and that Civil War served as his origin; Ironheart's introduction here does not land the same way. · "Black Panther, to me, was portrayed better in Civil War than he was in the original Black Panther movie."
[The Big Picture · Janicza Bravo and Brett Gelman Channel Rejection and Anxiety to Make ‘Lemon’ | The Big Picture · 0:04:44 · Alison Herman (0.90)] Juneteenth (Atlanta episode) ↔ Get Out · theme · Alison says it reminds her of Get Out in using white affluence to create dread, though Get Out is more visceral. · "it almost reminds me of get out, like using the trappings of white affluence to inspire this feeling of dread and discomfort"
[The Big Picture · Best Picture Power Rankings and a ‘Poor Things’ Deep Dive. Plus: Julianne Moore and Todd Haynes! · 1:14:03 · Sean Fennessey (0.75)] Bride of Frankenstein ⇒ Poor Things (the host's read) · lineage · Sean says the Frankenstein novel and the first two Frankenstein movies are major influences on Poor Things. · "the Frankenstein and Bride of Frankenstein are, like, huge influences on this movie."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Natural’ · 0:13:33 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Eddie Waitkus ⇒ The Natural (the host's read) · lineage · The novel borrowed from the 1949 shooting of Eddie Waitkus of the Phillies. · "Borrowed from this bizarre shooting of Eddie Waitkiss in 1949 in the Phillies"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Thor: The Dark World · 0:17:10 · David Sims (0.40)] Thor: The Dark World ↔ The Lord of the Rings · lineage · The Dark Elf war prologue and design is Lord of the Rings style ancient-story fantasy. · "This is some sort of like Lord of the Rings stuff where it's sort of like, you know, this is an ancient story."
[The Big Picture · ‘Black Panther: Wakanda Forever’ Is Here! · 0:37:22 · Van Lathan (0.80)] Iron Man 2 ⇒ Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (the host's read) · theme · Van says the MCU has introduced characters inside other movies before, like Black Widow in Iron Man 2. · "Black Widow makes her a parent, her 1st appearance."
[The Big Picture · Janicza Bravo and Brett Gelman Channel Rejection and Anxiety to Make ‘Lemon’ | The Big Picture · 0:08:23 · Sean Fennessey (0.90)] Juneteenth (Atlanta episode) ↔ Lemon · craft · Sean says the tone of awkward comedy with high tension links the episode to the film. · "Lemon, though, is really, like I said, kind of related to it"
[The Big Picture · Best Picture Power Rankings and a ‘Poor Things’ Deep Dive. Plus: Julianne Moore and Todd Haynes! · 1:18:42 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] Alasdair Gray ⇒ Poor Things (the host's read) · lineage · The film is based on the Scottish author's novel, from which Lanthimos took liberties. · "this is actually based on a novel by Alice Dare Gray, the Scottish author."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Natural’ · 0:14:00 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Shoeless Joe Jackson ⇒ The Natural (the host's read) · lineage · The book's ending, with a boy saying it ain't true, Roy, is a clear Shoeless Joe Jackson rip-off. · "which is a clear shoeless Joe Jackson, rip off thing."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Thor: The Dark World · 0:20:47 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] The Avengers ⇒ Thor: The Dark World (the host's read) · lineage · The Dark World is the correction to Joss Whedon cracking Loki: he becomes co-lead, Thor 1A to Loki 1B. · "This is the correction to Joss Whedon cracking Loki, where they're like, we get it now."
[The Big Picture · ‘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 · Best Picture Power Rankings and a ‘Poor Things’ Deep Dive. Plus: Julianne Moore and Todd Haynes! · 0:33:58 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60)] Poor Things ↔ Barbie · theme · Both arrived as feminist coming-of-age stories about a created girl learning about the world, six weeks apart. · "it was about 6 weeks after the Barbie wave and there are some really obvious comparisons to be made here."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Natural’ · 0:14:21 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] The Odyssey (Homer) ⇒ The Natural (the host's read) · lineage · The movie maps onto Homer: Roy is Odysseus, Harriet and Memo play siren/Calypso figures, Iris is Penelope. · "So basically it's Roy Hobbs is Odysseus."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Thor: The Dark World · 0:30:50 · David Sims (0.40)] The Avengers ⇒ Thor: The Dark World (the host's read) · lineage · Avengers ends with the team scattering, which is why the Phase 2 sequels can stand alone. · "And also, Joss Wheaton's like master stroke at the end of Avengers is like, we're not a team."
