What the corpus says about Parasite (2019)

The 40 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 (24)

[The Big Picture · Thirteen Awards Movies to Watch Out for, Oscar Do-Overs, and More From the Mailbag · 0:29:10 · Amanda Dobbins (0.85)] Nomadland ↔ Parasite · programming · The National Society of Film Critics has picked Best Picture winners that later became cool-kid Academy picks, such as Parasite, Moonlight and Spotlight. · "they have picked some best picture winners, um, in recent memory parasite."
[The Big Picture · The 10 Best Horror Movies of the Decade | The Big Picture · 1:48:36 · unknown (Alexander or Karaszewski) (0.40)] Parasite ↔ Get Out · theme · Parasite is smart social satire that slips easily into horror, which fits the episode's broader horror talk. · "it's smart social satire that just very easily slips into horror"
[The Big Picture · Thirteen Awards Movies to Watch Out for, Oscar Do-Overs, and More From the Mailbag · 0:37:35 · Amanda Dobbins (0.80)] Nomadland ↔ Parasite · contrast · Nomadland has a very different energy and tone from Parasite, so it is unlikely to be memed the same way. · "So are people just gonna be like meming nomadland in the way that they meme parasite?"
[The Big Picture · Thirteen Awards Movies to Watch Out for, Oscar Do-Overs, and More From the Mailbag · 0:38:17 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50)] Malcolm & Marie ↔ Parasite · contrast · Malcolm & Marie is the frontrunner for memeable movie, a thing Nomadland is not likely to be the way Parasite was. · "I wouldn't say that Malcolm and Marie is a best picture frontrunner, but I do think it's a frontrunner for memeable movie."
[The Big Picture · Emergency Mailbag: The Oscars Are Streaming and Hollywood Is Fighting Over Trolls | The Big Picture · 0:56:28 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60)] Parasite ↔ Green Book · contrast · The Academy zagged with Parasite; Green Book was a different type of win. · "Parasite won best picture. Can you believe it? And then, you know, I think Green Book was like a different type of win"
[The Big Picture · The Snubs and Surprises of the 92nd Academy Award Nominations | The Oscars Show · 0:08:04 · Sean Fennessey (0.55)] Parasite ↔ The Irishman · contrast · Parasite's craft nominations without acting nominations contrast with the star-driven recognition of The Irishman and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. · "maybe not the same kind of Hollywoodized star mastery that a movie like The Irishman or Once Upon a Time in Hollywood receives."
[The Big Picture · The Snubs and Surprises of the 92nd Academy Award Nominations | The Oscars Show · 0:17:52 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Honeyland ↔ Parasite · contrast · Honeyland will likely be blown off the board by Parasite in international feature. · "I suspect it's going to get blown off the board by parasite and best international feature"
[The Big Picture · The Snubs and Surprises of the 92nd Academy Award Nominations | The Oscars Show · 0:24:26 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Parasite ↔ The Farewell · contrast · Parasite overwhelmed smaller films like The Farewell, Uncut Gems and Dolemite. · "I think parasite ate the conversation in almost every category here, I think it overwhelmed movies like the farewell."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Fifth Annual Blank Check Awards · 0:16:32 · Joe Reid (0.50)] Parasite ↔ Knives Out · contrast · Both are true ensembles, so neither could campaign a single acting nominee. · "The same thing happened to knives out, actually."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Fifth Annual Blank Check Awards · 0:50:51 · unknown (0.40)] Parasite ↔ Watchmen (HBO series) · contrast · Hope the Parasite series becomes something like what Watchmen was for Watchmen: an extension, not an anthology. · "something that is sort of like what Watchman was for Watchman"
