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 1,201–1,300 of 1,576 claims.

  1. craft (craft): JFK → John Williams. Williams wrote six pieces without seeing the film and Stone cut to them.
    “Oliver Stone cut the movie to the music that John Williams provided”
    The Big Picture · Objection! Top 10 Courtroom Dramas | The Big Picture · 1:19:35 · Sean Fennessey (0.75 sure it was them)
  2. career (career): Joe Pesci → My Cousin Vinny. Maybe Vinny, not Goodfellas, Casino or JFK, is Pesci's shining achievement.
    “Maybe it's my cousin Vinny that is his his shining achievement”
    The Big Picture · Objection! Top 10 Courtroom Dramas | The Big Picture · 1:22:39 · Sean Fennessey (0.65 sure it was them)
  3. people (people): Fred Gwynne → My Cousin Vinny. Fred Gwynn plays the small-town judge, Herman Munster.
    “Herman Munster is so good”
    The Big Picture · Objection! Top 10 Courtroom Dramas | The Big Picture · 1:22:49 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  4. lineage (lineage): A Time to Kill → A Few Good Men. A Time to Kill blends every earlier trope: country lawyer, big-shot prosecutor, cranky judge.
    “puts them in a blender and it gives you every single thing”
    The Big Picture · Objection! Top 10 Courtroom Dramas | The Big Picture · 1:28:50 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  5. people (people): A Few Good Men → Rob Reiner. Reiner is in the descending line of filmmakers.
    “Oliver Stone, Rob Reiner”
    The Big Picture · Objection! Top 10 Courtroom Dramas | The Big Picture · 1:30:05 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  6. people (people): A Time to Kill → Joel Schumacher. Schumacher directed A Time to Kill and The Client; more misses than hits.
    “Joel Schumacher, you know, he's got some hits and some misses”
    The Big Picture · Objection! Top 10 Courtroom Dramas | The Big Picture · 1:30:05 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  7. industry (industry): A Time to Kill → Dave Chappelle. The film gave us the now-imagine-she's-white meme and Chappelle's riff.
    “Dave Chappelle's, yes, they deserve to die”
    The Big Picture · Objection! Top 10 Courtroom Dramas | The Big Picture · 1:32:18 · Sean Fennessey (0.55 sure it was them)
  8. programming (programming): Paths of Glory → Rashomon. Bonus recommendations that are not strictly courtroom movies.
    “Paths of Glory the other day, which I don't think is a great courtroom movie”
    The Big Picture · Objection! Top 10 Courtroom Dramas | The Big Picture · 1:32:52 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)
  9. people (people): Compulsion → Orson Welles. Welles arrives with 30 minutes left and dominates the courtroom.
    “he just dominates for the final 30 minutes in a courtroom”
    The Big Picture · Objection! Top 10 Courtroom Dramas | The Big Picture · 1:33:16 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)
  10. contrast (release-strategy contrast): Trolls World Tour → The King of Staten Island. Trolls World Tour had baked-in IP and marketing; Staten Island is a standalone comedy going to VOD with little awareness.
    “This is a significantly different choice than something like Trolls World Tour, where there's a lot of baked in understanding of the IP.”
    The Big Picture · Emergency Mailbag: The Oscars Are Streaming and Hollywood Is Fighting Over Trolls | The Big Picture · 0:03:51 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  11. unmapped (preference): The King of Staten Island → Scoob!. A speaker would rather discuss Apatow's film than Scoob.
    “I'd much rather talk about Apatau and that movie than Scoob.”
    The Big Picture · Emergency Mailbag: The Oscars Are Streaming and Hollywood Is Fighting Over Trolls | The Big Picture · 0:12:13 · Sean Fennessey (0.45 sure it was them)
  12. unmapped (theater reopener): Tenet → Christopher Nolan. Tenet is meant to reopen theaters on July 17 and Nolan was unhappy with the WarnerMedia comments.
    “his new movie, Tennant, is supposed to be the movie that reopens theaters on July 17th around the country.”
    The Big Picture · Emergency Mailbag: The Oscars Are Streaming and Hollywood Is Fighting Over Trolls | The Big Picture · 0:13:44 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  13. unmapped (kids repeat-viewing): Frozen 2 → Trolls World Tour. Kids' movies bought on iTunes for endless rewatching, now moving straight to streaming services.
    “has been buying movies on iTunes for his kids like Frozen 2 to watch over and over again.”
    The Big Picture · Emergency Mailbag: The Oscars Are Streaming and Hollywood Is Fighting Over Trolls | The Big Picture · 0:22:26 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  14. contrast (pricing contrast): No Time to Die (the Bond movie) → Trolls World Tour. A Bond VOD release would likely test a price point above the 19.99 Trolls set.
    “So I do think if you see no time to die, released directly to VOD. It will be for more than 1999.”
    The Big Picture · Emergency Mailbag: The Oscars Are Streaming and Hollywood Is Fighting Over Trolls | The Big Picture · 0:23:45 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  15. unmapped (captive audience): Spencer Confidential → Netflix. 85 million at least started it, showing a captive audience for Netflix releases.
    “85000000 people at least started Spencer confidential. I'll never get over that.”
    The Big Picture · Emergency Mailbag: The Oscars Are Streaming and Hollywood Is Fighting Over Trolls | The Big Picture · 0:25:40 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  16. industry (festival plan): The French Dispatch → Wes Anderson. It was planned as Wes Anderson's Cannes coming-out party and a six-month campaign.
    “that was going to be Wes Anderson's been coming out party for that film and it was going to come out in July”
    The Big Picture · Emergency Mailbag: The Oscars Are Streaming and Hollywood Is Fighting Over Trolls | The Big Picture · 0:32:35 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  17. industry (studio ownership): The French Dispatch → Disney. Because Disney owns the Fox Searchlight film, it is not expected to go to VOD.
    “the French dispatch is owned by Disney. It's a Fox Searchlight film.”
    The Big Picture · Emergency Mailbag: The Oscars Are Streaming and Hollywood Is Fighting Over Trolls | The Big Picture · 0:33:08 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  18. industry (studio silence): The Green Knight → A24. A24 has not moved the May 29 date or commented, while the rest of its slate is pushed.
    “A24 has not said a word about anything.”
    The Big Picture · Emergency Mailbag: The Oscars Are Streaming and Hollywood Is Fighting Over Trolls | The Big Picture · 0:33:34 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  19. industry (Netflix Oscar-bait comparison): Mank → The Two Popes. Netflix surely has another celebrated prestige film like The Two Popes coming.
    “I'm sure there's a 2 popes-esque thing coming down the pike that we're not even aware of”
    The Big Picture · Emergency Mailbag: The Oscars Are Streaming and Hollywood Is Fighting Over Trolls | The Big Picture · 0:38:55 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  20. unmapped (streamer day-and-date example): Let Them All Talk → Mank. HBO Max could debut the Soderbergh movie directly instead of qualifying via theaters, hence streaming's Oscar ramifications.
    “what happens when HBO Max debuts the new Stephen Soderberg movie rather than putting it in theaters to qualify”
    The Big Picture · Emergency Mailbag: The Oscars Are Streaming and Hollywood Is Fighting Over Trolls | The Big Picture · 0:49:06 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  21. unmapped (practical stunts): John Wick (franchise) → Tom Cruise. The only people still doing real stunts are in John Wick movies or Tom Cruise.
    “The only guy who's doing stunts at this point is either in a John Wick movie or Tom Cruise.”
    The Big Picture · Emergency Mailbag: The Oscars Are Streaming and Hollywood Is Fighting Over Trolls | The Big Picture · 0:51:39 · Sean Fennessey (0.45 sure it was them)
  22. unmapped (set tragedy): Twilight Zone: The Movie → John Landis. A helicopter stunt killed Vic Morrow and two children; Landis was prosecuted and acquitted.
    “A helicopter crashed during a stunt and Vic Morrow, Jennifer Jason Lee's father, was killed along with 2 children during the making of this movie”
    The Big Picture · Emergency Mailbag: The Oscars Are Streaming and Hollywood Is Fighting Over Trolls | The Big Picture · 0:53:35 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  23. industry (awards upset): No Country for Old Men → There Will Be Blood. No Country beat There Will Be Blood for best picture, then ratings were low and the Academy changed the rules.
    “And it beat, there will be blood, which is painful for me, but still, no country for all men, incredible film.”
