What the corpus says about Dead Presidents (1995)

What was said about it (12)

1. [The Big Picture · 8. I Love America | Do We Get to Win This Time? · 0:48:28 · Brian Raftery (0.90)] Bloods (book) ⇒ Dead Presidents (the host's read) · lineage · Dead Presidents was inspired by Wallace Terry's oral history of Black Vietnam veterans. · "It was inspired by a book called Bloods, an oral history of the Vietnam War by Black Veterans."
2. [The Big Picture · 8. I Love America | Do We Get to Win This Time? · 0:50:43 · Lorenz Tate (0.80)] Full Metal Jacket ⇒ Dead Presidents (the maker said so: Lorenz Tate recalling the Hughes brothers' videotapes) · lineage · Allen Hughes made a VHS of Vietnam scenes; Tate was assigned Full Metal Jacket, Apocalypse Now, Platoon. · "So I watched Full Metal Jacket."
3. [The Big Picture · 8. I Love America | Do We Get to Win This Time? · 0:51:07 · Brian Raftery (0.90)] Blaxploitation films ⇒ Dead Presidents (the host's read) · lineage · It also drew on Blaxploitation films and gangster sagas, scored with 70s soul. · "But so were Black'sploitation films and gangster sagas."
4. [The Big Picture · 8. I Love America | Do We Get to Win This Time? · 0:50:27 · Brian Raftery (0.90)] Apocalypse Now ⇒ Dead Presidents (the host's read) · craft · The Hughes brothers kept an Apocalypse Now poster; the film borrows its helicopter shots. · "The directors were big time movie obsessives, who kept an apocalypse now poster on the wall of their Hollywood studio."
5. [The Big Picture · 8. I Love America | Do We Get to Win This Time? · 0:50:57 · Brian Raftery (0.90)] The Deer Hunter ⇒ Dead Presidents (the host's read) · craft · The film carries the Deer Hunter's post-war isolation, Platoon's combat, Apocalypse Now's helicopters. · "The post-war isolation of the Deer Hunter, the bloody combat, a platoon, even the majestic helicopter shots from Apocalypse Now."
6. [The Big Picture · 8. I Love America | Do We Get to Win This Time? · 0:57:16 · Brian Raftery (0.90)] Dead Presidents ↔ 90s cinema · craft · The Hughes brothers ran the older Vietnam films through a hyperviolent, referential 90s lens. · "they were jamming those older movies through the hyperviolent, ultra referential lens of 90s cinema."
7. [The Big Picture · 8. I Love America | Do We Get to Win This Time? · 0:47:39 · Brian Raftery (0.90)] Forrest Gump ↔ Dead Presidents · contrast · Audiences wanting Vietnam to go down easy by the mid 90s makes Dead Presidents a challenge. · "suggests that by the mid 90s, audiences wanted their Vietnam films to go down easy."
8. [The Big Picture · 8. I Love America | Do We Get to Win This Time? · 0:57:23 · Brian Raftery (0.90)] Dead Presidents ↔ The Green Berets · contrast · Dead Presidents was as far from The Green Berets as a movie could get, closing the boom. · "Stylistically and culturally, dead presidents was about as far from the Green Berets as a movie could get"
9. [The Big Picture · 8. I Love America | Do We Get to Win This Time? · 0:49:17 · Brian Raftery (0.90)] Dead Presidents ↔ Menace II Society · people · The Hughes brothers' debut was Menace II Society; Lorenz Tate was in both. · "That's actor Lorenz Tate, who first worked with the Hughes Brothers and Menace to Society"
10. [The Big Picture · 8. I Love America | Do We Get to Win This Time? · 0:52:27 · Brian Raftery (0.90)] Dead Presidents ↔ Platoon · people · Keith David appears in both: Kirby in Dead Presidents is played by Platoon's Keith David. · "Kirby, a Korean war vet played by platoons Keith David"
11. [The Big Picture · 8. I Love America | Do We Get to Win This Time? · 0:53:09 · Brian Raftery (0.90)] Dead Presidents ↔ Apocalypse Now · people · Martin Sheen, of Apocalypse Now, plays the sentencing judge. · "played by Apocalypse Now Star Martin Sheen."
12. [The Big Picture · 8. I Love America | Do We Get to Win This Time? · 0:51:19 · Brian Raftery (0.90)] Dale Dye ↔ Dead Presidents · people · Dye trained the Dead Presidents cast as he had Platoon's. · "Dale Dye, the man who'd put Oliver Stone's platoon actors through fake hell and back."

