What the corpus says about The Graduate (1967)

What was said about it (7)

1. [Blank Check · As Good as It Gets · 0:36:58 · unknown (0.30)] The Graduate ↔ Say Anything... · theme · Also fits the 'but I like her' genre, and rewatched it reads as stalking. · "Well, the graduate is insane."
2. [The Big Picture · Celebrating ‘Scott Pilgrim vs. the World’ 10 Years Later · 1:05:31 · Edgar Wright (0.95)] Scott Pilgrim vs. the World ↔ The Graduate · theme · Edgar says Scott and Benjamin Braddock are equally flawed young men, and the poster misleads you into expecting a Luke Skywalker hero. · "I don't think anybody would talk about Scott Pilgrim and the graduate."
3. [Blank Check — Patreon · Fight Club · 0:55:00 · unknown (0.40)] The Graduate ↔ Fight Club · theme · Reading the dossier, the speaker says Fincher's big comparison for Fight Club was The Graduate: coming of age, but in your 30s. · "His big comparison, which I do think is very interesting, is he's like, this is the graduate, right?"
4. [The Rewatchables · ‘Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood’ Live From Sundance · 0:23:39 · Bill Simmons (0.40)] Once Upon a Time in Hollywood ↔ The Graduate · needle-drop reference · Tarantino throws in Mrs. Robinson during the car scene. · "Tarantino throws at Mrs. Robinson."
5. [Blank Check — Patreon · 2001: A Space Odyssey · 2:19:48 · David Sims (0.30)] The Graduate → Rushmore · Rosetta Stone · People told the speaker The Graduate is the Rosetta Stone of Rushmore. · "That's the Rosetta Stone of this movie."
6. [The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ · 1:39:58 · unknown (0.40)] Mike Nichols ↔ The Graduate · career · Nichols directed The Graduate; Ebert later said Working Girl belonged to Griffith the way The Graduate did to Hoffman. · "he made the graduate."
7. [The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ · 2:06:15 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] Roger Ebert ↔ The Graduate · verdict · Ebert: this is Melanie Griffith's movie the way The Graduate belonged to Dustin Hoffman. · "this is Melanie Griffith's movie in the same way the graduate belonged to Dustin Hoffman."

