What the corpus says about Top Gun (1986)

The 60 lines php artisan corpus:ask hands a model, in the order it gets them, and nothing else. The model writes a clerk's answer from these and only these.

What was said about it (24)

[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 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 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 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"
[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 · ‘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 · ‘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 Big Picture · 8. I Love America | Do We Get to Win This Time? · 0:21:31 · Oliver Stone (0.90)] Top Gun ↔ Born on the Fourth of July · contrast · Stone worried Cruise, coming off jingoistic Top Gun, was wrong for Kovic. · "I was worried because, one, he was a movie star and he was coming off Top Gun, which was the opposite kind of jingoistic message."
[The Big Picture · 8. I Love America | Do We Get to Win This Time? · 0:21:03 · Brian Raftery (0.90)] Risky Business ↔ Top Gun · career · Cruise broke out in Risky Business; Top Gun made him a go-to star, setting up the casting of Born. · "But the film that made Cruz, the go-to wingman for millions of movie fans was Top Gun."
[The Big Picture · The Tom Cruise Hall of Fame · 0:45:12 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Top Gun ↔ The Color of Money · career · In the 80s and 90s Cruise paired a blockbuster with a critical film in the same year. · "Top Gun and Color Monster."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop II’ · 0:13:34 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Beverly Hills Cop II ↔ Top Gun · people · Tony Scott came to Cop II fresh off Top Gun, the biggest movie of 1986. · "Tony Scott has Top Gun, which is, you know, the biggest movie of 1986, basically."
[The Rewatchables · 'Mission: Impossible' · 0:11:47 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Mission: Impossible ↔ Top Gun · people · Cruise's magic-trick moment with Jean Reno carries Top Gun-era brashness. · "a little bit of like the Tom, Top Gun brashness."
[The Rewatchables · ‘F1’ · 0:45:10 · Bill Simmons (0.40)] F1 ↔ Top Gun · verdict · Ebert's racing reviews imply a three-star F1, floor set by the filmmaking. · "Roger would have given this 3 stars, too long racing scene's incredible."
[Blank Check · The Color of Money · 1:15:47 · unknown (0.35)] The Color of Money ↔ Top Gun · production overlap · Cruise shot Top Gun first, then this, then did Top Gun reshoots (shower scene, shadowy love scene) because his hair had grown out. · "he shoots Top Gun first, then shoots this, and then has to go back and do reshoots for Top Gun."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Color of Money’ · 1:16:00 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Top Gun ↔ Cocktail · Cruise sing-along · In the best Tom Cruise singing-along category, Top Gun, Cocktail, Risky Business, Jerry Maguire and this film compete; Top Gun wins as camp and 80s. · "Top Gun probably wins because it's a whole scene and it's Anthony Edwards and It's out of control, campy"
[The Big Picture · The Tom Cruise Hall of Fame · 0:51:59 · Amanda Dobbins (0.40)] Legend ↔ Top Gun · sentimental pick · Legend is a weak film kept for sentiment, not argued over Top Gun. · "You're not going to try to like make the case for legend over, say, Top Gun."
[The Big Picture · The Tom Cruise Hall of Fame · 0:54:40 · Amanda Dobbins (0.40)] Top Gun ↔ Cocktail · duplicate role · Cocktail is questioned as duplicative of Top Gun: the cocky guy brought down a notch. · "do you think that there is anything in the in cocktail that can't be gotten from Top Gun?"
[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 · Captain America: The First Avenger · 1:13:38 · unknown (0.35)] Sebastian Stan ↔ Top Gun · contrast · The Goose-and-Maverick sort of friendship is what is missing between Steve and Bucky. · "You want to be Goose and Top Gun."
[Blank Check · Starman · 0:35:07 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Tony Scott ↔ Top Gun · career · Tony Scott was attached to Starman right before Top Gun. · "And this is right before Top Gun."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Tombstone’ · 0:49:18 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] Val Kilmer ↔ Top Gun · career · Proposed apex: out of Top Gun, people thought he was neck and neck with Cruise. · "I would imagine that Top Gun is his Apex Mountain"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Fletch’ · 1:03:04 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Harold Faltermeyer ↔ Top Gun · people · Faltermeyer scored Beverly Hills Cop then Fletch; the sky is the limit after, literally with Top Gun. · "So he's got cop and then this movie."
[The Rewatchables · ‘After Hours’ · 0:35:10 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Rosanna Arquette ↔ Top Gun · what-if · Fennessey says she could have been Kelly McGillis in Top Gun, any lead from 86 to 93. · "I feel like she could have been Kelly McGillis in Top Gun."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ · 1:11:43 · Wesley Morris (0.50)] Top Gun ↔ Eddie Murphy · what-if · Asked which 80s movie they wish Eddie had starred in, the answer is Top Gun, though everything changes if he does. · "everything changes if Eddie Murphy's the star of Top Gun, right?"

