What the corpus says about Vanilla Sky (2001)

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)

[Blank Check — Patreon · Vanilla Sky · 0:51:56 · unknown (0.40)] Vanilla Sky ↔ Stargate · programming · Running joke: Ben's favorite movie Stargate was the first film with a website. · "The 1st movie, the 1st website was for Ben Hosley's favorite movie, Stargate."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Vanilla Sky · 1:45:35 · unknown (0.40)] The Royal Tenenbaums ↔ Vanilla Sky · programming · Tenenbaums opened the same week as Vanilla Sky in 5 theaters and averaged $55,000. · "Tenenbaums comes out that very week on 5 theaters and it grosses $276,000"
[The Big Picture · The Tom Cruise Hall of Fame · 1:09:45 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Open Your Eyes ⇒ Vanilla Sky (the host's read) · lineage · Cruise adapted Abre los Ojos into Vanilla Sky, a bold move he does not make today. · "adapted Aubrey Los Ojos into Vanilla Sky"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Vanilla Sky · 0:18:08 · unknown (0.40)] Almost Famous ↔ Vanilla Sky · lineage · Almost Famous is the bridge: already more precious and less realistic than Jerry Maguire, before it tips over here. · "it's a definite bridge because, yes, it is more precious than Jerry Maguire."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Vanilla Sky · 0:26:51 · David Sims (0.60)] Abre los ojos (Open Your Eyes) ⇒ Vanilla Sky (the host's read) · lineage · Vanilla Sky is nearly the same story as the Spanish original, except the hero is a magazine magnate friends with Spielberg. · "So the film is actually pretty much exactly the same as Abri Lozojos, except for the main character of that movie is not a magazine magnate who's friends with Steven Spielberg."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Vanilla Sky · 0:31:50 · David Sims (0.45)] Abre los ojos (Open Your Eyes) ⇒ Vanilla Sky (the host's read) · lineage · The Spanish film has the same beats, and the protagonist's face looks even worse in it. · "But it's like the movie's beats are exactly the same down to the, you know, crucial moment of him like lying in the gut."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Vanilla Sky · 0:43:10 · unknown (0.40)] Vanilla Sky ↔ Jerry Maguire · lineage · Vanilla Sky is likened to Jerry Maguire escaping a Frankenstein experiment before it was finished. · "this movie is like Jerry Maguire, like, got out of some sort of like Frankenstein monster experiment before he was finished"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Vanilla Sky · 0:43:19 · unknown (0.35)] Vanilla Sky ↔ Jerry Maguire · lineage · A deformed Jerry Maguire. · "Well, it's like a deformed Jerry Maguire."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Vanilla Sky · 1:38:09 · David Sims (0.60)] Abre los ojos (Open Your Eyes) ⇒ Vanilla Sky (the host's read) · lineage · The ending follows the original beat for beat, down to the jump and the 'open your eyes' last line. · "Yeah, again, it's how Abri Lo Sojos works to a T down to him jumping and open your eyes, like being on last lines."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Iron Man 3 · 0:18:19 · unknown (0.30)] Iron Man 3 ↔ Vanilla Sky · theme · The Elvis idea behind Vanilla Sky, lonely in a room where everyone knows who you are, is the Tony Stark thing Iron Man 3 digs into. · "There's the Elvis quote that Cameron Crowe loves, which he said he based Vanilla Sky around, which is the feeling of being lonely in a room where everyone knows who you are."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Vanilla Sky · 0:24:25 · unknown (0.35)] Hulk ↔ Vanilla Sky · theme · The strongest example of defending a movie against dismissive friends in the speaker's adolescence was Ang Lee's Hulk, like defending Vanilla Sky. · "Drew the line was Anglies Hulk."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Vanilla Sky · 1:06:36 · unknown (0.40)] Vanilla Sky ↔ Hologram for the King · theme · The 'This is not my beautiful house' singing recurs in Hologram for the King. · "Do you know that Tom Hanks sings that song in hologram for the king?"