What the corpus says about Paths of Glory (1957)

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)

[The Big Picture · Objection! Top 10 Courtroom Dramas | The Big Picture · 1:32:52 · Sean Fennessey (0.70)] Paths of Glory ↔ Rashomon · programming · Bonus recommendations that are not strictly courtroom movies. · "Paths of Glory the other day, which I don't think is a great courtroom movie"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory · 1:46:21 · David Sims (0.75)] Paths of Glory ↔ The Bridge on the River Kwai · programming · Box office game: Kwai, the 1957 Best Picture winner, was number one the week Paths of Glory went wide. · "number one at the box office, the week, the paths of glory goes wide, is the best picture winner of 1957"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory · 0:22:29 · David Sims (0.40)] Paths of Glory ↔ Dr. Strangelove · lineage · Strangelove is the nearest thing Kubrick made to Paths of Glory afterward, both being people talking through absurdity. · "the closest thing he's made to this since this is Strangelove, because Strangelove is also people talking through absurdity by and large"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory · 0:25:11 · unknown (0.30)] Paths of Glory ⇒ The Wire (the maker said so: David Simon cites it regularly) · lineage · David Simon reportedly cites Paths of Glory as the number one influence on The Wire: institutions chewing up the people on the ground. · "David Simon cites this regularly as the number one influence on the wire?"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory · 1:45:25 · David Sims (0.50)] Paths of Glory ↔ Spartacus · lineage · Kubrick makes Spartacus next partly because Paths of Glory made him no money. · "Which is one reason he's going to Spartacus because he really needs to make some money."
[Blank Check — Patreon · A Clockwork Orange · 0:47:20 · Alex Ross Perry (0.60)] Paths of Glory ↔ Full Metal Jacket · theme · The firing squad of Paths of Glory is set against the sniper of Full Metal Jacket as the gun advances. · "Well, what's the difference between the firing squat, the end of paths of glory and the sniper at the end of Full Metal Jacket?"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory · 0:04:22 · David Sims (0.50)] Blackadder (TV) ↔ Paths of Glory · theme · Growing up on Blackadder, the speaker finds some childlike charm in trench life and felt guilty thinking it during Paths of Glory. · "I was kind of thinking that while watching this, which immediately was a thought I felt very guilty for."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory · 0:12:05 · David Sims (0.40)] Paths of Glory ↔ Dr. Strangelove · theme · Strangelove pushes the same absurdity far enough for jokes, so the two films are more closely linked than the speaker had thought. · "Like Doctor Strangelove pushes it into a level of absurdity where you can actually have jokes."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory · 0:27:28 · unknown (0.35)] Paths of Glory ↔ Star Trek: The Next Generation / Deep Space Nine (TV) · theme · The Cardassian trial episode, where guilt is decided before the trial starts, is likened to the courtroom in Paths of Glory. · "In our in our legal system, the trial is just an arena for us to yell at you."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory · 0:30:13 · Sarah Marshall (0.60)] Paths of Glory ↔ Die Hard · theme · The FBI men in Die Hard accept losing 25 percent of the hostages, the same numbers-game thinking as the generals. · "the FBI are like, yeah, we're going to lose 25% of the hostages, but like, that's pretty good for us."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory · 0:34:22 · unknown (0.30)] Paths of Glory ↔ Bicycle Thieves · theme · A joke that Paths of Glory is as big a bummer as Bicycle Thieves, which is why nobody wanted to fund it. · "up there with bicycle thieves."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory · 0:52:22 · Griffin Newman (0.45)] Paths of Glory ↔ Born on the Fourth of July · theme · The appeal that sells young men on war is the first 20 minutes of Born on the 4th of July, before reality. · "the initial appeal of it, you know, the like 1st 20 minutes of born on the 4th of July"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory · 0:55:14 · Griffin Newman (0.85)] Paths of Glory ↔ Full Metal Jacket · theme · Full Metal Jacket shows how systems hype young men up for war before reality hits; Paths of Glory shows the illusion falling apart. · "the thing that I think full Metal Jacket does particularly well, is you sort of understand the way these systems are built to hype these young men up"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory · 1:17:05 · Sarah Marshall (0.90)] Paths of Glory ↔ Predator · theme · Predator is the closest she gets to a war movie: a finite group dealing with a scary thing. · "it's like a finite number of people at a remote location dealing with a scary thing."