What the corpus says about Alien 3 (1992)

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)

[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 · 0:24:13 · 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 · 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 · 1:18:07 · Matt Singer (0.35)] Psycho ⇒ Alien 3 (the host's read) · lineage · Charles Dance's shower-curtain death is read as Fincher's own 'Hitchcock moment', after a cast member said Fincher called it that; the Psycho identification is the speaker's. · "Fincher would talk to him about his influence and be like, well, this is my Hitchcock moment."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 0:29:45 · unknown (0.30)] Alien: Covenant ↔ Alien 3 · lineage · Alien 3 had convicts. · "Alien 3 convicts."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien 3 · 0:21:41 · unknown (0.50)] Aliens ⇒ Alien 3 (the host's read) · lineage · Alien 3 opens by wiping out the status quo that ended Aliens. · "Seconds of this movie, it literally just burns the status quo established at the end of the last one."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien 3 · 0:58:26 · unknown (0.50)] Alien ⇒ Alien 3 (the host's read) · lineage · The Bishop remains scene echoes the original film's reactivated-android scene. · "And just kind of a fun throwback to the, uh, original alien thing where you like take the puppet, you kind of get it ready."
[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 3 · 2:07:28 · unknown (0.50)] Alien ⇒ Alien 3 (the host's read) · lineage · The ending coda replays Ripley's tape from the first film. · "You play back her tape from the end of the 1st movie."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ · 0:13:58 · David Sims (0.30)] Alien 3 ↔ Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning · theme · Mother Mode's pop-up flood on the Blu-ray is likened to Gabriel in the entity tank. · "to invoke the recently released uh, Mission Impossible dead reckoning when when Gabriel goes into like the entity tank."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ · 0:14:45 · Griffin Newman (0.30)] Alien 3 ↔ Snyder Cut (Justice League) · theme · The assembly cut is viewed like the Snyder Cut: interesting for laying out the intentions, but not a functioning movie. · "This time I viewed it more like, uh, uh, Zach, the the Snyder Cut."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ · 0:16:00 · David Sims (0.30)] Alien 3 ↔ Blade Runner · theme · Wants a third Alien 3 cut that meets in the middle, Blade Runner Final Cut style. · "I almost want a Blade Runner style final cut thing where it's like, now we need a 3rd cut that meets in the middle."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ · 1:22:28 · Matt Singer (0.30)] Alien 3 ↔ The Thing · theme · The dog scene and its child autopsy carry The Thing vibes. · "It has the thing vibes as well, obviously."
[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 3 · 1:44:43 · unknown (0.50)] Alien 3 ↔ Terminator 2: Judgment Day · theme · The molten-metal foundry finale resembles the end of Terminator 2. · "I was going to say, it's very much like the end of Terminator 2"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien 3 · 1:54:13 · unknown (0.50)] Alien 3 ↔ RoboCop · theme · Both franchises have a looming company willing to feed people into the grinder. · "Like, like, alien and Robocop as franchises both have these like big looming companies that are willing to throw like any human beings into the grinder."
[Blank Check — Patreon · David Fincher Music Videos · 0:06:19 · Marie Bardi (0.70)] Bop Till You Drop (Rick Springfield video) ↔ Alien 3 · craft · Marie notes the Springfield video already has industrial, alien-like imagery a decade before Alien 3. · "I was like, oh, wait, so he was already sort of doing... Industrial... Industrial... alien stuff like 10 years prior."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien 3 · 0:49:57 · unknown (0.40)] Alien 3 ↔ Mad Max (series) · craft · The sweaty, mucky prisoners give the movie Mad Max vibes. · "Real Mad Max vibes."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead · 0:15:26 · unknown (0.30)] Eraserhead ↔ Alien 3 · contrast · Alien 3 resists categorizing because of its complicated production. · "I think it's got to be a middle bucket just because of how complicated the birthing process."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ · 0:26:37 · Matt Singer (0.30)] Alien 3 ↔ Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny · contrast · Alien 3 lets a character story end, where Dial of Destiny tries to put a period on one and still doesn't. · "why don't we let character stories end?"
[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"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Se7en’ · 0:11:56 · Sean Fennessey (0.80)] Seven ↔ Alien 3 · career · Fincher's miserable Alien 3 experience made him swear off features; the Se7en script pulled him back. · "it was only because he loved the script so much, the 7 script that he ultimately decided to do this movie."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Se7en · 0:32:09 · unknown (0.30)] Alien 3 ↔ Seven · career · After Alien 3, Fincher didn't want to make another movie and told reps not to send scripts, which is why Mank was all he was reading. · "Well, he also had the attitude post-alien 3 of like, I never want to make a movie again."

