What the corpus says about The Social Network (2010)

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 · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) · 0:40:17 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] Panic Room ↔ The Social Network · programming · Fincher movies are rewatchable and date-movie friendly, with the exception of Se7en; Social Network is the perfect date movie. · "Like social network, perfect date movie."
[The Big Picture · Aaron Sorkin Top 5s and ‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’ · 0:56:04 · Sean Fennessey (0.80)] The Social Network ⇒ Steve Jobs (the host's read) · lineage · Steve Jobs is called a worthy sequel to The Social Network on big tech and innovation. · "I think this is in many ways a worthy sequel to the social network"
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Social Network · 0:11:24 · David Sims (0.50)] The Social Network ↔ Blackberry · lineage · Blackberry is named as the only movie to come close to The Social Network in the 13 years since. · "I think Blackberry is the only thing that has come close and then now 13 years since this movie came out."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Social Network · 0:11:44 · David Sims (0.60)] The Social Network ⇒ The Big Short (the host's read) · lineage · David says The Big Short is the most obvious movie ripping off The Social Network, and that people do not make the connection enough. · "I think the big short, which is not a movie I love, is the most obvious movie that's ripping off the social network, even though people maybe don't make that connection enough."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Social Network · 0:15:37 · David Sims (0.50)] The Accidental Billionaires (Ben Mezrich book) ↔ The Social Network · lineage · The film is technically an adapted screenplay but the speakers say Sorkin was working from the same research and the book proposal, not using the book as a template. · "But it's basically like this movie is using the same research that the book has called rather than Aaron Sorkin reading this book and using it as a template if that makes sense."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Social Network · 0:26:04 · unknown (0.35)] The Accidental Billionaires (Ben Mezrich book) ↔ The Social Network · lineage · Sorkin had no finished book and worked from notes and a general structure, with little to do with the book that exists. · "but he doesn't really have much to do with the actual book that exists."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Social Network · 0:11:03 · David Sims (0.60)] The Social Network ↔ Dumb Money · theme · Dumb Money has no pretension of being the next Social Network but its attitude is that of the earlier film; the speakers say the film became a genre. · "there's nothing about that movie's attitude that's like, this is the next social network, but the attitude of that movie is like social network."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Social Network · 0:44:07 · unknown (0.40)] The Social Network ⇒ Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (the maker said so) · theme · Snyder's reported reasoning: the modern-day Lex Luthor would be Mark Zuckerberg. · "yeah, the modern day Lex Luthor would be Mark Zuckerberg."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Social Network · 1:16:35 · unknown (0.35)] Black Hat ↔ The Social Network · theme · Black Hat is read as Michael Mann realizing the cops-and-criminals tough guys no longer rule once everything is on a computer, a thread the speakers tie to Facebook. · "Black Hat, I think, is a movie about Michael Mann realizing that the guys he spent his entire career writing about cops and criminals."
[The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 1:16:29 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] The Social Network ↔ Inglourious Basterds · craft · The best line reading category: Eisenberg's 'That's good, you should be proud' alongside 'Everybody in the German army has heard of Hugo Stiglitz'. · "It's an all-time line reading that could base smarminess, jealousy, and resentment without showing much emotion."
[The Big Picture · Aaron Sorkin Top 5s and ‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’ · 1:45:00 · Amanda Dobbins (0.65)] The Trial of the Chicago 7 ↔ The Social Network · craft · Both use the intercut to dramatize testimony; Chicago 7's climactic speech is another intercut that does not land. · "it is actually another intercut, Sean, as you mentioned"
[The Big Picture · Aaron Sorkin Top 5s and ‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’ · 1:13:11 · Sean Fennessey (0.70)] The Social Network ↔ Zodiac · contrast · Social Network was one host's top Fincher film; the Fincher podcast chose Zodiac as the purest Fincher. · "Zodiac is like the Fincheryist."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Social Network · 1:08:05 · David Sims (0.40)] The Social Network ↔ 21 · contrast · The Social Network is set against 21, a fun story about rebels, in tone. · "in opposition to something like 21 where it's like a fun story about a fucking a bunch of rebels."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Curious Case of Benjamin Button · 2:30:10 · unknown (0.30)] The Social Network ↔ The Curious Case of Benjamin Button · contrast · Next week's film is called an anti-Benjamin Button. · "Kind of an anti-Benjamin button?"
