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 1,101–1,200 of 1,576 claims.

  1. programming (programming): Nancy Meyers → Alfred Hitchcock. Director-filmography episodes (Hitchcock, every Meyers movie) dictate what the hosts have to watch.
    “we talked about every single Nancy Myers movie”
    The Big Picture · 300th Episode Ask-Us-Anything Mailbag Spectacular · 0:18:08 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)
  2. what-if (what-if): Alfred Hitchcock → Brian De Palma. De Palma would make a good sister filmography episode to Hitchcock.
    “I think he's a good kind of like sister episode to Hitchcock”
    The Big Picture · 300th Episode Ask-Us-Anything Mailbag Spectacular · 0:18:37 · Sean Fennessey (0.90 sure it was them)
  3. verdict (verdict): Snake Eyes → Brian De Palma. Snake Eyes is second-tier De Palma nobody discusses, so rewatching it is a time cost.
    “like Snake Eyes, the Brian de Palma movie, which is like, you know, 2nd tier de Palma”
    The Big Picture · 300th Episode Ask-Us-Anything Mailbag Spectacular · 0:18:51 · Sean Fennessey (0.90 sure it was them)
  4. contrast (contrast): Chris Ryan → Sean Fennessey. Chris takes random chances on VOD and theater picks; Sean and Amanda do not.
    “Chris is much more of a free spirit”
    The Big Picture · 300th Episode Ask-Us-Anything Mailbag Spectacular · 0:24:20 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  5. programming (programming): World of Tomorrow Episode Three → Sean Fennessey. Sean points animation fans to World of Tomorrow 3, out that day, and the South Park special.
    “World of Tomorrow 3, the new Don Hertzfeld film comes out today”
    The Big Picture · 300th Episode Ask-Us-Anything Mailbag Spectacular · 0:26:49 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)
  6. industry (industry): 1917 → Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. A friend says 1917 may be the last big awards-worthy global release before the gate closed, alongside Joker, Once Upon a Time and Endgame.
    “we might look back on 1917 as the last movie that got in before the gate closed”
    The Big Picture · 300th Episode Ask-Us-Anything Mailbag Spectacular · 0:34:11 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)
  7. industry (industry): Avengers: Endgame → Joker. 2019 had several event films (Joker, Once Upon a Time, Endgame) before the 'flame out'.
    “the grand orgy before the flame out, before the fall of Empire”
    The Big Picture · 300th Episode Ask-Us-Anything Mailbag Spectacular · 0:35:05 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)
  8. lineage (lineage): The Butterfly Effect → Sliding Doors. The Butterfly Effect is basically a science-fiction version of Sliding Doors.
    “a science fiction version of sliding doors is a great idea for a movie”
    The Big Picture · 300th Episode Ask-Us-Anything Mailbag Spectacular · 0:36:13 · Sean Fennessey (0.85 sure it was them)
  9. contrast (contrast): The Butterfly Effect → Aaron Moorhead. Moorhead and Benson already make this kind of soft science fiction.
    “they make a lot of movies that are kind of like this, but this like soft science fiction”
    The Big Picture · 300th Episode Ask-Us-Anything Mailbag Spectacular · 0:36:28 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)
  10. what-if (what-if): The Butterfly Effect → Steven Spielberg. Sean wants the Butterfly Effect redone with Spielberg and Colin Farrell and a better script.
    “what if this was Steven Spielberg and Colin Farrell”
    The Big Picture · 300th Episode Ask-Us-Anything Mailbag Spectacular · 0:36:37 · Sean Fennessey (0.85 sure it was them)
  11. what-if (what-if): The Butterfly Effect → Eric Roth. Eric Roth writing it would make it a mainstream crowd-pleasing sci-fi movie.
    “what if Eric Roth wrote this movie”
    The Big Picture · 300th Episode Ask-Us-Anything Mailbag Spectacular · 0:36:45 · Sean Fennessey (0.85 sure it was them)
  12. verdict (verdict): Public Enemies → Michael Mann. Public Enemies is a disappointment; digital shooting and Johnny Depp did not work for the speaker.
    “one of the more disappointing movie experiences I've had in the last 15 years is public enemies”
    The Big Picture · 300th Episode Ask-Us-Anything Mailbag Spectacular · 0:37:50 · Sean Fennessey (0.90 sure it was them)
  13. what-if (what-if): Public Enemies → Christopher Nolan. Nolan could shoot a Dillinger movie with style and propulsion.
    “he would be able to shoot a movie like this with an enormous amount of style and propulsion and intrigue”
    The Big Picture · 300th Episode Ask-Us-Anything Mailbag Spectacular · 0:38:31 · Sean Fennessey (0.90 sure it was them)
  14. contrast (contrast): Alex Garland → Christopher Nolan. Sean would trade a Nolan-size budget on Garland for another Garland film over another Nolan film.
    “I want another Alex Garland movie”
    The Big Picture · 300th Episode Ask-Us-Anything Mailbag Spectacular · 0:41:20 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)
  15. what-if (what-if): 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (unmade Fincher film) → David Fincher. A Fincher 20,000 Leagues could have been a signature event film of the 21st century.
    “could have been one of the signature event films of the 21st century”
    The Big Picture · 300th Episode Ask-Us-Anything Mailbag Spectacular · 0:45:30 · Sean Fennessey (0.85 sure it was them)
  16. what-if (what-if): Napoleon (unmade Kubrick film) → Stanley Kubrick. Napoleon is frequently cited as the greatest unmade movie; the book shows the work Kubrick put in.
    “Napoleon is like, is frequently cited as the greatest unmade movie ever”
    The Big Picture · 300th Episode Ask-Us-Anything Mailbag Spectacular · 0:45:38 · Sean Fennessey (0.90 sure it was them)
  17. programming (programming): Dick Johnson Is Dead → Sean Fennessey. Sean tells everyone to watch Dick Johnson Is Dead as proof small personal films still reach people.
    “I would recommend all people just watch Dick Johnson as dead”
    The Big Picture · 300th Episode Ask-Us-Anything Mailbag Spectacular · 0:54:10 · Sean Fennessey (0.90 sure it was them)
  18. programming (programming): Top Gun: Maverick → Sean Fennessey. Top Gun: Maverick is the communal 'hell yeah' experience Sean misses.
    “It's kind of dumb.”
    The Big Picture · 300th Episode Ask-Us-Anything Mailbag Spectacular · 0:58:13 · Sean Fennessey (0.55 sure it was them)
  19. programming (programming): Last Night in Soho → Edgar Wright. A horror classic from Wright would not play as well at home; right for Halloween.
    “I need more instant classics and I trust him to make something like that”
    The Big Picture · 300th Episode Ask-Us-Anything Mailbag Spectacular · 0:59:26 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)
  20. contrast (contrast): Catwoman → Cats. Catwoman and Cats are the 'authentically bad' kind of bad movie.
    “That movie's just bad.”
    The Big Picture · 300th Episode Ask-Us-Anything Mailbag Spectacular · 1:07:21 · Sean Fennessey (0.75 sure it was them)
  21. contrast (contrast): Room → Catwoman. The Room is the cult-bad kind, unlike the earnestly mainstream-bad Catwoman.
    “movies like the Room, which are, you know, made for lower budgets by people who are slightly incompetent”
    The Big Picture · 300th Episode Ask-Us-Anything Mailbag Spectacular · 1:07:35 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)
  22. verdict (verdict): Last Action Hero → Arnold Schwarzenegger. Sean wants to rescue Last Action Hero as a clever, misunderstood movie.
    “Last Action Hero, the Schwarzenegger movie, which I always thought was like a really clever movie”
    The Big Picture · 300th Episode Ask-Us-Anything Mailbag Spectacular · 1:08:11 · Sean Fennessey (0.90 sure it was them)
  23. contrast (contrast): Battleship → Last Action Hero. Sean's 'bad movie' show would rescue reputations rather than revel in the badness of Battleship.
    “not me reveling in the badness, the shittiness of battleship”
    The Big Picture · 300th Episode Ask-Us-Anything Mailbag Spectacular · 1:08:32 · Sean Fennessey (0.90 sure it was them)
  24. people (people): The Thomas Crown Affair → Christopher Nolan. Speaker says Christopher Nolan loves the 1999 Thomas Crown Affair because of Tenet.
