What the corpus says about Misery (1990)

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

What was said about it (26)

[The Rewatchables · ‘Misery’ · 0:14:44 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Stand by Me ↔ Misery · programming · Reiner's run: Stand By Me leads to When Harry Met Sally, Misery, A Few Good Men. · "It leads to, um, stand by me."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Misery’ · 0:15:13 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] Misery ↔ A Few Good Men · programming · Misery sits in Reiner's incredible trio, all now Rewatchables. · "But when Harry Met Ali, Misery, Few Good Men, is really the best of all of these different great actors, right?"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Misery’ · 0:51:47 · Bill Simmons (0.65)] Misery ↔ The Silence of the Lambs · programming · Annie Wilkes and Hannibal Lecter came back to back, two great thriller characters in 12 months. · "Annie Wilkes and Hannibal Lecter, back to back ears."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Misery’ · 0:57:17 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] Forgetting Sarah Marshall ⇒ Misery (the host's read) · programming · Dracula the Musical award is borrowed from Sarah Marshall; given to the Misery books. · "We relate, so in, in, uh, forgetting Sarah Marshall."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Misery’ · 0:59:07 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] Pulp Fiction ⇒ Misery (the host's read) · programming · Butch's Girlfriend Award for weak link of the film is borrowed from Pulp Fiction. · "The Butch's girlfriend Award, Butch's girlfriend from Pulp Fiction."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Misery’ · 1:19:39 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] Misery ↔ Stand by Me · programming · Simmons' double feature is Stand By Me and Misery. · "I would do standby me in misery."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Misery’ · 1:19:44 · Brian Koppelman (0.60)] Misery ↔ The Dead Zone · programming · Koppelman's double feature is Dead Zone and Misery. · "Dead zone and misery."
[Blank Check — Patreon · 2025 March Madness Update 1 · 0:06:04 · unknown (0.50)] Stand by Me ↔ Misery · programming · They would fold Reiner's Stand by Me and Misery into a Stephen King series. · "So stand by me in misery, both go into a king."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Misery’ · 0:04:34 · Brian Koppelman (0.80)] Misery ↔ The Shawshank Redemption · lineage · King adaptations ranked: Stand By Me, Shawshank, Misery, and The Shining as the four best. · "Misery's the 3rd of that of the 3 best ones, I think, and the Shining, right?"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Misery’ · 0:11:08 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] Stand by Me ⇒ Misery (the host's read) · lineage · King's first adaptation he liked was Stand By Me; Reiner got Misery through that deal. · "the 1st one of the 1st adaptation of his that he actually really liked was stand by me."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Misery’ · 1:09:19 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] Misery ↔ Tommy Knockers · theme · King put his dependency into his books; Tommy Knockers is clearly cocaine. · "Tommy knockers is clearly cocaine."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Misery’ · 1:09:33 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] Misery ↔ The King of Comedy · theme · Obsessed-fan movies: King of Comedy first, then Misery's Bates at the apex. · "Crazy obsessed fans in a movie?"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Misery’ · 0:19:50 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] Misery ↔ Rounders · craft · Koppelman's own Rounders last-hand story echoes Goldman's you-never-know theme: he was sure, and was wrong. · "Goldman's recurring theme and all of his books is, you never know."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Misery’ · 1:10:49 · Brian Koppelman (0.50)] Misery ↔ The Princess Bride · craft · Reiner's apex discussion; the wine scene echoes iocaine powder in Princess Bride. · "the wine scene, it's funny, the iocaine powder, he's trying to put iocaine powder in her wine"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Misery’ · 0:41:52 · Bill Simmons (0.65)] A Few Good Men ↔ Misery · contrast · A Few Good Men can be rolled into anywhere; Misery cannot be started midway. · "You could just kind of roll into a few good men, wherever it's it's a perfect rewatchable, right?"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Misery’ · 1:20:00 · Brian Koppelman (0.75)] Misery ↔ Something Wild · contrast · Double-feature: Something Wild flips Misery, with Liotta as the crazed one chasing. · "He's the crazed person stalking and chasing after the person, something wild."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Misery’ · 0:45:10 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] Misery ↔ Hoosiers · verdict · Misery is a tier 2 or 3 rewatchable, not A Few Good Men or Hoosiers. · "it's probably like a tier 2 or a tier 3 rewatchable, it's not like a few good men."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Misery’ · 0:45:23 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] Misery ↔ The Ice Storm · verdict · Rewatchable lane: riveted by acting and uniqueness, like The Ice Storm. · "it's kind of on that ice storm lane of like, I'm just so riveted by how good the acting is"
[The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 0:57:27 · Sean Fennessey (0.85)] Sean Fennessey ↔ Misery · programming · Pick 10 (round 4), category action/horror/thriller: Best of the bunch; Stephen King, Kathy Bates, Goldman, Reiner. · "I'll take misery."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Misery’ · 0:11:22 · Bill Simmons (0.75)] Stephen King ⇒ Misery (the host's read) · theme · Misery is King's book about addiction; Annie Wilkes stands for the painkillers. · "Annie Wilkes is really, she represents that, this thing that's trying to kill him."
[The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 0:58:18 · Sean Fennessey (0.80)] Stephen King ⇒ Misery (the host's read) · theme · King writing about his nightmare of a fan who takes things too far. · "Stephen King writing about, like, basically his work's nightmare"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Misery’ · 0:02:09 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] Misery ↔ William Goldman · craft · Misery is called a perfectly executed film and Goldman wrote it. · "Our friend Goldman wrote this movie."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Misery’ · 0:57:08 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Marc Shaiman ↔ Misery · craft · Praises Shaiman's score for Misery. · "Mark Shaman does a really good job with the score."
[The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 0:58:18 · Sean Fennessey (0.80)] Misery ↔ William Goldman · people · Misery is adapted by Goldman and directed by Rob Reiner. · "adapted by the great William Goldman, uh, directed by Rob Reiner"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Misery’ · 0:17:00 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] Misery ↔ George Roy Hill · what-if · Hill, hired to direct, passed because he could not get past the hobbling scene. · "George Ray Hill's like, I can't get past the scene."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Misery’ · 0:17:35 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] Misery ↔ Warren Beatty · what-if · Beatty would have been unbelievable as Paul Sheldon but would not play a loser stuck in bed. · "Warren Beatty, who would have been unbelievable in the James Con part."

