Jason Reitman

Made films the shows talk about.

Wikidata Q314502: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by the only person by that name on Wikidata.

Counted as director, the making department they hold the most credits in. The films the hosts said they directed, which the two lists below run through too: Thank You for Smoking (2005); Juno (2007); Up in the Air (2009); Young Adult (2011); Men, Women & Children (2014); Tully (2018); Ghostbusters: Afterlife (2021); Labor Day; The Front Runner.

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.

Ghostbusters (1984): 2 lines

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Ghostbusters: Afterlife (2021), which they directed: Ghostbusters ⇒ Ghostbusters: Afterlife (the host's read). Afterlife is a revival of the original series by Ivan Reitman's son, loaded with its mythology.
    “This is Jason Reitman's revivification of his father, Ivan Reitman's famed film series.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:02:45 · Sean Fennessey (0.85 sure it was them)
  2. people (people) · them, directly: Ghostbusters ⇒ Jason Reitman (the host's read). Reitman has said he wants to honor his father's franchise; Jason was on set of some of the originals.
    “Jason Reitman was on the set of some of these movies”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:16:17 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)

Amblin-era Spielberg films: 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Ghostbusters: Afterlife (2021), which they directed: Amblin-era Spielberg films ⇒ Ghostbusters: Afterlife (the host's read). The kids-and-mom coming-of-age setup reads as Amblin or Ron Howard, though speaker says that is too generous.
    “a bit of an amblin, like Ron Howardy, early Spielberg kind of a movie.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:04:24 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)

Marvel's Avengers: 1 line

  1. industry (industry) · through Ghostbusters: Afterlife (2021), which they directed: Marvel's Avengers ⇒ Ghostbusters: Afterlife (the host's read). Afterlife and the 2016 film both chase the Marvel model of serialized connected stories to succeed at the box office.
    “trying to recreate what Marvel has done and just that's the only way you have success at the box office now is by latching onto that serialized story.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:10:08 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60 sure it was them)

Star Wars: Episode VII – The Force Awakens (2015): 1 line

  1. craft (craft) · through Ghostbusters: Afterlife (2021), which they directed: Star Wars: Episode VII – The Force Awakens ⇒ Ghostbusters: Afterlife (the host's read). Afterlife does what Force Awakens did, saving the old franchise's greatest hits for the back half.
    “It's basically trying to do the same thing that the Force Awakens did”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:06:10 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)

Drawn on by

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

No line says anything drew on them or a film of theirs.

What the speakers said they did

Directing (16) everyone in directing

What was said about them, by kind

career (3)

  1. career (career): Jason Reitman → Coppola. Reitman's uneven filmography is compared to his 70s and 80s heroes, few of whom have eight great films in a row.
    “Not very few people are Coppola, right?”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:21:07 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  2. career (career): Jason Reitman → Ghostbusters: Afterlife. Reitman's ghostbusters decision looks like capitulating to Hollywood and may make him a franchise filmmaker.
    “he has kind of minted a future as a franchise filmmaker.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:21:25 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)
  3. career (career): Jason Reitman → Ghostbusters: Afterlife. Reitman, who always said he was different from his father, ended up running a franchise with a PowerPoint press conference.
    “now not only did he have to do the franchise that he always said he didn't want to do”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Marvel Nerdfest · 0:07:17 · David Sims (0.60 sure it was them)

lineage (2)

  1. lineage (sequel ownership): Jason Reitman → Ghostbusters: Afterlife. Sarcastically, Reitman gives Ghostbusters back to the fans with a sequel set apart from the 2016 film.
    “And look at the larger political issue, which is that Jason Reitman has given Ghostbusters back to the fans.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Ricki and the Flash with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber · 0:02:48 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
  2. lineage (origin-story parallel): Jason Reitman → Darren Aronofsky. Reitman's image-first story for Afterlife recalls Aronofsky's story of typing the title mother and the exclamation mark.
    “that reminds me of the Darren Aronovsky story about writing the title for mother”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Ricki and the Flash with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber · 0:04:16 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)

people (2)

  1. people (frequent director): Diablo Cody → Jason Reitman. Reitman has directed half of Cody's movies.
    “Half her movies have been directed by Jason Reitman, who, uh, I, you know, will happily do on this podcast in the year 3000.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Ricki and the Flash with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber · 0:00:56 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  2. people (people): Jason Reitman → Ghostbusters. Reitman has said he wants to honor his father's franchise; Jason was on set of some of the originals.
    “Jason Reitman was on the set of some of these movies”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:16:17 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)

verdict (3)

  1. verdict (verdict): Jason Reitman → Tully. Speaker loved Tully except the last five minutes, which push a family moral.
    “I loved everything but the last 5 minutes of Tali.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:19:31 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60 sure it was them)
  2. verdict (verdict): Jason Reitman → Tully. Reitman's sharper-elbowed work (Young Adult, Tully, Front Runner) is the work that speaker likes best.
    “those are really his films that I really, really like.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:20:26 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  3. verdict (verdict): Jason Reitman → Labor Day. Labor Day and Men, Women & Children are his weak ones.
    “you look at like Labor Day or men, women, and children, which is really just not a very good film at all.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:20:37 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)

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