[The Big Picture · Emergency Mailbag: The Oscars Are Streaming and Hollywood Is Fighting Over Trolls | The Big Picture · 0:57:34 · Sean Fennessey (0.55)] Mank ↔ The Social Network · people · Fincher's perverse films are hits but the Academy snubs them, as when The Social Network lost to The King's Speech. · "notably the social network, being defeated by the king speech, which is a result that should be should die in a fire."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Mank · 1:14:55 · David Sims (0.50)] Mank ↔ The Social Network · people · Griffin says Mank is a talkie without the entertaining dialogue of The Social Network. · "It's a talkie movie, but a talking movie without having the kind of like wildly entertaining dialogue of a social network."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo · 2:31:49 · unknown (0.30)] The Social Network ↔ The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo · people · Reznor and Ross scored both films; the speaker listens to the Dragon Tattoo score more than Social Network's. · "I listen to more than the social network score."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Social Network · 0:11:39 · David Sims (0.40)] The Social Network ↔ Moneyball · people · Moneyball is set aside as a Sorkin script written after The Social Network, so it does not count as a successor. · "Don't count those, right? Because those are Sorkin scripts."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Social Network · 0:11:39 · David Sims (0.40)] The Social Network ↔ Steve Jobs · people · Steve Jobs is set aside as a Sorkin script written after The Social Network, so it does not count as a successor. · "Don't count those, right? Because those are Sorkin scripts."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Social Network · 0:43:43 · unknown (0.35)] The Social Network ⇒ Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (the host's read) · people · Snyder offered Eisenberg Jimmy Olsen in BvS in the wake of The Social Network. · "Zack Snyder offers, uh, Jimmy Olsen. to Jesse Eisenberg in the wake of this movie, for BVS."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Social Network · 0:55:26 · unknown (0.30)] Never Let Me Go → The Social Network · people · Never Let Me Go, directed by Mark Romanek, had worked with Garfield and put him in front of Fincher. · "Um, but Mark Romantic had already worked with him for Never Let Me Go, which comes out the same year, puts him in front of Fincher, Fincher, is into it."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Social Network · 0:58:52 · unknown (0.35)] The Social Network ⇒ Friends with Benefits (the host's read) · people · Pascal watched The Social Network early and committed to more Timberlake pictures. · "It's like Pascal watches this movie early and it's like, you know what? 'm wrong. Justin Timberlake, we're all in."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Social Network · 0:58:52 · unknown (0.35)] The Social Network ⇒ In Time (the host's read) · people · Pascal watched The Social Network early and committed to more Timberlake pictures. · "It's like Pascal watches this movie early and it's like, you know what? 'm wrong. Justin Timberlake, we're all in."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Social Network · 0:59:02 · unknown (0.35)] The Social Network ⇒ The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (the host's read) · people · Pascal saw the dailies from The Social Network and picked Rooney Mara for Lisbeth Salander. · "Pascal basically sees the dailies from this movie and is like, Rooney Morris, Elizabeth Salander."
