What the corpus says about X2 (2003)

You are a clerk at Video Culture, a video store. A customer just finished X2 (2003) 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 X2 (2003) 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 · The Last Temptation of Christ · 1:49:12 · Griffin Newman (0.30)] The Last Temptation of Christ ↔ X2 · theme · Judas recognizing the child angel as Satan is jokingly tied to creepy-girl villains in Resident Evil and X2's White Queen. · "Have you ever seen Resident Evil?"
[Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · 2:14:40 · David Sims (0.40)] Tucker: The Man and His Dream ↔ The Last Temptation of Christ · programming · Scorsese and Coppola released passion projects the same weekend. · "Just interesting that Marty and Francis on the same weekend released like passion projects"
[Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · 0:44:30 · David Sims (0.40)] Barbara Hershey ⇒ The Last Temptation of Christ (the host's read) · lineage · Hershey also planted the book in Scorsese's head and told him to let her audition as Mary Magdalene. · "But it's planted in his head by her."
[Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · 0:45:07 · David Sims (0.50)] The Robe ⇒ The Last Temptation of Christ (the host's read) · lineage · The Robe is the first Christ movie Scorsese remembers seeing. · "The 1st Christ movie he remembers seeing is the robe."
[Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · 1:52:21 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Peter Gabriel ↔ The Last Temptation of Christ · lineage · Gabriel's score is claimed to shape how every Middle East-set film sounds. · "But like every movie set in the Middle East now sounds like this because of this score."
[Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · 1:07:01 · David Sims (0.40)] The Last Temptation of Christ ↔ Ishtar · theme · Per Miriam Bale, it shares many Moroccan locations with Ishtar, shot around the same time. · "Yes, it shares a lot of locations with Ishtar, which was made around the same time."
[Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · 1:43:14 · David Sims (0.50)] The Last Temptation of Christ ↔ Star Trek: The Next Generation, 'The Inner Light' · theme · Jesus lives a whole accelerated lifetime in a vision, like Picard living 50 years on a village. · "You can't not think of the inner light, the most famous episode of this of that show."
[Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · 1:50:06 · unknown (0.30)] The Last Temptation of Christ ↔ It's a Wonderful Life · theme · Jesus dragging himself back to the cross after seeing the life he wasn't given plays like the wonderful-life reversal. · "also a very kind of like it's a wonderful life scene."
[Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · 1:00:52 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] The Last Temptation of Christ ↔ New York, New York · craft · Both run long stretches of repeated set pieces around a central pairing, then a final act turning inward, ending in a tragic blow; Last Temptation reads as a corrective. · "I think this movie is fascinatingly, structurally so similar to New York, New York."
[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
[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 X2 (2003); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend X2 (2003) 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.