What the corpus says about Prometheus (2012)

The 60 lines php artisan corpus:ask hands a model, in the order it gets them, and nothing else. The model writes a clerk's answer from these and only these.

What was said about it (22)

  1. [Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 2:17:13 · David Sims (0.60)] Prometheus ↔ Alien Resurrection · programming · The Patreon run continues with Prometheus then Covenant after this final Ripley film. · "Tune in for Prometheus, tune in for covenant."
  2. [Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 0:06:57 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Prometheus ⇒ Alien: Covenant (the host's read) · lineage · Covenant is half the Prometheus sequel Scott wanted and half a concession to a more normal Alien movie. · "this is half, like Ridley Scott doing the Prometheus sequel he wanted to do and half"
  3. [Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 0:29:59 · unknown (0.30)] Alien: Covenant ↔ Prometheus · lineage · Prometheus had pioneering scientists; Covenant has crunchy colonists. · "Prometheus, you know, where we're in, where it's full on like pioneering scientist types."
  4. [Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 1:06:04 · Ben Hosley (0.80)] Prometheus ↔ Alien: Covenant · theme · Engineers, aliens, humans and androids all create something that destroys them, a cycle. · "So then it's sort of mirroring what the humans are doing, and then the androids are their creation that are ultimately what destroys them."
  5. [The Big Picture · ‘Gladiator II’ Is Here. Are We Not Entertained? · 0:26:18 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] Gladiator II ↔ Prometheus · craft · Macrinus's rise is Scott with the safety off, like Prometheus's birth sequence. · "This is actually the Ridley Scott with the safety off thing, the Prometheus, um, you know, uh, birth sequence"
  6. [Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 0:06:23 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Alien: Covenant ↔ Prometheus · craft · The Fox logo is washed out here where Prometheus's was really blue. · "Prometheus is really blue and this is a little more just kind of washed out, I feel like."
  7. [Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 0:39:43 · unknown (0.30)] Alien: Covenant ↔ Prometheus · contrast · The lush wet planet is not the ruined dusty Prometheus world. · "I like that it's not the ruined, dusty Prometheus world"
  8. [Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 1:56:09 · unknown (0.40)] Alien: Covenant ↔ Prometheus · contrast · Unlike Prometheus, Covenant doesn't ignore what others contributed to the franchise. · "Unlike Prometheus, which just ignores everything else that anyone else contributed to the franchise."
  9. [Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 0:47:45 · David Sims (0.50)] Alien Resurrection ↔ Prometheus · contrast · Prometheus has a stacked cast on one level; Resurrection puts a second movie star above the title with Weaver and loses balance. · "it's putting them above the title, it's kind of implying that it's going to be kind of a two-hander"
  10. [Blank Check — Patreon · The Killer · 0:31:01 · David Sims (0.55)] Prometheus ⇒ The Killer (the maker said so: the Q and A at the screening) · people · Fincher said at the Q&A that seeing Prometheus made him note Fassbender as a good sociopath for later. · "I go to see Prometheus and I go, hmm, sociopath."
  11. [Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ · 1:47:30 · Matt Singer (0.30)] Alien 3 ↔ Prometheus · industry · The company is best as a thing you ladle out; the Ridley Scott prequels show more of it. · "I'm a huge defender of those movies, but like the more you hear about the company and then the worse."
  12. [Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 0:08:07 · Griffin Newman (0.70)] Alien: Covenant ↔ Prometheus · industry · Prometheus's marketing left it unclear whether it was an Alien film; Covenant's marketing was the opposite, selling the Alien iconography. · "how much of this is going to be directly an alien franchise film or not"
  13. [Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 0:47:44 · unknown (0.40)] Alien: Covenant ↔ Prometheus · what-if · If Prometheus had doubled its gross, a direct Prometheus 2 with Rapace would have followed. · "I mean, if Prometheus had made literally double what it made."
