What the corpus says about Collateral (2004)

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 (19)

[The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:45:20 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50)] Collateral ↔ Clueless · theme · Collateral is part of Amanda's movie map of Los Angeles, with Clueless and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. · "my movie map of LA is probably like clueless collateral, uh, once upon a time in Hollywood"
[The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:45:20 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50)] Collateral ↔ Once Upon a Time in Hollywood · theme · Collateral is part of Amanda's movie map of Los Angeles, with Clueless and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. · "my movie map of LA is probably like clueless collateral, uh, once upon a time in Hollywood"
[The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:45:43 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Collateral ↔ Heat · theme · Collateral pairs Tom Cruise with Jamie Foxx the way Heat pairs two titans, Pacino and De Niro. · "in the same way that heat is like Pacino and De Niro, like together, finally, like 2 Titans of movies in our life."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Thief’ · 0:57:36 · Bill Simmons (0.40)] Thief ⇒ Collateral (the host's read) · craft · Mann later circled back to blues in Collateral after trying all-blues for Thief. · "but then circled back in collateral"
[The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:44:37 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] Ferrari ↔ Collateral · craft · Collateral's one-night compression is the same pleasure as Ferrari's compression. · "I think much like Ferrari, the compression."
[Blank Check — Patreon · In the Cut · 1:24:17 · Griffin Newman or David Sims (unclear) (0.40)] In the Cut ↔ Collateral · craft · The speaker notes In the Cut was shot by Dion Beebe, the cinematographer of Collateral, and praises how it looks. · "Love how it looks. This film shot by Dion Bebe, by the way. one of the heroes of the 2000s of Chocolateral."
[The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:12:51 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Ferrari ↔ Collateral · career · Ferrari fuses the classical Mann with the digital abstractions of Collateral, per critic Bilge Ebiri. · "the digital abstractions of black hat and public enemies and Miami Vice and collateral"
[Blank Check — Patreon · In the Cut · 0:38:41 · Griffin or David (unclear) (0.35)] In the Cut ↔ Collateral · career · After his illness, In the Cut was Ruffalo's comeback and led to a run of supporting turns in Eternal Sunshine and Collateral. · "like in the cut, eternal sunshine collateral."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Vanilla Sky · 0:55:54 · unknown (0.40)] Vanilla Sky ↔ Collateral · career · After this Cruise plays men who have failed and are trying to overcome it. · "after this, all the collateral just become a guy who has failed and is trying to overcome it."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Zodiac · 1:24:06 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Collateral ⇒ Zodiac (the host's read) · people · Fincher cast Ruffalo partly because he liked him in Collateral. · "One, Fincher really liked him in collateral."
[The Big Picture · The Tom Cruise Hall of Fame · 1:31:05 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Collateral ↔ The Color of Money · verdict · Forced to pick one, the hosts keep Collateral over The Color of Money for the Hall of Fame. · "Okay, well you choose."
[The Big Picture · The Tom Cruise Hall of Fame · 1:38:09 · Amanda Dobbins (0.40)] Collateral ↔ Edge of Tomorrow · verdict · Collateral and Edge of Tomorrow are the self-indulgent last picks; the group questions whether the list reflects Big Picture taste. · "this is a big picture self-indulgent list."
[The Big Picture · The Tom Cruise Hall of Fame · 1:12:55 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] Interview with the Vampire ↔ Collateral · villain roles · Collateral is called his only straight villain performance, with Lestat as a not-recognizable villain. · "Well, Listat is kind of a villain in interview with the vampire."
[The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:44:00 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] Collateral ↔ Tom Cruise · craft · Collateral is a great two-hander with Cruise playing against type as the heavy. · "playing against type and playing the heavy"
[The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:46:14 · Amanda Dobbins (0.40)] Collateral ↔ Miles Davis · craft · Collateral features Miles Davis and Audioslave, and Cruise talks about jazz in one of the weirdest scenes of the 2000s. · "Tom Cruise talking about his appreciation for jazz"
[Blank Check — Patreon · In the Cut · 1:24:20 · Griffin or David (unclear) (0.35)] Dion Beebe ↔ Collateral · craft · Beebe is one of the heroes of the 2000s for Collateral. · "one of the heroes of the 2000s of Chocolateral."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Insider’ · 1:08:26 · Chris Ryan (0.35)] Michael Mann ↔ Collateral · people · Mann loves a ham, someone just going for it, as in Collateral's Tom Cruise. · "He loves a ham."
