What the corpus says about Alien Resurrection (1997)

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)

  1. [Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 2:17:13 · David Sims (0.60)] Prometheus ↔ Alien Resurrection · programming · The Patreon run continues with Prometheus then Covenant after this final Ripley film. · "Tune in for Prometheus, tune in for covenant."
  2. [Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ · 0:24:13 · David Sims (0.30)] Alien 3 ⇒ Alien Resurrection (the host's read) · lineage · Resurrection follows Alien 3, but its Ripley is a different character from the one who died. · "As much as she was quote unquote resurrected, obviously, that's a different character explicitly."
  3. [Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 0:29:48 · unknown (0.30)] Alien: Covenant ↔ Alien Resurrection · lineage · The fourth film had pirates. · "Alien four, I guess."
  4. [Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 0:31:00 · David Sims (0.50)] Alien Resurrection ⇒ Firefly (TV) (the host's read) · lineage · The Betty's space-pirate crew reads as proto-Firefly, Whedon's later show. · "I mean, some proto firefly stuff."
  5. [Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 0:46:01 · David Sims (0.50)] Alien Resurrection ⇒ Jurassic Park (the host's read) · lineage · Aliens caged and taunted while hunting you feels like the raptors; raptors may be Alien rip-offs. · "the raptors have a bit of an alien rip off vibe, honestly"
  6. [Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 1:11:15 · David Sims (0.50)] Alien Resurrection ↔ Heavy Metal · lineage · Ripley 7's mutant looks like French graphic novels, Moebius and Metal Hurlant. · "Like, this is Mobius, metal herlon shit."
  7. [Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 1:55:38 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Goldfinger ⇒ Alien Resurrection (the host's read) · lineage · The newborn alien sucked out the window repeats the Goldfinger ending, but sad. · "it's the goldfinger ending."
  8. [Blank Check — Patreon · Alien 3 · 2:06:26 · unknown (0.50)] Alien 3 ⇒ Alien Resurrection (the host's read) · lineage · Resurrection brings Ripley back as a clone, which undoes Alien 3's chosen death. · "My nuclear take is bringing her back to life as a clone is more disrespectful than killing, uh, hicks and newt in this movie."
  9. [Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 0:04:14 · David Sims (0.50)] Alien Resurrection ↔ Alien · theme · Ridley Scott's Alien is sexual in a Freudian way; Resurrection is the overtly sexual one. · "This is also the most overtly sexual of the alien movies."
  10. [Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 0:22:17 · David Sims (0.60)] Alien Resurrection ↔ Aliens · theme · Seeing Ripley cloned and cut open feels as cruel as Hicks and Newt dying off-screen at the start of the previous sequel. · "this is the moment where I feel the way people describe the anger of Hicks and Newt getting killed at the beginning of alien cube."
  11. [Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 0:39:51 · Griffin Newman (0.60)] Alien Resurrection ↔ Space Jam · theme · Ripley shooting hoops in the 24th century is a 90s basketball moment. · "Would you say they're space jamming right now?"
  12. [Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 1:13:21 · David Sims (0.40)] Alien Resurrection ↔ Saturday Night Live · theme · The creature too awful to live begging 'kill me' is a funny trope, like an Eddie Murphy SNL sketch. · "The the SNL, uh, uh, Eddie Murphy cake."
  13. [Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 1:15:43 · David Sims (0.60)] Alien Resurrection ↔ John Wick · theme · John Wick is the only modern equivalent of a major franchise built on fatalism. · "I feel like the only modern equivalent is, um, John Wick, in terms of a major franchise being so based around kind of fatalism."