[The Big Picture · Thirteen Awards Movies to Watch Out for, Oscar Do-Overs, and More From the Mailbag · 0:40:53 · Amanda Dobbins (0.70)] The Social Network ↔ The King's Speech · verdict · The Academy was wrong: The Social Network should have beaten The King's Speech. · "obviously, should have been social network over King speech."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Zodiac · 0:08:48 · unknown (0.30)] The Social Network ↔ Zodiac · verdict · One speaker says Social Network is not even in the same conversation as Zodiac. · "It's not even in the same conversation"

Films put beside it more than once (6)

[pairs] The Social Network ↔ Zodiac · said 4 times in 3 episodes
[pairs] The Social Network ↔ The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo · said 4 times in 2 episodes
[pairs] The Social Network ↔ The King's Speech · said 3 times in 3 episodes
[pairs] The Social Network ↔ Mank · said 3 times in 2 episodes
[pairs] The Social Network ↔ Steve Jobs · said 2 times in 2 episodes
[pairs] The Social Network ↔ The Curious Case of Benjamin Button · said 2 times in 1 episode

Fun items about it (6)

[Blank Check — Patreon · The Social Network · 0:48:47 · unknown (0.35)] The Social Network · fun · Sorkin wanted Mark drinking a screwdriver in the Facemash scene; Fincher kept it a Bex because the blog says Bex. A microcosm of the two men. · "But Sorkin's thing was like, he should be drinking a screwdriver and Fincher was like, he says he's drinking a bex in the blog."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Social Network · 0:50:41 · David Sims (0.40)] The Social Network · fun · The 166-page script was too long for Sony; Fincher and Sorkin read it aloud against a stopwatch and it came out at two hours. · "And Fincher was like, you and me are going to sit down and read the script."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Social Network · 0:52:46 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] The Social Network · fun · Auditions were other Sorkin scenes, because Fincher needed to see if people could do the pace; Eisenberg's self-tape was the first time he said under two hours. · "I pointedly remember that the they sent the script out, but for the auditions, it was just other Sorkin scenes."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Social Network · 0:53:57 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] The Social Network · fun · The first line of dialogue lands the second the studio logo starts. · "that the dialogue on this movie basically starts the 2nd the studio logo start."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Social Network · 0:55:48 · David Sims (0.40)] The Social Network · fun · Sony pushed Jonah Hill for Sean Parker; Fincher wanted Timberlake. · "Sony wanted Jonah Hill to play Sean Parker."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Social Network · 2:41:57 · David Sims (0.35)] The Social Network · fun · Harvard did not want them filming and they shot mostly elsewhere. · "Harvard didn't want them to. So they mostly use John Hopkins, Johns Hopkins, but of course, the shot through Cambridge"

One hop out: what recommends the films most often joined to it (15)

[Blank Check — Patreon · The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo · 0:16:06 · Fran Hoepfner (0.40)] The Girl in the Spider's Web ↔ The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo · lineage · Spider's Web is the reboot after Fincher's film; the speaker finds it ill advised to abandon Mara. · "especially when the thing that everyone liked most about this movie was that performance and how quickly they abandoned it."
[The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 1:20:45 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Zodiac ↔ Almost Famous · programming · AI cut-your-own-runtime fantasy: trim Zodiac to 97 minutes; instead Bill watched the bootleg Almost Famous with 35 extra minutes. · "we watch the bootleg cut the 2nd time, which has like 35 minutes of additional scenes."
[The Big Picture · Aaron Sorkin Top 5s and ‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’ · 1:54:31 · Sean Fennessey (0.55)] The Trial of the Chicago 7 ↔ Mank · programming · Chicago 7 is a big fat fastball for the Oscars alongside Mank, Nomadland and Hillbilly Elegy. · "this is a big fat, fastball right down the middle."
[The Big Picture · The Past, Present, and Future of Superhero Movies | The Big Picture · 0:30:16 · Jason Concepcion (0.40)] Man of Steel ↔ Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice · craft · BvS's newscaster lines patching the Metropolis destruction from Man of Steel show DC's lack of confidence. · "that kind of thing shows the lack of confidence that DC really has in its voice"
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo · 0:49:09 · unknown (0.30)] Stieg Larsson ⇒ The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (the host's read) · lineage · The film is Zaillian's abridged adaptation of Larsson's novel, which loses nothing major. · "I think this is an excellent piece of adaptation that does not really, like, skip anything major."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Zodiac · 0:50:16 · Leslye Headland (0.80)] L.A. Confidential ⇒ Zodiac (the host's read) · lineage · Leslye says Zodiac feels like it follows in the footsteps of L.A. Confidential. · "zodiac feels like it follows in the footsteps of that."
