What the corpus says about Rain Man (1988)

What was said about it (15)

1. [The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 1:10:26 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Gigli ↔ Rain Man · theme · Justin Bartha's Rain Man impression in Gigli is called a nuclear holocaust his career survived. · "The hangovers Justin Bartha submits a nuclear holocaust of a rainman impression that his career somehow survived."
2. [Blank Check · The Color of Money · 1:33:32 · unknown (0.30)] Rain Man ↔ Cocktail · career · Cruise balanced fluffy Cocktail with a big director and bigger actor in Rain Man; he reportedly steals Rain Man from Hoffman. · "He, in my opinion, he steals Rayman out from Hoffman."
3. [The Big Picture · The Tom Cruise Hall of Fame · 1:40:06 · Amanda Dobbins (0.40)] Rain Man ↔ Born on the Fourth of July · career · Rain Man, Born on the Fourth of July and The Color of Money are grouped as his Oscar bait run defining an era. · "was almost like his Oscar bait run."
4. [The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ · 0:45:13 · Bill Simmons (0.40)] Working Girl ↔ Rain Man · verdict · The speakers would give Best Picture to Working Girl over Rain Man. · "but I would give it to working girl over Rain Man."
5. [The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ · 1:27:23 · Joanna Robinson (0.70)] Working Girl ↔ Rain Man · verdict · Joanna's hot take: Working Girl should have won Best Picture over Rain Man. · "I had this should have won best picture of Rayman."
6. [The Big Picture · The Tom Cruise Hall of Fame · 1:36:50 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50)] Born on the Fourth of July ↔ Rain Man · verdict · Two Oscar-bait Cruise films; the hosts prefer Born on the Fourth of July and cut Rain Man despite its Best Picture win. · "I prefer born over rain man."
7. [The Big Picture · The Tom Cruise Hall of Fame · 1:39:04 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Mission: Impossible – Fallout ↔ Rain Man · verdict · Chris likes Fallout a lot more than Rain Man. · "I like Mission Impossible Fallout a lot more than Rain Man."
8. [The Big Picture · Thirteen Awards Movies to Watch Out for, Oscar Do-Overs, and More From the Mailbag · 0:43:18 · Amanda Dobbins (0.75)] Working Girl ↔ Rain Man · verdict · The easy-listening do-over: Working Girl deserved Best Picture over Rain Man. · "I would have picked working girl over Red Man."
9. [The Big Picture · Thirteen Awards Movies to Watch Out for, Oscar Do-Overs, and More From the Mailbag · 0:43:35 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] Rain Man ↔ Working Girl · industry · Rain Man made around $300 million and was the year's biggest film in a very different era of moviegoing. · "That movie made like $300 million, and that was a totally different time in movies when Rainman could be the number one box office hit."
10. [The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 0:31:56 · unknown (0.40)] Rain Man ↔ Tom Cruise · career · Cruise is good at playing innocent, reaching back to Rain Man and Born on the Fourth of July. · "Cruz is good at playing innocent."
11. [The Rewatchables · ‘The Natural’ · 1:16:46 · unknown (0.50)] Barry Levinson ↔ Rain Man · career · Levinson's apex is Diner or Rain Man. · "I would say Rain Man for him."
12. [Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel · 1:34:06 · unknown (0.30)] Hans Zimmer ↔ Rain Man · career · Rain Man was Zimmer's first score. · "No, he did the score for Rainman."
13. [Blank Check · Judging The Judge · 1:24:25 · David Sims (0.40)] Robert Downey Jr. ↔ Rain Man · industry · Best case for Downey was playing Tom Cruise to Duvall's Dustin Hoffman, supporting the Oscar-bait part. · "Best case scenario, he's the Tom Cruise to the Dustin Hoffman and Rainman."
14. [The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 1:26:01 · unknown (0.50)] Tom Hanks ↔ Rain Man · what-if · Hanks as Charlie Babbitt in Rain Man; the Hanks bad-boy era of Punchline and Bachelor Party. · "So Hanks is Charlie Babbitt."
15. [Blank Check · The Color of Money · 1:34:55 · unknown (0.30)] Rain Man ↔ Steven Spielberg · near-miss · Many A-list actors and directors chased the Rain Man script, including Spielberg almost making it with Bill Murray in the Hoffman part. · "you know, Spielberg almost makes it with Bill Murray in the Hoffman part."