  14. [Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 0:15:54 · unknown (0.30)] Danny McBride ↔ Prometheus · lineage · McBride's pilot in Covenant fills the Idris Elba role from Prometheus. · "McBride is kind of in the Idris Elba role, like kind of the accordion playing pilot type."
  15. [Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 1:08:50 · unknown (0.30)] David ↔ Prometheus · lineage · In Prometheus David seems to follow Weyland's wishes but ends up doing his own thing. · "by the end, you're like, no, I think he just kind of is, he's kind of trying to do his own thing."
  16. [Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ · 1:40:06 · Griffin Newman (0.30)] Paul McGann ↔ Prometheus · theme · Golic, who worships the alien, is an early version of the David character in the Ridley Scott movies (the speaker says they do better versions later). · "Like with the David character in the Ridley Scott movies."
  17. [The Big Picture · ‘Gladiator II’ Is Here. Are We Not Entertained? · 0:17:30 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Ridley Scott ↔ Prometheus · career · Scott said he fucked up Prometheus, a film Sean has thought about for ten years. · "I was like, no, I've been thinking about Prometheus for 10 years"
  18. [Blank Check — Patreon · The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo · 1:50:37 · unknown (0.30)] Noomi Rapace ↔ Prometheus · career · Prometheus was her first big Hollywood job after the original Dragon Tattoo. · "that's her 1st big Hollywood post original Dragon."
  19. [Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 0:46:14 · unknown (0.40)] Noomi Rapace ↔ Prometheus · career · Rapace was set up as the Ripley of a new franchise before Covenant killed her off. · "it was like numerous pace is now going to be the Ripley of a new franchise"
  20. [Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 0:07:58 · unknown (0.30)] Guy Pearce ↔ Prometheus · people · Pearce returns for the cold open without the heavy makeup he wore in Prometheus; Scott repays the favor. · "nice of uh, really Scott to repay the favor"
  21. [Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 1:36:52 · unknown (0.30)] Carl Erik Rinsch ↔ Prometheus · industry · Rinsch was Scott's mentee, floated to direct Alien prequels; his debut was 47 Ronin. · "he was on the runway as Ridley Scott's mentee for years."
  22. [The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:27:35 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Noomi Rapace ↔ Prometheus · what-if · Prometheus would have been 9 percent better with Amy Seimetz or Katherine Waterston in Rapace's role. · "It's like if Amy Simitz or Catherine Waterston had done Prometheus in the Numi Repos role."

Films put beside it more than once (2)

  1. [pairs] Prometheus ↔ Alien: Covenant · said 8 times in 1 episode
  2. [pairs] Prometheus ↔ Alien Resurrection · said 2 times in 1 episode

One hop out: what recommends the films most often joined to it (29)

  1. [Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 1:04:43 · unknown (0.30)] Alien: Covenant ↔ Blade Runner 2049 · programming · Both came out in 2017, by two generations of sci-fi. · "This is the same year as Blade Runner 2049."
  2. [Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ · 0:24:13 · David Sims (0.30)] Alien 3 ⇒ Alien Resurrection (the host's read) · lineage · Resurrection follows Alien 3, but its Ripley is a different character from the one who died. · "As much as she was quote unquote resurrected, obviously, that's a different character explicitly."
  3. [Blank Check — Patreon · Alien 3 · 1:35:21 · unknown (0.40)] Alien 3 ↔ Resident Evil · programming · Resident Evil should not be programmed next to Alien; wait for in-person sessions. · "Also, you can't put it next to Alien because Resident Evil does, well, not, that will not be good for Resident Evil."
  4. [The Big Picture · ‘Gladiator II’ Is Here. Are We Not Entertained? · 0:37:13 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Gladiator II ↔ Wicked · programming · Gladiator II's CGI baboons made it feel like being dumped into Wicked. · "I actually felt like we got dumped into Wicked or something, you know?"
