What the corpus says about Gladiator II

The 57 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 (23)

  1. [The Big Picture · ‘Gladiator II’ Is Here. Are We Not Entertained? · 0:37:13 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Gladiator II ↔ Wicked · programming · Gladiator II's CGI baboons made it feel like being dumped into Wicked. · "I actually felt like we got dumped into Wicked or something, you know?"
  2. [The Big Picture · ‘Gladiator II’ Is Here. Are We Not Entertained? · 0:06:45 · Sean Fennessey (0.80)] Gladiator ⇒ Gladiator II (the host's read) · lineage · The sequel is very similar in structure and story to the original. · "it's pretty well known that this movie is very similar in structure and story to the original."
  3. [The Big Picture · ‘Gladiator II’ Is Here. Are We Not Entertained? · 0:15:52 · Mallory Rubin (0.60)] Gladiator ⇒ Gladiator II (the host's read) · lineage · The sequel's plot, structure, approach and pacing mirror the first, forcing a one-to-one comparison. · "it's just the movie is so similar to the 1st one in terms of plot, structure, approach, focus, pacing."
  4. [The Big Picture · ‘Gladiator II’ Is Here. Are We Not Entertained? · 0:21:39 · Mallory Rubin (0.50)] Gladiator ⇒ Gladiator II (the host's read) · lineage · Because it mirrors the first film, outcomes for characters become predictable by inversion. · "I almost felt like it became impossible not to know what was going to happen to certain people"
  5. [The Big Picture · ‘Gladiator II’ Is Here. Are We Not Entertained? · 0:52:34 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] Gladiator ⇒ Gladiator II (the host's read) · lineage · Lucius's hand in the grain is a callback to Maximus's hand in the wheat. · "And it's an obvious callback to Maximus walking through the kind of afterlife feeling the wheat."
  6. [The Big Picture · ‘Gladiator II’ Is Here. Are We Not Entertained? · 0:47:12 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] Gladiator II ↔ Conclave · theme · Both films feel resonant with the election cycle without mapping neatly. · "the same way that conclave, which is like so heavily leaning into like, hey, isn't this just like this election cycle?"
  7. [The Big Picture · ‘Gladiator II’ Is Here. Are We Not Entertained? · 1:09:25 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Gladiator II ↔ Anora · theme · Anora's idea that there is no dream undercuts Macrinus's rise from nothing to the top. · "one of the key ideas of Anora is like, There is no dream."
  8. [The Big Picture · ‘Gladiator II’ Is Here. Are We Not Entertained? · 0:06:38 · Sean Fennessey (0.85)] Gladiator II ↔ Gladiator · craft · Gladiator II brings back the original film's cinematographer, John Mathieson, as part of a returning crew. · "The cinematographer, John Matheson, is back."
  9. [The Big Picture · ‘Gladiator II’ Is Here. Are We Not Entertained? · 0:26:18 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] Gladiator II ↔ Prometheus · craft · Macrinus's rise is Scott with the safety off, like Prometheus's birth sequence. · "This is actually the Ridley Scott with the safety off thing, the Prometheus, um, you know, uh, birth sequence"
  10. [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"
  11. [The Big Picture · ‘Gladiator II’ Is Here. Are We Not Entertained? · 0:39:23 · Mallory Rubin (0.50)] Gladiator II ↔ King Kong · craft · Peter Jackson's King Kong shows CGI animals done with care. · "I really like Peter Jackson's King Kong."
  12. [The Big Picture · ‘Gladiator II’ Is Here. Are We Not Entertained? · 0:39:43 · Mallory Rubin (0.40)] Gladiator II ↔ Jurassic World · craft · CGI animals pull it out of the film into Jurassic World 6. · "I was like, okay, so we're just like in Jurassic World 6."
  13. [The Big Picture · ‘Gladiator II’ Is Here. Are We Not Entertained? · 0:45:37 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Gladiator II ↔ HBO's Rome · craft · Focusing on the Roman people would make it HBO's Rome, which isn't this film. · "then you're just sort of like this isn't HBO's Rome."
  14. [The Big Picture · ‘Gladiator II’ Is Here. Are We Not Entertained? · 0:53:58 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Gladiator ⇒ Gladiator II (the host's read) · craft · Lucius as Maximus's son is a classic retcon not in the first film's text. · "it is, is a classic case of reconning."
  15. [The Big Picture · ‘Gladiator II’ Is Here. Are We Not Entertained? · 0:21:30 · Mallory Rubin (0.50)] Gladiator ⇒ Gladiator II (the host's read) · contrast · The sequel tries to feel new by flipping the first film's premise: Marcus Aurelius's dream of Rome becomes its failure. · "Instead of here's Marcus Aurelius's dream of what Rome can be, it's a bastardization and a compromise and a failure to execute against that promise."
  16. [The Big Picture · ‘Gladiator II’ Is Here. Are We Not Entertained? · 1:11:38 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Gladiator II ↔ Napoleon · career · Gladiator II is equivalent to Napoleon in being messy, but expectations differed. · "I actually think that this movie is equivalent to Napoleon, but my expectations were low on Napoleon, and they were high on Gladiator 2."
  17. [The Big Picture · ‘Gladiator II’ Is Here. Are We Not Entertained? · 0:57:19 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Training Day ↔ Gladiator II · people · A colleague called Gladiator II a prequel to Training Day. · "Adam called this a prequel to training day."
  18. [The Big Picture · ‘Gladiator II’ Is Here. Are We Not Entertained? · 1:16:55 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] Gladiator II ↔ Top Gun: Maverick · verdict · Gladiator II will do well but not drive the repeat business Top Gun: Maverick did. · "I do not think this is the repeat business."
  19. [The Big Picture · ‘Gladiator II’ Is Here. Are We Not Entertained? · 0:13:51 · Chris Ryan (0.80)] Gladiator II ↔ Top Gun: Maverick · industry · Chris expected Gladiator II to be a Top Gun: Maverick-level event with repeat viewings, and is only halfway right. · "I remember earlier this year just being like, this is going to be Top Gun Maverick."
  20. [The Big Picture · ‘Gladiator II’ Is Here. Are We Not Entertained? · 1:10:53 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Gladiator II ↔ Wicked · industry · Gladiator II opens the same weekend as Wicked, which will be a sensation. · "This is opening the same weekend as Wicked, which is going to be a sensation."
  21. [The Big Picture · ‘Gladiator II’ Is Here. Are We Not Entertained? · 0:23:16 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] Gladiator II ↔ Gladiator · what-if · Make Gladiator from Oliver Reed's perspective: Macrinus, who wants to upend Roman society. · "The pitch could have been, we're going to do Gladiator from Oliver Reed's perspective."
  22. [The Big Picture · ‘Gladiator II’ Is Here. Are We Not Entertained? · 0:23:40 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] Gladiator II ↔ Superman · what-if · That version would be like if Lex Luthor could control Superman. · "It would be like if Lex Luthor could control Superman."
  23. [The Big Picture · ‘Gladiator II’ Is Here. Are We Not Entertained? · 1:35:07 · Chris Ryan (0.60)] Gladiator II ↔ Before Midnight · what-if · Chris wanted Gladiator II to have the guts of Before Midnight, with the couple together and unhappy. · "Everything that I'm kind of like asking for from Gladiator 2 where I was like, have some guts"

