What the corpus says about Lethal Weapon (1987)

You are a clerk at Video Culture, a video store. A customer just finished Lethal Weapon (1987) 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 Lethal Weapon (1987) 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 · ‘Se7en’ · 0:29:28 · Sean Fennessey (0.55)] Seven ↔ Lethal Weapon · lineage · Mills plays the reckless young cop with Mel Gibson in Lethal Weapon energy. · "he's playing that like Mel Gibson and lethal weapon energy"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Iron Man 3 · 1:43:33 · unknown (0.30)] Iron Man 3 ↔ Lethal Weapon · lineage · The shot of Stark and Rhodey peeking over a girder with guns has a Lethal Weapon vibe. · "lethal weapon vibe, that shot of the 2 of them like peeking over a girder with like guns in their hands being..."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop II’ · 1:03:31 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Beverly Hills Cop II ↔ Lethal Weapon · people · By the mid-90s sequels learned to add stars (Pesci in Lethal Weapon, Jackson in Die Hard 3); Cop sequels just ran it back. · "You have to have Joe Pesci join Lethal Weapon, and you have to try to bring in Chris Rock. You get Sam Jackson in Die Hard 3."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Se7en · 0:49:32 · unknown (0.30)] Seven ↔ Lethal Weapon · buddy-cop worry · Studio saw an older Black detective and a young white one and worried it would read as Lethal Weapon. · "this people are just going to think it's lethal weapon"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Iron Man 3 · 1:43:23 · unknown (0.30)] Shane Black ↔ Lethal Weapon · craft · Black wrote Lethal Weapon, and the movie's last act turns Rhodey and Stark into a Lethal Weapon-style buddy cop pair. · "You get this last this last act where suddenly like roadie and Stark become like a buddy cop team."
[pairs] Lethal Weapon ↔ Seven · said 2 times in 2 episodes
[The Rewatchables · ‘Se7en’ · 0:17:05 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] Seven ↔ The Shawshank Redemption · programming · Both are movies you get sucked into on cable by the last 40 minutes. · "The same thing with Shawshank."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop II’ · 0:10:45 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Beverly Hills Cop II ↔ Police Academy 4 · lineage · Cop II was the only sequel in the 1987 domestic top 20-25; the next was Police Academy 4 at 44th. · "This is the only sequel in the top 20, top 25, where it's not until Police Academy 4, which was the 44th biggest movie that year."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The Winter Soldier · 0:14:14 · unknown (0.35)] Captain America: The Winter Soldier ↔ Iron Man 3 · programming · Marvel gives each film a different genre; Winter Soldier is the political thriller, Iron Man 3 the noir/buddy film. · "Right. So this is when they're like, Iron Man 3 is sort of like a noir and like a buddy film, Dark World is like high fantasy."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Se7en’ · 0:04:37 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Seven ↔ Heat · lineage · Grouped with Usual Suspects, Heat and Casino as the four defining 1995 movies, three of which were shut out at the Oscars. · "Our usual suspects, which we recently did, Heat Casino in seven."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop II’ · 0:13:20 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Beverly Hills Cop II ↔ Ferris Bueller's Day Off · lineage · The studio floated a TV series version like what happened with Ferris Bueller. · "they were talking about making it into a TV show, which was kind of like the way Ferris Bueller went and stuff like that."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Iron Man 3 · 0:16:00 · unknown (0.30)] Iron Man 3 ↔ The Avengers · programming · Phase 2 begins here and Avengers' victory lap gave Feige room to let each film feel individual. · "They're on such a victory lap that it feels like this is the one little chunk of time where Kevin Feige lets go a little bit."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Se7en’ · 0:14:30 · Sean Fennessey (0.85)] Alfred Hitchcock ⇒ Seven (the host's read) · lineage · Se7en is a Hitchcock movie in its pulling-your-chain structure of mystery, reveal and anxiety, and Hitchcock is Fincher's biggest influence. · "I think as much as this seems like a modern movie, it's also just completely a Hitchcock movie in so many ways."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop II’ · 1:05:28 · Craig Horlbeck (0.80)] Beverly Hills Cop II ↔ Austin Powers · lineage · Craig is unsure whether the sequel is better than the first, like Austin Powers. · "I don't know if the 2nd one's better than the first, like Austin Powers, but I enjoyed it very much."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Iron Man 3 · 2:21:21 · unknown (0.30)] Iron Man 3 ↔ Pain & Gain · programming · Pain & Gain opened the same spring with a big second-week drop; The Rock's performance is called the smartest use of him. · "Smartest anyone has ever used him."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Se7en’ · 0:15:19 · Chris Ryan (0.55)] Seven ⇒ True Detective (the host's read) · lineage · Se7en's influence shows in True Detective from the title sequence to the characters, though True Detective's first season flinches at the dark ending. · "you can see the influence of of 7 on things like True Detective from the title sequence to the characters."