What the corpus says about Minority Report (2002)

The 46 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 (12)

[The Big Picture · The 10 Most Misused Stars in Hollywood and the Gnarly Magic of ‘Send Help’ · 0:20:46 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50)] Minority Report ⇒ Mercy (the host's read) · lineage · Mercy's AI-as-justice-machine premise is an idea Minority Report explored earlier. · "Like minority report explores this idea of what if we use technology to better, like better control criminal activity in the world."
[The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 0:55:18 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Minority Report ↔ Eyes Wide Shut · theme · How-is-that-a-job category: Minority Report's eyeball seller, Milich's costume shop in Eyes Wide Shut. · "Like the dude in minority report who just sells new eyeballs to Tom Cruise."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Truman Show’ · 1:04:08 · Glen Powell (0.70)] The Truman Show ↔ Minority Report · contrast · A Cruise Truman would become a paranoid thriller like Minority Report. · "you don't want it to feel like a paranoid thriller."
[The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies · 0:26:46 · Sean Fennessey (0.80)] Minority Report ↔ Ready Player One · contrast · Ready Player One treats earnestly what Minority Report satirizes (personalized ads). · "Some people have noted that the things that that movie satirizes are actually treated in a very straightforward manner in Ready Player one."
[The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies · 0:27:18 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Minority Report ↔ Schindler's List · contrast · Minority Report's dystopia is among the ugliest worlds Spielberg set a movie in, unlike his historical films. · "one of the uglier worlds that he has set a movie in."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Vanilla Sky · 0:55:39 · unknown (0.40)] Vanilla Sky ↔ Minority Report · career · After this film everything Cruise does is haunted. · "And everything that he does after this is haunted, you know"
[The Big Picture · The Tom Cruise Hall of Fame · 1:32:59 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Minority Report ↔ War of the Worlds · verdict · Of the Spielberg-Cruise films, Minority Report stays on the yellow list over War of the Worlds because one Spielberg is enough. · "I think it's reasonable to include one Spielberg."
[Blank Check · Empire of the Sun · 2:18:41 · Griffin Newman (0.70)] Saving Private Ryan ⇒ Minority Report (the host's read) · stylistic shift · Saving Private Ryan was the biggest shift in Spielberg's signature style, letting him change languages for films like Minority Report and Munich. · "Saving Private Ryan is, in my opinion, the single biggest shift in his signature style up until that point"
[The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies · 0:28:34 · unknown (0.50)] Minority Report ↔ Janusz Kaminski · craft · Minority Report looks like what Spielberg's films look like now: cloudy natural light into a dingy area. · "And it feels more like what all Steven Spielberg movies look like now, this sort of like cloudy, natural light flooding through into a dingy area."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The First Avenger · 1:22:37 · unknown (0.35)] Neal McDonough ↔ Minority Report · career · McDonough's great performance as the main chaser in Minority Report turns on his ice-blue eyes; he also had Star Trek First Contact and Justified. · "Uh, was the other one I was going to say he's good in is, uh, Minority Party is really good"
[The Big Picture · The Tom Cruise Hall of Fame · 1:36:10 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Minority Report ↔ Steven Spielberg · people · Minority Report is judged a Spielberg achievement more than a Cruise one and gets cut. · "because that is a Steven Spielberg achievement rather than a Tom Cruise achievement."
[The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies · 0:28:13 · unknown (0.50)] Minority Report ↔ Colin Farrell · people · The Farrell-Cruise factory fight is a low-key best set piece, and a great early Farrell performance. · "It's got one of the low-key best set pieces is the Colin Farrell Tom Cruise fight in the factory."

