What the corpus says about Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)

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 (26)

[Blank Check · Raiders of the Lost Ark · 1:14:54 · unknown (0.40)] Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull ↔ Raiders of the Lost Ark · programming · They devoted a whole episode to Crystal Skull. · "We devoted whole episode to it."
[Blank Check · Raiders of the Lost Ark · 2:32:51 · unknown (0.40)] Sorcerer ↔ Raiders of the Lost Ark · programming · They will do Sorcerer one day. · "Source will probably do one day."
[Blank Check · Raiders of the Lost Ark · 2:34:57 · unknown (0.40)] Hook ↔ Raiders of the Lost Ark · programming · Hook is a movie they will cover and a defender will join that episode. · "We will have a defender on the episode."
[Blank Check · Raiders of the Lost Ark · 3:01:39 · Brian Michael Bendis (0.90)] Raiders of the Lost Ark ↔ Jaws · programming · Bendis lives in Portland, where Raiders and Jaws play theaters every summer; his kids found both still work. · "I'm here in Portland where Raiders and Jaws plays on theaters, at least once a summer."
[Blank Check · Raiders of the Lost Ark · 3:27:19 · unknown (0.40)] E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial ↔ Raiders of the Lost Ark · programming · Next week's episode is E.T.; next the Patreon bonus covers Something Evil and Savage. · "I believe it's a movie called ET the Extra Terrestrial."
[Blank Check · Raiders of the Lost Ark · 0:12:58 · Brian Michael Bendis (0.90)] Raiders of the Lost Ark ↔ Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope · lineage · Bendis says his childhood pop culture was Lucas and Spielberg magic tricks, not Marvel. · "At this stage that wasn't Marvel was Lucas and Spielberg."
[Blank Check · Raiders of the Lost Ark · 0:46:47 · unknown (0.40)] Flash Gordon (Republic serial) ⇒ Raiders of the Lost Ark (the host's read) · lineage · Lucas conceived Indiana Jones as a B-picture at A-picture scale, like the old Republic serials. · "let's make a sort of B picture at an A picture scale, right?"
[Blank Check · Raiders of the Lost Ark · 0:49:39 · unknown (0.40)] James Bond films (the franchise) ⇒ Raiders of the Lost Ark (the maker said so: Spielberg's account of the Hawaii conversation with Lucas) · lineage · Lucas pitched Raiders to Spielberg as a better, American take on the Bond idea Spielberg had been wanting to do. · "I have the I have the same basic idea, but better, and it's this Raiders of the Lost Ark idea."
[Blank Check · Raiders of the Lost Ark · 0:55:15 · unknown (0.40)] Nevada Smith ↔ Raiders of the Lost Ark · lineage · The hero was Indiana Smith until Nevada Smith made Spielberg object, so he became Indiana Jones. · "there's a Steve McQueen movie called Nevada Smith."
[The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies · 0:10:25 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] Raiders of the Lost Ark ⇒ Soderbergh's silent Raiders remix (the host's read) · lineage · Soderbergh re-cut Raiders silent, black and white, over The Social Network score. · "It's basically his silent film remix of Raiders, black and white film with the social network score playing over it"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Return of the Jedi · 1:00:59 · unknown (0.30)] Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi ↔ Raiders of the Lost Ark · lineage · Jedi is the first Star Wars after Indiana Jones, whose pitch was a movie of only the exciting parts; Jedi chases theme-park set pieces. · "Indiana Jones, he was like, my pitch is, what if you make a movie that's only the exciting parts?"
[Blank Check · Raiders of the Lost Ark · 0:36:23 · Brian Michael Bendis (0.80)] Raiders of the Lost Ark ↔ The Fabelmans · theme · Bendis says he sees the movie differently after The Fabelmans. · "I honestly don't think I've heard a serious conversation about this movie Post Fabelman's"
[Blank Check · Raiders of the Lost Ark · 1:10:55 · Brian Michael Bendis (0.80)] Raiders of the Lost Ark ↔ The Frisco Kid · theme · Indiana Jones and Marion both code as Jewish, to Bendis. · "Indiana Jones absolutely does code as a Jewish action hero"
