What the corpus says about The Green Knight (2021)

You are a clerk at Video Culture, a video store. A customer just finished The Green Knight (2021) 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 Green Knight (2021) 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 · The Top 10 Fantasy Films, The Toy Movie Hall of Fame, and ‘Masters of the Universe,’ · 1:19:50 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] The Green Knight ↔ The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring · contrast · After Lord of the Rings, nothing high-fantasy worked in movies until Narnia; Green Knight is great because it does its own thing. · "Nothing works in movies, post Lord of the Rings until Narnia, which then fell off a cliff."
[The Big Picture · The Top 10 Fantasy Films, The Toy Movie Hall of Fame, and ‘Masters of the Universe,’ · 1:18:37 · Griffin Newman (0.70)] The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring ↔ The Green Knight · verdict · Griffin's five fantasy picks (NeverEnding Story, Green Knight, Mononoke, Willow, Fellowship) are the common-canon list he could not talk himself out of. · "like, it felt like a very kind of unoriginal list, but I couldn't talk myself into saying like, well, actually, BeastMaster has some really cool effects in it"
[Blank Check — Patreon · The 13th Warrior · 0:26:59 · David Lowery (0.90)] The Green Knight ↔ The 13th Warrior · what-if · Lowery would want a Green Knight-style capped-budget version of this story, though now it would scare him. · "the version of this I would want to see is the like Green Knight style version of it."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The 13th Warrior · 0:27:39 · David Lowery (0.95)] David Lowery ↔ The Green Knight · theme · Lowery says all his movies puncture legend, and sees this film as one of the first seeds of that interest. · "every movie I've made has sort of been to date has been sort of about peeling back some level of legend to try to like expose the fallacies within."
[The Big Picture · The 10 Most Misused Stars in Hollywood and the Gnarly Magic of ‘Send Help’ · 1:29:54 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] Dev Patel ↔ The Green Knight · career · The Green Knight, by David Lowery, is called fantastic but was missed in COVID. · "the Green Knight, which I think is fantastic, David Lowry's movie"
[The Big Picture · Emergency Mailbag: The Oscars Are Streaming and Hollywood Is Fighting Over Trolls | The Big Picture · 0:33:34 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] The Green Knight ↔ A24 · industry · A24 has not moved the May 29 date or commented, while the rest of its slate is pushed. · "A24 has not said a word about anything."
[pairs] The Green Knight ↔ The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring · said 2 times in 1 episode
[Blank Check — Patreon · The 13th Warrior · 0:41:55 · unknown (0.40)] The 13th Warrior ↔ Timeline · programming · Timeline and The 13th Warrior called a brutal Crichton double feature. · "Man, Timeline and the 13th Warrior would be a brutal double feature."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The 13th Warrior · 1:49:16 · unknown (0.35)] The 13th Warrior ↔ The Sixth Sense · programming · The Sixth Sense was Disney's own mega-hit, number one the weekend The 13th Warrior opened, covering their loss. · "Disney's basically covered their losses from this movie"
[Blank Check — Patreon · The 13th Warrior · 0:19:51 · David Lowery (0.85)] Michael Crichton ⇒ The 13th Warrior (the host's read) · lineage · Lowery read the Crichton novel and found the film is the book almost scene for scene. · "reading the book, I was like, this is pretty much just scene for scene exactly what's on screen."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The 13th Warrior · 0:25:39 · unknown (0.50)] Beowulf adaptations ⇒ The 13th Warrior (the host's read) · lineage · The film is the Beowulf story told as Crichton's 'what was the real thing they were fighting' version. · "Even going back to Crichton's original concept of like, what's the real story behind Beowulf?"
[Blank Check — Patreon · The 13th Warrior · 0:31:02 · David Lowery (0.80)] The 13th Warrior ↔ The Northman · lineage · The Northman is the modern take on Viking storytelling; Lowery rewatched its funeral scene because it echoes this film's incantation. · "the same, the same incantation, like the low, I see my father, low, I see my mother"
[Blank Check — Patreon · The 13th Warrior · 1:34:34 · unknown (0.40)] The 13th Warrior ↔ Flesh and Blood · lineage · Verhoeven's Flesh and Blood feels like being there; it's the better film, and both put medieval art on screen. · "Flesh and blood is a better film."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The 13th Warrior · 0:28:42 · David Lowery (0.85)] The 13th Warrior ↔ Heat · theme · The scene of a mortal sitting to die while another watches reminded Lowery of De Niro watching Pacino in Heat. · "It reminded me of Robert De Niro dying in heat."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The 13th Warrior · 0:42:21 · unknown (0.40)] Timeline ↔ The 13th Warrior · theme · Both are castle-and-torches Crichton adaptations where Hollywood guessed Vikings/medieval and audiences did not care. · "Both of those movies are lead actors who absolutely do not belong in this film."
[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
[speaker] David Lowery · latest sketch, Blank Check — Patreon · The 13th Warrior · Loves myth-making, peeling back legend, scenes about language and communication, and quiet deaths between peers. Prefers the analog 90s look and despises ADR. A sucker for Vikings, Beowulf and a mortal passing into legend. · stances: The language-learning scene is the one great scene; A capped-budget Green Knight style version is the one he would want; Signature style can be a crutch; problem-solving is better
[speaker] Griffin Newman · latest sketch, Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · Calls Last Temptation his college-era favorite Scorsese; loves Scorsese's smaller 80s and the film's closing transcendence and Gabriel score. Cannot stand fundamentalist outrage at it. A sucker for casting trivia and Tom Cruise-silliness. · stances: Hot take: Last Temptation structurally mirrors New York, New York as a better version; Outrage over the film is stupid; it is respectful to Jesus; Scorsese's smaller 80s work beats his later baroque phases
[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)

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 Green Knight (2021); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend The Green Knight (2021) 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.