What the corpus says about Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014)

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What was said about it (26)

  1. [Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The Winter Soldier · 0:14:14 · unknown (0.35)] Captain America: The Winter Soldier ↔ Iron Man 3 · programming · Marvel gives each film a different genre; Winter Soldier is the political thriller, Iron Man 3 the noir/buddy film. · "Right. So this is when they're like, Iron Man 3 is sort of like a noir and like a buddy film, Dark World is like high fantasy."
  2. [Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The Winter Soldier · 0:14:14 · unknown (0.35)] Captain America: The Winter Soldier ↔ Thor: The Dark World · programming · Dark World is the high-fantasy entry in the same one-genre-per-film scheme. · "Dark World is like high fantasy."
  3. [Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The Winter Soldier · 0:16:47 · unknown (0.40)] Captain America: The Winter Soldier ↔ Marvel Cinematic Universe · programming · Fury is in charge of SHIELD only in this film and Avengers; afterward mostly cameos. · "So this is only the only other movie where Fury is like in charge of S.E.L.D. and kind of just like in the movie."
  4. [Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The Winter Soldier · 1:16:27 · unknown (0.45)] Captain America: The Winter Soldier ↔ Iron Man 2 · programming · Gary Shandling's Hydra senator is an odd pull-back to Iron Man 2 for a franchise otherwise ignoring that film. · "when they're like trying to ignore as much of Iron Man 2 as possible"
  5. [Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The Winter Soldier · 1:34:33 · unknown (0.40)] Captain America: The Winter Soldier ↔ Agents of S.H.I.L.E.L.D. · programming · The TV show had to stall its whole first season because the film's Hydra reveal could not be tipped. · "Of course, the 1st season of SHIELD began in 2013 and had to essentially stall for almost its entire 1st season because they knew that this was coming, but they couldn't tip it."
  6. [Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The Winter Soldier · 1:34:59 · unknown (0.35)] Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. ↔ Captain America: The Winter Soldier · programming · Marvel then told ABC SHIELD would not exist for the film universe. · "Just so you know, Shield's not going to exist enough."
  7. [Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The Winter Soldier · 1:59:18 · unknown (0.40)] Captain America: The Winter Soldier ↔ Disney+ Falcon and Bucky show · programming · Smaller side-character projects are the future on Disney Plus. · "That feels like what Disney Plus is going to be with the like Falcon and Bucky show and the Scarlet Wish show."
  8. [Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The Winter Soldier · 1:59:26 · unknown (0.40)] Captain America: The Winter Soldier ↔ Loki · programming · The Loki show hired a Rick and Morty writer; time-traveling premise. · "have you heard the premise of the Loki show and they hired a Rick and Morty writer?"
  9. [Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The Winter Soldier · 2:09:22 · unknown (0.35)] Captain America: The Winter Soldier ↔ Avengers: Age of Ultron · programming · Ultron resets Captain America's status quo ahead of Civil War. · "Well, it's because Age of Ultron also sort of resets Captain America a little bit."
  10. [Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The Winter Soldier · 2:12:03 · unknown (0.35)] Captain America: The Winter Soldier ⇒ Avengers: Age of Ultron (the host's read) · programming · The post-credits scene sets up the twins and Strucker's experiments. · "You know what they're setting up here, Benny."
  11. [Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The Winter Soldier · 0:19:33 · unknown (0.40)] Three Days of the Condor ⇒ Captain America: The Winter Soldier (the host's read) · lineage · The Russos and Marcus/McFeely were told they could make a Three Days of the Condor style political thriller inside the MCU, provided Feige got his Helicarrier back. · "You want to do a 3 day of the Condor movie?"
  12. [Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The Winter Soldier · 0:27:10 · unknown (0.40)] Three Days of the Condor ⇒ Captain America: The Winter Soldier (the maker said so) · lineage · The filmmakers say outright they were making a Condor movie. · "But they're like, we're like, we're making a 3 days of the Condor movie."
