The Big Picture: The 1990 Movie Draft

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The extraction calls the show “The Big Picture (The Ringer)” and the episode “The 1990 Movie Draft”.

Hosts: Sean Fennessey, Amanda Dobbins. Guests: Chris Ryan, Bobby Wagner (producer, appears briefly).

Subject films: Goodfellas (1990), Pretty Woman (1990), Total Recall (1990), Home Alone (1990), The Hunt for Red October (1990), Miller's Crossing (1990), Days of Thunder (1990), Presumed Innocent (1990), Ghost (1990), Misery (1990), Metropolitan (1990), House Party (1990), King of New York (1990), Die Hard 2 (1990), Wild at Heart (1990), Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990), Postcards from the Edge (1990), The Exorcist III (1990), The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover (1989), Mermaids (1990), Mo' Better Blues (1990).

On the transcript: No speaker labels and heavy ad reads (0:00-0:02, 1:02-1:04, after 1:42); speakers inferred from pick ownership confirmed by the final recap at 1:37:59. Cross-talk and pick-turn confusion garble who said some lines.

Films that came up

Claims (129)

lineage (lineage): Eddington → Magnolia. Austin Butler's televangelist recalls Tom Cruise in Magnolia.
“strong shades of Tom Cruise and Magnolia from Austin Butler there”
The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 0:06:52 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
theme (theme): Rory McIlroy → Glengarry Glen Ross. Rory's Masters win compared to a movie experience like the end of Glengarry Glen Ross.
“The end of Glengarry Glen Ross.”
The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 0:09:56 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
theme (theme): Home Alone → Casablanca. For a kid in 1990, Home Alone was as monumental as Casablanca or the Wizard of Oz.
“for me, at this time, Home Alone was Casablanca”
The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 0:18:22 · Sean Fennessey (0.55 sure it was them)
programming (programming): Chris Ryan → Goodfellas. Pick 1 (round 1), category Oscar nominee: Easy first pick; one of his favorite movies ever made.
“one of my favorite movies ever made, Martin Scorsese's uh, epic, darkly comic look at the rise and fall of the American mob”
The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 0:26:39 · Chris Ryan (0.90 sure it was them)
career (career): Goodfellas → Oppenheimer. Goodfellas came at the point in Scorsese's career where Oppenheimer came for Nolan, but Scorsese lost the Oscars.
“Nolan just won Oppenheimer at a very similar play time in his career to where Scorsese was when he made Goodfellas”
The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 0:27:51 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
career (career): Goodfellas → The King of Comedy. Goodfellas was Scorsese's comeback after the King of Comedy flop and a pilloried stretch.
“he has this like comeback narrative with Goodfellows, which is financially successful, critically adored”
The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 0:28:16 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
people (people): Goodfellas → Martin Scorsese. Scorsese's New Yorkness was held against him by a provincial Oscars.
“the New Yorkness of Scorsese in this movie in particular, I think was sort of held against him”
The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 0:28:30 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
industry (industry): Driving Miss Daisy → Do the Right Thing. The year before, Driving Miss Daisy won the Oscar over Do the Right Thing, making it a back-to-back miss.
“89 is when driving Miss Daisy wins over.”
The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 0:28:43 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
verdict (verdict): Goodfellas → Dances with Wolves. Dances with Wolves beating Goodfellas for the Oscars was a nightmare.
“And then dances with wolves over good food. That's kind of a nightmare.”
The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 0:28:46 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
contrast (contrast): Dances with Wolves → Driving Miss Daisy. Unlike Driving Miss Daisy, Dances with Wolves is not offensive in its depiction of native people.
“It's not like driving Miss Daisy where there's something kind of offensive about it.”
The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 0:29:04 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
verdict (verdict): Dances with Wolves → Goodfellas. Dances with Wolves is not a bad movie, but it is not Goodfellas.
“It's just not Goodfellas.”
The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 0:29:20 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
programming (programming): Amanda Dobbins → Pretty Woman. Pick 2 (round 1), category Oscar nominee: Perfect romcom, her number-two romantic comedy, launched Julia Roberts.
“When Harry Met Sally in 1989 is my number one romantic comedy of all time, but I think Pretty Woman might be number two.”
The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 0:30:06 · Amanda Dobbins (0.85 sure it was them)
verdict (verdict): Pretty Woman → When Harry Met Sally. Amanda ranks Pretty Woman second among romantic comedies behind When Harry Met Sally.
“When Harry Met Sally in 1989 is my number one romantic comedy of all time, but I think Pretty Woman might be number two.”
The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 0:30:06 · Amanda Dobbins (0.85 sure it was them)
people (people): Pretty Woman → Julia Roberts. Pretty Woman launched Julia Roberts, one of Amanda's favorite movie stars.
“obviously also launches one of my favorite movie stars, Julia Roberts”
The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 0:30:16 · Amanda Dobbins (0.85 sure it was them)
career (career): Garry Marshall → Valentine's Day. Marshall made a couple of stone-cold classics and then holiday-titled movies like Valentine's Day.
“he made a couple of classics, Stone Cold classics, and then a lot of movies called like Valentine's Day”
The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 0:32:03 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
people (people): Garry Marshall → Pretty Woman. Marshall directed Pretty Woman and is called a titan of television (Happy Days, Laverne and Shirley).
“Gary Marshall, obviously, a titan of television.”
The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 0:32:28 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
programming (programming): Sean Fennessey → Total Recall. Pick 3 (round 1), category blockbuster: Verhoeven masterpiece, sci-fi satire, Schwarzenegger's best.
“In Blockbuster, I'm gonna go with Total Recall”
The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 0:35:45 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)
