What the corpus says about The Verdict (1982)

The 52 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 · Objection! Top 10 Courtroom Dramas | The Big Picture · 1:07:27 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60)] The Verdict ⇒ A Few Good Men (the host's read) · lineage · You cannot have A Few Good Men without The Verdict; everything on the courtroom checklist comes from it. · "you really, really cannot have a few good men without having the verdict"
[The Big Picture · Objection! Top 10 Courtroom Dramas | The Big Picture · 1:08:58 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] The Verdict ⇒ The Firm (the host's read) · lineage · The Verdict is foundational for the Grisham underdog stories. · "foundational for a lot of the Grisham stories"
[Blank Check · The Color of Money · 1:47:47 · unknown (0.30)] The Color of Money ↔ The Verdict · craft · Both are ranked on the podium of burnished-wood movies. · "I call that the greatest burnished wood movie of all time. This one has a, but this is in on the podium with that."
[Blank Check · The Color of Money · 1:46:17 · unknown (0.30)] The Color of Money ↔ The Verdict · contrast · In both films Newman is battered yet hot, but pool hustler reads as cool while The Verdict makes the loser life look sad. · "In this one, it's like, you're like, air pool player, that's cool. And the verdict, you're like, wow, you you suck."
[The Big Picture · Objection! Top 10 Courtroom Dramas | The Big Picture · 0:49:25 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50)] Anatomy of a Murder ↔ The Verdict · contrast · Anatomy is cynical; it is not about who wins but who was on trial, a red herring verdict. · "Like the movie is not about who wins and who loses"
[The Big Picture · Objection! Top 10 Courtroom Dramas | The Big Picture · 1:08:29 · Sean Fennessey (0.80)] The Verdict ↔ ...And Justice for All · contrast · Justice for All was tonally all over the place and didn't make the list; The Verdict is a diamond. · "The verdict on the other hand, is a diamond"
[The Big Picture · Objection! Top 10 Courtroom Dramas | The Big Picture · 1:09:55 · Sean Fennessey (0.55)] The Verdict ↔ A Few Good Men · contrast · Verdict's results hinge on integrity and decency, a counterpoint to being right or wrong. · "a lot of these movies which are about the vagaries of being right and wrong"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood’ Live From Sundance · 0:07:26 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Once Upon a Time in Hollywood ↔ The Verdict · career · This period of Pitt (Moneyball, OUATIH) is likened to Newman's The Verdict and Color of Money stage. · "once upon a time in Hollywood is, like, almost like verdict, color of Money Newman."
[The Big Picture · Objection! Top 10 Courtroom Dramas | The Big Picture · 1:07:43 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60)] The Verdict ↔ The Verdict · verdict · Dawn of the modern courtroom drama. · "this is basically the dawn of the modern courtroom drama"
[Blank Check · The Color of Money · 2:57:18 · unknown (0.30)] The Color of Money ↔ The Verdict · industry · The Oscar for Color of Money is treated as a gold-watch win after the Verdict snub, awarded the year after his honorary Oscar. · "This is kind of one of the most famous gold watch Oscar wins, right? They give it to him the year after they give him the lifetime achievement award."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Color of Money’ · 0:06:30 · Sean Fennessey (0.70)] The Color of Money ↔ The Verdict · industry · Newman lost for The Verdict in a brutal year (Hoffman in Tootsie, Kingsley in Gandhi) then won in 1987 against a weaker slate. · "In 87 when they give out the 86 Oscars. You know, it's it's a much weaker slate"
[The Big Picture · Objection! Top 10 Courtroom Dramas | The Big Picture · 1:11:54 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60)] Paul Newman ↔ The Verdict · career · Newman's charm carries the film and a flawed character. · "Newman just fits"
[The Big Picture · Objection! Top 10 Courtroom Dramas | The Big Picture · 1:08:42 · Sean Fennessey (0.70)] The Verdict ↔ David Mamet · people · Written by Mamet, one of his first screenplays. · "written by David Mammon"
[Blank Check · The Color of Money · 0:03:17 · unknown (0.40)] Paul Newman ↔ The Verdict · verdict · The Verdict is named Newman's best performance and the one he should have won an Oscar for. · "Verdict, I think, is his best performance."
