What the corpus says about The Natural (1984)

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 Natural’ · 1:46:33 · Bill Simmons (0.90)] The Natural ↔ Major League · programming · Major League and Field of Dreams are the next two Rewatchables. · "we're going to be doing Major League and Field of Dreams over the next couple weeks."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Natural’ · 1:46:38 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] The Natural ↔ Bull Durham · programming · Bull Durham is being saved for a magical time (heard as Boulder). · "Boulder, we're saving for when it's a really magical time."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Natural’ · 0:10:12 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] The Natural ↔ Field of Dreams · lineage · The Natural's ending, a catch with your son, echoes the wheat-field catch in Field of Dreams. · "And the concept of when I have a son someday will have a catch and then we'll be playing in the backyard."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Natural’ · 0:14:21 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] The Odyssey (Homer) ⇒ The Natural (the host's read) · lineage · The movie maps onto Homer: Roy is Odysseus, Harriet and Memo play siren/Calypso figures, Iris is Penelope. · "So basically it's Roy Hobbs is Odysseus."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Natural’ · 0:16:36 · Mallory Rubin (0.80)] The Natural ↔ Arthurian legend · lineage · Roy is king, Wonderboy is Excalibur; the Fisher King, Percival and the Grail also fit. · "Wonder Boy is Excalibur."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Natural’ · 0:25:37 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] The Natural ↔ Major League · lineage · The 80s baseball movies (The Natural, Field of Dreams, Major League) follow the old-school rags-to-riches arc, Rocky as a baseball team. · "the natural field of dreams, major league with the old school kind of start to finish, rags to riches, rocky as a baseball team"
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Natural’ · 0:05:41 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] The Natural ↔ Field of Dreams · theme · Both belong to the pre-steroids era when fans believed in baseball heroes, fathers and sons. · "they belong to this era of baseball that was basically ruined by steroids"
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Natural’ · 0:10:09 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] The Natural ↔ Field of Dreams · theme · The movie's father-and-son angle is the easy baseball move that Field of Dreams is also about. · "That's basically what field of dreams is about to."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Natural’ · 0:11:03 · Mallory Rubin (0.80)] The Natural ↔ Game of Thrones · theme · A darker book-faithful Natural fits the anti-hero era of prestige TV like Game of Thrones. · "Even think about something like Game of Thrones."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Natural’ · 0:17:47 · Mallory Rubin (0.60)] The Natural ↔ The Princess Bride · theme · Both are very 80s and use basic generic themes told in an awesome way. · "both very 80s, they belong to that decade, but both trying to accomplish a lot of the same things of just these very basic generic themes"
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Natural’ · 0:25:11 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] The Natural ↔ Moneyball · theme · The best baseball movies each represent whatever their era was; Moneyball is the modern one. · "goes back to the point of how the best baseball movies kind of represent whatever the era was."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Natural’ · 0:24:32 · Mallory Rubin (0.70)] The Natural ↔ Game of Thrones · craft · The skeptical-journalist role echoes a Game of Thrones line about a suspicious mind. · "And I found myself thinking about that with the whole journalistic depiction in the film"
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Natural’ · 0:41:06 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] The Natural ↔ Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone · craft · The Natural's 1984 lightning effects beat the 2001 Quidditch effects. · "The lightning, the lightning scene is more realistic and has better, more state of the art special effects than a scene where everyone's flying around in 2001."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Natural’ · 0:41:30 · Mallory Rubin (0.60)] The Natural ↔ Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban · craft · A lightning-storm Quidditch match in the third movie pairs with the Natural's lightning. · "There is a Quidditch match played in lightning that I think you'll enjoy."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Natural’ · 0:52:10 · unknown (0.40)] The Natural ↔ The Revenant · craft · The heavy, hot Cubs wool uniforms look like Leo wearing an animal to stay warm. · "Leo DiCaprio, the revenant, just wearing like an animal to stay warm."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Natural’ · 0:57:08 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] The Natural ↔ Field of Dreams · craft · Roy Hobbs's son and the Field of Dreams catcher are the worst throwing motions; the speaker names Tim Robbins's Bull Durham motion as worse-but-excused. · "I just can't excuse the Field of Dreams catcher."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Natural’ · 1:00:41 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] The Natural ↔ Rocky II · craft · Hospital-bound pacing in The Natural echoes the biggest flaw of Rocky II. · "This is the biggest flaw on Rocky 2."
[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 Natural’ · 0:05:01 · Mallory Rubin (0.70)] The Natural ↔ Bull Durham · contrast · The Natural is about becoming a god among mortals; Bull Durham is about the opposite, never getting there. · "it's almost in some ways the complete opposite of the natural"
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Natural’ · 0:05:18 · Mallory Rubin (0.80)] The Natural ↔ Bull Durham · contrast · Mallory is drawn to the opposite of the Natural's premise: what if you can never get there, as with Crash Davis. · "I'm always, though, going to be slightly more drawn, I think, to the opposite, which is what if you can never get there?"
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Natural’ · 0:27:40 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] The Natural ↔ The Sandlot · contrast · For Bill's young son, the Natural is way too slow, while Sandlot, Major League and Bad News Bears work. · "But like the natural, way too slow."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Thief’ · 0:32:14 · Bill Simmons (0.40)] The Natural ↔ Thief · career · Prosky was villainous in The Natural but never likable. · "He was just too evil in the natural."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Natural’ · 0:42:32 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] The Natural ↔ Rocky · verdict · The Natural's walk-off homer is the greatest chill scene of any sports movie, except maybe Rocky going down and getting up in the 14th round. · "Except for maybe Rocky getting knocked down in the 14th round of Rocky one"
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Natural’ · 1:35:36 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] The Natural ↔ Escape to Victory (Victory) · verdict · Greatest sports movie game to attend: Victory still wins over the Natural's walk-off. · "I am still going with the end of victory with Slice Stallone."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Natural’ · 1:29:17 · unknown (0.40)] The Natural ↔ Pitch (TV) · industry · A modern TV remake in baseball is doubtful since Pitch was canceled. · "we just had a great baseball show, pitch, and it got canceled."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Natural’ · 0:10:47 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] The Natural ↔ Field of Dreams · what-if · A 2015 remake would stay faithful to the dark book, since we now expect the worst of baseball heroes. · "if we made this movie in like 2015, I actually think they would have stayed faithful to the book"

