What the corpus says about Mission: Impossible (1996)

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 (26)

  1. [The Rewatchables · ‘Twister’ · 0:08:38 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] Twister ↔ Mission: Impossible · programming · 1996 is when the studios locked in the early-May-to-July-4 summer blockbuster calendar: Twister, Mission: Impossible, The Rock, Eraser, Independence Day. · "So then you look at 96, May 10th, Twister."
  2. [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"
  3. [The Rewatchables · 'Mission: Impossible' · 0:18:47 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] The Fast and the Furious ⇒ Mission: Impossible (the host's read) · lineage · The modern MI films combine Bourne-style hand-to-hand combat with Fast and the Furious over-the-top action. · "the 2 biggest influences on Mission Impossible are born in the Fast and the Furious."
  4. [The Rewatchables · 'Mission: Impossible' · 0:24:41 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] Rififi ⇒ Mission: Impossible (the host's read) · lineage · The silent Langley vault heist echoes the Rififi heist where an alarm is triggered by sound. · "my favorite heist movies were Fifi, which has a heist uh, portion where they very similar, they drill through the roof and it's all in silence"
  5. [The Rewatchables · 'Mission: Impossible' · 0:29:57 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] Psycho ⇒ Mission: Impossible (the host's read) · lineage · Killing off Kristin Scott Thomas's star-billed character early mirrors Psycho killing Janet Leigh. · "it's completely Hitchcocky and it's killing Janet Lee after 40 minutes."
  6. [The Rewatchables · 'Mission: Impossible' · 0:46:08 · Chris Ryan (0.30)] Mission: Impossible ↔ Jaws · lineage · A political awards category was suggested, recalling a Jaws episode on Amity's campaign. · "between this and you outlining Quince campaign in Amity for the Jaws rewatchables, we should have some sort of political category here."
  7. [The Rewatchables · 'Mission: Impossible' · 0:49:53 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Topkapi ⇒ Mission: Impossible (the host's read) · lineage · Langley heist is an homage to the Jules Dassin heist classics Topkapi and Rififi. · "the Langley heist is an homage to the Jewel Statsen classics of uh, top copy and uh, Rafifi."
  8. [The Rewatchables · 'Mission: Impossible' · 1:06:25 · Jason Concepcion (0.40)] The Lady Vanishes ⇒ Mission: Impossible (the host's read) · lineage · The European mystery shades of the film recall The Lady Vanishes and Shadow of a Doubt. · "Lady Vanishes or, or, uh, even like Shadow of a Doubt in some respects"
  9. [The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 1:31:15 · unknown (0.40)] Darkman ↔ Mission: Impossible · lineage · Darkman's face-mask conceit looks like Mission Impossible. · "so like Mission Impossible."
  10. [The Rewatchables · 'Mission: Impossible' · 0:06:19 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Mission: Impossible ↔ The Big Sleep · theme · The movie's plot is as confusing and written-on-the-fly as The Big Sleep. · "This is like the big sleep again, man, where they're like, I don't know if this movie actually makes any sense"
  11. [The Rewatchables · 'Mission: Impossible' · 0:25:07 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] Mission: Impossible ↔ The Departed · theme · The rat in the air duct at Langley recalls The Departed's final shot, the hunt for a betraying rat. · "the rat in the air air duct in Langley, like a little bit of like the departed final shot"
  12. [The Rewatchables · 'Mission: Impossible' · 0:38:37 · Jason Concepcion (0.40)] Mission: Impossible ↔ The Rock · theme · Phelps's complaint about being farmed out matches Ed Harris's line in The Rock, a post-Desert Storm military-grievance theme. · "this is also the same year that the rock came out and that's the same line that Ed Harris has in the at the end of the rock."
  13. [The Rewatchables · 'Mission: Impossible' · 0:54:28 · Sean Fennessey (0.30)] Mission: Impossible ↔ Tropic Thunder · theme · Joked that Cruise's transformation as an old senator deserved the praise given to Tropic Thunder. · "Why were we so praiseworthy of Tom Cruise's performance? His transformation in Tropic Thunder?"