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory · 1:20:56 · Sarah Marshall (0.50)] Deep Blue Sea ↔ Paths of Glory · theme · Renny Harlin movies include a character saying I don't want to die, as Carey does in the Paths of Glory death scene. · "Deep Blue Sea and Cliffhanger, where someone who's about to die horribly says, I don't want to die."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory · 1:22:08 · Sarah Marshall (0.60)] Paths of Glory ↔ Saving Private Ryan · theme · Saving Private Ryan is a parallel to Paths of Glory: both turn on an absurd mission and the question of what heroism means. · "Saving Private Ryan, I think, is an incredible parallel to paths of glory because it's also about a very absurd mission"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory · 1:31:20 · Sarah Marshall (0.85)] Paths of Glory ↔ Stand by Me · theme · Admitting you live in a world of men, as Paths of Glory and Stand by Me do, beats token female characters. · "I love it when movies, like, don't pretend to be interested in women when they clearly aren't, you know?"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory · 0:21:58 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Paths of Glory ↔ Spartacus · craft · The speaker expected Paths of Glory to be a Spartacus-scale Kirk Douglas epic, as the poster implied. · "similar to Spartacus in terms of like scale"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory · 0:41:29 · unknown (0.40)] Paths of Glory ↔ The Killing · craft · The overcomplicated hard-boiled dialogue of the rewrite is the kind that rules in The Killing. · "that's like the kind of dialogue that like rules in the killing."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory · 0:58:11 · unknown (0.30)] Paths of Glory ↔ Inglourious Basterds · craft · There are two ways to handle accents: the Basterds way of casting real nationalities, or letting actors use their own accents as here. · "There's the inglorious bastard's way where you're just like, everyone's actually going to speak the language they would speak"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory · 0:18:43 · Sarah Marshall (0.90)] Paths of Glory ↔ Barry Lyndon · contrast · Sarah picked Paths of Glory over Barry Lyndon, which she loves but finds taxing to watch. · "I do love Barry Lyndon, but like, just the idea of watching it, you just like kind of, You know, it's like taxing in a different way."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory · 0:31:40 · Sarah Marshall (0.50)] Paths of Glory ↔ Die Hard · contrast · Die Hard asks how much good one good guy can do and answers all of it; Paths of Glory answers none of it. · "the whole premise of Die Hard is like, how much good can like one good guy manage to get done?"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory · 0:46:26 · David Sims (0.60)] Paths of Glory ↔ All Quiet on the Western Front · contrast · The only plausible rival as the great World War I film; All Quiet is a pre-code, unsanitized, unjingoistic picture. · "It's not jingoistic or sanded down."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory · 0:47:14 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Paths of Glory ↔ 1917 · contrast · The single whistle-blowing sequence in Paths of Glory is more harrowing than all of 1917's unrelenting one-shot. · "the one whistleblowing sequence with Douglas for me is so much more harrowing and tense than anything in 1917"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory · 0:57:55 · unknown (0.30)] Paths of Glory ↔ Highlander · contrast · A pan-European accent like Christopher Lambert's in Highlander is worse than generic American speech. · "A pan-European accent sounding like Christopher Lambert and Highlander."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory · 0:58:39 · unknown (0.30)] Paths of Glory ↔ Valkyrie · contrast · Valkyrie mixes an American lead with British cast, which is the accent problem Paths of Glory sidesteps. · "it's the huge problem with Valkyrie."

