What the corpus says about The War of the Roses (1989)

The 51 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 · ‘The War of the Roses’ · 1:32:05 · Mallory Rubin (0.45)] The War of the Roses ↔ Body Heat · programming · Triple-feature pitch: Roses with Body Heat and Fatal Attraction. · "I do think we should be pairing this with both body heat and fatal attraction."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The War of the Roses’ · 1:32:10 · Mallory Rubin (0.45)] The War of the Roses ↔ Fatal Attraction · programming · Pair an erotic-thriller double with Roses for a full day of 80s marriage trouble. · "I think that should be like we get an erotic thriller with both of them and then we watch this"
[The Rewatchables · ‘The War of the Roses’ · 1:32:18 · unknown (0.30)] The War of the Roses ↔ Romancing the Stone · programming · The speakers pair Roses with Romancing the Stone for the other end of the Douglas/Turner spectrum. · "I was going to say romance in the stone just to get the other end of the spectrum."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The War of the Roses’ · 1:32:43 · unknown (0.30)] The War of the Roses ↔ Mr. & Mrs. Smith · programming · Mr. & Mrs. Smith is the lighter double feature since the couple also wreck the house but it works out. · "Because they tear up the house in the same way, but then it kind of works out, at least in the movie."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The War of the Roses’ · 0:56:37 · unknown (0.30)] The War of the Roses ⇒ Game of Thrones (the host's read) · lineage · The actual historical Wars of the Roses was a big inspiration for Game of Thrones. · "Big inspiration for Game of Thrones."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The War of the Roses’ · 1:37:30 · Craig Horlbeck (0.50)] The War of the Roses ↔ Gone Girl · lineage · Roses is described as a prequel to Gone Girl; it could have pivoted to Turner killing Douglas and going on the run. · "This movie's kind of a prequel to Gone Girl."
[The Big Picture · The 10 Best Horror Movies of the Decade | The Big Picture · 1:14:24 · unknown (Alexander or Karaszewski) (0.40)] The War of the Roses ⇒ Problem Child (the maker said so: the writer's own account on the show) · lineage · They had pitched Problem Child to be a grown-up dark comedy like The War of the Roses. · "talked about the War of the Roses"
[The Rewatchables · ‘The War of the Roses’ · 0:02:41 · unknown (0.30)] The War of the Roses ↔ Kramer vs. Kramer · theme · Roses may be the more on-point childhood divorce movie than Kramer, and the two anchor any divorce-movie pantheon. · "But this might actually be the more on point childhood divorce movie for me."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The War of the Roses’ · 0:04:18 · unknown (0.30)] Irreconcilable Differences ↔ The War of the Roses · theme · Irreconcilable Differences is in one speaker's divorce top four, and it is currently unfindable. · "for me, it's irreconcilable differences would be in my top four, which you can't find."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The War of the Roses’ · 0:04:38 · unknown (0.30)] Mrs. Doubtfire ↔ The War of the Roses · theme · Mrs. Doubtfire is the divorce movie from the child's perspective, even though it reads as a Robin Williams comedy. · "I think mine is Mrs. Doubtfire for the child perspective."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The War of the Roses’ · 0:20:42 · unknown (0.40)] The War of the Roses ↔ Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny · theme · The ridiculous young-Douglas casting justifies de-aging in movies like Dial of Destiny. · "this is why it is okay to DH Harrison Ford in Dial of Destiny"
[The Rewatchables · ‘The War of the Roses’ · 1:08:47 · unknown (0.30)] The War of the Roses ↔ Sleeping with the Enemy · theme · Other movie houses the speakers suggest as better than the Roses mansion. · "What about the sleeping with the enemy house that she ended up staying in?"
[The Rewatchables · ‘The War of the Roses’ · 1:15:01 · unknown (0.30)] The War of the Roses ↔ The Money Pit · theme · The Money Pit is offered as the alternative house-that-ruins-a-marriage movie. · "Is this the best we got this house that have ruined our lives movie or would you go the money?"