Films put beside it more than once (1)

1. [pairs] Dead Presidents ↔ Apocalypse Now · said 2 times in 1 episode

Fun items about it (4)

1. [The Big Picture · 8. I Love America | Do We Get to Win This Time? · 0:50:32 · Brian Raftery (0.90)] Dead Presidents · fun · Allen Hughes compiled favorite Vietnam scenes on a VHS tape played in his trailer. · "Alan Hughes even compiled his favorite Vietnam movie scenes onto a VHS tape, which he played in his trailer for inspiration."
2. [The Big Picture · 8. I Love America | Do We Get to Win This Time? · 0:51:29 · Brian Raftery (0.90)] Dead Presidents · fun · Dale Dye's boot camp: actors dug toilet holes and lived off rations in Florida. · "the dead president's actors lived off rations, dug holes for toilets, and listened to Di's war stories."
3. [The Big Picture · 8. I Love America | Do We Get to Win This Time? · 0:54:54 · David Marine (0.80)] Dead Presidents · fun · Vietnam vet David Marine saw it and thought he was losing his grip; he came from the Bronx, nickname Skip. · "When I was a kid, my nickname was Skip."
4. [The Big Picture · 8. I Love America | Do We Get to Win This Time? · 0:56:31 · Brian Raftery (0.90)] Dead Presidents · fun · Cult following on home video despite no box-office hit. · "it found a cult following on home video."

One hop out: what recommends the films most often joined to it (12)

1. [The Rewatchables · ‘Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood’ Live From Sundance · 0:37:25 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Apocalypse Now ⇒ Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (the host's read) · lineage · The dogs at Spahn Ranch play the role of the Duvall helicopters, constantly present and disorienting. · "He wanted the dogs to be the helicopters."
2. [The Big Picture · 8. I Love America | Do We Get to Win This Time? · 0:44:07 · Brian Raftery (0.90)] earlier Vietnam films ⇒ Forrest Gump (the host's read) · lineage · Gump's Vietnam section riffs on the earlier Vietnam films: music, combat, drill instructor. · "A journey that riffs on all the Vietnam films that came before."
3. [The Big Picture · 8. I Love America | Do We Get to Win This Time? · 1:00:36 · Brian Raftery (0.90)] Apocalypse Now ⇒ Saving Private Ryan (the host's read) · lineage · Two decades of Apocalypse Now, Platoon and Born made Ryan's grit necessary. · "By the time Saving Private Ryan was released, moviegoers have spent two decades being confronted by the likes of Apocalypse Now in Platoon and born in the Fourth of July."
4. [The Big Picture · ‘Elvis,’ ‘Walk Hard’ and Top Five Music Biopics · 0:38:01 · Adam Nayman (0.75)] Elvis ↔ Forrest Gump · lineage · Forrest Gump already did the bit where Elvis took his moves from a kid in leg braces. · "How could they ever improve on the Bitten Forest Gump where you find that Elvis didn't actually get his moves or style some black music?"
5. [Blank Check — Patreon · Return of the Jedi · 1:46:41 · unknown (0.30)] Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi ↔ Apocalypse Now · lineage · The Ewok guerrilla war ties to Lucas's Vietnam interest; he was supposed to make Apocalypse Now before handing it to Coppola. · "George Lucas is supposed to make apocalypse now, right?"
6. [The Big Picture · 8. I Love America | Do We Get to Win This Time? · 0:47:14 · Brian Raftery (0.90)] Forrest Gump ↔ The 1960s · theme · Raftery's old take: Gump as a happy reboot letting boomers wave away the 60s. · "Forrest Gump sometimes feels like a happy reboot of the Vietnam era"
7. [The Rewatchables · ‘Pulp Fiction’ (Part 2) · 1:08:01 · unknown (0.00)] Samuel L. Jackson ↔ Apocalypse Now · theme · Jackson's performance transcends its memes like hearing Satisfaction for real, which then plays in Apocalypse Now. · "It's like you've heard it a 1000000000 times."
8. [The Big Picture · ‘Elvis,’ ‘Walk Hard’ and Top Five Music Biopics · 0:39:25 · Adam Nayman (0.85)] Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story ↔ Forrest Gump · theme · Dewey is the Forrest Gump of American popular music, inhabiting every style. · "he's almost kind of the forest gump of American popular music because he inhabits all of them."
9. [The Rewatchables · ‘Pulp Fiction’ (Part 2) · 1:08:13 · unidentified host (0.30)] The Rolling Stones ↔ Apocalypse Now · craft · The speaker heard "Satisfaction" play in Apocalypse Now at a recent screening and compares hearing it fresh to hearing Jackson's performance fresh. · "And satisfaction plays in that movie and I was like, this song's fucking good, man."
10. [Blank Check — Patreon · 2001: A Space Odyssey · 1:34:14 · unknown (0.30)] Forrest Gump ↔ 2001: A Space Odyssey · craft · Forrest Gump's leg-removal effects and the 2001 pen shot both keep the audience guessing how it was done. · "And the pen shot is just like, even for such an early point, they're doing that"
11. [The Big Picture · ‘Gladiator II’ Is Here. Are We Not Entertained? · 0:38:38 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Gladiator II ↔ Apocalypse Now · craft · Sean demands real animals, citing the tiger in Apocalypse Now. · "You're not responding like the way Frederick Forrest responds to the tiger in apocalypse now"
12. [The Big Picture · Physical Media Strikes Back · 0:59:42 · Sean Fennessey (0.55)] Apocalypse Now ↔ Apocalypse Now · craft · Watching Apocalypse Now with TV speakers on a streaming service loses the artistic intent. · "if you want to watch Apocalypse Now, you don't want to watch it with your TV speakers on a streaming service."

