What the corpus says about The 13th Warrior (1999)

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 (26)

[Blank Check — Patreon · The 13th Warrior · 0:41:55 · unknown (0.40)] The 13th Warrior ↔ Timeline · programming · Timeline and The 13th Warrior called a brutal Crichton double feature. · "Man, Timeline and the 13th Warrior would be a brutal double feature."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The 13th Warrior · 1:49:16 · unknown (0.35)] The 13th Warrior ↔ The Sixth Sense · programming · The Sixth Sense was Disney's own mega-hit, number one the weekend The 13th Warrior opened, covering their loss. · "Disney's basically covered their losses from this movie"
[Blank Check — Patreon · The 13th Warrior · 0:25:39 · unknown (0.50)] Beowulf adaptations ⇒ The 13th Warrior (the host's read) · lineage · The film is the Beowulf story told as Crichton's 'what was the real thing they were fighting' version. · "Even going back to Crichton's original concept of like, what's the real story behind Beowulf?"
[Blank Check — Patreon · The 13th Warrior · 0:31:02 · David Lowery (0.80)] The 13th Warrior ↔ The Northman · lineage · The Northman is the modern take on Viking storytelling; Lowery rewatched its funeral scene because it echoes this film's incantation. · "the same, the same incantation, like the low, I see my father, low, I see my mother"
[Blank Check — Patreon · The 13th Warrior · 1:34:34 · unknown (0.40)] The 13th Warrior ↔ Flesh and Blood · lineage · Verhoeven's Flesh and Blood feels like being there; it's the better film, and both put medieval art on screen. · "Flesh and blood is a better film."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The 13th Warrior · 0:28:42 · David Lowery (0.85)] The 13th Warrior ↔ Heat · theme · The scene of a mortal sitting to die while another watches reminded Lowery of De Niro watching Pacino in Heat. · "It reminded me of Robert De Niro dying in heat."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The 13th Warrior · 0:42:21 · unknown (0.40)] Timeline ↔ The 13th Warrior · theme · Both are castle-and-torches Crichton adaptations where Hollywood guessed Vikings/medieval and audiences did not care. · "Both of those movies are lead actors who absolutely do not belong in this film."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The 13th Warrior · 1:23:07 · unknown (0.45)] The 13th Warrior ↔ Season of the Witch · theme · The speaker wants a McTiernan-elevated version of what Season of the Witch does: real knights facing something maybe supernatural. · "I want the elevated McTiernan movie of what I think that movie accomplishes."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The 13th Warrior · 1:24:12 · David Lowery (0.70)] The 13th Warrior ↔ Throne of Blood · craft · A threat that sounds mythic (fireworm, moving trees) and then resolves as people carrying things is a letdown, like Throne of Blood's trees. · "I mean, I remember in Throne of Blood, the Kurosama movie, all the trees coming forward is terrifying, cool."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The 13th Warrior · 1:28:51 · unknown (0.50)] The 13th Warrior ↔ The Great Gatsby · craft · Observer-narrator problem: the Nick Carraway type who just watches is hard to dramatize, as in Gatsby adaptations and here. · "what do we do about this character who just watches everything happen and then is like idly thinking about it later?"
[Blank Check — Patreon · The 13th Warrior · 1:34:51 · David Lowery (0.60)] The 13th Warrior ↔ Lawrence of Arabia · craft · The photochemical look and fine-art sense of image link it to David Lean-era filmmaking via Omar Sharif. · "like, let's go to Lawrence Arabia, which was also completely photograph, like photochemical movie."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The 13th Warrior · 1:05:22 · unknown (0.40)] The 13th Warrior ↔ The Hobbit films · contrast · Even the Hobbit movies work to make characters visually distinctive; here the dark, muddy Vikings blur together. · "even the fucking Hobbit movies"
[Blank Check — Patreon · The 13th Warrior · 1:22:37 · unknown (0.45)] The 13th Warrior ↔ The Descent · contrast · The pile of skulls and matriarch is utterly terrifying in The Descent; here the same elements are not scary. · "Whereas in the descent, you're just like looking also at a pile of skulls with a matriarch of an underground society and you're like, this is utterly terrifying."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The 13th Warrior · 1:32:25 · David Lowery (0.65)] The 13th Warrior ↔ The Lord of the Rings · contrast · Lord of the Rings a few years later has the same content (monsters attacking a wooden fort, a cave of skulls) but with new digital tools. · "even Lord of the Rings a few years later, which has a lot of the same scenes"
[Blank Check — Patreon · The 13th Warrior · 0:10:20 · unknown (0.40)] The 13th Warrior ↔ The Thomas Crown Affair · career · McTiernan finished and released Thomas Crown first; its success cushioned the damage of the 13th Warrior flop. · "Thomas Crown comes out 3 weeks before"
[Blank Check — Patreon · The 13th Warrior · 1:56:11 · unknown (0.50)] The Thomas Crown Affair ↔ The 13th Warrior · career · Thomas Crown Affair read as McTiernan's safe, uncomplicated home run after the ordeal of this movie. · "It just has to be uncomplicated, like fucking home run."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The 13th Warrior · 0:13:41 · Ben Frisch (0.85)] Warriors of Virtue ↔ The 13th Warrior · people · Ben mistook the two when he was asked to fill in, and thought McTiernan had made the kangaroo movie. · "geez, John McTiernan's career must have taken a really strange turn to do the kangaroo movie."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The 13th Warrior · 0:55:06 · David Lowery (0.70)] The 13th Warrior ↔ Peter Pan and Wendy · people · John DeSantis (a Viking here) is also in Master and Commander and Lowery's Peter Pan and Wendy. · "And Peter Pan, who's who's taller than Michael Crichton"
[Blank Check — Patreon · The 13th Warrior · 0:07:00 · unknown (0.30)] The 13th Warrior ↔ Tomorrowland · industry · Tomorrowland named among the biggest Disney money-losers that came after this one. · "Tomorrowland's in the top 10."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The 13th Warrior · 0:07:11 · unknown (0.30)] The 13th Warrior ↔ The Lone Ranger · industry · The Lone Ranger raised as another Disney bomb that cost a fortune. · "Well, but what's the one that cost so much?"
[Blank Check — Patreon · The 13th Warrior · 0:15:38 · unknown (0.40)] The 51st State (Formula 51) ↔ The 13th Warrior · industry · A retitle for the US (Formula 51) is the same mistake as renaming Eaters of the Dead. · "The equivalent of the 13th Warrior."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The 13th Warrior · 0:20:00 · unknown (0.35)] The 13th Warrior ↔ John Carter · industry · Cited alongside John Carter as one of the great Disney flops. · "citing this movie alongside John Carter, right?"
[Blank Check — Patreon · The 13th Warrior · 0:25:29 · unknown (0.35)] The 13th Warrior ↔ The Flash · industry · Treating this movie as a must-work tentpole is compared to the Flash. · "treat this movie like it's the Flash or whatever and say, like, we need this to work."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The 13th Warrior · 0:57:54 · unknown (0.40)] The 13th Warrior ↔ The Haunting · industry · Disney should have sold this as horror, as a shift to prestige horror was happening around it. · "But I do think when a budget gets over a certain number, they're just like, this can't be horror."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The 13th Warrior · 0:26:59 · David Lowery (0.90)] The Green Knight ↔ The 13th Warrior · what-if · Lowery would want a Green Knight-style capped-budget version of this story, though now it would scare him. · "the version of this I would want to see is the like Green Knight style version of it."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The 13th Warrior · 1:08:49 · unknown (0.50)] The 13th Warrior ↔ Gladiator · what-if · Banderas was supposedly cast here and so dropped out of Gladiator, which was built for him. · "And it's because of fucking Benderas being cast in the wrong movie, which causes him to drop out of the right movie."