Films put beside it more than once (4)

[pairs] Top Gun ↔ Cocktail · said 3 times in 3 episodes
[pairs] Top Gun ↔ Top Gun: Maverick · said 2 times in 2 episodes
[pairs] Top Gun ↔ Days of Thunder · said 2 times in 2 episodes
[pairs] Top Gun ↔ The Color of Money · said 2 times in 2 episodes

Fun items about it (2)

[The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 0:19:49 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Top Gun · fun · The original volleyball scene has 58 Cruises in jeans lofting over the net. · "It's just also a lot of guys wearing jeans, which is just so insane."
[The Big Picture · 8. I Love America | Do We Get to Win This Time? · 1:09:43 · Brian Raftery (0.90)] Top Gun · fun · Episode correction: Cruise was a Navy pilot, not Air Force, and Risky Business was 1983. · "In that film, he was a Navy pilot."

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

[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 · '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."
[Blank Check · The Color of Money · 0:13:06 · unknown (0.30)] The Hustler ⇒ The Color of Money (the host's read) · lineage · The Color of Money is the sequel to The Hustler, but built from a new script that keeps only the title of the Tevis sequel novel. · "Even when they start developing scripts and go, like, throw all that out, start fresh, they kept writing in parts from Minnesota fats."
[The Big Picture · 300th Episode Ask-Us-Anything Mailbag Spectacular · 0:58:13 · Sean Fennessey (0.55)] Top Gun: Maverick ↔ Sean Fennessey · programming · Top Gun: Maverick is the communal 'hell yeah' experience Sean misses. · "It's kind of dumb."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop II’ · 0:10:45 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Beverly Hills Cop II ↔ Police Academy 4 · lineage · Cop II was the only sequel in the 1987 domestic top 20-25; the next was Police Academy 4 at 44th. · "This is the only sequel in the top 20, top 25, where it's not until Police Academy 4, which was the 44th biggest movie that year."
[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."
[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."
[Blank Check · The Color of Money · 0:20:34 · David Sims (0.55)] The Color of Money ↔ Return to Oz · lineage · Reddit consensus calls Color of Money the first legacy sequel, with Return to Oz as a debated earlier candidate dismissed as too weird. · "Uh, color money is generally agreed to on to be the 1st legacy sequel. Some people are like, does return to Oz count?"
[Blank Check · The Color of Money · 1:07:05 · David Sims (0.40)] The Color of Money ⇒ Top Gun: Maverick (the host's read) · lineage · Gap-based legacy sequels like Top Gun Maverick, Tron Legacy and Blade Runner follow the template Color of Money invented, though in 1986 sequels were derided. · "now we get more and more like your your Tron legacies and your Top Gun Mavericks, where it's just casually... 37, 40 years later"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop II’ · 0:13:20 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Beverly Hills Cop II ↔ Ferris Bueller's Day Off · lineage · The studio floated a TV series version like what happened with Ferris Bueller. · "they were talking about making it into a TV show, which was kind of like the way Ferris Bueller went and stuff like that."
[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."
[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 · 0:20:55 · unknown (0.30)] The Color of Money ↔ Dawn of the Dead · lineage · Another early sequel candidate that shares no characters, just a long gap and iconography. · "Dawn of the Dead kind of counts because it was a long, like, weight. between movies that like they don't have the same characters."
[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 · ‘Beverly Hills Cop II’ · 1:05:28 · Craig Horlbeck (0.80)] Beverly Hills Cop II ↔ Austin Powers · lineage · Craig is unsure whether the sequel is better than the first, like Austin Powers. · "I don't know if the 2nd one's better than the first, like Austin Powers, but I enjoyed it very much."
[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."
[Blank Check · The Color of Money · 1:06:13 · unknown (0.30)] The Color of Money ↔ Rocky II · lineage · The original Tevis-based script, a two-hander with Fats in Florida, would have been more by-the-book, like Rocky II or Creed II. · "It's more going by the book, right? It's like Rocky 2."
[The Big Picture · The Tom Cruise Hall of Fame · 1:10:40 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Top Gun: Maverick ↔ The Color of Money · lineage · Top Gun: Maverick is doing the Eddie Felson-style return of an older character. · "Obviously, he's doing that with Top Gun right now."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Fletch’ · 1:11:17 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Beverly Hills Cop II ↔ Fletch Lives · lineage · Chris cites Beverly Hills Cop 2 as a sequel better than its original; Fletch Lives joins 48 Hrs 2, Godfather 3 and Caddy Shack 2 as disappointing late-80s sequels. · "a really good example is Beverly Hills Cop 2, which is better than Beverly Hills Cop one."
[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"
[Blank Check · The Color of Money · 1:07:05 · David Sims (0.40)] The Color of Money ⇒ Top Gun: Maverick (the host's read) · lineage · Gap-based legacy sequels like Top Gun Maverick, Tron Legacy and Blade Runner follow the template Color of Money invented, though in 1986 sequels were derided. · "now we get more and more like your your Tron legacies and your Top Gun Mavericks, where it's just casually... 37, 40 years later"