[The Big Picture · The Tom Cruise Hall of Fame · 1:13:51 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Collateral ↔ Michael Mann · people · Without Michael Mann the movie would be a goofy VOD thriller. · "if this isn't a Michael Mann movie,"
[The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:43:47 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] Collateral ↔ Michael Mann · industry · Collateral was the first digital experiment, and many lesser directors have tried to copy it. · "so many shitty directors have tried to do what this movie does"

Films put beside it more than once (2)

[pairs] Collateral ↔ Ferrari · said 2 times in 1 episode
[pairs] Collateral ↔ In the Cut · said 2 times in 1 episode

Fun items about it (5)

[The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:44:19 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Collateral · fun · The birthplace of 'Yo homie'; 'is that my briefcase' is the favorite line reading of 2004. · "The birthplace of Yohomie."
[The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:44:25 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Collateral · fun · Mark Ruffalo with a goatee, partnered with Pete Berg, tracks Max and Vincent. · "A brief appearance of Mark Ruffalo with a goatee."
[The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:46:41 · Chris Ryan (0.60)] Collateral · fun · Mann stared daggers at Sean and Bill Simmons when they asked how you get from LAX to downtown in 20 minutes. · "he just stared daggers at us."
[The Big Picture · The Tom Cruise Hall of Fame · 0:40:22 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] Collateral · fun · Chris names Collateral his surprising favorite because of Vincent talking about jazz, comparing the takes to Stanley Crouch. · "Yeah, his takes on jazz are pretty formative for me, I'd say, it's like him and Stanley Crouch."
[The Big Picture · The Tom Cruise Hall of Fame · 1:14:39 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Collateral · fun · Amanda notes the line where Cruise yells at Jamie Foxx about his briefcase, rewatched at 8 AM. · "Also, feature Tom Cruise going, Yo, homie, that's my briefcase."

One hop out: what recommends the films most often joined to it (27)

[The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:37:27 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Ferrari ↔ The Martian · programming · Ferrari feels like a late-summer release that should have had The Martian's slot, not Christmas. · "This felt like it should have had the Martian spot."
[Blank Check — Patreon · In the Cut · 0:07:38 · Griffin or David (unclear) (0.35)] Jane Campion ↔ In the Cut · programming · Today's episode of the Campion miniseries; the piano is behind them and In the Cut is next. · "It's also funny now that the piano is behind us and we're covering in the cut."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Mean Girls’ · 0:07:10 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60)] Clueless ⇒ Mean Girls (the host's read) · lineage · Clueless brought the teen genre back and made it female; Mean Girls inherits that more female guiding hand. · "Clueless brought the genre back and I think people missed it."
[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."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Thief’ · 1:19:45 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Thief ↔ Heat · programming · Rewatchable does Mann films: five done, others remaining. · "How many Michael Mann movies have we done now?"
[The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:05:18 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Brock Yates ⇒ Ferrari (the host's read) · lineage · Ferrari adapts the Brock Yates book on Enzo Ferrari. · "by Brock Yates"
[Blank Check — Patreon · In the Cut · 0:09:37 · Griffin Newman (0.60)] In the Cut ↔ Hulk · programming · Both were 2003 films that were derided on release; Hulk is called David's derided film of the year. · "It was your derided film of 2000."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Mean Girls’ · 1:08:45 · Amanda Dobbins (0.40)] Mean Girls ↔ Clueless · theme · Cher's heifer line in Clueless shows women are conscious of calories, backing the Regina-would-know nitpick. · "It's like that moment in clueless when she's like, I'm such a heifer."
[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."
