What the corpus says about Donnie Darko (2001)

The 49 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 (24)

[The Big Picture · 1. ‘Bring It On’ and ‘Donnie Darko’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:26:11 · Brian Raftery (0.90)] Donnie Darko ↔ The Twilight Zone (TV) · lineage · The script's surreal twists reminded Fields of The Twilight Zone. · "The Donny Darko script also reminded Fields of one of his favorite TV shows, The Twilight Zone."
[The Big Picture · 1. ‘Bring It On’ and ‘Donnie Darko’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:06:04 · Brian Raftery (0.95)] 25th Hour ↔ Donnie Darko · theme · 25th Hour captured post-9/11 New York rage, part of the wave of anxious films. · "Movies like 25th Hour, which captured the rage and uncertainty New Yorkers felt in the wake of 911."
[The Big Picture · 1. ‘Bring It On’ and ‘Donnie Darko’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:06:33 · Brian Raftery (0.95)] Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy ↔ Donnie Darko · theme · Even Anchorman, set in the 1970s, evokes the out-of-control early 2000s. · "Even a comedy like Anchorman managed to evoke the out of control feeling of the early 2000s."
[The Big Picture · 1. ‘Bring It On’ and ‘Donnie Darko’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:07:47 · Brian Raftery (0.95)] Donnie Darko ↔ Bring It On · theme · Both feature suburban teen leads but take opposite views of American adolescence. · "Like bring it on, its main characters are suburban teens."
[The Big Picture · 1. ‘Bring It On’ and ‘Donnie Darko’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:43:25 · Brian Raftery (0.95)] Bring It On ↔ Donnie Darko · theme · Both work as time machines to specific moments: carefree Y2K-to-9/11, and fall 2001 fear. · "Bring it on, documents that carefree blip between Y2K and 911."
[The Big Picture · 1. ‘Bring It On’ and ‘Donnie Darko’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:26:00 · Adam Fields (0.90)] Donnie Darko ↔ The Breakfast Club · craft · Fields found Donnie Darko's teen dialogue as realistic as Hughes's dialogue on Breakfast Club. · "It reminded me of, again, when John Hughes sent me to play for Breakfast Club, that was, like, really incredible dialogue that I thought really captured the the zeitgeist, the kids that age."
[The Big Picture · 1. ‘Bring It On’ and ‘Donnie Darko’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:08:03 · Brian Raftery (0.95)] Bring It On ↔ Donnie Darko · contrast · The two films mark very different points in American history, barely a year apart. · "Though they came out just over a year apart, bring it on in Donny Darko, each to find very different points in American history."
[The Big Picture · 1. ‘Bring It On’ and ‘Donnie Darko’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:08:10 · Brian Raftery (0.95)] Bring It On ↔ Donnie Darko · contrast · One captures post-Y2K euphoria, the other a new age of dread. · "One takes place during that brief peak of post Y2K euphoria."
[The Big Picture · 1. ‘Bring It On’ and ‘Donnie Darko’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:08:40 · Brian Raftery (0.95)] Bring It On ↔ Donnie Darko · contrast · Together they are the before and after of the early 21st century. · "You can think of bringing on in Donny Darko as the how it started, how it's going of the early 21st century."
[The Big Picture · 1. ‘Bring It On’ and ‘Donnie Darko’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:31:29 · Brian Raftery (0.95)] Bring It On ↔ Donnie Darko · contrast · Their best-known songs show how bleak Donnie Darko is by comparison. · "Well, for comparison, here's the most popular song from Bring It On."
[The Big Picture · 1. ‘Bring It On’ and ‘Donnie Darko’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:41:16 · Brian Raftery (0.95)] Donnie Darko ↔ Zoolander · contrast · In fall 2001 audiences wanted breezy comedies like Zoolander and Serendipity, not Darko. · "And besides, moviegoers mostly wanted breezy comedies and romances, like Zoolander and Serendipity."