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Fletch’ · 1:11:17 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Beverly Hills Cop II ↔ Fletch Lives · lineage · Chris cites Beverly Hills Cop 2 as a sequel better than its original; Fletch Lives joins 48 Hrs 2, Godfather 3 and Caddy Shack 2 as disappointing late-80s sequels. · "a really good example is Beverly Hills Cop 2, which is better than Beverly Hills Cop one."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Iron Man 3 · 2:23:04 · unknown (0.30)] 42 ↔ Iron Man 3 · programming · 42 and a run of April 2013 releases are compared in the Box Office Mojo segment. · "That we waited this long for a Jackie Robinson movie and that Brian Helgeland ended up making it such a disappointment."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Se7en’ · 0:15:42 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] William Friedkin ⇒ Seven (the maker said so) · lineage · Fincher drew from Friedkin and wanted it to feel like an episode of Cops. · "he's drawn from like Friedkin, but he's also, he's, he's referenced like how he wanted it to feel like an episode of cops."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop II’ · 1:00:18 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Beverly Hills Cop II ⇒ The Rock (the host's read) · theme · The abandoned England/Scotland Yard concept with Sean Connery became the backbone of The Rock a decade later. · "initially written Beverly Hills Cop 2 to be Eddie Murphy in England, solving crimes with Sean Connery, actually, which basically, I think, winds up being like essentially the backbone for what the rock is 10 years later or whatever."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Iron Man 3 · 2:24:42 · unknown (0.30)] Oblivion ↔ Iron Man 3 · programming · Oblivion released the same spring (Cruise sci-fi) and made 70% worldwide. · "Oblivion, a Joseph Konsinski film."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Se7en’ · 0:55:04 · Sean Fennessey (0.45)] Seven ⇒ Nine Inch Nails (the host's read) · lineage · Se7en caught industrial rock at its peak and led to Fincher-Reznor scores. · "Fincher and Rezner go on to make this incredible partnership"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop II’ · 0:07:16 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Harold Faltermeyer ↔ Beverly Hills Cop II · craft · Faltermeyer's score opens the robbery with suspense before the comedy loosens up. · "It just kicks off with the, da, da, da, na, na, na, na, na, na, it's, it just feels, there's a little suspense in it."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Thor: The Dark World · 0:13:27 · unknown (0.30)] Thor: Ragnarok ↔ Iron Man 3 · lineage · Ragnarok relates to The Dark World as Iron Man 3 relates to Iron Man, a hard tonal reset on the prior entry. · "Ragnarok is very much the Iron Man 3 to this movie's Iron Man."
[Blank Check — Patreon · David Fincher Music Videos · 1:13:07 · unknown (0.30)] All That Jazz ⇒ Seven (the maker said so) · lineage · A host recalls a Fincher film the show covered where he cited All That Jazz as an inspiration for the look, maybe Seven. · "where he cited how much of an inspiration all that jazz was for him for the look of the movie?"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop II’ · 0:38:34 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Bob Seger ↔ Beverly Hills Cop II · craft · Seger's 'Shakedown' praised as an opening song drawn from the film's crime-in-the-city theme. · "the opening song of a movie being thematically drawn from the movie itself."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Iron Man 3 · 0:15:43 · unknown (0.30)] The Avengers ⇒ Iron Man 3 (the host's read) · lineage · Iron Man 3 works as a quasi-sequel to The Avengers because it deals with Tony's trauma of the portal and aliens. · "Except it's it is a sort of quasi sequel to the Avengers in that it's dealing with the fact that he got sucked into a portal into space for a 2nd there."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Game · 0:41:48 · unknown (0.40)] Seven ⇒ 8mm (the host's read) · lineage · Calls 8mm Schumacher ripping off Se7en. · "8 millimeter is Schumacher ripping off seven."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop II’ · 0:40:56 · Bill Simmons (0.45)] George Michael ↔ Beverly Hills Cop II · craft · George Michael's 'I Want Your Sex' is called an amazing 80s song used perfectly in the film. · "It's used perfectly in this."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Iron Man 3 · 0:18:57 · unknown (0.30)] Iron Man ⇒ Iron Man 3 (the host's read) · lineage · The Iron Man trilogy is closed into a circle by the flashback to the party and Becca Hall and Pierce. · "as individualistic as this movie is, it actually like... It's bringing the 1st 2 complete."
[speaker] Bill Simmons · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · Loves the Friday series as a communal, rental-era memory and tells childhood stories about the ads and theaters. Likes casting what-ifs and sports analogies for everything. Skeptical of horror at Christmas and of anything that wastes the premise. · stances: Friday the 13th is not the best entry but the origin story had to be told; Friday 2 is a leap over the original
[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 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 Lethal Weapon (1987); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Lethal Weapon (1987) 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.