What the corpus says about Rocky IV (1985)

The 47 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 (7)

[Blank Check · The Color of Money · 2:53:28 · unknown (0.30)] The Color of Money ↔ Rocky IV · theme · The private Eddie-Vince final game is likened to Rocky versus Apollo Creed in private. · "and gives Vince the money back and is like, you know, let's do, it's like Rocky versus Apollo Creed in private."
[The Rewatchables · ‘F1’ · 0:48:10 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Rocky IV ⇒ F1 (the host's read) · theme · Sonny and Kate's beer scene cuts into an old-school versus new-school training montage like Rocky IV. · "Right into the Rocky 4 training montage"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Miracle’ · 0:10:30 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] Miracle ↔ Rocky IV · theme · The Cold War movies led up to Rocky IV, which Simmons jokes ended the Cold War. · "all the Cold War movies were leading to Rocky 4 and Rocky finally ending the Cold War single-handedly"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Rocky’ · 0:10:39 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Rocky ↔ Rocky IV · contrast · Rocky 3 and 4 are big action movies, crossed with a music video, versus the character study of the first. · "Rocky 3, and those like are big action movies."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Miracle’ · 0:56:05 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Miracle ↔ Rocky IV · venue · The Soviet game was filmed at the same Vancouver arena as the Rocky-Drago fight. · "Which also featured the Rocky Drago fight in 1985 for Rocky 4."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Miracle’ · 0:56:14 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Miracle ↔ Rocky IV · venue · The arena is called the Cold War Mecca and Madison Square of Cold War sports movies. · "It's the Madison Square of Cold War sports movies."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop II’ · 0:36:31 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Brigitte Nielsen ↔ Rocky IV · career · Nielsen rose in Red Sonja and Rocky IV (Ludmilla Drago), then Cobra, then Cop II, which both say is her best part. · "I think this is the best part she's ever had, right?"

Films put beside it more than once (1)

[pairs] Rocky IV ↔ Miracle · said 3 times in 1 episode

Fun items about it (2)

[The Rewatchables · ‘Miracle’ · 0:59:28 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Rocky IV · fun · The Pacific Coliseum hosted the Rocky-Drago fight; Stallone broke his ribs and filming paused for two weeks. · "Stallone broke his ribs in the P in the Agra Done."
[Blank Check — Patreon · March Madness 2021 Recap - Round 2 · 0:51:52 · David Sims (0.40)] Rocky IV · fun · The robot given to Paulie is a favorite character; Paulie keeps trying to find a way to be intimate with it. · "The robot Rocky 4 is one of my favorite characters in the history of cinema"

One hop out: what recommends the films most often joined to it (32)