  5. [The Big Picture · ‘The Killer’ Is Cold-Blooded Genius. And Something More · 1:20:30 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60)] The Killer ↔ Fight Club · programming · Both are very funny first-person-narrated films about sociopaths who rationalize brutal violence as a personal mission. · "This movie would make a neat pairing with Fight Club. Two very funny films about sociopaths whose inner monologues rationalize brutal violence as expressions of a personal mission."
  6. [Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 2:04:21 · unknown (0.40)] Alien: Covenant ↔ Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 · programming · Covenant's weekend opened behind Guardians Vol. 2, #1 for the second weekend. · "Oh, it's Gardens of Galaxy volume two."
  7. [Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 0:29:48 · unknown (0.30)] Alien: Covenant ↔ Alien Resurrection · lineage · The fourth film had pirates. · "Alien four, I guess."
  8. [The Big Picture · ‘The Killer’ Is Cold-Blooded Genius. And Something More · 0:59:46 · Adam Nayman (0.85)] David Fincher ↔ Alien 3 · lineage · Alien 3 is the primal scene of Fincher's chip on his shoulder, producers treating him like a shoe salesman. · "there's the chip on the shoulder and the primal scene of alien 3, right?"
  9. [The Big Picture · ‘Gladiator II’ Is Here. Are We Not Entertained? · 0:06:45 · Sean Fennessey (0.80)] Gladiator ⇒ Gladiator II (the host's read) · lineage · The sequel is very similar in structure and story to the original. · "it's pretty well known that this movie is very similar in structure and story to the original."
  10. [Blank Check — Patreon · The Killer · 0:16:54 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] The Killer ↔ Steven Soderbergh · programming · A friend of the podcast says it is Fincher and Soderbergh land: a stripped-down genre exercise. · "it's Fincher and Sodaberg land."
  11. [Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 0:29:38 · unknown (0.30)] Alien: Covenant ↔ Alien · lineage · Each Alien film has a different workforce; the original had blue-collar miners. · "Like that's, you know, blue collar minors."
  12. [Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 0:31:00 · David Sims (0.50)] Alien Resurrection ⇒ Firefly (TV) (the host's read) · lineage · The Betty's space-pirate crew reads as proto-Firefly, Whedon's later show. · "I mean, some proto firefly stuff."
  13. [Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ · 0:24:13 · David Sims (0.30)] Alien 3 ⇒ Alien Resurrection (the host's read) · lineage · Resurrection follows Alien 3, but its Ripley is a different character from the one who died. · "As much as she was quote unquote resurrected, obviously, that's a different character explicitly."
  14. [The Big Picture · ‘Gladiator II’ Is Here. Are We Not Entertained? · 0:15:52 · Mallory Rubin (0.60)] Gladiator ⇒ Gladiator II (the host's read) · lineage · The sequel's plot, structure, approach and pacing mirror the first, forcing a one-to-one comparison. · "it's just the movie is so similar to the 1st one in terms of plot, structure, approach, focus, pacing."
  15. [The Big Picture · ‘The Killer’ Is Cold-Blooded Genius. And Something More · 0:17:53 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60)] The Killer ↔ Gone Girl · lineage · It is the closest Fincher has come to a pure thriller since Gone Girl, maybe Dragon Tattoo. · "he hasn't made a movie quite like this, I guess, since Gone Girl, but even, I mean, you could maybe even going back further to Dragon Tattoo is maybe a little closer to this kind of a pure thriller."
  16. [Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 0:29:41 · unknown (0.30)] Alien: Covenant ↔ Aliens · lineage · Aliens had Marines. · "Aliens, you got Marines."
  17. [Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 0:46:01 · David Sims (0.50)] Alien Resurrection ⇒ Jurassic Park (the host's read) · lineage · Aliens caged and taunted while hunting you feels like the raptors; raptors may be Alien rip-offs. · "the raptors have a bit of an alien rip off vibe, honestly"
  18. [Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ · 0:30:17 · Matt Singer (0.40)] Aliens ⇒ Alien 3 (the host's read) · lineage · Alien 3 follows Aliens; watched back to back, Aliens ends on a new family that Alien 3 then kills. · "you watch aliens and that has this ending of, you know, this new family that has been created."
