What the corpus says about Days of Thunder (1990)

The 55 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 (20)

[The Rewatchables · 'Talladega Nights' · 2:02:33 · Danny Heifetz (0.30)] Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby ↔ Days of Thunder · programming · Another double feature option: pair with Days of Thunder. · "Or just watch Days of Thunder."
[The Rewatchables · ‘F1’ · 0:10:12 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] F1 ↔ Days of Thunder · lineage · Same kind of 1990 star-driven racing picture, but F1's camera work leaves it behind. · "This movie in 1990 was Days of Thunder, which was a very cool movie that I like a lot that we've done on the rewatchables, but it's night and day"
[The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 0:49:49 · Chris Ryan (0.85)] Top Gun ⇒ Days of Thunder (the host's read) · lineage · Days of Thunder is essentially Top Gun with cars. · "it's essentially just Top Gun with cars"
[The Big Picture · The Nicole Kidman Hall of Fame, and ‘Babygirl’ · 1:00:55 · unknown (0.35)] Malice ↔ Days of Thunder · contrast · Malice subverts expectations: more going on than being the doctor in the NASCAR movie. · "Um, than just being the doctor in the, you know, NASCAR movie."
[The Big Picture · The Tom Cruise Hall of Fame · 0:17:10 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] Days of Thunder ↔ Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One · career · Seeing Cruise in the MI7 trailer feels like seeing the guy from Days of Thunder again; he is timeless. · "It just feels like seeing the guy from Days of Thunder, again."
[The Rewatchables · ‘F1’ · 1:41:12 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] F1 ↔ Days of Thunder · verdict · Days of Thunder was the favorite racing movie before F1 and is a pairing choice. · "Days of Thunder was my favorite racing movie before this."
[The Rewatchables · ‘F1’ · 1:30:54 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] F1 ↔ Days of Thunder · what-if · Kosinski has joked F2 could be Days of Thunder 2, with Cruise. · "F2 could be Days of Thunder too."
[The Rewatchables · 'Talladega Nights' · 1:05:52 · Craig Horlbeck (0.50)] Days of Thunder ⇒ Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby (the host's read) · parody target · The film is not a direct parody but spoofs movies like Days of Thunder; Reilly was in both. · "I don't think this movie is like a direct parody of that, but it is parodying movies like Days of Thunder."
[The Big Picture · The Tom Cruise Hall of Fame · 1:00:45 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Top Gun ⇒ Days of Thunder (the host's read) · retread · Days of Thunder is tapping the same vein as Top Gun in its afterburner. · "we're still like in the vapor trail, the afterburner of Top Gun here"
[Blank Check — Patreon · David Fincher Music Videos · 0:15:41 · unknown (0.40)] Charm the Snake (Christopher Cross video) ↔ Days of Thunder · look · The racing, blues and oranges feel like a proto Days of Thunder. · "This feels very like proto days of Thunder."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien 3 · 2:12:55 · unknown (0.50)] Far and Away ↔ Days of Thunder · shared people · Cruise and Kidman fell in love on Days of Thunder, then made Far and Away. · "Very weird that they fell in love, quote unquote, filming Days of Thunder."
[The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 0:57:20 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Tom Cruise ↔ Days of Thunder · programming · Craig would do Days of Thunder just to do it. · "Craig would do traffic Thunder just so we could do traffic Thunder."
[The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 0:49:43 · Chris Ryan (0.85)] Chris Ryan ↔ Days of Thunder · programming · Pick 7 (round 3), category blockbuster: Top Gun with cars; Tony Scott, Cruise and Kidman. · "No, I'm going to do Days of Thunder and Blockbuster."
[Blank Check · The Color of Money · 1:32:36 · unknown (0.30)] Tom Cruise ↔ Days of Thunder · lineage · A Days of Thunder 2 would be a mistake, especially post-F1, versus a pool sequel where Cruise is credible. · "Versus Days of Thunder, where it's like, get out of the car, Tom."
[The Rewatchables · ‘F1’ · 0:35:26 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Jerry Bruckheimer ↔ Days of Thunder · career · Bruckheimer's five decades of rewatchables run from American Gigolo to F1. · "This is, uh, 80s, 90s, it's 5 decades of him."