[The Rewatchables · ‘Miracle’ · 0:24:35 · Bill Simmons (0.55)] Miracle ↔ 30 for 30 on the Miracle game from the Russian side (John Hawk) · programming · Hawk's documentary told the same game from the Russian side. · "He told it from the Russian side, which was an interesting way to do it."
[The Rewatchables · ‘F1’ · 1:01:08 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] F1 ↔ Drive to Survive (series) · programming · Drive to Survive is the 2020s reference point for F1's popularity. · "I'll give you a drive to survive reference."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Rocky’ · 1:44:35 · Van Lathan (0.45)] Rocky ↔ Raging Bull · programming · Another double-feature choice, Raging Bull, picked by one host. · "I go Raging Bull."
[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 · ‘Miracle’ · 0:07:32 · Chris Ryan (0.55)] Miracle ↔ Slap Shot · lineage · Slap Shot and Mystery, Alaska were among the few hockey movies before Miracle, which was a different level. · "It was slapshot was the Alzheimer."
[The Rewatchables · ‘F1’ · 0:05:18 · Van Lathan (0.40)] F1 ↔ Gleaming the Cube · lineage · F1 revives the 80s star-plus-cultural-phenomenon movie like Gleaming the Cube and Over the Top. · "we used to do these movies, gleaming the cube, skateboarding over the top, arm wrestling"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Rocky’ · 1:44:41 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Rocky ↔ Saturday Night Fever · programming · Watching Rocky made Chris Ryan want to watch Saturday Night Fever as a double feature. · "This movie made me want to watch Saturday Night Fever for some reason."
[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 Rewatchables · ‘Miracle’ · 0:07:38 · Chris Ryan (0.55)] Miracle ↔ Mystery, Alaska · lineage · One of the sparse hockey films before Miracle. · "then it's like Mystery Alaska, you know, there just hadn't been that many hockey movies, the Mighty Ducks"
[The Rewatchables · ‘F1’ · 0:10:12 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] F1 ↔ Days of Thunder · lineage · Same kind of 1990 star-driven racing picture, but F1's camera work leaves it behind. · "This movie in 1990 was Days of Thunder, which was a very cool movie that I like a lot that we've done on the rewatchables, but it's night and day"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Rocky’ · 1:44:48 · Bill Simmons (0.45)] Rocky ↔ Rocky II · programming · Best double feature: go right from Rocky into Rocky 2 and skip the Adrian coma stretch. · "I think you have to go right from here into the 2nd one."
[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 Rewatchables · ‘Miracle’ · 1:05:24 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Miracle ↔ Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty · lineage · The Lakers HBO show suggests a Miracle series could work. · "the more like we see, especially like this Lakers HBO show"
[The Rewatchables · ‘F1’ · 0:14:21 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] F1 ↔ Top Gun: Maverick · lineage · Same director and a broadly similar story of an aging star in the cockpit. · "this movie gets compared to Top Gun Maverick a lot, same director"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Rocky’ · 1:50:04 · Bill Simmons (0.40)] Rocky ↔ Warrior · programming · If you did a UFC Rocky, Warrior is by far the best UFC movie so far. · "Warriors by far the best one."
[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 Rewatchables · ‘Miracle’ · 0:22:10 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Miracle ↔ Remember the Titans · theme · Both belong to the one-star-on-the-poster era of sports movies from 97 to 05. · "this is from 97 to basically 05, premise, get one big star."
[The Rewatchables · ‘F1’ · 1:41:07 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] F1 ↔ Grand Prix · lineage · Frankenheimer's 1966 racing picture is the double-feature pick. · "I'm going Grand Prix, the John Frankenheimer movie from 66."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Rocky’ · 0:05:47 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Rocky ⇒ (the modern sports movie) (the host's read) · lineage · Rocky created the sports-movie prototype and the modern underdog. · "created the sports movie prototype, like just period."
[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 Rewatchables · ‘Miracle’ · 0:23:00 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Miracle ↔ Coach Carter · theme · Miracle and Coach Carter are in the one-star-poster run. · "Miracle and Coach Carter."
[The Rewatchables · ‘F1’ · 0:07:16 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] F1 ↔ Chef · theme · Racing movies and Chef's cooking scene both beat watching the real thing. · "I love racing movies because they're basically awesomely edited."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Rocky’ · 0:06:09 · Chris Ryan (0.45)] The Longest Yard ⇒ Rocky (the host's read) · lineage · Longest Yard arguably started the big-event beats, but Rocky is what made the sports-movie recipe stick. · "which I guess you could say longest yard started it, but once Rocky did this."
[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."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Miracle’ · 0:23:33 · Chris Ryan (0.55)] The Blind Side ↔ Miracle · theme · Ryan would put Blindside in the one-star-on-the-poster era. · "I would actually probably put Blindside in that somewhere."
[The Rewatchables · ‘F1’ · 0:07:37 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] F1 ↔ Chef · theme · Cooking is cinematic in Chef the way racing is in F1: movies render the activity better than the real thing. · "I would say cooking movies or another one like that."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Rocky’ · 0:10:16 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Rocky ↔ Mean Streets · lineage · Rocky is essentially Stallone making Mean Streets. · "It's essentially like Stallone making mean streets."
[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."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Miracle’ · 0:43:34 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Miracle ↔ Midnight Run · theme · Craig Patrick is compared to the guy in Midnight Run who says he'll go get the pastries. · "I'm gonna go get some donuts, you know?"
[The Rewatchables · ‘F1’ · 0:08:56 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] F1 ↔ The Color of Money · theme · Color of Money shows billiards as the most exciting cinematic thing; so racing movies work better than racing. · "if you watch Color of Money, you're like, Billiards is the most exciting cinematic thing"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Rocky’ · 0:11:32 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Rocky ⇒ The Karate Kid (the host's read) · lineage · Rocky is eight years before Karate Kid, which is called the 2.0 version of the same underdog story but a completely different movie in every respect. · "We're 8 years away from karate kid, which is the next, the 2.0 version of this movie."
[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."

Who said it, by their latest sketch (3)

[speaker] Bill Simmons · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · Loves the Friday series as a communal, rental-era memory and tells childhood stories about the ads and theaters. Likes casting what-ifs and sports analogies for everything. Skeptical of horror at Christmas and of anything that wastes the premise. · stances: Friday the 13th is not the best entry but the origin story had to be told; Friday 2 is a leap over the original
[speaker] Chris Ryan · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · A franchise and genre scholar who likes Jason, the early sequels, and Manhattan; attention to trivia, tropes and critic reception. Treats slashers as a canon with tiers. · stances: Parts 1, 2, 4 and Manhattan are the good ones; The series finds its legs at 4
[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'

The shows' running bits (2)

