What the corpus says about Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021)

You are a clerk at Video Culture, a video store. A customer just finished Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021) 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 Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021) 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 · Edge of Tomorrow · 1:41:20 · David Sims (0.50)] X-Men: Days of Future Past ↔ Spider-Man: No Way Home · verdict · DoFP is in the same zone as No Way Home: not functional, but has really fun stuff. · "I put in kind of a similar zone to uh, uh, uh, no way home."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Marvel Nerdfest · 0:22:13 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Spider-Man: No Way Home ↔ Spider-Man 3 · verdict · The movie's internal logic is bananas but audiences accept anything to see three Spider-Men together. · "what did everyone emotionally want to see?"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Marvel Nerdfest · 0:15:48 · Griffin Newman (0.55)] Spider-Man: No Way Home ↔ Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness · industry · Multiverse lets Marvel turn sequels into Lego sequels, like a Force Awakens inside a newer franchise. · "by using the multiverse, they can now turn these sequels into Lego sequels."
[The Big Picture · ‘Black Panther: Wakanda Forever’ Is Here! · 0:58:25 · Van Lathan (0.70)] Black Panther: Wakanda Forever ↔ Spider-Man: No Way Home · final fight · Van names the Marvel third-act problem and cites No Way Home as a movie that is all about its final fight. · "The whole movie is for the final fight."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Marvel Nerdfest · 0:22:08 · David Sims (0.40)] Spider-Man: No Way Home ↔ Morbius · continuity · Morbius is technically canonical to No Way Home's logic. · "And don't forget Morbius, technically."
[The Big Picture · The Great ‘Avatar’ Debate · 1:37:26 · unknown (0.40)] Avatar: The Way of Water ↔ Black Panther: Wakanda Forever · programming · Both sequels arrive within a month of each other. · "Now, both getting sequels within a month of each other."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Marvel Nerdfest · 0:39:57 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness ↔ Blank Check · lineage · Scarlet Witch manipulating computers with magic recalls the hosts' Hacker Witch bit. · "She manipulates the computer using magic, thereby witch hacker."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Marvel Nerdfest · 0:33:12 · David Sims (0.50)] Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness ↔ Spider-Man 3 · craft · Opening tentacle scene has shots that lead into each other; the Illuminati fight is less fluid than Raimi's usual action. · "this doesn't feel as like fluid as Raimi's action usually does"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Edge of Tomorrow · 1:40:54 · David Sims (0.50)] Edge of Tomorrow ↔ X-Men: Days of Future Past · programming · On the opening weekend chart, Edge opened third behind Fault in Our Stars and Maleficent; X-Men DoFP was still fourth. · "Edge of Tomorrow is number three."
[The Big Picture · ‘Black Panther: Wakanda Forever’ Is Here! · 0:17:32 · Sean Fennessey (0.85)] Black Panther: Wakanda Forever ↔ Black Panther · lineage · The first film's theme was isolation versus justice (Killmonger vs. T'Challa); the sequel has a real-world theme too, about allyship between Latinx and Black communities, but is not done as well. · "his movies always have a big dynamic real world theme in them in a way that I don't think many Marvel movies do."
[The Big Picture · ‘Black Panther: Wakanda Forever’ Is Here! · 0:38:18 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60)] Black Panther: Wakanda Forever ↔ Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness · theme · Sean sees Riri Williams as the second recent puckish teen hero, after America Chavez, whom the audience has no prior relationship with. · "we just had this with America Chavez in Doctor Strange in the multiverse of Madness."
[Blank Check — Patreon · OLD DOGS - Blank Check LIVE! at the Bell House · 1:12:04 · David Sims (0.35)] John Travolta ↔ Spider-Man 3 · craft · Travolta's drugged, lopsided face is likened to Topher Grace in Spider-Man 3. · "Travolta's got, like, Topher Gray Spider Man 3 face."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Eclipse · 0:33:08 · unknown (0.40)] Bryan Singer ↔ X-Men: Days of Future Past · craft · Singer's Quicksilver is called the most successful screen speedster because of smart slow motion. · "I still think the most successful is the, unfortunately, the Brian Singer Quicksilver."
[The Big Picture · ‘Black Panther: Wakanda Forever’ Is Here! · 0:32:14 · Van Lathan (0.85)] Black Panther ⇒ Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (the host's read) · theme · Van explains that in the first film T'Challa saw his father on the ancestral plane because he had questions for him, while Shuri saw Killmonger because she wanted revenge, the same motive Killmonger had. · "Shuri did not want to be the Black Panther to protect Wakanda."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Marvel Nerdfest · 0:33:12 · David Sims (0.50)] Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness ↔ Spider-Man 3 · craft · Opening tentacle scene has shots that lead into each other; the Illuminati fight is less fluid than Raimi's usual action. · "this doesn't feel as like fluid as Raimi's action usually does"
[The Big Picture · ‘Black Panther: Wakanda Forever’ Is Here! · 0:37:09 · Van Lathan (0.85)] Captain America: Civil War ⇒ Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (the host's read) · theme · Van says Black Panther was handled better in Civil War than in his own movie, and that Civil War served as his origin; Ironheart's introduction here does not land the same way. · "Black Panther, to me, was portrayed better in Civil War than he was in the original Black Panther movie."
[The Big Picture · ‘Black Panther: Wakanda Forever’ Is Here! · 0:37:22 · Van Lathan (0.80)] Iron Man 2 ⇒ Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (the host's read) · theme · Van says the MCU has introduced characters inside other movies before, like Black Widow in Iron Man 2. · "Black Widow makes her a parent, her 1st appearance."
[The Big Picture · ‘Black Panther: Wakanda Forever’ Is Here! · 0:38:18 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60)] Black Panther: Wakanda Forever ↔ Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness · theme · Sean sees Riri Williams as the second recent puckish teen hero, after America Chavez, whom the audience has no prior relationship with. · "we just had this with America Chavez in Doctor Strange in the multiverse of Madness."
[The Big Picture · ‘Black Panther: Wakanda Forever’ Is Here! · 0:53:03 · Amanda Dobbins (0.80)] Ruth E. Carter ↔ Black Panther: Wakanda Forever · craft · Amanda says Carter's costume design and the production design are the electrifying part, even though she did not like the film, and that Carter should win another Oscar. · "I think Ruth Carter should win another Oscar, even though I didn't really like this movie."
[The Big Picture · ‘Black Panther: Wakanda Forever’ Is Here! · 0:53:45 · Sean Fennessey (0.70)] Black Panther: Wakanda Forever ↔ Black Panther · craft · The first film lived in one coherent Wakanda look from Ruth Carter's costumes and the production design, while the sequel hops between many places and loses a single visual style. · "In this movie, we're in so many places, that ship at night, Riri's dorm room, Talakan, Everett Ross's jogging trip, his kitchen, the movie's just all over the place."
[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
[speaker] Van Lathan · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · Enjoys the series for its sleaze, hang value and cheesy lines. Roots for Black-cast-free sendups and loves a flex category. Gravitates to Freddy and likes Kevin Bacon. · stances: Friday the 13th is a movie that did not need Black people; Rewards bad-hang awards and flex lists
[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 Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021) 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.