What the corpus says about The Color of Money (1986)

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What was said about it (26)

[Blank Check · The Color of Money · 0:13:06 · unknown (0.30)] The Hustler ⇒ The Color of Money (the host's read) · lineage · The Color of Money is the sequel to The Hustler, but built from a new script that keeps only the title of the Tevis sequel novel. · "Even when they start developing scripts and go, like, throw all that out, start fresh, they kept writing in parts from Minnesota fats."
[Blank Check · The Color of Money · 0:20:34 · David Sims (0.55)] The Color of Money ↔ Return to Oz · lineage · Reddit consensus calls Color of Money the first legacy sequel, with Return to Oz as a debated earlier candidate dismissed as too weird. · "Uh, color money is generally agreed to on to be the 1st legacy sequel. Some people are like, does return to Oz count?"
[Blank Check · The Color of Money · 0:20:55 · unknown (0.30)] The Color of Money ↔ Dawn of the Dead · lineage · Another early sequel candidate that shares no characters, just a long gap and iconography. · "Dawn of the Dead kind of counts because it was a long, like, weight. between movies that like they don't have the same characters."
[Blank Check · The Color of Money · 1:06:13 · unknown (0.30)] The Color of Money ↔ Rocky II · lineage · The original Tevis-based script, a two-hander with Fats in Florida, would have been more by-the-book, like Rocky II or Creed II. · "It's more going by the book, right? It's like Rocky 2."
[Blank Check · The Color of Money · 1:07:05 · David Sims (0.40)] The Color of Money ⇒ Top Gun: Maverick (the host's read) · lineage · Gap-based legacy sequels like Top Gun Maverick, Tron Legacy and Blade Runner follow the template Color of Money invented, though in 1986 sequels were derided. · "now we get more and more like your your Tron legacies and your Top Gun Mavericks, where it's just casually... 37, 40 years later"
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Color of Money’ · 0:44:53 · Chris Ryan (0.65)] The Hustler ⇒ The Color of Money (the host's read) · lineage · The mentoring conversation Newman has with Vince and Carmen mirrors the one George C. Scott has with Newman in The Hustler; both films also go on the road. · "that's basically the George C. Scott has the same conversation with Paul Newman and the Hustler."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Color of Money’ · 0:45:31 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] The Hustler ⇒ The Color of Money (the host's read) · lineage · Newman's Eddie Felson in 1986 becomes the George C. Scott hustler-mentor character of the original, and the sequel answers rather than remakes it. · "the Newman character in the color of money becomes the George C. Scott character in the Hustler."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Color of Money’ · 0:45:56 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] The Hustler ⇒ The Color of Money (the host's read) · lineage · Newman getting drunk and hustled by Amos is the first time he plays the Jackie Gleason role of the original, drunk and overconfident. · "it's basically the 1st time he plays Jackie Gleason and the hustler where he's just like wasted and thinks he's going to win and then gets gets hustled."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Color of Money’ · 0:52:26 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] The Hustler ⇒ The Color of Money (the host's read) · lineage · The film is theoretically based on Walter Tevis's follow-up novel to The Hustler but has almost nothing to do with it; Minnesota Fats was in the novel. · "this is theoretically based on Walter Tevis's follow-up novel to the Hustler, but the movie has almost nothing to do with the novel"
[The Big Picture · ‘Gladiator II’ Is Here. Are We Not Entertained? · 1:47:28 · Chris Ryan (0.60)] The Hustler ⇒ The Color of Money (the host's read) · lineage · The Color of Money revisits Eddie Felson years later, with Paul Newman in his twilight and a new protege. · "Now we find Paul Newman bringing up like a new protégé."
[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 Big Picture · The Tom Cruise Hall of Fame · 1:10:40 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Top Gun: Maverick ↔ The Color of Money · lineage · Top Gun: Maverick is doing the Eddie Felson-style return of an older character. · "Obviously, he's doing that with Top Gun right now."
