What the corpus says about Pixels (2015)

You are a clerk at Video Culture, a video store. A customer just finished Pixels (2015) 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 Pixels (2015) 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 · Ricki and the Flash · 1:49:15 · unknown (0.30)] Futurama ⇒ Pixels (the host's read) · lineage · The premise of Pixels is said to be ripped off from a Futurama episode. · "It is very much ripped off from Futurama."
[Blank Check · Ricki and the Flash · 1:49:29 · Bobby Finger or Lindsey Weber (0.30)] Pixels (short film) ⇒ Pixels (the host's read) · lineage · The speaker says the feature grew from a viral short that was a visual effects show reel made by an aspiring VFX artist, who was paid millions in a studio bidding war but had no stake in the movie. · "I believe the person was like an aspiring visual effects artist and he made it"
[Blank Check · Ricki and the Flash · 1:48:38 · unknown (0.40)] Pixels ↔ Galaxy Quest · contrast · Pixels is a reverse Galaxy Quest where aliens attack with our own media. · "It's like a reverse galaxy quest where the evil aliens are like, we're going to attack you with your media."
[Blank Check · Ricki and the Flash · 1:48:24 · unknown (0.30)] Ghostbusters ⇒ Pixels (the host's read) · tonal model · Pixels is called a Ghostbusters knockoff, with Adam Sandler trying to do Ghostbusters with Chris Columbus. · "Hixels is Ghostbusters."
[Blank Check · Ricki and the Flash · 1:49:54 · Griffin Newman (0.35)] Pixels ↔ Ricki and the Flash · joke equivalence · A joke that Pixels was Adam Sandler coming back to a recovering suicidal daughter, i.e. Ricki. · "Became Adam Sandler coming back to a suicidal daughter's like recovery period."
[Blank Check · Ricki and the Flash · 1:49:36 · unknown (0.35)] Pixels · fun · Pixels began as a viral visual-effects short whose maker got paid millions and had no stake in the film; it became Adam Sandler doing Ghostbusters and was the last wide Happy Madison release. · "And then there was this massive studio bidding war."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel · 0:59:46 · unknown (0.40)] Pixels · fun · The film opens with Kevin James sweating at a podium, which felt relatable a month into the Trump administration. · "it was like a month into the Trump administration and we were like, this feels this feels very relatable for some reason."
[The Big Picture · The Great ‘Avatar’ Debate · 1:07:47 · unknown (0.40)] Avatar ↔ Galaxy Quest · theme · The human-looking avatars are compared to Galaxy Quest's aliens who look like convention fans. · "There is a version of this story"
[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 · Ricki and the Flash · 1:01:27 · unknown (0.35)] Diablo Cody ↔ Ricki and the Flash · lineage · Cody said Ricki is based on her mother-in-law, who plays in a bar band. · "that her mother-in-law is part of a bar band that she would watch her play"
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Lego Batman Movie · 0:49:34 · Griffin Newman (0.70)] Galaxy Quest ⇒ The Lego Batman Movie (the host's read) · craft · The Phantom Zone security system gets the Galaxy Quest joke: who would ever build this? · "It's like the Galaxy Quest joke of like, why would this ever be your security system?"
[The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:02:45 · Sean Fennessey (0.85)] Ghostbusters ⇒ Ghostbusters: Afterlife (the host's read) · lineage · Afterlife is a revival of the original series by Ivan Reitman's son, loaded with its mythology. · "This is Jason Reitman's revivification of his father, Ivan Reitman's famed film series."
[Blank Check · Ricki and the Flash · 0:26:38 · unknown (0.40)] Ricki and the Flash ↔ Young Adult · craft · The speaker compares the two as opposite ends of Cody's style: Young Adult over-explains every incident, Ricki is vague about how bad Ricki was. · "they feel like 2 sorts of extremes on her like her writing style, on the opposite ends."
[The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:02:52 · Sean Fennessey (0.85)] Ghostbusters: Afterlife ↔ Ghostbusters · lineage · The Feig reboot came five years earlier and became a lightning rod. · "This comes 5 years after Paul Figs, also revivification or attempted revivification of this franchise, with a largely female cast"
[Blank Check · Ricki and the Flash · 0:34:43 · David Sims (0.40)] Declan Quinn ↔ Ricki and the Flash · craft · The host, after naming Quinn as cinematographer, finds the photography of Ricki weirdly flat and shiny, a disservice to hiring Demme. · "this movie is weirdly flat and I don't know what's up with the photography at all."
[The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:08:35 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60)] Laszlo Kovacs ↔ Ghostbusters · craft · The first film had top-class craftspeople: Kovacs shot it, Bernstein scored it. · "It's also a movie that was shot by Laslo Kovacs and scored by Elmer Bernstein."
[Blank Check · Ricki and the Flash · 0:47:07 · Bobby Finger or Lindsey Weber (0.30)] Jenny Lewis ↔ Ricki and the Flash · craft · The speaker likes the song 'Cold One', written by Jenny Lewis and her ex-boyfriend, and says it should have drawn a Golden Globe nomination. · "Written by Jenny Lewis. Jenny Lewis and her ex-boyfriend."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 0:34:19 · David Sims (0.40)] Edge of Tomorrow ↔ Ghostbusters · craft · The Noah Taylor briefing carries the same 'I'm not sure, it might end the world' flavor as Ghostbusters' cross the streams. · "The Ghostbusters thing of like what happens if we cross the streams."
[Blank Check · Ricki and the Flash · 1:11:44 · unknown (0.35)] Ricki and the Flash ↔ Juno · craft · Juno nails an innately unlikable character (Jennifer Garner) as pathologically uncool; Ricki's son-boyfriend scene is the failed version of that balance. · "Jennifer Garner's character in Juno is so incredibly good at being like, this is an innately unlikable person who we always demonize in movies like this."
[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] 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 Pixels (2015); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Pixels (2015) 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.