What the corpus says about Marriage Story (2019)

The 42 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 (13)

[Blank Check — Patreon · Return of the Jedi · 2:05:46 · unknown (0.30)] Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi ↔ Marriage Story · theme · Blowing up the Death Star is a pleasure so rare in cinema that Marriage Story could have ended with it. · "Most movies, like marriage story could have ended with it blowing."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The War of the Roses’ · 0:03:35 · Mallory Rubin (0.45)] Marriage Story ↔ The War of the Roses · contrast · Marriage Story is a divorce film that makes you weep; Roses is the kind that sets up rage and bitterness. · "They're the divorce films that give the emotional response."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The War of the Roses’ · 0:03:38 · Mallory Rubin (0.45)] The War of the Roses ↔ Marriage Story · contrast · The speakers split divorce films into emotional-response ones and ones built on rage and bitterness. · "And then the films that just set up rage and bitterness."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The War of the Roses’ · 0:04:06 · unknown (0.30)] Heartburn ↔ Marriage Story · contrast · Heartburn is left off a divorce top four because it is about infidelity and the split comes late. · "It happens pretty quickly at the end that she leaves him."
[The Big Picture · The Snubs and Surprises of the 92nd Academy Award Nominations | The Oscars Show · 0:12:18 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Marriage Story ↔ 1917 · contrast · Showy, aggressive filmmaking cleaned up while Marriage Story, a chamber piece, did not. · "And marriage story is a chamber piece in a lot of ways."
[The Big Picture · ‘The Killer’ Is Cold-Blooded Genius. And Something More · 0:59:26 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50)] The Killer ↔ Marriage Story · career · Baumbach used Netflix to elevate his status, whereas Fincher and Scorsese use it to brand-manage their legacies. · "he's somebody who used the system to elevate his status in some way, whereas Fincher and Scorsese in a handful of these other people are almost like facilitating and kind of brand managing their legacies"
[The Big Picture · The Snubs and Surprises of the 92nd Academy Award Nominations | The Oscars Show · 0:12:28 · Sean Fennessey (0.55)] Marriage Story ↔ Little Women · career · Baumbach and Gerwig both got Best Picture and screenplay nominations but neither got Best Director, which the speaker finds fitting for a couple. · "Both of them were nominated for Best Picture, and both of them were nominated for screenplay in different categories."
[The Big Picture · Emergency Mailbag: The Oscars Are Streaming and Hollywood Is Fighting Over Trolls | The Big Picture · 1:00:49 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] The Irishman ↔ Marriage Story · industry · Irishman, Marriage Story and Roma were positioned as theatrical releases, which got voters to buy in. · "The Irishman and Marriage Story and Roma as well were positioned as theatrical releases."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Fifth Annual Blank Check Awards · 1:18:56 · Joe Reid (0.40)] Randy Newman ↔ Marriage Story · craft · Joe likes Newman's dueling scores in Marriage Story. · "And I liked the Duelan scores in marriage story."
[The Big Picture · The Snubs and Surprises of the 92nd Academy Award Nominations | The Oscars Show · 0:18:48 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Scarlett Johansson ↔ Marriage Story · career · Johansson became a two-category nominee in one year; both performances are quite good. · "I think her performances in both of these movies is quite good"
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Fifth Annual Blank Check Awards · 0:25:06 · David Sims (0.40)] Laura Dern ↔ Marriage Story · verdict · Dern is on Joe's ballot but none of the three would pick her to win; she's the Oscar frontrunner as a career-recognition win. · "But none of us would pick her to win."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Fifth Annual Blank Check Awards · 0:58:10 · unknown (0.35)] Adam Driver ↔ Marriage Story · verdict · Driver's performance tilts audience sympathy to him; Johansson good but not on his level. · "I think she's good, but she's not on his level."
