What the corpus says about Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003)

What was said about it (26)

1. [Blank Check · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World · 0:40:33 · David Sims (0.60)] Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World ↔ Hornblower (TV films) · programming · Britons grew up on Hornblower in the 90s; it is the near-only other Napoleonic naval storytelling, and Griffin's friend was steered to it as a substitute. · "I want to watch like a master and commander thing, but not master and commander because I've seen enough master and commander."
2. [Blank Check · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World · 0:16:54 · David Sims (0.50)] Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World ↔ The Truman Show · theme · Asked how the studio sold a Weir boat movie, the hosts note the poster could not say 'from the director of The Truman Show' but both films have sailing scenes. · "They do both have sailing scenes."
3. [Blank Check · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World · 0:41:35 · unknown (0.40)] Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World ↔ Waterloo · theme · Napoleonic-era films from the 40s to 60s were mostly about land war, like Waterloo, so naval ones are scarce. · "I think most of the Napoleonic stuff back then, it's more the land."
4. [Blank Check · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World · 2:10:24 · unknown (0.45)] Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World ↔ Star Trek (franchise, generally) · theme · The 'are you being too prideful?' friend who can challenge the captain is a Star Trek trope; Maturin/Aubrey is different from Kirk and Bones because they are a marriage. · "any fucking Star Trek has that too, of like, there's the one guy who can say like, captain."
5. [Blank Check · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World · 2:11:27 · David Sims (0.50)] Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World ↔ Star Trek (franchise, generally) · theme · The San Francisco Chronicle's negative review said the leads' interaction was reminiscent of the Star Trek characters in later sequels, meant as a criticism of preening cutesiness. · "Their interaction takes on a preening quality, reminiscent of the interaction of the Star Trek characters 4 or 5 movies down the line."
6. [Blank Check · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World · 2:24:13 · John Hodgman (0.90)] Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World ↔ Moby-Dick · theme · Hodgman, mid-read of Moby-Dick, says the Pequod crew, like this crew, are so far from civilization that land taboos break and ships become their own societies. · "how the crew of the Pequod, which is a much smaller crew because they don't have gunners on it. a whaling boat."
7. [Blank Check · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World · 2:26:59 · unknown (0.40)] Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World ↔ Cabin Boy · theme · The film's 12-year-old midshipmen and literal ship boys recall Cabin Boy, whose joke is an adult man doing a cabin boy's job. · "that's the joke of cabin boy, much like get a life is like, what if an adult man was doing this thing?"
8. [Blank Check · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World · 0:17:19 · unknown (0.40)] Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World ↔ Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl · contrast · Pirates features supernatural curses and Jack Sparrow's rum budget, whereas this film is about the actual daily life and ecosystem of a ship. · "There are so many other boat movies. And I feel like there are so few that are about like the ecosystem of life on the boat"
9. [Blank Check · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World · 1:35:10 · unknown (0.40)] Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World ↔ The Perfect Storm · contrast · Weir did not want the storm to look like The Perfect Storm's CGI waves, preferring miniatures; an effects supervisor says none of the ocean in the storm is CG. · "Peter Weir did not want the film to look like the perfect storm."
10. [Blank Check · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World · 1:57:48 · John Hodgman (0.60)] Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World ↔ Das Boot · contrast · Hodgman says the film uniquely captures the vastness of the ocean, unlike space or sea movies where you keep running into other ships or aliens. · "unlike any other ship movie that I've ever seen, whether that is a sailing ship or a motor ship or a spaceship or friendship."
11. [Blank Check · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World · 2:08:14 · Griffin Newman (0.60)] Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World ↔ Steve Martin's medieval barber SNL sketch · contrast · Griffin kept thinking of the SNL sketch where a medieval barber-doctor amputates for everything, yet Bettany's surgeon scenes convey a truly good doctor within limited technology. · "the Steve Martin medieval barber SNL sketch?"
12. [Blank Check · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World · 2:10:36 · unknown (0.45)] Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World ↔ Star Trek (franchise, generally) · contrast · The Aubrey-Maturin bond is more intimate than the Kirk-McCoy friendship. · "But there's a relationship between Maturin and Aubrey that is different from Kirk and Bones."
13. [Blank Check · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World · 2:56:04 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World ↔ Gallipoli · contrast · Asked how its depiction of war compares to Gallipoli, they say Gallipoli is about doomed innocence in a pointless WWI battle while this film is romantic about naval empire. · "I don't find that with master and commander at all. No, not at all."
