What the corpus says about Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation (2015)

The 45 lines php artisan corpus:ask hands a model, in the order it gets them, and nothing else. The model writes a clerk's answer from these and only these.

What was said about it (26)

  1. [Blank Check — Patreon · Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation · 0:19:18 · unknown (0.30)] Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation ↔ Star Wars (the new film) · programming · Rogue Nation was moved from December to July partly out of fear of Star Wars. · "Yeah, but I think it was also Star Wars fear."
  2. [Blank Check — Patreon · Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation · 0:44:26 · unknown (0.30)] Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation ↔ The Man Who Knew Too Much · lineage · The Turandot opera showdown recalls Hitchcock's concert-hall assassination set piece. · "It's reminiscent of the man who knew too much."
  3. [Blank Check — Patreon · Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation · 1:01:43 · unknown (0.30)] Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation ↔ Iron Man 2 · lineage · The thigh-grab move is traced back to Iron Man 2 by one speaker. · "I mean, I always think of Iron Man 2."
  4. [Blank Check — Patreon · Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation · 1:01:49 · unknown (0.30)] Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation ↔ GoldenEye · lineage · Famke Janssen in GoldenEye is cited as an earlier thigh-based attack. · "what, Funky Jansen in, in, uh, Golden Eye, you have other thigh related, uh, attacks"
  5. [Blank Check — Patreon · Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation · 0:20:37 · unknown (0.30)] Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation ↔ Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol · theme · After four disavowed-Hunt films, Rogue Nation opens in the same state but with a specific story. · "And after like 4 movies in a row where he's disavowed,"
  6. [Blank Check — Patreon · Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation · 0:34:44 · unknown (0.30)] Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation ↔ The Fast and the Furious (franchise) · theme · Rogue Nation weaponizes 'friend' the way Fast and Furious weaponizes 'family'. · "I feel like this movie weaponizes the word friend in the way the Fast and Furious franchise weaponizes the word family."
  7. [Blank Check — Patreon · Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation · 0:38:46 · unknown (0.30)] Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation ↔ The Fast and the Furious (franchise) · theme · Male sincerity and intimacy in Fast and Furious is raised alongside Benji and Ethan. · "Male sincerity."
  8. [Blank Check — Patreon · Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation · 0:12:59 · unknown (0.30)] Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation ↔ Television cold open · craft · The plane sequence, meant for mid-film, functions as a TV-style cold open and burns the money shot. · "This was supposed to be a mid-movie sequence, and it just works perfectly as like a TV show cold open."
  9. [Blank Check — Patreon · Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation · 0:47:46 · unknown (0.30)] Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation ↔ John Wick (most recent) · craft · The tall-assassin gag is repeated in the most recent John Wick. · "They also do this in the last John Wick."
  10. [Blank Check — Patreon · Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation · 1:27:28 · unknown (0.30)] Jack Reacher ↔ Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation · craft · McQuarrie's Jack Reacher is called very underrated for its car chases, a skill carried over. · "Jack Reacher, very underrated in terms of how good it's car chases are"
  11. [Blank Check — Patreon · Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation · 1:28:16 · unknown (0.30)] Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation ↔ Inception · craft · The flipping car shots are guessed to use a rotating mounted camera like Inception's hallway. · "I think it's probably similar to how they did the hallway in Inception"
  12. [Blank Check — Patreon · Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation · 1:28:29 · unknown (0.30)] Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation ↔ 10 Cloverfield Lane · craft · The 10 Cloverfield Lane car crash is called extremely realistic in comparison to the flip here. · "that one in particular feels like extremely realistic"
  13. [Blank Check — Patreon · Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation · 2:06:39 · unknown (0.30)] Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation ↔ Mad Max: Fury Road · craft · Cruise and Ferguson using each other as a shooting stabilizer echoes Max and Furiosa in Fury Road. · "But it's like the Fury Road moment where Max lets."