Films put beside it more than once (2)

[pairs] Misery ↔ Stand by Me · said 4 times in 2 episodes
[pairs] Misery ↔ A Few Good Men · said 2 times in 1 episode

Fun items about it (6)

[The Rewatchables · ‘Misery’ · 0:18:11 · Brian Koppelman (0.80)] Misery · fun · Warren Beatty never wanted to sit in bed and let the other person be the star; Scheinman told Koppelman beside a tennis court. · "I could tell from moment one, Warren was never going to do it"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Misery’ · 0:19:18 · Bill Simmons (0.90)] Misery · fun · Goldman wanted the job because of King's foot-chopping scene; George Roy Hill could not direct it, and Reiner and Scheinman softened it to the ankle-breaking hobbling. · "The lapping scene was gone now forever replaced by the ankle breaking scene."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Misery’ · 0:19:35 · Bill Simmons (0.90)] Misery · fun · Goldman later wrote the changed scene worked, and the audience would have hated Annie if it had gone his way. · "If it had gone the way I wanted, it would have been too much."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Misery’ · 0:37:57 · Bill Simmons (0.90)] Misery · fun · Bates is the only King adaptation to win a main Oscar and first woman to win Best Actress in a horror thriller. · "This was the only film based on a Stephen King novel to win one of the main Oscars."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Misery’ · 0:42:05 · Brian Koppelman (0.55)] Misery · fun · Dinner scene is the most rewatchable; Simmons believes she spilled the wine on purpose. · "I think she did spill the wine on purpose."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Misery’ · 0:51:36 · Bill Simmons (0.85)] Misery · fun · Mr. Man: Annie's pet name for Paul is a running joke in Simmons' house. · "Mr. Man is so fucking funny."