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Vanilla Sky · 1:24:18 · David Sims (0.50)] Vanilla Sky ↔ Abre los ojos (Open Your Eyes) · theme · The Spanish original keeps the ending ambiguous, while this version spells out what the dream state is. · "And Abri Lo Sojos does not have this problem so much, is that I think the ending is supposed to be ambiguous"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Vanilla Sky · 1:26:27 · unknown (0.40)] Vanilla Sky ↔ Deep Impact · theme · The Ellie/LE name confusion happened three years earlier in a far superior film, Deep Impact. · "I should also mention that all these hints that an Ellie confusion had happened 3 years prior in a far superior film called Deep Impact."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Vanilla Sky · 1:46:33 · unknown (0.40)] Vanilla Sky ↔ Gothica · theme · Gothica has the same identity swap between Halle Berry and Penelope Cruz as the Sophia/Julie switch here. · "It's like the Sophia, Julia Switch, in Vanilla Sky that happens between Halle Berry and Penelope Cruz"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Vanilla Sky · 0:40:58 · unknown (0.40)] Vanilla Sky ↔ 28 Days Later · craft · The empty-Times-Square shoot is likened to emptying London for 28 Days Later. · "like in 28 days later when they like, you know, did Limpty London."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Vanilla Sky · 0:45:26 · unknown (0.40)] Edge of Tomorrow ↔ Vanilla Sky · craft · Edge of Tomorrow almost threads the needle of an idiosyncratic filmmaker doing a big genre movie. · "almost threads the needle of what we're talking about."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Vanilla Sky · 0:46:45 · unknown (0.40)] Vanilla Sky ↔ Eyes Wide Shut · craft · Cruise in masks again, soon after Eyes Wide Shut. · "right after eyes wide shut too."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Vanilla Sky · 1:08:16 · unknown (0.45)] Vanilla Sky ↔ To the Wonder · craft · The loft scene feels like Malick's improvised movement, twirling and trust falls, as in To the Wonder. · "Terrence Malik tells his actors to just sort of improvise movement."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Vanilla Sky · 1:38:16 · unknown (0.30)] Vanilla Sky ↔ Abre los ojos (Open Your Eyes) · craft · Crowe pushes more ideas onto the plate than the original, which distracts from the film. · "Crow's putting a lot more on the plate, right?"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Vanilla Sky · 0:16:26 · unknown (0.40)] Captain Corelli's Mandolin ↔ Vanilla Sky · contrast · Corelli is the closest analog because Penelope Cruz has no chemistry with the star and it sinks the movie. · "she has no chemistry with the star."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Vanilla Sky · 0:16:44 · unknown (0.40)] Captain Corelli's Mandolin ↔ Vanilla Sky · contrast · Cruise is at least well cast as a hot shot, whereas Cage was an Italian Christ figure. · "Whereas Nick Nicholas Cage was playing an Italian, like Christ figure."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Vanilla Sky · 0:17:18 · Richard Lawson (0.45)] Vanilla Sky ↔ Jerry Maguire · contrast · Jerry Maguire's leads are well written with an unconventional romance, so there is real material in each scene. · "those 2 characters are so well written and their relationship is so unconventional and how it plays out"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Vanilla Sky · 0:32:26 · unknown (0.40)] Vanilla Sky ↔ The Phantom of the Opera · contrast · The disfigurement is genuinely upsetting rather than a small shitty patch like Gerard Butler's Phantom. · "you didn't like do the Gerard Butler Phantom of the Opera thing"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Vanilla Sky · 0:42:42 · unknown (0.40)] Vanilla Sky ↔ School of Rock · contrast · School of Rock is the commercial film that did well and still fit Linklater's work. · "I'd say School of Rock kind of functions in that way."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Vanilla Sky · 0:42:54 · unknown (0.40)] Vanilla Sky ↔ Popeye · contrast · Most idiosyncratic directors who try genre end up like Altman's Popeye. · "it's like Altman's Popeye, you know?"

