What the corpus says about The Last Airbender (2010)

You are a clerk at Video Culture, a video store. A customer just finished The Last Airbender (2010) 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 The Last Airbender (2010) 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 — Patreon · Eclipse · 1:18:16 · unknown (0.40)] The Last Airbender ↔ The Twilight Saga: Eclipse · contrast · Last Airbender blew casting on a franchise starter, the opposite of Twilight's growth. · "so last Airbender is the opposite where they just, they just fucking, they blew it."
[Blank Check · Lady in the Water · 1:53:00 · Richard Lawson (0.40)] Lady in the Water ↔ The Last Airbender · career · Notes that Shyamalan bounced back after the flop, with The Last Airbender coming. · "I haven't seen the last Airbender."
[Blank Check · Planet of the Apes · 0:13:20 · unknown (0.50)] Planet of the Apes ↔ The Last Airbender · viewing experience · The last time a movie felt this soulless and hard to stay awake through on the show was The Last Airbender. · "the last time I remember feeling this way watching a movie forward, this podcast was Last Airbender."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Eclipse · 1:16:30 · unknown (0.30)] Jackson Rathbone ↔ The Last Airbender · career · Rathbone was in Eclipse and The Last Airbender (as Sokka) the same month, and made the comic relief humorless. · "Brathbone is Soca."
[Blank Check · Lady in the Water · 1:44:42 · unknown (0.30)] Lady in the Water ↔ Tin Cup · lineage · A golf-course version with a lake and a caddy is pitched as basically Tin Cup. · "So it's tin cup, basically."
[Blank Check · Planet of the Apes · 1:29:37 · unknown (0.40)] Suicide Squad ↔ Planet of the Apes · lineage · Studios sometimes force sequels no one asked for; Apes was a rare time they didn't. · "Again, it's like, you got out of suicide squad alive."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Eclipse · 0:08:12 · unknown (0.40)] David Slade ↔ The Twilight Saga: Eclipse · programming · Summit hired a horror stylist hoping to make the franchise scary and win teenage boys. · "I think they went like, oh, here's a guy who does like highly stylized, sophisticated horror shit."
[Blank Check · Lady in the Water · 1:45:08 · unknown (0.30)] Lady in the Water ↔ Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest · lineage · A pirate ship setting is pitched for the story because of that summer's Pirates. · "How about on a pirate ship?"
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Incredible Hulk · 0:39:14 · Griffin or David (0.30)] Planet of the Apes ⇒ Planet of the Apes (the host's read) · lineage · Burton's ending tries to outdo the Statue of Liberty reveal of the original. · "Because they're trying to outdo the reveal of like the Statue of Liberty at the end."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Eclipse · 1:17:57 · unknown (0.40)] The Twilight Saga: Eclipse ↔ The Hunger Games · programming · Twilight's casting grew from B-list to Oscar nominees by the third film, like Hunger Games gaining Hoffman and Julianne Moore. · "And it's kind of the same thing with hunger games."
[Blank Check · Lady in the Water · 0:22:20 · David Sims (0.50)] Lady in the Water ↔ Manchester by the Sea · theme · A man loses his family in a past tragedy and becomes the super of a building, which the speaker notes as the same plot. · "In all caps, I wrote, this is the plot of Manchester by the Sea."
[Blank Check · Planet of the Apes · 0:02:31 · unknown (0.50)] Planet of the Apes ↔ Beetlejuice · theme · The ape dinner-party scene is the one moment that feels like Burton, like Beetlejuice with apes. · "the scene with all the apes sitting around the dinner table, which is like the Beetlejuice scene with apes."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Eclipse · 2:10:08 · Ben Hosley (0.50)] The Twilight Saga: Eclipse ↔ Toy Story 3 · programming · Eclipse opened the same weekend as Toy Story 3, Last Airbender and Grown Ups (box office game). · "It's Toy Story 3, and it's the weekend."
[Blank Check · Lady in the Water · 1:00:55 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Lady in the Water ↔ The Lorax · theme · A creature living in a tree stump who kicks herself in the behind and flies to the sky is likened to the Lorax. · "She was like, the Lorax."
