What the corpus says about The Judge (2014)

You are a clerk at Video Culture, a video store. A customer just finished The Judge (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 The Judge (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 · Judging The Judge · 1:20:04 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Man of Steel ⇒ The Judge (the host's read) · lineage · The tornado father-son fight echoes the father-son tornado scene in Man of Steel, another Warner Bros. film. · "an homage to everyone's favorite father son scene from Man of Steel."
[Blank Check · Judging The Judge · 0:30:57 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] The Judge ↔ Men, Women & Children · theme · Both were overly earnest star-driven dramas that flopped, though The Judge made far more. · "I'm saying judge is a similar level of overly earnest big stars doing..."
[Blank Check · Judging The Judge · 1:04:56 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] The Judge ↔ Meet the Fockers · theme · The naked-together bathtub gay-panic beat in the shower scene feels like a Fockers-style gag. · "Like it almost turns into like a fucking little fokker seat where like they're naked together in a bathtub"
[Blank Check · Judging The Judge · 1:08:29 · David Sims (0.50)] The Judge ↔ Big Daddy · theme · The Judge's climactic testimony scene recalls Sandler's courtroom speech in Big Daddy, which works only because that film is a ribald comedy. · "the scene in Big Daddy, where Adam Sandler tells his dad how much he loved him on the stand during..."
[Blank Check · Judging The Judge · 1:09:46 · David Sims (0.50)] The Judge ↔ Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace · theme · The Judge's characters announce their motivations in dialogue, which David says is worse than the Phantom Menace. · "I just want to say this movie is a lot worse than Star Wars episode one of the Phantom Menace."
[Blank Check · Judging The Judge · 1:20:27 · David Sims (0.60)] Entourage ↔ The Judge · theme · David says the Entourage movie, which he watched the same day, is better than The Judge. · "I had to watch it the same day I watched Entourage the movie, which is a better movie than the judge."
[Blank Check · Judging The Judge · 1:14:57 · David Sims (0.50)] The Judge ↔ A Civil Action · craft · The Judge looks like A Civil Action, a stately legal drama Duvall was Oscar-nominated for. · "the movie kind of looks like a civil action, which Robert Delwell was nominated for"
[Blank Check · Judging The Judge · 1:14:05 · David Sims (0.50)] The Judge ↔ No Country for Old Men · contrast · Recent Best Picture winners like The Artist, The Hurt Locker, and No Country are not like The Judge, which is the old kind of Oscar bait. · "the best picture winners of the last whatever years are like the artist and the hurt locker and like no country for all men"
[Blank Check · Judging The Judge · 1:14:24 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] The Judge ↔ The King's Speech · contrast · King's Speech and A Beautiful Mind are the nearest recent mannered Oscar winners, but they are British or biopic. · "But that's the British Tony thing. You know? And Beautiful Mind is like biopic."
[Blank Check · Judging The Judge · 0:24:46 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Due Date ↔ The Judge · career · After Iron Man the only non-franchise outliers Downey signed on to were Due Date and The Judge. · "and the 2 exceptions, the outliers are due date and the judge."
[Blank Check · Judging The Judge · 0:27:33 · David Sims (0.40)] The Judge ↔ Gravity · career · Downey dropped out of Gravity, Oz the Great and Powerful and Inherent Vice while pursuing The Judge. · "He was going to be the Cooney part in gravity. And he was going to be the Franco Partonas the Great and Powerful."
[Blank Check · Judging The Judge · 0:27:38 · David Sims (0.40)] The Judge ↔ Inherent Vice · career · Downey had been going to play Joaquin Phoenix's role in Inherent Vice before dropping out. · "He was going to play Joaquin Fiance's role in Inherit Vice."
[Blank Check · Judging The Judge · 0:38:31 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] The Change-Up ↔ The Judge · people · Both Dobkin films open or turn on peeing, bodily-fluid humor leaking into the prestige drama. · "Another movie about peeing, where Jason Bateman and Ryan Reynolds pee into a fountain and lightning hits it and they change bodies."
[Blank Check · Judging The Judge · 1:01:00 · David Sims (0.40)] The Gingerbread Man ↔ The Judge · people · Downey and Duvall had worked together before in The Gingerbread Man and Lucky You, which fed the casting. · "It was the gingerbread man. And lucky you. the Curtis Hanson poker movie."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 2:11:46 · unknown (0.30)] King Arthur: Legend of the Sword ↔ The Judge · people · David Dobkin developed a six-film Round Table plan for Warner before being replaced by Ritchie. · "hey, David Dobkin, you just made the judge, we're not going to let you make a fucking 7 part"
[Blank Check · Judging The Judge · 0:30:10 · David Sims (0.40)] Dracula Untold ↔ The Judge · industry · The Judge opened behind Annabelle's second weekend, mentioned beside the flop Dracula Untold. · "You know, behind the 2nd weekend of Annabelle, this movie opened."