[The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies · 1:02:28 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Tom Cruise ↔ The Verdict · what-if · Cruise should do a serious historical drama, something like The Verdict. · "It should be the verdict or a movie like that."

Films put beside it more than once (2)

[pairs] The Verdict ↔ The Color of Money · said 4 times in 2 episodes
[pairs] The Verdict ↔ A Few Good Men · said 2 times in 1 episode

Fun items about it (2)

[The Big Picture · Objection! Top 10 Courtroom Dramas | The Big Picture · 1:07:00 · Sean Fennessey (0.90)] The Verdict · fun · Sean tweeted about the judge and Bill Simmons texted back instantly; it is one of Bill's favorites. · "I got a text message from Bill Simmons instantaneously"
[The Big Picture · Objection! Top 10 Courtroom Dramas | The Big Picture · 1:12:33 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60)] The Verdict · fun · Newman hits a woman in the film, which both hosts find incongruous and would cut. · "you could even excise it and it would work fine"

One hop out: what recommends the films most often joined to it (27)

[Blank Check · The Color of Money · 0:13:06 · unknown (0.30)] The Hustler ⇒ The Color of Money (the host's read) · lineage · The Color of Money is the sequel to The Hustler, but built from a new script that keeps only the title of the Tevis sequel novel. · "Even when they start developing scripts and go, like, throw all that out, start fresh, they kept writing in parts from Minnesota fats."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Misery’ · 0:15:13 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] Misery ↔ A Few Good Men · programming · Misery sits in Reiner's incredible trio, all now Rewatchables. · "But when Harry Met Ali, Misery, Few Good Men, is really the best of all of these different great actors, right?"
[Blank Check · Star 80 · 0:07:34 · Julie Klausner (0.50)] Star 80 ↔ Anatomy of a Murder · theme · Concern for the ruined man instead of the woman echoes Anatomy of a Murder's rape-trial rhetoric. · "That reminds me of an anatomy of murder when they're prosecuting the, they're like, let's think about ruining a man's life before we convict this person of rape"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Pulp Fiction’ (Part 2) · 0:17:32 · unknown (0.00)] Pulp Fiction ⇒ Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (the host's read) · lineage · Marcellus's you-pride-only-hurts speech to Butch is the same speech Pacino gives DiCaprio in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. · "And it's the same speech that Pacino gives DiCaprio at Rousseau and Frank in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood."
[Blank Check · The Color of Money · 0:20:34 · David Sims (0.55)] The Color of Money ↔ Return to Oz · lineage · Reddit consensus calls Color of Money the first legacy sequel, with Return to Oz as a debated earlier candidate dismissed as too weird. · "Uh, color money is generally agreed to on to be the 1st legacy sequel. Some people are like, does return to Oz count?"
[The Big Picture · Aaron Sorkin Top 5s and ‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’ · 1:19:27 · Sean Fennessey (0.55)] A Few Good Men ↔ Network · programming · It is in the conversation for most rewatched movie of a lifetime, next to Network, Oz, Godfather, Goodfellas and Pulp Fiction. · "and a few good men is right there with it."
[The Big Picture · Objection! Top 10 Courtroom Dramas | The Big Picture · 0:48:51 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50)] Anatomy of a Murder ↔ Saul Bass · craft · Bass made the indelible opening title sequence. · "Saul Bass, the great title sequence creator"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood’ Live From Sundance · 0:16:14 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Wanted: Dead or Alive ⇒ Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (the host's read) · lineage · Bounty Law is based on Steve McQueen's Wanted Dead or Alive. · "Bounty Lostar, which was based on Wanted Dead or Alive with Steve McQueen"
[Blank Check · The Color of Money · 0:20:55 · unknown (0.30)] The Color of Money ↔ Dawn of the Dead · lineage · Another early sequel candidate that shares no characters, just a long gap and iconography. · "Dawn of the Dead kind of counts because it was a long, like, weight. between movies that like they don't have the same characters."
