What the corpus says about Spider-Man (2002)

The 54 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 (15)

[The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 1:31:21 · unknown (0.40)] Darkman ⇒ Spider-Man (the host's read) · lineage · Raimi's Spider-Man strengths start in Darkman. · "all the stuff that is cool about the Remy Spider-Man movies starts here"
[The Big Picture · The Past, Present, and Future of Superhero Movies | The Big Picture · 0:30:39 · David Shoemaker (0.50)] Spider-Man ↔ Hellboy · craft · The best superhero movies tie the origin to the villain and arc, as in Spider-Man's Green Goblin and Hellboy's Nazis. · "the best superhero movies that have ever been made or the ones in where the origin story is tied in directly to the arc of the movie"
[Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · 0:02:53 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] The Last Temptation of Christ ↔ Spider-Man · people · Dafoe's cursed-villain/old-coot career is the through-line from Norman Osborn to Jesus. · "Wilm Defoe gets used so much now the last 25 years as a villain and or an old coot."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Thor: The Dark World · 1:18:21 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Thor: The Dark World ↔ Spider-Man · people · Running Tony Lip joke: he played every person on the rail car in Raimi's Spider-Man. · "People forget that Tony Lip played every single person on the rail car in the 1st Raimi Spider-Man."
[Blank Check · Raiders of the Lost Ark · 2:41:04 · Griffin Newman (0.60)] Raiders of the Lost Ark ↔ Spider-Man · industry · The big 2002 superhero films were limited by effects budgets in action; Raiders felt like it exceeded what was possible. · "this is more movie than you thought was previously possible."
[Blank Check · Raiders of the Lost Ark · 2:41:41 · Brian Michael Bendis (0.50)] Spider-Man ↔ X-Men · industry · Early superhero films ran out of action money, like the first X-Men. · "that's what the 1st X-Men movie is."
[Blank Check · An Angel at My Table · 1:47:41 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Spider-Man ↔ Gladiator · industry · Gladiator showed May could open a movie; Spider-Man made May the preferred month. · "Spider-Man has the biggest weekend of all time in May, and then I think officially may becomes the month you want to release it."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) · 0:40:25 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Panic Room ↔ Spider-Man · industry · 2002 box office: Panic Room made $96M domestically in a year when things changed, a Spider-Man year. · "but also the year when things change, because this is a Spider-Man year."
[The Big Picture · The Great ‘Avatar’ Debate · 0:45:57 · David Sims (0.50)] Avatar ↔ Spider-Man · industry · A month after Avatar, Sony announced the Raimi Spider-Man 4 would not happen and the series would be recast. · "They announced that they are recasting Toby Maguire and resetting Spider-Man, not doing Sam Raimi Spider-Man 4 a month after Avatar comes out."
[The Big Picture · ‘Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse’: One of the Best Superhero Movies Ever | Exit Survey · 0:09:39 · Micah Peters (0.80)] Steve Ditko and Stan Lee ⇒ Spider-Man (the host's read) · lineage · Ditko and Lee made Spider-Man a teen hero for younger readers, not yet accepted by the Avengers or Fantastic Four. · "I mean, like it was Steve, uh, Ditco and Stanley basically making a character that appealed to younger readers."
[Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · 0:42:24 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Willem Dafoe ↔ Spider-Man · theme · Dafoe's mania under a calm surface links Norman Osborn and his Jesus. · "There is a little mania inside that guy."
[The Big Picture · ‘Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse’: One of the Best Superhero Movies Ever | Exit Survey · 0:10:07 · Micah Peters (0.80)] Miles Morales ↔ Spider-Man · theme · Spider-Man was created as a relatable everyman who was white, which capped the idea that anyone could be under the mask; Miles fulfills it. · "like, so that kind of puts a cap on the like, it could be anyone underneath the mask."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) · 0:40:51 · Sean Fennessey (0.45)] David Koepp ↔ Spider-Man · people · Koepp, who wrote Panic Room, also wrote Spider-Man (2002). · "By the way, also written by David Kepp, Spider-Man."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Panic Room · 0:46:05 · unknown (0.40)] Spider-Man ↔ Sam Raimi · what-if · Sony passed on Fincher and hired Raimi, in keeping with wanting a director with a take. · "you look at them ultimately hiring Raimi and really letting him go off."
