What the corpus says about Transformers (2007)

You are a clerk at Video Culture, a video store. A customer just finished Transformers (2007) 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 Transformers (2007) 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 · Oscar Nomination Predictions, ‘Mean Girls,’ and ‘All of Us Strangers’ · 0:54:00 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Mean Girls ↔ Transformers · lineage · Since the host does not give Transformers and Spider-Man grief for echoing earlier versions, he will not give it to Mean Girls. · "I guess if I'm not going to give Transformers and Spider-Man shit about that."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give · 0:21:23 · unknown (0.35)] Transformers ⇒ Bumblebee (the host's read) · lineage · The Bumblebee trailer is the first act of the first Transformers movie extended. · "the big move is the 1st movie, that's the 1st 30 minutes."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel · 0:59:03 · Jordan Hoffman (0.40)] Blue Steel ↔ Transformers · craft · The same cinematographer, Amir Mokri, shot Blue Steel and Transformers 3 and 4, which the speaker calls a great-looking movie. · "Emir Mokri, who shot this movie, shot Transformers 3 and four."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give · 0:19:53 · unknown (0.40)] Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales ↔ Transformers · industry · Pirates 5 fits the Transformers pattern of diminishing returns. · "It sort of falls into the Transformers category"
[The Big Picture · 300th Episode Ask-Us-Anything Mailbag Spectacular · 0:11:26 · Sean Fennessey (0.90)] Transformers ↔ Michael Bay · career · Sean's trip to a Transformers premiere hooked him on covering movies; he later profiled Bay. · "I did eventually profile Michael Bay like 3 or 4 years later"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel · 0:59:03 · unknown (0.40)] Amir Mokri ↔ Transformers · career · The Blue Steel cinematographer went on to shoot Transformers 3 and 4. · "Emir Mokri, who shot this movie, shot Transformers 3 and four."
[Blank Check · Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind · 0:22:16 · David Sims (0.50)] Shia LaBeouf ↔ Transformers · people · The Disney dub caught Shia just before Transformers, between goofball and leading man. · "This is sort of like the year before Transformers or whatever."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 0:46:39 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Alex Kurtzman ↔ Transformers · industry · Kurtzman and Orci are cast as kings of magic blood, writers of Transformers and Star Trek. · "they were the Kings of magic blood."
[The Big Picture · The Top 10 Fantasy Films, The Toy Movie Hall of Fame, and ‘Masters of the Universe,’ · 1:29:57 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] Transformers (2007) · fun · Sean saw the original Bay Transformers at its premiere and it rocked his world. · "I was at the premiere of the original Transformers Michael Bay film, and it just rocked my world."
[The Big Picture · 300th Episode Ask-Us-Anything Mailbag Spectacular · 0:10:51 · Sean Fennessey (0.90)] Transformers · fun · Sean's first adult LA trip was a Transformers premiere, driving an Escalade supplied by the film's car sponsor; it hooked him on movies. · "going to a movie premiere as an adult with a VIP ticket talking to the people that were in the movie"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give · 0:22:18 · unknown (0.40)] Transformers · fun · Transformers 5 features Cogman, a robot who calls himself a psychopath and sings opera from the rafters. · "Transformers 5 features Cogman, who is a robot who self-identifies as a psychopath."
[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."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give · 0:20:34 · unknown (0.35)] Bumblebee ↔ The Iron Giant · lineage · Bumblebee looks like a small Iron Giant-style film. · "It looks fairy iron giant-y."
[The Big Picture · Oscar Nomination Predictions, ‘Mean Girls,’ and ‘All of Us Strangers’ · 0:52:22 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Mean Girls ⇒ Mean Girls (the host's read) · lineage · The new film reuses the original's iconic lines and jokes nearly verbatim, which Sean found a little flat because no joke lands when you know it is coming. · "they really do it verbatim, like, and so that's weird with a joke."
[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 · Oscar Nomination Predictions, ‘Mean Girls,’ and ‘All of Us Strangers’ · 0:54:17 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] Mean Girls ↔ A Star Is Born · lineage · The speaker is fine with a new auteur remaking a beloved thing every 20 years, as with Star Is Born / Star Wars-style retellings, here giving the social-media generation its own Mean Girls. · "every 20 years another Otour comes along and is like, I've got a take on this."
[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 Big Picture · Oscar Nomination Predictions, ‘Mean Girls,’ and ‘All of Us Strangers’ · 0:54:59 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50)] Mean Girls ⇒ Mean Girls (the host's read) · craft · The musical sands the edges off the Plastics and replaces bite with empowerment, a generational update on the original's Tina Fey punchline comedy. · "the edges are sanded off the plastics. And most of the jokes don't have the same bite."
[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."
[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."
[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."
[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."
[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."
[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
[speaker] David Sims · latest sketch, Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · Prepares history: novel, casting, budgets, box office. Reveres the film and thinks it reads as a normal ground-level story. A sucker for Hollywood deal backstory and box office game. · stances: Praises Keitel and Dafoe casting; Respects Scorsese's persistence and Corman discipline; The film is now well regarded though not 'canonical Marty'
[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] Jordan Hoffman · latest sketch, Blank Check — Patreon · 2001: A Space Odyssey · A self-described scholar of sci-fi and a devoted Clarke reader who has read the sequels. Loves hard science fiction, 70mm screenings, and the film's mystery, and claims to be sober and a fish fanatic. A sucker for trivia about the making of the film and for the Michael Benson book. · stances: 2001 is a bifurcated experience, diamond-hard sci-fi and psychedelia; The film is much funnier than people think; Believes the secrets of the universe are locked in it; Clarke's sequels are worth talking about, with 3001 as a gag
[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)

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 Transformers (2007); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Transformers (2007) 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.