What the corpus says about Addicted to Love (1997)
The 18 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 (4)
- [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"
- [Blank Check · After Hours · 0:56:50 · David Sims (0.45)] Addicted to Love ↔ Election · career · Broderick's 90s search for a new persona (Godzilla, Inspector Gadget, Addicted to Love) ends when Election cracks it. · "And then election is how he like closes out the decade where he's like, you fucking cracked it."
- [Blank Check · The Lost World: Jurassic Park · 1:28:15 · unknown (0.30)] Addicted to Love ↔ The Lost World: Jurassic Park · counterprogramming · The romantic comedy opened against Lost World as classic counterprogramming but did not work. · "Number 2 is a classic example of counterprogramming."
- [Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail · 1:22:16 · unknown (0.00)] Meg Ryan ↔ Addicted to Love · career · Ryan can play dark and unhinged, as in Addicted to Love; Hanks cannot. · "Meg Ryan has more character actor versatility than Hanks does in terms of how she can play with the persona."
One hop out: what recommends the films most often joined to it (10)
- [The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ · 0:56:33 · Juliet Litman (0.50)] Election ⇒ Easy A (the host's read) · lineage · Olive's unbothered, stronger-than-the-bully stance continues the Tracy Flick character through Book Smart's Beanie Feldstein. · "the Tracy Flick character that we have seen just grow and grow all the way up to like the most recently book smart with Beanie Felsian's character."
- [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 · The Lost World: Jurassic Park · 0:25:44 · unknown (0.30)] The Lost World ⇒ The Lost World: Jurassic Park (the host's read) · lineage · Crichton's sequel novel pays homage to Doyle's 1912 Lost World about an island of dinosaurs. · "the novelist has also decided to sort of pay homage to Arthur Conan Doyle's 1912 or whatever book, The Lost World."
- [The Rewatchables · ‘Mean Girls’ · 1:16:45 · Amanda Dobbins (0.40)] Mean Girls ↔ Election · lineage · A hypothetical 'Mean Girls 2020' would have an election vibe like Tracy Flick. · "I feel like that has like an election vibe, like the Tracy Flick."
- [Blank Check · The Lost World: Jurassic Park · 0:26:18 · unknown (0.30)] Hannibal ↔ The Lost World: Jurassic Park · lineage · Like Crichton's Lost World, Harris wrote Hannibal under pressure from a studio wanting a sequel to a hit film adaptation. · "another example of this is Thomas Harris with Hannibal, whichever wants to make a Sansa Lamb sequel."
- [Blank Check · The Lost World: Jurassic Park · 1:03:46 · unknown (0.30)] Jurassic Park ⇒ The Lost World: Jurassic Park (the host's read) · lineage · The hosts judge the sequel as normalizing the dinosaurs too fast and dropping the wonder-before-terror structure of the original. · "This movie normalizes the dinosaurs way too much."
- [Blank Check · The Lost World: Jurassic Park · 1:24:22 · unknown (0.30)] King Kong ⇒ The Lost World: Jurassic Park (the host's read) · theme · The T-Rex escaping a boat into a city is called a predictable King Kong move. · "We've all seen King Kong."
- [Blank Check · The Lost World: Jurassic Park · 0:38:20 · unknown (0.30)] The Lost World: Jurassic Park ↔ The Pink Panther · craft · The sequel feels like deleted scenes from the first film with wraparound Goldblum footage, like the Pink Panther movie built from cut scenes after Peter Sellers died. · "this just feels like deleted scenes from the 1st Jurassic Park with some wraparound footage of Goldberg."
- [Blank Check · The Lost World: Jurassic Park · 0:52:24 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] The Lost World: Jurassic Park ↔ John Williams · craft · A host credits Williams for holding back his main Jurassic Park theme in the score until the end credits. · "Williams, to his credit, does not use his theme until the credits."
- [Blank Check — Patreon · Guardians of the Galaxy · 1:22:33 · unknown (0.30)] Jeff Goldblum ↔ The Lost World: Jurassic Park · craft · The Lost World shows why that second-lead model fails when he becomes the lead. · "And that's why Lost World is not a great idea."