[The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:13:26 · Amanda Dobbins (0.40)] Heat ↔ The Rewatchables · programming · Chris listened to the Reheat Rewatchables episode, celebrating 100 episodes, the morning of recording. · "I also listened to the reheat this morning"
[The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:10:16 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Ferrari ↔ Heat · theme · Ferrari carries Mann's themes of men pushing themselves to greatness with their obsessions. · "men pushing themselves as hard as they can with the tools that they are obsessed with to achieve greatness"
[Blank Check — Patreon · In the Cut · 0:13:38 · Griffin or David (unclear) (0.35)] Unfaithful ↔ In the Cut · programming · Unfaithful is described as closing out the erotic-thriller era that In the Cut lands at the tail end of. · "And unfaithful is him kind of closing the loop a little bit. And it's like that era is done."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ · 0:15:42 · Juliet Litman (0.50)] Easy A ↔ Clueless · craft · Both have an archness and literary references that make them play for adults and kids at once. · "I think that there's like an archness to both EZA and clueless that make them feel like they're for multiple generations."
[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"
[The Big Picture · 300th Episode Ask-Us-Anything Mailbag Spectacular · 2:07:39 · Garrett Bradley (0.90)] Heat ↔ Time · programming · Bradley's last great thing was rewatching Heat, which prompted talk of the 90s. · "I rewatched Heat"
[The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:17:09 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] Michael Mann ↔ Ferrari · theme · Enzo Ferrari, with his department heads and team who report to him, reads as a stand-in for Michael Mann the filmmaker. · "Enzo Ferrari is Michael Mann."
[Blank Check — Patreon · In the Cut · 0:13:49 · Griffin or David (unclear) (0.35)] In the Cut ↔ Swimming Pool · programming · Swimming Pool is the only other notable erotic thriller of 2003. · "the only other one in 2003 of any note is the French movie swimming pool, which is a pretty good movie."
[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."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Insider’ · 0:08:22 · Chris Ryan (0.60)] The Last of the Mohicans ↔ Heat · lineage · Heat is described as the urban version of Last of the Mohicans, a step in Mann's progression toward The Insider. · "Then you've got heat, which in some ways is the urban version of Last of the Mohicans."
[The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:12:05 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] Ferrari ↔ The Insider · craft · Ferrari has the best script Mann has worked with since The Insider. · "this has the best script he's worked with since insider"
[Blank Check — Patreon · In the Cut · 0:51:40 · Griffin or David (unclear) (0.35)] In the Cut ↔ Hollow Man · programming · The DVD box set pairing In the Cut with Hollow Man, Flatliners, Abandon and Trapped is called a blank-checky set. · "It is a weirdly blank checky box set."
[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"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Thief’ · 0:02:54 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Thief ⇒ Heat (the host's read) · lineage · Thief is the notebook sketch for Mann's later work, with Heat sharing DNA. · "the building blocks for what you wind up seeing in heat and collateral and Miami Vice in so many of his films to come."
[The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:15:43 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Ferrari ↔ Steve Jobs · craft · Steve Jobs did the compression idea best among recent biopics, and Mann's compressed 1957 setting for Ferrari is ingenious. · "Steve Jobs obviously had, maybe, maybe did the best job of this by kind of splitting the, the atom"
[Blank Check — Patreon · In the Cut · 0:52:19 · Griffin or David (unclear) (0.35)] In the Cut ↔ Paul Verhoeven · programming · The box set mixes a Campion, a Verhoeven, a Schumacher and an Aja. · "It's just wild that it's a campion, a Verhoven, a Schumacher, a fucking Agoya."
[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."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Thief’ · 1:15:06 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Thief ⇒ Heat (the maker said so: the Siegel piece, Caan telling Pacino) · lineage · Caan said scenes cut from Thief went to Heat. · "All the scenes that weren't used in our picture came over to you guys."

