What the corpus says about Alien (1979)

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

What was said about it (26)

[The Rewatchables · ‘The Texas Chain Saw Massacre’ · 0:51:40 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] The Texas Chain Saw Massacre ⇒ Alien (the host's read) · lineage · Chainsaw is what inspired Ridley Scott to make Alien. · "Texas Chainsaw Basker is what inspired Ridley Scott to make alien."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Species’ · 1:12:56 · Bill Simmons (0.30)] Alien ⇒ Species (the maker said so) · lineage · Giger thought Species ripped off too many other alien movies, such as the chest-burster. · "He thought the movie ripped off too many other alien movies"
[The Big Picture · The Final Girl Film Canon and ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ · 0:47:57 · Adam Nayman (0.50)] Alien ⇒ Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma (the host's read) · lineage · Ripley stripped to underwear at the end is a vulnerability beat that Miasma echoes. · "Yes, it is echoed in Teenage Tech"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead · 1:29:21 · unknown (0.30)] Eraserhead ⇒ Alien (the host's read) · lineage · The gooey animatronic creature work in Alien and later films may trace back to Eraserhead. · "I mean, the thought that comes to mind is, um, alien."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ · 0:50:21 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Alien ⇒ Aliens (the host's read) · lineage · Cameron's sequel to Ridley Scott's film shifted the genre, which raised expectations for any follow-up. · "some other fucking guy is coming in and making a sequel to Ridley Scott's movie."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 0:29:38 · unknown (0.30)] Alien: Covenant ↔ Alien · lineage · Each Alien film has a different workforce; the original had blue-collar miners. · "Like that's, you know, blue collar minors."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 2:01:39 · unknown (0.40)] Alien: Covenant ↔ Alien · lineage · David's closing log-talk to the ship echoes Ripley's. · "talking to the ship in the way that Ripley did."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien 3 · 0:58:26 · unknown (0.50)] Alien ⇒ Alien 3 (the host's read) · lineage · The Bishop remains scene echoes the original film's reactivated-android scene. · "And just kind of a fun throwback to the, uh, original alien thing where you like take the puppet, you kind of get it ready."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien 3 · 2:07:28 · unknown (0.50)] Alien ⇒ Alien 3 (the host's read) · lineage · The ending coda replays Ripley's tape from the first film. · "You play back her tape from the end of the 1st movie."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 0:04:14 · David Sims (0.50)] Alien Resurrection ↔ Alien · theme · Ridley Scott's Alien is sexual in a Freudian way; Resurrection is the overtly sexual one. · "This is also the most overtly sexual of the alien movies."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Species’ · 1:12:34 · Bill Simmons (0.35)] Species ↔ Alien · craft · H.R. Giger, who designed the creatures in the Alien films, also designed the creature in Species. · "Who designed the creatures in the alien films?"
[Blank Check · Raiders of the Lost Ark · 3:16:53 · Brian Michael Bendis (0.50)] Alien ⇒ Outland (the host's read) · contrast · Outland tries to be Alien and does not connect; it is not as bad as The Black Hole. · "it's not as bad as black hole, but it's it's trying, it's trying to be alien and it's not, it's just not connecting."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 0:17:42 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Alien: Covenant ↔ Alien · contrast · Alien films usually give a calm before the storm in hypersleep; Covenant throws you straight into trauma. · "rather than ever getting the sort of calm before the storm that you usually get an alien movies"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 0:59:05 · unknown (0.30)] Neomorph ↔ Alien · contrast · The white, goofier neomorph lacks the xenomorph's industrial-design camouflage. · "You're not doing the trick of, oh, it's hiding in the shadows, it's blending in with the industrial design of its environment"
[Blank Check · Dune · 1:13:21 · unknown (0.40)] Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope ⇒ Alien (the host's read) · industry · In Star Wars' wake came Alien and Blade Runner rather than more 4-color space operas. · "the Star Wars Halo effect are like alien."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 1:53:24 · unknown (0.30)] Alien: Covenant ↔ Alien · industry · Covenant checks the studio boxes (sex scene, shower kill) in the weirdest way. · "Watching Ridley Scott clearly coming out of a meeting with Fox where they're like, look, we'll give you $90 million, but you got to give us these 10 things."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 0:12:52 · David Sims (0.50)] Alien ↔ Kon-Tiki · industry · Franchises now hand big movies to foreign directors; you make Kon-Tiki and get Pirates of the Caribbean. · "Yeah, now it's you make kantiki and you get to make pirates of the Caribbean."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 1:52:06 · David Sims (0.60)] Alien ↔ Die Hard · industry · Alien will be remade without its original star the way Die Hard will without Bruce Willis; the xenomorph design is too powerful to leave dormant. · "In the same way, they'll make another diehard without Bruce Willis."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 2:01:13 · David Sims (0.50)] Alien Resurrection ↔ Alien · industry · The first three Alien movies were summer releases; this one opened at Thanksgiving. · "The 1st 3 are all summer releases, right?"
