What the corpus says about Rocky III (1982)

You are a clerk at Video Culture, a video store. A customer just finished Rocky III (1982) 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 Rocky III (1982) 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 · ‘Miracle’ · 0:48:13 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Miracle ↔ Rocky III · theme · Adrian in Rocky III is the opposite of the wet-blanket wife. · "I think Adrian does a great job in that movie."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Rocky’ · 0:10:23 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Rocky ↔ Rocky III · contrast · Rocky 1 and the steroid-era Rocky 3 and 4 are not even the same species of human. · "It's not even the same species of human that Rocky is."
[The Big Picture · Pro Wrestling Goes to the Movies, Plus Stephen Merchant on ‘Fighting · 0:07:17 · Sean Fennessey (0.90)] Rocky III ↔ The Wrestler · verdict · Fennessey wonders whether Rocky III counts as a wrestling movie, in which case it might rank with The Wrestler. · "whether or not Rocky 3 actually counted as a wrestling movie because if so, that's obviously like, that might be up there with the wrestler is the best wrestling thing ever made"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Rocky’ · 0:22:54 · Chris Ryan (0.45)] Sylvester Stallone ↔ Rocky III · career · Stallone's best A-list run came with Rocky 3 and First Blood in the same year, a roughly six-year run. · "He has one of the best, probably 6 year A-list movie star runs ever."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Rocky’ · 1:28:20 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Sylvester Stallone ↔ Rocky III · career · Stallone's Apex Mountain: Rocky 3 and Rambo in 82. · "I think his Apex Mountain was that Rocky 3, Rambo."
[The Big Picture · Pro Wrestling Goes to the Movies, Plus Stephen Merchant on ‘Fighting · 0:07:13 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] Hulk Hogan ↔ Rocky III · people · Fennessey notes Hogan's wrestler-in-the-movies debut in the Rocky series (the Thunderlips role). · "Maybe barring Hogan in the Rocky series."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Miracle’ · 0:24:35 · Bill Simmons (0.55)] Miracle ↔ 30 for 30 on the Miracle game from the Russian side (John Hawk) · programming · Hawk's documentary told the same game from the Russian side. · "He told it from the Russian side, which was an interesting way to do it."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Rocky’ · 1:44:35 · Van Lathan (0.45)] Rocky ↔ Raging Bull · programming · Another double-feature choice, Raging Bull, picked by one host. · "I go Raging Bull."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Miracle’ · 0:07:32 · Chris Ryan (0.55)] Miracle ↔ Slap Shot · lineage · Slap Shot and Mystery, Alaska were among the few hockey movies before Miracle, which was a different level. · "It was slapshot was the Alzheimer."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Rocky’ · 1:44:41 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Rocky ↔ Saturday Night Fever · programming · Watching Rocky made Chris Ryan want to watch Saturday Night Fever as a double feature. · "This movie made me want to watch Saturday Night Fever for some reason."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Miracle’ · 0:07:38 · Chris Ryan (0.55)] Miracle ↔ Mystery, Alaska · lineage · One of the sparse hockey films before Miracle. · "then it's like Mystery Alaska, you know, there just hadn't been that many hockey movies, the Mighty Ducks"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Rocky’ · 1:44:48 · Bill Simmons (0.45)] Rocky ↔ Rocky II · programming · Best double feature: go right from Rocky into Rocky 2 and skip the Adrian coma stretch. · "I think you have to go right from here into the 2nd one."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Miracle’ · 1:05:24 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Miracle ↔ Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty · lineage · The Lakers HBO show suggests a Miracle series could work. · "the more like we see, especially like this Lakers HBO show"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Rocky’ · 1:50:04 · Bill Simmons (0.40)] Rocky ↔ Warrior · programming · If you did a UFC Rocky, Warrior is by far the best UFC movie so far. · "Warriors by far the best one."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Miracle’ · 0:10:30 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] Miracle ↔ Rocky IV · theme · The Cold War movies led up to Rocky IV, which Simmons jokes ended the Cold War. · "all the Cold War movies were leading to Rocky 4 and Rocky finally ending the Cold War single-handedly"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Rocky’ · 0:05:47 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Rocky ⇒ (the modern sports movie) (the host's read) · lineage · Rocky created the sports-movie prototype and the modern underdog. · "created the sports movie prototype, like just period."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Miracle’ · 0:22:10 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Miracle ↔ Remember the Titans · theme · Both belong to the one-star-on-the-poster era of sports movies from 97 to 05. · "this is from 97 to basically 05, premise, get one big star."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Rocky’ · 0:06:09 · Chris Ryan (0.45)] The Longest Yard ⇒ Rocky (the host's read) · lineage · Longest Yard arguably started the big-event beats, but Rocky is what made the sports-movie recipe stick. · "which I guess you could say longest yard started it, but once Rocky did this."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Miracle’ · 0:23:00 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Miracle ↔ Coach Carter · theme · Miracle and Coach Carter are in the one-star-poster run. · "Miracle and Coach Carter."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Rocky’ · 0:10:16 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Rocky ↔ Mean Streets · lineage · Rocky is essentially Stallone making Mean Streets. · "It's essentially like Stallone making mean streets."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Miracle’ · 0:23:33 · Chris Ryan (0.55)] The Blind Side ↔ Miracle · theme · Ryan would put Blindside in the one-star-on-the-poster era. · "I would actually probably put Blindside in that somewhere."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Rocky’ · 0:11:32 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Rocky ⇒ The Karate Kid (the host's read) · lineage · Rocky is eight years before Karate Kid, which is called the 2.0 version of the same underdog story but a completely different movie in every respect. · "We're 8 years away from karate kid, which is the next, the 2.0 version of this movie."
[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
[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] 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 Rocky III (1982); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Rocky III (1982) 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.