    “you know who loves the Thomas Crown affair in 1999, Christopher Nolan, because I've seen Tenet”
    The Big Picture · 300th Episode Ask-Us-Anything Mailbag Spectacular · 1:09:21 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  25. verdict (verdict): Marie Antoinette → Sofia Coppola. Booed at Cannes but the speaker's favorite Coppola film.
    “that is probably my favorite of her movies”
    The Big Picture · 300th Episode Ask-Us-Anything Mailbag Spectacular · 1:09:25 · Sean Fennessey (0.55 sure it was them)
  26. craft (craft): A Cure for Wellness → Gore Verbinski. Verbinski is one of the only mainstream filmmakers who tries something new and crazy each time.
    “one of the only mainstream filmmakers who tries to do something new and crazy almost every time he makes a movie”
    The Big Picture · 300th Episode Ask-Us-Anything Mailbag Spectacular · 1:10:07 · Sean Fennessey (0.90 sure it was them)
  27. verdict (verdict): Mother → David Sims. Blank Check's David Sims tweeted that Mother! may be a masterpiece, reopening the debate.
    “perhaps this movie is a masterpiece, I kind of always thought it was”
    The Big Picture · 300th Episode Ask-Us-Anything Mailbag Spectacular · 1:11:03 · Sean Fennessey (0.85 sure it was them)
  28. what-if (what-if): Panic Room → Nancy Meyers. Panic Room is a drama of domesticity, a house that turns on you, suited to Meyers.
    “a house and a room that turns against you, she would be engaging with a lot of the core themes”
    The Big Picture · 300th Episode Ask-Us-Anything Mailbag Spectacular · 1:13:25 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  29. what-if (what-if): The Intern → David Fincher. Fincher could find the darkness at the edge of The Intern.
    “I sense a darkness at the edge of, um, that movie, uh, that I feel that he could explore”
    The Big Picture · 300th Episode Ask-Us-Anything Mailbag Spectacular · 1:14:22 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  30. contrast (contrast): The Intern → Gone Girl. Gone Girl is Fincher's gender movie; the speaker thinks The Intern could be funny too.
    “I mean, like David Fincher does like a gender movie, I guess, is gone girl, but the intern could be funny too”
    The Big Picture · 300th Episode Ask-Us-Anything Mailbag Spectacular · 1:14:48 · Sean Fennessey (0.55 sure it was them)
  31. lineage (lineage): The Intern → Mindhunter (TV). Mindhunter is like The Intern with ages reversed: a mentor and an up-and-coming hot shot.
    “Mindhunter's kind of like the intern, you know, you just reverse the ages a little bit”
    The Big Picture · 300th Episode Ask-Us-Anything Mailbag Spectacular · 1:15:04 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  32. industry (industry): Guardians of the Galaxy → The 40-Year-Old Virgin. A famous guest's point: Marvel movies are comedies and Guardians effectively replaced mainstream studio comedies.
    “Guardians of the Galaxy is a comedy, and Guardians of the Galaxy has effectively replaced mainstream comedies”
    The Big Picture · 300th Episode Ask-Us-Anything Mailbag Spectacular · 1:18:52 · Sean Fennessey (0.85 sure it was them)
  33. industry (industry): The 40-Year-Old Virgin → Sean Fennessey. Comedy dates quickly; this one will not be funny to people in 15 years.
    “the 40-year-old virgin is not going to be funny at all to people in 15 years”
    The Big Picture · 300th Episode Ask-Us-Anything Mailbag Spectacular · 1:20:56 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  34. verdict (verdict): I Love You, Man → Sean Fennessey. Amazing movie to wait six months for in theaters.
    “I love you, man, to come out in theaters”
    The Big Picture · 300th Episode Ask-Us-Anything Mailbag Spectacular · 1:21:51 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)
  35. career (career): Paul Newman → Sean Fennessey. Newman's effortless career, good taste and social conscience is the one Sean would want.
    “excellent taste, and he made a handful of movies that will live forever”
    The Big Picture · 300th Episode Ask-Us-Anything Mailbag Spectacular · 1:26:34 · Sean Fennessey (0.75 sure it was them)
  36. programming (programming): Hubie Halloween → Adam Sandler. It's Hubie Halloween season; a pointed plug.
    “it's Hubie Halloween season”
    The Big Picture · 300th Episode Ask-Us-Anything Mailbag Spectacular · 1:28:56 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  37. career (career): Jessica Chastain → The 355. Chastain is starring in The 355.
    “Jessica Chastain is the star of your new favorite movie of 2020, the 355”
    The Big Picture · 300th Episode Ask-Us-Anything Mailbag Spectacular · 1:32:15 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)
  38. industry (industry): Peter Weir → Sean Fennessey. In 1997 Sean could find maybe two Peter Weir movies; now the Criterion Channel has all of them.
    “I could find maybe 2 Peter Weir movies”
    The Big Picture · 300th Episode Ask-Us-Anything Mailbag Spectacular · 1:37:30 · Sean Fennessey (0.90 sure it was them)
  39. programming (programming): Aaron Sorkin → The Trial of the Chicago 7. Next episode: Aaron Sorkin and The Trial of the Chicago 7.
    “examining one of our stars, one of our beloveds, a great and complicated Aaron Sorkin”
    The Big Picture · 300th Episode Ask-Us-Anything Mailbag Spectacular · 2:09:02 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)
  40. theme (theme): Chadwick Boseman → Heath Ledger. Sean says the only comparable unexpected Hollywood losses in 20 years were Heath Ledger and Philip Seymour Hoffman.
    “the only 2 examples I could think of really in the last 20 years that were even close to this were obviously Heath Ledger and and Philip Seymour Hoffman's deaths”
    The Big Picture · Did Disney’s ‘Mulan’ Experiment Work? A Binge Mode Investigation · 0:07:50 · Sean Fennessey (0.85 sure it was them)
  41. career (career): Chadwick Boseman → Da 5 Bloods. Sean cites Boseman's choice of complex real-life roles (Thurgood Marshall, Jackie Robinson, James Brown) and Da 5 Bloods.
    “if you look at his Portrait of Thurgood Marshall or Jackie Robinson or James Brown, and even his role in this year's The Five Bloods, the Spike Lee movie.”
    The Big Picture · Did Disney’s ‘Mulan’ Experiment Work? A Binge Mode Investigation · 0:08:16 · Sean Fennessey (0.90 sure it was them)
  42. career (career): Chadwick Boseman → Black Panther. Sean says Boseman holds Black Panther together and carries it on his shoulders.
    “he holds the movie together. He carries the movie on his shoulders”
    The Big Picture · Did Disney’s ‘Mulan’ Experiment Work? A Binge Mode Investigation · 0:09:56 · Sean Fennessey (0.90 sure it was them)
  43. lineage (lineage): Mulan → Beauty and the Beast. Sean places Mulan at the end of the 90s Disney peak run that included Beauty and the Beast, Little Mermaid, Aladdin, and The Lion King.
    “it is really kind of at the end of the peak of that 90s Disney run with Beauty and the Beast and the Little Mermaid and Aladdin and the Lion King and Mulan.”
    The Big Picture · Did Disney’s ‘Mulan’ Experiment Work? A Binge Mode Investigation · 0:17:16 · Sean Fennessey (0.90 sure it was them)
  44. craft (craft): Mulan → Aladdin. Sean says Eddie Murphy's Mushu works for adults like Robin Williams's genie did.
    “the same way that Robin Williams might have appealed to adults as the genie, you get, you get some Eddie Murphy in this movie.”
    The Big Picture · Did Disney’s ‘Mulan’ Experiment Work? A Binge Mode Investigation · 0:17:36 · Sean Fennessey (0.90 sure it was them)
  45. industry (industry): Tenet → Mulan. Tenet reopens theaters while Mulan goes to Disney+ at $29.99, two different pandemic release strategies.
    “2999 price point, which is, um, some would say quite high”
    The Big Picture · Did Disney’s ‘Mulan’ Experiment Work? A Binge Mode Investigation · 0:18:30 · Sean Fennessey (0.90 sure it was them)
  46. contrast (contrast): Mulan → The Lion King. Sean says the Lion King and Aladdin remakes hewed too close to the originals, while Mulan overcorrected by not knowing what was good in its source.
    “I think Aladdin and the Lion King, I thought, worked a little bit too hard to retain the tone and the approach and story of the original films.”
