What the corpus says about The Hunt for Red October (1990)

You are a clerk at Video Culture, a video store. A customer just finished The Hunt for Red October (1990) 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 Hunt for Red October (1990) 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 · Blue Steel · 1:26:39 · unknown (0.40)] Blue Steel ↔ The Hunt for Red October · programming · The weekend Blue Steel opened, The Hunt for Red October was number one. · "It's a huge box on October, right? For Red October."
[The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 0:43:01 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60)] The Hunt for Red October ↔ Clear and Present Danger · lineage · Red October is the first Jack Ryan film and better than any of the Harrison Ford ones. · "this is obviously better than any of the Harrison Ford movies, in my opinion"
[The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 0:40:53 · Amanda Dobbins (0.80)] The Hunt for Red October ↔ Crimson Tide · contrast · Red October is the only submarine setting Amanda would endure; Crimson Tide is too tough. · "the only submarine environment that I would ever want to be a part of, even Crimson Tide is is too tough for me"
[The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 0:43:08 · unknown (0.40)] Clear and Present Danger ↔ The Hunt for Red October · contrast · A fan of Clear and Present Danger still rates Red October better. · "I'm quite fond of clear and present danger."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Die Hard 2’ · 0:51:55 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] Die Hard 2 ↔ The Hunt for Red October · scheduling conflict · McTiernan was supposed to direct but had committed to The Hunt for Red October. · "John McTiernan was supposed to direct this film, but he had committed to the hunt for Red October already"
[The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 0:40:43 · Amanda Dobbins (0.85)] Amanda Dobbins ↔ The Hunt for Red October · programming · Pick 5 (round 2), category action/horror/thriller: Loves the submarine movie; a sequel category took away other action picks. · "So I will be taking in action horror thriller at the Hunt for Red October."
[The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 0:42:22 · unknown (0.40)] The Hunt for Red October ↔ Chris Ryan · programming · Chris has been lobbying for Red October to be a Rewatchables episode. · "Chris has been lobbying for it to be on the rewatching."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Die Hard 2’ · 1:24:31 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] Fred Thompson ↔ The Hunt for Red October · career · Simmons asks whether Red October and Die Hard 2 made voters want Thompson as a senator. · "Hunt for October and Die Hard 2 where people just like, let's just vote this guy in."
[The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 0:44:12 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Alec Baldwin ↔ The Hunt for Red October · career · Red October sits in a strong 1988-1993 Alec Baldwin run that looked like a Clark Gable path. · "I think everybody thought he was going to be whatever, Clark Gable or something"
[pairs] The Hunt for Red October ↔ Clear and Present Danger · said 2 times in 1 episode
[The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 0:42:16 · Amanda Dobbins (0.80)] The Hunt for Red October · fun · Amanda imagines herself as the sonar operator listening to pings at double speed. · "If I could listen to the sonar pings at 2X."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel · 1:24:23 · unknown (0.40)] Blue Steel ↔ Zoolander · programming · Zoolander's Blue Steel ruined the title of Bigelow's film. · "It is weird now that like this movie's title is totally ruined by Zoolander."
[The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 1:08:20 · Amanda Dobbins (0.85)] Amanda Dobbins ↔ Die Hard 2 · programming · Pick 14 (round 5), category sequel: Takes it off the board and avoids Look Who's Talking Too. · "And I'm going to take Die Hard 2."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel · 1:28:23 · Jordan Hoffman (0.40)] Blue Steel ↔ Joe Versus the Volcano · programming · Number two that weekend was Joe Versus the Volcano, a critical bomb for Tom Hanks. · "Oh, Joe versus the volcano?"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Die Hard 2’ · 0:15:44 · Chris Ryan (0.80)] Die Hard 2 ↔ Die Hard · lineage · Ryan says the first and third Die Hard are baked into their locations, while this one is more generic action movie-ish. · "the 1st Die Hard and the 3rd Die Hard are characterized by their, like, this is really baked in."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel · 1:29:17 · unknown (0.40)] Blue Steel ↔ Lord of the Flies · programming · Number three that weekend was the 1990 Lord of the Flies. · "The 1990 Lord of the Flies."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Die Hard 2’ · 0:18:01 · Bill Simmons (0.75)] Die Hard 2 ↔ Lethal Weapon 2 · lineage · It arrived in the run-it-back era of sequels like Lethal Weapon 2. · "it is right during the era of everybody looking at each other and going, let's just run it back."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel · 1:30:22 · unknown (0.40)] Blue Steel ↔ House Party · programming · Number four that weekend was House Party. · "Oh, house party. house party."