What the corpus says about Blue Steel (1990)

The 52 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 · Blue Steel · 1:24:23 · unknown (0.40)] Blue Steel ↔ Zoolander · programming · Zoolander's Blue Steel ruined the title of Bigelow's film. · "It is weird now that like this movie's title is totally ruined by Zoolander."
  2. [Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel · 1:26:39 · unknown (0.40)] Blue Steel ↔ The Hunt for Red October · programming · The weekend Blue Steel opened, The Hunt for Red October was number one. · "It's a huge box on October, right? For Red October."
  3. [Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel · 1:28:23 · Jordan Hoffman (0.40)] Blue Steel ↔ Joe Versus the Volcano · programming · Number two that weekend was Joe Versus the Volcano, a critical bomb for Tom Hanks. · "Oh, Joe versus the volcano?"
  4. [Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel · 1:29:17 · unknown (0.40)] Blue Steel ↔ Lord of the Flies · programming · Number three that weekend was the 1990 Lord of the Flies. · "The 1990 Lord of the Flies."
  5. [Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel · 1:30:22 · unknown (0.40)] Blue Steel ↔ House Party · programming · Number four that weekend was House Party. · "Oh, house party. house party."
  6. [Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel · 0:05:23 · David Sims (0.40)] Blue Steel ↔ Halloween · lineage · Calls Blue Steel a slasher with Ron Silver as Michael Myers and cites Ebert calling it the best Halloween sequel. · "I read back to Roger Ebert's review, and he said, this is actually the best Halloween sequel that's ever been made."
  7. [Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel · 0:34:56 · unknown (0.30)] Blue Steel ↔ Dirty Harry · lineage · The after-shooting inquiry echoes the way Dirty Harry handled a cop's use of force. · "Dirty Harry done the same thing."
  8. [Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel · 0:39:36 · unknown (0.30)] Blue Steel ↔ Prince of the City · lineage · Describes the cop-in-crisis strain of 70s cop movies, as in Lumet's Prince of the City. · "Right? So you Lumet's Prince in the city."
  9. [Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel · 0:39:39 · unknown (0.40)] Blue Steel ↔ The French Connection · lineage · Another cop movie where the hero is a mess consumed by one case. · "French connection where there's not like an overt life crisis, but he's like a fucking mess of a guy"
  10. [Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel · 1:22:38 · unknown (0.40)] Blue Steel ↔ Zero Dark Thirty · lineage · Both end on one woman obsessively chasing one man, then sitting silently in a car. · "the ending of this movie is almost identical to the ending of Zero Dark 30, where it's one woman who has been methodically obsessively just trying to stop this one man"
  11. [Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel · 0:16:12 · unknown (0.30)] Blue Steel ↔ American Psycho · theme · Silver's rage is the 80s American Psycho kind. · "pours all of his 80s American psycho rage into it"
  12. [Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel · 1:18:48 · unknown (0.30)] Blue Steel ↔ The Wolf of Wall Street · theme · Silver is a Wall Street guy who can do anything and no one stops him. · "He's like a wolf of Wall Street type."
  13. [Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel · 1:20:21 · unknown (0.30)] Blue Steel ↔ The Terminator · theme · By the end Ron Silver is an unstoppable Terminator. · "And he's like, the terminator at this point."
  14. [Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel · 0:10:49 · unknown (0.40)] Blue Steel ↔ Aliens · craft · The locker-room dressing scene is shot like the gear-up in Aliens. · "shot like aliens."
  15. [Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel · 0:40:59 · unknown (0.30)] Blue Steel ↔ Monsters, Inc. · craft · The opening training reveal is like the start of Monsters, Inc. · "It's the beginning of Monsters Inc."
  16. [Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel · 0:41:03 · unknown (0.40)] Blue Steel ↔ Point Break · craft · Both of Bigelow's films open with a training sequence. · "she makes 2 movies in a row that basically start with a training sequence because Point Break starts with Keanu shooting the targets"
  17. [Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel · 0:41:34 · Jordan Hoffman (0.50)] Blue Steel ↔ Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan · craft · The opening fake-out is almost as good as the Kobayashi Maru reveal in Star Trek II. · "I would say it's almost as good as Star Trek 2, the way they pull it back."
  18. [Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel · 0:59:03 · Jordan Hoffman (0.40)] Blue Steel ↔ Transformers · craft · The same cinematographer, Amir Mokri, shot Blue Steel and Transformers 3 and 4, which the speaker calls a great-looking movie. · "Emir Mokri, who shot this movie, shot Transformers 3 and four."
  19. [Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel · 1:05:28 · unknown (0.30)] Blue Steel ↔ Superman · craft · The helicopter date with aerial photography is a Superman thing. · "It's a Superman thing, and there are those amazing, like, the helicopter photography going around"
  20. [Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel · 1:05:34 · unknown (0.30)] Blue Steel ↔ Tron · craft · The helicopter-date score sounds like Tron. · "It sounds like Tron."
  21. [Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel · 1:05:35 · unknown (0.40)] Blue Steel ↔ Near Dark · craft · The score recalls the Tangerine Dream score in Near Dark. · "it's very similar to the Tangerine dream score in your dark."
  22. [Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel · 0:05:54 · unknown (0.40)] Blue Steel ↔ Trading Places · contrast · The handheld stock-exchange floor is gritty and well done, though no Trading Places. · "I mean, it's no trading places."
  23. [Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel · 0:06:11 · David Sims (0.40)] Blue Steel ↔ Someone to Watch Over Me · contrast · Prefers Bigelow's New York picture to Ridley Scott's New York picture of the same moment. · "You put this up against his New York picture at the time, someone to watch over me."
  24. [Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel · 0:08:27 · Jordan Hoffman (0.50)] Blue Steel ↔ Salt · contrast · Salt was written for a man and barely changed for a woman; Blue Steel is specific to its heroine. · "And the whole shtick was like, it was written for a guy, but then a woman stepped in and didn't change the movie at all."
  25. [Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel · 0:27:26 · unknown (0.40)] Blue Steel ↔ Mother · contrast · Unlike Mother!, Blue Steel gives you a grounding character. · "And my biggest struggle with mother is, I think, you don't have a grounding character."
  26. [Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel · 0:35:14 · unknown (0.40)] Blue Steel ↔ Zero Dark Thirty · contrast · Blue Steel is more upfront about its feminism than Zero Dark Thirty. · "this movie is at least more upfront about its quote unquote feminist aspects than Zero Dark 30 is"