Films put beside it more than once (3)

  1. [pairs] Gladiator II ↔ Gladiator · said 8 times in 1 episode
  2. [pairs] Gladiator II ↔ Top Gun: Maverick · said 2 times in 1 episode
  3. [pairs] Gladiator II ↔ Wicked · said 2 times in 1 episode

Fun items about it (6)

  1. [The Big Picture · ‘Gladiator II’ Is Here. Are We Not Entertained? · 0:14:46 · Mallory Rubin (0.60)] Gladiator II · fun · Mallory ate a five-piece chicken tender meal at an AMC while watching the long movie. · "I got a 5 piece chicken tender at Peter."
  2. [The Big Picture · ‘Gladiator II’ Is Here. Are We Not Entertained? · 0:21:30 · Mallory Rubin (0.50)] Gladiator II · fun · Chris and Mallory could not shake the sense that the plot was a flipped copy of Gladiator, with Macrinus as the real engine of the film. · "Instead of here's Marcus Aurelius's dream of what Rome can be, it's a bastardization and a compromise and a failure to execute against that promise."
  3. [The Big Picture · ‘Gladiator II’ Is Here. Are We Not Entertained? · 0:36:50 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] Gladiator II · fun · The sharks: the panel jokes that a Roman catching, let alone transporting, a dozen sharks is unlikely. · "It has been declared that the likelihood of anyone during the Roman Empire Times catching a shark, let alone transporting it."
  4. [The Big Picture · ‘Gladiator II’ Is Here. Are We Not Entertained? · 0:37:10 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Gladiator II · fun · The CGI baboons, rhinoceros and sharks were the least successful set pieces; the intimate fights, like the emperor's party, worked best. · "The baboons was just CGI."
  5. [The Big Picture · ‘Gladiator II’ Is Here. Are We Not Entertained? · 0:38:24 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] Gladiator II · fun · Sean's challenge: if you want animal fights, let wild baboons attack Paul Mescal for real, like method acting. · "What happened to method acting in this industry?"
  6. [The Big Picture · ‘Gladiator II’ Is Here. Are We Not Entertained? · 0:50:39 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] Gladiator II · fun · Lucius being Maximus's son: Maximus slept with Lucilla while having his own kid, which the panel finds funny in a strength-and-honor way. · "Well, it's also just like, that means Maximus was like fucking Lucilla right when he was having his own kid."