contrast (contrast): Total Recall → The Terminator. The pick makes a case that Total Recall is Schwarzenegger's best movie, neck and neck with the Terminator films.
“strong case for it being Arnold Schwarzenegger's best movie, kind of neck and neck, I think, with the Terminator films”
The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 0:35:45 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)
people (people): Total Recall → Paul Verhoeven. Verhoeven's Total Recall is called one of his masterpieces.
“one of Paul Verhoven's masterpieces”
The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 0:35:45 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)
people (people): Total Recall → Sharon Stone. Sharon Stone plays a wife who is not to be trusted, before Basic Instinct.
“very funny performance from Sharon Stone as a wife who is not to be trusted”
The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 0:36:12 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)
craft (craft): Total Recall → Paul Verhoeven. The film walks the line between schlock and incisive satire.
“really walks this very delicate line between schlock and incisive satire”
The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 0:36:12 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)
career (career): Total Recall → Basic Instinct. Total Recall predates Sharon Stone's appearance in Basic Instinct (a question about Verhoeven's intent).
“The predates her appearance and basic instinct?”
The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 0:36:30 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
programming (programming): Home Alone → Mita Kimes. The Rewatchables did a Home Alone episode with Mita Kimes.
“we did an episode of it on the rewatchables with Mita Kimes”
The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 0:37:12 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)
people (people): Home Alone → Macaulay Culkin. Culkin tormenting Daniel Stern and Joe Pesci is the draw.
“Macaulay Culkin, fucking with Daniel Stern and Joe Pesci for one hour is remarkable”
The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 0:37:17 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)
programming (programming): Sean Fennessey → Home Alone. Pick 4 (round 2), category comedy: Personally meaningful; took it off the board before others.
“Um, so I'll take Home Alone and comedy.”
The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 0:39:14 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)
programming (programming): Amanda Dobbins → The Hunt for Red October. Pick 5 (round 2), category action/horror/thriller: Loves the submarine movie; a sequel category took away other action picks.
“So I will be taking in action horror thriller at the Hunt for Red October.”
The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 0:40:43 · Amanda Dobbins (0.85 sure it was them)
contrast (contrast): The Hunt for Red October → Crimson Tide. Red October is the only submarine setting Amanda would endure; Crimson Tide is too tough.
“the only submarine environment that I would ever want to be a part of, even Crimson Tide is is too tough for me”
The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 0:40:53 · Amanda Dobbins (0.80 sure it was them)
programming (programming): The Hunt for Red October → Chris Ryan. Chris has been lobbying for Red October to be a Rewatchables episode.
“Chris has been lobbying for it to be on the rewatching.”
The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 0:42:22 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
lineage (lineage): The Hunt for Red October → Clear and Present Danger. Red October is the first Jack Ryan film and better than any of the Harrison Ford ones.
“this is obviously better than any of the Harrison Ford movies, in my opinion”
The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 0:43:01 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60 sure it was them)
contrast (contrast): Clear and Present Danger → The Hunt for Red October. A fan of Clear and Present Danger still rates Red October better.
“I'm quite fond of clear and present danger.”
The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 0:43:08 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
career (career): Alec Baldwin → The Hunt for Red October. Red October sits in a strong 1988-1993 Alec Baldwin run that looked like a Clark Gable path.
“I think everybody thought he was going to be whatever, Clark Gable or something”
The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 0:44:12 · Chris Ryan (0.40 sure it was them)
programming (programming): Chris Ryan → Miller's Crossing. Pick 6 (round 2), category drama: Favorite Coen movie most days; first one he saw.
“Miller's Crossing.”
The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 0:45:04 · Chris Ryan (0.85 sure it was them)
career (career): Miller's Crossing → Joel and Ethan Coen. Chris rates it his favorite Coen brothers movie on four days of the week.
“4 out of 7 days of the week, my favorite Cohen brother movie”
The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 0:45:06 · Chris Ryan (0.85 sure it was them)
lineage (lineage): Miller's Crossing → Dashiell Hammett. The film is a take on 1930s-40s fast-talking noir rooted in Hammett.
“unique take on, you know, 1930s and 40s fast talking noir movies, very much rooted in national Hammett”
The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 0:45:19 · Chris Ryan (0.85 sure it was them)
contrast (contrast): Miller's Crossing → Michael Clayton. Gabriel Byrne plays an Irish mobster like a Michael Clayton figure.
“stars Gabriel Byrne as like kind of a Michael Clayton, Irish mobster”
The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 0:45:19 · Chris Ryan (0.85 sure it was them)
career (career): Marcia Gay Harden → Miller's Crossing. A star-making performance, alongside early Buscemi.
“incredible Marcia Gay Harden performance, like a star making tuturo performance, really great early Bushemi”
The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 0:45:45 · Chris Ryan (0.85 sure it was them)
people (people): Carter Burwell → Miller's Crossing. Burwell scored Miller's Crossing, called a beautiful score.
“One of those beautiful scores.”
The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 0:46:03 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
programming (programming): Chris Ryan → Days of Thunder. Pick 7 (round 3), category blockbuster: Top Gun with cars; Tony Scott, Cruise and Kidman.
“No, I'm going to do Days of Thunder and Blockbuster.”
The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 0:49:43 · Chris Ryan (0.85 sure it was them)
lineage (lineage): Days of Thunder → Top Gun. Days of Thunder is essentially Top Gun with cars.
“it's essentially just Top Gun with cars”