[The Rewatchables · ‘The War of the Roses’ · 1:31:45 · unknown (0.30)] The War of the Roses ↔ The Shining · theme · The house in Roses becomes a domestic horror, with the Shining hotel as its sequel image. · "The shining house, just for the shining hotel."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The War of the Roses’ · 1:36:19 · Craig Horlbeck (0.50)] The War of the Roses ↔ Poor Things · craft · The red-sky backdrop outside DeVito's office looks like a fairy-tale set, like Poor Things. · "looks like you're like in poor things for like a second."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The War of the Roses’ · 0:03:35 · Mallory Rubin (0.45)] Marriage Story ↔ The War of the Roses · contrast · Marriage Story is a divorce film that makes you weep; Roses is the kind that sets up rage and bitterness. · "They're the divorce films that give the emotional response."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The War of the Roses’ · 0:03:38 · Mallory Rubin (0.45)] The War of the Roses ↔ Marriage Story · contrast · The speakers split divorce films into emotional-response ones and ones built on rage and bitterness. · "And then the films that just set up rage and bitterness."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The War of the Roses’ · 0:13:46 · unknown (0.30)] The War of the Roses ↔ The War of the Roses · contrast · Roses is a beloved classic that is harder to make in 2024 than in 1989. · "Because this is a beloved, like, classic movie that is harder to make in 2024 than it was in 89."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The War of the Roses’ · 0:20:54 · unknown (0.30)] The War of the Roses ↔ The Natural · contrast · Michael Douglas as a student is a de-aging stretch, but The Natural with Redford as a teen is worse. · "There's a worse one."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The War of the Roses’ · 0:29:42 · Mallory Rubin (0.45)] The War of the Roses ↔ The War of the Roses · contrast · Unlike other divorce movies, nobody in Roses is mourning the past; Barbara feels pure resentment. · "in all of the divorce movies, it's like, someone is already mourning what they had"
[The Rewatchables · ‘The War of the Roses’ · 0:59:09 · Amanda Dobbins (0.85)] The War of the Roses ↔ Father of the Bride · contrast · Amanda ranks the Roses house outside her top 20 movie houses, beginning her list with the Father of the Bride house. · "This is not even a top 20 movie house."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The War of the Roses’ · 0:05:57 · unknown (0.30)] The War of the Roses ↔ Romancing the Stone · career · People loved Romancing the Stone, so a third pairing made Roses look like another fun time before the dark last hour. · "I think part of the shock value of this movie was that people loved Romance in the Stone."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The War of the Roses’ · 0:06:01 · unknown (0.30)] The War of the Roses ↔ The Jewel of the Nile · career · Audiences liked The Jewel of the Nile less but still liked the pair together. · "They didn't like Jewel the Nile as much, but they just like them together."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The War of the Roses’ · 1:05:42 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] The War of the Roses ↔ Total Recall · career · One 'that guy' in the dinner scene is the sweating man from Total Recall. · "One is the guy from Total Recall."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The War of the Roses’ · 0:03:47 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] The War of the Roses ↔ Kramer vs. Kramer · verdict · Kramer vs. Kramer and Roses must be on every list of four great divorce movies. · "What's interesting is I think Kramer versus Kramer War of the Rose have to be on it no matter whose list it is."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The War of the Roses’ · 0:19:08 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] Roger Ebert ↔ The War of the Roses · verdict · The Ebert review (3 stars) called Roses a black, angry, bitter, unrelenting comedy. · "The War of the Roses is a black, angry, bitter, unrelenting comedy."

Films put beside it more than once (3)

[pairs] The War of the Roses ↔ Marriage Story · said 2 times in 1 episode
[pairs] The War of the Roses ↔ Kramer vs. Kramer · said 2 times in 1 episode
[pairs] The War of the Roses ↔ Romancing the Stone · said 2 times in 1 episode

Fun items about it (6)

[The Rewatchables · ‘The War of the Roses’ · 0:23:08 · unknown (0.30)] The War of the Roses · fun · A baccarat story told at the first big dinner scene, with Oliver coaching and then taking over Barbara's story, then the bedroom debrief. · "Because it's all going good and we know it's going to go badly, but when she tries to tell the story and he's like coaching her and then he takes over"
[The Rewatchables · ‘The War of the Roses’ · 0:28:44 · unknown (0.30)] The War of the Roses · fun · When asked why she wants a divorce, Barbara says she wants to smash his face in when she watches him eat. · "When I see you asleep, when I look at you lately, I just want to smash your face in."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The War of the Roses’ · 0:31:32 · unknown (0.30)] The War of the Roses · fun · Oliver's cat is run over; the group debates murder versus voluntary manslaughter. · "I think it was a voluntary manslaughter."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The War of the Roses’ · 0:32:21 · unknown (0.30)] The War of the Roses · fun · At the client dinner Oliver pees on the fish; Bill calls it the best piss ever on a fish. · "I think this is my favorite scene."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The War of the Roses’ · 0:33:39 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] The War of the Roses · fun · The chandelier crash is the Great Shack order award for most cinematic shot. · "which I would give the Great Shack order award for most cinematic shot as the things coming down."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The War of the Roses’ · 0:33:52 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] The War of the Roses · fun · The nitpick that this is a roughly 20-foot drop, not a 100-foot one. · "It feels like it's like a 100 foot drop."