  19. [The Big Picture · ‘Gladiator II’ Is Here. Are We Not Entertained? · 0:21:39 · Mallory Rubin (0.50)] Gladiator ⇒ Gladiator II (the host's read) · lineage · Because it mirrors the first film, outcomes for characters become predictable by inversion. · "I almost felt like it became impossible not to know what was going to happen to certain people"
  20. [The Big Picture · ‘The Killer’ Is Cold-Blooded Genius. And Something More · 0:20:19 · Sean Fennessey (0.70)] Rear Window ⇒ The Killer (the host's read) · lineage · The Paris hit sequence is a clear homage built on watching rooms across the street. · "it is a kind of rear window monkey. You know, it is like an attempt to recreate the across the street path, vision of what is happening in rooms in another building, and clear homage to that film."
  21. [Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 0:29:45 · unknown (0.30)] Alien: Covenant ↔ Alien 3 · lineage · Alien 3 had convicts. · "Alien 3 convicts."
  22. [Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 1:11:15 · David Sims (0.50)] Alien Resurrection ↔ Heavy Metal · lineage · Ripley 7's mutant looks like French graphic novels, Moebius and Metal Hurlant. · "Like, this is Mobius, metal herlon shit."
  23. [Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ · 0:56:20 · Griffin Newman (0.35)] David Twohy ⇒ Alien 3 (the host's read) · lineage · Twohy brought the prison-planet concept into the development. · "Twowey is the one who brings in the prison planet concept, okay?"
  24. [The Big Picture · ‘Gladiator II’ Is Here. Are We Not Entertained? · 0:52:34 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] Gladiator ⇒ Gladiator II (the host's read) · lineage · Lucius's hand in the grain is a callback to Maximus's hand in the wheat. · "And it's an obvious callback to Maximus walking through the kind of afterlife feeling the wheat."
  25. [The Big Picture · ‘The Killer’ Is Cold-Blooded Genius. And Something More · 1:22:52 · Adam Nayman (0.70)] The Cable Guy ⇒ The Killer (the host's read) · lineage · The TV-character aliases gag was already a joke in The Cable Guy (50s characters there, 70s and 80s here). · "that was a joke of the cable guy just to give credit where it's to."
  26. [Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 0:29:48 · unknown (0.30)] Alien: Covenant ↔ Alien Resurrection · lineage · The fourth film had pirates. · "Alien four, I guess."
  27. [Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 1:55:38 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Goldfinger ⇒ Alien Resurrection (the host's read) · lineage · The newborn alien sucked out the window repeats the Goldfinger ending, but sad. · "it's the goldfinger ending."
  28. [Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ · 1:18:07 · Matt Singer (0.35)] Psycho ⇒ Alien 3 (the host's read) · lineage · Charles Dance's shower-curtain death is read as Fincher's own 'Hitchcock moment', after a cast member said Fincher called it that; the Psycho identification is the speaker's. · "Fincher would talk to him about his influence and be like, well, this is my Hitchcock moment."
  29. [The Big Picture · ‘Gladiator II’ Is Here. Are We Not Entertained? · 0:47:12 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] Gladiator II ↔ Conclave · theme · Both films feel resonant with the election cycle without mapping neatly. · "the same way that conclave, which is like so heavily leaning into like, hey, isn't this just like this election cycle?"

