What the corpus says about Predator (1987)

You are a clerk at Video Culture, a video store. A customer just finished Predator (1987) 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 Predator (1987) 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 · 1:16:31 · Sarah Marshall (0.90)] Predator ⇒ Prey (the host's read) · programming · She is watching Predator as homework before the prequel Prey. · "I'm doing my homework before watching Prey, the predator prequel"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory · 1:17:05 · Sarah Marshall (0.90)] Paths of Glory ↔ Predator · theme · Predator is the closest she gets to a war movie: a finite group dealing with a scary thing. · "it's like a finite number of people at a remote location dealing with a scary thing."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory · 1:18:09 · unknown (0.35)] Predator ↔ Commando · theme · Predator and Commando are combat movies not war movies, like the Top Gun films that abstract the war away. · "Predator I think of is more of a combat movie than a war movie, you know, and like commando is the same"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory · 1:18:09 · unknown (0.35)] Predator ↔ Top Gun (both films) · theme · Top Gun's success comes from abstracting the war into pure combat. · "it's the reason why the 2 Top Gun movies are so wildly successful because they sort of abstract the war so much"
[The Big Picture · The 2022 Movie Draft · 1:13:38 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] Predator ⇒ Prey (the host's read) · industry · Prey is chronologically a prequel but accepted as part of the franchise. · "Prey is chronologically a prequel."
[pairs] Predator ↔ Prey · said 2 times in 2 episodes
[The Rewatchables · 'Taken' · 0:10:08 · Shea Serrano (0.70)] Commando ⇒ Taken (the host's read) · theme · Taken returned to the basic Schwarzenegger/Stallone template, but with a real actor selling the lines. · "We're still going to have him do all of the same stuff that a Schwarzenegger or Stallone would do in commando or cobra, but now we've got a guy who, when he says things into the camera, when he gives the phone speech, you feel it."
[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"
[The Big Picture · The Final Girl Film Canon and ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ · 0:31:50 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] A Nightmare on Elm Street 2 ↔ Commando · theme · The same question of unintended queer subtext could be asked of Commando. · "You say the same thing about commando, frankly?"
[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 · 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 · 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 · 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."
[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 · 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 · 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?"
[speaker] Sarah Marshall · latest sketch, Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory · Loves legal dramas, horror, Predator and action movies; calls Paths of Glory her personal Kubrick and a formative film seen once at the Portland Art Museum. Dislikes performative female characters in movies uninterested in women; prefers sincere shortcomings. · stances: Paths of Glory is about injustice and a truthful legal drama; Prefers movies that admit they are about men; Won't call her show criticism; love has to be part of the conversation about movies
[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)
[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 Predator (1987); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Predator (1987) 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.