  14. [Blank Check — Patreon · Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation · 0:30:17 · unknown (0.30)] Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation ↔ Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol · contrast · Ghost Protocol is described as ballet-like while Rogue Nation is more street-level. · "That one is like a ballet."
  15. [Blank Check — Patreon · Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation · 0:30:22 · unknown (0.30)] Mission: Impossible – Fallout ↔ Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation · contrast · Fallout swings the other way, up into theatricality, after Rogue Nation's street level. · "Fallout. is like, let's amp up the theatricality. like that goes that goes in the other direction again."
  16. [Blank Check — Patreon · Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation · 0:53:19 · unknown (0.30)] Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation ↔ James Bond films · contrast · The speaker calls the film more Bond-like than other M:I entries, with Ghost Protocol being more magician. · "This is such a James Bondi movie versus other..."
  17. [Blank Check — Patreon · Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation · 0:57:36 · unknown (0.30)] Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation ↔ Mission: Impossible – Fallout · verdict · One host calls Rogue Nation objectively a little better than Fallout while acknowledging bias. · "I think Rogue Nation is objectively a little better than fallout"
  18. [Blank Check — Patreon · Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation · 1:48:28 · unknown (0.30)] Mission: Impossible – Fallout ↔ Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation · verdict · Later one host switches: Fallout is better because McQuarrie learned how to manage energy. · "Because fallout is just, it's just Macquarie has learned everything he needs to learn."
  19. [Blank Check — Patreon · Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation · 1:48:51 · unknown (0.30)] Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol ↔ Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation · verdict · One host finds Ghost Protocol has highest highs but valleys, unlike Rogue Nation. · "that's how I feel about Ghost Pro is like highest highs, it's got valleys."
  20. [Blank Check · Ricki and the Flash · 1:35:49 · unknown (0.30)] Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation ↔ Fast Five · industry · Both are fifth entries considered the best of their franchise. · "I mean, Fast and Furious."
  21. [Blank Check — Patreon · Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation · 0:52:34 · unknown (0.30)] Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation ↔ Jurassic World · industry · Ferguson's shoe-removal beat landed a month after Jurassic World and drew a meme comparison. · "this comes out a month after Jurassic World"
  22. [Blank Check — Patreon · Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation · 0:54:01 · unknown (0.30)] Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation ↔ Spectre · industry · Spectre opened the same year, and this movie's date was moved partly to avoid it. · "it's also kind of close to Specter"
  23. [Blank Check — Patreon · Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation · 1:11:55 · unknown (0.30)] Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation ↔ Avatar and its sequels · industry · Cruise's six-minute breath hold is compared to Cameron training Avatar cast to do five minutes underwater. · "James Cameron made all of the actors in the 17 Avatar sequels that are never coming out, trained to be able to do like 5 minutes underwater"
  24. [Blank Check — Patreon · Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation · 0:44:24 · unknown (0.30)] Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation ↔ Alfred Hitchcock · lineage · The opera sequence is Hitchcock-like, with wordless tension in a physical space. · "Yes, it's very Hitchcocky."
  25. [Blank Check — Patreon · Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation · 0:17:42 · Griffin Newman or David Sims (host, unclear which) (0.40)] Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation ↔ Jackie Chan · craft · The speaker links Cruise's panicked, motivation-clear stunt work to Jackie Chan action, which stunt performers on Corridor Crew's reaction videos praise as perfectly constructed. · "And the stunt people always say like, see, these are perfectly constructed action sequences because his motivation is always so clear."
  26. [Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 0:22:47 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Christopher McQuarrie ↔ Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation · career · This movie is followed by Cruise handing McQuarrie the directing job on Mission Impossible. · "there's a reason why this movie is followed up by him saying you're the director of Mission Impossible now"