[The Big Picture · ‘Black Panther: Wakanda Forever’ Is Here! · 0:53:03 · Amanda Dobbins (0.80)] Ruth E. Carter ↔ Black Panther: Wakanda Forever · craft · Amanda says Carter's costume design and the production design are the electrifying part, even though she did not like the film, and that Carter should win another Oscar. · "I think Ruth Carter should win another Oscar, even though I didn't really like this movie."
[The Big Picture · Best Picture Power Rankings and a ‘Poor Things’ Deep Dive. Plus: Julianne Moore and Todd Haynes! · 0:37:20 · Sean Fennessey (0.55)] Poor Things ↔ Fair Play · theme · The sex-in-American-movies topic was discussed in the Fair Play episode. · "We talked about it in the Fairplay episode last year."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Natural’ · 0:16:36 · Mallory Rubin (0.80)] The Natural ↔ Arthurian legend · lineage · Roy is king, Wonderboy is Excalibur; the Fisher King, Percival and the Grail also fit. · "Wonder Boy is Excalibur."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Thor: The Dark World · 2:02:06 · David Sims (0.40)] Doctor Who ⇒ Thor: The Dark World (the host's read) · lineage · Marvel in general is indebted to Doctor Who's tone of lightness, comedy, hope and teamwork, especially the Russell T Davies era. · "I think Marvel in general is very kind of indebted to Doctor Who with the same tone of like lightness and comedy and hope and team teamwork."
[The Big Picture · ‘Black Panther: Wakanda Forever’ Is Here! · 0:53:45 · Sean Fennessey (0.70)] Black Panther: Wakanda Forever ↔ Black Panther · craft · The first film lived in one coherent Wakanda look from Ruth Carter's costumes and the production design, while the sequel hops between many places and loses a single visual style. · "In this movie, we're in so many places, that ship at night, Riri's dorm room, Talakan, Everett Ross's jogging trip, his kitchen, the movie's just all over the place."
[The Big Picture · Best Picture Power Rankings and a ‘Poor Things’ Deep Dive. Plus: Julianne Moore and Todd Haynes! · 0:40:21 · Sean Fennessey (0.55)] Poor Things ↔ The Island of Dr. Moreau · theme · Godwin, fusing creatures on his island, is likened to a Dr. Moreau figure. · "he's kind of an, uh, an island of Dr. Moreau kind of figure"

Who said it, by their latest sketch (6)

[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] Mallory Rubin · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘Friday Night Lights’ · Devoted to the Friday Night Lights show and cares most about its marriage, character work and Texas setting. Loves a high school football film, small-town Texas and Billy Bob; a sucker for Kyle Chandler, Tammy and Eric. Can't stand the film leaving Sharon unused. · stances: The TV show can't be matched, but that does not slight the film; Coach Taylor's speeches beat Coach Gaines's; The film needed a Gaines marriage sex scene; The reboot must stay in Texas; Cruise would make a deranged, mesmerizing Gaines
[speaker] Alison Herman · latest sketch, The Big Picture · Janicza Bravo and Brett Gelman Channel Rejection and Anxiety to Make ‘Lemon’ | The Big Picture · Loves Atlanta, Catastrophe and You're the Worst, especially warmth beneath the cringe. Cannot watch such scenes without muting or opening another tab. Notices staging details like low-angle shots. · stances: Juneteenth is the emotional climax of Atlanta season one; Cringe comedy works when partners share the embarrassment
[speaker] Amanda Dobbins · latest sketch, The Big Picture · ‘Mamma Mia!’ Meets ‘The Strangers'! It’s a Movie Swap! · Loves The Strangers' withholding craft and a good tense horror film without gore, but likes fun, communal movies like Mamma Mia. She dislikes supernatural or gory horror, which irritates her more than it scares her. She is a sucker for stars and for Googling a movie mid-recording. · stances: The Strangers is scary because of what it doesn't show or explain; Ending explanation weakens it; no answer would be better; Prefers 'withholding' filmmaking; Defends Mamma Mia as joyful and intentional
[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

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You are a clerk at Video Culture, a video store. A customer just finished Game of Thrones (2011) 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 Game of Thrones (2011) 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 Rewatchables · ‘The War of the Roses’ · 0:56:37 · unknown (0.30)] The War of the Roses ⇒ Game of Thrones (the host's read) · lineage · The actual historical Wars of the Roses was a big inspiration for Game of Thrones. · "Big inspiration for Game of Thrones."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Natural’ · 0:11:03 · Mallory Rubin (0.80)] The Natural ↔ Game of Thrones · theme · A darker book-faithful Natural fits the anti-hero era of prestige TV like Game of Thrones. · "Even think about something like Game of Thrones."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Natural’ · 0:24:32 · Mallory Rubin (0.70)] The Natural ↔ Game of Thrones · craft · The skeptical-journalist role echoes a Game of Thrones line about a suspicious mind. · "And I found myself thinking about that with the whole journalistic depiction in the film"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Thor: The Dark World · 0:11:39 · David Sims (0.40)] Game of Thrones ⇒ Thor: The Dark World (the host's read) · craft · The film aims for a grounded, muddy fantasy in the Game of Thrones manner, away from Branagh's version. · "We want to make a more grounded fantasy away from the bran off."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Thor: The Dark World · 0:25:52 · unknown (0.30)] Thor: The Dark World ↔ Game of Thrones · craft · Asgard's courtyard business and street-level scenes feel like Game of Thrones. · "Like I still don't understand like this very Game of Thronesy."