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

  1. [Blank Check — Patreon · Spartacus · 1:03:34 · Richard Lawson (0.60)] Spartacus ⇒ Gladiator (the host's read) · lineage · Richard, seeing Spartacus for the first time, says it is the main thing Gladiator riffs on. · "this is really the main thing the gladiators are riffing on."
  2. [The Big Picture · 300th Episode Ask-Us-Anything Mailbag Spectacular · 0:58:13 · Sean Fennessey (0.55)] Top Gun: Maverick ↔ Sean Fennessey · programming · Top Gun: Maverick is the communal 'hell yeah' experience Sean misses. · "It's kind of dumb."
  3. [The Big Picture · The Nicole Kidman Hall of Fame, and ‘Babygirl’ · 1:09:57 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Moulin Rouge! ↔ Wicked · theme · Moulin Rouge plays for a huge number of people the way Wicked plays for the speaker. · "I'm aware that this plays like Wicked played to me for a huge number of people."
  4. [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."
  5. [Blank Check — Patreon · Spartacus · 1:13:26 · unknown (0.40)] Woody Strode → Gladiator · theme · Speaker imagines Ridley Scott deciding to keep the Draba-type character alive the whole movie. · "Ridley Scott was like, what if we keep him alive the whole movie?"
  6. [Blank Check · The Color of Money · 1:07:05 · David Sims (0.40)] The Color of Money ⇒ Top Gun: Maverick (the host's read) · lineage · Gap-based legacy sequels like Top Gun Maverick, Tron Legacy and Blade Runner follow the template Color of Money invented, though in 1986 sequels were derided. · "now we get more and more like your your Tron legacies and your Top Gun Mavericks, where it's just casually... 37, 40 years later"
  7. [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."
  8. [Blank Check · As Good as It Gets · 1:05:43 · Chris Gethard (0.60)] Joaquin Phoenix ↔ Gladiator · craft · Chris likes Phoenix's Gladiator performance. · "I'll say, I really appreciated his performance in Gladiator."
  9. [The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 0:19:41 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Top Gun ↔ Top Gun: Maverick · lineage · Maverick's dogfight football is compared with the original's volleyball scene, which hides its doubles in wide shots. · "I mean, I went back and watched the volleyball scene from the original Top Gun."
  10. [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?"
  11. [The Rewatchables · ‘F1’ · 0:14:21 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] F1 ↔ Top Gun: Maverick · lineage · Same director and a broadly similar story of an aging star in the cockpit. · "this movie gets compared to Top Gun Maverick a lot, same director"
  12. [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."
  13. [The Big Picture · The Top Five Movies of 2022 · 1:26:26 · Chris Ryan (0.80)] Top Gun ⇒ Top Gun: Maverick (the host's read) · lineage · Chris says the sequel delivered and is better than the first, and Amanda agrees. · "It's better than the 1st one"
  14. [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."
  15. [The Big Picture · The Tom Cruise Hall of Fame · 1:10:40 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Top Gun: Maverick ↔ The Color of Money · lineage · Top Gun: Maverick is doing the Eddie Felson-style return of an older character. · "Obviously, he's doing that with Top Gun right now."
  16. [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."
  17. [The Rewatchables · ‘F1’ · 0:55:42 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] F1 ↔ Top Gun: Maverick · theme · The older ace winning the final race is the same choice as Maverick saving everybody. · "sunny winning Abu Dhabi, much like Maverick, where Maverick has to be the one who saves everybody's asses"
  18. [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."
  19. [The Big Picture · The Top Five Movies of 2022 · 1:08:46 · Adam Nayman (0.80)] Top Gun: Maverick ↔ Jackass Forever · theme · Adam says he would give best actor to Cruise and Knoxville alike because the two films are both about passing the torch to a new generation while sticking around. · "I think they're kind of the same film. all about. like passing the torch to a new generation, but also sticking around."