Who said it, by their latest sketch (6)

  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
  2. [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'
  3. [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
  4. [speaker] Ben Hosley · latest sketch, Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · Producer who occasionally talks; admits no religious background, has a Catholic mother's family, and cannot see the Bible as part of culture. · stances: Left out of Bible culture; Wants a clear demarcation between a bed and a deathbed
  5. [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
  6. [speaker] Matt Singer · latest sketch, Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ · Author of Opposable Thumbs, a book about Siskel and Ebert; has seen both cuts of Alien 3 and owns the Quadrilogy box set. Loves Siskel and Ebert as a gateway to movies; likes the show more than the movies as a kid. Attribution is inferred. · stances: He watched both cuts of Alien 3 for the episode; Praises the Siskel and Ebert show as a form of film discussion

The shows' running bits (1)

  1. [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)

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 Prometheus (2012) 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 Prometheus (2012) 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 · Alien: Resurrection · 2:17:13 · David Sims (0.60)] Prometheus ↔ Alien Resurrection · programming · The Patreon run continues with Prometheus then Covenant after this final Ripley film. · "Tune in for Prometheus, tune in for covenant."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 0:06:57 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Prometheus ⇒ Alien: Covenant (the host's read) · lineage · Covenant is half the Prometheus sequel Scott wanted and half a concession to a more normal Alien movie. · "this is half, like Ridley Scott doing the Prometheus sequel he wanted to do and half"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 0:29:59 · unknown (0.30)] Alien: Covenant ↔ Prometheus · lineage · Prometheus had pioneering scientists; Covenant has crunchy colonists. · "Prometheus, you know, where we're in, where it's full on like pioneering scientist types."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 1:06:04 · Ben Hosley (0.80)] Prometheus ↔ Alien: Covenant · theme · Engineers, aliens, humans and androids all create something that destroys them, a cycle. · "So then it's sort of mirroring what the humans are doing, and then the androids are their creation that are ultimately what destroys them."
[The Big Picture · ‘Gladiator II’ Is Here. Are We Not Entertained? · 0:26:18 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] Gladiator II ↔ Prometheus · craft · Macrinus's rise is Scott with the safety off, like Prometheus's birth sequence. · "This is actually the Ridley Scott with the safety off thing, the Prometheus, um, you know, uh, birth sequence"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 0:06:23 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Alien: Covenant ↔ Prometheus · craft · The Fox logo is washed out here where Prometheus's was really blue. · "Prometheus is really blue and this is a little more just kind of washed out, I feel like."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 0:39:43 · unknown (0.30)] Alien: Covenant ↔ Prometheus · contrast · The lush wet planet is not the ruined dusty Prometheus world. · "I like that it's not the ruined, dusty Prometheus world"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 1:56:09 · unknown (0.40)] Alien: Covenant ↔ Prometheus · contrast · Unlike Prometheus, Covenant doesn't ignore what others contributed to the franchise. · "Unlike Prometheus, which just ignores everything else that anyone else contributed to the franchise."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 0:47:45 · David Sims (0.50)] Alien Resurrection ↔ Prometheus · contrast · Prometheus has a stacked cast on one level; Resurrection puts a second movie star above the title with Weaver and loses balance. · "it's putting them above the title, it's kind of implying that it's going to be kind of a two-hander"
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Killer · 0:31:01 · David Sims (0.55)] Prometheus ⇒ The Killer (the maker said so: the Q and A at the screening) · people · Fincher said at the Q&A that seeing Prometheus made him note Fassbender as a good sociopath for later. · "I go to see Prometheus and I go, hmm, sociopath."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ · 1:47:30 · Matt Singer (0.30)] Alien 3 ↔ Prometheus · industry · The company is best as a thing you ladle out; the Ridley Scott prequels show more of it. · "I'm a huge defender of those movies, but like the more you hear about the company and then the worse."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 0:08:07 · Griffin Newman (0.70)] Alien: Covenant ↔ Prometheus · industry · Prometheus's marketing left it unclear whether it was an Alien film; Covenant's marketing was the opposite, selling the Alien iconography. · "how much of this is going to be directly an alien franchise film or not"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 0:47:44 · unknown (0.40)] Alien: Covenant ↔ Prometheus · what-if · If Prometheus had doubled its gross, a direct Prometheus 2 with Rapace would have followed. · "I mean, if Prometheus had made literally double what it made."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 0:15:54 · unknown (0.30)] Danny McBride ↔ Prometheus · lineage · McBride's pilot in Covenant fills the Idris Elba role from Prometheus. · "McBride is kind of in the Idris Elba role, like kind of the accordion playing pilot type."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 1:08:50 · unknown (0.30)] David ↔ Prometheus · lineage · In Prometheus David seems to follow Weyland's wishes but ends up doing his own thing. · "by the end, you're like, no, I think he just kind of is, he's kind of trying to do his own thing."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ · 1:40:06 · Griffin Newman (0.30)] Paul McGann ↔ Prometheus · theme · Golic, who worships the alien, is an early version of the David character in the Ridley Scott movies (the speaker says they do better versions later). · "Like with the David character in the Ridley Scott movies."
