What the corpus says about Godzilla (1998)

The 43 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 (6)

[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 1:26:19 · David Sims (0.60)] Alien Resurrection ↔ Godzilla · craft · 1998 Godzilla and the first Jurassic Park shot their CGI creatures in rain and night to hide the rendering. · "the 98 Godzilla is set in the rain constantly, and why in Jurassic, the 1st Jurassic"
[Blank Check · Planet of the Apes · 0:31:38 · unknown (0.40)] Planet of the Apes ↔ Godzilla · hype letdown · Both were hyped blockbusters whose letdown taught a young fan that advertising lied; Godzilla at least is structured like a movie. · "This is one of those movies where it's like, this is the beginning of studio filmmaking at this level lacking basic story competency."
[Blank Check · The Lost World: Jurassic Park · 0:26:03 · unknown (0.30)] Godzilla ⇒ The Lost World: Jurassic Park (the host's read) · intent · A host suggests Spielberg wanted to make a Godzilla-style fun monster movie, which explains the San Diego ending. · "I've always wanted to make like a Godzilla movie."
[Blank Check · The Lost World: Jurassic Park · 1:06:23 · unknown (0.30)] The Lost World: Jurassic Park ↔ Godzilla · viewing memory · As a child, the speaker saw this, Godzilla and Batman & Robin without seeing the originals and loved the worse versions. · "I was getting the shittier version of the one that everyone liked, but because I was so unexposed to it, I was like, this is great."
[Blank Check · Lady in the Water · 0:49:36 · Richard Lawson (0.40)] Lady in the Water ↔ Godzilla · critic portrayal · Ranks directors who put film critics in their movies to shit on them, with Godzilla's Mayor Ebert gag, then Birdman, then Lady in the Water. · "I go Godzilla, then Birdman, or the unexpected virtue."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Twister’ · 1:16:39 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Jan de Bont ↔ Godzilla · career · De Bont signed on to Twister after leaving Godzilla over creative differences. · "Jan Dubont signed on after leaving Godzilla thanks to creative differences."

Films put beside it more than once (1)

[pairs] Godzilla ↔ The Lost World: Jurassic Park · said 2 times in 1 episode

One hop out: what recommends the films most often joined to it (31)

