What the corpus says about Jaws (1975)

What was said about it (26)

1. [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."
2. [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."
3. [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."
4. [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."
5. [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"
6. [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."
7. [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."
8. [Blank Check — Patreon · The Lego Batman Movie · 0:58:26 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] The Lego Batman Movie ↔ Jaws · theme · The Phantom Zone fills with franchise monsters, including the Jaws shark and the Jurassic Park T-Rex. · "The shark from Jaws, the T-Rex from Jurassic Park."
9. [Blank Check · Empire of the Sun · 1:38:17 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Jaws ⇒ Empire of the Sun (the host's read) · craft · Spielberg reveals Malkovich in pieces like Jaws and Indiana Jones, withholding the hero shot. · "he introduces him both like he's Jaws and like he's Indiana Jones"
10. [The Rewatchables · ‘The Ice Storm’ · 0:21:05 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] The Ice Storm ↔ Jaws · craft · Simmons says the key party became the movie's marketing hook, like the shark in Jaws. · "it's kind of became like Jaws where it's like, 0 my god, what's this thing going to look like?"
11. [The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies · 0:36:24 · Chris Ryan (0.70)] Jaws ↔ Jaws · craft · Production chaos, notably the broken shark, turned into storytelling strengths. · "Somehow all of the bad things that happened turned into good things in the storytelling"
12. [The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies · 0:36:52 · Chris Ryan (0.80)] Jaws ↔ Visions of Light · craft · Visions of Light recounts that Spielberg wanted Jaws locked down on tripods and the crew pushed back. · "Steven Spielberg initially wanted everything in Jaws to be nailed down on tripods, and they were like, Steven, if we do that, people are going to be throwing up in the aisles."
13. [The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies · 0:52:13 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] Jaws ↔ Jurassic Park · craft · Spielberg's pre-Jurassic blockbusters: Jurassic does some of the same things as Jaws -- entertaining, not slow. · "I think it does some of the same stuff that Jaws does, where it's really entertaining."
14. [The Big Picture · The 10 Best Horror Movies of the Decade | The Big Picture · 0:14:50 · Chris Ryan (0.85)] Unfriended ↔ Jaws · contrast · Unfriended is exhausting and one-and-done, not a film to rewatch and study the way you would Jaws. · "I don't need to revisit that and study it like its Jaws"
15. [The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies · 0:48:18 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Close Encounters of the Third Kind ↔ Jaws · contrast · Close Encounters moves too slowly for kids; Jaws is propulsive and not slow. · "the cool thing about Jaws is it's not slow."
16. [The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies · 0:38:21 · Chris Ryan (0.70)] Jaws ↔ Raiders of the Lost Ark · people · Roy Scheider's late-70s run is called as important as Harrison Ford's iconic status. · "I think that run of Roy Schider movies in the late 70s is pretty important."
17. [Blank Check — Patreon · 2010: The Year We Make Contact · 0:28:49 · unknown (0.35)] Jaws ↔ 2010: The Year We Make Contact · people · Balaban from Close Encounters plus Scheider from Jaws makes 2010 a less sentimental, more serious-minded Spielberg. · "I mean, you have, you have Balaban and you have Schider off of Jaws."
18. [The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies · 0:34:47 · Chris Ryan (0.60)] Jaws ↔ Jaws · verdict · Jaws is the perfect movie: a script that could be silent, drama, humor, scares, great music. · "What is a movie that has a delightful script but could be a silent film"
19. [The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies · 0:37:59 · Sean Fennessey (0.70)] Jaws ↔ Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope · verdict · Jaws has the same iconic, burned-in familiarity as Star Wars. · "I mean, what other movies have that kind of power? I mean, Star Wars is a movie like that?"
20. [The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies · 1:00:18 · Bill Simmons (0.55)] Raiders of the Lost Ark ↔ Jaws · verdict · Raiders is a little slow now and not as perfect as Jaws. · "It's not as perfect as Jaws."
21. [Blank Check · Dune · 1:15:05 · unknown (0.35)] Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope ↔ Jaws · industry · Star Wars and Jaws legitimized the B movie as high-quality filmmaking. · "Star Wars and Jaws in 75 and 77."
22. [Blank Check · The Lost World: Jurassic Park · 0:03:19 · unknown (0.30)] Jaws ↔ Satyricon · industry · Spielberg famously missed a best director nomination for Jaws when Fellini got a surprise nomination, probably for Satyricon. · "Fellini for like Satyricon."
23. [The Rewatchables · ‘Rocky’ · 0:13:18 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] Rocky ↔ Jaws · industry · Jaws, Rocky, Saturday Night Fever and Star Wars were successive cultural phenomena in 75-77. · "like Jaws in 75, this in 76, Saturday Night Fever in 77, Star Wars in 77"
24. [The Rewatchables · ‘Saturday Night Fever’ · 0:07:23 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] Saturday Night Fever ↔ Jaws · industry · Jaws, Rocky, Star Wars and this film mark the 70s run where pop culture and the business changed direction. · "75, we have Jaws, which creates the summer blockbuster."
25. [The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies · 0:46:17 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] Jaws ↔ Jaws · industry · Jaws basically created summer movies. · "It basically created summer movies."
26. [Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining · 0:05:05 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Jaws ↔ The Shining · industry · The Shining comes five years after Jaws, which also feels deadlier than it is. · "This is 5 years after Jaws."