One hop out: what recommends the films most often joined to it (9)

[The Rewatchables · ‘The Ice Storm’ · 0:38:30 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] The Ice Storm ↔ Kramer vs. Kramer · theme · Both belong to Fucked Up Family February and trade on unspoken tension rather than action. · "We were talking about last week with Kramer versus Kramer"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Return of the Jedi · 2:05:46 · unknown (0.30)] Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi ↔ Marriage Story · theme · Blowing up the Death Star is a pleasure so rare in cinema that Marriage Story could have ended with it. · "Most movies, like marriage story could have ended with it blowing."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Game · 0:22:11 · unknown (0.40)] Romancing the Stone ⇒ The Jewel of the Nile (the host's read) · lineage · Jewel of the Nile is the sequel. · "The sequel."
[The Big Picture · ‘Nightmare Alley’ and Our Favorite Films Noir, · 1:02:43 · Patton Oswalt (0.75)] The Last Seduction ↔ Body Heat · lineage · 90s-era erotic-thriller noirs push the femme fatale to an extreme; Bound completes the trio. · "Oh, yeah, with last seduction in body heat."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Domestic Disturbance’ · 0:04:54 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Fatal Attraction ⇒ Domestic Disturbance (the host's read) · lineage · Domestic Disturbance is the late, bad entry in the 'from hell' thriller cycle that began with Fatal Attraction. · "We had this really good run that starts with fatal fatal attraction into the 80s."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Fifth Annual Blank Check Awards · 1:18:56 · Joe Reid (0.40)] Randy Newman ↔ Marriage Story · craft · Joe likes Newman's dueling scores in Marriage Story. · "And I liked the Duelan scores in marriage story."
[Blank Check · Starman · 0:41:07 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Michael Douglas ↔ Romancing the Stone · theme · In 1984 Douglas excelled at cads and slimeballs, so he would not have worked as the gentle alien. · "the guy excelled at CAD and slime ball."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Game · 0:28:09 · David Sims (0.40)] The Game ↔ Fatal Attraction · theme · Fincher, in the dossier, lists the Fatal Attraction adulterer among Douglas's friction. · "The adulterer from Fatal Attraction."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Game · 0:21:46 · unknown (0.40)] Romancing the Stone ⇒ Michael Douglas (the host's read) · theme · Says Romancing the Stone is when Douglas found his movie star persona. · "oh, surprisingly, you've now finally found your movie star persona."

Who said it, by their latest sketch (4)

[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] Mallory Rubin · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘Friday Night Lights’ · Devoted to the Friday Night Lights show and cares most about its marriage, character work and Texas setting. Loves a high school football film, small-town Texas and Billy Bob; a sucker for Kyle Chandler, Tammy and Eric. Can't stand the film leaving Sharon unused. · stances: The TV show can't be matched, but that does not slight the film; Coach Taylor's speeches beat Coach Gaines's; The film needed a Gaines marriage sex scene; The reboot must stay in Texas; Cruise would make a deranged, mesmerizing Gaines
[speaker] Craig Horlbeck · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · First-time viewer of the series; expected Jason and was thrown by Mrs. Voorhees. Rates the film a 4 or 5 and singled out the canoe ending as the best scene. Prefers the Chain Saw's intensity. · stances: Rug-pulled by the killer-mom reveal; The ending saves the movie
[speaker] Amanda Dobbins · latest sketch, The Big Picture · ‘Mamma Mia!’ Meets ‘The Strangers'! It’s a Movie Swap! · Loves The Strangers' withholding craft and a good tense horror film without gore, but likes fun, communal movies like Mamma Mia. She dislikes supernatural or gory horror, which irritates her more than it scares her. She is a sucker for stars and for Googling a movie mid-recording. · stances: The Strangers is scary because of what it doesn't show or explain; Ending explanation weakens it; no answer would be better; Prefers 'withholding' filmmaking; Defends Mamma Mia as joyful and intentional

