What the corpus says about Edge of Tomorrow (2014)

The 58 lines php artisan corpus:ask hands a model, in the order it gets them, and nothing else. The model writes a clerk's answer from these and only these.

What was said about it (26)

[Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 1:05:18 · Ben Hosley (0.40)] Edge of Tomorrow ↔ RoboCop · programming · The hosts recorded a RoboCop commentary in the slot where Edge was originally scheduled, and the opening news montage reminds them of RoboCop's. · "I mean, we just saw it with like Robocop."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 1:40:54 · David Sims (0.50)] Edge of Tomorrow ↔ X-Men: Days of Future Past · programming · On the opening weekend chart, Edge opened third behind Fault in Our Stars and Maleficent; X-Men DoFP was still fourth. · "Edge of Tomorrow is number three."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 0:11:26 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Groundhog Day ⇒ Edge of Tomorrow (the host's read) · lineage · The pitch is Groundhog Day as sci-fi action, and it keeps the loop while adding war stakes. · "Doug Lyman is doing like an sci-fi action movie groundhog day with Tom Cruise"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 0:40:05 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Edge of Tomorrow ↔ Groundhog Day · theme · Both are about depression and being stuck; Edge adds the stakes that you keep dying, and it stays hopeful. · "Groundhog Day, I would say is also like about depression."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 0:29:59 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Edge of Tomorrow ↔ Lady in the Water · craft · The mimics look like the scrunts from Lady in the Water, with tendrils. · "They look kind of like scrunts from Lady in the Water"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 0:31:17 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Edge of Tomorrow ↔ The Matrix · craft · The mimics recall the Matrix Sentinels but do not feel derivative. · "There's a little bit of the Matrix Sentinel."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 0:34:19 · David Sims (0.40)] Edge of Tomorrow ↔ Ghostbusters · craft · The Noah Taylor briefing carries the same 'I'm not sure, it might end the world' flavor as Ghostbusters' cross the streams. · "The Ghostbusters thing of like what happens if we cross the streams."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 0:50:43 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Edge of Tomorrow ↔ Raiders of the Lost Ark · craft · The black blood burning through Cage's face in his first death is 'end of Raiders shit'. · "like end of Raiders shit."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 1:12:38 · David Sims (0.50)] Edge of Tomorrow ↔ Mission: Impossible III · craft · Casting Brendan Gleeson parallels Philip Seymour Hoffman in MI3: the best foil for Cruise comes from a different acting discipline. · "like casting Philip Seymour Hoffman in Mission Impossible 3"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 1:25:57 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Edge of Tomorrow ↔ Groundhog Day · craft · The choreography of the repeated day (dodging people, counting it off) is what Groundhog Day does. · "It's what Grandhog Day does."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 1:35:37 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Edge of Tomorrow ↔ Monsters, Inc. · craft · The ambiguous final beat mirrors Monsters Inc.: you want to know he goes back to her but no more definitive answer. · "the perfect ending because it's like the Monsters Inc. ending"
[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."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 1:36:44 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Edge of Tomorrow ↔ The Bourne Identity · craft · The end-credits pop song sounds like the Moby song Bourne ends with. · "it sort of sounds like the Moby song that Bourne ends with"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Vanilla Sky · 0:45:26 · unknown (0.40)] Edge of Tomorrow ↔ Vanilla Sky · craft · Edge of Tomorrow almost threads the needle of an idiosyncratic filmmaker doing a big genre movie. · "almost threads the needle of what we're talking about."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 0:17:57 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Edge of Tomorrow ↔ Boyhood · contrast · The speaker ranks Edge over Boyhood, which is respectable. · "I like this more than boyhood, but boyhood is respectable."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 0:20:52 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Edge of Tomorrow ↔ Cocktail · contrast · Unlike Cocktail or The Color of Money, Cruise's character does not have all the moves; he has to learn them. · "It's not cocktail, it's not color money."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 0:20:55 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Edge of Tomorrow ↔ The Color of Money · contrast · Same point: the earlier Cruise plays the guy who has the moves; Edge has him work for them. · "not this guy has all the moves."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 0:29:02 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Edge of Tomorrow ↔ Battleship · contrast · Most 2010s movie aliens were CGI things in an armored suit like Battleship. · "It was the battleship thing"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 0:29:10 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Edge of Tomorrow ↔ Arrival · contrast · Edge and Arrival were the two 2010s alien movies that finally went non-humanoid. · "this and arrival were the 2 that were like, what if it's not humanoid at all?"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 0:29:28 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Edge of Tomorrow ↔ The Tomorrow War · contrast · Tomorrow War has half a good alien design, like a fleshy version of Edge's. · "it kind of felt like it was just like a fleshy version of this"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 0:30:19 · David Sims (0.40)] Edge of Tomorrow ↔ District 9 · contrast · District 9 is good alien design but traditional: bugs. · "I guess district 9 is good alien design."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 0:30:37 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Edge of Tomorrow ↔ Cowboys & Aliens · contrast · Cowboys & Aliens has entirely CGI aliens still designed as if putting a suit on a person. · "Like Cowboys and Aliens has the same problem"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 0:35:06 · David Sims (0.50)] Edge of Tomorrow ↔ Groundhog Day · contrast · Groundhog Day's loop is unexplained and mystical (a witch after a bad date); Edge gives a rule-based answer, the aliens' reset ability as competitive advantage. · "the wise decision that Groundhog Day was supposed to be like a witch curses him after a bad date."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 0:35:28 · David Sims (0.50)] Edge of Tomorrow ↔ Big · contrast · Time-loop and magic movies like Big refuse to explain the magic (a fortune-teller machine); Edge justifies its premise. · "Usually it's better to not explain these things."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 0:40:20 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Edge of Tomorrow ↔ Groundhog Day · contrast · Groundhog Day hits an inflection point where Bill Murray tries suicide and then just lives through it; Edge is about repeated violent deaths and the hope of advancing. · "Groundhog Day hits the inflection point about halfway through where he's like, let me kill myself."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 0:56:35 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Edge of Tomorrow ↔ Oblivion · contrast · Oblivion is sad and quiet; Edge gets the humor Oblivion needed. · "I think that movie needs more humor."