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Die Hard 2’ · 0:19:50 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] 58 Minutes ⇒ Die Hard 2 (the host's read) · lineage · The screenplay was adapted from Walter Wager's 1987 novel with a similar plot. · "Screenplay was adapted from Walter Wagers."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel · 0:05:23 · David Sims (0.40)] Blue Steel ↔ Halloween · lineage · Calls Blue Steel a slasher with Ron Silver as Michael Myers and cites Ebert calling it the best Halloween sequel. · "I read back to Roger Ebert's review, and he said, this is actually the best Halloween sequel that's ever been made."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Die Hard 2’ · 0:20:16 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] Manuel Noriega ⇒ Die Hard 2 (the maker said so: the screenwriter admitted it) · lineage · The writer admitted the script grabbed smoke from Iran-Contra and Manuel Noriega. · "there's definitely some Iran Contra, kind of, they're just grabbing smoke from that whole scandal and shoehorning into this with Manuel Noriega in real life."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel · 0:34:56 · unknown (0.30)] Blue Steel ↔ Dirty Harry · lineage · The after-shooting inquiry echoes the way Dirty Harry handled a cop's use of force. · "Dirty Harry done the same thing."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Die Hard 2’ · 0:43:06 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Die Hard 2 ⇒ Positive K (the host's read) · lineage · Positive K's song 'I Got a Man' samples a line from Die Hard 2, so the song now brings the movie to mind. · "And then that line got sampled on, I got a man, the positive K song. So now every time you hear that song, you hear that line from that movie."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel · 0:39:36 · unknown (0.30)] Blue Steel ↔ Prince of the City · lineage · Describes the cop-in-crisis strain of 70s cop movies, as in Lumet's Prince of the City. · "Right? So you Lumet's Prince in the city."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Die Hard 2’ · 0:22:49 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Die Hard 2 ↔ Indiana Jones series · theme · The critic grouped it with Indiana Jones as thrillers that leave your arm black and blue. · "this is one of those thrillers, like the Indiana Jones series that I categorized as bruised for our movies"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel · 0:39:39 · unknown (0.40)] Blue Steel ↔ The French Connection · lineage · Another cop movie where the hero is a mess consumed by one case. · "French connection where there's not like an overt life crisis, but he's like a fucking mess of a guy"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Die Hard 2’ · 0:41:35 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] Die Hard 2 ↔ First Blood · theme · Franz's 'I taught him everything he knows' line is joked as Richard Crenna in First Blood. · "like Richard Crenna in 1st Blood."
[speaker] Amanda Dobbins · latest sketch, The Big Picture · ‘Mamma Mia!’ Meets ‘The Strangers'! It’s a Movie Swap! · Loves The Strangers' withholding craft and a good tense horror film without gore, but likes fun, communal movies like Mamma Mia. She dislikes supernatural or gory horror, which irritates her more than it scares her. She is a sucker for stars and for Googling a movie mid-recording. · stances: The Strangers is scary because of what it doesn't show or explain; Ending explanation weakens it; no answer would be better; Prefers 'withholding' filmmaking; Defends Mamma Mia as joyful and intentional
[speaker] Bill Simmons · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · Loves the Friday series as a communal, rental-era memory and tells childhood stories about the ads and theaters. Likes casting what-ifs and sports analogies for everything. Skeptical of horror at Christmas and of anything that wastes the premise. · stances: Friday the 13th is not the best entry but the origin story had to be told; Friday 2 is a leap over the original
[speaker] Chris Ryan · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · A franchise and genre scholar who likes Jason, the early sequels, and Manhattan; attention to trivia, tropes and critic reception. Treats slashers as a canon with tiers. · stances: Parts 1, 2, 4 and Manhattan are the good ones; The series finds its legs at 4
[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] The Rewatchables: Apex Mountain (The moment a star peaks; where on the mountain a performance sits); Who Won the Movie (The hosts name the person who came out of the film best off); The Ebert review (Roger Ebert's original review and star rating read aloud. Ebert is cited, never on the show); Casting what-ifs (Who was almost cast, or who should have been); Most rewatchable scene (The scene each host would stop on while flipping channels); Aged best / aged worst (What holds up and what does not); Picking Nits (The little things in a film the hosts love that they don't think totally work: the nits); Double feature (The film each host would pair it with; a programming pick)

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 Hunt for Red October (1990); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend The Hunt for Red October (1990) 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.