[The Big Picture · Emergency Mailbag: The Oscars Are Streaming and Hollywood Is Fighting Over Trolls | The Big Picture · 0:58:09 · Sean Fennessey (0.55)] Citizen Kane ⇒ Mank (the host's read) · lineage · Mank is partly inspired by Pauline Kael's essay on who truly authored Citizen Kane. · "it's in part inspired by that very famous Pauline Kale, story raising Kane, about the true authorship of Citizen Kane"
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Incredible Hulk · 1:33:33 · Griffin or David (0.30)] Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice ↔ The Incredible Hulk · craft · The Abomination, like BvS's Doomsday, looks like a mud monster with no texture. · "It's the same problem as Doomsday in Batman versus Superman, where it's just like, he just looks like a mud monster."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo · 0:54:19 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Swedish, 2009) ⇒ The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (the host's read) · lineage · The Fincher film is the American remake of the Swedish original; its director says he was not worried. · "Everyone who loves film will go see the original."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Zodiac · 0:50:39 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Robert Graysmith ⇒ Zodiac (the host's read) · lineage · The Salerno script, which Vanderbilt took over, adapted Graysmith's nonfiction book (with a speculative sequel bolted on). · "So it's sort of like an adaptation of Graysmith's nonfiction book and a speculative sequence."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Mank · 0:48:09 · Griffin Newman (0.60)] Jack Fincher ⇒ Mank (the maker said so: Fincher's own account as read from the dossier (outlet not named)) · lineage · Fincher's father wrote the original Mank script, which David set aside until years later. · "I'm handed this script that my dad wrote about all powerful directors ruining storytelling"
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo · 1:25:22 · Griffin Newman (0.30)] The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo ↔ Michael Clayton · theme · Both open on a protagonist already broken by past failure. · "It's the Michael Clayton thing I love of like, you start this movie with a character"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Zodiac · 0:04:09 · Leslye Headland (0.90)] Zodiac ↔ The Shining · theme · Both are on Leslye's four-film Mount Rushmore. · "It's Zodiac, the Shining, back to the future, the apartment."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Mank · 1:13:08 · David Sims (0.80)] Citizen Kane ⇒ Mank (the maker said so: David's interview with cinematographer Erik Messerschmidt) · lineage · Messerschmidt told the interviewer he wanted low, deep-focus photography evoking Citizen Kane, not noir. · "He's like, no, I want to do it low to the ground, lots of deep focus, evoking citizen Kane."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Killer · 0:02:09 · unknown (host) (0.30)] The Killer ↔ The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo · craft · The speaker listened to the Dragon Tattoo score while reading the comic because The Killer score was not out. · "it's not out there, so I just listened Dragon Tattoo."

Who said it, by their latest sketch (5)

[speaker] David Sims · latest sketch, Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · Prepares history: novel, casting, budgets, box office. Reveres the film and thinks it reads as a normal ground-level story. A sucker for Hollywood deal backstory and box office game. · stances: Praises Keitel and Dafoe casting; Respects Scorsese's persistence and Corman discipline; The film is now well regarded though not 'canonical Marty'
[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
[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
[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] Griffin Newman · latest sketch, Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · Calls Last Temptation his college-era favorite Scorsese; loves Scorsese's smaller 80s and the film's closing transcendence and Gabriel score. Cannot stand fundamentalist outrage at it. A sucker for casting trivia and Tom Cruise-silliness. · stances: Hot take: Last Temptation structurally mirrors New York, New York as a better version; Outrage over the film is stupid; it is respectful to Jesus; Scorsese's smaller 80s work beats his later baroque phases

The shows' running bits (2)

[bits] The Big Picture: Drafts (Hosts and guests draft films in rounds; every pick is a recommendation with an argument); Hall of Fame (A star's or director's best, ranked and argued); Countdowns (Ranked lists, top five or top ten)
[bits] 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 Social Network (2010) 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 Social Network (2010) 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 · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) · 0:40:17 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] Panic Room ↔ The Social Network · programming · Fincher movies are rewatchable and date-movie friendly, with the exception of Se7en; Social Network is the perfect date movie. · "Like social network, perfect date movie."
