What the corpus says about Sneakers (1992)

You are a clerk at Video Culture, a video store. A customer just finished Sneakers (1992) 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 Sneakers (1992) 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 Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ · 0:12:19 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Weird Science ↔ Sneakers · programming · The last pod Bill and Kyle did was Sneakers, also a computers-in-the-dark-ages movie. · "this isn't interesting because the last pod you and I did, we did sneakers, which is in the 90s, and we still didn't know what computers could do."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ · 1:40:14 · Kyle Brandt (0.55)] Weird Science ↔ Mannequin · programming · Kyle's double feature pick is Mannequin, another magical-woman 80s movie. · "I'm doing Andrew McCarthy and Kim Cattrell, nothing's going to stop us now."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ · 1:40:35 · Bill Simmons (0.55)] Weird Science ↔ The Breakfast Club · programming · Bill's double feature is The Breakfast Club, making it an Anthony Michael Hall night. · "My double feature is Breakfast Club for the same reason"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ · 0:07:45 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Superbad ⇒ Weird Science (the host's read) · lineage · Weird Science may be the biggest influence on Superbad. · "Like, I feel like, I don't know which was the biggest influence on Superbad."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ · 0:11:14 · Kyle Brandt (0.60)] Weird Science ↔ WarGames · lineage · Both movies are about teenage computer hackers, and both end up with a nuclear missile; Weird Science's kids are more premeditated. · "I think they're a little bit more premeditated than in war games, but they, ironically, they both end up with a nuclear missile."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ · 0:14:39 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Weird Science ↔ Her · lineage · Weird Science did years earlier what Her does: making a fake hot woman because you cannot meet a real one. · "Like, that was the movie 15 years or so later, whatever that was that weird science was doing."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ · 0:17:25 · Kyle Brandt (0.55)] The Breakfast Club ⇒ Weird Science (the host's read) · lineage · Gary's girlfriend in Canada is a gag taken from Breakfast Club. · "Like, that's the thing directly from Breakfast Club."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ · 0:17:31 · Kyle Brandt (0.55)] Weird Science ↔ Planes, Trains and Automobiles · lineage · The Hughes-verse crosses over; the insurance seminar joke is also in Planes, Trains and Automobiles. · "Neil Page talks about insurance seminars and plane strains and automobiles."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ · 0:30:25 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] Al Feldstein ⇒ Weird Science (the host's read) · lineage · The movie is based on a 1951 pre-Code comic by Al Feldstein. · "this was based on the 1951 pre-comics code comic made of the future by Al Feldstein."
[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
[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 Sneakers (1992); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Sneakers (1992) 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.