  13. [Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The Winter Soldier · 1:02:53 · unknown (0.45)] Captain America: The Winter Soldier ↔ 70s paranoid thrillers · lineage · The bunker scene has a creepy empty-bureaucracy look from the 60s and 70s. · "the sort of like creepy, empty bureaucracy aesthetic, you know, the very 60s, 70s"
  14. [Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The Winter Soldier · 1:03:03 · unknown (0.45)] Captain America: The Winter Soldier ↔ The X-Files · lineage · The abandoned-office SHIELD bunker is like an X-Files episode. · "X-Files has a lot of episodes like this where they're like, what's this abandoned office"
  15. [Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The First Avenger · 1:34:27 · unknown (0.40)] Captain America: The First Avenger ⇒ Captain America: The Winter Soldier (the host's read) · lineage · Zola surviving and joining the other side is the seed for Winter Soldier. · "Because you need Zola to join the other side."
  16. [Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The Winter Soldier · 0:19:16 · unknown (0.35)] Captain America: The Winter Soldier ↔ Rainbow Six · theme · The film is a mission-based, strategy-driven blue-collar entry in the franchise, like Rainbow Six. · "Rainbow six."
  17. [Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The Winter Soldier · 0:20:29 · unknown (0.35)] Captain America: The Winter Soldier ↔ Captain America: Civil War · theme · The idea of Cap as someone with values who distrusts his government is what Civil War is about. · "Because that's what civil war is about."
  18. [Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The Winter Soldier · 0:30:34 · unknown (0.40)] Captain America: The Winter Soldier ↔ Deep State · theme · The film is a betrayal-of-the-deep-state movie, which affects how Fury is played. · "this is like the betrayal of, you know, the deep state movie."
  19. [Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The Winter Soldier · 1:08:31 · unknown (0.35)] Captain America: The Winter Soldier ↔ A Night at the Garden · theme · The Zola/Hydra "infiltrate quietly" speech is likened to a documentary short about a 1939 American Nazi rally. · "Hydra is a dog whistle for you."
  20. [Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The Winter Soldier · 1:43:56 · unknown (0.40)] Captain America: The Winter Soldier ↔ Snowden / NSA · theme · The Insight project plays as post-Snowden surveillance fear. · "I guess they were like making the point of like, oh, it's like post Snowden."
  21. [Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The Winter Soldier · 0:04:50 · unknown (0.40)] Captain America: The Winter Soldier ↔ The Hurt Locker · craft · The opening Sam Wilson veterans-group scene plays like Hurt Locker-style soldier-readjustment material. · "So this is all kind of nice like Hurtlocker stuff."
  22. [Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The Winter Soldier · 0:09:28 · unknown (0.45)] Captain America: The Winter Soldier ↔ LEGO Marvel Avengers (video game) · craft · The opening boat sequence is replicated as a level in the LEGO game and works as a good video-game level. · "It is that this sequence is replicate as a level in Marvel, Lego, the Avengers."
  23. [Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The First Avenger · 1:41:14 · unknown (0.40)] Captain America: The First Avenger ↔ Captain America: The Winter Soldier · craft · The suit returns in Winter Soldier with better tailoring and layers. · "I just think when they bring the classic suit back in Winter Soldier, it's a better tailoring."
  24. [Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The Winter Soldier · 0:04:21 · unknown (0.40)] Captain America: The Winter Soldier ↔ Captain America: The First Avenger · contrast · The first film is stylized like an old serial; this one is a grounded Washington thriller. · "And the 1st Captain America is so heightened and stylized because it's doing the old cereal thing."
  25. [Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The Winter Soldier · 0:15:36 · unknown (0.40)] Captain America: The Winter Soldier ↔ Iron Man 2 · contrast · Black Widow's hair is her worst here, though Iron Man 2 hair is worse; her performance is more alive here. · "Iron Man 2 hair is bottom of the barrel."
  26. [Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The Winter Soldier · 1:29:49 · unknown (0.40)] Captain America: The Winter Soldier ↔ Suicide Squad · contrast · Polar makes Suicide Squad look tame. · "This movie makes Suicide Squad look like..."

