What the corpus says about Practical Magic (1998)
The 13 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 (8)
- [The Big Picture · The Nicole Kidman Hall of Fame, and ‘Babygirl’ · 1:07:06 · Amanda Dobbins (0.40)] Practical Magic ↔ Hocus Pocus · lineage · Practical Magic is described as a slightly more grown-up Hocus Pocus. · "it's like slightly more grown up Hocus Pocus."
- [Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory · 0:16:48 · David Sims (0.60)] Practical Magic ↔ Addicted to Love · craft · Practical Magic and Addicted to Love share Griffin Dunn's strange, dark tonal mix. · "I realized I felt the same about addicted to love"
- [The Big Picture · The Nicole Kidman Hall of Fame, and ‘Babygirl’ · 1:57:58 · unknown (0.35)] Destroyer ↔ Practical Magic · verdict · Destroyer is liked more than Practical Magic. · "I like Destroyer more than practical magic."
- [The Big Picture · The Nicole Kidman Hall of Fame, and ‘Babygirl’ · 2:00:21 · unknown (0.30)] Dead Calm ↔ Practical Magic · verdict · Final draft picks from the yellows: Dead Calm, Practical Magic, Babygirl. · "Dead calm, practical magic and baby girl."
- [The Big Picture · The Nicole Kidman Hall of Fame, and ‘Babygirl’ · 1:57:12 · unknown (0.30)] Nicole Kidman ↔ Practical Magic · career · A stretch from 1998 through 2004 where she is awesome in everything. · "I think also you get this sick period from 1998 through 2004 where she's just awesome in movies."
- [Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory · 0:16:27 · David Sims (0.50)] Griffin Dunn ↔ Practical Magic · people · Griffin Dunn directed Practical Magic, a darker film than people remember (there is a zombie). · "There's a zombie in that movie."
- [The Big Picture · The Nicole Kidman Hall of Fame, and ‘Babygirl’ · 1:07:19 · unknown (0.35)] Practical Magic ↔ Nicole Kidman · verdict · One of her most beloved movies; first yellow, later one of three final picks. · "I think this is among her most beloved movies."
- [Blank Check · After Hours · 0:55:41 · David Sims (0.45)] Griffin Dunn ↔ Practical Magic · directing credit · Dunn directed Practical Magic, Addicted to Love, Fierce People, The Accidental Husband. · "I love Addicted to Love, which is an insane movie. and I love practical magic."
One hop out: what recommends the films most often joined to it (1)
- [Blank Check — Patreon · In the Cut · 0:28:56 · Jourdain Searles (0.80)] Destroyer ↔ In the Cut · theme · Kidman's rejected turn in Destroyer is compared to Ryan's rejected turn: an actress doing what nobody expected or wanted. · "I feel like the Destroyer situation is similar to the Meg Ryan situation with this"
Who said it, by their latest sketch (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'
- [speaker] Amanda Dobbins · latest sketch, The Big Picture · ‘Mamma Mia!’ Meets ‘The Strangers'! It’s a Movie Swap! · Loves The Strangers' withholding craft and a good tense horror film without gore, but likes fun, communal movies like Mamma Mia. She dislikes supernatural or gory horror, which irritates her more than it scares her. She is a sucker for stars and for Googling a movie mid-recording. · stances: The Strangers is scary because of what it doesn't show or explain; Ending explanation weakens it; no answer would be better; Prefers 'withholding' filmmaking; Defends Mamma Mia as joyful and intentional
The shows' running bits (2)
- [bits] The Big Picture: Drafts (Hosts and guests draft films in rounds; every pick is a recommendation with an argument); Hall of Fame (A star's or director's best, ranked and argued); Countdowns (Ranked lists, top five or top ten)
- [bits] 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)
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 Practical Magic (1998) 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 Practical Magic (1998) 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.
[The Big Picture · The Nicole Kidman Hall of Fame, and ‘Babygirl’ · 1:07:06 · Amanda Dobbins (0.40)] Practical Magic ↔ Hocus Pocus · lineage · Practical Magic is described as a slightly more grown-up Hocus Pocus. · "it's like slightly more grown up Hocus Pocus."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory · 0:16:48 · David Sims (0.60)] Practical Magic ↔ Addicted to Love · craft · Practical Magic and Addicted to Love share Griffin Dunn's strange, dark tonal mix. · "I realized I felt the same about addicted to love"
[The Big Picture · The Nicole Kidman Hall of Fame, and ‘Babygirl’ · 1:57:58 · unknown (0.35)] Destroyer ↔ Practical Magic · verdict · Destroyer is liked more than Practical Magic. · "I like Destroyer more than practical magic."
[The Big Picture · The Nicole Kidman Hall of Fame, and ‘Babygirl’ · 2:00:21 · unknown (0.30)] Dead Calm ↔ Practical Magic · verdict · Final draft picks from the yellows: Dead Calm, Practical Magic, Babygirl. · "Dead calm, practical magic and baby girl."
[The Big Picture · The Nicole Kidman Hall of Fame, and ‘Babygirl’ · 1:57:12 · unknown (0.30)] Nicole Kidman ↔ Practical Magic · career · A stretch from 1998 through 2004 where she is awesome in everything. · "I think also you get this sick period from 1998 through 2004 where she's just awesome in movies."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory · 0:16:27 · David Sims (0.50)] Griffin Dunn ↔ Practical Magic · people · Griffin Dunn directed Practical Magic, a darker film than people remember (there is a zombie). · "There's a zombie in that movie."
[The Big Picture · The Nicole Kidman Hall of Fame, and ‘Babygirl’ · 1:07:19 · unknown (0.35)] Practical Magic ↔ Nicole Kidman · verdict · One of her most beloved movies; first yellow, later one of three final picks. · "I think this is among her most beloved movies."
[Blank Check · After Hours · 0:55:41 · David Sims (0.45)] Griffin Dunn ↔ Practical Magic · directing credit · Dunn directed Practical Magic, Addicted to Love, Fierce People, The Accidental Husband. · "I love Addicted to Love, which is an insane movie. and I love practical magic."
[Blank Check — Patreon · In the Cut · 0:28:56 · Jourdain Searles (0.80)] Destroyer ↔ In the Cut · theme · Kidman's rejected turn in Destroyer is compared to Ryan's rejected turn: an actress doing what nobody expected or wanted. · "I feel like the Destroyer situation is similar to the Meg Ryan situation with this"
[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] Amanda Dobbins · latest sketch, The Big Picture · ‘Mamma Mia!’ Meets ‘The Strangers'! It’s a Movie Swap! · Loves The Strangers' withholding craft and a good tense horror film without gore, but likes fun, communal movies like Mamma Mia. She dislikes supernatural or gory horror, which irritates her more than it scares her. She is a sucker for stars and for Googling a movie mid-recording. · stances: The Strangers is scary because of what it doesn't show or explain; Ending explanation weakens it; no answer would be better; Prefers 'withholding' filmmaking; Defends Mamma Mia as joyful and intentional
[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)
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 Practical Magic (1998); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Practical Magic (1998) 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.