What the corpus says about Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005)

You are a clerk at Video Culture, a video store. A customer just finished Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005) 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 Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005) 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 · ‘The War of the Roses’ · 1:32:43 · unknown (0.30)] The War of the Roses ↔ Mr. & Mrs. Smith · programming · Mr. & Mrs. Smith is the lighter double feature since the couple also wreck the house but it works out. · "Because they tear up the house in the same way, but then it kind of works out, at least in the movie."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 0:43:35 · David Sims (0.40)] Edge of Tomorrow ↔ Mr. & Mrs. Smith · verdict · Smith is a movie where you feel the Liman chaos; one host does not like it, the other finds it messy and enjoyable. · "It is a movie where you feel the Lymania."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 0:10:45 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Edge of Tomorrow ↔ Mr. & Mrs. Smith · industry · Bourne, Smith and Edge all had the 'is he ever going to finish' chaos, with actors replaced mid-shoot. · "Bourne and Smith and Edge of Tomorrow all had that thing of like, is he ever going to finish this thing?"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 0:43:54 · David Sims (0.40)] Brad Pitt ↔ Mr. & Mrs. Smith · verdict · One host finds Pitt very disengaged in Mr. & Mrs. Smith. · "I just, I find Pitt very disengaged in it."
[pairs] Mr. & Mrs. Smith ↔ Edge of Tomorrow · said 2 times in 1 episode
[Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 0:11:07 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Mr. & Mrs. Smith · fun · On Mr. & Mrs. Smith the agency heads were cast three times; none of the actors ended up in the film, only Angela Bassett's voice. · "Angela Bassett, her voice on a screen"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 1:05:18 · Ben Hosley (0.40)] Edge of Tomorrow ↔ RoboCop · programming · The hosts recorded a RoboCop commentary in the slot where Edge was originally scheduled, and the opening news montage reminds them of RoboCop's. · "I mean, we just saw it with like Robocop."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The War of the Roses’ · 1:32:05 · Mallory Rubin (0.45)] The War of the Roses ↔ Body Heat · programming · Triple-feature pitch: Roses with Body Heat and Fatal Attraction. · "I do think we should be pairing this with both body heat and fatal attraction."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 1:40:54 · David Sims (0.50)] Edge of Tomorrow ↔ X-Men: Days of Future Past · programming · On the opening weekend chart, Edge opened third behind Fault in Our Stars and Maleficent; X-Men DoFP was still fourth. · "Edge of Tomorrow is number three."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The War of the Roses’ · 1:32:10 · Mallory Rubin (0.45)] The War of the Roses ↔ Fatal Attraction · programming · Pair an erotic-thriller double with Roses for a full day of 80s marriage trouble. · "I think that should be like we get an erotic thriller with both of them and then we watch this"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 0:11:26 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Groundhog Day ⇒ Edge of Tomorrow (the host's read) · lineage · The pitch is Groundhog Day as sci-fi action, and it keeps the loop while adding war stakes. · "Doug Lyman is doing like an sci-fi action movie groundhog day with Tom Cruise"
[The Rewatchables · ‘The War of the Roses’ · 1:32:18 · unknown (0.30)] The War of the Roses ↔ Romancing the Stone · programming · The speakers pair Roses with Romancing the Stone for the other end of the Douglas/Turner spectrum. · "I was going to say romance in the stone just to get the other end of the spectrum."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 0:40:05 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Edge of Tomorrow ↔ Groundhog Day · theme · Both are about depression and being stuck; Edge adds the stakes that you keep dying, and it stays hopeful. · "Groundhog Day, I would say is also like about depression."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The War of the Roses’ · 0:56:37 · unknown (0.30)] The War of the Roses ⇒ Game of Thrones (the host's read) · lineage · The actual historical Wars of the Roses was a big inspiration for Game of Thrones. · "Big inspiration for Game of Thrones."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 0:29:59 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Edge of Tomorrow ↔ Lady in the Water · craft · The mimics look like the scrunts from Lady in the Water, with tendrils. · "They look kind of like scrunts from Lady in the Water"
[The Rewatchables · ‘The War of the Roses’ · 1:37:30 · Craig Horlbeck (0.50)] The War of the Roses ↔ Gone Girl · lineage · Roses is described as a prequel to Gone Girl; it could have pivoted to Turner killing Douglas and going on the run. · "This movie's kind of a prequel to Gone Girl."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 0:31:17 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Edge of Tomorrow ↔ The Matrix · craft · The mimics recall the Matrix Sentinels but do not feel derivative. · "There's a little bit of the Matrix Sentinel."
[The Big Picture · The 10 Best Horror Movies of the Decade | The Big Picture · 1:14:24 · unknown (Alexander or Karaszewski) (0.40)] The War of the Roses ⇒ Problem Child (the maker said so: the writer's own account on the show) · lineage · They had pitched Problem Child to be a grown-up dark comedy like The War of the Roses. · "talked about the War of the Roses"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 0:34:19 · David Sims (0.40)] Edge of Tomorrow ↔ Ghostbusters · craft · The Noah Taylor briefing carries the same 'I'm not sure, it might end the world' flavor as Ghostbusters' cross the streams. · "The Ghostbusters thing of like what happens if we cross the streams."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The War of the Roses’ · 0:02:41 · unknown (0.30)] The War of the Roses ↔ Kramer vs. Kramer · theme · Roses may be the more on-point childhood divorce movie than Kramer, and the two anchor any divorce-movie pantheon. · "But this might actually be the more on point childhood divorce movie for me."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 0:50:43 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Edge of Tomorrow ↔ Raiders of the Lost Ark · craft · The black blood burning through Cage's face in his first death is 'end of Raiders shit'. · "like end of Raiders shit."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The War of the Roses’ · 0:04:18 · unknown (0.30)] Irreconcilable Differences ↔ The War of the Roses · theme · Irreconcilable Differences is in one speaker's divorce top four, and it is currently unfindable. · "for me, it's irreconcilable differences would be in my top four, which you can't find."
[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'
[speaker] Griffin Newman · latest sketch, Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · Calls Last Temptation his college-era favorite Scorsese; loves Scorsese's smaller 80s and the film's closing transcendence and Gabriel score. Cannot stand fundamentalist outrage at it. A sucker for casting trivia and Tom Cruise-silliness. · stances: Hot take: Last Temptation structurally mirrors New York, New York as a better version; Outrage over the film is stupid; it is respectful to Jesus; Scorsese's smaller 80s work beats his later baroque phases
[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] 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 Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005) 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.