What the corpus says about Erin Brockovich (2000)

You are a clerk at Video Culture, a video store. A customer just finished Erin Brockovich (2000) 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 Erin Brockovich (2000) 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 · 1. ‘Bring It On’ and ‘Donnie Darko’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:02:59 · Brian Raftery (0.90)] Bring It On ↔ Erin Brockovich · theme · Both fit 2000's optimistic can-do spirit; Brockovich is called the most 2000 movie. · "which is probably the most 2000 movie to actually come out in the year 2000."
[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?"
[The Big Picture · 1. ‘Bring It On’ and ‘Donnie Darko’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:03:45 · Brian Raftery (0.95)] Erin Brockovich ↔ Nutty Professor II: The Klumps · industry · Brockovich out-grossed Nutty Professor 2, showing what heroes Americans wanted. · "I mean, Aaron Brockovich made more money than Nutty Professor 2, the clumps."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Insider’ · 1:02:57 · Bill Simmons (0.30)] The Insider ↔ Erin Brockovich · what-if · Titles like A Civil Action and Erin Brockovich are cited in the title-brainstorm. · "Civil action is called."
[The Big Picture · 1. ‘Bring It On’ and ‘Donnie Darko’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:22:48 · Brian Raftery (0.95)] Bring It On ↔ American Pie · lineage · It followed American Pie, 10 Things I Hate About You and She's All That. · "It arrived not long after hits like American Pie, 10 Things I Hate About You, and She's All That."
[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."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Insider’ · 0:21:08 · Chris Ryan (0.45)] All the President's Men ⇒ The Insider (the host's read) · lineage · The Insider is hoped to capture the same wave of reaction that All the President's Men did. · "they're hoping to capture that same kind of that wave that people have when they saw all the president's men."
[The Big Picture · 1. ‘Bring It On’ and ‘Donnie Darko’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:07:47 · Brian Raftery (0.95)] Donnie Darko ↔ Bring It On · theme · Both feature suburban teen leads but take opposite views of American adolescence. · "Like bring it on, its main characters are suburban teens."
[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."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Insider’ · 0:39:53 · Bill Simmons (0.30)] Robert Redford ↔ The Insider · lineage · The golf-range scene where the hero realizes he is followed is likened to a Redford footstep scene. · "That's the Redford, it's so good."
[The Big Picture · 1. ‘Bring It On’ and ‘Donnie Darko’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:11:31 · Brian Raftery (0.85)] Bring It On ↔ The Breakfast Club · theme · Hughes-era teen movies, like Bring It On, carry grown-up ideas about class, capitalism and sexism. · "it's that they've all got some pretty grown up ideas on their mind."
[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."
[The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:56:00 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] The Insider ↔ Sydney Pollack · lineage · The Insider is described as a Sydney Pollack movie with more tension, angst and masculinity. · "this is a Sydney Pollock movie."
[The Big Picture · 1. ‘Bring It On’ and ‘Donnie Darko’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:12:37 · Brian Raftery (0.90)] Jessica Bendinger ⇒ Bring It On (the maker said so: her own interview, quoted on the show) · theme · Her hip hop journalism at Spin shaped the film's theme of white kids imitating black artists. · "Years later, when she got into the world of cheerleading, she saw that pattern repeating itself."
[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."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Insider’ · 0:22:48 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] The Insider ↔ JFK · theme · JFK became the assassination movie though half of it is false, whereas The Insider really captures its specific moment with the cigarette industry. · "This movie really does capture this specific moment with the cigarette industry that played out with the lawsuits and everything."
[The Big Picture · 1. ‘Bring It On’ and ‘Donnie Darko’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:22:54 · Brian Raftery (0.95)] Bring It On ↔ She's All That · theme · Like those films it had teen angst but stayed hopeful about life. · "Movies that had plenty of teen angst, but that were ultimately pretty hopeful about life in general."
[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?"
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Insider’ · 0:26:41 · Bill Simmons (0.45)] The Insider ↔ The Blair Witch Project · theme · Both are 1999 movies that could not happen a few years later because the internet changed things. · "I think that's a similar thing that just 4 years later, that movie doesn't happen."
[The Big Picture · 1. ‘Bring It On’ and ‘Donnie Darko’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:43:25 · Brian Raftery (0.95)] Bring It On ↔ Donnie Darko · theme · Both work as time machines to specific moments: carefree Y2K-to-9/11, and fall 2001 fear. · "Bring it on, documents that carefree blip between Y2K and 911."
[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."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Insider’ · 1:12:51 · Chris Ryan (0.30)] The Insider ↔ Pump Up the Volume · theme · Smoking riffs: Christian Slater as a good screen smoker in Heathers and Pump Up the Volume. · "Christian Slater, really good smoker."
[The Big Picture · 1. ‘Bring It On’ and ‘Donnie Darko’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:19:46 · Brian Raftery (0.90)] Aqua ↔ Bring It On · craft · The studio's marketing team set the Bring It On trailer to the Aqua song 'Happy Boys and Girls'. · "the studio made a lively, colorful trailer, set to the Aqua song Happy Boys and Girls."
[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."
[The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:55:48 · Chris Ryan (0.30)] The Insider ↔ The Pelican Brief · theme · Joking pair of journalism movies that brought down administrations or cigarettes. · "Pelican Breeds good point."
[Blank Check — Patreon · OLD DOGS - Blank Check LIVE! at the Bell House · 0:43:25 · unknown (0.30)] Old Dogs ↔ Casino · theme · Joke about the kids never having seen Casino, which a speaker calls the most grown-up movie. · "Casino is kind of the most grown up movie."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Insider’ · 0:08:27 · Chris Ryan (0.60)] The Insider ↔ The Last of the Mohicans · craft · The Insider is where Mann starts making wild formal decisions, after the romantic landscape painting of Mohicans and the urban Heat. · "And then Insider marks where man starts making all these really wild formal decisions."
[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
[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 Erin Brockovich (2000); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Erin Brockovich (2000) 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.