    The Big Picture · Emergency Mailbag: The Oscars Are Streaming and Hollywood Is Fighting Over Trolls | The Big Picture · 0:57:14 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  24. people (same director / awards cautionary): Mank → The Social Network. Fincher's perverse films are hits but the Academy snubs them, as when The Social Network lost to The King's Speech.
    “notably the social network, being defeated by the king speech, which is a result that should be should die in a fire.”
    The Big Picture · Emergency Mailbag: The Oscars Are Streaming and Hollywood Is Fighting Over Trolls | The Big Picture · 0:57:34 · Sean Fennessey (0.55 sure it was them)
  25. industry (awards upset): The Social Network → The King's Speech. King's Speech beat Social Network at the Oscars, which the speaker finds unforgivable.
    “notably the social network, being defeated by the king speech, which is a result that should be should die in a fire.”
    The Big Picture · Emergency Mailbag: The Oscars Are Streaming and Hollywood Is Fighting Over Trolls | The Big Picture · 0:57:34 · Sean Fennessey (0.55 sure it was them)
  26. lineage (subject / source): Mank → Citizen Kane. Mank is partly inspired by Pauline Kael's essay on who truly authored Citizen Kane.
    “it's in part inspired by that very famous Pauline Kale, story raising Kane, about the true authorship of Citizen Kane”
    The Big Picture · Emergency Mailbag: The Oscars Are Streaming and Hollywood Is Fighting Over Trolls | The Big Picture · 0:58:09 · Sean Fennessey (0.55 sure it was them)
  27. contrast (tonal contrast): David Fincher → The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. Even his ostensibly sentimental film is strange, so Mank is unlikely to be warm.
    “David Fincher has just never made a warm movie. Even Benjamin Button, which is ostensibly very sentimental, is like just a very strange film.”
    The Big Picture · Emergency Mailbag: The Oscars Are Streaming and Hollywood Is Fighting Over Trolls | The Big Picture · 0:58:36 · Sean Fennessey (0.55 sure it was them)
  28. unmapped (family / writing credit): Mank → Jack Fincher. The Mank script was written by Fincher's father, a marketable sentimental angle.
    “which was written by David Da Fincher's father before he passed away.”
    The Big Picture · Emergency Mailbag: The Oscars Are Streaming and Hollywood Is Fighting Over Trolls | The Big Picture · 0:58:36 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  29. industry (release-strategy comparison): The Irishman → Marriage Story. Irishman, Marriage Story and Roma were positioned as theatrical releases, which got voters to buy in.
    “The Irishman and Marriage Story and Roma as well were positioned as theatrical releases.”
    The Big Picture · Emergency Mailbag: The Oscars Are Streaming and Hollywood Is Fighting Over Trolls | The Big Picture · 1:00:49 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  30. industry (streaming effect): The Ballad of Buster Scruggs → Coen Brothers. Streaming access to segments may have helped it get nominations, or voters just love the Coens.
    “I thought that movie actually got a few stray nominations because people were like, oh, I could just watch any segment of this I want”
    The Big Picture · Emergency Mailbag: The Oscars Are Streaming and Hollywood Is Fighting Over Trolls | The Big Picture · 1:01:11 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  31. theme (shared MCU characters): The Incredible Hulk → Iron Man. The two characters appearing in the first two MCU films were Hulk and Iron Man.
    “It's the Incredible Hulk and Iron Man, you fools.”
    The Big Picture · Emergency Mailbag: The Oscars Are Streaming and Hollywood Is Fighting Over Trolls | The Big Picture · 1:05:03 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  32. industry (release timing): Portrait of a Lady on Fire → Neon. Neon gave it a tiny LA release in December, so it counted for last year.
    “Neon released it in LA and December of last year.”
    The Big Picture · Emergency Mailbag: The Oscars Are Streaming and Hollywood Is Fighting Over Trolls | The Big Picture · 1:11:51 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  33. people (cameo): Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese → Sharon Stone. Stone delivers a wholly invented story of touring with Bob Dylan as a teen, riveting though a lie.
    “the whole thing is a lie, but it is delivered so rivetingly.”
    The Big Picture · Our Alternative Academy Awards | The Oscars Show · 0:26:37 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  34. verdict (favorite): Jojo Rabbit → Archie Yates. Archie Yates is Amanda's favorite person in the universe, though he is a supporting performance and Roman Griffin Davis is the star.
    “This is Amanda's favorite person in the universe.”
    The Big Picture · Our Alternative Academy Awards | The Oscars Show · 0:28:41 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  35. verdict (head-to-head): Uncut Gems → Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. In best casting, Uncut Gems beats the big shiny ensembles (Little Women, Once Upon a Time) because of the unknown faces it found.
    “Uncut gems because not just because of the people you know, but mostly because of the people you don't know.”
    The Big Picture · Our Alternative Academy Awards | The Oscars Show · 0:32:34 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  36. unmapped (ideal): Mission: Impossible – Fallout → Mission: Impossible – Fallout. Fallout is held up as the movie that would have swept this ceremony's categories, had it come out in 2019.
    “It is a very special movie and also would have fit so many of these categories.”
    The Big Picture · Our Alternative Academy Awards | The Oscars Show · 0:34:41 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  37. people (cameo): Mission: Impossible – Fallout → Wolf Blitzer. Blitzer's cameo works because the movie turns it into Ethan Hunt rather than the real anchor.
    “In fallout, it's so effective because it's not actually Wolf Blitzer. It's Ethan Hunt.”
    The Big Picture · Our Alternative Academy Awards | The Oscars Show · 0:35:15 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  38. verdict (director's best): Six Underground → Michael Bay. The Italian car chase shows Bay is good at his job, even when the movie around it is bad.
    “I love this movie, which is quite bad.”
    The Big Picture · Our Alternative Academy Awards | The Oscars Show · 0:37:28 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  39. unmapped (star): Alita: Battle Angel → Rosa Salazar. Rosa Salazar kicks ass in the motorball sequence and also starred in the Amazon show Undone.
    “She was also the star of a really good show on Amazon called Undone, which like so few people have seen.”
    The Big Picture · Our Alternative Academy Awards | The Oscars Show · 0:39:01 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  40. people (producer): Alita: Battle Angel → James Cameron. Directed by Robert Rodriguez and produced by James Cameron, yet it is the least-discussed successful film of 2019.
    “It's a movie directed by Robert Rodriguez produced by James Cameron.”
    The Big Picture · Our Alternative Academy Awards | The Oscars Show · 0:39:40 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  41. people (director's hardest): John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum → Chad Stahelski. Stahelski called the dog fight the hardest thing he had ever done, on this podcast.
    “the director of the movie was on this pod, he said that that was the hardest thing he had ever done.”
    The Big Picture · Our Alternative Academy Awards | The Oscars Show · 0:41:00 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  42. verdict (head-to-head): John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum → Alita: Battle Angel. The dog fight wins best action sequence on the strength of unprecedented design and what the director said was the hardest thing he had done.
    “That feels like it has to be the winner.”
    The Big Picture · Our Alternative Academy Awards | The Oscars Show · 0:41:09 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  43. unmapped (reprised role): Spider-Man: Far From Home → J.K. Simmons. J. Jonah Jameson from the Toby Maguire movies unmasks Spider-Man in the final twist, getting the loudest reaction of 2019.
    “That was the loudest vocal reaction I had heard to a movie in 2019.”
    The Big Picture · Our Alternative Academy Awards | The Oscars Show · 0:43:21 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  44. verdict (head-to-head): The Irishman → Portrait of a Lady on Fire. Best ending: Irishman's landing justifies everything before it; Portrait's ending moves Amanda; Parasite is also argued; they pick three different endings.
    “It not only sticks to the landing, but the landing justifies everything that came before.”
    The Big Picture · Our Alternative Academy Awards | The Oscars Show · 0:47:26 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
  45. people (casting moment): Triple Frontier → Ben Affleck. Triple Frontier is nominated for casting partly because of what the culture was doing with Ben Affleck then; its best moment is Oscar Isaac in a helicopter set to Metallica.
    “we see Oscar Isaac flying in a helicopter set to Metallica's For Whom the Bell Tolls, and I was like, oh, it's this kind of movie.”
    The Big Picture · Our Alternative Academy Awards | The Oscars Show · 0:50:26 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  46. craft (craft): Triple Frontier → Metallica. The film's high point is Oscar Isaac in a helicopter set to Metallica's For Whom the Bell Tolls, a needle drop that promises more than the film pays off.