[Blank Check — Patreon · 2010: The Year We Make Contact · 0:34:40 · unknown (0.30)] Spider-Man ↔ Elya Baskin · rent guy · Baskin plays Mr. Ditkovich, the rent guy, in Spider-Man. · "he's the rent guy from Spider-Man."

Fun items about it (5)

[Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · 0:02:04 · unknown (0.30)] Spider-Man (Raimi) · fun · Church fight praised: no fight in the movie lasts over 90 seconds, which keeps it brutal and real. · "It's just brutal and direct. bang, bang."
[Blank Check · Raiders of the Lost Ark · 2:43:28 · Brian Michael Bendis (0.90)] Spider-Man (2002) · fun · Bendis first saw Spider-Man on an AV cart in Sam Raimi's office with Stan Lee beside him, who left saying he wrote 126 issues and the rest were Bendis's. · "I wrote 126 issues of Spider-Man, they're all yours."
[Blank Check · The Lost World: Jurassic Park · 1:27:43 · unknown (0.30)] Spider-Man · fun · Box office kid memory: the 1997 four-day Memorial Day opening stood until Spider-Man hit 114 million, after Harry Potter fell just short at about 95-96. · "Spider-Man did 114."
[The Big Picture · ‘Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse’: One of the Best Superhero Movies Ever | Exit Survey · 0:01:22 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] Spider-Man · fun · Joke that this is the 101st Spider-Man movie. · "So this is the 101st Spider-Man movie."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Thor: The Dark World · 1:18:21 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Spider-Man (Raimi) · fun · Running Tony Lip joke: he supposedly played every person on the subway rail car in the first two Raimi Spider-Man films. · "People forget that Tony Lip played every single person on the rail car in the 1st Raimi Spider-Man."

One hop out: what recommends the films most often joined to it (25)

[The Big Picture · The Great ‘Avatar’ Debate · 0:26:06 · Sean Fennessey (0.90)] Edgar Rice Burroughs ⇒ Avatar (the maker said so: Cameron's 1994 80-page treatment) · lineage · Cameron's Avatar treatment drew on childhood sci-fi reading, Burroughs and Haggard. · "drawing inspiration from, quote, every single science fiction book that he had read in his childhood, and also Edgar Rice Burroughs, H. Rider Haggard."
[The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 1:31:15 · unknown (0.40)] Darkman ↔ Mission: Impossible · lineage · Darkman's face-mask conceit looks like Mission Impossible. · "so like Mission Impossible."
[The Big Picture · ‘Gladiator II’ Is Here. Are We Not Entertained? · 0:06:45 · Sean Fennessey (0.80)] Gladiator ⇒ Gladiator II (the host's read) · lineage · The sequel is very similar in structure and story to the original. · "it's pretty well known that this movie is very similar in structure and story to the original."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) · 0:29:37 · Bill Simmons (0.55)] Panic Room ↔ Bird Box · programming · Home-invasion and people-in-peril movies are what Netflix feeds viewers; Panic Room is the well-done version. · "But I think this is the really well-done version of it."
[The Big Picture · The Great ‘Avatar’ Debate · 0:26:24 · unknown (0.40)] John Carter of Mars ⇒ Avatar (the host's read) · lineage · Avatar reads like a John Carter of Mars style story. · "Yeah, it's very like John Carter of Mars or whatever."
[The Big Picture · ‘Gladiator II’ Is Here. Are We Not Entertained? · 0:15:52 · Mallory Rubin (0.60)] Gladiator ⇒ Gladiator II (the host's read) · lineage · The sequel's plot, structure, approach and pacing mirror the first, forcing a one-to-one comparison. · "it's just the movie is so similar to the 1st one in terms of plot, structure, approach, focus, pacing."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) · 0:40:17 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] Panic Room ↔ The Social Network · programming · Fincher movies are rewatchable and date-movie friendly, with the exception of Se7en; Social Network is the perfect date movie. · "Like social network, perfect date movie."
[The Big Picture · The Great ‘Avatar’ Debate · 0:42:25 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] The Wizard of Oz ⇒ Avatar (the host's read) · lineage · Avatar is described as a deep Wizard of Oz homage. · "In case you were wondering, this is a deep wizard of a homage, among other things."