Films put beside it more than once (2)

[pairs] The 13th Warrior ↔ The Thomas Crown Affair · said 2 times in 1 episode
[pairs] The 13th Warrior ↔ Timeline · said 2 times in 1 episode

Fun items about it (6)

[Blank Check — Patreon · The 13th Warrior · 0:06:10 · unknown (0.45)] The 13th Warrior · fun · By some accounts the biggest money loser in Hollywood history at the time; only a couple of later Disney flops (John Carter) arguably surpass it. · "This, by some accounts, is the biggest money loser in the history of Hollywood."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The 13th Warrior · 0:12:04 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] The 13th Warrior · fun · Lowery texted that he talks about this movie with odd frequency for a film he had not seen since it opened. · "13th Warrior is something I talk about with odd frequency for a movie I haven't seen since it opened."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The 13th Warrior · 0:19:20 · David Lowery (0.75)] The 13th Warrior · fun · Lowery read the whole novel while waiting for the start of the New York City Marathon. · "the book was short enough that I read the entire thing while waiting to start the marathon?"
[Blank Check — Patreon · The 13th Warrior · 0:21:06 · unknown (0.45)] The 13th Warrior · fun · Dueling reshoot units: McTiernan and Crichton each shot reshoots on different stages of the same complex, with the cast shuttling between them. · "but at one point there are dueling reshoot units, we're on different stages, in the same complex."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The 13th Warrior · 0:28:21 · David Lowery (0.90)] The 13th Warrior · fun · The Beowulf surrogate's death scene, a man sitting down to die while another watches, stuck with Lowery as a mortal passing into legend. · "And that moment stuck with me, where he just sits there and dying is like, an inherently pathetic act."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The 13th Warrior · 0:32:27 · David Lowery (0.85)] The 13th Warrior · fun · As a young projectionist Lowery threaded the original Eaters of the Dead trailer, and studios sent letters to pull trailers when release dates slipped. · "The 1st trailer had Eaters of the Dead as the title on it."