The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 0:49:49 · Chris Ryan (0.85 sure it was them)
people (people): Days of Thunder → Tony Scott. Tony Scott and Tom Cruise supply frames that spark patriotism and love of cinema.
“what Tony Scott gave us and what Tom Cruise gave us”
The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 0:49:58 · Chris Ryan (0.85 sure it was them)
people (people): Days of Thunder → Nicole Kidman. Cruise and Kidman's first screen union; she plays a neurologist.
“Obviously, this is uh, Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman's union, uh, on screen.”
The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 0:50:16 · Chris Ryan (0.85 sure it was them)
industry (industry): Days of Thunder → Jerry Bruckheimer. Bruckheimer and Simpson reportedly told Kidman not to bother researching neurosurgery.
“said she really wanted to do a lot of research on neurosurgery and they said, don't bother.”
The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 0:50:29 · Chris Ryan (0.85 sure it was them)
programming (programming): Amanda Dobbins → Presumed Innocent. Pick 8 (round 3), category blockbuster: Wanted Harrison Ford in a legal thriller.
“In Blockbuster.”
The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 0:51:04 · Amanda Dobbins (0.80 sure it was them)
people (people): Presumed Innocent → Harrison Ford. Amanda wanted Harrison Ford in a legal thriller.
“I would love to have Harrison Ford.”
The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 0:51:28 · Amanda Dobbins (0.85 sure it was them)
people (people): Presumed Innocent → Chase Infinity. The Apple remake launched Chase Infinity, a future PTA star in One Battle After Another.
“did launch Chase Infinity future PTA star”
The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 0:52:00 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
lineage (lineage): Presumed Innocent → Scott Turow. Airport-novel adaptations starring movie stars; Amanda plans to read all of Turow this summer.
“that type of, like, airport novel with respect to Scotchro”
The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 0:52:13 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60 sure it was them)
programming (programming): Sean Fennessey → Ghost. Pick 9 (round 3), category Oscar nominee: Genre mix of romance, grief and supernatural thriller.
“And I will take ghost.”
The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 0:53:21 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)
programming (programming): Ghost → Bill Simmons. Sean asks if Chris agrees with Bill Simmons that Ghost is an accurate portrayal of the afterlife.
“Do you agree with Bill Simmons that this is an accurate portrayal of the afterlife?”
The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 0:53:33 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
career (career): Ghost → The Substance. Ghost resurfaced when Demi Moore did press for The Substance.
“was back in the news when Demi Moore was doing a lot of press for the substance”
The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 0:54:53 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)
career (career): Tony Goldwyn → One Battle After Another. The Ghost villain actor appears not to be a nice man in One Battle After Another.
“He appears to be not a very nice man in one battle after another, actually.”
The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 0:55:28 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)
contrast (contrast): Ghost → It Ends With Us. Asked for the last real romantic tearjerker, they land on It Ends with Us and Nicholas Sparks.
“I mean, it ends with us was like this, you know, like that, that's kind of what that was playing.”
The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 0:56:01 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)
theme (theme): Ghost → Nora Ephron. Romantic tearjerkers of the era came from writers like James L. Brooks and Nora Ephron.
“James L. Brooks and Nora Efron, and you've got these writers who have like a real knack for this kind of thing”
The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 0:56:40 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
programming (programming): Sean Fennessey → Misery. Pick 10 (round 4), category action/horror/thriller: Best of the bunch; Stephen King, Kathy Bates, Goldman, Reiner.
“I'll take misery.”
The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 0:57:27 · Sean Fennessey (0.85 sure it was them)
people (people): Misery → William Goldman. Misery is adapted by Goldman and directed by Rob Reiner.
“adapted by the great William Goldman, uh, directed by Rob Reiner”
The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 0:58:18 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)
theme (theme): Misery → Stephen King. King writing about his nightmare of a fan who takes things too far.
“Stephen King writing about, like, basically his work's nightmare”
The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 0:58:18 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)
career (career): Rob Reiner → Spinal Tap II. Reiner returns with Spinal Tap II this fall.
“he shall return this year with Spinal Tap 2.”
The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 0:58:47 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
programming (programming): Amanda Dobbins → Metropolitan. Pick 11 (round 4), category comedy: Drafting with her heart; Stillman formative for her.
“So in comedy, I'm going to take metropolitan.”
The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 1:00:02 · Amanda Dobbins (0.85 sure it was them)
career (career): Metropolitan → Whit Stillman. Metropolitan opens Stillman's trilogy about miserable rich, educated kids.
“about young, overly educated rich kids or mostly rich kids, um, sitting in rooms trying to impress each other and being miserable with their lives”
The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 1:00:09 · Amanda Dobbins (0.85 sure it was them)
lineage (lineage): Metropolitan → Kicking and Screaming. Amanda found Stillman and Baumbach's Kicking and Screaming at the same time as 90s indie movies.
“I think I saw Whistleman and Noah Bombach kicking and screaming”
The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 1:00:32 · Amanda Dobbins (0.85 sure it was them)
verdict (verdict): Metropolitan → The Last Days of Disco. Amanda ranks Metropolitan first and Last Days of Disco second among Stillman.
“And then Last Days of Disco 2.”
The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 1:01:28 · Amanda Dobbins (0.80 sure it was them)
career (career): Chris Eigeman → Kicking and Screaming. Eigeman is in Metropolitan and in Kicking and Screaming.
“And so he's obviously in this, kicking and screaming.”
The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 1:02:05 · Amanda Dobbins (0.80 sure it was them)