[The Big Picture · ‘Gladiator II’ Is Here. Are We Not Entertained? · 0:21:39 · Mallory Rubin (0.50)] Gladiator ⇒ Gladiator II (the host's read) · lineage · Because it mirrors the first film, outcomes for characters become predictable by inversion. · "I almost felt like it became impossible not to know what was going to happen to certain people"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) · 1:33:06 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Panic Room ↔ Succession · programming · As a ten-episode Netflix show, Junior would be Roman from Succession. · "but it's just that, um, Junior is Roman from Succession."
[The Big Picture · The Great ‘Avatar’ Debate · 0:52:25 · unknown (0.40)] Avatar ↔ Aliens · lineage · Cameron's 1995 pitch for Avatar was much closer to Aliens in tone. · "It was much closer to aliens in tone."
[The Big Picture · ‘Gladiator II’ Is Here. Are We Not Entertained? · 0:52:34 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] Gladiator ⇒ Gladiator II (the host's read) · lineage · Lucius's hand in the grain is a callback to Maximus's hand in the wheat. · "And it's an obvious callback to Maximus walking through the kind of afterlife feeling the wheat."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) · 0:16:08 · Sean Fennessey (0.55)] Panic Room ↔ Rope · lineage · One-location construction recalls the Hitchcock single-setting movies. · "So it has shades of rope or lifeboat, those movies that Hitchcock made."
[The Big Picture · The Great ‘Avatar’ Debate · 0:53:51 · unknown (0.40)] The Wizard of Oz ⇒ Avatar (the host's read) · lineage · Avatar is an original story but inspired by Oz and John Ford movies. · "It's just like hugely inspired by not just the Wizard of Oz, but like lots of John Ford movies"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Spartacus · 1:03:34 · Richard Lawson (0.60)] Spartacus ⇒ Gladiator (the host's read) · lineage · Richard, seeing Spartacus for the first time, says it is the main thing Gladiator riffs on. · "this is really the main thing the gladiators are riffing on."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) · 0:16:08 · Sean Fennessey (0.55)] Panic Room ↔ Lifeboat · lineage · One-location construction recalls the Hitchcock single-setting movies. · "So it has shades of rope or lifeboat, those movies that Hitchcock made."
[The Big Picture · The Great ‘Avatar’ Debate · 0:53:51 · unknown (0.40)] John Ford ⇒ Avatar (the host's read) · lineage · Same line: Avatar draws on John Ford films and the history of movies. · "lots of John Ford movies and you can see like the history of movies"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Spartacus · 1:13:26 · unknown (0.40)] Woody Strode → Gladiator · theme · Speaker imagines Ridley Scott deciding to keep the Draba-type character alive the whole movie. · "Ridley Scott was like, what if we keep him alive the whole movie?"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) · 0:16:12 · Sean Fennessey (0.55)] Panic Room ↔ Psycho · lineage · Panic Room is to Fight Club as Psycho is to North by Northwest: a small, single-location B movie after a big sprawling one. · "But really it's like, it's Hitchcock doing Psycho right after North by Northwest."
[Blank Check — Patreon · RoboCop (2014) · 0:38:34 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Avatar ⇒ RoboCop (the host's read) · lineage · The robot-waking sequence is beat for beat the first act of Avatar, down to testing the new body's powers. · "It is crazy actually how much this sequence is like beat for beat, the Avatar, right?"
[Blank Check · As Good as It Gets · 1:05:43 · Chris Gethard (0.60)] Joaquin Phoenix ↔ Gladiator · craft · Chris likes Phoenix's Gladiator performance. · "I'll say, I really appreciated his performance in Gladiator."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) · 0:17:38 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Rear Window ⇒ Panic Room (the maker said so: Fincher's quotes the host reads) · lineage · Fincher saw it as a cross between Rear Window and Straw Dogs. · "So Fitcher saw panic group as a cross between rear window and straw dogs."
[The Big Picture · The Great ‘Avatar’ Debate · 0:55:09 · unknown (0.40)] Avatar ↔ Dances with Wolves · theme · Avatar belongs to the interloper-story family but is not like Dances with Wolves or The Last Samurai. · "something like Dances with Wolves, Last Samurai, whichever one of these movies you want to throw out there. Interloper movies."
[The Big Picture · ‘Gladiator II’ Is Here. Are We Not Entertained? · 0:06:38 · Sean Fennessey (0.85)] Gladiator II ↔ Gladiator · craft · Gladiator II brings back the original film's cinematographer, John Mathieson, as part of a returning crew. · "The cinematographer, John Matheson, is back."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) · 0:17:38 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Straw Dogs ⇒ Panic Room (the maker said so: Fincher's quotes the host reads) · lineage · Fincher saw it as a cross between Rear Window and Straw Dogs (Peckinpah). · "So Fitcher saw panic group as a cross between rear window and straw dogs."