[The Big Picture · Aaron Sorkin Top 5s and ‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’ · 0:56:04 · Sean Fennessey (0.80)] The Social Network ⇒ Steve Jobs (the host's read) · lineage · Steve Jobs is called a worthy sequel to The Social Network on big tech and innovation. · "I think this is in many ways a worthy sequel to the social network"
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Social Network · 0:11:24 · David Sims (0.50)] The Social Network ↔ Blackberry · lineage · Blackberry is named as the only movie to come close to The Social Network in the 13 years since. · "I think Blackberry is the only thing that has come close and then now 13 years since this movie came out."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Social Network · 0:11:44 · David Sims (0.60)] The Social Network ⇒ The Big Short (the host's read) · lineage · David says The Big Short is the most obvious movie ripping off The Social Network, and that people do not make the connection enough. · "I think the big short, which is not a movie I love, is the most obvious movie that's ripping off the social network, even though people maybe don't make that connection enough."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Social Network · 0:15:37 · David Sims (0.50)] The Accidental Billionaires (Ben Mezrich book) ↔ The Social Network · lineage · The film is technically an adapted screenplay but the speakers say Sorkin was working from the same research and the book proposal, not using the book as a template. · "But it's basically like this movie is using the same research that the book has called rather than Aaron Sorkin reading this book and using it as a template if that makes sense."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Social Network · 0:26:04 · unknown (0.35)] The Accidental Billionaires (Ben Mezrich book) ↔ The Social Network · lineage · Sorkin had no finished book and worked from notes and a general structure, with little to do with the book that exists. · "but he doesn't really have much to do with the actual book that exists."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Social Network · 0:11:03 · David Sims (0.60)] The Social Network ↔ Dumb Money · theme · Dumb Money has no pretension of being the next Social Network but its attitude is that of the earlier film; the speakers say the film became a genre. · "there's nothing about that movie's attitude that's like, this is the next social network, but the attitude of that movie is like social network."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Social Network · 0:44:07 · unknown (0.40)] The Social Network ⇒ Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (the maker said so) · theme · Snyder's reported reasoning: the modern-day Lex Luthor would be Mark Zuckerberg. · "yeah, the modern day Lex Luthor would be Mark Zuckerberg."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Social Network · 1:16:35 · unknown (0.35)] Black Hat ↔ The Social Network · theme · Black Hat is read as Michael Mann realizing the cops-and-criminals tough guys no longer rule once everything is on a computer, a thread the speakers tie to Facebook. · "Black Hat, I think, is a movie about Michael Mann realizing that the guys he spent his entire career writing about cops and criminals."
[The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 1:16:29 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] The Social Network ↔ Inglourious Basterds · craft · The best line reading category: Eisenberg's 'That's good, you should be proud' alongside 'Everybody in the German army has heard of Hugo Stiglitz'. · "It's an all-time line reading that could base smarminess, jealousy, and resentment without showing much emotion."
[The Big Picture · Aaron Sorkin Top 5s and ‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’ · 1:45:00 · Amanda Dobbins (0.65)] The Trial of the Chicago 7 ↔ The Social Network · craft · Both use the intercut to dramatize testimony; Chicago 7's climactic speech is another intercut that does not land. · "it is actually another intercut, Sean, as you mentioned"
[The Big Picture · Aaron Sorkin Top 5s and ‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’ · 1:13:11 · Sean Fennessey (0.70)] The Social Network ↔ Zodiac · contrast · Social Network was one host's top Fincher film; the Fincher podcast chose Zodiac as the purest Fincher. · "Zodiac is like the Fincheryist."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Social Network · 1:08:05 · David Sims (0.40)] The Social Network ↔ 21 · contrast · The Social Network is set against 21, a fun story about rebels, in tone. · "in opposition to something like 21 where it's like a fun story about a fucking a bunch of rebels."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Curious Case of Benjamin Button · 2:30:10 · unknown (0.30)] The Social Network ↔ The Curious Case of Benjamin Button · contrast · Next week's film is called an anti-Benjamin Button. · "Kind of an anti-Benjamin button?"