Films put beside it more than once (6)

[pairs] Vanilla Sky ↔ Abre los ojos (Open Your Eyes) · said 5 times in 1 episode
[pairs] Vanilla Sky ↔ Jerry Maguire · said 3 times in 1 episode
[pairs] Vanilla Sky ↔ Eyes Wide Shut · said 2 times in 2 episodes
[pairs] Vanilla Sky ↔ Edge of Tomorrow · said 2 times in 1 episode
[pairs] Vanilla Sky ↔ Mission: Impossible III · said 2 times in 1 episode
[pairs] Vanilla Sky ↔ Captain Corelli's Mandolin · said 2 times in 1 episode

Fun items about it (6)

[Blank Check — Patreon · Vanilla Sky · 0:00:29 · unknown (0.40)] Vanilla Sky · fun · The official tagline is the list of words run together with no spaces: love, hate, dreams, life, work, play, friendship, sex. · "The official tagline is love hate, dreams, life, work, play, friendship, sex with no spaces."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Vanilla Sky · 0:11:54 · unknown (0.40)] Vanilla Sky · fun · The ad campaign was just Cruise's face filling the poster and nothing else, and it still made $100 million. · "All you need to advertise the movie was Tom Cruise's name, his face taking up the entire dimensions of the poster and a color palette, you know?"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Vanilla Sky · 0:29:03 · Ben Hosley (0.70)] Vanilla Sky · fun · Ben saw it at a drive-in in the back seat, making out, and absorbed very little. · "So I saw this at a drive-through."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Vanilla Sky · 0:37:13 · unknown (0.40)] Vanilla Sky · fun · The speakers play a game of naming Vanilla Sky cast members until someone runs dry; the cameo list includes Spielberg. · "The game is, let's go around a circle until one of us can't name another Casmer from Vanilla Sky"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Vanilla Sky · 0:38:05 · unknown (0.40)] Vanilla Sky · fun · Spielberg cameos as himself, running up to Cruise with 'you son of a bitch' at the party. · "there's a party scene where Steven Spielberg runs up Tom Cruise and goes, you son of a bitch"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Vanilla Sky · 0:41:26 · unknown (0.50)] Vanilla Sky · fun · Cruise shut down Times Square to shoot the empty-city opening, which was legendary at the time. · "like Tom Cruise shut down Times Square."

One hop out: what recommends the films most often joined to it (15)

[Blank Check — Patreon · Vanilla Sky · 0:58:50 · unknown (0.40)] Abre los ojos (Open Your Eyes) ⇒ Jason Lee (the host's read) · lineage · Jason Lee's best-friend character is the same character with the same mechanic as in the Spanish film. · "This the same character with the same mechanic where he's kind of like..."
[Blank Check · As Good as It Gets · 1:14:23 · unknown (0.30)] As Good as It Gets ↔ Jerry Maguire · lineage · Brooks and Crowe share a very similar tone and mix of emotions. · "But they have a very similar tone and sort of like touch and mix of emotions and all that."
[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! · 0:57:26 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Tom Cruise ↔ Eyes Wide Shut · programming · If Cruise would answer everything, the Rewatchables pick is Eyes Wide Shut. · "I would do eyes-wise shut."
[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."
[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."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Barry Lyndon · 0:13:57 · unknown (0.30)] Barry Lyndon ↔ Eyes Wide Shut · programming · These two Kubrick films feel warm to the speaker compared with the rest. · "But Barry Lyndon and Eyes Wide Shut are the 2 that feel like they sort of cut through to me on a deeper level, where I feel genuine warmth and affection for them."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Lego Batman Movie · 1:33:26 · Griffin Newman (0.60)] Jerry Maguire ⇒ The Lego Batman Movie (the host's read) · theme · Batman's arc ends with him giving the Joker the Jerry Maguire speech, completing the film's running Jerry Maguire joke. · "just like it's so good full circle to fucking have him realize I have to give Joker the Jerry Maguire speech."