Who said it, by their latest sketch (6)

[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] Brian Michael Bendis · latest sketch, Blank Check · Raiders of the Lost Ark · Raised on Lucas and Spielberg and says the magic-trick-then-show-how-it-was-done openness of that era shaped his craft. Loves Raiders over Temple of Doom even though Temple of Doom met him at a pivotal age; adores Reds, Siskel and Ebert, John Williams, Karen Allen. Cannot stand writers telling the audience the theme outright and hates snakes. · stances: Raiders is the better film but Temple of Doom shaped him; Exposition must carry the character's own perspective; Lucas and Spielberg were the first open-source filmmakers; Spielberg is generous with credit and should be emulated; Marion Ravenwood is among cinema's great characters; Willie Scott is the anti-Marion mistake; The post-Fabelmans view reshapes Raiders
[speaker] Micah Peters · latest sketch, The Big Picture · ‘Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse’: One of the Best Superhero Movies Ever | Exit Survey · Deep comics knowledge and loves characters, representation that doesn't feel preachy, and the act of seeing yourself on screen. Fond of hip-hop and silly gags like Spider Pig. Skeptical of Marvel swaps that revert and of the Avengers continuity burden. · stances: Representation here is natural and not preachy; Not on the level of Black Panther's cultural moment, but just as important; Wants more movies like it, and a Spider-Man Noir movie; Superhero movies can echo comic crossovers
[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] 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 Shoemaker · latest sketch, The Big Picture · Pro Wrestling Goes to the Movies, Plus Stephen Merchant on ‘Fighting · Believes the best wrestling movies are documentaries and cult oddities; loves weird, tonally pure b-movies like Body Slam and Paradise Alley. Dislikes tone-deaf studio efforts like Ready to Rumble. A sucker for wrestling's blur of real and fake. · stances: Documentaries beat fiction for wrestling; The Wrestler is the best wrestling movie; Fiction fails when it treats a fake sport in a fake world; Wrestling history (Gold Dust Trio, Sputnik Monroe) deserves movies

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 Spider-Man (2002) 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 Spider-Man (2002) 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 1990 Movie Draft · 1:31:21 · unknown (0.40)] Darkman ⇒ Spider-Man (the host's read) · lineage · Raimi's Spider-Man strengths start in Darkman. · "all the stuff that is cool about the Remy Spider-Man movies starts here"
[The Big Picture · The Past, Present, and Future of Superhero Movies | The Big Picture · 0:30:39 · David Shoemaker (0.50)] Spider-Man ↔ Hellboy · craft · The best superhero movies tie the origin to the villain and arc, as in Spider-Man's Green Goblin and Hellboy's Nazis. · "the best superhero movies that have ever been made or the ones in where the origin story is tied in directly to the arc of the movie"
[Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · 0:02:53 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] The Last Temptation of Christ ↔ Spider-Man · people · Dafoe's cursed-villain/old-coot career is the through-line from Norman Osborn to Jesus. · "Wilm Defoe gets used so much now the last 25 years as a villain and or an old coot."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Thor: The Dark World · 1:18:21 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Thor: The Dark World ↔ Spider-Man · people · Running Tony Lip joke: he played every person on the rail car in Raimi's Spider-Man. · "People forget that Tony Lip played every single person on the rail car in the 1st Raimi Spider-Man."
[Blank Check · Raiders of the Lost Ark · 2:41:04 · Griffin Newman (0.60)] Raiders of the Lost Ark ↔ Spider-Man · industry · The big 2002 superhero films were limited by effects budgets in action; Raiders felt like it exceeded what was possible. · "this is more movie than you thought was previously possible."
[Blank Check · Raiders of the Lost Ark · 2:41:41 · Brian Michael Bendis (0.50)] Spider-Man ↔ X-Men · industry · Early superhero films ran out of action money, like the first X-Men. · "that's what the 1st X-Men movie is."
[Blank Check · An Angel at My Table · 1:47:41 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Spider-Man ↔ Gladiator · industry · Gladiator showed May could open a movie; Spider-Man made May the preferred month. · "Spider-Man has the biggest weekend of all time in May, and then I think officially may becomes the month you want to release it."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) · 0:40:25 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Panic Room ↔ Spider-Man · industry · 2002 box office: Panic Room made $96M domestically in a year when things changed, a Spider-Man year. · "but also the year when things change, because this is a Spider-Man year."
