What the corpus says about Valkyrie (2008)

You are a clerk at Video Culture, a video store. A customer just finished Valkyrie (2008) 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 Valkyrie (2008) 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 · Paths of Glory · 0:58:39 · unknown (0.30)] Paths of Glory ↔ Valkyrie · contrast · Valkyrie mixes an American lead with British cast, which is the accent problem Paths of Glory sidesteps. · "it's the huge problem with Valkyrie."
[The Big Picture · The Tom Cruise Hall of Fame · 1:19:31 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] Valkyrie ↔ The Last Samurai · verdict · Both are dismissed as strange or slogging Cruise period pieces, Valkyrie red and Last Samurai a slog. · "Valkyrie is not yellow."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Curious Case of Benjamin Button · 2:15:06 · unknown (0.30)] Valkyrie ↔ The Curious Case of Benjamin Button · joke · Button also killed some Nazis, unlike Cruise's Valkyrie. · "Benjamin Button also killed some Nazis."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Curious Case of Benjamin Button · 2:15:13 · unknown (0.30)] Valkyrie ⇒ Christopher McQuarrie (the host's read) · career · Valkyrie set up Tom Cruise's redemption by teaming him with McQuarrie. · "Weirdly, the movie that then, like, sets up Tom Cruise's Redemption Arc by finally teaming him up with Macquarie"
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Curious Case of Benjamin Button · 2:16:30 · unknown (0.30)] Valkyrie · fun · Tom Cruise told the director not to cut back to Hitler so the audience stays in the tension of the plot seeming to succeed. · "And Cruz said, don't cut back to Hitler."
[The Big Picture · Objection! Top 10 Courtroom Dramas | The Big Picture · 1:32:52 · Sean Fennessey (0.70)] Paths of Glory ↔ Rashomon · programming · Bonus recommendations that are not strictly courtroom movies. · "Paths of Glory the other day, which I don't think is a great courtroom movie"
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Curious Case of Benjamin Button · 0:01:30 · unknown (0.30)] F. Scott Fitzgerald ⇒ The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (the host's read) · lineage · The film is adapted from Fitzgerald's short story, though the speakers say it shares little with it. · "It's quite, it's, it doesn't have too much in common with the film, right?"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory · 1:46:21 · David Sims (0.75)] Paths of Glory ↔ The Bridge on the River Kwai · programming · Box office game: Kwai, the 1957 Best Picture winner, was number one the week Paths of Glory went wide. · "number one at the box office, the week, the paths of glory goes wide, is the best picture winner of 1957"
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Curious Case of Benjamin Button · 0:42:01 · unknown (0.30)] F. Scott Fitzgerald ⇒ The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (the host's read) · lineage · By the time Roth finished, the film resembles the story in name only. · "By the time he's done with it, the movie has no resemblance to Benjamin Button apart from, it's called Benjamin Button."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory · 0:22:29 · David Sims (0.40)] Paths of Glory ↔ Dr. Strangelove · lineage · Strangelove is the nearest thing Kubrick made to Paths of Glory afterward, both being people talking through absurdity. · "the closest thing he's made to this since this is Strangelove, because Strangelove is also people talking through absurdity by and large"
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Curious Case of Benjamin Button · 0:43:40 · unknown (0.30)] Joan Didion → The Curious Case of Benjamin Button · lineage · A line in the film was something Roth's mother said in the hospital, tied by the speaker to Didion's Year of Magical Thinking. · "Joan Didian's book, the year of magical thinking."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory · 0:25:11 · unknown (0.30)] Paths of Glory ⇒ The Wire (the maker said so: David Simon cites it regularly) · lineage · David Simon reportedly cites Paths of Glory as the number one influence on The Wire: institutions chewing up the people on the ground. · "David Simon cites this regularly as the number one influence on the wire?"
[Blank Check — Patreon · David Fincher Music Videos · 1:59:12 · unknown (0.30)] Love Is Strong (Rolling Stones video) ⇒ The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (the host's read) · lineage · A host guesses the Stones' giant-scale effects helped Fincher on Benjamin Button. · "Well, and I bet this helped for Benjamin Button eventually."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory · 0:25:22 · unknown (0.30)] Paths of Glory ⇒ David Simon (the maker said so: David Simon cites it regularly) · lineage · The speaker calls Paths of Glory a Rosetta Stone for Simon's stories of institutions versus the people below. · "this is the sort of Rosetta Stone, if you will, for him."
[The Big Picture · ‘The Killer’ Is Cold-Blooded Genius. And Something More · 1:05:56 · Adam Nayman (0.90)] The Killer ↔ The Curious Case of Benjamin Button · theme · The lonely dinner with Tilda Swinton in a hollow restaurant echoes Benjamin Button's end-of-the-world connection scene, here without sentimental shtick. · "the stuff with Tilda Swinton is very interestingly evocative of Benjamin Button, like this lonely dinner in this big hollow restaurant that feels like it's at the end of the world"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory · 0:33:38 · David Sims (0.70)] Humphrey Cobb ⇒ Paths of Glory (the host's read) · lineage · Paths of Glory is based on Cobb's novel, which Kubrick read in high school and never forgot. · "Humphrey Cobb's novel pads of glory."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Curious Case of Benjamin Button · 0:26:08 · Richard Lawson (0.60)] Meet Joe Black ↔ The Curious Case of Benjamin Button · theme · Meet Joe Black is Brad Pitt's other epic about death; the speaker rewatched it right after Button. · "Brad Pitt's other somewhat misbegotten epic about death, meet Joe Black."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory · 1:45:25 · David Sims (0.50)] Paths of Glory ↔ Spartacus · lineage · Kubrick makes Spartacus next partly because Paths of Glory made him no money. · "Which is one reason he's going to Spartacus because he really needs to make some money."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Curious Case of Benjamin Button · 1:35:21 · unknown (0.30)] Being There ↔ The Curious Case of Benjamin Button · theme · The speaker likens people projecting wisdom onto Benjamin's silence to Chauncey Gardner. · "There's a bit of a Chauncey Gardner where they're like projecting onto his silence."
[Blank Check — Patreon · A Clockwork Orange · 0:47:20 · Alex Ross Perry (0.60)] Paths of Glory ↔ Full Metal Jacket · theme · The firing squad of Paths of Glory is set against the sniper of Full Metal Jacket as the gun advances. · "Well, what's the difference between the firing squat, the end of paths of glory and the sniper at the end of Full Metal Jacket?"
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Curious Case of Benjamin Button · 1:44:06 · unknown (0.30)] Magnolia ↔ The Curious Case of Benjamin Button · theme · The car-accident sequence feels a little like Magnolia, but the film is the anti-Magnolia on connectedness. · "This is sort of the anti-magnolia, which is like Ricky J is saying, like, surely these things mean something."
[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
[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)

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 Valkyrie (2008); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Valkyrie (2008) 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.