[The Big Picture · The Nicole Kidman Hall of Fame, and ‘Babygirl’ · 0:57:37 · unknown (0.40)] Days of Thunder ↔ Tom Cruise · career · Days of Thunder kicks off her relationship with Tom Cruise but is not a Hall of Fame movie. · "obviously it kicks off her relationship with Tom, but for her, I don't think it's a Hall of Fame movie."
[The Rewatchables · 'Talladega Nights' · 1:34:04 · Danny Kelly (0.50)] John C. Reilly ↔ Days of Thunder · people · Reilly appeared in Days of Thunder and in Talladega Nights. · "I mentioned that John C. Riley was in both Days of Thunder and this movie."
[The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 0:49:58 · Chris Ryan (0.85)] Days of Thunder ↔ Tony Scott · people · Tony Scott and Tom Cruise supply frames that spark patriotism and love of cinema. · "what Tony Scott gave us and what Tom Cruise gave us"
[The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 0:50:16 · Chris Ryan (0.85)] Days of Thunder ↔ Nicole Kidman · people · Cruise and Kidman's first screen union; she plays a neurologist. · "Obviously, this is uh, Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman's union, uh, on screen."
[The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 0:50:29 · Chris Ryan (0.85)] Days of Thunder ↔ Jerry Bruckheimer · industry · Bruckheimer and Simpson reportedly told Kidman not to bother researching neurosurgery. · "said she really wanted to do a lot of research on neurosurgery and they said, don't bother."

Films put beside it more than once (3)

[pairs] Days of Thunder ↔ F1 · said 3 times in 1 episode
[pairs] Days of Thunder ↔ Top Gun · said 2 times in 2 episodes
[pairs] Days of Thunder ↔ Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby · said 2 times in 1 episode

Fun items about it (2)

[The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 0:50:29 · Chris Ryan (0.85)] Days of Thunder · fun · Kidman reportedly wanted to research neurosurgery for her role and the producers said not to bother. · "said she really wanted to do a lot of research on neurosurgery and they said, don't bother."
[The Big Picture · The Tom Cruise Hall of Fame · 1:01:11 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Days of Thunder · fun · Chris says Cole Trickle hails from Eagle Rock, California, repeating the Days of Thunder trivia. · "Eagle Rock California."

One hop out: what recommends the films most often joined to it (21)

[The Rewatchables · ‘F1’ · 1:01:08 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] F1 ↔ Drive to Survive (series) · programming · Drive to Survive is the 2020s reference point for F1's popularity. · "I'll give you a drive to survive reference."
[The Rewatchables · 'Talladega Nights' · 2:02:13 · Danny Kelly (0.50)] Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby ↔ Blades of Glory · programming · Pairing Will Ferrell sports comedies. · "No, I want Will Ferrell playing sports."
[The Big Picture · Top Five Gen X Director Debuts, the Fate of ‘Black Widow,’ and a Potential Oscars Disaster · 0:08:06 · Sean Fennessey (0.80)] Black Widow ↔ Top Gun · programming · Studios are reluctant to put Fast 9, Bond, Top Gun and Black Widow straight into theaters. · "And movies like Fast 9 or the new James Bond film or Top Gun or, you know, Black Widow."
[The Big Picture · The Nicole Kidman Hall of Fame, and ‘Babygirl’ · 0:59:32 · unknown (0.35)] Far and Away ↔ Tom Cruise · craft · The land-race finale shows extraordinary production value and shades of future Tom Cruise. · "At the end, he just, he rides the horse, you know, shades of future Tom Cruise."
[The Rewatchables · ‘F1’ · 0:05:18 · Van Lathan (0.40)] F1 ↔ Gleaming the Cube · lineage · F1 revives the 80s star-plus-cultural-phenomenon movie like Gleaming the Cube and Over the Top. · "we used to do these movies, gleaming the cube, skateboarding over the top, arm wrestling"
[The Rewatchables · 'Talladega Nights' · 2:02:21 · Craig Horlbeck (0.40)] Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby ↔ Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy · programming · Alternate double feature pick: Anchorman and Talladega. · "I think I would rather watch Anchorman and Talladega nights, though, together."
[The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 0:19:41 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Top Gun ↔ Top Gun: Maverick · lineage · Maverick's dogfight football is compared with the original's volleyball scene, which hides its doubles in wide shots. · "I mean, I went back and watched the volleyball scene from the original Top Gun."