Films put beside it more than once (5)

[pairs] Edge of Tomorrow ↔ Groundhog Day · said 5 times in 1 episode
[pairs] Edge of Tomorrow ↔ Mission: Impossible – Fallout · said 3 times in 2 episodes
[pairs] Edge of Tomorrow ↔ Oblivion · said 2 times in 1 episode
[pairs] Edge of Tomorrow ↔ Vanilla Sky · said 2 times in 1 episode
[pairs] Edge of Tomorrow ↔ Mr. & Mrs. Smith · said 2 times in 1 episode

Fun items about it (6)

[Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 0:19:33 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Edge of Tomorrow · fun · The title fight: announced as All You Need Is Kill, retitled with 'Live Die Repeat' as a tagline on a badly laid out poster; on home video they flipped them. · "they flipped them because their takeaway from the confusion was"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 0:26:08 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Edge of Tomorrow · fun · The Blank Check joke: the show's own scheduling was a time loop, as the episode was pushed three times. · "The day would reset and you'd be like, next week we are recording edge of tomorrow."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 0:32:27 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Edge of Tomorrow · fun · Exposition lands at literally minute 40: Noah Taylor's briefing, timed by a host's time-code check. · "I just did the time code check."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 0:50:56 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Edge of Tomorrow · fun · Cage dies in a close-up of his face melting with black blood, and the audience reacts because Tom Cruise doesn't fail. · "Tom Cruise doesn't fail."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 1:00:57 · Ben Hosley (0.40)] Edge of Tomorrow · fun · On day two, Liman said they had to reshoot everything; the studio nearly fired him and Cruise backed him. · "Lyman was like, we have to reshoot everything we shot."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 1:01:56 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Edge of Tomorrow · fun · The practical exosuits weighed 80 to 100 pounds; Liman called making them practical the stupidest thing they did, yet they look great. · "the stupidest thing we ever did was make those practical"

One hop out: what recommends the films most often joined to it (16)