Films put beside it more than once (4)

[pairs] The Natural ↔ Field of Dreams · said 5 times in 1 episode
[pairs] The Natural ↔ Bull Durham · said 3 times in 1 episode
[pairs] The Natural ↔ Major League · said 2 times in 1 episode
[pairs] The Natural ↔ Game of Thrones · said 2 times in 1 episode

Fun items about it (6)

[The Rewatchables · ‘The Natural’ · 0:07:57 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] The Natural · fun · Bill's 1997 website list of the 30 greatest sports movies graded each film on whether it had a chill scene; The Natural's fireworks home run is the best. · "This movie has, I think, the best chill scene of any sports movie, which is the home run with the fireworks"
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Natural’ · 0:14:26 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] The Natural · fun · The film maps onto Greek myth: Max Mercy as Vulcan in red and brown, Pop as Zeus with uniform number one, the Judge as Hades, Memo as Calypso, Gus as the cyclops, Iris as Penelope. · "Max Mercy is the Vulcan god of fire who could make or break you."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Natural’ · 0:16:32 · Mallory Rubin (0.60)] The Natural · fun · Wonderboy is Excalibur, Roy means king, and the tree felled by lightning is Zeus. · "What does Roy mean?"
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Natural’ · 0:34:52 · Mallory Rubin (0.60)] The Natural · fun · Hobbs's batting practice: Pop guzzles the filthy water and the scene shows Roy is kind of a dick. · "You really realize that Roy is kind of a dick."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Natural’ · 0:39:44 · Mallory Rubin (0.50)] The Natural · fun · Pop's 'losing is a disease' speech compares losing to syphilis and the bubonic plague. · "This guy is trying to motivate the team by comparing losing to syphilis and the bubonic plague."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Natural’ · 0:47:55 · unknown (0.40)] The Natural · fun · Hobbs played semi-pro for the Hebrew Oilers; the hosts wonder if the T-shirts exist. · "We find out that Hobbs played semi-pro ball for the Hebrew Oilers."