[bits] Blank Check: The box office game (Guessing the film's opening weekend and what it was up against); The sung theme ("Blank Check with Griffin and David", sung; the transcriber garbles it)
[bits] The Rewatchables: Apex Mountain (The moment a star peaks; where on the mountain a performance sits); Who Won the Movie (The hosts name the person who came out of the film best off); The Ebert review (Roger Ebert's original review and star rating read aloud. Ebert is cited, never on the show); Casting what-ifs (Who was almost cast, or who should have been); Most rewatchable scene (The scene each host would stop on while flipping channels); Aged best / aged worst (What holds up and what does not); Picking Nits (The little things in a film the hosts love that they don't think totally work: the nits); Double feature (The film each host would pair it with; a programming pick)

The whole prompt

As the model gets it, from app/Ai/Prompts/CorpusAsk.md

You are a clerk at Video Culture, a video store. A customer just finished Rocky IV (1985) 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 Rocky IV (1985) 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 · The Color of Money · 2:53:28 · unknown (0.30)] The Color of Money ↔ Rocky IV · theme · The private Eddie-Vince final game is likened to Rocky versus Apollo Creed in private. · "and gives Vince the money back and is like, you know, let's do, it's like Rocky versus Apollo Creed in private."
[The Rewatchables · ‘F1’ · 0:48:10 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Rocky IV ⇒ F1 (the host's read) · theme · Sonny and Kate's beer scene cuts into an old-school versus new-school training montage like Rocky IV. · "Right into the Rocky 4 training montage"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Miracle’ · 0:10:30 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] Miracle ↔ Rocky IV · theme · The Cold War movies led up to Rocky IV, which Simmons jokes ended the Cold War. · "all the Cold War movies were leading to Rocky 4 and Rocky finally ending the Cold War single-handedly"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Rocky’ · 0:10:39 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Rocky ↔ Rocky IV · contrast · Rocky 3 and 4 are big action movies, crossed with a music video, versus the character study of the first. · "Rocky 3, and those like are big action movies."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Miracle’ · 0:56:05 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Miracle ↔ Rocky IV · venue · The Soviet game was filmed at the same Vancouver arena as the Rocky-Drago fight. · "Which also featured the Rocky Drago fight in 1985 for Rocky 4."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Miracle’ · 0:56:14 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Miracle ↔ Rocky IV · venue · The arena is called the Cold War Mecca and Madison Square of Cold War sports movies. · "It's the Madison Square of Cold War sports movies."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop II’ · 0:36:31 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Brigitte Nielsen ↔ Rocky IV · career · Nielsen rose in Red Sonja and Rocky IV (Ludmilla Drago), then Cobra, then Cop II, which both say is her best part. · "I think this is the best part she's ever had, right?"
[pairs] Rocky IV ↔ Miracle · said 3 times in 1 episode
[The Rewatchables · ‘Miracle’ · 0:59:28 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Rocky IV · fun · The Pacific Coliseum hosted the Rocky-Drago fight; Stallone broke his ribs and filming paused for two weeks. · "Stallone broke his ribs in the P in the Agra Done."
[Blank Check — Patreon · March Madness 2021 Recap - Round 2 · 0:51:52 · David Sims (0.40)] Rocky IV · fun · The robot given to Paulie is a favorite character; Paulie keeps trying to find a way to be intimate with it. · "The robot Rocky 4 is one of my favorite characters in the history of cinema"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Miracle’ · 0:24:35 · Bill Simmons (0.55)] Miracle ↔ 30 for 30 on the Miracle game from the Russian side (John Hawk) · programming · Hawk's documentary told the same game from the Russian side. · "He told it from the Russian side, which was an interesting way to do it."
[The Rewatchables · ‘F1’ · 1:01:08 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] F1 ↔ Drive to Survive (series) · programming · Drive to Survive is the 2020s reference point for F1's popularity. · "I'll give you a drive to survive reference."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Rocky’ · 1:44:35 · Van Lathan (0.45)] Rocky ↔ Raging Bull · programming · Another double-feature choice, Raging Bull, picked by one host. · "I go Raging Bull."
[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 · ‘Miracle’ · 0:07:32 · Chris Ryan (0.55)] Miracle ↔ Slap Shot · lineage · Slap Shot and Mystery, Alaska were among the few hockey movies before Miracle, which was a different level. · "It was slapshot was the Alzheimer."
[The Rewatchables · ‘F1’ · 0:05:18 · Van Lathan (0.40)] F1 ↔ Gleaming the Cube · lineage · F1 revives the 80s star-plus-cultural-phenomenon movie like Gleaming the Cube and Over the Top. · "we used to do these movies, gleaming the cube, skateboarding over the top, arm wrestling"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Rocky’ · 1:44:41 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Rocky ↔ Saturday Night Fever · programming · Watching Rocky made Chris Ryan want to watch Saturday Night Fever as a double feature. · "This movie made me want to watch Saturday Night Fever for some reason."
[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 Rewatchables · ‘Miracle’ · 0:07:38 · Chris Ryan (0.55)] Miracle ↔ Mystery, Alaska · lineage · One of the sparse hockey films before Miracle. · "then it's like Mystery Alaska, you know, there just hadn't been that many hockey movies, the Mighty Ducks"
