What the corpus says about Mission: Impossible III (2006)

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What was said about it (9)

[Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 1:12:38 · David Sims (0.50)] Edge of Tomorrow ↔ Mission: Impossible III · craft · Casting Brendan Gleeson parallels Philip Seymour Hoffman in MI3: the best foil for Cruise comes from a different acting discipline. · "like casting Philip Seymour Hoffman in Mission Impossible 3"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Iron Man 3 · 1:33:42 · unknown (0.30)] Iron Man 3 ↔ Mission: Impossible III · contrast · Misdirect villains usually deflate (Hoffman as the front for Crudup in MI3), but Kingsley's reveal enriches the themes. · "Like, the classic example is like, Mission Impossible 3, when you realize that Philip Seymour Hoffman is just the front for Billy Kredup, you're like, I can't just rather watch the Philip Seymour Hoffman."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Vanilla Sky · 0:55:39 · unknown (0.40)] Vanilla Sky ↔ Mission: Impossible III · career · Even in Mission Impossible 3 he's the hero but dark and crying a lot. · "even something like Mission Impossible 3, where he's the hero, his character is dark and like crying a lot"
[The Big Picture · The Tom Cruise Hall of Fame · 1:16:54 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] Mission: Impossible III ↔ Mission: Impossible · verdict · MI3 is called the fourth best Mission Impossible movie. · "It's like the 4th best Mission Impossible movie."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Vanilla Sky · 1:17:40 · unknown (0.40)] Vanilla Sky ↔ Mission: Impossible III · verdict · This is the ultimate Cruise performance: first the charm cashed in, then the thing underneath. · "I agree that this movie's kind of like the ultimate Tom Cruise performance."
[The Rewatchables · 'Mission: Impossible' · 0:18:06 · Jason Concepcion (0.40)] Mission: Impossible III ↔ The Bourne Identity · industry · The Bourne films made MI feel dated and less real, delaying the franchise's recovery. · "Bourne wipes out Mission Impossible because everybody is like, not only is Bourne like an exciting movie."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Twister’ · 0:25:42 · Van Lathan (0.40)] Philip Seymour Hoffman ↔ Mission: Impossible III · career · Hoffman elevated any material, playing the Mission: Impossible III villain like he was in The Master and scaring Tom Cruise. · "no matter what the material was, he elevated it."
[The Big Picture · The Tom Cruise Hall of Fame · 1:16:52 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Mission: Impossible III ↔ Philip Seymour Hoffman · people · MI3 belongs to Hoffman more than to Cruise. · "But it's Philip Seymour Hoffman's movie."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Zodiac · 0:40:19 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Joe Carnahan ↔ Mission: Impossible III · replacement · Carnahan replaced Fincher on MI3, then Abrams started from scratch. · "I say Carnahan is his replacement."

Films put beside it more than once (1)

[pairs] Mission: Impossible III ↔ Vanilla Sky · said 2 times in 1 episode

Fun items about it (1)

[The Big Picture · The Tom Cruise Hall of Fame · 1:17:17 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Mission: Impossible III · fun · Watch the scene where Philip Seymour Hoffman counts down with a gun to Keri Russell's head while Cruise says tell me what you need. · "Watch the scene where Philip Seymour Hoffman counts down while putting having a gun to carry Russell's head."

One hop out: what recommends the films most often joined to it (36)