14. [Blank Check · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World · 1:03:06 · unknown (0.50)] Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World ↔ Happy Feet · people · Co-screenwriter John Collee also wrote Happy Feet and Paper Mask and had written for BBC's Star Cops. · "Happy feet."
15. [Blank Check · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World · 1:11:12 · David Sims (0.50)] Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World ↔ A Beautiful Mind · people · Akiva Goldsman, fresh off writing A Beautiful Mind, was brought in to beef up the Aubrey-Maturin relationship; Crowe was also on A Beautiful Mind. · "So Akiva Goldsman, who, of course, had just written Beautiful Mind. What an Oscar does some rewrites"
16. [Blank Check · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World · 1:29:29 · unknown (0.40)] Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World ↔ The Year of Living Dangerously · people · Russell Boyd's Weir work (dense air in Year of Living Dangerously, making Hanging Rock with no money) explains why he wanted the challenge of this film. · "any movie that can make the air feel dense."
17. [Blank Check · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World · 1:57:19 · David Sims (0.50)] Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World ↔ Harry Potter (the first film's director search) · people · In 2000 Weir was one of several directors pitching to direct Harry Potter; he lost, and then got attached to Master and Commander for Fox. · "Peter Weir, Wolfgang Peterson. Rob Reiner, Jonathan Demi, the great bad Brad Silverling, director of your favorite Casper, participate in a creative bake off"
18. [Blank Check · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World · 0:05:48 · David Sims (0.60)] Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World ↔ Jerry Maguire · verdict · David lists Master and Commander among favorites seen many times, like Jerry Maguire (40 times), versus Late Spring, which he rates among the greatest but has seen 2-3 times. · "It's sort of like Jerry Maguire, I've seen 40 times. Master and commander have seen it many, many, many, many."
19. [Blank Check · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World · 0:45:26 · David Sims (0.80)] Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World ↔ Elephant · verdict · David's favorite movies at 17 in 2003 included Elephant and All the Real Girls, alongside Lord of the Rings, X2, 28 Days Later and Kill Bill; Master and Commander was liked but grew over time. · "My favorite movies of that year were elephant, which was a big movie for me then."
20. [Blank Check · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World · 0:18:34 · David Sims (0.60)] Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World ↔ Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl · industry · Pirates came out the same year with stuffy British naval officers while this film shows a real shipboard ecosystem; they argue Pirates' success hurt this movie. · "Pirates of Caribbean did kind of fuck this movie, right?"
21. [Blank Check · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World · 0:19:22 · unknown (0.40)] Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World ↔ Robin Hood · industry · Robin Hood is the last time seven years later that Crowe could have stayed in the same breeches for sequels; Robin Hood and Noah also drew dads. · "Well, we always point to Robin Hood as the last 7 years later."
22. [Blank Check · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World · 0:26:41 · David Sims (0.50)] Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World ↔ Greyhound · industry · Greyhound, a naval Tom Hanks movie meant for theaters, went to Apple TV because of COVID, showing the dad audience now lives on streaming, unlike when this film got a major-studio release. · "the number one movie in the history of Apple Plus is Tom Hanks's Greyhound, which was meant to be a theatrical movie."
23. [Blank Check · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World · 0:49:45 · unknown (0.40)] Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World ↔ Tim Robbins / Mystic River · industry · Bettany's Supporting Actor nomination competed against Tim Robbins (Mystic River), Alec Baldwin (The Cooler), Benicio del Toro (21 Grams), and Djimon Hounsou (In America); Robbins was inevitable. · "The Oscar nominees that year for sporting actor were Tim Robbins for Mr. Quiver who wins."
24. [Blank Check · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World · 1:37:49 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World ↔ Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl · industry · Fox pushed release to November for effects time, and Pirates in July ate its lunch; the studio worried about a 'boat curse' that Pirates' wild success seemed to lift. · "Pirates of the Caribbean overperformed so wildly, then made people go like, oh, the boat curses gone."
25. [Blank Check · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World · 1:46:21 · unknown (0.50)] Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World ↔ The Lord of the Rings (trilogy; Return of the King) · industry · The film's 10 nominations lost in most categories to the Return of the King sweep, winning only cinematography and sound where LOTR was not nominated. · "Unfortunately, this is the same year as Lord of the Rings, Return of the King."
26. [Blank Check · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World · 3:01:42 · unknown (0.50)] Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World ↔ Elf · industry · Opening weekend, Elf (26 million) edged this film (25 million) for number one; expectations for Elf were low and it kept holding. · "Elf is number one at the box office with 26 mil, mastering around right behind it at 25 mil."