[The Big Picture · 1. ‘Bring It On’ and ‘Donnie Darko’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:41:22 · Brian Raftery (0.90)] Donnie Darko ↔ Corky Romano · contrast · Joke: the troubled young man audiences chose was Corky Romano. · "If they were going to watch a movie about a troubled young man, it was going to be this guy."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Zodiac · 1:22:44 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Donnie Darko ⇒ Zodiac (the host's read) · people · Fincher liked Donnie Darko and had Gyllenhaal pegged for a while. · "unsurprisingly, Fincher liked Donny Darko"
[The Big Picture · 1. ‘Bring It On’ and ‘Donnie Darko’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:40:49 · Brian Raftery (0.95)] Donnie Darko ↔ Donnie Darko · verdict · Called the first film to embody the post-9/11 mood even though shot before. · "Donnie Darko was the 1st movie to really embody the post 911 mood."
[The Big Picture · 1. ‘Bring It On’ and ‘Donnie Darko’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:41:57 · Brian Raftery (0.95)] Donnie Darko ↔ Bring It On · verdict · Darko became the first midnight movie of the 2000s. · "As a result, Donny Darko had become the first midnight movie of the 2000s."
[The Big Picture · 1. ‘Bring It On’ and ‘Donnie Darko’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:27:57 · Brian Raftery (0.95)] El Mariachi ⇒ Donnie Darko (the host's read) · industry · The 90s indie boom of low-budget hits like sex, lies and El Mariachi made Darko-type bets possible. · "Thanks to a series of low budget hits, like sex lies and videotape and El Mariachi."
[The Big Picture · 1. ‘Bring It On’ and ‘Donnie Darko’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:37:06 · Brian Raftery (0.90)] Donnie Darko ↔ Pi · industry · Sundance birthed 90s indies like Pi, Clerks and Welcome to the Dollhouse; Darko premiered there. · "Sundance had given birth to several hit indie films, crucial 90s movies like Pie, Clerks, and Welcome to the Dollhouse."
[The Big Picture · 1. ‘Bring It On’ and ‘Donnie Darko’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:43:08 · Richard Kelly (0.85)] Richard Kelly ↔ Donnie Darko · theme · Kelly says cinema can undo tragedy, unlike life: movies as time machines. · "We can undo tragedy in cinema, but, sadly, in life, we don't have those tools."
[The Big Picture · 1. ‘Bring It On’ and ‘Donnie Darko’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:29:38 · Jake Gyllenhaal (0.85)] Jake Gyllenhaal ↔ Donnie Darko · contrast · Archival Gyllenhaal: Darko is about adolescent psychology, unlike party-and-pies teen movies. · "That was a movie that was sort of more about the psychological journey of, like, of adolescence and the confusion of all of it."
[The Big Picture · 1. ‘Bring It On’ and ‘Donnie Darko’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:26:33 · Brian Raftery (0.95)] Richard Kelly ↔ Donnie Darko · career · Kelly was a young film grad who had never made a feature and wanted to direct his own script. · "The guy who'd written the screenplay, Richard Kelly, was a 20 something film grad who'd never made a feature before, and he wanted to direct Donny Darko."
[The Big Picture · 1. ‘Bring It On’ and ‘Donnie Darko’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:29:14 · Brian Raftery (0.95)] Jake Gyllenhaal ↔ Donnie Darko · career · Gyllenhaal, a former child actor, signed on wanting an anti-teen movie. · "He was interested in making what he called an anti-teen movie."
[The Big Picture · 1. ‘Bring It On’ and ‘Donnie Darko’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:26:27 · Adam Fields (0.90)] Adam Fields ↔ Donnie Darko · people · Fields, an indie producer, got the script and thought he could get it made. · "I think I can get this made."
[The Big Picture · 1. ‘Bring It On’ and ‘Donnie Darko’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:28:59 · Brian Raftery (0.95)] Drew Barrymore ↔ Donnie Darko · people · Barrymore financed, co-produced and took a small role. · "Eventually, the Donny Darko team got financing from Drew Barrymore, who agreed to co produce the movie and to play a small supporting role."
[The Big Picture · 1. ‘Bring It On’ and ‘Donnie Darko’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:30:58 · Brian Raftery (0.95)] Jena Malone ↔ Donnie Darko · people · Malone plays Gretchen, who plants the go-back-in-time idea. · "Donnie starts studying time travel, and begins dating a new student named Gretchen, played by Jenna Malone."