Films put beside it more than once (5)

[pairs] Alien 3 ↔ Alien Resurrection · said 7 times in 3 episodes
[pairs] Alien 3 ↔ Aliens · said 3 times in 2 episodes
[pairs] Alien 3 ↔ Fight Club · said 2 times in 2 episodes
[pairs] Alien 3 ↔ Seven · said 2 times in 2 episodes
[pairs] Alien 3 ↔ Alien · said 2 times in 1 episode

Fun items about it (6)

[Blank Check · Decision to Leave · 2:14:06 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Alien 3 · fun · Next week is Alien 3; the Patreon covers Brosnan Bond and then the two Alien vs. Predator films, one fun and one the worst movie in the world. · "One of them is really fun and one of them is the worst fucking movie in the world."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ · 0:19:43 · Griffin Newman (0.30)] Alien 3 · fun · The alien-sucks-down-a-Pepsi commercial aired a full year before the movie; the suit was built for the film, and Fox was pushing Alien toward a kids' franchise (cartoon, toys, games). · "That commercial came out a full year before this movie came out."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ · 0:21:48 · Griffin Newman (0.30)] Alien 3 · fun · The rod puppet called the Bambi Burster, the juvenile runner alien, plays more in the assembly cut. · "There's the rod puppet that they call the Bambi Burster that plays more in the assembly cut."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ · 0:27:53 · Matt Singer (0.30)] Alien 3 · fun · George Costanza's line about the masseuse, 'this woman hates me so much, I'm starting to like her', is how one host feels about the film. · "this woman hates me so much."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ · 0:58:03 · Griffin Newman (0.30)] Alien 3 · fun · Vincent Ward pitched a planet made of wood and monks; the studio responded by telling him to write it for $40 million. · "Someone could walk into a studio and be like, whole planet is wood."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ · 1:14:04 · Matt Singer (0.30)] Alien 3 · fun · They started shooting with an unfinished script after ten years of fighting over it. · "they basically go into production with an unfinished script, 45 pages of a script"

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

[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 · 0:09:08 · 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."
[The Big Picture · ‘The Killer’ Is Cold-Blooded Genius. And Something More · 1:20:30 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60)] The Killer ↔ Fight Club · programming · Both are very funny first-person-narrated films about sociopaths who rationalize brutal violence as a personal mission. · "This movie would make a neat pairing with Fight Club. Two very funny films about sociopaths whose inner monologues rationalize brutal violence as expressions of a personal mission."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Se7en’ · 0:17:05 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] Seven ↔ The Shawshank Redemption · programming · Both are movies you get sucked into on cable by the last 40 minutes. · "The same thing with Shawshank."
[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."
[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 · Fight Club · 2:08:56 · Alex Ross Perry (0.40)] The Sixth Sense ↔ Fight Club · programming · Two big twist movies, ten weeks apart, with the same fake-person reveal. · "That's the same twist twice, 10 weeks apart."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Se7en’ · 0:04:37 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Seven ↔ Heat · lineage · Grouped with Usual Suspects, Heat and Casino as the four defining 1995 movies, three of which were shut out at the Oscars. · "Our usual suspects, which we recently did, Heat Casino in seven."
[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 · 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 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 · Fight Club · 2:43:02 · unknown (0.35)] A Clockwork Orange ↔ Fight Club · programming · Fight Club is called the Clockwork Orange of another generation, an Edge Lord pick. · "This is kind of the clockwork Orange for another generation."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Se7en’ · 0:14:30 · Sean Fennessey (0.85)] Alfred Hitchcock ⇒ Seven (the host's read) · lineage · Se7en is a Hitchcock movie in its pulling-your-chain structure of mystery, reveal and anxiety, and Hitchcock is Fincher's biggest influence. · "I think as much as this seems like a modern movie, it's also just completely a Hitchcock movie in so many ways."

