What the corpus says about Species (1995)

The 48 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 (26)

[The Rewatchables · ‘Species’ · 1:28:23 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Species ↔ Mimic · programming · Double-feature pick: Mimic, the killer-cockroach movie from a couple of years later. · "I had mimic, the nearest Sorvino movie that came out a couple years later."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Species’ · 1:28:33 · Craig Horlbeck (0.40)] Species ↔ Amanda and the Alien · programming · Double-feature pick: a 1995 Cinemax-style movie about an alien learning its body and having sex. · "There's a movie called Amanda and the Alien."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Species’ · 1:29:05 · Bill Simmons (0.30)] Species ↔ Under the Skin · programming · Proposed as a double feature, but it is an art film so Van upgrades it. · "Under the skin, as in Scarlett Johansson?"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Species’ · 1:06:59 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Species ↔ The X-Files · lineage · Madsen and Helgenberger could be Mulder and Scully in a Species TV series. · "you could talk me into Madson and Helgenberger being like Mulder and Scully"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Species’ · 1:12:56 · Bill Simmons (0.30)] Alien ⇒ Species (the maker said so) · lineage · Giger thought Species ripped off too many other alien movies, such as the chest-burster. · "He thought the movie ripped off too many other alien movies"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Species’ · 0:11:36 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Species ↔ Congo · theme · Species belongs to a 90s subgenre the speaker calls scientist fiction, alongside Congo, Outbreak, Sneakers, Sphere and Mimic. · "Um, so it's a little bit sci-fi, a little bit adventury, but Congo, outbreak, sneakers, sphere, species, mimic."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Species’ · 0:45:58 · Chris Ryan (0.30)] Species ↔ Borat · theme · Aliens and outsiders watching hotel-room TV to learn the culture is a gimmick that works in Borat, Big and Species. · "Borat, Big, this movie."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Species’ · 1:12:34 · Bill Simmons (0.35)] Species ↔ Alien · craft · H.R. Giger, who designed the creatures in the Alien films, also designed the creature in Species. · "Who designed the creatures in the alien films?"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Species’ · 1:15:50 · Bill Simmons (0.30)] Species ↔ Speed · craft · The mid-90s BMW convertible in Species reminds them of the car in Speed. · "What is homie driving in speed?"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Species’ · 0:12:11 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Species ↔ Event Horizon · contrast · Event Horizon is closer to space horror than Species-style scientist fiction. · "A little bit closer to space horror"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Species’ · 0:21:05 · Chris Ryan (0.30)] Species ↔ Heat · contrast · Heat's De Niro-and-Kilmer third guy is the test for being a cool character-actor type. · "could you beat De Niro and Kilmer's 3rd guy?"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Species’ · 0:29:04 · Bill Simmons (0.30)] Species ↔ Saturday Night Live · contrast · The empath crew reminds the speaker of the SNL Christopher Walken Trivial Psychic sketch. · "It's honestly like that SNL sketch with Christopher Walken, Trivial Psychic."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Species’ · 0:37:09 · Chris Ryan (0.30)] Species ↔ Marked for Death · contrast · The did-this-need-an-intimacy-coordinator category traces to Seagal sex scenes in Marked for Death. · "I think we've done mark for death."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Species’ · 0:41:38 · Bill Simmons (0.30)] Species ↔ F1 · contrast · The empath touching the dirt to find the alien is compared to Sonny Hayes touching the track. · "like Sonny Hayes touching the track."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Species’ · 1:23:36 · Chris Ryan (0.30)] Species ↔ Species II · contrast · Making a Species TV show would have been better than the bad sequels. · "I mean, they made so many bad sequels of this."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Species’ · 0:57:54 · Van Lathan (0.30)] Species ↔ Under Siege · people · The microbiologist's weapons skill is the Erika Eleniak from Under Siege category. · "She had the Erica Leniac it from, from, from under siege"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Species’ · 0:08:56 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Species ↔ Budget · industry · The producers spent most of the $35M budget on the alien and effects and went mid-market on the cast. · "they had $35000000 budget, spent basically all of it on the alien and the effects."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Species’ · 1:31:12 · Craig Horlbeck (0.50)] Species ↔ 1995 vs now · industry · In 1995 a naked horny alien sold tickets; now it takes IMAX, Brad Pitt and F1. · "Now we have IMAX and Brad Pitt and F1 cars and that's how you get people to go."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Species’ · 0:13:48 · Bill Simmons (0.30)] Species ↔ Kung Fu · what-if · An alien alone in a big city could have been a Kung Fu-style TV show. · "that could have been like kung fu."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Species’ · 0:54:55 · Van Lathan (0.30)] Species ↔ White Men Can't Jump · what-if · Sil should have hustled people at the Venice courts like White Men Can't Jump. · "Why can't she stop by the Venice courts and do a white white man can't jump?"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Species’ · 1:01:04 · Chris Ryan (0.30)] Species ↔ Swingers · what-if · Sil could have gone to the Viper Room or the Swingers bar. · "Easily could have gone to the bar and swing, to place in swingers where the old people Marty Elaine play."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Species’ · 1:06:34 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Species ↔ True Blood · what-if · A Species series would need the nudity and camp of True Blood. · "You almost had to think about it like true blood."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Species’ · 1:07:39 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Species ↔ The Sopranos · what-if · As a 1995 HBO one-hour drama, Species would have predated The Sopranos (99) and Oz (97). · "Like Sopranos wasn't until 99."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Species’ · 0:11:48 · unknown (0.30)] Species ↔ Michael Crichton · theme · The subgenre is described as getting a little Crichton in your life. · "Yeah, get a little Crichton in your life."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Species’ · 1:13:15 · Bill Simmons (0.30)] H.R. Giger ↔ Species · craft · Giger designed the creature; he objected to the ending, so the filmmakers used a headshot kill that had not appeared in an alien movie. · "So then he threw his body in front of whatever the ending initially was and they ended up doing the headshot kill instead because that hadn't been in an alien movie."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Species’ · 0:43:54 · Bill Simmons (0.30)] Species ↔ Tony Romo · contrast · Is the Species empath like Tony Romo reading the defense? Predictive versus reactive. · "Is Tony Romo kind of an empath?"