Films put beside it more than once (6)

[pairs] Paths of Glory ↔ Full Metal Jacket · said 2 times in 2 episodes
[pairs] Paths of Glory ↔ The Killing · said 2 times in 2 episodes
[pairs] Paths of Glory ↔ Die Hard · said 2 times in 1 episode
[pairs] Paths of Glory ↔ Saving Private Ryan · said 2 times in 1 episode
[pairs] Paths of Glory ↔ Dr. Strangelove · said 2 times in 1 episode
[pairs] Paths of Glory ↔ Spartacus · said 2 times in 1 episode

Fun items about it (6)

[Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory · 0:00:55 · unknown (0.30)] Paths of Glory · fun · The poster and tagline sell a Kirk Douglas action epic in the trenches; the film is fascinatingly not that. · "It makes it feel like this whole movie is going to be him in the fucking trenches wrestling people to the ground."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory · 0:32:31 · David Sims (0.60)] Paths of Glory · fun · Harris-Kubrick got an MGM deal to write, produce and direct in 40 weeks for $75,000. · "they get a deal at MGM to write, produce, and direct a film in 40 weeks for a fee of $75,000"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory · 0:35:13 · David Sims (0.60)] Paths of Glory · fun · Kirk Douglas's name alone got a $1 million budget, and he took $300,000 of it. · "$1000000 budget based on Kirk Douglas's name, $300,000 goes to Kirk Douglas."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory · 1:08:43 · unknown (0.35)] Paths of Glory · fun · Watch the opening: offices are wide, deep focus and silent; the trenches are claustrophobic noise. · "Kubrick's doing what later kind of becomes his definitive style of this sort of icy remove, super wide shot, deep focus, focusing on the silence"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory · 1:09:41 · unknown (0.35)] Paths of Glory · fun · The jail cell is shot like a general's office because it is safer than the front. · "even something like the jail cell where they're being kept before the execution, he shoots more like one of the general's offices"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory · 1:25:07 · Sarah Marshall (0.60)] Paths of Glory · fun · The most legally accurate moment in any movie: the lawyer cannot say anything relevant and is waved off. · "That's like the most legally accurate moment in any movie."

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

[The Rewatchables · ‘Die Hard 2’ · 0:15:44 · Chris Ryan (0.80)] Die Hard 2 ↔ Die Hard · lineage · Ryan says the first and third Die Hard are baked into their locations, while this one is more generic action movie-ish. · "the 1st Die Hard and the 3rd Die Hard are characterized by their, like, this is really baked in."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Lolita · 1:20:10 · unknown (0.00)] Lolita → Dr. Strangelove · programming · Unlike Strangelove, Lolita had no prior Kubrick-Sellers connection. · "Because it's not like Strange Love where you're like, okay, there's a pre-existing connection now."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Full Metal Jacket · 0:56:40 · David Sims (0.60)] The Woman King ↔ Full Metal Jacket · programming · Both films are about how much you have to break your brain to survive training for war. · "But it's the thing that like Woman King goes into a lot as well of like, how much you have to break your brain to survive an environment like this, right?"
[The Big Picture · 8. I Love America | Do We Get to Win This Time? · 1:00:36 · Brian Raftery (0.90)] Apocalypse Now ⇒ Saving Private Ryan (the host's read) · lineage · Two decades of Apocalypse Now, Platoon and Born made Ryan's grit necessary. · "By the time Saving Private Ryan was released, moviegoers have spent two decades being confronted by the likes of Apocalypse Now in Platoon and born in the Fourth of July."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Spartacus · 1:03:34 · Richard Lawson (0.60)] Spartacus ⇒ Gladiator (the host's read) · lineage · Richard, seeing Spartacus for the first time, says it is the main thing Gladiator riffs on. · "this is really the main thing the gladiators are riffing on."