[The Big Picture · Oscar Nomination Predictions, ‘Mean Girls,’ and ‘All of Us Strangers’ · 0:17:09 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60)] Poor Things ↔ Game of Thrones · industry · A bar manager made a Poor Things martini because he liked the film, just as he did for Game of Thrones, which is not studio viral marketing. · "sometimes they did it for Game of Thrones. And then they just did it for poor things."
[The Big Picture · Janicza Bravo and Brett Gelman Channel Rejection and Anxiety to Make ‘Lemon’ | The Big Picture · 0:07:54 · Alison Herman (0.70)] Juneteenth (Atlanta episode) ↔ Game of Thrones · industry · Alison jokes that the episode is the season's Battle of the Bastards, a money shot, and that she is obliged to plug Game of Thrones. · "It's like the Game of Thrones money shot, but I am contractually obligated to make that reference in this podcast."
[The Big Picture · ‘Black Panther: Wakanda Forever’ Is Here! · 1:06:00 · Sean Fennessey (0.85)] Black Panther: Wakanda Forever ↔ Game of Thrones · succession story · Sean says a version centered on who should rule Wakanda is the kind of heir story Game of Thrones told expertly, though not House of the Dragon. · "Game of Thrones was very good at posing who should be the heir."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War · 1:43:09 · unknown (0.30)] Peter Dinklage ↔ Game of Thrones · career · Dinklage is locked up by Game of Thrones, and his post-Thrones career is eagerly awaited. · "I cannot wait to see his post Game of Thrones career"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Thor: The Dark World · 0:11:37 · David Sims (0.45)] Alan Taylor ↔ Game of Thrones · career · Taylor was hired as the Game of Thrones helmsman; the studio's note was to make the film feel more like Game of Thrones. · "We want to make this feel more like Game of Thrones."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Thor: The Dark World · 0:31:39 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Kramer Morgenthau ↔ Game of Thrones · people · The cinematographer has shot Game of Thrones, Terminator Genisys and Creed II. · "Kramer. who has shot some Game of Thrones."
[pairs] Game of Thrones ↔ Thor: The Dark World · said 2 times in 1 episode
[pairs] Game of Thrones ↔ The Natural · said 2 times in 1 episode
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Natural’ · 1:46:33 · Bill Simmons (0.90)] The Natural ↔ Major League · programming · Major League and Field of Dreams are the next two Rewatchables. · "we're going to be doing Major League and Field of Dreams over the next couple weeks."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Guardians of the Galaxy · 1:00:57 · unknown (0.30)] Benicio del Toro ↔ Thor: The Dark World · programming · Del Toro's Collector first appears in the Dark World post-credits and has been used little since. · "How much is he in dark world?"
[The Big Picture · The Great ‘Avatar’ Debate · 1:37:26 · unknown (0.40)] Avatar: The Way of Water ↔ Black Panther: Wakanda Forever · programming · Both sequels arrive within a month of each other. · "Now, both getting sequels within a month of each other."
