What the corpus says about The Twilight Saga: New Moon (2009)

You are a clerk at Video Culture, a video store. A customer just finished The Twilight Saga: New Moon (2009) 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 Twilight Saga: New Moon (2009) 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 · 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."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Eclipse · 2:02:26 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] The Twilight Saga: Eclipse ↔ The Twilight Saga: New Moon · craft · Eclipse was shot by Javier Aguirresarobe, who also shot New Moon, and the speakers find Eclipse similar-looking to New Moon, only more lush and autumnal. · "Uh, Javier, Agriaska Robe. I, you know, I, I, who shot New Moon."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Eclipse · 0:43:36 · unknown (0.30)] The Twilight Saga: Eclipse ↔ The Twilight Saga: New Moon · contrast · Eclipse is seen as the more action-packed, better-reviewed entry vs. New Moon's lack of propulsion; Rotten Tomatoes 48 vs 28. · "New moon got 28."
[pairs] The Twilight Saga: New Moon ↔ The Twilight Saga: Eclipse · said 2 times in 1 episode
[Blank Check — Patreon · Eclipse · 0:08:12 · unknown (0.40)] David Slade ↔ The Twilight Saga: Eclipse · programming · Summit hired a horror stylist hoping to make the franchise scary and win teenage boys. · "I think they went like, oh, here's a guy who does like highly stylized, sophisticated horror shit."
[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."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Eclipse · 1:17:57 · unknown (0.40)] The Twilight Saga: Eclipse ↔ The Hunger Games · programming · Twilight's casting grew from B-list to Oscar nominees by the third film, like Hunger Games gaining Hoffman and Julianne Moore. · "And it's kind of the same thing with hunger games."
[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."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Eclipse · 2:10:08 · Ben Hosley (0.50)] The Twilight Saga: Eclipse ↔ Toy Story 3 · programming · Eclipse opened the same weekend as Toy Story 3, Last Airbender and Grown Ups (box office game). · "It's Toy Story 3, and it's the weekend."
[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."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Eclipse · 2:21:20 · unknown (0.40)] The Twilight Saga: Eclipse ↔ The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn · programming · The final film is promised to take a huge liberty with the book and be entertaining, and the second to last has Michael Sheen camp. · "at least, I remember the next one having some Michael Sheen in it."
[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?"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Eclipse · 0:06:32 · unknown (0.40)] The Twilight Saga: Eclipse ↔ Imitation of Life · lineage · A guest on the prior episode (Chris, who worked on the franchise) was told the series plays like a Sirkian melodrama; his mother was nominated for Imitation of Life. · "it's like a Circian melodrama"
[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."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Eclipse · 0:17:30 · unknown (0.40)] The Twilight Saga: Eclipse ↔ Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones · lineage · The meadow-and-flowers romance scene reads as Attack of the Clones vibes; the ending returns to the same field. · "Whereas this is Attack of the Clones vibes."
[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?"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Eclipse · 0:35:05 · unknown (0.40)] The Twilight Saga: Eclipse ↔ Sonic the Hedgehog · theme · Speedster problem via Rebecca Drysdale: a character faster than everyone has no shared continuum with others; the Sonic movie solved it with a road trip. · "Sonic is inherently kind of a tough character to build dramatic narrative around because his whole thing is he goes faster than everyone else."
[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."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Eclipse · 0:46:58 · unknown (0.30)] The Twilight Saga: Eclipse ↔ True Blood · theme · Twilight's newborn-vampire subplot prompts a comparison to True Blood, where turning someone makes you responsible for them. · "I'm thinking about true blood again."
[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."
[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

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 Twilight Saga: New Moon (2009); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend The Twilight Saga: New Moon (2009) 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.