[The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 1:00:42 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Die Hard ⇒ Resident Evil (the host's read) · lineage · The shoes-melting beat is called a Die Hard nod (walking on broken glass). · "You have that wonderful diehard nod where his shoes are starting to melt and he has to take his shoes off."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Dr. Strangelove... · 0:48:54 · David Sims (0.55)] Red Alert (novel) ⇒ Dr. Strangelove (the host's read) · lineage · The speaker says Dr. Strangelove is based on Peter George's serious nuclear thriller Red Alert. · "so he scoops up this book called Red Alert, which is, of course, what Dr. Strangelove is based on by Peter George that is a serious nuclear thriller."
[The Big Picture · 8. I Love America | Do We Get to Win This Time? · 0:50:43 · Lorenz Tate (0.80)] Full Metal Jacket ⇒ Dead Presidents (the maker said so: Lorenz Tate recalling the Hughes brothers' videotapes) · lineage · Allen Hughes made a VHS of Vietnam scenes; Tate was assigned Full Metal Jacket, Apocalypse Now, Platoon. · "So I watched Full Metal Jacket."
[Blank Check · Empire of the Sun · 2:19:11 · Bilge Ebiri (0.80)] Saving Private Ryan ↔ Empire of the Sun · theme · Bilge finds Saving Private Ryan like Empire: incredible first 30-40 minutes, then merely liked. · "is actually not dissimilar to some people's response to Empire of the Sun"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Spartacus · 1:59:30 · unknown (0.40)] Spartacus ⇒ Dell Comics (the host's read) · lineage · Spartacus got a Dell Comics color adaptation, like a tie-in of its era. · "that this had a Dell comics color adaptation"
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing · 0:14:30 · David Sims (0.45)] The Detective ⇒ Die Hard (the host's read) · lineage · Sinatra's rights deal on The Detective gave him first refusal on follow-ups, so Die Hard had to be offered to him. · "something in the deal for when Sinatra had bought the rights to the detective, gave him right of 1st refusal on any of the follow-ups"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Dr. Strangelove... · 0:53:55 · David Sims (0.60)] Dr. Strangelove ⇒ Zucker Brothers (the host's read) · lineage · Speaker had a breakthrough that Strangelove must have been a big influence on the Zucker brothers and Jim Abrahams. · "I did finally have the breakthrough watching this of how much of an influence this movie must have been on the Zucker Brothers and John Abrahams."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Full Metal Jacket · 0:25:08 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] The Short-Timers (novel) ⇒ Full Metal Jacket (the host's read) · lineage · Kubrick's film is based on Gustav Hasford's novel and keeps its three-part structure. · "Stanley Kubrick's film, 1987, based on the novel, The Short Timers by Gustav Hasford."
[The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies · 0:11:16 · Chris Ryan (0.80)] Saving Private Ryan ↔ 2001: A Space Odyssey · craft · The Normandy sequence is compared to the longest virtuoso stretches in film, like the openings of 2001 and There Will Be Blood. · "The opening of 2001, the opening of there will be blood."