Films put beside it more than once (2)

1. [pairs] Rain Man ↔ Working Girl · said 4 times in 2 episodes
2. [pairs] Rain Man ↔ Born on the Fourth of July · said 2 times in 1 episode

One hop out: what recommends the films most often joined to it (20)

1. [The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ · 1:11:10 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] Working Girl ⇒ Working Girl (1990 NBC series) (the host's read) · programming · Working Girl became a 1990 NBC series, with Sandra Bullock as Tess. · "Working Girl became an NBC series in 1990"
2. [The Big Picture · 8. I Love America | Do We Get to Win This Time? · 1:05:32 · Brian Raftery (0.90)] Born on the Fourth of July ↔ Heaven & Earth · theme · Raftery closes: personal stories in Born, Heaven & Earth and Running on Empty change how you see the war. · "It's impossible to watch born on the 4th of July without feeling, not just for Ron Kovic"
3. [The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 0:57:51 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Tom Cruise ↔ Cocktail · programming · With the public-figure Cruise, the pick has to be Cocktail. · "If it's the cruise, the public figure cruise that we know, it's got to be cocktails."
4. [The Rewatchables · 'Mission: Impossible' · 0:06:37 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Mission: Impossible ⇒ Mission: Impossible – Fallout (the host's read) · lineage · Every later MI film calls back to the Langley drop as a hallmark. · "I realized that they call back to that specific moment every time"
5. [The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ · 2:04:54 · unknown (0.40)] Working Girl ↔ Morning Glory · programming · Morning Glory is a triple-feature pick; Rachel McAdams as the working girl with Harrison Ford. · "Rachel McAdams working girl."
6. [Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory · 0:52:22 · Griffin Newman (0.45)] Paths of Glory ↔ Born on the Fourth of July · theme · The appeal that sells young men on war is the first 20 minutes of Born on the 4th of July, before reality. · "the initial appeal of it, you know, the like 1st 20 minutes of born on the 4th of July"
7. [The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 1:21:22 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Cocktail ↔ Cocktail · programming · Cogwin's law from Cocktail becomes a Life Lesson category; the Cocktail pod was a fun one. · "He points out, we had so much fun with the laws."
8. [Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 1:36:27 · David Sims (0.40)] Edge of Tomorrow ↔ Mission: Impossible – Fallout · craft · Fallout has the same ending as Edge: cut on Cruise's smile with a weird pop-song needle drop. · "Fallout kind of have the same ending."
9. [The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ · 2:05:09 · unknown (0.40)] Working Girl ⇒ Pretty Woman (the host's read) · programming · Pairing Working Girl and Pretty Woman as a Cinderella double feature to see what Pretty Woman took. · "It double Cinderella and then you're watching Purdue Woman seeing all the things they took."
10. [The Big Picture · 8. I Love America | Do We Get to Win This Time? · 0:46:36 · Brian Raftery (0.90)] Born on the Fourth of July ⇒ Lieutenant Dan (Forrest Gump) (the host's read) · craft · Dan's angry wheelchair stretch evokes Kovic. · "Behavior that no doubt reminded many of COVID and born in the 4th of July."
11. [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."
12. [Blank Check — Patreon · Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation · 0:30:40 · unknown (0.30)] Christopher McQuarrie ↔ Mission: Impossible – Fallout · craft · McQuarrie brings in new tech people and a new cinematographer each time so each film feels like a different director's. · "Like, he always, right, he's, like, brings in a new, uh, new, like, tech people, new, new, new cinematographer."
13. [The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ · 2:05:13 · unknown (0.40)] Working Girl ↔ Witness · programming · Witness is the double feature for double Harrison Ford. · "There's also Witness as just double hot Harrison Ford."
14. [The Rewatchables · ‘The Color of Money’ · 0:30:25 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] Tom Cruise ↔ Cocktail · theme · Cruise in Top Gun, Cocktail, and this film plays with no wink or self-awareness, unlike later movie stars. · "In all 3 of those movies that you just mentioned, cocktail, Top Gun, and this movie. There's no self-awareness."
15. [Blank Check — Patreon · Thor: The Dark World · 1:58:58 · David Sims (0.35)] Thor: The Dark World ↔ Mission: Impossible – Fallout · craft · Credits that run least to most important, with the star last, as in Fallout, parallel the cast roll here. · "I like it that in the Mission Impossible Fallout, they save Tom for last."
16. [The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ · 2:05:16 · unknown (0.30)] Working Girl ↔ The Devil Wears Prada · programming · Pairing Prada is suggested as a 1988-2006 double feature. · "Well, I think that there's a Devil Wears Prada cases."
17. [Blank Check — Patreon · Iron Man 3 · 2:18:18 · unknown (0.30)] Iron Man 3 ↔ Mission: Impossible – Fallout · craft · Speaker's anecdote of staying for the curtain call credits applies to Iron Man 3 end credits. · "we can't leave before they give Tom his curtain call."
18. [The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ · 2:05:30 · Amanda Dobbins (0.40)] Working Girl ↔ Baby Boom · programming · Baby Boom is the top double-feature pick because it is less seen. · "I think my number one would be Baby Boom because it's not as seen."
19. [The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ · 0:08:48 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Working Girl ⇒ Pretty Woman (the host's read) · lineage · Pretty Woman borrows openly from Working Girl's Cinderella story. · "It openly steal shit from this movie."
20. [The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ · 0:13:35 · Joanna Robinson (0.40)] Working Girl ⇒ The Devil Wears Prada (the host's read) · lineage · Working Girl sprinkled its DNA over later beloved movies, Pretty Woman and Devil Wears Prada chief among them. · "And it's just sprinkling DNA over all these beloved movies over the next 40 years, but those were Pretty Woman and Devil wears Prada were the 2 that I was like, oh, yeah."

