What the corpus says about James Bond films (the franchise)

You are a clerk at Video Culture, a video store. A customer just finished James Bond films (the franchise) 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 James Bond films (the franchise) 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 · 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."
[Blank Check · Raiders of the Lost Ark · 1:50:56 · Brian Michael Bendis (0.50)] James Bond films (the franchise) ⇒ Raiders of the Lost Ark (the host's read) · craft · The Cairo plane fight with the burly Nazi is called a straight James Bond henchman scene. · "that's that's a flat out James Bond jaw scene."
[Blank Check · Raiders of the Lost Ark · 1:50:59 · unknown (0.40)] James Bond films (the franchise) ⇒ Raiders of the Lost Ark (the host's read) · craft · Raiders borrowed the Bond villain structure: a refined man in a lair with separate gimmicky henchmen to fight. · "that's a clear thing they lifted from James Bond very wisely, right?"
[Blank Check · Raiders of the Lost Ark · 0:55:07 · unknown (0.40)] Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope ⇒ James Bond films (the franchise) (the host's read) · industry · Star Wars pushed Bond into outer space. · "James Bond went to went to the moon because of Star Wars."
[Blank Check · Raiders of the Lost Ark · 0:50:05 · unknown (0.40)] James Bond films (the franchise) ⇒ Steven Spielberg (the maker said so: Spielberg's own account (he says he called Cubby Broccoli)) · career · Spielberg begged Cubby Broccoli for a Bond job after Jaws and was refused, which fed the motive for Raiders. · "Spielberg had been, says he had called Cubby Broccoli after Jaws came out being like, hello?"
[pairs] James Bond films (the franchise) ↔ Raiders of the Lost Ark · said 3 times in 1 episode
[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."
[Blank Check · Dune · 0:22:17 · John Hodgman (0.85)] Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope ⇒ Dune (the host's read) · programming · Dune was positioned and released as the studio's answer to Star Wars, the next big space epic. · "Uh, this movie is released with the energy of, here you go, here's the new Star Wars."
[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 Big Picture · The Great ‘Avatar’ Debate · 1:26:04 · unknown (0.40)] Avatar: The Way of Water ↔ Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope · programming · After the Fox acquisition it felt like Disney would alternate Star Wars and Avatar releases. · "oh, they'll alternate every other year between a Star Wars movie and an Avatar movie."
[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 · 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."
[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."
[Blank Check · Dune · 0:22:22 · John Hodgman (0.70)] Dune ⇒ Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope (the host's read) · lineage · The Dune book's messaging is credited as one of the things that inspired Star Wars. · "And not only that, the messaging of this is one of the things that inspired Star Wars."
[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 Big Picture · The Top 10 Fantasy Films, The Toy Movie Hall of Fame, and ‘Masters of the Universe,’ · 0:23:25 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope ⇒ Masters of the Universe (the host's read) · lineage · He-Man (and the 80s toy boom) was a response to every company having passed on Star Wars merchandising. · "so much of He-Man and the 80s for toys is a response to every major company passing on Star Wars that Star Wars is the whiff that no one can live down."
[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 Big Picture · ‘Gladiator II’ Is Here. Are We Not Entertained? · 0:24:06 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope ⇒ Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens (the host's read) · lineage · The Force Awakens maps almost exactly onto A New Hope. · "Force Awakens, which will maybe come up later on this podcast is in almost every respect."
[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 Big Picture · ‘Gladiator II’ Is Here. Are We Not Entertained? · 1:24:09 · Mallory Rubin (0.50)] Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope ⇒ Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens (the host's read) · lineage · It ports over Death Star, Tatooine and R2-D2 as Starkiller Base, Jakku and BB-8. · "in place of the Death Star, you have star killer base."
[Blank Check · Raiders of the Lost Ark · 0:55:15 · unknown (0.40)] Nevada Smith ↔ Raiders of the Lost Ark · lineage · The hero was Indiana Smith until Nevada Smith made Spielberg object, so he became Indiana Jones. · "there's a Steve McQueen movie called Nevada Smith."
[The Big Picture · Did Disney’s ‘Mulan’ Experiment Work? A Binge Mode Investigation · 0:46:32 · Mallory Rubin (0.85)] Seven Samurai ⇒ Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope (the host's read) · lineage · Mallory notes Lucas drew on Joseph Campbell, Seven Samurai, and Hidden Fortress, and the cycle of influence is now returning in Mulan. · "Obviously, Joseph Campbell, as mentioned a moment ago. 7 Samurai, Hidden Fortress."
[speaker] Brian Michael Bendis · latest sketch, Blank Check · Raiders of the Lost Ark · Raised on Lucas and Spielberg and says the magic-trick-then-show-how-it-was-done openness of that era shaped his craft. Loves Raiders over Temple of Doom even though Temple of Doom met him at a pivotal age; adores Reds, Siskel and Ebert, John Williams, Karen Allen. Cannot stand writers telling the audience the theme outright and hates snakes. · stances: Raiders is the better film but Temple of Doom shaped him; Exposition must carry the character's own perspective; Lucas and Spielberg were the first open-source filmmakers; Spielberg is generous with credit and should be emulated; Marion Ravenwood is among cinema's great characters; Willie Scott is the anti-Marion mistake; The post-Fabelmans view reshapes Raiders
[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 James Bond films (the franchise); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend James Bond films (the franchise) 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.