What the corpus says about Hancock (2008)

You are a clerk at Video Culture, a video store. A customer just finished Hancock (2008) 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 Hancock (2008) 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 · Iron Man 2 · 0:12:58 · unknown (0.30)] Hancock ⇒ Iron Man 2 (the host's read) · industry · The Demon in a Bottle alcoholism arc was dodged partly because Hancock had already done a drinking superhero two months after the first Iron Man. · "Because Hancock comes out. 2 months after the 1st Iron Man."
[Blank Check · Dune · 1:23:11 · unknown (0.40)] Peter Berg ↔ Hancock · career · Hodgman guesses Berg was working on Hancock at the time of their flight. · "And I believe in the context of our conversation, he was probably working on Hancock at that time."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The Winter Soldier · 1:16:27 · unknown (0.45)] Captain America: The Winter Soldier ↔ Iron Man 2 · programming · Gary Shandling's Hydra senator is an odd pull-back to Iron Man 2 for a franchise otherwise ignoring that film. · "when they're like trying to ignore as much of Iron Man 2 as possible"
[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."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Iron Man 2 · 2:07:38 · unknown (0.30)] Iron Man 2 ↔ Thor · programming · Its post-credit scene is called the weakest, existing only to announce Thor's film, much like the Captain Marvel tag after Infinity War. · "Because essentially it's just like Thor, Thor, will be the star of a new movie."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Iron Man · 1:18:06 · unknown (0.30)] Iron Man ↔ Iron Man 2 · programming · Griffin has a point about Paltrow in Iron Man 2 and promises a separate Iron Man 2 commentary. · "We're going to do an Iron Man 2 commentary so we can talk about the movie I want to talk about there."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation · 1:01:43 · unknown (0.30)] Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation ↔ Iron Man 2 · lineage · The thigh-grab move is traced back to Iron Man 2 by one speaker. · "I mean, I always think of Iron Man 2."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Iron Man 3 · 0:21:49 · unknown (0.30)] Iron Man 2 ↔ Robocop 2 · lineage · Iron Man 2 forces Tony to be a wreck again for no earned reason, which they liken to Robocop 2 resetting its hero. · "doing the Robocop 2 thing."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The First Avenger · 0:19:47 · David Sims (0.40)] Iron Man 2 ⇒ Captain America: The First Avenger (the host's read) · lineage · The Stark Expo of the 1940s is the origin of the Expo seen in Iron Man 2, now as the full World's Fair version. · "Like what we see in Iron Man 2, but now it's like the full like 40s World Fair version."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Iron Man 2 · 1:09:32 · Griffin Newman (0.35)] Iron Man 2 ↔ Robocop 2 · lineage · Both feature an opening gag of malfunctioning machines, and a plot about the military trying to make another one. · "this is very similar to Robocob 2 where they're like, the plot is kind of just like, how do we make another one of these?"
[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 Hancock (2008); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Hancock (2008) 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.