Sean Fennessey

81 sketches, 1,576 claims, and 559 fun items attributed to them. What was said about them.

Personality, episode by episode

Showing 81–81 of 81 sketches.

Blank Check — Patreon: Dr. Strangelove... with Sean Fennessey (Ad-Free) (guest)

Reveres Strangelove as the most singular Kubrick and a document that still applies. Loves Frankenheimer, Malick, and deep trivia of movie years. Dislikes recent McKay satire but is gentle about it.

Stances

  • Strangelove still applies to how government and masculinity work
  • Kubrick competed with himself to take on a new genre each time
  • Seven Days in May and Frankenheimer's run belongs next to Kubrick's

Humor: Dry, generous and self-effacing, tossing off asides in a calm voice.

In their words

  • “And I love Dr. Strangelove, and I love Stanley Kubrick and everything else that you're doing.” (0:10:35)
  • “this is exactly how government works.” (1:39:54)
  • “this movie comes in the middle of the most underrated five-year run in any American filmmaker's history, which is John Frankenheimer from 1962 to 1966” (2:02:41)

Their shows' recurring bits

Running bits, not opinions; a critic read aloud is cited, not present.

The Big Picture

The Rewatchables

Their claims

Showing 1,001–1,100 of 1,576 claims.

  1. industry (industry): Nomadland → Producers Guild Awards. The PGAs have predicted most recent Best Picture winners, pointing to a Nomadland sweep.
    “the PGAs have predicted 15 of the past 20 best picture winners”
    The Big Picture · Top Five Gen X Director Debuts, the Fate of ‘Black Widow,’ and a Potential Oscars Disaster · 0:11:05 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)
  2. programming (programming): Errol Morris → Citizen Kane. The Academy hired Errol Morris for short documentaries, one of which produced Donald Trump misreading Citizen Kane.
    “he completely misreads Citizen Kane and misunderstands it and then kind of sort of predicts his own future in some respects”
    The Big Picture · Top Five Gen X Director Debuts, the Fate of ‘Black Widow,’ and a Potential Oscars Disaster · 0:21:06 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)
  3. lineage (lineage): Minari → Moonlight. Minari has been compared to Moonlight, which is also an A24 awards breakthrough.
    “Minari has been compared in many ways to moonlight for a variety of reasons.”
    The Big Picture · Top Five Gen X Director Debuts, the Fate of ‘Black Widow,’ and a Potential Oscars Disaster · 0:26:08 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)
  4. lineage (lineage): Sex, Lies, and Videotape → Brick. Sex, Lies, and Videotape came out 17 or 18 years before Brick and felt like a different generation.
    “this is 17, 18 years later”
    The Big Picture · Top Five Gen X Director Debuts, the Fate of ‘Black Widow,’ and a Potential Oscars Disaster · 0:34:36 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  5. people (people): Bound → The Wachowskis. Brian's honorable mention Bound is by the Wachowskis.
    “By the Wachowskis.”
    The Big Picture · Top Five Gen X Director Debuts, the Fate of ‘Black Widow,’ and a Potential Oscars Disaster · 0:41:55 · Sean Fennessey (0.55 sure it was them)
  6. contrast (contrast): Kiss Kiss Bang Bang → Ex Machina. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang is Shane Black's thing, while Garland came from nowhere and arrived fully formed.
    “Which is whereas whereas Kiss, Kiss, K Bang, Bang, is Shane Black's thing.”
    The Big Picture · Top Five Gen X Director Debuts, the Fate of ‘Black Widow,’ and a Potential Oscars Disaster · 0:46:51 · Sean Fennessey (0.55 sure it was them)
  7. career (career): Gone Baby Gone → Ex Machina. Affleck's actor debut turned out to be good, much like Ex Machina coming later in a career.
    “that was much like X Machina.”
    The Big Picture · Top Five Gen X Director Debuts, the Fate of ‘Black Widow,’ and a Potential Oscars Disaster · 0:48:35 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)
  8. people (people): Being John Malkovich → John Cazale. Spike Jonze is the living John Cazale of directors: a very short filmography.
    “He's like the living John Kazale of directors.”
    The Big Picture · Top Five Gen X Director Debuts, the Fate of ‘Black Widow,’ and a Potential Oscars Disaster · 0:50:15 · Sean Fennessey (0.85 sure it was them)
  9. people (people): Being John Malkovich → Charlie Kaufman. Sean sees Jonze and Kaufman as two artists who needed each other; Jonze made Kaufman's abstract ideas literal.
    “Spike really was able to visualize and literalize a lot of Charlie's ideas, which are so abstract”
    The Big Picture · Top Five Gen X Director Debuts, the Fate of ‘Black Widow,’ and a Potential Oscars Disaster · 0:52:04 · Sean Fennessey (0.85 sure it was them)
  10. lineage (lineage): Hard Eight (Sydney) → Jonathan Demme. The into-camera close-ups in the diner are Demme-like; it is like Scorsese and Demme together.
    “It's like if Scorsese and Demi made something together in a lot of ways.”
    The Big Picture · Top Five Gen X Director Debuts, the Fate of ‘Black Widow,’ and a Potential Oscars Disaster · 0:58:17 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)
  11. lineage (lineage): Hard Eight (Sydney) → Robert Altman. If you talk about its influences you have to talk about Altman too.
    “you got to talk about Altman, I think too”
    The Big Picture · Top Five Gen X Director Debuts, the Fate of ‘Black Widow,’ and a Potential Oscars Disaster · 0:58:47 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  12. career (career): Hard Eight (Sydney) → Boogie Nights. Seeing Hard Eight after Boogie Nights was like a first album that got bigger distribution once the second took off.
    “It was a little bit of a like 1st album, 2nd album thing”
    The Big Picture · Top Five Gen X Director Debuts, the Fate of ‘Black Widow,’ and a Potential Oscars Disaster · 0:59:18 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)
  13. contrast (contrast): Hard Eight (Sydney) → Boogie Nights. Boogie Nights is about being young, Hard Eight about getting older, so it was the harder first film to see.
    “Boogie Nights is about being young and heart 8 is about getting older”
    The Big Picture · Top Five Gen X Director Debuts, the Fate of ‘Black Widow,’ and a Potential Oscars Disaster · 0:59:36 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)
  14. craft (craft): Bound → Sexy Beast. Glazer ratchets tension in a gangster story much as Brian described the Wachowskis doing in Bound.
    “ratchets tension, much like you were talking about with Bound”
    The Big Picture · Top Five Gen X Director Debuts, the Fate of ‘Black Widow,’ and a Potential Oscars Disaster · 1:00:15 · Sean Fennessey (0.85 sure it was them)
  15. craft (craft): Sexy Beast → Ex Machina. Glazer, like Garland, applies the control and style of music-video days to a conventional genre story.
    “very similar to Garland, in so far as the amount of control and style”
    The Big Picture · Top Five Gen X Director Debuts, the Fate of ‘Black Widow,’ and a Potential Oscars Disaster · 1:00:15 · Sean Fennessey (0.85 sure it was them)
