What the corpus says about Cocktail (1988)

The 53 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 (14)

[The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 1:21:22 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Cocktail ↔ Cocktail · programming · Cogwin's law from Cocktail becomes a Life Lesson category; the Cocktail pod was a fun one. · "He points out, we had so much fun with the laws."
[Blank Check · The Color of Money · 2:17:00 · unknown (0.35)] Cocktail ↔ Top Gun · theme · The Cruise movie-star template begins in Top Gun and cocktail: a guy who is the best at something and is doubted before proving everyone wrong. · "Tom Cruise movies are primarily about a guy who is the fucking best at something."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 0:20:52 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Edge of Tomorrow ↔ Cocktail · contrast · Unlike Cocktail or The Color of Money, Cruise's character does not have all the moves; he has to learn them. · "It's not cocktail, it's not color money."
[Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · 2:07:16 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Cocktail ↔ The Color of Money · career · Cruise should do a Color of Money legacy sequel instead of Days of Thunder or more racing movies. · "Do fucking color of money with a Kaylee Spainey or some shit."
[Blank Check · The Color of Money · 1:33:32 · unknown (0.30)] Rain Man ↔ Cocktail · career · Cruise balanced fluffy Cocktail with a big director and bigger actor in Rain Man; he reportedly steals Rain Man from Hoffman. · "He, in my opinion, he steals Rayman out from Hoffman."
[Blank Check · Star 80 · 1:48:04 · David Sims (0.40)] Cocktail ↔ All the Right Moves · career · Cruise's early film at number five leads to a riff on Cocktail's drama-minded reshoots. · "And then at some point they were just like, we got to make it a fucking Tom Cruise movie."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Color of Money’ · 0:53:27 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] The Color of Money ↔ Cocktail · people · A bar actor here is Cruise's uncle from Cocktail, supporting the theory Cruise pulls his supporting players from film to film. · "Just that Cruz is kind of grabbing all of his supporting figures over the years."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Color of Money’ · 1:16:00 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Top Gun ↔ Cocktail · Cruise sing-along · In the best Tom Cruise singing-along category, Top Gun, Cocktail, Risky Business, Jerry Maguire and this film compete; Top Gun wins as camp and 80s. · "Top Gun probably wins because it's a whole scene and it's Anthony Edwards and It's out of control, campy"
[The Big Picture · The Tom Cruise Hall of Fame · 0:54:40 · Amanda Dobbins (0.40)] Top Gun ↔ Cocktail · duplicate role · Cocktail is questioned as duplicative of Top Gun: the cocky guy brought down a notch. · "do you think that there is anything in the in cocktail that can't be gotten from Top Gun?"
[The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 0:57:51 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Tom Cruise ↔ Cocktail · programming · With the public-figure Cruise, the pick has to be Cocktail. · "If it's the cruise, the public figure cruise that we know, it's got to be cocktails."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Color of Money’ · 0:30:25 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] Tom Cruise ↔ Cocktail · theme · Cruise in Top Gun, Cocktail, and this film plays with no wink or self-awareness, unlike later movie stars. · "In all 3 of those movies that you just mentioned, cocktail, Top Gun, and this movie. There's no self-awareness."
[The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 1:28:47 · unknown (0.40)] Tom Cruise ↔ Cocktail · career · Cruise in Cocktail is a throwing-everything-into-a-part-that-isn't-great example, as with Pacino in Scent of a Woman and Two for the Money. · "Like, cruise and cocktail is another one."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Species’ · 0:53:24 · Bill Simmons (0.30)] Roger Donaldson ↔ Cocktail · career · Donaldson also directed Cocktail. · "We've done he also did cocktail."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Color of Money’ · 0:53:32 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Bruce A. Young ↔ Cocktail · verdict · Competing 'that guy' nominees: Bruce Young (Moselle/Jackie), Cruise's Cocktail uncle, and Paul Herman, who wins. · "Bruce A. Young. This is a candidate for best that guy."

Films put beside it more than once (2)

[pairs] Cocktail ↔ Top Gun · said 3 times in 3 episodes
[pairs] Cocktail ↔ The Color of Money · said 2 times in 2 episodes

Fun items about it (2)

[Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · 2:06:00 · Jamelle Bouie (0.40)] Cocktail · fun · Griffin's verdict: the stupidest movie Tom Cruise ever made, a film about a bartender who does 'the crazy thing'. · "I mean, the stupidest movie he ever made."
[Blank Check · Star 80 · 1:47:10 · unknown (0.30)] Cocktail · fun · Cocktail was reshot from a darker Bright Lights Big City-style script into a Tom Cruise romance, with Bryan Brown playing it like a drama. · "That movie is bizarre."

