What the corpus says about Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)

You are a clerk at Video Culture, a video store. A customer just finished Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) 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 Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) 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 · Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation · 2:06:39 · unknown (0.30)] Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation ↔ Mad Max: Fury Road · craft · Cruise and Ferguson using each other as a shooting stabilizer echoes Max and Furiosa in Fury Road. · "But it's like the Fury Road moment where Max lets."
[The Big Picture · ‘Gladiator II’ Is Here. Are We Not Entertained? · 1:33:56 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga ↔ Mad Max: Fury Road · contrast · Furiosa is just okay, better on rewatch, versus Fury Road as one of the greatest movies this century. · "Fury Road is one of the greatest movies this century."
[The Big Picture · ‘Gladiator II’ Is Here. Are We Not Entertained? · 1:38:11 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Mad Max: Fury Road ↔ Top Gun: Maverick · contrast · Fury Road dispenses with franchise mythology while Top Gun: Maverick is the opposite, built on the original's story. · "Top Gun Maverick is the opposite."
[Blank Check · Twin Peaks: The Return (Episode 8) · 1:45:14 · David Sims (0.40)] Twin Peaks: The Return, Part 8 ↔ Mad Max: Fury Road · black-and-white CGI · Fury Road in black and white, heavy on CGI and wordless, feels like a silent film, the same illusion as Part 8's black-and-white digital effects. · "The one I find entrancing is Fury Road for that reason."
[Blank Check · Dune · 1:37:38 · unknown (0.40)] George Miller ↔ Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga · craft · Miller conveys lore and structure without explaining it, which Lynch could not do. · "Miller incredibly good at the just like giving you a sense of lore and history and connections and how structures work without needing to have it actually explained."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation · 0:19:18 · unknown (0.30)] Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation ↔ Star Wars (the new film) · programming · Rogue Nation was moved from December to July partly out of fear of Star Wars. · "Yeah, but I think it was also Star Wars fear."
[The Big Picture · 300th Episode Ask-Us-Anything Mailbag Spectacular · 0:58:13 · Sean Fennessey (0.55)] Top Gun: Maverick ↔ Sean Fennessey · programming · Top Gun: Maverick is the communal 'hell yeah' experience Sean misses. · "It's kind of dumb."
[Blank Check · Twin Peaks: The Return (Episode 8) · 0:45:43 · Griffin Newman (0.30)] Twin Peaks: The Return, Part 8 ↔ Anchorman (Wake Up Ron Burgundy alt cut) · lineage · Lynch's deleted-scene habit is riffed as making his own Wake Up Ron Burgundy. · "Lynch loves wake up Ron Burgundy."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation · 0:44:24 · unknown (0.30)] Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation ↔ Alfred Hitchcock · lineage · The opera sequence is Hitchcock-like, with wordless tension in a physical space. · "Yes, it's very Hitchcocky."
[Blank Check · The Color of Money · 1:07:05 · David Sims (0.40)] The Color of Money ⇒ Top Gun: Maverick (the host's read) · lineage · Gap-based legacy sequels like Top Gun Maverick, Tron Legacy and Blade Runner follow the template Color of Money invented, though in 1986 sequels were derided. · "now we get more and more like your your Tron legacies and your Top Gun Mavericks, where it's just casually... 37, 40 years later"
[Blank Check · Twin Peaks: The Return (Episode 8) · 1:21:40 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me ⇒ Twin Peaks: The Return, Part 8 (the host's read) · lineage · The convenience store was only seen inside, upstairs, in Fire Walk with Me; Part 8 shows its exterior and it is where nasty business happens. · "Wait, so we've been to the convenience store and in the past?"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation · 0:44:26 · unknown (0.30)] Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation ↔ The Man Who Knew Too Much · lineage · The Turandot opera showdown recalls Hitchcock's concert-hall assassination set piece. · "It's reminiscent of the man who knew too much."
[The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 0:19:41 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Top Gun ↔ Top Gun: Maverick · lineage · Maverick's dogfight football is compared with the original's volleyball scene, which hides its doubles in wide shots. · "I mean, I went back and watched the volleyball scene from the original Top Gun."
[Blank Check · Twin Peaks: The Return (Episode 8) · 1:41:57 · Connor Ratliff (0.50)] Twin Peaks: The Return, Part 8 ↔ Blue Velvet · lineage · The teen walking-and-talking scenes in the last 15 minutes recall Kyle MacLachlan and Laura Dern strolling in Blue Velvet, with Dern looking like she is from another decade. · "I always feel like the scenes where they're walking and talking remind me of the scenes of of com McLachlan, Lord Dern walking in blue velvet, that sort of innocent conversation."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation · 1:01:43 · unknown (0.30)] Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation ↔ Iron Man 2 · lineage · The thigh-grab move is traced back to Iron Man 2 by one speaker. · "I mean, I always think of Iron Man 2."