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

[The Rewatchables · ‘The Natural’ · 0:25:51 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] Rocky ⇒ Bull Durham (the host's read) · lineage · Bull Durham took the Rocky motto a level further in how a sports movie is written. · "how can we take that rocky motto and actually go the next level with how we write a 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 Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 14 - ‘Moneyball’ · 0:09:49 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Moneyball ↔ Major League · theme · Like Major League, Moneyball does not end with winning the World Series. · "major league famously doesn't end with winning the World Series, but The movie almost doesn't care if you don't get that."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Rocky’ · 1:30:13 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Rocky ↔ Bull Durham · theme · The apex-mountain question: is Rocky or Bull Durham the peak for withholding sex while training? · "Is it this or Bull Durham?"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Thor: The Dark World · 0:11:39 · David Sims (0.40)] Game of Thrones ⇒ Thor: The Dark World (the host's read) · craft · The film aims for a grounded, muddy fantasy in the Game of Thrones manner, away from Branagh's version. · "We want to make a more grounded fantasy away from the bran off."
[The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 0:17:44 · unknown (0.40)] Major League ↔ Wesley Snipes · craft · There are no shots of Snipes throwing a ball in Major League because it was so bad they couldn't use it. · "There's like no shots of him throwing a ball in major league because it was so bad they couldn't use it."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Domestic Disturbance’ · 0:54:51 · unknown (0.30)] Domestic Disturbance ↔ Bull Durham · craft · The hooker's complaint is the reverse of Duke in Bull Durham wanting to read poetry all night. · "It's kind of like the reverse of in Bull Durham when Duke is like, we didn't fuck, man."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Thor: The Dark World · 0:25:52 · unknown (0.30)] Thor: The Dark World ↔ Game of Thrones · craft · Asgard's courtyard business and street-level scenes feel like Game of Thrones. · "Like I still don't understand like this very Game of Thronesy."
[The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 0:15:14 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Tim Robbins ↔ Bull Durham · craft · Bull Durham is the proposed namesake for a horrible-on-screen-athleticism flex category, though Tim Robbins is defended for his idiosyncratic windup. · "I nominate Tim Robbins as the namesake for Bull Durham."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Natural’ · 0:04:05 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Tim Robbins ↔ Bull Durham · craft · Tim Robbins's throwing motion is called insurmountable for a phenom pitcher; Mallory counters that it is part of the lore. · "You can't have the greatest baseball movie of all time when you have this phenom pitcher, and he throws like he has a broken arm."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Natural’ · 0:56:57 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Tim Robbins ↔ Bull Durham · craft · Robbins's odd throw is half excused because he hurt his arm early in filming. · "because he actually threw out his arm early in the filming and that's why he throws that way"

Who said it, by their latest sketch (2)

[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

The shows' running bits (2)