  16. people (people): Sexy Beast → Ben Kingsley. Glazer got one of the great 21st-century performances out of Ben Kingsley.
    “gets one of the great performances of the 21st century out of Ben Kingsley”
    The Big Picture · Top Five Gen X Director Debuts, the Fate of ‘Black Widow,’ and a Potential Oscars Disaster · 1:00:43 · Sean Fennessey (0.90 sure it was them)
  17. career (career): Sexy Beast → Allison Anders. Sean links short CVs to Glazer and notes Anders got fewer shots and faded from memory.
    “And then she didn't get as many shots.”
    The Big Picture · Top Five Gen X Director Debuts, the Fate of ‘Black Widow,’ and a Potential Oscars Disaster · 1:01:19 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)
  18. career (career): Safe → Todd Haynes. Safe would be one or two on a list if it were a debut, but Haynes's first was Superstar.
    “Because safe would be, you know, as one or 2 on my list”
    The Big Picture · Top Five Gen X Director Debuts, the Fate of ‘Black Widow,’ and a Potential Oscars Disaster · 1:03:20 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
  19. career (career): Pi → Mother. Sean likes Aronofsky and wishes a movie like Mother! were out this year.
    “I wish that there was a movie like Mother coming out this year, honestly.”
    The Big Picture · Top Five Gen X Director Debuts, the Fate of ‘Black Widow,’ and a Potential Oscars Disaster · 1:06:59 · Sean Fennessey (0.75 sure it was them)
  20. craft (craft): The Virgin Suicides → Lick the Stars. Coppola's short Lick the Stars shows her honing the approach she took to the novel.
    “you can see in her short film that she's basically like honing the approach”
    The Big Picture · Top Five Gen X Director Debuts, the Fate of ‘Black Widow,’ and a Potential Oscars Disaster · 1:07:22 · Sean Fennessey (0.90 sure it was them)
  21. people (people): Margin Call → Zachary Quinto. Zachary Quinto produced Margin Call and gives a perfect performance.
    “And Zach Kinto produced it”
    The Big Picture · Top Five Gen X Director Debuts, the Fate of ‘Black Widow,’ and a Potential Oscars Disaster · 1:12:42 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  22. industry (industry): Boyz n the Hood → Hollywood opportunities. Without Boyz n the Hood the filmmakers getting opportunities now would not have them.
    “would just would not have those opportunities, if not for a movie like Boys in the Hood”
    The Big Picture · Top Five Gen X Director Debuts, the Fate of ‘Black Widow,’ and a Potential Oscars Disaster · 1:13:40 · Sean Fennessey (0.85 sure it was them)
  23. lineage (lineage): Reservoir Dogs → New Hollywood. Reservoir Dogs was Sean's nearest experience of the 60s and 70s New Hollywood.
    “this was as close as I was going to get to that in my in my lifetime.”
    The Big Picture · Top Five Gen X Director Debuts, the Fate of ‘Black Widow,’ and a Potential Oscars Disaster · 1:18:29 · Sean Fennessey (0.85 sure it was them)
  24. verdict (verdict): Inglourious Basterds → Pulp Fiction. One host puts Basterds first and Pulp Fiction second among Tarantino's films, behind both Reservoir Dogs.
    “I feel like Bastards is number one, pretty clearly, and Pulp Pickers is number 2 pretty clearly.”
    The Big Picture · Top Five Gen X Director Debuts, the Fate of ‘Black Widow,’ and a Potential Oscars Disaster · 1:19:31 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  25. career (career): Steven Soderbergh → The Girlfriend Experience. Sean uses The Girlfriend Experience and the Ocean's movies to show Soderbergh's range.
    “think of the girlfriend experience and think of the oceans movie”
    The Big Picture · Top Five Gen X Director Debuts, the Fate of ‘Black Widow,’ and a Potential Oscars Disaster · 1:26:51 · Sean Fennessey (0.85 sure it was them)
  26. theme (theme): Tiger → Earl Woods. The first half frames Earl as a Dr. Frankenstein making Tiger into a monster of power and emotional danger.
    “to show Earl Woods, his father, as the kind of Dr. Frankenstein, and making Tiger Woods into this kind of Frankenstein monster, for better and for worse”
    The Big Picture · Thirteen Awards Movies to Watch Out for, Oscar Do-Overs, and More From the Mailbag · 0:04:18 · Sean Fennessey (0.85 sure it was them)
  27. contrast (contrast): Tiger → The Last Dance. Unlike The Last Dance, where Jordan and his team were producers with some control, Tiger is unauthorized and Woods does not sit for it.
    “this is interesting, especially as a contrast of the last dance, which was, of course, the last big super sports documentary of recent times that wasn't authorized piece in which Michael Jordan and his compatriots were on board his producers.”
    The Big Picture · Thirteen Awards Movies to Watch Out for, Oscar Do-Overs, and More From the Mailbag · 0:10:28 · Sean Fennessey (0.85 sure it was them)
  28. lineage (lineage): Tiger → O.J.: Made in America. Audiences are conditioned by Made in America and The Last Dance to expect soup-to-nuts sports documentaries that are really about larger ideas.
    “we have become conditioned, in part because of OJ made in America, in part because of the last dance, to get this soup to nuts kind of story.”
    The Big Picture · Thirteen Awards Movies to Watch Out for, Oscar Do-Overs, and More From the Mailbag · 0:15:55 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)
  29. theme (theme): The Last Dance → O.J.: Made in America. Both look bigger than their nominal subject: The Last Dance spans many years of Bulls teams, Made in America covers race in America over 60 years.
    “O.J. Made in America is not just a story about O.J. Simpson and Nicole Brown Simpson and that murder.”
    The Big Picture · Thirteen Awards Movies to Watch Out for, Oscar Do-Overs, and More From the Mailbag · 0:16:16 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)
  30. lineage (lineage): Pretend It's a City → Public Speaking. Scorsese's 2010 HBO Lebowitz documentary was far more formalist than the loose Netflix series.
    “There was a Martin Scorsese documentary about Fran Leboitz in 2010 called public speaking that aired on HBO.”
    The Big Picture · Thirteen Awards Movies to Watch Out for, Oscar Do-Overs, and More From the Mailbag · 0:24:17 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)
  31. craft (craft): Pretend It's a City → Ellen Kuras. The odd city-walking segments are beautifully shot by Ellen Kuras.
    “It's really, it features these odd segments in which he's walking through the city that are beautifully shot by Ellen Curris.”
    The Big Picture · Thirteen Awards Movies to Watch Out for, Oscar Do-Overs, and More From the Mailbag · 0:24:56 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)
  32. craft (craft): Pretend It's a City → Martin Scorsese. Only Scorsese could have gotten away with making this hodgepodge omnibus show.
    “It, an omnibus kind of a TV show, and I don't think anybody else could have made it or could have gotten away with making it in this fashion.”
