What the corpus says about A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001)

You are a clerk at Video Culture, a video store. A customer just finished A.I. Artificial Intelligence (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 A.I. Artificial Intelligence (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.

[Blank Check — Patreon · Eyes Wide Shut · 0:30:27 · unknown (0.30)] Pinocchio ⇒ A.I. Artificial Intelligence (the maker said so: Kubrick to the short story writer (Brian Aldiss), as the speaker tells it) · template · Kubrick told the short story writer he wanted to combine the story with Pinocchio, per the speaker. · "he was like, I want to take your story and combine it with Pinocchio."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Eyes Wide Shut · 0:31:56 · unknown (0.30)] Jurassic Park ⇒ A.I. Artificial Intelligence (the host's read) · technology showed it was possible · The speaker says Kubrick, who first asked Spielberg to build a robot, saw Jurassic Park and reconsidered. · "And then he sees Jurassic Park and he's once again like, well, wait a second."
[Blank Check — Patreon · 2001: A Space Odyssey · 0:55:31 · unknown (0.30)] 2001: A Space Odyssey ↔ A.I. Artificial Intelligence · similar ending · The ending of A.I. is so similar to 2001's: a familiar room built by far-future beings. · "the ending of AI is so similar to the ending of 2001"
[Blank Check · Empire of the Sun · 0:41:41 · Bilge Ebiri (0.50)] John Williams ↔ A.I. Artificial Intelligence · craft · The A.I. score is beautiful on its own but is not always well used in the film and overwhelms the ending. · "And also, I would argue that the score isn't always that well used in the movie."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Eyes Wide Shut · 0:13:25 · unknown (0.30)] Stanley Kubrick ⇒ A.I. Artificial Intelligence (the host's read) · career · The speaker wonders whether Spielberg would mind A.I. being called half Kubrick's movie. · "would he be offended in that kind of way of like, that's half Stanley's movie?"
[The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies · 0:26:34 · unknown (0.40)] A.I. Artificial Intelligence ↔ Stanley Kubrick · what-if · A.I. would have been darker if it were a Kubrick film. · "if it were a Kubrick movie, it would have been even more dark."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Spartacus · 0:34:08 · unknown (0.45)] Stanley Kubrick ⇒ A.I. Artificial Intelligence (the host's read) · developed from unmade screenplay · A.I. is the Kubrick screenplay that Spielberg made. · "AI is the is the cubic screenplay that Spielberg made."
[Blank Check — Patreon · 2001: A Space Odyssey · 0:54:01 · unknown (0.30)] 2001: A Space Odyssey ↔ 2001: A Space Odyssey (novel) · programming · Film and Clarke's novel were developed side by side, each holding the other hostage. · "But the 2 of them were being done in tandem."
[Blank Check · The Lost World: Jurassic Park · 1:03:46 · unknown (0.30)] Jurassic Park ⇒ The Lost World: Jurassic Park (the host's read) · lineage · The hosts judge the sequel as normalizing the dinosaurs too fast and dropping the wonder-before-terror structure of the original. · "This movie normalizes the dinosaurs way too much."
[Blank Check · Dune · 1:12:45 · unknown (0.40)] 2001: A Space Odyssey ⇒ Silent Running (the host's read) · lineage · 2001 spawned heady, serious, clean sci-fi like Silent Running. · "2001 leads to a spat of things like silent running, you know, these movies that are like very heady."
[Blank Check · The Lost World: Jurassic Park · 1:37:19 · unknown (0.30)] Jurassic Park ⇒ Anaconda (the host's read) · lineage · Anaconda is called the final lapping of the Jurassic Park creature-feature wave. · "that's like the final lapping of the Jurassic Park ripple, sort of washing up on the beach."
[Blank Check · Dune · 2:54:20 · unknown (0.40)] 2001: A Space Odyssey ⇒ 2010: The Year We Make Contact (the host's read) · lineage · 2010 was made because the novel sequel existed, a movie made just because they had to. · "Because Arthur C. Clark had come out with a 2010 novel."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Twister’ · 0:05:47 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Twister ↔ Jurassic Park · lineage · Twister is aesthetically closer to Jurassic Park than to superhero movies, prizing intelligence over strength and wonder over fixing things. · "I think it's more aesthetically closer to like Jurassic Park."