Films put beside it more than once (4)

1. [pairs] Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World ↔ Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl · said 4 times in 1 episode
2. [pairs] Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World ↔ Gallipoli · said 3 times in 1 episode
3. [pairs] Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World ↔ Star Trek (franchise, generally) · said 3 times in 1 episode
4. [pairs] Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World ↔ Green Card · said 2 times in 1 episode

Fun items about it (6)

1. [Blank Check · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World · 0:01:45 · David Sims (0.80)] Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World · fun · David states it is one of his ten favorites and Griffin says he texted it was the best movie ever made; David jokes he should have put it on his Sight and Sound ballot. · "I think I should just, like, next time I do sight and sound, stop being like, moo, I love, you know, some important movie, so just fucking put this on there."
2. [Blank Check · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World · 0:06:12 · David Sims (0.80)] Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World · fun · David puts it on to calm his blood pressure, as a Pitt-style doctor would prescribe; his wife noticed it settles his mood. · "Dr. Robbie would be like, get mastering commander in the DVD right now."
3. [Blank Check · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World · 0:33:58 · Griffin Newman (0.80)] Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World · fun · Griffin saw it at 14 in theaters with his oldest friend, was bored, and only later was converted; Derek has now seen it 20 times. · "The movie starts, and like 3 minutes in, I was like, oh, right, I don't like this kind of movie."
4. [Blank Check · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World · 0:38:37 · David Sims (0.80)] Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World · fun · David saw it at 17 at the Odeon Leicester Square, then on a disastrous date; he bought the DVD right away. · "I saw it at the Odeon Leicester Square with Howard Amos."
5. [Blank Check · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World · 1:36:25 · unknown (0.50)] Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World · fun · Studio panic in post: no villain, no romance, no women except a Brazilian lady with an umbrella for five seconds, who even made the trailer. · "He's like, well, Brazilian lady has an umbrella for 5 seconds."
6. [Blank Check · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World · 2:58:56 · unknown (0.50)] Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World · fun · The episode ends with the hosts and Hodgman singing the Don't Forget Your Old Shipmate shanty from a printout Ben prepared. · "Safe and sound at home again."

One hop out: what recommends the films most often joined to it (3)

1. [Blank Check · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World · 0:18:21 · David Sims (0.40)] Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl ↔ Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope · theme · The British naval officers in Pirates are stuffy prigs, likened to Star Wars imperials. · "They're Star Wars imperial."
2. [Blank Check · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World · 2:47:55 · unknown (0.35)] Green Card ↔ Dog Day Afternoon · craft · Opening mood montages of the city (hail a cab, etc.) were once common in movies, like Dog Day Afternoon. · "I mean, it's a dog day."
3. [Blank Check · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World · 1:19:01 · unknown (0.40)] Paul Bettany ↔ A Beautiful Mind · programming · Bettany and Crowe were already paired in A Beautiful Mind; Weir was initially resistant to casting Bettany because the combo might be too obvious. · "Where is initially resistant to betany because of the beautiful mind thing?"