Films put beside it more than once (1)

[pairs] Donnie Darko ↔ Bring It On · said 7 times in 1 episode

Fun items about it (6)

[The Big Picture · 1. ‘Bring It On’ and ‘Donnie Darko’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:25:16 · Adam Fields (0.90)] Donnie Darko · fun · The script circulated so long it arrived with food stains. · "So they literally sent me a script that had food stains on a bunch of the pages."
[The Big Picture · 1. ‘Bring It On’ and ‘Donnie Darko’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:28:38 · Brian Raftery (0.95)] Donnie Darko · fun · Fields planted a trades story claiming filming would start that summer; it was invented and it worked. · "The producer planted a story in the Hollywood trades, announcing they were gonna start filming that summer."
[The Big Picture · 1. ‘Bring It On’ and ‘Donnie Darko’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:28:42 · Adam Fields (0.90)] Donnie Darko · fun · Fields confirms the trades story was fake, but agents began calling. · "It was total bullshit."
[The Big Picture · 1. ‘Bring It On’ and ‘Donnie Darko’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:29:22 · Jake Gyllenhaal (0.85)] Donnie Darko · fun · Gyllenhaal wanted an anti-teen movie, not parties and pies. · "parties and sticking things into pies."
[The Big Picture · 1. ‘Bring It On’ and ‘Donnie Darko’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:31:16 · Brian Raftery (0.95)] Donnie Darko · fun · Subplot about a youth dance team named Sparkle Motion that Raftery skips. · "and a whole subplot about a youth dance team named Sparkle Motion."
[The Big Picture · 1. ‘Bring It On’ and ‘Donnie Darko’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:32:07 · Brian Raftery (0.95)] Donnie Darko · fun · Cost $4.5 million and shot in 28 days, the same as the countdown, a coincidence. · "Donnie Darko cost just $4.5 million, and wound up being filmed in just 28 days."

One hop out: what recommends the films most often joined to it (11)

[The Big Picture · 1. ‘Bring It On’ and ‘Donnie Darko’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:22:48 · Brian Raftery (0.95)] Bring It On ↔ American Pie · lineage · It followed American Pie, 10 Things I Hate About You and She's All That. · "It arrived not long after hits like American Pie, 10 Things I Hate About You, and She's All That."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Do The Right Thing’ · 0:45:38 · Sean Fennessey (0.70)] Do the Right Thing ⇒ 25th Hour (the host's read) · lineage · 25th Hour repeats the racial slur montage as Ed Norton's mirror monologue; Wesley says the repeats made the original less effective for him but 25th Hour has greatness. · "There's a 25th hour version of that too."
[The Rewatchables · 'Talladega Nights' · 2:02:21 · Craig Horlbeck (0.40)] Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby ↔ Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy · programming · Alternate double feature pick: Anchorman and Talladega. · "I think I would rather watch Anchorman and Talladega nights, though, together."
[The Big Picture · 1. ‘Bring It On’ and ‘Donnie Darko’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:02:59 · Brian Raftery (0.90)] Bring It On ↔ Erin Brockovich · theme · Both fit 2000's optimistic can-do spirit; Brockovich is called the most 2000 movie. · "which is probably the most 2000 movie to actually come out in the year 2000."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ · 0:53:40 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] Knocked Up ↔ Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy · programming · The pee-break category is named after the Anchorman flute scene; Bill uses it to mark Knocked Up's 7.5-minute labor stretch. · "The anchorman flute. P-break Award for best time to go go pee"
[The Big Picture · 1. ‘Bring It On’ and ‘Donnie Darko’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:11:31 · Brian Raftery (0.85)] Bring It On ↔ The Breakfast Club · theme · Hughes-era teen movies, like Bring It On, carry grown-up ideas about class, capitalism and sexism. · "it's that they've all got some pretty grown up ideas on their mind."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Domestic Disturbance’ · 0:38:35 · unknown (0.30)] Domestic Disturbance ↔ Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy · craft · Vaughn's sincere lines can only be heard as his rival newscaster in Anchorman. · "I can only hear the rival newscaster from Anchorman that he plays, you know, Vince Mantooth?"
[The Big Picture · 1. ‘Bring It On’ and ‘Donnie Darko’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:12:37 · Brian Raftery (0.90)] Jessica Bendinger ⇒ Bring It On (the maker said so: her own interview, quoted on the show) · theme · Her hip hop journalism at Spin shaped the film's theme of white kids imitating black artists. · "Years later, when she got into the world of cheerleading, she saw that pattern repeating itself."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Incredible Hulk · 1:20:22 · Griffin or David (0.30)] Iron Man 2 ↔ Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy · craft · Iron Man 2 feels like the improvised second movie cut from Anchorman's leftover footage, but with a new story. · "That's what Iron Man 2 feels like, except it's a new story."
[The Big Picture · 1. ‘Bring It On’ and ‘Donnie Darko’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:22:54 · Brian Raftery (0.95)] Bring It On ↔ She's All That · theme · Like those films it had teen angst but stayed hopeful about life. · "Movies that had plenty of teen angst, but that were ultimately pretty hopeful about life in general."
[The Big Picture · 1. ‘Bring It On’ and ‘Donnie Darko’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:19:46 · Brian Raftery (0.90)] Aqua ↔ Bring It On · craft · The studio's marketing team set the Bring It On trailer to the Aqua song 'Happy Boys and Girls'. · "the studio made a lively, colorful trailer, set to the Aqua song Happy Boys and Girls."

