Mark Wahlberg

Made films the shows talk about.

Wikidata Q164119: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by the only person by that name on Wikidata.

Counted as other. The films the hosts said they were tied to, which the two lists below run through too: Paths of Glory (1957); Friday the 13th (1980); Avengers: Infinity War (2018). Count them as actor (18 films), producer (2 films) instead.

Draws on

What the speakers say they, or a film of theirs, drew on. Each is a speaker's account: “the maker said so” when they report the maker's own words, “the host's read” when the read is theirs.

The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974): 4 lines

  1. unmapped (template) · through Friday the 13th (1980), which they were tied to as husband of Robbi Morgan: The Texas Chain Saw Massacre ⇒ Friday the 13th (the host's read). The imposing masked killer and the final girl in Chainsaw became the slasher template Friday the 13th and Halloween used.
    “We have that, that ends up in Halloween, Friday the 13th, everything else.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Texas Chain Saw Massacre’ With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan · 0:04:06 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)
  2. unmapped (final girl prototype) · through Friday the 13th (1980), which they were tied to as husband of Robbi Morgan: The Texas Chain Saw Massacre ⇒ Friday the 13th (the host's read). Sally is the ground-zero prototype final girl later ripped off in every Friday the 13th and most Halloween movies.
    “she's the prototype ground 0 final girl that then gets ripped off.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Texas Chain Saw Massacre’ With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan · 0:06:46 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)
  3. lineage (rip-off) · through Friday the 13th (1980), which they were tied to as husband of Robbi Morgan: The Texas Chain Saw Massacre ⇒ Friday the 13th (the host's read). The final girl running to Jason's mom for help copies Sally running to the gas station guy.
    “Friday the 13th rips it off.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Texas Chain Saw Massacre’ With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan · 0:41:15 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)
  4. lineage (lineage) · through Friday the 13th (1980), which they were tied to as husband of Robbi Morgan: The Texas Chain Saw Massacre ⇒ Friday the 13th (the host's read). Friday borrowed the seemingly friendly helper who turns out hostile and the killer who keeps getting back up.
    “a seemingly friendly helper who ends up being not friendly, the Texas chainsaw move.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 0:46:48 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Meatballs: 2 lines

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Friday the 13th (1980), which they were tied to as husband of Robbi Morgan: Meatballs ⇒ Friday the 13th (the host's read). Meatballs was as much an influence on the camp setting and look as Halloween was.
    “I think carrying meatballs were equally influential as Halloween is on this.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 0:11:58 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  2. lineage (lineage) · through Friday the 13th (1980), which they were tied to as husband of Robbi Morgan: Meatballs ⇒ Friday the 13th (the host's read). The pitch was Halloween crossed with the summer-camp comedy Meatballs.
    “And it was basically Halloween crossed meatballs, ends up getting the money”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 0:18:11 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Avengers: Infinity War (2018), which they were tied to as comparison (low-status movie star): Avengers: Age of Ultron ⇒ Avengers: Infinity War (the host's read). The Hulkbuster armor pays off Banner being almost defeated by it before.
    “it's paying off the fact that he was, you know, almost defeated by this armor before.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War with John Hodgman · 2:00:15 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Carrie (1976): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Friday the 13th (1980), which they were tied to as husband of Robbi Morgan: Carrie ⇒ Friday the 13th (the host's read). The final-scene jump scare is directly influenced by the hand coming out of the grave in Carrie.
    “it's directly like influenced by Carrie, right?”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 0:43:46 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Charlton Heston: 1 line

  1. theme (character mold) · them, directly: Charlton Heston ⇒ Mark Wahlberg (the host's read). Wahlberg's Leo Davidson is written like Heston's angry, arrogant astronaut, but without the reason behind the rage.
    “The thing is, to me, the character is clearly written sort of in the Heston character mold.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Planet of the Apes with Matt Singer · 0:34:06 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Halloween (1978): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Friday the 13th (1980), which they were tied to as husband of Robbi Morgan: Halloween ⇒ Friday the 13th (the host's read). Friday the 13th was an openly shameless Halloween ripoff, built on Halloween's success.
    “We have to talk about how this was the most unabashed ripoff movie probably of all time.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 0:17:45 · Chris Ryan (0.40 sure it was them)