Who said it, by their latest sketch (3)

1. [speaker] David Sims · latest sketch, Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · Prepares history: novel, casting, budgets, box office. Reveres the film and thinks it reads as a normal ground-level story. A sucker for Hollywood deal backstory and box office game. · stances: Praises Keitel and Dafoe casting; Respects Scorsese's persistence and Corman discipline; The film is now well regarded though not 'canonical Marty'
2. [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
3. [speaker] John Hodgman · latest sketch, Blank Check · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World · A boat man and old-fashioned nerd who loves wooden schooners, nautical procedure and Moby-Dick; he adores Patrick O'Brian and the film's authenticity but admits he is not a book expert. He is a sucker for sailing terminology and for explaining knots and anchors. · stances: The film gets sailing powerlessness and control right; Sleeping on a boat with no motor noise is creepy; Loves the sound design and rope work; Offers boating facts relentlessly

The shows' running bits (1)

1. [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)

The whole prompt

You are a clerk at Video Culture, a video store. A customer just finished Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003) 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 Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003) 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 · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World · 0:40:33 · David Sims (0.60)] Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World ↔ Hornblower (TV films) · programming · Britons grew up on Hornblower in the 90s; it is the near-only other Napoleonic naval storytelling, and Griffin's friend was steered to it as a substitute. · "I want to watch like a master and commander thing, but not master and commander because I've seen enough master and commander."
[Blank Check · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World · 0:16:54 · David Sims (0.50)] Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World ↔ The Truman Show · theme · Asked how the studio sold a Weir boat movie, the hosts note the poster could not say 'from the director of The Truman Show' but both films have sailing scenes. · "They do both have sailing scenes."
[Blank Check · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World · 0:41:35 · unknown (0.40)] Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World ↔ Waterloo · theme · Napoleonic-era films from the 40s to 60s were mostly about land war, like Waterloo, so naval ones are scarce. · "I think most of the Napoleonic stuff back then, it's more the land."
[Blank Check · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World · 2:10:24 · unknown (0.45)] Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World ↔ Star Trek (franchise, generally) · theme · The 'are you being too prideful?' friend who can challenge the captain is a Star Trek trope; Maturin/Aubrey is different from Kirk and Bones because they are a marriage. · "any fucking Star Trek has that too, of like, there's the one guy who can say like, captain."
[Blank Check · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World · 2:11:27 · David Sims (0.50)] Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World ↔ Star Trek (franchise, generally) · theme · The San Francisco Chronicle's negative review said the leads' interaction was reminiscent of the Star Trek characters in later sequels, meant as a criticism of preening cutesiness. · "Their interaction takes on a preening quality, reminiscent of the interaction of the Star Trek characters 4 or 5 movies down the line."
[Blank Check · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World · 2:24:13 · John Hodgman (0.90)] Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World ↔ Moby-Dick · theme · Hodgman, mid-read of Moby-Dick, says the Pequod crew, like this crew, are so far from civilization that land taboos break and ships become their own societies. · "how the crew of the Pequod, which is a much smaller crew because they don't have gunners on it. a whaling boat."
[Blank Check · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World · 2:26:59 · unknown (0.40)] Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World ↔ Cabin Boy · theme · The film's 12-year-old midshipmen and literal ship boys recall Cabin Boy, whose joke is an adult man doing a cabin boy's job. · "that's the joke of cabin boy, much like get a life is like, what if an adult man was doing this thing?"
[Blank Check · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World · 0:17:19 · unknown (0.40)] Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World ↔ Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl · contrast · Pirates features supernatural curses and Jack Sparrow's rum budget, whereas this film is about the actual daily life and ecosystem of a ship. · "There are so many other boat movies. And I feel like there are so few that are about like the ecosystem of life on the boat"
[Blank Check · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World · 1:35:10 · unknown (0.40)] Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World ↔ The Perfect Storm · contrast · Weir did not want the storm to look like The Perfect Storm's CGI waves, preferring miniatures; an effects supervisor says none of the ocean in the storm is CG. · "Peter Weir did not want the film to look like the perfect storm."
[Blank Check · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World · 1:57:48 · John Hodgman (0.60)] Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World ↔ Das Boot · contrast · Hodgman says the film uniquely captures the vastness of the ocean, unlike space or sea movies where you keep running into other ships or aliens. · "unlike any other ship movie that I've ever seen, whether that is a sailing ship or a motor ship or a spaceship or friendship."