Fun items about it (1)

[The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies · 0:27:51 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Minority Report · fun · The only Spielberg movie where eyes are surgically removed or drug addiction is a major theme. · "it's certainly the only movie that he made in which, like, a man's eyes are surgically removed"

One hop out: what recommends the films most often joined to it (24)

[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 10 Most Misused Stars in Hollywood and the Gnarly Magic of ‘Send Help’ · 0:27:26 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50)] Mercy ↔ Charles Bronson · lineage · They like January thrillers that are souped-up Bronson-style wrongly-accused movies; Mercy's problem is what underlies it. · "basically souped up Charles Bronson movies and Chris Pratt has a gun and is wrongly accused and needs to solve a crime."
[The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies · 0:08:33 · Sean Fennessey (0.85)] Ready Player One ↔ E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial · lineage · E.T. is in the book but was cut from the film by Spielberg. · "I think ET in particular does not appear in the movie and is in the book."
[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."
[The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies · 0:13:59 · Sean Fennessey (0.80)] Schindler's List ↔ Schindler's List · lineage · It set the standard for the prestige historical drama, so it can feel cliche now. · "set a kind of prestige, historical drama standard"
[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."
[The Big Picture · The 10 Most Misused Stars in Hollywood and the Gnarly Magic of ‘Send Help’ · 0:27:35 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50)] Mercy ↔ Alfred Hitchcock · lineage · Wrongly-accused-man plots are Hitchcock territory; the plot is not the objection. · "Alfred Hitchcock made tons of movies like this."
[The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies · 0:08:46 · Sean Fennessey (0.85)] Stanley Kubrick ⇒ Ready Player One (the host's read) · lineage · The film contains a deeper homage to Kubrick, maybe its best part. · "There is a much deeper and fascinating homage to Stanley Cooper."
[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"
[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."
[The Big Picture · The 10 Most Misused Stars in Hollywood and the Gnarly Magic of ‘Send Help’ · 0:22:45 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50)] Mercy ↔ Moneyball · theme · The film's gut-instinct-versus-data argument is framed as Moneyball. · "It's it's straight up moneyball."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining · 2:26:19 · David Sims (0.40)] The Shining ⇒ Ready Player One (the host's read) · lineage · Ready Player One has a fun sequence set in the hotel. · "Ready player one, they go to the hotel."
[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"
[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"
[The Big Picture · The 10 Most Misused Stars in Hollywood and the Gnarly Magic of ‘Send Help’ · 0:29:56 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Mercy ↔ Mission Impossible (franchise) · craft · Mercy's phone-and-drone-camera look is likened to a franchise opening stretched to feature length. · "It's like the opening 3 minutes of a Mission Impossible movie for 96 minutes."
[The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies · 0:05:17 · Chris Ryan (0.85)] Ready Player One ↔ The Matrix · theme · Chris sees it as another orphan-messiah-saves-the-world story like the Matrix and Star Wars. · "like the Matrix and, you know, like Lords of Arabia and Star Wars are all about like these orphans who've saved the world."
[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."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Eyes Wide Shut · 0:33:04 · unknown (0.30)] Kirk Douglas ⇒ Eyes Wide Shut (the maker said so) · lineage · Kirk Douglas claims he handed Kubrick the novella during their Paths of Glory or Spartacus fights. · "Kirk Douglas claims he gave it to him during one of their like shared therapy sessions"
[The Big Picture · The 10 Most Misused Stars in Hollywood and the Gnarly Magic of ‘Send Help’ · 0:30:06 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50)] Mercy ↔ Michael Bay · craft · A truck chase in Mercy would be a standout if it were shot by Michael Bay, but is undercut by the screens. · "if it were Michael Bay, it would be the coolest sequence of the year for action filmmaking."
[Blank Check — Patreon · 2001: A Space Odyssey · 1:30:12 · Jordan Hoffman (0.50)] 3001: The Final Odyssey (novel) ↔ Ready Player One · theme · 3001's brain-implanted virtual reality is compared to Ready Player One. · "They screw in what's basically, it's like Ready player one."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Eyes Wide Shut · 0:33:21 · unknown (0.30)] Ruth Sobotka → Eyes Wide Shut · lineage · Others guess Kubrick's Austrian second wife may have given him the Austrian novel. · "Maybe she gave it to him."