[The Big Picture · The Snubs and Surprises of the 92nd Academy Award Nominations | The Oscars Show · 0:03:18 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60)] Joker ↔ Parasite · verdict · Anyone ranking Joker above Parasite, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Little Women or Uncut Gems has bad taste. · "I think that anyone who thinks that this movie is better than parasite or once upon a time in Hollywood or Little Women are uncut gems has bad taste and doesn't know things about movies straight up."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Fifth Annual Blank Check Awards · 0:16:48 · unknown (0.35)] Parasite ↔ Parasite · verdict · Honorary ensemble award: the cast works as a company and the speaker could not single one out. · "I give it my honorary ensemble award, especially seeing it a 2nd time about a week ago."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Fifth Annual Blank Check Awards · 1:07:34 · Joe Reid (0.45)] Parasite ↔ Parasite · verdict · Joe's and Griffin's number one film of 2019. · "number two, little women, number one, parasites."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Fifth Annual Blank Check Awards · 1:09:35 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Parasite ↔ Parasite · verdict · Blankies listeners' number one film of 2019, with Little Women number two. · "number two, little women, number one parasite."
[The Big Picture · Top Five Gen X Director Debuts, the Fate of ‘Black Widow,’ and a Potential Oscars Disaster · 0:24:23 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60)] Parasite ↔ 1917 · industry · Last year was the rare time the PGAs missed: they picked 1917 and Parasite won. · "They went with 1917 and then parasite one."
[The Big Picture · Emergency Mailbag: The Oscars Are Streaming and Hollywood Is Fighting Over Trolls | The Big Picture · 0:56:38 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60)] Parasite ↔ Mank · industry · A bold Academy choice like Parasite triggers a counter-reaction toward traditional movies about movies, with Mank a test. · "I do kind of think it'll be movies about movies and the power of storytelling and all and all of that nonsense."
[The Big Picture · The Snubs and Surprises of the 92nd Academy Award Nominations | The Oscars Show · 0:09:41 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50)] Uncut Gems ↔ Parasite · industry · Uncut Gems was snubbed even as Parasite was nominated, a sign of a changed Academy. · "the fact that we're all kind of bummed out about the fact that uncut gems got snubbed"
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Fifth Annual Blank Check Awards · 0:16:27 · Joe Reid (0.50)] Parasite ↔ Parasite · industry · Parasite's ensemble made it hard for Oscars; Song Kang-ho was the most recognizable face. · "I mean, Song Kang Ho is maybe the most recognizable face."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Fifth Annual Blank Check Awards · 0:50:26 · unknown (0.40)] Parasite ↔ Parasite · industry · Bong's planned HBO show based on Parasite worries the speaker, because the film is great for being lean, implying mysteries it never explains. · "I'm terrified of the idea of him doing this HBO show"
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Fifth Annual Blank Check Awards · 1:03:53 · unknown (0.50)] Clemency ↔ Parasite · industry · Neon had one best-picture horse, Parasite, and put its money there, so it could not also push Clemency. · "Neon had their best picture horse."
[The Big Picture · Our Alternative Academy Awards | The Oscars Show · 0:48:38 · Wesley Morris (0.45)] Parasite ↔ 25th Hour · ending shape · Parasite ends on an ellipsis rather than a period, the way 25th Hour does, as a speculative dream of what could be. · "I thought of it as an ellipsis and not a period in the same way that 25th hour has an ellipsis and not a period."
[The Big Picture · Our Alternative Academy Awards | The Oscars Show · 1:08:29 · Wesley Morris (0.50)] Parasite ↔ Yeo-jeong Jo · people · The mother is a hard comic performance that is easy to overlook because she is blithe and unself-aware with no showy moment. · "she's essentially playing like a nothing part, but there's so much comedy involved in her performance."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Fifth Annual Blank Check Awards · 1:06:16 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Bong Joon-ho ↔ Parasite · verdict · Best Director winner for Blankie voters and one host. · "But Bomb was their winner."
[The Big Picture · Best Picture Power Rankings and a ‘Poor Things’ Deep Dive. Plus: Julianne Moore and Todd Haynes! · 0:06:21 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] Bong Joon-ho ↔ Parasite · audience context · Parasite introduced Bong to a huge audience but he makes strange genre films, a concern for Warner. · "Parasite introduced him to a huge new audience, but he makes really unusual genre movies."