  14. [Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 1:33:18 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Alien Resurrection ↔ Westworld · theme · The robot world-building feels like Westworld's reveal of robots outside the park. · "Like a Westworld thing when you realize like there's actually robots like outside of here"
  15. [Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 1:48:20 · David Sims (0.40)] Alien Resurrection ↔ Alien 3 · theme · The alien-hybrid birth echoes Alien 3's mommy-child relationship; this one is treated as parent and child. · "But much like an Alien 3, it's like, oh, hey, mommy."
  16. [Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 1:59:09 · David Sims (0.50)] Alien Resurrection ↔ Alien 3 · theme · The studio could not settle on a sad ending, perhaps afraid after Alien 3. · "They just can't... settle on a sad ending and they should have."
  17. [Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 0:31:07 · David Sims (0.40)] Alien Resurrection ↔ Taxi Driver · craft · One crew member has a Travis Bickle gun-sling rig. · "So this guy has the, like, Travis Bickle... It's got the gun, the gun slings, right?"
  18. [Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 0:45:18 · David Sims (0.60)] Alien Resurrection ↔ Aliens · craft · In Aliens you see them fleetingly; in Resurrection animatronics let an alien stand in front of you for ten seconds. · "But this is the 1st one where it's like, yeah, an alien's just standing in front of you."
  19. [Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 1:26:19 · David Sims (0.60)] Alien Resurrection ↔ Godzilla · craft · 1998 Godzilla and the first Jurassic Park shot their CGI creatures in rain and night to hide the rendering. · "the 98 Godzilla is set in the rain constantly, and why in Jurassic, the 1st Jurassic"
  20. [Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 0:04:06 · David Sims (0.60)] Alien Resurrection ↔ Alien 3 · contrast · Alien 3 is grim; Resurrection is whimsical and odd. · "Well, the last one's just so grim, whereas this one is kind of whimsical."
  21. [Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 0:07:24 · Griffin Newman (0.60)] Alien Resurrection ↔ Alien 3 · contrast · Alien 3 ended with Ripley's noble sacrifice in lava; Resurrection undoes it by cloning her. · "She falls into lava, and that's the end of that."
  22. [Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 0:22:30 · David Sims (0.70)] Alien Resurrection ↔ Alien 3 · contrast · Ripley died on her own terms taking the chestburster; Resurrection cuts the alien out of her clone. · "Ripley dies on her own terms and she takes the alien chest burster with her, and she settles the score"
  23. [Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 0:47:45 · David Sims (0.50)] Alien Resurrection ↔ Prometheus · contrast · Prometheus has a stacked cast on one level; Resurrection puts a second movie star above the title with Weaver and loses balance. · "it's putting them above the title, it's kind of implying that it's going to be kind of a two-hander"
  24. [Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 1:16:31 · Griffin Newman (0.60)] Alien Resurrection ↔ Terminator: Dark Fate · contrast · Studios kept trying to make Terminator something different, unlike Alien's willingness to hire dark people. · "Versus, I feel like 3 Terminator movies in a row where they were like, I don't know, can we make it into something different?"
  25. [Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 1:40:03 · David Sims (0.60)] Alien Resurrection ↔ Aliens · contrast · In Aliens she rescues Newt and in Alien 3 the convicts find purpose; in Resurrection there is no purpose to the fight. · "in aliens, she's rescuing newt and like, you know, even in alien 3, they kind of, by the end of it"
  26. [Blank Check — Patreon · Alien 3 · 0:49:08 · unknown (0.50)] Delicatessen ↔ Alien Resurrection · people · Jeunet's Delicatessen already looks like an alien movie, so he suits Resurrection. · "Instead, they went with June, who, like, if you've seen Delicatessen, which comes out a year before this, that looks like an alien movie."

