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 1,301–1,400 of 1,576 claims.

  1. theme (theme): The Invitation → Green Room. Sean puts both on his runners-up list and says they belong in a separate category called terror.
    “I think that those 2 movies should almost be recategorized into what we might call terror.”
    The Big Picture · The 10 Best Horror Movies of the Decade | The Big Picture · 0:32:54 · Sean Fennessey (0.75 sure it was them)
  2. career (career): What We Do in the Shadows → Taika Waititi. The vampire comedy became an FX series.
    “it's a comedy about vampires that has now become a successful television show on FX from Taiko YTV”
    The Big Picture · The 10 Best Horror Movies of the Decade | The Big Picture · 0:33:46 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)
  3. people (people): Ouija: Origin of Evil → Mike Flanagan. Origin of Evil is Flanagan's Ouija sequel, and a good one.
    “Ouija Origin of Evil, which is Flanagan's Ouija Equal. Good movie.”
    The Big Picture · The 10 Best Horror Movies of the Decade | The Big Picture · 0:34:13 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)
  4. lineage (lineage): The Purge → Death Wish. Sean loved The Purge but saw it as horror in the way Death Wish was.
    “Remember feeling like it had as much to do with horror as a movie like Death Wish.”
    The Big Picture · The 10 Best Horror Movies of the Decade | The Big Picture · 0:34:20 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)
  5. lineage (lineage): The Purge → Rolling Thunder. The Purge is nasty and violent but about something, like Rolling Thunder's returning vet.
    “Like, it was as kind of nasty and violent and crazed, but also it's kind of about something.”
    The Big Picture · The 10 Best Horror Movies of the Decade | The Big Picture · 0:34:32 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)
  6. career (career): Breck Eisner → The Last Witch Hunter. Sean and Chris read Eisner's sparse credits, Sahara, The Crazies, then The Last Witch Hunter.
    “a little gym called The Last Witch Hunter, starring Vin Diesel, which you may consider horror”
    The Big Picture · The 10 Best Horror Movies of the Decade | The Big Picture · 0:35:59 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  7. career (career): Stake Land → In the Shadow of the Moon. Stake Land's director Jim Mickle later made the Netflix film In the Shadow of the Moon.
    “Jim Nichol, who recently directed in the Shadow of the Moon, a Netflix movie”
    The Big Picture · The 10 Best Horror Movies of the Decade | The Big Picture · 0:36:32 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)
  8. programming (programming): The Invitation → Starry Eyes. Starry Eyes makes a good double feature with The Invitation for anxiety and terror.
    “Starias in particular is a nice double feature, I think, with the invitation”
    The Big Picture · The 10 Best Horror Movies of the Decade | The Big Picture · 0:37:03 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  9. lineage (lineage): Starry Eyes → The House of the Devil. Sean suggests House of the Devil as the godfather of these slow-burn B-minus horror films.
    “Would you say House of the Devil is the godfather of those movies?”
    The Big Picture · The 10 Best Horror Movies of the Decade | The Big Picture · 0:37:20 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  10. verdict (verdict): The Cabin in the Woods → Dracula. Cabin in the Woods isn't scary but is still horror, the way the original Dracula is a horror film that no longer scares.
    “Cabin of the Woods is the same.”
    The Big Picture · The 10 Best Horror Movies of the Decade | The Big Picture · 0:40:46 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  11. people (people): The Conjuring → Lili Taylor. Lili Taylor's possessed-mother performance is a low-key highlight.
    “low-key, incredible Lily Taylor performance in that movie”
    The Big Picture · The 10 Best Horror Movies of the Decade | The Big Picture · 0:42:45 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  12. lineage (lineage): The Witch → Nathaniel Hawthorne. The Witch is a slow portrait of puritanical New England in a Hawthorne vein.
    “a slow-moving, methodical portrait of a Nathaniel Hawthorne-esque puritanical New England America”
    The Big Picture · The 10 Best Horror Movies of the Decade | The Big Picture · 0:43:25 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)
  13. lineage (lineage): It Follows → The Witch. It Follows is a precursor to The Witch in the rise of the term elevated horror, a phrase both hosts distrust.
    “I think is an interesting precursor to the witch because that's when we started hearing what I think is kind of an ugly phrase, which is elevated horror”
    The Big Picture · The 10 Best Horror Movies of the Decade | The Big Picture · 0:44:34 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)
  14. career (career): Fede Alvarez → Evil Dead (remake). Alvarez did Don't Breathe, remade Evil Dead and made the Dragon Tattoo sequel.