[The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies · 0:08:36 · Sean Fennessey (0.70)] Ready Player One ↔ ILM · craft · ILM artists slipped a gremlin into Ready Player One and Spielberg was annoyed, part of his trimming of self-referential Easter eggs. · "ILM people threw in like a gremlin in some place and like he was just like, god damn it."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Eyes Wide Shut · 0:33:31 · unknown (0.30)] Arthur Schnitzler ⇒ Eyes Wide Shut (the host's read) · lineage · The speaker says the novel is very close to the film, so close that its plot beats are nearly one to one. · "And it is very similar to eyes wide shut."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Eyes Wide Shut · 0:37:01 · unknown (0.30)] Dream Story (Traumnovelle, the Schnitzler novella) ⇒ Eyes Wide Shut (the host's read) · lineage · The speakers note the film's credit says inspired by, not adapted from, Schnitzler's novella. · "It's not adapted from Schnitzler."

Who said it, by their latest sketch (6)

[speaker] Sean Fennessey · latest sketch, The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · Loves gory, funny, fast genre movies with craft and confidence, especially 87-minute films that never overstay. Can't stand ponderous elevated horror that fills out its runtime with introspection and sad family history. A sucker for the Carpenter-era lineage, Die Hard homages, and directors who break studio dogma. · stances: Resident Evil is one of the best films of the year; Horror movies have become a drag; fun genre experiences are needed; Short running times are a virtue; Video-game films work best when great filmmakers get creative license
[speaker] Chris Ryan · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · A franchise and genre scholar who likes Jason, the early sequels, and Manhattan; attention to trivia, tropes and critic reception. Treats slashers as a canon with tiers. · stances: Parts 1, 2, 4 and Manhattan are the good ones; The series finds its legs at 4
[speaker] Amanda Dobbins · latest sketch, The Big Picture · ‘Mamma Mia!’ Meets ‘The Strangers'! It’s a Movie Swap! · Loves The Strangers' withholding craft and a good tense horror film without gore, but likes fun, communal movies like Mamma Mia. She dislikes supernatural or gory horror, which irritates her more than it scares her. She is a sucker for stars and for Googling a movie mid-recording. · stances: The Strangers is scary because of what it doesn't show or explain; Ending explanation weakens it; no answer would be better; Prefers 'withholding' filmmaking; Defends Mamma Mia as joyful and intentional
[speaker] Bill Simmons · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · Loves the Friday series as a communal, rental-era memory and tells childhood stories about the ads and theaters. Likes casting what-ifs and sports analogies for everything. Skeptical of horror at Christmas and of anything that wastes the premise. · stances: Friday the 13th is not the best entry but the origin story had to be told; Friday 2 is a leap over the original
[speaker] Glen Powell · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘The Truman Show’ · A genuine movie fan who picks movies for their universal emotion and loves the rewatch debate. Loves actors' directors like Linklater and Edgar Wright, 90s movies, and a rack-focus world. Dislikes loose lore and underbaked world-building (the dad, the bubble CGI). · stances: Truman Show is a religious experience more than sci-fi; Hanks would have been a good Truman; Eternal Sunshine is good but Truman is the higher tightrope
[speaker] Griffin Newman · latest sketch, Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · Calls Last Temptation his college-era favorite Scorsese; loves Scorsese's smaller 80s and the film's closing transcendence and Gabriel score. Cannot stand fundamentalist outrage at it. A sucker for casting trivia and Tom Cruise-silliness. · stances: Hot take: Last Temptation structurally mirrors New York, New York as a better version; Outrage over the film is stupid; it is respectful to Jesus; Scorsese's smaller 80s work beats his later baroque phases

The shows' running bits (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 Minority Report (2002) 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 Minority Report (2002) 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 · The 10 Most Misused Stars in Hollywood and the Gnarly Magic of ‘Send Help’ · 0:20:46 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50)] Minority Report ⇒ Mercy (the host's read) · lineage · Mercy's AI-as-justice-machine premise is an idea Minority Report explored earlier. · "Like minority report explores this idea of what if we use technology to better, like better control criminal activity in the world."