[The Big Picture · ‘Gladiator II’ Is Here. Are We Not Entertained? · 0:17:30 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Ridley Scott ↔ Prometheus · career · Scott said he fucked up Prometheus, a film Sean has thought about for ten years. · "I was like, no, I've been thinking about Prometheus for 10 years"
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo · 1:50:37 · unknown (0.30)] Noomi Rapace ↔ Prometheus · career · Prometheus was her first big Hollywood job after the original Dragon Tattoo. · "that's her 1st big Hollywood post original Dragon."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 0:46:14 · unknown (0.40)] Noomi Rapace ↔ Prometheus · career · Rapace was set up as the Ripley of a new franchise before Covenant killed her off. · "it was like numerous pace is now going to be the Ripley of a new franchise"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 0:07:58 · unknown (0.30)] Guy Pearce ↔ Prometheus · people · Pearce returns for the cold open without the heavy makeup he wore in Prometheus; Scott repays the favor. · "nice of uh, really Scott to repay the favor"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 1:36:52 · unknown (0.30)] Carl Erik Rinsch ↔ Prometheus · industry · Rinsch was Scott's mentee, floated to direct Alien prequels; his debut was 47 Ronin. · "he was on the runway as Ridley Scott's mentee for years."
[The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:27:35 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Noomi Rapace ↔ Prometheus · what-if · Prometheus would have been 9 percent better with Amy Seimetz or Katherine Waterston in Rapace's role. · "It's like if Amy Simitz or Catherine Waterston had done Prometheus in the Numi Repos role."
[pairs] Prometheus ↔ Alien: Covenant · said 8 times in 1 episode
[pairs] Prometheus ↔ Alien Resurrection · said 2 times in 1 episode
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 1:04:43 · unknown (0.30)] Alien: Covenant ↔ Blade Runner 2049 · programming · Both came out in 2017, by two generations of sci-fi. · "This is the same year as Blade Runner 2049."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ · 0:24:13 · David Sims (0.30)] Alien 3 ⇒ Alien Resurrection (the host's read) · lineage · Resurrection follows Alien 3, but its Ripley is a different character from the one who died. · "As much as she was quote unquote resurrected, obviously, that's a different character explicitly."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien 3 · 1:35:21 · unknown (0.40)] Alien 3 ↔ Resident Evil · programming · Resident Evil should not be programmed next to Alien; wait for in-person sessions. · "Also, you can't put it next to Alien because Resident Evil does, well, not, that will not be good for Resident Evil."
[The Big Picture · ‘Gladiator II’ Is Here. Are We Not Entertained? · 0:37:13 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Gladiator II ↔ Wicked · programming · Gladiator II's CGI baboons made it feel like being dumped into Wicked. · "I actually felt like we got dumped into Wicked or something, you know?"