[The Rewatchables · ‘F1’ · 0:14:21 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] F1 ↔ Top Gun: Maverick · lineage · Same director and a broadly similar story of an aging star in the cockpit. · "this movie gets compared to Top Gun Maverick a lot, same director"
[Blank Check · Twin Peaks: The Return (Episode 8) · 1:50:51 · unknown (0.30)] Twin Peaks: The Return, Part 8 ⇒ On the Air (the host's read) · lineage · The woodsman wanting to be on the radio and finding the people find him boring is read as a callback to the Lynch-Frost sitcom On the Air. · "I'm like, oh, this is a callback to on the air, the Lynch Frost sitcom."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation · 1:01:49 · unknown (0.30)] Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation ↔ GoldenEye · lineage · Famke Janssen in GoldenEye is cited as an earlier thigh-based attack. · "what, Funky Jansen in, in, uh, Golden Eye, you have other thigh related, uh, attacks"
[The Big Picture · The Top Five Movies of 2022 · 1:26:26 · Chris Ryan (0.80)] Top Gun ⇒ Top Gun: Maverick (the host's read) · lineage · Chris says the sequel delivered and is better than the first, and Amanda agrees. · "It's better than the 1st one"
[Blank Check · Twin Peaks: The Return (Episode 8) · 0:17:19 · unknown (0.30)] Twin Peaks: The Return, Part 8 ↔ Eraserhead · theme · Orb imagery in Part 8 is traced to Lynch's earlier orb imagery such as Eraserhead. · "Sure, there's like eraser heads. Right, things like that."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation · 0:20:37 · unknown (0.30)] Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation ↔ Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol · theme · After four disavowed-Hunt films, Rogue Nation opens in the same state but with a specific story. · "And after like 4 movies in a row where he's disavowed,"
[The Big Picture · The Tom Cruise Hall of Fame · 1:10:40 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Top Gun: Maverick ↔ The Color of Money · lineage · Top Gun: Maverick is doing the Eddie Felson-style return of an older character. · "Obviously, he's doing that with Top Gun right now."
[Blank Check · Twin Peaks: The Return (Episode 8) · 1:02:28 · unknown (0.30)] Twin Peaks: The Return, Part 8 ↔ Celebrity Deathmatch · theme · As a ten-year-old the speaker treated every Celebrity Deathmatch episode as if it were Part 8, rewriting the rules of TV. · "I treated every episode of celebrity death match as if it were part 8 of Twin Peaks the Return, where I was like, the rules have been rewritten."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation · 0:34:44 · unknown (0.30)] Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation ↔ The Fast and the Furious (franchise) · theme · Rogue Nation weaponizes 'friend' the way Fast and Furious weaponizes 'family'. · "I feel like this movie weaponizes the word friend in the way the Fast and Furious franchise weaponizes the word family."
[The Rewatchables · ‘F1’ · 0:55:42 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] F1 ↔ Top Gun: Maverick · theme · The older ace winning the final race is the same choice as Maverick saving everybody. · "sunny winning Abu Dhabi, much like Maverick, where Maverick has to be the one who saves everybody's asses"
[Blank Check · Twin Peaks: The Return (Episode 8) · 1:29:58 · unknown (0.30)] Twin Peaks: The Return, Part 8 ↔ Captain Planet and the Planeteers · theme · The Giant dreaming a golden cloud that becomes Laura Palmer to go fight Bob is likened to Captain Planet. · "it is like it's some real Captain Planet shit."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation · 0:38:46 · unknown (0.30)] Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation ↔ The Fast and the Furious (franchise) · theme · Male sincerity and intimacy in Fast and Furious is raised alongside Benji and Ethan. · "Male sincerity."
[The Big Picture · The Top Five Movies of 2022 · 1:08:46 · Adam Nayman (0.80)] Top Gun: Maverick ↔ Jackass Forever · theme · Adam says he would give best actor to Cruise and Knoxville alike because the two films are both about passing the torch to a new generation while sticking around. · "I think they're kind of the same film. all about. like passing the torch to a new generation, but also sticking around."
[Blank Check · Twin Peaks: The Return (Episode 8) · 1:34:19 · unknown (0.30)] Twin Peaks ⇒ Twin Peaks: The Return, Part 8 (the host's read) · theme · Part 8 finally ties up Jean Renault's season 2 claim that Cooper's arrival ruined Twin Peaks by showing the evil predates him. · "So like episode eight, finally, it's like we've tied up the genre now plotline from season two."
[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
[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'
[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 Mad Max: Fury Road (2015); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) 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.