What the corpus says about The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (2013)

You are a clerk at Video Culture, a video store. A customer just finished The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (2013) 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 The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (2013) 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 · The Curious Case of Benjamin Button · 0:10:34 · unknown (0.30)] Forrest Gump ⇒ The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (the host's read) · attempt at a Gump · Walter Mitty is another attempt at a Gump a couple of years after Button. · "A couple years after this, Walter Middy's an attempt at a gump."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Curious Case of Benjamin Button · 0:10:46 · unknown (0.30)] The Curious Case of Benjamin Button ⇒ The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (the host's read) · parody · The speaker says Walter Mitty parodies Benjamin Button, as if to say Button got the Gump wrong. · "And Walter Mitty parodies Benjamin Button, almost as if to say, they fucked up."
[The Big Picture · 8. I Love America | Do We Get to Win This Time? · 0:44:07 · Brian Raftery (0.90)] earlier Vietnam films ⇒ Forrest Gump (the host's read) · lineage · Gump's Vietnam section riffs on the earlier Vietnam films: music, combat, drill instructor. · "A journey that riffs on all the Vietnam films that came before."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Curious Case of Benjamin Button · 0:01:30 · unknown (0.30)] F. Scott Fitzgerald ⇒ The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (the host's read) · lineage · The film is adapted from Fitzgerald's short story, though the speakers say it shares little with it. · "It's quite, it's, it doesn't have too much in common with the film, right?"
[The Big Picture · ‘Elvis,’ ‘Walk Hard’ and Top Five Music Biopics · 0:38:01 · Adam Nayman (0.75)] Elvis ↔ Forrest Gump · lineage · Forrest Gump already did the bit where Elvis took his moves from a kid in leg braces. · "How could they ever improve on the Bitten Forest Gump where you find that Elvis didn't actually get his moves or style some black music?"
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Curious Case of Benjamin Button · 0:42:01 · unknown (0.30)] F. Scott Fitzgerald ⇒ The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (the host's read) · lineage · By the time Roth finished, the film resembles the story in name only. · "By the time he's done with it, the movie has no resemblance to Benjamin Button apart from, it's called Benjamin Button."
[The Big Picture · 8. I Love America | Do We Get to Win This Time? · 0:47:14 · Brian Raftery (0.90)] Forrest Gump ↔ The 1960s · theme · Raftery's old take: Gump as a happy reboot letting boomers wave away the 60s. · "Forrest Gump sometimes feels like a happy reboot of the Vietnam era"
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Curious Case of Benjamin Button · 0:43:40 · unknown (0.30)] Joan Didion → The Curious Case of Benjamin Button · lineage · A line in the film was something Roth's mother said in the hospital, tied by the speaker to Didion's Year of Magical Thinking. · "Joan Didian's book, the year of magical thinking."
[The Big Picture · ‘Elvis,’ ‘Walk Hard’ and Top Five Music Biopics · 0:39:25 · Adam Nayman (0.85)] Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story ↔ Forrest Gump · theme · Dewey is the Forrest Gump of American popular music, inhabiting every style. · "he's almost kind of the forest gump of American popular music because he inhabits all of them."
[Blank Check — Patreon · David Fincher Music Videos · 1:59:12 · unknown (0.30)] Love Is Strong (Rolling Stones video) ⇒ The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (the host's read) · lineage · A host guesses the Stones' giant-scale effects helped Fincher on Benjamin Button. · "Well, and I bet this helped for Benjamin Button eventually."
[Blank Check — Patreon · 2001: A Space Odyssey · 1:34:14 · unknown (0.30)] Forrest Gump ↔ 2001: A Space Odyssey · craft · Forrest Gump's leg-removal effects and the 2001 pen shot both keep the audience guessing how it was done. · "And the pen shot is just like, even for such an early point, they're doing that"
[The Big Picture · ‘The Killer’ Is Cold-Blooded Genius. And Something More · 1:05:56 · Adam Nayman (0.90)] The Killer ↔ The Curious Case of Benjamin Button · theme · The lonely dinner with Tilda Swinton in a hollow restaurant echoes Benjamin Button's end-of-the-world connection scene, here without sentimental shtick. · "the stuff with Tilda Swinton is very interestingly evocative of Benjamin Button, like this lonely dinner in this big hollow restaurant that feels like it's at the end of the world"
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Curious Case of Benjamin Button · 0:26:08 · Richard Lawson (0.60)] Meet Joe Black ↔ The Curious Case of Benjamin Button · theme · Meet Joe Black is Brad Pitt's other epic about death; the speaker rewatched it right after Button. · "Brad Pitt's other somewhat misbegotten epic about death, meet Joe Black."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Curious Case of Benjamin Button · 1:35:21 · unknown (0.30)] Being There ↔ The Curious Case of Benjamin Button · theme · The speaker likens people projecting wisdom onto Benjamin's silence to Chauncey Gardner. · "There's a bit of a Chauncey Gardner where they're like projecting onto his silence."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Curious Case of Benjamin Button · 1:44:06 · unknown (0.30)] Magnolia ↔ The Curious Case of Benjamin Button · theme · The car-accident sequence feels a little like Magnolia, but the film is the anti-Magnolia on connectedness. · "This is sort of the anti-magnolia, which is like Ricky J is saying, like, surely these things mean something."
[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 The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (2013); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (2013) 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.