    “we see Oscar Isaac flying in a helicopter set to Metallica's for whom the Bill Tolls”
    The Big Picture · Our Alternative Academy Awards | The Oscars Show · 0:50:26 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  47. unmapped (joke): The Lighthouse → Heat. Sean will start a minute-by-minute podcast on The Lighthouse like the one that examines every minute of Heat.
    “I will be starting one of those for the lighthouse.”
    The Big Picture · Our Alternative Academy Awards | The Oscars Show · 0:52:43 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  48. unmapped (trailer): Us → Lupita Nyong'o. The Us trailer, first seen on the Christmas NBA games, used a re-engineered song to make you want to leave dinner for the movies.
    “I thought that was an extremely effective use of, of a trailer to like, make you want to leave, thank, or Christmas dinner to like go to the movies immediately.”
    The Big Picture · Our Alternative Academy Awards | The Oscars Show · 0:56:13 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
  49. people (prior role): Rob Morgan → Mudbound. Rob Morgan played Mary J. Blige's husband in Mudbound.
    “Rob Morgan, for anybody who doesn't know and saw Mudbound. He played Mary J. Blige's husband.”
    The Big Picture · Our Alternative Academy Awards | The Oscars Show · 1:03:32 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  50. people (same actor): Richard Jewell → Jojo Rabbit. Sam Rockwell gave two better performances than his nominated one, in Richard Jewell and Jojo Rabbit.
    “I like him in whatever mode he is in Richard Joel and in Jojo Rabbit.”
    The Big Picture · Our Alternative Academy Awards | The Oscars Show · 1:17:16 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
  51. unmapped (voter perception): Midsommar → Get Out. Aster won't get a directing nod again because voters see him as having done that already; Get Out was more pop.
    “Get out was a lot more pop.”
    The Big Picture · Our Alternative Academy Awards | The Oscars Show · 1:25:12 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
  52. unmapped (joke): The Farewell → Triple Frontier. Amanda quips about which is better, The Farewell or Triple Frontier, while the farewell is being discussed as family.
    “what's better than farewell or triple frontier?”
    The Big Picture · Our Alternative Academy Awards | The Oscars Show · 1:34:53 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
  53. industry (industry): 1917 → Joker. Speaker expected 1917 rather than Joker to lead nominations, since 1917 is technically accomplished.
    “I think I expected that to go to 1917, which is a little bit recency bias and also just because I expected 1917 to grab every single technical nomination”
    The Big Picture · The Snubs and Surprises of the 92nd Academy Award Nominations | The Oscars Show · 0:02:28 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  54. contrast (contrast): Joker → Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King. Most-nominated films that also win Best Picture tend to be noisy movies like Return of the King, and Joker is noisy too.
    “Tends to happen with noisy movies like Lord of the Rings, the Return of the King.”
    The Big Picture · The Snubs and Surprises of the 92nd Academy Award Nominations | The Oscars Show · 0:03:45 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  55. industry (industry): Joker → Black Panther. A Joker Best Picture win would follow Black Panther in the Academy honoring comic book movies.
    “And it would be one year after Black Panther, which sort of ushered in.”
    The Big Picture · The Snubs and Surprises of the 92nd Academy Award Nominations | The Oscars Show · 0:04:44 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  56. industry (industry): 1917 → Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. Three films by already-celebrated directors (Tarantino, Scorsese, Mendes) each got ten nominations.
    “3 people who made films who have been hugely recognized in the past Quentin Tarantino, Martin Scorsese and Sam Mendes.”
    The Big Picture · The Snubs and Surprises of the 92nd Academy Award Nominations | The Oscars Show · 0:05:10 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  57. contrast (contrast): Parasite → The Irishman. Parasite's craft nominations without acting nominations contrast with the star-driven recognition of The Irishman and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.
    “maybe not the same kind of Hollywoodized star mastery that a movie like The Irishman or Once Upon a Time in Hollywood receives.”
    The Big Picture · The Snubs and Surprises of the 92nd Academy Award Nominations | The Oscars Show · 0:08:04 · Sean Fennessey (0.55 sure it was them)
  58. contrast (contrast): Marriage Story → 1917. Showy, aggressive filmmaking cleaned up while Marriage Story, a chamber piece, did not.
    “And marriage story is a chamber piece in a lot of ways.”
    The Big Picture · The Snubs and Surprises of the 92nd Academy Award Nominations | The Oscars Show · 0:12:18 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  59. career (career): Marriage Story → Little Women. Baumbach and Gerwig both got Best Picture and screenplay nominations but neither got Best Director, which the speaker finds fitting for a couple.
    “Both of them were nominated for Best Picture, and both of them were nominated for screenplay in different categories.”
    The Big Picture · The Snubs and Surprises of the 92nd Academy Award Nominations | The Oscars Show · 0:12:28 · Sean Fennessey (0.55 sure it was them)
  60. people (people): Star Wars: Episode IX – The Rise of Skywalker → John Williams. Rise of Skywalker earned John Williams his 52nd nomination.
    “John Williams, who we talked about on our last podcast earned his 52nd nomination”
    The Big Picture · The Snubs and Surprises of the 92nd Academy Award Nominations | The Oscars Show · 0:13:20 · Sean Fennessey (0.55 sure it was them)
  61. what-if (what-if): The Two Popes → The Wife. Speaker said The Two Popes would turn out to be this year's equivalent of The Wife, a back-door acting-nominee film.
    “It's weird that the 2 popes turned out to be the new the wife.”
    The Big Picture · The Snubs and Surprises of the 92nd Academy Award Nominations | The Oscars Show · 0:14:01 · Sean Fennessey (0.45 sure it was them)
  62. verdict (verdict): Antonio Banderas → Taron Egerton. Banderas's nomination is preferred over Egerton, who ran a great campaign.
    “with all respect to Taron Egerton, who ran a great campaign.”
    The Big Picture · The Snubs and Surprises of the 92nd Academy Award Nominations | The Oscars Show · 0:14:36 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
  63. craft (craft): Ad Astra → James Gray. Speaker praises the sound of Ad Astra, which earned a sound editing nomination.
    “I think the sound of net Astro is wonderful.”
    The Big Picture · The Snubs and Surprises of the 92nd Academy Award Nominations | The Oscars Show · 0:16:23 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  64. industry (industry): Honeyland → The Farewell. Honeyland has two more nominations than The Farewell and Ad Astra, which is odd.
    “Honeyland has more nominations than at Astra.”
    The Big Picture · The Snubs and Surprises of the 92nd Academy Award Nominations | The Oscars Show · 0:17:26 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  65. contrast (contrast): Honeyland → Parasite. Honeyland will likely be blown off the board by Parasite in international feature.
    “I suspect it's going to get blown off the board by parasite and best international feature”
    The Big Picture · The Snubs and Surprises of the 92nd Academy Award Nominations | The Oscars Show · 0:17:52 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  66. career (career): Diane Warren → Breakthrough. Warren's song from Breakthrough is her 11th nomination and fifth in six years.
    “This is Diane Warren's 11th Oscar nomination, and this is the 5th in the past 6 years.”
    The Big Picture · The Snubs and Surprises of the 92nd Academy Award Nominations | The Oscars Show · 0:18:21 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  67. career (career): Scarlett Johansson → Marriage Story. Johansson became a two-category nominee in one year; both performances are quite good.
    “I think her performances in both of these movies is quite good”
    The Big Picture · The Snubs and Surprises of the 92nd Academy Award Nominations | The Oscars Show · 0:18:48 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  68. verdict (verdict): Jennifer Lopez → Hustlers. Lopez's omission shows lack of respect: seen as a celebrity not an actress.
    “They see her as a celebrity and not as an actress.”
    The Big Picture · The Snubs and Surprises of the 92nd Academy Award Nominations | The Oscars Show · 0:22:10 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  69. contrast (contrast): Hustlers → The Seventh Seal. Hustlers is not a masterpiece but an entertaining hit.
    “Not that Hustlers is, you know, the 7th seal.”
    The Big Picture · The Snubs and Surprises of the 92nd Academy Award Nominations | The Oscars Show · 0:22:16 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  70. industry (industry): Ruth Carter → Dolemite Is My Name. Dolemite Is My Name was shut out of the nominations, including Carter for costume design.
    “Not even Ruth Carter for best costume design.”