One hop out: what recommends the films most often joined to it (26)

[The Big Picture · Top Five Gen X Director Debuts, the Fate of ‘Black Widow,’ and a Potential Oscars Disaster · 0:08:06 · Sean Fennessey (0.80)] Black Widow ↔ Top Gun · programming · Studios are reluctant to put Fast 9, Bond, Top Gun and Black Widow straight into theaters. · "And movies like Fast 9 or the new James Bond film or Top Gun or, you know, Black Widow."
[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."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Friday Night Lights’ · 0:19:23 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Friday Night Lights (2004 film) ↔ All the Right Moves · lineage · A good version of the good guys not winning, with a devastating rain touchdown. · "All the right moves is a really good version of this where they, they, they messed around in a couple ways."
[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 · A CR Month Mailbag! · 1:10:26 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Gigli ↔ Rain Man · theme · Justin Bartha's Rain Man impression in Gigli is called a nuclear holocaust his career survived. · "The hangovers Justin Bartha submits a nuclear holocaust of a rainman impression that his career somehow survived."
[The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 0:19:41 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Top Gun ↔ Top Gun: Maverick · lineage · Maverick's dogfight football is compared with the original's volleyball scene, which hides its doubles in wide shots. · "I mean, I went back and watched the volleyball scene from the original Top Gun."
[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?"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Friday Night Lights’ · 0:55:10 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Friday Night Lights (2004 film) ↔ All the Right Moves · theme · All the Right Moves earlier dug into the idea that the mill is waiting if you do not get out, so this is as good as it gets. · "If you beat these guys, you're a mortal in this town."
[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 · The 1990 Movie Draft · 0:49:49 · Chris Ryan (0.85)] Top Gun ⇒ Days of Thunder (the host's read) · lineage · Days of Thunder is essentially Top Gun with cars. · "it's essentially just Top Gun with cars"
[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."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Saturday Night Fever’ · 1:17:07 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] Saturday Night Fever ↔ All the Right Moves · theme · All the Right Moves runs the same formula: a kid trapped in a dead-end town might get out. · "It's basically the same formula, right?"
[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 · The Top Five Movies of 2022 · 1:26:26 · Chris Ryan (0.80)] Top Gun ⇒ Top Gun: Maverick (the host's read) · lineage · Chris says the sequel delivered and is better than the first, and Amanda agrees. · "It's better than the 1st one"
[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 — 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 · ‘Rocky’ · 0:11:54 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Rocky ↔ Top Gun · theme · Rocky's urban portrait of American life gave way in the Karate Kid, Hughes and Top Gun era to safer, cleaner suburban stories. · "It's just a much different portrait of like American life because this is so urban."
[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"
[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 · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ · 1:02:23 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Reservoir Dogs ↔ Top Gun · theme · Tarantino's Sleep With Me riff on Top Gun mirrors the pop-theory talk that opens Reservoir Dogs; Tony Scott's Top Gun and artist intent come up again with Madonna. · "Yeah, nobody cares what Tony Scott thinks Top Gun is about."
[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."
[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 · ‘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."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 0:34:19 · David Sims (0.40)] Edge of Tomorrow ↔ Ghostbusters · craft · The Noah Taylor briefing carries the same 'I'm not sure, it might end the world' flavor as Ghostbusters' cross the streams. · "The Ghostbusters thing of like what happens if we cross the streams."
[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."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 0:50:43 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Edge of Tomorrow ↔ Raiders of the Lost Ark · craft · The black blood burning through Cage's face in his first death is 'end of Raiders shit'. · "like end of Raiders shit."

Who said it, by their latest sketch (6)

[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] 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] 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] 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] 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] Jamelle Bouie · latest sketch, Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · Raised churchgoing in the South, studied religious history, and loves how the film captures the strangeness of the ancient Near East and the humanizing of Judas and Pilate. Dislikes fundamentalist readings; a sucker for Scorsese, Duke Ellington and weird snacks. · stances: Film is faithful to modern biblical studies and the real alienness of first-century Judea; Fundamentalist outrage is ironic because the film is flattering to Jesus' radicalism; Pilate as bureaucrat is the best revelation

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 Cocktail (1988) 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 Cocktail (1988) and the films around it, one line each. Every line starts with where it came from, in brackets: [show · episode · time · speaker (how sure we are it was them)]. A [pairs] line says how often two films were put side by side. A [speaker] line says what that person likes. A [bits] line lists a show's running bits: a format, not an opinion.