programming (programming): Chris Ryan → House Party. Pick 12 (round 4), category comedy: Rap-era slice of life, Hudlin, Kid 'n Play.
“I'm going to pick house party.”
The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 1:04:09 · Chris Ryan (0.85 sure it was them)
lineage (lineage): House Party → Dazed and Confused. For its rap-era teens, House Party was a Dazed and Confused before Dazed came out.
“This was like my days to confused before Days to Confuse came out.”
The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 1:04:18 · Chris Ryan (0.85 sure it was them)
career (career): Reginald Hudlin → Boomerang. Hudlin directed House Party and Boomerang.
“Big boomerang guy?”
The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 1:05:11 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
people (people): House Party → Reginald Hudlin. Hudlin was one of Chris's first favorite filmmakers.
“Maybe, maybe is one of my 1st favorite filmmakers in some ways”
The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 1:05:11 · Chris Ryan (0.80 sure it was them)
contrast (contrast): House Party → Class Act. Chris did not call Class Act objectively better but it was the one he always wanted to watch.
“I'm not saying is objectively a better movie than house party, but it was always the one that I wanted to watch”
The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 1:05:50 · Chris Ryan (0.80 sure it was them)
programming (programming): Chris Ryan → King of New York. Pick 13 (round 5), category action/horror/thriller: Peak Ferrara, Walken, killer ensemble.
“I will take it as a throw.”
The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 1:06:44 · Chris Ryan (0.80 sure it was them)
theme (theme): King of New York → Goodfellas. 1990 was a great year for gangster movies.
“This is a great year for gangster movies”
The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 1:06:48 · Chris Ryan (0.80 sure it was them)
people (people): King of New York → Abel Ferrara. King of New York is peak Ferrara for Chris.
“probably uh, the most illicit movie I had ever seen at the time”
The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 1:06:54 · Chris Ryan (0.85 sure it was them)
programming (programming): King of New York → Quentin Tarantino. The Rewatchables did a King of New York episode with Quentin Tarantino.
“We did a great rewatchables episode about it with Quentin Tarantino about 5 years ago.”
The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 1:07:25 · Chris Ryan (0.85 sure it was them)
programming (programming): Amanda Dobbins → Die Hard 2. Pick 14 (round 5), category sequel: Takes it off the board and avoids Look Who's Talking Too.
“And I'm going to take Die Hard 2.”
The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 1:08:20 · Amanda Dobbins (0.85 sure it was them)
what-if (what-if): Die Hard 2 → Look Who's Talking Too. Taking Die Hard 2 meant Amanda did not have to take Look Who's Talking Too, her number two.
“I don't have to take look who's talking to, which was number 2 on my list”
The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 1:08:23 · Amanda Dobbins (0.85 sure it was them)
craft (craft): Die Hard 2 → Renny Harlin. Harlin directs Die Hard 2 with wild disregard for good taste.
“saying we don't care about good taste in our diehard movie”
The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 1:09:41 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
unmapped (fun): Die Hard 2 → William Sadler. Sadler's nude karate yoga opening links to Matt Damon's Odyssey physique.
“I think Matt Damon was like, that's the body that Odysseus.”
The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 1:09:55 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
people (people): Presumed Innocent → Die Hard 2. Bonnie Bedelia is in both of Amanda's picks.
“that's 2 Bonnie Badelia movies for Amanda”
The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 1:10:10 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
programming (programming): Sean Fennessey → Wild at Heart. Pick 15 (round 5), category drama: Easy drama pick; borderline insane Lynch romance.
“I'm taking David Lynch's Wild at Heart.”
The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 1:11:00 · Sean Fennessey (0.85 sure it was them)
lineage (lineage): Wild at Heart → The Wizard of Oz. Wild at Heart is a homage to the Wizard of Oz.
“kind of a blanket homage to Wizard of Oz”
The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 1:11:10 · Sean Fennessey (0.85 sure it was them)
lineage (lineage): Diane Ladd → The Wizard of Oz. Diane Ladd plays something like the Wicked Witch.
“playing kind of like the Wicked Witch in some ways”
The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 1:11:19 · Sean Fennessey (0.85 sure it was them)
contrast (contrast): Wild at Heart → Inland Empire. Wild at Heart is tilted but not so weird you cannot follow it, unlike Inland Empire.
“It's not so weird that you can't follow the narrative of the story”
The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 1:11:58 · Sean Fennessey (0.85 sure it was them)
verdict (verdict): Wild at Heart → David Lynch. Great but not in the upper echelon of Lynch.
“Although I wouldn't say it's in my like upper upper echelon for Lynch.”
The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 1:12:13 · Sean Fennessey (0.85 sure it was them)
industry (industry): Gremlins 2: The New Batch → The Godfather Part III. Five 1990 sequels of New Hollywood films left Sean passing on those for the sequel slot.
“Not four, but 5 sequels to legendary iconic Hollywood, new Hollywood films.”
The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 1:12:32 · Sean Fennessey (0.85 sure it was them)
programming (programming): Sean Fennessey → Gremlins 2: The New Batch. Pick 16 (round 6), category sequel: Passes on five sequels to New Hollywood classics for Joe Dante's satire.
“I taking gremlins to the new batch.”
The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 1:12:59 · Sean Fennessey (0.85 sure it was them)
contrast (contrast): Gremlins 2: The New Batch → Gremlins. The first was a small film; the sequel is a Trump Tower-like satire.
“The 1st one was a small film.”
The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 1:13:42 · Sean Fennessey (0.85 sure it was them)
people (people): Gremlins 2: The New Batch → Chris Columbus. Chris Columbus is named with the first film's makers.
“Chris Columbus.”
The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 1:13:44 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
industry (industry): Gremlins 2: The New Batch → Steven Spielberg. Gremlins 2 was produced by Spielberg and directed by Joe Dante.
“produced by Spielberg and Joe Dante”