[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 · 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."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The Winter Soldier · 0:14:14 · unknown (0.35)] Captain America: The Winter Soldier ↔ Iron Man 3 · programming · Marvel gives each film a different genre; Winter Soldier is the political thriller, Iron Man 3 the noir/buddy film. · "Right. So this is when they're like, Iron Man 3 is sort of like a noir and like a buddy film, Dark World is like high fantasy."
[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."
[The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 0:23:23 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Sicario: Day of the Soldado ↔ The Bourne Identity · theme · Both have the emergency homemade haircut that goes perfectly, a trope a hairdresser's wife hates. · "Benicio del Toro giving the cartel daughter. the short hairdo before attempting to cross the border."
[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 — 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 · Iron Man 3 · 0:16:00 · unknown (0.30)] Iron Man 3 ↔ The Avengers · programming · Phase 2 begins here and Avengers' victory lap gave Feige room to let each film feel individual. · "They're on such a victory lap that it feels like this is the one little chunk of time where Kevin Feige lets go a little bit."
[The Rewatchables · 'Mission: Impossible' · 0:06:37 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Mission: Impossible ⇒ Mission: Impossible – Fallout (the host's read) · lineage · Every later MI film calls back to the Langley drop as a hallmark. · "I realized that they call back to that specific moment every time"
[The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 0:23:35 · unknown (0.40)] The Fugitive ↔ The Bourne Identity · theme · Richard Kimble leaving the hospital with cuticle scissors and a razor looking like Harrison Ford is another instant makeover. · "Richard Kimble in the hospital room with a pair of like cuticle scissors and a disposable razor coming out looking like fucking Harrison Ford"
[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 · 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"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Iron Man 3 · 2:21:21 · unknown (0.30)] Iron Man 3 ↔ Pain & Gain · programming · Pain & Gain opened the same spring with a big second-week drop; The Rock's performance is called the smartest use of him. · "Smartest anyone has ever used him."
[The Rewatchables · 'Mission: Impossible' · 0:18:47 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] The Fast and the Furious ⇒ Mission: Impossible (the host's read) · lineage · The modern MI films combine Bourne-style hand-to-hand combat with Fast and the Furious over-the-top action. · "the 2 biggest influences on Mission Impossible are born in the Fast and the Furious."
[The Rewatchables · ‘What About Bob?’ · 1:09:39 · Van Lathan (0.60)] What About Bob? ↔ The Bourne Identity · theme · Bob's pretending to be someone else to track the doctor is likened to Jason Bourne or Ethan Hunt spycraft. · "Jason Bourne, like CIA detective skills to go in there and pretend to be somebody else, Ethan Hutt skills"
[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 · 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."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Iron Man 3 · 2:23:04 · unknown (0.30)] 42 ↔ Iron Man 3 · programming · 42 and a run of April 2013 releases are compared in the Box Office Mojo segment. · "That we waited this long for a Jackie Robinson movie and that Brian Helgeland ended up making it such a disappointment."
[The Rewatchables · 'Mission: Impossible' · 0:24:41 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] Rififi ⇒ Mission: Impossible (the host's read) · lineage · The silent Langley vault heist echoes the Rififi heist where an alarm is triggered by sound. · "my favorite heist movies were Fifi, which has a heist uh, portion where they very similar, they drill through the roof and it's all in silence"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 1:36:44 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Edge of Tomorrow ↔ The Bourne Identity · craft · The end-credits pop song sounds like the Moby song Bourne ends with. · "it sort of sounds like the Moby song that Bourne ends with"
[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 · 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"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Iron Man 3 · 2:24:42 · unknown (0.30)] Oblivion ↔ Iron Man 3 · programming · Oblivion released the same spring (Cruise sci-fi) and made 70% worldwide. · "Oblivion, a Joseph Konsinski film."
[The Rewatchables · 'Mission: Impossible' · 0:29:57 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] Psycho ⇒ Mission: Impossible (the host's read) · lineage · Killing off Kristin Scott Thomas's star-billed character early mirrors Psycho killing Janet Leigh. · "it's completely Hitchcocky and it's killing Janet Lee after 40 minutes."
[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 · Edge of Tomorrow · 0:31:17 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Edge of Tomorrow ↔ The Matrix · craft · The mimics recall the Matrix Sentinels but do not feel derivative. · "There's a little bit of the Matrix Sentinel."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Thor: The Dark World · 0:13:27 · unknown (0.30)] Thor: Ragnarok ↔ Iron Man 3 · lineage · Ragnarok relates to The Dark World as Iron Man 3 relates to Iron Man, a hard tonal reset on the prior entry. · "Ragnarok is very much the Iron Man 3 to this movie's Iron Man."
[The Rewatchables · 'Mission: Impossible' · 0:46:08 · Chris Ryan (0.30)] Mission: Impossible ↔ Jaws · lineage · A political awards category was suggested, recalling a Jaws episode on Amity's campaign. · "between this and you outlining Quince campaign in Amity for the Jaws rewatchables, we should have some sort of political category here."
[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 · Edge of Tomorrow · 0:34:19 · David Sims (0.40)] Edge of Tomorrow ↔ Ghostbusters · craft · The Noah Taylor briefing carries the same 'I'm not sure, it might end the world' flavor as Ghostbusters' cross the streams. · "The Ghostbusters thing of like what happens if we cross the streams."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Iron Man 3 · 0:15:43 · unknown (0.30)] The Avengers ⇒ Iron Man 3 (the host's read) · lineage · Iron Man 3 works as a quasi-sequel to The Avengers because it deals with Tony's trauma of the portal and aliens. · "Except it's it is a sort of quasi sequel to the Avengers in that it's dealing with the fact that he got sucked into a portal into space for a 2nd there."
[The Rewatchables · 'Mission: Impossible' · 0:49:53 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Topkapi ⇒ Mission: Impossible (the host's read) · lineage · Langley heist is an homage to the Jules Dassin heist classics Topkapi and Rififi. · "the Langley heist is an homage to the Jewel Statsen classics of uh, top copy and uh, Rafifi."
[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 · Edge of Tomorrow · 0:50:43 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Edge of Tomorrow ↔ Raiders of the Lost Ark · craft · The black blood burning through Cage's face in his first death is 'end of Raiders shit'. · "like end of Raiders shit."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Iron Man 3 · 0:18:57 · unknown (0.30)] Iron Man ⇒ Iron Man 3 (the host's read) · lineage · The Iron Man trilogy is closed into a circle by the flashback to the party and Becca Hall and Pierce. · "as individualistic as this movie is, it actually like... It's bringing the 1st 2 complete."
[The Rewatchables · 'Mission: Impossible' · 0:49:53 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Jules Dassin ⇒ Mission: Impossible (the host's read) · lineage · Dassin's heist classics are the model for the Langley break-in. · "the Langley heist is an homage to the Jewel Statsen classics"