[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."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 2:17:13 · David Sims (0.60)] Prometheus ↔ Alien Resurrection · programming · The Patreon run continues with Prometheus then Covenant after this final Ripley film. · "Tune in for Prometheus, tune in for covenant."
[Blank Check · Lady in the Water · 1:44:42 · unknown (0.30)] Lady in the Water ↔ Tin Cup · lineage · A golf-course version with a lake and a caddy is pitched as basically Tin Cup. · "So it's tin cup, basically."
[Blank Check · Planet of the Apes · 1:29:37 · unknown (0.40)] Suicide Squad ↔ Planet of the Apes · lineage · Studios sometimes force sequels no one asked for; Apes was a rare time they didn't. · "Again, it's like, you got out of suicide squad alive."
[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 — Patreon · Alien³ · 0:24:13 · David Sims (0.30)] Alien 3 ⇒ Alien Resurrection (the host's read) · lineage · Resurrection follows Alien 3, but its Ripley is a different character from the one who died. · "As much as she was quote unquote resurrected, obviously, that's a different character explicitly."
[Blank Check · Lady in the Water · 1:45:08 · unknown (0.30)] Lady in the Water ↔ Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest · lineage · A pirate ship setting is pitched for the story because of that summer's Pirates. · "How about on a pirate ship?"
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Incredible Hulk · 0:39:14 · Griffin or David (0.30)] Planet of the Apes ⇒ Planet of the Apes (the host's read) · lineage · Burton's ending tries to outdo the Statue of Liberty reveal of the original. · "Because they're trying to outdo the reveal of like the Statue of Liberty at the end."
[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 — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 0:29:48 · unknown (0.30)] Alien: Covenant ↔ Alien Resurrection · lineage · The fourth film had pirates. · "Alien four, I guess."
[Blank Check · Lady in the Water · 0:22:20 · David Sims (0.50)] Lady in the Water ↔ Manchester by the Sea · theme · A man loses his family in a past tragedy and becomes the super of a building, which the speaker notes as the same plot. · "In all caps, I wrote, this is the plot of Manchester by the Sea."
[Blank Check · Planet of the Apes · 0:02:31 · unknown (0.50)] Planet of the Apes ↔ Beetlejuice · theme · The ape dinner-party scene is the one moment that feels like Burton, like Beetlejuice with apes. · "the scene with all the apes sitting around the dinner table, which is like the Beetlejuice scene with apes."
[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 — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 0:31:00 · David Sims (0.50)] Alien Resurrection ⇒ Firefly (TV) (the host's read) · lineage · The Betty's space-pirate crew reads as proto-Firefly, Whedon's later show. · "I mean, some proto firefly stuff."
[Blank Check · Lady in the Water · 1:00:55 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Lady in the Water ↔ The Lorax · theme · A creature living in a tree stump who kicks herself in the behind and flies to the sky is likened to the Lorax. · "She was like, the Lorax."
[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."
[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 — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 0:46:01 · David Sims (0.50)] Alien Resurrection ⇒ Jurassic Park (the host's read) · lineage · Aliens caged and taunted while hunting you feels like the raptors; raptors may be Alien rip-offs. · "the raptors have a bit of an alien rip off vibe, honestly"
[Blank Check · Lady in the Water · 1:14:45 · Richard Lawson (0.40)] Lady in the Water ↔ The Poseidon Adventure · theme · Cleveland's underwater swim is likened to Shelley Winters's pool swim in The Poseidon Adventure. · "And I wrote down Shelley Winters and Poseidon Adventure."
[Blank Check · Planet of the Apes · 1:18:41 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Planet of the Apes ↔ Planet of the Apes · theme · Alex Ross Perry texted that the original book ends in a way very similar to the 2001 film. · "the original book ends in a way that's very similar to this."
[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 · Alien: Resurrection · 1:11:15 · David Sims (0.50)] Alien Resurrection ↔ Heavy Metal · lineage · Ripley 7's mutant looks like French graphic novels, Moebius and Metal Hurlant. · "Like, this is Mobius, metal herlon shit."
[Blank Check · Lady in the Water · 1:15:15 · unknown (0.30)] Lady in the Water ↔ Unbreakable · theme · Cleveland Heep's murdered family backstory is likened to the crime in Unbreakable. · "much like the crime and unbreakable."
[Blank Check · Planet of the Apes · 1:51:44 · unknown (0.50)] Danny Elfman ↔ Planet of the Apes · craft · Elfman's opening theme is exciting but the rest of the score is boring. · "The Elfman score."
[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."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 1:55:38 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Goldfinger ⇒ Alien Resurrection (the host's read) · lineage · The newborn alien sucked out the window repeats the Goldfinger ending, but sad. · "it's the goldfinger ending."
[Blank Check · Lady in the Water · 1:16:46 · David Sims (0.40)] Lady in the Water ↔ The Last of the Mohicans · theme · Relaying the myth through third-hand translation is compared to the Last of the Mohicans scene of language relay. · "It's like the scene in the Last of the Mohicans where Daniel Day-Louis has to have the British guys speak French to the Native Americans who only speak French."
[Blank Check · Planet of the Apes · 1:52:28 · unknown (0.40)] Planet of the Apes ↔ Saul Bass · craft · The opening title shots of helmets feel like Saul Bass. · "feels very salt bass to me."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien 3 · 2:06:26 · unknown (0.50)] Alien 3 ⇒ Alien Resurrection (the host's read) · lineage · Resurrection brings Ripley back as a clone, which undoes Alien 3's chosen death. · "My nuclear take is bringing her back to life as a clone is more disrespectful than killing, uh, hicks and newt in this movie."
[Blank Check · Lady in the Water · 1:25:38 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Lady in the Water ↔ The Revenant · theme · Jokes that Hugh Glass in The Revenant was really attacked by a scrunt. · "I didn't like the revenant because in real life, Hugh Glass was attacked by a scrunt."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Incredible Hulk · 0:39:03 · Griffin or David (0.30)] Planet of the Apes ↔ Interstellar · craft · Burton's ending is so confusing that the DVD shipped with a timeline insert, likened to Interstellar-style time-travel explanation. · "It's like a weird, like, interstellar where they're like, so if the black hole is here, and this is that, it involves like weird time travel butterfly affection."

Who said it, by their latest sketch (3)

[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] Richard Lawson · latest sketch, Blank Check — Patreon · The Curious Case of Benjamin Button · Loves Forrest Gump and had snarked at Button as a young Gawker writer; had never seen the film before preparing. Came around on it on rewatch, valuing the sentimental tone and Daisy's regret. · stances: Button deserves reevaluation; Pitt's casting works because of the special effects reveal; the logic of the aging is not the point

The shows' running bits (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)
[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 Godzilla (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 Godzilla (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.

