What the corpus says about War of the Worlds (2005)

The 48 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 (10)

[The Big Picture · 'Shazam!’ and the Future of the DCEU · 0:26:01 · David F. Sandberg (0.70)] War of the Worlds ⇒ Shazam! (the maker said so: Sandberg, in this interview) · craft · Sandberg wanted buildings to explode as in Spielberg's War of the Worlds when the tripods fire. · "the buildings explode in War of the Worlds, the Spielbergs, you know, when the tripods shoot through the buildings"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Vanilla Sky · 0:56:06 · unknown (0.40)] Vanilla Sky ↔ War of the Worlds · career · War of the Worlds is where Cruise's maniacal self-selling publicity arc implodes. · "and then War of the Worlds is where it all really implodes."
[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."
[The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies · 0:19:28 · Sean Fennessey (0.85)] Close Encounters of the Third Kind ↔ War of the Worlds · verdict · Sean loves War of the Worlds but nothing in it beats Close Encounters, which did the work first. · "But the truth is, is there's nothing in War of the Worlds that is better than close encounters."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Twister’ · 1:33:16 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Twister ↔ War of the Worlds · what-if · A Tom Cruise Twister would be the grounded 90s movie he never made, until War of the Worlds years later. · "It's the movie Cruise never made in the 90s that he should have made."
[The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 0:20:24 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] War of the Worlds ↔ Tom Cruise · craft · A Reddit thread defends Cruise's awkward ball toss as a character choice, a father easy on his son. · "there was Reddit thread defending Tom Cruise in War of the Worlds that's saying that. That's what the character, that's how the character would have thrown the ball."
[The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 0:08:45 · unknown (0.40)] Tom Cruise ↔ War of the Worlds · career · A candidate for Cruise's anti-apex alongside the couch-jumping period, though the speaker likes the movie itself. · "Cruz, I think it's Oprah's sofa and War of the Worlds, even though I like War of the Worlds."
[The Big Picture · The Tom Cruise Hall of Fame · 1:16:42 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] War of the Worlds ↔ Steven Spielberg · people · War of the Worlds is out because it is truly a Spielberg movie even though Cruise is terrific. · "that truly is a Spielberg movie."
[The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies · 0:40:49 · Chris Ryan (0.85)] War of the Worlds ↔ Tom Cruise · people · Chris picks Cruise in War of the Worlds as a cool underrated Spielberg performance. · "I'm very partial to Tom Cruise in more of the world's, that's like a cool underrated one."
[The Rewatchables · 'Mission: Impossible' · 0:17:14 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Tom Cruise ↔ War of the Worlds · IP attempt · Cruise's other IP efforts, War of the Worlds and The Mummy, are fine but will not make his Hall of Fame plaque; MI will. · "Those movies are fine. They're never going to go on his Hall of Fame plaque. The Mission Impossible movies do."

One hop out: what recommends the films most often joined to it (31)

[The Big Picture · The Top Five Movies of 2022 · 1:31:29 · Sean Fennessey (0.85)] Close Encounters of the Third Kind ⇒ Nope (the host's read) · lineage · Sean says Nope is as much a Spielberg movie as any he has seen in a long time, with Close Encounters the usual touchstone, and notes the shared theme of looking up and trying to see. · "nope is as much a Spielberg movie as any movie I've seen in a long, long time."
[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 Big Picture · 'Shazam!’ and the Future of the DCEU · 0:07:21 · Miles Surrey (0.85)] Shazam! ↔ Black Adam (planned) · programming · Miles expects Shazam! to lead into Shazam 2 or a Black Adam movie. · "it's just leading into Shazam 2 or maybe like a Black Adam movie"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Twister’ · 0:08:25 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] Twister ↔ Apollo 13 · programming · The 1995 summer slate (Crimson Tide, Die Hard, Braveheart, Batman Forever, Apollo 13) was when Hollywood began slamming mid-May to July 4. · "Batman forever, Apollo 13th all before July 4th."
[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."