[The Big Picture · Janicza Bravo and Brett Gelman Channel Rejection and Anxiety to Make ‘Lemon’ | The Big Picture · 0:04:44 · Alison Herman (0.85)] Eyes Wide Shut ⇒ Juneteenth (Atlanta episode) (the host's read) · lineage · Donald Glover's character describes the party as a Spike-directed reboot of Eyes Wide Shut. · "this is like a spikely directed reboot of eyes wide shut"
[The Big Picture · Best Picture Power Rankings and a ‘Poor Things’ Deep Dive. Plus: Julianne Moore and Todd Haynes! · 2:19:43 · Todd Haynes (0.65)] Todd Haynes ↔ Poor Things · programming · Haynes recently saw Poor Things and loved it, singling out Mark Ruffalo. · "I just saw poor things recently and man, I loved it."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Natural’ · 1:46:38 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] The Natural ↔ Bull Durham · programming · Bull Durham is being saved for a magical time (heard as Boulder). · "Boulder, we're saving for when it's a really magical time."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The Winter Soldier · 0:14:14 · unknown (0.35)] Captain America: The Winter Soldier ↔ Thor: The Dark World · programming · Dark World is the high-fantasy entry in the same one-genre-per-film scheme. · "Dark World is like high fantasy."
[The Big Picture · ‘Black Panther: Wakanda Forever’ Is Here! · 0:17:32 · Sean Fennessey (0.85)] Black Panther: Wakanda Forever ↔ Black Panther · lineage · The first film's theme was isolation versus justice (Killmonger vs. T'Challa); the sequel has a real-world theme too, about allyship between Latinx and Black communities, but is not done as well. · "his movies always have a big dynamic real world theme in them in a way that I don't think many Marvel movies do."
[The Big Picture · Janicza Bravo and Brett Gelman Channel Rejection and Anxiety to Make ‘Lemon’ | The Big Picture · 0:08:37 · Sean Fennessey (0.90)] Juneteenth (Atlanta episode) ↔ Curb Your Enthusiasm · lineage · Sean ties the episode and Lemon's awkward comedy to Larry David's Curb. · "I was thinking of curb your enthusiasm and the way that Larry David would throw people into social situations that make you want to tear your skin off."
[The Big Picture · Oscar Nomination Predictions, ‘Mean Girls,’ and ‘All of Us Strangers’ · 0:28:46 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] The Zone of Interest ↔ Poor Things · lineage · Five adapted-screenplay nominees are interesting recontextualizations of their sources, and Zone of Interest is the outside contender that is also one. · "The one on the outside, I think, is also a best picture contender that is also a recontextualization, which is the zone of interest."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Natural’ · 0:10:12 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] The Natural ↔ Field of Dreams · lineage · The Natural's ending, a catch with your son, echoes the wheat-field catch in Field of Dreams. · "And the concept of when I have a son someday will have a catch and then we'll be playing in the backyard."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Thor: The Dark World · 0:50:31 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] The Nutcracker and the Four Realms ↔ Thor: The Dark World · programming · Joking that a 'four realms' film from the director of Captain America should have had nine realms. · "He won't settle for four."
[The Big Picture · ‘Black Panther: Wakanda Forever’ Is Here! · 0:32:14 · Van Lathan (0.85)] Black Panther ⇒ Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (the host's read) · theme · Van explains that in the first film T'Challa saw his father on the ancestral plane because he had questions for him, while Shuri saw Killmonger because she wanted revenge, the same motive Killmonger had. · "Shuri did not want to be the Black Panther to protect Wakanda."
[The Big Picture · Janicza Bravo and Brett Gelman Channel Rejection and Anxiety to Make ‘Lemon’ | The Big Picture · 0:04:26 · Sean Fennessey (0.90)] Juneteenth (Atlanta episode) ↔ Lemon · theme · Sean calls Juneteenth a sister to Lemon because both explore awkward encounters between privilege and non-privilege. · "it really makes Juneteenth a sister of some kind to lemon and that movie explores it as well."
[The Big Picture · Best Picture Power Rankings and a ‘Poor Things’ Deep Dive. Plus: Julianne Moore and Todd Haynes! · 0:41:25 · Sean Fennessey (0.55)] Dogtooth ⇒ Poor Things (the host's read) · lineage · Both are about who gets to dictate the rules; Poor Things is described as a sequel to Dogtooth's fathers-and-language themes. · "It's like the sequel to that movie in some ways because the Godwin character"
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Natural’ · 0:13:28 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] Bernard Malamud ⇒ The Natural (the host's read) · lineage · The film is adapted from his 1952 novel, but its ending is very different. · "Written in 1952 by Bernard Malamud."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Thor: The Dark World · 1:59:51 · David Sims (0.30)] Thor: The Dark World ↔ Guardians of the Galaxy · programming · The Collector mid-credits scene already shows the Guardians' comic space weirdness; the speaker thinks James Gunn directed it. · "I think gun directed this. It's 100% difficult."