[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 1:26:19 · David Sims (0.60)] Alien Resurrection ↔ Godzilla · craft · 1998 Godzilla and the first Jurassic Park shot their CGI creatures in rain and night to hide the rendering. · "the 98 Godzilla is set in the rain constantly, and why in Jurassic, the 1st Jurassic"
[Blank Check · Planet of the Apes · 0:31:38 · unknown (0.40)] Planet of the Apes ↔ Godzilla · hype letdown · Both were hyped blockbusters whose letdown taught a young fan that advertising lied; Godzilla at least is structured like a movie. · "This is one of those movies where it's like, this is the beginning of studio filmmaking at this level lacking basic story competency."
[Blank Check · The Lost World: Jurassic Park · 0:26:03 · unknown (0.30)] Godzilla ⇒ The Lost World: Jurassic Park (the host's read) · intent · A host suggests Spielberg wanted to make a Godzilla-style fun monster movie, which explains the San Diego ending. · "I've always wanted to make like a Godzilla movie."
[Blank Check · The Lost World: Jurassic Park · 1:06:23 · unknown (0.30)] The Lost World: Jurassic Park ↔ Godzilla · viewing memory · As a child, the speaker saw this, Godzilla and Batman & Robin without seeing the originals and loved the worse versions. · "I was getting the shittier version of the one that everyone liked, but because I was so unexposed to it, I was like, this is great."
[Blank Check · Lady in the Water · 0:49:36 · Richard Lawson (0.40)] Lady in the Water ↔ Godzilla · critic portrayal · Ranks directors who put film critics in their movies to shit on them, with Godzilla's Mayor Ebert gag, then Birdman, then Lady in the Water. · "I go Godzilla, then Birdman, or the unexpected virtue."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Twister’ · 1:16:39 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Jan de Bont ↔ Godzilla · career · De Bont signed on to Twister after leaving Godzilla over creative differences. · "Jan Dubont signed on after leaving Godzilla thanks to creative differences."
[pairs] Godzilla ↔ The Lost World: Jurassic Park · said 2 times in 1 episode
[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."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 2:17:13 · David Sims (0.60)] Prometheus ↔ Alien Resurrection · programming · The Patreon run continues with Prometheus then Covenant after this final Ripley film. · "Tune in for Prometheus, tune in for covenant."
[Blank Check · Lady in the Water · 1:44:42 · unknown (0.30)] Lady in the Water ↔ Tin Cup · lineage · A golf-course version with a lake and a caddy is pitched as basically Tin Cup. · "So it's tin cup, basically."
[Blank Check · Planet of the Apes · 1:29:37 · unknown (0.40)] Suicide Squad ↔ Planet of the Apes · lineage · Studios sometimes force sequels no one asked for; Apes was a rare time they didn't. · "Again, it's like, you got out of suicide squad alive."
[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 — Patreon · Alien³ · 0:24:13 · David Sims (0.30)] Alien 3 ⇒ Alien Resurrection (the host's read) · lineage · Resurrection follows Alien 3, but its Ripley is a different character from the one who died. · "As much as she was quote unquote resurrected, obviously, that's a different character explicitly."
[Blank Check · Lady in the Water · 1:45:08 · unknown (0.30)] Lady in the Water ↔ Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest · lineage · A pirate ship setting is pitched for the story because of that summer's Pirates. · "How about on a pirate ship?"
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Incredible Hulk · 0:39:14 · Griffin or David (0.30)] Planet of the Apes ⇒ Planet of the Apes (the host's read) · lineage · Burton's ending tries to outdo the Statue of Liberty reveal of the original. · "Because they're trying to outdo the reveal of like the Statue of Liberty at the end."
[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 — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 0:29:48 · unknown (0.30)] Alien: Covenant ↔ Alien Resurrection · lineage · The fourth film had pirates. · "Alien four, I guess."
[Blank Check · Lady in the Water · 0:22:20 · David Sims (0.50)] Lady in the Water ↔ Manchester by the Sea · theme · A man loses his family in a past tragedy and becomes the super of a building, which the speaker notes as the same plot. · "In all caps, I wrote, this is the plot of Manchester by the Sea."
[Blank Check · Planet of the Apes · 0:02:31 · unknown (0.50)] Planet of the Apes ↔ Beetlejuice · theme · The ape dinner-party scene is the one moment that feels like Burton, like Beetlejuice with apes. · "the scene with all the apes sitting around the dinner table, which is like the Beetlejuice scene with apes."
