What the corpus says about Decision to Leave (2022)

What was said about it (23)

1. [Blank Check · Decision to Leave · 0:35:35 · Griffin Newman (0.60)] Mist (1967 Korean hit song) ⇒ Decision to Leave (the maker said so) · lineage · Park loved the 1967 song The Mist since childhood and the movie is built around it and the lady-in-the-mist idea. · "A Korean 1967 hit song called The Miss. Yeah. which is about a protagonist who's trying to understand the world around them."
2. [Blank Check · Decision to Leave · 0:37:24 · Griffin Newman (0.60)] Martin Beck novels (Swedish) ⇒ Decision to Leave (the maker said so) · lineage · The anti-macho gentleman cop concept comes from Martin Beck, the Swedish police novels, falling for the lady from the mist. · "So basically, what if Martin Beck, this Swedish police officer character falls in love with, like the lady from the Mist, sort of, right?"
3. [Blank Check · Decision to Leave · 0:52:23 · Griffin Newman (0.70)] Decision to Leave ↔ Vertigo · lineage · Park says interviewers always ask about Vertigo but it was not his conscious influence. · "He says, I think everyone basically is interviewing him being like, is this like a vertigo thing?"
4. [Blank Check · Decision to Leave · 0:52:37 · Griffin Newman (0.70)] Brief Encounter ⇒ Decision to Leave (the maker said so: Park's interview remarks read on the show) · lineage · Park cites David Lean's Brief Encounter as the romantic vibe he was thinking of instead of Vertigo. · "He says, brief encounter, the David Lean film. is more what he's thinking of in terms of vibe."
5. [Blank Check · Decision to Leave · 1:20:56 · Griffin Newman (0.60)] Decision to Leave ↔ Insomnia · lineage · A sleepless cop is called part of the sleepy-cop canon, with Pacino's Insomnia as the reference. · "But this movie is in the detective dormer canon of sleepy cops who can't go to sleep."
6. [The Big Picture · The Top Five Movies of 2022 · 0:45:18 · Sean Fennessey (0.85)] Decision to Leave ↔ Basic Instinct · theme · Sean likens Decision to Leave to Park's version of Basic Instinct, a perfectly directed little romantic noir. · "I liked this one as like his basic instinct, you know, like, this is a perfectly directed little romantic noir."
7. [Blank Check · Decision to Leave · 1:14:03 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Decision to Leave ↔ RoboCop · craft · The husband's cartoon fall off the mountain is compared to the Dick Jones stop-motion fall at the end of Robocop. · "He does like a like a end of Robocop Dick Jones fall, basically."
8. [Blank Check · Decision to Leave · 1:31:39 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Strangers on a Train ⇒ Decision to Leave (the host's read) · craft · The pills and Slappy-kills-the-husband arrangement is called a Strangers on a Train swap by the detective and the hosts. · "I've seen my Hitchcock movies. This is some fucking strangers on a train ship."
9. [Blank Check · Decision to Leave · 1:49:21 · David Sims (0.50)] Decision to Leave ↔ The Handmaiden · craft · Decision to Leave is more restrained than The Handmaiden but still has wild camera moves. · "I guess he means more restrained than the Handmaiden."
10. [The Big Picture · The 10 Most Misused Stars in Hollywood and the Gnarly Magic of ‘Send Help’ · 1:03:42 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50)] Send Help ↔ Decision to Leave · craft · The beautiful sushi platters in Send Help recall the sushi in Decision to Leave. · "Decision to leave and then now the sushi platters that are used in this, in this film, stay with me."
11. [Blank Check · Decision to Leave · 0:34:49 · Griffin Newman (0.60)] Decision to Leave ↔ The Little Drummer Girl · career · The film was made after Park's English-language TV show, which left him homesick for a Korean film. · "But so he's homesick."
12. [Blank Check · Decision to Leave · 0:37:05 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Decision to Leave ↔ Stoker · career · Stoker was Park's only American film and he took someone else's script; Decision to Leave is the first fully original thing after a run of adaptations. · "This is the 1st time he's completely regenering something."
13. [Blank Check · Decision to Leave · 0:57:20 · David Sims (0.60)] Decision to Leave ↔ The Handmaiden · career · Handmaiden was the last Park film several of them had seen before this one; Griffin ranks it his number one. · "I haven't seen a Park John Rook film since The Handmaiden, which blew my mind."
14. [Blank Check · Decision to Leave · 0:45:28 · David Sims (0.60)] Decision to Leave ↔ Lust, Caution · people · Tang Wei broke out in Lust, Caution, a film about a seduction that may turn real, a similar tension to this film. · "But it's a movie about, basically, she has to seduce a man as an act of political espionage and the whole movie hinges on like, is she falling in love with him?"
15. [The Big Picture · The Top Five Movies of 2022 · 0:45:16 · Sean Fennessey (0.80)] Decision to Leave ↔ The Handmaiden · people · Sean says The Handmaiden was the first Park movie he liked in a long time, then Decision to Leave was the next. · "It was like the 1st park movie I'd liked in a while."
16. [The Big Picture · The Top Five Movies of 2022 · 0:44:38 · Adam Nayman (0.85)] Decision to Leave ↔ Nope · verdict · Adam places two genre films at four and three, both praised as perfectly directed for what they are. · "for the kind of genre film they are, this is my number 3 film, they are perfectly directed."
17. [Blank Check · Decision to Leave · 1:54:01 · David Sims (0.60)] Decision to Leave ↔ Top Gun: Maverick · industry · In Korea it opened number two behind Top Gun: Maverick on its weekend. · "Um, and it's opening number 2 behind the biggest movie pretty much of 2022."
18. [Blank Check · Decision to Leave · 0:48:24 · David Sims (0.60)] Decision to Leave ↔ Basic Instinct / Joe Eszterhas erotic thriller (as a type) · what-if · With more sex on screen the same story would slide into a Joe Eszterhas early-90s erotic thriller. · "Well, I also think if you make this same movie with more sex, it very quickly comes, becomes a Joe Esterhouse movie, right?"
19. [Blank Check · Decision to Leave · 1:23:41 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Decision to Leave ↔ Eastern Promises · fight realism · Eastern Promises has similarly clumsy, human fight sequences where skin is actually pierced, like the knife-and-chain-mail scene. · "That movie has some similarly, like, very, very human fight sequences"
20. [Blank Check · Decision to Leave · 1:18:21 · Tatiana Maslany (0.50)] Tang Wei ↔ Decision to Leave · theme · Her performance plays against the femme fatale type by being honest and disarming rather than mysterious. · "Totally. Like, I don't... What's weird is that she's not acting like a femme fatale."
21. [Blank Check · Decision to Leave · 0:21:03 · Tatiana Maslany (0.60)] Tang Wei ↔ Decision to Leave · people · The film makes you judge a performance in a language you do not understand, which reveals what acting is. · "I think in a certain way, it's like, well, that really shows you what acting is."
22. [Blank Check · Decision to Leave · 0:25:02 · David Sims (0.50)] Decision to Leave ↔ Bong Joon-ho · industry · Park constantly goes up against his buddy Bong, who has only been submitted twice for the Oscars. · "And his buddy Bong, he's got to constantly go up against."
23. [Blank Check · Decision to Leave · 1:50:12 · David Sims (0.60)] Steven Soderbergh ↔ Decision to Leave · texting in film · Soderbergh is called one of the few major auteurs who head straight into the smartphone present, as Park does with texting. · "And Soderberg is one of the few guys who like head straight into it."

