What the corpus says about Colors (1988)

You are a clerk at Video Culture, a video store. A customer just finished Colors (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 Colors (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.

[The Rewatchables · ‘Internal Affairs’ · 0:15:52 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Colors ↔ Internal Affairs · lineage · Colors is a renegade-cop movie, not a dirty-cop one, and has aged badly while Internal Affairs holds up. · "Well, I mean, they're, they're, in colors, they're more renegade cops than they are dirty cops because they still have some cop type ethos."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ · 1:10:32 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Beverly Hills Cop ↔ Colors · industry · A lighthearted LA-cop comedy could not be made a few years later: four years on it was Colors. · "Well, 4 years later it was color."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ · 1:09:37 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Beverly Hills Cop ⇒ Shawn Ryan (the host's read) · programming · Shawn Ryan tried a Beverly Hills Cop TV show; CBS made a pilot that didn't work. · "that CBS did a pilot for and apparently it didn't work."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Internal Affairs’ · 1:29:57 · Van Lathan (0.30)] Internal Affairs ↔ Bad Influence · programming · Offered as the best double-feature choice because of this weird era of psychosexual movies. · "I had bad influence just because this weird era that we're in now with like weird psychosex movies."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ · 1:09:39 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Beverly Hills Cop ↔ Brandon T. Jackson · programming · In the pilot Brandon T. Jackson played Axel Foley's son. · "Brandon T. Jackson was Axel Foley's son."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Internal Affairs’ · 0:04:53 · Bill Simmons (0.40)] Internal Affairs ↔ Training Day · lineage · The dirty-cop pantheon: The Departed and Training Day have to be in there with Internal Affairs. · "I mean, departed in training day?"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop II’ · 0:07:52 · Chris Ryan (0.70)] 1970s cop movies ⇒ Beverly Hills Cop (the host's read) · lineage · The first film feels like an extension of 70s cop movies, especially the Detroit material, while the sequel feels glossy and 80s. · "There's a world in which that almost feels like an extension of like 70s cop movies."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Internal Affairs’ · 0:04:59 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Internal Affairs ↔ Cop Land · lineage · A speaker puts Cop Land in the dirty-cop pantheon, mostly for Ray Liotta. · "For me, Coplands in there."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ · 0:08:03 · unknown (0.40)] Beverly Hills Cop ↔ Dirty Harry · lineage · The film plays closer to a 70s crime movie like Dirty Harry or The Outfit than to an 80s action blockbuster. · "this movie's way closer to like Dirty Harry or the outfit or 7, like a 70s crime movie than it is like our idea of like 80s action blockbuster."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Internal Affairs’ · 0:05:14 · Chris Ryan (0.30)] Internal Affairs ↔ The French Connection · lineage · Dirty-cop movies trace back to the 70s classics, the French Connection and Serpico among them. · "Yeah, connection."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ · 0:08:03 · unknown (0.40)] Beverly Hills Cop ↔ The Outfit · lineage · Grouped with Dirty Harry as a 70s crime-movie ancestor. · "this movie's way closer to like Dirty Harry or the outfit or 7, like a 70s crime movie"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Internal Affairs’ · 0:05:22 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Internal Affairs ↔ The Seven-Ups · lineage · The Roy Scheider movie that is French Connection adjacent is a favorite dirty-cop picture. · "The Roy Schider movie that's kind of like French connection adjacent has always been one of my favorites."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ · 0:08:19 · unknown (0.40)] Beverly Hills Cop ↔ Richard Roundtree · lineage · The film is called a blaxploitation movie with one of the few true movie-star performances, and Roundtree is named as the only true movie star of that era. · "black exploitation movie with like one of the few movie star performances."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Internal Affairs’ · 0:05:36 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Internal Affairs ↔ Prince of the City · lineage · Prince of the City named as another great dirty-cop movie from the 70s run. · "Uh, Prince of the City is another great dirty cop movie."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ · 0:23:34 · Wesley Morris (0.70)] The French Connection ⇒ Beverly Hills Cop (the host's read) · lineage · Recast Popeye Doyle as Axel Foley and the movie barely changes; the apartments are essentially the same. · "Like you take the French connection and you recast Dean Hackman's, you make Popeye Doyle, Axel Foley."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Internal Affairs’ · 0:07:11 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Internal Affairs ↔ Live and Die in L.A. · lineage · Bill places Internal Affairs alongside Live and Die in L.A. as a cool pre-Heat L.A. conflict movie. · "it's up there with like live and die in LA of like a really cool preheat LA conflict."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ · 0:27:42 · unknown (0.40)] In the Heat of the Night ⇒ Beverly Hills Cop (the host's read) · lineage · Described as In the Heat of the Night meets Beverly Hills; both are fish-out-of-water movies. · "said that the Beverly Hills Cop is essentially in the heat of the night meets Beverly Hills."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Internal Affairs’ · 0:27:04 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Internal Affairs ↔ Bad Influence · lineage · Bad Influence came out the same year and is similarly unhinged, part of an 89 to 91 run of dark sex-tinged movies. · "But there's like, because also bad influence with Rob Lowe and James Bader comes out this year."
[speaker] Chris Ryan · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · A franchise and genre scholar who likes Jason, the early sequels, and Manhattan; attention to trivia, tropes and critic reception. Treats slashers as a canon with tiers. · stances: Parts 1, 2, 4 and Manhattan are the good ones; The series finds its legs at 4
[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 Colors (1988); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Colors (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.