Who said it, by their latest sketch (3)

1. [speaker] Brian Raftery · latest sketch, The Big Picture · 5. ‘No Country for Old Men’ and ‘W.’ | Mission Accomplished · Loves slow-burn tension and scenes built on dialogue, naming the Ellis kitchen scene the best of the 2000s. Is drawn to films that capture their national moment. Has little patience for the word classic, and dry humor about presidents and haircuts. · stances: No Country for Old Men is about inevitability and powerlessness; Its 2007 release resonated with Bush-era anxiety; W. was undone by timing, not quality; Stone's late-2000s movies are best read through the decade's politics
2. [speaker] David Marine · no sketch
3. [speaker] Lorenz Tate · latest sketch, The Big Picture · 8. I Love America | Do We Get to Win This Time? · Believes Dead Presidents is unique in showing Black veterans' experience. · stances: no other movie shows what that experience was like for Black men

The shows' running bits (2)

1. [bits] The Big Picture: Drafts (Hosts and guests draft films in rounds; every pick is a recommendation with an argument); Hall of Fame (A star's or director's best, ranked and argued); Countdowns (Ranked lists, top five or top ten)
2. [bits] 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

You are a clerk at Video Culture, a video store. A customer just finished Dead Presidents (1995) 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 Dead Presidents (1995) and the films around it, one line each. Every line starts with where it came from, in brackets: [show · episode · time · speaker (how sure we are it was them)]. A [pairs] line says how often two films were put side by side. A [speaker] line says what that person likes. A [bits] line lists a show's running bits: a format, not an opinion.