  14. [The Rewatchables · 'Mission: Impossible' · 0:10:30 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Mission: Impossible ↔ Marathon Man · craft · Most of the film feels like a Bond or Hitchcock movie or the Roy Scheider parts of Marathon Man. · "most of this movie feels like a Bond movie or a Hitchcock movie or maybe the Roy Scheider parts of Marathon Man."
  15. [The Rewatchables · 'Mission: Impossible' · 0:31:37 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Mission: Impossible ↔ Villeneuve films (Denis Villeneuve) · contrast · Unlike a Villeneuve film, De Palma's stylish movie is also fun and funny. · "Typically you get a Villeneuve movie and you're like, 0 man. Wow, this is so mind blowing, but like you never laugh once during the entire movie."
  16. [The Rewatchables · 'Mission: Impossible' · 1:03:35 · Jason Concepcion (0.30)] Mission: Impossible ↔ Fantastic Four · contrast · The chaotic, improvised making of MI is now only a cautionary tale like Fantastic Four or a fired Star Wars director. · "fantastic 4 is a tragic comedy and now no one will ever work again with that because everything's so formulaic."
  17. [The Big Picture · The Tom Cruise Hall of Fame · 0:38:18 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50)] A Few Good Men ↔ Mission: Impossible · career · Few Good Men shows the possibility and edge of Cruise that fades as he moves to Ethan Hunt. · "the edge of Tom Cruise characters kind of goes away as he moves towards Ethan Hunt."
  18. [The Big Picture · The Tom Cruise Hall of Fame · 0:45:17 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Mission: Impossible ↔ Jerry Maguire · career · The two 1996 films are the apex of Cruise's two-movies-a-year runs. · "the apex of that is Jeremy Maguire in Mission Impossible."
  19. [The Rewatchables · 'Mission: Impossible' · 0:08:44 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Mission: Impossible ↔ Body Double · people · Body Double puts De Palma's sexual obsessions on the surface; Mission: Impossible keeps them under it for a mass audience. · "body double is, like, right on the surface."
  20. [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."
  21. [The Rewatchables · 'Mission: Impossible' · 0:12:01 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Mission: Impossible ↔ Jerry Maguire · people · Cruise's anxiety and nervousness here echo Jerry Maguire. · "there's a little bit of the Jerry Maguire anxiety, nervousness."
  22. [The Rewatchables · 'Mission: Impossible' · 0:15:34 · Jason Concepcion (0.50)] Mission: Impossible ↔ Twister · people · Hollywood realized high-concept blockbusters like Twister did not need top stars, which hurt Cruise's leverage. · "there was a market inefficiency in not casting stars in blockbusters."
  23. [The Rewatchables · 'Mission: Impossible' · 0:23:42 · Jason Concepcion (0.40)] Mission: Impossible ↔ Aliens · people · Cruise's panicked 'they knew we were coming' on the phone is compared to Bill Paxton in Aliens. · "He's like fucking Bill Paxton and aliens in this scene."
  24. [The Rewatchables · 'Mission: Impossible' · 0:42:27 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Mission: Impossible ↔ French Kiss · people · Reno also appears in 1995's French Kiss with Kevin Kline and Meg Ryan. · "a film from 1995 called French Kiss, starring Kevin Klein and Meg Ryan, in which John Renault appears as Inspector Jean-Paul Cardon."
  25. [The Big Picture · The Tom Cruise Hall of Fame · 1:16:54 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] Mission: Impossible III ↔ Mission: Impossible · verdict · MI3 is called the fourth best Mission Impossible movie. · "It's like the 4th best Mission Impossible movie."
  26. [The Big Picture · The Tom Cruise Hall of Fame · 1:34:09 · Chris Ryan (0.30)] Mission: Impossible ↔ Mission: Impossible – Fallout · verdict · Debate over which MI film to keep; one says Fallout is the better performance than the first, another prefers Fallout for stakes. · "I think he's better as an actor and his better performance than the 1st one."