Films put beside it more than once (3)

  1. [pairs] Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation ↔ Mission: Impossible – Fallout · said 3 times in 1 episode
  2. [pairs] Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation ↔ Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol · said 3 times in 1 episode
  3. [pairs] Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation ↔ The Fast and the Furious (franchise) · said 2 times in 1 episode

Fun items about it (6)

  1. [Blank Check · Ricki and the Flash · 1:38:21 · unknown (0.30)] Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation · fun · Hosts rank Rogue Nation the best in the franchise for Rebecca Ferguson and the opera sequence; the one they dislike is MI:2. · "The only movie I don't like in that series is two."
  2. [Blank Check — Patreon · Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation · 0:19:52 · unknown (0.30)] Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation · fun · Release date moved from Christmas to July 31, enabled by minimal digital effects. · "it went from Christmas to July"
  3. [Blank Check — Patreon · Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation · 0:37:05 · unknown (0.30)] Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation · fun · The lie-detector administrator was cast as a huge Chinese star because of a financing deal. · "Yeah, and it's because she was like some sort of financing deal. you have to put her in the movie."
  4. [Blank Check — Patreon · Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation · 0:42:20 · unknown (0.30)] Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation · fun · Opera scene: Paramount marketing demanded the slit-dress shot. · "The paramount marketing was that explicit."
  5. [Blank Check — Patreon · Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation · 1:19:02 · unknown (0.30)] Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation · fun · In the water vault scene the joke is that data cards must be kept cold like coaxium. · "And you do have to keep coaxium cold."
  6. [Blank Check — Patreon · Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation · 2:18:42 · unknown (0.30)] Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation · fun · Box office: strong multiplier of about 3.5, held the top five for weeks. · "It had a nice multiplier, 3.5 , which is good for a blockbuster."

One hop out: what recommends the films most often joined to it (7)

  1. [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"
  2. [Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ · 0:09:08 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Aliens ↔ Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol · programming · Both franchises are auteur-rich without one definitive director, which is why the Patreon series covered them. · "Uh, but like Mission Impossible Aliens, perfect examples of franchises that uh, have a tours, but do not have one definitive director."
  3. [Blank Check — Patreon · Spartacus · 1:12:02 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] The Fast and the Furious (franchise) ↔ Kiss · theme · Griffin's thesis that Fast and Furious is the Kiss of film. · "the Fast and Furious movies are the kiss of film."
  4. [Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 1:36:27 · David Sims (0.40)] Edge of Tomorrow ↔ Mission: Impossible – Fallout · craft · Fallout has the same ending as Edge: cut on Cruise's smile with a weird pop-song needle drop. · "Fallout kind of have the same ending."
  5. [Blank Check — Patreon · Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation · 0:30:40 · unknown (0.30)] Christopher McQuarrie ↔ Mission: Impossible – Fallout · craft · McQuarrie brings in new tech people and a new cinematographer each time so each film feels like a different director's. · "Like, he always, right, he's, like, brings in a new, uh, new, like, tech people, new, new, new cinematographer."
  6. [Blank Check — Patreon · Thor: The Dark World · 1:58:58 · David Sims (0.35)] Thor: The Dark World ↔ Mission: Impossible – Fallout · craft · Credits that run least to most important, with the star last, as in Fallout, parallel the cast roll here. · "I like it that in the Mission Impossible Fallout, they save Tom for last."
  7. [Blank Check — Patreon · Iron Man 3 · 2:18:18 · unknown (0.30)] Iron Man 3 ↔ Mission: Impossible – Fallout · craft · Speaker's anecdote of staying for the curtain call credits applies to Iron Man 3 end credits. · "we can't leave before they give Tom his curtain call."

Who said it, by their latest sketch (1)

  1. [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 (2)