Films put beside it more than once (1)

1. [pairs] Decision to Leave ↔ The Handmaiden · said 3 times in 2 episodes

Fun items about it (6)

1. [Blank Check · Decision to Leave · 0:22:42 · Tatiana Maslany (0.80)] Decision to Leave · fun · Subtitle translator trivia: the Google-translated line bring me the heart of that detective became bring me the head, since English lacks a word for metaphorical heart. · "So it had to be like something more intense, like his head to be like impactful enough."
2. [Blank Check · Decision to Leave · 0:23:48 · David Sims (0.40)] Decision to Leave · fun · Tatiana on the bit where the sex scenes are the least sexy part of the movie, like toothbrushing. · "They're like where the sexiness is removed."
3. [Blank Check · Decision to Leave · 0:35:15 · Griffin Newman (0.60)] Decision to Leave · fun · Park's gentleman-cop concept: a detective who carries wet wipes and eyedrops rather than a gun, a walking vending machine of a man. · "his concept is a police officer who doesn't carry a gun, but it says, carries instead carries wet wipes"
4. [Blank Check · Decision to Leave · 0:46:59 · Griffin Newman (0.60)] Decision to Leave · fun · Park spoke for 90 minutes pitching the whole film to Park Hae-il, who needed to pee halfway but was too immersed to interrupt. · "I really needed to pee about halfway in."
5. [Blank Check · Decision to Leave · 0:52:58 · Griffin Newman (0.60)] Decision to Leave · fun · Park's ending: he had wanted to end a movie with a person burying herself for about 30 years; he considered an epilogue but cut it. · "I have been trying to put that as the end of a movie first. So for like 30 years."
6. [Blank Check · Decision to Leave · 0:58:36 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Decision to Leave · fun · On the opening mountain climb, two cops go up horizontally on a winch, one strapped to the other; Griffin says the moment he fell in love with the movie and that Park does one bizarre scene like it ten times per film. · "And it will happen 10 times in each of his films."