[The Big Picture · The Great ‘Avatar’ Debate · 0:45:57 · David Sims (0.50)] Avatar ↔ Spider-Man · industry · A month after Avatar, Sony announced the Raimi Spider-Man 4 would not happen and the series would be recast. · "They announced that they are recasting Toby Maguire and resetting Spider-Man, not doing Sam Raimi Spider-Man 4 a month after Avatar comes out."
[The Big Picture · ‘Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse’: One of the Best Superhero Movies Ever | Exit Survey · 0:09:39 · Micah Peters (0.80)] Steve Ditko and Stan Lee ⇒ Spider-Man (the host's read) · lineage · Ditko and Lee made Spider-Man a teen hero for younger readers, not yet accepted by the Avengers or Fantastic Four. · "I mean, like it was Steve, uh, Ditco and Stanley basically making a character that appealed to younger readers."
[Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · 0:42:24 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Willem Dafoe ↔ Spider-Man · theme · Dafoe's mania under a calm surface links Norman Osborn and his Jesus. · "There is a little mania inside that guy."
[The Big Picture · ‘Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse’: One of the Best Superhero Movies Ever | Exit Survey · 0:10:07 · Micah Peters (0.80)] Miles Morales ↔ Spider-Man · theme · Spider-Man was created as a relatable everyman who was white, which capped the idea that anyone could be under the mask; Miles fulfills it. · "like, so that kind of puts a cap on the like, it could be anyone underneath the mask."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) · 0:40:51 · Sean Fennessey (0.45)] David Koepp ↔ Spider-Man · people · Koepp, who wrote Panic Room, also wrote Spider-Man (2002). · "By the way, also written by David Kepp, Spider-Man."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Panic Room · 0:46:05 · unknown (0.40)] Spider-Man ↔ Sam Raimi · what-if · Sony passed on Fincher and hired Raimi, in keeping with wanting a director with a take. · "you look at them ultimately hiring Raimi and really letting him go off."
[Blank Check — Patreon · 2010: The Year We Make Contact · 0:34:40 · unknown (0.30)] Spider-Man ↔ Elya Baskin · rent guy · Baskin plays Mr. Ditkovich, the rent guy, in Spider-Man. · "he's the rent guy from Spider-Man."
[Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · 0:02:04 · unknown (0.30)] Spider-Man (Raimi) · fun · Church fight praised: no fight in the movie lasts over 90 seconds, which keeps it brutal and real. · "It's just brutal and direct. bang, bang."
[Blank Check · Raiders of the Lost Ark · 2:43:28 · Brian Michael Bendis (0.90)] Spider-Man (2002) · fun · Bendis first saw Spider-Man on an AV cart in Sam Raimi's office with Stan Lee beside him, who left saying he wrote 126 issues and the rest were Bendis's. · "I wrote 126 issues of Spider-Man, they're all yours."
[Blank Check · The Lost World: Jurassic Park · 1:27:43 · unknown (0.30)] Spider-Man · fun · Box office kid memory: the 1997 four-day Memorial Day opening stood until Spider-Man hit 114 million, after Harry Potter fell just short at about 95-96. · "Spider-Man did 114."
[The Big Picture · ‘Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse’: One of the Best Superhero Movies Ever | Exit Survey · 0:01:22 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] Spider-Man · fun · Joke that this is the 101st Spider-Man movie. · "So this is the 101st Spider-Man movie."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Thor: The Dark World · 1:18:21 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Spider-Man (Raimi) · fun · Running Tony Lip joke: he supposedly played every person on the subway rail car in the first two Raimi Spider-Man films. · "People forget that Tony Lip played every single person on the rail car in the 1st Raimi Spider-Man."
[The Big Picture · The Great ‘Avatar’ Debate · 0:26:06 · Sean Fennessey (0.90)] Edgar Rice Burroughs ⇒ Avatar (the maker said so: Cameron's 1994 80-page treatment) · lineage · Cameron's Avatar treatment drew on childhood sci-fi reading, Burroughs and Haggard. · "drawing inspiration from, quote, every single science fiction book that he had read in his childhood, and also Edgar Rice Burroughs, H. Rider Haggard."