[The Rewatchables · ‘F1’ · 0:14:21 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] F1 ↔ Top Gun: Maverick · lineage · Same director and a broadly similar story of an aging star in the cockpit. · "this movie gets compared to Top Gun Maverick a lot, same director"
[The Rewatchables · 'Talladega Nights' · 1:06:57 · Danny Kelly (0.50)] Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby ↔ Road House · lineage · Danny's craziest quote award nominee is from Road House. · "I used to fuck guys like you in prison."
[The Big Picture · The Top Five Movies of 2022 · 1:26:26 · Chris Ryan (0.80)] Top Gun ⇒ Top Gun: Maverick (the host's read) · lineage · Chris says the sequel delivered and is better than the first, and Amanda agrees. · "It's better than the 1st one"
[The Rewatchables · ‘F1’ · 1:41:07 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] F1 ↔ Grand Prix · lineage · Frankenheimer's 1966 racing picture is the double-feature pick. · "I'm going Grand Prix, the John Frankenheimer movie from 66."
[The Rewatchables · 'Talladega Nights' · 1:31:25 · Craig Horlbeck (0.50)] Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby ↔ The Godfather · theme · Reese Bobby is like Vito Corleone, a godfather figure who is in little of the movie but too important for the Dion Waiters award. · "it's like in the Godfather, you know, Vito Corleone is not in the movie that much, but he can't be Dion Waiters."
[Blank Check · The Color of Money · 2:17:00 · unknown (0.35)] Cocktail ↔ Top Gun · theme · The Cruise movie-star template begins in Top Gun and cocktail: a guy who is the best at something and is doubted before proving everyone wrong. · "Tom Cruise movies are primarily about a guy who is the fucking best at something."
[The Rewatchables · ‘F1’ · 0:07:16 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] F1 ↔ Chef · theme · Racing movies and Chef's cooking scene both beat watching the real thing. · "I love racing movies because they're basically awesomely edited."
[The Rewatchables · 'Talladega Nights' · 1:50:19 · Danny Heifetz (0.40)] Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby ↔ Seinfeld · theme · Talladega is named like Titleist in the Seinfeld golf-ball episode, a funny name rather than a meaningful one. · "it's kind of like the joke in Seinfeld, where they make the, it has to be titleist for Kramer hitting the golf ball."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Rocky’ · 0:11:54 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Rocky ↔ Top Gun · theme · Rocky's urban portrait of American life gave way in the Karate Kid, Hughes and Top Gun era to safer, cleaner suburban stories. · "It's just a much different portrait of like American life because this is so urban."
[The Rewatchables · ‘F1’ · 0:07:37 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] F1 ↔ Chef · theme · Cooking is cinematic in Chef the way racing is in F1: movies render the activity better than the real thing. · "I would say cooking movies or another one like that."
[The Rewatchables · 'Talladega Nights' · 1:22:10 · Danny Kelly (0.40)] Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby ↔ Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope · craft · Miniatures in Star Wars and 2001 look better than computer spaceships in Avengers. · "I think that the spaceship in the beginning of Star Wars and in Space Odyssey looks better now than the spaceship at the beginning of like Avengers."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ · 1:02:23 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Reservoir Dogs ↔ Top Gun · theme · Tarantino's Sleep With Me riff on Top Gun mirrors the pop-theory talk that opens Reservoir Dogs; Tony Scott's Top Gun and artist intent come up again with Madonna. · "Yeah, nobody cares what Tony Scott thinks Top Gun is about."
[The Rewatchables · ‘F1’ · 0:08:56 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] F1 ↔ The Color of Money · theme · Color of Money shows billiards as the most exciting cinematic thing; so racing movies work better than racing. · "if you watch Color of Money, you're like, Billiards is the most exciting cinematic thing"
[The Rewatchables · ‘F1’ · 0:12:58 · Bill Simmons (0.40)] F1 ↔ Road House · theme · Road House uses the 'you don't understand how good this guy was' trope. · "Like roadhouse, best cooler."