Who said it, by their latest sketch (3)

  1. [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
  2. [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
  3. [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

The shows' running bits (3)

  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] 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)
  3. [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 Gladiator II 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 Gladiator II 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 · ‘Gladiator II’ Is Here. Are We Not Entertained? · 0:37:13 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Gladiator II ↔ Wicked · programming · Gladiator II's CGI baboons made it feel like being dumped into Wicked. · "I actually felt like we got dumped into Wicked or something, you know?"
[The Big Picture · ‘Gladiator II’ Is Here. Are We Not Entertained? · 0:06:45 · Sean Fennessey (0.80)] Gladiator ⇒ Gladiator II (the host's read) · lineage · The sequel is very similar in structure and story to the original. · "it's pretty well known that this movie is very similar in structure and story to the original."
[The Big Picture · ‘Gladiator II’ Is Here. Are We Not Entertained? · 0:15:52 · Mallory Rubin (0.60)] Gladiator ⇒ Gladiator II (the host's read) · lineage · The sequel's plot, structure, approach and pacing mirror the first, forcing a one-to-one comparison. · "it's just the movie is so similar to the 1st one in terms of plot, structure, approach, focus, pacing."
[The Big Picture · ‘Gladiator II’ Is Here. Are We Not Entertained? · 0:21:39 · Mallory Rubin (0.50)] Gladiator ⇒ Gladiator II (the host's read) · lineage · Because it mirrors the first film, outcomes for characters become predictable by inversion. · "I almost felt like it became impossible not to know what was going to happen to certain people"
[The Big Picture · ‘Gladiator II’ Is Here. Are We Not Entertained? · 0:52:34 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] Gladiator ⇒ Gladiator II (the host's read) · lineage · Lucius's hand in the grain is a callback to Maximus's hand in the wheat. · "And it's an obvious callback to Maximus walking through the kind of afterlife feeling the wheat."
[The Big Picture · ‘Gladiator II’ Is Here. Are We Not Entertained? · 0:47:12 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] Gladiator II ↔ Conclave · theme · Both films feel resonant with the election cycle without mapping neatly. · "the same way that conclave, which is like so heavily leaning into like, hey, isn't this just like this election cycle?"
[The Big Picture · ‘Gladiator II’ Is Here. Are We Not Entertained? · 1:09:25 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Gladiator II ↔ Anora · theme · Anora's idea that there is no dream undercuts Macrinus's rise from nothing to the top. · "one of the key ideas of Anora is like, There is no dream."
[The Big Picture · ‘Gladiator II’ Is Here. Are We Not Entertained? · 0:06:38 · Sean Fennessey (0.85)] Gladiator II ↔ Gladiator · craft · Gladiator II brings back the original film's cinematographer, John Mathieson, as part of a returning crew. · "The cinematographer, John Matheson, is back."
[The Big Picture · ‘Gladiator II’ Is Here. Are We Not Entertained? · 0:26:18 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] Gladiator II ↔ Prometheus · craft · Macrinus's rise is Scott with the safety off, like Prometheus's birth sequence. · "This is actually the Ridley Scott with the safety off thing, the Prometheus, um, you know, uh, birth sequence"
[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 · ‘Gladiator II’ Is Here. Are We Not Entertained? · 0:39:23 · Mallory Rubin (0.50)] Gladiator II ↔ King Kong · craft · Peter Jackson's King Kong shows CGI animals done with care. · "I really like Peter Jackson's King Kong."
[The Big Picture · ‘Gladiator II’ Is Here. Are We Not Entertained? · 0:39:43 · Mallory Rubin (0.40)] Gladiator II ↔ Jurassic World · craft · CGI animals pull it out of the film into Jurassic World 6. · "I was like, okay, so we're just like in Jurassic World 6."
[The Big Picture · ‘Gladiator II’ Is Here. Are We Not Entertained? · 0:45:37 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Gladiator II ↔ HBO's Rome · craft · Focusing on the Roman people would make it HBO's Rome, which isn't this film. · "then you're just sort of like this isn't HBO's Rome."
[The Big Picture · ‘Gladiator II’ Is Here. Are We Not Entertained? · 0:53:58 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Gladiator ⇒ Gladiator II (the host's read) · craft · Lucius as Maximus's son is a classic retcon not in the first film's text. · "it is, is a classic case of reconning."