[The Rewatchables · ‘My Cousin Vinny’ · 0:50:19 · Wesley Morris (0.40)] My Cousin Vinny ↔ Groundhog Day · theme · The whole town seems to attend the trial each day. · "Groundhog Day is a thing that came out for me watching this too."
[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 · ‘The War of the Roses’ · 1:32:43 · unknown (0.30)] The War of the Roses ↔ Mr. & Mrs. Smith · programming · Mr. & Mrs. Smith is the lighter double feature since the couple also wreck the house but it works out. · "Because they tear up the house in the same way, but then it kind of works out, at least in the movie."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Iron Man 3 · 2:24:42 · unknown (0.30)] Oblivion ↔ Iron Man 3 · programming · Oblivion released the same spring (Cruise sci-fi) and made 70% worldwide. · "Oblivion, a Joseph Konsinski film."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Vanilla Sky · 0:51:56 · unknown (0.40)] Vanilla Sky ↔ Stargate · programming · Running joke: Ben's favorite movie Stargate was the first film with a website. · "The 1st movie, the 1st website was for Ben Hosley's favorite movie, Stargate."
[The Big Picture · Oscars 2019: Instant Reactions to ‘Green Book’ and the Two Warring Academies | The Oscars Show · 0:53:41 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] Alfonso Cuaron ↔ Groundhog Day · theme · Cuarón's repeated thanks to the same Roma actors in each speech is compared to the alarm clock in Groundhog Day. · "it was that sort of the alarm clock going off in Groundhog Day."
[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."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Vanilla Sky · 1:45:35 · unknown (0.40)] The Royal Tenenbaums ↔ Vanilla Sky · programming · Tenenbaums opened the same week as Vanilla Sky in 5 theaters and averaged $55,000. · "Tenenbaums comes out that very week on 5 theaters and it grosses $276,000"
[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 Big Picture · The Tom Cruise Hall of Fame · 1:09:45 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Open Your Eyes ⇒ Vanilla Sky (the host's read) · lineage · Cruise adapted Abre los Ojos into Vanilla Sky, a bold move he does not make today. · "adapted Aubrey Los Ojos into Vanilla Sky"
[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."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Vanilla Sky · 0:18:08 · unknown (0.40)] Almost Famous ↔ Vanilla Sky · lineage · Almost Famous is the bridge: already more precious and less realistic than Jerry Maguire, before it tips over here. · "it's a definite bridge because, yes, it is more precious than Jerry Maguire."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Vanilla Sky · 0:26:51 · David Sims (0.60)] Abre los ojos (Open Your Eyes) ⇒ Vanilla Sky (the host's read) · lineage · Vanilla Sky is nearly the same story as the Spanish original, except the hero is a magazine magnate friends with Spielberg. · "So the film is actually pretty much exactly the same as Abri Lozojos, except for the main character of that movie is not a magazine magnate who's friends with Steven Spielberg."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Vanilla Sky · 0:31:50 · David Sims (0.45)] Abre los ojos (Open Your Eyes) ⇒ Vanilla Sky (the host's read) · lineage · The Spanish film has the same beats, and the protagonist's face looks even worse in it. · "But it's like the movie's beats are exactly the same down to the, you know, crucial moment of him like lying in the gut."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Vanilla Sky · 0:43:10 · unknown (0.40)] Vanilla Sky ↔ Jerry Maguire · lineage · Vanilla Sky is likened to Jerry Maguire escaping a Frankenstein experiment before it was finished. · "this movie is like Jerry Maguire, like, got out of some sort of like Frankenstein monster experiment before he was finished"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Vanilla Sky · 0:43:19 · unknown (0.35)] Vanilla Sky ↔ Jerry Maguire · lineage · A deformed Jerry Maguire. · "Well, it's like a deformed Jerry Maguire."

Who said it, by their latest sketch (3)

[speaker] Griffin Newman · latest sketch, Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · Calls Last Temptation his college-era favorite Scorsese; loves Scorsese's smaller 80s and the film's closing transcendence and Gabriel score. Cannot stand fundamentalist outrage at it. A sucker for casting trivia and Tom Cruise-silliness. · stances: Hot take: Last Temptation structurally mirrors New York, New York as a better version; Outrage over the film is stupid; it is respectful to Jesus; Scorsese's smaller 80s work beats his later baroque phases
[speaker] 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] Ben Hosley · latest sketch, Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · Producer who occasionally talks; admits no religious background, has a Catholic mother's family, and cannot see the Bible as part of culture. · stances: Left out of Bible culture; Wants a clear demarcation between a bed and a deathbed

The shows' running bits (2)

[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] 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 Edge of Tomorrow (2014) 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 Edge of Tomorrow (2014) and the films around it, one line each. Every line starts with where it came from, in brackets: [show · episode · time · speaker (how sure we are it was them)]. A [pairs] line says how often two films were put side by side. A [speaker] line says what that person likes. A [bits] line lists a show's running bits: a format, not an opinion.

[Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 1:05:18 · Ben Hosley (0.40)] Edge of Tomorrow ↔ RoboCop · programming · The hosts recorded a RoboCop commentary in the slot where Edge was originally scheduled, and the opening news montage reminds them of RoboCop's. · "I mean, we just saw it with like Robocop."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 1:40:54 · David Sims (0.50)] Edge of Tomorrow ↔ X-Men: Days of Future Past · programming · On the opening weekend chart, Edge opened third behind Fault in Our Stars and Maleficent; X-Men DoFP was still fourth. · "Edge of Tomorrow is number three."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 0:11:26 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Groundhog Day ⇒ Edge of Tomorrow (the host's read) · lineage · The pitch is Groundhog Day as sci-fi action, and it keeps the loop while adding war stakes. · "Doug Lyman is doing like an sci-fi action movie groundhog day with Tom Cruise"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 0:40:05 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Edge of Tomorrow ↔ Groundhog Day · theme · Both are about depression and being stuck; Edge adds the stakes that you keep dying, and it stays hopeful. · "Groundhog Day, I would say is also like about depression."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 0:29:59 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Edge of Tomorrow ↔ Lady in the Water · craft · The mimics look like the scrunts from Lady in the Water, with tendrils. · "They look kind of like scrunts from Lady in the Water"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 0:31:17 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Edge of Tomorrow ↔ The Matrix · craft · The mimics recall the Matrix Sentinels but do not feel derivative. · "There's a little bit of the Matrix Sentinel."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 0:34:19 · David Sims (0.40)] Edge of Tomorrow ↔ Ghostbusters · craft · The Noah Taylor briefing carries the same 'I'm not sure, it might end the world' flavor as Ghostbusters' cross the streams. · "The Ghostbusters thing of like what happens if we cross the streams."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 0:50:43 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Edge of Tomorrow ↔ Raiders of the Lost Ark · craft · The black blood burning through Cage's face in his first death is 'end of Raiders shit'. · "like end of Raiders shit."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 1:12:38 · David Sims (0.50)] Edge of Tomorrow ↔ Mission: Impossible III · craft · Casting Brendan Gleeson parallels Philip Seymour Hoffman in MI3: the best foil for Cruise comes from a different acting discipline. · "like casting Philip Seymour Hoffman in Mission Impossible 3"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 1:25:57 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Edge of Tomorrow ↔ Groundhog Day · craft · The choreography of the repeated day (dodging people, counting it off) is what Groundhog Day does. · "It's what Grandhog Day does."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 1:35:37 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Edge of Tomorrow ↔ Monsters, Inc. · craft · The ambiguous final beat mirrors Monsters Inc.: you want to know he goes back to her but no more definitive answer. · "the perfect ending because it's like the Monsters Inc. ending"
[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."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 1:36:44 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Edge of Tomorrow ↔ The Bourne Identity · craft · The end-credits pop song sounds like the Moby song Bourne ends with. · "it sort of sounds like the Moby song that Bourne ends with"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Vanilla Sky · 0:45:26 · unknown (0.40)] Edge of Tomorrow ↔ Vanilla Sky · craft · Edge of Tomorrow almost threads the needle of an idiosyncratic filmmaker doing a big genre movie. · "almost threads the needle of what we're talking about."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 0:17:57 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Edge of Tomorrow ↔ Boyhood · contrast · The speaker ranks Edge over Boyhood, which is respectable. · "I like this more than boyhood, but boyhood is respectable."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 0:20:52 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Edge of Tomorrow ↔ Cocktail · contrast · Unlike Cocktail or The Color of Money, Cruise's character does not have all the moves; he has to learn them. · "It's not cocktail, it's not color money."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 0:20:55 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Edge of Tomorrow ↔ The Color of Money · contrast · Same point: the earlier Cruise plays the guy who has the moves; Edge has him work for them. · "not this guy has all the moves."