[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 Nicole Kidman Hall of Fame, and ‘Babygirl’ · 0:24:49 · unknown (0.30)] Eyes Wide Shut ⇒ Babygirl (the host's read) · lineage · The stoned late-night bedroom lecture after the rave echoes Eyes Wide Shut. · "Nice callback to eyes wide shut and lecturing Tom Cruise in the bedroom while stoned out of their minds."
[Blank Check — Patreon · OLD DOGS - Blank Check LIVE! at the Bell House · 0:53:46 · Marie Bardi (0.60)] Old Dogs ↔ Jerry Maguire · theme · The sports-marketing partners are likened to Jerry Maguire. · "So they're Jerry Maguires?"
[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 Big Picture · Janicza Bravo and Brett Gelman Channel Rejection and Anxiety to Make ‘Lemon’ | The Big Picture · 0:04:44 · Alison Herman (0.85)] Eyes Wide Shut ⇒ Juneteenth (Atlanta episode) (the host's read) · lineage · Donald Glover's character describes the party as a Spike-directed reboot of Eyes Wide Shut. · "this is like a spikely directed reboot of eyes wide shut"
[Blank Check · As Good as It Gets · 0:34:34 · unknown (0.30)] As Good as It Gets ↔ Jerry Maguire · craft · Both are classic 90s movies that start a whole second movie mid-film. · "It's one of those classic 90s like Jerry Maguire, where it's just like, let's just do like a whole other movie in the middle of the movie."
[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"

Who said it, by their latest sketch (4)

[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] Ben Hosley · latest sketch, Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · Producer who occasionally talks; admits no religious background, has a Catholic mother's family, and cannot see the Bible as part of culture. · stances: Left out of Bible culture; Wants a clear demarcation between a bed and a deathbed
[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] Richard Lawson · latest sketch, Blank Check — Patreon · The Curious Case of Benjamin Button · Loves Forrest Gump and had snarked at Button as a young Gawker writer; had never seen the film before preparing. Came around on it on rewatch, valuing the sentimental tone and Daisy's regret. · stances: Button deserves reevaluation; Pitt's casting works because of the special effects reveal; the logic of the aging is not the point

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 Vanilla Sky (2001) 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 Vanilla Sky (2001) 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 — Patreon · Vanilla Sky · 0:51:56 · unknown (0.40)] Vanilla Sky ↔ Stargate · programming · Running joke: Ben's favorite movie Stargate was the first film with a website. · "The 1st movie, the 1st website was for Ben Hosley's favorite movie, Stargate."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Vanilla Sky · 1:45:35 · unknown (0.40)] The Royal Tenenbaums ↔ Vanilla Sky · programming · Tenenbaums opened the same week as Vanilla Sky in 5 theaters and averaged $55,000. · "Tenenbaums comes out that very week on 5 theaters and it grosses $276,000"
[The Big Picture · The Tom Cruise Hall of Fame · 1:09:45 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Open Your Eyes ⇒ Vanilla Sky (the host's read) · lineage · Cruise adapted Abre los Ojos into Vanilla Sky, a bold move he does not make today. · "adapted Aubrey Los Ojos into Vanilla Sky"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Vanilla Sky · 0:18:08 · unknown (0.40)] Almost Famous ↔ Vanilla Sky · lineage · Almost Famous is the bridge: already more precious and less realistic than Jerry Maguire, before it tips over here. · "it's a definite bridge because, yes, it is more precious than Jerry Maguire."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Vanilla Sky · 0:26:51 · David Sims (0.60)] Abre los ojos (Open Your Eyes) ⇒ Vanilla Sky (the host's read) · lineage · Vanilla Sky is nearly the same story as the Spanish original, except the hero is a magazine magnate friends with Spielberg. · "So the film is actually pretty much exactly the same as Abri Lozojos, except for the main character of that movie is not a magazine magnate who's friends with Steven Spielberg."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Vanilla Sky · 0:31:50 · David Sims (0.45)] Abre los ojos (Open Your Eyes) ⇒ Vanilla Sky (the host's read) · lineage · The Spanish film has the same beats, and the protagonist's face looks even worse in it. · "But it's like the movie's beats are exactly the same down to the, you know, crucial moment of him like lying in the gut."