[Blank Check · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World · 2:08:14 · Griffin Newman (0.60)] Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World ↔ Steve Martin's medieval barber SNL sketch · contrast · Griffin kept thinking of the SNL sketch where a medieval barber-doctor amputates for everything, yet Bettany's surgeon scenes convey a truly good doctor within limited technology. · "the Steve Martin medieval barber SNL sketch?"
[Blank Check · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World · 2:10:36 · unknown (0.45)] Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World ↔ Star Trek (franchise, generally) · contrast · The Aubrey-Maturin bond is more intimate than the Kirk-McCoy friendship. · "But there's a relationship between Maturin and Aubrey that is different from Kirk and Bones."
[Blank Check · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World · 2:56:04 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World ↔ Gallipoli · contrast · Asked how its depiction of war compares to Gallipoli, they say Gallipoli is about doomed innocence in a pointless WWI battle while this film is romantic about naval empire. · "I don't find that with master and commander at all. No, not at all."
[Blank Check · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World · 1:03:06 · unknown (0.50)] Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World ↔ Happy Feet · people · Co-screenwriter John Collee also wrote Happy Feet and Paper Mask and had written for BBC's Star Cops. · "Happy feet."
[Blank Check · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World · 1:11:12 · David Sims (0.50)] Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World ↔ A Beautiful Mind · people · Akiva Goldsman, fresh off writing A Beautiful Mind, was brought in to beef up the Aubrey-Maturin relationship; Crowe was also on A Beautiful Mind. · "So Akiva Goldsman, who, of course, had just written Beautiful Mind. What an Oscar does some rewrites"
[Blank Check · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World · 1:29:29 · unknown (0.40)] Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World ↔ The Year of Living Dangerously · people · Russell Boyd's Weir work (dense air in Year of Living Dangerously, making Hanging Rock with no money) explains why he wanted the challenge of this film. · "any movie that can make the air feel dense."
[Blank Check · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World · 1:57:19 · David Sims (0.50)] Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World ↔ Harry Potter (the first film's director search) · people · In 2000 Weir was one of several directors pitching to direct Harry Potter; he lost, and then got attached to Master and Commander for Fox. · "Peter Weir, Wolfgang Peterson. Rob Reiner, Jonathan Demi, the great bad Brad Silverling, director of your favorite Casper, participate in a creative bake off"
[Blank Check · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World · 0:05:48 · David Sims (0.60)] Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World ↔ Jerry Maguire · verdict · David lists Master and Commander among favorites seen many times, like Jerry Maguire (40 times), versus Late Spring, which he rates among the greatest but has seen 2-3 times. · "It's sort of like Jerry Maguire, I've seen 40 times. Master and commander have seen it many, many, many, many."
[Blank Check · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World · 0:45:26 · David Sims (0.80)] Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World ↔ Elephant · verdict · David's favorite movies at 17 in 2003 included Elephant and All the Real Girls, alongside Lord of the Rings, X2, 28 Days Later and Kill Bill; Master and Commander was liked but grew over time. · "My favorite movies of that year were elephant, which was a big movie for me then."
[Blank Check · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World · 0:18:34 · David Sims (0.60)] Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World ↔ Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl · industry · Pirates came out the same year with stuffy British naval officers while this film shows a real shipboard ecosystem; they argue Pirates' success hurt this movie. · "Pirates of Caribbean did kind of fuck this movie, right?"
[Blank Check · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World · 0:19:22 · unknown (0.40)] Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World ↔ Robin Hood · industry · Robin Hood is the last time seven years later that Crowe could have stayed in the same breeches for sequels; Robin Hood and Noah also drew dads. · "Well, we always point to Robin Hood as the last 7 years later."
[Blank Check · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World · 0:26:41 · David Sims (0.50)] Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World ↔ Greyhound · industry · Greyhound, a naval Tom Hanks movie meant for theaters, went to Apple TV because of COVID, showing the dad audience now lives on streaming, unlike when this film got a major-studio release. · "the number one movie in the history of Apple Plus is Tom Hanks's Greyhound, which was meant to be a theatrical movie."
[Blank Check · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World · 0:49:45 · unknown (0.40)] Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World ↔ Tim Robbins / Mystic River · industry · Bettany's Supporting Actor nomination competed against Tim Robbins (Mystic River), Alec Baldwin (The Cooler), Benicio del Toro (21 Grams), and Djimon Hounsou (In America); Robbins was inevitable. · "The Oscar nominees that year for sporting actor were Tim Robbins for Mr. Quiver who wins."