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 0:29:02 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Edge of Tomorrow ↔ Battleship · contrast · Most 2010s movie aliens were CGI things in an armored suit like Battleship. · "It was the battleship thing"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 0:29:10 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Edge of Tomorrow ↔ Arrival · contrast · Edge and Arrival were the two 2010s alien movies that finally went non-humanoid. · "this and arrival were the 2 that were like, what if it's not humanoid at all?"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 0:29:28 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Edge of Tomorrow ↔ The Tomorrow War · contrast · Tomorrow War has half a good alien design, like a fleshy version of Edge's. · "it kind of felt like it was just like a fleshy version of this"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 0:30:19 · David Sims (0.40)] Edge of Tomorrow ↔ District 9 · contrast · District 9 is good alien design but traditional: bugs. · "I guess district 9 is good alien design."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 0:30:37 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Edge of Tomorrow ↔ Cowboys & Aliens · contrast · Cowboys & Aliens has entirely CGI aliens still designed as if putting a suit on a person. · "Like Cowboys and Aliens has the same problem"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 0:35:06 · David Sims (0.50)] Edge of Tomorrow ↔ Groundhog Day · contrast · Groundhog Day's loop is unexplained and mystical (a witch after a bad date); Edge gives a rule-based answer, the aliens' reset ability as competitive advantage. · "the wise decision that Groundhog Day was supposed to be like a witch curses him after a bad date."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 0:35:28 · David Sims (0.50)] Edge of Tomorrow ↔ Big · contrast · Time-loop and magic movies like Big refuse to explain the magic (a fortune-teller machine); Edge justifies its premise. · "Usually it's better to not explain these things."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 0:40:20 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Edge of Tomorrow ↔ Groundhog Day · contrast · Groundhog Day hits an inflection point where Bill Murray tries suicide and then just lives through it; Edge is about repeated violent deaths and the hope of advancing. · "Groundhog Day hits the inflection point about halfway through where he's like, let me kill myself."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 0:56:35 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Edge of Tomorrow ↔ Oblivion · contrast · Oblivion is sad and quiet; Edge gets the humor Oblivion needed. · "I think that movie needs more humor."
[pairs] Edge of Tomorrow ↔ Groundhog Day · said 5 times in 1 episode
[pairs] Edge of Tomorrow ↔ Mission: Impossible – Fallout · said 3 times in 2 episodes
[pairs] Edge of Tomorrow ↔ Oblivion · said 2 times in 1 episode
[pairs] Edge of Tomorrow ↔ Vanilla Sky · said 2 times in 1 episode
[pairs] Edge of Tomorrow ↔ Mr. & Mrs. Smith · said 2 times in 1 episode
[Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 0:19:33 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Edge of Tomorrow · fun · The title fight: announced as All You Need Is Kill, retitled with 'Live Die Repeat' as a tagline on a badly laid out poster; on home video they flipped them. · "they flipped them because their takeaway from the confusion was"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 0:26:08 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Edge of Tomorrow · fun · The Blank Check joke: the show's own scheduling was a time loop, as the episode was pushed three times. · "The day would reset and you'd be like, next week we are recording edge of tomorrow."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 0:32:27 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Edge of Tomorrow · fun · Exposition lands at literally minute 40: Noah Taylor's briefing, timed by a host's time-code check. · "I just did the time code check."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 0:50:56 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Edge of Tomorrow · fun · Cage dies in a close-up of his face melting with black blood, and the audience reacts because Tom Cruise doesn't fail. · "Tom Cruise doesn't fail."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 1:00:57 · Ben Hosley (0.40)] Edge of Tomorrow · fun · On day two, Liman said they had to reshoot everything; the studio nearly fired him and Cruise backed him. · "Lyman was like, we have to reshoot everything we shot."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 1:01:56 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Edge of Tomorrow · fun · The practical exosuits weighed 80 to 100 pounds; Liman called making them practical the stupidest thing they did, yet they look great. · "the stupidest thing we ever did was make those practical"
[The Rewatchables · ‘My Cousin Vinny’ · 0:50:19 · Wesley Morris (0.40)] My Cousin Vinny ↔ Groundhog Day · theme · The whole town seems to attend the trial each day. · "Groundhog Day is a thing that came out for me watching this too."