[Blank Check · Raiders of the Lost Ark · 1:14:29 · David Sims (0.50)] Raiders of the Lost Ark ↔ Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom · theme · Each early film is a different religion: Jewish, Hindu, Christian folk mysticism. · "this is about Jewish mysticism, temple doom is about Hindu mysticism."
[Blank Check · Raiders of the Lost Ark · 2:00:05 · unknown (0.50)] Raiders of the Lost Ark ↔ True Grit · theme · Marion is like Mattie from True Grit, a tough girl who never gets over a youthful romance. · "I think about the end of true grit."
[Blank Check · Raiders of the Lost Ark · 2:20:35 · unknown (0.40)] Raiders of the Lost Ark ↔ Inglourious Basterds · theme · The Ark ending is a mini alternate-history course correction, like Inglourious Basterds. · "this is me creating an alternate history where there is like some modicum of like a microcosm representation of a course correction"
[Blank Check · Raiders of the Lost Ark · 2:23:08 · Brian Michael Bendis (0.40)] Raiders of the Lost Ark ↔ Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny · theme · The 'it belongs in a museum' line is questioned; in most of the films he keeps the object from bad guys. · "But in most of these movies, he is keeping it from bad guys who are taking it."
[Blank Check · Raiders of the Lost Ark · 2:28:09 · unknown (0.50)] The Fabelmans ⇒ Raiders of the Lost Ark (the host's read) · theme · Marion's monkey scenes mirror Spielberg's mother's relationship with the monkey shown in The Fabelmans. · "the relationship Marion has with the monkey, in that brief amount of screen time, feels so mirrored to his mother's relationship with the monkey"
[Blank Check · Raiders of the Lost Ark · 2:28:40 · unknown (0.50)] The Fabelmans ⇒ Raiders of the Lost Ark (the host's read) · theme · Marion is partly Spielberg's mother, which keeps her from being an idealized tough-girl fantasy. · "it does feel like to some degree she's like his mom."
[Blank Check · Raiders of the Lost Ark · 2:52:06 · Brian Michael Bendis (0.70)] Raiders of the Lost Ark ↔ Terminator 2: Judgment Day · theme · Today's body standard: Ford's buff Temple of Doom prep, Schwarzenegger in T2, now like Paul Rudd in Ant-Man. · "he is the exact same shape."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Pulp Fiction’ (Part 2) · 2:00:45 · unknown (0.00)] Pulp Fiction ↔ Raiders of the Lost Ark · theme · The Ark of the Covenant is called the greatest McGuffin. · "The Ark of the Covenant is like the greatest McGuffin."
[Blank Check · The Color of Money · 1:21:44 · unknown (0.30)] Raiders of the Lost Ark ⇒ The Color of Money (the host's read) · craft · Scorsese covers scenes with morphing moving master shots, like Spielberg's quick efficient coverage, to stay under schedule. · "But he's doing like all this Spielberg, like coverage with camera movement."
[Blank Check · Empire of the Sun · 1:38:17 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Raiders of the Lost Ark ⇒ Empire of the Sun (the host's read) · craft · Same slow reveal as Indiana Jones in pieces before the hero shot. · "which similarly has the like Spielberg taking 5 minutes to show you Indiana Jones in pieces before you really get the hero shot"
[Blank Check · Empire of the Sun · 2:11:21 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Raiders of the Lost Ark ⇒ Wallace and Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl (the host's read) · craft · The film fails to tie its Indiana-Jones-style MacGuffin to the Wallace-Gromit relationship. · "They fail to make the, um, the plot, the sort of like Indiana Jones-S McGuffin of what they're up against directly relate to Wallace and Gromit's relationship."
[Blank Check · Raiders of the Lost Ark · 0:25:05 · Brian Michael Bendis (0.70)] Raiders of the Lost Ark ↔ Close Encounters of the Third Kind · craft · The novelization written by Spielberg internalized the story, which Bendis loved. · "it internalizes the story for a young person who's only seeing externalizing it."
[Blank Check · Raiders of the Lost Ark · 1:14:01 · Griffin Newman (0.60)] Raiders of the Lost Ark ↔ Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade · craft · Last Crusade shows that silent comedy, especially Buster Keaton, is part of the DNA of these movies. · "that's the huge part of the DNA of these movies is silent comedy and not just the adventure serials."