One hop out: what recommends the films most often joined to it (7)

1. [The Rewatchables · ‘Internal Affairs’ · 1:30:06 · Bill Simmons (0.30)] Internal Affairs ↔ Basic Instinct · lineage · Offered as a double-feature partner for Internal Affairs: a Basic Instinct coded movie. · "Pretty good coded, basic instinct coded movie."
2. [The Big Picture · The Nicole Kidman Hall of Fame, and ‘Babygirl’ · 2:16:04 · Halina Reijn (0.90)] Basic Instinct ⇒ Babygirl (the maker said so: Halina Reijn, interviewed on the episode) · lineage · Reijn set out to converse with the 90s and early-2000s sexual thrillers she loved but found sexist. · "I wanted to be in conversation with all the sexual thrillers that I so loved in the 90s and the early 2000s, but then I also thought were incredibly sexist and not human."
3. [The Rewatchables · ‘The Edge’ · 0:21:57 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Basic Instinct ⇒ Color of Night (the host's read) · theme · Bruce Willis's Color of Night was another Basic Instinct era noir with a famous full-frontal moment. · "Everyone, remember Bruce Willis did that movie where he showed his penis?"
4. [The Rewatchables · ‘The Edge’ · 0:22:30 · Van Lathan (0.60)] Basic Instinct ⇒ Body of Evidence (the host's read) · theme · Mid-90s sexy noir all followed Basic Instinct; Madonna's version was a spoof-level bust. · "That was literally like a basic instinct spoof."
5. [The Rewatchables · ‘The Ice Storm’ · 0:48:57 · Chris Ryan (0.60)] The Ice Storm ↔ Basic Instinct · theme · Ryan says mass media (Basic Instinct) taught him about sex, like the kids learning from TV in this film. · "mass media had taught me like the basic instinct and whatnot had taught me everything I needed to know."
6. [The Rewatchables · ‘Do The Right Thing’ · 1:13:20 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] Do the Right Thing ↔ Basic Instinct · theme · Basic Instinct raised concern about its effect, a different kind of fear than Do the Right Thing. · "There was concern, though, about whether or not basic instinct was going to what effect it was going to have."
7. [Blank Check — Patreon · In the Cut · 1:15:22 · Jourdain Searles (0.50)] In the Cut ↔ Basic Instinct · craft · In the Cut's sex scenes are very intimate and real, unlike Basic Instinct's. · "The sex is very intimate and real."

Who said it, by their latest sketch (6)

1. [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
2. [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'
3. [speaker] Tatiana Maslany · latest sketch, Blank Check · Decision to Leave · Here for vibes, performance and small moments rather than plot. Loves A Woman Under the Influence (about 40 viewings), There Will Be Blood (about 50) and The Nightmare Before Christmas. Reveres actors who can do very little and be compelling; hates bad writing most of all to act. · stances: Subtitled performances show what acting really is; The hardest thing to act is bad writing; Tang Wei plays honest, not mysterious, which is why it works; Sand-beaching is partly guilt and partly power
4. [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
5. [speaker] Adam Nayman · latest sketch, The Big Picture · The Final Girl Film Canon and ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ · Self-described slasher fan who likes a movie that plays with tropes intelligently; admires Miasma's playfulness and sincerity but dislikes its showbiz satire. Soft spot for Texas Chain Saw, wrestling and Toronto sports. Wary of the idea that references alone make a movie smart. · stances: Miasma is academic but playfully so; Better filmmakers deserve less intention-guessing; Don't need to love slashers to love Miasma
6. [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

The shows' running bits (3)

1. [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)
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)
3. [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