    The Big Picture · Thirteen Awards Movies to Watch Out for, Oscar Do-Overs, and More From the Mailbag · 0:25:06 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)
  33. people (people): Martin Scorsese → Fran Lebowitz. Scorsese's affection for his friend Lebowitz mirrors the speaker's own urge to platform brilliant friends like Chris Ryan.
    “I can feel and Scorsese, the same urges with Fran Leboitz, where he's just like, my friend is so cool and funny.”
    The Big Picture · Thirteen Awards Movies to Watch Out for, Oscar Do-Overs, and More From the Mailbag · 0:25:57 · Sean Fennessey (0.75 sure it was them)
  34. industry (industry): Malcolm & Marie → 1917. Like 1917 last year, Malcolm & Marie is a late-entrant Oscar movie that is suddenly competing everywhere with a ready-made narrative.
    “This is definitely what 1917 was to the Oscar race last year, the kind of late entrant that's like, oh, okay, this is competing in every category and is going to be really noisy”
    The Big Picture · Thirteen Awards Movies to Watch Out for, Oscar Do-Overs, and More From the Mailbag · 0:31:45 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)
  35. people (people): Malcolm & Marie → Zendaya. The speaker finds undoubtedly amazing performances from Washington and Zendaya in an overwritten but beautiful film.
    “undoubtedly amazing performances from Washington and Zendaya.”
    The Big Picture · Thirteen Awards Movies to Watch Out for, Oscar Do-Overs, and More From the Mailbag · 0:32:42 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  36. industry (industry): Malcolm & Marie → Judas and the Black Messiah. Both arrived late to the critical party and could change the nominations.
    “I think that Malcolm and Marie and Jews and the Black Messiah are probably the 2 big, this kind of showed up late to the party and are going to change the constitution of the nominations”
    The Big Picture · Thirteen Awards Movies to Watch Out for, Oscar Do-Overs, and More From the Mailbag · 0:33:03 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)
  37. people (people): The Mauritanian → Tahar Rahim. The film is just okay but Rahim has an incredible performance and a chance at a nomination.
    “an absolutely incredible performance from Taharaheim, that I would recommend to people, I think, is the movie is okay.”
    The Big Picture · Thirteen Awards Movies to Watch Out for, Oscar Do-Overs, and More From the Mailbag · 0:34:18 · Sean Fennessey (0.75 sure it was them)
  38. career (career): Cherry → Russo Brothers. Cherry is the Russo Brothers' adaptation of the Nico Walker novel.
    “This is the Russo Brothers, adaptation of the Nico Walker autofiction novel.”
    The Big Picture · Thirteen Awards Movies to Watch Out for, Oscar Do-Overs, and More From the Mailbag · 0:34:46 · Sean Fennessey (0.75 sure it was them)
  39. verdict (verdict): The Father → Anthony Hopkins. Hopkins is a near-certain best-actor nominee, but the speaker did not love the film itself.
    “I feel like I'm on an island here with the father.”
    The Big Picture · Thirteen Awards Movies to Watch Out for, Oscar Do-Overs, and More From the Mailbag · 0:35:15 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)
  40. verdict (verdict): Rocky → Network. Rocky won over All the President's Men, Network and Taxi Driver in 1977, and is not better than any of them.
    “Rocky is not a better film than any of the 3 films I just named, in my opinion.”
    The Big Picture · Thirteen Awards Movies to Watch Out for, Oscar Do-Overs, and More From the Mailbag · 0:42:14 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)
  41. industry (industry): Rain Man → Working Girl. Rain Man made around $300 million and was the year's biggest film in a very different era of moviegoing.
    “That movie made like $300 million, and that was a totally different time in movies when Rainman could be the number one box office hit.”
    The Big Picture · Thirteen Awards Movies to Watch Out for, Oscar Do-Overs, and More From the Mailbag · 0:43:35 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  42. what-if (what-if): The Godfather Part II → Harry and Tonto. Pacino beating Art Carney at the 1975 Oscars could have broken the habit of giving great actors their Oscars two decades late.
    “I think we could have just changed the arc of history, if we had given Pacino best actor for Godfather 2 in 1975 instead of Art Carney for Harry and Tonto.”
    The Big Picture · Thirteen Awards Movies to Watch Out for, Oscar Do-Overs, and More From the Mailbag · 0:43:50 · Sean Fennessey (0.75 sure it was them)
  43. industry (industry): Glenn Close → Hillbilly Elegy. The late-career Oscar-owed pattern: there will be a movement for Close to win for Hillbilly Elegy.
    “There's there's going to be a movement for Glenn Close to win an Oscar for hillbilly elegy.”
    The Big Picture · Thirteen Awards Movies to Watch Out for, Oscar Do-Overs, and More From the Mailbag · 0:44:12 · Sean Fennessey (0.75 sure it was them)
  44. career (career): Al Pacino → The Godfather Part II. Speculating how an early Oscar might have altered Pacino's wild 1980s and later money-driven career.
    “I just know that his performance in the Godfather Part 2 is arguably the greatest performance in the history of movies.”
    The Big Picture · Thirteen Awards Movies to Watch Out for, Oscar Do-Overs, and More From the Mailbag · 0:45:19 · Sean Fennessey (0.75 sure it was them)
  45. craft (craft): Full Metal Jacket → Stanley Kubrick. The boot-camp first hour is cited as one of the great first halves of any movie; the Vietnam second half is very good with Kubrick hallmarks.
    “that 1st hour is funny, terrifying, emotionally wrenching.”
    The Big Picture · Thirteen Awards Movies to Watch Out for, Oscar Do-Overs, and More From the Mailbag · 0:46:44 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)
  46. lineage (lineage): Preston Sturges → Nora Ephron. Sturges's writer-first absurdist romantic comedy style influenced Ephron, James Brooks and Albert Brooks.
    “obviously, like the Nora Efron of the world were really influenced by Sturgis movies, um, as were like James Brooks and, you know, the people like Albert Brooks”
    The Big Picture · Thirteen Awards Movies to Watch Out for, Oscar Do-Overs, and More From the Mailbag · 0:48:31 · Sean Fennessey (0.85 sure it was them)
  47. contrast (contrast): Preston Sturges → Howard Hawks. Sturges lacks the restored, boxed-set iconography that Hitchcock, Ford, Kurosawa and Fellini enjoy.
    “the way that, like, Hitchcock and John Ford and Akira Kurosawa, like, they're not slipping through the cracks.”
    The Big Picture · Thirteen Awards Movies to Watch Out for, Oscar Do-Overs, and More From the Mailbag · 0:49:23 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)
  48. contrast (contrast): Casablanca → Sullivan's Travels. Casablanca still means something to the American moviegoer, while a Preston Sturges carousel on HBO Max would mean nothing to most.
    “is there a carousel on HBO Max that says the Preston Sturgis collection? And does that mean anything to anyone?”