Films put beside it more than once (1)

[pairs] Species ↔ Alien · said 2 times in 1 episode

Fun items about it (6)

[Blank Check · The Color of Money · 2:26:54 · unknown (0.30)] Species · fun · Species has a psychic cop Whitaker, a Species Quattro title that never happened, and novelizations of 1 and 2 by a woman. · "I do want to call out that Species 4 was briefly titled Species Colon Quattro."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Species’ · 0:02:41 · Bill Simmons (0.40)] Species · fun · Meta category: Michael Madsen is the reason this film was picked after his death; Bill wanted Donnie Brasco, but Chris said Species. · "Michael Matson passed away and we had to do a Michael Matson movie."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Species’ · 0:25:02 · Bill Simmons (0.30)] Species · fun · Read before the Ebert review: a $35 million budget and a gross garbled in the transcript as $13.3 million (later someone says it made over $100 million). · "$35000000 budget, man, $13.3 million."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Species’ · 0:27:21 · Bill Simmons (0.30)] Species · fun · Opening: no preamble, Michelle Williams in a cage, B movie that starts right away. Most rewatchable scene pick. · "Michelle Williams in a cage."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Species’ · 0:27:52 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Species · fun · Fitch's exposition: we decided to make it female so it'd be more docile and controllable; Madsen answers you guys don't get out much. · "You guys don't get out much."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Species’ · 0:34:56 · Bill Simmons (0.30)] Species · fun · Palisades guy: the nicest man in the movie, who gets killed 30 seconds after his big swing. · "Was there a bigger swing for a human being in 30 seconds than that guy's night?"

One hop out: what recommends the films most often joined to it (8)