[Blank Check · The Color of Money · 0:10:27 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Cars ↔ The Color of Money · theme · The lesson of Cars and Color of Money is that excellence is in how you use it, not raw skill, and the hosts tie the tagline line to the film. · "And I would say the lesson of cars and the lesson of, uh, the color of money is, uh, it's in the way that you use it."
[Blank Check · The Color of Money · 1:49:00 · unknown (0.30)] The Color of Money ↔ The Last Starfighter · theme · Vincent's obsession with an arcade game that supposedly sharpens his skills is compared with the game in The Last Starfighter. · "What was the video game in Last Starfighter?"
[Blank Check · The Color of Money · 2:43:46 · unknown (0.35)] The Color of Money ↔ Slap Shot · theme · Both films play Newman's age as a strength, battered but still the hottest thing, and end with a nonconventional, self-satisfying triumph rather than a big win. · "not unlike Slapshot, where the movie's culmination is, I'm going to take all my clothes off and skate around in circles."
[Blank Check · The Color of Money · 2:53:28 · unknown (0.30)] The Color of Money ↔ Rocky IV · theme · The private Eddie-Vince final game is likened to Rocky versus Apollo Creed in private. · "and gives Vince the money back and is like, you know, let's do, it's like Rocky versus Apollo Creed in private."
[The Rewatchables · ‘F1’ · 0:08:56 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] F1 ↔ The Color of Money · theme · Color of Money shows billiards as the most exciting cinematic thing; so racing movies work better than racing. · "if you watch Color of Money, you're like, Billiards is the most exciting cinematic thing"
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Color of Money’ · 0:08:11 · Chris Ryan (0.70)] The Color of Money ↔ The Hustler · theme · Eddie in The Hustler is a loser and drunk with broken thumbs, an anti-hero rather than a golden god, unlike Cruise's Vincent. · "What do we know about Eddie Felson from the Hustler is he's a loser."
[Blank Check · The Color of Money · 1:21:44 · unknown (0.30)] Raiders of the Lost Ark ⇒ The Color of Money (the host's read) · craft · Scorsese covers scenes with morphing moving master shots, like Spielberg's quick efficient coverage, to stay under schedule. · "But he's doing like all this Spielberg, like coverage with camera movement."
[Blank Check · The Color of Money · 1:47:47 · unknown (0.30)] The Color of Money ↔ The Verdict · craft · Both are ranked on the podium of burnished-wood movies. · "I call that the greatest burnished wood movie of all time. This one has a, but this is in on the podium with that."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Color of Money’ · 0:35:52 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] The Color of Money ↔ The Wolf of Wall Street · craft · Same Scorsese fast-cutting montage-with-music technique appears in both. · "We also talked about it years ago and we did Wolf of Wall Street."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Color of Money’ · 0:35:54 · Sean Fennessey (0.70)] The Color of Money ↔ The Departed · craft · The fast-cutting montage with a blues soundtrack explosion in the Grady Seasons scene is a Scorsese move they also discussed on The Departed and Wolf of Wall Street. · "This like super fast cutting montage blues soundtrack explosion thing that he does"
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Color of Money’ · 0:51:05 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] The Color of Money ↔ Trading Places · craft · Men waving cash in each other's faces at a bar feels very Trading Places. · "it's like very trading places where it's just dudes waving shit in each other's faces."
[Blank Check · The Color of Money · 1:31:55 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Top Gun: Maverick ↔ The Color of Money · contrast · Cruise keeps making baton-pass movies where he refuses to pass the baton; Maverick saves Teller instead of elevating him. · "Also, the fact that Cruz keeps making baton pass movies where he refuses to pass the baton."
[Blank Check · The Color of Money · 1:46:17 · unknown (0.30)] The Color of Money ↔ The Verdict · contrast · In both films Newman is battered yet hot, but pool hustler reads as cool while The Verdict makes the loser life look sad. · "In this one, it's like, you're like, air pool player, that's cool. And the verdict, you're like, wow, you you suck."
[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."