Who said it, by their latest sketch (6)

[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] 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] Griffin Newman · latest sketch, Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · Calls Last Temptation his college-era favorite Scorsese; loves Scorsese's smaller 80s and the film's closing transcendence and Gabriel score. Cannot stand fundamentalist outrage at it. A sucker for casting trivia and Tom Cruise-silliness. · stances: Hot take: Last Temptation structurally mirrors New York, New York as a better version; Outrage over the film is stupid; it is respectful to Jesus; Scorsese's smaller 80s work beats his later baroque phases
[speaker] Jason Concepcion · latest sketch, The Big Picture · Did Disney’s ‘Mulan’ Experiment Work? A Binge Mode Investigation · Loves a musical, Donnie Yen action, and the 1998 Mulan with its Eddie Murphy humor. Finds the remake kind of boring and wants a grounded, historical version. Sucker for political and economic framing of film controversy. · stances: The remake is fine in a vacuum, a disappointment as a Mulan; Wants a more historical, less magical take; Sees the Mulan controversy as a symptom of the West-China economic experiment; Missing music means missing storytelling
[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] Van Lathan · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · Enjoys the series for its sleaze, hang value and cheesy lines. Roots for Black-cast-free sendups and loves a flex category. Gravitates to Freddy and likes Kevin Bacon. · stances: Friday the 13th is a movie that did not need Black people; Rewards bad-hang awards and flex lists