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 The War of the Roses (1989) 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 War of the Roses (1989) 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 · ‘The War of the Roses’ · 1:32:05 · Mallory Rubin (0.45)] The War of the Roses ↔ Body Heat · programming · Triple-feature pitch: Roses with Body Heat and Fatal Attraction. · "I do think we should be pairing this with both body heat and fatal attraction."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The War of the Roses’ · 1:32:10 · Mallory Rubin (0.45)] The War of the Roses ↔ Fatal Attraction · programming · Pair an erotic-thriller double with Roses for a full day of 80s marriage trouble. · "I think that should be like we get an erotic thriller with both of them and then we watch this"
[The Rewatchables · ‘The War of the Roses’ · 1:32:18 · unknown (0.30)] The War of the Roses ↔ Romancing the Stone · programming · The speakers pair Roses with Romancing the Stone for the other end of the Douglas/Turner spectrum. · "I was going to say romance in the stone just to get the other end of the spectrum."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The War of the Roses’ · 1:32:43 · unknown (0.30)] The War of the Roses ↔ Mr. & Mrs. Smith · programming · Mr. & Mrs. Smith is the lighter double feature since the couple also wreck the house but it works out. · "Because they tear up the house in the same way, but then it kind of works out, at least in the movie."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The War of the Roses’ · 0:56:37 · unknown (0.30)] The War of the Roses ⇒ Game of Thrones (the host's read) · lineage · The actual historical Wars of the Roses was a big inspiration for Game of Thrones. · "Big inspiration for Game of Thrones."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The War of the Roses’ · 1:37:30 · Craig Horlbeck (0.50)] The War of the Roses ↔ Gone Girl · lineage · Roses is described as a prequel to Gone Girl; it could have pivoted to Turner killing Douglas and going on the run. · "This movie's kind of a prequel to Gone Girl."
[The Big Picture · The 10 Best Horror Movies of the Decade | The Big Picture · 1:14:24 · unknown (Alexander or Karaszewski) (0.40)] The War of the Roses ⇒ Problem Child (the maker said so: the writer's own account on the show) · lineage · They had pitched Problem Child to be a grown-up dark comedy like The War of the Roses. · "talked about the War of the Roses"
[The Rewatchables · ‘The War of the Roses’ · 0:02:41 · unknown (0.30)] The War of the Roses ↔ Kramer vs. Kramer · theme · Roses may be the more on-point childhood divorce movie than Kramer, and the two anchor any divorce-movie pantheon. · "But this might actually be the more on point childhood divorce movie for me."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The War of the Roses’ · 0:04:18 · unknown (0.30)] Irreconcilable Differences ↔ The War of the Roses · theme · Irreconcilable Differences is in one speaker's divorce top four, and it is currently unfindable. · "for me, it's irreconcilable differences would be in my top four, which you can't find."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The War of the Roses’ · 0:04:38 · unknown (0.30)] Mrs. Doubtfire ↔ The War of the Roses · theme · Mrs. Doubtfire is the divorce movie from the child's perspective, even though it reads as a Robin Williams comedy. · "I think mine is Mrs. Doubtfire for the child perspective."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The War of the Roses’ · 0:20:42 · unknown (0.40)] The War of the Roses ↔ Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny · theme · The ridiculous young-Douglas casting justifies de-aging in movies like Dial of Destiny. · "this is why it is okay to DH Harrison Ford in Dial of Destiny"
[The Rewatchables · ‘The War of the Roses’ · 1:08:47 · unknown (0.30)] The War of the Roses ↔ Sleeping with the Enemy · theme · Other movie houses the speakers suggest as better than the Roses mansion. · "What about the sleeping with the enemy house that she ended up staying in?"
[The Rewatchables · ‘The War of the Roses’ · 1:15:01 · unknown (0.30)] The War of the Roses ↔ The Money Pit · theme · The Money Pit is offered as the alternative house-that-ruins-a-marriage movie. · "Is this the best we got this house that have ruined our lives movie or would you go the money?"