Films put beside it more than once (6)

[pairs] Raiders of the Lost Ark ↔ Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom · said 5 times in 1 episode
[pairs] Raiders of the Lost Ark ↔ Jaws · said 3 times in 2 episodes
[pairs] Raiders of the Lost Ark ↔ The Fabelmans · said 3 times in 1 episode
[pairs] Raiders of the Lost Ark ↔ Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope · said 3 times in 1 episode
[pairs] Raiders of the Lost Ark ↔ James Bond films (the franchise) · said 3 times in 1 episode
[pairs] Raiders of the Lost Ark ↔ Sorcerer · said 2 times in 1 episode

Fun items about it (3)

[Blank Check · Raiders of the Lost Ark · 1:32:03 · unknown (0.40)] Raiders of the Lost Ark · fun · The spider shot: the spiders would not move until a female spider was put in, which explains the crawling on Alfred Molina. · "Just got to put a female spite around there and all the spikeles would start getting all excited."
[Blank Check · Raiders of the Lost Ark · 2:24:43 · Brian Michael Bendis (0.60)] Raiders of the Lost Ark · fun · In Cairo the producer had to remove every TV antenna from the rooftops so the setting looked timeless. · "when I had to go down and yank every one of those TV antennas off of every rooftop"
[The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies · 1:00:20 · Bill Simmons (0.65)] Raiders of the Lost Ark · fun · Bill saw it in 1982 and 'you almost didn't know what to do after'. · "you almost didn't know what to do after."

One hop out: what recommends the films most often joined to it (17)

[Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The First Avenger · 0:59:24 · unknown (0.35)] Captain America: The First Avenger ↔ Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom · lineage · The correction: the Indiana Jones film with the musical number is Temple of Doom. · "Although the one with the musical number is Temple of Doom."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · 0:46:35 · unknown (0.35)] Jaws ⇒ Friday the 13th (the host's read) · lineage · Friday took Jaws' device of music for a villain you cannot see. · "the Jaws music for the villain you can't see."
[Blank Check · Dune · 0:22:17 · John Hodgman (0.85)] Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope ⇒ Dune (the host's read) · programming · Dune was positioned and released as the studio's answer to Star Wars, the next big space epic. · "Uh, this movie is released with the energy of, here you go, here's the new Star Wars."
[The Big Picture · The Top Five Movies of 2022 · 1:23:37 · Sean Fennessey (0.75)] Aftersun ↔ The Fabelmans · programming · Sean calls Aftersun an interesting pairing with The Fabelmans, both memory movies about childhood; Aftersun is told while the memory is fresher. · "Interesting pairing with the fablemans, this movie."
[Blank Check · Planet of the Apes · 1:11:47 · unknown (0.40)] Planet of the Apes ↔ Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom · theme · The apes' chanting of a word makes one speaker think of Temple of Doom. · "Um, I can't not think of Temple of Doom every time they say it in this movie."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Twister’ · 0:54:51 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Jaws ⇒ Twister (the host's read) · lineage · Jonas is the Jaws-mayor archetype, a money-motivated antagonist that became a stock character in every movie. · "The mayor in Jaws is the character that kind of pushes against our lead person."
[The Big Picture · The Great ‘Avatar’ Debate · 1:26:04 · unknown (0.40)] Avatar: The Way of Water ↔ Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope · programming · After the Fox acquisition it felt like Disney would alternate Star Wars and Avatar releases. · "oh, they'll alternate every other year between a Star Wars movie and an Avatar movie."
[The Big Picture · The Top Five Movies of 2022 · 1:31:29 · Sean Fennessey (0.80)] Nope ↔ The Fabelmans · programming · Sean finds it fascinating that in one year Spielberg made a movie about why he makes movies and Peele made the most Spielbergian movie in ages. · "it's fascinating that this is a year in which Spielberg made a movie about how he figured out why he wanted to make movies"
[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 · Dune · 0:22:22 · John Hodgman (0.70)] Dune ⇒ Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope (the host's read) · lineage · The Dune book's messaging is credited as one of the things that inspired Star Wars. · "And not only that, the messaging of this is one of the things that inspired Star Wars."
[The Big Picture · The 2022 Movie Draft · 0:39:16 · Amanda Dobbins (0.85)] The Fabelmans ↔ American Graffiti · theme · Amanda compares the high school interlude in the middle of The Fabelmans to American Graffiti. · "the lovely American graffiti high school, like interlude in the middle."
[The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 1:34:36 · unknown (0.40)] Jaws ⇒ Arachnophobia (the host's read) · lineage · Arachnophobia is Jaws with spiders. · "it's sort of like Jaws, but with spiders"
[The Big Picture · The Top 10 Fantasy Films, The Toy Movie Hall of Fame, and ‘Masters of the Universe,’ · 0:23:25 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope ⇒ Masters of the Universe (the host's read) · lineage · He-Man (and the 80s toy boom) was a response to every company having passed on Star Wars merchandising. · "so much of He-Man and the 80s for toys is a response to every major company passing on Star Wars that Star Wars is the whiff that no one can live down."
[The Big Picture · The 2022 Movie Draft · 0:41:32 · Sean Fennessey (0.80)] Nope ↔ The Fabelmans · theme · Sean says Nope, like The Fabelmans, explores self and what you do in the act of making movies. · "similar to the Fablemans, like exploration of self and like what you do in the act of making movies"
[Blank Check · Empire of the Sun · 0:25:32 · Bilge Ebiri (0.90)] Jaws ↔ Lincoln · theme · The slaps in Jaws and Lincoln show the shift from identifying with the slapped child to the anxious parent. · "So it's very much like almost like the humiliation of a little boy who's been slapped."
[The Big Picture · ‘Gladiator II’ Is Here. Are We Not Entertained? · 0:24:06 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope ⇒ Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens (the host's read) · lineage · The Force Awakens maps almost exactly onto A New Hope. · "Force Awakens, which will maybe come up later on this podcast is in almost every respect."
[The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 1:27:19 · unknown (0.50)] To Live and Die in L.A. ↔ Jaws · theme · Scenes that gloss over a shocking event: the Reagan-building explosion in To Live and Die in L.A., the Kintner boy in Jaws, Loomis in Halloween. · "a guy explodes in the same building that that Ronald Reagan is giving a speech at, then the next scene is like, they don't even reference it."

