What the corpus says about The Karate Kid (1984)

You are a clerk at Video Culture, a video store. A customer just finished The Karate Kid (1984) 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 Karate Kid (1984) 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’ · 0:11:32 · 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 · ‘Working Girl’ · 2:01:42 · unknown (0.30)] Working Girl ↔ The Karate Kid · theme · Flipping the villain's perspective as with Cobra Kai: Catherine as a victim of her assistant. · "Karate Kid, when they made the Cobra Kai, and they were like, we're flipping this."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Rocky’ · 0:11:39 · Chris Ryan (0.35)] Rocky ↔ The Karate Kid · contrast · Rocky is slow, builds character and is a love story, unlike the faster Karate Kid. · "This is slow."
[Blank Check — Patreon · March Madness 2021 Recap - Round 2 · 0:49:37 · David Sims (0.40)] The Mighty Ducks (franchise) ↔ The Karate Kid · verdict · Mighty Ducks beat Karate Kid because the audience skews 90s kids. · "Our demographic of our listeners, I think, is more of a mighty ducks generation than a karate generation."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Rocky’ · 1:31:38 · Chris Ryan (0.45)] John G. Avildsen ↔ The Karate Kid · career · Asked if Avildsen's apex was Rocky, a host says the case can be made for Karate Kid. · "You can make a case that's karate kid."
[pairs] The Karate Kid ↔ Rocky · said 2 times in 1 episode
[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 · ‘Working Girl’ · 1:11:10 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] Working Girl ⇒ Working Girl (1990 NBC series) (the host's read) · programming · Working Girl became a 1990 NBC series, with Sandra Bullock as Tess. · "Working Girl became an NBC series in 1990"
[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 · ‘Working Girl’ · 2:04:54 · unknown (0.40)] Working Girl ↔ Morning Glory · programming · Morning Glory is a triple-feature pick; Rachel McAdams as the working girl with Harrison Ford. · "Rachel McAdams working girl."
[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 · ‘Working Girl’ · 2:05:09 · unknown (0.40)] Working Girl ⇒ Pretty Woman (the host's read) · programming · Pairing Working Girl and Pretty Woman as a Cinderella double feature to see what Pretty Woman took. · "It double Cinderella and then you're watching Purdue Woman seeing all the things they took."
[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 · ‘Working Girl’ · 2:05:13 · unknown (0.40)] Working Girl ↔ Witness · programming · Witness is the double feature for double Harrison Ford. · "There's also Witness as just double hot Harrison Ford."
[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 · ‘Working Girl’ · 2:05:16 · unknown (0.30)] Working Girl ↔ The Devil Wears Prada · programming · Pairing Prada is suggested as a 1988-2006 double feature. · "Well, I think that there's a Devil Wears Prada cases."
[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 · ‘Working Girl’ · 2:05:30 · Amanda Dobbins (0.40)] Working Girl ↔ Baby Boom · programming · Baby Boom is the top double-feature pick because it is less seen. · "I think my number one would be Baby Boom because it's not as seen."
[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 · ‘Working Girl’ · 0:08:48 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Working Girl ⇒ Pretty Woman (the host's read) · lineage · Pretty Woman borrows openly from Working Girl's Cinderella story. · "It openly steal shit from this movie."
[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."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ · 0:13:35 · Joanna Robinson (0.40)] Working Girl ⇒ The Devil Wears Prada (the host's read) · lineage · Working Girl sprinkled its DNA over later beloved movies, Pretty Woman and Devil Wears Prada chief among them. · "And it's just sprinkling DNA over all these beloved movies over the next 40 years, but those were Pretty Woman and Devil wears Prada were the 2 that I was like, oh, yeah."
[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
[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] 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'
[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 Karate Kid (1984); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend The Karate Kid (1984) 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.