One hop out: what recommends the films most often joined to it (10)

[Blank Check — Patreon · Spartacus · 0:26:03 · unknown (0.40)] Topkapi ⇒ The Thomas Crown Affair (the host's read) · lineage · MGM tried to remake Topkapi as a sequel to the Brosnan Thomas Crown Affair, with Verhoeven. · "Because wasn't Verhoven was going to remake Top Cappy as a sequel to Thomas Crown Affair."
[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."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The 13th Warrior · 1:55:45 · unknown (0.40)] The Thomas Crown Affair ↔ John McTiernan · craft · McTiernan's fine-art eye is literal in Thomas Crown: he picked all the paintings. · "he picked all the paintings"
[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."
[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."
[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 · 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 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."

Who said it, by their latest sketch (3)

[speaker] David Lowery · latest sketch, Blank Check — Patreon · The 13th Warrior · Loves myth-making, peeling back legend, scenes about language and communication, and quiet deaths between peers. Prefers the analog 90s look and despises ADR. A sucker for Vikings, Beowulf and a mortal passing into legend. · stances: The language-learning scene is the one great scene; A capped-budget Green Knight style version is the one he would want; Signature style can be a crutch; problem-solving is better
[speaker] Ben Frisch · latest sketch, Blank Check — Patreon · The 13th Warrior · Producer filling in for Ben Hosley. Was scared of creature costumes and many movies as a kid, and came in expecting a different film entirely. · stances: Thought the episode would be about Warriors of Virtue
[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

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] 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)

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 The 13th Warrior (1999) 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 The 13th Warrior (1999) 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.

