What the corpus says about The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)

You are a clerk at Video Culture, a video store. A customer just finished The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) 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 Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) 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 · Planet of the Apes · 0:11:34 · unknown (0.40)] Planet of the Apes ↔ The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring · industry · Fellowship won Best Makeup over Apes, with a joke about Gimli. · "Fucking Gimli. over Planet of the Apes."
[Blank Check · Empire of the Sun · 0:41:16 · Griffin Newman or David Sims (0.40)] John Williams ↔ The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring · industry · Williams, nominated for A.I. and Harry Potter in 2001, was never going to win because Lord of the Rings won best score. · "He probably was never going to win in 2001 because Lord of the Rings wins."
[pairs] The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring ↔ The Green Knight · said 2 times in 1 episode
[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."
[Blank Check · Planet of the Apes · 1:29:37 · unknown (0.40)] Suicide Squad ↔ Planet of the Apes · lineage · Studios sometimes force sequels no one asked for; Apes was a rare time they didn't. · "Again, it's like, you got out of suicide squad alive."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Incredible Hulk · 0:39:14 · Griffin or David (0.30)] Planet of the Apes ⇒ Planet of the Apes (the host's read) · lineage · Burton's ending tries to outdo the Statue of Liberty reveal of the original. · "Because they're trying to outdo the reveal of like the Statue of Liberty at the end."
[Blank Check · Planet of the Apes · 0:02:31 · unknown (0.50)] Planet of the Apes ↔ Beetlejuice · theme · The ape dinner-party scene is the one moment that feels like Burton, like Beetlejuice with apes. · "the scene with all the apes sitting around the dinner table, which is like the Beetlejuice scene with apes."
[Blank Check · Planet of the Apes · 1:11:47 · unknown (0.40)] Planet of the Apes ↔ Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom · theme · The apes' chanting of a word makes one speaker think of Temple of Doom. · "Um, I can't not think of Temple of Doom every time they say it in this movie."
[Blank Check · Planet of the Apes · 1:18:41 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Planet of the Apes ↔ Planet of the Apes · theme · Alex Ross Perry texted that the original book ends in a way very similar to the 2001 film. · "the original book ends in a way that's very similar to this."
[Blank Check · Planet of the Apes · 1:51:44 · unknown (0.50)] Danny Elfman ↔ Planet of the Apes · craft · Elfman's opening theme is exciting but the rest of the score is boring. · "The Elfman score."
[Blank Check · Planet of the Apes · 1:52:28 · unknown (0.40)] Planet of the Apes ↔ Saul Bass · craft · The opening title shots of helmets feel like Saul Bass. · "feels very salt bass to me."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Incredible Hulk · 0:39:03 · Griffin or David (0.30)] Planet of the Apes ↔ Interstellar · craft · Burton's ending is so confusing that the DVD shipped with a timeline insert, likened to Interstellar-style time-travel explanation. · "It's like a weird, like, interstellar where they're like, so if the black hole is here, and this is that, it involves like weird time travel butterfly affection."
[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] 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] 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)

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 Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) 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.