Films put beside it more than once (3)

  1. [pairs] Mission: Impossible ↔ Mission: Impossible – Fallout · said 3 times in 2 episodes
  2. [pairs] Mission: Impossible ↔ Jerry Maguire · said 2 times in 2 episodes
  3. [pairs] Mission: Impossible ↔ Twister · said 2 times in 2 episodes

Fun items about it (6)

  1. [The Rewatchables · 'Mission: Impossible' · 0:09:49 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Mission: Impossible · fun · The film started shooting without a finished script. Premiere's Tom Friend described 4 a.m. faxes begging Towne for revisions. De Palma hated Towne's boxcar-reveal ending and pushed for the top-of-the-train chase, which cost millions. Cruise sided with De Palma. · "There were 4 a.m. last minute faxes volleyballed to town kept to town again, begging for revisions, and all were mostly Depalma's doing."
  2. [The Rewatchables · 'Mission: Impossible' · 0:21:35 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Mission: Impossible · fun · The 32-minute Prague opening act ends with a fade to black after Cruise jumps through the aquarium and escapes Kittridge. · "that is presented as a 32 minute opening act, it even has a fade to black after Tom Cruise jumps through Aquarium"
  3. [The Rewatchables · 'Mission: Impossible' · 0:24:26 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] Mission: Impossible · fun · The Langley vault heist is nearly silent; the digital sound meter goes into the red. It is the pick for most rewatchable scene and has been ripped off numerous times. · "almost all in silence, which is an incredible choice."
  4. [The Rewatchables · 'Mission: Impossible' · 0:26:06 · Jason Concepcion (0.40)] Mission: Impossible · fun · First time the speaker ever heard of an air-gapped computer: the vault machine is not connected to the internet for security. · "that was the 1st time I've ever, I ever encountered the idea of an air gapped computer"
  5. [The Rewatchables · 'Mission: Impossible' · 0:32:00 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Mission: Impossible · fun · Budgeted at $80 million, it made $457 million worldwide and launched a franchise then on its sixth entry. · "It wound up making 457000000 worldwide, but more importantly, launched a franchise that is still going"
  6. [The Rewatchables · 'Mission: Impossible' · 0:33:33 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Mission: Impossible · fun · Casting what-ifs: Juliette Binoche turned down Claire so as not to be known for blockbusters; Peter Graves and Martin Landau passed after reading the script. Early drafts had sex scenes cut and a kiss in the trailer that is not in the film. · "There's actually a kiss in the trailer that they don't ever have."

One hop out: what recommends the films most often joined to it (17)

  1. [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."
  2. [Blank Check · As Good as It Gets · 1:14:23 · unknown (0.30)] As Good as It Gets ↔ Jerry Maguire · lineage · Brooks and Crowe share a very similar tone and mix of emotions. · "But they have a very similar tone and sort of like touch and mix of emotions and all that."
  3. [The Rewatchables · ‘Twister’ · 0:08:25 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] Twister ↔ Apollo 13 · programming · The 1995 summer slate (Crimson Tide, Die Hard, Braveheart, Batman Forever, Apollo 13) was when Hollywood began slamming mid-May to July 4. · "Batman forever, Apollo 13th all before July 4th."
  4. [The Rewatchables · ‘Misery’ · 0:15:13 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] Misery ↔ A Few Good Men · programming · Misery sits in Reiner's incredible trio, all now Rewatchables. · "But when Harry Met Ali, Misery, Few Good Men, is really the best of all of these different great actors, right?"
  5. [The Rewatchables · ‘The Texas Chain Saw Massacre’ · 0:51:40 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] The Texas Chain Saw Massacre ⇒ Alien (the host's read) · lineage · Chainsaw is what inspired Ridley Scott to make Alien. · "Texas Chainsaw Basker is what inspired Ridley Scott to make alien."
  6. [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."
  7. [The Big Picture · The Tom Cruise Hall of Fame · 1:10:35 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Jerry Maguire ↔ The Color of Money · lineage · A hypothetical Jerry Maguire 2 would work like The Hustler/Color of Money pairing. · "If it was like the hustle and the color of money and he returns to his Eddie Felson."
  8. [The Rewatchables · ‘Twister’ · 0:08:48 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] Twister ↔ Independence Day · programming · Independence Day (July 2) closes out the 1996 summer calendar that began with Twister. · "July 2nd Independence Day."
  9. [The Big Picture · Aaron Sorkin Top 5s and ‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’ · 1:19:27 · Sean Fennessey (0.55)] A Few Good Men ↔ Network · programming · It is in the conversation for most rewatched movie of a lifetime, next to Network, Oz, Godfather, Goodfellas and Pulp Fiction. · "and a few good men is right there with it."
  10. [The Rewatchables · ‘Species’ · 1:12:56 · Bill Simmons (0.30)] Alien ⇒ Species (the maker said so) · lineage · Giger thought Species ripped off too many other alien movies, such as the chest-burster. · "He thought the movie ripped off too many other alien movies"
  11. [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."
  12. [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"
  13. [The Rewatchables · ‘Twister’ · 1:46:54 · Bill Simmons (0.40)] Twister ↔ Speed · programming · Best double feature for Twister is the Jan de Bont pair with Speed. · "It's gotta be speed, right?"
  14. [The Big Picture · Objection! Top 10 Courtroom Dramas | The Big Picture · 0:11:07 · Sean Fennessey (0.80)] The Pelican Brief ↔ A Few Good Men · programming · Disqualified: legal thriller, not courtroom drama, operating outside the courtroom. · "operates almost entirely outside of the courtroom"
  15. [The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ · 0:27:04 · Joanna Robinson (0.60)] Sigourney Weaver ↔ Alien · lineage · Both the Working Girl role and the Alien role were originally written for a man. · "the screenwriter said that her role was originally written as a man, which is true for her role in alien as well."
  16. [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."
  17. [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 (5)