[The Big Picture · Objection! Top 10 Courtroom Dramas | The Big Picture · 0:11:07 · Sean Fennessey (0.80)] The Pelican Brief ↔ A Few Good Men · programming · Disqualified: legal thriller, not courtroom drama, operating outside the courtroom. · "operates almost entirely outside of the courtroom"
[The Big Picture · Objection! Top 10 Courtroom Dramas | The Big Picture · 0:48:59 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50)] Anatomy of a Murder ↔ Duke Ellington · craft · Ellington's score is one of the enduring movie soundtracks, and he appears in the film. · "one of the enduring movie soundtracks of all time"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood’ Live From Sundance · 0:37:06 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] The Texas Chain Saw Massacre ⇒ Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (the host's read) · lineage · Tarantino wanted the Spahn Ranch sequence to feel like Texas Chain Saw Massacre. · "Tarantino wanted it to look like the Texas Chainsaw Massacre and had his crew research, Texas Chant, and the whole feel of it and how desolate it was."
[Blank Check · The Color of Money · 1:06:13 · unknown (0.30)] The Color of Money ↔ Rocky II · lineage · The original Tevis-based script, a two-hander with Fats in Florida, would have been more by-the-book, like Rocky II or Creed II. · "It's more going by the book, right? It's like Rocky 2."
[The Big Picture · Objection! Top 10 Courtroom Dramas | The Big Picture · 0:12:02 · Sean Fennessey (0.85)] 12 Angry Men ↔ A Few Good Men · programming · 12 Angry Men is a technicality: a morality play in a side room, not a courtroom drama. · "It's a morality play inside of a side room related to a courtroom"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood’ Live From Sundance · 0:37:25 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Apocalypse Now ⇒ Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (the host's read) · lineage · The dogs at Spahn Ranch play the role of the Duvall helicopters, constantly present and disorienting. · "He wanted the dogs to be the helicopters."
[Blank Check · The Color of Money · 1:07:05 · David Sims (0.40)] The Color of Money ⇒ Top Gun: Maverick (the host's read) · lineage · Gap-based legacy sequels like Top Gun Maverick, Tron Legacy and Blade Runner follow the template Color of Money invented, though in 1986 sequels were derided. · "now we get more and more like your your Tron legacies and your Top Gun Mavericks, where it's just casually... 37, 40 years later"
[The Big Picture · Objection! Top 10 Courtroom Dramas | The Big Picture · 0:14:25 · Sean Fennessey (0.80)] To Kill a Mockingbird ↔ A Few Good Men · programming · Left off the list as more homework than pleasurable; the list favors twisty, speechifying, overacting movies. · "pleasurability factor of a lot of these movies"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood’ Live From Sundance · 0:44:51 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Lee Van Cleef ⇒ Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (the maker said so: he told me; I asked Quentin about it) · lineage · The painting of Rick in the driveway came from Tarantino finding a giant Lee Van Cleef painting in the actor's garage while scouting. · "that's why I put a painting of Rick in the driveway."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Color of Money’ · 0:44:53 · Chris Ryan (0.65)] The Hustler ⇒ The Color of Money (the host's read) · lineage · The mentoring conversation Newman has with Vince and Carmen mirrors the one George C. Scott has with Newman in The Hustler; both films also go on the road. · "that's basically the George C. Scott has the same conversation with Paul Newman and the Hustler."
[Blank Check — Patreon · 2025 March Madness Update 1 · 0:06:13 · unknown (0.40)] A Few Good Men ↔ Aaron Sorkin · programming · A Few Good Men and The American President get folded into a Sorkin series, not a Reiner one. · "Few good men in American president."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood’ Live From Sundance · 1:09:23 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice ⇒ Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (the maker said so) · lineage · Tarantino said Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice influenced the characters, looks, and scenery. · "Quinn said Bob and Carol and Ted Alice was a big influence on this movie"
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Color of Money’ · 0:45:31 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] The Hustler ⇒ The Color of Money (the host's read) · lineage · Newman's Eddie Felson in 1986 becomes the George C. Scott hustler-mentor character of the original, and the sequel answers rather than remakes it. · "the Newman character in the color of money becomes the George C. Scott character in the Hustler."