Films put beside it more than once (6)

  1. [pairs] Captain America: The Winter Soldier ↔ Captain America: The First Avenger · said 5 times in 2 episodes
  2. [pairs] Captain America: The Winter Soldier ↔ Captain America: Civil War · said 3 times in 1 episode
  3. [pairs] Captain America: The Winter Soldier ↔ Thor: The Dark World · said 2 times in 2 episodes
  4. [pairs] Captain America: The Winter Soldier ↔ Iron Man 3 · said 2 times in 1 episode
  5. [pairs] Captain America: The Winter Soldier ↔ Avengers: Infinity War · said 2 times in 1 episode
  6. [pairs] Captain America: The Winter Soldier ↔ Iron Man 2 · said 2 times in 1 episode

Fun items about it (1)

  1. [Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The Winter Soldier · 2:13:38 · unknown (0.35)] Captain America: The Winter Soldier · fun · Release: opened to 95, 46% increase over First Avenger's 65. · "This one opens to 95."

One hop out: what recommends the films most often joined to it (26)

  1. [Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The First Avenger · 2:08:02 · unknown (0.40)] Captain America: The First Avenger ↔ Transformers: Dark of the Moon · programming · Cap was released July 22 instead of July 4th because Transformers 3 owned that date and nobody would go near it. · "The July 4th movie was Transformers 3."
  2. [The Big Picture · ‘Black Panther: Wakanda Forever’ Is Here! · 0:37:09 · Van Lathan (0.85)] Captain America: Civil War ⇒ Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (the host's read) · theme · Van says Black Panther was handled better in Civil War than in his own movie, and that Civil War served as his origin; Ironheart's introduction here does not land the same way. · "Black Panther, to me, was portrayed better in Civil War than he was in the original Black Panther movie."
  3. [Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War · 1:17:18 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Avengers: Age of Ultron ↔ Avengers: Infinity War · lineage · The Vision and Wanda romance set up in Ultron gets no onscreen payoff here. · "Now, here is the non-payoff of the romance, the major Ultron."
  4. [The Big Picture · The Past, Present, and Future of Superhero Movies | The Big Picture · 0:49:22 · David Shoemaker (0.40)] Black Panther ↔ Avengers: Infinity War · programming · Black Panther looks like the best bet to carry the MCU into the next phase after Infinity War. · "Black Panther certainly looks to be the best bet to carry the series into phase four"
  5. [Blank Check — Patreon · Iron Man 2 · 0:12:08 · unknown (0.30)] Iron Man 2 ↔ The Avengers · programming · Feige pushed more cinematic-universe setup after the first film, but held most back; the Fury scene and shield joke are the result. · "Let's build shield outlets, like give them, you know, a little more of what they want."
  6. [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."
  7. [Blank Check — Patreon · Iron Man 2 · 0:50:50 · unknown (0.30)] Iron Man 2 ↔ Captain America: Civil War · theme · Both films go back to Tony's parents and father issues. · "The movie goes back to that well."
  8. [Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War · 2:00:15 · unknown (0.30)] Avengers: Age of Ultron ⇒ Avengers: Infinity War (the host's read) · lineage · The Hulkbuster armor pays off Banner being almost defeated by it before. · "it's paying off the fact that he was, you know, almost defeated by this armor before."
  9. [The Big Picture · The Past, Present, and Future of Superhero Movies | The Big Picture · 0:52:39 · David Shoemaker (0.40)] Guardians of the Galaxy ↔ Avengers: Infinity War · programming · Guardians 3 is certain and Star-Lord is now a primary MCU figure. · "Chris Pratt, obviously, there will be a Guardians 3."
  10. [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."
  11. [Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The First Avenger · 2:09:10 · unknown (0.40)] Captain America: The First Avenger ↔ Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 · programming · In the 2011 box-office ranking Cap is number one and Deathly Hallows Part 2 is number two. · "Oh, oh, it's Deathly Hollis part two."
  12. [The Big Picture · ‘Black Panther: Wakanda Forever’ Is Here! · 0:50:31 · Van Lathan (0.70)] Russo Brothers ↔ Captain America: Civil War · craft · Van credits the Russos as experts at MCU action, better at it than directors of the other movies. · "Yeah, like in the movies and there's a very, you know, what the Russo's do for the MCU, it's not easy to do that, right?"
