What the corpus says about Beetlejuice (1988)

You are a clerk at Video Culture, a video store. A customer just finished Beetlejuice (1988) 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 Beetlejuice (1988) 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 · Planet of the Apes · 0:02:31 · unknown (0.50)] Planet of the Apes ↔ Beetlejuice · theme · The ape dinner-party scene is the one moment that feels like Burton, like Beetlejuice with apes. · "the scene with all the apes sitting around the dinner table, which is like the Beetlejuice scene with apes."
[Blank Check · Wendell & Wild · 1:16:53 · David Sims (0.50)] Wendell and Wild ↔ Beetlejuice · craft · Wendell and Wild are Beetlejuice-like in that the story is really about the human teen (Lydia/Kat) and they are the colorful characters. · "They're Beetlejuicy in the movie in that it's like, well, it's really about Lydia."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Eclipse · 1:48:38 · unknown (0.40)] The Twilight Saga: Eclipse ↔ Beetlejuice · craft · The mountain-top set looks like a hobby-town model, like the tabletop in Beetlejuice. · "it looks like the, the, the tabletop and Beetlejuice."
[Blank Check · Wendell & Wild · 1:22:16 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Wendell and Wild ↔ Beetlejuice · contrast · Unlike Beetlejuice, who is purely malevolent, Wendell and Wild are babes in the wood whose ulterior motive is an amusement park. · "Unlike Beetlejuice who like operates from a place of like pure malevolence, right?"
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Nightmare Before Christmas · 0:30:02 · David Sims (0.40)] Michael McDowell ↔ Beetlejuice · people · McDowell was first brought in to adapt, being the writer of Beetlejuice. · "Burton 1st brings in Michael McDowell, who wrote Beetlejuice."
[pairs] Beetlejuice ↔ Wendell and Wild · said 2 times in 1 episode
[Blank Check · Wendell & Wild · 0:53:45 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Jordan Peele ⇒ Wendell and Wild (the maker said so: Selick's account of seeing Key and Peele) · lineage · Selick saw Key and Peele on Comedy Central and realized they were Wendell and Wild. · "then it hit me, Wendell and Wild."
[Blank Check · Planet of the Apes · 1:29:37 · unknown (0.40)] Suicide Squad ↔ Planet of the Apes · lineage · Studios sometimes force sequels no one asked for; Apes was a rare time they didn't. · "Again, it's like, you got out of suicide squad alive."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Eclipse · 0:08:12 · unknown (0.40)] David Slade ↔ The Twilight Saga: Eclipse · programming · Summit hired a horror stylist hoping to make the franchise scary and win teenage boys. · "I think they went like, oh, here's a guy who does like highly stylized, sophisticated horror shit."
[Blank Check · Wendell & Wild · 1:09:45 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Pablo Lobato ⇒ Wendell and Wild (the host's read) · lineage · Selick picked a flat, cutout caricature style that should not be adaptable to 3D and asked the team to build it. · "Wendolyn Wilde, Argentinian artist, Pablo Lobato, is the big inspiration for the look of a lot of these guys."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Incredible Hulk · 0:39:14 · Griffin or David (0.30)] Planet of the Apes ⇒ Planet of the Apes (the host's read) · lineage · Burton's ending tries to outdo the Statue of Liberty reveal of the original. · "Because they're trying to outdo the reveal of like the Statue of Liberty at the end."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Eclipse · 1:17:57 · unknown (0.40)] The Twilight Saga: Eclipse ↔ The Hunger Games · programming · Twilight's casting grew from B-list to Oscar nominees by the third film, like Hunger Games gaining Hoffman and Julianne Moore. · "And it's kind of the same thing with hunger games."
[Blank Check · Wendell & Wild · 1:32:50 · David Sims (0.50)] Wendell and Wild ↔ The Nightmare Before Christmas · theme · Nightmare has one major objective everyone is on; Wendell & Wild is just so much plot. · "Night before Christmas has like one major objective that everyone's right on."
[Blank Check · Planet of the Apes · 1:11:47 · unknown (0.40)] Planet of the Apes ↔ Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom · theme · The apes' chanting of a word makes one speaker think of Temple of Doom. · "Um, I can't not think of Temple of Doom every time they say it in this movie."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Eclipse · 2:10:08 · Ben Hosley (0.50)] The Twilight Saga: Eclipse ↔ Toy Story 3 · programming · Eclipse opened the same weekend as Toy Story 3, Last Airbender and Grown Ups (box office game). · "It's Toy Story 3, and it's the weekend."