    The Big Picture · Thirteen Awards Movies to Watch Out for, Oscar Do-Overs, and More From the Mailbag · 0:51:01 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)
  49. career (career): Burt Lancaster → Sweet Smell of Success. Lancaster dared to play hated characters and pursue strange films, especially Sweet Smell of Success.
    “his willingness to be hated as a character in movies, especially sweet smell of success, but many of his movies.”
    The Big Picture · Thirteen Awards Movies to Watch Out for, Oscar Do-Overs, and More From the Mailbag · 0:54:39 · Sean Fennessey (0.85 sure it was them)
  50. career (career): Toshiro Mifune → Sanjuro. Sanjuro is the second Sanjuro-character film after Yojimbo, and Mifune is the most fun person to watch on screen.
    “I just rewatched Sunjuro, which is the 2nd movie after Yojimbo about the Sunjuro character, and he is just a lightning bolt.”
    The Big Picture · Thirteen Awards Movies to Watch Out for, Oscar Do-Overs, and More From the Mailbag · 0:54:51 · Sean Fennessey (0.85 sure it was them)
  51. what-if (what-if): Cary Grant → Gunga Din. Grant could have been an action star given Gunga Din, but kept to screwball comedy and man-in-peril roles.
    “if Carrie Grant wanted to be an action star.”
    The Big Picture · Thirteen Awards Movies to Watch Out for, Oscar Do-Overs, and More From the Mailbag · 0:57:38 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)
  52. verdict (verdict): His Girl Friday → Cary Grant. His Girl Friday is the speaker's pure favorite Grant performance.
    “I think his girl Friday is probably my pure favorite of his performances.”
    The Big Picture · Thirteen Awards Movies to Watch Out for, Oscar Do-Overs, and More From the Mailbag · 0:58:00 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)
  53. programming (programming): Holiday → Bringing Up Baby. Holiday was long out of circulation and is now on the Criterion Channel, likely prompting the question.
    “a lot of people have been watching holiday because that had been out of circulation and is now on the criterion collection”
    The Big Picture · Thirteen Awards Movies to Watch Out for, Oscar Do-Overs, and More From the Mailbag · 0:58:09 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)
  54. people (people): Penny Serenade → George Stevens. Scorsese corrects Lebowitz's title and credits George Stevens as director.
    “George Stevens, and then he starts talking about Carrie Grant.”
    The Big Picture · Thirteen Awards Movies to Watch Out for, Oscar Do-Overs, and More From the Mailbag · 0:59:21 · Sean Fennessey (0.55 sure it was them)
  55. career (career): Penny Serenade → None but the Lonely Heart. Scorsese claims None but the Lonely Heart was Grant's only acting nomination, but he was also nominated for Penny Serenade, both when Grant was trying to break the persona.
    “Carrie Grant has 2 Academy Award nominations in his career. For 2 movies that very few people have seen that are our age, none but the lonely heart and penny serenade.”
    The Big Picture · Thirteen Awards Movies to Watch Out for, Oscar Do-Overs, and More From the Mailbag · 1:00:03 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  56. industry (industry): Wonder Woman 1984 → Trolls World Tour. Studios should release straight to VOD and live with unknown numbers; the likely VOD hits are Trolls World Tour, Tenet and The Croods 2.
    “Trolls World Tour and Tenet and the Crudes 2 and a handful of other movies that if you just pull up, you know, iTunes or Amazon Prime right now, you'll see are dominating the charts.”
    The Big Picture · Thirteen Awards Movies to Watch Out for, Oscar Do-Overs, and More From the Mailbag · 1:09:24 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  57. craft (craft): Eyes Wide Shut → Stanley Kubrick. The set would mean a long shoot with a great filmmaker, two stars in an actual marriage and untold stories.
    “obviously you've got one of the greatest filmmakers of all time, 2 of our favorite stars in the midst of a marriage and a film about the potential dissolution of a marriage”
    The Big Picture · Thirteen Awards Movies to Watch Out for, Oscar Do-Overs, and More From the Mailbag · 1:11:53 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)
  58. people (people): Passing → Rebecca Hall. Passing is the must-see Sundance film, directed by Hall from the Nella Larsen novella.
    “This is like the must see movie at Sundance.”
    The Big Picture · Thirteen Awards Movies to Watch Out for, Oscar Do-Overs, and More From the Mailbag · 1:14:50 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)
  59. career (career): Prisoner of the Ghostland → Sion Sono. Sono, whose Why Don't You Play in Hell? and Tokyo Tribe are wild, teams with Nicolas Cage on an action movie.
    “Prisoner of the Ghostland, which is a Sian Sono team up with Nicholas Cage.”
    The Big Picture · Thirteen Awards Movies to Watch Out for, Oscar Do-Overs, and More From the Mailbag · 1:14:58 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)
  60. theme (theme): All the President's Men → Network. Both are comfort rewatches though not comforting: the pros get the job done and do not fail.
    “there's something about, you know, they're going to get the job done that is comforting to me.”
    The Big Picture · Thirteen Awards Movies to Watch Out for, Oscar Do-Overs, and More From the Mailbag · 1:18:13 · Sean Fennessey (0.85 sure it was them)
  61. lineage (lineage): Tiger → The Last Dance. The interviewer says Tiger sits in league with Made in America and The Last Dance as sprawling psychological athlete profiles.
    “We've seen now with OJ Made in America and the last dance, these kind of sprawling, complex psychological profiles, really, of these historic athletes.”
    The Big Picture · Thirteen Awards Movies to Watch Out for, Oscar Do-Overs, and More From the Mailbag · 1:43:48 · Sean Fennessey (0.85 sure it was them)
  62. craft (craft): Aaron Sorkin → Charlie Wilson's War. Self-quotation: the 'I'm never sick at sea' line recurs across Malice and Charlie Wilson's War.
    “I'm never, ever sick at sea, shows up in malice, and then it shows up in Charlie Wilson's war”
    The Big Picture · Aaron Sorkin Top 5s and ‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’ · 0:16:12 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  63. craft (craft): Aaron Sorkin → David Fincher. Sorkin excels when meeting a dark-hearted collaborator such as Fincher.
    “I think that when he meets very darkhearted figures, either in the characters he's creating or in his counterparts creatively, like David Fincher, that's when he excels.”
    The Big Picture · Aaron Sorkin Top 5s and ‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’ · 0:22:22 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)
  64. craft (craft): Aaron Sorkin → The Social Network. Since the West Wing he mostly adapts real events like Moneyball, Social Network and Steve Jobs.
    “Almost everything that he's done is based on real events.”
    The Big Picture · Aaron Sorkin Top 5s and ‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’ · 0:25:39 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)