  13. [Blank Check — Patreon · Guardians of the Galaxy · 1:10:34 · unknown (0.30)] Guardians of the Galaxy ↔ Avengers: Age of Ultron · craft · Infinity Stone exposition scenes tend to halt a movie, but this one works because the heroes are chasing the stone. · "I tend to feel like the Infinity Stone scenes always grind the movie to a hold, however shorter long they are."
  14. [The Big Picture · The Past, Present, and Future of Superhero Movies | The Big Picture · 0:57:00 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Avengers: Infinity War ↔ Ant-Man and the Wasp · programming · Whether Ant-Man and the Wasp matters as much as Infinity War is a test of Marvel overexposure. · "At what point does Ant-man and the Wasp not matter as much as Infinity War?"
  15. [Blank Check — Patreon · Iron Man · 1:18:06 · unknown (0.30)] Iron Man ↔ Iron Man 2 · programming · Griffin has a point about Paltrow in Iron Man 2 and promises a separate Iron Man 2 commentary. · "We're going to do an Iron Man 2 commentary so we can talk about the movie I want to talk about there."
  16. [The Big Picture · ‘Captain Marvel’ Is a ’90s Nostalgia Play. Did It Work? | Exit Survey · 0:03:27 · Sean Fennessey (0.80)] Captain America: The First Avenger ⇒ Captain Marvel (the host's read) · lineage · The film goes back to the Steve Rogers style of origin story. · "here's how Steve Rogers became a super soldier style of storytelling."
  17. [Blank Check — Patreon · Guardians of the Galaxy · 1:53:52 · unknown (0.30)] The Avengers ↔ Avengers: Age of Ultron · craft · The first Avengers' bright final daylight action is a big plus; Ultron is daylight but gloomy. · "That's another big plus to Avengers, the the 1st one, totally, total daylight stuff."
  18. [Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War · 0:25:32 · Griffin Newman (0.70)] Black Panther ↔ Avengers: Infinity War · programming · Griffin loved Black Panther just before, then felt Infinity War was one Marvel movie too big. · "Having, you know, loved Black Panther, which came out right before this."
  19. [Blank Check — Patreon · Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation · 1:01:43 · unknown (0.30)] Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation ↔ Iron Man 2 · lineage · The thigh-grab move is traced back to Iron Man 2 by one speaker. · "I mean, I always think of Iron Man 2."
  20. [Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The First Avenger · 0:13:53 · Griffin Newman (0.45)] Captain America: The First Avenger ↔ The Rocketeer · lineage · Johnston was hired on the strength of The Rocketeer, which shares the period, beautiful-period-vibe sensibility. · "Joe Johnson's the guy who directed the Rockets here."
  21. [Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War · 2:55:04 · David Sims (0.40)] Ant-Man and the Wasp ↔ Avengers: Infinity War · programming · Ant-Man and the Wasp is the sorbet to watch after Infinity War. · "A nice little sorbet, though."
  22. [Blank Check — Patreon · Iron Man 3 · 0:21:49 · unknown (0.30)] Iron Man 2 ↔ Robocop 2 · lineage · Iron Man 2 forces Tony to be a wreck again for no earned reason, which they liken to Robocop 2 resetting its hero. · "doing the Robocop 2 thing."
  23. [Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The First Avenger · 0:19:47 · David Sims (0.40)] Iron Man 2 ⇒ Captain America: The First Avenger (the host's read) · lineage · The Stark Expo of the 1940s is the origin of the Expo seen in Iron Man 2, now as the full World's Fair version. · "Like what we see in Iron Man 2, but now it's like the full like 40s World Fair version."
  24. [The Big Picture · ‘Captain Marvel’ Is a ’90s Nostalgia Play. Did It Work? | Exit Survey · 0:09:16 · Sean Fennessey (0.80)] Captain Marvel ↔ Avengers: Infinity War · lineage · The film is connective tissue, dragging continuity toward the next Avengers movie. · "this movie is basically a connective tissue movie."
  25. [Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The First Avenger · 0:19:47 · David Sims (0.40)] Iron Man 2 ⇒ Captain America: The First Avenger (the host's read) · lineage · The Stark Expo of the 1940s is the origin of the Expo seen in Iron Man 2, now as the full World's Fair version. · "Like what we see in Iron Man 2, but now it's like the full like 40s World Fair version."