Films put beside it more than once (6)

[pairs] The Color of Money ↔ The Hustler · said 11 times in 3 episodes
[pairs] The Color of Money ↔ After Hours · said 4 times in 3 episodes
[pairs] The Color of Money ↔ The Verdict · said 4 times in 2 episodes
[pairs] The Color of Money ↔ Top Gun: Maverick · said 3 times in 2 episodes
[pairs] The Color of Money ↔ Goodfellas · said 3 times in 2 episodes
[pairs] The Color of Money ↔ Raging Bull · said 3 times in 2 episodes

Fun items about it (6)

[Blank Check · The Color of Money · 0:10:58 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] The Color of Money · fun · Chris says the hosts' concept for a rep series: movies where you want to live the objectively stressful low life of the people in them. · "movies where you want to live the objectively, like, stressful low life of the people involved. Like you watch it and you're like, what's cooler than being a pool hustler who lives at bars?"
[Blank Check · The Color of Money · 1:18:51 · unknown (0.30)] The Color of Money · fun · Cruise went turbo on prep, trying a jump-ball shot that would take days; the hosts speculate it's what he regrets, and Cruise has dinner with Scorsese's parents nightly. · "Uh, Cruz like has dinner with them every night. You know, he really loves Marty."
[Blank Check · The Color of Money · 1:19:25 · unknown (0.30)] The Color of Money · fun · Production trivia: Scorsese's one film that came in under schedule and budget ($13M under $14.5M) to prove a point; shot 10 weeks, locations in Chicago after New York pool halls were gone and Toronto was too clean. · "It's the only time he did that in his career and it felt like he needed to do that to prove a point."
[Blank Check · The Color of Money · 1:38:25 · unknown (0.30)] The Color of Money · fun · The opening is a Scorsese voiceover about cigarette imagery; the hosts say it makes them want to drink and smoke and become a hustler. · "The most grotesque and also the most beautiful image of a cigarette. where you're like, I gotta have that."
[Blank Check · The Color of Money · 1:43:09 · unknown (0.30)] The Color of Money · fun · The spectator pool-hall chair, an elevated wooden throne also called a shoeshine or lifeguard chair, which one host asked for in the studio. · "Elevated wooden throne that overlooks so that you get like a good angle on the action. It's technically known as a spectator."
[Blank Check · The Color of Money · 2:42:36 · unknown (0.30)] The Color of Money · fun · The film turns into an advertisement for optometry once Eddie gets glasses and his problems clear. · "And then this movie turns into a sort of an advertisement for optometry because it turns out that a lot of his problems were just that he needed a prescription glass."

One hop out: what recommends the films most often joined to it (14)

[Blank Check · After Hours · 2:18:42 · unknown host (0.35)] After Hours ↔ Dallas Buyers Club · programming · Dallas Buyers Club would pair with After Hours as an AIDS-era double feature. · "It'd be a great double feature with after hours."
[The Big Picture · Objection! Top 10 Courtroom Dramas | The Big Picture · 1:07:27 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60)] The Verdict ⇒ A Few Good Men (the host's read) · lineage · You cannot have A Few Good Men without The Verdict; everything on the courtroom checklist comes from it. · "you really, really cannot have a few good men without having the verdict"
[The Rewatchables · ‘My Cousin Vinny’ · 1:18:20 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] My Cousin Vinny ↔ Goodfellas · programming · Best double feature: Goodfellas then Vinny, though Vinny is too close in length. · "I was going to say Goodfellas to this is pretty great."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Rocky’ · 1:44:35 · Van Lathan (0.45)] Rocky ↔ Raging Bull · programming · Another double-feature choice, Raging Bull, picked by one host. · "I go Raging Bull."
[Blank Check · Raiders of the Lost Ark · 3:12:46 · unknown (0.40)] Yellowbeard ↔ After Hours · programming · Cheech and Chong in Yellowbeard and After Hours are reserved for future Mel Damski and Scorsese series. · "we'd want to save that for Martin Scorsese and Mel Damski series."
[The Big Picture · Objection! Top 10 Courtroom Dramas | The Big Picture · 1:08:58 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] The Verdict ⇒ The Firm (the host's read) · lineage · The Verdict is foundational for the Grisham underdog stories. · "foundational for a lot of the Grisham stories"
[The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 0:26:39 · Chris Ryan (0.90)] Chris Ryan ↔ Goodfellas · programming · Pick 1 (round 1), category Oscar nominee: Easy first pick; one of his favorite movies ever made. · "one of my favorite movies ever made, Martin Scorsese's uh, epic, darkly comic look at the rise and fall of the American mob"
[Blank Check · Raging Bull · 1:55:42 · unknown host (0.30)] Raging Bull ⇒ The King of Comedy (the host's read) · lineage · King of Comedy is a part-2 of sorts about a delusional comedian, echoing LaMotta's stand-up, and is part of a De Niro trilogy with Taxi Driver. · "There's the king of comedy, the spiritual sequel to Raging Bull."
[The Rewatchables · ‘After Hours’ · 1:14:08 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] After Hours ↔ Pee-wee's Big Adventure · programming · Tim Burton left After Hours the same year he made Pee-wee; both are about a manchild in a strange world finding salvation going home. · "about a manchild, thrust into a world he doesn't understand, seeking something he can't get, and eventually finding salvation by going back home."
[The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ · 1:32:47 · Sean Fennessey (0.70)] A Bronx Tale ↔ Goodfellas · lineage · Fennessey wonders whether the needle drops and the Pesci cameo are purposeful homage or accident. · "I just want to know how much of what he was doing was a purposeful homage to Goodfellas"
[Blank Check · Raging Bull · 1:58:33 · Griffin Newman or David Sims (0.40)] Italianamerican ⇒ Raging Bull (the host's read) · lineage · Scorsese's parents fighting in Italianamerican and American Boy taught him the rhythm replicated in Raging Bull's family fight scenes. · "And so much of his parents fighting in Italian American is the feeling of the family fight scenes in this movie."
[The Rewatchables · ‘After Hours’ · 1:31:37 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] After Hours ↔ Bright Lights, Big City · programming · Bright Lights, Big City is a big one from this era that nobody talks about. · "Bright Lights Big City is a big one from this era too."
[The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 1:31:51 · unknown (0.40)] Goodfellas ⇒ My Blue Heaven (the host's read) · lineage · My Blue Heaven is blown out by Goodfellas as it is the same movie, like a sequel. · "It got kind of blown out of the water by Goodfellas because it's the same movie."
[Blank Check · Raging Bull · 1:08:55 · Griffin Newman or David Sims (0.40)] Rocky ⇒ Raging Bull (the maker said so) · theme · Scorsese shot in black and white to differentiate from Rocky-era bright red-white-and-blue boxing movies, and producer Winkler produced both. · "Number one, I want to differentiate from the Rockies and all the other sort of boxing movies right now."