    The Big Picture · The Snubs and Surprises of the 92nd Academy Award Nominations | The Oscars Show · 0:23:32 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
  71. contrast (contrast): Parasite → The Farewell. Parasite overwhelmed smaller films like The Farewell, Uncut Gems and Dolemite.
    “I think parasite ate the conversation in almost every category here, I think it overwhelmed movies like the farewell.”
    The Big Picture · The Snubs and Surprises of the 92nd Academy Award Nominations | The Oscars Show · 0:24:26 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  72. craft (craft): The Lighthouse → Ford v Ferrari. A24's lone nomination went to the Lighthouse cinematography while Ford v Ferrari missed.
    “for Ford versus Ferrari to not be recognized in that category and for A24 is one nomination to be in one of the strangest movies of the year”
    The Big Picture · The Snubs and Surprises of the 92nd Academy Award Nominations | The Oscars Show · 0:25:09 · Sean Fennessey (0.45 sure it was them)
  73. industry (industry): Beyonce → The Lion King. Beyonce's Spirit missing out is read as the Academy not caring about the Lion King or pop stars.
    “They don't really seem to care about the Lion King and or pop stars.”
    The Big Picture · The Snubs and Surprises of the 92nd Academy Award Nominations | The Oscars Show · 0:25:30 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
  74. verdict (verdict): Frozen II → Toy Story 4. Frozen 2 makes no sense and does not deserve recognition just for being popular, whereas Toy Story 4 is among the year's best.
    “Toy Story 4 is legitimately one of the best movies of the year.”
    The Big Picture · The Snubs and Surprises of the 92nd Academy Award Nominations | The Oscars Show · 0:26:17 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  75. industry (industry): Atlantics → Corpus Christi. Corpus Christi replaced Atlantics in international feature.
    “instead it was replaced by Corpus Christi”
    The Big Picture · The Snubs and Surprises of the 92nd Academy Award Nominations | The Oscars Show · 0:27:08 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  76. industry (industry): Apollo 11 → American Factory. Apollo 11 ousted from Documentary; American Factory is the speaker's pick.
    “American Factory has been my pick for this all along.”
    The Big Picture · The Snubs and Surprises of the 92nd Academy Award Nominations | The Oscars Show · 0:28:37 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  77. contrast (contrast): Harriet → The Farewell. The speaker would watch The Farewell or Us before Harriet.
    “my choice between watching the farewell or us or Harriet again, I'm not watching Harriet.”
    The Big Picture · The Snubs and Surprises of the 92nd Academy Award Nominations | The Oscars Show · 0:30:46 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  78. industry (industry): Black Panther → Bohemian Rhapsody. Last year's Oscar movies were mega hits; this year only Joker is.
    “Last year, Bohemian Rhapsody, Star Is Born, Black Panther, that's as big as Oscar movies get.”
    The Big Picture · The Snubs and Surprises of the 92nd Academy Award Nominations | The Oscars Show · 0:42:33 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  79. contrast (contrast): The Irishman → Black Panther. Cultural interest in The Irishman may not match that of Black Panther.
    “the sort of cultural interest in that movie is as high as it was in something like Black Panther.”
    The Big Picture · The Snubs and Surprises of the 92nd Academy Award Nominations | The Oscars Show · 0:43:02 · Sean Fennessey (0.45 sure it was them)
  80. people (people): Once Upon a Time in Hollywood → Julia Butters. Tarantino made Butters accept for the film at the Critics Choice awards.
    “Quentin Tarantino, made Julia Butter's uh, speak”
    The Big Picture · The Snubs and Surprises of the 92nd Academy Award Nominations | The Oscars Show · 0:45:08 · Sean Fennessey (0.45 sure it was them)
  81. verdict (verdict): Renee Zellweger → Saoirse Ronan. Speaker is confounded Zellweger is frontrunner over Ronan.
    “I remain confounded by the Renee Zellweger thing.”
    The Big Picture · The Snubs and Surprises of the 92nd Academy Award Nominations | The Oscars Show · 0:48:28 · Sean Fennessey (0.45 sure it was them)
  82. industry (industry): Jennifer Lopez → Renee Zellweger. If voters skipped the Lopez checkbox they need not check the Zellweger box.
    “So if you're not going to check the Jennifer Lopez box, then you don't need to check the Renee's outweiger box.”
    The Big Picture · The Snubs and Surprises of the 92nd Academy Award Nominations | The Oscars Show · 0:49:32 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  83. people (people): Joker → Todd Phillips. Todd Phillips is a threat for Best Director.
    “I think we got to look out for Todd Phillips.”
    The Big Picture · The Snubs and Surprises of the 92nd Academy Award Nominations | The Oscars Show · 0:51:41 · Sean Fennessey (0.45 sure it was them)
  84. contrast (contrast): Joker → Green Book. Joker and 1917 are not bad compared to past Best Picture winners Green Book and Driving Miss Daisy.
    “Like compared to Green Book, compared to driving Miss Daisy.”
    The Big Picture · The Snubs and Surprises of the 92nd Academy Award Nominations | The Oscars Show · 0:52:56 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  85. craft (craft): Roger Deakins → 1917. Next episode covers 1917 and the life's work of Roger Deakins.
    “we'll also be talking about the life's work of one great man named Roger Deacons.”
    The Big Picture · The Snubs and Surprises of the 92nd Academy Award Nominations | The Oscars Show · 0:53:35 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  86. people (people): Get Out → Catherine Keener. Get Out has one of the best horror supporting casts, including Keener and Whitford.
    “get out features one of the best cat supporting cast”
    The Big Picture · The 10 Best Horror Movies of the Decade | The Big Picture · 0:05:15 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  87. contrast (contrast): The Texas Chain Saw Massacre → The Innocents. Sean's horror test: supernatural or extraordinarily visceral. Chainsaw is gory, The Innocents ghostly.
    “So Texas Chainsaw Massacre is not supernatural, but it is incredibly gory and violent.”
    The Big Picture · The 10 Best Horror Movies of the Decade | The Big Picture · 0:10:26 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)
  88. theme (theme): Seven → The Conjuring 2. Both give Chris the chest-tightening dread he wants, though Seven is a thriller.
    “I can remember that experience they are describing of seeing that movie and kind of like my arms tightening against my chest”
    The Big Picture · The 10 Best Horror Movies of the Decade | The Big Picture · 0:12:19 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  89. industry (industry): Unfriended → Blumhouse. Unfriended fits the cheap, high-concept Blumhouse mold.
    “Yeah, you can see that it's in that blumhouse mold that I was describing.”
    The Big Picture · The 10 Best Horror Movies of the Decade | The Big Picture · 0:14:56 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)
  90. people (people): Ti West → Joe Swanberg. The arrow-in-the-face actor Ti West came up in the same cohort as Swanberg.
    “a part of a cohort of filmmakers who came up around that same time along with Joe Swanberg”
    The Big Picture · The 10 Best Horror Movies of the Decade | The Big Picture · 0:18:29 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)
  91. people (people): VHS → Ti West. The VHS anthology shows work from the whole mumblegore cohort.
    “I think VHS, the anthology has got features work from a lot of these guys.”
    The Big Picture · The 10 Best Horror Movies of the Decade | The Big Picture · 0:18:41 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  92. career (career): Barbara Crampton → You're Next. 80s scream queen Barbara Crampton plays the matriarch.
    “the matriarch of the family portrayed the movie is Barbara Crampton, very famous 80s scream queen”
    The Big Picture · The 10 Best Horror Movies of the Decade | The Big Picture · 0:18:45 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  93. career (career): The Guest → You're Next. The Guest, right after You're Next, convinced people Wingard was for real.
    “And I think when guest comes out, people are like, dude, this guy's for real.”
    The Big Picture · The 10 Best Horror Movies of the Decade | The Big Picture · 0:19:11 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  94. verdict (verdict): Blair Witch (The Woods) → The Exorcist / Exorcist III. Sean says Blair Witch's last half hour is scarier than anything else he's seen in a theater though the film isn't good, like the Exorcist III sequence versus the Exorcist.
    “There's a part of Exorcist 3 that is scarier than any other moment in the Exorcist trilogy, but I wouldn't say Exorcist 3 is better than Exorcist.”
    The Big Picture · The 10 Best Horror Movies of the Decade | The Big Picture · 0:20:08 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  95. career (career): Adam Wingard → Godzilla vs. Kong (announced). Wingard went from Blair Witch and Death Note to a Godzilla film.
    “So next spring, Godzilla versus King Kong is coming out.”