[The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies · 0:19:05 · Sean Fennessey (0.85)] Close Encounters of the Third Kind ⇒ E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (the host's read) · theme · Close Encounters sets a template for science fiction and for stories about families and divorce. · "It sets a different kind of template for science fiction storytelling, for stories about families, for stories about obsession, for stories about divorce"
[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 Big Picture · 'Shazam!’ and the Future of the DCEU · 0:03:27 · Miles Surrey (0.85)] Shazam! ↔ Amblin · lineage · Miles says Shazam! has the throwback coming-of-age feel of 1980s Amblin movies. · "something you would see from like ambling in like the 80s"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Twister’ · 0:08:38 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] Twister ↔ Mission: Impossible · programming · 1996 is when the studios locked in the early-May-to-July-4 summer blockbuster calendar: Twister, Mission: Impossible, The Rock, Eraser, Independence Day. · "So then you look at 96, May 10th, Twister."
[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"
[Blank Check · Raiders of the Lost Ark · 0:25:05 · Brian Michael Bendis (0.70)] Raiders of the Lost Ark ↔ Close Encounters of the Third Kind · craft · The novelization written by Spielberg internalized the story, which Bendis loved. · "it internalizes the story for a young person who's only seeing externalizing it."
[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."
[The Big Picture · 'Shazam!’ and the Future of the DCEU · 0:04:17 · Sean Fennessey (0.90)] Big ⇒ Shazam! (the host's read) · lineage · Fennessey calls Shazam! essentially Big as a superhero movie. · "the movie is clearly pitched as sort of what if big but superhero"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Twister’ · 0:08:48 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] Twister ↔ Independence Day · programming · Independence Day (July 2) closes out the 1996 summer calendar that began with Twister. · "July 2nd Independence Day."
[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 · Raiders of the Lost Ark · 0:25:54 · Brian Michael Bendis (0.80)] Close Encounters of the Third Kind ↔ Walt Simonson · craft · Walt Simonson drew the Close Encounters comic adaptation, whose behind-the-scenes showed directing versus the page. · "Walt Simonson doing the close encounters adaptation, and it is wonderful."
[The Big Picture · 'Shazam!’ and the Future of the DCEU · 0:14:30 · David F. Sandberg (0.95)] Big ⇒ Shazam! (the maker said so: Sandberg, in this interview, on the studio pitch) · lineage · Sandberg says the studio pitched it to him as Big with superpowers. · "it's basically uh, big, but with superpowers"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Twister’ · 1:46:54 · Bill Simmons (0.40)] Twister ↔ Speed · programming · Best double feature for Twister is the Jan de Bont pair with Speed. · "It's gotta be speed, right?"
[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."
[The Big Picture · 'Shazam!’ and the Future of the DCEU · 0:06:26 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] Shazam! ↔ Wonder Woman · theme · Both films, in Miles's view, start clever and then end in a punching match with a monster or villain. · "That was also one of my struggles, honestly, with Wonder Woman"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Twister’ · 1:47:09 · Van Lathan (0.40)] Twister ↔ Deep Impact · programming · Deep Impact, same summer, is suggested as a disaster double feature and feels coded to Twister. · "Oh, no, this movie is deep impact coded to me."
[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."
[The Big Picture · 'Shazam!’ and the Future of the DCEU · 0:29:53 · David F. Sandberg (0.95)] Annabelle: Creation ↔ Shazam! · theme · Sandberg liked that, like Annabelle: Creation, Shazam! sits in a shared universe but stands as its own story. · "even though it is a sequel in this part of the universe, it was a prequel with all new characters and like a new story"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Twister’ · 0:05:47 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Twister ↔ Jurassic Park · lineage · Twister is aesthetically closer to Jurassic Park than to superhero movies, prizing intelligence over strength and wonder over fixing things. · "I think it's more aesthetically closer to like Jurassic Park."
[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."
[The Big Picture · 'Shazam!’ and the Future of the DCEU · 0:23:14 · David F. Sandberg (0.95)] Annabelle: Creation ↔ Shazam! · craft · Sandberg brought back his Annabelle: Creation costume designer, who had not done a superhero suit before. · "costume designer, Leah Butler, who I worked with on Alba Creation"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Twister’ · 0:54:51 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Jaws ⇒ Twister (the host's read) · lineage · Jonas is the Jaws-mayor archetype, a money-motivated antagonist that became a stock character in every movie. · "The mayor in Jaws is the character that kind of pushes against our lead person."