[The Rewatchables · ‘The War of the Roses’ · 1:31:45 · unknown (0.30)] The War of the Roses ↔ The Shining · theme · The house in Roses becomes a domestic horror, with the Shining hotel as its sequel image. · "The shining house, just for the shining hotel."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The War of the Roses’ · 1:36:19 · Craig Horlbeck (0.50)] The War of the Roses ↔ Poor Things · craft · The red-sky backdrop outside DeVito's office looks like a fairy-tale set, like Poor Things. · "looks like you're like in poor things for like a second."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The War of the Roses’ · 0:03:35 · Mallory Rubin (0.45)] Marriage Story ↔ The War of the Roses · contrast · Marriage Story is a divorce film that makes you weep; Roses is the kind that sets up rage and bitterness. · "They're the divorce films that give the emotional response."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The War of the Roses’ · 0:03:38 · Mallory Rubin (0.45)] The War of the Roses ↔ Marriage Story · contrast · The speakers split divorce films into emotional-response ones and ones built on rage and bitterness. · "And then the films that just set up rage and bitterness."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The War of the Roses’ · 0:13:46 · unknown (0.30)] The War of the Roses ↔ The War of the Roses · contrast · Roses is a beloved classic that is harder to make in 2024 than in 1989. · "Because this is a beloved, like, classic movie that is harder to make in 2024 than it was in 89."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The War of the Roses’ · 0:20:54 · unknown (0.30)] The War of the Roses ↔ The Natural · contrast · Michael Douglas as a student is a de-aging stretch, but The Natural with Redford as a teen is worse. · "There's a worse one."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The War of the Roses’ · 0:29:42 · Mallory Rubin (0.45)] The War of the Roses ↔ The War of the Roses · contrast · Unlike other divorce movies, nobody in Roses is mourning the past; Barbara feels pure resentment. · "in all of the divorce movies, it's like, someone is already mourning what they had"
[The Rewatchables · ‘The War of the Roses’ · 0:59:09 · Amanda Dobbins (0.85)] The War of the Roses ↔ Father of the Bride · contrast · Amanda ranks the Roses house outside her top 20 movie houses, beginning her list with the Father of the Bride house. · "This is not even a top 20 movie house."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The War of the Roses’ · 0:05:57 · unknown (0.30)] The War of the Roses ↔ Romancing the Stone · career · People loved Romancing the Stone, so a third pairing made Roses look like another fun time before the dark last hour. · "I think part of the shock value of this movie was that people loved Romance in the Stone."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The War of the Roses’ · 0:06:01 · unknown (0.30)] The War of the Roses ↔ The Jewel of the Nile · career · Audiences liked The Jewel of the Nile less but still liked the pair together. · "They didn't like Jewel the Nile as much, but they just like them together."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The War of the Roses’ · 1:05:42 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] The War of the Roses ↔ Total Recall · career · One 'that guy' in the dinner scene is the sweating man from Total Recall. · "One is the guy from Total Recall."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The War of the Roses’ · 0:03:47 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] The War of the Roses ↔ Kramer vs. Kramer · verdict · Kramer vs. Kramer and Roses must be on every list of four great divorce movies. · "What's interesting is I think Kramer versus Kramer War of the Rose have to be on it no matter whose list it is."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The War of the Roses’ · 0:19:08 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] Roger Ebert ↔ The War of the Roses · verdict · The Ebert review (3 stars) called Roses a black, angry, bitter, unrelenting comedy. · "The War of the Roses is a black, angry, bitter, unrelenting comedy."
[pairs] The War of the Roses ↔ Marriage Story · said 2 times in 1 episode
[pairs] The War of the Roses ↔ Kramer vs. Kramer · said 2 times in 1 episode
[pairs] The War of the Roses ↔ Romancing the Stone · said 2 times in 1 episode
[The Rewatchables · ‘The War of the Roses’ · 0:23:08 · unknown (0.30)] The War of the Roses · fun · A baccarat story told at the first big dinner scene, with Oliver coaching and then taking over Barbara's story, then the bedroom debrief. · "Because it's all going good and we know it's going to go badly, but when she tries to tell the story and he's like coaching her and then he takes over"
[The Rewatchables · ‘The War of the Roses’ · 0:28:44 · unknown (0.30)] The War of the Roses · fun · When asked why she wants a divorce, Barbara says she wants to smash his face in when she watches him eat. · "When I see you asleep, when I look at you lately, I just want to smash your face in."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The War of the Roses’ · 0:31:32 · unknown (0.30)] The War of the Roses · fun · Oliver's cat is run over; the group debates murder versus voluntary manslaughter. · "I think it was a voluntary manslaughter."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The War of the Roses’ · 0:32:21 · unknown (0.30)] The War of the Roses · fun · At the client dinner Oliver pees on the fish; Bill calls it the best piss ever on a fish. · "I think this is my favorite scene."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The War of the Roses’ · 0:33:39 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] The War of the Roses · fun · The chandelier crash is the Great Shack order award for most cinematic shot. · "which I would give the Great Shack order award for most cinematic shot as the things coming down."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The War of the Roses’ · 0:33:52 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] The War of the Roses · fun · The nitpick that this is a roughly 20-foot drop, not a 100-foot one. · "It feels like it's like a 100 foot drop."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Ice Storm’ · 0:38:30 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] The Ice Storm ↔ Kramer vs. Kramer · theme · Both belong to Fucked Up Family February and trade on unspoken tension rather than action. · "We were talking about last week with Kramer versus Kramer"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Return of the Jedi · 2:05:46 · unknown (0.30)] Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi ↔ Marriage Story · theme · Blowing up the Death Star is a pleasure so rare in cinema that Marriage Story could have ended with it. · "Most movies, like marriage story could have ended with it blowing."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Game · 0:22:11 · unknown (0.40)] Romancing the Stone ⇒ The Jewel of the Nile (the host's read) · lineage · Jewel of the Nile is the sequel. · "The sequel."