    The Big Picture · The 10 Best Horror Movies of the Decade | The Big Picture · 0:20:33 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  96. people (people): The Invitation → Tom Hardy. The two leads read as knockoffs of Tom Hardy and Bradley Cooper.
    “one guy who's ¢10 Tom Hardy and one guy who's ¢10 Bradley Cooper”
    The Big Picture · The 10 Best Horror Movies of the Decade | The Big Picture · 0:24:50 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
  97. what-if (what-if): The Invitation → Zachary Quinto. Originally the leads were supposed to be Zachary Quinto and Topher Grace.
    “I think originally the people in this movie were supposed to be Zachary Quinto and Topher Grace.”
    The Big Picture · The 10 Best Horror Movies of the Decade | The Big Picture · 0:24:58 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  98. career (career): It Follows → The Myth of the American Sleepover. Mitchell's non-horror previous film shares It Follows' atmosphere and use of young actors.
    “does have a lot in common with it follows in terms of its sort of atmosphere”
    The Big Picture · The 10 Best Horror Movies of the Decade | The Big Picture · 0:27:46 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)
  99. contrast (contrast): Under the Silver Lake → It Follows. Under the Silver Lake is a detective, paranoia, internet movie, a very different energy from It Follows.
    “more of a detective movie, more of like a hipster examination of paranoia and looking for coded messages”
    The Big Picture · The 10 Best Horror Movies of the Decade | The Big Picture · 0:28:05 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)
  100. career (career): Karyn Kusama → Destroyer. Kusama went to Destroyer after The Invitation, an example of directors pulling away from horror.
    “she directed Destroyer after uh, invitation”
    The Big Picture · The 10 Best Horror Movies of the Decade | The Big Picture · 0:28:38 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)

Their fun items

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  1. fun, about Jack Black: Sean's gloss on Black's character: Steve is the Christopher Columbus of Minecraft, an interloper colonizing a land he did not originate.
    “He's sort of the Christopher Columbus of the Minecraft world, I would say.”
    The Big Picture · ‘A Minecraft Movie’ Is the Most Important Movie of the Year So Far. And These Flicks Are the Best … · 0:53:21 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)
  2. fun, about Jason Momoa: Momoa's Garbage Man wears a pink fringed leather jacket the entire film.
    “He's wearing wears a pink leather jacket with fringes throughout the entire film.”
    The Big Picture · ‘A Minecraft Movie’ Is the Most Important Movie of the Year So Far. And These Flicks Are the Best … · 0:53:39 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)
  3. fun, about Emma Myers: Cast as a 24-year-old social media worker, but looks 14 in the movie.
    “she's supposed to be like 24.”
    The Big Picture · ‘A Minecraft Movie’ Is the Most Important Movie of the Year So Far. And These Flicks Are the Best … · 0:53:50 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)
  4. fun, about Black Bag: The lie detector sequence is called absolutely elite filmmaking, acting and editing, and very funny.
    “That entire sequence is just absolutely elite filmmaking, acting, editing, very funny.”
    The Big Picture · ‘A Minecraft Movie’ Is the Most Important Movie of the Year So Far. And These Flicks Are the Best … · 0:55:43 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  5. fun, about Black Bag: Sean's reading: a great movie about marriage, and a romantic one; the murder mystery ending is yada yada.
    “I think this is a great movie about marriage.”
    The Big Picture · ‘A Minecraft Movie’ Is the Most Important Movie of the Year So Far. And These Flicks Are the Best … · 0:58:08 · Sean Fennessey (0.55 sure it was them)
  6. fun, about Misericordia: Murder in movies is elegant and thrilling; this film is closer to real murder: blunt, quiet, distancing. Sean calls it a movie for the sickos.
    “This movie is getting closer to real murder.”
    The Big Picture · ‘A Minecraft Movie’ Is the Most Important Movie of the Year So Far. And These Flicks Are the Best … · 1:01:32 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)
  7. fun, about The Ballad of Wallace Island: A fan pays a once-famous duo to play on a private island for him alone; it sounds creepy but is the sweetest movie Sean saw all year, maybe too sweet.
    “In fact, it's probably the sweetest movie I've seen this.”
    The Big Picture · ‘A Minecraft Movie’ Is the Most Important Movie of the Year So Far. And These Flicks Are the Best … · 1:03:37 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)
  8. fun, about The Ballad of Wallace Island: Sean's Franz Ferdinand story: he spent an afternoon in the lead singer's apartment while profiling them, and has loved the band ever since.
    “I was hanging out in the lead singers apartment for the day.”
    The Big Picture · ‘A Minecraft Movie’ Is the Most Important Movie of the Year So Far. And These Flicks Are the Best … · 1:05:37 · Sean Fennessey (0.90 sure it was them)
  9. fun, about The Assessment: Alicia Vikander plays an adult assessor who acts as a three-year-old in the couple's house; she nails the tantrums and defiance.
    “No, she as an adult acts like a three-year-old.”
    The Big Picture · ‘A Minecraft Movie’ Is the Most Important Movie of the Year So Far. And These Flicks Are the Best … · 1:07:44 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)
  10. fun, about Amanda Seyfried: At CinemaCon, Sydney Sweeney treated Seyfried like she was Katharine Hepburn.
    “Sidney Sweeney was treating her like she was Catherine Hepburn.”
    The Big Picture · ‘A Minecraft Movie’ Is the Most Important Movie of the Year So Far. And These Flicks Are the Best … · 1:13:12 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  11. fun, about On Becoming a Guinea Fowl: Sean saw it with a packed house; a woman finds her dead uncle in the road, with serious tone and absurdist touches.
    “Um, I solicit idiots in a pack with a packed house and had a really good experience seeing it.”
    The Big Picture · ‘A Minecraft Movie’ Is the Most Important Movie of the Year So Far. And These Flicks Are the Best … · 1:14:51 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  12. fun, about One of Them Days: Called one of the best movies of the year in theaters; SZA's film debut: 'every single one of the bits works.'
    “Every single one of the bits works.”
    The Big Picture · ‘A Minecraft Movie’ Is the Most Important Movie of the Year So Far. And These Flicks Are the Best … · 1:15:38 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  13. fun, about Presence (Soderbergh): Soderbergh, as camera-ghost, tiptoeing around the house in grippy socks; a metaphor for how he sees himself, a ghost haunting humanity.
    “tiptoeing around in grippy socks”
    The Big Picture · ‘A Minecraft Movie’ Is the Most Important Movie of the Year So Far. And These Flicks Are the Best … · 1:16:28 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  14. fun, about The Rule Of Jenny Pen: John Lithgow, in his 80s, has a notable dance sequence and is terrifying; a parable of elder-care evils.
    “Also surprisingly limber for a man in his 80s.”
    The Big Picture · ‘A Minecraft Movie’ Is the Most Important Movie of the Year So Far. And These Flicks Are the Best … · 1:19:15 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)
  15. fun, about Babygirl: Dickinson is two heads taller than the other interns in the bullpen, dressed in hand-me-down Brooks Brothers.
    “And my guy is 2 heads dollar than anyone else.”
    The Big Picture · The Nicole Kidman Hall of Fame, and ‘Babygirl’ · 0:10:44 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  16. fun, about Nicole Kidman: She has made 47 movies since 2000, more than any big star in the last quarter century.
    “She has made 47 movies since 2000.”
    The Big Picture · The Nicole Kidman Hall of Fame, and ‘Babygirl’ · 0:37:54 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
  17. fun, about Nicole Kidman: Her Letterboxd four favorites were Clueless, The Piano Teacher, The Piano and A Woman Under the Influence, though guests are tipped off beforehand to prep.
    “Um, you know, I love Letterbox, but they're, these people are getting tipped off beforehand that they're going to get asked by Letterbox, so they're prepping.”
    The Big Picture · The Nicole Kidman Hall of Fame, and ‘Babygirl’ · 0:47:35 · Sean Fennessey (0.35 sure it was them)
  18. fun, about Moulin Rouge!: A rant against the film, singing Smells Like Teen Spirit in a can-can, from a host who says it makes him want to be shot in the face.
    “But with turn of the 20th century, France singing smells like teen spirit in a can can.”
    The Big Picture · The Nicole Kidman Hall of Fame, and ‘Babygirl’ · 1:10:02 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  19. fun, about Babygirl: The dog-and-cookie scene: Samuel calms a dog with a cookie, then offers her one. In Sean's screening that is where the laughter started.