[The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 0:55:18 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Minority Report ↔ Eyes Wide Shut · theme · How-is-that-a-job category: Minority Report's eyeball seller, Milich's costume shop in Eyes Wide Shut. · "Like the dude in minority report who just sells new eyeballs to Tom Cruise."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Truman Show’ · 1:04:08 · Glen Powell (0.70)] The Truman Show ↔ Minority Report · contrast · A Cruise Truman would become a paranoid thriller like Minority Report. · "you don't want it to feel like a paranoid thriller."
[The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies · 0:26:46 · Sean Fennessey (0.80)] Minority Report ↔ Ready Player One · contrast · Ready Player One treats earnestly what Minority Report satirizes (personalized ads). · "Some people have noted that the things that that movie satirizes are actually treated in a very straightforward manner in Ready Player one."
[The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies · 0:27:18 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Minority Report ↔ Schindler's List · contrast · Minority Report's dystopia is among the ugliest worlds Spielberg set a movie in, unlike his historical films. · "one of the uglier worlds that he has set a movie in."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Vanilla Sky · 0:55:39 · unknown (0.40)] Vanilla Sky ↔ Minority Report · career · After this film everything Cruise does is haunted. · "And everything that he does after this is haunted, you know"
[The Big Picture · The Tom Cruise Hall of Fame · 1:32:59 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Minority Report ↔ War of the Worlds · verdict · Of the Spielberg-Cruise films, Minority Report stays on the yellow list over War of the Worlds because one Spielberg is enough. · "I think it's reasonable to include one Spielberg."
[Blank Check · Empire of the Sun · 2:18:41 · Griffin Newman (0.70)] Saving Private Ryan ⇒ Minority Report (the host's read) · stylistic shift · Saving Private Ryan was the biggest shift in Spielberg's signature style, letting him change languages for films like Minority Report and Munich. · "Saving Private Ryan is, in my opinion, the single biggest shift in his signature style up until that point"
[The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies · 0:28:34 · unknown (0.50)] Minority Report ↔ Janusz Kaminski · craft · Minority Report looks like what Spielberg's films look like now: cloudy natural light into a dingy area. · "And it feels more like what all Steven Spielberg movies look like now, this sort of like cloudy, natural light flooding through into a dingy area."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The First Avenger · 1:22:37 · unknown (0.35)] Neal McDonough ↔ Minority Report · career · McDonough's great performance as the main chaser in Minority Report turns on his ice-blue eyes; he also had Star Trek First Contact and Justified. · "Uh, was the other one I was going to say he's good in is, uh, Minority Party is really good"
[The Big Picture · The Tom Cruise Hall of Fame · 1:36:10 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Minority Report ↔ Steven Spielberg · people · Minority Report is judged a Spielberg achievement more than a Cruise one and gets cut. · "because that is a Steven Spielberg achievement rather than a Tom Cruise achievement."
[The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies · 0:28:13 · unknown (0.50)] Minority Report ↔ Colin Farrell · people · The Farrell-Cruise factory fight is a low-key best set piece, and a great early Farrell performance. · "It's got one of the low-key best set pieces is the Colin Farrell Tom Cruise fight in the factory."
[The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies · 0:27:51 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Minority Report · fun · The only Spielberg movie where eyes are surgically removed or drug addiction is a major theme. · "it's certainly the only movie that he made in which, like, a man's eyes are surgically removed"
[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 10 Most Misused Stars in Hollywood and the Gnarly Magic of ‘Send Help’ · 0:27:26 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50)] Mercy ↔ Charles Bronson · lineage · They like January thrillers that are souped-up Bronson-style wrongly-accused movies; Mercy's problem is what underlies it. · "basically souped up Charles Bronson movies and Chris Pratt has a gun and is wrongly accused and needs to solve a crime."
