What the corpus says about The Hangover (2009)

You are a clerk at Video Culture, a video store. A customer just finished The Hangover (2009) 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 Hangover (2009) 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 Rewatchables · ‘Old School’ · 0:31:07 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] Old School ↔ The Hangover · people · Phillips later masters the story-inside-the-credits trick with the Polaroids in The Hangover. · "Todd Phillips, like, masters this with the hangover closing credits."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Die Hard 2’ · 1:16:53 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] Die Hard 2 ↔ The Hangover · taser comedy · Die Hard 2 may have pioneered comedic taser use but The Hangover is the taser Apex Mountain. · "Apex Mountain is a hangover."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Lego Batman Movie · 0:36:10 · Griffin Newman (0.60)] Zach Galifianakis ↔ The Hangover · career · The Hangover put Galifianakis in a mode; his passion-project TV show was what he wasn't allowed to do in movies. · "the whole problem with the hangover is it put him in a mode."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Old School’ · 0:27:02 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] The Hangover ↔ The Dan Band · people · The Dan Band also appear in The Hangover and other Phillips movies. · "they're in the hangover, too."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Old School’ · 0:10:44 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] The Hangover · fun · The story is Phillips skipped an upfront check on the first Hangover and took points, earning $50 million on the original alone. · "he did not take a check for ahead of time for the hangover and that he took only points and that he made $50000000"
[The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 1:08:20 · Amanda Dobbins (0.85)] Amanda Dobbins ↔ Die Hard 2 · programming · Pick 14 (round 5), category sequel: Takes it off the board and avoids Look Who's Talking Too. · "And I'm going to take Die Hard 2."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Old School’ · 0:04:35 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Will Ferrell ↔ Old School · lineage · Frank the Tank is an extension of his SNL Dodge Stratus guy, the suburban insanity of domesticity. · "Frank the Tank is kind of the Dodge Stratus extension."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Die Hard 2’ · 0:15:44 · Chris Ryan (0.80)] Die Hard 2 ↔ Die Hard · lineage · Ryan says the first and third Die Hard are baked into their locations, while this one is more generic action movie-ish. · "the 1st Die Hard and the 3rd Die Hard are characterized by their, like, this is really baked in."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Old School’ · 0:05:23 · Bill Simmons (0.40)] Animal House ⇒ Old School (the host's read) · lineage · Old School is the latest in a frat-movie cycle that returns every 10 to 15 years, starting with Animal House. · "It is in keeping with the kind of every 10 to 15 years frat movie that we now get."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Die Hard 2’ · 0:18:01 · Bill Simmons (0.75)] Die Hard 2 ↔ Lethal Weapon 2 · lineage · It arrived in the run-it-back era of sequels like Lethal Weapon 2. · "it is right during the era of everybody looking at each other and going, let's just run it back."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Old School’ · 0:05:45 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Ivan Reitman ⇒ Old School (the host's read) · lineage · Phillips and Armstrong's movie owes a lot to Ivan Reitman's 80s comedies; it is their son. · "it owes a lot to the Ivan Reitman comedies of the 80s."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Die Hard 2’ · 0:19:50 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] 58 Minutes ⇒ Die Hard 2 (the host's read) · lineage · The screenplay was adapted from Walter Wager's 1987 novel with a similar plot. · "Screenplay was adapted from Walter Wagers."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Old School’ · 0:06:03 · Bill Simmons (0.40)] Old School ↔ Stripes · lineage · Old School sits in the Animal House-to-early-80s run of comedy plus nudity that includes Stripes. · "there is a run, basically, that starts with Animal House and goes all the way."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Die Hard 2’ · 0:20:16 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] Manuel Noriega ⇒ Die Hard 2 (the maker said so: the screenwriter admitted it) · lineage · The writer admitted the script grabbed smoke from Iran-Contra and Manuel Noriega. · "there's definitely some Iran Contra, kind of, they're just grabbing smoke from that whole scandal and shoehorning into this with Manuel Noriega in real life."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Old School’ · 0:09:56 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Frat House ⇒ Old School (the host's read) · lineage · Phillips' frat documentary is a template for the movie. · "Frat House, which is this really interesting kind of template for the movie that we're going to talk about."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Die Hard 2’ · 0:43:06 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Die Hard 2 ⇒ Positive K (the host's read) · lineage · Positive K's song 'I Got a Man' samples a line from Die Hard 2, so the song now brings the movie to mind. · "And then that line got sampled on, I got a man, the positive K song. So now every time you hear that song, you hear that line from that movie."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Old School’ · 0:34:48 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Animal House ⇒ Old School (the host's read) · lineage · Animal House started the habit of a winnable conflict set-piece that comedies copied for ten years, and Old School revived it. · "I think Animal House started it and then the next 10 years of comedy is ripped off"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Die Hard 2’ · 0:22:49 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Die Hard 2 ↔ Indiana Jones series · theme · The critic grouped it with Indiana Jones as thrillers that leave your arm black and blue. · "this is one of those thrillers, like the Indiana Jones series that I categorized as bruised for our movies"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Old School’ · 0:42:01 · Bill Simmons (0.40)] Old School ↔ Old School 2 (unmade sequel script) · lineage · A 2006 sequel script about spring break was turned down by Ferrell and Vaughn as repetitive. · "It felt like it was repeating."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Die Hard 2’ · 0:41:35 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] Die Hard 2 ↔ First Blood · theme · Franz's 'I taught him everything he knows' line is joked as Richard Crenna in First Blood. · "like Richard Crenna in 1st Blood."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Old School’ · 0:43:10 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] Wayne's World 2 ↔ Old School · lineage · Asked which comedy sequel they'd want, Old School 2 beats Wedding Crashers 2; Wayne's World 2 is the great comedy sequel. · "I think is a genius movie."
[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
[speaker] Bill Simmons · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · Loves the Friday series as a communal, rental-era memory and tells childhood stories about the ads and theaters. Likes casting what-ifs and sports analogies for everything. Skeptical of horror at Christmas and of anything that wastes the premise. · stances: Friday the 13th is not the best entry but the origin story had to be told; Friday 2 is a leap over the original
[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] 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] 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 Hangover (2009); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend The Hangover (2009) 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.