    “He also remade the Evil Dead and he made a very unfortunate girl with the Dragon tattoo sequel last year.”
    The Big Picture · The 10 Best Horror Movies of the Decade | The Big Picture · 0:46:16 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)
  15. contrast (contrast): Doctor Sleep → Midsommar. Doctor Sleep, not yet out, is the biggest contender against Midsommar for Sean's 2019 pick.
    “I would say that's probably the biggest contender against Midsommar for me.”
    The Big Picture · The 10 Best Horror Movies of the Decade | The Big Picture · 0:47:46 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)
  16. verdict (verdict): A Quiet Place → Get Out. A Quiet Place is a runner-up for 2018 but is not as good as Get Out.
    “Well, I don't think it's as good as get out.”
    The Big Picture · The 10 Best Horror Movies of the Decade | The Big Picture · 0:47:59 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  17. lineage (lineage): Unfriended: Dark Web → 8mm. Dark Web, about buying snuff on the dark web, is an unofficial sequel to 8MM.
    “It's sort of an unofficial sequel to 8 millimeter.”
    The Big Picture · The 10 Best Horror Movies of the Decade | The Big Picture · 0:48:23 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  18. theme (theme): Dolomite Is My Name → Billy Jack. The Dolomite script has a four-walling joke citing Billy Jack and Grizzly Adams.
    “You talk about Billy Jack and Grizzly Adams.”
    The Big Picture · The 10 Best Horror Movies of the Decade | The Big Picture · 1:40:39 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  19. industry (industry): Black Panther: Wakanda Forever → Avatar: The Way of Water. Black Panther 2 is among the most anticipated films, along with Avatar 2, and its long wait is compared to the Avatar gap.
    “Black Panther 2 in particular, though, struck me as weird because it might be after the rise of Skywalker, maybe Avatar 2, the most anticipated movie that exists”
    The Big Picture · The Future of ‘Star Wars,’ Marvel, Pixar, and Disney’s Movie Monopoly. Plus: Our Summer Movie Awards and Paul Downs Colaizzo on ‘Brittany Runs a Marathon’ | The Big Picture · 0:09:06 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  20. industry (industry): Avatar: The Way of Water → James Cameron. Doubters were wrong about Cameron with Titanic and Avatar, so don't count him out.
    “But underestimate James Cameron at your peril, because this is what happened with Titanic, and this is what happened with Avatar.”
    The Big Picture · The Future of ‘Star Wars,’ Marvel, Pixar, and Disney’s Movie Monopoly. Plus: Our Summer Movie Awards and Paul Downs Colaizzo on ‘Brittany Runs a Marathon’ | The Big Picture · 0:09:40 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  21. people (casting): Eternals → Kit Harington. Kit Harington was announced as Black Knight, giving the film two Game of Thrones actors.
    “His name is Black Knight, a.k.a. Dane Whitman and he will be portrayed by Kit Harrington.”
    The Big Picture · The Future of ‘Star Wars,’ Marvel, Pixar, and Disney’s Movie Monopoly. Plus: Our Summer Movie Awards and Paul Downs Colaizzo on ‘Brittany Runs a Marathon’ | The Big Picture · 0:10:28 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)
  22. people (casting): Eternals → Angelina Jolie. The Eternals cast is very starry, naming Jolie, Hayek, Henry, Chan and Nanjiani.
    “You've got Angelina Jolie, you've got Salma Hayek, you've got Brian Tyree Henry.”
    The Big Picture · The Future of ‘Star Wars,’ Marvel, Pixar, and Disney’s Movie Monopoly. Plus: Our Summer Movie Awards and Paul Downs Colaizzo on ‘Brittany Runs a Marathon’ | The Big Picture · 0:11:34 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  23. people (casting): Onward → Chris Pratt. Onward, the next Pixar film, stars Chris Pratt as one of two elf brothers.
    “Amanda, you left a helpful note here for Onward, which stars Chris Pratt, which is the next Pixar film”
    The Big Picture · The Future of ‘Star Wars,’ Marvel, Pixar, and Disney’s Movie Monopoly. Plus: Our Summer Movie Awards and Paul Downs Colaizzo on ‘Brittany Runs a Marathon’ | The Big Picture · 0:11:55 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)
  24. people (casting): Soul → Tina Fey. Soul stars Jamie Foxx and Tina Fey and is about how each person got their soul.