The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 1:13:45 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)
theme (theme): Gremlins 2: The New Batch → Donald Trump. The sequel is set in a Trump Tower-like skyscraper.
“the 2nd film is set basically in Trump Tower”
The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 1:13:51 · Sean Fennessey (0.85 sure it was them)
programming (programming): Gremlins 2: The New Batch → Jordan Peele. A Key and Peele sketch about Gremlins 2 shows why Peele is who he is.
“There's a legendary Key and Peel sketch about gremlins, too”
The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 1:14:48 · Sean Fennessey (0.85 sure it was them)
people (people): Gremlins 2: The New Batch → John Glover. John Glover plays the Trump stand-in.
“John Glover plays the Trump stand in.”
The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 1:15:26 · Sean Fennessey (0.85 sure it was them)
programming (programming): Amanda Dobbins → Postcards from the Edge. Pick 17 (round 6), category drama: Mike Nichols, Carrie Fisher, Streep, mother-daughter story.
“And in drama, I will take postcards from the edge.”
The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 1:15:58 · Amanda Dobbins (0.85 sure it was them)
people (people): Postcards from the Edge → Carrie Fisher. Postcards is a Mike Nichols film written by Carrie Fisher from her novel.
“Which is a Mike Nichols film, written by Carrie Fisher”
The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 1:16:02 · Amanda Dobbins (0.85 sure it was them)
people (people): Postcards from the Edge → Mike Nichols. Mike Nichols is one of Amanda's faves.
“I mean, it's Mike Nichols, one of my faves.”
The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 1:18:24 · Amanda Dobbins (0.85 sure it was them)
lineage (lineage): Texasville → The Last Picture Show. Texasville is the Last Picture Show sequel.
“Texasville, which is the last picture show sequel”
The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 1:19:24 · Chris Ryan (0.80 sure it was them)
lineage (lineage): The Two Jakes → Chinatown. The Two Jakes is the Chinatown sequel.
“You've got the 2 Jakes, which is the Chinatown sequel.”
The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 1:19:31 · Chris Ryan (0.80 sure it was them)
programming (programming): Chris Ryan → The Exorcist III. Pick 18 (round 6), category sequel: Among the great horror movies; Blatty directing.
“Well, I'm going to be selecting Exorcist 3.”
The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 1:19:46 · Chris Ryan (0.85 sure it was them)
verdict (verdict): The Exorcist III → The Godfather Part III. Chris likes Godfather Part III but Exorcist III is one of the great horror movies.
“I do like Godfather part three, but Exorcist 3 is one of the great horror movies I think ever made, honestly.”
The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 1:19:48 · Chris Ryan (0.85 sure it was them)
lineage (lineage): The Exorcist III → The Exorcist. Blatty directed Exorcist III after the horror show of Exorcist II.
“after the horror show that happened with Exorcist II, directed Exorcist 3”
The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 1:20:00 · Chris Ryan (0.85 sure it was them)
craft (craft): The Exorcist III → Wild at Heart. Exorcist III has scenes about 8 percent stranger than usual Hollywood horror, like Wild at Heart.
“There are some scenes and some ways of doing things in this movie that are like 8% stranger, than your usual Hollywood horror movie”
The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 1:20:35 · Chris Ryan (0.85 sure it was them)
career (career): William Peter Blatty → The Ninth Configuration. Blatty's directorial debut, with Stacy Keach.
“Have you seen the ninth configuration, William Peter Blotti's directorial debut?”
The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 1:21:07 · Chris Ryan (0.85 sure it was them)
programming (programming): Chris Ryan → The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover. Pick 19 (round 7), category wild card: Second Greenaway pick; visually sumptuous.
“And that is the cook, the thief, the wife, and her lover.”
The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 1:23:03 · Chris Ryan (0.85 sure it was them)
programming (programming): The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover → Peter Greenaway. It is Chris's second Greenaway pick across his drafts.
“This is the 2nd Peter Greenway movie I've taken.”
The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 1:23:07 · Chris Ryan (0.85 sure it was them)
people (people): Michael Nyman → The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover. Nyman's score is one Chris plays at home.
“Michael Nyman, his score for this film.”
The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 1:23:20 · Chris Ryan (0.85 sure it was them)
people (people): The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover → Helen Mirren. Mirren, Michael Gambon and a young Tim Roth lead the cast.
“Helen Mirren, Michael Gambon, a very young Tim Roth”
The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 1:23:25 · Chris Ryan (0.85 sure it was them)
craft (craft): The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover → Peter Greenaway. Greenaway builds sets and color like a fine artist.
“He truly sees film like the way a fine artist does.”
The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 1:24:08 · Chris Ryan (0.85 sure it was them)
people (people): Mermaids → Cher. Mermaids features Cher, Winona Ryder and Christina Ricci.
“I have the memory of Cher and Monona Rrider and Christina Ricci all on the screen”
The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 1:25:11 · Amanda Dobbins (0.85 sure it was them)
programming (programming): Amanda Dobbins → Mermaids. Pick 20 (round 7), category wild card: Remembered seeing it in theaters at five or six; her introduction to Cher.
“So this is mermaids.”
The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 1:25:34 · Amanda Dobbins (0.85 sure it was them)
career (career): Mermaids → Richard Benjamin. Benjamin directed Mermaids and, shortly after, Made in America.
“Anyway, Richard Benjamin directed that movie.”
The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 1:27:02 · Amanda Dobbins (0.70 sure it was them)
theme (theme): Mermaids → Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael. Roxy Carmichael is the other Winona Ryder movie of the year.
“the other big, like, Winona, like, starting to kind of emerge movie from this year”
The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 1:27:15 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)
people (people): Mermaids → Wild Hearts Can't Be Broken. Michael Schoeffling is in Mermaids and the next year's Wild Hearts Can't Be Broken.
“But then he's also the next year in a movie called Wild Hearts Can't be Broken.”