Who said it, by their latest sketch (5)

[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] 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] Amanda Dobbins · latest sketch, The Big Picture · ‘Mamma Mia!’ Meets ‘The Strangers'! It’s a Movie Swap! · Loves The Strangers' withholding craft and a good tense horror film without gore, but likes fun, communal movies like Mamma Mia. She dislikes supernatural or gory horror, which irritates her more than it scares her. She is a sucker for stars and for Googling a movie mid-recording. · stances: The Strangers is scary because of what it doesn't show or explain; Ending explanation weakens it; no answer would be better; Prefers 'withholding' filmmaking; Defends Mamma Mia as joyful and intentional
[speaker] Bill Simmons · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · Loves the Friday series as a communal, rental-era memory and tells childhood stories about the ads and theaters. Likes casting what-ifs and sports analogies for everything. Skeptical of horror at Christmas and of anything that wastes the premise. · stances: Friday the 13th is not the best entry but the origin story had to be told; Friday 2 is a leap over the original
[speaker] 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 (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 Collateral (2004) 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 Collateral (2004) 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 · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:45:20 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50)] Collateral ↔ Clueless · theme · Collateral is part of Amanda's movie map of Los Angeles, with Clueless and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. · "my movie map of LA is probably like clueless collateral, uh, once upon a time in Hollywood"
[The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:45:20 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50)] Collateral ↔ Once Upon a Time in Hollywood · theme · Collateral is part of Amanda's movie map of Los Angeles, with Clueless and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. · "my movie map of LA is probably like clueless collateral, uh, once upon a time in Hollywood"
[The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:45:43 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Collateral ↔ Heat · theme · Collateral pairs Tom Cruise with Jamie Foxx the way Heat pairs two titans, Pacino and De Niro. · "in the same way that heat is like Pacino and De Niro, like together, finally, like 2 Titans of movies in our life."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Thief’ · 0:57:36 · Bill Simmons (0.40)] Thief ⇒ Collateral (the host's read) · craft · Mann later circled back to blues in Collateral after trying all-blues for Thief. · "but then circled back in collateral"
[The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:44:37 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] Ferrari ↔ Collateral · craft · Collateral's one-night compression is the same pleasure as Ferrari's compression. · "I think much like Ferrari, the compression."
[Blank Check — Patreon · In the Cut · 1:24:17 · Griffin Newman or David Sims (unclear) (0.40)] In the Cut ↔ Collateral · craft · The speaker notes In the Cut was shot by Dion Beebe, the cinematographer of Collateral, and praises how it looks. · "Love how it looks. This film shot by Dion Bebe, by the way. one of the heroes of the 2000s of Chocolateral."
[The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:12:51 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Ferrari ↔ Collateral · career · Ferrari fuses the classical Mann with the digital abstractions of Collateral, per critic Bilge Ebiri. · "the digital abstractions of black hat and public enemies and Miami Vice and collateral"
[Blank Check — Patreon · In the Cut · 0:38:41 · Griffin or David (unclear) (0.35)] In the Cut ↔ Collateral · career · After his illness, In the Cut was Ruffalo's comeback and led to a run of supporting turns in Eternal Sunshine and Collateral. · "like in the cut, eternal sunshine collateral."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Vanilla Sky · 0:55:54 · unknown (0.40)] Vanilla Sky ↔ Collateral · career · After this Cruise plays men who have failed and are trying to overcome it. · "after this, all the collateral just become a guy who has failed and is trying to overcome it."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Zodiac · 1:24:06 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Collateral ⇒ Zodiac (the host's read) · people · Fincher cast Ruffalo partly because he liked him in Collateral. · "One, Fincher really liked him in collateral."
[The Big Picture · The Tom Cruise Hall of Fame · 1:31:05 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Collateral ↔ The Color of Money · verdict · Forced to pick one, the hosts keep Collateral over The Color of Money for the Hall of Fame. · "Okay, well you choose."
[The Big Picture · The Tom Cruise Hall of Fame · 1:38:09 · Amanda Dobbins (0.40)] Collateral ↔ Edge of Tomorrow · verdict · Collateral and Edge of Tomorrow are the self-indulgent last picks; the group questions whether the list reflects Big Picture taste. · "this is a big picture self-indulgent list."
[The Big Picture · The Tom Cruise Hall of Fame · 1:12:55 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] Interview with the Vampire ↔ Collateral · villain roles · Collateral is called his only straight villain performance, with Lestat as a not-recognizable villain. · "Well, Listat is kind of a villain in interview with the vampire."
[The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:44:00 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] Collateral ↔ Tom Cruise · craft · Collateral is a great two-hander with Cruise playing against type as the heavy. · "playing against type and playing the heavy"
[The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:46:14 · Amanda Dobbins (0.40)] Collateral ↔ Miles Davis · craft · Collateral features Miles Davis and Audioslave, and Cruise talks about jazz in one of the weirdest scenes of the 2000s. · "Tom Cruise talking about his appreciation for jazz"
[Blank Check — Patreon · In the Cut · 1:24:20 · Griffin or David (unclear) (0.35)] Dion Beebe ↔ Collateral · craft · Beebe is one of the heroes of the 2000s for Collateral. · "one of the heroes of the 2000s of Chocolateral."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Insider’ · 1:08:26 · Chris Ryan (0.35)] Michael Mann ↔ Collateral · people · Mann loves a ham, someone just going for it, as in Collateral's Tom Cruise. · "He loves a ham."