[Blank Check · The Color of Money · 1:36:10 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] A Few Good Men ↔ Heat 2 · lineage · A hypothetical Sorkin A Few Good Men sequel is compared to Heat 2 as a legacy-sequel recast by its original creator. · "it's not Fincher doing the legacyquel with an entirely different cast, but it is Sorkin making his own legacy."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Pulp Fiction’ (Part 2) · 0:17:38 · unknown (0.00)] Pulp Fiction ↔ Once Upon a Time in Hollywood · theme · Motifs echo across Tarantino's movies. · "It's so awesome to see the motifs echo across his movies."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Color of Money’ · 0:45:56 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] The Hustler ⇒ The Color of Money (the host's read) · lineage · Newman getting drunk and hustled by Amos is the first time he plays the Jackie Gleason role of the original, drunk and overconfident. · "it's basically the 1st time he plays Jackie Gleason and the hustler where he's just like wasted and thinks he's going to win and then gets gets hustled."
[Blank Check · The Color of Money · 1:37:25 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] A Few Good Men ↔ NCIS · lineage · A Few Good Men's JAG lawyer role is linked to the JAG/NCIS rights tangle as the joke legacy sequel. · "As we all know, NCIS is based on JAG. is a spinoff. technically a spinoff of the TV show, Jack."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood’ Live From Sundance · 0:21:42 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] Once Upon a Time in Hollywood ↔ Scent of a Woman · theme · Marvin's pitch resembles the Top Gun speech in Sleep With Me; the transcript garbles the title. · "That speech he gives is pure Tarantino. Like, that is not that much different than the actual speech"

Who said it, by their latest sketch (3)

[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] 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
[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

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 The Verdict (1982) 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 The Verdict (1982) 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 · Objection! Top 10 Courtroom Dramas | The Big Picture · 1:07:27 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60)] The Verdict ⇒ A Few Good Men (the host's read) · lineage · You cannot have A Few Good Men without The Verdict; everything on the courtroom checklist comes from it. · "you really, really cannot have a few good men without having the verdict"
[The Big Picture · Objection! Top 10 Courtroom Dramas | The Big Picture · 1:08:58 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] The Verdict ⇒ The Firm (the host's read) · lineage · The Verdict is foundational for the Grisham underdog stories. · "foundational for a lot of the Grisham stories"
[Blank Check · The Color of Money · 1:47:47 · unknown (0.30)] The Color of Money ↔ The Verdict · craft · Both are ranked on the podium of burnished-wood movies. · "I call that the greatest burnished wood movie of all time. This one has a, but this is in on the podium with that."
[Blank Check · The Color of Money · 1:46:17 · unknown (0.30)] The Color of Money ↔ The Verdict · contrast · In both films Newman is battered yet hot, but pool hustler reads as cool while The Verdict makes the loser life look sad. · "In this one, it's like, you're like, air pool player, that's cool. And the verdict, you're like, wow, you you suck."
[The Big Picture · Objection! Top 10 Courtroom Dramas | The Big Picture · 0:49:25 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50)] Anatomy of a Murder ↔ The Verdict · contrast · Anatomy is cynical; it is not about who wins but who was on trial, a red herring verdict. · "Like the movie is not about who wins and who loses"
[The Big Picture · Objection! Top 10 Courtroom Dramas | The Big Picture · 1:08:29 · Sean Fennessey (0.80)] The Verdict ↔ ...And Justice for All · contrast · Justice for All was tonally all over the place and didn't make the list; The Verdict is a diamond. · "The verdict on the other hand, is a diamond"
[The Big Picture · Objection! Top 10 Courtroom Dramas | The Big Picture · 1:09:55 · Sean Fennessey (0.55)] The Verdict ↔ A Few Good Men · contrast · Verdict's results hinge on integrity and decency, a counterpoint to being right or wrong. · "a lot of these movies which are about the vagaries of being right and wrong"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood’ Live From Sundance · 0:07:26 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Once Upon a Time in Hollywood ↔ The Verdict · career · This period of Pitt (Moneyball, OUATIH) is likened to Newman's The Verdict and Color of Money stage. · "once upon a time in Hollywood is, like, almost like verdict, color of Money Newman."