Who said it, by their latest sketch (5)

[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] Sarah Marshall · latest sketch, Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory · Loves legal dramas, horror, Predator and action movies; calls Paths of Glory her personal Kubrick and a formative film seen once at the Portland Art Museum. Dislikes performative female characters in movies uninterested in women; prefers sincere shortcomings. · stances: Paths of Glory is about injustice and a truthful legal drama; Prefers movies that admit they are about men; Won't call her show criticism; love has to be part of the conversation about movies
[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] Alex Ross Perry · latest sketch, Blank Check — Patreon · Fight Club · Loves Fight Club as a formative film he saw at the AMC Marple on opening night and again on Saturday, and says it still ranks among his heart picks despite finding it juvenile now. Respects a movie that looks good. Cannot stand the Fincher perfectionist myth, and thinks his push for digital had a bad influence. A sucker for Zodiac, which he ranks first. · stances: Fight Club is a time capsule: deeply embarrassing to admire but loved spiritually; Fincher's perfectionist myth and digital proselytizing are overrated; The second half and Project Mayhem say nothing new; Zodiac is the best Fincher
[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

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 Paths of Glory (1957) 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 Paths of Glory (1957) 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 · Objection! Top 10 Courtroom Dramas | The Big Picture · 1:32:52 · Sean Fennessey (0.70)] Paths of Glory ↔ Rashomon · programming · Bonus recommendations that are not strictly courtroom movies. · "Paths of Glory the other day, which I don't think is a great courtroom movie"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory · 1:46:21 · David Sims (0.75)] Paths of Glory ↔ The Bridge on the River Kwai · programming · Box office game: Kwai, the 1957 Best Picture winner, was number one the week Paths of Glory went wide. · "number one at the box office, the week, the paths of glory goes wide, is the best picture winner of 1957"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory · 0:22:29 · David Sims (0.40)] Paths of Glory ↔ Dr. Strangelove · lineage · Strangelove is the nearest thing Kubrick made to Paths of Glory afterward, both being people talking through absurdity. · "the closest thing he's made to this since this is Strangelove, because Strangelove is also people talking through absurdity by and large"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory · 0:25:11 · unknown (0.30)] Paths of Glory ⇒ The Wire (the maker said so: David Simon cites it regularly) · lineage · David Simon reportedly cites Paths of Glory as the number one influence on The Wire: institutions chewing up the people on the ground. · "David Simon cites this regularly as the number one influence on the wire?"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory · 1:45:25 · David Sims (0.50)] Paths of Glory ↔ Spartacus · lineage · Kubrick makes Spartacus next partly because Paths of Glory made him no money. · "Which is one reason he's going to Spartacus because he really needs to make some money."
[Blank Check — Patreon · A Clockwork Orange · 0:47:20 · Alex Ross Perry (0.60)] Paths of Glory ↔ Full Metal Jacket · theme · The firing squad of Paths of Glory is set against the sniper of Full Metal Jacket as the gun advances. · "Well, what's the difference between the firing squat, the end of paths of glory and the sniper at the end of Full Metal Jacket?"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory · 0:04:22 · David Sims (0.50)] Blackadder (TV) ↔ Paths of Glory · theme · Growing up on Blackadder, the speaker finds some childlike charm in trench life and felt guilty thinking it during Paths of Glory. · "I was kind of thinking that while watching this, which immediately was a thought I felt very guilty for."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory · 0:12:05 · David Sims (0.40)] Paths of Glory ↔ Dr. Strangelove · theme · Strangelove pushes the same absurdity far enough for jokes, so the two films are more closely linked than the speaker had thought. · "Like Doctor Strangelove pushes it into a level of absurdity where you can actually have jokes."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory · 0:27:28 · unknown (0.35)] Paths of Glory ↔ Star Trek: The Next Generation / Deep Space Nine (TV) · theme · The Cardassian trial episode, where guilt is decided before the trial starts, is likened to the courtroom in Paths of Glory. · "In our in our legal system, the trial is just an arena for us to yell at you."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory · 0:30:13 · Sarah Marshall (0.60)] Paths of Glory ↔ Die Hard · theme · The FBI men in Die Hard accept losing 25 percent of the hostages, the same numbers-game thinking as the generals. · "the FBI are like, yeah, we're going to lose 25% of the hostages, but like, that's pretty good for us."