What the corpus says about Gravity (2013)

You are a clerk at Video Culture, a video store. A customer just finished Gravity (2013) 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 Gravity (2013) 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 · 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."
[The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 1:34:52 · Craig Horlbeck (0.40)] Gravity ↔ Interstellar · verdict · Craig doesn't like outer-space movies but names Gravity as really good. · "Gravity is really good."
[The Big Picture · ‘Fast 9’ and the ‘Fast & Furious’ Rankings · 0:55:02 · Sean Fennessey (0.75)] F9 ↔ Gravity · what-if · Sean wants a real space version, with Bullock and Clooney, merged with Fast. · "let's fucking do gravity and fasten the Furious together."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Zodiac · 0:37:44 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Gravity ↔ Rendezvous with Rama (unmade) · what-if · The speaker guesses Fincher wanted something like Gravity but harder sci-fi. · "I think he wanted to do something similar to gravity, but even more hard sci-fi hard science, less pulpy"
[The Big Picture · Oscars 2019: Instant Reactions to ‘Green Book’ and the Two Warring Academies | The Oscars Show · 1:09:24 · unknown (0.40)] Alfonso Cuaron ↔ Gravity · career · The two Cuarón films recognized are Gravity and Roma, because the Academy is always late. · "And the 2 movies that he's recognized for are gravity and this movie."
[The Big Picture · ‘Fast 9’ and the ‘Fast & Furious’ Rankings · 0:20:21 · Shea Serrano (0.80)] Better Luck Tomorrow ↔ F9 · lineage · Justin Lin folds his earlier film (via Han) into the Fast saga, like Jay-Z and Nas remaking a hot song. · "he's like, oh, the movie that I did before, Better Luck tomorrow."
[Blank Check — Patreon · 2010: The Year We Make Contact · 0:06:48 · unknown (0.35)] 2010: The Year We Make Contact ↔ Interstellar · theme · The speaker finds 2010 closer in feel to Interstellar than to 2001. · "I found it interesting that in a lot of ways this movie feels less like dumb 2001 to me and more like dumb interstellar."
[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."
[The Big Picture · ‘Fast 9’ and the ‘Fast & Furious’ Rankings · 0:40:55 · Sean Fennessey (0.90)] 2 Fast 2 Furious ↔ F9 · lineage · Sean says 2 Fast 2 Furious is tonally closer to the current franchise than the gritty Rob Cohen original. · "seems like it has a little bit more in common tonally than with the current set of the franchise than that original Rob Cohen film"
[Blank Check — Patreon · 2001: A Space Odyssey · 1:19:03 · unknown (0.30)] 2001: A Space Odyssey ↔ Interstellar · theme · Interstellar contains a go-into-a-crazy-thing sequence and the offhand robot Tars, compared with HAL. · "Obviously, Interstellar, which is a supreme masterpiece and also contains a sequence where someone goes into a crazy thing and then a bunch of crazy stuff happens."
[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..."
[The Big Picture · ‘Fast 9’ and the ‘Fast & Furious’ Rankings · 0:43:16 · Sean Fennessey (0.90)] The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift ⇒ F9 (the host's read) · lineage · F9 gives Tokyo Drift a big shout out and brings back Han. · "it's a movie that has a huge cult fan base that gets a pretty big shout out in F9."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Incredible Hulk · 0:39:03 · Griffin or David (0.30)] Planet of the Apes ↔ Interstellar · craft · Burton's ending is so confusing that the DVD shipped with a timeline insert, likened to Interstellar-style time-travel explanation. · "It's like a weird, like, interstellar where they're like, so if the black hole is here, and this is that, it involves like weird time travel butterfly affection."
[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 · 1:15:12 · 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 · 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"
[speaker] Craig Horlbeck · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · First-time viewer of the series; expected Jason and was thrown by Mrs. Voorhees. Rates the film a 4 or 5 and singled out the canoe ending as the best scene. Prefers the Chain Saw's intensity. · stances: Rug-pulled by the killer-mom reveal; The ending saves the movie
[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
[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
[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 Gravity (2013); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Gravity (2013) 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.