Humphrey Cobb: 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Paths of Glory (1957), which they were tied to as hypothetical lead in a Paths of Glory remake: Humphrey Cobb ⇒ Paths of Glory (the host's read). Paths of Glory is based on Cobb's novel, which Kubrick read in high school and never forgot.
    “Humphrey Cobb's novel pads of glory.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory with Sarah Marshall (Ad-Free) · 0:33:38 · David Sims (0.70 sure it was them)

Jack Kirby: 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Avengers: Infinity War (2018), which they were tied to as comparison (low-status movie star): Jack Kirby ⇒ Avengers: Infinity War (the host's read). Kirby's cosmic creations at Marvel, Galactus and the Silver Surfer, are the ancestors of this material.
    “he creates galactus and silver surf and all these parrots”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War with John Hodgman · 1:56:25 · Griffin Newman (0.35 sure it was them)

James Caan: 1 line

  1. career (career) · them, directly: James Caan ⇒ Mark Wahlberg (the host's read). Wahlberg wanted to be Caan but is only half there, and remade The Gambler.
    “Wahlberg probably wanted to be James Khan, but he's 50% there.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Thief’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:20:21 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)

Jaws (1975): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Friday the 13th (1980), which they were tied to as husband of Robbi Morgan: Jaws ⇒ Friday the 13th (the host's read). Friday took Jaws' device of music for a villain you cannot see.
    “the Jaws music for the villain you can't see.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 0:46:35 · unknown (0.35 sure it was them)

Jim Starlin: 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Avengers: Infinity War (2018), which they were tied to as comparison (low-status movie star): Jim Starlin ⇒ Avengers: Infinity War (the host's read). The cosmic Thanos comics were mostly Starlin and mostly dudes talking on half asteroids.
    “Starlin stuff, mostly.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War with John Hodgman · 1:52:56 · David Sims (0.30 sure it was them)

Penny Marshall: 1 line

  1. unmapped (mentor) · them, directly: Penny Marshall ⇒ Mark Wahlberg (the maker said so: Wahlberg on Inside the Actors Studio). Wahlberg said Penny Marshall hired him, told him he couldn't act, and taught him on Renaissance Man.
    “Petty Marshall discovers him.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Planet of the Apes with Matt Singer · 0:35:11 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

The Avengers (2012): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Avengers: Infinity War (2018), which they were tied to as comparison (low-status movie star): The Avengers ⇒ Avengers: Infinity War (the host's read). The Hulk echoes Tony Stark's words from the first Avengers; the movie is full of callbacks.
    “echoing Tony Stark's words from the Avengers 2012”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War with John Hodgman · 0:25:44 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

The Killing (1956): 1 line

  1. unmapped (led to) · through Paths of Glory (1957), which they were tied to as hypothetical lead in a Paths of Glory remake: The Killing ⇒ Paths of Glory (the host's read). Kirk Douglas saw The Killing and wanted that director for Paths of Glory.
    “And then didn't Kirk Douglas see this and went, oh, this is paths of glory.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing with Patton Oswalt (Ad-Free) · 1:05:46 · Patton Oswalt (0.35 sure it was them)

Drawn on by

What the speakers say drew on them or a film of theirs, marked the same way.

Avengers: Endgame (2019): 1 line

  1. unmapped (continuity) · through Avengers: Infinity War (2018), which they were tied to as comparison (low-status movie star): Avengers: Infinity War ⇒ Avengers: Endgame (the host's read). Thor knowing where the reality stone is sets up a bad decision in Endgame.
    “that plays into Endgame, and a bad decision they make”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War with John Hodgman · 1:03:46 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

