What the corpus says about Lethal Weapon 3 (1992)

You are a clerk at Video Culture, a video store. A customer just finished Lethal Weapon 3 (1992) 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 Lethal Weapon 3 (1992) 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 Rewatchables · ‘Internal Affairs’ · 0:48:27 · Bill Simmons (0.30)] Internal Affairs ↔ Lethal Weapon 3 · craft · The unfinished Granada Hills development recalls construction sites in Lethal Weapon 3 and other action crime movies. · "Because when you think about, I guess it's lethal weapon three."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ · 2:01:28 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Alien 3 ↔ Lethal Weapon 3 · industry · On Alien 3's opening weekend Lethal Weapon 3 held the number one spot. · "It's an action sequel holding on to the number one spot"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ · 2:01:52 · Griffin Newman (0.35)] Lethal Weapon 3 ↔ Lethal Weapon 2 · poster reuse · The Lethal Weapon 3 poster just runs back the Lethal Weapon 2 poster, with Pesci added. · "just run back the fucking lethal weapon 2 poster, but just Magic is back again."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Thor: The Dark World · 0:57:28 · David Sims (0.40)] Rene Russo ↔ Lethal Weapon 3 · career · Russo popped at an older age than expected; she was about 35 in Lethal Weapon 3. · "Like by the time she was in like Lethal Weapon 3, she was like 35."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ · 2:01:52 · Griffin Newman (0.35)] Lethal Weapon 3 · fun · The opening-weekend rival's poster is a recycled Lethal Weapon 2 poster with Pesci peeking in. · "just run back the fucking lethal weapon 2 poster, but just Magic is back again."
[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."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Internal Affairs’ · 1:29:57 · Van Lathan (0.30)] Internal Affairs ↔ Bad Influence · programming · Offered as the best double-feature choice because of this weird era of psychosexual movies. · "I had bad influence just because this weird era that we're in now with like weird psychosex movies."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Die Hard 2’ · 0:18:01 · Bill Simmons (0.75)] Die Hard 2 ↔ Lethal Weapon 2 · lineage · It arrived in the run-it-back era of sequels like Lethal Weapon 2. · "it is right during the era of everybody looking at each other and going, let's just run it back."
[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?"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Internal Affairs’ · 0:04:53 · Bill Simmons (0.40)] Internal Affairs ↔ Training Day · lineage · The dirty-cop pantheon: The Departed and Training Day have to be in there with Internal Affairs. · "I mean, departed in training day?"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Guardians of the Galaxy · 0:29:31 · unknown (0.30)] Lethal Weapon 2 ⇒ Bradley Cooper (the host's read) · craft · Rocket sounds like Pesci in Lethal Weapon 2. · "He's doing Joe Pesci in like lethal weapon too."
[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."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Internal Affairs’ · 0:04:59 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Internal Affairs ↔ Cop Land · lineage · A speaker puts Cop Land in the dirty-cop pantheon, mostly for Ray Liotta. · "For me, Coplands in there."
[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."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Internal Affairs’ · 0:05:14 · Chris Ryan (0.30)] Internal Affairs ↔ The French Connection · lineage · Dirty-cop movies trace back to the 70s classics, the French Connection and Serpico among them. · "Yeah, connection."
[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?"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Internal Affairs’ · 0:05:22 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Internal Affairs ↔ The Seven-Ups · lineage · The Roy Scheider movie that is French Connection adjacent is a favorite dirty-cop picture. · "The Roy Schider movie that's kind of like French connection adjacent has always been one of my favorites."
[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."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Internal Affairs’ · 0:05:36 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Internal Affairs ↔ Prince of the City · lineage · Prince of the City named as another great dirty-cop movie from the 70s run. · "Uh, Prince of the City is another great dirty cop movie."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 0:29:45 · unknown (0.30)] Alien: Covenant ↔ Alien 3 · lineage · Alien 3 had convicts. · "Alien 3 convicts."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Internal Affairs’ · 0:07:11 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Internal Affairs ↔ Live and Die in L.A. · lineage · Bill places Internal Affairs alongside Live and Die in L.A. as a cool pre-Heat L.A. conflict movie. · "it's up there with like live and die in LA of like a really cool preheat LA conflict."
[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."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Internal Affairs’ · 0:15:52 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Colors ↔ Internal Affairs · lineage · Colors is a renegade-cop movie, not a dirty-cop one, and has aged badly while Internal Affairs holds up. · "Well, I mean, they're, they're, in colors, they're more renegade cops than they are dirty cops because they still have some cop type ethos."
[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] Bill Simmons · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · Loves the Friday series as a communal, rental-era memory and tells childhood stories about the ads and theaters. Likes casting what-ifs and sports analogies for everything. Skeptical of horror at Christmas and of anything that wastes the premise. · stances: Friday the 13th is not the best entry but the origin story had to be told; Friday 2 is a leap over the original
[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'
[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] 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 Lethal Weapon 3 (1992); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Lethal Weapon 3 (1992) 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.