[The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 1:21:22 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Cocktail ↔ Cocktail · programming · Cogwin's law from Cocktail becomes a Life Lesson category; the Cocktail pod was a fun one. · "He points out, we had so much fun with the laws."
[Blank Check · The Color of Money · 2:17:00 · unknown (0.35)] Cocktail ↔ Top Gun · theme · The Cruise movie-star template begins in Top Gun and cocktail: a guy who is the best at something and is doubted before proving everyone wrong. · "Tom Cruise movies are primarily about a guy who is the fucking best at something."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 0:20:52 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Edge of Tomorrow ↔ Cocktail · contrast · Unlike Cocktail or The Color of Money, Cruise's character does not have all the moves; he has to learn them. · "It's not cocktail, it's not color money."
[Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · 2:07:16 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Cocktail ↔ The Color of Money · career · Cruise should do a Color of Money legacy sequel instead of Days of Thunder or more racing movies. · "Do fucking color of money with a Kaylee Spainey or some shit."
[Blank Check · The Color of Money · 1:33:32 · unknown (0.30)] Rain Man ↔ Cocktail · career · Cruise balanced fluffy Cocktail with a big director and bigger actor in Rain Man; he reportedly steals Rain Man from Hoffman. · "He, in my opinion, he steals Rayman out from Hoffman."
[Blank Check · Star 80 · 1:48:04 · David Sims (0.40)] Cocktail ↔ All the Right Moves · career · Cruise's early film at number five leads to a riff on Cocktail's drama-minded reshoots. · "And then at some point they were just like, we got to make it a fucking Tom Cruise movie."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Color of Money’ · 0:53:27 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] The Color of Money ↔ Cocktail · people · A bar actor here is Cruise's uncle from Cocktail, supporting the theory Cruise pulls his supporting players from film to film. · "Just that Cruz is kind of grabbing all of his supporting figures over the years."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Color of Money’ · 1:16:00 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Top Gun ↔ Cocktail · Cruise sing-along · In the best Tom Cruise singing-along category, Top Gun, Cocktail, Risky Business, Jerry Maguire and this film compete; Top Gun wins as camp and 80s. · "Top Gun probably wins because it's a whole scene and it's Anthony Edwards and It's out of control, campy"
[The Big Picture · The Tom Cruise Hall of Fame · 0:54:40 · Amanda Dobbins (0.40)] Top Gun ↔ Cocktail · duplicate role · Cocktail is questioned as duplicative of Top Gun: the cocky guy brought down a notch. · "do you think that there is anything in the in cocktail that can't be gotten from Top Gun?"
[The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 0:57:51 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Tom Cruise ↔ Cocktail · programming · With the public-figure Cruise, the pick has to be Cocktail. · "If it's the cruise, the public figure cruise that we know, it's got to be cocktails."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Color of Money’ · 0:30:25 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] Tom Cruise ↔ Cocktail · theme · Cruise in Top Gun, Cocktail, and this film plays with no wink or self-awareness, unlike later movie stars. · "In all 3 of those movies that you just mentioned, cocktail, Top Gun, and this movie. There's no self-awareness."
[The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 1:28:47 · unknown (0.40)] Tom Cruise ↔ Cocktail · career · Cruise in Cocktail is a throwing-everything-into-a-part-that-isn't-great example, as with Pacino in Scent of a Woman and Two for the Money. · "Like, cruise and cocktail is another one."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Species’ · 0:53:24 · Bill Simmons (0.30)] Roger Donaldson ↔ Cocktail · career · Donaldson also directed Cocktail. · "We've done he also did cocktail."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Color of Money’ · 0:53:32 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Bruce A. Young ↔ Cocktail · verdict · Competing 'that guy' nominees: Bruce Young (Moselle/Jackie), Cruise's Cocktail uncle, and Paul Herman, who wins. · "Bruce A. Young. This is a candidate for best that guy."
[pairs] Cocktail ↔ Top Gun · said 3 times in 3 episodes
[pairs] Cocktail ↔ The Color of Money · said 2 times in 2 episodes
[Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · 2:06:00 · Jamelle Bouie (0.40)] Cocktail · fun · Griffin's verdict: the stupidest movie Tom Cruise ever made, a film about a bartender who does 'the crazy thing'. · "I mean, the stupidest movie he ever made."
[Blank Check · Star 80 · 1:47:10 · unknown (0.30)] Cocktail · fun · Cocktail was reshot from a darker Bright Lights Big City-style script into a Tom Cruise romance, with Bryan Brown playing it like a drama. · "That movie is bizarre."
[The Big Picture · Top Five Gen X Director Debuts, the Fate of ‘Black Widow,’ and a Potential Oscars Disaster · 0:08:06 · Sean Fennessey (0.80)] Black Widow ↔ Top Gun · programming · Studios are reluctant to put Fast 9, Bond, Top Gun and Black Widow straight into theaters. · "And movies like Fast 9 or the new James Bond film or Top Gun or, you know, Black Widow."