Who said it, by their latest sketch (5)

[speaker] Brian Michael Bendis · latest sketch, Blank Check · Raiders of the Lost Ark · Raised on Lucas and Spielberg and says the magic-trick-then-show-how-it-was-done openness of that era shaped his craft. Loves Raiders over Temple of Doom even though Temple of Doom met him at a pivotal age; adores Reds, Siskel and Ebert, John Williams, Karen Allen. Cannot stand writers telling the audience the theme outright and hates snakes. · stances: Raiders is the better film but Temple of Doom shaped him; Exposition must carry the character's own perspective; Lucas and Spielberg were the first open-source filmmakers; Spielberg is generous with credit and should be emulated; Marion Ravenwood is among cinema's great characters; Willie Scott is the anti-Marion mistake; The post-Fabelmans view reshapes Raiders
[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] Bill Simmons · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · Loves the Friday series as a communal, rental-era memory and tells childhood stories about the ads and theaters. Likes casting what-ifs and sports analogies for everything. Skeptical of horror at Christmas and of anything that wastes the premise. · stances: Friday the 13th is not the best entry but the origin story had to be told; Friday 2 is a leap over the original
[speaker] David 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

The shows' running bits (3)

[bits] The Big Picture: Drafts (Hosts and guests draft films in rounds; every pick is a recommendation with an argument); Hall of Fame (A star's or director's best, ranked and argued); Countdowns (Ranked lists, top five or top ten)
[bits] Blank Check: The box office game (Guessing the film's opening weekend and what it was up against); The sung theme ("Blank Check with Griffin and David", sung; the transcriber garbles it)
[bits] The Rewatchables: Apex Mountain (The moment a star peaks; where on the mountain a performance sits); Who Won the Movie (The hosts name the person who came out of the film best off); The Ebert review (Roger Ebert's original review and star rating read aloud. Ebert is cited, never on the show); Casting what-ifs (Who was almost cast, or who should have been); Most rewatchable scene (The scene each host would stop on while flipping channels); Aged best / aged worst (What holds up and what does not); Picking Nits (The little things in a film the hosts love that they don't think totally work: the nits); Double feature (The film each host would pair it with; a programming pick)

