What the corpus says about Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017)

You are a clerk at Video Culture, a video store. A customer just finished Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017) 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 Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017) 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 · The Past, Present, and Future of Superhero Movies | The Big Picture · 1:00:08 · David Shoemaker (0.40)] The Avengers ↔ Spider-Man: Homecoming · theme · Homecoming's Mary Jane reveal avoided fan service in favor of storytelling. · "the reveal of MJ of Mary Jane at the end of the movie was really powerful"
[The Big Picture · ‘Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse’: One of the Best Superhero Movies Ever | Exit Survey · 0:06:55 · Sean Fennessey (0.90)] Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse ↔ Spider-Man: Homecoming · contrast · It is faithful to the character but has nothing to do with the Toby Maguire, Andrew Garfield or Homecoming films, by design. · "This movie has nothing to do really with any of those movies, and that's by design."
[The Big Picture · Celebrating ‘Scott Pilgrim vs. the World’ 10 Years Later · 0:19:54 · Van Lathan (0.70)] Spider-Man: Homecoming ↔ Scott Pilgrim vs. the World · industry · Van says audiences are now so saturated with origin stories that Homecoming can skip Uncle Ben, which wasn't possible when Scott Pilgrim came out. · "Spider-Man Homecoming doesn't even touch on Uncle Ben."
[The Big Picture · Instant Reactions to a Truly Ludicrous Golden Globes | The Oscars Show · 0:41:17 · Sean Fennessey (0.55)] Amy Pascal ↔ Spider-Man: Homecoming · career · After leaving Sony she negotiated a producing deal including the Spider-Man rights and made Homecoming with Marvel. · "Her 1st Spider-Man movie, she got to produce in conjunction with Marvel and made Spider-Man Homecoming."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Lego Batman Movie · 0:23:53 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Chris McKenna ↔ Spider-Man: Homecoming · career · Community alum McKenna is now deeply enmeshed in studio movies, with five Marvel films. · "Chris McKenna, who is a big community guy, but it's now deeply enmeshed in studio movies."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The First Avenger · 1:09:07 · unknown (0.35)] Kenneth Choi ↔ Spider-Man: Homecoming · career · Choi plays the principal in Homecoming, a descendant of his Howling Commando character. · "Kenneth Troy, who was in Spider-Man Homecoming for like 2 shots."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Iron Man 3 · 0:54:09 · unknown (0.30)] Gwyneth Paltrow ↔ Spider-Man: Homecoming · industry · Speaker says Sony wanted Paltrow in Homecoming, she was on a small fee, and she came back for Infinity War. · "Because Sony was like, we want Gwyneth."
[The Big Picture · Celebrating ‘Scott Pilgrim vs. the World’ 10 Years Later · 1:20:24 · Edgar Wright (0.95)] Scott Pilgrim vs. the World ↔ Metric · programming · Edgar says Metric and Broken Social Scene were a no-brainer because the film was shot in Toronto. · "metric and broken social scene were both like, still are, like, you know, like really important Canadian bands from Toronto."
[The Big Picture · ‘Mamma Mia!’ Meets ‘The Strangers'! It’s a Movie Swap! · 0:10:10 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50)] Sense and Sensibility ↔ Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse · programming · The 2019 swap pairing Spider-Verse and Sense and Sensibility taught Amanda how she watches animation and became a reference for later animated films. · "it taught me a lot about how I watch animation, what I respond to"
[The Big Picture · The Past, Present, and Future of Superhero Movies | The Big Picture · 0:13:42 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] The Avengers ↔ Thor · programming · Thor was treated as a loss leader, a stepping stone to the Avengers. · "Thor was treated as a loss leader, essentially."
[The Big Picture · Celebrating ‘Scott Pilgrim vs. the World’ 10 Years Later · 0:02:46 · Sean Fennessey (0.90)] Scott Pilgrim vs. the World ⇒ Baby Driver (the host's read) · lineage · Sean says Wright's music-synced action staging, perfected in Baby Driver, begins with Scott Pilgrim. · "The perfectly synchronized music to action staging the Wright Perfected and Baby Driver starts with Scott Pilgrim."
