What the corpus says about Marvel Cinematic Universe

You are a clerk at Video Culture, a video store. A customer just finished Marvel Cinematic Universe 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 Marvel Cinematic Universe 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 · Captain America: The Winter Soldier · 0:16:47 · unknown (0.40)] Captain America: The Winter Soldier ↔ Marvel Cinematic Universe · programming · Fury is in charge of SHIELD only in this film and Avengers; afterward mostly cameos. · "So this is only the only other movie where Fury is like in charge of S.E.L.D. and kind of just like in the movie."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Skyfall’ · 0:58:23 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Sean Connery ↔ Marvel Cinematic Universe · theme · Connery cameo would feel like Marvel interconnection, which Bond movies are not. · "having Sean Connery in there is sort of like the Marvel interconnecting universe of it all."
[Blank Check · Look Who's Talking · 1:48:56 · Ben Hosley (0.60)] Michael Mann ↔ Marvel Cinematic Universe · contrast · Ben Hosley's line quoted from a Reddit comment contrasts a one-person Michael Mann film with Marvel's committee films. · "when I watch a Michael Mann movie, I can tell this was made by one person, Marvel movies aren't made by one person"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Iron Man 2 · 1:45:21 · unknown (0.30)] Marvel Cinematic Universe · fun · The Marvel Marathon at the theaters skips Iron Man 2, Winter Soldier, Ragnarok, and others; Dark World is called the best American film ever made, as a joke. · "Yeah, I mean, Dark World, of course, is the best American film ever made."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The Winter Soldier · 0:14:14 · unknown (0.35)] Captain America: The Winter Soldier ↔ Iron Man 3 · programming · Marvel gives each film a different genre; Winter Soldier is the political thriller, Iron Man 3 the noir/buddy film. · "Right. So this is when they're like, Iron Man 3 is sort of like a noir and like a buddy film, Dark World is like high fantasy."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The Winter Soldier · 0:14:14 · unknown (0.35)] Captain America: The Winter Soldier ↔ Thor: The Dark World · programming · Dark World is the high-fantasy entry in the same one-genre-per-film scheme. · "Dark World is like high fantasy."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The Winter Soldier · 1:16:27 · unknown (0.45)] Captain America: The Winter Soldier ↔ Iron Man 2 · programming · Gary Shandling's Hydra senator is an odd pull-back to Iron Man 2 for a franchise otherwise ignoring that film. · "when they're like trying to ignore as much of Iron Man 2 as possible"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The Winter Soldier · 1:34:33 · unknown (0.40)] Captain America: The Winter Soldier ↔ Agents of S.H.I.L.E.L.D. · programming · The TV show had to stall its whole first season because the film's Hydra reveal could not be tipped. · "Of course, the 1st season of SHIELD began in 2013 and had to essentially stall for almost its entire 1st season because they knew that this was coming, but they couldn't tip it."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The Winter Soldier · 1:34:59 · unknown (0.35)] Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. ↔ Captain America: The Winter Soldier · programming · Marvel then told ABC SHIELD would not exist for the film universe. · "Just so you know, Shield's not going to exist enough."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The Winter Soldier · 1:59:18 · unknown (0.40)] Captain America: The Winter Soldier ↔ Disney+ Falcon and Bucky show · programming · Smaller side-character projects are the future on Disney Plus. · "That feels like what Disney Plus is going to be with the like Falcon and Bucky show and the Scarlet Wish show."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The Winter Soldier · 1:59:26 · unknown (0.40)] Captain America: The Winter Soldier ↔ Loki · programming · The Loki show hired a Rick and Morty writer; time-traveling premise. · "have you heard the premise of the Loki show and they hired a Rick and Morty writer?"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The Winter Soldier · 2:09:22 · unknown (0.35)] Captain America: The Winter Soldier ↔ Avengers: Age of Ultron · programming · Ultron resets Captain America's status quo ahead of Civil War. · "Well, it's because Age of Ultron also sort of resets Captain America a little bit."
[speaker] Ben Hosley · latest sketch, Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · Producer who occasionally talks; admits no religious background, has a Catholic mother's family, and cannot see the Bible as part of culture. · stances: Left out of Bible culture; Wants a clear demarcation between a bed and a deathbed
[speaker] Chris Ryan · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · A franchise and genre scholar who likes Jason, the early sequels, and Manhattan; attention to trivia, tropes and critic reception. Treats slashers as a canon with tiers. · stances: Parts 1, 2, 4 and Manhattan are the good ones; The series finds its legs at 4
[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 Marvel Cinematic Universe; name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Marvel Cinematic Universe 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.