The whole prompt

As the model gets it, from app/Ai/Prompts/CorpusAsk.md

You are a clerk at Video Culture, a video store. A customer just finished Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) 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 Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) 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 · Raiders of the Lost Ark · 1:14:54 · unknown (0.40)] Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull ↔ Raiders of the Lost Ark · programming · They devoted a whole episode to Crystal Skull. · "We devoted whole episode to it."
[Blank Check · Raiders of the Lost Ark · 2:32:51 · unknown (0.40)] Sorcerer ↔ Raiders of the Lost Ark · programming · They will do Sorcerer one day. · "Source will probably do one day."
[Blank Check · Raiders of the Lost Ark · 2:34:57 · unknown (0.40)] Hook ↔ Raiders of the Lost Ark · programming · Hook is a movie they will cover and a defender will join that episode. · "We will have a defender on the episode."
[Blank Check · Raiders of the Lost Ark · 3:01:39 · Brian Michael Bendis (0.90)] Raiders of the Lost Ark ↔ Jaws · programming · Bendis lives in Portland, where Raiders and Jaws play theaters every summer; his kids found both still work. · "I'm here in Portland where Raiders and Jaws plays on theaters, at least once a summer."
[Blank Check · Raiders of the Lost Ark · 3:27:19 · unknown (0.40)] E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial ↔ Raiders of the Lost Ark · programming · Next week's episode is E.T.; next the Patreon bonus covers Something Evil and Savage. · "I believe it's a movie called ET the Extra Terrestrial."
[Blank Check · Raiders of the Lost Ark · 0:12:58 · Brian Michael Bendis (0.90)] Raiders of the Lost Ark ↔ Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope · lineage · Bendis says his childhood pop culture was Lucas and Spielberg magic tricks, not Marvel. · "At this stage that wasn't Marvel was Lucas and Spielberg."
[Blank Check · Raiders of the Lost Ark · 0:46:47 · unknown (0.40)] Flash Gordon (Republic serial) ⇒ Raiders of the Lost Ark (the host's read) · lineage · Lucas conceived Indiana Jones as a B-picture at A-picture scale, like the old Republic serials. · "let's make a sort of B picture at an A picture scale, right?"
[Blank Check · Raiders of the Lost Ark · 0:49:39 · unknown (0.40)] James Bond films (the franchise) ⇒ Raiders of the Lost Ark (the maker said so: Spielberg's account of the Hawaii conversation with Lucas) · lineage · Lucas pitched Raiders to Spielberg as a better, American take on the Bond idea Spielberg had been wanting to do. · "I have the I have the same basic idea, but better, and it's this Raiders of the Lost Ark idea."
[Blank Check · Raiders of the Lost Ark · 0:55:15 · unknown (0.40)] Nevada Smith ↔ Raiders of the Lost Ark · lineage · The hero was Indiana Smith until Nevada Smith made Spielberg object, so he became Indiana Jones. · "there's a Steve McQueen movie called Nevada Smith."
[The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies · 0:10:25 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] Raiders of the Lost Ark ⇒ Soderbergh's silent Raiders remix (the host's read) · lineage · Soderbergh re-cut Raiders silent, black and white, over The Social Network score. · "It's basically his silent film remix of Raiders, black and white film with the social network score playing over it"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Return of the Jedi · 1:00:59 · unknown (0.30)] Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi ↔ Raiders of the Lost Ark · lineage · Jedi is the first Star Wars after Indiana Jones, whose pitch was a movie of only the exciting parts; Jedi chases theme-park set pieces. · "Indiana Jones, he was like, my pitch is, what if you make a movie that's only the exciting parts?"
[Blank Check · Raiders of the Lost Ark · 0:36:23 · Brian Michael Bendis (0.80)] Raiders of the Lost Ark ↔ The Fabelmans · theme · Bendis says he sees the movie differently after The Fabelmans. · "I honestly don't think I've heard a serious conversation about this movie Post Fabelman's"
[Blank Check · Raiders of the Lost Ark · 1:10:55 · Brian Michael Bendis (0.80)] Raiders of the Lost Ark ↔ The Frisco Kid · theme · Indiana Jones and Marion both code as Jewish, to Bendis. · "Indiana Jones absolutely does code as a Jewish action hero"
[Blank Check · Raiders of the Lost Ark · 1:14:29 · David Sims (0.50)] Raiders of the Lost Ark ↔ Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom · theme · Each early film is a different religion: Jewish, Hindu, Christian folk mysticism. · "this is about Jewish mysticism, temple doom is about Hindu mysticism."