Who said it, by their latest sketch (6)

1. [speaker] Amanda Dobbins · latest sketch, The Big Picture · ‘Mamma Mia!’ Meets ‘The Strangers'! It’s a Movie Swap! · Loves The Strangers' withholding craft and a good tense horror film without gore, but likes fun, communal movies like Mamma Mia. She dislikes supernatural or gory horror, which irritates her more than it scares her. She is a sucker for stars and for Googling a movie mid-recording. · stances: The Strangers is scary because of what it doesn't show or explain; Ending explanation weakens it; no answer would be better; Prefers 'withholding' filmmaking; Defends Mamma Mia as joyful and intentional
2. [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
3. [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
4. [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'
5. [speaker] Joanna Robinson · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ · Calls Working Girl a top five 80s movie and loves the yuppie cinema of the late 80s, especially its women. Digs into casting history and biographies, loves Mike Nichols, and takes the practical-movie-detail view of what ages well or badly. A sucker for the meet-cute at the bar. · stances: Working Girl is a top five 80s movie; Should have won Best Picture over Rain Man; Meet-cute at the bar is the most rewatchable scene; Researched casting what-ifs and cross-checked the Nichols biography
6. [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)

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

You are a clerk at Video Culture, a video store. A customer just finished Rain Man (1988) 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 Rain Man (1988) 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 · A CR Month Mailbag! · 1:10:26 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Gigli ↔ Rain Man · theme · Justin Bartha's Rain Man impression in Gigli is called a nuclear holocaust his career survived. · "The hangovers Justin Bartha submits a nuclear holocaust of a rainman impression that his career somehow survived."
[Blank Check · The Color of Money · 1:33:32 · unknown (0.30)] Rain Man ↔ Cocktail · career · Cruise balanced fluffy Cocktail with a big director and bigger actor in Rain Man; he reportedly steals Rain Man from Hoffman. · "He, in my opinion, he steals Rayman out from Hoffman."
[The Big Picture · The Tom Cruise Hall of Fame · 1:40:06 · Amanda Dobbins (0.40)] Rain Man ↔ Born on the Fourth of July · career · Rain Man, Born on the Fourth of July and The Color of Money are grouped as his Oscar bait run defining an era. · "was almost like his Oscar bait run."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ · 0:45:13 · Bill Simmons (0.40)] Working Girl ↔ Rain Man · verdict · The speakers would give Best Picture to Working Girl over Rain Man. · "but I would give it to working girl over Rain Man."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ · 1:27:23 · Joanna Robinson (0.70)] Working Girl ↔ Rain Man · verdict · Joanna's hot take: Working Girl should have won Best Picture over Rain Man. · "I had this should have won best picture of Rayman."
[The Big Picture · The Tom Cruise Hall of Fame · 1:36:50 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50)] Born on the Fourth of July ↔ Rain Man · verdict · Two Oscar-bait Cruise films; the hosts prefer Born on the Fourth of July and cut Rain Man despite its Best Picture win. · "I prefer born over rain man."
[The Big Picture · The Tom Cruise Hall of Fame · 1:39:04 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Mission: Impossible – Fallout ↔ Rain Man · verdict · Chris likes Fallout a lot more than Rain Man. · "I like Mission Impossible Fallout a lot more than Rain Man."
[The Big Picture · Thirteen Awards Movies to Watch Out for, Oscar Do-Overs, and More From the Mailbag · 0:43:18 · Amanda Dobbins (0.75)] Working Girl ↔ Rain Man · verdict · The easy-listening do-over: Working Girl deserved Best Picture over Rain Man. · "I would have picked working girl over Red Man."
[The Big Picture · Thirteen Awards Movies to Watch Out for, Oscar Do-Overs, and More From the Mailbag · 0:43:35 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] Rain Man ↔ Working Girl · industry · Rain Man made around $300 million and was the year's biggest film in a very different era of moviegoing. · "That movie made like $300 million, and that was a totally different time in movies when Rainman could be the number one box office hit."