The shows' running bits (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] 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 Mission: Impossible III (2006) 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 Mission: Impossible III (2006) 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 · Edge of Tomorrow · 1:12:38 · David Sims (0.50)] Edge of Tomorrow ↔ Mission: Impossible III · craft · Casting Brendan Gleeson parallels Philip Seymour Hoffman in MI3: the best foil for Cruise comes from a different acting discipline. · "like casting Philip Seymour Hoffman in Mission Impossible 3"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Iron Man 3 · 1:33:42 · unknown (0.30)] Iron Man 3 ↔ Mission: Impossible III · contrast · Misdirect villains usually deflate (Hoffman as the front for Crudup in MI3), but Kingsley's reveal enriches the themes. · "Like, the classic example is like, Mission Impossible 3, when you realize that Philip Seymour Hoffman is just the front for Billy Kredup, you're like, I can't just rather watch the Philip Seymour Hoffman."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Vanilla Sky · 0:55:39 · unknown (0.40)] Vanilla Sky ↔ Mission: Impossible III · career · Even in Mission Impossible 3 he's the hero but dark and crying a lot. · "even something like Mission Impossible 3, where he's the hero, his character is dark and like crying a lot"
[The Big Picture · The Tom Cruise Hall of Fame · 1:16:54 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] Mission: Impossible III ↔ Mission: Impossible · verdict · MI3 is called the fourth best Mission Impossible movie. · "It's like the 4th best Mission Impossible movie."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Vanilla Sky · 1:17:40 · unknown (0.40)] Vanilla Sky ↔ Mission: Impossible III · verdict · This is the ultimate Cruise performance: first the charm cashed in, then the thing underneath. · "I agree that this movie's kind of like the ultimate Tom Cruise performance."
[The Rewatchables · 'Mission: Impossible' · 0:18:06 · Jason Concepcion (0.40)] Mission: Impossible III ↔ The Bourne Identity · industry · The Bourne films made MI feel dated and less real, delaying the franchise's recovery. · "Bourne wipes out Mission Impossible because everybody is like, not only is Bourne like an exciting movie."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Twister’ · 0:25:42 · Van Lathan (0.40)] Philip Seymour Hoffman ↔ Mission: Impossible III · career · Hoffman elevated any material, playing the Mission: Impossible III villain like he was in The Master and scaring Tom Cruise. · "no matter what the material was, he elevated it."
[The Big Picture · The Tom Cruise Hall of Fame · 1:16:52 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Mission: Impossible III ↔ Philip Seymour Hoffman · people · MI3 belongs to Hoffman more than to Cruise. · "But it's Philip Seymour Hoffman's movie."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Zodiac · 0:40:19 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Joe Carnahan ↔ Mission: Impossible III · replacement · Carnahan replaced Fincher on MI3, then Abrams started from scratch. · "I say Carnahan is his replacement."
[pairs] Mission: Impossible III ↔ Vanilla Sky · said 2 times in 1 episode
[The Big Picture · The Tom Cruise Hall of Fame · 1:17:17 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Mission: Impossible III · fun · Watch the scene where Philip Seymour Hoffman counts down with a gun to Keri Russell's head while Cruise says tell me what you need. · "Watch the scene where Philip Seymour Hoffman counts down while putting having a gun to carry Russell's head."
[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 · 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."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The Winter Soldier · 0:14:14 · unknown (0.35)] Captain America: The Winter Soldier ↔ Iron Man 3 · programming · Marvel gives each film a different genre; Winter Soldier is the political thriller, Iron Man 3 the noir/buddy film. · "Right. So this is when they're like, Iron Man 3 is sort of like a noir and like a buddy film, Dark World is like high fantasy."
[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."
[The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 0:23:23 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Sicario: Day of the Soldado ↔ The Bourne Identity · theme · Both have the emergency homemade haircut that goes perfectly, a trope a hairdresser's wife hates. · "Benicio del Toro giving the cartel daughter. the short hairdo before attempting to cross the border."
