What the corpus says about Blade (1998)

You are a clerk at Video Culture, a video store. A customer just finished Blade (1998) 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 Blade (1998) 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 Big Picture · The Past, Present, and Future of Superhero Movies | The Big Picture · 0:01:16 · Jason Concepcion (0.70)] Blade ⇒ X-Men (the host's read) · lineage · Blade is credited as the film that set the tone for the modern superhero era, with X-Men following two years later. · "the 1st superhero movie that really set the tone for what we consider the modern era of superhero films is Blade, 1998"
[The Big Picture · The Past, Present, and Future of Superhero Movies | The Big Picture · 0:43:44 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Blade ↔ The New Mutants · theme · The New Mutants being a horror movie recalls Blade's feeling of a pure genre film wearing superhero clothes. · "hearkens back to that blade feeling where it's just a genre movie."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ · 0:47:32 · Matt Singer (0.30)] Alien 3 ↔ Blade · people · Effects-team members on Alien 3 (Norrington, Cunningham) went on to direct. · "A lot of guys who later go on to become directors were in the effects team on this movie."
[The Big Picture · The Past, Present, and Future of Superhero Movies | The Big Picture · 0:02:57 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Blade ↔ Iron Man · industry · Blade came ten years before Iron Man, the first Marvel property to follow. · "And this is 10 full years before Iron Man."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The Winter Soldier · 1:45:05 · unknown (0.40)] Blade ↔ Blade · what-if · Fantasy of 70s Blade in a 70s Avengers. · "How great would it be if they were blade back into the MCU, but it was like 70s blade exclusively?"
[The Big Picture · The Past, Present, and Future of Superhero Movies | The Big Picture · 0:03:21 · Jason Concepcion (0.40)] Blade · fun · Blade grossed about $131 million on a $45 million budget in 1998. · "$131.200000 on a $45000000 budget in 1998."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien 3 · 1:35:21 · unknown (0.40)] Alien 3 ↔ Resident Evil · programming · Resident Evil should not be programmed next to Alien; wait for in-person sessions. · "Also, you can't put it next to Alien because Resident Evil does, well, not, that will not be good for Resident Evil."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Incredible Hulk · 0:23:12 · Griffin or David (0.35)] Iron Man ↔ The Incredible Hulk · programming · Both Iron Man's post-credits Fury scene and Tony's Hulk cameo got audiences cheering, building the idea of a shared universe. · "I was so invested in the idea, which seems hilarious now of a cinematic universe."
[The Big Picture · The Past, Present, and Future of Superhero Movies | The Big Picture · 0:46:35 · Jason Concepcion (0.50)] X-Men ↔ Joss Whedon · lineage · Whedon's Astonishing X-Men comic captured Cyclops better than the movies did. · "he's really the 1st guy that captured what makes Cyclops an interesting character."
[The Big Picture · ‘The Killer’ Is Cold-Blooded Genius. And Something More · 0:59:46 · Adam Nayman (0.85)] David Fincher ↔ Alien 3 · lineage · Alien 3 is the primal scene of Fincher's chip on his shoulder, producers treating him like a shoe salesman. · "there's the chip on the shoulder and the primal scene of alien 3, right?"
[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."
