What the corpus says about Blade Runner 2049 (2017)

You are a clerk at Video Culture, a video store. A customer just finished Blade Runner 2049 (2017) 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 Blade Runner 2049 (2017) 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 · Alien: Covenant · 1:04:43 · unknown (0.30)] Alien: Covenant ↔ Blade Runner 2049 · programming · Both came out in 2017, by two generations of sci-fi. · "This is the same year as Blade Runner 2049."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 1:05:10 · unknown (0.40)] Alien: Covenant ↔ Blade Runner 2049 · what-if · Wishes Scott had made 2049 and let Villeneuve make Covenant. · "I sort of wish that Ridley had done Blade Runner and had let some new blood like Villeneuve do covenant."
[Blank Check — Patreon · 2025 March Madness Update 1 · 0:27:31 · unknown (0.40)] Alfonso Cuaron ↔ Blade Runner 2049 · programming · They felt it would be silly to cover Villeneuve before Dune, the start of their epic trilogy. · "it would be silly to cover him before Dune."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Guardians of the Galaxy · 0:41:18 · unknown (0.30)] Dave Bautista ↔ Blade Runner 2049 · career · Blade Runner 2049 shows how good Bautista has become, underplaying a broken giant. · "I mean, to me, 2049 is the evidence of how good Batista has gotten where it's like underplay this."
[Blank Check — Patreon · 2025 March Madness Update 1 · 0:29:29 · unknown (0.30)] Jared Leto ↔ Blade Runner 2049 · verdict · Leto, whom the speaker usually hates, fits Blade Runner 2049. · "completely fits what that movie's trying to do."
[pairs] Blade Runner 2049 ↔ Alien: Covenant · said 2 times in 1 episode
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 2:04:21 · unknown (0.40)] Alien: Covenant ↔ Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 · programming · Covenant's weekend opened behind Guardians Vol. 2, #1 for the second weekend. · "Oh, it's Gardens of Galaxy volume two."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 0:06:57 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Prometheus ⇒ Alien: Covenant (the host's read) · lineage · Covenant is half the Prometheus sequel Scott wanted and half a concession to a more normal Alien movie. · "this is half, like Ridley Scott doing the Prometheus sequel he wanted to do and half"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 0:29:38 · unknown (0.30)] Alien: Covenant ↔ Alien · lineage · Each Alien film has a different workforce; the original had blue-collar miners. · "Like that's, you know, blue collar minors."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 0:29:41 · unknown (0.30)] Alien: Covenant ↔ Aliens · lineage · Aliens had Marines. · "Aliens, you got Marines."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 0:29:45 · unknown (0.30)] Alien: Covenant ↔ Alien 3 · lineage · Alien 3 had convicts. · "Alien 3 convicts."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 0:29:48 · unknown (0.30)] Alien: Covenant ↔ Alien Resurrection · lineage · The fourth film had pirates. · "Alien four, I guess."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 0:29:59 · unknown (0.30)] Alien: Covenant ↔ Prometheus · lineage · Prometheus had pioneering scientists; Covenant has crunchy colonists. · "Prometheus, you know, where we're in, where it's full on like pioneering scientist types."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 0:40:52 · unknown (0.40)] Aliens ⇒ Alien: Covenant (the host's read) · lineage · The shoulder-mounted GoPro cameras are carried over from the Marines in Aliens. · "which the Marines all have in aliens"

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 Blade Runner 2049 (2017); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Blade Runner 2049 (2017) 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.