[Blank Check — Patreon · The 13th Warrior · 0:41:55 · unknown (0.40)] The 13th Warrior ↔ Timeline · programming · Timeline and The 13th Warrior called a brutal Crichton double feature. · "Man, Timeline and the 13th Warrior would be a brutal double feature."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The 13th Warrior · 1:49:16 · unknown (0.35)] The 13th Warrior ↔ The Sixth Sense · programming · The Sixth Sense was Disney's own mega-hit, number one the weekend The 13th Warrior opened, covering their loss. · "Disney's basically covered their losses from this movie"
[Blank Check — Patreon · The 13th Warrior · 0:25:39 · unknown (0.50)] Beowulf adaptations ⇒ The 13th Warrior (the host's read) · lineage · The film is the Beowulf story told as Crichton's 'what was the real thing they were fighting' version. · "Even going back to Crichton's original concept of like, what's the real story behind Beowulf?"
[Blank Check — Patreon · The 13th Warrior · 0:31:02 · David Lowery (0.80)] The 13th Warrior ↔ The Northman · lineage · The Northman is the modern take on Viking storytelling; Lowery rewatched its funeral scene because it echoes this film's incantation. · "the same, the same incantation, like the low, I see my father, low, I see my mother"
[Blank Check — Patreon · The 13th Warrior · 1:34:34 · unknown (0.40)] The 13th Warrior ↔ Flesh and Blood · lineage · Verhoeven's Flesh and Blood feels like being there; it's the better film, and both put medieval art on screen. · "Flesh and blood is a better film."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The 13th Warrior · 0:28:42 · David Lowery (0.85)] The 13th Warrior ↔ Heat · theme · The scene of a mortal sitting to die while another watches reminded Lowery of De Niro watching Pacino in Heat. · "It reminded me of Robert De Niro dying in heat."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The 13th Warrior · 0:42:21 · unknown (0.40)] Timeline ↔ The 13th Warrior · theme · Both are castle-and-torches Crichton adaptations where Hollywood guessed Vikings/medieval and audiences did not care. · "Both of those movies are lead actors who absolutely do not belong in this film."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The 13th Warrior · 1:23:07 · unknown (0.45)] The 13th Warrior ↔ Season of the Witch · theme · The speaker wants a McTiernan-elevated version of what Season of the Witch does: real knights facing something maybe supernatural. · "I want the elevated McTiernan movie of what I think that movie accomplishes."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The 13th Warrior · 1:24:12 · David Lowery (0.70)] The 13th Warrior ↔ Throne of Blood · craft · A threat that sounds mythic (fireworm, moving trees) and then resolves as people carrying things is a letdown, like Throne of Blood's trees. · "I mean, I remember in Throne of Blood, the Kurosama movie, all the trees coming forward is terrifying, cool."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The 13th Warrior · 1:28:51 · unknown (0.50)] The 13th Warrior ↔ The Great Gatsby · craft · Observer-narrator problem: the Nick Carraway type who just watches is hard to dramatize, as in Gatsby adaptations and here. · "what do we do about this character who just watches everything happen and then is like idly thinking about it later?"
[Blank Check — Patreon · The 13th Warrior · 1:34:51 · David Lowery (0.60)] The 13th Warrior ↔ Lawrence of Arabia · craft · The photochemical look and fine-art sense of image link it to David Lean-era filmmaking via Omar Sharif. · "like, let's go to Lawrence Arabia, which was also completely photograph, like photochemical movie."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The 13th Warrior · 1:05:22 · unknown (0.40)] The 13th Warrior ↔ The Hobbit films · contrast · Even the Hobbit movies work to make characters visually distinctive; here the dark, muddy Vikings blur together. · "even the fucking Hobbit movies"
[Blank Check — Patreon · The 13th Warrior · 1:22:37 · unknown (0.45)] The 13th Warrior ↔ The Descent · contrast · The pile of skulls and matriarch is utterly terrifying in The Descent; here the same elements are not scary. · "Whereas in the descent, you're just like looking also at a pile of skulls with a matriarch of an underground society and you're like, this is utterly terrifying."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The 13th Warrior · 1:32:25 · David Lowery (0.65)] The 13th Warrior ↔ The Lord of the Rings · contrast · Lord of the Rings a few years later has the same content (monsters attacking a wooden fort, a cave of skulls) but with new digital tools. · "even Lord of the Rings a few years later, which has a lot of the same scenes"
[Blank Check — Patreon · The 13th Warrior · 0:10:20 · unknown (0.40)] The 13th Warrior ↔ The Thomas Crown Affair · career · McTiernan finished and released Thomas Crown first; its success cushioned the damage of the 13th Warrior flop. · "Thomas Crown comes out 3 weeks before"
[Blank Check — Patreon · The 13th Warrior · 1:56:11 · unknown (0.50)] The Thomas Crown Affair ↔ The 13th Warrior · career · Thomas Crown Affair read as McTiernan's safe, uncomplicated home run after the ordeal of this movie. · "It just has to be uncomplicated, like fucking home run."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The 13th Warrior · 0:13:41 · Ben Frisch (0.85)] Warriors of Virtue ↔ The 13th Warrior · people · Ben mistook the two when he was asked to fill in, and thought McTiernan had made the kangaroo movie. · "geez, John McTiernan's career must have taken a really strange turn to do the kangaroo movie."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The 13th Warrior · 0:55:06 · David Lowery (0.70)] The 13th Warrior ↔ Peter Pan and Wendy · people · John DeSantis (a Viking here) is also in Master and Commander and Lowery's Peter Pan and Wendy. · "And Peter Pan, who's who's taller than Michael Crichton"
[Blank Check — Patreon · The 13th Warrior · 0:07:00 · unknown (0.30)] The 13th Warrior ↔ Tomorrowland · industry · Tomorrowland named among the biggest Disney money-losers that came after this one. · "Tomorrowland's in the top 10."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The 13th Warrior · 0:07:11 · unknown (0.30)] The 13th Warrior ↔ The Lone Ranger · industry · The Lone Ranger raised as another Disney bomb that cost a fortune. · "Well, but what's the one that cost so much?"