Who said it, by their latest sketch (6)

[speaker] Chris Ryan · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · A franchise and genre scholar who likes Jason, the early sequels, and Manhattan; attention to trivia, tropes and critic reception. Treats slashers as a canon with tiers. · stances: Parts 1, 2, 4 and Manhattan are the good ones; The series finds its legs at 4
[speaker] Bill Simmons · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · Loves the Friday series as a communal, rental-era memory and tells childhood stories about the ads and theaters. Likes casting what-ifs and sports analogies for everything. Skeptical of horror at Christmas and of anything that wastes the premise. · stances: Friday the 13th is not the best entry but the origin story had to be told; Friday 2 is a leap over the original
[speaker] Sean Fennessey · latest sketch, The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · Loves gory, funny, fast genre movies with craft and confidence, especially 87-minute films that never overstay. Can't stand ponderous elevated horror that fills out its runtime with introspection and sad family history. A sucker for the Carpenter-era lineage, Die Hard homages, and directors who break studio dogma. · stances: Resident Evil is one of the best films of the year; Horror movies have become a drag; fun genre experiences are needed; Short running times are a virtue; Video-game films work best when great filmmakers get creative license
[speaker] Craig Horlbeck · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · First-time viewer of the series; expected Jason and was thrown by Mrs. Voorhees. Rates the film a 4 or 5 and singled out the canoe ending as the best scene. Prefers the Chain Saw's intensity. · stances: Rug-pulled by the killer-mom reveal; The ending saves the movie
[speaker] Danny Heifetz · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · 'Talladega Nights' · Calls Talladega his favorite Will Ferrell movie and the comedy of his childhood. Loves quotable movies and Will Ferrell as the last comedy movie star, reveres Reese Bobby and the bar scene. Can't stand how the genre has faded. · stances: Talladega is the funniest sports movie ever made and holds up better than Anchorman; Will Ferrell is the most influential comedy figure of the 21st century; Tim Robinson memes are the new quote culture
[speaker] Danny Kelly · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · 'Talladega Nights' · Fond of fake ads, commercial bloopers, gag-heavy dinner scenes and low-budget grounded comedies. Dislikes CGI gags and glossy blockbusters. Always stirring a hot take, like Talladega being too Hollywood. · stances: Comedies should lean on practical gags, not CGI; NASCAR is better than he thought; Dinner scene is the most rewatchable

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 Days of Thunder (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 Days of Thunder (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.

[The Rewatchables · 'Talladega Nights' · 2:02:33 · Danny Heifetz (0.30)] Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby ↔ Days of Thunder · programming · Another double feature option: pair with Days of Thunder. · "Or just watch Days of Thunder."
[The Rewatchables · ‘F1’ · 0:10:12 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] F1 ↔ Days of Thunder · lineage · Same kind of 1990 star-driven racing picture, but F1's camera work leaves it behind. · "This movie in 1990 was Days of Thunder, which was a very cool movie that I like a lot that we've done on the rewatchables, but it's night and day"
[The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 0:49:49 · Chris Ryan (0.85)] Top Gun ⇒ Days of Thunder (the host's read) · lineage · Days of Thunder is essentially Top Gun with cars. · "it's essentially just Top Gun with cars"
[The Big Picture · The Nicole Kidman Hall of Fame, and ‘Babygirl’ · 1:00:55 · unknown (0.35)] Malice ↔ Days of Thunder · contrast · Malice subverts expectations: more going on than being the doctor in the NASCAR movie. · "Um, than just being the doctor in the, you know, NASCAR movie."
[The Big Picture · The Tom Cruise Hall of Fame · 0:17:10 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] Days of Thunder ↔ Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One · career · Seeing Cruise in the MI7 trailer feels like seeing the guy from Days of Thunder again; he is timeless. · "It just feels like seeing the guy from Days of Thunder, again."
[The Rewatchables · ‘F1’ · 1:41:12 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] F1 ↔ Days of Thunder · verdict · Days of Thunder was the favorite racing movie before F1 and is a pairing choice. · "Days of Thunder was my favorite racing movie before this."
[The Rewatchables · ‘F1’ · 1:30:54 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] F1 ↔ Days of Thunder · what-if · Kosinski has joked F2 could be Days of Thunder 2, with Cruise. · "F2 could be Days of Thunder too."