[The Rewatchables · ‘F1’ · 0:10:12 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] F1 ↔ Days of Thunder · lineage · Same kind of 1990 star-driven racing picture, but F1's camera work leaves it behind. · "This movie in 1990 was Days of Thunder, which was a very cool movie that I like a lot that we've done on the rewatchables, but it's night and day"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Rocky’ · 1:44:48 · Bill Simmons (0.45)] Rocky ↔ Rocky II · programming · Best double feature: go right from Rocky into Rocky 2 and skip the Adrian coma stretch. · "I think you have to go right from here into the 2nd one."
[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 Rewatchables · ‘Miracle’ · 1:05:24 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Miracle ↔ Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty · lineage · The Lakers HBO show suggests a Miracle series could work. · "the more like we see, especially like this Lakers HBO show"
[The Rewatchables · ‘F1’ · 0:14:21 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] F1 ↔ Top Gun: Maverick · lineage · Same director and a broadly similar story of an aging star in the cockpit. · "this movie gets compared to Top Gun Maverick a lot, same director"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Rocky’ · 1:50:04 · Bill Simmons (0.40)] Rocky ↔ Warrior · programming · If you did a UFC Rocky, Warrior is by far the best UFC movie so far. · "Warriors by far the best one."
[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 Rewatchables · ‘Miracle’ · 0:22:10 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Miracle ↔ Remember the Titans · theme · Both belong to the one-star-on-the-poster era of sports movies from 97 to 05. · "this is from 97 to basically 05, premise, get one big star."
[The Rewatchables · ‘F1’ · 1:41:07 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] F1 ↔ Grand Prix · lineage · Frankenheimer's 1966 racing picture is the double-feature pick. · "I'm going Grand Prix, the John Frankenheimer movie from 66."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Rocky’ · 0:05:47 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Rocky ⇒ (the modern sports movie) (the host's read) · lineage · Rocky created the sports-movie prototype and the modern underdog. · "created the sports movie prototype, like just period."
[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 Rewatchables · ‘Miracle’ · 0:23:00 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Miracle ↔ Coach Carter · theme · Miracle and Coach Carter are in the one-star-poster run. · "Miracle and Coach Carter."
[The Rewatchables · ‘F1’ · 0:07:16 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] F1 ↔ Chef · theme · Racing movies and Chef's cooking scene both beat watching the real thing. · "I love racing movies because they're basically awesomely edited."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Rocky’ · 0:06:09 · Chris Ryan (0.45)] The Longest Yard ⇒ Rocky (the host's read) · lineage · Longest Yard arguably started the big-event beats, but Rocky is what made the sports-movie recipe stick. · "which I guess you could say longest yard started it, but once Rocky did this."
[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."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Miracle’ · 0:23:33 · Chris Ryan (0.55)] The Blind Side ↔ Miracle · theme · Ryan would put Blindside in the one-star-on-the-poster era. · "I would actually probably put Blindside in that somewhere."
[The Rewatchables · ‘F1’ · 0:07:37 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] F1 ↔ Chef · theme · Cooking is cinematic in Chef the way racing is in F1: movies render the activity better than the real thing. · "I would say cooking movies or another one like that."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Rocky’ · 0:10:16 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Rocky ↔ Mean Streets · lineage · Rocky is essentially Stallone making Mean Streets. · "It's essentially like Stallone making mean streets."
[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."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Miracle’ · 0:43:34 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Miracle ↔ Midnight Run · theme · Craig Patrick is compared to the guy in Midnight Run who says he'll go get the pastries. · "I'm gonna go get some donuts, you know?"
[The Rewatchables · ‘F1’ · 0:08:56 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] F1 ↔ The Color of Money · theme · Color of Money shows billiards as the most exciting cinematic thing; so racing movies work better than racing. · "if you watch Color of Money, you're like, Billiards is the most exciting cinematic thing"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Rocky’ · 0:11:32 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Rocky ⇒ The Karate Kid (the host's read) · lineage · Rocky is eight years before Karate Kid, which is called the 2.0 version of the same underdog story but a completely different movie in every respect. · "We're 8 years away from karate kid, which is the next, the 2.0 version of this movie."
[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."
[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] Chris Ryan · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · A franchise and genre scholar who likes Jason, the early sequels, and Manhattan; attention to trivia, tropes and critic reception. Treats slashers as a canon with tiers. · stances: Parts 1, 2, 4 and Manhattan are the good ones; The series finds its legs at 4
[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'
[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 Rocky IV (1985); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Rocky IV (1985) 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.