[The Big Picture · 8. I Love America | Do We Get to Win This Time? · 0:48:28 · Brian Raftery (0.90)] Bloods (book) ⇒ Dead Presidents (the host's read) · lineage · Dead Presidents was inspired by Wallace Terry's oral history of Black Vietnam veterans. · "It was inspired by a book called Bloods, an oral history of the Vietnam War by Black Veterans."
[The Big Picture · 8. I Love America | Do We Get to Win This Time? · 0:50:43 · Lorenz Tate (0.80)] Full Metal Jacket ⇒ Dead Presidents (the maker said so: Lorenz Tate recalling the Hughes brothers' videotapes) · lineage · Allen Hughes made a VHS of Vietnam scenes; Tate was assigned Full Metal Jacket, Apocalypse Now, Platoon. · "So I watched Full Metal Jacket."
[The Big Picture · 8. I Love America | Do We Get to Win This Time? · 0:51:07 · Brian Raftery (0.90)] Blaxploitation films ⇒ Dead Presidents (the host's read) · lineage · It also drew on Blaxploitation films and gangster sagas, scored with 70s soul. · "But so were Black'sploitation films and gangster sagas."
[The Big Picture · 8. I Love America | Do We Get to Win This Time? · 0:50:27 · Brian Raftery (0.90)] Apocalypse Now ⇒ Dead Presidents (the host's read) · craft · The Hughes brothers kept an Apocalypse Now poster; the film borrows its helicopter shots. · "The directors were big time movie obsessives, who kept an apocalypse now poster on the wall of their Hollywood studio."
[The Big Picture · 8. I Love America | Do We Get to Win This Time? · 0:50:57 · Brian Raftery (0.90)] The Deer Hunter ⇒ Dead Presidents (the host's read) · craft · The film carries the Deer Hunter's post-war isolation, Platoon's combat, Apocalypse Now's helicopters. · "The post-war isolation of the Deer Hunter, the bloody combat, a platoon, even the majestic helicopter shots from Apocalypse Now."
[The Big Picture · 8. I Love America | Do We Get to Win This Time? · 0:57:16 · Brian Raftery (0.90)] Dead Presidents ↔ 90s cinema · craft · The Hughes brothers ran the older Vietnam films through a hyperviolent, referential 90s lens. · "they were jamming those older movies through the hyperviolent, ultra referential lens of 90s cinema."
[The Big Picture · 8. I Love America | Do We Get to Win This Time? · 0:47:39 · Brian Raftery (0.90)] Forrest Gump ↔ Dead Presidents · contrast · Audiences wanting Vietnam to go down easy by the mid 90s makes Dead Presidents a challenge. · "suggests that by the mid 90s, audiences wanted their Vietnam films to go down easy."
[The Big Picture · 8. I Love America | Do We Get to Win This Time? · 0:57:23 · Brian Raftery (0.90)] Dead Presidents ↔ The Green Berets · contrast · Dead Presidents was as far from The Green Berets as a movie could get, closing the boom. · "Stylistically and culturally, dead presidents was about as far from the Green Berets as a movie could get"
[The Big Picture · 8. I Love America | Do We Get to Win This Time? · 0:49:17 · Brian Raftery (0.90)] Dead Presidents ↔ Menace II Society · people · The Hughes brothers' debut was Menace II Society; Lorenz Tate was in both. · "That's actor Lorenz Tate, who first worked with the Hughes Brothers and Menace to Society"
[The Big Picture · 8. I Love America | Do We Get to Win This Time? · 0:52:27 · Brian Raftery (0.90)] Dead Presidents ↔ Platoon · people · Keith David appears in both: Kirby in Dead Presidents is played by Platoon's Keith David. · "Kirby, a Korean war vet played by platoons Keith David"
[The Big Picture · 8. I Love America | Do We Get to Win This Time? · 0:53:09 · Brian Raftery (0.90)] Dead Presidents ↔ Apocalypse Now · people · Martin Sheen, of Apocalypse Now, plays the sentencing judge. · "played by Apocalypse Now Star Martin Sheen."
[The Big Picture · 8. I Love America | Do We Get to Win This Time? · 0:51:19 · Brian Raftery (0.90)] Dale Dye ↔ Dead Presidents · people · Dye trained the Dead Presidents cast as he had Platoon's. · "Dale Dye, the man who'd put Oliver Stone's platoon actors through fake hell and back."
[pairs] Dead Presidents ↔ Apocalypse Now · said 2 times in 1 episode
[The Big Picture · 8. I Love America | Do We Get to Win This Time? · 0:50:32 · Brian Raftery (0.90)] Dead Presidents · fun · Allen Hughes compiled favorite Vietnam scenes on a VHS tape played in his trailer. · "Alan Hughes even compiled his favorite Vietnam movie scenes onto a VHS tape, which he played in his trailer for inspiration."
[The Big Picture · 8. I Love America | Do We Get to Win This Time? · 0:51:29 · Brian Raftery (0.90)] Dead Presidents · fun · Dale Dye's boot camp: actors dug toilet holes and lived off rations in Florida. · "the dead president's actors lived off rations, dug holes for toilets, and listened to Di's war stories."
[The Big Picture · 8. I Love America | Do We Get to Win This Time? · 0:54:54 · David Marine (0.80)] Dead Presidents · fun · Vietnam vet David Marine saw it and thought he was losing his grip; he came from the Bronx, nickname Skip. · "When I was a kid, my nickname was Skip."