[The Rewatchables · 'Talladega Nights' · 1:05:52 · Craig Horlbeck (0.50)] Days of Thunder ⇒ Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby (the host's read) · parody target · The film is not a direct parody but spoofs movies like Days of Thunder; Reilly was in both. · "I don't think this movie is like a direct parody of that, but it is parodying movies like Days of Thunder."
[The Big Picture · The Tom Cruise Hall of Fame · 1:00:45 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Top Gun ⇒ Days of Thunder (the host's read) · retread · Days of Thunder is tapping the same vein as Top Gun in its afterburner. · "we're still like in the vapor trail, the afterburner of Top Gun here"
[Blank Check — Patreon · David Fincher Music Videos · 0:15:41 · unknown (0.40)] Charm the Snake (Christopher Cross video) ↔ Days of Thunder · look · The racing, blues and oranges feel like a proto Days of Thunder. · "This feels very like proto days of Thunder."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien 3 · 2:12:55 · unknown (0.50)] Far and Away ↔ Days of Thunder · shared people · Cruise and Kidman fell in love on Days of Thunder, then made Far and Away. · "Very weird that they fell in love, quote unquote, filming Days of Thunder."
[The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 0:57:20 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Tom Cruise ↔ Days of Thunder · programming · Craig would do Days of Thunder just to do it. · "Craig would do traffic Thunder just so we could do traffic Thunder."
[The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 0:49:43 · Chris Ryan (0.85)] Chris Ryan ↔ Days of Thunder · programming · Pick 7 (round 3), category blockbuster: Top Gun with cars; Tony Scott, Cruise and Kidman. · "No, I'm going to do Days of Thunder and Blockbuster."
[Blank Check · The Color of Money · 1:32:36 · unknown (0.30)] Tom Cruise ↔ Days of Thunder · lineage · A Days of Thunder 2 would be a mistake, especially post-F1, versus a pool sequel where Cruise is credible. · "Versus Days of Thunder, where it's like, get out of the car, Tom."
[The Rewatchables · ‘F1’ · 0:35:26 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Jerry Bruckheimer ↔ Days of Thunder · career · Bruckheimer's five decades of rewatchables run from American Gigolo to F1. · "This is, uh, 80s, 90s, it's 5 decades of him."
[The Big Picture · The Nicole Kidman Hall of Fame, and ‘Babygirl’ · 0:57:37 · unknown (0.40)] Days of Thunder ↔ Tom Cruise · career · Days of Thunder kicks off her relationship with Tom Cruise but is not a Hall of Fame movie. · "obviously it kicks off her relationship with Tom, but for her, I don't think it's a Hall of Fame movie."
[The Rewatchables · 'Talladega Nights' · 1:34:04 · Danny Kelly (0.50)] John C. Reilly ↔ Days of Thunder · people · Reilly appeared in Days of Thunder and in Talladega Nights. · "I mentioned that John C. Riley was in both Days of Thunder and this movie."
[The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 0:49:58 · Chris Ryan (0.85)] Days of Thunder ↔ Tony Scott · people · Tony Scott and Tom Cruise supply frames that spark patriotism and love of cinema. · "what Tony Scott gave us and what Tom Cruise gave us"
[The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 0:50:16 · Chris Ryan (0.85)] Days of Thunder ↔ Nicole Kidman · people · Cruise and Kidman's first screen union; she plays a neurologist. · "Obviously, this is uh, Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman's union, uh, on screen."
[The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 0:50:29 · Chris Ryan (0.85)] Days of Thunder ↔ Jerry Bruckheimer · industry · Bruckheimer and Simpson reportedly told Kidman not to bother researching neurosurgery. · "said she really wanted to do a lot of research on neurosurgery and they said, don't bother."
[pairs] Days of Thunder ↔ F1 · said 3 times in 1 episode
[pairs] Days of Thunder ↔ Top Gun · said 2 times in 2 episodes
[pairs] Days of Thunder ↔ Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby · said 2 times in 1 episode
[The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 0:50:29 · Chris Ryan (0.85)] Days of Thunder · fun · Kidman reportedly wanted to research neurosurgery for her role and the producers said not to bother. · "said she really wanted to do a lot of research on neurosurgery and they said, don't bother."
[The Big Picture · The Tom Cruise Hall of Fame · 1:01:11 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Days of Thunder · fun · Chris says Cole Trickle hails from Eagle Rock, California, repeating the Days of Thunder trivia. · "Eagle Rock California."