Films put beside it more than once (1)

[pairs] Parasite ↔ Nomadland · said 2 times in 1 episode

Fun items about it (2)

[The Big Picture · Our Alternative Academy Awards | The Oscars Show · 1:08:01 · Wesley Morris (0.40)] Parasite · fun · Lee Jung-eun's first scene as the original housekeeper is the funniest bit: the new tutor arrives and the mother is sleeping on the table. · "can't overstate how funny it is when, you know, they 1st he 1st arrives at the house as the new tutor"
[The Big Picture · The 10 Best Horror Movies of the Decade | The Big Picture · 1:48:36 · unknown (Alexander or Karaszewski) (0.40)] Parasite · fun · Their last great thing seen: tone-perfect social satire that slips into horror. · "it's smart social satire that just very easily slips into horror"

One hop out: what recommends the films most often joined to it (6)

[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"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Do The Right Thing’ · 0:45:38 · Sean Fennessey (0.70)] Do the Right Thing ⇒ 25th Hour (the host's read) · lineage · 25th Hour repeats the racial slur montage as Ed Norton's mirror monologue; Wesley says the repeats made the original less effective for him but 25th Hour has greatness. · "There's a 25th hour version of that too."
[The Big Picture · Janicza Bravo and Brett Gelman Channel Rejection and Anxiety to Make ‘Lemon’ | The Big Picture · 0:04:44 · Alison Herman (0.90)] Juneteenth (Atlanta episode) ↔ Get Out · theme · Alison says it reminds her of Get Out in using white affluence to create dread, though Get Out is more visceral. · "it almost reminds me of get out, like using the trappings of white affluence to inspire this feeling of dread and discomfort"
[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."
[The Big Picture · 1. ‘Bring It On’ and ‘Donnie Darko’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:06:04 · Brian Raftery (0.95)] 25th Hour ↔ Donnie Darko · theme · 25th Hour captured post-9/11 New York rage, part of the wave of anxious films. · "Movies like 25th Hour, which captured the rage and uncertainty New Yorkers felt in the wake of 911."
[The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 0:53:33 · Chris Ryan (0.60)] Resident Evil ↔ Get Out · craft · Chris cites Get Out's opening lonely-road accident as a box-checking scary space like the film's opening. · "get out very famously, more or less opens with an accident like that on a lonely road"

Who said it, by their latest sketch (5)

[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] 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] 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
[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

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 Parasite (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 Parasite (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.

