What the corpus says about Cobra (1986)

You are a clerk at Video Culture, a video store. A customer just finished Cobra (1986) 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 Cobra (1986) 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 · ‘Tombstone’ · 0:28:56 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Tombstone ↔ Cobra · craft · The film's intense indiscriminate killing is the Cosmatos effect, like Cobra. · "It's like, it basically turns into cobra for 5 minutes."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Tombstone’ · 1:03:52 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Tombstone ↔ Cobra · craft · The last third mirrors Cobra's final act: heroes killing everyone. · "Cobra, the last 30 minutes was basically like this cult has lost its mind and they're just killing everybody."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop II’ · 0:17:01 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Beverly Hills Cop II ↔ Cobra · set behavior · The Stallone Cobra stories about nobody being allowed to talk to him mirror the star-run chaos on Cop II. · "And we did Cobra a few months ago and there was the Stallone stories about nobody in the set was allowed to talk to them or interact with them and it just everybody had lost their mind at this point."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop II’ · 0:35:51 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Beverly Hills Cop II ↔ Cobra · Brigitte Nielsen / Tony Scott · Nielsen wore a terrible wig in Cobra, a film the show covered, and had worked with Stallone and Schwarzenegger before this one. · "She's in Cobra with a terrible wig on, which we covered in the Cobra watchables than this."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop II’ · 0:54:28 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Beverly Hills Cop II ↔ Cobra · easter egg · Rosewood has a Cobra poster in his apartment, which is funny given Scott and Nielsen's off-screen story. · "He's got the Cobra poster in his room, and meanwhile, Tony Scott is..."
[pairs] Cobra ↔ Beverly Hills Cop II · said 3 times in 1 episode
[pairs] Cobra ↔ Tombstone · said 2 times in 1 episode
[The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop II’ · 0:10:45 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Beverly Hills Cop II ↔ Police Academy 4 · lineage · Cop II was the only sequel in the 1987 domestic top 20-25; the next was Police Academy 4 at 44th. · "This is the only sequel in the top 20, top 25, where it's not until Police Academy 4, which was the 44th biggest movie that year."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Tombstone’ · 0:05:54 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Wyatt Earp ↔ Tombstone · programming · Rival Earp films, the second to market lost ground; Tombstone came first. · "It's almost like whichever one comes out 1st has such an advantage."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop II’ · 0:13:20 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Beverly Hills Cop II ↔ Ferris Bueller's Day Off · lineage · The studio floated a TV series version like what happened with Ferris Bueller. · "they were talking about making it into a TV show, which was kind of like the way Ferris Bueller went and stuff like that."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Tombstone’ · 0:02:14 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Tombstone ↔ Rounders · lineage · Ryan called Tombstone the Rounders of Westerns for rewatchability. · "I was like, this movie is the Rounders of Westerns."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop II’ · 1:05:28 · Craig Horlbeck (0.80)] Beverly Hills Cop II ↔ Austin Powers · lineage · Craig is unsure whether the sequel is better than the first, like Austin Powers. · "I don't know if the 2nd one's better than the first, like Austin Powers, but I enjoyed it very much."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Tombstone’ · 0:13:16 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Tombstone ↔ Under Siege · lineage · Part of the era of genre films that jump a level above their pitch. · "It just winds up being like an action movie that's way better than it has any business being."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Fletch’ · 1:11:17 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Beverly Hills Cop II ↔ Fletch Lives · lineage · Chris cites Beverly Hills Cop 2 as a sequel better than its original; Fletch Lives joins 48 Hrs 2, Godfather 3 and Caddy Shack 2 as disappointing late-80s sequels. · "a really good example is Beverly Hills Cop 2, which is better than Beverly Hills Cop one."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Tombstone’ · 0:28:23 · Chris Ryan (0.30)] Three Amigos ⇒ Tombstone (the host's read) · lineage · The wedding-execution opening resembles the Three Amigos setup. · "this movie's after the 3 amigos, right?"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop II’ · 1:00:18 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Beverly Hills Cop II ⇒ The Rock (the host's read) · theme · The abandoned England/Scotland Yard concept with Sean Connery became the backbone of The Rock a decade later. · "initially written Beverly Hills Cop 2 to be Eddie Murphy in England, solving crimes with Sean Connery, actually, which basically, I think, winds up being like essentially the backbone for what the rock is 10 years later or whatever."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Tombstone’ · 0:34:31 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] Tombstone ⇒ Deadwood (the host's read) · lineage · Tombstone as the bridge from John Ford Westerns to Deadwood. · "I tend to think of this movie as the bridge from John Ford Westerns to Deadwood"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop II’ · 0:07:16 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Harold Faltermeyer ↔ Beverly Hills Cop II · craft · Faltermeyer's score opens the robbery with suspense before the comedy loosens up. · "It just kicks off with the, da, da, da, na, na, na, na, na, na, it's, it just feels, there's a little suspense in it."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Tombstone’ · 0:34:31 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] John Ford ⇒ Tombstone (the host's read) · lineage · Contrast: Ford Westerns vs gnarly, vulgar Tombstone. · "bridge from John Ford Westerns to Deadwood"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop II’ · 0:38:34 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Bob Seger ↔ Beverly Hills Cop II · craft · Seger's 'Shakedown' praised as an opening song drawn from the film's crime-in-the-city theme. · "the opening song of a movie being thematically drawn from the movie itself."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Tombstone’ · 0:09:30 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Kevin Jarre ↔ Tombstone · craft · Jarre shot only wide masters with no coverage, which got him fired. · "He was like, if I start shooting closeups, they'll take away the movie from me."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop II’ · 0:40:56 · Bill Simmons (0.45)] George Michael ↔ Beverly Hills Cop II · craft · George Michael's 'I Want Your Sex' is called an amazing 80s song used perfectly in the film. · "It's used perfectly in this."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Tombstone’ · 0:10:03 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] The Godfather ⇒ Tombstone (the maker said so: Russell, in his True West magazine interview) · craft · Russell's intended tone was a Western Godfather; Jarre's version was more elegant. · "Well, Russell says it, it was basically the godfather of Westerns."
[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] 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] 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 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 Cobra (1986); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Cobra (1986) 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.