[The Rewatchables · ‘F1’ · 1:01:08 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] F1 ↔ Drive to Survive (series) · programming · Drive to Survive is the 2020s reference point for F1's popularity. · "I'll give you a drive to survive reference."
[The Rewatchables · 'Talladega Nights' · 2:02:13 · Danny Kelly (0.50)] Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby ↔ Blades of Glory · programming · Pairing Will Ferrell sports comedies. · "No, I want Will Ferrell playing sports."
[The Big Picture · Top Five Gen X Director Debuts, the Fate of ‘Black Widow,’ and a Potential Oscars Disaster · 0:08:06 · Sean Fennessey (0.80)] Black Widow ↔ Top Gun · programming · Studios are reluctant to put Fast 9, Bond, Top Gun and Black Widow straight into theaters. · "And movies like Fast 9 or the new James Bond film or Top Gun or, you know, Black Widow."
[The Big Picture · The Nicole Kidman Hall of Fame, and ‘Babygirl’ · 0:59:32 · unknown (0.35)] Far and Away ↔ Tom Cruise · craft · The land-race finale shows extraordinary production value and shades of future Tom Cruise. · "At the end, he just, he rides the horse, you know, shades of future Tom Cruise."
[The Rewatchables · ‘F1’ · 0:05:18 · Van Lathan (0.40)] F1 ↔ Gleaming the Cube · lineage · F1 revives the 80s star-plus-cultural-phenomenon movie like Gleaming the Cube and Over the Top. · "we used to do these movies, gleaming the cube, skateboarding over the top, arm wrestling"
[The Rewatchables · 'Talladega Nights' · 2:02:21 · Craig Horlbeck (0.40)] Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby ↔ Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy · programming · Alternate double feature pick: Anchorman and Talladega. · "I think I would rather watch Anchorman and Talladega nights, though, together."
[The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 0:19:41 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Top Gun ↔ Top Gun: Maverick · lineage · Maverick's dogfight football is compared with the original's volleyball scene, which hides its doubles in wide shots. · "I mean, I went back and watched the volleyball scene from the original Top Gun."
[The Rewatchables · ‘F1’ · 0:14:21 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] F1 ↔ Top Gun: Maverick · lineage · Same director and a broadly similar story of an aging star in the cockpit. · "this movie gets compared to Top Gun Maverick a lot, same director"
[The Rewatchables · 'Talladega Nights' · 1:06:57 · Danny Kelly (0.50)] Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby ↔ Road House · lineage · Danny's craziest quote award nominee is from Road House. · "I used to fuck guys like you in prison."
[The Big Picture · The Top Five Movies of 2022 · 1:26:26 · Chris Ryan (0.80)] Top Gun ⇒ Top Gun: Maverick (the host's read) · lineage · Chris says the sequel delivered and is better than the first, and Amanda agrees. · "It's better than the 1st one"
[The Rewatchables · ‘F1’ · 1:41:07 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] F1 ↔ Grand Prix · lineage · Frankenheimer's 1966 racing picture is the double-feature pick. · "I'm going Grand Prix, the John Frankenheimer movie from 66."
[The Rewatchables · 'Talladega Nights' · 1:31:25 · Craig Horlbeck (0.50)] Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby ↔ The Godfather · theme · Reese Bobby is like Vito Corleone, a godfather figure who is in little of the movie but too important for the Dion Waiters award. · "it's like in the Godfather, you know, Vito Corleone is not in the movie that much, but he can't be Dion Waiters."
[Blank Check · The Color of Money · 2:17:00 · unknown (0.35)] Cocktail ↔ Top Gun · theme · The Cruise movie-star template begins in Top Gun and cocktail: a guy who is the best at something and is doubted before proving everyone wrong. · "Tom Cruise movies are primarily about a guy who is the fucking best at something."
[The Rewatchables · ‘F1’ · 0:07:16 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] F1 ↔ Chef · theme · Racing movies and Chef's cooking scene both beat watching the real thing. · "I love racing movies because they're basically awesomely edited."