Who said it, by their latest sketch (5)

[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] 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] 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)

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

The whole prompt

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 The Color of Money (1986) and wants to know what to watch next.

Below is what people who love movies said on three podcasts (Blank Check, The Rewatchables, The Big Picture) about The Color of Money (1986) and the films around it, one line each. Every line starts with where it came from, in brackets: [show · episode · time · speaker (how sure we are it was them)]. A [pairs] line says how often two films were put side by side. A [speaker] line says what that person likes. A [bits] line lists a show's running bits: a format, not an opinion.

[Blank Check · The Color of Money · 0:13:06 · unknown (0.30)] The Hustler ⇒ The Color of Money (the host's read) · lineage · The Color of Money is the sequel to The Hustler, but built from a new script that keeps only the title of the Tevis sequel novel. · "Even when they start developing scripts and go, like, throw all that out, start fresh, they kept writing in parts from Minnesota fats."
[Blank Check · The Color of Money · 0:20:34 · David Sims (0.55)] The Color of Money ↔ Return to Oz · lineage · Reddit consensus calls Color of Money the first legacy sequel, with Return to Oz as a debated earlier candidate dismissed as too weird. · "Uh, color money is generally agreed to on to be the 1st legacy sequel. Some people are like, does return to Oz count?"
[Blank Check · The Color of Money · 0:20:55 · unknown (0.30)] The Color of Money ↔ Dawn of the Dead · lineage · Another early sequel candidate that shares no characters, just a long gap and iconography. · "Dawn of the Dead kind of counts because it was a long, like, weight. between movies that like they don't have the same characters."
[Blank Check · The Color of Money · 1:06:13 · unknown (0.30)] The Color of Money ↔ Rocky II · lineage · The original Tevis-based script, a two-hander with Fats in Florida, would have been more by-the-book, like Rocky II or Creed II. · "It's more going by the book, right? It's like Rocky 2."
[Blank Check · The Color of Money · 1:07:05 · David Sims (0.40)] The Color of Money ⇒ Top Gun: Maverick (the host's read) · lineage · Gap-based legacy sequels like Top Gun Maverick, Tron Legacy and Blade Runner follow the template Color of Money invented, though in 1986 sequels were derided. · "now we get more and more like your your Tron legacies and your Top Gun Mavericks, where it's just casually... 37, 40 years later"
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Color of Money’ · 0:44:53 · Chris Ryan (0.65)] The Hustler ⇒ The Color of Money (the host's read) · lineage · The mentoring conversation Newman has with Vince and Carmen mirrors the one George C. Scott has with Newman in The Hustler; both films also go on the road. · "that's basically the George C. Scott has the same conversation with Paul Newman and the Hustler."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Color of Money’ · 0:45:31 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] The Hustler ⇒ The Color of Money (the host's read) · lineage · Newman's Eddie Felson in 1986 becomes the George C. Scott hustler-mentor character of the original, and the sequel answers rather than remakes it. · "the Newman character in the color of money becomes the George C. Scott character in the Hustler."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Color of Money’ · 0:45:56 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] The Hustler ⇒ The Color of Money (the host's read) · lineage · Newman getting drunk and hustled by Amos is the first time he plays the Jackie Gleason role of the original, drunk and overconfident. · "it's basically the 1st time he plays Jackie Gleason and the hustler where he's just like wasted and thinks he's going to win and then gets gets hustled."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Color of Money’ · 0:52:26 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] The Hustler ⇒ The Color of Money (the host's read) · lineage · The film is theoretically based on Walter Tevis's follow-up novel to The Hustler but has almost nothing to do with it; Minnesota Fats was in the novel. · "this is theoretically based on Walter Tevis's follow-up novel to the Hustler, but the movie has almost nothing to do with the novel"