  65. contrast (contrast): Aaron Sorkin → Oliver Stone. Stone's dark skepticism contrasts with Sorkin's idealism, both committed to their missions.
    “He's an interesting counterweight, I think, to Oliver Stone”
    The Big Picture · Aaron Sorkin Top 5s and ‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’ · 0:30:43 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)
  66. what-if (what-if): Moneyball → Steven Soderbergh. Moneyball was first developed for Soderbergh; one host wishes for a darker, pulp-fiction version.
    “I still would have liked to have seen the cut glass, you know, dark core version of this story from Soderberg”
    The Big Picture · Aaron Sorkin Top 5s and ‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’ · 0:51:19 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  67. career (career): Moneyball → Bennett Miller. Sorkin works best paired with a dark heart, and Miller's film is darker than it seems.
    “I think he's at his best when he is paired with somebody who has has a dark heart.”
    The Big Picture · Aaron Sorkin Top 5s and ‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’ · 0:52:38 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  68. craft (craft): Steve Jobs → Daniel Pemberton. Pemberton's score is singled out as incredible among the film's strengths.
    “Incredible score by Daniel Pemberton.”
    The Big Picture · Aaron Sorkin Top 5s and ‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’ · 0:55:53 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  69. craft (craft): Steve Jobs → Danny Boyle. Boyle does the most he can with what is essentially a stage play, with the act two intercut.
    “I think Boyle is doing the absolute most he can do with a script that is more or less a stage play.”
    The Big Picture · Aaron Sorkin Top 5s and ‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’ · 0:55:55 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)
  70. lineage (lineage): The Social Network → Steve Jobs. Steve Jobs is called a worthy sequel to The Social Network on big tech and innovation.
    “I think this is in many ways a worthy sequel to the social network”
    The Big Picture · Aaron Sorkin Top 5s and ‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’ · 0:56:04 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)
  71. theme (theme): The Trial of the Chicago 7 → Steve Jobs. Both ask whether the result was worth how people were treated, and how change is made.
    “But that same idea, that sort of like, was it worth it, idea, is in a lot of his other work.”
    The Big Picture · Aaron Sorkin Top 5s and ‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’ · 1:00:49 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  72. theme (theme): The American President → Aaron Sorkin. The film is Sorkin's broadest political work, and a training ground for the West Wing.
    “it's his broadest political work, which in some ways to me means that it's the best”
    The Big Picture · Aaron Sorkin Top 5s and ‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’ · 1:05:18 · Sean Fennessey (0.55 sure it was them)
  73. people (people): The American President → Rob Reiner. Rob Reiner directed it and A Few Good Men; he will come up again.
    “Another in the in the Rob Reiner Hall of Fame”
    The Big Picture · Aaron Sorkin Top 5s and ‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’ · 1:06:26 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  74. industry (industry): Sports Night (TV series) → The Office (TV series). Sports Night tried to change the network sitcom form and was ahead of the curve.
    “he was ahead of the curve on some things.”
    The Big Picture · Aaron Sorkin Top 5s and ‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’ · 1:09:42 · Sean Fennessey (0.55 sure it was them)
  75. contrast (contrast): The Social Network → Zodiac. Social Network was one host's top Fincher film; the Fincher podcast chose Zodiac as the purest Fincher.
    “Zodiac is like the Fincheryist.”
    The Big Picture · Aaron Sorkin Top 5s and ‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’ · 1:13:11 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)
  76. craft (craft): The Social Network → David Fincher. Sorkin excels when paired with a dark-hearted counterpart like Fincher; the sum is greater than the parts.
    “the magic in this is what happens when you put together like a just fantastic.”
    The Big Picture · Aaron Sorkin Top 5s and ‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’ · 1:13:17 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)
  77. verdict (verdict): The Social Network → Aaron Sorkin. The Social Network may be Sorkin's best script, with the opening breakup scene as the model.
    “The social network might be his best script, like period.”
    The Big Picture · Aaron Sorkin Top 5s and ‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’ · 1:16:10 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  78. programming (programming): A Few Good Men → Network. It is in the conversation for most rewatched movie of a lifetime, next to Network, Oz, Godfather, Goodfellas and Pulp Fiction.
    “and a few good men is right there with it.”
    The Big Picture · Aaron Sorkin Top 5s and ‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’ · 1:19:27 · Sean Fennessey (0.55 sure it was them)
  79. contrast (contrast): A Few Good Men → The Caine Mutiny. It is a conventional military courtroom drama like The Caine Mutiny, yet has special energy due to Sorkin.
    “some very good movies like the King Mutiny, some very mediocre movies like Rules of Engagement.”
    The Big Picture · Aaron Sorkin Top 5s and ‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’ · 1:19:58 · Sean Fennessey (0.55 sure it was them)
  80. theme (theme): The Trial of the Chicago 7 → A Few Good Men. Both are courtroom dramas of principled argument; Cruise's charisma is key and Chicago 7 needs scene-chewers too.
    “You have to have people that want to gnaw on the scenery, that want to yell, that want to be in the center of the frame.”
    The Big Picture · Aaron Sorkin Top 5s and ‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’ · 1:22:15 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  81. theme (theme): The Trial of the Chicago 7 → A Few Good Men. Unlike A Few Good Men, Chicago 7 is full of obvious themes to dissect.
    “There's all of these obvious themes”
    The Big Picture · Aaron Sorkin Top 5s and ‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’ · 1:22:57 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  82. lineage (lineage): The Trial of the Chicago 7 → Medium Cool. The Chicago trial and DNC events were told before in Haskell Wexler's part-documentary Medium Cool.
    “Medium cool, Haskell Wexler's part documentary, part narrative feature in 1969 kind of reflects on the events at the DNC that year.”
    The Big Picture · Aaron Sorkin Top 5s and ‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’ · 1:31:23 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)
