What the corpus says about Vice (2018)

You are a clerk at Video Culture, a video store. A customer just finished Vice (2018) 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 Vice (2018) 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 Big Picture · The Oscars Schedule Changes, and Andrew Garfield On ‘Under the Silver Lake’ | Interview · 0:23:01 · Sean Fennessey (0.75)] Fair and Balanced ↔ Vice · programming · Sean says the Fox News movie feels like Vice of 2019, and it is also slated for late December. · "it feels a little bit like the vice of 2019."
[The Big Picture · Oscars 2019: Instant Reactions to ‘Green Book’ and the Two Warring Academies | The Oscars Show · 1:10:47 · Amanda Dobbins (0.40)] Vice ↔ Nixon · contrast · Vice might be forgotten like Oliver Stone's twin portraits Nixon and W. · "I don't think anybody really talks about Oliver Stone's kind of twin portraits."
[The Big Picture · Oscars 2019: Instant Reactions to ‘Green Book’ and the Two Warring Academies | The Oscars Show · 1:11:14 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] Vice ↔ Dave · what-if · Wonders whether Vice will be rediscovered, like Dave, and become more beloved over time. · "So I'll be curious if it goes in that way or if it goes, you know, maybe more like Dave."
[The Rewatchables · 'Talladega Nights' · 0:50:39 · Danny Heifetz (0.40)] Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby ↔ Vice · later work · The Halliburton reference foreshadows McKay making Vice a decade later. · "And then he went and made vice."
[The Big Picture · Objection! Top 10 Courtroom Dramas | The Big Picture · 1:18:47 · Sean Fennessey (0.70)] Hank Corwin ↔ Vice · career · Corwin helped Adam McKay on Vice. · "he helped Adam McKay at advice"
[The Big Picture · The Oscars Schedule Changes, and Andrew Garfield On ‘Under the Silver Lake’ | Interview · 0:23:38 · Amanda Dobbins (0.55)] Vice ↔ Adam McKay · people · Vice stars previous Oscar winners and is directed by the guy who made The Big Short. · "directed by the guy who made the big short."
[The Big Picture · Oscars 2019: Instant Reactions to ‘Green Book’ and the Two Warring Academies | The Oscars Show · 0:52:13 · Sean Fennessey (0.45)] Vice ↔ Hank Corwin · people · Speaker picked editor Hank Corwin and likes his work with Adam McKay. · "I like what Hank Corwin does in his movies and I like what he and Adam McCay have done together"
[The Big Picture · Instant Reactions to a Truly Ludicrous Golden Globes | The Oscars Show · 0:39:20 · Amanda Dobbins (0.45)] Vice ↔ Christian Bale · verdict · Vice went one for six, and the performance is the one thing everyone likes. · "Out of 6 nominations, I believe, the most of any film tonight."
[The Big Picture · Instant Reactions to a Truly Ludicrous Golden Globes | The Oscars Show · 0:39:41 · Amanda Dobbins (0.45)] Vice ↔ Amy Adams · what-if · If Bale and Adams had won, Vice would have gained renewed momentum. · "if Amy Adams and Christian Bale won, that it would kind of, again, have some renewed momentum"
[The Big Picture · Oscars 2019: Instant Reactions to ‘Green Book’ and the Two Warring Academies | The Oscars Show · 1:11:26 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] Vice · fun · Speaker invoked the unitary executive in podcasts because a scene in Vice lodged in their head. · "I've invoked the unitary executive in various convert, like, podcasts that we've done a couple times"
[The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:48:07 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50)] Local Hero ↔ Dave · programming · They propose a Dave and Local Hero double feature for the apocalypse. · "So when the apocalypse comes, we can do a Dave and local hero double feature."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Ice Storm’ · 0:13:48 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] The Ice Storm ↔ Nixon · lineage · Simmons says the nostalgia turned to re-examination in the mid-90s, citing Oliver Stone's Nixon. · "So mid 90s, it starts to be like, hmm."
[The Rewatchables · 'Talladega Nights' · 2:02:13 · Danny Kelly (0.50)] Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby ↔ Blades of Glory · programming · Pairing Will Ferrell sports comedies. · "No, I want Will Ferrell playing sports."
[The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:38:49 · Amanda Dobbins (0.55)] Dave ↔ Dave · theme · Dave is a feel-good pick about one good guy bringing out good in everyone. · "One guy being good can make a difference and can bring the good in everybody else"
[The Rewatchables · 'Talladega Nights' · 2:02:21 · Craig Horlbeck (0.40)] Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby ↔ Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy · programming · Alternate double feature pick: Anchorman and Talladega. · "I think I would rather watch Anchorman and Talladega nights, though, together."
[The Rewatchables · 'Talladega Nights' · 2:02:33 · Danny Heifetz (0.30)] Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby ↔ Days of Thunder · programming · Another double feature option: pair with Days of Thunder. · "Or just watch Days of Thunder."
[The Rewatchables · 'Talladega Nights' · 1:06:57 · Danny Kelly (0.50)] Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby ↔ Road House · lineage · Danny's craziest quote award nominee is from Road House. · "I used to fuck guys like you in prison."
[The Rewatchables · 'Talladega Nights' · 1:31:25 · Craig Horlbeck (0.50)] Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby ↔ The Godfather · theme · Reese Bobby is like Vito Corleone, a godfather figure who is in little of the movie but too important for the Dion Waiters award. · "it's like in the Godfather, you know, Vito Corleone is not in the movie that much, but he can't be Dion Waiters."
[The Rewatchables · 'Talladega Nights' · 1:50:19 · Danny Heifetz (0.40)] Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby ↔ Seinfeld · theme · Talladega is named like Titleist in the Seinfeld golf-ball episode, a funny name rather than a meaningful one. · "it's kind of like the joke in Seinfeld, where they make the, it has to be titleist for Kramer hitting the golf ball."
[The Rewatchables · 'Talladega Nights' · 1:22:10 · Danny Kelly (0.40)] Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby ↔ Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope · craft · Miniatures in Star Wars and 2001 look better than computer spaceships in Avengers. · "I think that the spaceship in the beginning of Star Wars and in Space Odyssey looks better now than the spaceship at the beginning of like Avengers."
[speaker] Sean Fennessey · latest sketch, The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · Loves gory, funny, fast genre movies with craft and confidence, especially 87-minute films that never overstay. Can't stand ponderous elevated horror that fills out its runtime with introspection and sad family history. A sucker for the Carpenter-era lineage, Die Hard homages, and directors who break studio dogma. · stances: Resident Evil is one of the best films of the year; Horror movies have become a drag; fun genre experiences are needed; Short running times are a virtue; Video-game films work best when great filmmakers get creative license
[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
[speaker] Danny Heifetz · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · 'Talladega Nights' · Calls Talladega his favorite Will Ferrell movie and the comedy of his childhood. Loves quotable movies and Will Ferrell as the last comedy movie star, reveres Reese Bobby and the bar scene. Can't stand how the genre has faded. · stances: Talladega is the funniest sports movie ever made and holds up better than Anchorman; Will Ferrell is the most influential comedy figure of the 21st century; Tim Robinson memes are the new quote culture
[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] 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 Vice (2018); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Vice (2018) 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.