Films put beside it more than once (2)

  1. [pairs] Blue Steel ↔ Point Break · said 2 times in 1 episode
  2. [pairs] Blue Steel ↔ Zero Dark Thirty · said 2 times in 1 episode

Fun items about it (6)

  1. [Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel · 0:28:55 · unknown (0.40)] Blue Steel · fun · Ron Silver fights behind a Sabrett hot dog cart in the Wall Street shootout. · "He's hiding behind a Sabrette's kosher hot dog cart."
  2. [Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel · 0:32:29 · unknown (0.40)] Blue Steel · fun · Clancy Brown's scene in the squad room is the movie in miniature: he ignores her, tells a gross joke, then shuts her down. · "Hijacks the movie for 90 seconds to make a gross blowjob joke, then takes note of her and is like, shut the fuck up."
  3. [Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel · 0:41:48 · unknown (0.40)] Blue Steel · fun · Opening reveal: the hallway arrest is a training test, and Curtis's mistake is that she ignored the woman as a threat. · "She didn't take the woman seriously as a threat."
  4. [Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel · 0:46:21 · Jordan Hoffman (0.50)] Blue Steel · fun · The 22nd precinct on her collar is a fake precinct, since renamed for Central Park. · "It's on her collar, the 22nd precinct, which is the fake precinct."
  5. [Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel · 1:02:23 · unknown (0.40)] Blue Steel · fun · The gun is the One Ring: Silver obsesses over its power once he holds it. · "But it's almost like the gun in this movie is like the one ring."
  6. [Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel · 1:03:34 · unknown (0.40)] Blue Steel · fun · Bigelow's name in the bullet casings: the cops joke the only other Meghan Turner is an 88-year-old lady with an oxygen tank. · "Unless he's got an oxygen tank fetish, he's in the U."