[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 — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 0:31:00 · David Sims (0.50)] Alien Resurrection ⇒ Firefly (TV) (the host's read) · lineage · The Betty's space-pirate crew reads as proto-Firefly, Whedon's later show. · "I mean, some proto firefly stuff."
[Blank Check · Lady in the Water · 1:00:55 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Lady in the Water ↔ The Lorax · theme · A creature living in a tree stump who kicks herself in the behind and flies to the sky is likened to the Lorax. · "She was like, the Lorax."
[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."
[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 — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 0:46:01 · David Sims (0.50)] Alien Resurrection ⇒ Jurassic Park (the host's read) · lineage · Aliens caged and taunted while hunting you feels like the raptors; raptors may be Alien rip-offs. · "the raptors have a bit of an alien rip off vibe, honestly"
[Blank Check · Lady in the Water · 1:14:45 · Richard Lawson (0.40)] Lady in the Water ↔ The Poseidon Adventure · theme · Cleveland's underwater swim is likened to Shelley Winters's pool swim in The Poseidon Adventure. · "And I wrote down Shelley Winters and Poseidon Adventure."
[Blank Check · Planet of the Apes · 1:18:41 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Planet of the Apes ↔ Planet of the Apes · theme · Alex Ross Perry texted that the original book ends in a way very similar to the 2001 film. · "the original book ends in a way that's very similar to this."
[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 · Alien: Resurrection · 1:11:15 · David Sims (0.50)] Alien Resurrection ↔ Heavy Metal · lineage · Ripley 7's mutant looks like French graphic novels, Moebius and Metal Hurlant. · "Like, this is Mobius, metal herlon shit."
[Blank Check · Lady in the Water · 1:15:15 · unknown (0.30)] Lady in the Water ↔ Unbreakable · theme · Cleveland Heep's murdered family backstory is likened to the crime in Unbreakable. · "much like the crime and unbreakable."
[Blank Check · Planet of the Apes · 1:51:44 · unknown (0.50)] Danny Elfman ↔ Planet of the Apes · craft · Elfman's opening theme is exciting but the rest of the score is boring. · "The Elfman score."
[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."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 1:55:38 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Goldfinger ⇒ Alien Resurrection (the host's read) · lineage · The newborn alien sucked out the window repeats the Goldfinger ending, but sad. · "it's the goldfinger ending."
[Blank Check · Lady in the Water · 1:16:46 · David Sims (0.40)] Lady in the Water ↔ The Last of the Mohicans · theme · Relaying the myth through third-hand translation is compared to the Last of the Mohicans scene of language relay. · "It's like the scene in the Last of the Mohicans where Daniel Day-Louis has to have the British guys speak French to the Native Americans who only speak French."
[Blank Check · Planet of the Apes · 1:52:28 · unknown (0.40)] Planet of the Apes ↔ Saul Bass · craft · The opening title shots of helmets feel like Saul Bass. · "feels very salt bass to me."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien 3 · 2:06:26 · unknown (0.50)] Alien 3 ⇒ Alien Resurrection (the host's read) · lineage · Resurrection brings Ripley back as a clone, which undoes Alien 3's chosen death. · "My nuclear take is bringing her back to life as a clone is more disrespectful than killing, uh, hicks and newt in this movie."
[Blank Check · Lady in the Water · 1:25:38 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Lady in the Water ↔ The Revenant · theme · Jokes that Hugh Glass in The Revenant was really attacked by a scrunt. · "I didn't like the revenant because in real life, Hugh Glass was attacked by a scrunt."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Incredible Hulk · 0:39:03 · Griffin or David (0.30)] Planet of the Apes ↔ Interstellar · craft · Burton's ending is so confusing that the DVD shipped with a timeline insert, likened to Interstellar-style time-travel explanation. · "It's like a weird, like, interstellar where they're like, so if the black hole is here, and this is that, it involves like weird time travel butterfly affection."
[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] Richard Lawson · latest sketch, Blank Check — Patreon · The Curious Case of Benjamin Button · Loves Forrest Gump and had snarked at Button as a young Gawker writer; had never seen the film before preparing. Came around on it on rewatch, valuing the sentimental tone and Daisy's regret. · stances: Button deserves reevaluation; Pitt's casting works because of the special effects reveal; the logic of the aging is not the point
[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 Godzilla (1998); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Godzilla (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.