  1. [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)
  2. [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 – Rogue Nation (2015) 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 – Rogue Nation (2015) 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 · Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation · 0:19:18 · unknown (0.30)] Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation ↔ Star Wars (the new film) · programming · Rogue Nation was moved from December to July partly out of fear of Star Wars. · "Yeah, but I think it was also Star Wars fear."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation · 0:44:26 · unknown (0.30)] Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation ↔ The Man Who Knew Too Much · lineage · The Turandot opera showdown recalls Hitchcock's concert-hall assassination set piece. · "It's reminiscent of the man who knew too much."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation · 1:01:43 · unknown (0.30)] Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation ↔ Iron Man 2 · lineage · The thigh-grab move is traced back to Iron Man 2 by one speaker. · "I mean, I always think of Iron Man 2."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation · 1:01:49 · unknown (0.30)] Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation ↔ GoldenEye · lineage · Famke Janssen in GoldenEye is cited as an earlier thigh-based attack. · "what, Funky Jansen in, in, uh, Golden Eye, you have other thigh related, uh, attacks"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation · 0:20:37 · unknown (0.30)] Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation ↔ Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol · theme · After four disavowed-Hunt films, Rogue Nation opens in the same state but with a specific story. · "And after like 4 movies in a row where he's disavowed,"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation · 0:34:44 · unknown (0.30)] Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation ↔ The Fast and the Furious (franchise) · theme · Rogue Nation weaponizes 'friend' the way Fast and Furious weaponizes 'family'. · "I feel like this movie weaponizes the word friend in the way the Fast and Furious franchise weaponizes the word family."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation · 0:38:46 · unknown (0.30)] Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation ↔ The Fast and the Furious (franchise) · theme · Male sincerity and intimacy in Fast and Furious is raised alongside Benji and Ethan. · "Male sincerity."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation · 0:12:59 · unknown (0.30)] Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation ↔ Television cold open · craft · The plane sequence, meant for mid-film, functions as a TV-style cold open and burns the money shot. · "This was supposed to be a mid-movie sequence, and it just works perfectly as like a TV show cold open."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation · 0:47:46 · unknown (0.30)] Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation ↔ John Wick (most recent) · craft · The tall-assassin gag is repeated in the most recent John Wick. · "They also do this in the last John Wick."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation · 1:27:28 · unknown (0.30)] Jack Reacher ↔ Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation · craft · McQuarrie's Jack Reacher is called very underrated for its car chases, a skill carried over. · "Jack Reacher, very underrated in terms of how good it's car chases are"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation · 1:28:16 · unknown (0.30)] Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation ↔ Inception · craft · The flipping car shots are guessed to use a rotating mounted camera like Inception's hallway. · "I think it's probably similar to how they did the hallway in Inception"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation · 1:28:29 · unknown (0.30)] Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation ↔ 10 Cloverfield Lane · craft · The 10 Cloverfield Lane car crash is called extremely realistic in comparison to the flip here. · "that one in particular feels like extremely realistic"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation · 2:06:39 · unknown (0.30)] Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation ↔ Mad Max: Fury Road · craft · Cruise and Ferguson using each other as a shooting stabilizer echoes Max and Furiosa in Fury Road. · "But it's like the Fury Road moment where Max lets."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation · 0:30:17 · unknown (0.30)] Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation ↔ Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol · contrast · Ghost Protocol is described as ballet-like while Rogue Nation is more street-level. · "That one is like a ballet."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation · 0:30:22 · unknown (0.30)] Mission: Impossible – Fallout ↔ Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation · contrast · Fallout swings the other way, up into theatricality, after Rogue Nation's street level. · "Fallout. is like, let's amp up the theatricality. like that goes that goes in the other direction again."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation · 0:53:19 · unknown (0.30)] Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation ↔ James Bond films · contrast · The speaker calls the film more Bond-like than other M:I entries, with Ghost Protocol being more magician. · "This is such a James Bondi movie versus other..."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation · 0:57:36 · unknown (0.30)] Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation ↔ Mission: Impossible – Fallout · verdict · One host calls Rogue Nation objectively a little better than Fallout while acknowledging bias. · "I think Rogue Nation is objectively a little better than fallout"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation · 1:48:28 · unknown (0.30)] Mission: Impossible – Fallout ↔ Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation · verdict · Later one host switches: Fallout is better because McQuarrie learned how to manage energy. · "Because fallout is just, it's just Macquarie has learned everything he needs to learn."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation · 1:48:51 · unknown (0.30)] Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol ↔ Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation · verdict · One host finds Ghost Protocol has highest highs but valleys, unlike Rogue Nation. · "that's how I feel about Ghost Pro is like highest highs, it's got valleys."