Films put beside it more than once (5)

  1. [pairs] Alien Resurrection ↔ Alien 3 · said 7 times in 3 episodes
  2. [pairs] Alien Resurrection ↔ Aliens · said 3 times in 1 episode
  3. [pairs] Alien Resurrection ↔ Alien: Covenant · said 2 times in 2 episodes
  4. [pairs] Alien Resurrection ↔ Alien · said 2 times in 1 episode
  5. [pairs] Alien Resurrection ↔ Prometheus · said 2 times in 1 episode

Fun items about it (6)

  1. [Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 0:10:12 · David Sims (0.60)] Alien: Resurrection · fun · Production trivia: Danny Boyle and Peter Jackson and Bryan Singer were approached and passed before Jeunet. · "They ask Peter Jackson."
  2. [Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 0:14:14 · Angela Ferragudo (0.40)] Alien: Resurrection · fun · The drinking game: rules from Instagram stories, including someone saying 'the company'. · "Four, someone says the company."
  3. [Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 0:17:42 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Alien: Resurrection · fun · The Fox logo at the start is clearly from the film print, grain and all, not an HD transfer. · "clearly the logo from the film print from this movie."
  4. [Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 0:44:45 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Alien: Resurrection · fun · Golden age of animatronics: the aliens can stay in bright close-ups for ten seconds without cutting away. · "This is the peak of animatronic technology before the entire art form is largely thrown in the toilet."
  5. [Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 1:35:39 · David Sims (0.60)] Alien: Resurrection · fun · The worst-case scenario joke: aliens loose on Earth becomes a Kenner toy line of animal mashups. · "create an entire early 90s Kenner toy line of fun alien animal mashups."
  6. [Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 1:47:58 · David Sims (0.60)] Alien: Resurrection · fun · The newborn's chest cavity was a hybrid genital design cut from the film as too intense. · "it's supposed to be kind of like this sort of like hybrid genital thing."

One hop out: what recommends the films most often joined to it (18)

  1. [Blank Check — Patreon · Alien 3 · 1:35:21 · unknown (0.40)] Alien 3 ↔ Resident Evil · programming · Resident Evil should not be programmed next to Alien; wait for in-person sessions. · "Also, you can't put it next to Alien because Resident Evil does, well, not, that will not be good for Resident Evil."
  2. [Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ · 0:09:08 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Aliens ↔ Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol · programming · Both franchises are auteur-rich without one definitive director, which is why the Patreon series covered them. · "Uh, but like Mission Impossible Aliens, perfect examples of franchises that uh, have a tours, but do not have one definitive director."
  3. [The Rewatchables · ‘The Texas Chain Saw Massacre’ · 0:51:40 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] The Texas Chain Saw Massacre ⇒ Alien (the host's read) · lineage · Chainsaw is what inspired Ridley Scott to make Alien. · "Texas Chainsaw Basker is what inspired Ridley Scott to make alien."
  4. [Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 1:04:43 · unknown (0.30)] Alien: Covenant ↔ Blade Runner 2049 · programming · Both came out in 2017, by two generations of sci-fi. · "This is the same year as Blade Runner 2049."
  5. [Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 0:06:57 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Prometheus ⇒ Alien: Covenant (the host's read) · lineage · Covenant is half the Prometheus sequel Scott wanted and half a concession to a more normal Alien movie. · "this is half, like Ridley Scott doing the Prometheus sequel he wanted to do and half"
