Tommy Lee Jones

Made films the shows talk about.

Wikidata Q170587: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by Wikidata joins them to No Country for Old Men, which 5. ‘No Country for Old Men’ and ‘W.’ | Mission Accomplished credits them on.

Counted as actor. The films the hosts said they acted in, which the two lists below run through too: JFK (1991); Under Siege (1992); Heaven & Earth (1993); The Fugitive (1993); The Client (1994); Double Jeopardy (1999); No Country for Old Men (2007); Captain America: The First Avenger (2011); Lincoln (2012); Ad Astra (2019); The Executioner's Song.

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.

2001: A Space Odyssey (1968): 1 line

  1. unmapped (cribbing) · through Ad Astra (2019), which they acted in: 2001: A Space Odyssey ⇒ Ad Astra (the host's read). Ad Astra is called the one other film that feels realistic about space travel, and it cribs from 2001.
    “is cribbing from it so much where like the way at Astra depicts space travel”
    Blank Check — Patreon · 2001: A Space Odyssey with Jordan Hoffman (Ad-Free) · 1:41:09 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Aliens (1986): 1 line

  1. craft (craft) · through Captain America: The First Avenger (2011), which they acted in: Aliens ⇒ Captain America: The First Avenger (the host's read). The frozen-find cold open structurally echoes the discovery sequence that opens Aliens.
    “this is also actually very similar to is the opening of aliens.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The First Avenger · 0:10:43 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Cormac McCarthy: 1 line

  1. lineage (adaptation) · through No Country for Old Men (2007), which they acted in: Cormac McCarthy ⇒ No Country for Old Men (the host's read). The film adapts McCarthy's 2005 novel and the Coens refused to water it down.
    “You can tell the cones were determined not to water down McCarthy's book.”
    The Big Picture · 5. ‘No Country for Old Men’ and ‘W.’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:07:47 · Brian Raftery (0.90 sure it was them)

Iron Man 2 (2010): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Captain America: The First Avenger (2011), which they acted in: Iron Man 2 ⇒ Captain America: The First Avenger (the host's read). The Stark Expo of the 1940s is the origin of the Expo seen in Iron Man 2, now as the full World's Fair version.
    “Like what we see in Iron Man 2, but now it's like the full like 40s World Fair version.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The First Avenger · 0:19:47 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)

Truth: Red, White & Black (comic): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Captain America: The First Avenger (2011), which they acted in: Truth: Red, White & Black (comic) ⇒ Captain America: The First Avenger (the host's read). The one-off serum process loosely connects to the Truth miniseries retcon about earlier black experimentees.
    “Truth is a book that essentially theorizes that there was like a Tuskegee airman.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The First Avenger · 0:47:45 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)

Drawn on by

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

Black Panther (2018): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Captain America: The First Avenger (2011), which they acted in: Captain America: The First Avenger ⇒ Black Panther (the host's read). Vibranium, the shield metal, leads to Wakanda; adamantium is the X-Men analogue the MCU couldn't use.
    “So instead they use vibranium as their super metal.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The First Avenger · 1:27:32 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)

Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Captain America: The First Avenger (2011), which they acted in: Captain America: The First Avenger ⇒ Captain America: The Winter Soldier (the host's read). Zola surviving and joining the other side is the seed for Winter Soldier.
    “Because you need Zola to join the other side.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The First Avenger · 1:34:27 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Captain Marvel (2019): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Captain America: The First Avenger (2011), which they acted in: Captain America: The First Avenger ⇒ Captain Marvel (the host's read). The film goes back to the Steve Rogers style of origin story.
    “here's how Steve Rogers became a super soldier style of storytelling.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Captain Marvel’ Is a ’90s Nostalgia Play. Did It Work? | Exit Survey · 0:03:27 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)

Chris Pratt: 1 line

  1. industry (industry) · through Captain America: The First Avenger (2011), which they acted in: Captain America: The First Avenger ⇒ Chris Pratt (the host's read). The beefcake shot of Pratt echoes Chris Evans out of the tank, and Marvel now puts one in every trailer.
    “It's Chris Evans coming out of the tank, Captain America.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Guardians of the Galaxy · 0:37:48 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Mission: Impossible (1996): 1 line

  1. unmapped (TV-to-film precedent) · through The Fugitive (1993), which they acted in: The Fugitive ⇒ Mission: Impossible (the host's read). The Fugitive proved a classic TV property could be a big-screen box-office hit, which opened the door for Mission: Impossible.
    “the fugitive proved that there was box office potential and television IP on the big screen.”
    The Rewatchables · 'Mission: Impossible' With Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Jason Concepcion · 0:02:32 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)

What the speakers said they did

Acting (14) everyone in acting

What was said about them, by kind

career (1)

  1. career (career): Tommy Lee Jones → Captain America: The First Avenger. Jones said in a promo interview that this is the gruff-captain part he has played 25 times, yet he is never boring.
    “It's the part you've seen me play 25 times.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The First Avenger · 1:02:57 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

industry (1)

  1. industry (industry): Anthony Hopkins → Tommy Lee Jones. Casting a gravitas-bearing famous actor as the elder is Marvel's repeat playbook, as with Tommy Lee Jones in Captain America.
    “It's also the same thing they did with Tommy Lee Jones and Captain America”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Thor · 0:09:27 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)

theme (1)

  1. theme (theme): Tommy Lee Jones → Captain America: The First Avenger. His brand is being grumpy, so he works whether he is engaged or phoning it in.
    “And if he hates the movie he's in, then he's actually just doing that.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The First Avenger · 1:35:24 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

verdict (1)

  1. verdict (verdict): Tommy Lee Jones → Ad Astra. A 'sweater and a fretter': in space fretting while wearing a good sweater.
    “He's a sweater and a fretter.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Fifth Annual Blank Check Awards with Joe Reid (Ad-Free) · 1:22:19 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)

Fun items about them

  1. fun, about Tommy Lee Jones: A joke the hosts return to: after his last scene he supposedly asks for a van back to the hotel, TLJ signing off as if collecting his W2.
    “That's basically TLJ being like, all right, this is my W2.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The First Avenger · 1:58:18 · unknown (0.50 sure it was them)