[The Big Picture · ‘Gladiator II’ Is Here. Are We Not Entertained? · 0:21:30 · Mallory Rubin (0.50)] Gladiator ⇒ Gladiator II (the host's read) · contrast · The sequel tries to feel new by flipping the first film's premise: Marcus Aurelius's dream of Rome becomes its failure. · "Instead of here's Marcus Aurelius's dream of what Rome can be, it's a bastardization and a compromise and a failure to execute against that promise."
[The Big Picture · ‘Gladiator II’ Is Here. Are We Not Entertained? · 1:11:38 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Gladiator II ↔ Napoleon · career · Gladiator II is equivalent to Napoleon in being messy, but expectations differed. · "I actually think that this movie is equivalent to Napoleon, but my expectations were low on Napoleon, and they were high on Gladiator 2."
[The Big Picture · ‘Gladiator II’ Is Here. Are We Not Entertained? · 0:57:19 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Training Day ↔ Gladiator II · people · A colleague called Gladiator II a prequel to Training Day. · "Adam called this a prequel to training day."
[The Big Picture · ‘Gladiator II’ Is Here. Are We Not Entertained? · 1:16:55 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] Gladiator II ↔ Top Gun: Maverick · verdict · Gladiator II will do well but not drive the repeat business Top Gun: Maverick did. · "I do not think this is the repeat business."
[The Big Picture · ‘Gladiator II’ Is Here. Are We Not Entertained? · 0:13:51 · Chris Ryan (0.80)] Gladiator II ↔ Top Gun: Maverick · industry · Chris expected Gladiator II to be a Top Gun: Maverick-level event with repeat viewings, and is only halfway right. · "I remember earlier this year just being like, this is going to be Top Gun Maverick."
[The Big Picture · ‘Gladiator II’ Is Here. Are We Not Entertained? · 1:10:53 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Gladiator II ↔ Wicked · industry · Gladiator II opens the same weekend as Wicked, which will be a sensation. · "This is opening the same weekend as Wicked, which is going to be a sensation."
[The Big Picture · ‘Gladiator II’ Is Here. Are We Not Entertained? · 0:23:16 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] Gladiator II ↔ Gladiator · what-if · Make Gladiator from Oliver Reed's perspective: Macrinus, who wants to upend Roman society. · "The pitch could have been, we're going to do Gladiator from Oliver Reed's perspective."
[The Big Picture · ‘Gladiator II’ Is Here. Are We Not Entertained? · 0:23:40 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] Gladiator II ↔ Superman · what-if · That version would be like if Lex Luthor could control Superman. · "It would be like if Lex Luthor could control Superman."
[The Big Picture · ‘Gladiator II’ Is Here. Are We Not Entertained? · 1:35:07 · Chris Ryan (0.60)] Gladiator II ↔ Before Midnight · what-if · Chris wanted Gladiator II to have the guts of Before Midnight, with the couple together and unhappy. · "Everything that I'm kind of like asking for from Gladiator 2 where I was like, have some guts"
[pairs] Gladiator II ↔ Gladiator · said 8 times in 1 episode
[pairs] Gladiator II ↔ Top Gun: Maverick · said 2 times in 1 episode
[pairs] Gladiator II ↔ Wicked · said 2 times in 1 episode
[The Big Picture · ‘Gladiator II’ Is Here. Are We Not Entertained? · 0:14:46 · Mallory Rubin (0.60)] Gladiator II · fun · Mallory ate a five-piece chicken tender meal at an AMC while watching the long movie. · "I got a 5 piece chicken tender at Peter."
[The Big Picture · ‘Gladiator II’ Is Here. Are We Not Entertained? · 0:21:30 · Mallory Rubin (0.50)] Gladiator II · fun · Chris and Mallory could not shake the sense that the plot was a flipped copy of Gladiator, with Macrinus as the real engine of the film. · "Instead of here's Marcus Aurelius's dream of what Rome can be, it's a bastardization and a compromise and a failure to execute against that promise."
[The Big Picture · ‘Gladiator II’ Is Here. Are We Not Entertained? · 0:36:50 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] Gladiator II · fun · The sharks: the panel jokes that a Roman catching, let alone transporting, a dozen sharks is unlikely. · "It has been declared that the likelihood of anyone during the Roman Empire Times catching a shark, let alone transporting it."
[The Big Picture · ‘Gladiator II’ Is Here. Are We Not Entertained? · 0:37:10 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Gladiator II · fun · The CGI baboons, rhinoceros and sharks were the least successful set pieces; the intimate fights, like the emperor's party, worked best. · "The baboons was just CGI."
[The Big Picture · ‘Gladiator II’ Is Here. Are We Not Entertained? · 0:38:24 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] Gladiator II · fun · Sean's challenge: if you want animal fights, let wild baboons attack Paul Mescal for real, like method acting. · "What happened to method acting in this industry?"
