What the corpus says about Masters of the Universe (1987)

You are a clerk at Video Culture, a video store. A customer just finished Masters of the Universe (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 Masters of the Universe (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.

[Blank Check — Patreon · Thor · 0:03:54 · Griffin Newman (0.65)] Masters of the Universe ⇒ Thor (the host's read) · lineage · Thor is described as essentially a remake of the live-action Masters of the Universe. · "It's mostly just a remake of the live action masters of the universe movie."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Thor · 0:04:40 · Griffin Newman (0.60)] Thor ↔ Masters of the Universe · lineage · Both banish a hero from his heightened mythic world into a mundane Earth town and play it for fish-out-of-water jokes. · "And you place the one character who belongs in this heightened sci-fi world in the middle of like, you know, the Southwest."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Thor · 0:37:32 · Griffin Newman (0.60)] Thor ↔ Masters of the Universe · lineage · Skeletor banishing He-Man to California mirrors Odin banishing Thor, down to the cartoon-to-film design translation and the large Coke gag. · "They banish him to California, and then like, it's Courtney Cox and some other Californian teenager take them in."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Thor · 0:44:06 · Griffin Newman (0.60)] Thor ↔ Masters of the Universe · lineage · Thor's coffee-mug throwing scene is likened to Gwildor failing to understand fried chicken in He-Man. · "It's like the scene in He-Man where Gueldor doesn't get fried chicken."
[The Big Picture · The Top 10 Fantasy Films, The Toy Movie Hall of Fame, and ‘Masters of the Universe,’ · 0:41:44 · unknown (Griffin or Sean) (0.40)] Masters of the Universe ↔ Masters of the Universe · dream fulfilled · Galitzine's transformation is the little boy's dream that the Lundgren film could never deliver. · "this is the realization of a little boy's dream that Dolph Lundgren could never possibly live up to."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 1:21:42 · Ben Hosley (0.40)] Charlotte Riley ↔ Masters of the Universe · career · Charlotte Riley (Nance) plays Queen Marlena in Masters of the Universe this year. · "She plays Queen Marlena."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Eclipse · 1:12:17 · unknown (0.40)] Kellan Lutz ↔ Masters of the Universe · what-if · Lutz has campaigned for a decade to play He-Man. · "actively campaigning to play He-Man"
[pairs] Masters of the Universe ↔ Thor · said 4 times in 1 episode
[The Big Picture · The Past, Present, and Future of Superhero Movies | The Big Picture · 0:13:42 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] The Avengers ↔ Thor · programming · Thor was treated as a loss leader, a stepping stone to the Avengers. · "Thor was treated as a loss leader, essentially."
[The Big Picture · The Top 10 Fantasy Films, The Toy Movie Hall of Fame, and ‘Masters of the Universe,’ · 0:23:25 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope ⇒ Masters of the Universe (the host's read) · lineage · He-Man (and the 80s toy boom) was a response to every company having passed on Star Wars merchandising. · "so much of He-Man and the 80s for toys is a response to every major company passing on Star Wars that Star Wars is the whiff that no one can live down."
[The Big Picture · The Past, Present, and Future of Superhero Movies | The Big Picture · 0:33:16 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Justice League ↔ Thor · programming · Justice League must make Cyborg, Aquaman, and the Flash into linchpins the way Thor and Captain America are. · "They have to be the Thor, they have to be the Captain America."
[The Big Picture · The Top 10 Fantasy Films, The Toy Movie Hall of Fame, and ‘Masters of the Universe,’ · 1:09:02 · unknown (0.40)] Thor: Ragnarok ⇒ Masters of the Universe (the host's read) · lineage · The movie looks inspired by Ragnarok, which gave executives a template of color, weirdness, and joke tone to copy. · "And it speaks to this movie feels very, um, inspired by Thor Ragnarok to me."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The First Avenger · 2:08:10 · David Sims (0.45)] Captain America: The First Avenger ↔ Thor · programming · Cap opened to about 65 million like Thor, finished near 176 worldwide domestic and around 370 vs Thor's 450. · "Cap opens pretty much exactly the same as Thor, 65."
[The Big Picture · The Top 10 Fantasy Films, The Toy Movie Hall of Fame, and ‘Masters of the Universe,’ · 1:13:19 · unknown (0.30)] Masters of the Universe ↔ X-Men: Apocalypse · lineage · The final shot of slightly updated costumes echoes the end of X-Men Apocalypse promising the classic looks next time. · "it feels like the end of X-Men apocalypse, where suddenly the promise is, wait a 2nd, are they all going to have the 90s costumes next time?"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Thor · 1:02:12 · Griffin Newman (0.35)] Thor ↔ The Avengers · programming · The Hawkeye cameo, with no interaction, made the speaker doubt the Avengers team-up would work. · "The thing you want to see is how they talk and interact with each other."
[The Big Picture · The Top 10 Fantasy Films, The Toy Movie Hall of Fame, and ‘Masters of the Universe,’ · 0:09:47 · unknown (0.30)] Taika Waititi ↔ Masters of the Universe · craft · Waititi's deflation jokes read as embarrassment about the material, and the movie's jokes feel defensive in the same way. · "Feels like it's coming from a place of, I'm a little embarrassed that I'm making this movie."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Thor · 1:50:54 · David Sims (0.50)] Thor ↔ Fast Five · programming · Thor's opening was the Memorial Day-season release, with Fast Five as the number two film in its 2nd weekend. · "Number 2 is one of the best movies of this year."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Iron Man 2 · 2:07:38 · unknown (0.30)] Iron Man 2 ↔ Thor · programming · Its post-credit scene is called the weakest, existing only to announce Thor's film, much like the Captain Marvel tag after Infinity War. · "Because essentially it's just like Thor, Thor, will be the star of a new movie."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Iron Man · 1:48:57 · unknown (0.30)] Iron Man ↔ Thor · programming · The hosts preview the next trio: Thor, Captain America, Avengers; one hates Thor. · "So what our next three is going to be Thor, Captain America, Avengers."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Thor · 0:05:58 · David Sims (0.45)] Thor ↔ The Avengers · lineage · The Ultimates reimagined Thor as a possible revolutionary claiming to be a god, versus the film's real Thor. · "in the ultimates, Mark Miller's take is like Thor is sort of like this revolutionary guy who claims he's a god"
[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
[speaker] Ben Hosley · latest sketch, Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · Producer who occasionally talks; admits no religious background, has a Catholic mother's family, and cannot see the Bible as part of culture. · stances: Left out of Bible culture; Wants a clear demarcation between a bed and a deathbed
[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 Masters of the Universe (1987); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Masters of the Universe (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.