[Blank Check · Raiders of the Lost Ark · 2:00:05 · unknown (0.50)] Raiders of the Lost Ark ↔ True Grit · theme · Marion is like Mattie from True Grit, a tough girl who never gets over a youthful romance. · "I think about the end of true grit."
[Blank Check · Raiders of the Lost Ark · 2:20:35 · unknown (0.40)] Raiders of the Lost Ark ↔ Inglourious Basterds · theme · The Ark ending is a mini alternate-history course correction, like Inglourious Basterds. · "this is me creating an alternate history where there is like some modicum of like a microcosm representation of a course correction"
[Blank Check · Raiders of the Lost Ark · 2:23:08 · Brian Michael Bendis (0.40)] Raiders of the Lost Ark ↔ Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny · theme · The 'it belongs in a museum' line is questioned; in most of the films he keeps the object from bad guys. · "But in most of these movies, he is keeping it from bad guys who are taking it."
[Blank Check · Raiders of the Lost Ark · 2:28:09 · unknown (0.50)] The Fabelmans ⇒ Raiders of the Lost Ark (the host's read) · theme · Marion's monkey scenes mirror Spielberg's mother's relationship with the monkey shown in The Fabelmans. · "the relationship Marion has with the monkey, in that brief amount of screen time, feels so mirrored to his mother's relationship with the monkey"
[Blank Check · Raiders of the Lost Ark · 2:28:40 · unknown (0.50)] The Fabelmans ⇒ Raiders of the Lost Ark (the host's read) · theme · Marion is partly Spielberg's mother, which keeps her from being an idealized tough-girl fantasy. · "it does feel like to some degree she's like his mom."
[Blank Check · Raiders of the Lost Ark · 2:52:06 · Brian Michael Bendis (0.70)] Raiders of the Lost Ark ↔ Terminator 2: Judgment Day · theme · Today's body standard: Ford's buff Temple of Doom prep, Schwarzenegger in T2, now like Paul Rudd in Ant-Man. · "he is the exact same shape."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Pulp Fiction’ (Part 2) · 2:00:45 · unknown (0.00)] Pulp Fiction ↔ Raiders of the Lost Ark · theme · The Ark of the Covenant is called the greatest McGuffin. · "The Ark of the Covenant is like the greatest McGuffin."
[Blank Check · The Color of Money · 1:21:44 · unknown (0.30)] Raiders of the Lost Ark ⇒ The Color of Money (the host's read) · craft · Scorsese covers scenes with morphing moving master shots, like Spielberg's quick efficient coverage, to stay under schedule. · "But he's doing like all this Spielberg, like coverage with camera movement."
[Blank Check · Empire of the Sun · 1:38:17 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Raiders of the Lost Ark ⇒ Empire of the Sun (the host's read) · craft · Same slow reveal as Indiana Jones in pieces before the hero shot. · "which similarly has the like Spielberg taking 5 minutes to show you Indiana Jones in pieces before you really get the hero shot"
[Blank Check · Empire of the Sun · 2:11:21 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Raiders of the Lost Ark ⇒ Wallace and Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl (the host's read) · craft · The film fails to tie its Indiana-Jones-style MacGuffin to the Wallace-Gromit relationship. · "They fail to make the, um, the plot, the sort of like Indiana Jones-S McGuffin of what they're up against directly relate to Wallace and Gromit's relationship."
[Blank Check · Raiders of the Lost Ark · 0:25:05 · Brian Michael Bendis (0.70)] Raiders of the Lost Ark ↔ Close Encounters of the Third Kind · craft · The novelization written by Spielberg internalized the story, which Bendis loved. · "it internalizes the story for a young person who's only seeing externalizing it."
[Blank Check · Raiders of the Lost Ark · 1:14:01 · Griffin Newman (0.60)] Raiders of the Lost Ark ↔ Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade · craft · Last Crusade shows that silent comedy, especially Buster Keaton, is part of the DNA of these movies. · "that's the huge part of the DNA of these movies is silent comedy and not just the adventure serials."
[pairs] Raiders of the Lost Ark ↔ Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom · said 5 times in 1 episode
[pairs] Raiders of the Lost Ark ↔ Jaws · said 3 times in 2 episodes
[pairs] Raiders of the Lost Ark ↔ The Fabelmans · said 3 times in 1 episode
[pairs] Raiders of the Lost Ark ↔ Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope · said 3 times in 1 episode