[The Big Picture · Thirteen Awards Movies to Watch Out for, Oscar Do-Overs, and More From the Mailbag · 0:29:10 · Amanda Dobbins (0.85)] Nomadland ↔ Parasite · programming · The National Society of Film Critics has picked Best Picture winners that later became cool-kid Academy picks, such as Parasite, Moonlight and Spotlight. · "they have picked some best picture winners, um, in recent memory parasite."
[The Big Picture · The 10 Best Horror Movies of the Decade | The Big Picture · 1:48:36 · unknown (Alexander or Karaszewski) (0.40)] Parasite ↔ Get Out · theme · Parasite is smart social satire that slips easily into horror, which fits the episode's broader horror talk. · "it's smart social satire that just very easily slips into horror"
[The Big Picture · Thirteen Awards Movies to Watch Out for, Oscar Do-Overs, and More From the Mailbag · 0:37:35 · Amanda Dobbins (0.80)] Nomadland ↔ Parasite · contrast · Nomadland has a very different energy and tone from Parasite, so it is unlikely to be memed the same way. · "So are people just gonna be like meming nomadland in the way that they meme parasite?"
[The Big Picture · Thirteen Awards Movies to Watch Out for, Oscar Do-Overs, and More From the Mailbag · 0:38:17 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50)] Malcolm & Marie ↔ Parasite · contrast · Malcolm & Marie is the frontrunner for memeable movie, a thing Nomadland is not likely to be the way Parasite was. · "I wouldn't say that Malcolm and Marie is a best picture frontrunner, but I do think it's a frontrunner for memeable movie."
[The Big Picture · Emergency Mailbag: The Oscars Are Streaming and Hollywood Is Fighting Over Trolls | The Big Picture · 0:56:28 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60)] Parasite ↔ Green Book · contrast · The Academy zagged with Parasite; Green Book was a different type of win. · "Parasite won best picture. Can you believe it? And then, you know, I think Green Book was like a different type of win"
[The Big Picture · The Snubs and Surprises of the 92nd Academy Award Nominations | The Oscars Show · 0:08:04 · Sean Fennessey (0.55)] Parasite ↔ The Irishman · contrast · Parasite's craft nominations without acting nominations contrast with the star-driven recognition of The Irishman and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. · "maybe not the same kind of Hollywoodized star mastery that a movie like The Irishman or Once Upon a Time in Hollywood receives."
[The Big Picture · The Snubs and Surprises of the 92nd Academy Award Nominations | The Oscars Show · 0:17:52 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Honeyland ↔ Parasite · contrast · Honeyland will likely be blown off the board by Parasite in international feature. · "I suspect it's going to get blown off the board by parasite and best international feature"
[The Big Picture · The Snubs and Surprises of the 92nd Academy Award Nominations | The Oscars Show · 0:24:26 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Parasite ↔ The Farewell · contrast · Parasite overwhelmed smaller films like The Farewell, Uncut Gems and Dolemite. · "I think parasite ate the conversation in almost every category here, I think it overwhelmed movies like the farewell."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Fifth Annual Blank Check Awards · 0:16:32 · Joe Reid (0.50)] Parasite ↔ Knives Out · contrast · Both are true ensembles, so neither could campaign a single acting nominee. · "The same thing happened to knives out, actually."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Fifth Annual Blank Check Awards · 0:50:51 · unknown (0.40)] Parasite ↔ Watchmen (HBO series) · contrast · Hope the Parasite series becomes something like what Watchmen was for Watchmen: an extension, not an anthology. · "something that is sort of like what Watchman was for Watchman"
[The Big Picture · The Snubs and Surprises of the 92nd Academy Award Nominations | The Oscars Show · 0:03:18 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60)] Joker ↔ Parasite · verdict · Anyone ranking Joker above Parasite, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Little Women or Uncut Gems has bad taste. · "I think that anyone who thinks that this movie is better than parasite or once upon a time in Hollywood or Little Women are uncut gems has bad taste and doesn't know things about movies straight up."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Fifth Annual Blank Check Awards · 0:16:48 · unknown (0.35)] Parasite ↔ Parasite · verdict · Honorary ensemble award: the cast works as a company and the speaker could not single one out. · "I give it my honorary ensemble award, especially seeing it a 2nd time about a week ago."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Fifth Annual Blank Check Awards · 1:07:34 · Joe Reid (0.45)] Parasite ↔ Parasite · verdict · Joe's and Griffin's number one film of 2019. · "number two, little women, number one, parasites."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Fifth Annual Blank Check Awards · 1:09:35 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Parasite ↔ Parasite · verdict · Blankies listeners' number one film of 2019, with Little Women number two. · "number two, little women, number one parasite."
[The Big Picture · Top Five Gen X Director Debuts, the Fate of ‘Black Widow,’ and a Potential Oscars Disaster · 0:24:23 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60)] Parasite ↔ 1917 · industry · Last year was the rare time the PGAs missed: they picked 1917 and Parasite won. · "They went with 1917 and then parasite one."