One hop out: what recommends the films most often joined to it (20)

[Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory · 1:31:20 · Sarah Marshall (0.85)] Paths of Glory ↔ Stand by Me · theme · Admitting you live in a world of men, as Paths of Glory and Stand by Me do, beats token female characters. · "I love it when movies, like, don't pretend to be interested in women when they clearly aren't, you know?"
[The Big Picture · Aaron Sorkin Top 5s and ‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’ · 1:19:27 · Sean Fennessey (0.55)] A Few Good Men ↔ Network · programming · It is in the conversation for most rewatched movie of a lifetime, next to Network, Oz, Godfather, Goodfellas and Pulp Fiction. · "and a few good men is right there with it."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Iron Man · 2:09:29 · unknown (0.30)] Forgetting Sarah Marshall ⇒ Get Him to the Greek (the host's read) · lineage · Get Him to the Greek is the quasi-sequel/spinoff of Forgetting Sarah Marshall. · "They made kind of a spinoff."
[The Rewatchables · ‘My Cousin Vinny’ · 0:04:48 · Chris Ryan (0.60)] My Cousin Vinny ↔ Hoosiers · lineage · Courtroom movies are sports movies, and this one becomes Hoosiers in the last 30 minutes. · "it becomes basically Hoosiers in the last 30 minutes."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Pulp Fiction’ (Part 2) · 2:37:16 · unknown (0.00)] Pulp Fiction ↔ Black Sabbath · programming · Best double features: Black Sabbath (anthology), Saturday Night Fever, Inglourious Basterds, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. · "So you get an anthology movie."
[The Big Picture · Objection! Top 10 Courtroom Dramas | The Big Picture · 0:11:07 · Sean Fennessey (0.80)] The Pelican Brief ↔ A Few Good Men · programming · Disqualified: legal thriller, not courtroom drama, operating outside the courtroom. · "operates almost entirely outside of the courtroom"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Rocky’ · 0:57:04 · Van Lathan (0.45)] Rocky ↔ Hoosiers · theme · Sports movies of the era pit an audience-favorite against the black player or team, like Hoosiers and Rocky. · "it's like Hoosiers, it's rocky."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Pulp Fiction’ (Part 2) · 2:37:26 · unknown (0.00)] Pulp Fiction ↔ Inglourious Basterds · programming · Inglourious Basterds paired for its short-story structure; Once Upon a Time for bookending Tarantino's career. · "I have bastards because I feel like structurally it's it's got some the short story aspect of his very, it locks in together."
[The Big Picture · Objection! Top 10 Courtroom Dramas | The Big Picture · 0:12:02 · Sean Fennessey (0.85)] 12 Angry Men ↔ A Few Good Men · programming · 12 Angry Men is a technicality: a morality play in a side room, not a courtroom drama. · "It's a morality play inside of a side room related to a courtroom"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Miracle’ · 1:09:32 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Miracle ↔ Hoosiers · theme · Coaches say winning is everything, then the Hoosiers speech says play your game and I'll love you. · "That's what fucking Hackman says to the Hoosiers."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Ice Storm’ · 1:27:53 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] The Ice Storm ↔ Pulp Fiction · programming · Next episodes will cover two famous movies; Ryan and Simmons tease Pulp Fiction. · "I've been watching a lot of pulp fiction lately."
[The Big Picture · Objection! Top 10 Courtroom Dramas | The Big Picture · 0:14:25 · Sean Fennessey (0.80)] To Kill a Mockingbird ↔ A Few Good Men · programming · Left off the list as more homework than pleasurable; the list favors twisty, speechifying, overacting movies. · "pleasurability factor of a lot of these movies"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ · 0:03:58 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Reservoir Dogs ↔ Pulp Fiction · programming · Reservoir Dogs found much of its audience after Pulp Fiction, via rentals. · "After Pulp Fiction and then circled back and rented Reservoir Dogs."
[Blank Check — Patreon · 2025 March Madness Update 1 · 0:06:13 · unknown (0.40)] A Few Good Men ↔ Aaron Sorkin · programming · A Few Good Men and The American President get folded into a Sorkin series, not a Reiner one. · "Few good men in American president."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Pulp Fiction’ (Part 2) · 0:04:26 · Sean Fennessey (0.35)] Reservoir Dogs ⇒ Pulp Fiction (the host's read) · lineage · Pulp's opening two-song credits echo the radio dial concept from Reservoir Dogs. · "Well, the radio, the concept of the radio had been in Reservoir Dogs, but I think switching the songs in the middle, because you hear him change the dial."
[Blank Check · The Color of Money · 1:36:10 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] A Few Good Men ↔ Heat 2 · lineage · A hypothetical Sorkin A Few Good Men sequel is compared to Heat 2 as a legacy-sequel recast by its original creator. · "it's not Fincher doing the legacyquel with an entirely different cast, but it is Sorkin making his own legacy."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Pulp Fiction’ (Part 2) · 0:06:07 · Bill Simmons (0.40)] Pulp Fiction ⇒ Pulp Fiction imitators (the host's read) · lineage · The Royale-in-Paris, Amsterdam conversation is the most parodied and copied stretch of screenwriting of the last 30 years. · "Yeah. I would argue this is the most ripped off four and a half minutes of screenwriting in the past 30 years."
[Blank Check · The Color of Money · 1:37:25 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] A Few Good Men ↔ NCIS · lineage · A Few Good Men's JAG lawyer role is linked to the JAG/NCIS rights tangle as the joke legacy sequel. · "As we all know, NCIS is based on JAG. is a spinoff. technically a spinoff of the TV show, Jack."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Pulp Fiction’ (Part 2) · 0:09:49 · Bill Simmons (0.40)] Lee Majors ⇒ Pulp Fiction (the host's read) · lineage · The setup of Vincent taking the boss's wife out echoes a Hollywood story about Lee Majors asking someone to take Farrah Fawcett out while he was away. · "Because Lee Majors is going out of town."
[The Big Picture · Objection! Top 10 Courtroom Dramas | The Big Picture · 1:07:27 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60)] The Verdict ⇒ A Few Good Men (the host's read) · lineage · You cannot have A Few Good Men without The Verdict; everything on the courtroom checklist comes from it. · "you really, really cannot have a few good men without having the verdict"