The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 1:27:33 · Amanda Dobbins (0.70 sure it was them)
programming (programming): Sean Fennessey → Mo' Better Blues. Pick 21 (round 7), category wild card: Spike Lee's different follow-up to Do the Right Thing; love story about an artist's soul.
“Well, better blues is sitting at the top of my wild card list right now.”
The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 1:28:51 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)
contrast (contrast): Mo' Better Blues → Do the Right Thing. Mo' Better Blues is a completely different follow-up to Do the Right Thing.
“Spike Lee's amazing, completely different follow-up to do the right thing”
The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 1:28:54 · Sean Fennessey (0.85 sure it was them)
what-if (what-if): Home Alone → Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Had Home Alone not been taken, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles would have been the comedy pick.
“if I had not taken home alone, I would have I would have considered teenage being Ninja Turtles”
The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 1:29:15 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
theme (theme): King of New York → Miller's Crossing. 1990 was a year for Irish gangsters across King of New York, State of Grace, and Miller's Crossing.
“An incredible year for Irish gangsters between Chris Walken and King of New York and Miller's Crossing.”
The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 1:29:27 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
people (people): State of Grace → Jordan Cronenweth. The speaker names Jordan Cronenweth as the cinematographer of State of Grace.
“I think the cinematographer for State of Grace is Jordan Cronin with.”
The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 1:29:44 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)
what-if (what-if): State of Grace → King of New York. The speaker was torn between State of Grace and King of New York.
“it was that or King of New York”
The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 1:29:52 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)
career (career): Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! → Antonio Banderas. Last Banderas movie before Hollywood and Mambo Kings.
“basically the last movie that Antonio Vanderas made before making the leap to Hollywood with Mambo Kings”
The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 1:29:54 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
contrast (contrast): Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! → Baby Girl. Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! made Chris think of Baby Girl.
“Baby Girl. Because of they're very similar in some ways.”
The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 1:30:12 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)
lineage (lineage): Darkman → Mission: Impossible. Darkman's face-mask conceit looks like Mission Impossible.
“so like Mission Impossible.”
The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 1:31:15 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
lineage (lineage): Darkman → Spider-Man. Raimi's Spider-Man strengths start in Darkman.
“all the stuff that is cool about the Remy Spider-Man movies starts here”
The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 1:31:21 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
people (people): Flatliners → Julia Roberts. Flatliners is the other big Julia Roberts movie of 1990.
“The other Big Julia Roberts movie of 1990.”
The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 1:31:34 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
lineage (lineage): My Blue Heaven → Goodfellas. My Blue Heaven is blown out by Goodfellas as it is the same movie, like a sequel.
“It got kind of blown out of the water by Goodfellas because it's the same movie.”
The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 1:31:51 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
career (career): Nora Ephron → My Blue Heaven. Ephron wrote My Blue Heaven after Nicholas Pileggi met Henry Hill for Wiseguy.
“Nora Efron sitting at home riding my blue heaven after her experience meeting Henry Hill”
The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 1:32:09 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
career (career): Backtrack → Dennis Hopper. Hopper directed two thrillers this year, Backtrack and The Hot Spot.
“we had a double hit of Dennis Hopper directed thrillers this year”
The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 1:33:57 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
people (people): The Hot Spot → Miles Davis. Its soundtrack features John Lee Hooker, Miles Davis and Taj Mahal.
“the soundtrack to the hotspot was done by John Lee Hooker and Miles Davis and Taj Mahal”
The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 1:34:09 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
industry (industry): Arachnophobia → Steven Spielberg. Arachnophobia is the Amblin movie Spielberg did not direct; Frank Marshall did.
“that's sort of like the er amblin movie that was not directed by Steven Spielberg”
The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 1:34:28 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
lineage (lineage): Arachnophobia → Jaws. Arachnophobia is Jaws with spiders.
“it's sort of like Jaws, but with spiders”
The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 1:34:36 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
career (career): Mike Leigh → Dick Pope. Dick Pope is Mike Leigh's longtime cinematographer, shooting Life Is Sweet.
“I think with Dick Pope, his longtime cinematographer, just passed away after they made, um...”
The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 1:35:13 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)
lineage (lineage): Life Is Sweet → Hard Truths. Fans of Mike Leigh's Hard Truths should seek out Life Is Sweet.
“if people liked hard truths, they should seek that one out”
The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 1:35:23 · Chris Ryan (0.40 sure it was them)
people (people): Hidden Agenda → Ken Loach. Ken Loach thriller with Frances McDormand and Brian Cox.
“which is a Ken Loach kind of thriller?”
The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 1:35:30 · Chris Ryan (0.40 sure it was them)
industry (industry): Akira Kurosawa's Dreams → Martin Scorsese. Scorsese plays Van Gogh and helped fund the film.
“The movie was funded in part by Martin Scorsese and George Lucas, who wanted to patronize one of their heroes at the end of his career”
The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 1:36:03 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Fun items (29)

