What the corpus says about Popeye (1980)

You are a clerk at Video Culture, a video store. A customer just finished Popeye (1980) 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 Popeye (1980) 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 · 'The Player' · 0:21:58 · Wesley Morris (0.85)] Popeye ⇒ Punch-Drunk Love (the host's read) · lineage · Wesley says PTA's debt to Altman runs deep, down to the Shelley Duvall Popeye song used in Punch-Drunk Love. · "the way that that Shelley Duval song from Popeye functions in punch trunk love"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Vanilla Sky · 0:42:54 · unknown (0.40)] Vanilla Sky ↔ Popeye · contrast · Most idiosyncratic directors who try genre end up like Altman's Popeye. · "it's like Altman's Popeye, you know?"
[Blank Check · Dune · 1:52:31 · unknown (0.40)] Paul Smith ↔ Popeye · career · Paul Smith, Dune's Beast Rabban, played Bluto in Altman's Popeye. · "who, of course, plays Pluto and Robert Altman's Popeye."
[The Rewatchables · 'The Player' · 0:15:44 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] Robert Altman ↔ Popeye · career · Sean wonders whether the Popeye flop triggered Altman's blue period in the 80s. · "whether it triggers Altman's kind of like blue period in the 80s is kind of an interesting question"
[The Rewatchables · 'The Player' · 0:14:42 · Wesley Morris (0.50)] Harry Nilsson ↔ Popeye · people · Wesley marvels that one of the greatest pop musicians, Harry Nilsson, made the music for the live-action Popeye musical, a production the hosts describe as fueled by cocaine and craziness. · "one of the greatest pop musicians ever is making the music for this, for this musical live action Popeye movie."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining · 1:26:00 · David Sims (0.40)] Shelley Duvall ↔ Popeye · people · Duvall was cast in Popeye against Altman's wishes. · "She's cast in Popeye against Altman's wishes."
[The Rewatchables · 'The Player' · 0:11:22 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] Popeye · fun · Bill's first Altman movie in a theater was Popeye with his dad; it fucking sucked and he never saw another after that. · "But the 1st album movie I saw in the theater was Popeye."
[The Rewatchables · 'The Player' · 0:13:25 · Wesley Morris (0.95)] Popeye · fun · Wesley's first erotic movie memory is Popeye: the biceps, a real flesh-and-blood cartoon character, drunk and depressed cartoons somehow sexual. · "I can remember that movie being like an erotic experience for me."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Truman Show’ · 0:17:25 · unknown (0.40)] Punch-Drunk Love ↔ Stranger Than Fiction · theme · Sandler and Ferrell are cited as other comedians who have their 'I can do more than this' movie. · "Adam Sandler, Punch Drunk Love."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Vanilla Sky · 0:51:56 · unknown (0.40)] Vanilla Sky ↔ Stargate · programming · Running joke: Ben's favorite movie Stargate was the first film with a website. · "The 1st movie, the 1st website was for Ben Hosley's favorite movie, Stargate."
[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"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Vanilla Sky · 1:45:35 · unknown (0.40)] The Royal Tenenbaums ↔ Vanilla Sky · programming · Tenenbaums opened the same week as Vanilla Sky in 5 theaters and averaged $55,000. · "Tenenbaums comes out that very week on 5 theaters and it grosses $276,000"
[The Big Picture · The Tom Cruise Hall of Fame · 1:09:45 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Open Your Eyes ⇒ Vanilla Sky (the host's read) · lineage · Cruise adapted Abre los Ojos into Vanilla Sky, a bold move he does not make today. · "adapted Aubrey Los Ojos into Vanilla Sky"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Vanilla Sky · 0:18:08 · unknown (0.40)] Almost Famous ↔ Vanilla Sky · lineage · Almost Famous is the bridge: already more precious and less realistic than Jerry Maguire, before it tips over here. · "it's a definite bridge because, yes, it is more precious than Jerry Maguire."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Vanilla Sky · 0:26:51 · David Sims (0.60)] Abre los ojos (Open Your Eyes) ⇒ Vanilla Sky (the host's read) · lineage · Vanilla Sky is nearly the same story as the Spanish original, except the hero is a magazine magnate friends with Spielberg. · "So the film is actually pretty much exactly the same as Abri Lozojos, except for the main character of that movie is not a magazine magnate who's friends with Steven Spielberg."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Vanilla Sky · 0:31:50 · David Sims (0.45)] Abre los ojos (Open Your Eyes) ⇒ Vanilla Sky (the host's read) · lineage · The Spanish film has the same beats, and the protagonist's face looks even worse in it. · "But it's like the movie's beats are exactly the same down to the, you know, crucial moment of him like lying in the gut."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Vanilla Sky · 0:43:10 · unknown (0.40)] Vanilla Sky ↔ Jerry Maguire · lineage · Vanilla Sky is likened to Jerry Maguire escaping a Frankenstein experiment before it was finished. · "this movie is like Jerry Maguire, like, got out of some sort of like Frankenstein monster experiment before he was finished"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Vanilla Sky · 0:43:19 · unknown (0.35)] Vanilla Sky ↔ Jerry Maguire · lineage · A deformed Jerry Maguire. · "Well, it's like a deformed Jerry Maguire."
[speaker] Wesley Morris · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘My Cousin Vinny’ · Loves Marisa Tomei, the grits scene, and the clothes; is a sucker for Fran Drescher. Dislikes car-driving-away endings and thinks the film has done harm by encouraging self-representation. · stances: Tomei deserved the Oscar; Race in courtroom movies matters, and this one is warmly integrated; The Nanny is basically Mona Lisa Vito
[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] 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] 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 Popeye (1980); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Popeye (1980) 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.