[The Big Picture · Our Alternative Academy Awards | The Oscars Show · 1:01:00 · Wesley Morris (0.40)] Marriage Story ↔ Laura Dern · industry · Dern's win is really the Oscar the screenplay wants, delivered through the flashiest speech in the movie. · "they're giving an Oscar to the screenplay, but they want to give the screenplay Oscar to someone else, so they're just giving it to Laura Dern"

Films put beside it more than once (1)

[pairs] Marriage Story ↔ The War of the Roses · said 2 times in 1 episode

One hop out: what recommends the films most often joined to it (20)

[The Rewatchables · ‘The War of the Roses’ · 1:32:05 · Mallory Rubin (0.45)] The War of the Roses ↔ Body Heat · programming · Triple-feature pitch: Roses with Body Heat and Fatal Attraction. · "I do think we should be pairing this with both body heat and fatal attraction."
[The Big Picture · The Tom Cruise Hall of Fame · 1:40:22 · unclear (one of the hosts) (0.30)] 1917 ↔ Roger Deakins · craft · A host likens the question of cutting Top Gun to a past Big Picture episode, a podcast celebrating Roger Deakins's cinematography on 1917, that asked whether to cut 1917. · "should we cut 1917 from a Roger Deacons podcast celebrating his work on 1917"
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Fifth Annual Blank Check Awards · 0:45:56 · unknown (0.45)] Little Women ↔ Little Women · craft · Adapted-screenplay winner: the best argument for the art of adaptation. · "Little women is just like, it's, it's, uh, the best argument for the art of adaptation."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Return of the Jedi · 0:29:55 · unknown (0.30)] Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi ↔ The Mandalorian · programming · After The Mandalorian the speaker wants new characters, not known ones, as a model for future Star Wars. · "after Mandalorian, I'm like, don't give me characters we already know."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The War of the Roses’ · 1:32:10 · Mallory Rubin (0.45)] The War of the Roses ↔ Fatal Attraction · programming · Pair an erotic-thriller double with Roses for a full day of 80s marriage trouble. · "I think that should be like we get an erotic thriller with both of them and then we watch this"
[The Big Picture · The Snubs and Surprises of the 92nd Academy Award Nominations | The Oscars Show · 0:53:35 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] Roger Deakins ↔ 1917 · craft · Next episode covers 1917 and the life's work of Roger Deakins. · "we'll also be talking about the life's work of one great man named Roger Deacons."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Fifth Annual Blank Check Awards · 1:18:44 · Joe Reid (0.40)] Little Women ↔ Little Women · craft · Joe praises De Plot's work as very locked in for Little Women. · "I do think De Plot was very locked in for little women."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Return of the Jedi · 2:22:02 · unknown (0.30)] Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi ↔ Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens · programming · The next Patreon commentary is Force Awakens, ten days later. · "The next commentary episode is the Force Awakens."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The War of the Roses’ · 1:32:18 · unknown (0.30)] The War of the Roses ↔ Romancing the Stone · programming · The speakers pair Roses with Romancing the Stone for the other end of the Douglas/Turner spectrum. · "I was going to say romance in the stone just to get the other end of the spectrum."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Return of the Jedi · 0:04:31 · unknown (0.30)] Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi ↔ The Hangover Part II · lineage · Death Star 2 is framed as a sequel that repeats the first one, like a Hangover sequel. · "It's like hangover two."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The War of the Roses’ · 1:32:43 · unknown (0.30)] The War of the Roses ↔ Mr. & Mrs. Smith · programming · Mr. & Mrs. Smith is the lighter double feature since the couple also wreck the house but it works out. · "Because they tear up the house in the same way, but then it kind of works out, at least in the movie."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Return of the Jedi · 0:04:32 · unknown (0.30)] Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope ⇒ Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi (the host's read) · lineage · A second, bigger Death Star is called a lateral remake of the first. · "We're kind of, it's like a lateral remake."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The War of the Roses’ · 0:56:37 · unknown (0.30)] The War of the Roses ⇒ Game of Thrones (the host's read) · lineage · The actual historical Wars of the Roses was a big inspiration for Game of Thrones. · "Big inspiration for Game of Thrones."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Return of the Jedi · 0:12:57 · unknown (0.30)] Sydney Greenstreet ⇒ Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi (the host's read) · lineage · Jabba is said to be visually based on Sydney Greenstreet. · "He's based on Sydney Green Street, right?"
