What the corpus says about The Manchurian Candidate (2004)

You are a clerk at Video Culture, a video store. A customer just finished The Manchurian Candidate (2004) 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 Manchurian Candidate (2004) 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 · Trolls: The Experience · 0:48:14 · David Sims (0.40)] Trolls ↔ The Manchurian Candidate · theme · Joke that after watching Trolls he wanted to assassinate a presidential candidate, so maybe there is a Manchurian thing going on. · "I wanted to assassinate a presidential candidate, so maybe there's a whole Manchurian thing happening there too."
[The Big Picture · 5. ‘No Country for Old Men’ and ‘W.’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:00:44 · Oliver Stone (0.90)] W. ↔ The Manchurian Candidate · Stone's view of Bush · Stone said Bush seemed programmed and controlled by others, like a Manchurian candidate. · "There was a sense of a brainwashed president, I'd say, everything was very programmed, like a Manchurian candidate."
[Blank Check · Ricki and the Flash · 0:20:40 · unknown (0.35)] Meryl Streep ↔ The Manchurian Candidate · people · Demme worked with Streep on The Manchurian Candidate, so they had an existing relationship. · "He worked with Meryl on the Venturian candidates."
[Blank Check · Ricki and the Flash · 0:30:24 · unknown (0.40)] Tak Fujimoto ↔ The Manchurian Candidate · people · Fujimoto, Demme's usual cinematographer, semi-retired; his last Demme movie was The Manchurian Candidate. · "Well, so Tak Fujimoto, I think, sort of semi-retired."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Trolls: The Experience · 0:10:54 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Trolls ↔ Trolls World Tour · programming · Trolls had to be watched first because the sequel releases the day this episode comes out. · "knowing that the day this episode comes out, trolls world tour will also be unleashed upon the world."
[The Big Picture · 5. ‘No Country for Old Men’ and ‘W.’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:04:13 · Brian Raftery (0.95)] No Country for Old Men ↔ W. · theme · Both arrived as the Bush era wound down and prompted audiences to take stock of the 21st century. · "No country for old men in W arrived just as the Bush era was winding down, and both movies prompted audiences to take stock of the 21st century so far."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Trolls: The Experience · 1:34:57 · unknown (0.35)] Trolls ↔ Trolls World Tour · programming · Katzenberg milked properties into cartoon shows, specials and sequels; Universal owns Trolls outright now and will continue. · "Casenberg always milks every property dry."
[The Big Picture · 5. ‘No Country for Old Men’ and ‘W.’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:30:52 · Brian Raftery (0.90)] W. ↔ Frank Capra movie (unspecified) · theme · Stone thought of Bush as a character out of a Frank Capra movie, a regular guy risen from alcoholic bum to most powerful figure. · "Stone said he thought of Bush as a character out of a Frank Kabra movie."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Trolls: The Experience · 0:59:43 · unknown (0.35)] Trolls ↔ Fraggle Rock (TV series) · lineage · The Trolls society of different-sized species has a Fraggle Rock structure. · "a fraggle rock structuring of society where there are different species of different sizes"
[The Big Picture · 5. ‘No Country for Old Men’ and ‘W.’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:03:19 · Brian Raftery (0.95)] W. ↔ No Country for Old Men · craft · Raftery links Stone's film to the Coens' as a different take on one man in over his head setting off destruction. · "That kind of domino effect was explored in a very different movie from the year before."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Trolls: The Experience · 1:01:36 · unknown (0.35)] Adventure Time (TV series) ⇒ Trolls (the host's read) · lineage · Trolls' look is the end of a chain from webcomics and Adult Swim through Adventure Time to mainstream kids animation. · "So you end up getting things like adventure time that feel more like what adult swim used to feel like than what a children's show used to feel like."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Trolls: The Experience · 1:02:37 · unknown (0.35)] Shrek ⇒ Trolls (the host's read) · lineage · Trolls has Shrek-distilled humor: self-referential asides for the parents. · "this weird, annoying Shrek, you know, as you say, Shrek, distilled or whatever, like type of humor"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Trolls: The Experience · 1:10:23 · unknown (0.30)] Trolls ↔ Antz (said as 'ants') · lineage · The mismatched-pair quest through the big world is compared to the plot of Antz. · "much like the plot of ants"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Trolls: The Experience · 1:14:02 · unknown (0.35)] Trolls ↔ Cyrano de Bergerac · lineage · The middle of Trolls turns into a gender-flipped Cyrano with the trolls hiding in Bridget's wig. · "And then the movie becomes like Cyrano?"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Trolls: The Experience · 1:19:16 · unknown (0.35)] Trolls ↔ Cinderella · lineage · The roller skate left behind makes the Bergen prince plot a Cinderella story. · "So then it becomes a Cinderella thing"
[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] Oliver Stone · latest sketch, The Big Picture · 5. ‘No Country for Old Men’ and ‘W.’ | Mission Accomplished · Drawn to American history, especially its darker moments and the truth beneath official stories. Distrusts chasing the news and prefers distance. Sympathetic and a little rueful about Bush, finding him a simple man with a limited imagination. · stances: The 21st century has been downhill; Do not chase the news; Bush was a simple man, not a villain; A Bush film needed time away from the Bush years
[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] Blank Check: The box office game (Guessing the film's opening weekend and what it was up against); The sung theme ("Blank Check with Griffin and David", sung; the transcriber garbles it)

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 Manchurian Candidate (2004); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend The Manchurian Candidate (2004) 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.