[Blank Check — Patreon · 2010: The Year We Make Contact · 0:02:34 · unknown (0.40)] 2001: A Space Odyssey ⇒ 2010: The Year We Make Contact (the host's read) · lineage · 2010 is the sequel to 2001; the speaker's reaction to the Kubrick film is the benchmark throughout. · "And I said, oh, you know, 2010, the sequel to 2001 and they were like, the what?"
[The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies · 0:08:07 · Sean Fennessey (0.85)] Jurassic Park ⇒ Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (the host's read) · lineage · The sequels are a spinoff of Spielberg's imagination though he only executive produces them. · "even though he's just an executive producer on those movies, it is this interesting spinoff of his imagination."
[Blank Check — Patreon · A Clockwork Orange · 2:48:04 · unknown (0.40)] 2001: A Space Odyssey ⇒ 2010 (the host's read) · lineage · Peter Hyams made a film sequel to 2001, following the books. · "But, like, he rolled up his sleeves and he was like, 2001?"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 0:46:01 · David Sims (0.50)] Alien Resurrection ⇒ Jurassic Park (the host's read) · lineage · Aliens caged and taunted while hunting you feels like the raptors; raptors may be Alien rip-offs. · "the raptors have a bit of an alien rip off vibe, honestly"
[Blank Check — Patreon · 2001: A Space Odyssey · 0:11:43 · Jordan Hoffman (0.70)] 2001: A Space Odyssey ⇒ 2010: The Year We Make Contact (the host's read) · lineage · The film has a sequel, and Clarke wrote three sequel novels. · "Obviously, the sequel exists."
[Blank Check · The Lost World: Jurassic Park · 0:18:26 · unknown (0.30)] Jeff Goldblum ↔ Jurassic Park · theme · Goldblum asked to play the scientist as a cool, cocky rock star rather than a nerd, and his performance saved the character from dying as in the book. · "Can I be the rock star sign?"
[Blank Check — Patreon · 2001: A Space Odyssey · 0:42:56 · Jordan Hoffman (0.30)] 2001: A Space Odyssey ⇒ 2069: A Sex Odyssey (the host's read) · lineage · The porn parody is said to be very influenced by 2001. · "actually is actually very influenced by this film."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Twister’ · 0:55:18 · Bill Simmons (0.40)] Twister ↔ Jurassic Park · theme · Jonas, who is in it for money not science, is the same corporate-greed character type as Jurassic Park. · "Jurassic Park is the same way."
[Blank Check — Patreon · 2001: A Space Odyssey · 0:52:22 · unknown (0.30)] The Sentinel (short story) ⇒ 2001: A Space Odyssey (the host's read) · lineage · The film and companion novel drafted off Clarke's short story The Sentinel, which had the germ of the monolith idea. · "So it's going off drafting off of the Sentinel."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Guardians of the Galaxy · 1:22:19 · unknown (0.30)] Jeff Goldblum ↔ Jurassic Park · theme · The Han Solo model of a handsome second lead who never takes full charge also fits Goldblum in Jurassic Park. · "Yeah, I think that Goldblum and Jurassic Park is like an underrated version of that."
[speaker] Bilge Ebiri · latest sketch, Blank Check · Empire of the Sun · Loves grand, earned cinematic spectacle and big epics (The Last Emperor, Passage to India's shots), Bertolucci, John Williams, Malkovich, Christian Bale and Raising Arizona. Defends movies that made him laugh despite critical consensus (That's My Boy, Vacation remake). Cannot stand critics who enjoy a film in the room and then trash it for reasons of consensus; wary of Hollywood's sanitized history. · stances: Empire of the Sun is excellent and underrated; Spielberg's early films are the child's view, later ones the parent's; Hook is the pivot; Spielberg is secretly a horror filmmaker at heart; Horizon chapter 2 is great
[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 A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend A.I. Artificial Intelligence (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.