What the corpus says about Say Anything... (1989)

You are a clerk at Video Culture, a video store. A customer just finished Say Anything... (1989) 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 Say Anything... (1989) 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 · As Good as It Gets · 0:36:40 · unknown (0.30)] Say Anything... ↔ As Good as It Gets · theme · Say Anything is the top example of a 'but I like her' genre in which a refused man persists until the woman caves, a genre the hosts apply to romcoms like this one. · "Obviously say anything's a huge one."
[Blank Check · As Good as It Gets · 0:36:58 · unknown (0.30)] The Graduate ↔ Say Anything... · theme · Also fits the 'but I like her' genre, and rewatched it reads as stalking. · "Well, the graduate is insane."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Reality Bites’ 25th Anniversary · 0:33:27 · Bill Simmons (0.40)] Janeane Garofalo ↔ Say Anything... · people · Garofalo's character feels like an extension of Lili Taylor's in Say Anything. · "kind of an extension of Lily Taylor from say anything a little bit."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ · 0:59:11 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] John Cusack ↔ Say Anything... · what-if · Cusack was the backup for Ferris, and Lloyd Dobler is in the same vein as Ferris. · "I think Lloyd Dobbler is sort of in the same vein as Ferris."
[Blank Check · As Good as It Gets · 1:57:39 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] As Good as It Gets ↔ Tomorrow Never Dies · programming · It opened at number three on Dec. 26, 1997 behind Titanic and Tomorrow Never Dies. · "It opened at number three."
[The Big Picture · Celebrating ‘Scott Pilgrim vs. the World’ 10 Years Later · 1:05:31 · Edgar Wright (0.95)] Scott Pilgrim vs. the World ↔ The Graduate · theme · Edgar says Scott and Benjamin Braddock are equally flawed young men, and the poster misleads you into expecting a Luke Skywalker hero. · "I don't think anybody would talk about Scott Pilgrim and the graduate."
[Blank Check · As Good as It Gets · 1:59:34 · unknown (0.30)] As Good as It Gets ↔ Jackie Brown · programming · Jackie Brown opened the same Christmas weekend and bombed while As Good as It Gets took off. · "It's his best film, though, and it's called Jackie Brown."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Fight Club · 0:55:00 · unknown (0.40)] The Graduate ↔ Fight Club · theme · Reading the dossier, the speaker says Fincher's big comparison for Fight Club was The Graduate: coming of age, but in your 30s. · "His big comparison, which I do think is very interesting, is he's like, this is the graduate, right?"
[Blank Check · As Good as It Gets · 1:14:23 · unknown (0.30)] As Good as It Gets ↔ Jerry Maguire · lineage · Brooks and Crowe share a very similar tone and mix of emotions. · "But they have a very similar tone and sort of like touch and mix of emotions and all that."
[Blank Check · As Good as It Gets · 1:54:28 · unknown (0.30)] As Good as It Gets ↔ Spanglish · lineage · Spanglish is the bad version of As Good as It Gets: no plot, lots of monologues. · "you watch Spanglish after this and you're like, wow, like, this is the bad version of as good as it gets."
[Blank Check · As Good as It Gets · 0:33:09 · Chris Gethard (0.80)] As Good as It Gets ↔ Planes, Trains and Automobiles · craft · Chris ranks Nicholson's unapologetic jerk alongside Steve Martin in Planes, Trains and Automobiles among the best comedic performances. · "Steve Martin in Plains Trains and Audible."
[Blank Check · As Good as It Gets · 0:34:34 · unknown (0.30)] As Good as It Gets ↔ Jerry Maguire · craft · Both are classic 90s movies that start a whole second movie mid-film. · "It's one of those classic 90s like Jerry Maguire, where it's just like, let's just do like a whole other movie in the middle of the movie."
[Blank Check · As Good as It Gets · 1:28:16 · Griffin Newman or David Sims (unclear) (0.40)] Jack Nicholson ↔ As Good as It Gets · craft · A host says Nicholson designed his own character's wardrobe, aiming for a downtown look, then jokes he sewed it himself like Daniel Day-Lewis. · "Jack Nicholson designed the wardrobe for this character."
[Blank Check · As Good as It Gets · 1:32:42 · unknown (0.30)] As Good as It Gets ↔ Titanic · craft · Unlike Titanic's Jack, the drawings here are actually impressive because they are by a real artist. · "more so than Titanic this same year where they want you to be like aghast with Jack's drawings."
[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] Chris Ryan · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · A franchise and genre scholar who likes Jason, the early sequels, and Manhattan; attention to trivia, tropes and critic reception. Treats slashers as a canon with tiers. · stances: Parts 1, 2, 4 and Manhattan are the good ones; The series finds its legs at 4
[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)
[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 Say Anything... (1989); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Say Anything... (1989) 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.