[The Big Picture · Emergency Mailbag: The Oscars Are Streaming and Hollywood Is Fighting Over Trolls | The Big Picture · 0:57:34 · Sean Fennessey (0.55)] Mank ↔ The Social Network · people · Fincher's perverse films are hits but the Academy snubs them, as when The Social Network lost to The King's Speech. · "notably the social network, being defeated by the king speech, which is a result that should be should die in a fire."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Mank · 1:14:55 · David Sims (0.50)] Mank ↔ The Social Network · people · Griffin says Mank is a talkie without the entertaining dialogue of The Social Network. · "It's a talkie movie, but a talking movie without having the kind of like wildly entertaining dialogue of a social network."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo · 2:31:49 · unknown (0.30)] The Social Network ↔ The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo · people · Reznor and Ross scored both films; the speaker listens to the Dragon Tattoo score more than Social Network's. · "I listen to more than the social network score."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Social Network · 0:11:39 · David Sims (0.40)] The Social Network ↔ Moneyball · people · Moneyball is set aside as a Sorkin script written after The Social Network, so it does not count as a successor. · "Don't count those, right? Because those are Sorkin scripts."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Social Network · 0:11:39 · David Sims (0.40)] The Social Network ↔ Steve Jobs · people · Steve Jobs is set aside as a Sorkin script written after The Social Network, so it does not count as a successor. · "Don't count those, right? Because those are Sorkin scripts."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Social Network · 0:43:43 · unknown (0.35)] The Social Network ⇒ Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (the host's read) · people · Snyder offered Eisenberg Jimmy Olsen in BvS in the wake of The Social Network. · "Zack Snyder offers, uh, Jimmy Olsen. to Jesse Eisenberg in the wake of this movie, for BVS."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Social Network · 0:55:26 · unknown (0.30)] Never Let Me Go → The Social Network · people · Never Let Me Go, directed by Mark Romanek, had worked with Garfield and put him in front of Fincher. · "Um, but Mark Romantic had already worked with him for Never Let Me Go, which comes out the same year, puts him in front of Fincher, Fincher, is into it."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Social Network · 0:58:52 · unknown (0.35)] The Social Network ⇒ Friends with Benefits (the host's read) · people · Pascal watched The Social Network early and committed to more Timberlake pictures. · "It's like Pascal watches this movie early and it's like, you know what? 'm wrong. Justin Timberlake, we're all in."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Social Network · 0:58:52 · unknown (0.35)] The Social Network ⇒ In Time (the host's read) · people · Pascal watched The Social Network early and committed to more Timberlake pictures. · "It's like Pascal watches this movie early and it's like, you know what? 'm wrong. Justin Timberlake, we're all in."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Social Network · 0:59:02 · unknown (0.35)] The Social Network ⇒ The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (the host's read) · people · Pascal saw the dailies from The Social Network and picked Rooney Mara for Lisbeth Salander. · "Pascal basically sees the dailies from this movie and is like, Rooney Morris, Elizabeth Salander."