[The Rewatchables · 'Mission: Impossible' · 0:28:43 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Mission: Impossible ↔ Alien · ensemble setup · The Prague team is set up like Alien, a crew that knows each other, before being killed off. · "they kind of set it up like Alien, where they're like, oh, these people like actually know each other and get along"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ · 0:27:04 · Joanna Robinson (0.60)] Sigourney Weaver ↔ Alien · lineage · Both the Working Girl role and the Alien role were originally written for a man. · "the screenwriter said that her role was originally written as a man, which is true for her role in alien as well."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 0:16:07 · unknown (0.30)] Danny McBride ↔ Alien · lineage · McBride is also a return to Harry Dean Stanton: someone with the wrong energy for a sci-fi movie. · "McBride's also trying to sort of get back to a Harry Dean Stanton, kind of."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 1:47:50 · unknown (0.40)] Alien ⇒ Jed Kurzel (the host's read) · craft · Kurzel's score uses Jerry Goldsmith's notes from the first Alien but is its own thing. · "it uses a lot of the Jerry Goldsmith notes"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 2:02:31 · unknown (0.40)] H.R. Giger ↔ Alien · craft · The franchise's iconography relies on Giger. · "I do not know if this franchise would have stuck without that iconography."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 1:06:02 · David Sims (0.50)] Winona Ryder ↔ Alien · contrast · Call is asked to do what Ripley does in the first movie, but Weaver makes it sing and Ryder punches the clock. · "what call is being asked to do here is not that different than what Ripley does in the 1st movie, except fucking Sigourney makes it sing."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 2:02:08 · unknown (0.40)] Walter Hill ↔ Alien · people · Hill and Dan O'Bannon keep getting checks for every Alien-related film. · "Walter Hill and Dan O'Bannon just continue to get fucking checks anytime they make anything alien related"

Films put beside it more than once (4)

[pairs] Alien ↔ Alien: Covenant · said 4 times in 1 episode
[pairs] Alien ↔ Alien 3 · said 2 times in 1 episode
[pairs] Alien ↔ Species · said 2 times in 1 episode
[pairs] Alien ↔ Alien Resurrection · said 2 times in 1 episode

Fun items about it (2)

[The Big Picture · The Final Girl Film Canon and ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ · 0:47:31 · Sean Fennessey (0.55)] Alien · fun · In the original Alien script Ripley was a man, and little changed for Weaver beyond Ridley Scott stripping her to underwear at the end. · "Ripley was a man."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 2:02:08 · unknown (0.40)] Alien · fun · Walter Hill and Dan O'Bannon collect checks on every Alien product; the original was never based on a comic or book. · "Walter Hill and Dan O'Bannon just continue to get fucking checks anytime they make anything alien related"

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

[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 1:04:43 · unknown (0.30)] Alien: Covenant ↔ Blade Runner 2049 · programming · Both came out in 2017, by two generations of sci-fi. · "This is the same year as Blade Runner 2049."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien 3 · 1:35:21 · unknown (0.40)] Alien 3 ↔ Resident Evil · programming · Resident Evil should not be programmed next to Alien; wait for in-person sessions. · "Also, you can't put it next to Alien because Resident Evil does, well, not, that will not be good for Resident Evil."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 2:17:13 · David Sims (0.60)] Prometheus ↔ Alien Resurrection · programming · The Patreon run continues with Prometheus then Covenant after this final Ripley film. · "Tune in for Prometheus, tune in for covenant."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Species’ · 1:28:23 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Species ↔ Mimic · programming · Double-feature pick: Mimic, the killer-cockroach movie from a couple of years later. · "I had mimic, the nearest Sorvino movie that came out a couple years later."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ · 0:09:08 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Aliens ↔ Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol · programming · Both franchises are auteur-rich without one definitive director, which is why the Patreon series covered them. · "Uh, but like Mission Impossible Aliens, perfect examples of franchises that uh, have a tours, but do not have one definitive director."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 2:04:21 · unknown (0.40)] Alien: Covenant ↔ Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 · programming · Covenant's weekend opened behind Guardians Vol. 2, #1 for the second weekend. · "Oh, it's Gardens of Galaxy volume two."
