What the corpus says about Strange Days (1995)

You are a clerk at Video Culture, a video store. A customer just finished Strange Days (1995) 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 Strange Days (1995) 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 · Flesh+Blood · 1:05:02 · Griffin Newman (0.45)] Flesh and Blood ↔ Strange Days · theme · Like Strange Days, the film treats sexual assault as psychological aftermath rather than a plot device. · "In the Strange Days episode, we talked about the sexual assault scene in that movie, right?"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 0:36:07 · David Sims (0.60)] Michael Wincott ↔ Strange Days · career · Wincott was in Strange Days, as the character Philo Gant. · "He's in Strange Days."
[Blank Check · Flesh+Blood · 1:25:59 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Flesh and Blood ↔ Back to the Future · programming · Flesh+Blood opened Labor Day weekend 1985 when Back to the Future was number one. · "Back to the future?"
[Blank Check · Flesh+Blood · 0:43:23 · David Sims (0.40)] Flesh and Blood ↔ Willow · lineage · The painted poster looks like fantasy-adventure posters of the era. · "it has this poster that looks like, you know, the poster for Willow or Legend"
[Blank Check · Flesh+Blood · 0:27:54 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Flesh and Blood ↔ The Loveless · theme · Both take a romanticized genre and show how gross it really was. · "Which is where I think this movie shares a similarity with the Loveless."
[Blank Check · Flesh+Blood · 1:13:10 · David Sims (0.40)] Flesh and Blood ↔ A Bug's Life · theme · Steven's crazy siege inventions are compared to Flick's. · "He's like flick from a bug's life where he's coming up with these crazy inventions"
[Blank Check · Flesh+Blood · 0:44:02 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Flesh and Blood ↔ Hieronymus Bosch · craft · The film's opening is said to look like a Bosch painting. · "Like, now we're in a bosh painting."
[Blank Check · Flesh+Blood · 0:44:18 · David Sims (0.45)] Flesh and Blood ↔ Monty Python and the Holy Grail · craft · The film's muddy, grimy medieval look is likened to Holy Grail. · "The movie that this is aesthetically most similar to weirdly is Monty Python, the Holy Grail."
[Blank Check · Flesh+Blood · 1:13:31 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Flesh and Blood ↔ Excalibur · craft · The siege-tower set piece is presented like a grand medieval epic. · "Is it's presenting it to you like you're watching."
[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] 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
[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 Strange Days (1995); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Strange Days (1995) 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.