What the corpus says about Abre los ojos (Open Your Eyes)

You are a clerk at Video Culture, a video store. A customer just finished Abre los ojos (Open Your Eyes) 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 Abre los ojos (Open Your Eyes) 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 · Vanilla Sky · 0:26:51 · David Sims (0.60)] Abre los ojos (Open Your Eyes) ⇒ Vanilla Sky (the host's read) · lineage · Vanilla Sky is nearly the same story as the Spanish original, except the hero is a magazine magnate friends with Spielberg. · "So the film is actually pretty much exactly the same as Abri Lozojos, except for the main character of that movie is not a magazine magnate who's friends with Steven Spielberg."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Vanilla Sky · 0:31:50 · David Sims (0.45)] Abre los ojos (Open Your Eyes) ⇒ Vanilla Sky (the host's read) · lineage · The Spanish film has the same beats, and the protagonist's face looks even worse in it. · "But it's like the movie's beats are exactly the same down to the, you know, crucial moment of him like lying in the gut."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Vanilla Sky · 1:38:09 · David Sims (0.60)] Abre los ojos (Open Your Eyes) ⇒ Vanilla Sky (the host's read) · lineage · The ending follows the original beat for beat, down to the jump and the 'open your eyes' last line. · "Yeah, again, it's how Abri Lo Sojos works to a T down to him jumping and open your eyes, like being on last lines."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Vanilla Sky · 1:24:18 · David Sims (0.50)] Vanilla Sky ↔ Abre los ojos (Open Your Eyes) · theme · The Spanish original keeps the ending ambiguous, while this version spells out what the dream state is. · "And Abri Lo Sojos does not have this problem so much, is that I think the ending is supposed to be ambiguous"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Vanilla Sky · 1:38:16 · unknown (0.30)] Vanilla Sky ↔ Abre los ojos (Open Your Eyes) · craft · Crowe pushes more ideas onto the plate than the original, which distracts from the film. · "Crow's putting a lot more on the plate, right?"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Vanilla Sky · 0:58:50 · unknown (0.40)] Abre los ojos (Open Your Eyes) ⇒ Jason Lee (the host's read) · lineage · Jason Lee's best-friend character is the same character with the same mechanic as in the Spanish film. · "This the same character with the same mechanic where he's kind of like..."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Vanilla Sky · 0:18:57 · David Sims (0.55)] Penelope Cruz ↔ Abre los ojos (Open Your Eyes) · career · Cruz plays a similar pixie-dream-girl role in the original and is charming and fully effective in it. · "She's extremely charming in it and it totally works."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Vanilla Sky · 0:08:26 · unknown (0.35)] Abre los ojos (Open Your Eyes) ⇒ Tom Cruise (the host's read) · industry · Cruise optioned the Spanish film as soon as it reached America after Sundance. · "He optioned the film instantly when it came out in America."
[pairs] Abre los ojos (Open Your Eyes) ↔ Vanilla Sky · said 5 times in 1 episode
[Blank Check — Patreon · Vanilla Sky · 0:51:56 · unknown (0.40)] Vanilla Sky ↔ Stargate · programming · Running joke: Ben's favorite movie Stargate was the first film with a website. · "The 1st movie, the 1st website was for Ben Hosley's favorite movie, Stargate."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Vanilla Sky · 1:45:35 · unknown (0.40)] The Royal Tenenbaums ↔ Vanilla Sky · programming · Tenenbaums opened the same week as Vanilla Sky in 5 theaters and averaged $55,000. · "Tenenbaums comes out that very week on 5 theaters and it grosses $276,000"
[The Big Picture · The Tom Cruise Hall of Fame · 1:09:45 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Open Your Eyes ⇒ Vanilla Sky (the host's read) · lineage · Cruise adapted Abre los Ojos into Vanilla Sky, a bold move he does not make today. · "adapted Aubrey Los Ojos into Vanilla Sky"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Vanilla Sky · 0:18:08 · unknown (0.40)] Almost Famous ↔ Vanilla Sky · lineage · Almost Famous is the bridge: already more precious and less realistic than Jerry Maguire, before it tips over here. · "it's a definite bridge because, yes, it is more precious than Jerry Maguire."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Vanilla Sky · 0:43:10 · unknown (0.40)] Vanilla Sky ↔ Jerry Maguire · lineage · Vanilla Sky is likened to Jerry Maguire escaping a Frankenstein experiment before it was finished. · "this movie is like Jerry Maguire, like, got out of some sort of like Frankenstein monster experiment before he was finished"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Vanilla Sky · 0:43:19 · unknown (0.35)] Vanilla Sky ↔ Jerry Maguire · lineage · A deformed Jerry Maguire. · "Well, it's like a deformed Jerry Maguire."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Iron Man 3 · 0:18:19 · unknown (0.30)] Iron Man 3 ↔ Vanilla Sky · theme · The Elvis idea behind Vanilla Sky, lonely in a room where everyone knows who you are, is the Tony Stark thing Iron Man 3 digs into. · "There's the Elvis quote that Cameron Crowe loves, which he said he based Vanilla Sky around, which is the feeling of being lonely in a room where everyone knows who you are."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Vanilla Sky · 0:24:25 · unknown (0.35)] Hulk ↔ Vanilla Sky · theme · The strongest example of defending a movie against dismissive friends in the speaker's adolescence was Ang Lee's Hulk, like defending Vanilla Sky. · "Drew the line was Anglies Hulk."
[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'
[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 Abre los ojos (Open Your Eyes); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Abre los ojos (Open Your Eyes) 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.