[The Big Picture · Objection! Top 10 Courtroom Dramas | The Big Picture · 1:07:43 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60)] The Verdict ↔ The Verdict · verdict · Dawn of the modern courtroom drama. · "this is basically the dawn of the modern courtroom drama"
[Blank Check · The Color of Money · 2:57:18 · unknown (0.30)] The Color of Money ↔ The Verdict · industry · The Oscar for Color of Money is treated as a gold-watch win after the Verdict snub, awarded the year after his honorary Oscar. · "This is kind of one of the most famous gold watch Oscar wins, right? They give it to him the year after they give him the lifetime achievement award."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Color of Money’ · 0:06:30 · Sean Fennessey (0.70)] The Color of Money ↔ The Verdict · industry · Newman lost for The Verdict in a brutal year (Hoffman in Tootsie, Kingsley in Gandhi) then won in 1987 against a weaker slate. · "In 87 when they give out the 86 Oscars. You know, it's it's a much weaker slate"
[The Big Picture · Objection! Top 10 Courtroom Dramas | The Big Picture · 1:11:54 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60)] Paul Newman ↔ The Verdict · career · Newman's charm carries the film and a flawed character. · "Newman just fits"
[The Big Picture · Objection! Top 10 Courtroom Dramas | The Big Picture · 1:08:42 · Sean Fennessey (0.70)] The Verdict ↔ David Mamet · people · Written by Mamet, one of his first screenplays. · "written by David Mammon"
[Blank Check · The Color of Money · 0:03:17 · unknown (0.40)] Paul Newman ↔ The Verdict · verdict · The Verdict is named Newman's best performance and the one he should have won an Oscar for. · "Verdict, I think, is his best performance."
[The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies · 1:02:28 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Tom Cruise ↔ The Verdict · what-if · Cruise should do a serious historical drama, something like The Verdict. · "It should be the verdict or a movie like that."
[pairs] The Verdict ↔ The Color of Money · said 4 times in 2 episodes
[pairs] The Verdict ↔ A Few Good Men · said 2 times in 1 episode
[The Big Picture · Objection! Top 10 Courtroom Dramas | The Big Picture · 1:07:00 · Sean Fennessey (0.90)] The Verdict · fun · Sean tweeted about the judge and Bill Simmons texted back instantly; it is one of Bill's favorites. · "I got a text message from Bill Simmons instantaneously"
[The Big Picture · Objection! Top 10 Courtroom Dramas | The Big Picture · 1:12:33 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60)] The Verdict · fun · Newman hits a woman in the film, which both hosts find incongruous and would cut. · "you could even excise it and it would work fine"
[Blank Check · The Color of Money · 0:13:06 · unknown (0.30)] The Hustler ⇒ The Color of Money (the host's read) · lineage · The Color of Money is the sequel to The Hustler, but built from a new script that keeps only the title of the Tevis sequel novel. · "Even when they start developing scripts and go, like, throw all that out, start fresh, they kept writing in parts from Minnesota fats."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Misery’ · 0:15:13 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] Misery ↔ A Few Good Men · programming · Misery sits in Reiner's incredible trio, all now Rewatchables. · "But when Harry Met Ali, Misery, Few Good Men, is really the best of all of these different great actors, right?"