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

1. [The Big Picture · ‘The Killer’ Is Cold-Blooded Genius. And Something More · 1:20:30 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60)] The Killer ↔ Fight Club · programming · Both are very funny first-person-narrated films about sociopaths who rationalize brutal violence as a personal mission. · "This movie would make a neat pairing with Fight Club. Two very funny films about sociopaths whose inner monologues rationalize brutal violence as expressions of a personal mission."
2. [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."
3. [The Rewatchables · ‘The Royal Tenenbaums’ · 0:56:11 · Andy Greenwald (0.50)] Moonrise Kingdom ↔ Rushmore · theme · Rushmore's childlike sex talk vs. Moonrise confronting adolescent sex directly. · "Later, I think in Moonrise Kingdom, he sort of more directly confronts like adolescent sex"
4. [Blank Check · As Good as It Gets · 0:36:40 · unknown (0.30)] Say Anything... ↔ As Good as It Gets · theme · Say Anything is the top example of a 'but I like her' genre in which a refused man persists until the woman caves, a genre the hosts apply to romcoms like this one. · "Obviously say anything's a huge one."
5. [The Big Picture · Celebrating ‘Scott Pilgrim vs. the World’ 10 Years Later · 1:20:24 · Edgar Wright (0.95)] Scott Pilgrim vs. the World ↔ Metric · programming · Edgar says Metric and Broken Social Scene were a no-brainer because the film was shot in Toronto. · "metric and broken social scene were both like, still are, like, you know, like really important Canadian bands from Toronto."
6. [Blank Check — Patreon · Fight Club · 2:08:56 · Alex Ross Perry (0.40)] The Sixth Sense ↔ Fight Club · programming · Two big twist movies, ten weeks apart, with the same fake-person reveal. · "That's the same twist twice, 10 weeks apart."
7. [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"
8. [The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 12 - 'The Royal Tenenbaums’ · 0:19:48 · unknown (0.40)] The Royal Tenenbaums ↔ Rushmore · craft · Both films use pop music (Ooh La La; the Van Morrison closer) to announce the theme. · "announcing the theme of the movie via pop music."
9. [The Big Picture · Celebrating ‘Scott Pilgrim vs. the World’ 10 Years Later · 0:02:46 · Sean Fennessey (0.90)] Scott Pilgrim vs. the World ⇒ Baby Driver (the host's read) · lineage · Sean says Wright's music-synced action staging, perfected in Baby Driver, begins with Scott Pilgrim. · "The perfectly synchronized music to action staging the Wright Perfected and Baby Driver starts with Scott Pilgrim."
10. [Blank Check — Patreon · Fight Club · 2:43:02 · unknown (0.35)] A Clockwork Orange ↔ Fight Club · programming · Fight Club is called the Clockwork Orange of another generation, an Edge Lord pick. · "This is kind of the clockwork Orange for another generation."
11. [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."
12. [The Big Picture · Celebrating ‘Scott Pilgrim vs. the World’ 10 Years Later · 0:03:08 · Sean Fennessey (0.90)] The Matrix ⇒ Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (the host's read) · lineage · Sean breaks the staging down into influences: Bruce Lee, The Matrix, and Phantom of the Paradise. · "It's one part Bruce Lee, one part the Matrix, one part Phantom of the Paradise."
13. [Blank Check — Patreon · Fight Club · 2:57:12 · Alex Ross Perry (0.45)] Slacker ↔ Fight Club · programming · Klosterman, as read, names Slacker or Fight Club as the decade's most generationally defining film. · "either slacker or fight club, could justifiably be called the decade's most generationally defining."