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

The whole prompt

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

You are a clerk at Video Culture, a video store. A customer just finished The Natural (1984) 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 Natural (1984) 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 Natural’ · 1:46:33 · Bill Simmons (0.90)] The Natural ↔ Major League · programming · Major League and Field of Dreams are the next two Rewatchables. · "we're going to be doing Major League and Field of Dreams over the next couple weeks."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Natural’ · 1:46:38 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] The Natural ↔ Bull Durham · programming · Bull Durham is being saved for a magical time (heard as Boulder). · "Boulder, we're saving for when it's a really magical time."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Natural’ · 0:10:12 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] The Natural ↔ Field of Dreams · lineage · The Natural's ending, a catch with your son, echoes the wheat-field catch in Field of Dreams. · "And the concept of when I have a son someday will have a catch and then we'll be playing in the backyard."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Natural’ · 0:14:21 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] The Odyssey (Homer) ⇒ The Natural (the host's read) · lineage · The movie maps onto Homer: Roy is Odysseus, Harriet and Memo play siren/Calypso figures, Iris is Penelope. · "So basically it's Roy Hobbs is Odysseus."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Natural’ · 0:16:36 · Mallory Rubin (0.80)] The Natural ↔ Arthurian legend · lineage · Roy is king, Wonderboy is Excalibur; the Fisher King, Percival and the Grail also fit. · "Wonder Boy is Excalibur."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Natural’ · 0:25:37 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] The Natural ↔ Major League · lineage · The 80s baseball movies (The Natural, Field of Dreams, Major League) follow the old-school rags-to-riches arc, Rocky as a baseball team. · "the natural field of dreams, major league with the old school kind of start to finish, rags to riches, rocky as a baseball team"
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Natural’ · 0:05:41 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] The Natural ↔ Field of Dreams · theme · Both belong to the pre-steroids era when fans believed in baseball heroes, fathers and sons. · "they belong to this era of baseball that was basically ruined by steroids"
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Natural’ · 0:10:09 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] The Natural ↔ Field of Dreams · theme · The movie's father-and-son angle is the easy baseball move that Field of Dreams is also about. · "That's basically what field of dreams is about to."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Natural’ · 0:11:03 · Mallory Rubin (0.80)] The Natural ↔ Game of Thrones · theme · A darker book-faithful Natural fits the anti-hero era of prestige TV like Game of Thrones. · "Even think about something like Game of Thrones."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Natural’ · 0:17:47 · Mallory Rubin (0.60)] The Natural ↔ The Princess Bride · theme · Both are very 80s and use basic generic themes told in an awesome way. · "both very 80s, they belong to that decade, but both trying to accomplish a lot of the same things of just these very basic generic themes"
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Natural’ · 0:25:11 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] The Natural ↔ Moneyball · theme · The best baseball movies each represent whatever their era was; Moneyball is the modern one. · "goes back to the point of how the best baseball movies kind of represent whatever the era was."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Natural’ · 0:24:32 · Mallory Rubin (0.70)] The Natural ↔ Game of Thrones · craft · The skeptical-journalist role echoes a Game of Thrones line about a suspicious mind. · "And I found myself thinking about that with the whole journalistic depiction in the film"
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Natural’ · 0:41:06 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] The Natural ↔ Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone · craft · The Natural's 1984 lightning effects beat the 2001 Quidditch effects. · "The lightning, the lightning scene is more realistic and has better, more state of the art special effects than a scene where everyone's flying around in 2001."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Natural’ · 0:41:30 · Mallory Rubin (0.60)] The Natural ↔ Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban · craft · A lightning-storm Quidditch match in the third movie pairs with the Natural's lightning. · "There is a Quidditch match played in lightning that I think you'll enjoy."