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory · 0:34:22 · unknown (0.30)] Paths of Glory ↔ Bicycle Thieves · theme · A joke that Paths of Glory is as big a bummer as Bicycle Thieves, which is why nobody wanted to fund it. · "up there with bicycle thieves."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory · 0:52:22 · Griffin Newman (0.45)] Paths of Glory ↔ Born on the Fourth of July · theme · The appeal that sells young men on war is the first 20 minutes of Born on the 4th of July, before reality. · "the initial appeal of it, you know, the like 1st 20 minutes of born on the 4th of July"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory · 0:55:14 · Griffin Newman (0.85)] Paths of Glory ↔ Full Metal Jacket · theme · Full Metal Jacket shows how systems hype young men up for war before reality hits; Paths of Glory shows the illusion falling apart. · "the thing that I think full Metal Jacket does particularly well, is you sort of understand the way these systems are built to hype these young men up"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory · 1:17:05 · Sarah Marshall (0.90)] Paths of Glory ↔ Predator · theme · Predator is the closest she gets to a war movie: a finite group dealing with a scary thing. · "it's like a finite number of people at a remote location dealing with a scary thing."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory · 1:20:56 · Sarah Marshall (0.50)] Deep Blue Sea ↔ Paths of Glory · theme · Renny Harlin movies include a character saying I don't want to die, as Carey does in the Paths of Glory death scene. · "Deep Blue Sea and Cliffhanger, where someone who's about to die horribly says, I don't want to die."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory · 1:22:08 · Sarah Marshall (0.60)] Paths of Glory ↔ Saving Private Ryan · theme · Saving Private Ryan is a parallel to Paths of Glory: both turn on an absurd mission and the question of what heroism means. · "Saving Private Ryan, I think, is an incredible parallel to paths of glory because it's also about a very absurd mission"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory · 1:31:20 · Sarah Marshall (0.85)] Paths of Glory ↔ Stand by Me · theme · Admitting you live in a world of men, as Paths of Glory and Stand by Me do, beats token female characters. · "I love it when movies, like, don't pretend to be interested in women when they clearly aren't, you know?"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory · 0:21:58 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Paths of Glory ↔ Spartacus · craft · The speaker expected Paths of Glory to be a Spartacus-scale Kirk Douglas epic, as the poster implied. · "similar to Spartacus in terms of like scale"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory · 0:41:29 · unknown (0.40)] Paths of Glory ↔ The Killing · craft · The overcomplicated hard-boiled dialogue of the rewrite is the kind that rules in The Killing. · "that's like the kind of dialogue that like rules in the killing."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory · 0:58:11 · unknown (0.30)] Paths of Glory ↔ Inglourious Basterds · craft · There are two ways to handle accents: the Basterds way of casting real nationalities, or letting actors use their own accents as here. · "There's the inglorious bastard's way where you're just like, everyone's actually going to speak the language they would speak"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory · 0:18:43 · Sarah Marshall (0.90)] Paths of Glory ↔ Barry Lyndon · contrast · Sarah picked Paths of Glory over Barry Lyndon, which she loves but finds taxing to watch. · "I do love Barry Lyndon, but like, just the idea of watching it, you just like kind of, You know, it's like taxing in a different way."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory · 0:31:40 · Sarah Marshall (0.50)] Paths of Glory ↔ Die Hard · contrast · Die Hard asks how much good one good guy can do and answers all of it; Paths of Glory answers none of it. · "the whole premise of Die Hard is like, how much good can like one good guy manage to get done?"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory · 0:46:26 · David Sims (0.60)] Paths of Glory ↔ All Quiet on the Western Front · contrast · The only plausible rival as the great World War I film; All Quiet is a pre-code, unsanitized, unjingoistic picture. · "It's not jingoistic or sanded down."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory · 0:47:14 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Paths of Glory ↔ 1917 · contrast · The single whistle-blowing sequence in Paths of Glory is more harrowing than all of 1917's unrelenting one-shot. · "the one whistleblowing sequence with Douglas for me is so much more harrowing and tense than anything in 1917"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory · 0:57:55 · unknown (0.30)] Paths of Glory ↔ Highlander · contrast · A pan-European accent like Christopher Lambert's in Highlander is worse than generic American speech. · "A pan-European accent sounding like Christopher Lambert and Highlander."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory · 0:58:39 · unknown (0.30)] Paths of Glory ↔ Valkyrie · contrast · Valkyrie mixes an American lead with British cast, which is the accent problem Paths of Glory sidesteps. · "it's the huge problem with Valkyrie."
