What the corpus says about The Phantom Menace (1999)

You are a clerk at Video Culture, a video store. A customer just finished The Phantom Menace (1999) 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 Phantom Menace (1999) 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 · 0:08:34 · 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 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 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 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 Podcast · 0:34:27 · unknown (0.00)] Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi ↔ The Phantom Menace · contrast · Jabba is an ugly race guy in Phantom Menace and soft on Han in A New Hope, so he should have debuted only in Jedi. · "I think he probably should not be in the movies other than this movie."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Return of the Podcast · 0:37:10 · unknown (0.00)] Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi ↔ The Phantom Menace · contrast · Original films don't explain world-building; the prequels explain everything out loud. · "And what I like about these movies, as opposed to how the prequels work, is that the original trilogy, episode one, two, and three, I like that these films, like just don't explain shit."
[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."
[pairs] The Phantom Menace ↔ Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi · said 6 times in 1 episode
[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 — 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 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 · 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 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 · 0:39:43 · 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 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 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."

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 Phantom Menace (1999); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend The Phantom Menace (1999) 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.