[The Big Picture · ‘Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse’: One of the Best Superhero Movies Ever | Exit Survey · 0:30:44 · Sean Fennessey (0.85)] Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse ↔ Avengers animated movies · programming · Sideline animated versions that don't affect continuity are not new; the Avengers animated titles exist on iTunes. · "You'll also find a bunch of other movies that are called the Avengers colon something that are animated"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Iron Man 3 · 0:16:00 · unknown (0.30)] Iron Man 3 ↔ The Avengers · programming · Phase 2 begins here and Avengers' victory lap gave Feige room to let each film feel individual. · "They're on such a victory lap that it feels like this is the one little chunk of time where Kevin Feige lets go a little bit."
[The Big Picture · Celebrating ‘Scott Pilgrim vs. the World’ 10 Years Later · 0:03:08 · Sean Fennessey (0.90)] The Matrix ⇒ Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (the host's read) · lineage · Sean breaks the staging down into influences: Bruce Lee, The Matrix, and Phantom of the Paradise. · "It's one part Bruce Lee, one part the Matrix, one part Phantom of the Paradise."
[The Big Picture · Celebrating ‘Scott Pilgrim vs. the World’ 10 Years Later · 0:17:53 · Sean Fennessey (0.85)] Scott Pilgrim vs. the World ⇒ Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (the host's read) · lineage · Sean says Deadpool, the Lego movie and Spider-Verse could not happen without this film having broken the fourth wall first. · "Deadpool, for example, can't happen or like the Lego movie can't happen or into the Spider-Verse."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Avengers · 1:29:09 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] The Avengers ↔ Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. · programming · Coulson was brought back for the TV show but kept out of the movies, signaling the TV show is only loosely connected. · "you can be in the TV show, like, because we need, you know, a star for the show"
[The Big Picture · Celebrating ‘Scott Pilgrim vs. the World’ 10 Years Later · 0:03:08 · Sean Fennessey (0.90)] Phantom of the Paradise ⇒ Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (the host's read) · lineage · Phantom of the Paradise is named as one ingredient of the film's rock-and-spectacle mix. · "It's one part Bruce Lee, one part the Matrix, one part Phantom of the Paradise."
[The Big Picture · ‘Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse’: One of the Best Superhero Movies Ever | Exit Survey · 0:19:10 · Sean Fennessey (0.90)] Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse ↔ Who Framed Roger Rabbit · lineage · As the film gets kaleidoscopic, it recalled Roger Rabbit's idea of cartoons existing in a world you can interact with. · "the movie that I kept thinking of, especially as this movie went on and it gets sort of more kaleidoscopic and more strange and more fun and high energy is who framed Roger Rabbit?"
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Avengers · 1:29:32 · David Sims (0.40)] Captain Marvel ↔ The Avengers · programming · Captain Marvel is a 1990s prequel in which Fury still has both eyes, bringing back Coulson/Fury; they predict nineties-reference gags. · "So in that one, Nick Fury has 2 eyes."
[The Big Picture · Celebrating ‘Scott Pilgrim vs. the World’ 10 Years Later · 0:17:53 · Sean Fennessey (0.85)] Scott Pilgrim vs. the World ⇒ Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (the host's read) · lineage · Sean says Deadpool, the Lego movie and Spider-Verse could not happen without this film having broken the fourth wall first. · "Deadpool, for example, can't happen or like the Lego movie can't happen or into the Spider-Verse."
[The Big Picture · ‘Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse’: One of the Best Superhero Movies Ever | Exit Survey · 0:07:29 · Sean Fennessey (0.85)] Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse ↔ Spider-Man origin story · theme · The film flashes the origin and uses the trope to subvert it rather than belabor it. · "And of course, they do this right at the top of this movie, but in a way that is new and inventive."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Avengers · 1:34:57 · David Sims (0.40)] The Avengers ⇒ Guardians of the Galaxy (the host's read) · programming · Thanos' Chitauri subcontracting sets up the cosmic films; Guardians is next on their Marvel list. · "We're gonna we're gonna cover Peter movie soon."
[The Big Picture · Celebrating ‘Scott Pilgrim vs. the World’ 10 Years Later · 0:17:53 · Sean Fennessey (0.85)] Scott Pilgrim vs. the World ⇒ Deadpool (the host's read) · lineage · Same claim: Deadpool's fourth-wall breaking was made possible by this movie breaking it down. · "Deadpool, for example, can't happen or like the Lego movie can't happen or into the Spider-Verse."