[The Big Picture · ‘Nightmare Alley’ and Our Favorite Films Noir, · 1:02:43 · Patton Oswalt (0.75)] The Last Seduction ↔ Body Heat · lineage · 90s-era erotic-thriller noirs push the femme fatale to an extreme; Bound completes the trio. · "Oh, yeah, with last seduction in body heat."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Domestic Disturbance’ · 0:04:54 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Fatal Attraction ⇒ Domestic Disturbance (the host's read) · lineage · Domestic Disturbance is the late, bad entry in the 'from hell' thriller cycle that began with Fatal Attraction. · "We had this really good run that starts with fatal fatal attraction into the 80s."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Fifth Annual Blank Check Awards · 1:18:56 · Joe Reid (0.40)] Randy Newman ↔ Marriage Story · craft · Joe likes Newman's dueling scores in Marriage Story. · "And I liked the Duelan scores in marriage story."
[Blank Check · Starman · 0:41:07 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Michael Douglas ↔ Romancing the Stone · theme · In 1984 Douglas excelled at cads and slimeballs, so he would not have worked as the gentle alien. · "the guy excelled at CAD and slime ball."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Game · 0:28:09 · David Sims (0.40)] The Game ↔ Fatal Attraction · theme · Fincher, in the dossier, lists the Fatal Attraction adulterer among Douglas's friction. · "The adulterer from Fatal Attraction."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Game · 0:21:46 · unknown (0.40)] Romancing the Stone ⇒ Michael Douglas (the host's read) · theme · Says Romancing the Stone is when Douglas found his movie star persona. · "oh, surprisingly, you've now finally found your movie star persona."
[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] Mallory Rubin · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘Friday Night Lights’ · Devoted to the Friday Night Lights show and cares most about its marriage, character work and Texas setting. Loves a high school football film, small-town Texas and Billy Bob; a sucker for Kyle Chandler, Tammy and Eric. Can't stand the film leaving Sharon unused. · stances: The TV show can't be matched, but that does not slight the film; Coach Taylor's speeches beat Coach Gaines's; The film needed a Gaines marriage sex scene; The reboot must stay in Texas; Cruise would make a deranged, mesmerizing Gaines
[speaker] Craig Horlbeck · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · First-time viewer of the series; expected Jason and was thrown by Mrs. Voorhees. Rates the film a 4 or 5 and singled out the canoe ending as the best scene. Prefers the Chain Saw's intensity. · stances: Rug-pulled by the killer-mom reveal; The ending saves the movie
[speaker] Amanda Dobbins · latest sketch, The Big Picture · ‘Mamma Mia!’ Meets ‘The Strangers'! It’s a Movie Swap! · Loves The Strangers' withholding craft and a good tense horror film without gore, but likes fun, communal movies like Mamma Mia. She dislikes supernatural or gory horror, which irritates her more than it scares her. She is a sucker for stars and for Googling a movie mid-recording. · stances: The Strangers is scary because of what it doesn't show or explain; Ending explanation weakens it; no answer would be better; Prefers 'withholding' filmmaking; Defends Mamma Mia as joyful and intentional
[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 The War of the Roses (1989); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend The War of the Roses (1989) 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.