[The Big Picture · ‘Gladiator II’ Is Here. Are We Not Entertained? · 0:50:39 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] Gladiator II · fun · Lucius being Maximus's son: Maximus slept with Lucilla while having his own kid, which the panel finds funny in a strength-and-honor way. · "Well, it's also just like, that means Maximus was like fucking Lucilla right when he was having his own kid."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Spartacus · 1:03:34 · Richard Lawson (0.60)] Spartacus ⇒ Gladiator (the host's read) · lineage · Richard, seeing Spartacus for the first time, says it is the main thing Gladiator riffs on. · "this is really the main thing the gladiators are riffing on."
[The Big Picture · 300th Episode Ask-Us-Anything Mailbag Spectacular · 0:58:13 · Sean Fennessey (0.55)] Top Gun: Maverick ↔ Sean Fennessey · programming · Top Gun: Maverick is the communal 'hell yeah' experience Sean misses. · "It's kind of dumb."
[The Big Picture · The Nicole Kidman Hall of Fame, and ‘Babygirl’ · 1:09:57 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Moulin Rouge! ↔ Wicked · theme · Moulin Rouge plays for a huge number of people the way Wicked plays for the speaker. · "I'm aware that this plays like Wicked played to me for a huge number of people."
[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."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Spartacus · 1:13:26 · unknown (0.40)] Woody Strode → Gladiator · theme · Speaker imagines Ridley Scott deciding to keep the Draba-type character alive the whole movie. · "Ridley Scott was like, what if we keep him alive the whole movie?"
[Blank Check · The Color of Money · 1:07:05 · David Sims (0.40)] The Color of Money ⇒ Top Gun: Maverick (the host's read) · lineage · Gap-based legacy sequels like Top Gun Maverick, Tron Legacy and Blade Runner follow the template Color of Money invented, though in 1986 sequels were derided. · "now we get more and more like your your Tron legacies and your Top Gun Mavericks, where it's just casually... 37, 40 years later"
[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."
[Blank Check · As Good as It Gets · 1:05:43 · Chris Gethard (0.60)] Joaquin Phoenix ↔ Gladiator · craft · Chris likes Phoenix's Gladiator performance. · "I'll say, I really appreciated his performance in Gladiator."
[The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 0:19:41 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Top Gun ↔ Top Gun: Maverick · lineage · Maverick's dogfight football is compared with the original's volleyball scene, which hides its doubles in wide shots. · "I mean, I went back and watched the volleyball scene from the original Top Gun."
[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 Rewatchables · ‘F1’ · 0:14:21 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] F1 ↔ Top Gun: Maverick · lineage · Same director and a broadly similar story of an aging star in the cockpit. · "this movie gets compared to Top Gun Maverick a lot, same director"
[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 · The Top Five Movies of 2022 · 1:26:26 · Chris Ryan (0.80)] Top Gun ⇒ Top Gun: Maverick (the host's read) · lineage · Chris says the sequel delivered and is better than the first, and Amanda agrees. · "It's better than the 1st one"
[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."
[The Big Picture · The Tom Cruise Hall of Fame · 1:10:40 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Top Gun: Maverick ↔ The Color of Money · lineage · Top Gun: Maverick is doing the Eddie Felson-style return of an older character. · "Obviously, he's doing that with Top Gun right 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."
[The Rewatchables · ‘F1’ · 0:55:42 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] F1 ↔ Top Gun: Maverick · theme · The older ace winning the final race is the same choice as Maverick saving everybody. · "sunny winning Abu Dhabi, much like Maverick, where Maverick has to be the one who saves everybody's asses"
[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 · The Top Five Movies of 2022 · 1:08:46 · Adam Nayman (0.80)] Top Gun: Maverick ↔ Jackass Forever · theme · Adam says he would give best actor to Cruise and Knoxville alike because the two films are both about passing the torch to a new generation while sticking around. · "I think they're kind of the same film. all about. like passing the torch to a new generation, but also sticking around."
[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] 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
[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
[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 Gladiator II; name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Gladiator II 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.