    The Big Picture · Did Disney’s ‘Mulan’ Experiment Work? A Binge Mode Investigation · 0:25:23 · Sean Fennessey (0.85 sure it was them)
  47. lineage (lineage): Mulan → Mulan. Sean says the remake is what happens when filmmakers do not know what is good about the original.
    “I think Mulan is kind of what happens when you don't really know what's good about your movie.”
    The Big Picture · Did Disney’s ‘Mulan’ Experiment Work? A Binge Mode Investigation · 0:26:03 · Sean Fennessey (0.85 sure it was them)
  48. lineage (lineage): Mulan → Star Wars: Episode VIII – The Last Jedi. Sean says the remake made him think most of The Last Jedi and the sequel trilogy, turning Mulan into a Rey type figure.
    “The movie I thought of the most while watching this movie is the last Jedi.”
    The Big Picture · Did Disney’s ‘Mulan’ Experiment Work? A Binge Mode Investigation · 0:43:07 · Sean Fennessey (0.90 sure it was them)
  49. lineage (lineage): Mulan → Star Wars: Episode IX – The Rise of Skywalker. Sean says the Rise of Skywalker screwed up expectations and he wonders whether Mulan will become an influential text like it.
    “kind of how the rise of Skywalker kind of screwed up all the expectations that we had.”
    The Big Picture · Did Disney’s ‘Mulan’ Experiment Work? A Binge Mode Investigation · 0:43:44 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)
  50. career (career): Niki Caro → Whale Rider. Whale Rider put Caro on the map.
    “Whale rider kind of put her on the map.”
    The Big Picture · Did Disney’s ‘Mulan’ Experiment Work? A Binge Mode Investigation · 0:55:05 · Sean Fennessey (0.90 sure it was them)
  51. career (career): Niki Caro → North Country. Caro also made North Country with Charlize Theron in the 2000s.
    “she made a film with Charlize Theron um, in the 2000s called North Country.”
    The Big Picture · Did Disney’s ‘Mulan’ Experiment Work? A Binge Mode Investigation · 0:55:07 · Sean Fennessey (0.90 sure it was them)
  52. people (people): Niki Caro → Mulan. Sean says Caro's earnest, humorless films centering women make her a logical pick but tonally wrong for Mulan.
    “all of her films have one thing in common, which is they're kind of humorless. They're very earnest, dramatic stories that center women in the middle of the frame.”
    The Big Picture · Did Disney’s ‘Mulan’ Experiment Work? A Binge Mode Investigation · 0:55:12 · Sean Fennessey (0.90 sure it was them)
  53. industry (industry): Mulan → Yifei Liu. Sean says Liu's tweet backing Hong Kong police triggered a #BoycottMulan movement a year before release.
    “triggered the hashtag band Mulan movement when she tweeted support for Hong Kong police”
    The Big Picture · Did Disney’s ‘Mulan’ Experiment Work? A Binge Mode Investigation · 0:56:43 · Sean Fennessey (0.85 sure it was them)
  54. industry (industry): Mulan → Daryl Morey. Sean compares the Mulan China controversy to the NBA's controversy after Daryl Morey's tweet last year, another Disney-style cultural flashpoint with China.
    “we saw a version of this conversation in the NBA last year when Daryl Morey tweeted”
    The Big Picture · Did Disney’s ‘Mulan’ Experiment Work? A Binge Mode Investigation · 0:57:28 · Sean Fennessey (0.85 sure it was them)
  55. people (people): Tony McNamara → Cruella. Sean cites McNamara, creator of The Favourite and The Great, among Cruella's six screenwriters.
    “The other is Tony McNamara, creator of the favorite and the great.”
    The Big Picture · Did Disney’s ‘Mulan’ Experiment Work? A Binge Mode Investigation · 1:03:22 · Sean Fennessey (0.90 sure it was them)
  56. people (people): Craig Gillespie → Cruella. Sean notes Cruella is directed by Gillespie, who most recently made I, Tonya.
    “Movies directed by Craig Gillespie, who most recently made I Tanya.”
    The Big Picture · Did Disney’s ‘Mulan’ Experiment Work? A Binge Mode Investigation · 1:03:33 · Sean Fennessey (0.90 sure it was them)
  57. career (career): Rob Marshall → Mary Poppins Returns. Sean identifies Marshall by his most recent film, which is not his favorite.
    “directed by Rob Marshall, who most recently brought us Mary Poppins Returns, not really my favorite film.”
    The Big Picture · Did Disney’s ‘Mulan’ Experiment Work? A Binge Mode Investigation · 1:05:49 · Sean Fennessey (0.90 sure it was them)
  58. career (career): Jane Goldman → Kingsman. Sean identifies Goldman by her X-Men and Kingsman credits.
    “she's written some X-Men films and Kingsman films.”
    The Big Picture · Did Disney’s ‘Mulan’ Experiment Work? A Binge Mode Investigation · 1:06:12 · Sean Fennessey (0.90 sure it was them)
  59. career (career): David Lowery → Pete's Dragon. Sean notes Lowery has already made a live action Disney remake, Pete's Dragon, before Peter Pan and Wendy.
    “Peter Pan and Wendy from David Lowry, who has previously made a live action remake, Pete's Dragon”
    The Big Picture · Did Disney’s ‘Mulan’ Experiment Work? A Binge Mode Investigation · 1:11:24 · Sean Fennessey (0.90 sure it was them)
  60. craft (craft): Scott Pilgrim vs. the World → Brian De Palma. Sean describes the film's editing as De Palma turned up to eleven.
    “it's edited and cut like a Brian de Palma movie on crack.”
    The Big Picture · Celebrating ‘Scott Pilgrim vs. the World’ 10 Years Later With Edgar Wright · 0:02:03 · Sean Fennessey (0.90 sure it was them)
  61. career (career): Nigel Godrich → Radiohead. Sean introduces Godrich as Radiohead's longtime producer when naming him as the film's music collaborator.
    “longtime radiohead producer Nigel Godrich”
    The Big Picture · Celebrating ‘Scott Pilgrim vs. the World’ 10 Years Later With Edgar Wright · 0:02:32 · Sean Fennessey (0.95 sure it was them)
  62. lineage (lineage): Scott Pilgrim vs. the World → Baby Driver. Sean says Wright's music-synced action staging, perfected in Baby Driver, begins with Scott Pilgrim.
    “The perfectly synchronized music to action staging the Wright Perfected and Baby Driver starts with Scott Pilgrim.”
    The Big Picture · Celebrating ‘Scott Pilgrim vs. the World’ 10 Years Later With Edgar Wright · 0:02:46 · Sean Fennessey (0.90 sure it was them)
  63. lineage (lineage): Scott Pilgrim vs. the World → The Matrix. Sean breaks the staging down into influences: Bruce Lee, The Matrix, and Phantom of the Paradise.
    “It's one part Bruce Lee, one part the Matrix, one part Phantom of the Paradise.”
    The Big Picture · Celebrating ‘Scott Pilgrim vs. the World’ 10 Years Later With Edgar Wright · 0:03:08 · Sean Fennessey (0.90 sure it was them)
  64. lineage (lineage): Scott Pilgrim vs. the World → Phantom of the Paradise. Phantom of the Paradise is named as one ingredient of the film's rock-and-spectacle mix.
    “It's one part Bruce Lee, one part the Matrix, one part Phantom of the Paradise.”
    The Big Picture · Celebrating ‘Scott Pilgrim vs. the World’ 10 Years Later With Edgar Wright · 0:03:08 · Sean Fennessey (0.90 sure it was them)
  65. career (career): Scott Pilgrim vs. the World → Chris Evans. Sean says the cast now reads like the greatest hits of Marvel, DC, Disney and HBO, and the movie seems to wink at their future work.
    “This movie's linup now looks like the greatest hits of the MCU, DCEU, Disney and HBO lineups.”
    The Big Picture · Celebrating ‘Scott Pilgrim vs. the World’ 10 Years Later With Edgar Wright · 0:03:25 · Sean Fennessey (0.90 sure it was them)
  66. industry (industry): Scott Pilgrim vs. the World → Iron Man. Sean says two years earlier audiences were stunned that a comic hero could be sarcastic, and Scott Pilgrim is self-aware and glib in a way Watchmen, Batman and Superman were not.
    “only 2 years before that, people were blown away that Iron Man was kind of a dick with a sarcastic attitude.”