[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"
[The Big Picture · 'Shazam!’ and the Future of the DCEU · 0:26:01 · Sean Fennessey (0.70)] Terminator 2: Judgment Day ⇒ Shazam! (the host's read) · craft · Fennessey asks whether an effects shot echoes the T-1000 reassembling in Terminator 2; Sandberg agrees he references other films. · "this is basically that shot in Terminator 2, when the T 1000 gets, you know, comes back together and rises up"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Twister’ · 1:30:51 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Twister ↔ The Poseidon Adventure · lineage · Disaster movies had two golden runs, the 70s (Poseidon Adventure, Towering Inferno) and the 90s, and Twister belongs to the second. · "The 70s, we had this awesome run, Poseidon adventure and all those movies."
[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."

Who said it, by their latest sketch (4)

[speaker] Chris Ryan · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · A franchise and genre scholar who likes Jason, the early sequels, and Manhattan; attention to trivia, tropes and critic reception. Treats slashers as a canon with tiers. · stances: Parts 1, 2, 4 and Manhattan are the good ones; The series finds its legs at 4
[speaker] Sean Fennessey · latest sketch, The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · Loves gory, funny, fast genre movies with craft and confidence, especially 87-minute films that never overstay. Can't stand ponderous elevated horror that fills out its runtime with introspection and sad family history. A sucker for the Carpenter-era lineage, Die Hard homages, and directors who break studio dogma. · stances: Resident Evil is one of the best films of the year; Horror movies have become a drag; fun genre experiences are needed; Short running times are a virtue; Video-game films work best when great filmmakers get creative license
[speaker] 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] David F. Sandberg · latest sketch, The Big Picture · 'Shazam!’ and the Future of the DCEU · Sandberg loves genre, popcorn movies, horror, comedy, and science fiction, and says he wants to make a good time at the movies. He is a gearhead about how cameras and effects work and has a strong filmic memory. He is self-effacing and openly doubtful about himself. · stances: There was no studio mandate on tone, and he liked making a movie that stands on its own; Casting for enthusiasm matters most; Spectacle is tedious to shoot; Wants a rest before deciding on Shazam 2

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 War of the Worlds (2005) 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 War of the Worlds (2005) 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 · 'Shazam!’ and the Future of the DCEU · 0:26:01 · David F. Sandberg (0.70)] War of the Worlds ⇒ Shazam! (the maker said so: Sandberg, in this interview) · craft · Sandberg wanted buildings to explode as in Spielberg's War of the Worlds when the tripods fire. · "the buildings explode in War of the Worlds, the Spielbergs, you know, when the tripods shoot through the buildings"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Vanilla Sky · 0:56:06 · unknown (0.40)] Vanilla Sky ↔ War of the Worlds · career · War of the Worlds is where Cruise's maniacal self-selling publicity arc implodes. · "and then War of the Worlds is where it all really implodes."
[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."
[The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies · 0:19:28 · Sean Fennessey (0.85)] Close Encounters of the Third Kind ↔ War of the Worlds · verdict · Sean loves War of the Worlds but nothing in it beats Close Encounters, which did the work first. · "But the truth is, is there's nothing in War of the Worlds that is better than close encounters."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Twister’ · 1:33:16 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Twister ↔ War of the Worlds · what-if · A Tom Cruise Twister would be the grounded 90s movie he never made, until War of the Worlds years later. · "It's the movie Cruise never made in the 90s that he should have made."
[The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 0:20:24 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] War of the Worlds ↔ Tom Cruise · craft · A Reddit thread defends Cruise's awkward ball toss as a character choice, a father easy on his son. · "there was Reddit thread defending Tom Cruise in War of the Worlds that's saying that. That's what the character, that's how the character would have thrown the ball."
[The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 0:08:45 · unknown (0.40)] Tom Cruise ↔ War of the Worlds · career · A candidate for Cruise's anti-apex alongside the couch-jumping period, though the speaker likes the movie itself. · "Cruz, I think it's Oprah's sofa and War of the Worlds, even though I like War of the Worlds."
[The Big Picture · The Tom Cruise Hall of Fame · 1:16:42 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] War of the Worlds ↔ Steven Spielberg · people · War of the Worlds is out because it is truly a Spielberg movie even though Cruise is terrific. · "that truly is a Spielberg movie."