Who said it, by their latest sketch (5)

[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] Adam Fields · latest sketch, The Big Picture · 1. ‘Bring It On’ and ‘Donnie Darko’ | Mission Accomplished · Producer drawn to realistic teen dialogue in the Hughes mold and surreal Twilight Zone-style twists. He is a hustler who will plant a story to build buzz. · stances: Don't open Sundance; wait until people have seen bad movies; Kelly could handle actors despite being a rookie
[speaker] Jake Gyllenhaal · no sketch
[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] Richard Kelly · no sketch

The shows' running bits (2)

[bits] The Big Picture: Drafts (Hosts and guests draft films in rounds; every pick is a recommendation with an argument); Hall of Fame (A star's or director's best, ranked and argued); Countdowns (Ranked lists, top five or top ten)
[bits] The Rewatchables: Apex Mountain (The moment a star peaks; where on the mountain a performance sits); Who Won the Movie (The hosts name the person who came out of the film best off); The Ebert review (Roger Ebert's original review and star rating read aloud. Ebert is cited, never on the show); Casting what-ifs (Who was almost cast, or who should have been); Most rewatchable scene (The scene each host would stop on while flipping channels); Aged best / aged worst (What holds up and what does not); Picking Nits (The little things in a film the hosts love that they don't think totally work: the nits); Double feature (The film each host would pair it with; a programming pick)