14. [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."
15. [The Big Picture · Celebrating ‘Scott Pilgrim vs. the World’ 10 Years Later · 0:03:08 · Sean Fennessey (0.90)] Phantom of the Paradise ⇒ Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (the host's read) · lineage · Phantom of the Paradise is named as one ingredient of the film's rock-and-spectacle mix. · "It's one part Bruce Lee, one part the Matrix, one part Phantom of the Paradise."
16. [Blank Check — Patreon · Fight Club · 1:13:14 · unknown (0.40)] Chuck Palahniuk ⇒ Fight Club (the host's read) · lineage · The film adapts Palahniuk's novel; the speaker says the screenplay cribs straight from the book. · "obviously the movie is, the book is very, he's cribbing right from the book."
17. [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."
18. [The Big Picture · Celebrating ‘Scott Pilgrim vs. the World’ 10 Years Later · 0:17:53 · Sean Fennessey (0.85)] Scott Pilgrim vs. the World ⇒ Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (the host's read) · lineage · Sean says Deadpool, the Lego movie and Spider-Verse could not happen without this film having broken the fourth wall first. · "Deadpool, for example, can't happen or like the Lego movie can't happen or into the Spider-Verse."
19. [Blank Check — Patreon · Fight Club · 1:59:38 · unknown (0.40)] Douglas Coupland ⇒ Fight Club (the host's read) · lineage · The speaker says the early car-recall section is right out of Coupland and Gen X writing. · "It's right out of like Douglas Copeland or whatever, right?"
20. [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"
21. [The Big Picture · Celebrating ‘Scott Pilgrim vs. the World’ 10 Years Later · 0:17:53 · Sean Fennessey (0.85)] Scott Pilgrim vs. the World ⇒ Deadpool (the host's read) · lineage · Same claim: Deadpool's fourth-wall breaking was made possible by this movie breaking it down. · "Deadpool, for example, can't happen or like the Lego movie can't happen or into the Spider-Verse."
22. [Blank Check — Patreon · The Killer · 0:41:40 · unknown (host) (0.30)] The Killer (graphic novel) ↔ Fight Club · theme · The comic's killer has an inner monologue closer to the Fight Club narrator. · "it's more that like this guy's inner monologue is closer to Edward Norton Fight Club."
23. [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."
24. [The Big Picture · Celebrating ‘Scott Pilgrim vs. the World’ 10 Years Later · 0:17:53 · Sean Fennessey (0.85)] Scott Pilgrim vs. the World ⇒ The Lego Movie (the host's read) · lineage · Same claim: the Lego movie's self-aware tone follows Scott Pilgrim. · "Deadpool, for example, can't happen or like the Lego movie can't happen or into the Spider-Verse."
25. [Blank Check — Patreon · The Killer · 0:48:38 · unknown (host) (0.30)] Andrew Kevin Walker ↔ Fight Club · theme · Walker brought a similar modern-tech angle (name tags) to Fight Club. · "I think he had some of that in fight club too"
26. [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"
27. [The Big Picture · Celebrating ‘Scott Pilgrim vs. the World’ 10 Years Later · 0:33:29 · Van Lathan (0.70)] 1980s bully movies ⇒ Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (the host's read) · lineage · Van loves the Lucas Lee fight because it recalls cheesy 80s bully fights and flips them, Scott winning through wiliness. · "the fights that I love from, uh, bully fights are like from 80s, cheesy 80s movies."