[Blank Check · Judging The Judge · 1:15:12 · David Sims (0.40)] The Judge ↔ Steve Zaillian · theme · Dobkin seems to want to make an Ed Zwick or Steve Zaillian-style prestige drama. · "I want to make an Ed Zwick or Steve Zaleen or like a... What is the problem with this movie?"
[Blank Check · Judging The Judge · 0:19:24 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Susan Downey ↔ The Judge · people · Susan Downey, who became his wife, is a producer credit on The Judge. · "She becomes Susan Downey, which is why we don't remember her last name. Susan Downey, PGA. She's in the credit to the judge."
[Blank Check · Judging The Judge · 0:27:27 · David Sims (0.50)] Robert Downey Jr. ↔ The Judge · people · The Judge was Downey's first film as a producer, under his new banner at Warner Bros. · "This is his 1st film as a producer. He sets up a 1st look deal at Warner Brothers to bring them properties."
[Blank Check · Judging The Judge · 0:34:31 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Janusz Kaminski ↔ The Judge · people · Kaminski, Spielberg's regular, shot The Judge beautifully but too seriously for the tone. · "It's shot by Yanush Kaminsky, who's a great director of photographer. Steven Spielberg's regular, has shot every Steven Spielberg."
[Blank Check · Judging The Judge · 0:35:10 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] The Judge · fun · Three minutes in, a supposedly serious drama opens with Downey peeing on David Krumholtz at a urinal, complete with an insert shot of urine on polished shoes. The hosts treat this as the first sign the director cannot stop being a Dobkin comedy director. · "Minute 3 of the movie, it's a drama. Rardine Jr., an adult male is peeing on another adult male"
[Blank Check · Judging The Judge · 1:00:41 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] The Judge · fun · Duvall is 82, hairless, and in chemo, but they dye the few wisps on his head deep brown to make him look 70 instead of 80. · "It's like, oh, you're right. That makes him look 70 instead of 80."
[Blank Check · Judging The Judge · 1:04:15 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] The Judge · fun · The shower scene: Downey hoses a soiled Duvall down with a handheld shower head, and the only shot they can't forget is the stained legs and the drain. · "you just see shit running down his legs down the drain."
[Blank Check · Judging The Judge · 1:09:17 · David Sims (0.40)] The Judge · fun · The judge's tell is that he forgets his bailiff's name; the hosts say it is set up in the first scene and is open and shut at trial, yet they convict him anyway. · "The bailiff who he's had at his side for like 30 years."
[Blank Check · Judging The Judge · 1:10:26 · David Sims (0.40)] The Judge · fun · David would take a dumb spaceship movie over a dumb adult drama, and notes The Judge has no spaceships. · "I'd rather take a dumb spaceship movie than a dumb adult drama."
[Blank Check · Judging The Judge · 1:21:46 · Griffin Newman (0.30)] The Judge · fun · The Judge was Griffin's SAG screener and David's last Oscar-year completism watch; a 'Judging the Judge' sequel joke runs through the intro and outro. · "I forgot to vote this, you idiot."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Knocked Up’ · 1:16:19 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Knocked Up ↔ Big Daddy · theme · Bill compares Ben's money-from-nowhere set-up to Sonny in Big Daddy: it doesn't have to work because he has all the money. · "Sonny get run over by, uh, like a cab in Big Daddy."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Iron Man 3 · 0:22:24 · unknown (0.30)] Iron Man 3 ↔ Due Date · theme · Both films interrogate Downey's star persona: we love him being an ass; here are the people he wronged. · "This movie is interested in Robert Tank Jr.'s star persona and how weird it is."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing · 1:19:45 · Griffin Newman (0.35)] Punch-Drunk Love ↔ Big Daddy · theme · The McDonald's scene in Big Daddy is not far from Punch-Drunk Love freak-outs. · "Is not that far from like Punch Drug Club, like from his weird little freak outs"
[speaker] David Sims · latest sketch, Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · Prepares history: novel, casting, budgets, box office. Reveres the film and thinks it reads as a normal ground-level story. A sucker for Hollywood deal backstory and box office game. · stances: Praises Keitel and Dafoe casting; Respects Scorsese's persistence and Corman discipline; The film is now well regarded though not 'canonical Marty'
[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
[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 The Judge (2014); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend The Judge (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.