  83. lineage (lineage): The Trial of the Chicago 7 → Punishment Park. Punishment Park is recommended as a very loose take on this trial.
    “There's this great movie called Punishment Park that I would recommend to anybody that is very loosely based on this trial.”
    The Big Picture · Aaron Sorkin Top 5s and ‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’ · 1:31:32 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)
  84. lineage (lineage): The Trial of the Chicago 7 → Chicago 10. The trial was also rendered in Brett Morgen's animated documentary Chicago 10, the HBO movie and Bananas.
    “You can see it in a Brett Morgan animated documentary called Chicago 10.”
    The Big Picture · Aaron Sorkin Top 5s and ‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’ · 1:31:45 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)
  85. people (people): The Trial of the Chicago 7 → Steven Spielberg. Spielberg long wanted to make it and encouraged Sorkin to write the script.
    “Steven Spielberg had always wanted to make this movie.”
    The Big Picture · Aaron Sorkin Top 5s and ‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’ · 1:31:53 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)
  86. career (career): The Trial of the Chicago 7 → Molly's Game. Chicago 7 is Sorkin's second directing job after Molly's Game.
    “after 2017's Molly's game, which we talked about pretty much in full on this podcast earlier in quarantine.”
    The Big Picture · Aaron Sorkin Top 5s and ‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’ · 1:31:57 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)
  87. programming (programming): The Trial of the Chicago 7 → Moonlight. Moonlight is the model of a film that was right for its moment, against which Chicago 7's timeliness is weighed.
    “I always felt like Moonlight was a movie for its time in a very sentimental way”
    The Big Picture · Aaron Sorkin Top 5s and ‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’ · 1:35:06 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)
  88. contrast (contrast): The Trial of the Chicago 7 → Oliver Stone. Chicago 7 raises the question of whether entertainment can justify itself on politics, as with Stone's films.
    “as I said before about Oliver Stone and all of his other things, I think there's an interesting question here, like, is this movie entertaining enough to justify itself”
    The Big Picture · Aaron Sorkin Top 5s and ‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’ · 1:35:58 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)
  89. people (people): Sacha Baron Cohen → The Trial of the Chicago 7. Cohen is the most creative casting and likely to compete for awards.
    “It has the most creative and I think successful casting in the movie of Sasha Baron Cohen.”
    The Big Picture · Aaron Sorkin Top 5s and ‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’ · 1:40:53 · Sean Fennessey (0.75 sure it was them)
  90. contrast (contrast): The Trial of the Chicago 7 → MC5. The film's mix of faux-60s rock guitar and syrupy film score is faulted; MC5 is what the moment really sounded like and what a radical protester listened to.
    “he has this like simulacra, like 60s rock and roll score where there's like electric tar combined with this very syrupy film music score.”
    The Big Picture · Aaron Sorkin Top 5s and ‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’ · 1:42:54 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  91. verdict (verdict): The Trial of the Chicago 7 → Aaron Sorkin. Good and entertaining, worth watching, but politically small and the filmmaking not sharp enough.
    “It's a really good movie.”
    The Big Picture · Aaron Sorkin Top 5s and ‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’ · 1:44:05 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)
  92. programming (programming): The Trial of the Chicago 7 → Mank. Chicago 7 is a big fat fastball for the Oscars alongside Mank, Nomadland and Hillbilly Elegy.
    “this is a big fat, fastball right down the middle.”
    The Big Picture · Aaron Sorkin Top 5s and ‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’ · 1:54:31 · Sean Fennessey (0.55 sure it was them)
  93. people (people): Eddie Redmayne → The Trial of the Chicago 7. Redmayne is not a favorite but was very effective as Tom Hayden.
    “I thought he was very good as Tom Hayden.”
    The Big Picture · Aaron Sorkin Top 5s and ‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’ · 1:56:49 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  94. people (people): Tom Hayden → Jane Fonda. After the case, Hayden marries Jane Fonda, a life the hosts want a Q and A about.
    “after the events of this film, Tom Hayden marries Jane Fonda.”
    The Big Picture · Aaron Sorkin Top 5s and ‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’ · 1:57:02 · Sean Fennessey (0.55 sure it was them)
  95. contrast (contrast): Mank → David Fincher. Mank is Fincher looking at something that is not about murder and death.
    “finally, you know, David Fincher looks at something that isn't about murder and death”
    The Big Picture · 300th Episode Ask-Us-Anything Mailbag Spectacular · 0:02:28 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)
  96. craft (craft): Mank → David Fincher. Fincher shot and cut Mank to look like a 1940s film.
    “he has shot this film to look like a film from the 1940s and the trailer has been cut to look like a film from the 1940s”
    The Big Picture · 300th Episode Ask-Us-Anything Mailbag Spectacular · 0:02:38 · Sean Fennessey (0.85 sure it was them)
  97. industry (industry): Soul → Mulan. Unlike Mulan's premium PVOD, Soul goes to Disney+ at no extra charge.
    “This one, unlike Mulan, is not going to some PVOD circumstance on Disney Plus”
    The Big Picture · 300th Episode Ask-Us-Anything Mailbag Spectacular · 0:03:25 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)
  98. industry (industry): Soul → Disney. Soul skipping theaters for free Disney+ release shows Disney+ is aimed at kids and families and keeps subscribers from churning.
    “it's a reason to not let your subscription lapse”
    The Big Picture · 300th Episode Ask-Us-Anything Mailbag Spectacular · 0:04:55 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)
  99. career (career): Transformers → Michael Bay. Sean's trip to a Transformers premiere hooked him on covering movies; he later profiled Bay.
    “I did eventually profile Michael Bay like 3 or 4 years later”
    The Big Picture · 300th Episode Ask-Us-Anything Mailbag Spectacular · 0:11:26 · Sean Fennessey (0.90 sure it was them)
  100. contrast (contrast): The Martian → Citizen Kane. The Martian is meant to be a balm, not an object of heavy analysis, unlike a Citizen Kane.
    “the Martian is a movie that's supposed to make people feel good, and it's supposed to be a bomb for you”
    The Big Picture · 300th Episode Ask-Us-Anything Mailbag Spectacular · 0:15:24 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)