Films put beside it more than once (2)

1. [pairs] Jaws ↔ Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope · said 3 times in 3 episodes
2. [pairs] Jaws ↔ Raiders of the Lost Ark · said 3 times in 2 episodes

Fun items about it (6)

1. [The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 0:43:42 · unknown (0.50)] Jaws · fun · Quint is the first pick for the organ you wouldn't want. · "I think Quint's the 1st pick for the one I wouldn't want."
2. [The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies · 0:35:07 · Chris Ryan (0.60)] Jaws · fun · Jaws screens at the ArcLight every July 4th; Sean can watch it once a month. · "I now see Jaws every July 4th at the arc light when they play it."
3. [The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies · 0:35:46 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] Jaws · fun · Sean's friend Nils spent days communicating only in Robert Shaw dialogue. · "Nils would spend days at a time communicating to me and my friends"
4. [The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies · 0:36:32 · Chris Ryan (0.70)] Jaws · fun · Bruce the shark, named after Spielberg's lawyer; the production was a train wreck. · "Bruce, named after Steven's lawyer."
5. [The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies · 0:46:23 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] Jaws · fun · Bill remembers being terrified walking a sidewalk 50 feet from the beach after seeing the ads. · "I remember being so scared of the ads for that movie"
6. [The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies · 0:47:26 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] Jaws · fun · Bill biked to where Jaws was filmed on the Cape: hallowed ground. · "one time we biked to where they filmed some of the Jaw stuff."

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

1. [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."
2. [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."
3. [Blank Check · Dune · 2:54:20 · unknown (0.40)] 2001: A Space Odyssey ⇒ 2010: The Year We Make Contact (the host's read) · lineage · 2010 was made because the novel sequel existed, a movie made just because they had to. · "Because Arthur C. Clark had come out with a 2010 novel."
4. [The Big Picture · The Top Five Movies of 2022 · 1:31:29 · Sean Fennessey (0.85)] Close Encounters of the Third Kind ⇒ Nope (the host's read) · lineage · Sean says Nope is as much a Spielberg movie as any he has seen in a long time, with Close Encounters the usual touchstone, and notes the shared theme of looking up and trying to see. · "nope is as much a Spielberg movie as any movie I've seen in a long, long time."
5. [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."
6. [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."
7. [Blank Check — Patreon · 2010: The Year We Make Contact · 0:02:34 · unknown (0.40)] 2001: A Space Odyssey ⇒ 2010: The Year We Make Contact (the host's read) · lineage · 2010 is the sequel to 2001; the speaker's reaction to the Kubrick film is the benchmark throughout. · "And I said, oh, you know, 2010, the sequel to 2001 and they were like, the what?"
8. [The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies · 0:19:05 · Sean Fennessey (0.85)] Close Encounters of the Third Kind ⇒ E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (the host's read) · theme · Close Encounters sets a template for science fiction and for stories about families and divorce. · "It sets a different kind of template for science fiction storytelling, for stories about families, for stories about obsession, for stories about divorce"
9. [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."
10. [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."
11. [Blank Check — Patreon · 2010: The Year We Make Contact · 0:17:20 · unknown (0.40)] 2010: Odyssey Two (novel) ⇒ 2010: The Year We Make Contact (the host's read) · lineage · The film exists because Clarke published the sequel novel. · "Arthur C. Clark, of course, did publish a sequel to 2001 called 2010."
12. [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."
13. [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."
14. [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."
15. [Blank Check — Patreon · 2010: The Year We Make Contact · 0:18:44 · unknown (0.35)] Hannibal ↔ 2010: The Year We Make Contact · lineage · The sequel arriving a decade-plus later after audiences demanded it, over the original team's refusal, is called a real Hannibal situation. · "It's like a real Hannibal situation."
16. [Blank Check · Raiders of the Lost Ark · 0:25:54 · Brian Michael Bendis (0.80)] Close Encounters of the Third Kind ↔ Walt Simonson · craft · Walt Simonson drew the Close Encounters comic adaptation, whose behind-the-scenes showed directing versus the page. · "Walt Simonson doing the close encounters adaptation, and it is wonderful."
17. [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."