[The Big Picture · ‘The Killer’ Is Cold-Blooded Genius. And Something More · 0:59:46 · Adam Nayman (0.85)] David Fincher ↔ Alien 3 · lineage · Alien 3 is the primal scene of Fincher's chip on his shoulder, producers treating him like a shoe salesman. · "there's the chip on the shoulder and the primal scene of alien 3, right?"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ · 0:24:13 · David Sims (0.30)] Alien 3 ⇒ Alien Resurrection (the host's read) · lineage · Resurrection follows Alien 3, but its Ripley is a different character from the one who died. · "As much as she was quote unquote resurrected, obviously, that's a different character explicitly."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Species’ · 1:28:33 · Craig Horlbeck (0.40)] Species ↔ Amanda and the Alien · programming · Double-feature pick: a 1995 Cinemax-style movie about an alien learning its body and having sex. · "There's a movie called Amanda and the Alien."
[The Big Picture · The Great ‘Avatar’ Debate · 0:52:25 · unknown (0.40)] Avatar ↔ Aliens · lineage · Cameron's 1995 pitch for Avatar was much closer to Aliens in tone. · "It was much closer to aliens in tone."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 0:06:57 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Prometheus ⇒ Alien: Covenant (the host's read) · lineage · Covenant is half the Prometheus sequel Scott wanted and half a concession to a more normal Alien movie. · "this is half, like Ridley Scott doing the Prometheus sequel he wanted to do and half"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ · 0:24:13 · David Sims (0.30)] Alien 3 ⇒ Alien Resurrection (the host's read) · lineage · Resurrection follows Alien 3, but its Ripley is a different character from the one who died. · "As much as she was quote unquote resurrected, obviously, that's a different character explicitly."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 0:29:48 · unknown (0.30)] Alien: Covenant ↔ Alien Resurrection · lineage · The fourth film had pirates. · "Alien four, I guess."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Species’ · 1:29:05 · Bill Simmons (0.30)] Species ↔ Under the Skin · programming · Proposed as a double feature, but it is an art film so Van upgrades it. · "Under the skin, as in Scarlett Johansson?"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ · 0:30:17 · Matt Singer (0.40)] Aliens ⇒ Alien 3 (the host's read) · lineage · Alien 3 follows Aliens; watched back to back, Aliens ends on a new family that Alien 3 then kills. · "you watch aliens and that has this ending of, you know, this new family that has been created."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 0:29:41 · unknown (0.30)] Alien: Covenant ↔ Aliens · lineage · Aliens had Marines. · "Aliens, you got Marines."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ · 0:30:17 · Matt Singer (0.40)] Aliens ⇒ Alien 3 (the host's read) · lineage · Alien 3 follows Aliens; watched back to back, Aliens ends on a new family that Alien 3 then kills. · "you watch aliens and that has this ending of, you know, this new family that has been created."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 0:31:00 · David Sims (0.50)] Alien Resurrection ⇒ Firefly (TV) (the host's read) · lineage · The Betty's space-pirate crew reads as proto-Firefly, Whedon's later show. · "I mean, some proto firefly stuff."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Species’ · 1:06:59 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Species ↔ The X-Files · lineage · Madsen and Helgenberger could be Mulder and Scully in a Species TV series. · "you could talk me into Madson and Helgenberger being like Mulder and Scully"