Who said it, by their latest sketch (3)

[speaker] Bill Simmons · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · Loves the Friday series as a communal, rental-era memory and tells childhood stories about the ads and theaters. Likes casting what-ifs and sports analogies for everything. Skeptical of horror at Christmas and of anything that wastes the premise. · stances: Friday the 13th is not the best entry but the origin story had to be told; Friday 2 is a leap over the original
[speaker] Brian Koppelman · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘Margin Call’ · Loves craft: Chandor's economy, not speaking down, and actors like Tucci and Hoffman. Sucker for heightened workplace dialogue and one-night structures. · stances: Margin Call is among the 10 best of 15 years; Hanks does not play sleaze; Conflict structure over a night is the point
[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

The shows' running bits (3)

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

The whole prompt

As the model gets it, from app/Ai/Prompts/CorpusAsk.md

You are a clerk at Video Culture, a video store. A customer just finished Misery (1990) 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 Misery (1990) and the films around it, one line each. Every line starts with where it came from, in brackets: [show · episode · time · speaker (how sure we are it was them)]. A [pairs] line says how often two films were put side by side. A [speaker] line says what that person likes. A [bits] line lists a show's running bits: a format, not an opinion.

[The Rewatchables · ‘Misery’ · 0:14:44 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Stand by Me ↔ Misery · programming · Reiner's run: Stand By Me leads to When Harry Met Sally, Misery, A Few Good Men. · "It leads to, um, stand by me."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Misery’ · 0:15:13 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] Misery ↔ A Few Good Men · programming · Misery sits in Reiner's incredible trio, all now Rewatchables. · "But when Harry Met Ali, Misery, Few Good Men, is really the best of all of these different great actors, right?"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Misery’ · 0:51:47 · Bill Simmons (0.65)] Misery ↔ The Silence of the Lambs · programming · Annie Wilkes and Hannibal Lecter came back to back, two great thriller characters in 12 months. · "Annie Wilkes and Hannibal Lecter, back to back ears."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Misery’ · 0:57:17 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] Forgetting Sarah Marshall ⇒ Misery (the host's read) · programming · Dracula the Musical award is borrowed from Sarah Marshall; given to the Misery books. · "We relate, so in, in, uh, forgetting Sarah Marshall."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Misery’ · 0:59:07 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] Pulp Fiction ⇒ Misery (the host's read) · programming · Butch's Girlfriend Award for weak link of the film is borrowed from Pulp Fiction. · "The Butch's girlfriend Award, Butch's girlfriend from Pulp Fiction."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Misery’ · 1:19:39 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] Misery ↔ Stand by Me · programming · Simmons' double feature is Stand By Me and Misery. · "I would do standby me in misery."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Misery’ · 1:19:44 · Brian Koppelman (0.60)] Misery ↔ The Dead Zone · programming · Koppelman's double feature is Dead Zone and Misery. · "Dead zone and misery."
[Blank Check — Patreon · 2025 March Madness Update 1 · 0:06:04 · unknown (0.50)] Stand by Me ↔ Misery · programming · They would fold Reiner's Stand by Me and Misery into a Stephen King series. · "So stand by me in misery, both go into a king."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Misery’ · 0:04:34 · Brian Koppelman (0.80)] Misery ↔ The Shawshank Redemption · lineage · King adaptations ranked: Stand By Me, Shawshank, Misery, and The Shining as the four best. · "Misery's the 3rd of that of the 3 best ones, I think, and the Shining, right?"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Misery’ · 0:11:08 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] Stand by Me ⇒ Misery (the host's read) · lineage · King's first adaptation he liked was Stand By Me; Reiner got Misery through that deal. · "the 1st one of the 1st adaptation of his that he actually really liked was stand by me."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Misery’ · 1:09:19 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] Misery ↔ Tommy Knockers · theme · King put his dependency into his books; Tommy Knockers is clearly cocaine. · "Tommy knockers is clearly cocaine."