What the corpus says about The General (1926)

You are a clerk at Video Culture, a video store. A customer just finished The General (1926) 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 The General (1926) 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 · Sherlock Jr. / The Navigator · 0:58:18 · David Sims (0.50)] Sherlock, Jr. ↔ The General · critical standing · Sherlock Jr. has supplanted The General as the critical consensus perfect Keaton movie. · "I feel like it's supplanted the general as sort of the critic consensus, perfect Keaton movie."
[Blank Check · Sherlock Jr. / The Navigator · 1:50:29 · David Sims (0.40)] The Navigator ↔ The General · same hook · Both started from Keaton getting hold of a vehicle and building the movie around it, but The General is a real movie while The Navigator is a series of bits. · "It is so similar to what the general eventually is where he's like, vehicle?"
[Blank Check · Sherlock Jr. / The Navigator · 1:59:49 · David Sims (0.40)] The General ↔ Stanley Kubrick · period-accuracy obsession · Keaton's obsessive uniform and detail accuracy on The General was Kubrickian, a push as a director beyond comedy. · "he was so obsessed with like fucking, you brought it up, James, but like Kubrickian, every fucking uniform has to be period accurate."
[Blank Check · Sherlock Jr. / The Navigator · 0:53:06 · David Sims (0.40)] Merton of the Movies (stage play) ⇒ Sherlock, Jr. (the host's read) · lineage · Keaton had seen a satiric play that may have given him the idea of a story set around a movie theater. · "there's a satiric play apparently called Merton of the movies."
[Blank Check · Sherlock Jr. / The Navigator · 2:19:36 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] The Navigator ↔ Captain Phillips · lineage · Griffin quips that The Navigator was remade as Captain Phillips, with fewer gags. · "and the navigator was remade as Captain Phillips."
[Blank Check · Sherlock Jr. / The Navigator · 1:38:39 · David Sims (0.40)] Sherlock, Jr. ⇒ What's Up, Doc? (the host's read) · lineage · The Chinese-dragon bicycle chase in What's Up, Doc? is a complete homage to the stag-party sequence. · "The bicycled Chinese dragon sequence and what's up dog is complete homage to this sequence."
[Blank Check · Sherlock Jr. / The Navigator · 1:58:32 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] The Navigator ↔ Harold Lloyd · craft · In the ghost-painting bit Keaton panics like a Harold Lloyd character instead of staying deadpan. · "He actually had kind of a Harold Lloyd reaction to this."
[Blank Check · Sherlock Jr. / The Navigator · 1:18:51 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Sherlock, Jr. ↔ Corridor Crew (YouTube channel) · craft · A YouTube channel was stumped by three of the film's special-effects sequences, more than by modern movies. · "they were more stump trying to figure out the special effects of Sherlock Jr. than most modern movies."
[Blank Check · Sherlock Jr. / The Navigator · 2:01:09 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] The Navigator ↔ Victor Herbert · craft · A Navigator title card jokes about singing Kiss Me Again to the music of Alice, Where Art Thou; the speaker looked up that Kiss Me Again is by Victor Herbert. · "Kiss Me Again is an up-tempo, like, waltz. That I can imagine. I can basically picture what that's written by Victor Herbert"
[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'
[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 The General (1926); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend The General (1926) 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.