[pairs] Raiders of the Lost Ark ↔ James Bond films (the franchise) · said 3 times in 1 episode
[pairs] Raiders of the Lost Ark ↔ Sorcerer · said 2 times in 1 episode
[Blank Check · Raiders of the Lost Ark · 1:32:03 · unknown (0.40)] Raiders of the Lost Ark · fun · The spider shot: the spiders would not move until a female spider was put in, which explains the crawling on Alfred Molina. · "Just got to put a female spite around there and all the spikeles would start getting all excited."
[Blank Check · Raiders of the Lost Ark · 2:24:43 · Brian Michael Bendis (0.60)] Raiders of the Lost Ark · fun · In Cairo the producer had to remove every TV antenna from the rooftops so the setting looked timeless. · "when I had to go down and yank every one of those TV antennas off of every rooftop"
[The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies · 1:00:20 · Bill Simmons (0.65)] Raiders of the Lost Ark · fun · Bill saw it in 1982 and 'you almost didn't know what to do after'. · "you almost didn't know what to do after."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The First Avenger · 0:59:24 · unknown (0.35)] Captain America: The First Avenger ↔ Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom · lineage · The correction: the Indiana Jones film with the musical number is Temple of Doom. · "Although the one with the musical number is Temple of Doom."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · 0:46:35 · unknown (0.35)] Jaws ⇒ Friday the 13th (the host's read) · lineage · Friday took Jaws' device of music for a villain you cannot see. · "the Jaws music for the villain you can't see."
[Blank Check · Dune · 0:22:17 · John Hodgman (0.85)] Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope ⇒ Dune (the host's read) · programming · Dune was positioned and released as the studio's answer to Star Wars, the next big space epic. · "Uh, this movie is released with the energy of, here you go, here's the new Star Wars."
[The Big Picture · The Top Five Movies of 2022 · 1:23:37 · Sean Fennessey (0.75)] Aftersun ↔ The Fabelmans · programming · Sean calls Aftersun an interesting pairing with The Fabelmans, both memory movies about childhood; Aftersun is told while the memory is fresher. · "Interesting pairing with the fablemans, this movie."
[Blank Check · Planet of the Apes · 1:11:47 · unknown (0.40)] Planet of the Apes ↔ Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom · theme · The apes' chanting of a word makes one speaker think of Temple of Doom. · "Um, I can't not think of Temple of Doom every time they say it in this movie."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Twister’ · 0:54:51 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Jaws ⇒ Twister (the host's read) · lineage · Jonas is the Jaws-mayor archetype, a money-motivated antagonist that became a stock character in every movie. · "The mayor in Jaws is the character that kind of pushes against our lead person."
[The Big Picture · The Great ‘Avatar’ Debate · 1:26:04 · unknown (0.40)] Avatar: The Way of Water ↔ Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope · programming · After the Fox acquisition it felt like Disney would alternate Star Wars and Avatar releases. · "oh, they'll alternate every other year between a Star Wars movie and an Avatar movie."
[The Big Picture · The Top Five Movies of 2022 · 1:31:29 · Sean Fennessey (0.80)] Nope ↔ The Fabelmans · programming · Sean finds it fascinating that in one year Spielberg made a movie about why he makes movies and Peele made the most Spielbergian movie in ages. · "it's fascinating that this is a year in which Spielberg made a movie about how he figured out why he wanted to make movies"
[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 · Dune · 0:22:22 · John Hodgman (0.70)] Dune ⇒ Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope (the host's read) · lineage · The Dune book's messaging is credited as one of the things that inspired Star Wars. · "And not only that, the messaging of this is one of the things that inspired Star Wars."
[The Big Picture · The 2022 Movie Draft · 0:39:16 · Amanda Dobbins (0.85)] The Fabelmans ↔ American Graffiti · theme · Amanda compares the high school interlude in the middle of The Fabelmans to American Graffiti. · "the lovely American graffiti high school, like interlude in the middle."
[The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 1:34:36 · unknown (0.40)] Jaws ⇒ Arachnophobia (the host's read) · lineage · Arachnophobia is Jaws with spiders. · "it's sort of like Jaws, but with spiders"