Their fun items

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  1. fun, about Bohemian Rhapsody: Queen's opening felt like a Jones Beach concert you'd see with your mom; and there were as many cutaways to Brian May in the show as in the film.
    “It was just sort of like a concert you'd see at Jones Beach, like with your mom.”
    The Big Picture · Oscars 2019: Instant Reactions to ‘Green Book’ and the Two Warring Academies | The Oscars Show (Ep. 131) · 0:12:20 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
  2. fun, about Glenn Close: Seven nominations and never a win; the hosts felt terrible and note her diagonal-face reaction on the telecast.
    “Glenn Close, who has now been nominated 7 times and never won.”
    The Big Picture · Oscars 2019: Instant Reactions to ‘Green Book’ and the Two Warring Academies | The Oscars Show (Ep. 131) · 0:16:09 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  3. fun, about Spike Lee: His acceptance speech was bleeped in the first minute; rumored to have said not to turn the clock on.
    “I don't know what Spike said for the 1st minute or so of his acceptance because it was bleeped out”
    The Big Picture · Oscars 2019: Instant Reactions to ‘Green Book’ and the Two Warring Academies | The Oscars Show (Ep. 131) · 0:20:33 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  4. fun, about Roma: Compares the Vista's Roma screening with Netflix: in theaters and on Netflix.
    “if you go to the Vista in Los Angeles today,”
    The Big Picture · Oscars 2019: Instant Reactions to ‘Green Book’ and the Two Warring Academies | The Oscars Show (Ep. 131) · 0:24:09 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
  5. fun, about A Star Is Born: Hosts covering their faces watching the Shallow performance, feeling like Jackson Maine and Ally's embarrassed parents.
    “Somewhere along the way, I feel like you and I became Jackson, Maine, and Allie's mom and dad.”
    The Big Picture · Oscars 2019: Instant Reactions to ‘Green Book’ and the Two Warring Academies | The Oscars Show (Ep. 131) · 0:27:58 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  6. fun, about A Star Is Born: Mason-jar joke about the energy between Gaga and Cooper.
    “inside that jar is the cure to cold fusion.”
    The Big Picture · Oscars 2019: Instant Reactions to ‘Green Book’ and the Two Warring Academies | The Oscars Show (Ep. 131) · 0:31:36 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
  7. fun, about Maya Rudolph: Rudolph is Minnie Riperton's daughter and can sing.
    “She can sing her ass off.”
    The Big Picture · Oscars 2019: Instant Reactions to ‘Green Book’ and the Two Warring Academies | The Oscars Show (Ep. 131) · 0:35:05 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
  8. fun, about Alfonso Cuaron: His wife likened his repeated speeches to a Russian doll; each began with thanks to Marina de Tavira and Yalitza Aparicio.
    “it's just like Russian doll.”
    The Big Picture · Oscars 2019: Instant Reactions to ‘Green Book’ and the Two Warring Academies | The Oscars Show (Ep. 131) · 0:53:18 · Sean Fennessey (0.35 sure it was them)
  9. fun, about Glenn Close: The 'Close Zone' becomes a running bit: Amy Adams, Willem Dafoe and Bradley Cooper with five nominations and no wins.
    “Once you get 5 and you get no love, you're in the close zone.”
    The Big Picture · Oscars 2019: Instant Reactions to ‘Green Book’ and the Two Warring Academies | The Oscars Show (Ep. 131) · 1:05:56 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
  10. fun, about Vice: Speaker invoked the unitary executive in podcasts because a scene in Vice lodged in their head.
    “I've invoked the unitary executive in various convert, like, podcasts that we've done a couple times”
    The Big Picture · Oscars 2019: Instant Reactions to ‘Green Book’ and the Two Warring Academies | The Oscars Show (Ep. 131) · 1:11:26 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
  11. fun, about Die Hard / Red Desert: His list runs from Fellini and Antonioni to Predator and Die Hard; Fennessey sums it up as Die Hard 8 or a Red Desert remake.
    “either Die Hard 8 or a remake of Red Desert”
    The Big Picture · Pro Wrestling Goes to the Movies, Plus Stephen Merchant on ‘Fighting With My Family’ | Interview (Ep. 130) · 0:52:02 · Sean Fennessey (0.55 sure it was them)
  12. fun, about Green Book: Peter Farrelly shushed the play-off music and gave a long typed-out speech about solving the world's problems.
    “He had typed it all out.”
    The Big Picture · Instant Reactions to a Truly Ludicrous Golden Globes | The Oscars Show (Ep. 115) · 0:08:49 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  13. fun, about Green Book: The speaker says it is neither something to destroy nor the best movie of the year.
    “I don't hate green book.”
    The Big Picture · Instant Reactions to a Truly Ludicrous Golden Globes | The Oscars Show (Ep. 115) · 0:10:42 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  14. fun, about Bohemian Rhapsody: Verdict: fun and enjoyable is not the same as good.
    “to tell the difference between movies that are fun and enjoyable and movies that are good.”
    The Big Picture · Instant Reactions to a Truly Ludicrous Golden Globes | The Oscars Show (Ep. 115) · 0:14:47 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  15. fun, about Sandra Oh and Andy Samberg: The monologue lifted Samberg's nice-person roast bit for eight minutes.
    “they took Andy Sandberg's bit from the Justin Bieber roast”
    The Big Picture · Instant Reactions to a Truly Ludicrous Golden Globes | The Oscars Show (Ep. 115) · 0:18:49 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  16. fun, about Amy Poehler and Maya Rudolph: Their presenting showed what seasoned comedy chemistry looks like.
    “they have extraordinary chemistry”
    The Big Picture · Instant Reactions to a Truly Ludicrous Golden Globes | The Oscars Show (Ep. 115) · 0:19:44 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  17. fun, about A Star Is Born: Mark Ronson accepted the Best Song award and read a poem about the SS Shallow to Gaga's face.
    “it did basically end with Mark Ronson reading a poem that he composed about the SS Shallow”
    The Big Picture · Instant Reactions to a Truly Ludicrous Golden Globes | The Oscars Show (Ep. 115) · 0:25:55 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  18. fun, about Olivia Colman: Her speech used 'blimey', thanked people for sandwiches, and was bleeped.
    “I believe the word blimey was used.”
    The Big Picture · Instant Reactions to a Truly Ludicrous Golden Globes | The Oscars Show (Ep. 115) · 0:33:44 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  19. fun, about Christian Bale: He thanked Satan in his speech to big laughs.
    “I mean, him thanking Satan.”
    The Big Picture · Instant Reactions to a Truly Ludicrous Golden Globes | The Oscars Show (Ep. 115) · 0:37:21 · Sean Fennessey (0.45 sure it was them)
  20. fun, about Golden Globes: Quiz: last year's best actor in a comedy was James Franco.
    “The answer is James Franco.”
    The Big Picture · Instant Reactions to a Truly Ludicrous Golden Globes | The Oscars Show (Ep. 115) · 0:38:46 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  21. fun, about Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse: Won best animated feature, a pick the speaker feels strongly about.
    “a pick that I made and feel very strongly about, which one best animated feature”
    The Big Picture · Instant Reactions to a Truly Ludicrous Golden Globes | The Oscars Show (Ep. 115) · 0:40:30 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  22. fun, about Amy Pascal: Shout out to Pascal's fur and blowout, and her path from Sony to Spider-Man.
    “I would like to give a shout out to Amy Pascal's look.”
    The Big Picture · Instant Reactions to a Truly Ludicrous Golden Globes | The Oscars Show (Ep. 115) · 0:40:46 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  23. fun, about Chuck Lorre: Held the Golden Globe like his firstborn son, said Netflix five times, hard cut to Ted Sarandos.
    “hold a Golden Globe as if it was his firstborn son.”
    The Big Picture · Instant Reactions to a Truly Ludicrous Golden Globes | The Oscars Show (Ep. 115) · 0:43:42 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  24. fun, about Kevin Hart: Ellen teed up Hart's hurt and relayed the Academy wanting him back.
    “the academy told me, we want him back.”
    The Big Picture · Instant Reactions to a Truly Ludicrous Golden Globes | The Oscars Show (Ep. 115) · 0:47:22 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  25. fun, about Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse: Sean: when first made aware of the film he thought it a bad idea; it turned out great.
    “I was like, well, this is a bad idea.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse’: One of the Best Superhero Movies Ever | Exit Survey (Ep. 108) · 0:01:06 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)
  26. fun, about Spider-Man: Joke that this is the 101st Spider-Man movie.
    “So this is the 101st Spider-Man movie.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse’: One of the Best Superhero Movies Ever | Exit Survey (Ep. 108) · 0:01:22 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  27. fun, about Sunflower: Sean thought the song trash on Spotify until seeing Miles mime its syllables in the opening.
    “I was like, this is trash.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse’: One of the Best Superhero Movies Ever | Exit Survey (Ep. 108) · 0:11:23 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)
  28. fun, about Peter B. Parker: Sean identifies with the tall, paunchy, graying, unshaven Peter B.
    “I saw a lot of myself, Miss Peter Parker.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse’: One of the Best Superhero Movies Ever | Exit Survey (Ep. 108) · 0:13:47 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)
  29. fun, about Peter B. Parker: Sean tucked in his shirt: an adult man of 36.
    “I'm an adult man of 36.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse’: One of the Best Superhero Movies Ever | Exit Survey (Ep. 108) · 0:14:06 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  30. fun, about Liev Schreiber: Sean calls him the god of vocal work, from HBO sports docs on.