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] 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] Brian Raftery · latest sketch, The Big Picture · 5. ‘No Country for Old Men’ and ‘W.’ | Mission Accomplished · Loves slow-burn tension and scenes built on dialogue, naming the Ellis kitchen scene the best of the 2000s. Is drawn to films that capture their national moment. Has little patience for the word classic, and dry humor about presidents and haircuts. · stances: No Country for Old Men is about inevitability and powerlessness; Its 2007 release resonated with Bush-era anxiety; W. was undone by timing, not quality; Stone's late-2000s movies are best read through the decade's politics
[speaker] Griffin Newman · latest sketch, Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · Calls Last Temptation his college-era favorite Scorsese; loves Scorsese's smaller 80s and the film's closing transcendence and Gabriel score. Cannot stand fundamentalist outrage at it. A sucker for casting trivia and Tom Cruise-silliness. · stances: Hot take: Last Temptation structurally mirrors New York, New York as a better version; Outrage over the film is stupid; it is respectful to Jesus; Scorsese's smaller 80s work beats his later baroque phases

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

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You are a clerk at Video Culture, a video store. A customer just finished Top Gun (1986) 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 Top Gun (1986) 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 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 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 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 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"
[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 · ‘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 · ‘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 Big Picture · 8. I Love America | Do We Get to Win This Time? · 0:21:31 · Oliver Stone (0.90)] Top Gun ↔ Born on the Fourth of July · contrast · Stone worried Cruise, coming off jingoistic Top Gun, was wrong for Kovic. · "I was worried because, one, he was a movie star and he was coming off Top Gun, which was the opposite kind of jingoistic message."
[The Big Picture · 8. I Love America | Do We Get to Win This Time? · 0:21:03 · Brian Raftery (0.90)] Risky Business ↔ Top Gun · career · Cruise broke out in Risky Business; Top Gun made him a go-to star, setting up the casting of Born. · "But the film that made Cruz, the go-to wingman for millions of movie fans was Top Gun."
[The Big Picture · The Tom Cruise Hall of Fame · 0:45:12 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Top Gun ↔ The Color of Money · career · In the 80s and 90s Cruise paired a blockbuster with a critical film in the same year. · "Top Gun and Color Monster."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop II’ · 0:13:34 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Beverly Hills Cop II ↔ Top Gun · people · Tony Scott came to Cop II fresh off Top Gun, the biggest movie of 1986. · "Tony Scott has Top Gun, which is, you know, the biggest movie of 1986, basically."
[The Rewatchables · 'Mission: Impossible' · 0:11:47 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Mission: Impossible ↔ Top Gun · people · Cruise's magic-trick moment with Jean Reno carries Top Gun-era brashness. · "a little bit of like the Tom, Top Gun brashness."
[The Rewatchables · ‘F1’ · 0:45:10 · Bill Simmons (0.40)] F1 ↔ Top Gun · verdict · Ebert's racing reviews imply a three-star F1, floor set by the filmmaking. · "Roger would have given this 3 stars, too long racing scene's incredible."
[Blank Check · The Color of Money · 1:15:47 · unknown (0.35)] The Color of Money ↔ Top Gun · production overlap · Cruise shot Top Gun first, then this, then did Top Gun reshoots (shower scene, shadowy love scene) because his hair had grown out. · "he shoots Top Gun first, then shoots this, and then has to go back and do reshoots for Top Gun."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Color of Money’ · 1:16:00 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Top Gun ↔ Cocktail · Cruise sing-along · In the best Tom Cruise singing-along category, Top Gun, Cocktail, Risky Business, Jerry Maguire and this film compete; Top Gun wins as camp and 80s. · "Top Gun probably wins because it's a whole scene and it's Anthony Edwards and It's out of control, campy"