[The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies · 0:08:33 · Sean Fennessey (0.85)] Ready Player One ↔ E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial · lineage · E.T. is in the book but was cut from the film by Spielberg. · "I think ET in particular does not appear in the movie and is in the book."
[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."
[The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies · 0:13:59 · Sean Fennessey (0.80)] Schindler's List ↔ Schindler's List · lineage · It set the standard for the prestige historical drama, so it can feel cliche now. · "set a kind of prestige, historical drama standard"
[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."
[The Big Picture · The 10 Most Misused Stars in Hollywood and the Gnarly Magic of ‘Send Help’ · 0:27:35 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50)] Mercy ↔ Alfred Hitchcock · lineage · Wrongly-accused-man plots are Hitchcock territory; the plot is not the objection. · "Alfred Hitchcock made tons of movies like this."
[The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies · 0:08:46 · Sean Fennessey (0.85)] Stanley Kubrick ⇒ Ready Player One (the host's read) · lineage · The film contains a deeper homage to Kubrick, maybe its best part. · "There is a much deeper and fascinating homage to Stanley Cooper."
[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"
[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."
[The Big Picture · The 10 Most Misused Stars in Hollywood and the Gnarly Magic of ‘Send Help’ · 0:22:45 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50)] Mercy ↔ Moneyball · theme · The film's gut-instinct-versus-data argument is framed as Moneyball. · "It's it's straight up moneyball."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining · 2:26:19 · David Sims (0.40)] The Shining ⇒ Ready Player One (the host's read) · lineage · Ready Player One has a fun sequence set in the hotel. · "Ready player one, they go to the hotel."
[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"
[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"
[The Big Picture · The 10 Most Misused Stars in Hollywood and the Gnarly Magic of ‘Send Help’ · 0:29:56 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Mercy ↔ Mission Impossible (franchise) · craft · Mercy's phone-and-drone-camera look is likened to a franchise opening stretched to feature length. · "It's like the opening 3 minutes of a Mission Impossible movie for 96 minutes."
[The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies · 0:05:17 · Chris Ryan (0.85)] Ready Player One ↔ The Matrix · theme · Chris sees it as another orphan-messiah-saves-the-world story like the Matrix and Star Wars. · "like the Matrix and, you know, like Lords of Arabia and Star Wars are all about like these orphans who've saved the world."
[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."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Eyes Wide Shut · 0:33:04 · unknown (0.30)] Kirk Douglas ⇒ Eyes Wide Shut (the maker said so) · lineage · Kirk Douglas claims he handed Kubrick the novella during their Paths of Glory or Spartacus fights. · "Kirk Douglas claims he gave it to him during one of their like shared therapy sessions"
[The Big Picture · The 10 Most Misused Stars in Hollywood and the Gnarly Magic of ‘Send Help’ · 0:30:06 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50)] Mercy ↔ Michael Bay · craft · A truck chase in Mercy would be a standout if it were shot by Michael Bay, but is undercut by the screens. · "if it were Michael Bay, it would be the coolest sequence of the year for action filmmaking."
[Blank Check — Patreon · 2001: A Space Odyssey · 1:30:12 · Jordan Hoffman (0.50)] 3001: The Final Odyssey (novel) ↔ Ready Player One · theme · 3001's brain-implanted virtual reality is compared to Ready Player One. · "They screw in what's basically, it's like Ready player one."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Eyes Wide Shut · 0:33:21 · unknown (0.30)] Ruth Sobotka → Eyes Wide Shut · lineage · Others guess Kubrick's Austrian second wife may have given him the Austrian novel. · "Maybe she gave it to him."