  26. [Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The First Avenger · 0:47:45 · David Sims (0.50)] Truth: Red, White & Black (comic) ⇒ Captain America: The First Avenger (the host's read) · lineage · The one-off serum process loosely connects to the Truth miniseries retcon about earlier black experimentees. · "Truth is a book that essentially theorizes that there was like a Tuskegee airman."

The shows' running bits (1)

  1. [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)

The whole prompt

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You are a clerk at Video Culture, a video store. A customer just finished Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014) 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 Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014) 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 · Captain America: The Winter Soldier · 0:14:14 · unknown (0.35)] Captain America: The Winter Soldier ↔ Iron Man 3 · programming · Marvel gives each film a different genre; Winter Soldier is the political thriller, Iron Man 3 the noir/buddy film. · "Right. So this is when they're like, Iron Man 3 is sort of like a noir and like a buddy film, Dark World is like high fantasy."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The Winter Soldier · 0:14:14 · unknown (0.35)] Captain America: The Winter Soldier ↔ Thor: The Dark World · programming · Dark World is the high-fantasy entry in the same one-genre-per-film scheme. · "Dark World is like high fantasy."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The Winter Soldier · 0:16:47 · unknown (0.40)] Captain America: The Winter Soldier ↔ Marvel Cinematic Universe · programming · Fury is in charge of SHIELD only in this film and Avengers; afterward mostly cameos. · "So this is only the only other movie where Fury is like in charge of S.E.L.D. and kind of just like in the movie."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The Winter Soldier · 1:16:27 · unknown (0.45)] Captain America: The Winter Soldier ↔ Iron Man 2 · programming · Gary Shandling's Hydra senator is an odd pull-back to Iron Man 2 for a franchise otherwise ignoring that film. · "when they're like trying to ignore as much of Iron Man 2 as possible"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The Winter Soldier · 1:34:33 · unknown (0.40)] Captain America: The Winter Soldier ↔ Agents of S.H.I.L.E.L.D. · programming · The TV show had to stall its whole first season because the film's Hydra reveal could not be tipped. · "Of course, the 1st season of SHIELD began in 2013 and had to essentially stall for almost its entire 1st season because they knew that this was coming, but they couldn't tip it."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The Winter Soldier · 1:34:59 · unknown (0.35)] Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. ↔ Captain America: The Winter Soldier · programming · Marvel then told ABC SHIELD would not exist for the film universe. · "Just so you know, Shield's not going to exist enough."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The Winter Soldier · 1:59:18 · unknown (0.40)] Captain America: The Winter Soldier ↔ Disney+ Falcon and Bucky show · programming · Smaller side-character projects are the future on Disney Plus. · "That feels like what Disney Plus is going to be with the like Falcon and Bucky show and the Scarlet Wish show."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The Winter Soldier · 1:59:26 · unknown (0.40)] Captain America: The Winter Soldier ↔ Loki · programming · The Loki show hired a Rick and Morty writer; time-traveling premise. · "have you heard the premise of the Loki show and they hired a Rick and Morty writer?"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The Winter Soldier · 2:09:22 · unknown (0.35)] Captain America: The Winter Soldier ↔ Avengers: Age of Ultron · programming · Ultron resets Captain America's status quo ahead of Civil War. · "Well, it's because Age of Ultron also sort of resets Captain America a little bit."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The Winter Soldier · 2:12:03 · unknown (0.35)] Captain America: The Winter Soldier ⇒ Avengers: Age of Ultron (the host's read) · programming · The post-credits scene sets up the twins and Strucker's experiments. · "You know what they're setting up here, Benny."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The Winter Soldier · 0:19:33 · unknown (0.40)] Three Days of the Condor ⇒ Captain America: The Winter Soldier (the host's read) · lineage · The Russos and Marcus/McFeely were told they could make a Three Days of the Condor style political thriller inside the MCU, provided Feige got his Helicarrier back. · "You want to do a 3 day of the Condor movie?"