  1. [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
  2. [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
  3. [speaker] Jason Concepcion · latest sketch, The Big Picture · Did Disney’s ‘Mulan’ Experiment Work? A Binge Mode Investigation · Loves a musical, Donnie Yen action, and the 1998 Mulan with its Eddie Murphy humor. Finds the remake kind of boring and wants a grounded, historical version. Sucker for political and economic framing of film controversy. · stances: The remake is fine in a vacuum, a disappointment as a Mulan; Wants a more historical, less magical take; Sees the Mulan controversy as a symptom of the West-China economic experiment; Missing music means missing storytelling
  4. [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
  5. [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

The shows' running bits (3)

  1. [bits] The Big Picture: Drafts (Hosts and guests draft films in rounds; every pick is a recommendation with an argument); Hall of Fame (A star's or director's best, ranked and argued); Countdowns (Ranked lists, top five or top ten)
  2. [bits] Blank Check: The box office game (Guessing the film's opening weekend and what it was up against); The sung theme ("Blank Check with Griffin and David", sung; the transcriber garbles it)
  3. [bits] The Rewatchables: Apex Mountain (The moment a star peaks; where on the mountain a performance sits); Who Won the Movie (The hosts name the person who came out of the film best off); The Ebert review (Roger Ebert's original review and star rating read aloud. Ebert is cited, never on the show); Casting what-ifs (Who was almost cast, or who should have been); Most rewatchable scene (The scene each host would stop on while flipping channels); Aged best / aged worst (What holds up and what does not); Picking Nits (The little things in a film the hosts love that they don't think totally work: the nits); Double feature (The film each host would pair it with; a programming pick)