David Simon: 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Paths of Glory (1957), which they were tied to as hypothetical lead in a Paths of Glory remake: Paths of Glory ⇒ David Simon (the maker said so: David Simon cites it regularly). The speaker calls Paths of Glory a Rosetta Stone for Simon's stories of institutions versus the people below.
    “this is the sort of Rosetta Stone, if you will, for him.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory with Sarah Marshall (Ad-Free) · 0:25:22 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Friday the 13th Part 2 (1981): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Friday the 13th (1980), which they were tied to as husband of Robbi Morgan: Friday the 13th ⇒ Friday the 13th Part 2 (the host's read). Part 2 essentially redoes the first film with a better bad guy and a little more money.
    “I think the 2nd one almost stands in as like, let's redo the 1st one, but make the bad guy even better.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 0:03:47 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma (2026): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Friday the 13th (1980), which they were tied to as husband of Robbi Morgan: Friday the 13th ⇒ Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma (the host's read). The in-film franchise is very much Friday the 13th while also running through the paces of Scream and I Know What You Did Last Summer.
    “It is very much Friday the 13th, but it's also gone through some of the same paces as Scream, and I know what you did last summer and things like that.”
    The Big Picture · The Final Girl Film Canon and ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ With Gillian Anderson, Hannah Einbinder, and Jane Schoenbrun! · 0:21:40 · Adam Nayman (0.50 sure it was them)

The Wire (2002): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Paths of Glory (1957), which they were tied to as hypothetical lead in a Paths of Glory remake: Paths of Glory ⇒ The Wire (the maker said so: David Simon cites it regularly). David Simon reportedly cites Paths of Glory as the number one influence on The Wire: institutions chewing up the people on the ground.
    “David Simon cites this regularly as the number one influence on the wire?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory with Sarah Marshall (Ad-Free) · 0:25:11 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

What the speakers said they did

Producing (2) everyone in producing

Acting (22) everyone in acting

Other (3) everyone in other

What was said about them, by kind

career (2)

  1. career (career turn): Mark Wahlberg → Paul Thomas Anderson. PTA found Wahlberg's angry chip-on-the-shoulder star quality in Boogie Nights, which later directors reused.
    “I think PTA latched onto something sooner than everyone else that Marky Mark himself didn't figure out for a while”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Planet of the Apes with Matt Singer · 0:37:32 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  2. career (career): James Caan → Mark Wahlberg. Wahlberg wanted to be Caan but is only half there, and remade The Gambler.
    “Wahlberg probably wanted to be James Khan, but he's 50% there.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Thief’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:20:21 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)

contrast (1)

  1. contrast (contrast): Robert De Niro → Mark Wahlberg. De Niro wins the 'Mark Wahlberg Award' of the year, like Wahlberg's The Fighter: a quiet-hero producer-star who gets only a picture nomination.
    “Wahlberg and the fighter.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Fifth Annual Blank Check Awards with Joe Reid (Ad-Free) · 1:17:46 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)

craft (1)

  1. craft (craft): Chris Pratt → Mark Wahlberg. Both succeed only as low-status guys nobody takes seriously who have to prove themselves.
    “Both Mark Wahlberg and Chris Pratt succeed when it is about people not taking them seriously and them having to prove to people.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War with John Hodgman · 0:51:19 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)

industry (1)

  1. industry (accent rivalry): Mark Wahlberg → Matt Damon. Damon's Boston accent is better; Wahlberg overdoes it.
    “I think that Damon is better and I think Wahlberg overdoes it.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Departed’ With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan · 0:30:24 · Chris Ryan (0.80 sure it was them)

people (3)

  1. people (bad performance): Mark Wahlberg → The Happening. Wahlberg's contempt for the material here is called The Happening syndrome times a thousand.
    “He's the happening syndrome times a thousand.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Planet of the Apes with Matt Singer · 0:33:40 · unknown (0.50 sure it was them)
  2. people (frequent collaborator): Mark Wahlberg → Peter Berg. Berg is described as Wahlberg's only adult friend and director of his recent films.
    “It says it's like the, you know, the only friend he's made in his adult life.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Planet of the Apes with Matt Singer · 0:42:03 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  3. people (casting): Tim Burton → Mark Wahlberg. Wahlberg skipped the script and agreed to work with Burton after five minutes, trusting a strong director.
    “And Mark Wahlberg pointedly didn't read the script, went to a meeting with Tim Burton.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Planet of the Apes with Matt Singer · 0:51:55 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

theme (1)