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The Winter Soldier · 0:27:10 · unknown (0.40)] Three Days of the Condor ⇒ Captain America: The Winter Soldier (the maker said so) · lineage · The filmmakers say outright they were making a Condor movie. · "But they're like, we're like, we're making a 3 days of the Condor movie."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The Winter Soldier · 1:02:53 · unknown (0.45)] Captain America: The Winter Soldier ↔ 70s paranoid thrillers · lineage · The bunker scene has a creepy empty-bureaucracy look from the 60s and 70s. · "the sort of like creepy, empty bureaucracy aesthetic, you know, the very 60s, 70s"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The Winter Soldier · 1:03:03 · unknown (0.45)] Captain America: The Winter Soldier ↔ The X-Files · lineage · The abandoned-office SHIELD bunker is like an X-Files episode. · "X-Files has a lot of episodes like this where they're like, what's this abandoned office"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The First Avenger · 1:34:27 · unknown (0.40)] Captain America: The First Avenger ⇒ Captain America: The Winter Soldier (the host's read) · lineage · Zola surviving and joining the other side is the seed for Winter Soldier. · "Because you need Zola to join the other side."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The Winter Soldier · 0:19:16 · unknown (0.35)] Captain America: The Winter Soldier ↔ Rainbow Six · theme · The film is a mission-based, strategy-driven blue-collar entry in the franchise, like Rainbow Six. · "Rainbow six."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The Winter Soldier · 0:20:29 · unknown (0.35)] Captain America: The Winter Soldier ↔ Captain America: Civil War · theme · The idea of Cap as someone with values who distrusts his government is what Civil War is about. · "Because that's what civil war is about."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The Winter Soldier · 0:30:34 · unknown (0.40)] Captain America: The Winter Soldier ↔ Deep State · theme · The film is a betrayal-of-the-deep-state movie, which affects how Fury is played. · "this is like the betrayal of, you know, the deep state movie."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The Winter Soldier · 1:08:31 · unknown (0.35)] Captain America: The Winter Soldier ↔ A Night at the Garden · theme · The Zola/Hydra "infiltrate quietly" speech is likened to a documentary short about a 1939 American Nazi rally. · "Hydra is a dog whistle for you."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The Winter Soldier · 1:43:56 · unknown (0.40)] Captain America: The Winter Soldier ↔ Snowden / NSA · theme · The Insight project plays as post-Snowden surveillance fear. · "I guess they were like making the point of like, oh, it's like post Snowden."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The Winter Soldier · 0:04:50 · unknown (0.40)] Captain America: The Winter Soldier ↔ The Hurt Locker · craft · The opening Sam Wilson veterans-group scene plays like Hurt Locker-style soldier-readjustment material. · "So this is all kind of nice like Hurtlocker stuff."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The Winter Soldier · 0:09:28 · unknown (0.45)] Captain America: The Winter Soldier ↔ LEGO Marvel Avengers (video game) · craft · The opening boat sequence is replicated as a level in the LEGO game and works as a good video-game level. · "It is that this sequence is replicate as a level in Marvel, Lego, the Avengers."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The First Avenger · 1:41:14 · unknown (0.40)] Captain America: The First Avenger ↔ Captain America: The Winter Soldier · craft · The suit returns in Winter Soldier with better tailoring and layers. · "I just think when they bring the classic suit back in Winter Soldier, it's a better tailoring."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The Winter Soldier · 0:04:21 · unknown (0.40)] Captain America: The Winter Soldier ↔ Captain America: The First Avenger · contrast · The first film is stylized like an old serial; this one is a grounded Washington thriller. · "And the 1st Captain America is so heightened and stylized because it's doing the old cereal thing."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The Winter Soldier · 0:15:36 · unknown (0.40)] Captain America: The Winter Soldier ↔ Iron Man 2 · contrast · Black Widow's hair is her worst here, though Iron Man 2 hair is worse; her performance is more alive here. · "Iron Man 2 hair is bottom of the barrel."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The Winter Soldier · 1:29:49 · unknown (0.40)] Captain America: The Winter Soldier ↔ Suicide Squad · contrast · Polar makes Suicide Squad look tame. · "This movie makes Suicide Squad look like..."