The whole prompt

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 Donnie Darko (2001) 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 Donnie Darko (2001) 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 · 1. ‘Bring It On’ and ‘Donnie Darko’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:26:11 · Brian Raftery (0.90)] Donnie Darko ↔ The Twilight Zone (TV) · lineage · The script's surreal twists reminded Fields of The Twilight Zone. · "The Donny Darko script also reminded Fields of one of his favorite TV shows, The Twilight Zone."
[The Big Picture · 1. ‘Bring It On’ and ‘Donnie Darko’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:06:04 · Brian Raftery (0.95)] 25th Hour ↔ Donnie Darko · theme · 25th Hour captured post-9/11 New York rage, part of the wave of anxious films. · "Movies like 25th Hour, which captured the rage and uncertainty New Yorkers felt in the wake of 911."
[The Big Picture · 1. ‘Bring It On’ and ‘Donnie Darko’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:06:33 · Brian Raftery (0.95)] Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy ↔ Donnie Darko · theme · Even Anchorman, set in the 1970s, evokes the out-of-control early 2000s. · "Even a comedy like Anchorman managed to evoke the out of control feeling of the early 2000s."
[The Big Picture · 1. ‘Bring It On’ and ‘Donnie Darko’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:07:47 · Brian Raftery (0.95)] Donnie Darko ↔ Bring It On · theme · Both feature suburban teen leads but take opposite views of American adolescence. · "Like bring it on, its main characters are suburban teens."
[The Big Picture · 1. ‘Bring It On’ and ‘Donnie Darko’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:43:25 · Brian Raftery (0.95)] Bring It On ↔ Donnie Darko · theme · Both work as time machines to specific moments: carefree Y2K-to-9/11, and fall 2001 fear. · "Bring it on, documents that carefree blip between Y2K and 911."
[The Big Picture · 1. ‘Bring It On’ and ‘Donnie Darko’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:26:00 · Adam Fields (0.90)] Donnie Darko ↔ The Breakfast Club · craft · Fields found Donnie Darko's teen dialogue as realistic as Hughes's dialogue on Breakfast Club. · "It reminded me of, again, when John Hughes sent me to play for Breakfast Club, that was, like, really incredible dialogue that I thought really captured the the zeitgeist, the kids that age."
[The Big Picture · 1. ‘Bring It On’ and ‘Donnie Darko’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:08:03 · Brian Raftery (0.95)] Bring It On ↔ Donnie Darko · contrast · The two films mark very different points in American history, barely a year apart. · "Though they came out just over a year apart, bring it on in Donny Darko, each to find very different points in American history."
[The Big Picture · 1. ‘Bring It On’ and ‘Donnie Darko’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:08:10 · Brian Raftery (0.95)] Bring It On ↔ Donnie Darko · contrast · One captures post-Y2K euphoria, the other a new age of dread. · "One takes place during that brief peak of post Y2K euphoria."
[The Big Picture · 1. ‘Bring It On’ and ‘Donnie Darko’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:08:40 · Brian Raftery (0.95)] Bring It On ↔ Donnie Darko · contrast · Together they are the before and after of the early 21st century. · "You can think of bringing on in Donny Darko as the how it started, how it's going of the early 21st century."
[The Big Picture · 1. ‘Bring It On’ and ‘Donnie Darko’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:31:29 · Brian Raftery (0.95)] Bring It On ↔ Donnie Darko · contrast · Their best-known songs show how bleak Donnie Darko is by comparison. · "Well, for comparison, here's the most popular song from Bring It On."
[The Big Picture · 1. ‘Bring It On’ and ‘Donnie Darko’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:41:16 · Brian Raftery (0.95)] Donnie Darko ↔ Zoolander · contrast · In fall 2001 audiences wanted breezy comedies like Zoolander and Serendipity, not Darko. · "And besides, moviegoers mostly wanted breezy comedies and romances, like Zoolander and Serendipity."
[The Big Picture · 1. ‘Bring It On’ and ‘Donnie Darko’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:41:22 · Brian Raftery (0.90)] Donnie Darko ↔ Corky Romano · contrast · Joke: the troubled young man audiences chose was Corky Romano. · "If they were going to watch a movie about a troubled young man, it was going to be this guy."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Zodiac · 1:22:44 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Donnie Darko ⇒ Zodiac (the host's read) · people · Fincher liked Donnie Darko and had Gyllenhaal pegged for a while. · "unsurprisingly, Fincher liked Donny Darko"
[The Big Picture · 1. ‘Bring It On’ and ‘Donnie Darko’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:40:49 · Brian Raftery (0.95)] Donnie Darko ↔ Donnie Darko · verdict · Called the first film to embody the post-9/11 mood even though shot before. · "Donnie Darko was the 1st movie to really embody the post 911 mood."