[pairs] Paths of Glory ↔ Full Metal Jacket · said 2 times in 2 episodes
[pairs] Paths of Glory ↔ The Killing · said 2 times in 2 episodes
[pairs] Paths of Glory ↔ Die Hard · said 2 times in 1 episode
[pairs] Paths of Glory ↔ Saving Private Ryan · said 2 times in 1 episode
[pairs] Paths of Glory ↔ Dr. Strangelove · said 2 times in 1 episode
[pairs] Paths of Glory ↔ Spartacus · said 2 times in 1 episode
[Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory · 0:00:55 · unknown (0.30)] Paths of Glory · fun · The poster and tagline sell a Kirk Douglas action epic in the trenches; the film is fascinatingly not that. · "It makes it feel like this whole movie is going to be him in the fucking trenches wrestling people to the ground."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory · 0:32:31 · David Sims (0.60)] Paths of Glory · fun · Harris-Kubrick got an MGM deal to write, produce and direct in 40 weeks for $75,000. · "they get a deal at MGM to write, produce, and direct a film in 40 weeks for a fee of $75,000"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory · 0:35:13 · David Sims (0.60)] Paths of Glory · fun · Kirk Douglas's name alone got a $1 million budget, and he took $300,000 of it. · "$1000000 budget based on Kirk Douglas's name, $300,000 goes to Kirk Douglas."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory · 1:08:43 · unknown (0.35)] Paths of Glory · fun · Watch the opening: offices are wide, deep focus and silent; the trenches are claustrophobic noise. · "Kubrick's doing what later kind of becomes his definitive style of this sort of icy remove, super wide shot, deep focus, focusing on the silence"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory · 1:09:41 · unknown (0.35)] Paths of Glory · fun · The jail cell is shot like a general's office because it is safer than the front. · "even something like the jail cell where they're being kept before the execution, he shoots more like one of the general's offices"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory · 1:25:07 · Sarah Marshall (0.60)] Paths of Glory · fun · The most legally accurate moment in any movie: the lawyer cannot say anything relevant and is waved off. · "That's like the most legally accurate moment in any movie."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Die Hard 2’ · 0:15:44 · Chris Ryan (0.80)] Die Hard 2 ↔ Die Hard · lineage · Ryan says the first and third Die Hard are baked into their locations, while this one is more generic action movie-ish. · "the 1st Die Hard and the 3rd Die Hard are characterized by their, like, this is really baked in."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Lolita · 1:20:10 · unknown (0.00)] Lolita → Dr. Strangelove · programming · Unlike Strangelove, Lolita had no prior Kubrick-Sellers connection. · "Because it's not like Strange Love where you're like, okay, there's a pre-existing connection now."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Full Metal Jacket · 0:56:40 · David Sims (0.60)] The Woman King ↔ Full Metal Jacket · programming · Both films are about how much you have to break your brain to survive training for war. · "But it's the thing that like Woman King goes into a lot as well of like, how much you have to break your brain to survive an environment like this, right?"
[The Big Picture · 8. I Love America | Do We Get to Win This Time? · 1:00:36 · Brian Raftery (0.90)] Apocalypse Now ⇒ Saving Private Ryan (the host's read) · lineage · Two decades of Apocalypse Now, Platoon and Born made Ryan's grit necessary. · "By the time Saving Private Ryan was released, moviegoers have spent two decades being confronted by the likes of Apocalypse Now in Platoon and born in the Fourth of July."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Spartacus · 1:03:34 · Richard Lawson (0.60)] Spartacus ⇒ Gladiator (the host's read) · lineage · Richard, seeing Spartacus for the first time, says it is the main thing Gladiator riffs on. · "this is really the main thing the gladiators are riffing on."