    “Jamie Foxx and Tina Fey will star.”
    The Big Picture · The Future of ‘Star Wars,’ Marvel, Pixar, and Disney’s Movie Monopoly. Plus: Our Summer Movie Awards and Paul Downs Colaizzo on ‘Brittany Runs a Marathon’ | The Big Picture · 0:12:41 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)
  25. people (casting): Inside Out → Amy Poehler. The Sadness character is Amy Poehler, not Tina Fey.
    “That's Amy Poehler.”
    The Big Picture · The Future of ‘Star Wars,’ Marvel, Pixar, and Disney’s Movie Monopoly. Plus: Our Summer Movie Awards and Paul Downs Colaizzo on ‘Brittany Runs a Marathon’ | The Big Picture · 0:12:57 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
  26. people (director): Jungle Cruise → Jaume Collet-Serra. Jungle Cruise is directed by a filmmaker known for dark crime thrillers.
    “He makes deeply fucked up crime movies, and he's directing a Dwayne Johnson romp that probably won't feature Elizabeth Warren.”
    The Big Picture · The Future of ‘Star Wars,’ Marvel, Pixar, and Disney’s Movie Monopoly. Plus: Our Summer Movie Awards and Paul Downs Colaizzo on ‘Brittany Runs a Marathon’ | The Big Picture · 0:14:22 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  27. industry (industry): Ford v Ferrari → Bob Iger. Iger blamed down earnings on failed Fox films Disney inherited, so Ford v Ferrari is the first Fox film Disney is really putting its back into.
    “Well, recently Bob Iger in a call about earnings basically placed a lot of the blame on Disney's down earnings on the failure of several Fox films that they inherited, that they did not develop themselves.”
    The Big Picture · The Future of ‘Star Wars,’ Marvel, Pixar, and Disney’s Movie Monopoly. Plus: Our Summer Movie Awards and Paul Downs Colaizzo on ‘Brittany Runs a Marathon’ | The Big Picture · 0:14:46 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  28. unmapped (preference): El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie → Aladdin. Asked to choose, a host would take a Breaking Bad movie over another Aladdin-style remake.
    “Let it be Breaking Bad then, rather than Aladdin.”
    The Big Picture · The Future of ‘Star Wars,’ Marvel, Pixar, and Disney’s Movie Monopoly. Plus: Our Summer Movie Awards and Paul Downs Colaizzo on ‘Brittany Runs a Marathon’ | The Big Picture · 0:16:05 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
  29. unmapped (reaction): Paul Thomas Anderson → Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. On the DGA podcast PTA, a Leo fan, seemed quite taken with Brad Pitt in the movie.
    “we know we know PTA is a big Leo fan, but he seemed quite taken with Brad Pitt in this movie.”
    The Big Picture · The Future of ‘Star Wars,’ Marvel, Pixar, and Disney’s Movie Monopoly. Plus: Our Summer Movie Awards and Paul Downs Colaizzo on ‘Brittany Runs a Marathon’ | The Big Picture · 0:21:34 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  30. people (performance): Booksmart → Beanie Feldstein. Feldstein's performance got swallowed by the did-it-fail conversation around Booksmart.
    “In Booksmart, which maybe is was a little bit swallowed up by the conversation around Booksmart, and whether it did or did not fail.”
    The Big Picture · The Future of ‘Star Wars,’ Marvel, Pixar, and Disney’s Movie Monopoly. Plus: Our Summer Movie Awards and Paul Downs Colaizzo on ‘Brittany Runs a Marathon’ | The Big Picture · 0:24:28 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  31. people (performance): Plus One → Maya Erskine. Erskine's performance is a breakthrough, even if the film is weighed down by its male lead's story.
    “And she, when she is on the screen, it's like, it's transcendent and it is really kind of a breakthrough for her.”
    The Big Picture · The Future of ‘Star Wars,’ Marvel, Pixar, and Disney’s Movie Monopoly. Plus: Our Summer Movie Awards and Paul Downs Colaizzo on ‘Brittany Runs a Marathon’ | The Big Picture · 0:25:30 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  32. people (performance): Rocketman → Jamie Bell. Sean gives Jamie Bell love as best supporting performance.
    “I thought Jamie Bell was great in Rocket Man.”