[Blank Check · Wendell & Wild · 1:28:33 · David Sims (0.40)] Wendell and Wild ↔ Coraline · craft · The kindness shown to Kat, with quiet sadness, is likened to the boredom sequences in Coraline. · "it's it's similar to the sort of the boredom sequences and core line where, uh, Everyone's kind to cat."
[Blank Check · Planet of the Apes · 1:18:41 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Planet of the Apes ↔ Planet of the Apes · theme · Alex Ross Perry texted that the original book ends in a way very similar to the 2001 film. · "the original book ends in a way that's very similar to this."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Eclipse · 2:21:20 · unknown (0.40)] The Twilight Saga: Eclipse ↔ The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn · programming · The final film is promised to take a huge liberty with the book and be entertaining, and the second to last has Michael Sheen camp. · "at least, I remember the next one having some Michael Sheen in it."
[Blank Check · Wendell & Wild · 1:52:28 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Wendell and Wild ↔ Avatar · craft · Big sci-fi blockbusters like Inception and Avatar earn their virtuoso final acts with an hour of clumsy exposition; Wendell & Wild operates the same way. · "And they're things like Inception or Avatar, where you're like, you know what?"
[Blank Check · Planet of the Apes · 1:51:44 · unknown (0.50)] Danny Elfman ↔ Planet of the Apes · craft · Elfman's opening theme is exciting but the rest of the score is boring. · "The Elfman score."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Eclipse · 0:06:32 · unknown (0.40)] The Twilight Saga: Eclipse ↔ Imitation of Life · lineage · A guest on the prior episode (Chris, who worked on the franchise) was told the series plays like a Sirkian melodrama; his mother was nominated for Imitation of Life. · "it's like a Circian melodrama"
[Blank Check · Wendell & Wild · 1:53:13 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Wendell and Wild ↔ Inception · craft · The whole movie spends its running time on clumsy rules-exposition so the final act can pay off, like Inception. · "the whole movie is Inception style explaining to you, well, this is a kick, and this is a totem"
[Blank Check · Planet of the Apes · 1:52:28 · unknown (0.40)] Planet of the Apes ↔ Saul Bass · craft · The opening title shots of helmets feel like Saul Bass. · "feels very salt bass to me."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Eclipse · 0:17:30 · unknown (0.40)] The Twilight Saga: Eclipse ↔ Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones · lineage · The meadow-and-flowers romance scene reads as Attack of the Clones vibes; the ending returns to the same field. · "Whereas this is Attack of the Clones vibes."
[Blank Check · Wendell & Wild · 2:12:32 · Griffin Newman (0.60)] Wendell and Wild ↔ Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery · craft · Griffin hoped a second viewing would work like Glass Onion, with setup gaining meaning, but it did not. · "I was curious if watching it a 2nd time, it would have like a glass onion effect"
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Incredible Hulk · 0:39:03 · Griffin or David (0.30)] Planet of the Apes ↔ Interstellar · craft · Burton's ending is so confusing that the DVD shipped with a timeline insert, likened to Interstellar-style time-travel explanation. · "It's like a weird, like, interstellar where they're like, so if the black hole is here, and this is that, it involves like weird time travel butterfly affection."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Eclipse · 0:35:05 · unknown (0.40)] The Twilight Saga: Eclipse ↔ Sonic the Hedgehog · theme · Speedster problem via Rebecca Drysdale: a character faster than everyone has no shared continuum with others; the Sonic movie solved it with a road trip. · "Sonic is inherently kind of a tough character to build dramatic narrative around because his whole thing is he goes faster than everyone else."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Eclipse · 0:46:58 · unknown (0.30)] The Twilight Saga: Eclipse ↔ True Blood · theme · Twilight's newborn-vampire subplot prompts a comparison to True Blood, where turning someone makes you responsible for them. · "I'm thinking about true blood again."
[speaker] David Sims · latest sketch, Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · Prepares history: novel, casting, budgets, box office. Reveres the film and thinks it reads as a normal ground-level story. A sucker for Hollywood deal backstory and box office game. · stances: Praises Keitel and Dafoe casting; Respects Scorsese's persistence and Corman discipline; The film is now well regarded though not 'canonical Marty'
[speaker] Griffin Newman · latest sketch, Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · Calls Last Temptation his college-era favorite Scorsese; loves Scorsese's smaller 80s and the film's closing transcendence and Gabriel score. Cannot stand fundamentalist outrage at it. A sucker for casting trivia and Tom Cruise-silliness. · stances: Hot take: Last Temptation structurally mirrors New York, New York as a better version; Outrage over the film is stupid; it is respectful to Jesus; Scorsese's smaller 80s work beats his later baroque phases
[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)

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 Beetlejuice (1988); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Beetlejuice (1988) 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.