[The Big Picture · Thirteen Awards Movies to Watch Out for, Oscar Do-Overs, and More From the Mailbag · 0:40:53 · Amanda Dobbins (0.70)] The Social Network ↔ The King's Speech · verdict · The Academy was wrong: The Social Network should have beaten The King's Speech. · "obviously, should have been social network over King speech."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Zodiac · 0:08:48 · unknown (0.30)] The Social Network ↔ Zodiac · verdict · One speaker says Social Network is not even in the same conversation as Zodiac. · "It's not even in the same conversation"
[pairs] The Social Network ↔ Zodiac · said 4 times in 3 episodes
[pairs] The Social Network ↔ The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo · said 4 times in 2 episodes
[pairs] The Social Network ↔ The King's Speech · said 3 times in 3 episodes
[pairs] The Social Network ↔ Mank · said 3 times in 2 episodes
[pairs] The Social Network ↔ Steve Jobs · said 2 times in 2 episodes
[pairs] The Social Network ↔ The Curious Case of Benjamin Button · said 2 times in 1 episode
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Social Network · 0:48:47 · unknown (0.35)] The Social Network · fun · Sorkin wanted Mark drinking a screwdriver in the Facemash scene; Fincher kept it a Bex because the blog says Bex. A microcosm of the two men. · "But Sorkin's thing was like, he should be drinking a screwdriver and Fincher was like, he says he's drinking a bex in the blog."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Social Network · 0:50:41 · David Sims (0.40)] The Social Network · fun · The 166-page script was too long for Sony; Fincher and Sorkin read it aloud against a stopwatch and it came out at two hours. · "And Fincher was like, you and me are going to sit down and read the script."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Social Network · 0:52:46 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] The Social Network · fun · Auditions were other Sorkin scenes, because Fincher needed to see if people could do the pace; Eisenberg's self-tape was the first time he said under two hours. · "I pointedly remember that the they sent the script out, but for the auditions, it was just other Sorkin scenes."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Social Network · 0:53:57 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] The Social Network · fun · The first line of dialogue lands the second the studio logo starts. · "that the dialogue on this movie basically starts the 2nd the studio logo start."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Social Network · 0:55:48 · David Sims (0.40)] The Social Network · fun · Sony pushed Jonah Hill for Sean Parker; Fincher wanted Timberlake. · "Sony wanted Jonah Hill to play Sean Parker."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Social Network · 2:41:57 · David Sims (0.35)] The Social Network · fun · Harvard did not want them filming and they shot mostly elsewhere. · "Harvard didn't want them to. So they mostly use John Hopkins, Johns Hopkins, but of course, the shot through Cambridge"
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo · 0:16:06 · Fran Hoepfner (0.40)] The Girl in the Spider's Web ↔ The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo · lineage · Spider's Web is the reboot after Fincher's film; the speaker finds it ill advised to abandon Mara. · "especially when the thing that everyone liked most about this movie was that performance and how quickly they abandoned it."
[The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 1:20:45 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Zodiac ↔ Almost Famous · programming · AI cut-your-own-runtime fantasy: trim Zodiac to 97 minutes; instead Bill watched the bootleg Almost Famous with 35 extra minutes. · "we watch the bootleg cut the 2nd time, which has like 35 minutes of additional scenes."
[The Big Picture · Aaron Sorkin Top 5s and ‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’ · 1:54:31 · Sean Fennessey (0.55)] The Trial of the Chicago 7 ↔ Mank · programming · Chicago 7 is a big fat fastball for the Oscars alongside Mank, Nomadland and Hillbilly Elegy. · "this is a big fat, fastball right down the middle."
[The Big Picture · The Past, Present, and Future of Superhero Movies | The Big Picture · 0:30:16 · Jason Concepcion (0.40)] Man of Steel ↔ Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice · craft · BvS's newscaster lines patching the Metropolis destruction from Man of Steel show DC's lack of confidence. · "that kind of thing shows the lack of confidence that DC really has in its voice"
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo · 0:49:09 · unknown (0.30)] Stieg Larsson ⇒ The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (the host's read) · lineage · The film is Zaillian's abridged adaptation of Larsson's novel, which loses nothing major. · "I think this is an excellent piece of adaptation that does not really, like, skip anything major."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Zodiac · 0:50:16 · Leslye Headland (0.80)] L.A. Confidential ⇒ Zodiac (the host's read) · lineage · Leslye says Zodiac feels like it follows in the footsteps of L.A. Confidential. · "zodiac feels like it follows in the footsteps of that."