[The Rewatchables · ‘The War of the Roses’ · 1:37:30 · Craig Horlbeck (0.50)] The War of the Roses ↔ Gone Girl · lineage · Roses is described as a prequel to Gone Girl; it could have pivoted to Turner killing Douglas and going on the run. · "This movie's kind of a prequel to Gone Girl."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Return of the Jedi · 0:13:00 · unknown (0.30)] Casablanca ⇒ Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi (the host's read) · lineage · Jabba's court is conceived as Sydney Greenstreet crossed with Casablanca. · "The concept is he's sort of like Sidney Green Street and then Casablanca, yeah."
[The Big Picture · The 10 Best Horror Movies of the Decade | The Big Picture · 1:14:24 · unknown (Alexander or Karaszewski) (0.40)] The War of the Roses ⇒ Problem Child (the maker said so: the writer's own account on the show) · lineage · They had pitched Problem Child to be a grown-up dark comedy like The War of the Roses. · "talked about the War of the Roses"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Return of the Jedi · 0:20:11 · unknown (0.30)] Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi ↔ Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace · lineage · Lucas's goofy special-edition additions anticipate the broad humor of the prequels, such as Jar Jar. · "It's weird how many of the Lucas alterations are like really goofy broad humor."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The War of the Roses’ · 0:02:41 · unknown (0.30)] The War of the Roses ↔ Kramer vs. Kramer · theme · Roses may be the more on-point childhood divorce movie than Kramer, and the two anchor any divorce-movie pantheon. · "But this might actually be the more on point childhood divorce movie for me."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Return of the Jedi · 0:29:00 · unknown (0.30)] Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi ↔ Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens · lineage · Luke's lost lightsaber (his father's) turns up again in The Force Awakens. · "Which then reappears, of course, in The Force Awakens."

Who said it, by their latest sketch (6)

[speaker] Sean Fennessey · latest sketch, The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · Loves gory, funny, fast genre movies with craft and confidence, especially 87-minute films that never overstay. Can't stand ponderous elevated horror that fills out its runtime with introspection and sad family history. A sucker for the Carpenter-era lineage, Die Hard homages, and directors who break studio dogma. · stances: Resident Evil is one of the best films of the year; Horror movies have become a drag; fun genre experiences are needed; Short running times are a virtue; Video-game films work best when great filmmakers get creative license
[speaker] Mallory Rubin · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘Friday Night Lights’ · Devoted to the Friday Night Lights show and cares most about its marriage, character work and Texas setting. Loves a high school football film, small-town Texas and Billy Bob; a sucker for Kyle Chandler, Tammy and Eric. Can't stand the film leaving Sharon unused. · stances: The TV show can't be matched, but that does not slight the film; Coach Taylor's speeches beat Coach Gaines's; The film needed a Gaines marriage sex scene; The reboot must stay in Texas; Cruise would make a deranged, mesmerizing Gaines
[speaker] Amanda Dobbins · latest sketch, The Big Picture · ‘Mamma Mia!’ Meets ‘The Strangers'! It’s a Movie Swap! · Loves The Strangers' withholding craft and a good tense horror film without gore, but likes fun, communal movies like Mamma Mia. She dislikes supernatural or gory horror, which irritates her more than it scares her. She is a sucker for stars and for Googling a movie mid-recording. · stances: The Strangers is scary because of what it doesn't show or explain; Ending explanation weakens it; no answer would be better; Prefers 'withholding' filmmaking; Defends Mamma Mia as joyful and intentional
[speaker] 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] Joe Reid · latest sketch, Blank Check — Patreon · The Fifth Annual Blank Check Awards · Loves performance-driven work (Elisabeth Moss in Her Smell, Paul Walter Hauser in Richard Jewell) and likes Toy Story 4 less than Frozen 2. Defends Frozen 2's queer subtext and Wild Rose. · stances: Frozen 2 deserved nominations for its Elsa storytelling; Hauser's lack of judgment as the best acting; Gendered acting categories exist because winners matter
[speaker] Wesley Morris · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘My Cousin Vinny’ · Loves Marisa Tomei, the grits scene, and the clothes; is a sucker for Fran Drescher. Dislikes car-driving-away endings and thinks the film has done harm by encouraging self-representation. · stances: Tomei deserved the Oscar; Race in courtroom movies matters, and this one is warmly integrated; The Nanny is basically Mona Lisa Vito

The shows' running bits (2)

[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] 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 Marriage Story (2019) 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 Marriage Story (2019) 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 — Patreon · Return of the Jedi · 2:05:46 · unknown (0.30)] Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi ↔ Marriage Story · theme · Blowing up the Death Star is a pleasure so rare in cinema that Marriage Story could have ended with it. · "Most movies, like marriage story could have ended with it blowing."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The War of the Roses’ · 0:03:35 · Mallory Rubin (0.45)] Marriage Story ↔ The War of the Roses · contrast · Marriage Story is a divorce film that makes you weep; Roses is the kind that sets up rage and bitterness. · "They're the divorce films that give the emotional response."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The War of the Roses’ · 0:03:38 · Mallory Rubin (0.45)] The War of the Roses ↔ Marriage Story · contrast · The speakers split divorce films into emotional-response ones and ones built on rage and bitterness. · "And then the films that just set up rage and bitterness."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The War of the Roses’ · 0:04:06 · unknown (0.30)] Heartburn ↔ Marriage Story · contrast · Heartburn is left off a divorce top four because it is about infidelity and the split comes late. · "It happens pretty quickly at the end that she leaves him."