[Blank Check · Ricki and the Flash · 1:35:49 · unknown (0.30)] Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation ↔ Fast Five · industry · Both are fifth entries considered the best of their franchise. · "I mean, Fast and Furious."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation · 0:52:34 · unknown (0.30)] Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation ↔ Jurassic World · industry · Ferguson's shoe-removal beat landed a month after Jurassic World and drew a meme comparison. · "this comes out a month after Jurassic World"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation · 0:54:01 · unknown (0.30)] Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation ↔ Spectre · industry · Spectre opened the same year, and this movie's date was moved partly to avoid it. · "it's also kind of close to Specter"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation · 1:11:55 · unknown (0.30)] Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation ↔ Avatar and its sequels · industry · Cruise's six-minute breath hold is compared to Cameron training Avatar cast to do five minutes underwater. · "James Cameron made all of the actors in the 17 Avatar sequels that are never coming out, trained to be able to do like 5 minutes underwater"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation · 0:44:24 · unknown (0.30)] Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation ↔ Alfred Hitchcock · lineage · The opera sequence is Hitchcock-like, with wordless tension in a physical space. · "Yes, it's very Hitchcocky."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation · 0:17:42 · Griffin Newman or David Sims (host, unclear which) (0.40)] Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation ↔ Jackie Chan · craft · The speaker links Cruise's panicked, motivation-clear stunt work to Jackie Chan action, which stunt performers on Corridor Crew's reaction videos praise as perfectly constructed. · "And the stunt people always say like, see, these are perfectly constructed action sequences because his motivation is always so clear."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 0:22:47 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Christopher McQuarrie ↔ Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation · career · This movie is followed by Cruise handing McQuarrie the directing job on Mission Impossible. · "there's a reason why this movie is followed up by him saying you're the director of Mission Impossible now"
[pairs] Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation ↔ Mission: Impossible – Fallout · said 3 times in 1 episode
[pairs] Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation ↔ Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol · said 3 times in 1 episode
[pairs] Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation ↔ The Fast and the Furious (franchise) · said 2 times in 1 episode
[Blank Check · Ricki and the Flash · 1:38:21 · unknown (0.30)] Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation · fun · Hosts rank Rogue Nation the best in the franchise for Rebecca Ferguson and the opera sequence; the one they dislike is MI:2. · "The only movie I don't like in that series is two."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation · 0:19:52 · unknown (0.30)] Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation · fun · Release date moved from Christmas to July 31, enabled by minimal digital effects. · "it went from Christmas to July"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation · 0:37:05 · unknown (0.30)] Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation · fun · The lie-detector administrator was cast as a huge Chinese star because of a financing deal. · "Yeah, and it's because she was like some sort of financing deal. you have to put her in the movie."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation · 0:42:20 · unknown (0.30)] Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation · fun · Opera scene: Paramount marketing demanded the slit-dress shot. · "The paramount marketing was that explicit."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation · 1:19:02 · unknown (0.30)] Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation · fun · In the water vault scene the joke is that data cards must be kept cold like coaxium. · "And you do have to keep coaxium cold."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation · 2:18:42 · unknown (0.30)] Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation · fun · Box office: strong multiplier of about 3.5, held the top five for weeks. · "It had a nice multiplier, 3.5 , which is good for a blockbuster."
[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"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ · 0:09:08 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Aliens ↔ Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol · programming · Both franchises are auteur-rich without one definitive director, which is why the Patreon series covered them. · "Uh, but like Mission Impossible Aliens, perfect examples of franchises that uh, have a tours, but do not have one definitive director."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Spartacus · 1:12:02 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] The Fast and the Furious (franchise) ↔ Kiss · theme · Griffin's thesis that Fast and Furious is the Kiss of film. · "the Fast and Furious movies are the kiss of film."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 1:36:27 · David Sims (0.40)] Edge of Tomorrow ↔ Mission: Impossible – Fallout · craft · Fallout has the same ending as Edge: cut on Cruise's smile with a weird pop-song needle drop. · "Fallout kind of have the same ending."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation · 0:30:40 · unknown (0.30)] Christopher McQuarrie ↔ Mission: Impossible – Fallout · craft · McQuarrie brings in new tech people and a new cinematographer each time so each film feels like a different director's. · "Like, he always, right, he's, like, brings in a new, uh, new, like, tech people, new, new, new cinematographer."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Thor: The Dark World · 1:58:58 · David Sims (0.35)] Thor: The Dark World ↔ Mission: Impossible – Fallout · craft · Credits that run least to most important, with the star last, as in Fallout, parallel the cast roll here. · "I like it that in the Mission Impossible Fallout, they save Tom for last."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Iron Man 3 · 2:18:18 · unknown (0.30)] Iron Man 3 ↔ Mission: Impossible – Fallout · craft · Speaker's anecdote of staying for the curtain call credits applies to Iron Man 3 end credits. · "we can't leave before they give Tom his curtain call."
[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] 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 Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation (2015); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation (2015) 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.