  6. [The Big Picture · ‘The Killer’ Is Cold-Blooded Genius. And Something More · 0:59:46 · Adam Nayman (0.85)] David Fincher ↔ Alien 3 · lineage · Alien 3 is the primal scene of Fincher's chip on his shoulder, producers treating him like a shoe salesman. · "there's the chip on the shoulder and the primal scene of alien 3, right?"
  7. [The Big Picture · The Great ‘Avatar’ Debate · 0:52:25 · unknown (0.40)] Avatar ↔ Aliens · lineage · Cameron's 1995 pitch for Avatar was much closer to Aliens in tone. · "It was much closer to aliens in tone."
  8. [The Rewatchables · ‘Species’ · 1:12:56 · Bill Simmons (0.30)] Alien ⇒ Species (the maker said so) · lineage · Giger thought Species ripped off too many other alien movies, such as the chest-burster. · "He thought the movie ripped off too many other alien movies"
  9. [Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 2:04:21 · unknown (0.40)] Alien: Covenant ↔ Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 · programming · Covenant's weekend opened behind Guardians Vol. 2, #1 for the second weekend. · "Oh, it's Gardens of Galaxy volume two."
  10. [Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 0:15:54 · unknown (0.30)] Danny McBride ↔ Prometheus · lineage · McBride's pilot in Covenant fills the Idris Elba role from Prometheus. · "McBride is kind of in the Idris Elba role, like kind of the accordion playing pilot type."
  11. [Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ · 0:30:17 · Matt Singer (0.40)] Aliens ⇒ Alien 3 (the host's read) · lineage · Alien 3 follows Aliens; watched back to back, Aliens ends on a new family that Alien 3 then kills. · "you watch aliens and that has this ending of, you know, this new family that has been created."
  12. [Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ · 0:30:17 · Matt Singer (0.40)] Aliens ⇒ Alien 3 (the host's read) · lineage · Alien 3 follows Aliens; watched back to back, Aliens ends on a new family that Alien 3 then kills. · "you watch aliens and that has this ending of, you know, this new family that has been created."
  13. [The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ · 0:27:04 · Joanna Robinson (0.60)] Sigourney Weaver ↔ Alien · lineage · Both the Working Girl role and the Alien role were originally written for a man. · "the screenwriter said that her role was originally written as a man, which is true for her role in alien as well."
  14. [Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 0:06:57 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Prometheus ⇒ Alien: Covenant (the host's read) · lineage · Covenant is half the Prometheus sequel Scott wanted and half a concession to a more normal Alien movie. · "this is half, like Ridley Scott doing the Prometheus sequel he wanted to do and half"
  15. [Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 0:29:59 · unknown (0.30)] Alien: Covenant ↔ Prometheus · lineage · Prometheus had pioneering scientists; Covenant has crunchy colonists. · "Prometheus, you know, where we're in, where it's full on like pioneering scientist types."
  16. [Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ · 0:56:20 · Griffin Newman (0.35)] David Twohy ⇒ Alien 3 (the host's read) · lineage · Twohy brought the prison-planet concept into the development. · "Twowey is the one who brings in the prison planet concept, okay?"
  17. [Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ · 0:50:21 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Alien ⇒ Aliens (the host's read) · lineage · Cameron's sequel to Ridley Scott's film shifted the genre, which raised expectations for any follow-up. · "some other fucking guy is coming in and making a sequel to Ridley Scott's movie."
  18. [The Big Picture · The Final Girl Film Canon and ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ · 0:47:57 · Adam Nayman (0.50)] Alien ⇒ Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma (the host's read) · lineage · Ripley stripped to underwear at the end is a vulnerability beat that Miasma echoes. · "Yes, it is echoed in Teenage Tech"

