What the corpus says about Malice (1993)

You are a clerk at Video Culture, a video store. A customer just finished Malice (1993) 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 Malice (1993) 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 Big Picture · Aaron Sorkin Top 5s and ‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’ · 1:03:23 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60)] The American President ↔ Malice · craft · The president's declarative speech is compared with Alec Baldwin's 'I am God' kicker. · "I think I am the president is only rivaled by, I am God, Alec Baldwin's kicker at the end of that film."
[The Big Picture · The Nicole Kidman Hall of Fame, and ‘Babygirl’ · 1:00:55 · unknown (0.35)] Malice ↔ Days of Thunder · contrast · Malice subverts expectations: more going on than being the doctor in the NASCAR movie. · "Um, than just being the doctor in the, you know, NASCAR movie."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Edge’ · 0:22:46 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] Prelude to a Kiss ↔ Malice · people · Bill calls Prelude to a Kiss, not Malice or Edge, the Baldwin performance where he finally works as a leading man. · "I think it's my favorite Baldwin performance."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Edge’ · 0:22:48 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] The Edge ↔ Malice · people · Baldwin's Malice persona is the other half of the Edge version of Baldwin. · "There's like the malice, the edge version of Baldwin, but then there's like, what is he as a leading man, right?"
[The Big Picture · The Nicole Kidman Hall of Fame, and ‘Babygirl’ · 1:00:10 · unknown (0.40)] Malice ↔ Aaron Sorkin · people · Malice has a screenplay by Aaron Sorkin. · "Uh, 1993's malice with a screenplay by Aaron Sorkin."
[The Rewatchables · 'Talladega Nights' · 2:02:33 · Danny Heifetz (0.30)] Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby ↔ Days of Thunder · programming · Another double feature option: pair with Days of Thunder. · "Or just watch Days of Thunder."
[Blank Check · Fargo · 2:40:16 · David Sims (0.40)] Prelude to a Kiss ↔ Fargo · theme · Alec Baldwin treats Prelude to a Kiss as his Fargo, a perfect movie that didn't last. · "as if it was obviously his Fargo."
[The Big Picture · Aaron Sorkin Top 5s and ‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’ · 1:02:11 · Amanda Dobbins (0.80)] The American President ⇒ The West Wing (TV series) (the host's read) · lineage · The film is a test case for the West Wing, sharing actors like Martin Sheen and ideals. · "it is a lot of ways a test case for the West Wing"
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Edge’ · 1:30:43 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] The Edge ↔ Cliffhanger · programming · Cliffhanger is the pick to pair with The Edge, being outdoors. · "I was thinking cliffhanger."
[The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 0:57:20 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Tom Cruise ↔ Days of Thunder · programming · Craig would do Days of Thunder just to do it. · "Craig would do traffic Thunder just so we could do traffic Thunder."
[The Big Picture · Aaron Sorkin Top 5s and ‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’ · 1:05:18 · Sean Fennessey (0.55)] The American President ↔ Aaron Sorkin · theme · The film is Sorkin's broadest political work, and a training ground for the West Wing. · "it's his broadest political work, which in some ways to me means that it's the best"
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Edge’ · 1:30:47 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] The Edge ↔ The Ghost and the Darkness · programming · Ghost and the Darkness, from around the same time, is another animal-stalking pairing. · "You could also talk me to Ghost in the Darkness because this came right around this time or they're chasing the killer lions."
[The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 0:49:43 · Chris Ryan (0.85)] Chris Ryan ↔ Days of Thunder · programming · Pick 7 (round 3), category blockbuster: Top Gun with cars; Tony Scott, Cruise and Kidman. · "No, I'm going to do Days of Thunder and Blockbuster."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Edge’ · 1:30:58 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] The Edge ↔ Trespass · programming · Trespass is suggested as a double-bill pick. · "you remember that movie Trespass?"
[Blank Check · The Color of Money · 1:32:36 · unknown (0.30)] Tom Cruise ↔ Days of Thunder · lineage · A Days of Thunder 2 would be a mistake, especially post-F1, versus a pool sequel where Cruise is credible. · "Versus Days of Thunder, where it's like, get out of the car, Tom."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Edge’ · 0:25:16 · Bill Simmons (0.85)] Art Linson ↔ The Edge · lineage · Linson, a 90s producer, wrote a book whose big section is the making of The Edge. · "And the big part of the book is about him putting together the edge."
[The Rewatchables · ‘F1’ · 0:10:12 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] F1 ↔ Days of Thunder · lineage · Same kind of 1990 star-driven racing picture, but F1's camera work leaves it behind. · "This movie in 1990 was Days of Thunder, which was a very cool movie that I like a lot that we've done on the rewatchables, but it's night and day"
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Edge’ · 0:03:10 · Van Lathan (0.70)] The Edge ↔ Cast Away · theme · Man-against-nature survival movies hook the viewer because you imagine what you would do. · "there's very few movies where you're not locked in."
[The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 0:49:49 · Chris Ryan (0.85)] Top Gun ⇒ Days of Thunder (the host's read) · lineage · Days of Thunder is essentially Top Gun with cars. · "it's essentially just Top Gun with cars"
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Edge’ · 0:41:32 · Bill Simmons (0.65)] The Edge ↔ Halloween H2O · theme · The rule of three, that the Black guy dies when three are left, was subverted by LL Cool J in H2O and Deep Blue Sea. · "LL Cool J survived twice."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Edge’ · 0:52:20 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] The Edge ↔ Lost · theme · Bill is always in for survival stories: Lost, Castaway, Yellowjackets, this movie. · "I'm just in."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Edge’ · 0:52:23 · Bill Simmons (0.65)] The Edge ↔ Yellowjackets · theme · Yellowjackets is now a whole show about trying to survive. · "and then we have yellow jackets, which now is a whole show about people trying to survive"
[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] Amanda Dobbins · latest sketch, The Big Picture · ‘Mamma Mia!’ Meets ‘The Strangers'! It’s a Movie Swap! · Loves The Strangers' withholding craft and a good tense horror film without gore, but likes fun, communal movies like Mamma Mia. She dislikes supernatural or gory horror, which irritates her more than it scares her. She is a sucker for stars and for Googling a movie mid-recording. · stances: The Strangers is scary because of what it doesn't show or explain; Ending explanation weakens it; no answer would be better; Prefers 'withholding' filmmaking; Defends Mamma Mia as joyful and intentional
[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 Malice (1993); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Malice (1993) 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.