Who said it, by their latest sketch (3)

1. [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
2. [speaker] David Sims · latest sketch, Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · Prepares history: novel, casting, budgets, box office. Reveres the film and thinks it reads as a normal ground-level story. A sucker for Hollywood deal backstory and box office game. · stances: Praises Keitel and Dafoe casting; Respects Scorsese's persistence and Corman discipline; The film is now well regarded though not 'canonical Marty'
3. [speaker] Edgar Wright · latest sketch, The Big Picture · Celebrating ‘Scott Pilgrim vs. the World’ 10 Years Later · Loves Jackie Chan, Shaw Brothers kung fu, music-driven comedy, comics, and the unusual studio film. Revels in craft and in collaborators. Is not a fan of the uniformity of VFX-reel studio movies. · stances: The film could not be made today; One-and-done was deliberate; no sequel urge; Plan the movie, but credit collaborators for beating the plan

The shows' running bits (3)

1. [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)
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)
3. [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

You are a clerk at Video Culture, a video store. A customer just finished The Graduate (1967) 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 Graduate (1967) 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 · As Good as It Gets · 0:36:58 · unknown (0.30)] The Graduate ↔ Say Anything... · theme · Also fits the 'but I like her' genre, and rewatched it reads as stalking. · "Well, the graduate is insane."
[The Big Picture · Celebrating ‘Scott Pilgrim vs. the World’ 10 Years Later · 1:05:31 · Edgar Wright (0.95)] Scott Pilgrim vs. the World ↔ The Graduate · theme · Edgar says Scott and Benjamin Braddock are equally flawed young men, and the poster misleads you into expecting a Luke Skywalker hero. · "I don't think anybody would talk about Scott Pilgrim and the graduate."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Fight Club · 0:55:00 · unknown (0.40)] The Graduate ↔ Fight Club · theme · Reading the dossier, the speaker says Fincher's big comparison for Fight Club was The Graduate: coming of age, but in your 30s. · "His big comparison, which I do think is very interesting, is he's like, this is the graduate, right?"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood’ Live From Sundance · 0:23:39 · Bill Simmons (0.40)] Once Upon a Time in Hollywood ↔ The Graduate · needle-drop reference · Tarantino throws in Mrs. Robinson during the car scene. · "Tarantino throws at Mrs. Robinson."
[Blank Check — Patreon · 2001: A Space Odyssey · 2:19:48 · David Sims (0.30)] The Graduate → Rushmore · Rosetta Stone · People told the speaker The Graduate is the Rosetta Stone of Rushmore. · "That's the Rosetta Stone of this movie."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ · 1:39:58 · unknown (0.40)] Mike Nichols ↔ The Graduate · career · Nichols directed The Graduate; Ebert later said Working Girl belonged to Griffith the way The Graduate did to Hoffman. · "he made the graduate."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ · 2:06:15 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] Roger Ebert ↔ The Graduate · verdict · Ebert: this is Melanie Griffith's movie the way The Graduate belonged to Dustin Hoffman. · "this is Melanie Griffith's movie in the same way the graduate belonged to Dustin Hoffman."
[The Big Picture · ‘The Killer’ Is Cold-Blooded Genius. And Something More · 1:20:30 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60)] The Killer ↔ Fight Club · programming · Both are very funny first-person-narrated films about sociopaths who rationalize brutal violence as a personal mission. · "This movie would make a neat pairing with Fight Club. Two very funny films about sociopaths whose inner monologues rationalize brutal violence as expressions of a personal mission."
[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."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Royal Tenenbaums’ · 0:56:11 · Andy Greenwald (0.50)] Moonrise Kingdom ↔ Rushmore · theme · Rushmore's childlike sex talk vs. Moonrise confronting adolescent sex directly. · "Later, I think in Moonrise Kingdom, he sort of more directly confronts like adolescent sex"
[Blank Check · As Good as It Gets · 0:36:40 · unknown (0.30)] Say Anything... ↔ As Good as It Gets · theme · Say Anything is the top example of a 'but I like her' genre in which a refused man persists until the woman caves, a genre the hosts apply to romcoms like this one. · "Obviously say anything's a huge one."
[The Big Picture · Celebrating ‘Scott Pilgrim vs. the World’ 10 Years Later · 1:20:24 · Edgar Wright (0.95)] Scott Pilgrim vs. the World ↔ Metric · programming · Edgar says Metric and Broken Social Scene were a no-brainer because the film was shot in Toronto. · "metric and broken social scene were both like, still are, like, you know, like really important Canadian bands from Toronto."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Fight Club · 2:08:56 · Alex Ross Perry (0.40)] The Sixth Sense ↔ Fight Club · programming · Two big twist movies, ten weeks apart, with the same fake-person reveal. · "That's the same twist twice, 10 weeks apart."
[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"
[The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 12 - 'The Royal Tenenbaums’ · 0:19:48 · unknown (0.40)] The Royal Tenenbaums ↔ Rushmore · craft · Both films use pop music (Ooh La La; the Van Morrison closer) to announce the theme. · "announcing the theme of the movie via pop music."