Who said it, by their latest sketch (6)

1. [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
2. [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
3. [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
4. [speaker] Sean Fennessey · latest sketch, The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · Loves gory, funny, fast genre movies with craft and confidence, especially 87-minute films that never overstay. Can't stand ponderous elevated horror that fills out its runtime with introspection and sad family history. A sucker for the Carpenter-era lineage, Die Hard homages, and directors who break studio dogma. · stances: Resident Evil is one of the best films of the year; Horror movies have become a drag; fun genre experiences are needed; Short running times are a virtue; Video-game films work best when great filmmakers get creative license
5. [speaker] Bilge Ebiri · latest sketch, Blank Check · Empire of the Sun · Loves grand, earned cinematic spectacle and big epics (The Last Emperor, Passage to India's shots), Bertolucci, John Williams, Malkovich, Christian Bale and Raising Arizona. Defends movies that made him laugh despite critical consensus (That's My Boy, Vacation remake). Cannot stand critics who enjoy a film in the room and then trash it for reasons of consensus; wary of Hollywood's sanitized history. · stances: Empire of the Sun is excellent and underrated; Spielberg's early films are the child's view, later ones the parent's; Hook is the pivot; Spielberg is secretly a horror filmmaker at heart; Horizon chapter 2 is great
6. [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

The shows' running bits (3)

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)
2. [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)
3. [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