One hop out: what recommends the films most often joined to it (13)

  1. [Blank Check — Patreon · OLD DOGS - Blank Check LIVE! at the Bell House · 0:54:23 · unknown (0.30)] Old Dogs ↔ Zero Dark Thirty · craft · Host wishes the film had Zero Dark Thirty style day-count title cards. · "Like Zero Dark Third style."
  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. [Blank Check · Star 80 · 1:07:36 · Julie Klausner (0.50)] Body Double ⇒ American Psycho (the host's read) · lineage · American Psycho is described as the Reductress version of Body Double. · "it's almost like the, the, you know, reductress version of, um, body double in a way."
  4. [Blank Check — Patreon · March Madness 2021 Recap - Round 2 · 0:52:34 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Rocky (franchise) ↔ Dirty Harry · programming · Stallone voices are suggested as a funnier alternative to Eastwood voices. · "a series of Stallone voices is actually better."
  5. [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."
  6. [The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ · 0:08:03 · unknown (0.40)] Beverly Hills Cop ↔ Dirty Harry · lineage · The film plays closer to a 70s crime movie like Dirty Harry or The Outfit than to an 80s action blockbuster. · "this movie's way closer to like Dirty Harry or the outfit or 7, like a 70s crime movie than it is like our idea of like 80s action blockbuster."
  7. [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."
  8. [The Rewatchables · ‘The Texas Chain Saw Massacre’ · 0:14:53 · Bill Simmons (0.55)] The Texas Chain Saw Massacre ↔ Dirty Harry · theme · Chainsaw is one of eight 1970s films (Dirty Harry, Deep Throat, Last House, Godfather II, Jaws, Rocky, Star Wars, Superman) that spawned the next 50 years of genres. · "if you just go those 8 movies, that's kind of what would become the next 50 years of movies."
  9. [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."
  10. [Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 0:29:41 · unknown (0.30)] Alien: Covenant ↔ Aliens · lineage · Aliens had Marines. · "Aliens, you got Marines."
  11. [Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 0:40:52 · unknown (0.40)] Aliens ⇒ Alien: Covenant (the host's read) · lineage · The shoulder-mounted GoPro cameras are carried over from the Marines in Aliens. · "which the Marines all have in aliens"
  12. [Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 1:55:53 · unknown (0.40)] Aliens ⇒ Alien: Covenant (the host's read) · lineage · The loader and airlock set piece homages the power loader fight in Aliens. · "But something about this feels closer to the power loader fight."
  13. [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."

Who said it, by their latest sketch (2)

  1. [speaker] Jordan Hoffman · latest sketch, Blank Check — Patreon · 2001: A Space Odyssey · A self-described scholar of sci-fi and a devoted Clarke reader who has read the sequels. Loves hard science fiction, 70mm screenings, and the film's mystery, and claims to be sober and a fish fanatic. A sucker for trivia about the making of the film and for the Michael Benson book. · stances: 2001 is a bifurcated experience, diamond-hard sci-fi and psychedelia; The film is much funnier than people think; Believes the secrets of the universe are locked in it; Clarke's sequels are worth talking about, with 3001 as a gag
  2. [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'

The shows' running bits (3)