[The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 1:00:42 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Die Hard ⇒ Resident Evil (the host's read) · lineage · The shoes-melting beat is called a Die Hard nod (walking on broken glass). · "You have that wonderful diehard nod where his shoes are starting to melt and he has to take his shoes off."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Dr. Strangelove... · 0:48:54 · David Sims (0.55)] Red Alert (novel) ⇒ Dr. Strangelove (the host's read) · lineage · The speaker says Dr. Strangelove is based on Peter George's serious nuclear thriller Red Alert. · "so he scoops up this book called Red Alert, which is, of course, what Dr. Strangelove is based on by Peter George that is a serious nuclear thriller."
[The Big Picture · 8. I Love America | Do We Get to Win This Time? · 0:50:43 · Lorenz Tate (0.80)] Full Metal Jacket ⇒ Dead Presidents (the maker said so: Lorenz Tate recalling the Hughes brothers' videotapes) · lineage · Allen Hughes made a VHS of Vietnam scenes; Tate was assigned Full Metal Jacket, Apocalypse Now, Platoon. · "So I watched Full Metal Jacket."
[Blank Check · Empire of the Sun · 2:19:11 · Bilge Ebiri (0.80)] Saving Private Ryan ↔ Empire of the Sun · theme · Bilge finds Saving Private Ryan like Empire: incredible first 30-40 minutes, then merely liked. · "is actually not dissimilar to some people's response to Empire of the Sun"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Spartacus · 1:59:30 · unknown (0.40)] Spartacus ⇒ Dell Comics (the host's read) · lineage · Spartacus got a Dell Comics color adaptation, like a tie-in of its era. · "that this had a Dell comics color adaptation"
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing · 0:14:30 · David Sims (0.45)] The Detective ⇒ Die Hard (the host's read) · lineage · Sinatra's rights deal on The Detective gave him first refusal on follow-ups, so Die Hard had to be offered to him. · "something in the deal for when Sinatra had bought the rights to the detective, gave him right of 1st refusal on any of the follow-ups"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Dr. Strangelove... · 0:53:55 · David Sims (0.60)] Dr. Strangelove ⇒ Zucker Brothers (the host's read) · lineage · Speaker had a breakthrough that Strangelove must have been a big influence on the Zucker brothers and Jim Abrahams. · "I did finally have the breakthrough watching this of how much of an influence this movie must have been on the Zucker Brothers and John Abrahams."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Full Metal Jacket · 0:25:08 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] The Short-Timers (novel) ⇒ Full Metal Jacket (the host's read) · lineage · Kubrick's film is based on Gustav Hasford's novel and keeps its three-part structure. · "Stanley Kubrick's film, 1987, based on the novel, The Short Timers by Gustav Hasford."
[The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies · 0:11:16 · Chris Ryan (0.80)] Saving Private Ryan ↔ 2001: A Space Odyssey · craft · The Normandy sequence is compared to the longest virtuoso stretches in film, like the openings of 2001 and There Will Be Blood. · "The opening of 2001, the opening of there will be blood."
[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] Sarah Marshall · latest sketch, Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory · Loves legal dramas, horror, Predator and action movies; calls Paths of Glory her personal Kubrick and a formative film seen once at the Portland Art Museum. Dislikes performative female characters in movies uninterested in women; prefers sincere shortcomings. · stances: Paths of Glory is about injustice and a truthful legal drama; Prefers movies that admit they are about men; Won't call her show criticism; love has to be part of the conversation about movies
[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] Alex Ross Perry · latest sketch, Blank Check — Patreon · Fight Club · Loves Fight Club as a formative film he saw at the AMC Marple on opening night and again on Saturday, and says it still ranks among his heart picks despite finding it juvenile now. Respects a movie that looks good. Cannot stand the Fincher perfectionist myth, and thinks his push for digital had a bad influence. A sucker for Zodiac, which he ranks first. · stances: Fight Club is a time capsule: deeply embarrassing to admire but loved spiritually; Fincher's perfectionist myth and digital proselytizing are overrated; The second half and Project Mayhem say nothing new; Zodiac is the best Fincher
[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
[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 Paths of Glory (1957); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Paths of Glory (1957) 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.