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Vanilla Sky · 0:43:10 · unknown (0.40)] Vanilla Sky ↔ Jerry Maguire · lineage · Vanilla Sky is likened to Jerry Maguire escaping a Frankenstein experiment before it was finished. · "this movie is like Jerry Maguire, like, got out of some sort of like Frankenstein monster experiment before he was finished"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Vanilla Sky · 0:43:19 · unknown (0.35)] Vanilla Sky ↔ Jerry Maguire · lineage · A deformed Jerry Maguire. · "Well, it's like a deformed Jerry Maguire."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Vanilla Sky · 1:38:09 · David Sims (0.60)] Abre los ojos (Open Your Eyes) ⇒ Vanilla Sky (the host's read) · lineage · The ending follows the original beat for beat, down to the jump and the 'open your eyes' last line. · "Yeah, again, it's how Abri Lo Sojos works to a T down to him jumping and open your eyes, like being on last lines."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Iron Man 3 · 0:18:19 · unknown (0.30)] Iron Man 3 ↔ Vanilla Sky · theme · The Elvis idea behind Vanilla Sky, lonely in a room where everyone knows who you are, is the Tony Stark thing Iron Man 3 digs into. · "There's the Elvis quote that Cameron Crowe loves, which he said he based Vanilla Sky around, which is the feeling of being lonely in a room where everyone knows who you are."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Vanilla Sky · 0:24:25 · unknown (0.35)] Hulk ↔ Vanilla Sky · theme · The strongest example of defending a movie against dismissive friends in the speaker's adolescence was Ang Lee's Hulk, like defending Vanilla Sky. · "Drew the line was Anglies Hulk."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Vanilla Sky · 1:06:36 · unknown (0.40)] Vanilla Sky ↔ Hologram for the King · theme · The 'This is not my beautiful house' singing recurs in Hologram for the King. · "Do you know that Tom Hanks sings that song in hologram for the king?"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Vanilla Sky · 1:24:18 · David Sims (0.50)] Vanilla Sky ↔ Abre los ojos (Open Your Eyes) · theme · The Spanish original keeps the ending ambiguous, while this version spells out what the dream state is. · "And Abri Lo Sojos does not have this problem so much, is that I think the ending is supposed to be ambiguous"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Vanilla Sky · 1:26:27 · unknown (0.40)] Vanilla Sky ↔ Deep Impact · theme · The Ellie/LE name confusion happened three years earlier in a far superior film, Deep Impact. · "I should also mention that all these hints that an Ellie confusion had happened 3 years prior in a far superior film called Deep Impact."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Vanilla Sky · 1:46:33 · unknown (0.40)] Vanilla Sky ↔ Gothica · theme · Gothica has the same identity swap between Halle Berry and Penelope Cruz as the Sophia/Julie switch here. · "It's like the Sophia, Julia Switch, in Vanilla Sky that happens between Halle Berry and Penelope Cruz"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Vanilla Sky · 0:40:58 · unknown (0.40)] Vanilla Sky ↔ 28 Days Later · craft · The empty-Times-Square shoot is likened to emptying London for 28 Days Later. · "like in 28 days later when they like, you know, did Limpty London."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Vanilla Sky · 0:45:26 · unknown (0.40)] Edge of Tomorrow ↔ Vanilla Sky · craft · Edge of Tomorrow almost threads the needle of an idiosyncratic filmmaker doing a big genre movie. · "almost threads the needle of what we're talking about."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Vanilla Sky · 0:46:45 · unknown (0.40)] Vanilla Sky ↔ Eyes Wide Shut · craft · Cruise in masks again, soon after Eyes Wide Shut. · "right after eyes wide shut too."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Vanilla Sky · 1:08:16 · unknown (0.45)] Vanilla Sky ↔ To the Wonder · craft · The loft scene feels like Malick's improvised movement, twirling and trust falls, as in To the Wonder. · "Terrence Malik tells his actors to just sort of improvise movement."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Vanilla Sky · 1:38:16 · unknown (0.30)] Vanilla Sky ↔ Abre los ojos (Open Your Eyes) · craft · Crowe pushes more ideas onto the plate than the original, which distracts from the film. · "Crow's putting a lot more on the plate, right?"