[The Big Picture · ‘Black Panther: Wakanda Forever’ Is Here! · 0:37:09 · Van Lathan (0.85)] Captain America: Civil War ⇒ Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (the host's read) · theme · Van says Black Panther was handled better in Civil War than in his own movie, and that Civil War served as his origin; Ironheart's introduction here does not land the same way. · "Black Panther, to me, was portrayed better in Civil War than he was in the original Black Panther movie."
[The Big Picture · Janicza Bravo and Brett Gelman Channel Rejection and Anxiety to Make ‘Lemon’ | The Big Picture · 0:04:44 · Alison Herman (0.90)] Juneteenth (Atlanta episode) ↔ Get Out · theme · Alison says it reminds her of Get Out in using white affluence to create dread, though Get Out is more visceral. · "it almost reminds me of get out, like using the trappings of white affluence to inspire this feeling of dread and discomfort"
[The Big Picture · Best Picture Power Rankings and a ‘Poor Things’ Deep Dive. Plus: Julianne Moore and Todd Haynes! · 1:14:03 · Sean Fennessey (0.75)] Bride of Frankenstein ⇒ Poor Things (the host's read) · lineage · Sean says the Frankenstein novel and the first two Frankenstein movies are major influences on Poor Things. · "the Frankenstein and Bride of Frankenstein are, like, huge influences on this movie."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Natural’ · 0:13:33 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Eddie Waitkus ⇒ The Natural (the host's read) · lineage · The novel borrowed from the 1949 shooting of Eddie Waitkus of the Phillies. · "Borrowed from this bizarre shooting of Eddie Waitkiss in 1949 in the Phillies"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Thor: The Dark World · 0:17:10 · David Sims (0.40)] Thor: The Dark World ↔ The Lord of the Rings · lineage · The Dark Elf war prologue and design is Lord of the Rings style ancient-story fantasy. · "This is some sort of like Lord of the Rings stuff where it's sort of like, you know, this is an ancient story."
[The Big Picture · ‘Black Panther: Wakanda Forever’ Is Here! · 0:37:22 · Van Lathan (0.80)] Iron Man 2 ⇒ Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (the host's read) · theme · Van says the MCU has introduced characters inside other movies before, like Black Widow in Iron Man 2. · "Black Widow makes her a parent, her 1st appearance."
[The Big Picture · Janicza Bravo and Brett Gelman Channel Rejection and Anxiety to Make ‘Lemon’ | The Big Picture · 0:08:23 · Sean Fennessey (0.90)] Juneteenth (Atlanta episode) ↔ Lemon · craft · Sean says the tone of awkward comedy with high tension links the episode to the film. · "Lemon, though, is really, like I said, kind of related to it"
[The Big Picture · Best Picture Power Rankings and a ‘Poor Things’ Deep Dive. Plus: Julianne Moore and Todd Haynes! · 1:18:42 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] Alasdair Gray ⇒ Poor Things (the host's read) · lineage · The film is based on the Scottish author's novel, from which Lanthimos took liberties. · "this is actually based on a novel by Alice Dare Gray, the Scottish author."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Natural’ · 0:14:00 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Shoeless Joe Jackson ⇒ The Natural (the host's read) · lineage · The book's ending, with a boy saying it ain't true, Roy, is a clear Shoeless Joe Jackson rip-off. · "which is a clear shoeless Joe Jackson, rip off thing."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Thor: The Dark World · 0:20:47 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] The Avengers ⇒ Thor: The Dark World (the host's read) · lineage · The Dark World is the correction to Joss Whedon cracking Loki: he becomes co-lead, Thor 1A to Loki 1B. · "This is the correction to Joss Whedon cracking Loki, where they're like, we get it now."
[The Big Picture · ‘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 · Best Picture Power Rankings and a ‘Poor Things’ Deep Dive. Plus: Julianne Moore and Todd Haynes! · 0:33:58 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60)] Poor Things ↔ Barbie · theme · Both arrived as feminist coming-of-age stories about a created girl learning about the world, six weeks apart. · "it was about 6 weeks after the Barbie wave and there are some really obvious comparisons to be made here."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Natural’ · 0:14:21 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] The Odyssey (Homer) ⇒ The Natural (the host's read) · lineage · The movie maps onto Homer: Roy is Odysseus, Harriet and Memo play siren/Calypso figures, Iris is Penelope. · "So basically it's Roy Hobbs is Odysseus."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Thor: The Dark World · 0:30:50 · David Sims (0.40)] The Avengers ⇒ Thor: The Dark World (the host's read) · lineage · Avengers ends with the team scattering, which is why the Phase 2 sequels can stand alone. · "And also, Joss Wheaton's like master stroke at the end of Avengers is like, we're not a team."
