What the corpus says about WALL-E (2008)

You are a clerk at Video Culture, a video store. A customer just finished WALL-E (2008) 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 WALL-E (2008) 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 Rewatchables · ‘Do The Right Thing’ · 1:14:25 · Wesley Morris (0.65)] The Matrix ↔ WALL-E · programming · Between The Matrix and WALL-E, Wesley says humanity's fate is already depicted, seen in airport travelers sunk into phones. · "between that movie and Wali, I'm like, we're set for life"
[Blank Check · Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind · 1:33:25 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind ↔ WALL-E · theme · Both end on the image of a single green sprout as proof that things can grow again. · "This ends with the very Wally image, which is like the last frame in the end credits is the one... little sprout, the one little leak."
[The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 1:34:08 · unknown (0.40)] WALL-E ↔ WALL-E · theme · Wall-E is like Apple Vision Pro: fat robots watching screens; it would be an age-best and age-worst entry. · "Wally is like it in, it's like the Apple Vision Pro is in Wally."
[Blank Check · Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind · 1:11:15 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Hideaki Anno ↔ Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind · lineage · The Neon Genesis Evangelion creator started on this film, animating the God Warrior waking. · "one of the big guys from Neon Jellous, Neon Genesis Evangelian. Right, starts on this, right?"
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Truman Show’ · 1:34:11 · Glen Powell (0.40)] The Truman Show ↔ The Matrix · programming · Double-feature suggestion put to the table, with Gattaca and The Game also chosen. · "The Matrix?"
[Blank Check · Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind · 0:38:03 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind ↔ Starship Troopers · theme · Early in the film it reads as Miyazaki's people-versus-bugs movie, but its ending flips the Starship Troopers propaganda by having the heroine empathize with the bugs. · "Like this is his people versus Bugs movie."
[Blank Check — Patreon · In the Cut · 2:08:29 · Griffin or David (unclear) (0.35)] The Matrix ↔ Ghostbusters · programming · The Patreon feed is currently doing Ghostbusters and then The Matrix. · "We're doing Ghostbusters, then we're doing the Matrix."
[Blank Check · Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind · 0:40:20 · Lulu Wang (0.85)] Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind ↔ The Farewell · theme · Lulu Wang felt the same make-it-now pressure on her second film as Miyazaki did on his second film. · "I felt that way about the farewell, which is my 2nd film as well."
[The Big Picture · Celebrating ‘Scott Pilgrim vs. the World’ 10 Years Later · 0:03:08 · Sean Fennessey (0.90)] The Matrix ⇒ Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (the host's read) · lineage · Sean breaks the staging down into influences: Bruce Lee, The Matrix, and Phantom of the Paradise. · "It's one part Bruce Lee, one part the Matrix, one part Phantom of the Paradise."
[Blank Check · Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind · 1:28:42 · David Sims (0.50)] Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind ↔ Dune · theme · Blasted world with creatures the people cannot understand, and Nausicaä as a feminine Fremen-like figure who learns to coexist with the land, versus industrial nations running roughshod. · "Nausicaa is sort of like the feminine, you know, like the feminine Dunehurst sort of like they can work the land."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Do The Right Thing’ · 1:13:36 · Wesley Morris (0.60)] Do the Right Thing ↔ The Matrix · theme · Sean offers The Matrix as a film that attracted retroactive concern about violence, unlike the contemporaneous panic over Do the Right Thing. · "I think there's been a lot of retroactive energy on the Matrix."
[Blank Check · Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind · 1:33:15 · David Sims (0.50)] Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind ↔ Dune · theme · The promise that you can grow plants in a place everyone says you cannot is central to Dune and to Nausicaä's ending. · "And everyone's like, you can't grow anything on Dune."
[The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies · 0:05:17 · Chris Ryan (0.85)] Ready Player One ↔ The Matrix · theme · Chris sees it as another orphan-messiah-saves-the-world story like the Matrix and Star Wars. · "like the Matrix and, you know, like Lords of Arabia and Star Wars are all about like these orphans who've saved the world."
[Blank Check · Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind · 1:10:59 · David Sims (0.50)] Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind ↔ Castle in the Sky · craft · Joe Hisashi's first Miyazaki score is described as like his Castle in the Sky score: electronic and pulsating. · "That's sort of, and it's much like his castle in the Sky Score."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Fight Club · 1:31:01 · unknown (0.40)] The Matrix ↔ Fight Club · theme · Norton's cubicle drone is called the mirror image of Keanu's in The Matrix. · "He is the mirror image of Keanu in the Matrix, the same mirror, the, you know, the cubicle guy with the fucking, you know, ill-fitting white shirt"
[Blank Check · Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind · 1:24:25 · David Sims (0.50)] Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind ⇒ Warriors of the Wind (the host's read) · craft · The 95 minute American cut dropped the environmental themes, renamed Nausicaä as Princess Zandra and turned the Ohmu into plain enemies. · "the film basically turns into an action adventure movie where like the environmentalist themes are kind of gone."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 0:31:17 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Edge of Tomorrow ↔ The Matrix · craft · The mimics recall the Matrix Sentinels but do not feel derivative. · "There's a little bit of the Matrix Sentinel."
[Blank Check · Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind · 1:28:54 · David Sims (0.40)] Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind ↔ Mad Max · craft · The apocalypse-world energy of the film is likened to Mad Max and to Mortal Engines. · "Let's get some energy vibes."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon · 0:24:55 · David Sims (0.40)] Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon ↔ The Matrix · craft · CTHD's choreographer is the same as The Matrix's. · "obviously this has the same actual choreographer as that movie"
[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] 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
[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 WALL-E (2008); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend WALL-E (2008) 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.