[The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 0:31:56 · unknown (0.40)] Rain Man ↔ Tom Cruise · career · Cruise is good at playing innocent, reaching back to Rain Man and Born on the Fourth of July. · "Cruz is good at playing innocent."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Natural’ · 1:16:46 · unknown (0.50)] Barry Levinson ↔ Rain Man · career · Levinson's apex is Diner or Rain Man. · "I would say Rain Man for him."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel · 1:34:06 · unknown (0.30)] Hans Zimmer ↔ Rain Man · career · Rain Man was Zimmer's first score. · "No, he did the score for Rainman."
[Blank Check · Judging The Judge · 1:24:25 · David Sims (0.40)] Robert Downey Jr. ↔ Rain Man · industry · Best case for Downey was playing Tom Cruise to Duvall's Dustin Hoffman, supporting the Oscar-bait part. · "Best case scenario, he's the Tom Cruise to the Dustin Hoffman and Rainman."
[The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 1:26:01 · unknown (0.50)] Tom Hanks ↔ Rain Man · what-if · Hanks as Charlie Babbitt in Rain Man; the Hanks bad-boy era of Punchline and Bachelor Party. · "So Hanks is Charlie Babbitt."
[Blank Check · The Color of Money · 1:34:55 · unknown (0.30)] Rain Man ↔ Steven Spielberg · near-miss · Many A-list actors and directors chased the Rain Man script, including Spielberg almost making it with Bill Murray in the Hoffman part. · "you know, Spielberg almost makes it with Bill Murray in the Hoffman part."
[pairs] Rain Man ↔ Working Girl · said 4 times in 2 episodes
[pairs] Rain Man ↔ Born on the Fourth of July · said 2 times in 1 episode
[The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ · 1:11:10 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] Working Girl ⇒ Working Girl (1990 NBC series) (the host's read) · programming · Working Girl became a 1990 NBC series, with Sandra Bullock as Tess. · "Working Girl became an NBC series in 1990"
[The Big Picture · 8. I Love America | Do We Get to Win This Time? · 1:05:32 · Brian Raftery (0.90)] Born on the Fourth of July ↔ Heaven & Earth · theme · Raftery closes: personal stories in Born, Heaven & Earth and Running on Empty change how you see the war. · "It's impossible to watch born on the 4th of July without feeling, not just for Ron Kovic"
[The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 0:57:51 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Tom Cruise ↔ Cocktail · programming · With the public-figure Cruise, the pick has to be Cocktail. · "If it's the cruise, the public figure cruise that we know, it's got to be cocktails."
[The Rewatchables · 'Mission: Impossible' · 0:06:37 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Mission: Impossible ⇒ Mission: Impossible – Fallout (the host's read) · lineage · Every later MI film calls back to the Langley drop as a hallmark. · "I realized that they call back to that specific moment every time"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ · 2:04:54 · unknown (0.40)] Working Girl ↔ Morning Glory · programming · Morning Glory is a triple-feature pick; Rachel McAdams as the working girl with Harrison Ford. · "Rachel McAdams working girl."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory · 0:52:22 · Griffin Newman (0.45)] Paths of Glory ↔ Born on the Fourth of July · theme · The appeal that sells young men on war is the first 20 minutes of Born on the 4th of July, before reality. · "the initial appeal of it, you know, the like 1st 20 minutes of born on the 4th of July"
[The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 1:21:22 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Cocktail ↔ Cocktail · programming · Cogwin's law from Cocktail becomes a Life Lesson category; the Cocktail pod was a fun one. · "He points out, we had so much fun with the laws."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 1:36:27 · David Sims (0.40)] Edge of Tomorrow ↔ Mission: Impossible – Fallout · craft · Fallout has the same ending as Edge: cut on Cruise's smile with a weird pop-song needle drop. · "Fallout kind of have the same ending."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ · 2:05:09 · unknown (0.40)] Working Girl ⇒ Pretty Woman (the host's read) · programming · Pairing Working Girl and Pretty Woman as a Cinderella double feature to see what Pretty Woman took. · "It double Cinderella and then you're watching Purdue Woman seeing all the things they took."
[The Big Picture · 8. I Love America | Do We Get to Win This Time? · 0:46:36 · Brian Raftery (0.90)] Born on the Fourth of July ⇒ Lieutenant Dan (Forrest Gump) (the host's read) · craft · Dan's angry wheelchair stretch evokes Kovic. · "Behavior that no doubt reminded many of COVID and born in the 4th of July."