    The Big Picture · The Future of ‘Star Wars,’ Marvel, Pixar, and Disney’s Movie Monopoly. Plus: Our Summer Movie Awards and Paul Downs Colaizzo on ‘Brittany Runs a Marathon’ | The Big Picture · 0:27:43 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  33. theme (comparison): Rocketman → Bohemian Rhapsody. Rocketman was paired with Bohemian Rhapsody for obvious reasons but has faded from conversation.
    “Obviously, it's Rocket Man has been paired with Bohemian Rhapsody for obvious reasons, but Rocket Man just doesn't come up.”
    The Big Picture · The Future of ‘Star Wars,’ Marvel, Pixar, and Disney’s Movie Monopoly. Plus: Our Summer Movie Awards and Paul Downs Colaizzo on ‘Brittany Runs a Marathon’ | The Big Picture · 0:27:53 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  34. industry (industry): Once Upon a Time in Hollywood → Long Shot. Counterprogramming may be dead, and fewer original films get made if they go only to streamers.
    “The question is whether or not people will still make movies like that if nobody goes to see them in the theaters.”
    The Big Picture · The Future of ‘Star Wars,’ Marvel, Pixar, and Disney’s Movie Monopoly. Plus: Our Summer Movie Awards and Paul Downs Colaizzo on ‘Brittany Runs a Marathon’ | The Big Picture · 0:36:30 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  35. contrast (contrast experience): Avengers: Endgame → Dark Phoenix. Endgame's roaring screening is contrasted with a Dark Phoenix showing interrupted by a fire alarm.
    “It was the opposite experience movie watching than you had from Avengers, which is getting a fire alarm in the last 45 seconds of the movie”
    The Big Picture · The Future of ‘Star Wars,’ Marvel, Pixar, and Disney’s Movie Monopoly. Plus: Our Summer Movie Awards and Paul Downs Colaizzo on ‘Brittany Runs a Marathon’ | The Big Picture · 0:41:15 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  36. industry (franchise): Godzilla: King of the Monsters → Godzilla vs. Kong. Another Godzilla movie is already planned, directed by Adam Wingard, which makes the big-studio release odd.
    “it's Godzilla versus King Kong, which is, I think, coming next summer by Adam Wingard.”
    The Big Picture · The Future of ‘Star Wars,’ Marvel, Pixar, and Disney’s Movie Monopoly. Plus: Our Summer Movie Awards and Paul Downs Colaizzo on ‘Brittany Runs a Marathon’ | The Big Picture · 0:45:52 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  37. industry (franchise): Godzilla: King of the Monsters → Kong: Skull Island. The previous two films in the series did well, yet audiences passed on this one.
    “The previous 2 films in the series did really well. King Kong, Skull Island, and Godzilla, and people were like, eh, I'm good.”
    The Big Picture · The Future of ‘Star Wars,’ Marvel, Pixar, and Disney’s Movie Monopoly. Plus: Our Summer Movie Awards and Paul Downs Colaizzo on ‘Brittany Runs a Marathon’ | The Big Picture · 0:46:01 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  38. people (director): The Art of Self-Defense → Riley Stearns. Riley Stearns's hand-to-hand combat psychodrama starring Jesse Eisenberg.
    “Riley Stern's, uh, I don't know, hand-to-hand combat, psychodrama, starring Jesse Eisenberg.”
    The Big Picture · The Future of ‘Star Wars,’ Marvel, Pixar, and Disney’s Movie Monopoly. Plus: Our Summer Movie Awards and Paul Downs Colaizzo on ‘Brittany Runs a Marathon’ | The Big Picture · 0:47:58 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  39. unmapped (movies vs TV): Once Upon a Time in Hollywood → Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. He would take one great movie over even Fleabag, Succession or Chernobyl.
    “I still would always, always, always rather have one great movie than an experience like that.”
    The Big Picture · The Future of ‘Star Wars,’ Marvel, Pixar, and Disney’s Movie Monopoly. Plus: Our Summer Movie Awards and Paul Downs Colaizzo on ‘Brittany Runs a Marathon’ | The Big Picture · 0:52:42 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)
  40. unmapped (tonal shift): Brittany Runs a Marathon → Mike Nichols. Sean sees a Nichols-like pattern of starting one way and shifting into a different movie.