You are a clerk at Video Culture, a video store. A customer just finished Jaws (1975) 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 Jaws (1975) 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 · 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."
[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."
[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 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."
[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"
[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 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."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Lego Batman Movie · 0:58:26 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] The Lego Batman Movie ↔ Jaws · theme · The Phantom Zone fills with franchise monsters, including the Jaws shark and the Jurassic Park T-Rex. · "The shark from Jaws, the T-Rex from Jurassic Park."
[Blank Check · Empire of the Sun · 1:38:17 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Jaws ⇒ Empire of the Sun (the host's read) · craft · Spielberg reveals Malkovich in pieces like Jaws and Indiana Jones, withholding the hero shot. · "he introduces him both like he's Jaws and like he's Indiana Jones"
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Ice Storm’ · 0:21:05 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] The Ice Storm ↔ Jaws · craft · Simmons says the key party became the movie's marketing hook, like the shark in Jaws. · "it's kind of became like Jaws where it's like, 0 my god, what's this thing going to look like?"
[The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies · 0:36:24 · Chris Ryan (0.70)] Jaws ↔ Jaws · craft · Production chaos, notably the broken shark, turned into storytelling strengths. · "Somehow all of the bad things that happened turned into good things in the storytelling"
[The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies · 0:36:52 · Chris Ryan (0.80)] Jaws ↔ Visions of Light · craft · Visions of Light recounts that Spielberg wanted Jaws locked down on tripods and the crew pushed back. · "Steven Spielberg initially wanted everything in Jaws to be nailed down on tripods, and they were like, Steven, if we do that, people are going to be throwing up in the aisles."
[The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies · 0:52:13 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] Jaws ↔ Jurassic Park · craft · Spielberg's pre-Jurassic blockbusters: Jurassic does some of the same things as Jaws -- entertaining, not slow. · "I think it does some of the same stuff that Jaws does, where it's really entertaining."
[The Big Picture · The 10 Best Horror Movies of the Decade | The Big Picture · 0:14:50 · Chris Ryan (0.85)] Unfriended ↔ Jaws · contrast · Unfriended is exhausting and one-and-done, not a film to rewatch and study the way you would Jaws. · "I don't need to revisit that and study it like its Jaws"
[The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies · 0:48:18 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Close Encounters of the Third Kind ↔ Jaws · contrast · Close Encounters moves too slowly for kids; Jaws is propulsive and not slow. · "the cool thing about Jaws is it's not slow."
[The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies · 0:38:21 · Chris Ryan (0.70)] Jaws ↔ Raiders of the Lost Ark · people · Roy Scheider's late-70s run is called as important as Harrison Ford's iconic status. · "I think that run of Roy Schider movies in the late 70s is pretty important."
[Blank Check — Patreon · 2010: The Year We Make Contact · 0:28:49 · unknown (0.35)] Jaws ↔ 2010: The Year We Make Contact · people · Balaban from Close Encounters plus Scheider from Jaws makes 2010 a less sentimental, more serious-minded Spielberg. · "I mean, you have, you have Balaban and you have Schider off of Jaws."
[The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies · 0:34:47 · Chris Ryan (0.60)] Jaws ↔ Jaws · verdict · Jaws is the perfect movie: a script that could be silent, drama, humor, scares, great music. · "What is a movie that has a delightful script but could be a silent film"
[The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies · 0:37:59 · Sean Fennessey (0.70)] Jaws ↔ Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope · verdict · Jaws has the same iconic, burned-in familiarity as Star Wars. · "I mean, what other movies have that kind of power? I mean, Star Wars is a movie like that?"
[The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies · 1:00:18 · Bill Simmons (0.55)] Raiders of the Lost Ark ↔ Jaws · verdict · Raiders is a little slow now and not as perfect as Jaws. · "It's not as perfect as Jaws."
[Blank Check · Dune · 1:15:05 · unknown (0.35)] Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope ↔ Jaws · industry · Star Wars and Jaws legitimized the B movie as high-quality filmmaking. · "Star Wars and Jaws in 75 and 77."
[Blank Check · The Lost World: Jurassic Park · 0:03:19 · unknown (0.30)] Jaws ↔ Satyricon · industry · Spielberg famously missed a best director nomination for Jaws when Fellini got a surprise nomination, probably for Satyricon. · "Fellini for like Satyricon."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Rocky’ · 0:13:18 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] Rocky ↔ Jaws · industry · Jaws, Rocky, Saturday Night Fever and Star Wars were successive cultural phenomena in 75-77. · "like Jaws in 75, this in 76, Saturday Night Fever in 77, Star Wars in 77"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Saturday Night Fever’ · 0:07:23 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] Saturday Night Fever ↔ Jaws · industry · Jaws, Rocky, Star Wars and this film mark the 70s run where pop culture and the business changed direction. · "75, we have Jaws, which creates the summer blockbuster."
[The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies · 0:46:17 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] Jaws ↔ Jaws · industry · Jaws basically created summer movies. · "It basically created summer movies."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining · 0:05:05 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Jaws ↔ The Shining · industry · The Shining comes five years after Jaws, which also feels deadlier than it is. · "This is 5 years after Jaws."