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] 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] Matt Singer · latest sketch, Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ · Author of Opposable Thumbs, a book about Siskel and Ebert; has seen both cuts of Alien 3 and owns the Quadrilogy box set. Loves Siskel and Ebert as a gateway to movies; likes the show more than the movies as a kid. Attribution is inferred. · stances: He watched both cuts of Alien 3 for the episode; Praises the Siskel and Ebert show as a form of film discussion
[speaker] Marie Bardi · latest sketch, Blank Check — Patreon · The Killer · Loves the film's stripped-down craft and sound; draws on her advertising career for how the client reads. Her favorite Fincher film is Gone Girl; she is a Fincher-series fan who liked Alien 3 and Panic Room. · stances: The sound design demands a theater; The ending's twitch means he is itching to get back to the job; The client scene reflects advertising
[speaker] Sean Fennessey · latest sketch, The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · Loves gory, funny, fast genre movies with craft and confidence, especially 87-minute films that never overstay. Can't stand ponderous elevated horror that fills out its runtime with introspection and sad family history. A sucker for the Carpenter-era lineage, Die Hard homages, and directors who break studio dogma. · stances: Resident Evil is one of the best films of the year; Horror movies have become a drag; fun genre experiences are needed; Short running times are a virtue; Video-game films work best when great filmmakers get creative license

The shows' running bits (3)