Who said it, by their latest sketch (1)
- [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'
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 Addicted to Love (1997) 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 Addicted to Love (1997) 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 · 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"
[Blank Check · After Hours · 0:56:50 · David Sims (0.45)] Addicted to Love ↔ Election · career · Broderick's 90s search for a new persona (Godzilla, Inspector Gadget, Addicted to Love) ends when Election cracks it. · "And then election is how he like closes out the decade where he's like, you fucking cracked it."
[Blank Check · The Lost World: Jurassic Park · 1:28:15 · unknown (0.30)] Addicted to Love ↔ The Lost World: Jurassic Park · counterprogramming · The romantic comedy opened against Lost World as classic counterprogramming but did not work. · "Number 2 is a classic example of counterprogramming."
[Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail · 1:22:16 · unknown (0.00)] Meg Ryan ↔ Addicted to Love · career · Ryan can play dark and unhinged, as in Addicted to Love; Hanks cannot. · "Meg Ryan has more character actor versatility than Hanks does in terms of how she can play with the persona."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ · 0:56:33 · Juliet Litman (0.50)] Election ⇒ Easy A (the host's read) · lineage · Olive's unbothered, stronger-than-the-bully stance continues the Tracy Flick character through Book Smart's Beanie Feldstein. · "the Tracy Flick character that we have seen just grow and grow all the way up to like the most recently book smart with Beanie Felsian's character."
[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 · The Lost World: Jurassic Park · 0:25:44 · unknown (0.30)] The Lost World ⇒ The Lost World: Jurassic Park (the host's read) · lineage · Crichton's sequel novel pays homage to Doyle's 1912 Lost World about an island of dinosaurs. · "the novelist has also decided to sort of pay homage to Arthur Conan Doyle's 1912 or whatever book, The Lost World."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Mean Girls’ · 1:16:45 · Amanda Dobbins (0.40)] Mean Girls ↔ Election · lineage · A hypothetical 'Mean Girls 2020' would have an election vibe like Tracy Flick. · "I feel like that has like an election vibe, like the Tracy Flick."
[Blank Check · The Lost World: Jurassic Park · 0:26:18 · unknown (0.30)] Hannibal ↔ The Lost World: Jurassic Park · lineage · Like Crichton's Lost World, Harris wrote Hannibal under pressure from a studio wanting a sequel to a hit film adaptation. · "another example of this is Thomas Harris with Hannibal, whichever wants to make a Sansa Lamb sequel."
[Blank Check · The Lost World: Jurassic Park · 1:03:46 · unknown (0.30)] Jurassic Park ⇒ The Lost World: Jurassic Park (the host's read) · lineage · The hosts judge the sequel as normalizing the dinosaurs too fast and dropping the wonder-before-terror structure of the original. · "This movie normalizes the dinosaurs way too much."
[Blank Check · The Lost World: Jurassic Park · 1:24:22 · unknown (0.30)] King Kong ⇒ The Lost World: Jurassic Park (the host's read) · theme · The T-Rex escaping a boat into a city is called a predictable King Kong move. · "We've all seen King Kong."
[Blank Check · The Lost World: Jurassic Park · 0:38:20 · unknown (0.30)] The Lost World: Jurassic Park ↔ The Pink Panther · craft · The sequel feels like deleted scenes from the first film with wraparound Goldblum footage, like the Pink Panther movie built from cut scenes after Peter Sellers died. · "this just feels like deleted scenes from the 1st Jurassic Park with some wraparound footage of Goldberg."
[Blank Check · The Lost World: Jurassic Park · 0:52:24 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] The Lost World: Jurassic Park ↔ John Williams · craft · A host credits Williams for holding back his main Jurassic Park theme in the score until the end credits. · "Williams, to his credit, does not use his theme until the credits."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Guardians of the Galaxy · 1:22:33 · unknown (0.30)] Jeff Goldblum ↔ The Lost World: Jurassic Park · craft · The Lost World shows why that second-lead model fails when he becomes the lead. · "And that's why Lost World is not a great idea."
[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'
[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 Addicted to Love (1997); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Addicted to Love (1997) 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.