[The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies · 0:08:36 · Sean Fennessey (0.70)] Ready Player One ↔ ILM · craft · ILM artists slipped a gremlin into Ready Player One and Spielberg was annoyed, part of his trimming of self-referential Easter eggs. · "ILM people threw in like a gremlin in some place and like he was just like, god damn it."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Eyes Wide Shut · 0:33:31 · unknown (0.30)] Arthur Schnitzler ⇒ Eyes Wide Shut (the host's read) · lineage · The speaker says the novel is very close to the film, so close that its plot beats are nearly one to one. · "And it is very similar to eyes wide shut."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Eyes Wide Shut · 0:37:01 · unknown (0.30)] Dream Story (Traumnovelle, the Schnitzler novella) ⇒ Eyes Wide Shut (the host's read) · lineage · The speakers note the film's credit says inspired by, not adapted from, Schnitzler's novella. · "It's not adapted from Schnitzler."
[speaker] Sean Fennessey · latest sketch, The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · Loves gory, funny, fast genre movies with craft and confidence, especially 87-minute films that never overstay. Can't stand ponderous elevated horror that fills out its runtime with introspection and sad family history. A sucker for the Carpenter-era lineage, Die Hard homages, and directors who break studio dogma. · stances: Resident Evil is one of the best films of the year; Horror movies have become a drag; fun genre experiences are needed; Short running times are a virtue; Video-game films work best when great filmmakers get creative license
[speaker] Chris Ryan · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · A franchise and genre scholar who likes Jason, the early sequels, and Manhattan; attention to trivia, tropes and critic reception. Treats slashers as a canon with tiers. · stances: Parts 1, 2, 4 and Manhattan are the good ones; The series finds its legs at 4
[speaker] Amanda Dobbins · latest sketch, The Big Picture · ‘Mamma Mia!’ Meets ‘The Strangers'! It’s a Movie Swap! · Loves The Strangers' withholding craft and a good tense horror film without gore, but likes fun, communal movies like Mamma Mia. She dislikes supernatural or gory horror, which irritates her more than it scares her. She is a sucker for stars and for Googling a movie mid-recording. · stances: The Strangers is scary because of what it doesn't show or explain; Ending explanation weakens it; no answer would be better; Prefers 'withholding' filmmaking; Defends Mamma Mia as joyful and intentional
[speaker] Bill Simmons · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · Loves the Friday series as a communal, rental-era memory and tells childhood stories about the ads and theaters. Likes casting what-ifs and sports analogies for everything. Skeptical of horror at Christmas and of anything that wastes the premise. · stances: Friday the 13th is not the best entry but the origin story had to be told; Friday 2 is a leap over the original
[speaker] Glen Powell · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘The Truman Show’ · A genuine movie fan who picks movies for their universal emotion and loves the rewatch debate. Loves actors' directors like Linklater and Edgar Wright, 90s movies, and a rack-focus world. Dislikes loose lore and underbaked world-building (the dad, the bubble CGI). · stances: Truman Show is a religious experience more than sci-fi; Hanks would have been a good Truman; Eternal Sunshine is good but Truman is the higher tightrope
[speaker] Griffin Newman · latest sketch, Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · Calls Last Temptation his college-era favorite Scorsese; loves Scorsese's smaller 80s and the film's closing transcendence and Gabriel score. Cannot stand fundamentalist outrage at it. A sucker for casting trivia and Tom Cruise-silliness. · stances: Hot take: Last Temptation structurally mirrors New York, New York as a better version; Outrage over the film is stupid; it is respectful to Jesus; Scorsese's smaller 80s work beats his later baroque phases
[bits] The Big Picture: Drafts (Hosts and guests draft films in rounds; every pick is a recommendation with an argument); Hall of Fame (A star's or director's best, ranked and argued); Countdowns (Ranked lists, top five or top ten)
[bits] 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 Minority Report (2002); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Minority Report (2002) 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.