[The Rewatchables · ‘The Texas Chain Saw Massacre’ · 0:51:40 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] The Texas Chain Saw Massacre ⇒ Alien (the host's read) · lineage · Chainsaw is what inspired Ridley Scott to make Alien. · "Texas Chainsaw Basker is what inspired Ridley Scott to make alien."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ · 0:27:04 · Joanna Robinson (0.60)] Sigourney Weaver ↔ Alien · lineage · Both the Working Girl role and the Alien role were originally written for a man. · "the screenwriter said that her role was originally written as a man, which is true for her role in alien as well."
[The Big Picture · The Final Girl Film Canon and ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ · 0:47:57 · Adam Nayman (0.50)] Alien ⇒ Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma (the host's read) · lineage · Ripley stripped to underwear at the end is a vulnerability beat that Miasma echoes. · "Yes, it is echoed in Teenage Tech"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead · 1:29:21 · unknown (0.30)] Eraserhead ⇒ Alien (the host's read) · lineage · The gooey animatronic creature work in Alien and later films may trace back to Eraserhead. · "I mean, the thought that comes to mind is, um, alien."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ · 0:50:21 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Alien ⇒ Aliens (the host's read) · lineage · Cameron's sequel to Ridley Scott's film shifted the genre, which raised expectations for any follow-up. · "some other fucking guy is coming in and making a sequel to Ridley Scott's movie."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 0:16:07 · unknown (0.30)] Danny McBride ↔ Alien · lineage · McBride is also a return to Harry Dean Stanton: someone with the wrong energy for a sci-fi movie. · "McBride's also trying to sort of get back to a Harry Dean Stanton, kind of."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 0:29:38 · unknown (0.30)] Alien: Covenant ↔ Alien · lineage · Each Alien film has a different workforce; the original had blue-collar miners. · "Like that's, you know, blue collar minors."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 2:01:39 · unknown (0.40)] Alien: Covenant ↔ Alien · lineage · David's closing log-talk to the ship echoes Ripley's. · "talking to the ship in the way that Ripley did."

Who said it, by their latest sketch (4)

[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] Craig Horlbeck · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · First-time viewer of the series; expected Jason and was thrown by Mrs. Voorhees. Rates the film a 4 or 5 and singled out the canoe ending as the best scene. Prefers the Chain Saw's intensity. · stances: Rug-pulled by the killer-mom reveal; The ending saves the movie
[speaker] Van Lathan · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · Enjoys the series for its sleaze, hang value and cheesy lines. Roots for Black-cast-free sendups and loves a flex category. Gravitates to Freddy and likes Kevin Bacon. · stances: Friday the 13th is a movie that did not need Black people; Rewards bad-hang awards and flex lists

The shows' running bits (3)

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

The whole prompt

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

You are a clerk at Video Culture, a video store. A customer just finished Species (1995) 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 Species (1995) and the films around it, one line each. Every line starts with where it came from, in brackets: [show · episode · time · speaker (how sure we are it was them)]. A [pairs] line says how often two films were put side by side. A [speaker] line says what that person likes. A [bits] line lists a show's running bits: a format, not an opinion.