[The Big Picture · The Snubs and Surprises of the 92nd Academy Award Nominations | The Oscars Show · 0:12:18 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Marriage Story ↔ 1917 · contrast · Showy, aggressive filmmaking cleaned up while Marriage Story, a chamber piece, did not. · "And marriage story is a chamber piece in a lot of ways."
[The Big Picture · ‘The Killer’ Is Cold-Blooded Genius. And Something More · 0:59:26 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50)] The Killer ↔ Marriage Story · career · Baumbach used Netflix to elevate his status, whereas Fincher and Scorsese use it to brand-manage their legacies. · "he's somebody who used the system to elevate his status in some way, whereas Fincher and Scorsese in a handful of these other people are almost like facilitating and kind of brand managing their legacies"
[The Big Picture · The Snubs and Surprises of the 92nd Academy Award Nominations | The Oscars Show · 0:12:28 · Sean Fennessey (0.55)] Marriage Story ↔ Little Women · career · Baumbach and Gerwig both got Best Picture and screenplay nominations but neither got Best Director, which the speaker finds fitting for a couple. · "Both of them were nominated for Best Picture, and both of them were nominated for screenplay in different categories."
[The Big Picture · Emergency Mailbag: The Oscars Are Streaming and Hollywood Is Fighting Over Trolls | The Big Picture · 1:00:49 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] The Irishman ↔ Marriage Story · industry · Irishman, Marriage Story and Roma were positioned as theatrical releases, which got voters to buy in. · "The Irishman and Marriage Story and Roma as well were positioned as theatrical releases."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Fifth Annual Blank Check Awards · 1:18:56 · Joe Reid (0.40)] Randy Newman ↔ Marriage Story · craft · Joe likes Newman's dueling scores in Marriage Story. · "And I liked the Duelan scores in marriage story."
[The Big Picture · The Snubs and Surprises of the 92nd Academy Award Nominations | The Oscars Show · 0:18:48 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Scarlett Johansson ↔ Marriage Story · career · Johansson became a two-category nominee in one year; both performances are quite good. · "I think her performances in both of these movies is quite good"
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Fifth Annual Blank Check Awards · 0:25:06 · David Sims (0.40)] Laura Dern ↔ Marriage Story · verdict · Dern is on Joe's ballot but none of the three would pick her to win; she's the Oscar frontrunner as a career-recognition win. · "But none of us would pick her to win."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Fifth Annual Blank Check Awards · 0:58:10 · unknown (0.35)] Adam Driver ↔ Marriage Story · verdict · Driver's performance tilts audience sympathy to him; Johansson good but not on his level. · "I think she's good, but she's not on his level."
