What the corpus says about Batman & Robin (1997)

You are a clerk at Video Culture, a video store. A customer just finished Batman & Robin (1997) 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 Batman & Robin (1997) 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 · 2022 MARCH MADNESS UPDATE 2 PRESENTED BY THE CHIP REPORT · 0:46:45 · unknown (0.30)] Batman & Robin ↔ The Dark Knight Rises · theme · Joke: Bane's 2nd best performance is Batman & Robin; Dark Knight Rises is the other Bane movie. · "I would say it's probably Bane's 2nd best performance in a movie."
[Blank Check · Empire of the Sun · 0:42:34 · Griffin Newman or David Sims (0.40)] Elliot Goldenthal ↔ Batman & Robin · verdict · The speaker prefers Goldenthal's Batman & Robin score to his Oscar-winning Frida work. · "I prefer the Batman Robin score."
[Blank Check — Patreon · 2022 MARCH MADNESS UPDATE 2 PRESENTED BY THE CHIP REPORT · 0:46:36 · unknown (0.30)] Batman & Robin · fun · Joke: Bane in a fedora and trench coat in the girlfriend role. · "He's in like Ninja Turtles disguise mode."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Batman (1966) · 1:04:50 · Griffin Newman (0.45)] Batman (franchise) ↔ The Dark Knight Rises · programming · All the post-West movies are on a race to self-serious credibility. · "It's been this race to self-serious credibility."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Batman (1966) · 0:18:49 · David Sims (0.50)] The Batman ⇒ The Dark Knight Rises (the host's read) · lineage · The ocean bomb-disposal sequence is thought to be directly referenced in the final act of Dark Knight Rises. · "this sequence, a lot of people think, is directly referenced by the final act of Dark Knight Rises."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Batman (1966) · 0:28:17 · Griffin Newman (0.35)] Tim Drake ⇒ The Dark Knight Rises (the host's read) · lineage · Nolan's Robin take is basically Tim Drake, and a speaker wishes it had been 10 percent more obvious. · "And I wish Nolan had just gone 10%, you know, more obvious with it."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Batman (1966) · 1:14:38 · David Sims (0.50)] The Batman ⇒ The Dark Knight Rises (the host's read) · lineage · The giant bomb, the film's most iconic image, is what Dark Knight Rises lifts. · "This is the thing that Dark Knight Rises kind of lifts."
[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 Batman & Robin (1997); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Batman & Robin (1997) 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.