[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."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation · 0:30:40 · unknown (0.30)] Christopher McQuarrie ↔ Mission: Impossible – Fallout · craft · McQuarrie brings in new tech people and a new cinematographer each time so each film feels like a different director's. · "Like, he always, right, he's, like, brings in a new, uh, new, like, tech people, new, new, new cinematographer."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ · 2:05:13 · unknown (0.40)] Working Girl ↔ Witness · programming · Witness is the double feature for double Harrison Ford. · "There's also Witness as just double hot Harrison Ford."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Color of Money’ · 0:30:25 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] Tom Cruise ↔ Cocktail · theme · Cruise in Top Gun, Cocktail, and this film plays with no wink or self-awareness, unlike later movie stars. · "In all 3 of those movies that you just mentioned, cocktail, Top Gun, and this movie. There's no self-awareness."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Thor: The Dark World · 1:58:58 · David Sims (0.35)] Thor: The Dark World ↔ Mission: Impossible – Fallout · craft · Credits that run least to most important, with the star last, as in Fallout, parallel the cast roll here. · "I like it that in the Mission Impossible Fallout, they save Tom for last."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ · 2:05:16 · unknown (0.30)] Working Girl ↔ The Devil Wears Prada · programming · Pairing Prada is suggested as a 1988-2006 double feature. · "Well, I think that there's a Devil Wears Prada cases."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Iron Man 3 · 2:18:18 · unknown (0.30)] Iron Man 3 ↔ Mission: Impossible – Fallout · craft · Speaker's anecdote of staying for the curtain call credits applies to Iron Man 3 end credits. · "we can't leave before they give Tom his curtain call."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ · 2:05:30 · Amanda Dobbins (0.40)] Working Girl ↔ Baby Boom · programming · Baby Boom is the top double-feature pick because it is less seen. · "I think my number one would be Baby Boom because it's not as seen."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ · 0:08:48 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Working Girl ⇒ Pretty Woman (the host's read) · lineage · Pretty Woman borrows openly from Working Girl's Cinderella story. · "It openly steal shit from this movie."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ · 0:13:35 · Joanna Robinson (0.40)] Working Girl ⇒ The Devil Wears Prada (the host's read) · lineage · Working Girl sprinkled its DNA over later beloved movies, Pretty Woman and Devil Wears Prada chief among them. · "And it's just sprinkling DNA over all these beloved movies over the next 40 years, but those were Pretty Woman and Devil wears Prada were the 2 that I was like, oh, yeah."
[speaker] Amanda Dobbins · latest sketch, The Big Picture · ‘Mamma Mia!’ Meets ‘The Strangers'! It’s a Movie Swap! · Loves The Strangers' withholding craft and a good tense horror film without gore, but likes fun, communal movies like Mamma Mia. She dislikes supernatural or gory horror, which irritates her more than it scares her. She is a sucker for stars and for Googling a movie mid-recording. · stances: The Strangers is scary because of what it doesn't show or explain; Ending explanation weakens it; no answer would be better; Prefers 'withholding' filmmaking; Defends Mamma Mia as joyful and intentional
[speaker] Bill Simmons · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · Loves the Friday series as a communal, rental-era memory and tells childhood stories about the ads and theaters. Likes casting what-ifs and sports analogies for everything. Skeptical of horror at Christmas and of anything that wastes the premise. · stances: Friday the 13th is not the best entry but the origin story had to be told; Friday 2 is a leap over the original
[speaker] 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] 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] Joanna Robinson · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ · Calls Working Girl a top five 80s movie and loves the yuppie cinema of the late 80s, especially its women. Digs into casting history and biographies, loves Mike Nichols, and takes the practical-movie-detail view of what ages well or badly. A sucker for the meet-cute at the bar. · stances: Working Girl is a top five 80s movie; Should have won Best Picture over Rain Man; Meet-cute at the bar is the most rewatchable scene; Researched casting what-ifs and cross-checked the Nichols biography
[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 Rain Man (1988); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Rain Man (1988) 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.