[The Big Picture · 8. I Love America | Do We Get to Win This Time? · 0:56:31 · Brian Raftery (0.90)] Dead Presidents · fun · Cult following on home video despite no box-office hit. · "it found a cult following on home video."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood’ Live From Sundance · 0:37:25 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Apocalypse Now ⇒ Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (the host's read) · lineage · The dogs at Spahn Ranch play the role of the Duvall helicopters, constantly present and disorienting. · "He wanted the dogs to be the helicopters."
[The Big Picture · 8. I Love America | Do We Get to Win This Time? · 0:44:07 · Brian Raftery (0.90)] earlier Vietnam films ⇒ Forrest Gump (the host's read) · lineage · Gump's Vietnam section riffs on the earlier Vietnam films: music, combat, drill instructor. · "A journey that riffs on all the Vietnam films that came before."
[The Big Picture · 8. I Love America | Do We Get to Win This Time? · 1:00:36 · Brian Raftery (0.90)] Apocalypse Now ⇒ Saving Private Ryan (the host's read) · lineage · Two decades of Apocalypse Now, Platoon and Born made Ryan's grit necessary. · "By the time Saving Private Ryan was released, moviegoers have spent two decades being confronted by the likes of Apocalypse Now in Platoon and born in the Fourth of July."
[The Big Picture · ‘Elvis,’ ‘Walk Hard’ and Top Five Music Biopics · 0:38:01 · Adam Nayman (0.75)] Elvis ↔ Forrest Gump · lineage · Forrest Gump already did the bit where Elvis took his moves from a kid in leg braces. · "How could they ever improve on the Bitten Forest Gump where you find that Elvis didn't actually get his moves or style some black music?"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Return of the Jedi · 1:46:41 · unknown (0.30)] Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi ↔ Apocalypse Now · lineage · The Ewok guerrilla war ties to Lucas's Vietnam interest; he was supposed to make Apocalypse Now before handing it to Coppola. · "George Lucas is supposed to make apocalypse now, right?"
[The Big Picture · 8. I Love America | Do We Get to Win This Time? · 0:47:14 · Brian Raftery (0.90)] Forrest Gump ↔ The 1960s · theme · Raftery's old take: Gump as a happy reboot letting boomers wave away the 60s. · "Forrest Gump sometimes feels like a happy reboot of the Vietnam era"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Pulp Fiction’ (Part 2) · 1:08:01 · unknown (0.00)] Samuel L. Jackson ↔ Apocalypse Now · theme · Jackson's performance transcends its memes like hearing Satisfaction for real, which then plays in Apocalypse Now. · "It's like you've heard it a 1000000000 times."
[The Big Picture · ‘Elvis,’ ‘Walk Hard’ and Top Five Music Biopics · 0:39:25 · Adam Nayman (0.85)] Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story ↔ Forrest Gump · theme · Dewey is the Forrest Gump of American popular music, inhabiting every style. · "he's almost kind of the forest gump of American popular music because he inhabits all of them."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Pulp Fiction’ (Part 2) · 1:08:13 · unidentified host (0.30)] The Rolling Stones ↔ Apocalypse Now · craft · The speaker heard "Satisfaction" play in Apocalypse Now at a recent screening and compares hearing it fresh to hearing Jackson's performance fresh. · "And satisfaction plays in that movie and I was like, this song's fucking good, man."
[Blank Check — Patreon · 2001: A Space Odyssey · 1:34:14 · unknown (0.30)] Forrest Gump ↔ 2001: A Space Odyssey · craft · Forrest Gump's leg-removal effects and the 2001 pen shot both keep the audience guessing how it was done. · "And the pen shot is just like, even for such an early point, they're doing that"
[The Big Picture · ‘Gladiator II’ Is Here. Are We Not Entertained? · 0:38:38 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Gladiator II ↔ Apocalypse Now · craft · Sean demands real animals, citing the tiger in Apocalypse Now. · "You're not responding like the way Frederick Forrest responds to the tiger in apocalypse now"
[The Big Picture · Physical Media Strikes Back · 0:59:42 · Sean Fennessey (0.55)] Apocalypse Now ↔ Apocalypse Now · craft · Watching Apocalypse Now with TV speakers on a streaming service loses the artistic intent. · "if you want to watch Apocalypse Now, you don't want to watch it with your TV speakers on a streaming service."
[speaker] Brian Raftery · latest sketch, The Big Picture · 5. ‘No Country for Old Men’ and ‘W.’ | Mission Accomplished · Loves slow-burn tension and scenes built on dialogue, naming the Ellis kitchen scene the best of the 2000s. Is drawn to films that capture their national moment. Has little patience for the word classic, and dry humor about presidents and haircuts. · stances: No Country for Old Men is about inevitability and powerlessness; Its 2007 release resonated with Bush-era anxiety; W. was undone by timing, not quality; Stone's late-2000s movies are best read through the decade's politics
[speaker] David Marine · no sketch
[speaker] Lorenz Tate · latest sketch, The Big Picture · 8. I Love America | Do We Get to Win This Time? · Believes Dead Presidents is unique in showing Black veterans' experience. · stances: no other movie shows what that experience was like for Black men
[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 Dead Presidents (1995); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Dead Presidents (1995) 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.