[Blank Check · Star 80 · 0:07:34 · Julie Klausner (0.50)] Star 80 ↔ Anatomy of a Murder · theme · Concern for the ruined man instead of the woman echoes Anatomy of a Murder's rape-trial rhetoric. · "That reminds me of an anatomy of murder when they're prosecuting the, they're like, let's think about ruining a man's life before we convict this person of rape"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Pulp Fiction’ (Part 2) · 0:17:32 · unknown (0.00)] Pulp Fiction ⇒ Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (the host's read) · lineage · Marcellus's you-pride-only-hurts speech to Butch is the same speech Pacino gives DiCaprio in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. · "And it's the same speech that Pacino gives DiCaprio at Rousseau and Frank in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood."
[Blank Check · The Color of Money · 0:20:34 · David Sims (0.55)] The Color of Money ↔ Return to Oz · lineage · Reddit consensus calls Color of Money the first legacy sequel, with Return to Oz as a debated earlier candidate dismissed as too weird. · "Uh, color money is generally agreed to on to be the 1st legacy sequel. Some people are like, does return to Oz count?"
[The Big Picture · Aaron Sorkin Top 5s and ‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’ · 1:19:27 · Sean Fennessey (0.55)] A Few Good Men ↔ Network · programming · It is in the conversation for most rewatched movie of a lifetime, next to Network, Oz, Godfather, Goodfellas and Pulp Fiction. · "and a few good men is right there with it."
[The Big Picture · Objection! Top 10 Courtroom Dramas | The Big Picture · 0:48:51 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50)] Anatomy of a Murder ↔ Saul Bass · craft · Bass made the indelible opening title sequence. · "Saul Bass, the great title sequence creator"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood’ Live From Sundance · 0:16:14 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Wanted: Dead or Alive ⇒ Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (the host's read) · lineage · Bounty Law is based on Steve McQueen's Wanted Dead or Alive. · "Bounty Lostar, which was based on Wanted Dead or Alive with Steve McQueen"
[Blank Check · The Color of Money · 0:20:55 · unknown (0.30)] The Color of Money ↔ Dawn of the Dead · lineage · Another early sequel candidate that shares no characters, just a long gap and iconography. · "Dawn of the Dead kind of counts because it was a long, like, weight. between movies that like they don't have the same characters."
[The Big Picture · Objection! Top 10 Courtroom Dramas | The Big Picture · 0:11:07 · Sean Fennessey (0.80)] The Pelican Brief ↔ A Few Good Men · programming · Disqualified: legal thriller, not courtroom drama, operating outside the courtroom. · "operates almost entirely outside of the courtroom"
[The Big Picture · Objection! Top 10 Courtroom Dramas | The Big Picture · 0:48:59 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50)] Anatomy of a Murder ↔ Duke Ellington · craft · Ellington's score is one of the enduring movie soundtracks, and he appears in the film. · "one of the enduring movie soundtracks of all time"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood’ Live From Sundance · 0:37:06 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] The Texas Chain Saw Massacre ⇒ Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (the host's read) · lineage · Tarantino wanted the Spahn Ranch sequence to feel like Texas Chain Saw Massacre. · "Tarantino wanted it to look like the Texas Chainsaw Massacre and had his crew research, Texas Chant, and the whole feel of it and how desolate it was."
[Blank Check · The Color of Money · 1:06:13 · unknown (0.30)] The Color of Money ↔ Rocky II · lineage · The original Tevis-based script, a two-hander with Fats in Florida, would have been more by-the-book, like Rocky II or Creed II. · "It's more going by the book, right? It's like Rocky 2."
[The Big Picture · Objection! Top 10 Courtroom Dramas | The Big Picture · 0:12:02 · Sean Fennessey (0.85)] 12 Angry Men ↔ A Few Good Men · programming · 12 Angry Men is a technicality: a morality play in a side room, not a courtroom drama. · "It's a morality play inside of a side room related to a courtroom"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood’ Live From Sundance · 0:37:25 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Apocalypse Now ⇒ Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (the host's read) · lineage · The dogs at Spahn Ranch play the role of the Duvall helicopters, constantly present and disorienting. · "He wanted the dogs to be the helicopters."