[The Big Picture · ‘The Killer’ Is Cold-Blooded Genius. And Something More · 1:20:30 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60)] The Killer ↔ Fight Club · programming · Both are very funny first-person-narrated films about sociopaths who rationalize brutal violence as a personal mission. · "This movie would make a neat pairing with Fight Club. Two very funny films about sociopaths whose inner monologues rationalize brutal violence as expressions of a personal mission."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 2:04:21 · unknown (0.40)] Alien: Covenant ↔ Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 · programming · Covenant's weekend opened behind Guardians Vol. 2, #1 for the second weekend. · "Oh, it's Gardens of Galaxy volume two."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 0:29:48 · unknown (0.30)] Alien: Covenant ↔ Alien Resurrection · lineage · The fourth film had pirates. · "Alien four, I guess."
[The Big Picture · ‘The Killer’ Is Cold-Blooded Genius. And Something More · 0:59:46 · Adam Nayman (0.85)] David Fincher ↔ Alien 3 · lineage · Alien 3 is the primal scene of Fincher's chip on his shoulder, producers treating him like a shoe salesman. · "there's the chip on the shoulder and the primal scene of alien 3, right?"
[The Big Picture · ‘Gladiator II’ Is Here. Are We Not Entertained? · 0:06:45 · Sean Fennessey (0.80)] Gladiator ⇒ Gladiator II (the host's read) · lineage · The sequel is very similar in structure and story to the original. · "it's pretty well known that this movie is very similar in structure and story to the original."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Killer · 0:16:54 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] The Killer ↔ Steven Soderbergh · programming · A friend of the podcast says it is Fincher and Soderbergh land: a stripped-down genre exercise. · "it's Fincher and Sodaberg land."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 0:29:38 · unknown (0.30)] Alien: Covenant ↔ Alien · lineage · Each Alien film has a different workforce; the original had blue-collar miners. · "Like that's, you know, blue collar minors."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 0:31:00 · David Sims (0.50)] Alien Resurrection ⇒ Firefly (TV) (the host's read) · lineage · The Betty's space-pirate crew reads as proto-Firefly, Whedon's later show. · "I mean, some proto firefly stuff."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ · 0:24:13 · David Sims (0.30)] Alien 3 ⇒ Alien Resurrection (the host's read) · lineage · Resurrection follows Alien 3, but its Ripley is a different character from the one who died. · "As much as she was quote unquote resurrected, obviously, that's a different character explicitly."
[The Big Picture · ‘Gladiator II’ Is Here. Are We Not Entertained? · 0:15:52 · Mallory Rubin (0.60)] Gladiator ⇒ Gladiator II (the host's read) · lineage · The sequel's plot, structure, approach and pacing mirror the first, forcing a one-to-one comparison. · "it's just the movie is so similar to the 1st one in terms of plot, structure, approach, focus, pacing."
[The Big Picture · ‘The Killer’ Is Cold-Blooded Genius. And Something More · 0:17:53 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60)] The Killer ↔ Gone Girl · lineage · It is the closest Fincher has come to a pure thriller since Gone Girl, maybe Dragon Tattoo. · "he hasn't made a movie quite like this, I guess, since Gone Girl, but even, I mean, you could maybe even going back further to Dragon Tattoo is maybe a little closer to this kind of a pure thriller."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 0:29:41 · unknown (0.30)] Alien: Covenant ↔ Aliens · lineage · Aliens had Marines. · "Aliens, you got Marines."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 0:46:01 · David Sims (0.50)] Alien Resurrection ⇒ Jurassic Park (the host's read) · lineage · Aliens caged and taunted while hunting you feels like the raptors; raptors may be Alien rip-offs. · "the raptors have a bit of an alien rip off vibe, honestly"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ · 0:30:17 · Matt Singer (0.40)] Aliens ⇒ Alien 3 (the host's read) · lineage · Alien 3 follows Aliens; watched back to back, Aliens ends on a new family that Alien 3 then kills. · "you watch aliens and that has this ending of, you know, this new family that has been created."