You are a clerk at Video Culture, a video store. A customer just finished Decision to Leave (2022) 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 Decision to Leave (2022) 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 · Decision to Leave · 0:35:35 · Griffin Newman (0.60)] Mist (1967 Korean hit song) ⇒ Decision to Leave (the maker said so) · lineage · Park loved the 1967 song The Mist since childhood and the movie is built around it and the lady-in-the-mist idea. · "A Korean 1967 hit song called The Miss. Yeah. which is about a protagonist who's trying to understand the world around them."
[Blank Check · Decision to Leave · 0:37:24 · Griffin Newman (0.60)] Martin Beck novels (Swedish) ⇒ Decision to Leave (the maker said so) · lineage · The anti-macho gentleman cop concept comes from Martin Beck, the Swedish police novels, falling for the lady from the mist. · "So basically, what if Martin Beck, this Swedish police officer character falls in love with, like the lady from the Mist, sort of, right?"
[Blank Check · Decision to Leave · 0:52:23 · Griffin Newman (0.70)] Decision to Leave ↔ Vertigo · lineage · Park says interviewers always ask about Vertigo but it was not his conscious influence. · "He says, I think everyone basically is interviewing him being like, is this like a vertigo thing?"
[Blank Check · Decision to Leave · 0:52:37 · Griffin Newman (0.70)] Brief Encounter ⇒ Decision to Leave (the maker said so: Park's interview remarks read on the show) · lineage · Park cites David Lean's Brief Encounter as the romantic vibe he was thinking of instead of Vertigo. · "He says, brief encounter, the David Lean film. is more what he's thinking of in terms of vibe."
[Blank Check · Decision to Leave · 1:20:56 · Griffin Newman (0.60)] Decision to Leave ↔ Insomnia · lineage · A sleepless cop is called part of the sleepy-cop canon, with Pacino's Insomnia as the reference. · "But this movie is in the detective dormer canon of sleepy cops who can't go to sleep."
[The Big Picture · The Top Five Movies of 2022 · 0:45:18 · Sean Fennessey (0.85)] Decision to Leave ↔ Basic Instinct · theme · Sean likens Decision to Leave to Park's version of Basic Instinct, a perfectly directed little romantic noir. · "I liked this one as like his basic instinct, you know, like, this is a perfectly directed little romantic noir."
[Blank Check · Decision to Leave · 1:14:03 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Decision to Leave ↔ RoboCop · craft · The husband's cartoon fall off the mountain is compared to the Dick Jones stop-motion fall at the end of Robocop. · "He does like a like a end of Robocop Dick Jones fall, basically."
[Blank Check · Decision to Leave · 1:31:39 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Strangers on a Train ⇒ Decision to Leave (the host's read) · craft · The pills and Slappy-kills-the-husband arrangement is called a Strangers on a Train swap by the detective and the hosts. · "I've seen my Hitchcock movies. This is some fucking strangers on a train ship."
[Blank Check · Decision to Leave · 1:49:21 · David Sims (0.50)] Decision to Leave ↔ The Handmaiden · craft · Decision to Leave is more restrained than The Handmaiden but still has wild camera moves. · "I guess he means more restrained than the Handmaiden."
[The Big Picture · The 10 Most Misused Stars in Hollywood and the Gnarly Magic of ‘Send Help’ · 1:03:42 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50)] Send Help ↔ Decision to Leave · craft · The beautiful sushi platters in Send Help recall the sushi in Decision to Leave. · "Decision to leave and then now the sushi platters that are used in this, in this film, stay with me."
[Blank Check · Decision to Leave · 0:34:49 · Griffin Newman (0.60)] Decision to Leave ↔ The Little Drummer Girl · career · The film was made after Park's English-language TV show, which left him homesick for a Korean film. · "But so he's homesick."
[Blank Check · Decision to Leave · 0:37:05 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Decision to Leave ↔ Stoker · career · Stoker was Park's only American film and he took someone else's script; Decision to Leave is the first fully original thing after a run of adaptations. · "This is the 1st time he's completely regenering something."
[Blank Check · Decision to Leave · 0:57:20 · David Sims (0.60)] Decision to Leave ↔ The Handmaiden · career · Handmaiden was the last Park film several of them had seen before this one; Griffin ranks it his number one. · "I haven't seen a Park John Rook film since The Handmaiden, which blew my mind."