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

The whole prompt

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

You are a clerk at Video Culture, a video store. A customer just finished Alien 3 (1992) 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 3 (1992) 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 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 · 0:24:13 · 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 · 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 · 1:18:07 · Matt Singer (0.35)] Psycho ⇒ Alien 3 (the host's read) · lineage · Charles Dance's shower-curtain death is read as Fincher's own 'Hitchcock moment', after a cast member said Fincher called it that; the Psycho identification is the speaker's. · "Fincher would talk to him about his influence and be like, well, this is my Hitchcock moment."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 0:29:45 · unknown (0.30)] Alien: Covenant ↔ Alien 3 · lineage · Alien 3 had convicts. · "Alien 3 convicts."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien 3 · 0:21:41 · unknown (0.50)] Aliens ⇒ Alien 3 (the host's read) · lineage · Alien 3 opens by wiping out the status quo that ended Aliens. · "Seconds of this movie, it literally just burns the status quo established at the end of the last one."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien 3 · 0:58:26 · unknown (0.50)] Alien ⇒ Alien 3 (the host's read) · lineage · The Bishop remains scene echoes the original film's reactivated-android scene. · "And just kind of a fun throwback to the, uh, original alien thing where you like take the puppet, you kind of get it ready."
[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 3 · 2:07:28 · unknown (0.50)] Alien ⇒ Alien 3 (the host's read) · lineage · The ending coda replays Ripley's tape from the first film. · "You play back her tape from the end of the 1st movie."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ · 0:13:58 · David Sims (0.30)] Alien 3 ↔ Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning · theme · Mother Mode's pop-up flood on the Blu-ray is likened to Gabriel in the entity tank. · "to invoke the recently released uh, Mission Impossible dead reckoning when when Gabriel goes into like the entity tank."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ · 0:14:45 · Griffin Newman (0.30)] Alien 3 ↔ Snyder Cut (Justice League) · theme · The assembly cut is viewed like the Snyder Cut: interesting for laying out the intentions, but not a functioning movie. · "This time I viewed it more like, uh, uh, Zach, the the Snyder Cut."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ · 0:16:00 · David Sims (0.30)] Alien 3 ↔ Blade Runner · theme · Wants a third Alien 3 cut that meets in the middle, Blade Runner Final Cut style. · "I almost want a Blade Runner style final cut thing where it's like, now we need a 3rd cut that meets in the middle."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ · 1:22:28 · Matt Singer (0.30)] Alien 3 ↔ The Thing · theme · The dog scene and its child autopsy carry The Thing vibes. · "It has the thing vibes as well, obviously."
[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 3 · 1:44:43 · unknown (0.50)] Alien 3 ↔ Terminator 2: Judgment Day · theme · The molten-metal foundry finale resembles the end of Terminator 2. · "I was going to say, it's very much like the end of Terminator 2"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien 3 · 1:54:13 · unknown (0.50)] Alien 3 ↔ RoboCop · theme · Both franchises have a looming company willing to feed people into the grinder. · "Like, like, alien and Robocop as franchises both have these like big looming companies that are willing to throw like any human beings into the grinder."
[Blank Check — Patreon · David Fincher Music Videos · 0:06:19 · Marie Bardi (0.70)] Bop Till You Drop (Rick Springfield video) ↔ Alien 3 · craft · Marie notes the Springfield video already has industrial, alien-like imagery a decade before Alien 3. · "I was like, oh, wait, so he was already sort of doing... Industrial... Industrial... alien stuff like 10 years prior."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien 3 · 0:49:57 · unknown (0.40)] Alien 3 ↔ Mad Max (series) · craft · The sweaty, mucky prisoners give the movie Mad Max vibes. · "Real Mad Max vibes."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead · 0:15:26 · unknown (0.30)] Eraserhead ↔ Alien 3 · contrast · Alien 3 resists categorizing because of its complicated production. · "I think it's got to be a middle bucket just because of how complicated the birthing process."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ · 0:26:37 · Matt Singer (0.30)] Alien 3 ↔ Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny · contrast · Alien 3 lets a character story end, where Dial of Destiny tries to put a period on one and still doesn't. · "why don't we let character stories end?"
[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"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Se7en’ · 0:11:56 · Sean Fennessey (0.80)] Seven ↔ Alien 3 · career · Fincher's miserable Alien 3 experience made him swear off features; the Se7en script pulled him back. · "it was only because he loved the script so much, the 7 script that he ultimately decided to do this movie."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Se7en · 0:32:09 · unknown (0.30)] Alien 3 ↔ Seven · career · After Alien 3, Fincher didn't want to make another movie and told reps not to send scripts, which is why Mank was all he was reading. · "Well, he also had the attitude post-alien 3 of like, I never want to make a movie again."
[pairs] Alien 3 ↔ Alien Resurrection · said 7 times in 3 episodes
[pairs] Alien 3 ↔ Aliens · said 3 times in 2 episodes
[pairs] Alien 3 ↔ Fight Club · said 2 times in 2 episodes
[pairs] Alien 3 ↔ Seven · said 2 times in 2 episodes
[pairs] Alien 3 ↔ Alien · said 2 times in 1 episode