  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] 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)
  3. [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 Blue Steel (1990) 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 Blue Steel (1990) 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 · Blue Steel · 1:24:23 · unknown (0.40)] Blue Steel ↔ Zoolander · programming · Zoolander's Blue Steel ruined the title of Bigelow's film. · "It is weird now that like this movie's title is totally ruined by Zoolander."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel · 1:26:39 · unknown (0.40)] Blue Steel ↔ The Hunt for Red October · programming · The weekend Blue Steel opened, The Hunt for Red October was number one. · "It's a huge box on October, right? For Red October."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel · 1:28:23 · Jordan Hoffman (0.40)] Blue Steel ↔ Joe Versus the Volcano · programming · Number two that weekend was Joe Versus the Volcano, a critical bomb for Tom Hanks. · "Oh, Joe versus the volcano?"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel · 1:29:17 · unknown (0.40)] Blue Steel ↔ Lord of the Flies · programming · Number three that weekend was the 1990 Lord of the Flies. · "The 1990 Lord of the Flies."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel · 1:30:22 · unknown (0.40)] Blue Steel ↔ House Party · programming · Number four that weekend was House Party. · "Oh, house party. house party."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel · 0:05:23 · David Sims (0.40)] Blue Steel ↔ Halloween · lineage · Calls Blue Steel a slasher with Ron Silver as Michael Myers and cites Ebert calling it the best Halloween sequel. · "I read back to Roger Ebert's review, and he said, this is actually the best Halloween sequel that's ever been made."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel · 0:34:56 · unknown (0.30)] Blue Steel ↔ Dirty Harry · lineage · The after-shooting inquiry echoes the way Dirty Harry handled a cop's use of force. · "Dirty Harry done the same thing."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel · 0:39:36 · unknown (0.30)] Blue Steel ↔ Prince of the City · lineage · Describes the cop-in-crisis strain of 70s cop movies, as in Lumet's Prince of the City. · "Right? So you Lumet's Prince in the city."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel · 0:39:39 · unknown (0.40)] Blue Steel ↔ The French Connection · lineage · Another cop movie where the hero is a mess consumed by one case. · "French connection where there's not like an overt life crisis, but he's like a fucking mess of a guy"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel · 1:22:38 · unknown (0.40)] Blue Steel ↔ Zero Dark Thirty · lineage · Both end on one woman obsessively chasing one man, then sitting silently in a car. · "the ending of this movie is almost identical to the ending of Zero Dark 30, where it's one woman who has been methodically obsessively just trying to stop this one man"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel · 0:16:12 · unknown (0.30)] Blue Steel ↔ American Psycho · theme · Silver's rage is the 80s American Psycho kind. · "pours all of his 80s American psycho rage into it"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel · 1:18:48 · unknown (0.30)] Blue Steel ↔ The Wolf of Wall Street · theme · Silver is a Wall Street guy who can do anything and no one stops him. · "He's like a wolf of Wall Street type."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel · 1:20:21 · unknown (0.30)] Blue Steel ↔ The Terminator · theme · By the end Ron Silver is an unstoppable Terminator. · "And he's like, the terminator at this point."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel · 0:10:49 · unknown (0.40)] Blue Steel ↔ Aliens · craft · The locker-room dressing scene is shot like the gear-up in Aliens. · "shot like aliens."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel · 0:40:59 · unknown (0.30)] Blue Steel ↔ Monsters, Inc. · craft · The opening training reveal is like the start of Monsters, Inc. · "It's the beginning of Monsters Inc."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel · 0:41:03 · unknown (0.40)] Blue Steel ↔ Point Break · craft · Both of Bigelow's films open with a training sequence. · "she makes 2 movies in a row that basically start with a training sequence because Point Break starts with Keanu shooting the targets"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel · 0:41:34 · Jordan Hoffman (0.50)] Blue Steel ↔ Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan · craft · The opening fake-out is almost as good as the Kobayashi Maru reveal in Star Trek II. · "I would say it's almost as good as Star Trek 2, the way they pull it back."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel · 0:59:03 · Jordan Hoffman (0.40)] Blue Steel ↔ Transformers · craft · The same cinematographer, Amir Mokri, shot Blue Steel and Transformers 3 and 4, which the speaker calls a great-looking movie. · "Emir Mokri, who shot this movie, shot Transformers 3 and four."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel · 1:05:28 · unknown (0.30)] Blue Steel ↔ Superman · craft · The helicopter date with aerial photography is a Superman thing. · "It's a Superman thing, and there are those amazing, like, the helicopter photography going around"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel · 1:05:34 · unknown (0.30)] Blue Steel ↔ Tron · craft · The helicopter-date score sounds like Tron. · "It sounds like Tron."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel · 1:05:35 · unknown (0.40)] Blue Steel ↔ Near Dark · craft · The score recalls the Tangerine Dream score in Near Dark. · "it's very similar to the Tangerine dream score in your dark."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel · 0:05:54 · unknown (0.40)] Blue Steel ↔ Trading Places · contrast · The handheld stock-exchange floor is gritty and well done, though no Trading Places. · "I mean, it's no trading places."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel · 0:06:11 · David Sims (0.40)] Blue Steel ↔ Someone to Watch Over Me · contrast · Prefers Bigelow's New York picture to Ridley Scott's New York picture of the same moment. · "You put this up against his New York picture at the time, someone to watch over me."