    The Big Picture · Celebrating ‘Scott Pilgrim vs. the World’ 10 Years Later With Edgar Wright · 0:17:23 · Sean Fennessey (0.85 sure it was them)
  67. lineage (lineage): Scott Pilgrim vs. the World → Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse. Sean says Deadpool, the Lego movie and Spider-Verse could not happen without this film having broken the fourth wall first.
    “Deadpool, for example, can't happen or like the Lego movie can't happen or into the Spider-Verse.”
    The Big Picture · Celebrating ‘Scott Pilgrim vs. the World’ 10 Years Later With Edgar Wright · 0:17:53 · Sean Fennessey (0.85 sure it was them)
  68. lineage (lineage): Scott Pilgrim vs. the World → Deadpool. Same claim: Deadpool's fourth-wall breaking was made possible by this movie breaking it down.
    “Deadpool, for example, can't happen or like the Lego movie can't happen or into the Spider-Verse.”
    The Big Picture · Celebrating ‘Scott Pilgrim vs. the World’ 10 Years Later With Edgar Wright · 0:17:53 · Sean Fennessey (0.85 sure it was them)
  69. lineage (lineage): Scott Pilgrim vs. the World → The Lego Movie. Same claim: the Lego movie's self-aware tone follows Scott Pilgrim.
    “Deadpool, for example, can't happen or like the Lego movie can't happen or into the Spider-Verse.”
    The Big Picture · Celebrating ‘Scott Pilgrim vs. the World’ 10 Years Later With Edgar Wright · 0:17:53 · Sean Fennessey (0.85 sure it was them)
  70. what-if (what-if): Scott Pilgrim vs. the World → Ellen Wong. Sean and Jason suggest a sequel would have to decenter Scott and follow Knives and Ramona.
    “Maybe that's the way to do the sequel is to make it the knives movie.”
    The Big Picture · Celebrating ‘Scott Pilgrim vs. the World’ 10 Years Later With Edgar Wright · 0:25:21 · Sean Fennessey (0.85 sure it was them)
  71. career (career): Edgar Wright → Spaced. Sean says the pacing in the bread-makes-you-fat scene comes from Wright's 25 episodes of Spaced and from Shaun of the Dead.
    “that's from doing 25 episodes of Spaced and doing Shauna the Dead.”
    The Big Picture · Celebrating ‘Scott Pilgrim vs. the World’ 10 Years Later With Edgar Wright · 0:38:54 · Sean Fennessey (0.90 sure it was them)
  72. lineage (lineage): Scott Pilgrim vs. the World → Baby Driver. Sean says Wright used this film to work out his rhythm, pacing and use of music, so Baby Driver does not exist without it.
    “there is no baby driver without this movie in terms of like the rhythm and the pacing and the way that he uses music.”
    The Big Picture · Celebrating ‘Scott Pilgrim vs. the World’ 10 Years Later With Edgar Wright · 0:39:06 · Sean Fennessey (0.90 sure it was them)
  73. career (career): Scott Pilgrim vs. the World → Last Night in Soho. Sean notes Scott Pilgrim is an outlier because Wright mostly makes original stories, and that Last Night in Soho, his horror film, was bumped to next year.
    “we were supposed to get last night in Soho in September and it got bumped to next year, his next movie, which is a horror movie.”
    The Big Picture · Celebrating ‘Scott Pilgrim vs. the World’ 10 Years Later With Edgar Wright · 0:42:22 · Sean Fennessey (0.90 sure it was them)
  74. programming (programming): The Pelican Brief → A Few Good Men. Disqualified: legal thriller, not courtroom drama, operating outside the courtroom.
    “operates almost entirely outside of the courtroom”
    The Big Picture · Objection! Top 10 Courtroom Dramas | The Big Picture · 0:11:07 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)
  75. programming (programming): 12 Angry Men → A Few Good Men. 12 Angry Men is a technicality: a morality play in a side room, not a courtroom drama.
    “It's a morality play inside of a side room related to a courtroom”
    The Big Picture · Objection! Top 10 Courtroom Dramas | The Big Picture · 0:12:02 · Sean Fennessey (0.85 sure it was them)
  76. career (career): Sidney Lumet → 12 Angry Men. Lumet directed 12 Angry Men, which was left off; he is honored later via The Verdict.
    “we are acknowledging the work of the great Sunil Lumet later in the show”
    The Big Picture · Objection! Top 10 Courtroom Dramas | The Big Picture · 0:13:31 · Sean Fennessey (0.85 sure it was them)
  77. programming (programming): To Kill a Mockingbird → A Few Good Men. Left off the list as more homework than pleasurable; the list favors twisty, speechifying, overacting movies.
    “pleasurability factor of a lot of these movies”
    The Big Picture · Objection! Top 10 Courtroom Dramas | The Big Picture · 0:14:25 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)
  78. career (career): The Trial of the Chicago 7 → Aaron Sorkin. Sorkin's Chicago 7 should be in this wheelhouse.
    “Trial of Chicago 7, which theoretically will be in this exact wheelhouse”
    The Big Picture · Objection! Top 10 Courtroom Dramas | The Big Picture · 0:29:50 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  79. industry (industry): How to Get Away with Murder → Shonda Rhimes. Rhimes took the courtroom drama out of the courtroom for puzzles.
    “she essentially took the courtroom drama out of the courtroom”
    The Big Picture · Objection! Top 10 Courtroom Dramas | The Big Picture · 0:30:26 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  80. people (people): Witness for the Prosecution → Billy Wilder. Written and directed by Wilder, in the middle of his great run.
    “Written and directed by the great Billy Wilder”
    The Big Picture · Objection! Top 10 Courtroom Dramas | The Big Picture · 0:38:58 · Sean Fennessey (0.75 sure it was them)
  81. career (career): Witness for the Prosecution → Some Like It Hot. Wilder followed it with Some Like It Hot and The Apartment.
    “follows that up with some like it hot in the apartment”
    The Big Picture · Objection! Top 10 Courtroom Dramas | The Big Picture · 0:38:58 · Sean Fennessey (0.75 sure it was them)
  82. craft (craft): Charles Laughton → Witness for the Prosecution. Laughton sets the tempo for over-the-top lawyer performances.
    “setting the tempo for all great over the top prosecutorial kind of lawyer performances”
    The Big Picture · Objection! Top 10 Courtroom Dramas | The Big Picture · 0:40:15 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)
  83. industry (industry): Witness for the Prosecution → Psycho. Both asked audiences not to spoil the twist; Witness did it in 1957.
    “please do not spoil the murder”
    The Big Picture · Objection! Top 10 Courtroom Dramas | The Big Picture · 0:42:28 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)
  84. career (career): Tyrone Power → Witness for the Prosecution. Last film Power completed before dying at 44.
    “This is the last film he completed”
    The Big Picture · Objection! Top 10 Courtroom Dramas | The Big Picture · 0:44:23 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  85. craft (craft): Witness for the Prosecution → Witness for the Prosecution. Feels like a stage show, with only 3 or 4 settings.
    “the film feels like a stage show”
    The Big Picture · Objection! Top 10 Courtroom Dramas | The Big Picture · 0:44:34 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  86. people (people): Anatomy of a Murder → George C. Scott. Scott plays the out-of-town prosecutor and echoes the checklist's big-shot opponent.
    “He's the out of town prosecutor that you were mentioning earlier”
    The Big Picture · Objection! Top 10 Courtroom Dramas | The Big Picture · 0:46:20 · Sean Fennessey (0.55 sure it was them)
  87. career (career): George C. Scott → Doctor Strangelove. Scott looks wily in his Strangelove era.
    “very looking very wily in his sort of Doctor Strangelove era”
    The Big Picture · Objection! Top 10 Courtroom Dramas | The Big Picture · 0:47:42 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  88. career (career): Stanley Kramer → Inherit the Wind. Kramer made issue-oriented parables: The Defiant Ones, Inherit the Wind, Judgment at Nuremberg, Mad World, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner.
    “films that were sort of parables for ideas in the culture”
    The Big Picture · Objection! Top 10 Courtroom Dramas | The Big Picture · 0:52:23 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)
  89. programming (programming): Judgment at Nuremberg → Inherit the Wind. Judgment at Nuremberg just barely missed the list.