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] 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] 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] Adam Nayman · latest sketch, The Big Picture · The Final Girl Film Canon and ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ · Self-described slasher fan who likes a movie that plays with tropes intelligently; admires Miasma's playfulness and sincerity but dislikes its showbiz satire. Soft spot for Texas Chain Saw, wrestling and Toronto sports. Wary of the idea that references alone make a movie smart. · stances: Miasma is academic but playfully so; Better filmmakers deserve less intention-guessing; Don't need to love slashers to love Miasma
[speaker] Brian Michael Bendis · latest sketch, Blank Check · Raiders of the Lost Ark · Raised on Lucas and Spielberg and says the magic-trick-then-show-how-it-was-done openness of that era shaped his craft. Loves Raiders over Temple of Doom even though Temple of Doom met him at a pivotal age; adores Reds, Siskel and Ebert, John Williams, Karen Allen. Cannot stand writers telling the audience the theme outright and hates snakes. · stances: Raiders is the better film but Temple of Doom shaped him; Exposition must carry the character's own perspective; Lucas and Spielberg were the first open-source filmmakers; Spielberg is generous with credit and should be emulated; Marion Ravenwood is among cinema's great characters; Willie Scott is the anti-Marion mistake; The post-Fabelmans view reshapes Raiders

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 Alien (1979) 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 Alien (1979) 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 Texas Chain Saw Massacre’ · 0:51:40 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] The Texas Chain Saw Massacre ⇒ Alien (the host's read) · lineage · Chainsaw is what inspired Ridley Scott to make Alien. · "Texas Chainsaw Basker is what inspired Ridley Scott to make alien."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Species’ · 1:12:56 · Bill Simmons (0.30)] Alien ⇒ Species (the maker said so) · lineage · Giger thought Species ripped off too many other alien movies, such as the chest-burster. · "He thought the movie ripped off too many other alien movies"
[The Big Picture · The Final Girl Film Canon and ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ · 0:47:57 · Adam Nayman (0.50)] Alien ⇒ Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma (the host's read) · lineage · Ripley stripped to underwear at the end is a vulnerability beat that Miasma echoes. · "Yes, it is echoed in Teenage Tech"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead · 1:29:21 · unknown (0.30)] Eraserhead ⇒ Alien (the host's read) · lineage · The gooey animatronic creature work in Alien and later films may trace back to Eraserhead. · "I mean, the thought that comes to mind is, um, alien."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ · 0:50:21 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Alien ⇒ Aliens (the host's read) · lineage · Cameron's sequel to Ridley Scott's film shifted the genre, which raised expectations for any follow-up. · "some other fucking guy is coming in and making a sequel to Ridley Scott's movie."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 0:29:38 · unknown (0.30)] Alien: Covenant ↔ Alien · lineage · Each Alien film has a different workforce; the original had blue-collar miners. · "Like that's, you know, blue collar minors."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 2:01:39 · unknown (0.40)] Alien: Covenant ↔ Alien · lineage · David's closing log-talk to the ship echoes Ripley's. · "talking to the ship in the way that Ripley did."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien 3 · 0:58:26 · unknown (0.50)] Alien ⇒ Alien 3 (the host's read) · lineage · The Bishop remains scene echoes the original film's reactivated-android scene. · "And just kind of a fun throwback to the, uh, original alien thing where you like take the puppet, you kind of get it ready."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien 3 · 2:07:28 · unknown (0.50)] Alien ⇒ Alien 3 (the host's read) · lineage · The ending coda replays Ripley's tape from the first film. · "You play back her tape from the end of the 1st movie."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 0:04:14 · David Sims (0.50)] Alien Resurrection ↔ Alien · theme · Ridley Scott's Alien is sexual in a Freudian way; Resurrection is the overtly sexual one. · "This is also the most overtly sexual of the alien movies."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Species’ · 1:12:34 · Bill Simmons (0.35)] Species ↔ Alien · craft · H.R. Giger, who designed the creatures in the Alien films, also designed the creature in Species. · "Who designed the creatures in the alien films?"
