What the corpus says about Long Shot (2019)

You are a clerk at Video Culture, a video store. A customer just finished Long Shot (2019) 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 Long Shot (2019) 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.

[The Big Picture · Emergency Mailbag: The Oscars Are Streaming and Hollywood Is Fighting Over Trolls | The Big Picture · 0:11:00 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50)] Long Shot ↔ The King of Staten Island · theme · Long Shot, an adult non-franchise comedy, made little in theaters because people wanted it on demand, suggesting Staten Island may suit VOD. · "I was thinking about long shot, which is not a Judd Apatau movie, but is in a similar vein, similar, like a comedy for adults, that it's not a franchise."
[The Rewatchables · ‘This Is the End’ · 0:16:13 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Goon ↔ Long Shot · people · Rogen and Goldberg add heart; Goon and Long Shot hold the same quality of emotional investment. · "I'm like actually pretty invested in like whether or not Rogan and Charlie's get together."
[Blank Check · Ricki and the Flash · 1:57:21 · unknown (0.30)] Good Boys ↔ Long Shot · industry · Good Boys is said to have probably outgrossed Long Shot and Ricki. · "This movie probably made more money than like long shot, which made more money, but no question."
[The Big Picture · The Future of ‘Star Wars,’ Marvel, Pixar, and Disney’s Movie Monopoly. Plus: Our Summer Movie Awards and Paul Downs Colaizzo on ‘Brittany Runs a Marathon’ | The Big Picture · 0:36:09 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Long Shot ↔ Avengers: Endgame · industry · Long Shot opened a week after Endgame with two stars over 35, which explains its low turnout. · "It came a week out a week after Endgame and stars 2 people over the age of 35."
[The Big Picture · The Future of ‘Star Wars,’ Marvel, Pixar, and Disney’s Movie Monopoly. Plus: Our Summer Movie Awards and Paul Downs Colaizzo on ‘Brittany Runs a Marathon’ | The Big Picture · 0:36:30 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] Once Upon a Time in Hollywood ↔ Long Shot · industry · Counterprogramming may be dead, and fewer original films get made if they go only to streamers. · "The question is whether or not people will still make movies like that if nobody goes to see them in the theaters."
[The Big Picture · The Future of ‘Star Wars,’ Marvel, Pixar, and Disney’s Movie Monopoly. Plus: Our Summer Movie Awards and Paul Downs Colaizzo on ‘Brittany Runs a Marathon’ | The Big Picture · 0:39:23 · Amanda Dobbins (0.40)] Long Shot ↔ First Man · industry · A political controversy did not help First Man, so a Trump spat would not have rescued Long Shot. · "That didn't work for 1st man though."
[Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail · 1:35:34 · unknown (0.00)] The Lovebirds ↔ Long Shot · industry · Both are mid-budget star-driven comedies, the kind that struggles now. · "the lovebirds, that movie that just came out that's on Netflix is one of those types of movies."
[The Big Picture · The Future of ‘Star Wars,’ Marvel, Pixar, and Disney’s Movie Monopoly. Plus: Our Summer Movie Awards and Paul Downs Colaizzo on ‘Brittany Runs a Marathon’ | The Big Picture · 0:37:33 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50)] Long Shot ↔ Broadcast News · elevator pitch · Long Shot is hard to pitch in one line, with a Broadcast News remake as the only handle. · "What is it, is it a remake of broadcast news?"
[The Big Picture · The Future of ‘Star Wars,’ Marvel, Pixar, and Disney’s Movie Monopoly. Plus: Our Summer Movie Awards and Paul Downs Colaizzo on ‘Brittany Runs a Marathon’ | The Big Picture · 0:37:50 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Long Shot ↔ Yesterday · elevator pitch counterexample · Yesterday had a clear pitch and lots of talk, yet did only okay, so the pitch theory is not settled. · "a movie with a great elevet or premise pitch that did not work at all, which is yesterday."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ · 1:08:46 · Juliet Litman (0.50)] Seth Rogen ↔ Long Shot · career · A speaker says Rogen is now in legitimate normal movies like The Long Shot. · "he is like in like legitimate normal movies, like that movie the long shot."
[The Big Picture · Our Alternative Academy Awards | The Oscars Show · 1:20:19 · Wesley Morris (0.40)] Long Shot ↔ Charlize Theron · elevates co-star · Theron changes the properties of everyone around her and drew the best Seth Rogen performance ever. · "She brought, that was the best Seth Rogan I've ever seen and I think it's entirely, she's entirely responsible for that."
[The Big Picture · The Future of ‘Star Wars,’ Marvel, Pixar, and Disney’s Movie Monopoly. Plus: Our Summer Movie Awards and Paul Downs Colaizzo on ‘Brittany Runs a Marathon’ | The Big Picture · 0:35:13 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60)] Long Shot ↔ Charlize Theron · scene · Charlize Theron's terrorist negotiation on the phone in a long shot is a favorite scene. · "And then Charlize Theron doing a terrorist negotiation on Molly in long shot."