[pairs] Captain America: The Winter Soldier ↔ Captain America: The First Avenger · said 5 times in 2 episodes
[pairs] Captain America: The Winter Soldier ↔ Captain America: Civil War · said 3 times in 1 episode
[pairs] Captain America: The Winter Soldier ↔ Thor: The Dark World · said 2 times in 2 episodes
[pairs] Captain America: The Winter Soldier ↔ Iron Man 3 · said 2 times in 1 episode
[pairs] Captain America: The Winter Soldier ↔ Avengers: Infinity War · said 2 times in 1 episode
[pairs] Captain America: The Winter Soldier ↔ Iron Man 2 · said 2 times in 1 episode
[Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The Winter Soldier · 2:13:38 · unknown (0.35)] Captain America: The Winter Soldier · fun · Release: opened to 95, 46% increase over First Avenger's 65. · "This one opens to 95."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The First Avenger · 2:08:02 · unknown (0.40)] Captain America: The First Avenger ↔ Transformers: Dark of the Moon · programming · Cap was released July 22 instead of July 4th because Transformers 3 owned that date and nobody would go near it. · "The July 4th movie was Transformers 3."
[The Big Picture · ‘Black Panther: Wakanda Forever’ Is Here! · 0:37:09 · Van Lathan (0.85)] Captain America: Civil War ⇒ Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (the host's read) · theme · Van says Black Panther was handled better in Civil War than in his own movie, and that Civil War served as his origin; Ironheart's introduction here does not land the same way. · "Black Panther, to me, was portrayed better in Civil War than he was in the original Black Panther movie."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War · 1:17:18 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Avengers: Age of Ultron ↔ Avengers: Infinity War · lineage · The Vision and Wanda romance set up in Ultron gets no onscreen payoff here. · "Now, here is the non-payoff of the romance, the major Ultron."
[The Big Picture · The Past, Present, and Future of Superhero Movies | The Big Picture · 0:49:22 · David Shoemaker (0.40)] Black Panther ↔ Avengers: Infinity War · programming · Black Panther looks like the best bet to carry the MCU into the next phase after Infinity War. · "Black Panther certainly looks to be the best bet to carry the series into phase four"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Iron Man 2 · 0:12:08 · unknown (0.30)] Iron Man 2 ↔ The Avengers · programming · Feige pushed more cinematic-universe setup after the first film, but held most back; the Fury scene and shield joke are the result. · "Let's build shield outlets, like give them, you know, a little more of what they want."
[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."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Iron Man 2 · 0:50:50 · unknown (0.30)] Iron Man 2 ↔ Captain America: Civil War · theme · Both films go back to Tony's parents and father issues. · "The movie goes back to that well."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War · 2:00:15 · unknown (0.30)] Avengers: Age of Ultron ⇒ Avengers: Infinity War (the host's read) · lineage · The Hulkbuster armor pays off Banner being almost defeated by it before. · "it's paying off the fact that he was, you know, almost defeated by this armor before."
[The Big Picture · The Past, Present, and Future of Superhero Movies | The Big Picture · 0:52:39 · David Shoemaker (0.40)] Guardians of the Galaxy ↔ Avengers: Infinity War · programming · Guardians 3 is certain and Star-Lord is now a primary MCU figure. · "Chris Pratt, obviously, there will be a Guardians 3."
[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 · Captain America: The First Avenger · 2:09:10 · unknown (0.40)] Captain America: The First Avenger ↔ Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 · programming · In the 2011 box-office ranking Cap is number one and Deathly Hallows Part 2 is number two. · "Oh, oh, it's Deathly Hollis part two."
[The Big Picture · ‘Black Panther: Wakanda Forever’ Is Here! · 0:50:31 · Van Lathan (0.70)] Russo Brothers ↔ Captain America: Civil War · craft · Van credits the Russos as experts at MCU action, better at it than directors of the other movies. · "Yeah, like in the movies and there's a very, you know, what the Russo's do for the MCU, it's not easy to do that, right?"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Guardians of the Galaxy · 1:10:34 · unknown (0.30)] Guardians of the Galaxy ↔ Avengers: Age of Ultron · craft · Infinity Stone exposition scenes tend to halt a movie, but this one works because the heroes are chasing the stone. · "I tend to feel like the Infinity Stone scenes always grind the movie to a hold, however shorter long they are."