[The Rewatchables · ‘Species’ · 1:28:23 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Species ↔ Mimic · programming · Double-feature pick: Mimic, the killer-cockroach movie from a couple of years later. · "I had mimic, the nearest Sorvino movie that came out a couple years later."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Species’ · 1:28:33 · Craig Horlbeck (0.40)] Species ↔ Amanda and the Alien · programming · Double-feature pick: a 1995 Cinemax-style movie about an alien learning its body and having sex. · "There's a movie called Amanda and the Alien."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Species’ · 1:29:05 · Bill Simmons (0.30)] Species ↔ Under the Skin · programming · Proposed as a double feature, but it is an art film so Van upgrades it. · "Under the skin, as in Scarlett Johansson?"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Species’ · 1:06:59 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Species ↔ The X-Files · lineage · Madsen and Helgenberger could be Mulder and Scully in a Species TV series. · "you could talk me into Madson and Helgenberger being like Mulder and Scully"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Species’ · 1:12:56 · Bill Simmons (0.30)] Alien ⇒ Species (the maker said so) · lineage · Giger thought Species ripped off too many other alien movies, such as the chest-burster. · "He thought the movie ripped off too many other alien movies"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Species’ · 0:11:36 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Species ↔ Congo · theme · Species belongs to a 90s subgenre the speaker calls scientist fiction, alongside Congo, Outbreak, Sneakers, Sphere and Mimic. · "Um, so it's a little bit sci-fi, a little bit adventury, but Congo, outbreak, sneakers, sphere, species, mimic."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Species’ · 0:45:58 · Chris Ryan (0.30)] Species ↔ Borat · theme · Aliens and outsiders watching hotel-room TV to learn the culture is a gimmick that works in Borat, Big and Species. · "Borat, Big, this movie."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Species’ · 1:12:34 · Bill Simmons (0.35)] Species ↔ Alien · craft · H.R. Giger, who designed the creatures in the Alien films, also designed the creature in Species. · "Who designed the creatures in the alien films?"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Species’ · 1:15:50 · Bill Simmons (0.30)] Species ↔ Speed · craft · The mid-90s BMW convertible in Species reminds them of the car in Speed. · "What is homie driving in speed?"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Species’ · 0:12:11 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Species ↔ Event Horizon · contrast · Event Horizon is closer to space horror than Species-style scientist fiction. · "A little bit closer to space horror"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Species’ · 0:21:05 · Chris Ryan (0.30)] Species ↔ Heat · contrast · Heat's De Niro-and-Kilmer third guy is the test for being a cool character-actor type. · "could you beat De Niro and Kilmer's 3rd guy?"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Species’ · 0:29:04 · Bill Simmons (0.30)] Species ↔ Saturday Night Live · contrast · The empath crew reminds the speaker of the SNL Christopher Walken Trivial Psychic sketch. · "It's honestly like that SNL sketch with Christopher Walken, Trivial Psychic."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Species’ · 0:37:09 · Chris Ryan (0.30)] Species ↔ Marked for Death · contrast · The did-this-need-an-intimacy-coordinator category traces to Seagal sex scenes in Marked for Death. · "I think we've done mark for death."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Species’ · 0:41:38 · Bill Simmons (0.30)] Species ↔ F1 · contrast · The empath touching the dirt to find the alien is compared to Sonny Hayes touching the track. · "like Sonny Hayes touching the track."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Species’ · 1:23:36 · Chris Ryan (0.30)] Species ↔ Species II · contrast · Making a Species TV show would have been better than the bad sequels. · "I mean, they made so many bad sequels of this."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Species’ · 0:57:54 · Van Lathan (0.30)] Species ↔ Under Siege · people · The microbiologist's weapons skill is the Erika Eleniak from Under Siege category. · "She had the Erica Leniac it from, from, from under siege"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Species’ · 0:08:56 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Species ↔ Budget · industry · The producers spent most of the $35M budget on the alien and effects and went mid-market on the cast. · "they had $35000000 budget, spent basically all of it on the alien and the effects."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Species’ · 1:31:12 · Craig Horlbeck (0.50)] Species ↔ 1995 vs now · industry · In 1995 a naked horny alien sold tickets; now it takes IMAX, Brad Pitt and F1. · "Now we have IMAX and Brad Pitt and F1 cars and that's how you get people to go."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Species’ · 0:13:48 · Bill Simmons (0.30)] Species ↔ Kung Fu · what-if · An alien alone in a big city could have been a Kung Fu-style TV show. · "that could have been like kung fu."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Species’ · 0:54:55 · Van Lathan (0.30)] Species ↔ White Men Can't Jump · what-if · Sil should have hustled people at the Venice courts like White Men Can't Jump. · "Why can't she stop by the Venice courts and do a white white man can't jump?"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Species’ · 1:01:04 · Chris Ryan (0.30)] Species ↔ Swingers · what-if · Sil could have gone to the Viper Room or the Swingers bar. · "Easily could have gone to the bar and swing, to place in swingers where the old people Marty Elaine play."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Species’ · 1:06:34 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Species ↔ True Blood · what-if · A Species series would need the nudity and camp of True Blood. · "You almost had to think about it like true blood."