[The Big Picture · The Tom Cruise Hall of Fame · 0:51:59 · Amanda Dobbins (0.40)] Legend ↔ Top Gun · sentimental pick · Legend is a weak film kept for sentiment, not argued over Top Gun. · "You're not going to try to like make the case for legend over, say, Top Gun."
[The Big Picture · The Tom Cruise Hall of Fame · 0:54:40 · Amanda Dobbins (0.40)] Top Gun ↔ Cocktail · duplicate role · Cocktail is questioned as duplicative of Top Gun: the cocky guy brought down a notch. · "do you think that there is anything in the in cocktail that can't be gotten from Top Gun?"
[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 · Captain America: The First Avenger · 1:13:38 · unknown (0.35)] Sebastian Stan ↔ Top Gun · contrast · The Goose-and-Maverick sort of friendship is what is missing between Steve and Bucky. · "You want to be Goose and Top Gun."
[Blank Check · Starman · 0:35:07 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Tony Scott ↔ Top Gun · career · Tony Scott was attached to Starman right before Top Gun. · "And this is right before Top Gun."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Tombstone’ · 0:49:18 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] Val Kilmer ↔ Top Gun · career · Proposed apex: out of Top Gun, people thought he was neck and neck with Cruise. · "I would imagine that Top Gun is his Apex Mountain"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Fletch’ · 1:03:04 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Harold Faltermeyer ↔ Top Gun · people · Faltermeyer scored Beverly Hills Cop then Fletch; the sky is the limit after, literally with Top Gun. · "So he's got cop and then this movie."
[The Rewatchables · ‘After Hours’ · 0:35:10 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Rosanna Arquette ↔ Top Gun · what-if · Fennessey says she could have been Kelly McGillis in Top Gun, any lead from 86 to 93. · "I feel like she could have been Kelly McGillis in Top Gun."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ · 1:11:43 · Wesley Morris (0.50)] Top Gun ↔ Eddie Murphy · what-if · Asked which 80s movie they wish Eddie had starred in, the answer is Top Gun, though everything changes if he does. · "everything changes if Eddie Murphy's the star of Top Gun, right?"
[pairs] Top Gun ↔ Cocktail · said 3 times in 3 episodes
[pairs] Top Gun ↔ Top Gun: Maverick · said 2 times in 2 episodes
[pairs] Top Gun ↔ Days of Thunder · said 2 times in 2 episodes
[pairs] Top Gun ↔ The Color of Money · said 2 times in 2 episodes
[The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 0:19:49 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Top Gun · fun · The original volleyball scene has 58 Cruises in jeans lofting over the net. · "It's just also a lot of guys wearing jeans, which is just so insane."
[The Big Picture · 8. I Love America | Do We Get to Win This Time? · 1:09:43 · Brian Raftery (0.90)] Top Gun · fun · Episode correction: Cruise was a Navy pilot, not Air Force, and Risky Business was 1983. · "In that film, he was a Navy pilot."
[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 · '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."
[Blank Check · The Color of Money · 0:13:06 · unknown (0.30)] The Hustler ⇒ The Color of Money (the host's read) · lineage · The Color of Money is the sequel to The Hustler, but built from a new script that keeps only the title of the Tevis sequel novel. · "Even when they start developing scripts and go, like, throw all that out, start fresh, they kept writing in parts from Minnesota fats."
[The Big Picture · 300th Episode Ask-Us-Anything Mailbag Spectacular · 0:58:13 · Sean Fennessey (0.55)] Top Gun: Maverick ↔ Sean Fennessey · programming · Top Gun: Maverick is the communal 'hell yeah' experience Sean misses. · "It's kind of dumb."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop II’ · 0:10:45 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Beverly Hills Cop II ↔ Police Academy 4 · lineage · Cop II was the only sequel in the 1987 domestic top 20-25; the next was Police Academy 4 at 44th. · "This is the only sequel in the top 20, top 25, where it's not until Police Academy 4, which was the 44th biggest movie that year."
[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."
[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."
[Blank Check · The Color of Money · 0:20:34 · David Sims (0.55)] The Color of Money ↔ Return to Oz · lineage · Reddit consensus calls Color of Money the first legacy sequel, with Return to Oz as a debated earlier candidate dismissed as too weird. · "Uh, color money is generally agreed to on to be the 1st legacy sequel. Some people are like, does return to Oz count?"