[The Big Picture · The Tom Cruise Hall of Fame · 1:13:51 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Collateral ↔ Michael Mann · people · Without Michael Mann the movie would be a goofy VOD thriller. · "if this isn't a Michael Mann movie,"
[The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:43:47 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] Collateral ↔ Michael Mann · industry · Collateral was the first digital experiment, and many lesser directors have tried to copy it. · "so many shitty directors have tried to do what this movie does"
[pairs] Collateral ↔ Ferrari · said 2 times in 1 episode
[pairs] Collateral ↔ In the Cut · said 2 times in 1 episode
[The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:44:19 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Collateral · fun · The birthplace of 'Yo homie'; 'is that my briefcase' is the favorite line reading of 2004. · "The birthplace of Yohomie."
[The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:44:25 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Collateral · fun · Mark Ruffalo with a goatee, partnered with Pete Berg, tracks Max and Vincent. · "A brief appearance of Mark Ruffalo with a goatee."
[The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:46:41 · Chris Ryan (0.60)] Collateral · fun · Mann stared daggers at Sean and Bill Simmons when they asked how you get from LAX to downtown in 20 minutes. · "he just stared daggers at us."
[The Big Picture · The Tom Cruise Hall of Fame · 0:40:22 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] Collateral · fun · Chris names Collateral his surprising favorite because of Vincent talking about jazz, comparing the takes to Stanley Crouch. · "Yeah, his takes on jazz are pretty formative for me, I'd say, it's like him and Stanley Crouch."
[The Big Picture · The Tom Cruise Hall of Fame · 1:14:39 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Collateral · fun · Amanda notes the line where Cruise yells at Jamie Foxx about his briefcase, rewatched at 8 AM. · "Also, feature Tom Cruise going, Yo, homie, that's my briefcase."
[The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:37:27 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Ferrari ↔ The Martian · programming · Ferrari feels like a late-summer release that should have had The Martian's slot, not Christmas. · "This felt like it should have had the Martian spot."
[Blank Check — Patreon · In the Cut · 0:07:38 · Griffin or David (unclear) (0.35)] Jane Campion ↔ In the Cut · programming · Today's episode of the Campion miniseries; the piano is behind them and In the Cut is next. · "It's also funny now that the piano is behind us and we're covering in the cut."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Mean Girls’ · 0:07:10 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60)] Clueless ⇒ Mean Girls (the host's read) · lineage · Clueless brought the teen genre back and made it female; Mean Girls inherits that more female guiding hand. · "Clueless brought the genre back and I think people missed it."
[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."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Thief’ · 1:19:45 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Thief ↔ Heat · programming · Rewatchable does Mann films: five done, others remaining. · "How many Michael Mann movies have we done now?"
[The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:05:18 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Brock Yates ⇒ Ferrari (the host's read) · lineage · Ferrari adapts the Brock Yates book on Enzo Ferrari. · "by Brock Yates"
[Blank Check — Patreon · In the Cut · 0:09:37 · Griffin Newman (0.60)] In the Cut ↔ Hulk · programming · Both were 2003 films that were derided on release; Hulk is called David's derided film of the year. · "It was your derided film of 2000."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Mean Girls’ · 1:08:45 · Amanda Dobbins (0.40)] Mean Girls ↔ Clueless · theme · Cher's heifer line in Clueless shows women are conscious of calories, backing the Regina-would-know nitpick. · "It's like that moment in clueless when she's like, I'm such a heifer."
[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."
[The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:13:26 · Amanda Dobbins (0.40)] Heat ↔ The Rewatchables · programming · Chris listened to the Reheat Rewatchables episode, celebrating 100 episodes, the morning of recording. · "I also listened to the reheat this morning"
[The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:10:16 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Ferrari ↔ Heat · theme · Ferrari carries Mann's themes of men pushing themselves to greatness with their obsessions. · "men pushing themselves as hard as they can with the tools that they are obsessed with to achieve greatness"
[Blank Check — Patreon · In the Cut · 0:13:38 · Griffin or David (unclear) (0.35)] Unfaithful ↔ In the Cut · programming · Unfaithful is described as closing out the erotic-thriller era that In the Cut lands at the tail end of. · "And unfaithful is him kind of closing the loop a little bit. And it's like that era is done."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ · 0:15:42 · Juliet Litman (0.50)] Easy A ↔ Clueless · craft · Both have an archness and literary references that make them play for adults and kids at once. · "I think that there's like an archness to both EZA and clueless that make them feel like they're for multiple generations."