[Blank Check · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World · 1:37:49 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World ↔ Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl · industry · Fox pushed release to November for effects time, and Pirates in July ate its lunch; the studio worried about a 'boat curse' that Pirates' wild success seemed to lift. · "Pirates of the Caribbean overperformed so wildly, then made people go like, oh, the boat curses gone."
[Blank Check · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World · 1:46:21 · unknown (0.50)] Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World ↔ The Lord of the Rings (trilogy; Return of the King) · industry · The film's 10 nominations lost in most categories to the Return of the King sweep, winning only cinematography and sound where LOTR was not nominated. · "Unfortunately, this is the same year as Lord of the Rings, Return of the King."
[Blank Check · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World · 3:01:42 · unknown (0.50)] Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World ↔ Elf · industry · Opening weekend, Elf (26 million) edged this film (25 million) for number one; expectations for Elf were low and it kept holding. · "Elf is number one at the box office with 26 mil, mastering around right behind it at 25 mil."
[pairs] Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World ↔ Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl · said 4 times in 1 episode
[pairs] Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World ↔ Gallipoli · said 3 times in 1 episode
[pairs] Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World ↔ Star Trek (franchise, generally) · said 3 times in 1 episode
[pairs] Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World ↔ Green Card · said 2 times in 1 episode
[Blank Check · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World · 0:01:45 · David Sims (0.80)] Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World · fun · David states it is one of his ten favorites and Griffin says he texted it was the best movie ever made; David jokes he should have put it on his Sight and Sound ballot. · "I think I should just, like, next time I do sight and sound, stop being like, moo, I love, you know, some important movie, so just fucking put this on there."
[Blank Check · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World · 0:06:12 · David Sims (0.80)] Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World · fun · David puts it on to calm his blood pressure, as a Pitt-style doctor would prescribe; his wife noticed it settles his mood. · "Dr. Robbie would be like, get mastering commander in the DVD right now."
[Blank Check · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World · 0:33:58 · Griffin Newman (0.80)] Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World · fun · Griffin saw it at 14 in theaters with his oldest friend, was bored, and only later was converted; Derek has now seen it 20 times. · "The movie starts, and like 3 minutes in, I was like, oh, right, I don't like this kind of movie."
[Blank Check · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World · 0:38:37 · David Sims (0.80)] Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World · fun · David saw it at 17 at the Odeon Leicester Square, then on a disastrous date; he bought the DVD right away. · "I saw it at the Odeon Leicester Square with Howard Amos."
[Blank Check · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World · 1:36:25 · unknown (0.50)] Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World · fun · Studio panic in post: no villain, no romance, no women except a Brazilian lady with an umbrella for five seconds, who even made the trailer. · "He's like, well, Brazilian lady has an umbrella for 5 seconds."
[Blank Check · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World · 2:58:56 · unknown (0.50)] Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World · fun · The episode ends with the hosts and Hodgman singing the Don't Forget Your Old Shipmate shanty from a printout Ben prepared. · "Safe and sound at home again."
[Blank Check · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World · 0:18:21 · David Sims (0.40)] Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl ↔ Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope · theme · The British naval officers in Pirates are stuffy prigs, likened to Star Wars imperials. · "They're Star Wars imperial."
[Blank Check · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World · 2:47:55 · unknown (0.35)] Green Card ↔ Dog Day Afternoon · craft · Opening mood montages of the city (hail a cab, etc.) were once common in movies, like Dog Day Afternoon. · "I mean, it's a dog day."
[Blank Check · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World · 1:19:01 · unknown (0.40)] Paul Bettany ↔ A Beautiful Mind · programming · Bettany and Crowe were already paired in A Beautiful Mind; Weir was initially resistant to casting Bettany because the combo might be too obvious. · "Where is initially resistant to betany because of the beautiful mind thing?"
[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] 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] John Hodgman · latest sketch, Blank Check · Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World · A boat man and old-fashioned nerd who loves wooden schooners, nautical procedure and Moby-Dick; he adores Patrick O'Brian and the film's authenticity but admits he is not a book expert. He is a sucker for sailing terminology and for explaining knots and anchors. · stances: The film gets sailing powerlessness and control right; Sleeping on a boat with no motor noise is creepy; Loves the sound design and rope work; Offers boating facts relentlessly
[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)

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 Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003) 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.