What the corpus says about Aladdin (live action remake)

You are a clerk at Video Culture, a video store. A customer just finished Aladdin (live action remake) 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 Aladdin (live action remake) 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 Big Picture · Did Disney’s ‘Mulan’ Experiment Work? A Binge Mode Investigation · 1:10:03 · Amanda Dobbins (0.80)] The Little Mermaid (upcoming live action remake) ↔ Aladdin (live action remake) · theme · Jason and Amanda debate whether the horniness in Disney remakes is a bug or a feature, with Amanda saying the Little Mermaid's real problem is its motivation, giving up her voice to land a guy. · "the little mermaid is ultimately like about Ariel just like giving up her voice and many other things in order to be able to fuck a dude"
[The Big Picture · Did Disney’s ‘Mulan’ Experiment Work? A Binge Mode Investigation · 1:08:36 · Amanda Dobbins (0.70)] Aladdin (live action remake) ↔ The Lion King · contrast · Amanda says the live action Aladdin was off-putting because the sex was on the main text, unlike the original's subtext. · "the thing that made the live action Aladdin so weirdly off putting was that the sex was just on Maine. It was just out there."
[The Big Picture · Did Disney’s ‘Mulan’ Experiment Work? A Binge Mode Investigation · 0:26:22 · Amanda Dobbins (0.90)] Mulan ↔ Aladdin (live action remake) · industry · Amanda says the live action remakes are made for money and the question is always who they are for, with Mulan being for everybody and nobody. · "I think they're trying to make a movie for everybody and no one at once."
[The Big Picture · Did Disney’s ‘Mulan’ Experiment Work? A Binge Mode Investigation · 1:14:51 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50)] Aladdin (live action remake) · fun · The live action Aladdin ends with Will Smith doing 'Friend Like Me' with a DJ remix over the credits; the hosts earlier joke about crying over Will Smith credit songs. · "At the end of Aladdin. He just does friend like me, but with DJ Collin."
[The Big Picture · Did Disney’s ‘Mulan’ Experiment Work? A Binge Mode Investigation · 0:26:03 · Sean Fennessey (0.85)] Mulan ⇒ Mulan (the host's read) · lineage · Sean says the remake is what happens when filmmakers do not know what is good about the original. · "I think Mulan is kind of what happens when you don't really know what's good about your movie."
[The Big Picture · Did Disney’s ‘Mulan’ Experiment Work? A Binge Mode Investigation · 1:08:25 · Amanda Dobbins (0.80)] The Lion King ↔ Elton John · craft · Amanda says Elton John's career is the master class in turning sex into subtext. · "if there's anybody that knows how to put, uh, put, uh, turn sex into subtext, it's Elton John's entire career."
[The Big Picture · Did Disney’s ‘Mulan’ Experiment Work? A Binge Mode Investigation · 0:28:58 · Jason Concepcion (0.80)] Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon ⇒ Mulan (the host's read) · lineage · The remake's wuxia/mystical style follows the wave of Chinese films that grew popular after Crouching Tiger and the Zhang Yimou films. · "they've gotten very big, kind of post, crouching tiger hidden dragon, and the Jang Yi-Mu films"
[The Big Picture · Did Disney’s ‘Mulan’ Experiment Work? A Binge Mode Investigation · 0:29:22 · Jason Concepcion (0.80)] Hero ⇒ Mulan (the host's read) · lineage · The remake borrows wuxia conventions in an attempt to appeal to international audiences, reading as a try at remaking Hero or House of Flying Daggers. · "it really just feels like an attempt to remake hero or house of flying daggers, which obviously makes sense to Amanda's point about appealing to international audiences"
[The Big Picture · Did Disney’s ‘Mulan’ Experiment Work? A Binge Mode Investigation · 0:43:07 · Sean Fennessey (0.90)] Mulan ↔ Star Wars: Episode VIII – The Last Jedi · lineage · Sean says the remake made him think most of The Last Jedi and the sequel trilogy, turning Mulan into a Rey type figure. · "The movie I thought of the most while watching this movie is the last Jedi."
[The Big Picture · Did Disney’s ‘Mulan’ Experiment Work? A Binge Mode Investigation · 0:43:44 · Sean Fennessey (0.80)] Mulan ↔ Star Wars: Episode IX – The Rise of Skywalker · lineage · Sean says the Rise of Skywalker screwed up expectations and he wonders whether Mulan will become an influential text like it. · "kind of how the rise of Skywalker kind of screwed up all the expectations that we had."
[The Big Picture · Did Disney’s ‘Mulan’ Experiment Work? A Binge Mode Investigation · 0:21:31 · Mallory Rubin (0.90)] Mulan ↔ Mulan · theme · Mallory says making Mulan magical undercuts the story's point that her ordinary self is good enough. · "I was not a fan at all of turning Mulan into a, in essence, magical superhero"
[The Big Picture · Did Disney’s ‘Mulan’ Experiment Work? A Binge Mode Investigation · 0:47:15 · Mallory Rubin (0.85)] Star Wars: Episode VIII – The Last Jedi ↔ Mulan · theme · Mallory loves The Last Jedi's idea of Rey as a nobody who does not need a magic name or lineage, while Mulan leans on lineage and family. · "The thing that appealed to me so much about it was the idea of Ray being no one coming from nowhere"
[The Big Picture · Did Disney’s ‘Mulan’ Experiment Work? A Binge Mode Investigation · 1:13:23 · Amanda Dobbins (0.90)] Mulan ↔ Star Wars: Episode IX – The Rise of Skywalker · theme · Amanda says the love interest tacked on at the end of Mulan 1998 echoes Rise of Skywalker's putting girls back in the romantic box. · "This is also what made me mad in Rise of Skywalker."
[speaker] Amanda Dobbins · latest sketch, The Big Picture · ‘Mamma Mia!’ Meets ‘The Strangers'! It’s a Movie Swap! · Loves The Strangers' withholding craft and a good tense horror film without gore, but likes fun, communal movies like Mamma Mia. She dislikes supernatural or gory horror, which irritates her more than it scares her. She is a sucker for stars and for Googling a movie mid-recording. · stances: The Strangers is scary because of what it doesn't show or explain; Ending explanation weakens it; no answer would be better; Prefers 'withholding' filmmaking; Defends Mamma Mia as joyful and intentional
[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)

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 Aladdin (live action remake); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Aladdin (live action remake) 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.

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