What the corpus says about X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014)

You are a clerk at Video Culture, a video store. A customer just finished X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014) 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 X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014) 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 · Edge of Tomorrow · 1:40:54 · David Sims (0.50)] Edge of Tomorrow ↔ X-Men: Days of Future Past · programming · On the opening weekend chart, Edge opened third behind Fault in Our Stars and Maleficent; X-Men DoFP was still fourth. · "Edge of Tomorrow is number three."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Eclipse · 0:33:27 · unknown (0.40)] Avengers: Age of Ultron ↔ X-Men: Days of Future Past · contrast · Age of Ultron's Quicksilver just blips around and is not very interesting looking next to Singer's. · "I just remember Quicksilver in Age of Ultron just kind of like blipping."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 1:41:20 · David Sims (0.50)] X-Men: Days of Future Past ↔ Spider-Man: No Way Home · verdict · DoFP is in the same zone as No Way Home: not functional, but has really fun stuff. · "I put in kind of a similar zone to uh, uh, uh, no way home."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Marvel Nerdfest · 0:18:04 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness ↔ X-Men: Days of Future Past · continuity · Professor X here is not the same version as Patrick Stewart's in the Fox X-Men movies. · "the Professor X that shows up in this movie is not the same one from the Fox movies."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Eclipse · 0:33:08 · unknown (0.40)] Bryan Singer ↔ X-Men: Days of Future Past · craft · Singer's Quicksilver is called the most successful screen speedster because of smart slow motion. · "I still think the most successful is the, unfortunately, the Brian Singer Quicksilver."
[The Big Picture · The Past, Present, and Future of Superhero Movies | The Big Picture · 0:41:54 · David Shoemaker (0.50)] X-Men: Days of Future Past ↔ Jennifer Lawrence · industry · The film shoehorned Mystique into a prominent role because the studio had J-Law under contract. · "we have J-Law under contract, so we got to figure out a way to get mystique and a prominent role in this."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The Winter Soldier · 2:09:22 · unknown (0.35)] Captain America: The Winter Soldier ↔ Avengers: Age of Ultron · programming · Ultron resets Captain America's status quo ahead of Civil War. · "Well, it's because Age of Ultron also sort of resets Captain America a little bit."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Marvel Nerdfest · 0:39:57 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness ↔ Blank Check · lineage · Scarlet Witch manipulating computers with magic recalls the hosts' Hacker Witch bit. · "She manipulates the computer using magic, thereby witch hacker."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 1:05:18 · Ben Hosley (0.40)] Edge of Tomorrow ↔ RoboCop · programming · The hosts recorded a RoboCop commentary in the slot where Edge was originally scheduled, and the opening news montage reminds them of RoboCop's. · "I mean, we just saw it with like Robocop."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The Winter Soldier · 2:12:03 · unknown (0.35)] Captain America: The Winter Soldier ⇒ Avengers: Age of Ultron (the host's read) · programming · The post-credits scene sets up the twins and Strucker's experiments. · "You know what they're setting up here, Benny."
[The Big Picture · ‘Black Panther: Wakanda Forever’ Is Here! · 0:38:18 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60)] Black Panther: Wakanda Forever ↔ Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness · theme · Sean sees Riri Williams as the second recent puckish teen hero, after America Chavez, whom the audience has no prior relationship with. · "we just had this with America Chavez in Doctor Strange in the multiverse of Madness."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 0:11:26 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Groundhog Day ⇒ Edge of Tomorrow (the host's read) · lineage · The pitch is Groundhog Day as sci-fi action, and it keeps the loop while adding war stakes. · "Doug Lyman is doing like an sci-fi action movie groundhog day with Tom Cruise"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War · 1:17:18 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Avengers: Age of Ultron ↔ Avengers: Infinity War · lineage · The Vision and Wanda romance set up in Ultron gets no onscreen payoff here. · "Now, here is the non-payoff of the romance, the major Ultron."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Marvel Nerdfest · 0:33:12 · David Sims (0.50)] Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness ↔ Spider-Man 3 · craft · Opening tentacle scene has shots that lead into each other; the Illuminati fight is less fluid than Raimi's usual action. · "this doesn't feel as like fluid as Raimi's action usually does"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 0:40:05 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Edge of Tomorrow ↔ Groundhog Day · theme · Both are about depression and being stuck; Edge adds the stakes that you keep dying, and it stays hopeful. · "Groundhog Day, I would say is also like about depression."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Avengers: Infinity War · 2:00:15 · unknown (0.30)] Avengers: Age of Ultron ⇒ Avengers: Infinity War (the host's read) · lineage · The Hulkbuster armor pays off Banner being almost defeated by it before. · "it's paying off the fact that he was, you know, almost defeated by this armor before."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 0:29:59 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Edge of Tomorrow ↔ Lady in the Water · craft · The mimics look like the scrunts from Lady in the Water, with tendrils. · "They look kind of like scrunts from Lady in the Water"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Guardians of the Galaxy · 1:10:34 · unknown (0.30)] Guardians of the Galaxy ↔ Avengers: Age of Ultron · craft · Infinity Stone exposition scenes tend to halt a movie, but this one works because the heroes are chasing the stone. · "I tend to feel like the Infinity Stone scenes always grind the movie to a hold, however shorter long they are."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 0:31:17 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Edge of Tomorrow ↔ The Matrix · craft · The mimics recall the Matrix Sentinels but do not feel derivative. · "There's a little bit of the Matrix Sentinel."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Guardians of the Galaxy · 1:53:52 · unknown (0.30)] The Avengers ↔ Avengers: Age of Ultron · craft · The first Avengers' bright final daylight action is a big plus; Ultron is daylight but gloomy. · "That's another big plus to Avengers, the the 1st one, totally, total daylight stuff."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 0:34:19 · David Sims (0.40)] Edge of Tomorrow ↔ Ghostbusters · craft · The Noah Taylor briefing carries the same 'I'm not sure, it might end the world' flavor as Ghostbusters' cross the streams. · "The Ghostbusters thing of like what happens if we cross the streams."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 0:50:43 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Edge of Tomorrow ↔ Raiders of the Lost Ark · craft · The black blood burning through Cage's face in his first death is 'end of Raiders shit'. · "like end of Raiders shit."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 1:12:38 · David Sims (0.50)] Edge of Tomorrow ↔ Mission: Impossible III · craft · Casting Brendan Gleeson parallels Philip Seymour Hoffman in MI3: the best foil for Cruise comes from a different acting discipline. · "like casting Philip Seymour Hoffman in Mission Impossible 3"
[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] David Shoemaker · latest sketch, The Big Picture · Pro Wrestling Goes to the Movies, Plus Stephen Merchant on ‘Fighting · Believes the best wrestling movies are documentaries and cult oddities; loves weird, tonally pure b-movies like Body Slam and Paradise Alley. Dislikes tone-deaf studio efforts like Ready to Rumble. A sucker for wrestling's blur of real and fake. · stances: Documentaries beat fiction for wrestling; The Wrestler is the best wrestling movie; Fiction fails when it treats a fake sport in a fake world; Wrestling history (Gold Dust Trio, Sputnik Monroe) deserves movies
[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] 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 X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014) 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.