[Blank Check · Decision to Leave · 2:14:06 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Alien 3 · fun · Next week is Alien 3; the Patreon covers Brosnan Bond and then the two Alien vs. Predator films, one fun and one the worst movie in the world. · "One of them is really fun and one of them is the worst fucking movie in the world."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ · 0:19:43 · Griffin Newman (0.30)] Alien 3 · fun · The alien-sucks-down-a-Pepsi commercial aired a full year before the movie; the suit was built for the film, and Fox was pushing Alien toward a kids' franchise (cartoon, toys, games). · "That commercial came out a full year before this movie came out."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ · 0:21:48 · Griffin Newman (0.30)] Alien 3 · fun · The rod puppet called the Bambi Burster, the juvenile runner alien, plays more in the assembly cut. · "There's the rod puppet that they call the Bambi Burster that plays more in the assembly cut."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ · 0:27:53 · Matt Singer (0.30)] Alien 3 · fun · George Costanza's line about the masseuse, 'this woman hates me so much, I'm starting to like her', is how one host feels about the film. · "this woman hates me so much."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ · 0:58:03 · Griffin Newman (0.30)] Alien 3 · fun · Vincent Ward pitched a planet made of wood and monks; the studio responded by telling him to write it for $40 million. · "Someone could walk into a studio and be like, whole planet is wood."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ · 1:14:04 · Matt Singer (0.30)] Alien 3 · fun · They started shooting with an unfinished script after ten years of fighting over it. · "they basically go into production with an unfinished script, 45 pages of a script"
[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 · 0:09:08 · 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."
[The Big Picture · ‘The Killer’ Is Cold-Blooded Genius. And Something More · 1:20:30 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60)] The Killer ↔ Fight Club · programming · Both are very funny first-person-narrated films about sociopaths who rationalize brutal violence as a personal mission. · "This movie would make a neat pairing with Fight Club. Two very funny films about sociopaths whose inner monologues rationalize brutal violence as expressions of a personal mission."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Se7en’ · 0:17:05 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] Seven ↔ The Shawshank Redemption · programming · Both are movies you get sucked into on cable by the last 40 minutes. · "The same thing with Shawshank."
[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."
[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 · Fight Club · 2:08:56 · Alex Ross Perry (0.40)] The Sixth Sense ↔ Fight Club · programming · Two big twist movies, ten weeks apart, with the same fake-person reveal. · "That's the same twist twice, 10 weeks apart."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Se7en’ · 0:04:37 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Seven ↔ Heat · lineage · Grouped with Usual Suspects, Heat and Casino as the four defining 1995 movies, three of which were shut out at the Oscars. · "Our usual suspects, which we recently did, Heat Casino in seven."
[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 · 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 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 · Fight Club · 2:43:02 · unknown (0.35)] A Clockwork Orange ↔ Fight Club · programming · Fight Club is called the Clockwork Orange of another generation, an Edge Lord pick. · "This is kind of the clockwork Orange for another generation."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Se7en’ · 0:14:30 · Sean Fennessey (0.85)] Alfred Hitchcock ⇒ Seven (the host's read) · lineage · Se7en is a Hitchcock movie in its pulling-your-chain structure of mystery, reveal and anxiety, and Hitchcock is Fincher's biggest influence. · "I think as much as this seems like a modern movie, it's also just completely a Hitchcock movie in so many ways."
[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] Matt Singer · latest sketch, Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ · Author of Opposable Thumbs, a book about Siskel and Ebert; has seen both cuts of Alien 3 and owns the Quadrilogy box set. Loves Siskel and Ebert as a gateway to movies; likes the show more than the movies as a kid. Attribution is inferred. · stances: He watched both cuts of Alien 3 for the episode; Praises the Siskel and Ebert show as a form of film discussion
[speaker] Marie Bardi · latest sketch, Blank Check — Patreon · The Killer · Loves the film's stripped-down craft and sound; draws on her advertising career for how the client reads. Her favorite Fincher film is Gone Girl; she is a Fincher-series fan who liked Alien 3 and Panic Room. · stances: The sound design demands a theater; The ending's twitch means he is itching to get back to the job; The client scene reflects advertising
[speaker] Sean Fennessey · latest sketch, The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · Loves gory, funny, fast genre movies with craft and confidence, especially 87-minute films that never overstay. Can't stand ponderous elevated horror that fills out its runtime with introspection and sad family history. A sucker for the Carpenter-era lineage, Die Hard homages, and directors who break studio dogma. · stances: Resident Evil is one of the best films of the year; Horror movies have become a drag; fun genre experiences are needed; Short running times are a virtue; Video-game films work best when great filmmakers get creative license
[bits] The Big Picture: Drafts (Hosts and guests draft films in rounds; every pick is a recommendation with an argument); Hall of Fame (A star's or director's best, ranked and argued); Countdowns (Ranked lists, top five or top ten)
[bits] Blank Check: The box office game (Guessing the film's opening weekend and what it was up against); The sung theme ("Blank Check with Griffin and David", sung; the transcriber garbles it)
[bits] The Rewatchables: Apex Mountain (The moment a star peaks; where on the mountain a performance sits); Who Won the Movie (The hosts name the person who came out of the film best off); The Ebert review (Roger Ebert's original review and star rating read aloud. Ebert is cited, never on the show); Casting what-ifs (Who was almost cast, or who should have been); Most rewatchable scene (The scene each host would stop on while flipping channels); Aged best / aged worst (What holds up and what does not); Picking Nits (The little things in a film the hosts love that they don't think totally work: the nits); Double feature (The film each host would pair it with; a programming pick)

Recommend three to six films, and only films that appear in these lines. A series, a TV film, or a franchise counts too when a line recommends it or pairs it with Alien 3 (1992); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Alien 3 (1992) 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.