    “a movie that just barely missed the list here for us”
    The Big Picture · Objection! Top 10 Courtroom Dramas | The Big Picture · 0:52:39 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)
  90. contrast (contrast): Inherit the Wind → JFK. Inherit the Wind shows a trial becoming a social firestorm, unlike the insular courtroom movies.
    “so many of the movies on this list are really insular”
    The Big Picture · Objection! Top 10 Courtroom Dramas | The Big Picture · 0:55:15 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  91. unmapped (anecdote): A Man for All Seasons → The Hot Rock. Sean saw its trailer before The Hot Rock at the New Beverly.
    “they played the trailer for a man for all seasons”
    The Big Picture · Objection! Top 10 Courtroom Dramas | The Big Picture · 1:03:26 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)
  92. career (career): Robert Shaw → A Man for All Seasons. Shaw plays the king; known to fans of Jaws.
    “Robert Shaw, who plays the king in this movie”
    The Big Picture · Objection! Top 10 Courtroom Dramas | The Big Picture · 1:03:46 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)
  93. people (people): A Man for All Seasons → Fred Zinnemann. Zinnemann is an old-school, sturdy-handed filmmaker at the dawn of New Hollywood.
    “this very old school style filmmaker”
    The Big Picture · Objection! Top 10 Courtroom Dramas | The Big Picture · 1:06:04 · Sean Fennessey (0.75 sure it was them)
  94. industry (industry): A Man for All Seasons → Pictures at a Revolution. It is the good version of studio Hollywood, not the bloated musical stuff in Harris's book.
    “the good version of when the studios could make something really powerful”
    The Big Picture · Objection! Top 10 Courtroom Dramas | The Big Picture · 1:06:25 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)
  95. contrast (contrast): The Verdict → ...And Justice for All. Justice for All was tonally all over the place and didn't make the list; The Verdict is a diamond.
    “The verdict on the other hand, is a diamond”
    The Big Picture · Objection! Top 10 Courtroom Dramas | The Big Picture · 1:08:29 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)
  96. people (people): The Verdict → David Mamet. Written by Mamet, one of his first screenplays.
    “written by David Mammon”
    The Big Picture · Objection! Top 10 Courtroom Dramas | The Big Picture · 1:08:42 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)
  97. lineage (lineage): The Verdict → The Firm. The Verdict is foundational for the Grisham underdog stories.
    “foundational for a lot of the Grisham stories”
    The Big Picture · Objection! Top 10 Courtroom Dramas | The Big Picture · 1:08:58 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  98. contrast (contrast): The Verdict → A Few Good Men. Verdict's results hinge on integrity and decency, a counterpoint to being right or wrong.
    “a lot of these movies which are about the vagaries of being right and wrong”
    The Big Picture · Objection! Top 10 Courtroom Dramas | The Big Picture · 1:09:55 · Sean Fennessey (0.55 sure it was them)
  99. career (career): Hank Corwin → Vice. Corwin helped Adam McKay on Vice.
    “he helped Adam McKay at advice”
    The Big Picture · Objection! Top 10 Courtroom Dramas | The Big Picture · 1:18:47 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)
  100. craft (craft): Hank Corwin → JFK. Corwin's aggressive flash-cutting across film stocks, the Zapruder film and archival footage defines JFK's editing, and he later helped Adam McKay on Vice.
    “this incredible commercial influence flash cutting style that he does in this movie, which, you know, is liable to, you know, give you a seizure.”
    The Big Picture · Objection! Top 10 Courtroom Dramas | The Big Picture · 1:18:51 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)

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  1. fun, about Kurt Russell: Apex Mountain debate: Tango & Cash vs Escape from New York/The Thing/Silkwood era.
    “Because 82, 83 is when he was at his best.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Tombstone’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:48:15 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  2. fun, about Josephine Earp: Real-life Josephine reportedly tried to erase Mattie from Earp history.
    “Trying to erase her from history”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Tombstone’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 1:01:55 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
  3. fun, about Tombstone: Kurt Russell says the footage could be rebuilt as the Western Godfather; he claims he found the hospital scene he wrote.
    “The movie is the Godfather or Western Godfather.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Tombstone’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 1:06:23 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  4. fun, about Panos Cosmatos: George's son directed Mandy starring Nicolas Cage.
    “made a movie this year called Mandy starring Nicholas Cage.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Tombstone’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 1:13:06 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  5. fun, about Mission: Impossible: The Langley vault heist is nearly silent; the digital sound meter goes into the red. It is the pick for most rewatchable scene and has been ripped off numerous times.
    “almost all in silence, which is an incredible choice.”
    The Rewatchables · 'Mission: Impossible' With Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Jason Concepcion · 0:24:26 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
  6. fun, about Emilio Estevez: Estevez's chewing-gum explosive line 'Asta lasagna. Don't get any onya' is a favorite line.
    “Asta lasagna. Don't get any onya when showing cruise how to use the chewing gum explosive.”
    The Rewatchables · 'Mission: Impossible' With Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Jason Concepcion · 0:30:07 · Sean Fennessey (0.30 sure it was them)
  7. fun, about Mission: Impossible: Masks win 'what's aged the worst' over floppy disks, Netscape and Usenet, though one host argues the preposterous masks are the point and the show's legacy.
    “But the masks are mission impossible.”
    The Rewatchables · 'Mission: Impossible' With Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Jason Concepcion · 0:43:48 · Sean Fennessey (0.30 sure it was them)
  8. fun, about Mission: Impossible: Unintentional comedy: Senator Waltzer appears on the McLaughlin Group and the team watches it in crystal-clear video in a Prague hotel room.
    “being able to watch the McLaughlin group in crystal clear video in a hotel room in Prague.”
    The Rewatchables · 'Mission: Impossible' With Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Jason Concepcion · 0:50:58 · Sean Fennessey (0.30 sure it was them)
  9. fun, about Mission: Impossible: Unanswerable question: three theories on Senator Waltzer, including that he is a 65-year-old American citizen played entirely by Cruise for IMF on 60 grand a year.
    “Or he is a completely constructed 65-year-old human American citizen played entirely by Tom Cruise when necessary for the IMF.”
    The Rewatchables · 'Mission: Impossible' With Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Jason Concepcion · 0:54:00 · Sean Fennessey (0.30 sure it was them)
  10. fun, about The Rewatchables: Recurring Danny Trejo category: asked which character in MI should be Danny Trejo; answer was Steve Buscemi as Estevez or Claire. Said to matter to Bill Simmons.
    “This is one of like the 6 or 7 things that matters most to Bill is the evolution of the Danny Trejo category within the real logic.”
    The Rewatchables · 'Mission: Impossible' With Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Jason Concepcion · 1:00:51 · Sean Fennessey (0.30 sure it was them)
  11. fun, about Mission: Impossible: Next week's episode: Die Hard; Mad Max: Fury Road bumped to August.
    “Yeah, it's a little movie called Die Hard.”
    The Rewatchables · 'Mission: Impossible' With Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Jason Concepcion · 1:07:53 · Sean Fennessey (0.30 sure it was them)
  12. fun, about Resident Evil: Cregger told Sean the film would be a rock-em sock-em, brain-off Evil Dead 2 style movie, nothing like Barbarian and Weapons. Sean regrets asking him why he was making a franchise film right after Weapons.
    “I took a little bit of an attitude with him.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 0:20:37 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)
  13. fun, about Resident Evil: At the Century City screening, Sean and Chris were put in separate rooms; they locked eyes after and both knew they had one.
    “we both were wide-eyed, and we knew.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 0:21:47 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)
  14. fun, about Resident Evil: The title credits do not appear until after the 20 minute mark; most of the trailer is from the first 20 minutes.
    “the title credits don't appear until after the 20 minute mark”
    The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 0:35:54 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  15. fun, about Resident Evil: A running padlock gag: giant truck caught in a padlocked gate, the first of many padlocks that stymie Brian.
    “the 1st of many padlocks that stymie him throughout this movie.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 0:41:00 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  16. fun, about Resident Evil: A screening audience member shouted 'kill it' when Brian meets the little girl in the RV, breaking the seal on the laughter.
    “Someone shouted out, kill it.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 0:41:52 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  17. fun, about Resident Evil: The suicide jumper scene: Brian runs through a canyon of people leaping off tall buildings and exploding near him; Chris calls it operatic but wishes it was not in the trailer.