[pairs] Jaws ↔ Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope · said 3 times in 3 episodes
[pairs] Jaws ↔ Raiders of the Lost Ark · said 3 times in 2 episodes
[The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 0:43:42 · unknown (0.50)] Jaws · fun · Quint is the first pick for the organ you wouldn't want. · "I think Quint's the 1st pick for the one I wouldn't want."
[The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies · 0:35:07 · Chris Ryan (0.60)] Jaws · fun · Jaws screens at the ArcLight every July 4th; Sean can watch it once a month. · "I now see Jaws every July 4th at the arc light when they play it."
[The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies · 0:35:46 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] Jaws · fun · Sean's friend Nils spent days communicating only in Robert Shaw dialogue. · "Nils would spend days at a time communicating to me and my friends"
[The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies · 0:36:32 · Chris Ryan (0.70)] Jaws · fun · Bruce the shark, named after Spielberg's lawyer; the production was a train wreck. · "Bruce, named after Steven's lawyer."
[The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies · 0:46:23 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] Jaws · fun · Bill remembers being terrified walking a sidewalk 50 feet from the beach after seeing the ads. · "I remember being so scared of the ads for that movie"
[The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies · 0:47:26 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] Jaws · fun · Bill biked to where Jaws was filmed on the Cape: hallowed ground. · "one time we biked to where they filmed some of the Jaw stuff."
[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 · 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."
[Blank Check · Dune · 2:54:20 · unknown (0.40)] 2001: A Space Odyssey ⇒ 2010: The Year We Make Contact (the host's read) · lineage · 2010 was made because the novel sequel existed, a movie made just because they had to. · "Because Arthur C. Clark had come out with a 2010 novel."
[The Big Picture · The Top Five Movies of 2022 · 1:31:29 · Sean Fennessey (0.85)] Close Encounters of the Third Kind ⇒ Nope (the host's read) · lineage · Sean says Nope is as much a Spielberg movie as any he has seen in a long time, with Close Encounters the usual touchstone, and notes the shared theme of looking up and trying to see. · "nope is as much a Spielberg movie as any movie I've seen in a long, long time."
[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."
[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."
[Blank Check — Patreon · 2010: The Year We Make Contact · 0:02:34 · unknown (0.40)] 2001: A Space Odyssey ⇒ 2010: The Year We Make Contact (the host's read) · lineage · 2010 is the sequel to 2001; the speaker's reaction to the Kubrick film is the benchmark throughout. · "And I said, oh, you know, 2010, the sequel to 2001 and they were like, the what?"
[The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies · 0:19:05 · Sean Fennessey (0.85)] Close Encounters of the Third Kind ⇒ E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (the host's read) · theme · Close Encounters sets a template for science fiction and for stories about families and divorce. · "It sets a different kind of template for science fiction storytelling, for stories about families, for stories about obsession, for stories about divorce"
[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 · 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 — Patreon · 2010: The Year We Make Contact · 0:17:20 · unknown (0.40)] 2010: Odyssey Two (novel) ⇒ 2010: The Year We Make Contact (the host's read) · lineage · The film exists because Clarke published the sequel novel. · "Arthur C. Clark, of course, did publish a sequel to 2001 called 2010."
[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 · 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 · 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."
[Blank Check — Patreon · 2010: The Year We Make Contact · 0:18:44 · unknown (0.35)] Hannibal ↔ 2010: The Year We Make Contact · lineage · The sequel arriving a decade-plus later after audiences demanded it, over the original team's refusal, is called a real Hannibal situation. · "It's like a real Hannibal situation."
[Blank Check · Raiders of the Lost Ark · 0:25:54 · Brian Michael Bendis (0.80)] Close Encounters of the Third Kind ↔ Walt Simonson · craft · Walt Simonson drew the Close Encounters comic adaptation, whose behind-the-scenes showed directing versus the page. · "Walt Simonson doing the close encounters adaptation, and it is wonderful."
[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."
[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] 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] 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] 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] Bilge Ebiri · latest sketch, Blank Check · Empire of the Sun · Loves grand, earned cinematic spectacle and big epics (The Last Emperor, Passage to India's shots), Bertolucci, John Williams, Malkovich, Christian Bale and Raising Arizona. Defends movies that made him laugh despite critical consensus (That's My Boy, Vacation remake). Cannot stand critics who enjoy a film in the room and then trash it for reasons of consensus; wary of Hollywood's sanitized history. · stances: Empire of the Sun is excellent and underrated; Spielberg's early films are the child's view, later ones the parent's; Hook is the pivot; Spielberg is secretly a horror filmmaker at heart; Horizon chapter 2 is great
[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
[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 Jaws (1975); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Jaws (1975) 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.