[Blank Check · Raiders of the Lost Ark · 3:16:53 · Brian Michael Bendis (0.50)] Alien ⇒ Outland (the host's read) · contrast · Outland tries to be Alien and does not connect; it is not as bad as The Black Hole. · "it's not as bad as black hole, but it's it's trying, it's trying to be alien and it's not, it's just not connecting."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 0:17:42 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Alien: Covenant ↔ Alien · contrast · Alien films usually give a calm before the storm in hypersleep; Covenant throws you straight into trauma. · "rather than ever getting the sort of calm before the storm that you usually get an alien movies"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 0:59:05 · unknown (0.30)] Neomorph ↔ Alien · contrast · The white, goofier neomorph lacks the xenomorph's industrial-design camouflage. · "You're not doing the trick of, oh, it's hiding in the shadows, it's blending in with the industrial design of its environment"
[Blank Check · Dune · 1:13:21 · unknown (0.40)] Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope ⇒ Alien (the host's read) · industry · In Star Wars' wake came Alien and Blade Runner rather than more 4-color space operas. · "the Star Wars Halo effect are like alien."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 1:53:24 · unknown (0.30)] Alien: Covenant ↔ Alien · industry · Covenant checks the studio boxes (sex scene, shower kill) in the weirdest way. · "Watching Ridley Scott clearly coming out of a meeting with Fox where they're like, look, we'll give you $90 million, but you got to give us these 10 things."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 0:12:52 · David Sims (0.50)] Alien ↔ Kon-Tiki · industry · Franchises now hand big movies to foreign directors; you make Kon-Tiki and get Pirates of the Caribbean. · "Yeah, now it's you make kantiki and you get to make pirates of the Caribbean."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 1:52:06 · David Sims (0.60)] Alien ↔ Die Hard · industry · Alien will be remade without its original star the way Die Hard will without Bruce Willis; the xenomorph design is too powerful to leave dormant. · "In the same way, they'll make another diehard without Bruce Willis."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 2:01:13 · David Sims (0.50)] Alien Resurrection ↔ Alien · industry · The first three Alien movies were summer releases; this one opened at Thanksgiving. · "The 1st 3 are all summer releases, right?"
