What the corpus says about The Longest Yard

You are a clerk at Video Culture, a video store. A customer just finished The Longest Yard 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 The Longest Yard 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 · ‘Rocky’ · 0:06:09 · Chris Ryan (0.45)] The Longest Yard ⇒ Rocky (the host's read) · lineage · Longest Yard arguably started the big-event beats, but Rocky is what made the sports-movie recipe stick. · "which I guess you could say longest yard started it, but once Rocky did this."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Friday Night Lights’ · 0:52:02 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] Friday Night Lights (2004 film) ↔ The Longest Yard · verdict · Football scenes are great, though The Longest Yard is still Bill's favorite. · "They're about longest yard is still my favorite for football stands, but this is way up there."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Friday Night Lights’ · 1:39:56 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] Friday Night Lights (2004 film) ↔ The Longest Yard · verdict · Bill's football-movie ranking: Longest Yard first, then Friday Night Lights, North Dallas Forty, Titans, Rudy and Any Given Sunday in some order. · "I think longest yard is just number one."
[pairs] The Longest Yard ↔ Friday Night Lights (2004 film) · said 2 times in 1 episode
[The Rewatchables · ‘Friday Night Lights’ · 0:06:46 · Mallory Rubin (0.80)] Friday Night Lights (2004 film) ↔ Friday Night Lights (TV series) · programming · The reboot will use the title as a bucket for different stories about Texas high school football. · "use the title as a bucket to tell different stories about high school football in Texas."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Rocky’ · 1:44:35 · Van Lathan (0.45)] Rocky ↔ Raging Bull · programming · Another double-feature choice, Raging Bull, picked by one host. · "I go Raging Bull."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Friday Night Lights’ · 1:42:43 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] Friday Night Lights (2004 film) ↔ Varsity Blues · programming · Best double feature: the serious Texas version after the super fun one. · "We get the super fun Texas version, then we get like the serious version."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Rocky’ · 1:44:41 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Rocky ↔ Saturday Night Fever · programming · Watching Rocky made Chris Ryan want to watch Saturday Night Fever as a double feature. · "This movie made me want to watch Saturday Night Fever for some reason."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Friday Night Lights’ · 0:04:01 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] Friday Night Lights (2004 film) ↔ MASH · lineage · Friday Night Lights is a movie that led to a TV show, like MASH, Buffy and Parenthood. · "there's been really good movies that led to better TV shows."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Rocky’ · 1:44:48 · Bill Simmons (0.45)] Rocky ↔ Rocky II · programming · Best double feature: go right from Rocky into Rocky 2 and skip the Adrian coma stretch. · "I think you have to go right from here into the 2nd one."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Friday Night Lights’ · 0:04:13 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] Friday Night Lights (2004 film) ↔ Buffy the Vampire Slayer · lineage · Another movie that led to a TV series, named as precedent. · "Buffy the Vampire Slayer."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Rocky’ · 1:50:04 · Bill Simmons (0.40)] Rocky ↔ Warrior · programming · If you did a UFC Rocky, Warrior is by far the best UFC movie so far. · "Warriors by far the best one."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Friday Night Lights’ · 0:04:15 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] Friday Night Lights (2004 film) ↔ Parenthood · lineage · Another movie-to-TV precedent; there is an argument the show is better. · "I think parenthood, there's a really good argument."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Rocky’ · 0:05:47 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Rocky ⇒ (the modern sports movie) (the host's read) · lineage · Rocky created the sports-movie prototype and the modern underdog. · "created the sports movie prototype, like just period."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Friday Night Lights’ · 0:04:23 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] Friday Night Lights (2004 film) ⇒ Friday Night Lights (TV series) (the host's read) · lineage · The TV show's excellence overshadowed the film, which has become underrated. · "And then this one, which I think the TV show kind of overwhelmed the movie, and now the movie has become weirdly underrated."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Rocky’ · 0:10:16 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Rocky ↔ Mean Streets · lineage · Rocky is essentially Stallone making Mean Streets. · "It's essentially like Stallone making mean streets."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Friday Night Lights’ · 0:09:40 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Friday Night Lights (2004 film) ↔ Against the Grain (NBC show) · lineage · Earlier Texas football entries that Friday Night Lights outdid; the NBC show failed. · "there was against the grain, an NBC show with Ben Affleck as the quarterback that failed."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Rocky’ · 0:11:32 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Rocky ⇒ The Karate Kid (the host's read) · lineage · Rocky is eight years before Karate Kid, which is called the 2.0 version of the same underdog story but a completely different movie in every respect. · "We're 8 years away from karate kid, which is the next, the 2.0 version of this movie."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Friday Night Lights’ · 0:10:01 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Friday Night Lights (2004 film) ↔ Varsity Blues · lineage · Both took viewers into the Texas football world; Friday Night Lights nailed it and the TV series went further. · "Then this movie nailed it?"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Rocky’ · 0:28:11 · Chris Ryan (0.45)] Rocky ⇒ Cinderella Man (the host's read) · lineage · Rocky set up the idea that a victory transforms the supporting cast too, as in Cinderella Man where he fights for Giamatti. · "by the time you get to like Cinderella man, you realize that he's not just fighting for him, he's fighting for Giamatti."
[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] 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 The Longest Yard; name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend The Longest Yard 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.