    “So I thought it was just completely operatic and amazing.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 0:57:34 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  18. fun, about Resident Evil: A voice-note confession by the elevator is undercut by an intercom voice saying come up, take the stairs; he takes the elevator anyway, which becomes the acid-barf, snowball-zombie set piece.
    “Takes 4 flights of stairs.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 0:58:37 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  19. fun, about Griffin Newman: Blank Check co-host Griffin Newman and Severance's Zach Cherry play scientists in the final lab; podcasters get extra pixie dust from the scene.
    “there's a little bit of extra pixie dust on this sequence”
    The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 1:04:15 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  20. fun, about Resident Evil: Called one of the greatest get-in-get-out IP jobs in movie history; Cregger wants out of Raccoon City.
    “It's one of the greatest get in and get out IP jobs in the history of movies.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 1:08:25 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  21. fun, about Zach Cregger: Constantin Film head said Cregger came to them with the idea; Cregger's next film is a big sci-fi action movie, The Flood, for Warner Bros.
    “Zach Craiger came to them and was like, I have an idea for a Resident Evil movie.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 1:13:50 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  22. fun, about Video games: Sean skips cut scenes; Chris likes being controlled by a movie and not controlling a game. GTA 6 arrives in two months and may blot out podcasting.
    “In the movies, somebody else is in control.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 1:27:48 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  23. fun, about Horror lately: Both hosts feel horror movies are becoming a drag, heavy on ponderous self-examination; Resident Evil could be a changer-comer back toward fun.
    “horror movies are becoming a drag.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 1:31:54 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  24. fun, about Raisinettes in popcorn: Chris pours Raisinettes into a popcorn bucket, one person's breaking point; the speaker defends it as making popcorn tolerable.
    “Who would put raisinettes and popcorn?”
    The Big Picture · The Final Girl Film Canon and ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ With Gillian Anderson, Hannah Einbinder, and Jane Schoenbrun! · 0:24:58 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  25. fun, about Camp Miasma (voyeur and victim): Chris's confession of wanting to be both voyeur and victim is the film's most critical scene and a double-edged pleasure.
    “you're the voyeur and the victim at the same time.”
    The Big Picture · The Final Girl Film Canon and ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ With Gillian Anderson, Hannah Einbinder, and Jane Schoenbrun! · 0:32:19 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  26. fun, about Camp Miasma (the movie-within-movie viewing): Chris keeps annotating the old film's technique and transphobia while Billy rolls her eyes: the movie asks if you can enjoy something without its externalities.
    “and can you enjoy it without its externalities?”
    The Big Picture · The Final Girl Film Canon and ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ With Gillian Anderson, Hannah Einbinder, and Jane Schoenbrun! · 0:34:15 · Sean Fennessey (0.55 sure it was them)
  27. fun, about Obsession: The discourse around Obsession is the most deranged for any American movie since the speaker started; 80 percent the moment, 20 percent the movie.
    “about 80% of that is the moment that we're in, and only 20% of it is the movie.”
    The Big Picture · The Final Girl Film Canon and ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ With Gillian Anderson, Hannah Einbinder, and Jane Schoenbrun! · 0:39:19 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  28. fun, about Scarface / Scott Hall: Story that Scott Hall auditioned for Vince McMahon as Tony Montana and afterwards admitted he didn't know what Scarface was.
    “I do not know what Scarface is.”
    The Big Picture · The Final Girl Film Canon and ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ With Gillian Anderson, Hannah Einbinder, and Jane Schoenbrun! · 0:46:11 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  29. fun, about Alien: In the original Alien script Ripley was a man, and little changed for Weaver beyond Ridley Scott stripping her to underwear at the end.
    “Ripley was a man.”
    The Big Picture · The Final Girl Film Canon and ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ With Gillian Anderson, Hannah Einbinder, and Jane Schoenbrun! · 0:47:31 · Sean Fennessey (0.55 sure it was them)
  30. fun, about Undertone: The year also brought a Canadian haunted-podcast movie; the hosts joke it describes their own show.
    “Some are saying this has been the haunted podcast for many years.”
    The Big Picture · The Final Girl Film Canon and ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ With Gillian Anderson, Hannah Einbinder, and Jane Schoenbrun! · 1:03:10 · Sean Fennessey (0.45 sure it was them)
  31. fun, about Obsession: A tiny indie horror movie made a stunning five million dollars on a Wednesday in its third week, which Griffin says breaks his brain.
    “Obsession made $5000000 on a Wednesday in its 3rd week of release”
    The Big Picture · The Top 10 Fantasy Films, The Toy Movie Hall of Fame, and ‘Masters of the Universe,’ with Griffin Newman! · 0:02:58 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  32. fun, about He-Man cartoon / deregulation: He-Man broke the wall that kept toy-selling cartoons off the air, ushering in 22-minute commercials.
    “G-Man is the one that basically breaks the Berlin wall of these can be 22 minute commercials now.”
    The Big Picture · The Top 10 Fantasy Films, The Toy Movie Hall of Fame, and ‘Masters of the Universe,’ with Griffin Newman! · 0:23:07 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  33. fun, about Transformers: Sean saw the original Bay Transformers at its premiere and it rocked his world.
    “I was at the premiere of the original Transformers Michael Bay film, and it just rocked my world.”
    The Big Picture · The Top 10 Fantasy Films, The Toy Movie Hall of Fame, and ‘Masters of the Universe,’ with Griffin Newman! · 1:29:57 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  34. fun, about Super Bowl / Jets: Amanda announces a 12-month hiatus from the NFL after the Jets' pointless season; Sean doesn't believe a word of it.
    “the New York Jets are a psyop that have been operated against me and I am publicly announcing that after this year's NFL draft, I am taking a 12 month hiatus from the team.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Mamma Mia!’ Meets ‘The Strangers'! It’s a Movie Swap! · 0:04:56 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  35. fun, about Movie swap history: The hosts recap six swaps: Spider-Verse/Sense and Sensibility (2019), Aliens/Four Weddings (2020), Terminator 2/Titanic (2021), Fargo/English Patient (2022), the three-way Casablanca/In-Laws/Spy Kids (2023), and the Shrek one-way swap.
    “The 1st one we ever did was in 2019, and we swapped into the Spider-Verse and Sense and Sensibility.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Mamma Mia!’ Meets ‘The Strangers'! It’s a Movie Swap! · 0:09:30 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)
  36. fun, about The Strangers: Sean saw it in theaters knowing only the trailer; the hosts say it was shot in 2006-07 and sat on the shelf a year, which is how it landed in 2008.
    “Apparently this movie was shot in 2006, 2007 and just sat on the shelf for a year.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Mamma Mia!’ Meets ‘The Strangers'! It’s a Movie Swap! · 0:19:06 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)
  37. fun, about Brian Bertino: Bertino's early script placed in a screenwriting fellowship contest and got him a call from producer Roy Lee.
    “He submitted it to the Nickel Fellowship, uh, or Nick Nickel Grant contest. I think he came in 3rd place, but it got noticed.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Mamma Mia!’ Meets ‘The Strangers'! It’s a Movie Swap! · 0:19:25 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)
  38. fun, about The Strangers: Sound design: a single knock at the door is the film's most upsetting moment, with very little score or dialogue.
    “a single knock at a door at 4.30 in the morning can be the most upsetting thing that could possibly happen to you.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Mamma Mia!’ Meets ‘The Strangers'! It’s a Movie Swap! · 0:38:41 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  39. fun, about The Strangers: Bit about the proposal: the ring, the parking lot, the pear-shaped diamond from Sex and the City, and Sean's diamond shaped like Babu Frick.
    “The diamond that I got for Eileen when I proposed is in the shape of Babu Frick.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Mamma Mia!’ Meets ‘The Strangers'! It’s a Movie Swap! · 0:43:13 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  40. fun, about Mamma Mia!: Sean watched Mamma Mia with Eileen and Alice in a 4:30-to-6:18 window between Lincoln and moderating a One Battle After Another event at Warner Brothers.
    “I can watch Mamma Mia from 430 to 618, and then I got to drive to Warner Brothers to go to moderate a conversation for one battle after another.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Mamma Mia!’ Meets ‘The Strangers'! It’s a Movie Swap! · 0:56:26 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)
  41. fun, about Mamma Mia!: It squeezes 23 songs into a 1 hour 42 minute movie.