[The Big Picture · Our Alternative Academy Awards | The Oscars Show · 0:27:04 · Amanda Dobbins (0.40)] Long Shot · fun · At South By Southwest, Boyz II Men showed up on screen and the room lost it; at the end of the film they came out and performed Motown Philly. Sean says it beat most movies of the year. · "boys men just showed up and perform Motown Philly. And, uh, it was it was better than probably any movie I saw last year."
[The Big Picture · Our Alternative Academy Awards | The Oscars Show · 1:20:00 · Wesley Morris (0.40)] Long Shot · fun · The end of Long Shot: Seth Rogen looks at Theron with an ardor Wesley's never seen from anyone, while she speaks to a documentary crew. · "I have never seen anybody look at somebody like that with such ardor."
[The Big Picture · The Future of ‘Star Wars,’ Marvel, Pixar, and Disney’s Movie Monopoly. Plus: Our Summer Movie Awards and Paul Downs Colaizzo on ‘Brittany Runs a Marathon’ | The Big Picture · 0:35:32 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60)] Long Shot · fun · Long Shot was hysterical at South by Southwest, with the cast taking a victory lap to Boyz II Men, and it still flopped. · "Then the cast of Long Shot walked out and did like a victory lap and boys to men played and it was like, this is going to be a blockbuster."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me’ · 0:53:34 · unknown (0.40)] Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me ↔ Avengers: Endgame · theme · Both brush off time-travel logic with a joke. · "that's exactly what Avengers Endgame does too"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ · 0:08:59 · unknown (0.30)] Working Girl ↔ Broadcast News · theme · Grouped with Working Girl as part of the era of the professional woman on screen. · "broadcast news in like a slightly different way."
[The Big Picture · The ‘Babylon’ Watch-Along · 1:59:49 · unknown (0.30)] Damien Chazelle ↔ First Man · theme · Chazelle's recurring theme of people who touch greatness and then lose it runs through La La Land and First Man as well as Babylon. · "That's what La La Land is about. If you look at the end of that movie, that's what 1st man is about."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War · 1:46:32 · unknown (0.30)] Avengers: Infinity War ↔ Avengers: Endgame · theme · Doctor Strange's 14 million futures: Endgame is the one pathway he sees. · "A movie endgame is the one pathway."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Big Chill’ · 1:02:23 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] The Big Chill ↔ Broadcast News · theme · Same 80s serious-comedy wave. · "Tootsie, Big Chill, Lost in America, Pritzies on, or Baby Boom, Broadcast News."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War · 2:09:10 · unknown (0.40)] Avengers: Infinity War ↔ Avengers: Endgame · theme · Thanos's Titan speech echoes his first line about knowing what it is to be right and still lose. · "And this is the echo to, I know what it's like."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War · 2:28:37 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Avengers: Infinity War ↔ Avengers: Endgame · theme · Endgame's returning heroes prove Thanos wrong: you love even the tertiary characters. · "Feige being like C, Thanos was wrong."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War · 1:27:37 · unknown (0.35)] Avengers: Infinity War ↔ Avengers: Endgame · craft · Because Thanos is the protagonist here, killing him at the top of Endgame is a deliberate anticlimax. · "killing him after this would be an anticlimax"
[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] 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
[speaker] Wesley Morris · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘My Cousin Vinny’ · Loves Marisa Tomei, the grits scene, and the clothes; is a sucker for Fran Drescher. Dislikes car-driving-away endings and thinks the film has done harm by encouraging self-representation. · stances: Tomei deserved the Oscar; Race in courtroom movies matters, and this one is warmly integrated; The Nanny is basically Mona Lisa Vito
[speaker] Juliet Litman · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ · Deeply versed in rom-coms (Nora Ephron is 'my personal god'), TV, and celebrity careers. Loves a good meal scene and a believable detail. Cannot stand a female lead with no friends or ambition. · stances: Alison has no friends and no inner life, the movie's biggest pitfall; Heigl torpedoed her own career with the Vanity Fair interview; Rom-coms of 89-05 are women-driven; Apatow flipped it; Double feature should be Adventureland
[speaker] Sean Fennessey · latest sketch, The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · Loves gory, funny, fast genre movies with craft and confidence, especially 87-minute films that never overstay. Can't stand ponderous elevated horror that fills out its runtime with introspection and sad family history. A sucker for the Carpenter-era lineage, Die Hard homages, and directors who break studio dogma. · stances: Resident Evil is one of the best films of the year; Horror movies have become a drag; fun genre experiences are needed; Short running times are a virtue; Video-game films work best when great filmmakers get creative license
[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)
[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 Long Shot (2019); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Long Shot (2019) 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.