[Blank Check · The Color of Money · 1:07:05 · David Sims (0.40)] The Color of Money ⇒ Top Gun: Maverick (the host's read) · lineage · Gap-based legacy sequels like Top Gun Maverick, Tron Legacy and Blade Runner follow the template Color of Money invented, though in 1986 sequels were derided. · "now we get more and more like your your Tron legacies and your Top Gun Mavericks, where it's just casually... 37, 40 years later"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop II’ · 0:13:20 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Beverly Hills Cop II ↔ Ferris Bueller's Day Off · lineage · The studio floated a TV series version like what happened with Ferris Bueller. · "they were talking about making it into a TV show, which was kind of like the way Ferris Bueller went and stuff like that."
[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."
[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 · 0:20:55 · unknown (0.30)] The Color of Money ↔ Dawn of the Dead · lineage · Another early sequel candidate that shares no characters, just a long gap and iconography. · "Dawn of the Dead kind of counts because it was a long, like, weight. between movies that like they don't have the same characters."
[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 · ‘Beverly Hills Cop II’ · 1:05:28 · Craig Horlbeck (0.80)] Beverly Hills Cop II ↔ Austin Powers · lineage · Craig is unsure whether the sequel is better than the first, like Austin Powers. · "I don't know if the 2nd one's better than the first, like Austin Powers, but I enjoyed it very much."
[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."
[Blank Check · The Color of Money · 1:06:13 · unknown (0.30)] The Color of Money ↔ Rocky II · lineage · The original Tevis-based script, a two-hander with Fats in Florida, would have been more by-the-book, like Rocky II or Creed II. · "It's more going by the book, right? It's like Rocky 2."
[The Big Picture · The Tom Cruise Hall of Fame · 1:10:40 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Top Gun: Maverick ↔ The Color of Money · lineage · Top Gun: Maverick is doing the Eddie Felson-style return of an older character. · "Obviously, he's doing that with Top Gun right now."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Fletch’ · 1:11:17 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Beverly Hills Cop II ↔ Fletch Lives · lineage · Chris cites Beverly Hills Cop 2 as a sequel better than its original; Fletch Lives joins 48 Hrs 2, Godfather 3 and Caddy Shack 2 as disappointing late-80s sequels. · "a really good example is Beverly Hills Cop 2, which is better than Beverly Hills Cop one."
[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"
[Blank Check · The Color of Money · 1:07:05 · David Sims (0.40)] The Color of Money ⇒ Top Gun: Maverick (the host's read) · lineage · Gap-based legacy sequels like Top Gun Maverick, Tron Legacy and Blade Runner follow the template Color of Money invented, though in 1986 sequels were derided. · "now we get more and more like your your Tron legacies and your Top Gun Mavericks, where it's just casually... 37, 40 years later"
[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] 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] Brian Raftery · latest sketch, The Big Picture · 5. ‘No Country for Old Men’ and ‘W.’ | Mission Accomplished · Loves slow-burn tension and scenes built on dialogue, naming the Ellis kitchen scene the best of the 2000s. Is drawn to films that capture their national moment. Has little patience for the word classic, and dry humor about presidents and haircuts. · stances: No Country for Old Men is about inevitability and powerlessness; Its 2007 release resonated with Bush-era anxiety; W. was undone by timing, not quality; Stone's late-2000s movies are best read through the decade's politics
[speaker] Griffin Newman · latest sketch, Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · Calls Last Temptation his college-era favorite Scorsese; loves Scorsese's smaller 80s and the film's closing transcendence and Gabriel score. Cannot stand fundamentalist outrage at it. A sucker for casting trivia and Tom Cruise-silliness. · stances: Hot take: Last Temptation structurally mirrors New York, New York as a better version; Outrage over the film is stupid; it is respectful to Jesus; Scorsese's smaller 80s work beats his later baroque phases
[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 Top Gun (1986); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Top Gun (1986) 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.