[The Big Picture · ‘Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse’: One of the Best Superhero Movies Ever | Exit Survey · 0:15:49 · Micah Peters (0.75)] Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse ↔ Adulthood between 27 and 37 · theme · The film's theme is figuring out adulthood without knowing how, tied to what changes between 27 and 37. · "You and I have literally had the conversation about everything that happens between 27 and 37 and how it radically changes your life."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Thor · 1:02:12 · Griffin Newman (0.35)] Thor ↔ The Avengers · programming · The Hawkeye cameo, with no interaction, made the speaker doubt the Avengers team-up would work. · "The thing you want to see is how they talk and interact with each other."
[The Big Picture · Celebrating ‘Scott Pilgrim vs. the World’ 10 Years Later · 0:17:53 · Sean Fennessey (0.85)] Scott Pilgrim vs. the World ⇒ The Lego Movie (the host's read) · lineage · Same claim: the Lego movie's self-aware tone follows Scott Pilgrim. · "Deadpool, for example, can't happen or like the Lego movie can't happen or into the Spider-Verse."
[The Big Picture · ‘Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse’: One of the Best Superhero Movies Ever | Exit Survey · 0:01:48 · Micah Peters (0.80)] Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse ↔ Pixar movies · craft · It is as close to a Pixar movie as you can get without being one, but with comic-book hard lines and saturated color. · "it's as close to being a Pixar movie as you can get without being a Pixar movie, but it also has like the very hard lines of like a comic book"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Iron Man 2 · 0:12:08 · unknown (0.30)] Iron Man 2 ↔ The Avengers · programming · Feige pushed more cinematic-universe setup after the first film, but held most back; the Fury scene and shield joke are the result. · "Let's build shield outlets, like give them, you know, a little more of what they want."
[The Big Picture · Celebrating ‘Scott Pilgrim vs. the World’ 10 Years Later · 0:33:29 · Van Lathan (0.70)] 1980s bully movies ⇒ Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (the host's read) · lineage · Van loves the Lucas Lee fight because it recalls cheesy 80s bully fights and flips them, Scott winning through wiliness. · "the fights that I love from, uh, bully fights are like from 80s, cheesy 80s movies."
[The Big Picture · ‘Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse’: One of the Best Superhero Movies Ever | Exit Survey · 0:02:14 · Sean Fennessey (0.85)] Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse ↔ Comic books · craft · The film approximates the physical feeling of holding comic pages in a theater. · "This really approximates that feeling of having the pages between your fingers."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Incredible Hulk · 0:24:59 · Griffin or David (0.25)] William Hurt ↔ The Avengers · programming · Hurt's Ross is the one thread kept through the MCU and the film otherwise sits apart from Ruffalo's Hulk. · "The only kind of thread they keep."
[speaker] Sean Fennessey · latest sketch, The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · Loves gory, funny, fast genre movies with craft and confidence, especially 87-minute films that never overstay. Can't stand ponderous elevated horror that fills out its runtime with introspection and sad family history. A sucker for the Carpenter-era lineage, Die Hard homages, and directors who break studio dogma. · stances: Resident Evil is one of the best films of the year; Horror movies have become a drag; fun genre experiences are needed; Short running times are a virtue; Video-game films work best when great filmmakers get creative license
[speaker] David Shoemaker · latest sketch, The Big Picture · Pro Wrestling Goes to the Movies, Plus Stephen Merchant on ‘Fighting · Believes the best wrestling movies are documentaries and cult oddities; loves weird, tonally pure b-movies like Body Slam and Paradise Alley. Dislikes tone-deaf studio efforts like Ready to Rumble. A sucker for wrestling's blur of real and fake. · stances: Documentaries beat fiction for wrestling; The Wrestler is the best wrestling movie; Fiction fails when it treats a fake sport in a fake world; Wrestling history (Gold Dust Trio, Sputnik Monroe) deserves movies
[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
[speaker] Van Lathan · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · Enjoys the series for its sleaze, hang value and cheesy lines. Roots for Black-cast-free sendups and loves a flex category. Gravitates to Freddy and likes Kevin Bacon. · stances: Friday the 13th is a movie that did not need Black people; Rewards bad-hang awards and flex lists
[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 Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017) 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.