[The Big Picture · ‘Gladiator II’ Is Here. Are We Not Entertained? · 0:21:39 · Mallory Rubin (0.50)] Gladiator ⇒ Gladiator II (the host's read) · lineage · Because it mirrors the first film, outcomes for characters become predictable by inversion. · "I almost felt like it became impossible not to know what was going to happen to certain people"
[The Big Picture · ‘The Killer’ Is Cold-Blooded Genius. And Something More · 0:20:19 · Sean Fennessey (0.70)] Rear Window ⇒ The Killer (the host's read) · lineage · The Paris hit sequence is a clear homage built on watching rooms across the street. · "it is a kind of rear window monkey. You know, it is like an attempt to recreate the across the street path, vision of what is happening in rooms in another building, and clear homage to that film."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 0:29:45 · unknown (0.30)] Alien: Covenant ↔ Alien 3 · lineage · Alien 3 had convicts. · "Alien 3 convicts."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 1:11:15 · David Sims (0.50)] Alien Resurrection ↔ Heavy Metal · lineage · Ripley 7's mutant looks like French graphic novels, Moebius and Metal Hurlant. · "Like, this is Mobius, metal herlon shit."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ · 0:56:20 · Griffin Newman (0.35)] David Twohy ⇒ Alien 3 (the host's read) · lineage · Twohy brought the prison-planet concept into the development. · "Twowey is the one who brings in the prison planet concept, okay?"
[The Big Picture · ‘Gladiator II’ Is Here. Are We Not Entertained? · 0:52:34 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] Gladiator ⇒ Gladiator II (the host's read) · lineage · Lucius's hand in the grain is a callback to Maximus's hand in the wheat. · "And it's an obvious callback to Maximus walking through the kind of afterlife feeling the wheat."
[The Big Picture · ‘The Killer’ Is Cold-Blooded Genius. And Something More · 1:22:52 · Adam Nayman (0.70)] The Cable Guy ⇒ The Killer (the host's read) · lineage · The TV-character aliases gag was already a joke in The Cable Guy (50s characters there, 70s and 80s here). · "that was a joke of the cable guy just to give credit where it's to."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 0:29:48 · unknown (0.30)] Alien: Covenant ↔ Alien Resurrection · lineage · The fourth film had pirates. · "Alien four, I guess."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 1:55:38 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Goldfinger ⇒ Alien Resurrection (the host's read) · lineage · The newborn alien sucked out the window repeats the Goldfinger ending, but sad. · "it's the goldfinger ending."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ · 1:18:07 · Matt Singer (0.35)] Psycho ⇒ Alien 3 (the host's read) · lineage · Charles Dance's shower-curtain death is read as Fincher's own 'Hitchcock moment', after a cast member said Fincher called it that; the Psycho identification is the speaker's. · "Fincher would talk to him about his influence and be like, well, this is my Hitchcock moment."
[The Big Picture · ‘Gladiator II’ Is Here. Are We Not Entertained? · 0:47:12 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] Gladiator II ↔ Conclave · theme · Both films feel resonant with the election cycle without mapping neatly. · "the same way that conclave, which is like so heavily leaning into like, hey, isn't this just like this election cycle?"
[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] 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] 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] Ben Hosley · latest sketch, Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · Producer who occasionally talks; admits no religious background, has a Catholic mother's family, and cannot see the Bible as part of culture. · stances: Left out of Bible culture; Wants a clear demarcation between a bed and a deathbed
[speaker] Chris Ryan · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · A franchise and genre scholar who likes Jason, the early sequels, and Manhattan; attention to trivia, tropes and critic reception. Treats slashers as a canon with tiers. · stances: Parts 1, 2, 4 and Manhattan are the good ones; The series finds its legs at 4
[speaker] Matt Singer · latest sketch, Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ · Author of Opposable Thumbs, a book about Siskel and Ebert; has seen both cuts of Alien 3 and owns the Quadrilogy box set. Loves Siskel and Ebert as a gateway to movies; likes the show more than the movies as a kid. Attribution is inferred. · stances: He watched both cuts of Alien 3 for the episode; Praises the Siskel and Ebert show as a form of film discussion
[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)

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 Prometheus (2012); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Prometheus (2012) 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.