[The Rewatchables · 'Talladega Nights' · 1:50:19 · Danny Heifetz (0.40)] Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby ↔ Seinfeld · theme · Talladega is named like Titleist in the Seinfeld golf-ball episode, a funny name rather than a meaningful one. · "it's kind of like the joke in Seinfeld, where they make the, it has to be titleist for Kramer hitting the golf ball."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Rocky’ · 0:11:54 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Rocky ↔ Top Gun · theme · Rocky's urban portrait of American life gave way in the Karate Kid, Hughes and Top Gun era to safer, cleaner suburban stories. · "It's just a much different portrait of like American life because this is so urban."
[The Rewatchables · ‘F1’ · 0:07:37 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] F1 ↔ Chef · theme · Cooking is cinematic in Chef the way racing is in F1: movies render the activity better than the real thing. · "I would say cooking movies or another one like that."
[The Rewatchables · 'Talladega Nights' · 1:22:10 · Danny Kelly (0.40)] Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby ↔ Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope · craft · Miniatures in Star Wars and 2001 look better than computer spaceships in Avengers. · "I think that the spaceship in the beginning of Star Wars and in Space Odyssey looks better now than the spaceship at the beginning of like Avengers."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ · 1:02:23 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Reservoir Dogs ↔ Top Gun · theme · Tarantino's Sleep With Me riff on Top Gun mirrors the pop-theory talk that opens Reservoir Dogs; Tony Scott's Top Gun and artist intent come up again with Madonna. · "Yeah, nobody cares what Tony Scott thinks Top Gun is about."
[The Rewatchables · ‘F1’ · 0:08:56 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] F1 ↔ The Color of Money · theme · Color of Money shows billiards as the most exciting cinematic thing; so racing movies work better than racing. · "if you watch Color of Money, you're like, Billiards is the most exciting cinematic thing"
[The Rewatchables · ‘F1’ · 0:12:58 · Bill Simmons (0.40)] F1 ↔ Road House · theme · Road House uses the 'you don't understand how good this guy was' trope. · "Like roadhouse, best cooler."
[speaker] Chris Ryan · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · A franchise and genre scholar who likes Jason, the early sequels, and Manhattan; attention to trivia, tropes and critic reception. Treats slashers as a canon with tiers. · stances: Parts 1, 2, 4 and Manhattan are the good ones; The series finds its legs at 4
[speaker] Bill Simmons · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · Loves the Friday series as a communal, rental-era memory and tells childhood stories about the ads and theaters. Likes casting what-ifs and sports analogies for everything. Skeptical of horror at Christmas and of anything that wastes the premise. · stances: Friday the 13th is not the best entry but the origin story had to be told; Friday 2 is a leap over the original
[speaker] Sean Fennessey · latest sketch, The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · Loves gory, funny, fast genre movies with craft and confidence, especially 87-minute films that never overstay. Can't stand ponderous elevated horror that fills out its runtime with introspection and sad family history. A sucker for the Carpenter-era lineage, Die Hard homages, and directors who break studio dogma. · stances: Resident Evil is one of the best films of the year; Horror movies have become a drag; fun genre experiences are needed; Short running times are a virtue; Video-game films work best when great filmmakers get creative license
[speaker] Craig Horlbeck · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · First-time viewer of the series; expected Jason and was thrown by Mrs. Voorhees. Rates the film a 4 or 5 and singled out the canoe ending as the best scene. Prefers the Chain Saw's intensity. · stances: Rug-pulled by the killer-mom reveal; The ending saves the movie
[speaker] Danny Heifetz · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · 'Talladega Nights' · Calls Talladega his favorite Will Ferrell movie and the comedy of his childhood. Loves quotable movies and Will Ferrell as the last comedy movie star, reveres Reese Bobby and the bar scene. Can't stand how the genre has faded. · stances: Talladega is the funniest sports movie ever made and holds up better than Anchorman; Will Ferrell is the most influential comedy figure of the 21st century; Tim Robinson memes are the new quote culture
[speaker] Danny Kelly · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · 'Talladega Nights' · Fond of fake ads, commercial bloopers, gag-heavy dinner scenes and low-budget grounded comedies. Dislikes CGI gags and glossy blockbusters. Always stirring a hot take, like Talladega being too Hollywood. · stances: Comedies should lean on practical gags, not CGI; NASCAR is better than he thought; Dinner scene is the most rewatchable
[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 Days of Thunder (1990); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Days of Thunder (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.