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Natural’ · 0:52:10 · unknown (0.40)] The Natural ↔ The Revenant · craft · The heavy, hot Cubs wool uniforms look like Leo wearing an animal to stay warm. · "Leo DiCaprio, the revenant, just wearing like an animal to stay warm."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Natural’ · 0:57:08 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] The Natural ↔ Field of Dreams · craft · Roy Hobbs's son and the Field of Dreams catcher are the worst throwing motions; the speaker names Tim Robbins's Bull Durham motion as worse-but-excused. · "I just can't excuse the Field of Dreams catcher."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Natural’ · 1:00:41 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] The Natural ↔ Rocky II · craft · Hospital-bound pacing in The Natural echoes the biggest flaw of Rocky II. · "This is the biggest flaw on Rocky 2."
[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 Natural’ · 0:05:01 · Mallory Rubin (0.70)] The Natural ↔ Bull Durham · contrast · The Natural is about becoming a god among mortals; Bull Durham is about the opposite, never getting there. · "it's almost in some ways the complete opposite of the natural"
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Natural’ · 0:05:18 · Mallory Rubin (0.80)] The Natural ↔ Bull Durham · contrast · Mallory is drawn to the opposite of the Natural's premise: what if you can never get there, as with Crash Davis. · "I'm always, though, going to be slightly more drawn, I think, to the opposite, which is what if you can never get there?"
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Natural’ · 0:27:40 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] The Natural ↔ The Sandlot · contrast · For Bill's young son, the Natural is way too slow, while Sandlot, Major League and Bad News Bears work. · "But like the natural, way too slow."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Thief’ · 0:32:14 · Bill Simmons (0.40)] The Natural ↔ Thief · career · Prosky was villainous in The Natural but never likable. · "He was just too evil in the natural."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Natural’ · 0:42:32 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] The Natural ↔ Rocky · verdict · The Natural's walk-off homer is the greatest chill scene of any sports movie, except maybe Rocky going down and getting up in the 14th round. · "Except for maybe Rocky getting knocked down in the 14th round of Rocky one"
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Natural’ · 1:35:36 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] The Natural ↔ Escape to Victory (Victory) · verdict · Greatest sports movie game to attend: Victory still wins over the Natural's walk-off. · "I am still going with the end of victory with Slice Stallone."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Natural’ · 1:29:17 · unknown (0.40)] The Natural ↔ Pitch (TV) · industry · A modern TV remake in baseball is doubtful since Pitch was canceled. · "we just had a great baseball show, pitch, and it got canceled."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Natural’ · 0:10:47 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] The Natural ↔ Field of Dreams · what-if · A 2015 remake would stay faithful to the dark book, since we now expect the worst of baseball heroes. · "if we made this movie in like 2015, I actually think they would have stayed faithful to the book"
[pairs] The Natural ↔ Field of Dreams · said 5 times in 1 episode
[pairs] The Natural ↔ Bull Durham · said 3 times in 1 episode
[pairs] The Natural ↔ Major League · said 2 times in 1 episode
[pairs] The Natural ↔ Game of Thrones · said 2 times in 1 episode
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Natural’ · 0:07:57 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] The Natural · fun · Bill's 1997 website list of the 30 greatest sports movies graded each film on whether it had a chill scene; The Natural's fireworks home run is the best. · "This movie has, I think, the best chill scene of any sports movie, which is the home run with the fireworks"
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Natural’ · 0:14:26 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] The Natural · fun · The film maps onto Greek myth: Max Mercy as Vulcan in red and brown, Pop as Zeus with uniform number one, the Judge as Hades, Memo as Calypso, Gus as the cyclops, Iris as Penelope. · "Max Mercy is the Vulcan god of fire who could make or break you."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Natural’ · 0:16:32 · Mallory Rubin (0.60)] The Natural · fun · Wonderboy is Excalibur, Roy means king, and the tree felled by lightning is Zeus. · "What does Roy mean?"