[Blank Check · Decision to Leave · 0:45:28 · David Sims (0.60)] Decision to Leave ↔ Lust, Caution · people · Tang Wei broke out in Lust, Caution, a film about a seduction that may turn real, a similar tension to this film. · "But it's a movie about, basically, she has to seduce a man as an act of political espionage and the whole movie hinges on like, is she falling in love with him?"
[The Big Picture · The Top Five Movies of 2022 · 0:45:16 · Sean Fennessey (0.80)] Decision to Leave ↔ The Handmaiden · people · Sean says The Handmaiden was the first Park movie he liked in a long time, then Decision to Leave was the next. · "It was like the 1st park movie I'd liked in a while."
[The Big Picture · The Top Five Movies of 2022 · 0:44:38 · Adam Nayman (0.85)] Decision to Leave ↔ Nope · verdict · Adam places two genre films at four and three, both praised as perfectly directed for what they are. · "for the kind of genre film they are, this is my number 3 film, they are perfectly directed."
[Blank Check · Decision to Leave · 1:54:01 · David Sims (0.60)] Decision to Leave ↔ Top Gun: Maverick · industry · In Korea it opened number two behind Top Gun: Maverick on its weekend. · "Um, and it's opening number 2 behind the biggest movie pretty much of 2022."
[Blank Check · Decision to Leave · 0:48:24 · David Sims (0.60)] Decision to Leave ↔ Basic Instinct / Joe Eszterhas erotic thriller (as a type) · what-if · With more sex on screen the same story would slide into a Joe Eszterhas early-90s erotic thriller. · "Well, I also think if you make this same movie with more sex, it very quickly comes, becomes a Joe Esterhouse movie, right?"
[Blank Check · Decision to Leave · 1:23:41 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Decision to Leave ↔ Eastern Promises · fight realism · Eastern Promises has similarly clumsy, human fight sequences where skin is actually pierced, like the knife-and-chain-mail scene. · "That movie has some similarly, like, very, very human fight sequences"
[Blank Check · Decision to Leave · 1:18:21 · Tatiana Maslany (0.50)] Tang Wei ↔ Decision to Leave · theme · Her performance plays against the femme fatale type by being honest and disarming rather than mysterious. · "Totally. Like, I don't... What's weird is that she's not acting like a femme fatale."
[Blank Check · Decision to Leave · 0:21:03 · Tatiana Maslany (0.60)] Tang Wei ↔ Decision to Leave · people · The film makes you judge a performance in a language you do not understand, which reveals what acting is. · "I think in a certain way, it's like, well, that really shows you what acting is."
[Blank Check · Decision to Leave · 0:25:02 · David Sims (0.50)] Decision to Leave ↔ Bong Joon-ho · industry · Park constantly goes up against his buddy Bong, who has only been submitted twice for the Oscars. · "And his buddy Bong, he's got to constantly go up against."
[Blank Check · Decision to Leave · 1:50:12 · David Sims (0.60)] Steven Soderbergh ↔ Decision to Leave · texting in film · Soderbergh is called one of the few major auteurs who head straight into the smartphone present, as Park does with texting. · "And Soderberg is one of the few guys who like head straight into it."
[pairs] Decision to Leave ↔ The Handmaiden · said 3 times in 2 episodes
[Blank Check · Decision to Leave · 0:22:42 · Tatiana Maslany (0.80)] Decision to Leave · fun · Subtitle translator trivia: the Google-translated line bring me the heart of that detective became bring me the head, since English lacks a word for metaphorical heart. · "So it had to be like something more intense, like his head to be like impactful enough."
[Blank Check · Decision to Leave · 0:23:48 · David Sims (0.40)] Decision to Leave · fun · Tatiana on the bit where the sex scenes are the least sexy part of the movie, like toothbrushing. · "They're like where the sexiness is removed."
[Blank Check · Decision to Leave · 0:35:15 · Griffin Newman (0.60)] Decision to Leave · fun · Park's gentleman-cop concept: a detective who carries wet wipes and eyedrops rather than a gun, a walking vending machine of a man. · "his concept is a police officer who doesn't carry a gun, but it says, carries instead carries wet wipes"
[Blank Check · Decision to Leave · 0:46:59 · Griffin Newman (0.60)] Decision to Leave · fun · Park spoke for 90 minutes pitching the whole film to Park Hae-il, who needed to pee halfway but was too immersed to interrupt. · "I really needed to pee about halfway in."
[Blank Check · Decision to Leave · 0:52:58 · Griffin Newman (0.60)] Decision to Leave · fun · Park's ending: he had wanted to end a movie with a person burying herself for about 30 years; he considered an epilogue but cut it. · "I have been trying to put that as the end of a movie first. So for like 30 years."
