What the corpus says about Highlander (1986)

You are a clerk at Video Culture, a video store. A customer just finished Highlander (1986) 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 Highlander (1986) 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 — Patreon · Paths of Glory · 0:57:55 · unknown (0.30)] Paths of Glory ↔ Highlander · contrast · A pan-European accent like Christopher Lambert's in Highlander is worse than generic American speech. · "A pan-European accent sounding like Christopher Lambert and Highlander."
[The Rewatchables · 'Talladega Nights' · 1:10:17 · Danny Kelly (0.40)] Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby ↔ Highlander · dated reference · Highlander is one of several pop-culture references in the film that has aged. · "The movie Highlander is referenced."
[The Big Picture · Objection! Top 10 Courtroom Dramas | The Big Picture · 1:32:52 · Sean Fennessey (0.70)] Paths of Glory ↔ Rashomon · programming · Bonus recommendations that are not strictly courtroom movies. · "Paths of Glory the other day, which I don't think is a great courtroom movie"
[The Rewatchables · 'Talladega Nights' · 2:02:13 · Danny Kelly (0.50)] Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby ↔ Blades of Glory · programming · Pairing Will Ferrell sports comedies. · "No, I want Will Ferrell playing sports."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory · 1:46:21 · David Sims (0.75)] Paths of Glory ↔ The Bridge on the River Kwai · programming · Box office game: Kwai, the 1957 Best Picture winner, was number one the week Paths of Glory went wide. · "number one at the box office, the week, the paths of glory goes wide, is the best picture winner of 1957"
[The Rewatchables · 'Talladega Nights' · 2:02:21 · Craig Horlbeck (0.40)] Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby ↔ Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy · programming · Alternate double feature pick: Anchorman and Talladega. · "I think I would rather watch Anchorman and Talladega nights, though, together."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory · 0:22:29 · David Sims (0.40)] Paths of Glory ↔ Dr. Strangelove · lineage · Strangelove is the nearest thing Kubrick made to Paths of Glory afterward, both being people talking through absurdity. · "the closest thing he's made to this since this is Strangelove, because Strangelove is also people talking through absurdity by and large"
[The Rewatchables · 'Talladega Nights' · 2:02:33 · Danny Heifetz (0.30)] Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby ↔ Days of Thunder · programming · Another double feature option: pair with Days of Thunder. · "Or just watch Days of Thunder."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory · 0:25:11 · unknown (0.30)] Paths of Glory ⇒ The Wire (the maker said so: David Simon cites it regularly) · lineage · David Simon reportedly cites Paths of Glory as the number one influence on The Wire: institutions chewing up the people on the ground. · "David Simon cites this regularly as the number one influence on the wire?"
[The Rewatchables · 'Talladega Nights' · 1:06:57 · Danny Kelly (0.50)] Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby ↔ Road House · lineage · Danny's craziest quote award nominee is from Road House. · "I used to fuck guys like you in prison."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory · 0:25:22 · unknown (0.30)] Paths of Glory ⇒ David Simon (the maker said so: David Simon cites it regularly) · lineage · The speaker calls Paths of Glory a Rosetta Stone for Simon's stories of institutions versus the people below. · "this is the sort of Rosetta Stone, if you will, for him."
[The Rewatchables · 'Talladega Nights' · 1:31:25 · Craig Horlbeck (0.50)] Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby ↔ The Godfather · theme · Reese Bobby is like Vito Corleone, a godfather figure who is in little of the movie but too important for the Dion Waiters award. · "it's like in the Godfather, you know, Vito Corleone is not in the movie that much, but he can't be Dion Waiters."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory · 0:33:38 · David Sims (0.70)] Humphrey Cobb ⇒ Paths of Glory (the host's read) · lineage · Paths of Glory is based on Cobb's novel, which Kubrick read in high school and never forgot. · "Humphrey Cobb's novel pads of glory."
[The Rewatchables · 'Talladega Nights' · 1:50:19 · Danny Heifetz (0.40)] Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby ↔ Seinfeld · theme · Talladega is named like Titleist in the Seinfeld golf-ball episode, a funny name rather than a meaningful one. · "it's kind of like the joke in Seinfeld, where they make the, it has to be titleist for Kramer hitting the golf ball."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory · 1:45:25 · David Sims (0.50)] Paths of Glory ↔ Spartacus · lineage · Kubrick makes Spartacus next partly because Paths of Glory made him no money. · "Which is one reason he's going to Spartacus because he really needs to make some money."
[The Rewatchables · 'Talladega Nights' · 1:22:10 · Danny Kelly (0.40)] Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby ↔ Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope · craft · Miniatures in Star Wars and 2001 look better than computer spaceships in Avengers. · "I think that the spaceship in the beginning of Star Wars and in Space Odyssey looks better now than the spaceship at the beginning of like Avengers."
[Blank Check — Patreon · A Clockwork Orange · 0:47:20 · Alex Ross Perry (0.60)] Paths of Glory ↔ Full Metal Jacket · theme · The firing squad of Paths of Glory is set against the sniper of Full Metal Jacket as the gun advances. · "Well, what's the difference between the firing squat, the end of paths of glory and the sniper at the end of Full Metal Jacket?"
[speaker] Danny Kelly · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · 'Talladega Nights' · Fond of fake ads, commercial bloopers, gag-heavy dinner scenes and low-budget grounded comedies. Dislikes CGI gags and glossy blockbusters. Always stirring a hot take, like Talladega being too Hollywood. · stances: Comedies should lean on practical gags, not CGI; NASCAR is better than he thought; Dinner scene is the most rewatchable
[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 Highlander (1986); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Highlander (1986) 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.