fun, about Matt Damon: Matt Damon is shirtless and yoked on the set of The Odyssey, which launches the cold plunge jokes.
“Matt Damon is absolutely yoked out of his mind at the moment.”
The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 0:02:40 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
fun, about Eddington: The teaser shows Joaquin Phoenix's sheriff doom-scrolling during the pandemic, with a TikTok line about reading Giovanni's Room.
“I just finished reading Baldwin's Giovanni.”
The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 0:06:20 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
fun, about Rory McIlroy: The Masters final, watched by Sean, Chris and the staff, was compared to a three-act movie.
“It really had a 3 act structure”
The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 0:10:10 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about Draft format: Seven categories this time: Oscar nominee, drama, comedy, action/horror/thriller, sequel, blockbuster (over $75 million) and wild card.
“I set the threshold at 75000000 because in 1991, we set it for 75 million”
The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 0:22:46 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)
fun, about Goodfellas: Chris's first overall pick; Amanda says she would have taken it too, and Chris admits he never saw it in the theater, just on video soon after.
“I saw it on video shortly after, though.”
The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 0:27:16 · Chris Ryan (0.85 sure it was them)
fun, about Pretty Woman: Amanda wonders about wearing a Pretty Woman polka-dot dress to a wedding where younger guests may miss the reference.
“I was internet shopping to avoid the world the earlier today, and then there was a brand polka address”
The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 0:31:10 · Amanda Dobbins (0.85 sure it was them)
fun, about Total Recall: Sean notes the three-breasted woman and Sharon Stone as the unreliable wife.
“Not one, not two, but 3 breasted woman.”
The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 0:36:03 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
fun, about Home Alone: Sean points to the movie's upsetting premise of a family leaving a kid behind.
“The actual framework of the movie is very upsetting and I think about it often”
The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 0:37:25 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)
fun, about The Hunt for Red October: Amanda imagines herself as the sonar operator listening to pings at double speed.
“If I could listen to the sonar pings at 2X.”
The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 0:42:16 · Amanda Dobbins (0.80 sure it was them)
fun, about Miller's Crossing: Chris recently began a physical media collection, and Miller's Crossing was the first pickup he wanted.
“I recently began my own physical media collection.”
The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 0:44:49 · Chris Ryan (0.85 sure it was them)
fun, about Days of Thunder: Kidman reportedly wanted to research neurosurgery for her role and the producers said not to bother.
“said she really wanted to do a lot of research on neurosurgery and they said, don't bother.”
The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 0:50:29 · Chris Ryan (0.85 sure it was them)
fun, about Ghost: Sean was broken up with by a sixth-grade girl on the way into the movie and tried to ruin her experience.
“I got broken up with by this girl as we were like going into this movie and I was quite rude about the film because of that.”
The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 0:54:10 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)
fun, about Misery: Sean jokes that Misery is what would happen if a CR fan met Chris and broke his ankles.
“kind of like if a CR head met Chris in the street and decided to break his ankles so that he couldn't leave their home.”
The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 0:57:30 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)
fun, about Metropolitan: Amanda says Metropolitan showed her people who seemed to value being terrible the way she did.
“didn't know that there were people out there who wanted to be like this and are terrible”
The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 1:00:50 · Amanda Dobbins (0.85 sure it was them)
fun, about House Party: Chris saw it in a theater and rewatched it 55 times.
“this was like a real like rewatch 55 times.”
The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 1:05:17 · Chris Ryan (0.85 sure it was them)
fun, about King of New York: Chris saw the film on video and had never seen certain acts committed on a subway.
“like I never seen certain things, certain acts committed on the subway.”
The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 1:07:02 · Chris Ryan (0.85 sure it was them)
fun, about Wild at Heart: The staircase scene with Diane Ladd and the smeared lipstick stuck with Sean.
“that staircase scene with Diane Ladd just being so upsetting and weird in the smear of the lipstick.”
The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 1:11:58 · Sean Fennessey (0.85 sure it was them)
fun, about Gremlins 2: The New Batch: A vegetable gremlin, a vampire gremlin and an electricity gremlin run loose in a TV-station skyscraper.
“There's like a vegetable gremlin.”
The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 1:14:29 · Sean Fennessey (0.85 sure it was them)
fun, about Postcards from the Edge: The Shirley MacLaine dinner-party song is painful and amazing, with Streep watching her.
“But then also what Meryl Streep is doing in that scene watching her and hating her and loving her.”
The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 1:17:24 · Amanda Dobbins (0.85 sure it was them)
fun, about The Exorcist III: One of the scariest jump scares Chris has ever seen, which he will not spoil.
“one of the scariest jump scares still to this day that I've ever seen.”
The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 1:19:55 · Chris Ryan (0.85 sure it was them)
fun, about The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover: Chris glimpsed the Gambon-Mirren dinner-table scene as a kid and his dad told him to just watch Goodfellas again.
“My dad being like, just watch Goodfellas again.”
The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 1:24:29 · Chris Ryan (0.60 sure it was them)
fun, about Mermaids: The movie was Amanda's first sight of Cher; the family took their little woman to see a film with three women.
“This might have been my 1st introduction to share also.”
The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 1:26:00 · Amanda Dobbins (0.80 sure it was them)
fun, about Made in America: Ted Danson wore blackface at a Friars Roast while dating Whoopi Goldberg; Richard Benjamin directed Made in America.
“Ted Danson wore blackface at the fryer roast.”
The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 1:26:35 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60 sure it was them)
fun, about Pump Up the Volume: Joked to have invented podcasting.
“though it did invent podcasting”
The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 1:28:38 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)
fun, about Darkman: Raimi's film is a 1940s-serial-style comic book movie in a good year for comic book movies.
“This is such a good year for like not shitty comic book movies.”
The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 1:30:45 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about My Blue Heaven: Nora Ephron wrote it while her husband Nicholas Pileggi was getting to know Henry Hill for Wiseguy.
“Nicholas Pleggi, her husband, was getting to know Henry Hill because of Goodfellas because he was writing wise guy.”
The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 1:32:09 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about Akira Kurosawa's Dreams: Nine dreams Kurosawa had, with Scorsese as Van Gogh.
“Also features a performance by Martin Scorsese as Vincent Van Gogh.”
The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 1:35:59 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
fun, about Goodfellas: The producer's favorite 1990 movie; he rewatched it alone at 11 p.m. on his birthday.
“I just watched that for my birthday a couple weeks ago.”
The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 1:37:19 · unknown (0.50 sure it was them)
fun, about Goodfellas: Scorsese's mom should have been in every 90s movie with a painting of two dogs.
“I think that Scorsese's mom should have been in every single movie in the 90s with a different painting of 2 dogs.”
The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 1:37:45 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)