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Vanilla Sky · 0:16:26 · unknown (0.40)] Captain Corelli's Mandolin ↔ Vanilla Sky · contrast · Corelli is the closest analog because Penelope Cruz has no chemistry with the star and it sinks the movie. · "she has no chemistry with the star."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Vanilla Sky · 0:16:44 · unknown (0.40)] Captain Corelli's Mandolin ↔ Vanilla Sky · contrast · Cruise is at least well cast as a hot shot, whereas Cage was an Italian Christ figure. · "Whereas Nick Nicholas Cage was playing an Italian, like Christ figure."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Vanilla Sky · 0:17:18 · Richard Lawson (0.45)] Vanilla Sky ↔ Jerry Maguire · contrast · Jerry Maguire's leads are well written with an unconventional romance, so there is real material in each scene. · "those 2 characters are so well written and their relationship is so unconventional and how it plays out"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Vanilla Sky · 0:32:26 · unknown (0.40)] Vanilla Sky ↔ The Phantom of the Opera · contrast · The disfigurement is genuinely upsetting rather than a small shitty patch like Gerard Butler's Phantom. · "you didn't like do the Gerard Butler Phantom of the Opera thing"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Vanilla Sky · 0:42:42 · unknown (0.40)] Vanilla Sky ↔ School of Rock · contrast · School of Rock is the commercial film that did well and still fit Linklater's work. · "I'd say School of Rock kind of functions in that way."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Vanilla Sky · 0:42:54 · unknown (0.40)] Vanilla Sky ↔ Popeye · contrast · Most idiosyncratic directors who try genre end up like Altman's Popeye. · "it's like Altman's Popeye, you know?"
[pairs] Vanilla Sky ↔ Abre los ojos (Open Your Eyes) · said 5 times in 1 episode
[pairs] Vanilla Sky ↔ Jerry Maguire · said 3 times in 1 episode
[pairs] Vanilla Sky ↔ Eyes Wide Shut · said 2 times in 2 episodes
[pairs] Vanilla Sky ↔ Edge of Tomorrow · said 2 times in 1 episode
[pairs] Vanilla Sky ↔ Mission: Impossible III · said 2 times in 1 episode
[pairs] Vanilla Sky ↔ Captain Corelli's Mandolin · said 2 times in 1 episode
[Blank Check — Patreon · Vanilla Sky · 0:00:29 · unknown (0.40)] Vanilla Sky · fun · The official tagline is the list of words run together with no spaces: love, hate, dreams, life, work, play, friendship, sex. · "The official tagline is love hate, dreams, life, work, play, friendship, sex with no spaces."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Vanilla Sky · 0:11:54 · unknown (0.40)] Vanilla Sky · fun · The ad campaign was just Cruise's face filling the poster and nothing else, and it still made $100 million. · "All you need to advertise the movie was Tom Cruise's name, his face taking up the entire dimensions of the poster and a color palette, you know?"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Vanilla Sky · 0:29:03 · Ben Hosley (0.70)] Vanilla Sky · fun · Ben saw it at a drive-in in the back seat, making out, and absorbed very little. · "So I saw this at a drive-through."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Vanilla Sky · 0:37:13 · unknown (0.40)] Vanilla Sky · fun · The speakers play a game of naming Vanilla Sky cast members until someone runs dry; the cameo list includes Spielberg. · "The game is, let's go around a circle until one of us can't name another Casmer from Vanilla Sky"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Vanilla Sky · 0:38:05 · unknown (0.40)] Vanilla Sky · fun · Spielberg cameos as himself, running up to Cruise with 'you son of a bitch' at the party. · "there's a party scene where Steven Spielberg runs up Tom Cruise and goes, you son of a bitch"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Vanilla Sky · 0:41:26 · unknown (0.50)] Vanilla Sky · fun · Cruise shut down Times Square to shoot the empty-city opening, which was legendary at the time. · "like Tom Cruise shut down Times Square."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Vanilla Sky · 0:58:50 · unknown (0.40)] Abre los ojos (Open Your Eyes) ⇒ Jason Lee (the host's read) · lineage · Jason Lee's best-friend character is the same character with the same mechanic as in the Spanish film. · "This the same character with the same mechanic where he's kind of like..."