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Misery’ · 1:09:33 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] Misery ↔ The King of Comedy · theme · Obsessed-fan movies: King of Comedy first, then Misery's Bates at the apex. · "Crazy obsessed fans in a movie?"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Misery’ · 0:19:50 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] Misery ↔ Rounders · craft · Koppelman's own Rounders last-hand story echoes Goldman's you-never-know theme: he was sure, and was wrong. · "Goldman's recurring theme and all of his books is, you never know."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Misery’ · 1:10:49 · Brian Koppelman (0.50)] Misery ↔ The Princess Bride · craft · Reiner's apex discussion; the wine scene echoes iocaine powder in Princess Bride. · "the wine scene, it's funny, the iocaine powder, he's trying to put iocaine powder in her wine"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Misery’ · 0:41:52 · Bill Simmons (0.65)] A Few Good Men ↔ Misery · contrast · A Few Good Men can be rolled into anywhere; Misery cannot be started midway. · "You could just kind of roll into a few good men, wherever it's it's a perfect rewatchable, right?"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Misery’ · 1:20:00 · Brian Koppelman (0.75)] Misery ↔ Something Wild · contrast · Double-feature: Something Wild flips Misery, with Liotta as the crazed one chasing. · "He's the crazed person stalking and chasing after the person, something wild."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Misery’ · 0:45:10 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] Misery ↔ Hoosiers · verdict · Misery is a tier 2 or 3 rewatchable, not A Few Good Men or Hoosiers. · "it's probably like a tier 2 or a tier 3 rewatchable, it's not like a few good men."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Misery’ · 0:45:23 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] Misery ↔ The Ice Storm · verdict · Rewatchable lane: riveted by acting and uniqueness, like The Ice Storm. · "it's kind of on that ice storm lane of like, I'm just so riveted by how good the acting is"
[The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 0:57:27 · Sean Fennessey (0.85)] Sean Fennessey ↔ Misery · programming · Pick 10 (round 4), category action/horror/thriller: Best of the bunch; Stephen King, Kathy Bates, Goldman, Reiner. · "I'll take misery."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Misery’ · 0:11:22 · Bill Simmons (0.75)] Stephen King ⇒ Misery (the host's read) · theme · Misery is King's book about addiction; Annie Wilkes stands for the painkillers. · "Annie Wilkes is really, she represents that, this thing that's trying to kill him."
[The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 0:58:18 · Sean Fennessey (0.80)] Stephen King ⇒ Misery (the host's read) · theme · King writing about his nightmare of a fan who takes things too far. · "Stephen King writing about, like, basically his work's nightmare"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Misery’ · 0:02:09 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] Misery ↔ William Goldman · craft · Misery is called a perfectly executed film and Goldman wrote it. · "Our friend Goldman wrote this movie."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Misery’ · 0:57:08 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Marc Shaiman ↔ Misery · craft · Praises Shaiman's score for Misery. · "Mark Shaman does a really good job with the score."
[The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 0:58:18 · Sean Fennessey (0.80)] Misery ↔ William Goldman · people · Misery is adapted by Goldman and directed by Rob Reiner. · "adapted by the great William Goldman, uh, directed by Rob Reiner"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Misery’ · 0:17:00 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] Misery ↔ George Roy Hill · what-if · Hill, hired to direct, passed because he could not get past the hobbling scene. · "George Ray Hill's like, I can't get past the scene."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Misery’ · 0:17:35 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] Misery ↔ Warren Beatty · what-if · Beatty would have been unbelievable as Paul Sheldon but would not play a loser stuck in bed. · "Warren Beatty, who would have been unbelievable in the James Con part."
[pairs] Misery ↔ Stand by Me · said 4 times in 2 episodes
[pairs] Misery ↔ A Few Good Men · said 2 times in 1 episode