Who said it, by their latest sketch (3)

  1. [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'
  2. [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
  3. [speaker] Angela Ferragudo · latest sketch, Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · Also new to the film; reacts to the big reveals (newborn, the android twist). Neighbors' noise intrudes; she took the Instagram drinking-game submissions. · stances: Hearing the film for the first time; Reads the hat and the drinking-game rules

The shows' running bits (2)

  1. [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)
  2. [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 Alien Resurrection (1997) 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 Alien Resurrection (1997) and the films around it, one line each. Every line starts with where it came from, in brackets: [show · episode · time · speaker (how sure we are it was them)]. A [pairs] line says how often two films were put side by side. A [speaker] line says what that person likes. A [bits] line lists a show's running bits: a format, not an opinion.

[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 2:17:13 · David Sims (0.60)] Prometheus ↔ Alien Resurrection · programming · The Patreon run continues with Prometheus then Covenant after this final Ripley film. · "Tune in for Prometheus, tune in for covenant."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ · 0:24:13 · David Sims (0.30)] Alien 3 ⇒ Alien Resurrection (the host's read) · lineage · Resurrection follows Alien 3, but its Ripley is a different character from the one who died. · "As much as she was quote unquote resurrected, obviously, that's a different character explicitly."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 0:29:48 · unknown (0.30)] Alien: Covenant ↔ Alien Resurrection · lineage · The fourth film had pirates. · "Alien four, I guess."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 0:31:00 · David Sims (0.50)] Alien Resurrection ⇒ Firefly (TV) (the host's read) · lineage · The Betty's space-pirate crew reads as proto-Firefly, Whedon's later show. · "I mean, some proto firefly stuff."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 0:46:01 · David Sims (0.50)] Alien Resurrection ⇒ Jurassic Park (the host's read) · lineage · Aliens caged and taunted while hunting you feels like the raptors; raptors may be Alien rip-offs. · "the raptors have a bit of an alien rip off vibe, honestly"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 1:11:15 · David Sims (0.50)] Alien Resurrection ↔ Heavy Metal · lineage · Ripley 7's mutant looks like French graphic novels, Moebius and Metal Hurlant. · "Like, this is Mobius, metal herlon shit."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 1:55:38 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Goldfinger ⇒ Alien Resurrection (the host's read) · lineage · The newborn alien sucked out the window repeats the Goldfinger ending, but sad. · "it's the goldfinger ending."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien 3 · 2:06:26 · unknown (0.50)] Alien 3 ⇒ Alien Resurrection (the host's read) · lineage · Resurrection brings Ripley back as a clone, which undoes Alien 3's chosen death. · "My nuclear take is bringing her back to life as a clone is more disrespectful than killing, uh, hicks and newt in this movie."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 0:04:14 · David Sims (0.50)] Alien Resurrection ↔ Alien · theme · Ridley Scott's Alien is sexual in a Freudian way; Resurrection is the overtly sexual one. · "This is also the most overtly sexual of the alien movies."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 0:22:17 · David Sims (0.60)] Alien Resurrection ↔ Aliens · theme · Seeing Ripley cloned and cut open feels as cruel as Hicks and Newt dying off-screen at the start of the previous sequel. · "this is the moment where I feel the way people describe the anger of Hicks and Newt getting killed at the beginning of alien cube."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 0:39:51 · Griffin Newman (0.60)] Alien Resurrection ↔ Space Jam · theme · Ripley shooting hoops in the 24th century is a 90s basketball moment. · "Would you say they're space jamming right now?"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 1:13:21 · David Sims (0.40)] Alien Resurrection ↔ Saturday Night Live · theme · The creature too awful to live begging 'kill me' is a funny trope, like an Eddie Murphy SNL sketch. · "The the SNL, uh, uh, Eddie Murphy cake."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 1:15:43 · David Sims (0.60)] Alien Resurrection ↔ John Wick · theme · John Wick is the only modern equivalent of a major franchise built on fatalism. · "I feel like the only modern equivalent is, um, John Wick, in terms of a major franchise being so based around kind of fatalism."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 1:33:18 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Alien Resurrection ↔ Westworld · theme · The robot world-building feels like Westworld's reveal of robots outside the park. · "Like a Westworld thing when you realize like there's actually robots like outside of here"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 1:48:20 · David Sims (0.40)] Alien Resurrection ↔ Alien 3 · theme · The alien-hybrid birth echoes Alien 3's mommy-child relationship; this one is treated as parent and child. · "But much like an Alien 3, it's like, oh, hey, mommy."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 1:59:09 · David Sims (0.50)] Alien Resurrection ↔ Alien 3 · theme · The studio could not settle on a sad ending, perhaps afraid after Alien 3. · "They just can't... settle on a sad ending and they should have."