What the corpus says about Birds of Prey (2020)

You are a clerk at Video Culture, a video store. A customer just finished Birds of Prey (2020) 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 Birds of Prey (2020) 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 · Hanging Up · 0:27:31 · Griffin Newman (0.60)] Hanging Up ↔ Birds of Prey · theme · Both make you wish the final act, where the characters finally share scenes, had been the whole movie. · "you go, I wish this had been the entire movie."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Lego Batman Movie · 1:19:14 · David Sims (0.50)] The Lego Batman Movie ↔ Birds of Prey · craft · The Joker's funhouse set, color palette, bright lights and self-aware humor recall Birds of Prey. · "I even think, like, the color palette and the use of, like, bright lights and shit."
[The Big Picture · 'Shazam!’ and the Future of the DCEU · 0:08:25 · Sean Fennessey (0.90)] Birds of Prey ↔ Joker · contrast · Fennessey says Birds of Prey looks tonally and visually unlike Shazam! and Joker. · "that tonally and visually looks completely different from those other 2 movies"
[Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail · 1:25:17 · David Sims (0.60)] Meg Ryan ↔ Hanging Up · programming · The Meg Ryan film Hanging Up will get a Patreon bonus episode. · "hanging up, which, Griffin, we're going to discuss on Patreon."
[Blank Check · As Good as It Gets · 1:03:44 · unknown (0.30)] Joker ↔ Batman · lineage · A new Joker ties right into Nicholson's Joker. · "Wow, topical ties right into the jack."
[Blank Check — Patreon · 2022 MARCH MADNESS UPDATE 2 PRESENTED BY THE CHIP REPORT · 0:47:01 · unknown (0.30)] Batman Forever ↔ The Lego Batman Movie · programming · The Patreon order runs Batman Forever, Batman & Robin, then BvS Ultimate Edition, Lego Batman, The Batman. · "It's Batman forever. Batman and Robin, the Lego Batman movie."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up · 1:19:54 · David Sims (0.40)] Hanging Up ↔ The Whole Nine Yards · programming · The Whole Nine Yards was the comedy for the boys; Hanging Up opened with the same money as the female-led comedy. · "That's like the comedy for the boys and hanging up, which is opening with the exact same amount of money, is more of a female lead comedy."
[The Big Picture · 'Shazam!’ and the Future of the DCEU · 0:10:08 · Miles Surrey (0.85)] Martin Scorsese ⇒ Joker (the host's read) · lineage · Miles imagines Joker as a Scorsese pastiche that may not work. · "it's like a Scorsese Pestiche that just kind of doesn't work"
[Blank Check — Patreon · 2022 MARCH MADNESS UPDATE 2 PRESENTED BY THE CHIP REPORT · 0:47:09 · unknown (0.30)] Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (Ultimate Edition) ↔ The Lego Batman Movie · programming · They will do the Ultimate Edition of BvS before Lego Batman. · "I think we're doing the ultimate edition."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up · 1:27:08 · David Sims (0.50)] Hanging Up ↔ Pitch Black · programming · Pitch Black opened fourth the same weekend as Hanging Up and has aged far better. · "It's just wild to think that that came out the same weekend as hanging up."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Lego Batman Movie · 0:01:43 · Griffin Newman (0.70)] Grant Morrison ⇒ The Lego Batman Movie (the host's read) · lineage · The film's premise is Morrison's idea that every Batman era is canon, so the goofy and the grim must coexist. · "which is he did his run where he was like, every single thing that Batman's ever done is canon."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up · 0:14:03 · David Sims (0.40)] Hanging Up ↔ You've Got Mail · lineage · Hanging Up is the phone/cell-phone sibling of the Ephron sisters' earlier email movie. · "isn't it funny that there's a Nora Efron project to, like, in the infancy of email that's like an email movie?"
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Lego Batman Movie · 0:03:41 · David Sims (0.50)] The Lego Movie ⇒ The Lego Batman Movie (the host's read) · lineage · The Lego Movie is where the earnest-Batman bit started, and the hosts doubted it could sustain a whole movie. · "It's the thing that the Lego movie lashes onto, but you felt unsustainable for a whole movie."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up · 0:07:45 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Hanging Up ↔ Mixed Nuts · theme · Like a movie a guest watched alone as a child, Hanging Up is a household movie in the speaker's sibling relationship. · "movies that are like, this is a household movie."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Lego Batman Movie · 0:12:49 · Griffin Newman (0.60)] Batman (1966 Adam West film) ⇒ The Lego Batman Movie (the host's read) · lineage · The Joker's all-villains-together plan is the Adam West movie's plan. · "it's essentially like the, the, uh, Adam West Batman movie plan, where it's like, I know to finally defeat Batman, call in everybody."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up · 0:36:11 · Griffin Newman (0.55)] Hanging Up ↔ Unstrung Heroes · theme · Keaton's earlier film about a boy and his difficult family sounds similar to Hanging Up. · "There are changes, it gets closer to his uncles, sounds similar to hanging up."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Lego Batman Movie · 0:15:06 · Griffin Newman (0.60)] The Dark Knight ⇒ The Lego Batman Movie (the host's read) · lineage · The Joker's need for Batman to see him as an enemy is read against the post-Dark Knight Joker. · "It's this thing of like, right, especially post Dark Knight, right?"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up · 1:10:13 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Hanging Up ↔ One Fine Day · theme · Both are dated early cell-phone Hollywood films whose phone problems no longer exist. · "It's the same thing about one fine day, another classic of early cell phone Hollywood filmmaking"
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Lego Batman Movie · 0:25:43 · David Sims (0.40)] Superman (Christopher Reeve films) ⇒ The Lego Batman Movie (the host's read) · lineage · The Phantom Zone comes from the Christopher Reeve Superman movies, though it is in the comics too. · "Just from the Chris Reeves Superman movies."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up · 1:35:05 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Hanging Up ↔ American Beauty · theme · Early 2000 cinema, Hanging Up included, reflected pre-9/11 confidence that would not last. · "And like, you're not going to make a movie like this a few years later."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Lego Batman Movie · 0:44:07 · Griffin Newman (0.60)] Batman (1966 Adam West film) ⇒ The Lego Batman Movie (the host's read) · lineage · Robin's costume transition and the Kick Butler nameplate are Adam West-style text and costume jokes. · "It's essentially like a doing the Adam West transition."
[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] 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] Sean Fennessey · latest sketch, The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · Loves gory, funny, fast genre movies with craft and confidence, especially 87-minute films that never overstay. Can't stand ponderous elevated horror that fills out its runtime with introspection and sad family history. A sucker for the Carpenter-era lineage, Die Hard homages, and directors who break studio dogma. · stances: Resident Evil is one of the best films of the year; Horror movies have become a drag; fun genre experiences are needed; Short running times are a virtue; Video-game films work best when great filmmakers get creative license
[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] Blank Check: The box office game (Guessing the film's opening weekend and what it was up against); The sung theme ("Blank Check with Griffin and David", sung; the transcriber garbles it)

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 Birds of Prey (2020); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Birds of Prey (2020) 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.