[Blank Check — Patreon · The 13th Warrior · 0:15:38 · unknown (0.40)] The 51st State (Formula 51) ↔ The 13th Warrior · industry · A retitle for the US (Formula 51) is the same mistake as renaming Eaters of the Dead. · "The equivalent of the 13th Warrior."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The 13th Warrior · 0:20:00 · unknown (0.35)] The 13th Warrior ↔ John Carter · industry · Cited alongside John Carter as one of the great Disney flops. · "citing this movie alongside John Carter, right?"
[Blank Check — Patreon · The 13th Warrior · 0:25:29 · unknown (0.35)] The 13th Warrior ↔ The Flash · industry · Treating this movie as a must-work tentpole is compared to the Flash. · "treat this movie like it's the Flash or whatever and say, like, we need this to work."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The 13th Warrior · 0:57:54 · unknown (0.40)] The 13th Warrior ↔ The Haunting · industry · Disney should have sold this as horror, as a shift to prestige horror was happening around it. · "But I do think when a budget gets over a certain number, they're just like, this can't be horror."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The 13th Warrior · 0:26:59 · David Lowery (0.90)] The Green Knight ↔ The 13th Warrior · what-if · Lowery would want a Green Knight-style capped-budget version of this story, though now it would scare him. · "the version of this I would want to see is the like Green Knight style version of it."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The 13th Warrior · 1:08:49 · unknown (0.50)] The 13th Warrior ↔ Gladiator · what-if · Banderas was supposedly cast here and so dropped out of Gladiator, which was built for him. · "And it's because of fucking Benderas being cast in the wrong movie, which causes him to drop out of the right movie."
[pairs] The 13th Warrior ↔ The Thomas Crown Affair · said 2 times in 1 episode
[pairs] The 13th Warrior ↔ Timeline · said 2 times in 1 episode
[Blank Check — Patreon · The 13th Warrior · 0:06:10 · unknown (0.45)] The 13th Warrior · fun · By some accounts the biggest money loser in Hollywood history at the time; only a couple of later Disney flops (John Carter) arguably surpass it. · "This, by some accounts, is the biggest money loser in the history of Hollywood."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The 13th Warrior · 0:12:04 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] The 13th Warrior · fun · Lowery texted that he talks about this movie with odd frequency for a film he had not seen since it opened. · "13th Warrior is something I talk about with odd frequency for a movie I haven't seen since it opened."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The 13th Warrior · 0:19:20 · David Lowery (0.75)] The 13th Warrior · fun · Lowery read the whole novel while waiting for the start of the New York City Marathon. · "the book was short enough that I read the entire thing while waiting to start the marathon?"
[Blank Check — Patreon · The 13th Warrior · 0:21:06 · unknown (0.45)] The 13th Warrior · fun · Dueling reshoot units: McTiernan and Crichton each shot reshoots on different stages of the same complex, with the cast shuttling between them. · "but at one point there are dueling reshoot units, we're on different stages, in the same complex."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The 13th Warrior · 0:28:21 · David Lowery (0.90)] The 13th Warrior · fun · The Beowulf surrogate's death scene, a man sitting down to die while another watches, stuck with Lowery as a mortal passing into legend. · "And that moment stuck with me, where he just sits there and dying is like, an inherently pathetic act."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The 13th Warrior · 0:32:27 · David Lowery (0.85)] The 13th Warrior · fun · As a young projectionist Lowery threaded the original Eaters of the Dead trailer, and studios sent letters to pull trailers when release dates slipped. · "The 1st trailer had Eaters of the Dead as the title on it."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Spartacus · 0:26:03 · unknown (0.40)] Topkapi ⇒ The Thomas Crown Affair (the host's read) · lineage · MGM tried to remake Topkapi as a sequel to the Brosnan Thomas Crown Affair, with Verhoeven. · "Because wasn't Verhoven was going to remake Top Cappy as a sequel to Thomas Crown Affair."
[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."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The 13th Warrior · 1:55:45 · unknown (0.40)] The Thomas Crown Affair ↔ John McTiernan · craft · McTiernan's fine-art eye is literal in Thomas Crown: he picked all the paintings. · "he picked all the paintings"
[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."
[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."
[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 · 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 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."
[speaker] David Lowery · latest sketch, Blank Check — Patreon · The 13th Warrior · Loves myth-making, peeling back legend, scenes about language and communication, and quiet deaths between peers. Prefers the analog 90s look and despises ADR. A sucker for Vikings, Beowulf and a mortal passing into legend. · stances: The language-learning scene is the one great scene; A capped-budget Green Knight style version is the one he would want; Signature style can be a crutch; problem-solving is better
[speaker] Ben Frisch · latest sketch, Blank Check — Patreon · The 13th Warrior · Producer filling in for Ben Hosley. Was scared of creature costumes and many movies as a kid, and came in expecting a different film entirely. · stances: Thought the episode would be about Warriors of Virtue
[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
[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)

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 The 13th Warrior (1999); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend The 13th Warrior (1999) 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.