The whole prompt

As the model gets it, from app/Ai/Prompts/CorpusAsk.md 
You are a clerk at Video Culture, a video store. A customer just finished Mission: Impossible (1996) 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 Mission: Impossible (1996) 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 · ‘Twister’ · 0:08:38 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] Twister ↔ Mission: Impossible · programming · 1996 is when the studios locked in the early-May-to-July-4 summer blockbuster calendar: Twister, Mission: Impossible, The Rock, Eraser, Independence Day. · "So then you look at 96, May 10th, Twister."
[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 · 'Mission: Impossible' · 0:18:47 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] The Fast and the Furious ⇒ Mission: Impossible (the host's read) · lineage · The modern MI films combine Bourne-style hand-to-hand combat with Fast and the Furious over-the-top action. · "the 2 biggest influences on Mission Impossible are born in the Fast and the Furious."
[The Rewatchables · 'Mission: Impossible' · 0:24:41 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] Rififi ⇒ Mission: Impossible (the host's read) · lineage · The silent Langley vault heist echoes the Rififi heist where an alarm is triggered by sound. · "my favorite heist movies were Fifi, which has a heist uh, portion where they very similar, they drill through the roof and it's all in silence"
[The Rewatchables · 'Mission: Impossible' · 0:29:57 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] Psycho ⇒ Mission: Impossible (the host's read) · lineage · Killing off Kristin Scott Thomas's star-billed character early mirrors Psycho killing Janet Leigh. · "it's completely Hitchcocky and it's killing Janet Lee after 40 minutes."
[The Rewatchables · 'Mission: Impossible' · 0:46:08 · Chris Ryan (0.30)] Mission: Impossible ↔ Jaws · lineage · A political awards category was suggested, recalling a Jaws episode on Amity's campaign. · "between this and you outlining Quince campaign in Amity for the Jaws rewatchables, we should have some sort of political category here."
[The Rewatchables · 'Mission: Impossible' · 0:49:53 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Topkapi ⇒ Mission: Impossible (the host's read) · lineage · Langley heist is an homage to the Jules Dassin heist classics Topkapi and Rififi. · "the Langley heist is an homage to the Jewel Statsen classics of uh, top copy and uh, Rafifi."
[The Rewatchables · 'Mission: Impossible' · 1:06:25 · Jason Concepcion (0.40)] The Lady Vanishes ⇒ Mission: Impossible (the host's read) · lineage · The European mystery shades of the film recall The Lady Vanishes and Shadow of a Doubt. · "Lady Vanishes or, or, uh, even like Shadow of a Doubt in some respects"
[The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 1:31:15 · unknown (0.40)] Darkman ↔ Mission: Impossible · lineage · Darkman's face-mask conceit looks like Mission Impossible. · "so like Mission Impossible."
[The Rewatchables · 'Mission: Impossible' · 0:06:19 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Mission: Impossible ↔ The Big Sleep · theme · The movie's plot is as confusing and written-on-the-fly as The Big Sleep. · "This is like the big sleep again, man, where they're like, I don't know if this movie actually makes any sense"
[The Rewatchables · 'Mission: Impossible' · 0:25:07 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] Mission: Impossible ↔ The Departed · theme · The rat in the air duct at Langley recalls The Departed's final shot, the hunt for a betraying rat. · "the rat in the air air duct in Langley, like a little bit of like the departed final shot"
[The Rewatchables · 'Mission: Impossible' · 0:38:37 · Jason Concepcion (0.40)] Mission: Impossible ↔ The Rock · theme · Phelps's complaint about being farmed out matches Ed Harris's line in The Rock, a post-Desert Storm military-grievance theme. · "this is also the same year that the rock came out and that's the same line that Ed Harris has in the at the end of the rock."
[The Rewatchables · 'Mission: Impossible' · 0:54:28 · Sean Fennessey (0.30)] Mission: Impossible ↔ Tropic Thunder · theme · Joked that Cruise's transformation as an old senator deserved the praise given to Tropic Thunder. · "Why were we so praiseworthy of Tom Cruise's performance? His transformation in Tropic Thunder?"
[The Rewatchables · 'Mission: Impossible' · 0:10:30 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Mission: Impossible ↔ Marathon Man · craft · Most of the film feels like a Bond or Hitchcock movie or the Roy Scheider parts of Marathon Man. · "most of this movie feels like a Bond movie or a Hitchcock movie or maybe the Roy Scheider parts of Marathon Man."
[The Rewatchables · 'Mission: Impossible' · 0:31:37 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Mission: Impossible ↔ Villeneuve films (Denis Villeneuve) · contrast · Unlike a Villeneuve film, De Palma's stylish movie is also fun and funny. · "Typically you get a Villeneuve movie and you're like, 0 man. Wow, this is so mind blowing, but like you never laugh once during the entire movie."