[The Big Picture · ‘Gladiator II’ Is Here. Are We Not Entertained? · 1:47:28 · Chris Ryan (0.60)] The Hustler ⇒ The Color of Money (the host's read) · lineage · The Color of Money revisits Eddie Felson years later, with Paul Newman in his twilight and a new protege. · "Now we find Paul Newman bringing up like a new protégé."
[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 Big Picture · The Tom Cruise Hall of Fame · 1:10:40 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Top Gun: Maverick ↔ The Color of Money · lineage · Top Gun: Maverick is doing the Eddie Felson-style return of an older character. · "Obviously, he's doing that with Top Gun right now."
[Blank Check · The Color of Money · 0:10:27 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Cars ↔ The Color of Money · theme · The lesson of Cars and Color of Money is that excellence is in how you use it, not raw skill, and the hosts tie the tagline line to the film. · "And I would say the lesson of cars and the lesson of, uh, the color of money is, uh, it's in the way that you use it."
[Blank Check · The Color of Money · 1:49:00 · unknown (0.30)] The Color of Money ↔ The Last Starfighter · theme · Vincent's obsession with an arcade game that supposedly sharpens his skills is compared with the game in The Last Starfighter. · "What was the video game in Last Starfighter?"
[Blank Check · The Color of Money · 2:43:46 · unknown (0.35)] The Color of Money ↔ Slap Shot · theme · Both films play Newman's age as a strength, battered but still the hottest thing, and end with a nonconventional, self-satisfying triumph rather than a big win. · "not unlike Slapshot, where the movie's culmination is, I'm going to take all my clothes off and skate around in circles."
[Blank Check · The Color of Money · 2:53:28 · unknown (0.30)] The Color of Money ↔ Rocky IV · theme · The private Eddie-Vince final game is likened to Rocky versus Apollo Creed in private. · "and gives Vince the money back and is like, you know, let's do, it's like Rocky versus Apollo Creed in private."
[The Rewatchables · ‘F1’ · 0:08:56 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] F1 ↔ The Color of Money · theme · Color of Money shows billiards as the most exciting cinematic thing; so racing movies work better than racing. · "if you watch Color of Money, you're like, Billiards is the most exciting cinematic thing"
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Color of Money’ · 0:08:11 · Chris Ryan (0.70)] The Color of Money ↔ The Hustler · theme · Eddie in The Hustler is a loser and drunk with broken thumbs, an anti-hero rather than a golden god, unlike Cruise's Vincent. · "What do we know about Eddie Felson from the Hustler is he's a loser."
[Blank Check · The Color of Money · 1:21:44 · unknown (0.30)] Raiders of the Lost Ark ⇒ The Color of Money (the host's read) · craft · Scorsese covers scenes with morphing moving master shots, like Spielberg's quick efficient coverage, to stay under schedule. · "But he's doing like all this Spielberg, like coverage with camera movement."
[Blank Check · The Color of Money · 1:47:47 · unknown (0.30)] The Color of Money ↔ The Verdict · craft · Both are ranked on the podium of burnished-wood movies. · "I call that the greatest burnished wood movie of all time. This one has a, but this is in on the podium with that."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Color of Money’ · 0:35:52 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] The Color of Money ↔ The Wolf of Wall Street · craft · Same Scorsese fast-cutting montage-with-music technique appears in both. · "We also talked about it years ago and we did Wolf of Wall Street."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Color of Money’ · 0:35:54 · Sean Fennessey (0.70)] The Color of Money ↔ The Departed · craft · The fast-cutting montage with a blues soundtrack explosion in the Grady Seasons scene is a Scorsese move they also discussed on The Departed and Wolf of Wall Street. · "This like super fast cutting montage blues soundtrack explosion thing that he does"
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Color of Money’ · 0:51:05 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] The Color of Money ↔ Trading Places · craft · Men waving cash in each other's faces at a bar feels very Trading Places. · "it's like very trading places where it's just dudes waving shit in each other's faces."