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Species’ · 1:07:39 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Species ↔ The Sopranos · what-if · As a 1995 HBO one-hour drama, Species would have predated The Sopranos (99) and Oz (97). · "Like Sopranos wasn't until 99."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Species’ · 0:11:48 · unknown (0.30)] Species ↔ Michael Crichton · theme · The subgenre is described as getting a little Crichton in your life. · "Yeah, get a little Crichton in your life."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Species’ · 1:13:15 · Bill Simmons (0.30)] H.R. Giger ↔ Species · craft · Giger designed the creature; he objected to the ending, so the filmmakers used a headshot kill that had not appeared in an alien movie. · "So then he threw his body in front of whatever the ending initially was and they ended up doing the headshot kill instead because that hadn't been in an alien movie."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Species’ · 0:43:54 · Bill Simmons (0.30)] Species ↔ Tony Romo · contrast · Is the Species empath like Tony Romo reading the defense? Predictive versus reactive. · "Is Tony Romo kind of an empath?"
[pairs] Species ↔ Alien · said 2 times in 1 episode
[Blank Check · The Color of Money · 2:26:54 · unknown (0.30)] Species · fun · Species has a psychic cop Whitaker, a Species Quattro title that never happened, and novelizations of 1 and 2 by a woman. · "I do want to call out that Species 4 was briefly titled Species Colon Quattro."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Species’ · 0:02:41 · Bill Simmons (0.40)] Species · fun · Meta category: Michael Madsen is the reason this film was picked after his death; Bill wanted Donnie Brasco, but Chris said Species. · "Michael Matson passed away and we had to do a Michael Matson movie."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Species’ · 0:25:02 · Bill Simmons (0.30)] Species · fun · Read before the Ebert review: a $35 million budget and a gross garbled in the transcript as $13.3 million (later someone says it made over $100 million). · "$35000000 budget, man, $13.3 million."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Species’ · 0:27:21 · Bill Simmons (0.30)] Species · fun · Opening: no preamble, Michelle Williams in a cage, B movie that starts right away. Most rewatchable scene pick. · "Michelle Williams in a cage."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Species’ · 0:27:52 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Species · fun · Fitch's exposition: we decided to make it female so it'd be more docile and controllable; Madsen answers you guys don't get out much. · "You guys don't get out much."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Species’ · 0:34:56 · Bill Simmons (0.30)] Species · fun · Palisades guy: the nicest man in the movie, who gets killed 30 seconds after his big swing. · "Was there a bigger swing for a human being in 30 seconds than that guy's night?"
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Texas Chain Saw Massacre’ · 0:51:40 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] The Texas Chain Saw Massacre ⇒ Alien (the host's read) · lineage · Chainsaw is what inspired Ridley Scott to make Alien. · "Texas Chainsaw Basker is what inspired Ridley Scott to make alien."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ · 0:27:04 · Joanna Robinson (0.60)] Sigourney Weaver ↔ Alien · lineage · Both the Working Girl role and the Alien role were originally written for a man. · "the screenwriter said that her role was originally written as a man, which is true for her role in alien as well."
[The Big Picture · The Final Girl Film Canon and ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ · 0:47:57 · Adam Nayman (0.50)] Alien ⇒ Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma (the host's read) · lineage · Ripley stripped to underwear at the end is a vulnerability beat that Miasma echoes. · "Yes, it is echoed in Teenage Tech"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead · 1:29:21 · unknown (0.30)] Eraserhead ⇒ Alien (the host's read) · lineage · The gooey animatronic creature work in Alien and later films may trace back to Eraserhead. · "I mean, the thought that comes to mind is, um, alien."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ · 0:50:21 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Alien ⇒ Aliens (the host's read) · lineage · Cameron's sequel to Ridley Scott's film shifted the genre, which raised expectations for any follow-up. · "some other fucking guy is coming in and making a sequel to Ridley Scott's movie."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 0:16:07 · unknown (0.30)] Danny McBride ↔ Alien · lineage · McBride is also a return to Harry Dean Stanton: someone with the wrong energy for a sci-fi movie. · "McBride's also trying to sort of get back to a Harry Dean Stanton, kind of."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 0:29:38 · unknown (0.30)] Alien: Covenant ↔ Alien · lineage · Each Alien film has a different workforce; the original had blue-collar miners. · "Like that's, you know, blue collar minors."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 2:01:39 · unknown (0.40)] Alien: Covenant ↔ Alien · lineage · David's closing log-talk to the ship echoes Ripley's. · "talking to the ship in the way that Ripley did."
[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] Craig Horlbeck · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · First-time viewer of the series; expected Jason and was thrown by Mrs. Voorhees. Rates the film a 4 or 5 and singled out the canoe ending as the best scene. Prefers the Chain Saw's intensity. · stances: Rug-pulled by the killer-mom reveal; The ending saves the movie
[speaker] Van Lathan · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · Enjoys the series for its sleaze, hang value and cheesy lines. Roots for Black-cast-free sendups and loves a flex category. Gravitates to Freddy and likes Kevin Bacon. · stances: Friday the 13th is a movie that did not need Black people; Rewards bad-hang awards and flex lists
[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 Species (1995); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Species (1995) 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.