[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 — 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 · Iron Man 3 · 0:16:00 · unknown (0.30)] Iron Man 3 ↔ The Avengers · programming · Phase 2 begins here and Avengers' victory lap gave Feige room to let each film feel individual. · "They're on such a victory lap that it feels like this is the one little chunk of time where Kevin Feige lets go a little bit."
[The Rewatchables · 'Mission: Impossible' · 0:06:37 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Mission: Impossible ⇒ Mission: Impossible – Fallout (the host's read) · lineage · Every later MI film calls back to the Langley drop as a hallmark. · "I realized that they call back to that specific moment every time"
[The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 0:23:35 · unknown (0.40)] The Fugitive ↔ The Bourne Identity · theme · Richard Kimble leaving the hospital with cuticle scissors and a razor looking like Harrison Ford is another instant makeover. · "Richard Kimble in the hospital room with a pair of like cuticle scissors and a disposable razor coming out looking like fucking Harrison Ford"
[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 · 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"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Iron Man 3 · 2:21:21 · unknown (0.30)] Iron Man 3 ↔ Pain & Gain · programming · Pain & Gain opened the same spring with a big second-week drop; The Rock's performance is called the smartest use of him. · "Smartest anyone has ever used him."
[The Rewatchables · 'Mission: Impossible' · 0:18:47 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] The Fast and the Furious ⇒ Mission: Impossible (the host's read) · lineage · The modern MI films combine Bourne-style hand-to-hand combat with Fast and the Furious over-the-top action. · "the 2 biggest influences on Mission Impossible are born in the Fast and the Furious."
[The Rewatchables · ‘What About Bob?’ · 1:09:39 · Van Lathan (0.60)] What About Bob? ↔ The Bourne Identity · theme · Bob's pretending to be someone else to track the doctor is likened to Jason Bourne or Ethan Hunt spycraft. · "Jason Bourne, like CIA detective skills to go in there and pretend to be somebody else, Ethan Hutt skills"
[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 · 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."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Iron Man 3 · 2:23:04 · unknown (0.30)] 42 ↔ Iron Man 3 · programming · 42 and a run of April 2013 releases are compared in the Box Office Mojo segment. · "That we waited this long for a Jackie Robinson movie and that Brian Helgeland ended up making it such a disappointment."
[The Rewatchables · 'Mission: Impossible' · 0:24:41 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] Rififi ⇒ Mission: Impossible (the host's read) · lineage · The silent Langley vault heist echoes the Rififi heist where an alarm is triggered by sound. · "my favorite heist movies were Fifi, which has a heist uh, portion where they very similar, they drill through the roof and it's all in silence"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 1:36:44 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Edge of Tomorrow ↔ The Bourne Identity · craft · The end-credits pop song sounds like the Moby song Bourne ends with. · "it sort of sounds like the Moby song that Bourne ends with"
[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 · 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"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Iron Man 3 · 2:24:42 · unknown (0.30)] Oblivion ↔ Iron Man 3 · programming · Oblivion released the same spring (Cruise sci-fi) and made 70% worldwide. · "Oblivion, a Joseph Konsinski film."
[The Rewatchables · 'Mission: Impossible' · 0:29:57 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] Psycho ⇒ Mission: Impossible (the host's read) · lineage · Killing off Kristin Scott Thomas's star-billed character early mirrors Psycho killing Janet Leigh. · "it's completely Hitchcocky and it's killing Janet Lee after 40 minutes."
[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 · Edge of Tomorrow · 0:31:17 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Edge of Tomorrow ↔ The Matrix · craft · The mimics recall the Matrix Sentinels but do not feel derivative. · "There's a little bit of the Matrix Sentinel."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Thor: The Dark World · 0:13:27 · unknown (0.30)] Thor: Ragnarok ↔ Iron Man 3 · lineage · Ragnarok relates to The Dark World as Iron Man 3 relates to Iron Man, a hard tonal reset on the prior entry. · "Ragnarok is very much the Iron Man 3 to this movie's Iron Man."
