What the corpus says about Star Wars (A New Hope)

You are a clerk at Video Culture, a video store. A customer just finished Star Wars (A New Hope) 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 Star Wars (A New Hope) 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 · Return of the Podcast · 0:23:15 · unknown (0.00)] Star Wars (A New Hope) ↔ Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi · lineage · A New Hope has the Jabba scene as an example of modern CGI bullshit, but Jedi has more. · "A new Hope has the Java scene."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Return of the Podcast · 1:20:36 · unknown (0.00)] Star Wars (A New Hope) ↔ Harry Potter (series) · lineage · Luke's 'you're actually special' arc is the same hero-journey as Harry Potter and countless others. · "It's like the same thing that Harry Potter and a 1000000 other things do"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Return of the Podcast · 0:39:43 · unknown (0.00)] Star Wars (A New Hope) ⇒ Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi (the host's read) · craft · Leia pulls the Chewbacca-in-manacles disguise trick from A New Hope when infiltrating Jabba's palace. · "pulling the same trick that they pulled in New Hope, that like Chewbacca in Manacles trick."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Return of the Podcast · 1:21:13 · unknown (0.00)] Star Wars (A New Hope) ↔ The Phantom Menace · contrast · The originals were Lucas working out what he had to say; the prequels were people telling a genius he must keep being one. · "the original films are George Lucas going, I don't know."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Return of the Podcast · 0:54:10 · unknown (0.00)] Star Wars (A New Hope) ↔ Silent Running · what-if · If Lucas had tinkered with Silent Running no one would care because it's not the cornerstone of a popular franchise. · "if George Lukes had made silent running and tinkered with it."
[pairs] Star Wars (A New Hope) ↔ Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi · said 2 times in 1 episode
[The Big Picture · The Future of ‘Star Wars,’ Marvel, Pixar, and Disney’s Movie Monopoly. Plus: Our Summer Movie Awards and Paul Downs Colaizzo on ‘Brittany Runs a Marathon’ | The Big Picture · 0:03:20 · Amanda Dobbins (0.85)] Star Wars (A New Hope) · fun · Amanda was once asked to recite the plot of Star Wars and gave an intense analysis of the Luke and Leia sexual tension and the trash chute, yet never mentioned the Death Star. · "I gave the entire plot with like intense analysis of the sexual tension between Luke and Leia and then also Han Solo and the trash chute"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Return of the Jedi · 0:29:55 · unknown (0.30)] Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi ↔ The Mandalorian · programming · After The Mandalorian the speaker wants new characters, not known ones, as a model for future Star Wars. · "after Mandalorian, I'm like, don't give me characters we already know."
[Blank Check · Dune · 1:12:45 · unknown (0.40)] 2001: A Space Odyssey ⇒ Silent Running (the host's read) · lineage · 2001 spawned heady, serious, clean sci-fi like Silent Running. · "2001 leads to a spat of things like silent running, you know, these movies that are like very heady."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Return of the Podcast · 0:08:34 · unknown (0.00)] Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi ⇒ The Phantom Menace (the host's read) · lineage · Sees seeds planted in Jedi that bloom in the prequels. · "you see the things, the mechanations starting to come into place a little bit."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Return of the Jedi · 2:22:02 · unknown (0.30)] Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi ↔ Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens · programming · The next Patreon commentary is Force Awakens, ten days later. · "The next commentary episode is the Force Awakens."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Return of the Podcast · 0:15:43 · unknown (0.00)] Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi ↔ The Phantom Menace · lineage · Jedi's Death Star 2 and bureaucrat-nagging scene is Lucas griping, as the Trade Federation is him griping at his tax bill. · "the trade federation is him griping at his tax bill, right?"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Return of the Jedi · 0:04:31 · unknown (0.30)] Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi ↔ The Hangover Part II · lineage · Death Star 2 is framed as a sequel that repeats the first one, like a Hangover sequel. · "It's like hangover two."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Return of the Podcast · 0:58:53 · unknown (0.00)] Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi ⇒ The Phantom Menace (the host's read) · lineage · The Obi-Wan log scene starts the over-explanation that typifies the prequels. · "tiptoe towards the problems of the Phantom Madness trilogy, whereas, like, where it's all explained out loud."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Return of the Jedi · 0:04:32 · unknown (0.30)] Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope ⇒ Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi (the host's read) · lineage · A second, bigger Death Star is called a lateral remake of the first. · "We're kind of, it's like a lateral remake."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Return of the Podcast · 1:08:02 · unknown (0.00)] Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi ⇒ The Phantom Menace (the host's read) · lineage · Ewok guerrilla tactics echo the Gungan thing in Phantom Menace, though that one is far worse. · "And it just sort of reminds you of the Gungen thing, which is way worse, but is in the same, like, ballpark."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Return of the Jedi · 0:12:57 · unknown (0.30)] Sydney Greenstreet ⇒ Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi (the host's read) · lineage · Jabba is said to be visually based on Sydney Greenstreet. · "He's based on Sydney Green Street, right?"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Return of the Jedi · 0:13:00 · unknown (0.30)] Casablanca ⇒ Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi (the host's read) · lineage · Jabba's court is conceived as Sydney Greenstreet crossed with Casablanca. · "The concept is he's sort of like Sidney Green Street and then Casablanca, yeah."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Return of the Jedi · 0:20:11 · unknown (0.30)] Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi ↔ Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace · lineage · Lucas's goofy special-edition additions anticipate the broad humor of the prequels, such as Jar Jar. · "It's weird how many of the Lucas alterations are like really goofy broad humor."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Return of the Jedi · 0:29:00 · unknown (0.30)] Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi ↔ Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens · lineage · Luke's lost lightsaber (his father's) turns up again in The Force Awakens. · "Which then reappears, of course, in The Force Awakens."
[speaker] Amanda Dobbins · latest sketch, The Big Picture · ‘Mamma Mia!’ Meets ‘The Strangers'! It’s a Movie Swap! · Loves The Strangers' withholding craft and a good tense horror film without gore, but likes fun, communal movies like Mamma Mia. She dislikes supernatural or gory horror, which irritates her more than it scares her. She is a sucker for stars and for Googling a movie mid-recording. · stances: The Strangers is scary because of what it doesn't show or explain; Ending explanation weakens it; no answer would be better; Prefers 'withholding' filmmaking; Defends Mamma Mia as joyful and intentional
[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 Star Wars (A New Hope); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Star Wars (A New Hope) 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.