What the corpus says about Mars Attacks! (1996)

You are a clerk at Video Culture, a video store. A customer just finished Mars Attacks! (1996) 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 Mars Attacks! (1996) 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 · As Good as It Gets · 1:16:39 · unknown (0.30)] As Good as It Gets ↔ Mars Attacks! · industry · Released the same year; a host loved Mars Attacks for Nicholson's double performance. · "This is the same year as Mars Attacks, and I was all fucking about Mars Attacks, in both Jack Nicholson performances, blows the roof off."
[Blank Check · As Good as It Gets · 1:57:39 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] As Good as It Gets ↔ Tomorrow Never Dies · programming · It opened at number three on Dec. 26, 1997 behind Titanic and Tomorrow Never Dies. · "It opened at number three."
[Blank Check · As Good as It Gets · 1:59:34 · unknown (0.30)] As Good as It Gets ↔ Jackie Brown · programming · Jackie Brown opened the same Christmas weekend and bombed while As Good as It Gets took off. · "It's his best film, though, and it's called Jackie Brown."
[Blank Check · As Good as It Gets · 1:14:23 · unknown (0.30)] As Good as It Gets ↔ Jerry Maguire · lineage · Brooks and Crowe share a very similar tone and mix of emotions. · "But they have a very similar tone and sort of like touch and mix of emotions and all that."
[Blank Check · As Good as It Gets · 1:54:28 · unknown (0.30)] As Good as It Gets ↔ Spanglish · lineage · Spanglish is the bad version of As Good as It Gets: no plot, lots of monologues. · "you watch Spanglish after this and you're like, wow, like, this is the bad version of as good as it gets."
[Blank Check · As Good as It Gets · 0:36:40 · unknown (0.30)] Say Anything... ↔ As Good as It Gets · theme · Say Anything is the top example of a 'but I like her' genre in which a refused man persists until the woman caves, a genre the hosts apply to romcoms like this one. · "Obviously say anything's a huge one."
[Blank Check · As Good as It Gets · 0:33:09 · Chris Gethard (0.80)] As Good as It Gets ↔ Planes, Trains and Automobiles · craft · Chris ranks Nicholson's unapologetic jerk alongside Steve Martin in Planes, Trains and Automobiles among the best comedic performances. · "Steve Martin in Plains Trains and Audible."
[Blank Check · As Good as It Gets · 0:34:34 · unknown (0.30)] As Good as It Gets ↔ Jerry Maguire · craft · Both are classic 90s movies that start a whole second movie mid-film. · "It's one of those classic 90s like Jerry Maguire, where it's just like, let's just do like a whole other movie in the middle of the movie."
[Blank Check · As Good as It Gets · 1:28:16 · Griffin Newman or David Sims (unclear) (0.40)] Jack Nicholson ↔ As Good as It Gets · craft · A host says Nicholson designed his own character's wardrobe, aiming for a downtown look, then jokes he sewed it himself like Daniel Day-Lewis. · "Jack Nicholson designed the wardrobe for this character."
[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)

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 Mars Attacks! (1996); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Mars Attacks! (1996) 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.