[Blank Check · The Color of Money · 1:07:05 · David Sims (0.40)] The Color of Money ⇒ Top Gun: Maverick (the host's read) · lineage · Gap-based legacy sequels like Top Gun Maverick, Tron Legacy and Blade Runner follow the template Color of Money invented, though in 1986 sequels were derided. · "now we get more and more like your your Tron legacies and your Top Gun Mavericks, where it's just casually... 37, 40 years later"
[The Big Picture · Objection! Top 10 Courtroom Dramas | The Big Picture · 0:14:25 · Sean Fennessey (0.80)] To Kill a Mockingbird ↔ A Few Good Men · programming · Left off the list as more homework than pleasurable; the list favors twisty, speechifying, overacting movies. · "pleasurability factor of a lot of these movies"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood’ Live From Sundance · 0:44:51 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Lee Van Cleef ⇒ Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (the maker said so: he told me; I asked Quentin about it) · lineage · The painting of Rick in the driveway came from Tarantino finding a giant Lee Van Cleef painting in the actor's garage while scouting. · "that's why I put a painting of Rick in the driveway."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Color of Money’ · 0:44:53 · Chris Ryan (0.65)] The Hustler ⇒ The Color of Money (the host's read) · lineage · The mentoring conversation Newman has with Vince and Carmen mirrors the one George C. Scott has with Newman in The Hustler; both films also go on the road. · "that's basically the George C. Scott has the same conversation with Paul Newman and the Hustler."
[Blank Check — Patreon · 2025 March Madness Update 1 · 0:06:13 · unknown (0.40)] A Few Good Men ↔ Aaron Sorkin · programming · A Few Good Men and The American President get folded into a Sorkin series, not a Reiner one. · "Few good men in American president."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood’ Live From Sundance · 1:09:23 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice ⇒ Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (the maker said so) · lineage · Tarantino said Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice influenced the characters, looks, and scenery. · "Quinn said Bob and Carol and Ted Alice was a big influence on this movie"
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Color of Money’ · 0:45:31 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] The Hustler ⇒ The Color of Money (the host's read) · lineage · Newman's Eddie Felson in 1986 becomes the George C. Scott hustler-mentor character of the original, and the sequel answers rather than remakes it. · "the Newman character in the color of money becomes the George C. Scott character in the Hustler."
[Blank Check · The Color of Money · 1:36:10 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] A Few Good Men ↔ Heat 2 · lineage · A hypothetical Sorkin A Few Good Men sequel is compared to Heat 2 as a legacy-sequel recast by its original creator. · "it's not Fincher doing the legacyquel with an entirely different cast, but it is Sorkin making his own legacy."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Pulp Fiction’ (Part 2) · 0:17:38 · unknown (0.00)] Pulp Fiction ↔ Once Upon a Time in Hollywood · theme · Motifs echo across Tarantino's movies. · "It's so awesome to see the motifs echo across his movies."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Color of Money’ · 0:45:56 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] The Hustler ⇒ The Color of Money (the host's read) · lineage · Newman getting drunk and hustled by Amos is the first time he plays the Jackie Gleason role of the original, drunk and overconfident. · "it's basically the 1st time he plays Jackie Gleason and the hustler where he's just like wasted and thinks he's going to win and then gets gets hustled."
[Blank Check · The Color of Money · 1:37:25 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] A Few Good Men ↔ NCIS · lineage · A Few Good Men's JAG lawyer role is linked to the JAG/NCIS rights tangle as the joke legacy sequel. · "As we all know, NCIS is based on JAG. is a spinoff. technically a spinoff of the TV show, Jack."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood’ Live From Sundance · 0:21:42 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] Once Upon a Time in Hollywood ↔ Scent of a Woman · theme · Marvin's pitch resembles the Top Gun speech in Sleep With Me; the transcript garbles the title. · "That speech he gives is pure Tarantino. Like, that is not that much different than the actual speech"
[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] 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
[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
[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 The Verdict (1982); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend The Verdict (1982) 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.