[The Rewatchables · ‘Misery’ · 0:18:11 · Brian Koppelman (0.80)] Misery · fun · Warren Beatty never wanted to sit in bed and let the other person be the star; Scheinman told Koppelman beside a tennis court. · "I could tell from moment one, Warren was never going to do it"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Misery’ · 0:19:18 · Bill Simmons (0.90)] Misery · fun · Goldman wanted the job because of King's foot-chopping scene; George Roy Hill could not direct it, and Reiner and Scheinman softened it to the ankle-breaking hobbling. · "The lapping scene was gone now forever replaced by the ankle breaking scene."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Misery’ · 0:19:35 · Bill Simmons (0.90)] Misery · fun · Goldman later wrote the changed scene worked, and the audience would have hated Annie if it had gone his way. · "If it had gone the way I wanted, it would have been too much."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Misery’ · 0:37:57 · Bill Simmons (0.90)] Misery · fun · Bates is the only King adaptation to win a main Oscar and first woman to win Best Actress in a horror thriller. · "This was the only film based on a Stephen King novel to win one of the main Oscars."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Misery’ · 0:42:05 · Brian Koppelman (0.55)] Misery · fun · Dinner scene is the most rewatchable; Simmons believes she spilled the wine on purpose. · "I think she did spill the wine on purpose."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Misery’ · 0:51:36 · Bill Simmons (0.85)] Misery · fun · Mr. Man: Annie's pet name for Paul is a running joke in Simmons' house. · "Mr. Man is so fucking funny."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory · 1:31:20 · Sarah Marshall (0.85)] Paths of Glory ↔ Stand by Me · theme · Admitting you live in a world of men, as Paths of Glory and Stand by Me do, beats token female characters. · "I love it when movies, like, don't pretend to be interested in women when they clearly aren't, you know?"
[The Big Picture · Aaron Sorkin Top 5s and ‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’ · 1:19:27 · Sean Fennessey (0.55)] A Few Good Men ↔ Network · programming · It is in the conversation for most rewatched movie of a lifetime, next to Network, Oz, Godfather, Goodfellas and Pulp Fiction. · "and a few good men is right there with it."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Iron Man · 2:09:29 · unknown (0.30)] Forgetting Sarah Marshall ⇒ Get Him to the Greek (the host's read) · lineage · Get Him to the Greek is the quasi-sequel/spinoff of Forgetting Sarah Marshall. · "They made kind of a spinoff."
[The Rewatchables · ‘My Cousin Vinny’ · 0:04:48 · Chris Ryan (0.60)] My Cousin Vinny ↔ Hoosiers · lineage · Courtroom movies are sports movies, and this one becomes Hoosiers in the last 30 minutes. · "it becomes basically Hoosiers in the last 30 minutes."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Pulp Fiction’ (Part 2) · 2:37:16 · unknown (0.00)] Pulp Fiction ↔ Black Sabbath · programming · Best double features: Black Sabbath (anthology), Saturday Night Fever, Inglourious Basterds, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. · "So you get an anthology movie."
[The Big Picture · Objection! Top 10 Courtroom Dramas | The Big Picture · 0:11:07 · Sean Fennessey (0.80)] The Pelican Brief ↔ A Few Good Men · programming · Disqualified: legal thriller, not courtroom drama, operating outside the courtroom. · "operates almost entirely outside of the courtroom"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Rocky’ · 0:57:04 · Van Lathan (0.45)] Rocky ↔ Hoosiers · theme · Sports movies of the era pit an audience-favorite against the black player or team, like Hoosiers and Rocky. · "it's like Hoosiers, it's rocky."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Pulp Fiction’ (Part 2) · 2:37:26 · unknown (0.00)] Pulp Fiction ↔ Inglourious Basterds · programming · Inglourious Basterds paired for its short-story structure; Once Upon a Time for bookending Tarantino's career. · "I have bastards because I feel like structurally it's it's got some the short story aspect of his very, it locks in together."
[The Big Picture · Objection! Top 10 Courtroom Dramas | The Big Picture · 0:12:02 · Sean Fennessey (0.85)] 12 Angry Men ↔ A Few Good Men · programming · 12 Angry Men is a technicality: a morality play in a side room, not a courtroom drama. · "It's a morality play inside of a side room related to a courtroom"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Miracle’ · 1:09:32 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Miracle ↔ Hoosiers · theme · Coaches say winning is everything, then the Hoosiers speech says play your game and I'll love you. · "That's what fucking Hackman says to the Hoosiers."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Ice Storm’ · 1:27:53 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] The Ice Storm ↔ Pulp Fiction · programming · Next episodes will cover two famous movies; Ryan and Simmons tease Pulp Fiction. · "I've been watching a lot of pulp fiction lately."