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 0:31:07 · David Sims (0.40)] Alien Resurrection ↔ Taxi Driver · craft · One crew member has a Travis Bickle gun-sling rig. · "So this guy has the, like, Travis Bickle... It's got the gun, the gun slings, right?"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 0:45:18 · David Sims (0.60)] Alien Resurrection ↔ Aliens · craft · In Aliens you see them fleetingly; in Resurrection animatronics let an alien stand in front of you for ten seconds. · "But this is the 1st one where it's like, yeah, an alien's just standing in front of you."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 1:26:19 · David Sims (0.60)] Alien Resurrection ↔ Godzilla · craft · 1998 Godzilla and the first Jurassic Park shot their CGI creatures in rain and night to hide the rendering. · "the 98 Godzilla is set in the rain constantly, and why in Jurassic, the 1st Jurassic"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 0:04:06 · David Sims (0.60)] Alien Resurrection ↔ Alien 3 · contrast · Alien 3 is grim; Resurrection is whimsical and odd. · "Well, the last one's just so grim, whereas this one is kind of whimsical."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 0:07:24 · Griffin Newman (0.60)] Alien Resurrection ↔ Alien 3 · contrast · Alien 3 ended with Ripley's noble sacrifice in lava; Resurrection undoes it by cloning her. · "She falls into lava, and that's the end of that."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 0:22:30 · David Sims (0.70)] Alien Resurrection ↔ Alien 3 · contrast · Ripley died on her own terms taking the chestburster; Resurrection cuts the alien out of her clone. · "Ripley dies on her own terms and she takes the alien chest burster with her, and she settles the score"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 0:47:45 · David Sims (0.50)] Alien Resurrection ↔ Prometheus · contrast · Prometheus has a stacked cast on one level; Resurrection puts a second movie star above the title with Weaver and loses balance. · "it's putting them above the title, it's kind of implying that it's going to be kind of a two-hander"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 1:16:31 · Griffin Newman (0.60)] Alien Resurrection ↔ Terminator: Dark Fate · contrast · Studios kept trying to make Terminator something different, unlike Alien's willingness to hire dark people. · "Versus, I feel like 3 Terminator movies in a row where they were like, I don't know, can we make it into something different?"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 1:40:03 · David Sims (0.60)] Alien Resurrection ↔ Aliens · contrast · In Aliens she rescues Newt and in Alien 3 the convicts find purpose; in Resurrection there is no purpose to the fight. · "in aliens, she's rescuing newt and like, you know, even in alien 3, they kind of, by the end of it"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien 3 · 0:49:08 · unknown (0.50)] Delicatessen ↔ Alien Resurrection · people · Jeunet's Delicatessen already looks like an alien movie, so he suits Resurrection. · "Instead, they went with June, who, like, if you've seen Delicatessen, which comes out a year before this, that looks like an alien movie."
[pairs] Alien Resurrection ↔ Alien 3 · said 7 times in 3 episodes
[pairs] Alien Resurrection ↔ Aliens · said 3 times in 1 episode
[pairs] Alien Resurrection ↔ Alien: Covenant · said 2 times in 2 episodes
[pairs] Alien Resurrection ↔ Alien · said 2 times in 1 episode
[pairs] Alien Resurrection ↔ Prometheus · said 2 times in 1 episode
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 0:10:12 · David Sims (0.60)] Alien: Resurrection · fun · Production trivia: Danny Boyle and Peter Jackson and Bryan Singer were approached and passed before Jeunet. · "They ask Peter Jackson."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 0:14:14 · Angela Ferragudo (0.40)] Alien: Resurrection · fun · The drinking game: rules from Instagram stories, including someone saying 'the company'. · "Four, someone says the company."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 0:17:42 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Alien: Resurrection · fun · The Fox logo at the start is clearly from the film print, grain and all, not an HD transfer. · "clearly the logo from the film print from this movie."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 0:44:45 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Alien: Resurrection · fun · Golden age of animatronics: the aliens can stay in bright close-ups for ten seconds without cutting away. · "This is the peak of animatronic technology before the entire art form is largely thrown in the toilet."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 1:35:39 · David Sims (0.60)] Alien: Resurrection · fun · The worst-case scenario joke: aliens loose on Earth becomes a Kenner toy line of animal mashups. · "create an entire early 90s Kenner toy line of fun alien animal mashups."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 1:47:58 · David Sims (0.60)] Alien: Resurrection · fun · The newborn's chest cavity was a hybrid genital design cut from the film as too intense. · "it's supposed to be kind of like this sort of like hybrid genital thing."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien 3 · 1:35:21 · unknown (0.40)] Alien 3 ↔ Resident Evil · programming · Resident Evil should not be programmed next to Alien; wait for in-person sessions. · "Also, you can't put it next to Alien because Resident Evil does, well, not, that will not be good for Resident Evil."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ · 0:09:08 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Aliens ↔ Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol · programming · Both franchises are auteur-rich without one definitive director, which is why the Patreon series covered them. · "Uh, but like Mission Impossible Aliens, perfect examples of franchises that uh, have a tours, but do not have one definitive director."