[The Big Picture · The Past, Present, and Future of Superhero Movies | The Big Picture · 0:57:00 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Avengers: Infinity War ↔ Ant-Man and the Wasp · programming · Whether Ant-Man and the Wasp matters as much as Infinity War is a test of Marvel overexposure. · "At what point does Ant-man and the Wasp not matter as much as Infinity War?"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Iron Man · 1:18:06 · unknown (0.30)] Iron Man ↔ Iron Man 2 · programming · Griffin has a point about Paltrow in Iron Man 2 and promises a separate Iron Man 2 commentary. · "We're going to do an Iron Man 2 commentary so we can talk about the movie I want to talk about there."
[The Big Picture · ‘Captain Marvel’ Is a ’90s Nostalgia Play. Did It Work? | Exit Survey · 0:03:27 · Sean Fennessey (0.80)] Captain America: The First Avenger ⇒ Captain Marvel (the host's read) · lineage · The film goes back to the Steve Rogers style of origin story. · "here's how Steve Rogers became a super soldier style of storytelling."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Guardians of the Galaxy · 1:53:52 · unknown (0.30)] The Avengers ↔ Avengers: Age of Ultron · craft · The first Avengers' bright final daylight action is a big plus; Ultron is daylight but gloomy. · "That's another big plus to Avengers, the the 1st one, totally, total daylight stuff."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War · 0:25:32 · Griffin Newman (0.70)] Black Panther ↔ Avengers: Infinity War · programming · Griffin loved Black Panther just before, then felt Infinity War was one Marvel movie too big. · "Having, you know, loved Black Panther, which came out right before this."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation · 1:01:43 · unknown (0.30)] Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation ↔ Iron Man 2 · lineage · The thigh-grab move is traced back to Iron Man 2 by one speaker. · "I mean, I always think of Iron Man 2."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The First Avenger · 0:13:53 · Griffin Newman (0.45)] Captain America: The First Avenger ↔ The Rocketeer · lineage · Johnston was hired on the strength of The Rocketeer, which shares the period, beautiful-period-vibe sensibility. · "Joe Johnson's the guy who directed the Rockets here."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War · 2:55:04 · David Sims (0.40)] Ant-Man and the Wasp ↔ Avengers: Infinity War · programming · Ant-Man and the Wasp is the sorbet to watch after Infinity War. · "A nice little sorbet, though."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Iron Man 3 · 0:21:49 · unknown (0.30)] Iron Man 2 ↔ Robocop 2 · lineage · Iron Man 2 forces Tony to be a wreck again for no earned reason, which they liken to Robocop 2 resetting its hero. · "doing the Robocop 2 thing."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The First Avenger · 0:19:47 · David Sims (0.40)] Iron Man 2 ⇒ Captain America: The First Avenger (the host's read) · lineage · The Stark Expo of the 1940s is the origin of the Expo seen in Iron Man 2, now as the full World's Fair version. · "Like what we see in Iron Man 2, but now it's like the full like 40s World Fair version."
[The Big Picture · ‘Captain Marvel’ Is a ’90s Nostalgia Play. Did It Work? | Exit Survey · 0:09:16 · Sean Fennessey (0.80)] Captain Marvel ↔ Avengers: Infinity War · lineage · The film is connective tissue, dragging continuity toward the next Avengers movie. · "this movie is basically a connective tissue movie."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The First Avenger · 0:19:47 · David Sims (0.40)] Iron Man 2 ⇒ Captain America: The First Avenger (the host's read) · lineage · The Stark Expo of the 1940s is the origin of the Expo seen in Iron Man 2, now as the full World's Fair version. · "Like what we see in Iron Man 2, but now it's like the full like 40s World Fair version."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The First Avenger · 0:47:45 · David Sims (0.50)] Truth: Red, White & Black (comic) ⇒ Captain America: The First Avenger (the host's read) · lineage · The one-off serum process loosely connects to the Truth miniseries retcon about earlier black experimentees. · "Truth is a book that essentially theorizes that there was like a Tuskegee airman."
[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 Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014) 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.