What the corpus says about Quantum of Solace (2008)

You are a clerk at Video Culture, a video store. A customer just finished Quantum of Solace (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 Quantum of Solace (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 · Raiders of the Lost Ark · 1:52:10 · unknown (0.40)] Casino Royale ⇒ Quantum of Solace (the host's read) · programming · Quantum of Solace is to Casino Royale as Temple of Doom is to Raiders, a bumpy follow-up; they will cover Quantum one day. · "I think of it as the Temple of Doom to Casino Royals, Raiders of the Lost Ark in like sort of complimentary..."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Skyfall’ · 0:05:17 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] Casino Royale ↔ Quantum of Solace · craft · Casino Royale sung by Chris Cornell and Quantum by Jack White and Alicia Keys, both strange compared with Adele. · "theme song in Quantum of Solace is sung by Jack White and Alicia Keys, and it's actually quite strange."
[Blank Check · Raiders of the Lost Ark · 1:49:53 · unknown (0.40)] Raiders of the Lost Ark ↔ Quantum of Solace · contrast · Modern movies make the main villain also the best fighter; Raiders keeps those as two separate guys, unlike Quantum of Solace's finale. · "they want the Belloc to also be the best fighter in the world."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Skyfall’ · 0:24:38 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Skyfall ↔ Quantum of Solace · contrast · Quantum has nothing like Skyfall's deep thinking about what Bond means, partly because it was written during the writers' strike. · "there's nothing that has that kind of Christmas, that kind of like deep thinking about what these movies mean."
[pairs] Quantum of Solace ↔ Casino Royale · said 2 times in 2 episodes
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Curious Case of Benjamin Button · 2:21:42 · Griffin Newman (0.30)] Quantum of Solace · fun · On the Christmas 2008 box office, the speaker had to go to number 17 to find a sequel. · "I had to go to number 17 to find a sequel and it's quantum of solace."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Skyfall’ · 0:12:29 · Sean Fennessey (0.45)] Casino Royale ⇒ Skyfall (the host's read) · lineage · Skyfall is the payoff of the first Craig movie, where Vesper's betrayal shows Bond can feel. · "it's also the ultimate payoff of what starts in the 1st Craig movie"
[Blank Check · Raiders of the Lost Ark · 1:14:54 · unknown (0.40)] Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull ↔ Raiders of the Lost Ark · programming · They devoted a whole episode to Crystal Skull. · "We devoted whole episode to it."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Skyfall’ · 0:12:29 · Sean Fennessey (0.45)] Casino Royale ⇒ Skyfall (the host's read) · lineage · Skyfall is the payoff of the first Craig movie, where Vesper's betrayal shows Bond can feel. · "it's also the ultimate payoff of what starts in the 1st Craig movie"
[Blank Check — Patreon · RoboCop (2014) · 0:48:47 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] RoboCop ↔ Casino Royale · lineage · Filmmakers sell the remake as the Casino Royale or Batman Begins of RoboCop while the Easter eggs sneer at the original. · "It's like the Casino Royale."
[Blank Check · Raiders of the Lost Ark · 2:32:51 · unknown (0.40)] Sorcerer ↔ Raiders of the Lost Ark · programming · They will do Sorcerer one day. · "Source will probably do one day."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Skyfall’ · 0:46:30 · Chris Ryan (0.60)] The Dark Knight ⇒ Skyfall (the host's read) · lineage · Mendes openly lifted the Dark Knight aesthetic and the orphan-avenging-sins idea. · "Mendy's just very openly lifted a lot of the Dark Knight aesthetic for these movies."
[Blank Check · Raiders of the Lost Ark · 2:34:57 · unknown (0.40)] Hook ↔ Raiders of the Lost Ark · programming · Hook is a movie they will cover and a defender will join that episode. · "We will have a defender on the episode."
[Blank Check · Empire of the Sun · 0:43:50 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Skyfall ↔ Sam Mendes · theme · Skyfall helped Bond convince itself it was a prestige genre, which led to bloat. · "become a prestige genre like genre."
[Blank Check · Raiders of the Lost Ark · 3:01:39 · Brian Michael Bendis (0.90)] Raiders of the Lost Ark ↔ Jaws · programming · Bendis lives in Portland, where Raiders and Jaws play theaters every summer; his kids found both still work. · "I'm here in Portland where Raiders and Jaws plays on theaters, at least once a summer."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Skyfall’ · 0:15:34 · Chris Ryan (0.55)] Skyfall ↔ Unforgiven · theme · Skyfall is a reckoning with everything that came before in its franchise. · "Skyfall is like the unfor is unforgiven to me."
[Blank Check · Raiders of the Lost Ark · 3:27:19 · unknown (0.40)] E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial ↔ Raiders of the Lost Ark · programming · Next week's episode is E.T.; next the Patreon bonus covers Something Evil and Savage. · "I believe it's a movie called ET the Extra Terrestrial."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Skyfall’ · 1:08:15 · Chris Ryan (0.60)] Skyfall ↔ Rocky (series) · theme · Best entries show the hero coming to terms with aging, which Skyfall pairs with the permanent hero. · "some of the best movies about those things are about the person coming to terms with the fact that they're not as powerful as they once were."
[Blank Check · Raiders of the Lost Ark · 0:12:58 · Brian Michael Bendis (0.90)] Raiders of the Lost Ark ↔ Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope · lineage · Bendis says his childhood pop culture was Lucas and Spielberg magic tricks, not Marvel. · "At this stage that wasn't Marvel was Lucas and Spielberg."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Skyfall’ · 0:05:24 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] Adele ↔ Skyfall · craft · The Adele song feels both a century old and incredibly modern. · "The Adele song, it feels like it's 100 years old and also incredibly modern"
[Blank Check · Raiders of the Lost Ark · 0:46:47 · unknown (0.40)] Flash Gordon (Republic serial) ⇒ Raiders of the Lost Ark (the host's read) · lineage · Lucas conceived Indiana Jones as a B-picture at A-picture scale, like the old Republic serials. · "let's make a sort of B picture at an A picture scale, right?"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Skyfall’ · 0:05:29 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] Roger Deakins ↔ Skyfall · craft · The shot-from-behind-Bond's-shoulder Silva intro is Deakins photography, and the movie is candy for movie nerds. · "The movie is shot by Roger Deakins."
[Blank Check · Raiders of the Lost Ark · 0:49:39 · unknown (0.40)] James Bond films (the franchise) ⇒ Raiders of the Lost Ark (the maker said so: Spielberg's account of the Hawaii conversation with Lucas) · lineage · Lucas pitched Raiders to Spielberg as a better, American take on the Bond idea Spielberg had been wanting to do. · "I have the I have the same basic idea, but better, and it's this Raiders of the Lost Ark idea."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Skyfall’ · 0:26:14 · unclear host (0.30)] Adele ↔ Skyfall · craft · The Adele song is cued at the pivot where M orders Moneypenny to take the shot in Istanbul. · "I think that's in the trailer and it obviously cues the great Adele song."
[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] 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] 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
[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)
[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 Quantum of Solace (2008); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Quantum of Solace (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.