[Blank Check · Decision to Leave · 0:58:36 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Decision to Leave · fun · On the opening mountain climb, two cops go up horizontally on a winch, one strapped to the other; Griffin says the moment he fell in love with the movie and that Park does one bizarre scene like it ten times per film. · "And it will happen 10 times in each of his films."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Internal Affairs’ · 1:30:06 · Bill Simmons (0.30)] Internal Affairs ↔ Basic Instinct · lineage · Offered as a double-feature partner for Internal Affairs: a Basic Instinct coded movie. · "Pretty good coded, basic instinct coded movie."
[The Big Picture · The Nicole Kidman Hall of Fame, and ‘Babygirl’ · 2:16:04 · Halina Reijn (0.90)] Basic Instinct ⇒ Babygirl (the maker said so: Halina Reijn, interviewed on the episode) · lineage · Reijn set out to converse with the 90s and early-2000s sexual thrillers she loved but found sexist. · "I wanted to be in conversation with all the sexual thrillers that I so loved in the 90s and the early 2000s, but then I also thought were incredibly sexist and not human."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Edge’ · 0:21:57 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Basic Instinct ⇒ Color of Night (the host's read) · theme · Bruce Willis's Color of Night was another Basic Instinct era noir with a famous full-frontal moment. · "Everyone, remember Bruce Willis did that movie where he showed his penis?"
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Edge’ · 0:22:30 · Van Lathan (0.60)] Basic Instinct ⇒ Body of Evidence (the host's read) · theme · Mid-90s sexy noir all followed Basic Instinct; Madonna's version was a spoof-level bust. · "That was literally like a basic instinct spoof."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Ice Storm’ · 0:48:57 · Chris Ryan (0.60)] The Ice Storm ↔ Basic Instinct · theme · Ryan says mass media (Basic Instinct) taught him about sex, like the kids learning from TV in this film. · "mass media had taught me like the basic instinct and whatnot had taught me everything I needed to know."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Do The Right Thing’ · 1:13:20 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] Do the Right Thing ↔ Basic Instinct · theme · Basic Instinct raised concern about its effect, a different kind of fear than Do the Right Thing. · "There was concern, though, about whether or not basic instinct was going to what effect it was going to have."
[Blank Check — Patreon · In the Cut · 1:15:22 · Jourdain Searles (0.50)] In the Cut ↔ Basic Instinct · craft · In the Cut's sex scenes are very intimate and real, unlike Basic Instinct's. · "The sex is very intimate and real."
[speaker] Griffin Newman · latest sketch, Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · Calls Last Temptation his college-era favorite Scorsese; loves Scorsese's smaller 80s and the film's closing transcendence and Gabriel score. Cannot stand fundamentalist outrage at it. A sucker for casting trivia and Tom Cruise-silliness. · stances: Hot take: Last Temptation structurally mirrors New York, New York as a better version; Outrage over the film is stupid; it is respectful to Jesus; Scorsese's smaller 80s work beats his later baroque phases
[speaker] 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] Tatiana Maslany · latest sketch, Blank Check · Decision to Leave · Here for vibes, performance and small moments rather than plot. Loves A Woman Under the Influence (about 40 viewings), There Will Be Blood (about 50) and The Nightmare Before Christmas. Reveres actors who can do very little and be compelling; hates bad writing most of all to act. · stances: Subtitled performances show what acting really is; The hardest thing to act is bad writing; Tang Wei plays honest, not mysterious, which is why it works; Sand-beaching is partly guilt and partly power
[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] Adam Nayman · latest sketch, The Big Picture · The Final Girl Film Canon and ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ · Self-described slasher fan who likes a movie that plays with tropes intelligently; admires Miasma's playfulness and sincerity but dislikes its showbiz satire. Soft spot for Texas Chain Saw, wrestling and Toronto sports. Wary of the idea that references alone make a movie smart. · stances: Miasma is academic but playfully so; Better filmmakers deserve less intention-guessing; Don't need to love slashers to love Miasma
[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
[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 Decision to Leave (2022); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Decision to Leave (2022) 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.