[The Rewatchables · 'Mission: Impossible' · 0:28:43 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Mission: Impossible ↔ Alien · ensemble setup · The Prague team is set up like Alien, a crew that knows each other, before being killed off. · "they kind of set it up like Alien, where they're like, oh, these people like actually know each other and get along"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ · 0:27:04 · Joanna Robinson (0.60)] Sigourney Weaver ↔ Alien · lineage · Both the Working Girl role and the Alien role were originally written for a man. · "the screenwriter said that her role was originally written as a man, which is true for her role in alien as well."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 0:16:07 · unknown (0.30)] Danny McBride ↔ Alien · lineage · McBride is also a return to Harry Dean Stanton: someone with the wrong energy for a sci-fi movie. · "McBride's also trying to sort of get back to a Harry Dean Stanton, kind of."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 1:47:50 · unknown (0.40)] Alien ⇒ Jed Kurzel (the host's read) · craft · Kurzel's score uses Jerry Goldsmith's notes from the first Alien but is its own thing. · "it uses a lot of the Jerry Goldsmith notes"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 2:02:31 · unknown (0.40)] H.R. Giger ↔ Alien · craft · The franchise's iconography relies on Giger. · "I do not know if this franchise would have stuck without that iconography."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 1:06:02 · David Sims (0.50)] Winona Ryder ↔ Alien · contrast · Call is asked to do what Ripley does in the first movie, but Weaver makes it sing and Ryder punches the clock. · "what call is being asked to do here is not that different than what Ripley does in the 1st movie, except fucking Sigourney makes it sing."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 2:02:08 · unknown (0.40)] Walter Hill ↔ Alien · people · Hill and Dan O'Bannon keep getting checks for every Alien-related film. · "Walter Hill and Dan O'Bannon just continue to get fucking checks anytime they make anything alien related"
[pairs] Alien ↔ Alien: Covenant · said 4 times in 1 episode
[pairs] Alien ↔ Alien 3 · said 2 times in 1 episode
[pairs] Alien ↔ Species · said 2 times in 1 episode
[pairs] Alien ↔ Alien Resurrection · said 2 times in 1 episode
[The Big Picture · The Final Girl Film Canon and ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ · 0:47:31 · Sean Fennessey (0.55)] Alien · fun · In the original Alien script Ripley was a man, and little changed for Weaver beyond Ridley Scott stripping her to underwear at the end. · "Ripley was a man."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 2:02:08 · unknown (0.40)] Alien · fun · Walter Hill and Dan O'Bannon collect checks on every Alien product; the original was never based on a comic or book. · "Walter Hill and Dan O'Bannon just continue to get fucking checks anytime they make anything alien related"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 1:04:43 · unknown (0.30)] Alien: Covenant ↔ Blade Runner 2049 · programming · Both came out in 2017, by two generations of sci-fi. · "This is the same year as Blade Runner 2049."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien 3 · 1:35:21 · unknown (0.40)] Alien 3 ↔ Resident Evil · programming · Resident Evil should not be programmed next to Alien; wait for in-person sessions. · "Also, you can't put it next to Alien because Resident Evil does, well, not, that will not be good for Resident Evil."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 2:17:13 · David Sims (0.60)] Prometheus ↔ Alien Resurrection · programming · The Patreon run continues with Prometheus then Covenant after this final Ripley film. · "Tune in for Prometheus, tune in for covenant."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Species’ · 1:28:23 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Species ↔ Mimic · programming · Double-feature pick: Mimic, the killer-cockroach movie from a couple of years later. · "I had mimic, the nearest Sorvino movie that came out a couple years later."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ · 0:09:08 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Aliens ↔ Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol · programming · Both franchises are auteur-rich without one definitive director, which is why the Patreon series covered them. · "Uh, but like Mission Impossible Aliens, perfect examples of franchises that uh, have a tours, but do not have one definitive director."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 2:04:21 · unknown (0.40)] Alien: Covenant ↔ Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 · programming · Covenant's weekend opened behind Guardians Vol. 2, #1 for the second weekend. · "Oh, it's Gardens of Galaxy volume two."
[The Big Picture · ‘The Killer’ Is Cold-Blooded Genius. And Something More · 0:59:46 · Adam Nayman (0.85)] David Fincher ↔ Alien 3 · lineage · Alien 3 is the primal scene of Fincher's chip on his shoulder, producers treating him like a shoe salesman. · "there's the chip on the shoulder and the primal scene of alien 3, right?"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ · 0:24:13 · David Sims (0.30)] Alien 3 ⇒ Alien Resurrection (the host's read) · lineage · Resurrection follows Alien 3, but its Ripley is a different character from the one who died. · "As much as she was quote unquote resurrected, obviously, that's a different character explicitly."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Species’ · 1:28:33 · Craig Horlbeck (0.40)] Species ↔ Amanda and the Alien · programming · Double-feature pick: a 1995 Cinemax-style movie about an alien learning its body and having sex. · "There's a movie called Amanda and the Alien."