[The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies · 0:40:49 · Chris Ryan (0.85)] War of the Worlds ↔ Tom Cruise · people · Chris picks Cruise in War of the Worlds as a cool underrated Spielberg performance. · "I'm very partial to Tom Cruise in more of the world's, that's like a cool underrated one."
[The Rewatchables · 'Mission: Impossible' · 0:17:14 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Tom Cruise ↔ War of the Worlds · IP attempt · Cruise's other IP efforts, War of the Worlds and The Mummy, are fine but will not make his Hall of Fame plaque; MI will. · "Those movies are fine. They're never going to go on his Hall of Fame plaque. The Mission Impossible movies do."
[The Big Picture · The Top Five Movies of 2022 · 1:31:29 · Sean Fennessey (0.85)] Close Encounters of the Third Kind ⇒ Nope (the host's read) · lineage · Sean says Nope is as much a Spielberg movie as any he has seen in a long time, with Close Encounters the usual touchstone, and notes the shared theme of looking up and trying to see. · "nope is as much a Spielberg movie as any movie I've seen in a long, long time."
[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 Big Picture · 'Shazam!’ and the Future of the DCEU · 0:07:21 · Miles Surrey (0.85)] Shazam! ↔ Black Adam (planned) · programming · Miles expects Shazam! to lead into Shazam 2 or a Black Adam movie. · "it's just leading into Shazam 2 or maybe like a Black Adam movie"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Twister’ · 0:08:25 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] Twister ↔ Apollo 13 · programming · The 1995 summer slate (Crimson Tide, Die Hard, Braveheart, Batman Forever, Apollo 13) was when Hollywood began slamming mid-May to July 4. · "Batman forever, Apollo 13th all before July 4th."
[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."
[The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies · 0:19:05 · Sean Fennessey (0.85)] Close Encounters of the Third Kind ⇒ E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (the host's read) · theme · Close Encounters sets a template for science fiction and for stories about families and divorce. · "It sets a different kind of template for science fiction storytelling, for stories about families, for stories about obsession, for stories about divorce"
[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 Big Picture · 'Shazam!’ and the Future of the DCEU · 0:03:27 · Miles Surrey (0.85)] Shazam! ↔ Amblin · lineage · Miles says Shazam! has the throwback coming-of-age feel of 1980s Amblin movies. · "something you would see from like ambling in like the 80s"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Twister’ · 0:08:38 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] Twister ↔ Mission: Impossible · programming · 1996 is when the studios locked in the early-May-to-July-4 summer blockbuster calendar: Twister, Mission: Impossible, The Rock, Eraser, Independence Day. · "So then you look at 96, May 10th, Twister."
[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"
[Blank Check · Raiders of the Lost Ark · 0:25:05 · Brian Michael Bendis (0.70)] Raiders of the Lost Ark ↔ Close Encounters of the Third Kind · craft · The novelization written by Spielberg internalized the story, which Bendis loved. · "it internalizes the story for a young person who's only seeing externalizing it."
[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."
[The Big Picture · 'Shazam!’ and the Future of the DCEU · 0:04:17 · Sean Fennessey (0.90)] Big ⇒ Shazam! (the host's read) · lineage · Fennessey calls Shazam! essentially Big as a superhero movie. · "the movie is clearly pitched as sort of what if big but superhero"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Twister’ · 0:08:48 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] Twister ↔ Independence Day · programming · Independence Day (July 2) closes out the 1996 summer calendar that began with Twister. · "July 2nd Independence Day."
[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 · Raiders of the Lost Ark · 0:25:54 · Brian Michael Bendis (0.80)] Close Encounters of the Third Kind ↔ Walt Simonson · craft · Walt Simonson drew the Close Encounters comic adaptation, whose behind-the-scenes showed directing versus the page. · "Walt Simonson doing the close encounters adaptation, and it is wonderful."
[The Big Picture · 'Shazam!’ and the Future of the DCEU · 0:14:30 · David F. Sandberg (0.95)] Big ⇒ Shazam! (the maker said so: Sandberg, in this interview, on the studio pitch) · lineage · Sandberg says the studio pitched it to him as Big with superpowers. · "it's basically uh, big, but with superpowers"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Twister’ · 1:46:54 · Bill Simmons (0.40)] Twister ↔ Speed · programming · Best double feature for Twister is the Jan de Bont pair with Speed. · "It's gotta be speed, right?"