[The Big Picture · Objection! Top 10 Courtroom Dramas | The Big Picture · 0:14:25 · Sean Fennessey (0.80)] To Kill a Mockingbird ↔ A Few Good Men · programming · Left off the list as more homework than pleasurable; the list favors twisty, speechifying, overacting movies. · "pleasurability factor of a lot of these movies"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ · 0:03:58 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Reservoir Dogs ↔ Pulp Fiction · programming · Reservoir Dogs found much of its audience after Pulp Fiction, via rentals. · "After Pulp Fiction and then circled back and rented Reservoir Dogs."
[Blank Check — Patreon · 2025 March Madness Update 1 · 0:06:13 · unknown (0.40)] A Few Good Men ↔ Aaron Sorkin · programming · A Few Good Men and The American President get folded into a Sorkin series, not a Reiner one. · "Few good men in American president."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Pulp Fiction’ (Part 2) · 0:04:26 · Sean Fennessey (0.35)] Reservoir Dogs ⇒ Pulp Fiction (the host's read) · lineage · Pulp's opening two-song credits echo the radio dial concept from Reservoir Dogs. · "Well, the radio, the concept of the radio had been in Reservoir Dogs, but I think switching the songs in the middle, because you hear him change the dial."
[Blank Check · The Color of Money · 1:36:10 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] A Few Good Men ↔ Heat 2 · lineage · A hypothetical Sorkin A Few Good Men sequel is compared to Heat 2 as a legacy-sequel recast by its original creator. · "it's not Fincher doing the legacyquel with an entirely different cast, but it is Sorkin making his own legacy."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Pulp Fiction’ (Part 2) · 0:06:07 · Bill Simmons (0.40)] Pulp Fiction ⇒ Pulp Fiction imitators (the host's read) · lineage · The Royale-in-Paris, Amsterdam conversation is the most parodied and copied stretch of screenwriting of the last 30 years. · "Yeah. I would argue this is the most ripped off four and a half minutes of screenwriting in the past 30 years."
[Blank Check · The Color of Money · 1:37:25 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] A Few Good Men ↔ NCIS · lineage · A Few Good Men's JAG lawyer role is linked to the JAG/NCIS rights tangle as the joke legacy sequel. · "As we all know, NCIS is based on JAG. is a spinoff. technically a spinoff of the TV show, Jack."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Pulp Fiction’ (Part 2) · 0:09:49 · Bill Simmons (0.40)] Lee Majors ⇒ Pulp Fiction (the host's read) · lineage · The setup of Vincent taking the boss's wife out echoes a Hollywood story about Lee Majors asking someone to take Farrah Fawcett out while he was away. · "Because Lee Majors is going out of town."
[The Big Picture · Objection! Top 10 Courtroom Dramas | The Big Picture · 1:07:27 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60)] The Verdict ⇒ A Few Good Men (the host's read) · lineage · You cannot have A Few Good Men without The Verdict; everything on the courtroom checklist comes from it. · "you really, really cannot have a few good men without having the verdict"
[speaker] Bill Simmons · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · Loves the Friday series as a communal, rental-era memory and tells childhood stories about the ads and theaters. Likes casting what-ifs and sports analogies for everything. Skeptical of horror at Christmas and of anything that wastes the premise. · stances: Friday the 13th is not the best entry but the origin story had to be told; Friday 2 is a leap over the original
[speaker] Brian Koppelman · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘Margin Call’ · Loves craft: Chandor's economy, not speaking down, and actors like Tucci and Hoffman. Sucker for heightened workplace dialogue and one-night structures. · stances: Margin Call is among the 10 best of 15 years; Hanks does not play sleaze; Conflict structure over a night is the point
[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
[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 Misery (1990); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Misery (1990) 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.