    “23 songs, they squeeze into this one hour and 42 minutes movie.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Mamma Mia!’ Meets ‘The Strangers'! It’s a Movie Swap! · 1:01:56 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  42. fun, about Mamma Mia!: Sean notes the end credits, with the cast in full 70s disco gear singing Waterloo, may be the film's high point.
    “arguably the highest point of the movie is the credit sequence when they've stripped away all pretense of trying to tell a story.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Mamma Mia!’ Meets ‘The Strangers'! It’s a Movie Swap! · 1:24:44 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  43. fun, about Kristen Stewart: Kristen Stewart is buying the Highland Park Theater, which the hosts live five minutes from.
    “Shout out to Kristen Stewart debuting her purchase of the Highland Highland Park Theater.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Mamma Mia!’ Meets ‘The Strangers'! It’s a Movie Swap! · 1:32:25 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  44. fun, about Beatles biopics: The four Beatles films release in April 2028, one per week, and only Keoghan and Quinn appear in the leaked photos.
    “So, it's interesting that only Barry Kyogan and Joseph Quinn get the close-up on these”
    The Big Picture · The 10 Most Misused Stars in Hollywood and the Gnarly Magic of ‘Send Help’ · 0:08:40 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  45. fun, about Gandhi: Gandhi holds the BAFTA nomination record with 16, ahead of Sinners with 13.
    “16 nominations for Gandhi.”
    The Big Picture · The 10 Most Misused Stars in Hollywood and the Gnarly Magic of ‘Send Help’ · 0:10:45 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  46. fun, about Mercy: Mercy has an on-screen countdown clock of 90 minutes that nearly matches the 96-minute runtime, which the hosts call its one real innovation.
    “This movie has a countdown clock.”
    The Big Picture · The 10 Most Misused Stars in Hollywood and the Gnarly Magic of ‘Send Help’ · 0:19:18 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  47. fun, about Mercy: The hero is barefoot throughout, which prompts a run of jokes about why the man cannot have shoes.
    “Why can't the man have shoes?”
    The Big Picture · The 10 Most Misused Stars in Hollywood and the Gnarly Magic of ‘Send Help’ · 0:29:01 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
  48. fun, about Billy Madison: Billy Madison apologizes to a man he bullied, Steve Buscemi, who accepts and then crosses Billy off a list of names.
    “Bushemi pulls out a list of names and he crosses Billy Madison off the list.”
    The Big Picture · The 10 Most Misused Stars in Hollywood and the Gnarly Magic of ‘Send Help’ · 0:34:41 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  49. fun, about Mercy: Verdict: it should be left to streaming and does not need the theater.
    “Sometimes it's good to have just like an absolute dead fish.”
    The Big Picture · The 10 Most Misused Stars in Hollywood and the Gnarly Magic of ‘Send Help’ · 0:38:33 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  50. fun, about Send Help: The best choice: it never settles who the audience should root for, since both leads do awful things to each other.
    “And the fact that the movie isn't really too worried about like, who were you rooting for here, because they both do awful things to each other?”
    The Big Picture · The 10 Most Misused Stars in Hollywood and the Gnarly Magic of ‘Send Help’ · 0:52:49 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  51. fun, about Send Help: The film moves from office revenge to survival, and Linda's survival skill comes from reading survival texts and loving Survivor.
    “One of the reasons why she's so good at surviving on this island is because she has read survival texts and she loves the show Survivor”
    The Big Picture · The 10 Most Misused Stars in Hollywood and the Gnarly Magic of ‘Send Help’ · 0:58:44 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  52. fun, about Send Help: On the island, the hosts compare survival skills; the palm-leaf-into-coconut-shell water funnel was a revelation.
    “Would you know to do the palm leaf into the coconut shell as like a water funnel situation?”
    The Big Picture · The 10 Most Misused Stars in Hollywood and the Gnarly Magic of ‘Send Help’ · 0:59:48 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  53. fun, about Rachel McAdams: Wedding Crashers, fascinatingly, ranks only thirteenth among her most popular films on Letterboxd.
    “Actually, Wedding Crashers, fascinatingly, is number 13.”
    The Big Picture · The 10 Most Misused Stars in Hollywood and the Gnarly Magic of ‘Send Help’ · 1:07:09 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  54. fun, about Rachel McAdams: Letterboxd's most popular McAdams films: Mean Girls first, then The Notebook, Midnight in Paris sixth, Spotlight seventh, Game Night eighth, Sherlock Holmes ninth, Red Eye tenth.
    “Number 7 is a movie that I always forget that she's in.”
    The Big Picture · The 10 Most Misused Stars in Hollywood and the Gnarly Magic of ‘Send Help’ · 1:07:27 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  55. fun, about Rachel McAdams: Her generation list: 22 actresses, only about five (Hathaway, Johansson, Stone, Saldana, Blunt) truly emerged.
    “So that's 22 stars.”
    The Big Picture · The 10 Most Misused Stars in Hollywood and the Gnarly Magic of ‘Send Help’ · 1:12:53 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  56. fun, about Angelina Jolie: One of the most famous people in the world makes zero good movies.
    “How often? Those one of the most famous people in the world makes 0 good movies.”
    The Big Picture · The 10 Most Misused Stars in Hollywood and the Gnarly Magic of ‘Send Help’ · 1:26:26 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
  57. fun, about Julia Roberts: When she walked on stage at the Golden Globes, everyone stood and applauded, which they liken to unused nuclear power.
    “Like, we're not using that is like nuclear power, you know?”
    The Big Picture · The 10 Most Misused Stars in Hollywood and the Gnarly Magic of ‘Send Help’ · 1:27:55 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  58. fun, about Bradley Cooper: A joke about surviving Aloha and Joy: this guy survived them.
    “This guy survived Aloha and joy.”
    The Big Picture · The 10 Most Misused Stars in Hollywood and the Gnarly Magic of ‘Send Help’ · 1:34:35 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  59. fun, about Chris Pine: Pine is in Princess Diaries 2; the speaker insists he was formative for garbage teens of the mid-aughts.
    “Garbage teens is a good idea for an episode.”
    The Big Picture · The 10 Most Misused Stars in Hollywood and the Gnarly Magic of ‘Send Help’ · 1:45:27 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  60. fun, about Kirsten Dunst: Dunst reportedly shade-posted Timothée Chalamet's Marty Supreme performance against Jesse Plemons in Bugonia on Oscar day.
    “she was just retweeting on the day of the Oscars”
    The Big Picture · The 10 Most Misused Stars in Hollywood and the Gnarly Magic of ‘Send Help’ · 1:50:04 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
  61. fun, about Mel Brooks: Judd Apatow directed a four-hour HBO documentary about Mel Brooks, who turns 100 this year.
    “Judd Apatado directed a new HBO documentary about Mel Brooks, who is turning 100 years old this year”
    The Big Picture · The 10 Most Misused Stars in Hollywood and the Gnarly Magic of ‘Send Help’ · 1:54:19 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  62. fun, about Zack Snyder's Justice League: Sean rarely rewatches films except Zack Snyder's Justice League (ten times); he's seen The Dark Knight Rises six times from channel-flipping for Bane.
    “I tend to not go back to films aside from Zack Snyder's Justice League, which I've seen 10 times.”
    The Big Picture · The 2022 Movie Draft · 0:32:25 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)
  63. fun, about Jordan Peele: Sean says Peele's movies play better on the tenth watch than the first.
    “his movies actually now to me play better on like the 10th watch than they do on the first.”
    The Big Picture · The 2022 Movie Draft · 0:42:27 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)
  64. fun, about Nope: Sean saw it in 70mm at the Egyptian for his birthday, loud and amazing, and plans to rewatch it every couple of years until he dies.
    “I probably will watch this movie every couple years till I die.”
    The Big Picture · The 2022 Movie Draft · 0:43:36 · Sean Fennessey (0.90 sure it was them)
  65. fun, about Barbarian: Sean begs Bob Iger for a 4K release of Barbarian because it has been three years.
    “Bob Iger, if you're listening.”
    The Big Picture · The 2022 Movie Draft · 1:02:11 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)
  66. fun, about Everything Everywhere All at Once: Sean picks it as a genre mashup and sincere immigrant-family portrait with a lot of kung fu, despite the awards spin cycle.
    “it has a lot of fucking kung fu in it.”
    The Big Picture · The 2022 Movie Draft · 1:21:46 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)
  67. fun, about The Wolf of Wall Street: Fennessey says the film is the 'final boss' of a hyperkinetic style Scorsese built in the 21st century.
