What the corpus says about Oz the Great and Powerful (2013)

You are a clerk at Video Culture, a video store. A customer just finished Oz the Great and Powerful (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 Oz the Great and Powerful (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 — Patreon · 2022 MARCH MADNESS UPDATE 2 PRESENTED BY THE CHIP REPORT · 0:37:57 · unknown (0.30)] The Wizard of Oz ↔ Oz the Great and Powerful · programming · If Oz won the Patreon bracket, they'd time the series around Oz the Great and Powerful. · "if Oz were to win, we would want it to be done around the same time as Oz the Great and Power."
[Blank Check · Judging The Judge · 1:27:38 · David Sims (0.40)] Robert Downey Jr. ↔ Oz the Great and Powerful · people · Downey would have improved Raimi's Oz, though still not made it good. · "He actually would have been great and I was the great and powerful."
[Blank Check · Judging The Judge · 1:28:08 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Oz the Great and Powerful · fun · Griffin claims Zach Braff is funny in it as a porcelain monkey in a bellhop uniform; David refuses to give him that one. · "He plays like a monkey in a bellhop uniform."
[The Rewatchables · ‘After Hours’ · 0:11:14 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] The Wizard of Oz ⇒ After Hours (the host's read) · lineage · Dark-side-of-the-yellow-brick-road version; Dorothy walks into black and white instead of color, with 'surrender Dorothy' graffiti and Marcy's Seconal tie to Judy Garland. · "it is like very much a Wizard of Oz kind of homage, and it's like if Dorothy instead walked into the black and white darkness"
[The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 1:11:10 · Sean Fennessey (0.85)] The Wizard of Oz ⇒ Wild at Heart (the host's read) · lineage · Wild at Heart is a homage to the Wizard of Oz. · "kind of a blanket homage to Wizard of Oz"
[The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 1:11:19 · Sean Fennessey (0.85)] Diane Ladd ↔ The Wizard of Oz · lineage · Diane Ladd plays something like the Wicked Witch. · "playing kind of like the Wicked Witch in some ways"
[The Big Picture · The Great ‘Avatar’ Debate · 0:42:25 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] The Wizard of Oz ⇒ Avatar (the host's read) · lineage · Avatar is described as a deep Wizard of Oz homage. · "In case you were wondering, this is a deep wizard of a homage, among other things."
[The Big Picture · The Great ‘Avatar’ Debate · 0:53:51 · unknown (0.40)] The Wizard of Oz ⇒ Avatar (the host's read) · lineage · Avatar is an original story but inspired by Oz and John Ford movies. · "It's just like hugely inspired by not just the Wizard of Oz, but like lots of John Ford movies"
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Nightmare Before Christmas · 0:03:55 · Griffin Newman (0.55)] The Nightmare Before Christmas ↔ The Wizard of Oz · theme · The film's cult growth into mainstream pop culture is compared to Oz. · "in that sort of Wizard of Oz conversation of like movies that came out, did okay at the time and are now just like so deeply woven into the tapestry of pop culture"
[The Big Picture · Best Picture Power Rankings and a ‘Poor Things’ Deep Dive. Plus: Julianne Moore and Todd Haynes! · 0:46:39 · unknown (0.30)] The Wizard of Oz ⇒ Poor Things (the host's read) · craft · The black-and-white film turns to color once Bella discovers sex in Lisbon. · "the movie turns to color once she knows about sex. So Wizard of Oz."
[Blank Check — Patreon · RoboCop (2014) · 0:46:51 · Griffin Newman (0.30)] The Wizard of Oz ⇒ RoboCop (the host's read) · craft · The training-sequence song joke riffs on the Tin Man and If I Only Had a Heart. · "If I only had a heart is what it's."
[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] 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 Oz the Great and Powerful (2013); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Oz the Great and Powerful (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.