What the corpus says about The Green Berets (1968)

You are a clerk at Video Culture, a video store. A customer just finished The Green Berets (1968) 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 The Green Berets (1968) 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 · 8. I Love America | Do We Get to Win This Time? · 0:03:44 · Brian Raftery (0.90)] The Green Berets ↔ Born on the Fourth of July · contrast · Kovic found the Green Berets false about a war he had fought in, the opposite of what Born would later show. · "But the Green Berets was about a war Kovic had actually fought in, and he wasn't buying it."
[The Big Picture · 8. I Love America | Do We Get to Win This Time? · 0:57:23 · Brian Raftery (0.90)] Dead Presidents ↔ The Green Berets · contrast · Dead Presidents was as far from The Green Berets as a movie could get, closing the boom. · "Stylistically and culturally, dead presidents was about as far from the Green Berets as a movie could get"
[The Big Picture · 8. I Love America | Do We Get to Win This Time? · 1:05:32 · Brian Raftery (0.90)] Born on the Fourth of July ↔ Heaven & Earth · theme · Raftery closes: personal stories in Born, Heaven & Earth and Running on Empty change how you see the war. · "It's impossible to watch born on the 4th of July without feeling, not just for Ron Kovic"
[The Big Picture · 8. I Love America | Do We Get to Win This Time? · 0:48:28 · Brian Raftery (0.90)] Bloods (book) ⇒ Dead Presidents (the host's read) · lineage · Dead Presidents was inspired by Wallace Terry's oral history of Black Vietnam veterans. · "It was inspired by a book called Bloods, an oral history of the Vietnam War by Black Veterans."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory · 0:52:22 · Griffin Newman (0.45)] Paths of Glory ↔ Born on the Fourth of July · theme · The appeal that sells young men on war is the first 20 minutes of Born on the 4th of July, before reality. · "the initial appeal of it, you know, the like 1st 20 minutes of born on the 4th of July"
[The Big Picture · 8. I Love America | Do We Get to Win This Time? · 0:50:43 · Lorenz Tate (0.80)] Full Metal Jacket ⇒ Dead Presidents (the maker said so: Lorenz Tate recalling the Hughes brothers' videotapes) · lineage · Allen Hughes made a VHS of Vietnam scenes; Tate was assigned Full Metal Jacket, Apocalypse Now, Platoon. · "So I watched Full Metal Jacket."
[The Big Picture · 8. I Love America | Do We Get to Win This Time? · 0:46:36 · Brian Raftery (0.90)] Born on the Fourth of July ⇒ Lieutenant Dan (Forrest Gump) (the host's read) · craft · Dan's angry wheelchair stretch evokes Kovic. · "Behavior that no doubt reminded many of COVID and born in the 4th of July."
[The Big Picture · 8. I Love America | Do We Get to Win This Time? · 0:51:07 · Brian Raftery (0.90)] Blaxploitation films ⇒ Dead Presidents (the host's read) · lineage · It also drew on Blaxploitation films and gangster sagas, scored with 70s soul. · "But so were Black'sploitation films and gangster sagas."
[The Big Picture · 8. I Love America | Do We Get to Win This Time? · 0:50:27 · Brian Raftery (0.90)] Apocalypse Now ⇒ Dead Presidents (the host's read) · craft · The Hughes brothers kept an Apocalypse Now poster; the film borrows its helicopter shots. · "The directors were big time movie obsessives, who kept an apocalypse now poster on the wall of their Hollywood studio."
[The Big Picture · 8. I Love America | Do We Get to Win This Time? · 0:50:57 · Brian Raftery (0.90)] The Deer Hunter ⇒ Dead Presidents (the host's read) · craft · The film carries the Deer Hunter's post-war isolation, Platoon's combat, Apocalypse Now's helicopters. · "The post-war isolation of the Deer Hunter, the bloody combat, a platoon, even the majestic helicopter shots from Apocalypse Now."
[The Big Picture · 8. I Love America | Do We Get to Win This Time? · 0:57:16 · Brian Raftery (0.90)] Dead Presidents ↔ 90s cinema · craft · The Hughes brothers ran the older Vietnam films through a hyperviolent, referential 90s lens. · "they were jamming those older movies through the hyperviolent, ultra referential lens of 90s cinema."
[speaker] Brian Raftery · latest sketch, The Big Picture · 5. ‘No Country for Old Men’ and ‘W.’ | Mission Accomplished · Loves slow-burn tension and scenes built on dialogue, naming the Ellis kitchen scene the best of the 2000s. Is drawn to films that capture their national moment. Has little patience for the word classic, and dry humor about presidents and haircuts. · stances: No Country for Old Men is about inevitability and powerlessness; Its 2007 release resonated with Bush-era anxiety; W. was undone by timing, not quality; Stone's late-2000s movies are best read through the decade's politics
[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 The Green Berets (1968); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend The Green Berets (1968) 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.