[The Big Picture · The Top 10 Fantasy Films, The Toy Movie Hall of Fame, and ‘Masters of the Universe,’ · 0:23:25 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope ⇒ Masters of the Universe (the host's read) · lineage · He-Man (and the 80s toy boom) was a response to every company having passed on Star Wars merchandising. · "so much of He-Man and the 80s for toys is a response to every major company passing on Star Wars that Star Wars is the whiff that no one can live down."
[The Big Picture · The 2022 Movie Draft · 0:41:32 · Sean Fennessey (0.80)] Nope ↔ The Fabelmans · theme · Sean says Nope, like The Fabelmans, explores self and what you do in the act of making movies. · "similar to the Fablemans, like exploration of self and like what you do in the act of making movies"
[Blank Check · Empire of the Sun · 0:25:32 · Bilge Ebiri (0.90)] Jaws ↔ Lincoln · theme · The slaps in Jaws and Lincoln show the shift from identifying with the slapped child to the anxious parent. · "So it's very much like almost like the humiliation of a little boy who's been slapped."
[The Big Picture · ‘Gladiator II’ Is Here. Are We Not Entertained? · 0:24:06 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope ⇒ Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens (the host's read) · lineage · The Force Awakens maps almost exactly onto A New Hope. · "Force Awakens, which will maybe come up later on this podcast is in almost every respect."
[The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 1:27:19 · unknown (0.50)] To Live and Die in L.A. ↔ Jaws · theme · Scenes that gloss over a shocking event: the Reagan-building explosion in To Live and Die in L.A., the Kintner boy in Jaws, Loomis in Halloween. · "a guy explodes in the same building that that Ronald Reagan is giving a speech at, then the next scene is like, they don't even reference it."
[speaker] Brian Michael Bendis · latest sketch, Blank Check · Raiders of the Lost Ark · Raised on Lucas and Spielberg and says the magic-trick-then-show-how-it-was-done openness of that era shaped his craft. Loves Raiders over Temple of Doom even though Temple of Doom met him at a pivotal age; adores Reds, Siskel and Ebert, John Williams, Karen Allen. Cannot stand writers telling the audience the theme outright and hates snakes. · stances: Raiders is the better film but Temple of Doom shaped him; Exposition must carry the character's own perspective; Lucas and Spielberg were the first open-source filmmakers; Spielberg is generous with credit and should be emulated; Marion Ravenwood is among cinema's great characters; Willie Scott is the anti-Marion mistake; The post-Fabelmans view reshapes Raiders
[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] Bill Simmons · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · Loves the Friday series as a communal, rental-era memory and tells childhood stories about the ads and theaters. Likes casting what-ifs and sports analogies for everything. Skeptical of horror at Christmas and of anything that wastes the premise. · stances: Friday the 13th is not the best entry but the origin story had to be told; Friday 2 is a leap over the original
[speaker] David 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
[bits] The Big Picture: Drafts (Hosts and guests draft films in rounds; every pick is a recommendation with an argument); Hall of Fame (A star's or director's best, ranked and argued); Countdowns (Ranked lists, top five or top ten)
[bits] Blank Check: The box office game (Guessing the film's opening weekend and what it was up against); The sung theme ("Blank Check with Griffin and David", sung; the transcriber garbles it)
[bits] The Rewatchables: Apex Mountain (The moment a star peaks; where on the mountain a performance sits); Who Won the Movie (The hosts name the person who came out of the film best off); The Ebert review (Roger Ebert's original review and star rating read aloud. Ebert is cited, never on the show); Casting what-ifs (Who was almost cast, or who should have been); Most rewatchable scene (The scene each host would stop on while flipping channels); Aged best / aged worst (What holds up and what does not); Picking Nits (The little things in a film the hosts love that they don't think totally work: the nits); Double feature (The film each host would pair it with; a programming pick)

Recommend three to six films, and only films that appear in these lines. A series, a TV film, or a franchise counts too when a line recommends it or pairs it with Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) 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.