[The Big Picture · Emergency Mailbag: The Oscars Are Streaming and Hollywood Is Fighting Over Trolls | The Big Picture · 0:56:38 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60)] Parasite ↔ Mank · industry · A bold Academy choice like Parasite triggers a counter-reaction toward traditional movies about movies, with Mank a test. · "I do kind of think it'll be movies about movies and the power of storytelling and all and all of that nonsense."
[The Big Picture · The Snubs and Surprises of the 92nd Academy Award Nominations | The Oscars Show · 0:09:41 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50)] Uncut Gems ↔ Parasite · industry · Uncut Gems was snubbed even as Parasite was nominated, a sign of a changed Academy. · "the fact that we're all kind of bummed out about the fact that uncut gems got snubbed"
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Fifth Annual Blank Check Awards · 0:16:27 · Joe Reid (0.50)] Parasite ↔ Parasite · industry · Parasite's ensemble made it hard for Oscars; Song Kang-ho was the most recognizable face. · "I mean, Song Kang Ho is maybe the most recognizable face."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Fifth Annual Blank Check Awards · 0:50:26 · unknown (0.40)] Parasite ↔ Parasite · industry · Bong's planned HBO show based on Parasite worries the speaker, because the film is great for being lean, implying mysteries it never explains. · "I'm terrified of the idea of him doing this HBO show"
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Fifth Annual Blank Check Awards · 1:03:53 · unknown (0.50)] Clemency ↔ Parasite · industry · Neon had one best-picture horse, Parasite, and put its money there, so it could not also push Clemency. · "Neon had their best picture horse."
[The Big Picture · Our Alternative Academy Awards | The Oscars Show · 0:48:38 · Wesley Morris (0.45)] Parasite ↔ 25th Hour · ending shape · Parasite ends on an ellipsis rather than a period, the way 25th Hour does, as a speculative dream of what could be. · "I thought of it as an ellipsis and not a period in the same way that 25th hour has an ellipsis and not a period."
[The Big Picture · Our Alternative Academy Awards | The Oscars Show · 1:08:29 · Wesley Morris (0.50)] Parasite ↔ Yeo-jeong Jo · people · The mother is a hard comic performance that is easy to overlook because she is blithe and unself-aware with no showy moment. · "she's essentially playing like a nothing part, but there's so much comedy involved in her performance."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Fifth Annual Blank Check Awards · 1:06:16 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Bong Joon-ho ↔ Parasite · verdict · Best Director winner for Blankie voters and one host. · "But Bomb was their winner."
[The Big Picture · Best Picture Power Rankings and a ‘Poor Things’ Deep Dive. Plus: Julianne Moore and Todd Haynes! · 0:06:21 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] Bong Joon-ho ↔ Parasite · audience context · Parasite introduced Bong to a huge audience but he makes strange genre films, a concern for Warner. · "Parasite introduced him to a huge new audience, but he makes really unusual genre movies."
[pairs] Parasite ↔ Nomadland · said 2 times in 1 episode
[The Big Picture · Our Alternative Academy Awards | The Oscars Show · 1:08:01 · Wesley Morris (0.40)] Parasite · fun · Lee Jung-eun's first scene as the original housekeeper is the funniest bit: the new tutor arrives and the mother is sleeping on the table. · "can't overstate how funny it is when, you know, they 1st he 1st arrives at the house as the new tutor"
[The Big Picture · The 10 Best Horror Movies of the Decade | The Big Picture · 1:48:36 · unknown (Alexander or Karaszewski) (0.40)] Parasite · fun · Their last great thing seen: tone-perfect social satire that slips into horror. · "it's smart social satire that just very easily slips into horror"
[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"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Do The Right Thing’ · 0:45:38 · Sean Fennessey (0.70)] Do the Right Thing ⇒ 25th Hour (the host's read) · lineage · 25th Hour repeats the racial slur montage as Ed Norton's mirror monologue; Wesley says the repeats made the original less effective for him but 25th Hour has greatness. · "There's a 25th hour version of that too."
[The Big Picture · Janicza Bravo and Brett Gelman Channel Rejection and Anxiety to Make ‘Lemon’ | The Big Picture · 0:04:44 · Alison Herman (0.90)] Juneteenth (Atlanta episode) ↔ Get Out · theme · Alison says it reminds her of Get Out in using white affluence to create dread, though Get Out is more visceral. · "it almost reminds me of get out, like using the trappings of white affluence to inspire this feeling of dread and discomfort"
[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."
[The Big Picture · 1. ‘Bring It On’ and ‘Donnie Darko’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:06:04 · Brian Raftery (0.95)] 25th Hour ↔ Donnie Darko · theme · 25th Hour captured post-9/11 New York rage, part of the wave of anxious films. · "Movies like 25th Hour, which captured the rage and uncertainty New Yorkers felt in the wake of 911."
[The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 0:53:33 · Chris Ryan (0.60)] Resident Evil ↔ Get Out · craft · Chris cites Get Out's opening lonely-road accident as a box-checking scary space like the film's opening. · "get out very famously, more or less opens with an accident like that on a lonely road"
[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] 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] 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
[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
[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 Parasite (2019); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Parasite (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.