[The Big Picture · Celebrating ‘Scott Pilgrim vs. the World’ 10 Years Later · 0:02:46 · Sean Fennessey (0.90)] Scott Pilgrim vs. the World ⇒ Baby Driver (the host's read) · lineage · Sean says Wright's music-synced action staging, perfected in Baby Driver, begins with Scott Pilgrim. · "The perfectly synchronized music to action staging the Wright Perfected and Baby Driver starts with Scott Pilgrim."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Fight Club · 2:43:02 · unknown (0.35)] A Clockwork Orange ↔ Fight Club · programming · Fight Club is called the Clockwork Orange of another generation, an Edge Lord pick. · "This is kind of the clockwork Orange for another generation."
[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."
[The Big Picture · Celebrating ‘Scott Pilgrim vs. the World’ 10 Years Later · 0:03:08 · Sean Fennessey (0.90)] The Matrix ⇒ Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (the host's read) · lineage · Sean breaks the staging down into influences: Bruce Lee, The Matrix, and Phantom of the Paradise. · "It's one part Bruce Lee, one part the Matrix, one part Phantom of the Paradise."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Fight Club · 2:57:12 · Alex Ross Perry (0.45)] Slacker ↔ Fight Club · programming · Klosterman, as read, names Slacker or Fight Club as the decade's most generationally defining film. · "either slacker or fight club, could justifiably be called the decade's most generationally defining."
[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."
[The Big Picture · Celebrating ‘Scott Pilgrim vs. the World’ 10 Years Later · 0:03:08 · Sean Fennessey (0.90)] Phantom of the Paradise ⇒ Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (the host's read) · lineage · Phantom of the Paradise is named as one ingredient of the film's rock-and-spectacle mix. · "It's one part Bruce Lee, one part the Matrix, one part Phantom of the Paradise."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Fight Club · 1:13:14 · unknown (0.40)] Chuck Palahniuk ⇒ Fight Club (the host's read) · lineage · The film adapts Palahniuk's novel; the speaker says the screenplay cribs straight from the book. · "obviously the movie is, the book is very, he's cribbing right from the book."
[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 Big Picture · Celebrating ‘Scott Pilgrim vs. the World’ 10 Years Later · 0:17:53 · Sean Fennessey (0.85)] Scott Pilgrim vs. the World ⇒ Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (the host's read) · lineage · Sean says Deadpool, the Lego movie and Spider-Verse could not happen without this film having broken the fourth wall first. · "Deadpool, for example, can't happen or like the Lego movie can't happen or into the Spider-Verse."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Fight Club · 1:59:38 · unknown (0.40)] Douglas Coupland ⇒ Fight Club (the host's read) · lineage · The speaker says the early car-recall section is right out of Coupland and Gen X writing. · "It's right out of like Douglas Copeland or whatever, right?"
[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 Big Picture · Celebrating ‘Scott Pilgrim vs. the World’ 10 Years Later · 0:17:53 · Sean Fennessey (0.85)] Scott Pilgrim vs. the World ⇒ Deadpool (the host's read) · lineage · Same claim: Deadpool's fourth-wall breaking was made possible by this movie breaking it down. · "Deadpool, for example, can't happen or like the Lego movie can't happen or into the Spider-Verse."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Killer · 0:41:40 · unknown (host) (0.30)] The Killer (graphic novel) ↔ Fight Club · theme · The comic's killer has an inner monologue closer to the Fight Club narrator. · "it's more that like this guy's inner monologue is closer to Edward Norton Fight Club."
[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 Big Picture · Celebrating ‘Scott Pilgrim vs. the World’ 10 Years Later · 0:17:53 · Sean Fennessey (0.85)] Scott Pilgrim vs. the World ⇒ The Lego Movie (the host's read) · lineage · Same claim: the Lego movie's self-aware tone follows Scott Pilgrim. · "Deadpool, for example, can't happen or like the Lego movie can't happen or into the Spider-Verse."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Killer · 0:48:38 · unknown (host) (0.30)] Andrew Kevin Walker ↔ Fight Club · theme · Walker brought a similar modern-tech angle (name tags) to Fight Club. · "I think he had some of that in fight club too"
[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"
[The Big Picture · Celebrating ‘Scott Pilgrim vs. the World’ 10 Years Later · 0:33:29 · Van Lathan (0.70)] 1980s bully movies ⇒ Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (the host's read) · lineage · Van loves the Lucas Lee fight because it recalls cheesy 80s bully fights and flips them, Scott winning through wiliness. · "the fights that I love from, uh, bully fights are like from 80s, cheesy 80s movies."
[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] Edgar Wright · latest sketch, The Big Picture · Celebrating ‘Scott Pilgrim vs. the World’ 10 Years Later · Loves Jackie Chan, Shaw Brothers kung fu, music-driven comedy, comics, and the unusual studio film. Revels in craft and in collaborators. Is not a fan of the uniformity of VFX-reel studio movies. · stances: The film could not be made today; One-and-done was deliberate; no sequel urge; Plan the movie, but credit collaborators for beating the plan
[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 Graduate (1967); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend The Graduate (1967) 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.