What the corpus says about Reds (1981)

You are a clerk at Video Culture, a video store. A customer just finished Reds (1981) 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 Reds (1981) 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 · Raiders of the Lost Ark · 3:05:41 · Brian Michael Bendis (0.60)] Raiders of the Lost Ark ↔ Reds · verdict · Raiders lost the directing Oscar to Reds; Bendis loves Reds. · "I love that movie dearly."
[The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 14 - ‘Moneyball’ · 0:22:19 · Sean Fennessey (0.55)] Moneyball ↔ Reds · unmade version · Soderbergh's planned version was like Reds as a baseball movie, with to-camera testimony from real people. · "It was kind of like if you made reds as a baseball movie where he was going to use into camera testimony and real life people performing from the film."
[The Big Picture · The Top 10 Fantasy Films, The Toy Movie Hall of Fame, and ‘Masters of the Universe,’ · 2:18:16 · Samara Weaving (0.70)] Reds ↔ Warren Beatty · programming · Weaving calls Reds the best movie she had never seen, a masterpiece epic and love story. · "I watched the best movie I'd never seen."
[The Big Picture · The Top 10 Fantasy Films, The Toy Movie Hall of Fame, and ‘Masters of the Universe,’ · 2:18:53 · Samara Weaving (0.60)] Reds · fun · Weaving watched Reds for the first time in a theater built under her house, and loved the final train sequence. · "But Reds. I, it's a masterpiece."
[The Big Picture · Thirteen Awards Movies to Watch Out for, Oscar Do-Overs, and More From the Mailbag · 1:07:15 · Amanda Dobbins (0.80)] Reds · fun · Amanda and her husband never finished Reds, and Sean spoils it. · "I've never seen the end of Reds."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Natural’ · 0:25:04 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] Moneyball ↔ The Rewatchables (series) · programming · Moneyball was one of the first Rewatchables ever done, now seen as underrated. · "that was one of the 1st rewatchables we ever did, was Moneyball"
[Blank Check · Raiders of the Lost Ark · 1:14:54 · unknown (0.40)] Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull ↔ Raiders of the Lost Ark · programming · They devoted a whole episode to Crystal Skull. · "We devoted whole episode to it."
[The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 14 - ‘Moneyball’ · 0:29:11 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Moneyball ↔ Dog Day Afternoon · lineage · The Mets' version of Moneyball would be Dog Day Afternoon: hostages, incompetent robbers, heat. · "It'd be like dog afternoon. We're all being held hostage. They won't let us out."
[Blank Check · Raiders of the Lost Ark · 2:32:51 · unknown (0.40)] Sorcerer ↔ Raiders of the Lost Ark · programming · They will do Sorcerer one day. · "Source will probably do one day."
[The Rewatchables · ‘F1’ · 0:14:29 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] F1 ↔ Moneyball · theme · Scrappy underdogs exploiting the margins to beat richer rivals. · "It's kind of money ball on steroids, though."
[Blank Check · Raiders of the Lost Ark · 2:34:57 · unknown (0.40)] Hook ↔ Raiders of the Lost Ark · programming · Hook is a movie they will cover and a defender will join that episode. · "We will have a defender on the episode."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Rocky’ · 0:54:37 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Rocky ↔ Moneyball · theme · Movies favor underdogs over dynasties; you would not watch Moneyball about Brian Cashman. · "Yeah, you wouldn't watch Moneyball about Brian Cashman."
[Blank Check · Raiders of the Lost Ark · 3:01:39 · Brian Michael Bendis (0.90)] Raiders of the Lost Ark ↔ Jaws · programming · Bendis lives in Portland, where Raiders and Jaws play theaters every summer; his kids found both still work. · "I'm here in Portland where Raiders and Jaws plays on theaters, at least once a summer."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Miracle’ · 0:47:41 · Bill Simmons (0.55)] Miracle ↔ Moneyball · theme · Modern sports movies skip the wet-blanket wife; Moneyball does a single great Robin Wright scene. · "Like a movie like Moneyball."