[The Big Picture · 1. ‘Bring It On’ and ‘Donnie Darko’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:41:57 · Brian Raftery (0.95)] Donnie Darko ↔ Bring It On · verdict · Darko became the first midnight movie of the 2000s. · "As a result, Donny Darko had become the first midnight movie of the 2000s."
[The Big Picture · 1. ‘Bring It On’ and ‘Donnie Darko’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:27:57 · Brian Raftery (0.95)] El Mariachi ⇒ Donnie Darko (the host's read) · industry · The 90s indie boom of low-budget hits like sex, lies and El Mariachi made Darko-type bets possible. · "Thanks to a series of low budget hits, like sex lies and videotape and El Mariachi."
[The Big Picture · 1. ‘Bring It On’ and ‘Donnie Darko’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:37:06 · Brian Raftery (0.90)] Donnie Darko ↔ Pi · industry · Sundance birthed 90s indies like Pi, Clerks and Welcome to the Dollhouse; Darko premiered there. · "Sundance had given birth to several hit indie films, crucial 90s movies like Pie, Clerks, and Welcome to the Dollhouse."
[The Big Picture · 1. ‘Bring It On’ and ‘Donnie Darko’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:43:08 · Richard Kelly (0.85)] Richard Kelly ↔ Donnie Darko · theme · Kelly says cinema can undo tragedy, unlike life: movies as time machines. · "We can undo tragedy in cinema, but, sadly, in life, we don't have those tools."
[The Big Picture · 1. ‘Bring It On’ and ‘Donnie Darko’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:29:38 · Jake Gyllenhaal (0.85)] Jake Gyllenhaal ↔ Donnie Darko · contrast · Archival Gyllenhaal: Darko is about adolescent psychology, unlike party-and-pies teen movies. · "That was a movie that was sort of more about the psychological journey of, like, of adolescence and the confusion of all of it."
[The Big Picture · 1. ‘Bring It On’ and ‘Donnie Darko’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:26:33 · Brian Raftery (0.95)] Richard Kelly ↔ Donnie Darko · career · Kelly was a young film grad who had never made a feature and wanted to direct his own script. · "The guy who'd written the screenplay, Richard Kelly, was a 20 something film grad who'd never made a feature before, and he wanted to direct Donny Darko."
[The Big Picture · 1. ‘Bring It On’ and ‘Donnie Darko’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:29:14 · Brian Raftery (0.95)] Jake Gyllenhaal ↔ Donnie Darko · career · Gyllenhaal, a former child actor, signed on wanting an anti-teen movie. · "He was interested in making what he called an anti-teen movie."
[The Big Picture · 1. ‘Bring It On’ and ‘Donnie Darko’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:26:27 · Adam Fields (0.90)] Adam Fields ↔ Donnie Darko · people · Fields, an indie producer, got the script and thought he could get it made. · "I think I can get this made."
[The Big Picture · 1. ‘Bring It On’ and ‘Donnie Darko’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:28:59 · Brian Raftery (0.95)] Drew Barrymore ↔ Donnie Darko · people · Barrymore financed, co-produced and took a small role. · "Eventually, the Donny Darko team got financing from Drew Barrymore, who agreed to co produce the movie and to play a small supporting role."
[The Big Picture · 1. ‘Bring It On’ and ‘Donnie Darko’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:30:58 · Brian Raftery (0.95)] Jena Malone ↔ Donnie Darko · people · Malone plays Gretchen, who plants the go-back-in-time idea. · "Donnie starts studying time travel, and begins dating a new student named Gretchen, played by Jenna Malone."
[pairs] Donnie Darko ↔ Bring It On · said 7 times in 1 episode
[The Big Picture · 1. ‘Bring It On’ and ‘Donnie Darko’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:25:16 · Adam Fields (0.90)] Donnie Darko · fun · The script circulated so long it arrived with food stains. · "So they literally sent me a script that had food stains on a bunch of the pages."
[The Big Picture · 1. ‘Bring It On’ and ‘Donnie Darko’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:28:38 · Brian Raftery (0.95)] Donnie Darko · fun · Fields planted a trades story claiming filming would start that summer; it was invented and it worked. · "The producer planted a story in the Hollywood trades, announcing they were gonna start filming that summer."
[The Big Picture · 1. ‘Bring It On’ and ‘Donnie Darko’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:28:42 · Adam Fields (0.90)] Donnie Darko · fun · Fields confirms the trades story was fake, but agents began calling. · "It was total bullshit."
[The Big Picture · 1. ‘Bring It On’ and ‘Donnie Darko’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:29:22 · Jake Gyllenhaal (0.85)] Donnie Darko · fun · Gyllenhaal wanted an anti-teen movie, not parties and pies. · "parties and sticking things into pies."
[The Big Picture · 1. ‘Bring It On’ and ‘Donnie Darko’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:31:16 · Brian Raftery (0.95)] Donnie Darko · fun · Subplot about a youth dance team named Sparkle Motion that Raftery skips. · "and a whole subplot about a youth dance team named Sparkle Motion."
