What the corpus says about Zero Dark Thirty (2012)

You are a clerk at Video Culture, a video store. A customer just finished Zero Dark Thirty (2012) 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 Zero Dark Thirty (2012) 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 · Blue Steel · 1:22:38 · unknown (0.40)] Blue Steel ↔ Zero Dark Thirty · lineage · Both end on one woman obsessively chasing one man, then sitting silently in a car. · "the ending of this movie is almost identical to the ending of Zero Dark 30, where it's one woman who has been methodically obsessively just trying to stop this one man"
[Blank Check — Patreon · OLD DOGS - Blank Check LIVE! at the Bell House · 0:54:23 · unknown (0.30)] Old Dogs ↔ Zero Dark Thirty · craft · Host wishes the film had Zero Dark Thirty style day-count title cards. · "Like Zero Dark Third style."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel · 0:35:14 · unknown (0.40)] Blue Steel ↔ Zero Dark Thirty · contrast · Blue Steel is more upfront about its feminism than Zero Dark Thirty. · "this movie is at least more upfront about its quote unquote feminist aspects than Zero Dark 30 is"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Guardians of the Galaxy · 0:19:41 · unknown (0.30)] Chris Pratt ↔ Zero Dark Thirty · career · Before stardom he took small dramatic supporting parts in Zero Dark Thirty and Moneyball that made people think he could be a movie star. · "And all those movies where he took the smaller, like, dramatic supporting roles, like, Zero, Dark 30, and..."
[pairs] Zero Dark Thirty ↔ Blue Steel · said 2 times in 1 episode
[Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel · 1:24:23 · unknown (0.40)] Blue Steel ↔ Zoolander · programming · Zoolander's Blue Steel ruined the title of Bigelow's film. · "It is weird now that like this movie's title is totally ruined by Zoolander."
[Blank Check — Patreon · OLD DOGS - Blank Check LIVE! at the Bell House · 1:32:52 · Griffin Newman (0.70)] Old Dogs ↔ Tangled · programming · Disney released Tangled the next year on the same Thanksgiving weekend, which became its animated slot (Frozen, Moana). · "A year later, they released Tangled the same weekend, and then this becomes the weekend they released their biggest animated film of the year."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel · 1:26:39 · unknown (0.40)] Blue Steel ↔ The Hunt for Red October · programming · The weekend Blue Steel opened, The Hunt for Red October was number one. · "It's a huge box on October, right? For Red October."
[Blank Check — Patreon · OLD DOGS - Blank Check LIVE! at the Bell House · 1:53:21 · Griffin Newman (0.60)] Old Dogs ↔ The Twilight Saga: New Moon · programming · Old Dogs opened fourth, behind New Moon in its second week, The Blind Side and 2012. · "Twilight Saga New Moon."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel · 1:28:23 · Jordan Hoffman (0.40)] Blue Steel ↔ Joe Versus the Volcano · programming · Number two that weekend was Joe Versus the Volcano, a critical bomb for Tom Hanks. · "Oh, Joe versus the volcano?"
[Blank Check — Patreon · OLD DOGS - Blank Check LIVE! at the Bell House · 1:54:07 · Griffin Newman (0.70)] Old Dogs ↔ The Princess and the Frog · programming · The Princess and the Frog opened the same weekend on two screens, ranked 18th. · "Princess and the Frog opens this week, number 18."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel · 1:29:17 · unknown (0.40)] Blue Steel ↔ Lord of the Flies · programming · Number three that weekend was the 1990 Lord of the Flies. · "The 1990 Lord of the Flies."
[Blank Check — Patreon · OLD DOGS - Blank Check LIVE! at the Bell House · 0:10:37 · Griffin Newman (0.80)] Wild Hogs ↔ Old Dogs · lineage · Old Dogs reteams Becker with Travolta after Wild Hogs. · "He signs on to do this movie, re teams with Travolta, bring some new people in."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel · 1:30:22 · unknown (0.40)] Blue Steel ↔ House Party · programming · Number four that weekend was House Party. · "Oh, house party. house party."
[Blank Check — Patreon · OLD DOGS - Blank Check LIVE! at the Bell House · 1:04:05 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Old Dogs ↔ Moonrise Kingdom · lineage · A host jokes that Moonrise Kingdom, three years later, is what made scouts cool, after the Old Dogs scout weekend. · "So you're saying Moonrise Kingdom made scouts cooling?"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel · 0:05:23 · David Sims (0.40)] Blue Steel ↔ Halloween · lineage · Calls Blue Steel a slasher with Ron Silver as Michael Myers and cites Ebert calling it the best Halloween sequel. · "I read back to Roger Ebert's review, and he said, this is actually the best Halloween sequel that's ever been made."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead · 1:28:24 · unknown (0.30)] Eraserhead ↔ Old Dogs · theme · Suddenly discovering a child you didn't know about is the existential terror Old Dogs is built on, and Eraserhead has it too. · "Of course, the kind of existential terror that an entire movie, like old dogs is built off of times two."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel · 0:34:56 · unknown (0.30)] Blue Steel ↔ Dirty Harry · lineage · The after-shooting inquiry echoes the way Dirty Harry handled a cop's use of force. · "Dirty Harry done the same thing."
[Blank Check — Patreon · OLD DOGS - Blank Check LIVE! at the Bell House · 0:32:48 · David Sims (0.50)] Old Dogs ↔ Erin Brockovich · theme · Kelly Preston's eco-protester plot is likened to Erin Brockovich (transcribed Aaron). · "Okay, so she's, like, an Aaron Brockovich?"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Blue Steel · 0:39:36 · unknown (0.30)] Blue Steel ↔ Prince of the City · lineage · Describes the cop-in-crisis strain of 70s cop movies, as in Lumet's Prince of the City. · "Right? So you Lumet's Prince in the city."
[Blank Check — Patreon · OLD DOGS - Blank Check LIVE! at the Bell House · 0:43:13 · unknown (0.30)] Old Dogs ↔ Gremlins · theme · Leaving the kids with a list of rules they will break is likened to Gremlins. · "This is like Gremlin."

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 Zero Dark Thirty (2012); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Zero Dark Thirty (2012) 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.