Who's talking

Sean Fennessey (host): Loves tilted, genre-mixing movies (Wild at Heart, Gremlins 2) and mainstream crowd-pleasers he grew up with (Home Alone, Ghost, Total Recall). He kept the draft's logic and also took the Spike Lee Mo' Better Blues as a heartfelt late pick. A sucker for sequels with a point of view and for the Rewatchables tie-in.
Amanda Dobbins (host): Loves romantic comedies and mother-daughter stories (Pretty Woman, Postcards, Mermaids), plus well-made studio thrillers like The Hunt for Red October. Dislikes authority and anything too tough, and drafts with her heart. Has a soft spot for Whit Stillman and Mike Nichols.
Chris Ryan (guest): Loves gangster and noir movies (Goodfellas, Miller's Crossing, King of New York), 80s-90s action (Days of Thunder), and horror with an 8-percent-weirder bent (Exorcist III). He is newly into physical media and loves rap-era comedy. A sucker for Rewatchables tie-ins.

The show's recurring bits

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.

Names the transcriber got wrong

'Sean Fantasy' / 'Amanda Dada' = Sean Fennessey / Amanda Dobbins
'Rod October'/'Hunt for Rod October' = The Hunt for Red October
'Goodfellows'/'good food' = Goodfellas
'Gary Marshall' = Garry Marshall
'Tony Goldman' = Tony Goldwyn (Ghost villain)
'Abel Ferreira' = Abel Ferrara
'Whitstoneman'/'Whistleman' = Whit Stillman
'Noah Bombach' = Noah Baumbach
'Cohen brother' = Coen brothers
'Dark Man' = Darkman
'Monona Rrider' = Winona Ryder
'Mo, Better Blues'/'Ro better blues' = Mo' Better Blues
'Inglorious Bastards one' at 1:08:06 is garbled; likely not a pick
'Michael Scheffling' = Michael Schoeffling
'Phil Geneau' = Phil Joanou
'Elmadovars' = Almodovar
'Catherine Bigelow' = Kathryn Bigelow
'Scotchro' = Scott Turow
'Rory McAway' = Rory McIlroy
'Lord Dern' = Laura Dern
'Jordan Cronin' = Jordan Cronenweth
'Steven Freer' = Stephen Frears
'Charles Burnetts' = Charles Burnett
'Francis McDormand' = Frances McDormand
'Bonnie Badelia' = Bonnie Bedelia
'Tuturo' in 'star making tuturo performance' = tour-de-force/star-making (unclear)
Total Recall's gross appears as '$19 million' at 0:50:55, likely $119 million

The Big Picture: The 1990 Movie Draft

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