[Blank Check · Planet of the Apes · 1:11:47 · unknown (0.40)] Planet of the Apes ↔ Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom · theme · The apes' chanting of a word makes one speaker think of Temple of Doom. · "Um, I can't not think of Temple of Doom every time they say it in this movie."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Eclipse · 2:21:20 · unknown (0.40)] The Twilight Saga: Eclipse ↔ The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn · programming · The final film is promised to take a huge liberty with the book and be entertaining, and the second to last has Michael Sheen camp. · "at least, I remember the next one having some Michael Sheen in it."
[Blank Check · Lady in the Water · 1:14:45 · Richard Lawson (0.40)] Lady in the Water ↔ The Poseidon Adventure · theme · Cleveland's underwater swim is likened to Shelley Winters's pool swim in The Poseidon Adventure. · "And I wrote down Shelley Winters and Poseidon Adventure."
[Blank Check · Planet of the Apes · 1:18:41 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Planet of the Apes ↔ Planet of the Apes · theme · Alex Ross Perry texted that the original book ends in a way very similar to the 2001 film. · "the original book ends in a way that's very similar to this."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Eclipse · 0:06:32 · unknown (0.40)] The Twilight Saga: Eclipse ↔ Imitation of Life · lineage · A guest on the prior episode (Chris, who worked on the franchise) was told the series plays like a Sirkian melodrama; his mother was nominated for Imitation of Life. · "it's like a Circian melodrama"
[Blank Check · Lady in the Water · 1:15:15 · unknown (0.30)] Lady in the Water ↔ Unbreakable · theme · Cleveland Heep's murdered family backstory is likened to the crime in Unbreakable. · "much like the crime and unbreakable."
[Blank Check · Planet of the Apes · 1:51:44 · unknown (0.50)] Danny Elfman ↔ Planet of the Apes · craft · Elfman's opening theme is exciting but the rest of the score is boring. · "The Elfman score."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Eclipse · 0:17:30 · unknown (0.40)] The Twilight Saga: Eclipse ↔ Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones · lineage · The meadow-and-flowers romance scene reads as Attack of the Clones vibes; the ending returns to the same field. · "Whereas this is Attack of the Clones vibes."
[Blank Check · Lady in the Water · 1:16:46 · David Sims (0.40)] Lady in the Water ↔ The Last of the Mohicans · theme · Relaying the myth through third-hand translation is compared to the Last of the Mohicans scene of language relay. · "It's like the scene in the Last of the Mohicans where Daniel Day-Louis has to have the British guys speak French to the Native Americans who only speak French."
[Blank Check · Planet of the Apes · 1:52:28 · unknown (0.40)] Planet of the Apes ↔ Saul Bass · craft · The opening title shots of helmets feel like Saul Bass. · "feels very salt bass to me."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Eclipse · 0:35:05 · unknown (0.40)] The Twilight Saga: Eclipse ↔ Sonic the Hedgehog · theme · Speedster problem via Rebecca Drysdale: a character faster than everyone has no shared continuum with others; the Sonic movie solved it with a road trip. · "Sonic is inherently kind of a tough character to build dramatic narrative around because his whole thing is he goes faster than everyone else."
[Blank Check · Lady in the Water · 1:25:38 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Lady in the Water ↔ The Revenant · theme · Jokes that Hugh Glass in The Revenant was really attacked by a scrunt. · "I didn't like the revenant because in real life, Hugh Glass was attacked by a scrunt."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Incredible Hulk · 0:39:03 · Griffin or David (0.30)] Planet of the Apes ↔ Interstellar · craft · Burton's ending is so confusing that the DVD shipped with a timeline insert, likened to Interstellar-style time-travel explanation. · "It's like a weird, like, interstellar where they're like, so if the black hole is here, and this is that, it involves like weird time travel butterfly affection."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Eclipse · 0:46:58 · unknown (0.30)] The Twilight Saga: Eclipse ↔ True Blood · theme · Twilight's newborn-vampire subplot prompts a comparison to True Blood, where turning someone makes you responsible for them. · "I'm thinking about true blood again."
[speaker] Richard Lawson · latest sketch, Blank Check — Patreon · The Curious Case of Benjamin Button · Loves Forrest Gump and had snarked at Button as a young Gawker writer; had never seen the film before preparing. Came around on it on rewatch, valuing the sentimental tone and Daisy's regret. · stances: Button deserves reevaluation; Pitt's casting works because of the special effects reveal; the logic of the aging is not the point
[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 The Last Airbender (2010); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend The Last Airbender (2010) 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.