[Blank Check · The Color of Money · 1:31:55 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Top Gun: Maverick ↔ The Color of Money · contrast · Cruise keeps making baton-pass movies where he refuses to pass the baton; Maverick saves Teller instead of elevating him. · "Also, the fact that Cruz keeps making baton pass movies where he refuses to pass the baton."
[Blank Check · The Color of Money · 1:46:17 · unknown (0.30)] The Color of Money ↔ The Verdict · contrast · In both films Newman is battered yet hot, but pool hustler reads as cool while The Verdict makes the loser life look sad. · "In this one, it's like, you're like, air pool player, that's cool. And the verdict, you're like, wow, you you suck."
[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."
[pairs] The Color of Money ↔ The Hustler · said 11 times in 3 episodes
[pairs] The Color of Money ↔ After Hours · said 4 times in 3 episodes
[pairs] The Color of Money ↔ The Verdict · said 4 times in 2 episodes
[pairs] The Color of Money ↔ Top Gun: Maverick · said 3 times in 2 episodes
[pairs] The Color of Money ↔ Goodfellas · said 3 times in 2 episodes
[pairs] The Color of Money ↔ Raging Bull · said 3 times in 2 episodes
[Blank Check · The Color of Money · 0:10:58 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] The Color of Money · fun · Chris says the hosts' concept for a rep series: movies where you want to live the objectively stressful low life of the people in them. · "movies where you want to live the objectively, like, stressful low life of the people involved. Like you watch it and you're like, what's cooler than being a pool hustler who lives at bars?"
[Blank Check · The Color of Money · 1:18:51 · unknown (0.30)] The Color of Money · fun · Cruise went turbo on prep, trying a jump-ball shot that would take days; the hosts speculate it's what he regrets, and Cruise has dinner with Scorsese's parents nightly. · "Uh, Cruz like has dinner with them every night. You know, he really loves Marty."
[Blank Check · The Color of Money · 1:19:25 · unknown (0.30)] The Color of Money · fun · Production trivia: Scorsese's one film that came in under schedule and budget ($13M under $14.5M) to prove a point; shot 10 weeks, locations in Chicago after New York pool halls were gone and Toronto was too clean. · "It's the only time he did that in his career and it felt like he needed to do that to prove a point."
[Blank Check · The Color of Money · 1:38:25 · unknown (0.30)] The Color of Money · fun · The opening is a Scorsese voiceover about cigarette imagery; the hosts say it makes them want to drink and smoke and become a hustler. · "The most grotesque and also the most beautiful image of a cigarette. where you're like, I gotta have that."
[Blank Check · The Color of Money · 1:43:09 · unknown (0.30)] The Color of Money · fun · The spectator pool-hall chair, an elevated wooden throne also called a shoeshine or lifeguard chair, which one host asked for in the studio. · "Elevated wooden throne that overlooks so that you get like a good angle on the action. It's technically known as a spectator."
[Blank Check · The Color of Money · 2:42:36 · unknown (0.30)] The Color of Money · fun · The film turns into an advertisement for optometry once Eddie gets glasses and his problems clear. · "And then this movie turns into a sort of an advertisement for optometry because it turns out that a lot of his problems were just that he needed a prescription glass."
[Blank Check · After Hours · 2:18:42 · unknown host (0.35)] After Hours ↔ Dallas Buyers Club · programming · Dallas Buyers Club would pair with After Hours as an AIDS-era double feature. · "It'd be a great double feature with after hours."
[The Big Picture · Objection! Top 10 Courtroom Dramas | The Big Picture · 1:07:27 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60)] The Verdict ⇒ A Few Good Men (the host's read) · lineage · You cannot have A Few Good Men without The Verdict; everything on the courtroom checklist comes from it. · "you really, really cannot have a few good men without having the verdict"
[The Rewatchables · ‘My Cousin Vinny’ · 1:18:20 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] My Cousin Vinny ↔ Goodfellas · programming · Best double feature: Goodfellas then Vinny, though Vinny is too close in length. · "I was going to say Goodfellas to this is pretty great."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Rocky’ · 1:44:35 · Van Lathan (0.45)] Rocky ↔ Raging Bull · programming · Another double-feature choice, Raging Bull, picked by one host. · "I go Raging Bull."