[The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 1:31:15 · unknown (0.40)] Darkman ↔ Mission: Impossible · lineage · Darkman's face-mask conceit looks like Mission Impossible. · "so like Mission Impossible."
[The Big Picture · ‘Gladiator II’ Is Here. Are We Not Entertained? · 0:06:45 · Sean Fennessey (0.80)] Gladiator ⇒ Gladiator II (the host's read) · lineage · The sequel is very similar in structure and story to the original. · "it's pretty well known that this movie is very similar in structure and story to the original."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) · 0:29:37 · Bill Simmons (0.55)] Panic Room ↔ Bird Box · programming · Home-invasion and people-in-peril movies are what Netflix feeds viewers; Panic Room is the well-done version. · "But I think this is the really well-done version of it."
[The Big Picture · The Great ‘Avatar’ Debate · 0:26:24 · unknown (0.40)] John Carter of Mars ⇒ Avatar (the host's read) · lineage · Avatar reads like a John Carter of Mars style story. · "Yeah, it's very like John Carter of Mars or whatever."
[The Big Picture · ‘Gladiator II’ Is Here. Are We Not Entertained? · 0:15:52 · Mallory Rubin (0.60)] Gladiator ⇒ Gladiator II (the host's read) · lineage · The sequel's plot, structure, approach and pacing mirror the first, forcing a one-to-one comparison. · "it's just the movie is so similar to the 1st one in terms of plot, structure, approach, focus, pacing."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) · 0:40:17 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] Panic Room ↔ The Social Network · programming · Fincher movies are rewatchable and date-movie friendly, with the exception of Se7en; Social Network is the perfect date movie. · "Like social network, perfect date movie."
[The Big Picture · The Great ‘Avatar’ Debate · 0:42:25 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] The Wizard of Oz ⇒ Avatar (the host's read) · lineage · Avatar is described as a deep Wizard of Oz homage. · "In case you were wondering, this is a deep wizard of a homage, among other things."
[The Big Picture · ‘Gladiator II’ Is Here. Are We Not Entertained? · 0:21:39 · Mallory Rubin (0.50)] Gladiator ⇒ Gladiator II (the host's read) · lineage · Because it mirrors the first film, outcomes for characters become predictable by inversion. · "I almost felt like it became impossible not to know what was going to happen to certain people"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) · 1:33:06 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Panic Room ↔ Succession · programming · As a ten-episode Netflix show, Junior would be Roman from Succession. · "but it's just that, um, Junior is Roman from Succession."
[The Big Picture · The Great ‘Avatar’ Debate · 0:52:25 · unknown (0.40)] Avatar ↔ Aliens · lineage · Cameron's 1995 pitch for Avatar was much closer to Aliens in tone. · "It was much closer to aliens in tone."
[The Big Picture · ‘Gladiator II’ Is Here. Are We Not Entertained? · 0:52:34 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] Gladiator ⇒ Gladiator II (the host's read) · lineage · Lucius's hand in the grain is a callback to Maximus's hand in the wheat. · "And it's an obvious callback to Maximus walking through the kind of afterlife feeling the wheat."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) · 0:16:08 · Sean Fennessey (0.55)] Panic Room ↔ Rope · lineage · One-location construction recalls the Hitchcock single-setting movies. · "So it has shades of rope or lifeboat, those movies that Hitchcock made."
[The Big Picture · The Great ‘Avatar’ Debate · 0:53:51 · unknown (0.40)] The Wizard of Oz ⇒ Avatar (the host's read) · lineage · Avatar is an original story but inspired by Oz and John Ford movies. · "It's just like hugely inspired by not just the Wizard of Oz, but like lots of John Ford movies"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Spartacus · 1:03:34 · Richard Lawson (0.60)] Spartacus ⇒ Gladiator (the host's read) · lineage · Richard, seeing Spartacus for the first time, says it is the main thing Gladiator riffs on. · "this is really the main thing the gladiators are riffing on."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) · 0:16:08 · Sean Fennessey (0.55)] Panic Room ↔ Lifeboat · lineage · One-location construction recalls the Hitchcock single-setting movies. · "So it has shades of rope or lifeboat, those movies that Hitchcock made."