[The Big Picture · The Great ‘Avatar’ Debate · 0:52:25 · unknown (0.40)] Avatar ↔ Aliens · lineage · Cameron's 1995 pitch for Avatar was much closer to Aliens in tone. · "It was much closer to aliens in tone."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 0:06:57 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Prometheus ⇒ Alien: Covenant (the host's read) · lineage · Covenant is half the Prometheus sequel Scott wanted and half a concession to a more normal Alien movie. · "this is half, like Ridley Scott doing the Prometheus sequel he wanted to do and half"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ · 0:24:13 · David Sims (0.30)] Alien 3 ⇒ Alien Resurrection (the host's read) · lineage · Resurrection follows Alien 3, but its Ripley is a different character from the one who died. · "As much as she was quote unquote resurrected, obviously, that's a different character explicitly."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 0:29:48 · unknown (0.30)] Alien: Covenant ↔ Alien Resurrection · lineage · The fourth film had pirates. · "Alien four, I guess."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Species’ · 1:29:05 · Bill Simmons (0.30)] Species ↔ Under the Skin · programming · Proposed as a double feature, but it is an art film so Van upgrades it. · "Under the skin, as in Scarlett Johansson?"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ · 0:30:17 · Matt Singer (0.40)] Aliens ⇒ Alien 3 (the host's read) · lineage · Alien 3 follows Aliens; watched back to back, Aliens ends on a new family that Alien 3 then kills. · "you watch aliens and that has this ending of, you know, this new family that has been created."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 0:29:41 · unknown (0.30)] Alien: Covenant ↔ Aliens · lineage · Aliens had Marines. · "Aliens, you got Marines."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ · 0:30:17 · Matt Singer (0.40)] Aliens ⇒ Alien 3 (the host's read) · lineage · Alien 3 follows Aliens; watched back to back, Aliens ends on a new family that Alien 3 then kills. · "you watch aliens and that has this ending of, you know, this new family that has been created."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 0:31:00 · David Sims (0.50)] Alien Resurrection ⇒ Firefly (TV) (the host's read) · lineage · The Betty's space-pirate crew reads as proto-Firefly, Whedon's later show. · "I mean, some proto firefly stuff."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Species’ · 1:06:59 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Species ↔ The X-Files · lineage · Madsen and Helgenberger could be Mulder and Scully in a Species TV series. · "you could talk me into Madson and Helgenberger being like Mulder and Scully"
[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] 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] 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] Adam Nayman · latest sketch, The Big Picture · The Final Girl Film Canon and ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ · Self-described slasher fan who likes a movie that plays with tropes intelligently; admires Miasma's playfulness and sincerity but dislikes its showbiz satire. Soft spot for Texas Chain Saw, wrestling and Toronto sports. Wary of the idea that references alone make a movie smart. · stances: Miasma is academic but playfully so; Better filmmakers deserve less intention-guessing; Don't need to love slashers to love Miasma
[speaker] Brian Michael Bendis · latest sketch, Blank Check · Raiders of the Lost Ark · Raised on Lucas and Spielberg and says the magic-trick-then-show-how-it-was-done openness of that era shaped his craft. Loves Raiders over Temple of Doom even though Temple of Doom met him at a pivotal age; adores Reds, Siskel and Ebert, John Williams, Karen Allen. Cannot stand writers telling the audience the theme outright and hates snakes. · stances: Raiders is the better film but Temple of Doom shaped him; Exposition must carry the character's own perspective; Lucas and Spielberg were the first open-source filmmakers; Spielberg is generous with credit and should be emulated; Marion Ravenwood is among cinema's great characters; Willie Scott is the anti-Marion mistake; The post-Fabelmans view reshapes Raiders
[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 Alien (1979); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Alien (1979) 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.