[The Big Picture · ‘Captain Marvel’ Is a ’90s Nostalgia Play. Did It Work? | Exit Survey · 0:34:38 · Sean Fennessey (0.75)] Captain Marvel ↔ X-Men · craft · Expository Marvel dialogue needs a stentorian Shakespearean actor like Patrick Stewart or Ian McKellen, which Larson is not. · "there's a reason that the X-Men movies cast people like Patrick Stewart and Ian McCellen"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ · 0:24:13 · David Sims (0.30)] Alien 3 ⇒ Alien Resurrection (the host's read) · lineage · Resurrection follows Alien 3, but its Ripley is a different character from the one who died. · "As much as she was quote unquote resurrected, obviously, that's a different character explicitly."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Iron Man · 1:48:57 · unknown (0.30)] Iron Man ↔ Thor · programming · The hosts preview the next trio: Thor, Captain America, Avengers; one hates Thor. · "So what our next three is going to be Thor, Captain America, Avengers."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ · 0:30:17 · Matt Singer (0.40)] Aliens ⇒ Alien 3 (the host's read) · lineage · Alien 3 follows Aliens; watched back to back, Aliens ends on a new family that Alien 3 then kills. · "you watch aliens and that has this ending of, you know, this new family that has been created."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Iron Man · 2:01:42 · unknown (Griffin) (0.50)] Iron Man ↔ Captain Marvel · programming · Mentions Captain Marvel's upcoming 90s setting and Kamala Khan idolizing her as a possible future movie. · "And then like models herself after Captain Marvel."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ · 0:56:20 · Griffin Newman (0.35)] David Twohy ⇒ Alien 3 (the host's read) · lineage · Twohy brought the prison-planet concept into the development. · "Twowey is the one who brings in the prison planet concept, okay?"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Iron Man 3 · 0:18:57 · unknown (0.30)] Iron Man ⇒ Iron Man 3 (the host's read) · lineage · The Iron Man trilogy is closed into a circle by the flashback to the party and Becca Hall and Pierce. · "as individualistic as this movie is, it actually like... It's bringing the 1st 2 complete."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ · 1:18:07 · Matt Singer (0.35)] Psycho ⇒ Alien 3 (the host's read) · lineage · Charles Dance's shower-curtain death is read as Fincher's own 'Hitchcock moment', after a cast member said Fincher called it that; the Psycho identification is the speaker's. · "Fincher would talk to him about his influence and be like, well, this is my Hitchcock moment."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Iron Man · 0:09:11 · unknown (Griffin or David) (0.30)] Iron Man ⇒ modern superhero movies (the host's read) · lineage · Called the prototype format every later superhero film riffs on. · "this is the prototype for the modern superhero movie."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 0:29:45 · unknown (0.30)] Alien: Covenant ↔ Alien 3 · lineage · Alien 3 had convicts. · "Alien 3 convicts."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Iron Man · 0:27:36 · unknown (probably David) (0.40)] Stan Lee ⇒ Iron Man (the maker said so: Stan Lee interviews) · lineage · The film follows the first comic issue's origin; Lee wanted to make an industrialist war profiteer compelling to hippie kids. · "here's like an industrialist, war profiteer, Laos, and make him like compelling to these, like, hippie kids."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien 3 · 0:21:41 · unknown (0.50)] Aliens ⇒ Alien 3 (the host's read) · lineage · Alien 3 opens by wiping out the status quo that ended Aliens. · "Seconds of this movie, it literally just burns the status quo established at the end of the last one."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Iron Man · 1:05:06 · unknown (0.30)] Iron Man ↔ Batman Begins · lineage · The suit-development process scenes are a funny version of Batman Begins' gadget-building. · "This is like funny version of Batman begins."
[speaker] Jason Concepcion · latest sketch, The Big Picture · Did Disney’s ‘Mulan’ Experiment Work? A Binge Mode Investigation · Loves a musical, Donnie Yen action, and the 1998 Mulan with its Eddie Murphy humor. Finds the remake kind of boring and wants a grounded, historical version. Sucker for political and economic framing of film controversy. · stances: The remake is fine in a vacuum, a disappointment as a Mulan; Wants a more historical, less magical take; Sees the Mulan controversy as a symptom of the West-China economic experiment; Missing music means missing storytelling
[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
[speaker] Matt Singer · latest sketch, Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ · Author of Opposable Thumbs, a book about Siskel and Ebert; has seen both cuts of Alien 3 and owns the Quadrilogy box set. Loves Siskel and Ebert as a gateway to movies; likes the show more than the movies as a kid. Attribution is inferred. · stances: He watched both cuts of Alien 3 for the episode; Praises the Siskel and Ebert show as a form of film discussion
[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)

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 Blade (1998); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Blade (1998) 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.