[The Big Picture · Our Alternative Academy Awards | The Oscars Show · 1:01:00 · Wesley Morris (0.40)] Marriage Story ↔ Laura Dern · industry · Dern's win is really the Oscar the screenplay wants, delivered through the flashiest speech in the movie. · "they're giving an Oscar to the screenplay, but they want to give the screenplay Oscar to someone else, so they're just giving it to Laura Dern"
[pairs] Marriage Story ↔ The War of the Roses · said 2 times in 1 episode
[The Rewatchables · ‘The War of the Roses’ · 1:32:05 · Mallory Rubin (0.45)] The War of the Roses ↔ Body Heat · programming · Triple-feature pitch: Roses with Body Heat and Fatal Attraction. · "I do think we should be pairing this with both body heat and fatal attraction."
[The Big Picture · The Tom Cruise Hall of Fame · 1:40:22 · unclear (one of the hosts) (0.30)] 1917 ↔ Roger Deakins · craft · A host likens the question of cutting Top Gun to a past Big Picture episode, a podcast celebrating Roger Deakins's cinematography on 1917, that asked whether to cut 1917. · "should we cut 1917 from a Roger Deacons podcast celebrating his work on 1917"
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Fifth Annual Blank Check Awards · 0:45:56 · unknown (0.45)] Little Women ↔ Little Women · craft · Adapted-screenplay winner: the best argument for the art of adaptation. · "Little women is just like, it's, it's, uh, the best argument for the art of adaptation."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Return of the Jedi · 0:29:55 · unknown (0.30)] Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi ↔ The Mandalorian · programming · After The Mandalorian the speaker wants new characters, not known ones, as a model for future Star Wars. · "after Mandalorian, I'm like, don't give me characters we already know."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The War of the Roses’ · 1:32:10 · Mallory Rubin (0.45)] The War of the Roses ↔ Fatal Attraction · programming · Pair an erotic-thriller double with Roses for a full day of 80s marriage trouble. · "I think that should be like we get an erotic thriller with both of them and then we watch this"
[The Big Picture · The Snubs and Surprises of the 92nd Academy Award Nominations | The Oscars Show · 0:53:35 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] Roger Deakins ↔ 1917 · craft · Next episode covers 1917 and the life's work of Roger Deakins. · "we'll also be talking about the life's work of one great man named Roger Deacons."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Fifth Annual Blank Check Awards · 1:18:44 · Joe Reid (0.40)] Little Women ↔ Little Women · craft · Joe praises De Plot's work as very locked in for Little Women. · "I do think De Plot was very locked in for little women."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Return of the Jedi · 2:22:02 · unknown (0.30)] Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi ↔ Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens · programming · The next Patreon commentary is Force Awakens, ten days later. · "The next commentary episode is the Force Awakens."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The War of the Roses’ · 1:32:18 · unknown (0.30)] The War of the Roses ↔ Romancing the Stone · programming · The speakers pair Roses with Romancing the Stone for the other end of the Douglas/Turner spectrum. · "I was going to say romance in the stone just to get the other end of the spectrum."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Return of the Jedi · 0:04:31 · unknown (0.30)] Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi ↔ The Hangover Part II · lineage · Death Star 2 is framed as a sequel that repeats the first one, like a Hangover sequel. · "It's like hangover two."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The War of the Roses’ · 1:32:43 · unknown (0.30)] The War of the Roses ↔ Mr. & Mrs. Smith · programming · Mr. & Mrs. Smith is the lighter double feature since the couple also wreck the house but it works out. · "Because they tear up the house in the same way, but then it kind of works out, at least in the movie."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Return of the Jedi · 0:04:32 · unknown (0.30)] Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope ⇒ Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi (the host's read) · lineage · A second, bigger Death Star is called a lateral remake of the first. · "We're kind of, it's like a lateral remake."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The War of the Roses’ · 0:56:37 · unknown (0.30)] The War of the Roses ⇒ Game of Thrones (the host's read) · lineage · The actual historical Wars of the Roses was a big inspiration for Game of Thrones. · "Big inspiration for Game of Thrones."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Return of the Jedi · 0:12:57 · unknown (0.30)] Sydney Greenstreet ⇒ Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi (the host's read) · lineage · Jabba is said to be visually based on Sydney Greenstreet. · "He's based on Sydney Green Street, right?"
