What the corpus says about The Flash

You are a clerk at Video Culture, a video store. A customer just finished The Flash 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 Flash 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 · Marvel Nerdfest · 0:12:13 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] The Batman ↔ The Flash · programming · The Batman is not in the same world as the other Batmen; DC is carving out separate zones. · "Matt Reeves comes in and is just like, I don't really want this Batman to be in the same world as the other Batman."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The 13th Warrior · 0:25:29 · unknown (0.35)] The 13th Warrior ↔ The Flash · industry · Treating this movie as a must-work tentpole is compared to the Flash. · "treat this movie like it's the Flash or whatever and say, like, we need this to work."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Marvel Nerdfest · 0:12:19 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] The Flash · fun · Dad confused about which Batman is where. · "I've tried to explain to him so many times"
[Blank Check — Patreon · The 13th Warrior · 0:41:55 · unknown (0.40)] The 13th Warrior ↔ Timeline · programming · Timeline and The 13th Warrior called a brutal Crichton double feature. · "Man, Timeline and the 13th Warrior would be a brutal double feature."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Batman (1966) · 0:15:13 · David Sims (0.50)] The Batman ↔ Batman: Mask of the Phantasm · programming · The humor peaks with the first film and declines across the series; Phantasm and Lego Batman are partial exceptions. · "humor peaks with the 1st one, just decline, basically."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The 13th Warrior · 1:49:16 · unknown (0.35)] The 13th Warrior ↔ The Sixth Sense · programming · The Sixth Sense was Disney's own mega-hit, number one the weekend The 13th Warrior opened, covering their loss. · "Disney's basically covered their losses from this movie"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Batman (1966) · 1:03:19 · David Sims (0.45)] Batman (franchise) ↔ The Batman · programming · Reeves' film was well reviewed enough that DC may do more of it, the hosts hoping for fun elsewhere. · "I think we're now in Reevesville."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The 13th Warrior · 0:19:51 · David Lowery (0.85)] Michael Crichton ⇒ The 13th Warrior (the host's read) · lineage · Lowery read the Crichton novel and found the film is the book almost scene for scene. · "reading the book, I was like, this is pretty much just scene for scene exactly what's on screen."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Batman (1966) · 2:03:25 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] The Batman ↔ The Sound of Music · programming · A UK sing-along Sound of Music (Prince Charles Theater) turned into a Rocky Horror-style costume event. · "It became this rocky horror adjacent thing"
[Blank Check — Patreon · The 13th Warrior · 0:25:39 · unknown (0.50)] Beowulf adaptations ⇒ The 13th Warrior (the host's read) · lineage · The film is the Beowulf story told as Crichton's 'what was the real thing they were fighting' version. · "Even going back to Crichton's original concept of like, what's the real story behind Beowulf?"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Batman (1966) · 2:11:56 · David Sims (0.45)] Batman: Mask of the Phantasm ↔ The Batman · programming · The 'Not All Batman' series continues with Mask of the Phantasm in 20 days. · "Tune in for Batman Maska Phantasm for the thrilling conclusion"
[Blank Check — Patreon · The 13th Warrior · 0:31:02 · David Lowery (0.80)] The 13th Warrior ↔ The Northman · lineage · The Northman is the modern take on Viking storytelling; Lowery rewatched its funeral scene because it echoes this film's incantation. · "the same, the same incantation, like the low, I see my father, low, I see my mother"
[The Big Picture · The 2022 Movie Draft · 0:49:34 · unknown (0.40)] Gilda ↔ The Batman · lineage · A speaker says watching Gilda will help understand the next Batman, with Scarlett Johansson rumored as Gilda Dent. · "And then you'll be able to understand the Batman too."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The 13th Warrior · 1:34:34 · unknown (0.40)] The 13th Warrior ↔ Flesh and Blood · lineage · Verhoeven's Flesh and Blood feels like being there; it's the better film, and both put medieval art on screen. · "Flesh and blood is a better film."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Batman (1966) · 0:08:26 · Griffin Newman (0.45)] The Batman ⇒ Batman Forever / Batman & Robin (the host's read) · lineage · Griffin says Schumacher's Batman films are directly shaped by the Adam West show's pairing and cliffhanger style. · "Joel Schumacher is very influenced by the Adam West show."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The 13th Warrior · 0:28:42 · David Lowery (0.85)] The 13th Warrior ↔ Heat · theme · The scene of a mortal sitting to die while another watches reminded Lowery of De Niro watching Pacino in Heat. · "It reminded me of Robert De Niro dying in heat."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Batman (1966) · 0:11:37 · David Sims (0.50)] Batman (1943 serial) ⇒ The Batman (the host's read) · lineage · A New York screening of the 1943 Lewis Wilson serial caused bat fever and led Fox to greenlight the movie. · "someone screened that in New York City and it was such a phenomenon."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The 13th Warrior · 0:42:21 · unknown (0.40)] Timeline ↔ The 13th Warrior · theme · Both are castle-and-torches Crichton adaptations where Hollywood guessed Vikings/medieval and audiences did not care. · "Both of those movies are lead actors who absolutely do not belong in this film."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Batman (1966) · 0:14:37 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] The Batman ↔ Monty Python · lineage · The opening dedication to fun lovers and the apology for overlooked lovers is compared to Monty Python. · "That's like Monty Python."
[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)

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 Flash; name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend The Flash 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.