[The Rewatchables · 'Mission: Impossible' · 1:03:35 · Jason Concepcion (0.30)] Mission: Impossible ↔ Fantastic Four · contrast · The chaotic, improvised making of MI is now only a cautionary tale like Fantastic Four or a fired Star Wars director. · "fantastic 4 is a tragic comedy and now no one will ever work again with that because everything's so formulaic."
[The Big Picture · The Tom Cruise Hall of Fame · 0:38:18 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50)] A Few Good Men ↔ Mission: Impossible · career · Few Good Men shows the possibility and edge of Cruise that fades as he moves to Ethan Hunt. · "the edge of Tom Cruise characters kind of goes away as he moves towards Ethan Hunt."
[The Big Picture · The Tom Cruise Hall of Fame · 0:45:17 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Mission: Impossible ↔ Jerry Maguire · career · The two 1996 films are the apex of Cruise's two-movies-a-year runs. · "the apex of that is Jeremy Maguire in Mission Impossible."
[The Rewatchables · 'Mission: Impossible' · 0:08:44 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Mission: Impossible ↔ Body Double · people · Body Double puts De Palma's sexual obsessions on the surface; Mission: Impossible keeps them under it for a mass audience. · "body double is, like, right on the surface."
[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 · 'Mission: Impossible' · 0:12:01 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Mission: Impossible ↔ Jerry Maguire · people · Cruise's anxiety and nervousness here echo Jerry Maguire. · "there's a little bit of the Jerry Maguire anxiety, nervousness."
[The Rewatchables · 'Mission: Impossible' · 0:15:34 · Jason Concepcion (0.50)] Mission: Impossible ↔ Twister · people · Hollywood realized high-concept blockbusters like Twister did not need top stars, which hurt Cruise's leverage. · "there was a market inefficiency in not casting stars in blockbusters."
[The Rewatchables · 'Mission: Impossible' · 0:23:42 · Jason Concepcion (0.40)] Mission: Impossible ↔ Aliens · people · Cruise's panicked 'they knew we were coming' on the phone is compared to Bill Paxton in Aliens. · "He's like fucking Bill Paxton and aliens in this scene."
[The Rewatchables · 'Mission: Impossible' · 0:42:27 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Mission: Impossible ↔ French Kiss · people · Reno also appears in 1995's French Kiss with Kevin Kline and Meg Ryan. · "a film from 1995 called French Kiss, starring Kevin Klein and Meg Ryan, in which John Renault appears as Inspector Jean-Paul Cardon."
[The Big Picture · The Tom Cruise Hall of Fame · 1:16:54 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] Mission: Impossible III ↔ Mission: Impossible · verdict · MI3 is called the fourth best Mission Impossible movie. · "It's like the 4th best Mission Impossible movie."
[The Big Picture · The Tom Cruise Hall of Fame · 1:34:09 · Chris Ryan (0.30)] Mission: Impossible ↔ Mission: Impossible – Fallout · verdict · Debate over which MI film to keep; one says Fallout is the better performance than the first, another prefers Fallout for stakes. · "I think he's better as an actor and his better performance than the 1st one."
[pairs] Mission: Impossible ↔ Mission: Impossible – Fallout · said 3 times in 2 episodes
[pairs] Mission: Impossible ↔ Jerry Maguire · said 2 times in 2 episodes
[pairs] Mission: Impossible ↔ Twister · said 2 times in 2 episodes
[The Rewatchables · 'Mission: Impossible' · 0:09:49 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Mission: Impossible · fun · The film started shooting without a finished script. Premiere's Tom Friend described 4 a.m. faxes begging Towne for revisions. De Palma hated Towne's boxcar-reveal ending and pushed for the top-of-the-train chase, which cost millions. Cruise sided with De Palma. · "There were 4 a.m. last minute faxes volleyballed to town kept to town again, begging for revisions, and all were mostly Depalma's doing."
[The Rewatchables · 'Mission: Impossible' · 0:21:35 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Mission: Impossible · fun · The 32-minute Prague opening act ends with a fade to black after Cruise jumps through the aquarium and escapes Kittridge. · "that is presented as a 32 minute opening act, it even has a fade to black after Tom Cruise jumps through Aquarium"
[The Rewatchables · 'Mission: Impossible' · 0:24:26 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] Mission: Impossible · fun · The Langley vault heist is nearly silent; the digital sound meter goes into the red. It is the pick for most rewatchable scene and has been ripped off numerous times. · "almost all in silence, which is an incredible choice."
[The Rewatchables · 'Mission: Impossible' · 0:26:06 · Jason Concepcion (0.40)] Mission: Impossible · fun · First time the speaker ever heard of an air-gapped computer: the vault machine is not connected to the internet for security. · "that was the 1st time I've ever, I ever encountered the idea of an air gapped computer"
[The Rewatchables · 'Mission: Impossible' · 0:32:00 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Mission: Impossible · fun · Budgeted at $80 million, it made $457 million worldwide and launched a franchise then on its sixth entry. · "It wound up making 457000000 worldwide, but more importantly, launched a franchise that is still going"