[Blank Check · As Good as It Gets · 1:14:23 · unknown (0.30)] As Good as It Gets ↔ Jerry Maguire · lineage · Brooks and Crowe share a very similar tone and mix of emotions. · "But they have a very similar tone and sort of like touch and mix of emotions and all that."
[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! · 0:57:26 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Tom Cruise ↔ Eyes Wide Shut · programming · If Cruise would answer everything, the Rewatchables pick is Eyes Wide Shut. · "I would do eyes-wise shut."
[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."
[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."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Barry Lyndon · 0:13:57 · unknown (0.30)] Barry Lyndon ↔ Eyes Wide Shut · programming · These two Kubrick films feel warm to the speaker compared with the rest. · "But Barry Lyndon and Eyes Wide Shut are the 2 that feel like they sort of cut through to me on a deeper level, where I feel genuine warmth and affection for them."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Lego Batman Movie · 1:33:26 · Griffin Newman (0.60)] Jerry Maguire ⇒ The Lego Batman Movie (the host's read) · theme · Batman's arc ends with him giving the Joker the Jerry Maguire speech, completing the film's running Jerry Maguire joke. · "just like it's so good full circle to fucking have him realize I have to give Joker the Jerry Maguire speech."
[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 Nicole Kidman Hall of Fame, and ‘Babygirl’ · 0:24:49 · unknown (0.30)] Eyes Wide Shut ⇒ Babygirl (the host's read) · lineage · The stoned late-night bedroom lecture after the rave echoes Eyes Wide Shut. · "Nice callback to eyes wide shut and lecturing Tom Cruise in the bedroom while stoned out of their minds."
[Blank Check — Patreon · OLD DOGS - Blank Check LIVE! at the Bell House · 0:53:46 · Marie Bardi (0.60)] Old Dogs ↔ Jerry Maguire · theme · The sports-marketing partners are likened to Jerry Maguire. · "So they're Jerry Maguires?"
[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 Big Picture · Janicza Bravo and Brett Gelman Channel Rejection and Anxiety to Make ‘Lemon’ | The Big Picture · 0:04:44 · Alison Herman (0.85)] Eyes Wide Shut ⇒ Juneteenth (Atlanta episode) (the host's read) · lineage · Donald Glover's character describes the party as a Spike-directed reboot of Eyes Wide Shut. · "this is like a spikely directed reboot of eyes wide shut"
[Blank Check · As Good as It Gets · 0:34:34 · unknown (0.30)] As Good as It Gets ↔ Jerry Maguire · craft · Both are classic 90s movies that start a whole second movie mid-film. · "It's one of those classic 90s like Jerry Maguire, where it's just like, let's just do like a whole other movie in the middle of the movie."
[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"
[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] Ben Hosley · latest sketch, Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · Producer who occasionally talks; admits no religious background, has a Catholic mother's family, and cannot see the Bible as part of culture. · stances: Left out of Bible culture; Wants a clear demarcation between a bed and a deathbed
[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] Richard Lawson · latest sketch, Blank Check — Patreon · The Curious Case of Benjamin Button · Loves Forrest Gump and had snarked at Button as a young Gawker writer; had never seen the film before preparing. Came around on it on rewatch, valuing the sentimental tone and Daisy's regret. · stances: Button deserves reevaluation; Pitt's casting works because of the special effects reveal; the logic of the aging is not the point
[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 Vanilla Sky (2001); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Vanilla Sky (2001) 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.