What the corpus says about Man of Steel (2013)

You are a clerk at Video Culture, a video store. A customer just finished Man of Steel (2013) 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 Man of Steel (2013) 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 · Judging The Judge · 1:20:04 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Man of Steel ⇒ The Judge (the host's read) · lineage · The tornado father-son fight echoes the father-son tornado scene in Man of Steel, another Warner Bros. film. · "an homage to everyone's favorite father son scene from Man of Steel."
[The Big Picture · The Past, Present, and Future of Superhero Movies | The Big Picture · 0:30:16 · Jason Concepcion (0.40)] Man of Steel ↔ Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice · craft · BvS's newscaster lines patching the Metropolis destruction from Man of Steel show DC's lack of confidence. · "that kind of thing shows the lack of confidence that DC really has in its voice"
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Avengers · 1:59:00 · David Sims (0.50)] The Avengers ↔ Man of Steel · contrast · Man of Steel's similar downtown destruction finale feels unreal with random civilians; Avengers grounds it in the street. · "the denim one is like the opposite of this."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Social Network · 0:44:07 · unknown (0.40)] The Social Network ⇒ Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (the maker said so) · theme · Snyder's reported reasoning: the modern-day Lex Luthor would be Mark Zuckerberg. · "yeah, the modern day Lex Luthor would be Mark Zuckerberg."
[The Big Picture · The Past, Present, and Future of Superhero Movies | The Big Picture · 0:13:42 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] The Avengers ↔ Thor · programming · Thor was treated as a loss leader, a stepping stone to the Avengers. · "Thor was treated as a loss leader, essentially."
[Blank Check · Judging The Judge · 0:30:57 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] The Judge ↔ Men, Women & Children · theme · Both were overly earnest star-driven dramas that flopped, though The Judge made far more. · "I'm saying judge is a similar level of overly earnest big stars doing..."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Incredible Hulk · 1:33:33 · Griffin or David (0.30)] Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice ↔ The Incredible Hulk · craft · The Abomination, like BvS's Doomsday, looks like a mud monster with no texture. · "It's the same problem as Doomsday in Batman versus Superman, where it's just like, he just looks like a mud monster."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Iron Man 3 · 0:16:00 · unknown (0.30)] Iron Man 3 ↔ The Avengers · programming · Phase 2 begins here and Avengers' victory lap gave Feige room to let each film feel individual. · "They're on such a victory lap that it feels like this is the one little chunk of time where Kevin Feige lets go a little bit."
[Blank Check · Judging The Judge · 1:04:56 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] The Judge ↔ Meet the Fockers · theme · The naked-together bathtub gay-panic beat in the shower scene feels like a Fockers-style gag. · "Like it almost turns into like a fucking little fokker seat where like they're naked together in a bathtub"
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Avengers · 1:29:09 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] The Avengers ↔ Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. · programming · Coulson was brought back for the TV show but kept out of the movies, signaling the TV show is only loosely connected. · "you can be in the TV show, like, because we need, you know, a star for the show"
[Blank Check · Judging The Judge · 1:08:29 · David Sims (0.50)] The Judge ↔ Big Daddy · theme · The Judge's climactic testimony scene recalls Sandler's courtroom speech in Big Daddy, which works only because that film is a ribald comedy. · "the scene in Big Daddy, where Adam Sandler tells his dad how much he loved him on the stand during..."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Avengers · 1:29:32 · David Sims (0.40)] Captain Marvel ↔ The Avengers · programming · Captain Marvel is a 1990s prequel in which Fury still has both eyes, bringing back Coulson/Fury; they predict nineties-reference gags. · "So in that one, Nick Fury has 2 eyes."
[Blank Check · Judging The Judge · 1:09:46 · David Sims (0.50)] The Judge ↔ Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace · theme · The Judge's characters announce their motivations in dialogue, which David says is worse than the Phantom Menace. · "I just want to say this movie is a lot worse than Star Wars episode one of the Phantom Menace."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Avengers · 1:34:57 · David Sims (0.40)] The Avengers ⇒ Guardians of the Galaxy (the host's read) · programming · Thanos' Chitauri subcontracting sets up the cosmic films; Guardians is next on their Marvel list. · "We're gonna we're gonna cover Peter movie soon."
[Blank Check · Judging The Judge · 1:15:12 · David Sims (0.40)] The Judge ↔ Steve Zaillian · theme · Dobkin seems to want to make an Ed Zwick or Steve Zaillian-style prestige drama. · "I want to make an Ed Zwick or Steve Zaleen or like a... What is the problem with this movie?"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Thor · 1:02:12 · Griffin Newman (0.35)] Thor ↔ The Avengers · programming · The Hawkeye cameo, with no interaction, made the speaker doubt the Avengers team-up would work. · "The thing you want to see is how they talk and interact with each other."
[Blank Check · Judging The Judge · 1:20:27 · David Sims (0.60)] Entourage ↔ The Judge · theme · David says the Entourage movie, which he watched the same day, is better than The Judge. · "I had to watch it the same day I watched Entourage the movie, which is a better movie than the judge."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Iron Man 2 · 0:12:08 · unknown (0.30)] Iron Man 2 ↔ The Avengers · programming · Feige pushed more cinematic-universe setup after the first film, but held most back; the Fury scene and shield joke are the result. · "Let's build shield outlets, like give them, you know, a little more of what they want."
[Blank Check · Judging The Judge · 1:14:57 · David Sims (0.50)] The Judge ↔ A Civil Action · craft · The Judge looks like A Civil Action, a stately legal drama Duvall was Oscar-nominated for. · "the movie kind of looks like a civil action, which Robert Delwell was nominated for"
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Incredible Hulk · 0:24:59 · Griffin or David (0.25)] William Hurt ↔ The Avengers · programming · Hurt's Ross is the one thread kept through the MCU and the film otherwise sits apart from Ruffalo's Hulk. · "The only kind of thread they keep."
[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] 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] Jason Concepcion · latest sketch, The Big Picture · Did Disney’s ‘Mulan’ Experiment Work? A Binge Mode Investigation · Loves a musical, Donnie Yen action, and the 1998 Mulan with its Eddie Murphy humor. Finds the remake kind of boring and wants a grounded, historical version. Sucker for political and economic framing of film controversy. · stances: The remake is fine in a vacuum, a disappointment as a Mulan; Wants a more historical, less magical take; Sees the Mulan controversy as a symptom of the West-China economic experiment; Missing music means missing storytelling
[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)

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 Man of Steel (2013); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Man of Steel (2013) 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.