[Blank Check · Raiders of the Lost Ark · 3:27:19 · unknown (0.40)] E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial ↔ Raiders of the Lost Ark · programming · Next week's episode is E.T.; next the Patreon bonus covers Something Evil and Savage. · "I believe it's a movie called ET the Extra Terrestrial."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Natural’ · 0:25:11 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] The Natural ↔ Moneyball · theme · The best baseball movies each represent whatever their era was; Moneyball is the modern one. · "goes back to the point of how the best baseball movies kind of represent whatever the era was."
[Blank Check · Raiders of the Lost Ark · 0:12:58 · Brian Michael Bendis (0.90)] Raiders of the Lost Ark ↔ Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope · lineage · Bendis says his childhood pop culture was Lucas and Spielberg magic tricks, not Marvel. · "At this stage that wasn't Marvel was Lucas and Spielberg."
[The Big Picture · The 10 Most Misused Stars in Hollywood and the Gnarly Magic of ‘Send Help’ · 0:22:45 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50)] Mercy ↔ Moneyball · theme · The film's gut-instinct-versus-data argument is framed as Moneyball. · "It's it's straight up moneyball."
[Blank Check · Raiders of the Lost Ark · 0:46:47 · unknown (0.40)] Flash Gordon (Republic serial) ⇒ Raiders of the Lost Ark (the host's read) · lineage · Lucas conceived Indiana Jones as a B-picture at A-picture scale, like the old Republic serials. · "let's make a sort of B picture at an A picture scale, right?"
[The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 14 - ‘Moneyball’ · 0:05:25 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] Moneyball ↔ Inside Llewyn Davis · theme · Both are stories about someone who never quite fulfills his promise or gets as famous as hoped. · "it's another story about a loser, we just did inside Lewin Davis in this series, which was a story about somebody who doesn't quite fulfill his promise"
[Blank Check · Raiders of the Lost Ark · 0:49:39 · unknown (0.40)] James Bond films (the franchise) ⇒ Raiders of the Lost Ark (the maker said so: Spielberg's account of the Hawaii conversation with Lucas) · lineage · Lucas pitched Raiders to Spielberg as a better, American take on the Bond idea Spielberg had been wanting to do. · "I have the I have the same basic idea, but better, and it's this Raiders of the Lost Ark idea."
[speaker] Samara Weaving · latest sketch, The Big Picture · The Top 10 Fantasy Films, The Toy Movie Hall of Fame, and ‘Masters of the Universe,’ · Loves 70s-style romance crime like True Romance and Bonnie and Clyde, and fell for the adventure of Pirates of the Caribbean as a kid. She values chemistry she believes can't be faked, and is a sucker for epics like Reds. · stances: Chemistry can't be faked or manufactured; Prefers saying yes only to absolute yeses
[speaker] Amanda Dobbins · latest sketch, The Big Picture · ‘Mamma Mia!’ Meets ‘The Strangers'! It’s a Movie Swap! · Loves The Strangers' withholding craft and a good tense horror film without gore, but likes fun, communal movies like Mamma Mia. She dislikes supernatural or gory horror, which irritates her more than it scares her. She is a sucker for stars and for Googling a movie mid-recording. · stances: The Strangers is scary because of what it doesn't show or explain; Ending explanation weakens it; no answer would be better; Prefers 'withholding' filmmaking; Defends Mamma Mia as joyful and intentional
[speaker] Brian Michael Bendis · latest sketch, Blank Check · Raiders of the Lost Ark · Raised on Lucas and Spielberg and says the magic-trick-then-show-how-it-was-done openness of that era shaped his craft. Loves Raiders over Temple of Doom even though Temple of Doom met him at a pivotal age; adores Reds, Siskel and Ebert, John Williams, Karen Allen. Cannot stand writers telling the audience the theme outright and hates snakes. · stances: Raiders is the better film but Temple of Doom shaped him; Exposition must carry the character's own perspective; Lucas and Spielberg were the first open-source filmmakers; Spielberg is generous with credit and should be emulated; Marion Ravenwood is among cinema's great characters; Willie Scott is the anti-Marion mistake; The post-Fabelmans view reshapes Raiders
[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 Reds (1981); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Reds (1981) 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.