[The Rewatchables · 'Mission: Impossible' · 0:46:08 · Chris Ryan (0.30)] Mission: Impossible ↔ Jaws · lineage · A political awards category was suggested, recalling a Jaws episode on Amity's campaign. · "between this and you outlining Quince campaign in Amity for the Jaws rewatchables, we should have some sort of political category here."
[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 · Edge of Tomorrow · 0:34:19 · David Sims (0.40)] Edge of Tomorrow ↔ Ghostbusters · craft · The Noah Taylor briefing carries the same 'I'm not sure, it might end the world' flavor as Ghostbusters' cross the streams. · "The Ghostbusters thing of like what happens if we cross the streams."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Iron Man 3 · 0:15:43 · unknown (0.30)] The Avengers ⇒ Iron Man 3 (the host's read) · lineage · Iron Man 3 works as a quasi-sequel to The Avengers because it deals with Tony's trauma of the portal and aliens. · "Except it's it is a sort of quasi sequel to the Avengers in that it's dealing with the fact that he got sucked into a portal into space for a 2nd there."
[The Rewatchables · 'Mission: Impossible' · 0:49:53 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Topkapi ⇒ Mission: Impossible (the host's read) · lineage · Langley heist is an homage to the Jules Dassin heist classics Topkapi and Rififi. · "the Langley heist is an homage to the Jewel Statsen classics of uh, top copy and uh, Rafifi."
[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 · Edge of Tomorrow · 0:50:43 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Edge of Tomorrow ↔ Raiders of the Lost Ark · craft · The black blood burning through Cage's face in his first death is 'end of Raiders shit'. · "like end of Raiders shit."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Iron Man 3 · 0:18:57 · unknown (0.30)] Iron Man ⇒ Iron Man 3 (the host's read) · lineage · The Iron Man trilogy is closed into a circle by the flashback to the party and Becca Hall and Pierce. · "as individualistic as this movie is, it actually like... It's bringing the 1st 2 complete."
[The Rewatchables · 'Mission: Impossible' · 0:49:53 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Jules Dassin ⇒ Mission: Impossible (the host's read) · lineage · Dassin's heist classics are the model for the Langley break-in. · "the Langley heist is an homage to the Jewel Statsen classics"
[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] 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] Griffin Newman · latest sketch, Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · Calls Last Temptation his college-era favorite Scorsese; loves Scorsese's smaller 80s and the film's closing transcendence and Gabriel score. Cannot stand fundamentalist outrage at it. A sucker for casting trivia and Tom Cruise-silliness. · stances: Hot take: Last Temptation structurally mirrors New York, New York as a better version; Outrage over the film is stupid; it is respectful to Jesus; Scorsese's smaller 80s work beats his later baroque phases
[speaker] Jason Concepcion · latest sketch, The Big Picture · Did Disney’s ‘Mulan’ Experiment Work? A Binge Mode Investigation · Loves a musical, Donnie Yen action, and the 1998 Mulan with its Eddie Murphy humor. Finds the remake kind of boring and wants a grounded, historical version. Sucker for political and economic framing of film controversy. · stances: The remake is fine in a vacuum, a disappointment as a Mulan; Wants a more historical, less magical take; Sees the Mulan controversy as a symptom of the West-China economic experiment; Missing music means missing storytelling
[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] Van Lathan · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · Enjoys the series for its sleaze, hang value and cheesy lines. Roots for Black-cast-free sendups and loves a flex category. Gravitates to Freddy and likes Kevin Bacon. · stances: Friday the 13th is a movie that did not need Black people; Rewards bad-hang awards and flex lists
[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] 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 Mission: Impossible III (2006); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Mission: Impossible III (2006) 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.