[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."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Friday Night Lights’ · 0:19:23 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Friday Night Lights (2004 film) ↔ All the Right Moves · lineage · A good version of the good guys not winning, with a devastating rain touchdown. · "All the right moves is a really good version of this where they, they, they messed around in a couple ways."
[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 · A CR Month Mailbag! · 1:10:26 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Gigli ↔ Rain Man · theme · Justin Bartha's Rain Man impression in Gigli is called a nuclear holocaust his career survived. · "The hangovers Justin Bartha submits a nuclear holocaust of a rainman impression that his career somehow survived."
[The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 0:19:41 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Top Gun ↔ Top Gun: Maverick · lineage · Maverick's dogfight football is compared with the original's volleyball scene, which hides its doubles in wide shots. · "I mean, I went back and watched the volleyball scene from the original Top Gun."
[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?"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Friday Night Lights’ · 0:55:10 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Friday Night Lights (2004 film) ↔ All the Right Moves · theme · All the Right Moves earlier dug into the idea that the mill is waiting if you do not get out, so this is as good as it gets. · "If you beat these guys, you're a mortal in this town."
[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 · The 1990 Movie Draft · 0:49:49 · Chris Ryan (0.85)] Top Gun ⇒ Days of Thunder (the host's read) · lineage · Days of Thunder is essentially Top Gun with cars. · "it's essentially just Top Gun with cars"
[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."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Saturday Night Fever’ · 1:17:07 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] Saturday Night Fever ↔ All the Right Moves · theme · All the Right Moves runs the same formula: a kid trapped in a dead-end town might get out. · "It's basically the same formula, right?"
[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 · The Top Five Movies of 2022 · 1:26:26 · Chris Ryan (0.80)] Top Gun ⇒ Top Gun: Maverick (the host's read) · lineage · Chris says the sequel delivered and is better than the first, and Amanda agrees. · "It's better than the 1st one"
[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 — 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 · ‘Rocky’ · 0:11:54 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Rocky ↔ Top Gun · theme · Rocky's urban portrait of American life gave way in the Karate Kid, Hughes and Top Gun era to safer, cleaner suburban stories. · "It's just a much different portrait of like American life because this is so urban."
[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"
[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 · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ · 1:02:23 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Reservoir Dogs ↔ Top Gun · theme · Tarantino's Sleep With Me riff on Top Gun mirrors the pop-theory talk that opens Reservoir Dogs; Tony Scott's Top Gun and artist intent come up again with Madonna. · "Yeah, nobody cares what Tony Scott thinks Top Gun is about."
[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."
[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 · ‘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."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 0:34:19 · David Sims (0.40)] Edge of Tomorrow ↔ Ghostbusters · craft · The Noah Taylor briefing carries the same 'I'm not sure, it might end the world' flavor as Ghostbusters' cross the streams. · "The Ghostbusters thing of like what happens if we cross the streams."
[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."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 0:50:43 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Edge of Tomorrow ↔ Raiders of the Lost Ark · craft · The black blood burning through Cage's face in his first death is 'end of Raiders shit'. · "like end of Raiders shit."
[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] 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] 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] 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] 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] Jamelle Bouie · latest sketch, Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · Raised churchgoing in the South, studied religious history, and loves how the film captures the strangeness of the ancient Near East and the humanizing of Judas and Pilate. Dislikes fundamentalist readings; a sucker for Scorsese, Duke Ellington and weird snacks. · stances: Film is faithful to modern biblical studies and the real alienness of first-century Judea; Fundamentalist outrage is ironic because the film is flattering to Jesus' radicalism; Pilate as bureaucrat is the best revelation
[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 Cocktail (1988); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Cocktail (1988) 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.