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel · 0:08:27 · Jordan Hoffman (0.50)] Blue Steel ↔ Salt · contrast · Salt was written for a man and barely changed for a woman; Blue Steel is specific to its heroine. · "And the whole shtick was like, it was written for a guy, but then a woman stepped in and didn't change the movie at all."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel · 0:27:26 · unknown (0.40)] Blue Steel ↔ Mother · contrast · Unlike Mother!, Blue Steel gives you a grounding character. · "And my biggest struggle with mother is, I think, you don't have a grounding character."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel · 0:35:14 · unknown (0.40)] Blue Steel ↔ Zero Dark Thirty · contrast · Blue Steel is more upfront about its feminism than Zero Dark Thirty. · "this movie is at least more upfront about its quote unquote feminist aspects than Zero Dark 30 is"
[pairs] Blue Steel ↔ Point Break · said 2 times in 1 episode
[pairs] Blue Steel ↔ Zero Dark Thirty · said 2 times in 1 episode
[Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel · 0:28:55 · unknown (0.40)] Blue Steel · fun · Ron Silver fights behind a Sabrett hot dog cart in the Wall Street shootout. · "He's hiding behind a Sabrette's kosher hot dog cart."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel · 0:32:29 · unknown (0.40)] Blue Steel · fun · Clancy Brown's scene in the squad room is the movie in miniature: he ignores her, tells a gross joke, then shuts her down. · "Hijacks the movie for 90 seconds to make a gross blowjob joke, then takes note of her and is like, shut the fuck up."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel · 0:41:48 · unknown (0.40)] Blue Steel · fun · Opening reveal: the hallway arrest is a training test, and Curtis's mistake is that she ignored the woman as a threat. · "She didn't take the woman seriously as a threat."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel · 0:46:21 · Jordan Hoffman (0.50)] Blue Steel · fun · The 22nd precinct on her collar is a fake precinct, since renamed for Central Park. · "It's on her collar, the 22nd precinct, which is the fake precinct."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel · 1:02:23 · unknown (0.40)] Blue Steel · fun · The gun is the One Ring: Silver obsesses over its power once he holds it. · "But it's almost like the gun in this movie is like the one ring."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel · 1:03:34 · unknown (0.40)] Blue Steel · fun · Bigelow's name in the bullet casings: the cops joke the only other Meghan Turner is an 88-year-old lady with an oxygen tank. · "Unless he's got an oxygen tank fetish, he's in the U."
[Blank Check — Patreon · OLD DOGS - Blank Check LIVE! at the Bell House · 0:54:23 · unknown (0.30)] Old Dogs ↔ Zero Dark Thirty · craft · Host wishes the film had Zero Dark Thirty style day-count title cards. · "Like Zero Dark Third style."
[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."
[Blank Check · Star 80 · 1:07:36 · Julie Klausner (0.50)] Body Double ⇒ American Psycho (the host's read) · lineage · American Psycho is described as the Reductress version of Body Double. · "it's almost like the, the, you know, reductress version of, um, body double in a way."
[Blank Check — Patreon · March Madness 2021 Recap - Round 2 · 0:52:34 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Rocky (franchise) ↔ Dirty Harry · programming · Stallone voices are suggested as a funnier alternative to Eastwood voices. · "a series of Stallone voices is actually better."
[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 · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ · 0:08:03 · unknown (0.40)] Beverly Hills Cop ↔ Dirty Harry · lineage · The film plays closer to a 70s crime movie like Dirty Harry or The Outfit than to an 80s action blockbuster. · "this movie's way closer to like Dirty Harry or the outfit or 7, like a 70s crime movie than it is like our idea of like 80s action blockbuster."
[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 · ‘The Texas Chain Saw Massacre’ · 0:14:53 · Bill Simmons (0.55)] The Texas Chain Saw Massacre ↔ Dirty Harry · theme · Chainsaw is one of eight 1970s films (Dirty Harry, Deep Throat, Last House, Godfather II, Jaws, Rocky, Star Wars, Superman) that spawned the next 50 years of genres. · "if you just go those 8 movies, that's kind of what would become the next 50 years of movies."
[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."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 0:29:41 · unknown (0.30)] Alien: Covenant ↔ Aliens · lineage · Aliens had Marines. · "Aliens, you got Marines."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 0:40:52 · unknown (0.40)] Aliens ⇒ Alien: Covenant (the host's read) · lineage · The shoulder-mounted GoPro cameras are carried over from the Marines in Aliens. · "which the Marines all have in aliens"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 1:55:53 · unknown (0.40)] Aliens ⇒ Alien: Covenant (the host's read) · lineage · The loader and airlock set piece homages the power loader fight in Aliens. · "But something about this feels closer to the power loader fight."
[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."
[speaker] Jordan Hoffman · latest sketch, Blank Check — Patreon · 2001: A Space Odyssey · A self-described scholar of sci-fi and a devoted Clarke reader who has read the sequels. Loves hard science fiction, 70mm screenings, and the film's mystery, and claims to be sober and a fish fanatic. A sucker for trivia about the making of the film and for the Michael Benson book. · stances: 2001 is a bifurcated experience, diamond-hard sci-fi and psychedelia; The film is much funnier than people think; Believes the secrets of the universe are locked in it; Clarke's sequels are worth talking about, with 3001 as a gag
[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'
[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 Blue Steel (1990); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Blue Steel (1990) 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.