    “In my screening, that's when everyone started laughing was the, do you want one scene with the cookie?”
    The Big Picture · The Nicole Kidman Hall of Fame, and ‘Babygirl’ · 2:07:22 · Sean Fennessey (0.90 sure it was them)
  20. fun, about The Big Picture: The three have not recorded together in this formation since the Inglorious Basterds Rewatchables, five years ago.
    “has not recorded a podcast together in this formation, since the Inglorious Bastards rewatchables five years.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Gladiator II’ Is Here. Are We Not Entertained? · 0:02:46 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  21. fun, about Gladiator: Chris calls the original arguably the last truly practical blockbuster, right before Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter and Spider-Man.
    “it's arguably the last truly practical blockbuster.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Gladiator II’ Is Here. Are We Not Entertained? · 0:11:03 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  22. fun, about Gladiator: The never-made Nick Cave sequel, where Maximus fights his way through hell, still floats around online.
    “You can see online still, where Maximus fights his way through hell.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Gladiator II’ Is Here. Are We Not Entertained? · 0:12:50 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  23. fun, about Gladiator II: The sharks: the panel jokes that a Roman catching, let alone transporting, a dozen sharks is unlikely.
    “It has been declared that the likelihood of anyone during the Roman Empire Times catching a shark, let alone transporting it.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Gladiator II’ Is Here. Are We Not Entertained? · 0:36:50 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
  24. fun, about Gladiator II: Sean's challenge: if you want animal fights, let wild baboons attack Paul Mescal for real, like method acting.
    “What happened to method acting in this industry?”
    The Big Picture · ‘Gladiator II’ Is Here. Are We Not Entertained? · 0:38:24 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
  25. fun, about Gladiator II: Lucius being Maximus's son: Maximus slept with Lucilla while having his own kid, which the panel finds funny in a strength-and-honor way.
    “Well, it's also just like, that means Maximus was like fucking Lucilla right when he was having his own kid.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Gladiator II’ Is Here. Are We Not Entertained? · 0:50:39 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
  26. fun, about Denzel Washington: Denzel is both multi-Oscar-nominated and the surest box-office draw who skips Marvel, and here plays a bisexual, earring-wearing schemer.
    “He's really struck this harmonious balance in his 70s of being wildly acclaimed multi-Oscar nominated actor.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Gladiator II’ Is Here. Are We Not Entertained? · 0:56:10 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
  27. fun, about Denzel Washington: Denzel's Esquire as-told-to piece about getting sober, plus his Oscar-voting jabs, made this an unusually fun promo cycle.
    “he did this esquire as told 2 piece that is fascinating about his life and getting sober”
    The Big Picture · ‘Gladiator II’ Is Here. Are We Not Entertained? · 0:56:45 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
  28. fun, about Gladiator II: Mallory compares the Macrinus-Lucius fight and its idle armies to Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson: you always knew who would win.
    “how perfectly this mirrors the Jake Paul Mike Tyson fight the end of this film.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Gladiator II’ Is Here. Are We Not Entertained? · 1:02:23 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
  29. fun, about Ridley Scott: Scott has been nominated for Best Director three times and has never won, losing the Black Hawk Down year to Ron Howard.
    “Ridley Scott's been nominated 3 times for directing.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Gladiator II’ Is Here. Are We Not Entertained? · 1:14:28 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
  30. fun, about Gladiator II: Real monkey business: Dondus the monkey really did nibble fruit and, per the panel, relieve himself on Fred Hechinger's shoulder.
    “That was a monkey shitting on Fred Heckinger's shoulder.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Gladiator II’ Is Here. Are We Not Entertained? · 1:18:44 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
  31. fun, about Mike Flanagan: Flanagan, now near A-list, is seen as Stephen King's Kevin Feige: The Stand, Dark Tower and Carrie.
    “Stephen King needs a Kevin Feige”
    The Big Picture · ‘Gladiator II’ Is Here. Are We Not Entertained? · 1:32:23 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
  32. fun, about Doctor Sleep: Sean disliked it first, then saw the director's cut and decided it is one of his favorite movies of the decade.
    “this is one of my favorite movies the last 10 years.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Gladiator II’ Is Here. Are We Not Entertained? · 1:50:09 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
  33. fun, about Dune: Prophecy: The Ringer will cover Dune: Prophecy weekly.
    “We'll be covering that weekly.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Gladiator II’ Is Here. Are We Not Entertained? · 1:52:49 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
  34. fun, about Babylon: The cold open joke: the show's tagline is replaced with a gag about who wants to see someone's dad fight a snake, referencing the film's rattlesnake scene.
    “And this is the Big Picture, a conversation show about who wants to see my dad fight a fucking snake?”
    The Big Picture · The ‘Babylon’ Watch-Along · 0:00:46 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  35. fun, about Babylon: Framing of the whole movie as a 'we're so back, it's so over' manifestation: everything good and bad about Hollywood and the 21st-century promise of movies.
    “this movie is the perfect manifestation of, we're so back, it's so over.”
    The Big Picture · The ‘Babylon’ Watch-Along · 0:02:41 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  36. fun, about Babylon: The elephant scene at the opening is read as a tidy metaphor for what you must endure to break into Hollywood.
    “Nice little tidy metaphor for the experience of trying to break into Hollywood.”
    The Big Picture · The ‘Babylon’ Watch-Along · 0:04:13 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  37. fun, about Snack Shack: Sean's recommendation: a raunchy 1991 pool-snack-bar comedy, where teens sell hot dogs with an expletive written in ketchup.
    “And they sell something called fuck dogs, for example, where they write the word fuck in ketchup on hot dogs.”
    The Big Picture · The ‘Babylon’ Watch-Along · 1:53:55 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  38. fun, about Babylon: Production geography joke: the 'asshole of Los Angeles' sequence is said to have been filmed at Chris's house.
    “This uh, the asshole of Los Angeles sequence here that is about to begin was filmed actually at CR's house.”
    The Big Picture · The ‘Babylon’ Watch-Along · 2:23:52 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
  39. fun, about Babylon: Box office: it made $63.4 million domestically on a reported budget of about $80 million.
    “63.4 million. Oh, God.”
    The Big Picture · The ‘Babylon’ Watch-Along · 2:59:19 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
  40. fun, about Oppenheimer 4K: The Oppenheimer 4K and Blu-ray sold out; a Variety piece by Todd Gilchrist covered it, and Nolan urged buying physical copies over streaming.
    “they had sold out and people were like, we've never seen this before.”
    The Big Picture · Physical Media Strikes Back With Tim Simons · 0:03:52 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  41. fun, about Mallrats: Replaced fancy Arrow editions? The speaker owns Mallrats, but the Ben Affleck character is comically canceled.
    “Yeah, the entire Ben Affleck character is comically canceled.”
    The Big Picture · Physical Media Strikes Back With Tim Simons · 0:15:35 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  42. fun, about Waterworld: Bought the $25 Waterworld 4K on sale for Costner episode prep; it is part of movie history.
    “I can justify to myself the $25 during the sale”
    The Big Picture · Physical Media Strikes Back With Tim Simons · 0:15:58 · Sean Fennessey (0.55 sure it was them)
  43. fun, about Best Buy: Best Buy stopped selling physical media; the speaker visited and found racks gone, replaced by kitchen and home furnishings.
    “they had removed all the racks.”
    The Big Picture · Physical Media Strikes Back With Tim Simons · 0:18:37 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  44. fun, about Con Air: Con Air and Rolling Thunder as the same story; gag about how many hands Nick Cage has in Con Air.
    “How many how many hands does Nick Cage have in Conair?”
    The Big Picture · Physical Media Strikes Back With Tim Simons · 0:32:57 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  45. fun, about Wings of Desire: Wim Wenders told Sean the film's negative was wrong, and he and his DP and editor always knew; the restored version is the intended one.
    “the negative of that film was just all wrong”
    The Big Picture · Physical Media Strikes Back With Tim Simons · 0:37:30 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  46. fun, about Black Hat: The Arrow Black Hat 4K includes a recut with a significant sequence moved to the front, making it more coherent but maybe less disorienting.
    “there's a recut version of the movie.”
    The Big Picture · Physical Media Strikes Back With Tim Simons · 0:38:13 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  47. fun, about Zulawski box set (Eureka): Eureka box with The Third Part of the Night, The Devil, On the Silver Globe; waited for a sale under $50 and loved all three.