[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 · ‘The War of the Roses’ · 1:32:43 · unknown (0.30)] The War of the Roses ↔ Mr. & Mrs. Smith · programming · Mr. & Mrs. Smith is the lighter double feature since the couple also wreck the house but it works out. · "Because they tear up the house in the same way, but then it kind of works out, at least in the movie."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Iron Man 3 · 2:24:42 · unknown (0.30)] Oblivion ↔ Iron Man 3 · programming · Oblivion released the same spring (Cruise sci-fi) and made 70% worldwide. · "Oblivion, a Joseph Konsinski film."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Vanilla Sky · 0:51:56 · unknown (0.40)] Vanilla Sky ↔ Stargate · programming · Running joke: Ben's favorite movie Stargate was the first film with a website. · "The 1st movie, the 1st website was for Ben Hosley's favorite movie, Stargate."
[The Big Picture · Oscars 2019: Instant Reactions to ‘Green Book’ and the Two Warring Academies | The Oscars Show · 0:53:41 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] Alfonso Cuaron ↔ Groundhog Day · theme · Cuarón's repeated thanks to the same Roma actors in each speech is compared to the alarm clock in Groundhog Day. · "it was that sort of the alarm clock going off in Groundhog Day."
[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."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Vanilla Sky · 1:45:35 · unknown (0.40)] The Royal Tenenbaums ↔ Vanilla Sky · programming · Tenenbaums opened the same week as Vanilla Sky in 5 theaters and averaged $55,000. · "Tenenbaums comes out that very week on 5 theaters and it grosses $276,000"
[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 Big Picture · The Tom Cruise Hall of Fame · 1:09:45 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Open Your Eyes ⇒ Vanilla Sky (the host's read) · lineage · Cruise adapted Abre los Ojos into Vanilla Sky, a bold move he does not make today. · "adapted Aubrey Los Ojos into Vanilla Sky"
[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."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Vanilla Sky · 0:18:08 · unknown (0.40)] Almost Famous ↔ Vanilla Sky · lineage · Almost Famous is the bridge: already more precious and less realistic than Jerry Maguire, before it tips over here. · "it's a definite bridge because, yes, it is more precious than Jerry Maguire."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Vanilla Sky · 0:26:51 · David Sims (0.60)] Abre los ojos (Open Your Eyes) ⇒ Vanilla Sky (the host's read) · lineage · Vanilla Sky is nearly the same story as the Spanish original, except the hero is a magazine magnate friends with Spielberg. · "So the film is actually pretty much exactly the same as Abri Lozojos, except for the main character of that movie is not a magazine magnate who's friends with Steven Spielberg."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Vanilla Sky · 0:31:50 · David Sims (0.45)] Abre los ojos (Open Your Eyes) ⇒ Vanilla Sky (the host's read) · lineage · The Spanish film has the same beats, and the protagonist's face looks even worse in it. · "But it's like the movie's beats are exactly the same down to the, you know, crucial moment of him like lying in the gut."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Vanilla Sky · 0:43:10 · unknown (0.40)] Vanilla Sky ↔ Jerry Maguire · lineage · Vanilla Sky is likened to Jerry Maguire escaping a Frankenstein experiment before it was finished. · "this movie is like Jerry Maguire, like, got out of some sort of like Frankenstein monster experiment before he was finished"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Vanilla Sky · 0:43:19 · unknown (0.35)] Vanilla Sky ↔ Jerry Maguire · lineage · A deformed Jerry Maguire. · "Well, it's like a deformed Jerry Maguire."
[speaker] Griffin Newman · latest sketch, Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · Calls Last Temptation his college-era favorite Scorsese; loves Scorsese's smaller 80s and the film's closing transcendence and Gabriel score. Cannot stand fundamentalist outrage at it. A sucker for casting trivia and Tom Cruise-silliness. · stances: Hot take: Last Temptation structurally mirrors New York, New York as a better version; Outrage over the film is stupid; it is respectful to Jesus; Scorsese's smaller 80s work beats his later baroque phases
[speaker] 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] Ben Hosley · latest sketch, Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · Producer who occasionally talks; admits no religious background, has a Catholic mother's family, and cannot see the Bible as part of culture. · stances: Left out of Bible culture; Wants a clear demarcation between a bed and a deathbed
[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] 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 Edge of Tomorrow (2014); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Edge of Tomorrow (2014) 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.