[The Rewatchables · ‘The War of the Roses’ · 1:37:30 · Craig Horlbeck (0.50)] The War of the Roses ↔ Gone Girl · lineage · Roses is described as a prequel to Gone Girl; it could have pivoted to Turner killing Douglas and going on the run. · "This movie's kind of a prequel to Gone Girl."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Return of the Jedi · 0:13:00 · unknown (0.30)] Casablanca ⇒ Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi (the host's read) · lineage · Jabba's court is conceived as Sydney Greenstreet crossed with Casablanca. · "The concept is he's sort of like Sidney Green Street and then Casablanca, yeah."
[The Big Picture · The 10 Best Horror Movies of the Decade | The Big Picture · 1:14:24 · unknown (Alexander or Karaszewski) (0.40)] The War of the Roses ⇒ Problem Child (the maker said so: the writer's own account on the show) · lineage · They had pitched Problem Child to be a grown-up dark comedy like The War of the Roses. · "talked about the War of the Roses"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Return of the Jedi · 0:20:11 · unknown (0.30)] Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi ↔ Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace · lineage · Lucas's goofy special-edition additions anticipate the broad humor of the prequels, such as Jar Jar. · "It's weird how many of the Lucas alterations are like really goofy broad humor."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The War of the Roses’ · 0:02:41 · unknown (0.30)] The War of the Roses ↔ Kramer vs. Kramer · theme · Roses may be the more on-point childhood divorce movie than Kramer, and the two anchor any divorce-movie pantheon. · "But this might actually be the more on point childhood divorce movie for me."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Return of the Jedi · 0:29:00 · unknown (0.30)] Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi ↔ Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens · lineage · Luke's lost lightsaber (his father's) turns up again in The Force Awakens. · "Which then reappears, of course, in The Force Awakens."
[speaker] Sean Fennessey · latest sketch, The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · Loves gory, funny, fast genre movies with craft and confidence, especially 87-minute films that never overstay. Can't stand ponderous elevated horror that fills out its runtime with introspection and sad family history. A sucker for the Carpenter-era lineage, Die Hard homages, and directors who break studio dogma. · stances: Resident Evil is one of the best films of the year; Horror movies have become a drag; fun genre experiences are needed; Short running times are a virtue; Video-game films work best when great filmmakers get creative license
[speaker] Mallory Rubin · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘Friday Night Lights’ · Devoted to the Friday Night Lights show and cares most about its marriage, character work and Texas setting. Loves a high school football film, small-town Texas and Billy Bob; a sucker for Kyle Chandler, Tammy and Eric. Can't stand the film leaving Sharon unused. · stances: The TV show can't be matched, but that does not slight the film; Coach Taylor's speeches beat Coach Gaines's; The film needed a Gaines marriage sex scene; The reboot must stay in Texas; Cruise would make a deranged, mesmerizing Gaines
[speaker] Amanda Dobbins · latest sketch, The Big Picture · ‘Mamma Mia!’ Meets ‘The Strangers'! It’s a Movie Swap! · Loves The Strangers' withholding craft and a good tense horror film without gore, but likes fun, communal movies like Mamma Mia. She dislikes supernatural or gory horror, which irritates her more than it scares her. She is a sucker for stars and for Googling a movie mid-recording. · stances: The Strangers is scary because of what it doesn't show or explain; Ending explanation weakens it; no answer would be better; Prefers 'withholding' filmmaking; Defends Mamma Mia as joyful and intentional
[speaker] 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] Joe Reid · latest sketch, Blank Check — Patreon · The Fifth Annual Blank Check Awards · Loves performance-driven work (Elisabeth Moss in Her Smell, Paul Walter Hauser in Richard Jewell) and likes Toy Story 4 less than Frozen 2. Defends Frozen 2's queer subtext and Wild Rose. · stances: Frozen 2 deserved nominations for its Elsa storytelling; Hauser's lack of judgment as the best acting; Gendered acting categories exist because winners matter
[speaker] Wesley Morris · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘My Cousin Vinny’ · Loves Marisa Tomei, the grits scene, and the clothes; is a sucker for Fran Drescher. Dislikes car-driving-away endings and thinks the film has done harm by encouraging self-representation. · stances: Tomei deserved the Oscar; Race in courtroom movies matters, and this one is warmly integrated; The Nanny is basically Mona Lisa Vito
[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] 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 Marriage Story (2019); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Marriage Story (2019) 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.