What the corpus says about Hacksaw Ridge (2016)

You are a clerk at Video Culture, a video store. A customer just finished Hacksaw Ridge (2016) 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 Hacksaw Ridge (2016) 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 · 1:42:01 · unknown (0.40)] Boy Erased ↔ Hacksaw Ridge · people · Both movies are populated by Australian actors playing Americans. · "Isn't that one of those weird movies like Hacksaw Ridge, where all but the lead actor are Australian, even in Australia?"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Full Metal Jacket · 0:13:25 · Jon Gabrus (0.80)] Full Metal Jacket ↔ Hacksaw Ridge · people · Hacksaw Ridge gets around the Ermey shadow by casting Vince Vaughn, a different kind of motor mouth. · "But like Hacksaw Ridge is one of the only movies I think to get around this where it's like, oh, get Vince Vaughn, he's like a different type of motor mouth."
[The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:29:10 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] Andrew Garfield ↔ Hacksaw Ridge · career · Garfield has been nominated once, for Hacksaw Ridge, after a mistaken guess of Billy Lynn. · "It was Hacksaw Ridge."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Full Metal Jacket · 0:56:40 · David Sims (0.60)] The Woman King ↔ Full Metal Jacket · programming · Both films are about how much you have to break your brain to survive training for war. · "But it's the thing that like Woman King goes into a lot as well of like, how much you have to break your brain to survive an environment like this, right?"
[The Big Picture · 8. I Love America | Do We Get to Win This Time? · 0:50:43 · Lorenz Tate (0.80)] Full Metal Jacket ⇒ Dead Presidents (the maker said so: Lorenz Tate recalling the Hughes brothers' videotapes) · lineage · Allen Hughes made a VHS of Vietnam scenes; Tate was assigned Full Metal Jacket, Apocalypse Now, Platoon. · "So I watched Full Metal Jacket."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Full Metal Jacket · 0:25:08 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] The Short-Timers (novel) ⇒ Full Metal Jacket (the host's read) · lineage · Kubrick's film is based on Gustav Hasford's novel and keeps its three-part structure. · "Stanley Kubrick's film, 1987, based on the novel, The Short Timers by Gustav Hasford."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Full Metal Jacket · 1:05:50 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] R. Lee Ermey ⇒ Full Metal Jacket (the host's read) · lineage · Per the dossier Hartman's insults came right from Ermey, whom Kubrick had write down what he screamed. · "No, obviously this guy is perfect and would write down everything he said because all the insults came right from him"
[The Big Picture · Thirteen Awards Movies to Watch Out for, Oscar Do-Overs, and More From the Mailbag · 0:47:14 · Amanda Dobbins (0.80)] A Star Is Born ↔ Full Metal Jacket · theme · Offered as a second answer to best half-movie: everything up to the first time she sings Shallow is dynamite. · "everything leading up to the 1st time she sings shallow on stage, which is like, I think an hour, maybe a little bit less."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Full Metal Jacket · 0:18:12 · unknown (0.30)] Stripes ↔ Full Metal Jacket · theme · Compared as boot-camp movies, though Stripes loses interest after basic. · "It's it's a little bit like stripes, except the differences."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Full Metal Jacket · 0:30:52 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Platoon ↔ Full Metal Jacket · theme · At release critics said Platoon's visceral combat made Kubrick's sound-stage Vietnam look less real. · "Kubrick doing this on sound stages isn't the same."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Full Metal Jacket · 0:59:03 · Jon Gabrus (0.60)] Black Hawk Down ↔ Full Metal Jacket · theme · Eric Bana's Black Hawk Down character is like Animal Mother: scary, but useful when the shooting starts. · "Eric Bana's character is sort of similar where everyone's like, look, that guy freaks me out,"
[speaker] Jon Gabrus · latest sketch, Blank Check — Patreon · Full Metal Jacket · Action-movie guy from Action Boys who loves war films, 80s actioners, Michael Mann and synth scores. Has rewatched the film at different ages and now prizes the journalism section; can't stand the Iraq war cash-ins. · stances: the first part is the best part and the second half is underrated; Hartman is the nexus of the movie drill sergeant; the Jarhead sequels are cynical
[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)

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 Hacksaw Ridge (2016); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Hacksaw Ridge (2016) 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.