    “there is an Andrews, uh, Andre Zalowski box set that Eureka makes, but possession's not in it.”
    The Big Picture · Physical Media Strikes Back With Tim Simons · 0:48:10 · Sean Fennessey (0.55 sure it was them)
  48. fun, about Indicator Boetticher box: Daughter adopted the colorful Indicator Budd Boetticher Westerns box as her favorite toy without seeing any of the films.
    “Alice was just like, this is my favorite toy.”
    The Big Picture · Physical Media Strikes Back With Tim Simons · 0:56:58 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  49. fun, about Skinamarink: Scariest film in years alone on a laptop in the dark; silly in a theater.
    “this is one of the scariest movies I've seen in years.”
    The Big Picture · Physical Media Strikes Back With Tim Simons · 1:00:23 · Sean Fennessey (0.55 sure it was them)
  50. fun, about Fopp (London): A London video Blu-ray t-shirt store, called a crack den for collectors; spent about $300.
    “It's a it's a video Blu-ray t-shirt poster store in London.”
    The Big Picture · Physical Media Strikes Back With Tim Simons · 1:08:41 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  51. fun, about Messiah of Evil: Radiance's 4K hard box of Messiah of Evil is called one of the coolest purchases ever, a hard-to-see 1974 cult horror.
    “But the Messiah of Evil one, is like one of the coolest purchases I've ever made.”
    The Big Picture · Physical Media Strikes Back With Tim Simons · 1:09:51 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  52. fun, about Leonardo DiCaprio: Letterboxd conversation: DiCaprio says he put Scorsese onto Spirited Away.
    “And then Scorsese is like, you did.”
    The Big Picture · Physical Media Strikes Back With Tim Simons · 1:19:24 · Sean Fennessey (0.55 sure it was them)
  53. fun, about Oscars 2024: Amanda delayed the birth of her child for the Oscar nominations announcement, and the hosts joke they are first responders for awards.
    “the woman who delayed the birth of her child for the Oscar nominations announcement.”
    The Big Picture · Oscar Nomination Predictions, ‘Mean Girls,’ and ‘All of Us Strangers’ With Andrew Scott · 0:04:06 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  54. fun, about Willem Dafoe: His Criterion Closet video, in which he says he tried to remake Onibaba, is Sean's recommendation: this guy is the man.
    “I sent you his criterion closet video last night and I was like, this rocks.”
    The Big Picture · Oscar Nomination Predictions, ‘Mean Girls,’ and ‘All of Us Strangers’ With Andrew Scott · 0:20:15 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  55. fun, about Annette Bening: Pun on the forever-bridesmaid nominee edging closer to Glenn Close territory.
    “Ever Glenn closer.”
    The Big Picture · Oscar Nomination Predictions, ‘Mean Girls,’ and ‘All of Us Strangers’ With Andrew Scott · 0:43:05 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  56. fun, about Mean Girls: Sean saw it alone on opening-ish run in IMAX, a lone 41-year-old man among young women in pink and teal, just like Barbie.
    “one weird 41-year-old man sitting alone in an IMAX theater surrounded by young women who were just like wearing pink and yellow and teal”
    The Big Picture · Oscar Nomination Predictions, ‘Mean Girls,’ and ‘All of Us Strangers’ With Andrew Scott · 0:50:24 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)
  57. fun, about Mean Girls: Auli'i Cravalho playing Janice turns out to be Moana, which Sean only discovered after going home.
    “I did not know until I went home that she's like literally Moana.”
    The Big Picture · Oscar Nomination Predictions, ‘Mean Girls,’ and ‘All of Us Strangers’ With Andrew Scott · 0:58:53 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  58. fun, about Mean Girls: The Mathletes MC is Lindsay Lohan in a cameo near the end of the film.
    “She plays the MC during the famous Mathletes moment near the end of the film.”
    The Big Picture · Oscar Nomination Predictions, ‘Mean Girls,’ and ‘All of Us Strangers’ With Andrew Scott · 1:00:01 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  59. fun, about Ripley: Sean teases that hundreds of millions will click Scott's face on the Netflix thumbnail, so do not mess up the Ripley adaptation.
    “Don't mess it up.”
    The Big Picture · Oscar Nomination Predictions, ‘Mean Girls,’ and ‘All of Us Strangers’ With Andrew Scott · 1:43:35 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)
  60. fun, about The Big Picture: Sean will hold the nominations pod in his garage at 7 AM next Tuesday and Amanda has agreed to come.
    “Next Tuesday, you heard it from Amanda. She'll be in my garage. 7 AM.”
    The Big Picture · Oscar Nomination Predictions, ‘Mean Girls,’ and ‘All of Us Strangers’ With Andrew Scott · 1:53:43 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)
  61. fun, about Mickey 17: Mickey 17 (Bong Joon Ho, Robert Pattinson) has been undated by Warner Bros.; hosts debate whether it is awards timing, Dune 2, or Zaslav, and note Pattinson gets parental leave.
    “my number one most anticipated movie of 2024 has been undated”
    The Big Picture · Best Picture Power Rankings and a ‘Poor Things’ Deep Dive. Plus: Julianne Moore and Todd Haynes! · 0:04:04 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)
  62. fun, about Maestro (Bradley Cooper): Cooper learned crane technique from del Toro for the On the Town sequence; the hosts joke about him buying a farm near Gigi Hadid and say they should remake Witness together.
    “They should they should remake witness together.”
    The Big Picture · Best Picture Power Rankings and a ‘Poor Things’ Deep Dive. Plus: Julianne Moore and Todd Haynes! · 0:17:47 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  63. fun, about Paul Giamatti: After the Globes, Giamatti went to In-N-Out and ate two burgers, no fries; Sean calls it campaigning but respects the twist.
    “But I did like the twist of the of the 2 burgers, no fries.”
    The Big Picture · Best Picture Power Rankings and a ‘Poor Things’ Deep Dive. Plus: Julianne Moore and Todd Haynes! · 0:28:54 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
  64. fun, about Poor Things (script of the sex scenes): Sean notes Emma Stone is in about 14 sex scenes and as nude as a major American star rarely is; second viewing, Amanda found there were too many.
    “It's very, very unusual for an American movie star to be in like 14 sex scenes in a movie”
    The Big Picture · Best Picture Power Rankings and a ‘Poor Things’ Deep Dive. Plus: Julianne Moore and Todd Haynes! · 0:36:57 · Sean Fennessey (0.65 sure it was them)
  65. fun, about Poor Things (Jerrod Carmichael): The hosts agree Carmichael, a funny stand-up, is miscast; he is deadpan in a movie whose cast bounces off McNamara's rhythm.
    “He's not a good actor.”
    The Big Picture · Best Picture Power Rankings and a ‘Poor Things’ Deep Dive. Plus: Julianne Moore and Todd Haynes! · 0:50:45 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  66. fun, about Poor Things (Duncan's eclair): Ruffalo's Duncan hurls an eclair upon learning Bella sold sex; Sean calls it the most phallic of pastries.
    “Also like the most phallic of pastries.”
    The Big Picture · Best Picture Power Rankings and a ‘Poor Things’ Deep Dive. Plus: Julianne Moore and Todd Haynes! · 0:58:33 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  67. fun, about Poor Things (socialist line): Bella says she and her friends are 'our own means of production'; the hosts credit it as a clever moment and tease Bobby and Amanda's politics.
    “we are our own means of production.”
    The Big Picture · Best Picture Power Rankings and a ‘Poor Things’ Deep Dive. Plus: Julianne Moore and Todd Haynes! · 1:01:18 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  68. fun, about Poor Things (hair): Emma Stone reportedly dyed her hair black by mistake and Lanthimos said it was perfect.
    “Did you see that she accidentally dyed her hair black for this, that she was trying to do something different?”
    The Big Picture · Best Picture Power Rankings and a ‘Poor Things’ Deep Dive. Plus: Julianne Moore and Todd Haynes! · 1:23:48 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
  69. fun, about Poor Things / The Da Vinci Code: A riff on Bella's inverted-triangle hair leads to asking whether Bella is Robert Langdon's great-grandmother.
    “Is Bella, Dr. Robert Langdon's great grandmother.”
    The Big Picture · Best Picture Power Rankings and a ‘Poor Things’ Deep Dive. Plus: Julianne Moore and Todd Haynes! · 1:25:04 · Sean Fennessey (0.45 sure it was them)
  70. fun, about Sean Fennessey: Sean's fitness plan: 15-pound barbells in his home theater while watching Wim Wenders movies.