    “who is just the god of vocal work from his times doing HBO sports documentaries”
    The Big Picture · ‘Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse’: One of the Best Superhero Movies Ever | Exit Survey (Ep. 108) · 0:26:20 · Sean Fennessey (0.90 sure it was them)
  31. fun, about Chris Pine: A huge movie star doing about seven line readings.
    “who's a huge movie star who's doing like 7 line readings in this movie.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse’: One of the Best Superhero Movies Ever | Exit Survey (Ep. 108) · 0:26:40 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)
  32. fun, about Amanda Dobbins: She calls animated movies cartoons and will not watch them.
    “Amanda Dobbins doesn't watch animated movies, she calls them cartoons”
    The Big Picture · ‘Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse’: One of the Best Superhero Movies Ever | Exit Survey (Ep. 108) · 0:28:42 · Sean Fennessey (0.90 sure it was them)
  33. fun, about Incredibles 2: Sean now roots for Spider-Verse for a strange silly award.
    “I now find myself rooting for it for this strange silly award.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse’: One of the Best Superhero Movies Ever | Exit Survey (Ep. 108) · 0:29:24 · Sean Fennessey (0.85 sure it was them)
  34. fun, about Steven Spielberg: The Soderbergh Raiders remix: Hardcore Chris Ryan content.
    “Hardcore Chris Ryan content.”
    The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan | The Big Picture (Ep. 57) · 0:10:35 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  35. fun, about Saving Private Ryan: The D-Day opening is 40 minutes without a breath, and the film doesn't even tell you what it's about yet.
    “We don't even learn what the movie is about.”
    The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan | The Big Picture (Ep. 57) · 0:11:36 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  36. fun, about Schindler's List: Rumor: Billy Wilder asked Spielberg for the rights to make it as his last movie.
    “And this may be hearsay, but from what I was told, Steven Spielberg said, nope, I'm gonna do it.”
    The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan | The Big Picture (Ep. 57) · 0:13:47 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)
  37. fun, about Schindler's List: The girl in the red dress as an icon of innocence lost.
    “the little girl in the red dress, which is this iconic image of innocence lost in the middle of conflict”
    The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan | The Big Picture (Ep. 57) · 0:14:11 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)
  38. fun, about Close Encounters of the Third Kind: Chris moved it up the list mid-conversation after realizing how many ideas are in it; the Lucas/Spielberg wager story.
    “Maybe I might have fucked up.”
    The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan | The Big Picture (Ep. 57) · 0:22:54 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)
  39. fun, about Jurassic Park: See Laura Dern with her head down on the breathing triceratops, and the T. rex footprint pressed in the ground.
    “you can see the tyrannosaurus claw foot pressed down and the footprint.”
    The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan | The Big Picture (Ep. 57) · 0:25:40 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  40. fun, about Hook: Rufio's chant echoes forever in the speaker's mind.
    “I also just the chance of Rufio in the back of my mind echoing forever.”
    The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan | The Big Picture (Ep. 57) · 0:31:20 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  41. fun, about Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull: Sean jokes about caping for it as a longtime Shia fan.
    “you want to cape for that as a longtime Shia fan?”
    The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan | The Big Picture (Ep. 57) · 0:32:17 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)
  42. fun, about Jaws: Sean's friend Nils spent days communicating only in Robert Shaw dialogue.
    “Nils would spend days at a time communicating to me and my friends”
    The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan | The Big Picture (Ep. 57) · 0:35:46 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  43. fun, about Amy Irving: Spielberg's divorce from Amy Irving, glossed over in the HBO documentary.
    “He married his lead actress from Raiders 2, who he mistakenly said he met in 1985”
    The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan | The Big Picture (Ep. 57) · 0:57:07 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  44. fun, about Tom Cruise: The hosts ask if they'll ever do a podcast without discussing what Cruise should do next.
    “Will there ever be a podcast where you and I don't talk about what Tom Cruise should do next?”
    The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan | The Big Picture (Ep. 57) · 1:02:21 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)
  45. fun, about Sean Fennessey: The host adopts the set sing-along idea for his job.
    “I will start applying the Friday sing-along.”
    The Big Picture · Joe Wright Bounces Back From His Darkest Hour | The Big Picture (Ep. 37) · 0:19:03 · Sean Fennessey (0.90 sure it was them)
  46. fun, about Thor: Ragnarok: Waititi said the scariest part was Marvel being 16 for 16.
    “they're 16 for 16.”
    The Big Picture · The Past, Present, and Future of Superhero Movies | The Big Picture (Ep. 35) · 0:17:11 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)
  47. fun, about Justice League: Sean cannot name the actor playing Cyborg; Ray Fisher is supplied.
    “I can't name the man who's playing cyborg, which is that's bad news.”
    The Big Picture · The Past, Present, and Future of Superhero Movies | The Big Picture (Ep. 35) · 0:33:18 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  48. fun, about Logan: Logan called incredible; hosts agree it is the template for letting a character breathe.
    “Logan is incredible.”
    The Big Picture · The Past, Present, and Future of Superhero Movies | The Big Picture (Ep. 35) · 0:42:51 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
  49. fun, about Sean Fennessey: Sean admits empathy for Cyclops, jokingly his cross to bear.
    “I have a lot of empathy for Scott Summers.”
    The Big Picture · The Past, Present, and Future of Superhero Movies | The Big Picture (Ep. 35) · 0:46:59 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  50. fun, about Black Panther: Ryan Coogler is the first black filmmaker on a superhero movie in these worlds.
    “1st black filmmaker to make a superhero movie in one of these worlds.”
    The Big Picture · The Past, Present, and Future of Superhero Movies | The Big Picture (Ep. 35) · 0:48:34 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  51. fun, about Sinister Six: Sean is still waiting for a Sinister Six movie he doubts will happen.
    “a sinister 6 movie, which I don't think will ever happen.”
    The Big Picture · The Past, Present, and Future of Superhero Movies | The Big Picture (Ep. 35) · 1:01:10 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
  52. fun, about Death Note: Teaser for next week: Adam Wingard on getting Death Note to Netflix.
    “We have a really great episode with one of my favorite directors, Adam Wingard”
    The Big Picture · Janicza Bravo and Brett Gelman Channel Rejection and Anxiety to Make ‘Lemon’ | The Big Picture (Ep. 22) · 0:40:23 · Sean Fennessey (0.90 sure it was them)
  53. fun, about Saw X: A Mexican 10-year-old soccer-playing sidekick for Jigsaw; the final shot is hilarious.
    “He has a Mexican 10-year-old soccer playing sidekick in that movie”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Mank with Sean Fennessey (Ad-Free) · 0:15:08 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)
  54. fun, about World War Z 2: Fincher nearly made World War Z 2 as a way to get money to play around and do what he wanted.
    “he was using that as a way to get the money to play around and do what the fuck he wanted.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Mank with Sean Fennessey (Ad-Free) · 0:27:06 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)
  55. fun, about Fincher: Fincher's rule: human beings mostly use words to lie.
    “human beings mostly use words to lie.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Mank with Sean Fennessey (Ad-Free) · 1:49:05 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  56. fun, about Oscars: Sean's pitch: a countdown from tenth place at the Best Picture announcement.
    “I want to know what came in 10th place.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Mank with Sean Fennessey (Ad-Free) · 2:10:57 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)
  57. fun, about Netflix: Every other streamer won a series award before Netflix; Apple won Best Picture before it did.
    “Is that basically every other streaming company won a series award before Netflix.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Mank with Sean Fennessey (Ad-Free) · 2:14:03 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)
  58. fun, about Tracy Reed: Kubrick cast Carol Reed's daughter and put her in a bikini; speaker calls it perverse.
    “My favorite tidbit is that Stanley Kubrick cast one of his hero's daughters in this movie and put her in a bikini in a scene.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Dr. Strangelove... with Sean Fennessey (Ad-Free) · 1:48:24 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  59. fun, about Peter Sellers: Sellers received a best actor nomination for what are effectively three supporting roles; the speakers think it may be the only such nomination.
    “It is such a unique nomination to be like, this guy is the lead of the film because he plays 3 supporting characters in an ensemble.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Dr. Strangelove... with Sean Fennessey (Ad-Free) · 1:53:07 · Sean Fennessey (0.45 sure it was them)