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Texas Chain Saw Massacre’ · 0:51:40 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] The Texas Chain Saw Massacre ⇒ Alien (the host's read) · lineage · Chainsaw is what inspired Ridley Scott to make Alien. · "Texas Chainsaw Basker is what inspired Ridley Scott to make alien."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 1:04:43 · unknown (0.30)] Alien: Covenant ↔ Blade Runner 2049 · programming · Both came out in 2017, by two generations of sci-fi. · "This is the same year as Blade Runner 2049."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 0:06:57 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Prometheus ⇒ Alien: Covenant (the host's read) · lineage · Covenant is half the Prometheus sequel Scott wanted and half a concession to a more normal Alien movie. · "this is half, like Ridley Scott doing the Prometheus sequel he wanted to do and half"
[The Big Picture · ‘The Killer’ Is Cold-Blooded Genius. And Something More · 0:59:46 · Adam Nayman (0.85)] David Fincher ↔ Alien 3 · lineage · Alien 3 is the primal scene of Fincher's chip on his shoulder, producers treating him like a shoe salesman. · "there's the chip on the shoulder and the primal scene of alien 3, right?"
[The Big Picture · The Great ‘Avatar’ Debate · 0:52:25 · unknown (0.40)] Avatar ↔ Aliens · lineage · Cameron's 1995 pitch for Avatar was much closer to Aliens in tone. · "It was much closer to aliens in tone."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Species’ · 1:12:56 · Bill Simmons (0.30)] Alien ⇒ Species (the maker said so) · lineage · Giger thought Species ripped off too many other alien movies, such as the chest-burster. · "He thought the movie ripped off too many other alien movies"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 2:04:21 · unknown (0.40)] Alien: Covenant ↔ Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 · programming · Covenant's weekend opened behind Guardians Vol. 2, #1 for the second weekend. · "Oh, it's Gardens of Galaxy volume two."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 0:15:54 · unknown (0.30)] Danny McBride ↔ Prometheus · lineage · McBride's pilot in Covenant fills the Idris Elba role from Prometheus. · "McBride is kind of in the Idris Elba role, like kind of the accordion playing pilot type."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ · 0:30:17 · Matt Singer (0.40)] Aliens ⇒ Alien 3 (the host's read) · lineage · Alien 3 follows Aliens; watched back to back, Aliens ends on a new family that Alien 3 then kills. · "you watch aliens and that has this ending of, you know, this new family that has been created."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ · 0:30:17 · Matt Singer (0.40)] Aliens ⇒ Alien 3 (the host's read) · lineage · Alien 3 follows Aliens; watched back to back, Aliens ends on a new family that Alien 3 then kills. · "you watch aliens and that has this ending of, you know, this new family that has been created."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ · 0:27:04 · Joanna Robinson (0.60)] Sigourney Weaver ↔ Alien · lineage · Both the Working Girl role and the Alien role were originally written for a man. · "the screenwriter said that her role was originally written as a man, which is true for her role in alien as well."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 0:06:57 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Prometheus ⇒ Alien: Covenant (the host's read) · lineage · Covenant is half the Prometheus sequel Scott wanted and half a concession to a more normal Alien movie. · "this is half, like Ridley Scott doing the Prometheus sequel he wanted to do and half"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 0:29:59 · unknown (0.30)] Alien: Covenant ↔ Prometheus · lineage · Prometheus had pioneering scientists; Covenant has crunchy colonists. · "Prometheus, you know, where we're in, where it's full on like pioneering scientist types."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ · 0:56:20 · Griffin Newman (0.35)] David Twohy ⇒ Alien 3 (the host's read) · lineage · Twohy brought the prison-planet concept into the development. · "Twowey is the one who brings in the prison planet concept, okay?"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ · 0:50:21 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Alien ⇒ Aliens (the host's read) · lineage · Cameron's sequel to Ridley Scott's film shifted the genre, which raised expectations for any follow-up. · "some other fucking guy is coming in and making a sequel to Ridley Scott's movie."
[The Big Picture · The Final Girl Film Canon and ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ · 0:47:57 · Adam Nayman (0.50)] Alien ⇒ Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma (the host's read) · lineage · Ripley stripped to underwear at the end is a vulnerability beat that Miasma echoes. · "Yes, it is echoed in Teenage Tech"
[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] 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
[speaker] Angela Ferragudo · latest sketch, Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · Also new to the film; reacts to the big reveals (newborn, the android twist). Neighbors' noise intrudes; she took the Instagram drinking-game submissions. · stances: Hearing the film for the first time; Reads the hat and the drinking-game rules
[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 Alien Resurrection (1997); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Alien Resurrection (1997) 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.