[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."
[The Big Picture · 'Shazam!’ and the Future of the DCEU · 0:06:26 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] Shazam! ↔ Wonder Woman · theme · Both films, in Miles's view, start clever and then end in a punching match with a monster or villain. · "That was also one of my struggles, honestly, with Wonder Woman"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Twister’ · 1:47:09 · Van Lathan (0.40)] Twister ↔ Deep Impact · programming · Deep Impact, same summer, is suggested as a disaster double feature and feels coded to Twister. · "Oh, no, this movie is deep impact coded to me."
[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."
[The Big Picture · 'Shazam!’ and the Future of the DCEU · 0:29:53 · David F. Sandberg (0.95)] Annabelle: Creation ↔ Shazam! · theme · Sandberg liked that, like Annabelle: Creation, Shazam! sits in a shared universe but stands as its own story. · "even though it is a sequel in this part of the universe, it was a prequel with all new characters and like a new story"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Twister’ · 0:05:47 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Twister ↔ Jurassic Park · lineage · Twister is aesthetically closer to Jurassic Park than to superhero movies, prizing intelligence over strength and wonder over fixing things. · "I think it's more aesthetically closer to like Jurassic Park."
[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."
[The Big Picture · 'Shazam!’ and the Future of the DCEU · 0:23:14 · David F. Sandberg (0.95)] Annabelle: Creation ↔ Shazam! · craft · Sandberg brought back his Annabelle: Creation costume designer, who had not done a superhero suit before. · "costume designer, Leah Butler, who I worked with on Alba Creation"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Twister’ · 0:54:51 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Jaws ⇒ Twister (the host's read) · lineage · Jonas is the Jaws-mayor archetype, a money-motivated antagonist that became a stock character in every movie. · "The mayor in Jaws is the character that kind of pushes against our lead person."
[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"
[The Big Picture · 'Shazam!’ and the Future of the DCEU · 0:26:01 · Sean Fennessey (0.70)] Terminator 2: Judgment Day ⇒ Shazam! (the host's read) · craft · Fennessey asks whether an effects shot echoes the T-1000 reassembling in Terminator 2; Sandberg agrees he references other films. · "this is basically that shot in Terminator 2, when the T 1000 gets, you know, comes back together and rises up"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Twister’ · 1:30:51 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Twister ↔ The Poseidon Adventure · lineage · Disaster movies had two golden runs, the 70s (Poseidon Adventure, Towering Inferno) and the 90s, and Twister belongs to the second. · "The 70s, we had this awesome run, Poseidon adventure and all those movies."
[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."
[speaker] Chris Ryan · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · A franchise and genre scholar who likes Jason, the early sequels, and Manhattan; attention to trivia, tropes and critic reception. Treats slashers as a canon with tiers. · stances: Parts 1, 2, 4 and Manhattan are the good ones; The series finds its legs at 4
[speaker] Sean Fennessey · latest sketch, The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · Loves gory, funny, fast genre movies with craft and confidence, especially 87-minute films that never overstay. Can't stand ponderous elevated horror that fills out its runtime with introspection and sad family history. A sucker for the Carpenter-era lineage, Die Hard homages, and directors who break studio dogma. · stances: Resident Evil is one of the best films of the year; Horror movies have become a drag; fun genre experiences are needed; Short running times are a virtue; Video-game films work best when great filmmakers get creative license
[speaker] 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] David F. Sandberg · latest sketch, The Big Picture · 'Shazam!’ and the Future of the DCEU · Sandberg loves genre, popcorn movies, horror, comedy, and science fiction, and says he wants to make a good time at the movies. He is a gearhead about how cameras and effects work and has a strong filmic memory. He is self-effacing and openly doubtful about himself. · stances: There was no studio mandate on tone, and he liked making a movie that stands on its own; Casting for enthusiasm matters most; Spectacle is tedious to shoot; Wants a rest before deciding on Shazam 2
[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 War of the Worlds (2005); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend War of the Worlds (2005) 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.