  1. theme (character mold): Mark Wahlberg → Charlton Heston. Wahlberg's Leo Davidson is written like Heston's angry, arrogant astronaut, but without the reason behind the rage.
    “The thing is, to me, the character is clearly written sort of in the Heston character mold.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Planet of the Apes with Matt Singer · 0:34:06 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

unmapped (2)

  1. unmapped (mentor): Mark Wahlberg → Penny Marshall. Wahlberg said Penny Marshall hired him, told him he couldn't act, and taught him on Renaissance Man.
    “Petty Marshall discovers him.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Planet of the Apes with Matt Singer · 0:35:11 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  2. unmapped (status mismatch): Mark Wahlberg → All the Money in the World. Wahlberg is better at low-status roles; playing a high-status intellect fails, as in Apes, The Gambler and All the Money in the World.
    “He's better at playing low status.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Planet of the Apes with Matt Singer · 0:37:58 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

verdict (2)

  1. verdict (best performance): Mark Wahlberg → I Heart Huckabees. Called Wahlberg's best performance, deserving an Oscar.
    “I would give him the Oscar for that.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Planet of the Apes with Matt Singer · 0:40:10 · unknown (0.50 sure it was them)
  2. verdict (favorite Wahlberg): Mark Wahlberg → Deepwater Horizon. Wahlberg's loud I-know-this-is-going-to-blow persona is what the speaker wants from him.
    “I like Deepwater Horizon.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Planet of the Apes with Matt Singer · 0:40:38 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

what-if (2)

  1. what-if (what-if): James Caan → Mark Wahlberg. Caan today would have gravitated to Tarantino, not Bourne sequels.
    “He probably would have loved to work with Tarantino.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Thief’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:21:07 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
  2. what-if (what-if): Mark Wahlberg → Paths of Glory. A Paths of Glory remake would have every other actor doing a reverse Wahlberg accent.
    “You remake paths of glory with Mark Wahlberg and everyone else has to do a reverse Wahlberg reverse engineered Wahlberg accent.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory with Sarah Marshall (Ad-Free) · 1:00:16 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Fun items about them

  1. fun, about Mark Wahlberg: Wahlberg is the worst action hero: he causes the Planet of the Apes, goes in to save the ape he's mean to, then leaves him behind.
    “He is the worst action hero.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Planet of the Apes with Matt Singer · 0:31:06 · unknown (0.50 sure it was them)
  2. fun, about Mark Wahlberg: Penny Marshall hired him and told him he couldn't act; he claims he went to the Penny Marshall School of Acting.
    “He on his episode of Inside the Actor Studio says, I went to the Penny Marshall School of Acting.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Planet of the Apes with Matt Singer · 0:35:12 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  3. fun, about Mark Wahlberg: Famous for a third nipple, which the speaker says he corrected shortly after this film.
    “He's one of the most famous 3rd nipple havers in American history.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Planet of the Apes with Matt Singer · 0:44:21 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  4. fun, about Mark Wahlberg: He refused to go shirtless because he'd done too many shirtless ads, so his spacesuit lining looks like an Urban Outfitters raglan.
    “which looks like a fucking urban outfitter's raglan.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Planet of the Apes with Matt Singer · 1:01:35 · unknown (0.50 sure it was them)
  5. fun, about Mark Wahlberg: Rumor: Wahlberg built his performance from the people who arrested him in his youth and claimed the best Boston accent.
    “he based his performance based on a compilation of all the different people who arrested him when he was a youth.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Departed’ With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan · 0:31:45 · Chris Ryan (0.45 sure it was them)
  6. fun, about Mark Wahlberg: Rule of A-Listers: when someone gets punched, it evens out later. Damon punched Wahlberg, who got payback by shooting him at the end.
    “the rule of A-Listers is that if somebody gets punched, you get to punt, there's it always ends even.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Departed’ With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan · 0:55:39 · Bill Simmons (0.40 sure it was them)