[The Big Picture · ‘Black Panther: Wakanda Forever’ Is Here! · 0:53:03 · Amanda Dobbins (0.80)] Ruth E. Carter ↔ Black Panther: Wakanda Forever · craft · Amanda says Carter's costume design and the production design are the electrifying part, even though she did not like the film, and that Carter should win another Oscar. · "I think Ruth Carter should win another Oscar, even though I didn't really like this movie."
[The Big Picture · Best Picture Power Rankings and a ‘Poor Things’ Deep Dive. Plus: Julianne Moore and Todd Haynes! · 0:37:20 · Sean Fennessey (0.55)] Poor Things ↔ Fair Play · theme · The sex-in-American-movies topic was discussed in the Fair Play episode. · "We talked about it in the Fairplay episode last year."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Natural’ · 0:16:36 · Mallory Rubin (0.80)] The Natural ↔ Arthurian legend · lineage · Roy is king, Wonderboy is Excalibur; the Fisher King, Percival and the Grail also fit. · "Wonder Boy is Excalibur."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Thor: The Dark World · 2:02:06 · David Sims (0.40)] Doctor Who ⇒ Thor: The Dark World (the host's read) · lineage · Marvel in general is indebted to Doctor Who's tone of lightness, comedy, hope and teamwork, especially the Russell T Davies era. · "I think Marvel in general is very kind of indebted to Doctor Who with the same tone of like lightness and comedy and hope and team teamwork."
[The Big Picture · ‘Black Panther: Wakanda Forever’ Is Here! · 0:53:45 · Sean Fennessey (0.70)] Black Panther: Wakanda Forever ↔ Black Panther · craft · The first film lived in one coherent Wakanda look from Ruth Carter's costumes and the production design, while the sequel hops between many places and loses a single visual style. · "In this movie, we're in so many places, that ship at night, Riri's dorm room, Talakan, Everett Ross's jogging trip, his kitchen, the movie's just all over the place."
[The Big Picture · Best Picture Power Rankings and a ‘Poor Things’ Deep Dive. Plus: Julianne Moore and Todd Haynes! · 0:40:21 · Sean Fennessey (0.55)] Poor Things ↔ The Island of Dr. Moreau · theme · Godwin, fusing creatures on his island, is likened to a Dr. Moreau figure. · "he's kind of an, uh, an island of Dr. Moreau kind of figure"
[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] Mallory Rubin · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘Friday Night Lights’ · Devoted to the Friday Night Lights show and cares most about its marriage, character work and Texas setting. Loves a high school football film, small-town Texas and Billy Bob; a sucker for Kyle Chandler, Tammy and Eric. Can't stand the film leaving Sharon unused. · stances: The TV show can't be matched, but that does not slight the film; Coach Taylor's speeches beat Coach Gaines's; The film needed a Gaines marriage sex scene; The reboot must stay in Texas; Cruise would make a deranged, mesmerizing Gaines
[speaker] Alison Herman · latest sketch, The Big Picture · Janicza Bravo and Brett Gelman Channel Rejection and Anxiety to Make ‘Lemon’ | The Big Picture · Loves Atlanta, Catastrophe and You're the Worst, especially warmth beneath the cringe. Cannot watch such scenes without muting or opening another tab. Notices staging details like low-angle shots. · stances: Juneteenth is the emotional climax of Atlanta season one; Cringe comedy works when partners share the embarrassment
[speaker] Amanda Dobbins · latest sketch, The Big Picture · ‘Mamma Mia!’ Meets ‘The Strangers'! It’s a Movie Swap! · Loves The Strangers' withholding craft and a good tense horror film without gore, but likes fun, communal movies like Mamma Mia. She dislikes supernatural or gory horror, which irritates her more than it scares her. She is a sucker for stars and for Googling a movie mid-recording. · stances: The Strangers is scary because of what it doesn't show or explain; Ending explanation weakens it; no answer would be better; Prefers 'withholding' filmmaking; Defends Mamma Mia as joyful and intentional
[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 Game of Thrones (2011); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Game of Thrones (2011) 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.