[The Rewatchables · 'Mission: Impossible' · 0:33:33 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Mission: Impossible · fun · Casting what-ifs: Juliette Binoche turned down Claire so as not to be known for blockbusters; Peter Graves and Martin Landau passed after reading the script. Early drafts had sex scenes cut and a kiss in the trailer that is not in the film. · "There's actually a kiss in the trailer that they don't ever have."
[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 · As Good as It Gets · 1:14:23 · unknown (0.30)] As Good as It Gets ↔ Jerry Maguire · lineage · Brooks and Crowe share a very similar tone and mix of emotions. · "But they have a very similar tone and sort of like touch and mix of emotions and all that."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Twister’ · 0:08:25 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] Twister ↔ Apollo 13 · programming · The 1995 summer slate (Crimson Tide, Die Hard, Braveheart, Batman Forever, Apollo 13) was when Hollywood began slamming mid-May to July 4. · "Batman forever, Apollo 13th all before July 4th."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Misery’ · 0:15:13 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] Misery ↔ A Few Good Men · programming · Misery sits in Reiner's incredible trio, all now Rewatchables. · "But when Harry Met Ali, Misery, Few Good Men, is really the best of all of these different great actors, right?"
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Texas Chain Saw Massacre’ · 0:51:40 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] The Texas Chain Saw Massacre ⇒ Alien (the host's read) · lineage · Chainsaw is what inspired Ridley Scott to make Alien. · "Texas Chainsaw Basker is what inspired Ridley Scott to make alien."
[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 Big Picture · The Tom Cruise Hall of Fame · 1:10:35 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Jerry Maguire ↔ The Color of Money · lineage · A hypothetical Jerry Maguire 2 would work like The Hustler/Color of Money pairing. · "If it was like the hustle and the color of money and he returns to his Eddie Felson."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Twister’ · 0:08:48 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] Twister ↔ Independence Day · programming · Independence Day (July 2) closes out the 1996 summer calendar that began with Twister. · "July 2nd Independence Day."
[The Big Picture · Aaron Sorkin Top 5s and ‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’ · 1:19:27 · Sean Fennessey (0.55)] A Few Good Men ↔ Network · programming · It is in the conversation for most rewatched movie of a lifetime, next to Network, Oz, Godfather, Goodfellas and Pulp Fiction. · "and a few good men is right there with it."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Species’ · 1:12:56 · Bill Simmons (0.30)] Alien ⇒ Species (the maker said so) · lineage · Giger thought Species ripped off too many other alien movies, such as the chest-burster. · "He thought the movie ripped off too many other alien movies"
[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."
[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"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Twister’ · 1:46:54 · Bill Simmons (0.40)] Twister ↔ Speed · programming · Best double feature for Twister is the Jan de Bont pair with Speed. · "It's gotta be speed, right?"
[The Big Picture · Objection! Top 10 Courtroom Dramas | The Big Picture · 0:11:07 · Sean Fennessey (0.80)] The Pelican Brief ↔ A Few Good Men · programming · Disqualified: legal thriller, not courtroom drama, operating outside the courtroom. · "operates almost entirely outside of the courtroom"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ · 0:27:04 · Joanna Robinson (0.60)] Sigourney Weaver ↔ Alien · lineage · Both the Working Girl role and the Alien role were originally written for a man. · "the screenwriter said that her role was originally written as a man, which is true for her role in alien as well."
[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 · 0:43:19 · unknown (0.35)] Vanilla Sky ↔ Jerry Maguire · lineage · A deformed Jerry Maguire. · "Well, it's like a deformed Jerry Maguire."
[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] 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] Jason Concepcion · latest sketch, The Big Picture · Did Disney’s ‘Mulan’ Experiment Work? A Binge Mode Investigation · Loves a musical, Donnie Yen action, and the 1998 Mulan with its Eddie Murphy humor. Finds the remake kind of boring and wants a grounded, historical version. Sucker for political and economic framing of film controversy. · stances: The remake is fine in a vacuum, a disappointment as a Mulan; Wants a more historical, less magical take; Sees the Mulan controversy as a symptom of the West-China economic experiment; Missing music means missing storytelling
[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
[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 Mission: Impossible (1996); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Mission: Impossible (1996) 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.