What the corpus says about Private Benjamin (1980)

You are a clerk at Video Culture, a video store. A customer just finished Private Benjamin (1980) 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 Private Benjamin (1980) 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 · Raging Bull · 2:06:48 · Griffin Newman or David Sims (0.40)] Private Benjamin ↔ Raging Bull · industry · Private Benjamin was number one while Raging Bull limped to number 10 in its opening release. · "Is it Private Benjamin?"
[The Big Picture · ‘The Killer’ Is Cold-Blooded Genius. And Something More · 0:31:51 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50)] The Killer ↔ Private Benjamin · pop-culture decay · The 70s sitcom aliases riff leads Sean to say nobody under 35 knows even Private Benjamin. · "We were talking about private Benjamin on the rewatchables the other day and I was like, they're not a single person under 35 knows what Private Benjamin is."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Big Chill’ · 0:16:55 · unknown (0.40)] Mary Kay Place ↔ Private Benjamin · career · Mary Kay Place's early 80s run includes Private Benjamin, Modern Problems and Terms of Endearment. · "I think she tears off like Private Benjamin, modern life, this in terms of endearment."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Rocky’ · 1:44:35 · Van Lathan (0.45)] Rocky ↔ Raging Bull · programming · Another double-feature choice, Raging Bull, picked by one host. · "I go Raging Bull."
[The Big Picture · ‘The Killer’ Is Cold-Blooded Genius. And Something More · 1:20:30 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60)] The Killer ↔ Fight Club · programming · Both are very funny first-person-narrated films about sociopaths who rationalize brutal violence as a personal mission. · "This movie would make a neat pairing with Fight Club. Two very funny films about sociopaths whose inner monologues rationalize brutal violence as expressions of a personal mission."
[Blank Check · Raging Bull · 1:55:42 · unknown host (0.30)] Raging Bull ⇒ The King of Comedy (the host's read) · lineage · King of Comedy is a part-2 of sorts about a delusional comedian, echoing LaMotta's stand-up, and is part of a De Niro trilogy with Taxi Driver. · "There's the king of comedy, the spiritual sequel to Raging Bull."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Killer · 0:16:54 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] The Killer ↔ Steven Soderbergh · programming · A friend of the podcast says it is Fincher and Soderbergh land: a stripped-down genre exercise. · "it's Fincher and Sodaberg land."
[Blank Check · Raging Bull · 1:58:33 · Griffin Newman or David Sims (0.40)] Italianamerican ⇒ Raging Bull (the host's read) · lineage · Scorsese's parents fighting in Italianamerican and American Boy taught him the rhythm replicated in Raging Bull's family fight scenes. · "And so much of his parents fighting in Italian American is the feeling of the family fight scenes in this movie."
[The Big Picture · ‘The Killer’ Is Cold-Blooded Genius. And Something More · 0:17:53 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60)] The Killer ↔ Gone Girl · lineage · It is the closest Fincher has come to a pure thriller since Gone Girl, maybe Dragon Tattoo. · "he hasn't made a movie quite like this, I guess, since Gone Girl, but even, I mean, you could maybe even going back further to Dragon Tattoo is maybe a little closer to this kind of a pure thriller."
[Blank Check · Raging Bull · 1:08:55 · Griffin Newman or David Sims (0.40)] Rocky ⇒ Raging Bull (the maker said so) · theme · Scorsese shot in black and white to differentiate from Rocky-era bright red-white-and-blue boxing movies, and producer Winkler produced both. · "Number one, I want to differentiate from the Rockies and all the other sort of boxing movies right now."
[The Big Picture · ‘The Killer’ Is Cold-Blooded Genius. And Something More · 0:20:19 · Sean Fennessey (0.70)] Rear Window ⇒ The Killer (the host's read) · lineage · The Paris hit sequence is a clear homage built on watching rooms across the street. · "it is a kind of rear window monkey. You know, it is like an attempt to recreate the across the street path, vision of what is happening in rooms in another building, and clear homage to that film."
[Blank Check · Raging Bull · 1:55:47 · unknown host (0.30)] Raging Bull ↔ Taxi Driver · theme · The speaker groups Taxi Driver, Raging Bull and King of Comedy as De Niro plumbing damaged psychologies. · "It's part of a trilogy with Taxi Driver."
[The Big Picture · ‘The Killer’ Is Cold-Blooded Genius. And Something More · 1:22:52 · Adam Nayman (0.70)] The Cable Guy ⇒ The Killer (the host's read) · lineage · The TV-character aliases gag was already a joke in The Cable Guy (50s characters there, 70s and 80s here). · "that was a joke of the cable guy just to give credit where it's to."
[Blank Check · Raging Bull · 0:59:47 · Griffin Newman or David Sims (0.40)] Raging Bull ↔ Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story · craft · Schrader's draft intercut a whole life like the later Dewey Cox style that many biopics now follow, before Raging Bull used bookends and one flashback. · "Dewey Cox style originally was more the structure of the movie."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Killer · 0:12:09 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] The Killer (graphic novel) ⇒ The Killer (the host's read) · lineage · The film takes almost everything from the first 200-odd pages of the comic; the series ran on to 2018. · "it feels like everything from the movie is basically taken from the 1st 200 some odd pages"
[Blank Check · Raging Bull · 1:33:33 · Griffin Newman or David Sims (0.40)] Raging Bull ↔ Midnight Cowboy · craft · Midnight Cowboy has an innocent at the center to balance Ratso; Raging Bull is the Rizzo movie with no such cushion. · "But this is the Razzo Rizzo movie, sort of, and again, another reason, they don't they can't make this today."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Killer · 0:17:31 · unknown (host) (0.30)] Panic Room ↔ The Killer · lineage · Panic Room was loaded with everything; The Killer strips a genre down. · "even when he's making something like panic room that's a bit of a genre riff"
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Killer · 0:27:27 · unknown (host) (0.30)] The Killer (graphic novel) ⇒ The Killer (the maker said so: interviews (Fincher 'gave some interviewers')) · lineage · Fincher told interviewers he was adapting a French graphic novel about an assassin that he had always liked. · "he gave some interviewers, like, we're working on this Chinatown thing, and then he was like, I'm also playing with adapting this French graphic novel about the assassin that I've always liked."
[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)
[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 Private Benjamin (1980); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Private Benjamin (1980) 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.