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Natural’ · 0:34:52 · Mallory Rubin (0.60)] The Natural · fun · Hobbs's batting practice: Pop guzzles the filthy water and the scene shows Roy is kind of a dick. · "You really realize that Roy is kind of a dick."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Natural’ · 0:39:44 · Mallory Rubin (0.50)] The Natural · fun · Pop's 'losing is a disease' speech compares losing to syphilis and the bubonic plague. · "This guy is trying to motivate the team by comparing losing to syphilis and the bubonic plague."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Natural’ · 0:47:55 · unknown (0.40)] The Natural · fun · Hobbs played semi-pro for the Hebrew Oilers; the hosts wonder if the T-shirts exist. · "We find out that Hobbs played semi-pro ball for the Hebrew Oilers."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Natural’ · 0:25:51 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] Rocky ⇒ Bull Durham (the host's read) · lineage · Bull Durham took the Rocky motto a level further in how a sports movie is written. · "how can we take that rocky motto and actually go the next level with how we write a 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 Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 14 - ‘Moneyball’ · 0:09:49 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Moneyball ↔ Major League · theme · Like Major League, Moneyball does not end with winning the World Series. · "major league famously doesn't end with winning the World Series, but The movie almost doesn't care if you don't get that."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Rocky’ · 1:30:13 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Rocky ↔ Bull Durham · theme · The apex-mountain question: is Rocky or Bull Durham the peak for withholding sex while training? · "Is it this or Bull Durham?"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Thor: The Dark World · 0:11:39 · David Sims (0.40)] Game of Thrones ⇒ Thor: The Dark World (the host's read) · craft · The film aims for a grounded, muddy fantasy in the Game of Thrones manner, away from Branagh's version. · "We want to make a more grounded fantasy away from the bran off."
[The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 0:17:44 · unknown (0.40)] Major League ↔ Wesley Snipes · craft · There are no shots of Snipes throwing a ball in Major League because it was so bad they couldn't use it. · "There's like no shots of him throwing a ball in major league because it was so bad they couldn't use it."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Domestic Disturbance’ · 0:54:51 · unknown (0.30)] Domestic Disturbance ↔ Bull Durham · craft · The hooker's complaint is the reverse of Duke in Bull Durham wanting to read poetry all night. · "It's kind of like the reverse of in Bull Durham when Duke is like, we didn't fuck, man."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Thor: The Dark World · 0:25:52 · unknown (0.30)] Thor: The Dark World ↔ Game of Thrones · craft · Asgard's courtyard business and street-level scenes feel like Game of Thrones. · "Like I still don't understand like this very Game of Thronesy."
[The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 0:15:14 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Tim Robbins ↔ Bull Durham · craft · Bull Durham is the proposed namesake for a horrible-on-screen-athleticism flex category, though Tim Robbins is defended for his idiosyncratic windup. · "I nominate Tim Robbins as the namesake for Bull Durham."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Natural’ · 0:04:05 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Tim Robbins ↔ Bull Durham · craft · Tim Robbins's throwing motion is called insurmountable for a phenom pitcher; Mallory counters that it is part of the lore. · "You can't have the greatest baseball movie of all time when you have this phenom pitcher, and he throws like he has a broken arm."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Natural’ · 0:56:57 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Tim Robbins ↔ Bull Durham · craft · Robbins's odd throw is half excused because he hurt his arm early in filming. · "because he actually threw out his arm early in the filming and that's why he throws that way"
[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
[bits] The Big Picture: Drafts (Hosts and guests draft films in rounds; every pick is a recommendation with an argument); Hall of Fame (A star's or director's best, ranked and argued); Countdowns (Ranked lists, top five or top ten)
[bits] The Rewatchables: Apex Mountain (The moment a star peaks; where on the mountain a performance sits); Who Won the Movie (The hosts name the person who came out of the film best off); The Ebert review (Roger Ebert's original review and star rating read aloud. Ebert is cited, never on the show); Casting what-ifs (Who was almost cast, or who should have been); Most rewatchable scene (The scene each host would stop on while flipping channels); Aged best / aged worst (What holds up and what does not); Picking Nits (The little things in a film the hosts love that they don't think totally work: the nits); Double feature (The film each host would pair it with; a programming pick)

Recommend three to six films, and only films that appear in these lines. A series, a TV film, or a franchise counts too when a line recommends it or pairs it with The Natural (1984); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend The Natural (1984) 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.