    “I don't weight lift weights other than the £15 barbells that are in my home theater that I lift whilst watching Vim Vendors movies.”
    The Big Picture · Best Picture Power Rankings and a ‘Poor Things’ Deep Dive. Plus: Julianne Moore and Todd Haynes! · 1:40:57 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)
  71. fun, about Ferrari: Sean calls Chris his deadly passion and Amanda his terrible joy, using lines from Ferrari's speech.
    “Who's your deadly passion and who is your terrible joy?”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:02:04 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)
  72. fun, about Ferrari: Italians grumbled after the Venice screening; Sean jokes they were Frank Sabotka, saying we used to make things in this country.
    “They were like, we used to make shit in this country.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:02:57 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  73. fun, about Ferrari: Ferrari's domestic scenes also go fast, with people negotiating deadlines like postponing a baptism.
    “well, we'll just put off the baptism.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:11:31 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  74. fun, about Ferrari: The dialogue is deep enough to reward repeat viewings; a different pleasure from Mann's visual style.
    “I thought the dialogue was wonderful in this movie”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:12:15 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  75. fun, about Ferrari: The church scene: men at mass hear the Maserati starter gun and pull out stopwatches; funnier than watching cars go around.
    “all of the men pull out stop watches in church and hit them”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:18:16 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  76. fun, about Ferrari: Shailene Woodley is wildly miscast; her Italian accent drops to Marin County lady; the alternative-modalities joke.
    “Will you please write a monograph about the word of Shaley Woodley, alternative modalities.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:23:49 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
  77. fun, about Ferrari: The ages: Driver is 39 playing 59, Cruz 49 playing 59, Woodley 32 playing a woman with a son who is about to be confirmed.
    “Well, no, he's about to be confirmed.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:24:49 · Sean Fennessey (0.30 sure it was them)
  78. fun, about Ferrari: The pre-race team scolding speech is the most Michael Mann speech in years; deadly passion, terrible joy.
    “We all know it's our deadly passion, our terrible joy.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:31:21 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  79. fun, about Ferrari: Box office worry: wardrobe, a white sweater and yellow car on blue cobblestones, maybe 17 percent of viewers care.
    “And maybe 17% of the people watching Ferrari are going to give a shit about that.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:36:04 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
  80. fun, about Collateral: The birthplace of 'Yo homie'; 'is that my briefcase' is the favorite line reading of 2004.
    “The birthplace of Yohomie.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:44:19 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  81. fun, about Collateral: Mark Ruffalo with a goatee, partnered with Pete Berg, tracks Max and Vincent.
    “A brief appearance of Mark Ruffalo with a goatee.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:44:25 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  82. fun, about The Insider: Mann's journalism movie: dirt bag suits instead of dirtbag cops; the Christopher Plummer scene, 'Try Mr. Wallace.'
    “Try Mr. Wallace.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:55:08 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
  83. fun, about Miami Vice: Chris saw Miami Vice in the theater with Sean, who said 'dog, no' on day one; the Mogwai opening.
    “Chris and I saw it together and I was like, dog, no.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:59:31 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  84. fun, about Heat: The downtown shootout is among the best set pieces ever and one of the loudest movies.
    “Something I always think about, particularly the downtown shootout”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 1:01:34 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
  85. fun, about The Big Picture: A joke at the end: a live audition for the next producer, plus plans for an Iron Claw episode and a possible New Year's Eve Aquaman 2 solo.
    “Raw audio. Maybe we should have a live audition for the next producer of the big picture.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 1:05:24 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
  86. fun, about The Killer: Opening hit: the killer needs heart rate below 60, kills a woman instead of the target, then flees by rented scooter to change in a dirty tire-shop bathroom.
    “He fires and he misses.”
    The Big Picture · ‘The Killer’ Is Cold-Blooded Genius. And Something More · 0:21:57 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  87. fun, about The Killer: The killer's work playlist is only The Smiths, on an iPod nano; others include a yoga playlist. He listens to Girlfriend in a Coma while buying a trash bucket at Home Depot to put a body in.
    “he is listening to girlfriend in a coma when he goes to a Home Depot to buy a trash bucket to put a dead body in.”
    The Big Picture · ‘The Killer’ Is Cold-Blooded Genius. And Something More · 0:23:45 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  88. fun, about The Killer: Each Smiths song title puns on the scene it plays under.
    “Each song title is literally punning on the scene.”
    The Big Picture · ‘The Killer’ Is Cold-Blooded Genius. And Something More · 0:24:31 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  89. fun, about The Killer: The killer's disguise is inspired by a German tourist: bucket hat and khaki jumpsuit, which is basically what Fincher wore to the Q&A.
    “he wears a bucket hat in a kind of khaki jumpsuit, which is basically what David Fincher wore to the Q and A after the film.”
    The Big Picture · ‘The Killer’ Is Cold-Blooded Genius. And Something More · 0:27:22 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  90. fun, about The Killer: The killer's aliases are all 70s sitcom character names (Archie Bunker among them), a gag the hosts say lands because nobody checks anything anymore.
    “they are all names of 70s sitcom characters, which is an incredible joke”
    The Big Picture · ‘The Killer’ Is Cold-Blooded Genius. And Something More · 0:31:28 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  91. fun, about The Killer: New Orleans: Charles Parnell's secretary zip-ties herself on his orders and begs not to be disappeared so her kids get the life insurance; the killer thinks 'forbid empathy.' Her car scream is the film's one non-subjective moment.
    “please don't disappear me.”
    The Big Picture · ‘The Killer’ Is Cold-Blooded Genius. And Something More · 0:34:44 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  92. fun, about Fight Club: The Killer is 'a guy who's like, shit, I fucked up at work', 20 years after Fight Club's society collapse.
    “that's amazing to come like 20 years later and land there”
    The Big Picture · ‘The Killer’ Is Cold-Blooded Genius. And Something More · 1:22:09 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  93. fun, about The Killer: The Green River killer quote at the open echoes the band Green River, who were not on Sub Pop, so 'it all comes back to grunge.'
    “there was a band named Green River that was not signed to subpop.”
    The Big Picture · ‘The Killer’ Is Cold-Blooded Genius. And Something More · 1:24:43 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  94. fun, about Killers of the Flower Moon: At 3:26 on 3,800 screens it may be the longest widely released movie of the century, and a live check of Gettysburg (4:21) gets no theatrical box office listing.
    “I am live Googling Gettysburg, the movie, the 1993 film.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Is Astounding · 0:07:39 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  95. fun, about Killers of the Flower Moon: The Lily Gladstone and DiCaprio dining-room promo still that became a meme for years turns out to be one of the movie's two or three most important scenes, and plays differently in motion.
    “It is also like one of the 2 or 3 most important scenes in the movie.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Is Astounding · 0:32:58 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  96. fun, about Killers of the Flower Moon: Lizzie's death scene, led by her ancestors into the next world, called one of the most astonishing 30 seconds.
    “that is like one of the most astonishing 30 seconds.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Is Astounding · 0:43:47 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  97. fun, about Killers of the Flower Moon: The coda is a 1930s FBI-sponsored radio show with sound-effects men, a live orchestra, and Jack White; Scorsese appears on screen reading Molly's obituary and adds that there was no mention of the murders.
    “Martin Scorsese shows up on the screen. Um, as Marty, basically. And um, and reads her obituary.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Is Astounding · 0:56:02 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  98. fun, about Killers of the Flower Moon: The final image is an overhead shot of the Osage performing a ritual dance, a slow fade like a Hollywood epic.
    “the final image is not of him. It's of the Osage Nation shot overhead”
    The Big Picture · ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Is Astounding · 0:57:42 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  99. fun, about Rodrigo Prieto: The cinematographer also shot Taylor Swift videos and may DP her forthcoming directed feature; hosts float having him on during Oscar season.
    “he's also shot a few Taylor Swift videos and may or may not be the DP on the forthcoming Taylor Swift directed feature film.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Is Astounding · 1:00:55 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  100. fun, about Jack Fisk: Per an NYT Magazine piece, Grann saw Fisk had researched how billiard halls kept score; Sean wants him to build a billiard-room barbershop for the Ringer.
    “every studio executive listening, you need to stop spending your $250 million on garbage VFX and you need to spend it on Jack Fisk, just building shit.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Is Astounding · 1:02:54 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)