[Blank Check · Raiders of the Lost Ark · 3:12:46 · unknown (0.40)] Yellowbeard ↔ After Hours · programming · Cheech and Chong in Yellowbeard and After Hours are reserved for future Mel Damski and Scorsese series. · "we'd want to save that for Martin Scorsese and Mel Damski series."
[The Big Picture · Objection! Top 10 Courtroom Dramas | The Big Picture · 1:08:58 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] The Verdict ⇒ The Firm (the host's read) · lineage · The Verdict is foundational for the Grisham underdog stories. · "foundational for a lot of the Grisham stories"
[The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 0:26:39 · Chris Ryan (0.90)] Chris Ryan ↔ Goodfellas · programming · Pick 1 (round 1), category Oscar nominee: Easy first pick; one of his favorite movies ever made. · "one of my favorite movies ever made, Martin Scorsese's uh, epic, darkly comic look at the rise and fall of the American mob"
[Blank Check · Raging Bull · 1:55:42 · unknown host (0.30)] Raging Bull ⇒ The King of Comedy (the host's read) · lineage · King of Comedy is a part-2 of sorts about a delusional comedian, echoing LaMotta's stand-up, and is part of a De Niro trilogy with Taxi Driver. · "There's the king of comedy, the spiritual sequel to Raging Bull."
[The Rewatchables · ‘After Hours’ · 1:14:08 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] After Hours ↔ Pee-wee's Big Adventure · programming · Tim Burton left After Hours the same year he made Pee-wee; both are about a manchild in a strange world finding salvation going home. · "about a manchild, thrust into a world he doesn't understand, seeking something he can't get, and eventually finding salvation by going back home."
[The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ · 1:32:47 · Sean Fennessey (0.70)] A Bronx Tale ↔ Goodfellas · lineage · Fennessey wonders whether the needle drops and the Pesci cameo are purposeful homage or accident. · "I just want to know how much of what he was doing was a purposeful homage to Goodfellas"
[Blank Check · Raging Bull · 1:58:33 · Griffin Newman or David Sims (0.40)] Italianamerican ⇒ Raging Bull (the host's read) · lineage · Scorsese's parents fighting in Italianamerican and American Boy taught him the rhythm replicated in Raging Bull's family fight scenes. · "And so much of his parents fighting in Italian American is the feeling of the family fight scenes in this movie."
[The Rewatchables · ‘After Hours’ · 1:31:37 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] After Hours ↔ Bright Lights, Big City · programming · Bright Lights, Big City is a big one from this era that nobody talks about. · "Bright Lights Big City is a big one from this era too."
[The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 1:31:51 · unknown (0.40)] Goodfellas ⇒ My Blue Heaven (the host's read) · lineage · My Blue Heaven is blown out by Goodfellas as it is the same movie, like a sequel. · "It got kind of blown out of the water by Goodfellas because it's the same movie."
[Blank Check · Raging Bull · 1:08:55 · Griffin Newman or David Sims (0.40)] Rocky ⇒ Raging Bull (the maker said so) · theme · Scorsese shot in black and white to differentiate from Rocky-era bright red-white-and-blue boxing movies, and producer Winkler produced both. · "Number one, I want to differentiate from the Rockies and all the other sort of boxing movies right now."
[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] 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] 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 The Color of Money (1986); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend The Color of Money (1986) itself. For each one, give one short reason in your own words and say whose reason it is: the show, named exactly as the brackets name it, and the speaker when the line names one (an "unknown" speaker is just the show). If the lines are thin, say so plainly rather than stretching them.

Keep a contrast a contrast. When a line sets two films apart, the reason is how they differ; never turn it into a way they're alike. A line with ⇒ puts the source first and what drew on it second, and one marked "the maker said so" is still the host reporting it: say who said it, and never state an influence as fact.

You know only what's on these lines. Add no fact they don't state: not who directed a film, not what kind of film it is, not when it came out, unless a line says so. Say nothing about the store or how anything rents here.

Talk the way a clerk talks to a customer at the counter: plain text, titles written plainly with no asterisks or other markup, no headings, no lists of more than six, no JSON.