[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"
[The Big Picture · 300th Episode Ask-Us-Anything Mailbag Spectacular · 2:07:39 · Garrett Bradley (0.90)] Heat ↔ Time · programming · Bradley's last great thing was rewatching Heat, which prompted talk of the 90s. · "I rewatched Heat"
[The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:17:09 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] Michael Mann ↔ Ferrari · theme · Enzo Ferrari, with his department heads and team who report to him, reads as a stand-in for Michael Mann the filmmaker. · "Enzo Ferrari is Michael Mann."
[Blank Check — Patreon · In the Cut · 0:13:49 · Griffin or David (unclear) (0.35)] In the Cut ↔ Swimming Pool · programming · Swimming Pool is the only other notable erotic thriller of 2003. · "the only other one in 2003 of any note is the French movie swimming pool, which is a pretty good movie."
[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."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Insider’ · 0:08:22 · Chris Ryan (0.60)] The Last of the Mohicans ↔ Heat · lineage · Heat is described as the urban version of Last of the Mohicans, a step in Mann's progression toward The Insider. · "Then you've got heat, which in some ways is the urban version of Last of the Mohicans."
[The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:12:05 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] Ferrari ↔ The Insider · craft · Ferrari has the best script Mann has worked with since The Insider. · "this has the best script he's worked with since insider"
[Blank Check — Patreon · In the Cut · 0:51:40 · Griffin or David (unclear) (0.35)] In the Cut ↔ Hollow Man · programming · The DVD box set pairing In the Cut with Hollow Man, Flatliners, Abandon and Trapped is called a blank-checky set. · "It is a weirdly blank checky box set."
[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"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Thief’ · 0:02:54 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Thief ⇒ Heat (the host's read) · lineage · Thief is the notebook sketch for Mann's later work, with Heat sharing DNA. · "the building blocks for what you wind up seeing in heat and collateral and Miami Vice in so many of his films to come."
[The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:15:43 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Ferrari ↔ Steve Jobs · craft · Steve Jobs did the compression idea best among recent biopics, and Mann's compressed 1957 setting for Ferrari is ingenious. · "Steve Jobs obviously had, maybe, maybe did the best job of this by kind of splitting the, the atom"
[Blank Check — Patreon · In the Cut · 0:52:19 · Griffin or David (unclear) (0.35)] In the Cut ↔ Paul Verhoeven · programming · The box set mixes a Campion, a Verhoeven, a Schumacher and an Aja. · "It's just wild that it's a campion, a Verhoven, a Schumacher, a fucking Agoya."
[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."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Thief’ · 1:15:06 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Thief ⇒ Heat (the maker said so: the Siegel piece, Caan telling Pacino) · lineage · Caan said scenes cut from Thief went to Heat. · "All the scenes that weren't used in our picture came over to you guys."
[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] 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] Amanda Dobbins · latest sketch, The Big Picture · ‘Mamma Mia!’ Meets ‘The Strangers'! It’s a Movie Swap! · Loves The Strangers' withholding craft and a good tense horror film without gore, but likes fun, communal movies like Mamma Mia. She dislikes supernatural or gory horror, which irritates her more than it scares her. She is a sucker for stars and for Googling a movie mid-recording. · stances: The Strangers is scary because of what it doesn't show or explain; Ending explanation weakens it; no answer would be better; Prefers 'withholding' filmmaking; Defends Mamma Mia as joyful and intentional
[speaker] Bill Simmons · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · Loves the Friday series as a communal, rental-era memory and tells childhood stories about the ads and theaters. Likes casting what-ifs and sports analogies for everything. Skeptical of horror at Christmas and of anything that wastes the premise. · stances: Friday the 13th is not the best entry but the origin story had to be told; Friday 2 is a leap over the original
[speaker] 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] 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 Collateral (2004); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Collateral (2004) 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.