[The Big Picture · Emergency Mailbag: The Oscars Are Streaming and Hollywood Is Fighting Over Trolls | The Big Picture · 0:58:09 · Sean Fennessey (0.55)] Citizen Kane ⇒ Mank (the host's read) · lineage · Mank is partly inspired by Pauline Kael's essay on who truly authored Citizen Kane. · "it's in part inspired by that very famous Pauline Kale, story raising Kane, about the true authorship of Citizen Kane"
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Incredible Hulk · 1:33:33 · Griffin or David (0.30)] Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice ↔ The Incredible Hulk · craft · The Abomination, like BvS's Doomsday, looks like a mud monster with no texture. · "It's the same problem as Doomsday in Batman versus Superman, where it's just like, he just looks like a mud monster."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo · 0:54:19 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Swedish, 2009) ⇒ The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (the host's read) · lineage · The Fincher film is the American remake of the Swedish original; its director says he was not worried. · "Everyone who loves film will go see the original."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Zodiac · 0:50:39 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Robert Graysmith ⇒ Zodiac (the host's read) · lineage · The Salerno script, which Vanderbilt took over, adapted Graysmith's nonfiction book (with a speculative sequel bolted on). · "So it's sort of like an adaptation of Graysmith's nonfiction book and a speculative sequence."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Mank · 0:48:09 · Griffin Newman (0.60)] Jack Fincher ⇒ Mank (the maker said so: Fincher's own account as read from the dossier (outlet not named)) · lineage · Fincher's father wrote the original Mank script, which David set aside until years later. · "I'm handed this script that my dad wrote about all powerful directors ruining storytelling"
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo · 1:25:22 · Griffin Newman (0.30)] The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo ↔ Michael Clayton · theme · Both open on a protagonist already broken by past failure. · "It's the Michael Clayton thing I love of like, you start this movie with a character"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Zodiac · 0:04:09 · Leslye Headland (0.90)] Zodiac ↔ The Shining · theme · Both are on Leslye's four-film Mount Rushmore. · "It's Zodiac, the Shining, back to the future, the apartment."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Mank · 1:13:08 · David Sims (0.80)] Citizen Kane ⇒ Mank (the maker said so: David's interview with cinematographer Erik Messerschmidt) · lineage · Messerschmidt told the interviewer he wanted low, deep-focus photography evoking Citizen Kane, not noir. · "He's like, no, I want to do it low to the ground, lots of deep focus, evoking citizen Kane."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Killer · 0:02:09 · unknown (host) (0.30)] The Killer ↔ The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo · craft · The speaker listened to the Dragon Tattoo score while reading the comic because The Killer score was not out. · "it's not out there, so I just listened Dragon Tattoo."
[speaker] David Sims · latest sketch, Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · Prepares history: novel, casting, budgets, box office. Reveres the film and thinks it reads as a normal ground-level story. A sucker for Hollywood deal backstory and box office game. · stances: Praises Keitel and Dafoe casting; Respects Scorsese's persistence and Corman discipline; The film is now well regarded though not 'canonical Marty'
[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
[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
[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] Griffin Newman · latest sketch, Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · Calls Last Temptation his college-era favorite Scorsese; loves Scorsese's smaller 80s and the film's closing transcendence and Gabriel score. Cannot stand fundamentalist outrage at it. A sucker for casting trivia and Tom Cruise-silliness. · stances: Hot take: Last Temptation structurally mirrors New York, New York as a better version; Outrage over the film is stupid; it is respectful to Jesus; Scorsese's smaller 80s work beats his later baroque phases
[bits] The Big Picture: Drafts (Hosts and guests draft films in rounds; every pick is a recommendation with an argument); Hall of Fame (A star's or director's best, ranked and argued); Countdowns (Ranked lists, top five or top ten)
[bits] 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 Social Network (2010); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend The Social Network (2010) 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.