What the corpus says about Project X (2012)

You are a clerk at Video Culture, a video store. A customer just finished Project X (2012) 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 Project X (2012) 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 · ‘This Is the End’ · 1:06:45 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] This Is the End ↔ Project X · what-if · One crazy night party like Project X married to Night of the Living Dead; Project X offered as a double feature. · "Oh, I was gonna say Project X."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Old School’ · 0:10:17 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Todd Phillips ↔ Project X · career · Phillips' recurring subject is how young men, and later aging men, mess up, running from Frat House through Project X to The Hangover. · "he has an obsession with young, how young men fuck up"
[The Rewatchables · ‘This Is the End’ · 0:47:07 · Bill Simmons (0.35)] This Is the End ↔ Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade · programming · Hitler-in-comedy debate: they just did Hitler in Last Crusade. · "We just did Hitler in Last Crusade."
[The Rewatchables · ‘This Is the End’ · 1:06:44 · Bill Simmons (0.40)] This Is the End ↔ Pineapple Express · programming · Pineapple Express is the pick for best double feature with This Is the End. · "It's gotta be pineapple."
[The Rewatchables · ‘This Is the End’ · 1:07:20 · Bill Simmons (0.35)] This Is the End ↔ National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation · programming · Best comedy sequel chat: Christmas Vacation over European Vacation. · "Christmas vacation maybe."
[The Rewatchables · ‘This Is the End’ · 0:03:24 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Charlie Kaufman ⇒ This Is the End (the maker said so: came up in the research) · lineage · Goldberg said the film was meant to rip off little bits of Charlie Kaufman. · "He said the whole point of this movie, they're just trying to rip off little bits of Charlie Kaufman."
[The Rewatchables · ‘This Is the End’ · 0:03:31 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] This Is the End ↔ The Larry Sanders Show · lineage · Celebrities playing exaggerated versions of themselves with real insults leaking through is a Larry Sanders move. · "This has so many Larry Sanders moments where it's like, They're celebrities, but they're, they're playing like exaggerated or shticky versions of themselves"
[The Rewatchables · ‘This Is the End’ · 0:13:50 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Jay and Seth versus the Apocalypse ⇒ This Is the End (the host's read) · lineage · The movie grew out of the 8-minute short Rogen and Goldberg made. · "It was based on a short that, uh, Rogan and Goldberg did called Jay and Seth versus the Apocalypse."
[The Rewatchables · ‘This Is the End’ · 0:29:25 · Bill Simmons (0.30)] This Is the End ↔ Blood Red (unmade Pineapple Express 2) · lineage · The Jay and Seth versus the Apocalypse homemade footage echoes the planned Pineapple Express 2, Blood Red. · "If they were going to make it, it was going to be blood red."
[The Rewatchables · ‘This Is the End’ · 1:03:18 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Pineapple Express ⇒ This Is the End (the host's read) · lineage · A weird spiritual sequel to Pineapple Express; Pineapple Express is the double feature pick. · "this is kind of like a weird spiritual sequel to Pineapple Express anyway."
[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
[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 Project X (2012); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Project X (2012) 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.