[The Big Picture · The Great ‘Avatar’ Debate · 0:53:51 · unknown (0.40)] John Ford ⇒ Avatar (the host's read) · lineage · Same line: Avatar draws on John Ford films and the history of movies. · "lots of John Ford movies and you can see like the history of movies"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Spartacus · 1:13:26 · unknown (0.40)] Woody Strode → Gladiator · theme · Speaker imagines Ridley Scott deciding to keep the Draba-type character alive the whole movie. · "Ridley Scott was like, what if we keep him alive the whole movie?"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) · 0:16:12 · Sean Fennessey (0.55)] Panic Room ↔ Psycho · lineage · Panic Room is to Fight Club as Psycho is to North by Northwest: a small, single-location B movie after a big sprawling one. · "But really it's like, it's Hitchcock doing Psycho right after North by Northwest."
[Blank Check — Patreon · RoboCop (2014) · 0:38:34 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Avatar ⇒ RoboCop (the host's read) · lineage · The robot-waking sequence is beat for beat the first act of Avatar, down to testing the new body's powers. · "It is crazy actually how much this sequence is like beat for beat, the Avatar, right?"
[Blank Check · As Good as It Gets · 1:05:43 · Chris Gethard (0.60)] Joaquin Phoenix ↔ Gladiator · craft · Chris likes Phoenix's Gladiator performance. · "I'll say, I really appreciated his performance in Gladiator."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) · 0:17:38 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Rear Window ⇒ Panic Room (the maker said so: Fincher's quotes the host reads) · lineage · Fincher saw it as a cross between Rear Window and Straw Dogs. · "So Fitcher saw panic group as a cross between rear window and straw dogs."
[The Big Picture · The Great ‘Avatar’ Debate · 0:55:09 · unknown (0.40)] Avatar ↔ Dances with Wolves · theme · Avatar belongs to the interloper-story family but is not like Dances with Wolves or The Last Samurai. · "something like Dances with Wolves, Last Samurai, whichever one of these movies you want to throw out there. Interloper movies."
[The Big Picture · ‘Gladiator II’ Is Here. Are We Not Entertained? · 0:06:38 · Sean Fennessey (0.85)] Gladiator II ↔ Gladiator · craft · Gladiator II brings back the original film's cinematographer, John Mathieson, as part of a returning crew. · "The cinematographer, John Matheson, is back."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) · 0:17:38 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Straw Dogs ⇒ Panic Room (the maker said so: Fincher's quotes the host reads) · lineage · Fincher saw it as a cross between Rear Window and Straw Dogs (Peckinpah). · "So Fitcher saw panic group as a cross between rear window and straw dogs."
[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] Brian Michael Bendis · latest sketch, Blank Check · Raiders of the Lost Ark · Raised on Lucas and Spielberg and says the magic-trick-then-show-how-it-was-done openness of that era shaped his craft. Loves Raiders over Temple of Doom even though Temple of Doom met him at a pivotal age; adores Reds, Siskel and Ebert, John Williams, Karen Allen. Cannot stand writers telling the audience the theme outright and hates snakes. · stances: Raiders is the better film but Temple of Doom shaped him; Exposition must carry the character's own perspective; Lucas and Spielberg were the first open-source filmmakers; Spielberg is generous with credit and should be emulated; Marion Ravenwood is among cinema's great characters; Willie Scott is the anti-Marion mistake; The post-Fabelmans view reshapes Raiders
[speaker] Micah Peters · latest sketch, The Big Picture · ‘Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse’: One of the Best Superhero Movies Ever | Exit Survey · Deep comics knowledge and loves characters, representation that doesn't feel preachy, and the act of seeing yourself on screen. Fond of hip-hop and silly gags like Spider Pig. Skeptical of Marvel swaps that revert and of the Avengers continuity burden. · stances: Representation here is natural and not preachy; Not on the level of Black Panther's cultural moment, but just as important; Wants more movies like it, and a Spider-Man Noir movie; Superhero movies can echo comic crossovers
[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] 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 Shoemaker · latest sketch, The Big Picture · Pro Wrestling Goes to the Movies, Plus Stephen Merchant on ‘Fighting · Believes the best wrestling movies are documentaries and cult oddities; loves weird, tonally pure b-movies like Body Slam and Paradise Alley. Dislikes tone-deaf studio efforts like Ready to Rumble. A sucker for wrestling's blur of real and fake. · stances: Documentaries beat fiction for wrestling; The Wrestler is the best wrestling movie; Fiction fails when it treats a fake sport in a fake world; Wrestling history (Gold Dust Trio, Sputnik Monroe) deserves movies
[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 Spider-Man (2002); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Spider-Man (2002) 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.