[The Big Picture · 1. ‘Bring It On’ and ‘Donnie Darko’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:32:07 · Brian Raftery (0.95)] Donnie Darko · fun · Cost $4.5 million and shot in 28 days, the same as the countdown, a coincidence. · "Donnie Darko cost just $4.5 million, and wound up being filmed in just 28 days."
[The Big Picture · 1. ‘Bring It On’ and ‘Donnie Darko’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:22:48 · Brian Raftery (0.95)] Bring It On ↔ American Pie · lineage · It followed American Pie, 10 Things I Hate About You and She's All That. · "It arrived not long after hits like American Pie, 10 Things I Hate About You, and She's All That."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Do The Right Thing’ · 0:45:38 · Sean Fennessey (0.70)] Do the Right Thing ⇒ 25th Hour (the host's read) · lineage · 25th Hour repeats the racial slur montage as Ed Norton's mirror monologue; Wesley says the repeats made the original less effective for him but 25th Hour has greatness. · "There's a 25th hour version of that too."
[The Rewatchables · 'Talladega Nights' · 2:02:21 · Craig Horlbeck (0.40)] Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby ↔ Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy · programming · Alternate double feature pick: Anchorman and Talladega. · "I think I would rather watch Anchorman and Talladega nights, though, together."
[The Big Picture · 1. ‘Bring It On’ and ‘Donnie Darko’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:02:59 · Brian Raftery (0.90)] Bring It On ↔ Erin Brockovich · theme · Both fit 2000's optimistic can-do spirit; Brockovich is called the most 2000 movie. · "which is probably the most 2000 movie to actually come out in the year 2000."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ · 0:53:40 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] Knocked Up ↔ Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy · programming · The pee-break category is named after the Anchorman flute scene; Bill uses it to mark Knocked Up's 7.5-minute labor stretch. · "The anchorman flute. P-break Award for best time to go go pee"
[The Big Picture · 1. ‘Bring It On’ and ‘Donnie Darko’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:11:31 · Brian Raftery (0.85)] Bring It On ↔ The Breakfast Club · theme · Hughes-era teen movies, like Bring It On, carry grown-up ideas about class, capitalism and sexism. · "it's that they've all got some pretty grown up ideas on their mind."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Domestic Disturbance’ · 0:38:35 · unknown (0.30)] Domestic Disturbance ↔ Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy · craft · Vaughn's sincere lines can only be heard as his rival newscaster in Anchorman. · "I can only hear the rival newscaster from Anchorman that he plays, you know, Vince Mantooth?"
[The Big Picture · 1. ‘Bring It On’ and ‘Donnie Darko’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:12:37 · Brian Raftery (0.90)] Jessica Bendinger ⇒ Bring It On (the maker said so: her own interview, quoted on the show) · theme · Her hip hop journalism at Spin shaped the film's theme of white kids imitating black artists. · "Years later, when she got into the world of cheerleading, she saw that pattern repeating itself."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Incredible Hulk · 1:20:22 · Griffin or David (0.30)] Iron Man 2 ↔ Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy · craft · Iron Man 2 feels like the improvised second movie cut from Anchorman's leftover footage, but with a new story. · "That's what Iron Man 2 feels like, except it's a new story."
[The Big Picture · 1. ‘Bring It On’ and ‘Donnie Darko’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:22:54 · Brian Raftery (0.95)] Bring It On ↔ She's All That · theme · Like those films it had teen angst but stayed hopeful about life. · "Movies that had plenty of teen angst, but that were ultimately pretty hopeful about life in general."
[The Big Picture · 1. ‘Bring It On’ and ‘Donnie Darko’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:19:46 · Brian Raftery (0.90)] Aqua ↔ Bring It On · craft · The studio's marketing team set the Bring It On trailer to the Aqua song 'Happy Boys and Girls'. · "the studio made a lively, colorful trailer, set to the Aqua song Happy Boys and Girls."
[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] Adam Fields · latest sketch, The Big Picture · 1. ‘Bring It On’ and ‘Donnie Darko’ | Mission Accomplished · Producer drawn to realistic teen dialogue in the Hughes mold and surreal Twilight Zone-style twists. He is a hustler who will plant a story to build buzz. · stances: Don't open Sundance; wait until people have seen bad movies; Kelly could handle actors despite being a rookie
[speaker] Jake Gyllenhaal · no sketch
[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] Richard Kelly · no sketch
[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 Donnie Darko (2001); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Donnie Darko (2001) 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.