    “it's like the final boss of a thing he developed in the 21st century as a director.”
    The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 11 - 'The Wolf of Wall Street’ · 0:03:29 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  68. fun, about The Wolf of Wall Street: Slowed-down blues over the bacchanalia, where lights change and sound drops out until the camera finds Belfort gleeful and regretful, reads as him descending into hell.
    “you can almost feel Jordan like descending into hell or like, or he's being portrayed as Satan.”
    The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 11 - 'The Wolf of Wall Street’ · 0:15:33 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  69. fun, about Once Upon a Time in Hollywood: Fennessey says seeing Once Upon a Time at an ArcLight screening made it a forever movie, and says he feels the same hunger now for One Battle After Another.
    “as soon as it was over, I was like forever movie.”
    The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 11 - 'The Wolf of Wall Street’ · 0:45:03 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  70. fun, about Moneyball: The film's central romantic claim: it is about math, angry people, and unflattering pants, yet becomes irresistibly sentimental.
    “It's about math. It is about like a lot of math, and there are just a lot of numbers at screen all the time.”
    The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 14 - ‘Moneyball’ · 0:03:27 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  71. fun, about Bill James: Great baseball thinker who is weird on other topics; has a lot of feelings about who killed JFK. Joke about Chris Ryan reading the deleted files with Control F, like GMs did with James.
    “He's got a lot of feelings about who killed JFK.”
    The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 14 - ‘Moneyball’ · 0:04:45 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  72. fun, about Michael Lewis: The book reads like a thriller even though readers already knew the sports events.
    “It kind of reads like a thriller, even though it's covering sports events that most people who were reading the book already knew occurred.”
    The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 14 - ‘Moneyball’ · 0:05:17 · Sean Fennessey (0.55 sure it was them)
  73. fun, about Billy Beane: He has not won a World Series, is no longer GM, and the A's no longer play in Oakland, yet the movie still has a sentimental hold.
    “Billy Bean still has not won a World Series.”
    The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 14 - ‘Moneyball’ · 0:05:42 · Sean Fennessey (0.55 sure it was them)
  74. fun, about Moneyball: The big game is a mid-season winning-streak game, not a playoff; the movie shows mostly failures, only the Hatteberg home run and not the 11 runs.
    “the big game is just like a winning streak game in the middle of the season.”
    The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 14 - ‘Moneyball’ · 0:09:36 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  75. fun, about Jonah Hill: In Soderbergh's version, comedian Dimitri Martin was going to play Peter Brand.
    “Dimitri Martin, the comedian, was going to play the Peter Brand character.”
    The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 14 - ‘Moneyball’ · 0:13:40 · Sean Fennessey (0.55 sure it was them)
  76. fun, about Philip Seymour Hoffman: Played Art Howe, who also managed the Mets and sucked; a nothing part on the page that he gave gravitas.
    “Philip Seymour Hoffman, who plays Art Howe, who also managed the Mets, by the way, and he sucked.”
    The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 14 - ‘Moneyball’ · 0:14:49 · Sean Fennessey (0.55 sure it was them)
  77. fun, about Grady Fuson: The scouts' scene is one of the great scenes of the century; the real Fuson was reportedly supportive of the revolution but the movie took dramatic license.
    “another just one of the great scenes of the 21st century.”
    The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 14 - ‘Moneyball’ · 0:16:17 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  78. fun, about Chris Pratt: Hatteberg is invented as a softening character; a joke list of his later movies follows from the audience, ending on Bride Wars.
    “it invents the Hatteberg character written, played by Chris Pat in one of his best movie roles.”
    The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 14 - ‘Moneyball’ · 0:18:41 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  79. fun, about Steven Soderbergh: His planned version: Reds-style baseball with real players like Hatteberg and Bradford acting; added more statistics days before production and Amy Pascal asked what the fuck it was and put it in turnaround.
    “Amy Pascal, who was running Sony at the time, said, what the fuck is this?”
    The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 14 - ‘Moneyball’ · 0:22:58 · Sean Fennessey (0.55 sure it was them)
  80. fun, about Bennett Miller: Hired after Sorkin's draft; had only made a documentary and Capote; has not made a movie in over 10 years, which may dim Moneyball's legacy.
    “I wonder if like the legacy of this movie is dimmed at all because Bena Miller hasn't made a movie in over 10 years.”
    The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 14 - ‘Moneyball’ · 0:25:08 · Sean Fennessey (0.55 sure it was them)
  81. fun, about Moneyball: Six Oscar nominations (picture, actor, supporting actor, adapted screenplay, editing, sound mixing) but no director nomination.
    “Six Academy Award nominations, picture actor, supporting actor, adapted screenplay, film editing, and sound mixing.”
    The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 14 - ‘Moneyball’ · 0:26:28 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  82. fun, about Tracy Letts: Sliding doors: if Pitt won in 2011, someone else might have won supporting in 2019, perhaps Tracy Letts for Ford v Ferrari.
    “maybe our friend Tracy Letts for Ford versus Ferrari could have gotten in there”
    The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 14 - ‘Moneyball’ · 0:27:25 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  83. fun, about Moneyball: Four stars from Ebert; about $120 million on a roughly $50-60 million budget; called a very adult movie.
    “$120 million is like a 50 or $60000000 movie.”
    The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 14 - ‘Moneyball’ · 0:28:26 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  84. 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)
  85. 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)
  86. 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)
  87. 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)
  88. 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)
  89. 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)
  90. 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)
  91. 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)
  92. 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)
  93. 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)
  94. fun, about A Minecraft Movie: Sean sat next to a date-night couple; the guy crushed three Sam Adamses and chuckled, all while surrounded by 9-14-year-olds who did not know how to behave.
    “I watched a guy crush 3 Sam Adamses during the movie.”
    The Big Picture · ‘A Minecraft Movie’ Is the Most Important Movie of the Year So Far. And These Flicks Are the Best … · 0:03:53 · Sean Fennessey (0.90 sure it was them)
  95. fun, about A Minecraft Movie: Participatory movie, compared to Rocky Horror; Sean felt like he had no Amanda to turn to for explanations, as with Marvel.
    “This is a participatory movie, the likes of which I haven't seen in a while.”
    The Big Picture · ‘A Minecraft Movie’ Is the Most Important Movie of the Year So Far. And These Flicks Are the Best … · 0:08:11 · Sean Fennessey (0.85 sure it was them)
  96. fun, about A Minecraft Movie: The 'chicken jockey' moment: when a baby Frankenstein rides a chicken and fights Momoa and the words are uttered, the whole theater erupts like a World Series win; it happens 5-6 times in the movie.
    “The movie theater exploded as though everyone had just won the World Series.”
    The Big Picture · ‘A Minecraft Movie’ Is the Most Important Movie of the Year So Far. And These Flicks Are the Best … · 0:09:00 · Sean Fennessey (0.85 sure it was them)
  97. fun, about Gabby's Dollhouse: Eleven seasons on Netflix, from the creator of Blue's Clues; Universal pitched a movie with Kristen Wiig and Gloria Estefan.
    “It's a show that has 11 seasons on Netflix.”
    The Big Picture · ‘A Minecraft Movie’ Is the Most Important Movie of the Year So Far. And These Flicks Are the Best … · 0:17:21 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  98. fun, about TMNT (1990): Sean saw it in theaters at the time; adult critics despaired and it still became a path for decades of storytelling.
    “I saw it in the theater.”
    The Big Picture · ‘A Minecraft Movie’ Is the Most Important Movie of the Year So Far. And These Flicks Are the Best … · 0:41:03 · Sean Fennessey (0.85 sure it was them)
  99. fun, about CinemaCon: Executives all quoted made-up stats, such as 4.5 billion, a number no one could round.
    “And I'm like, that's not a round number.”
    The Big Picture · ‘A Minecraft Movie’ Is the Most Important Movie of the Year So Far. And These Flicks Are the Best … · 0:44:39 · Sean Fennessey (0.55 sure it was them)
  100. fun, about Free Guy: Sean thinks the ending of Free Guy was the most cynical thing: not enough original story, so cut to Captain America.
    “I hated that.”
    The Big Picture · ‘A Minecraft Movie’ Is the Most Important Movie of the Year So Far. And These Flicks Are the Best … · 0:52:30 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)