    “I feel like a lot of his movies start one way with a certain tonality and then they make a shift and then all of a sudden you're in a different movie”
    The Big Picture · The Future of ‘Star Wars,’ Marvel, Pixar, and Disney’s Movie Monopoly. Plus: Our Summer Movie Awards and Paul Downs Colaizzo on ‘Brittany Runs a Marathon’ | The Big Picture · 1:08:48 · Sean Fennessey (0.90 sure it was them)
  41. craft (structure): Brittany Runs a Marathon → Carnal Knowledge. Carnal Knowledge starts one way and ends another, which is what Sean meant about the Nichols shift; it is also shot theatrically.
    “Wait, it starts one way and it ends another way. That is fantastic.”
    The Big Picture · The Future of ‘Star Wars,’ Marvel, Pixar, and Disney’s Movie Monopoly. Plus: Our Summer Movie Awards and Paul Downs Colaizzo on ‘Brittany Runs a Marathon’ | The Big Picture · 1:25:28 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)
  42. lineage (lineage): Homecoming → The Last Waltz. Sean says the Beyonce concert film in some ways looks like The Last Waltz.
    “this in some ways looks a little bit like the last waltz”
    The Big Picture · The Oscars Schedule Changes, and Andrew Garfield On ‘Under the Silver Lake’ | Interview · 0:05:27 · Sean Fennessey (0.90 sure it was them)
  43. people (people): The Last Waltz → Martin Scorsese. Sean explains the Last Waltz as Scorsese's documentary of the Band's final performance.
    “Martin Scorsese's documentary about the final performance of the band”
    The Big Picture · The Oscars Schedule Changes, and Andrew Garfield On ‘Under the Silver Lake’ | Interview · 0:05:58 · Sean Fennessey (0.85 sure it was them)
  44. people (people): The Last Waltz → The Band. The Last Waltz documents the Band's final performance.
    “Martin Scorsese's documentary about the final performance of the band, the band.”
    The Big Picture · The Oscars Schedule Changes, and Andrew Garfield On ‘Under the Silver Lake’ | Interview · 0:05:58 · Sean Fennessey (0.85 sure it was them)
  45. people (people): The Last Waltz → Bob Dylan. Bob Dylan is one of the star-studded guests who appear in The Last Waltz.
    “Bob Dylan appears, and Neil Young, and Joni Mitchell, and Van Morrison, da, da, da, da.”
    The Big Picture · The Oscars Schedule Changes, and Andrew Garfield On ‘Under the Silver Lake’ | Interview · 0:06:05 · Sean Fennessey (0.85 sure it was them)
  46. people (people): The Last Waltz → Neil Young. Neil Young is one of the star-studded guests who appear in The Last Waltz.
    “Bob Dylan appears, and Neil Young, and Joni Mitchell, and Van Morrison, da, da, da, da.”
    The Big Picture · The Oscars Schedule Changes, and Andrew Garfield On ‘Under the Silver Lake’ | Interview · 0:06:05 · Sean Fennessey (0.85 sure it was them)
  47. people (people): The Last Waltz → Joni Mitchell. Joni Mitchell is one of the star-studded guests who appear in The Last Waltz.
    “Bob Dylan appears, and Neil Young, and Joni Mitchell, and Van Morrison, da, da, da, da.”
    The Big Picture · The Oscars Schedule Changes, and Andrew Garfield On ‘Under the Silver Lake’ | Interview · 0:06:05 · Sean Fennessey (0.85 sure it was them)
  48. people (people): The Last Waltz → Van Morrison. Van Morrison is one of the star-studded guests who appear in The Last Waltz.
    “Bob Dylan appears, and Neil Young, and Joni Mitchell, and Van Morrison, da, da, da, da.”
    The Big Picture · The Oscars Schedule Changes, and Andrew Garfield On ‘Under the Silver Lake’ | Interview · 0:06:05 · Sean Fennessey (0.85 sure it was them)
  49. contrast (contrast): The Last Waltz → Homecoming. The Last Waltz is great for reasons other than the performances; Homecoming is great precisely because of the performance.
    “I think homecoming is great, particularly because of the performance.”
    The Big Picture · The Oscars Schedule Changes, and Andrew Garfield On ‘Under the Silver Lake’ | Interview · 0:06:19 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)
  50. theme (theme): Beyonce → other control-freak filmmakers. Her total control over collaborators is compared to male auteurs, who are just not also dancers and singers.
    “to compare her to other control freak egomaniac filmmakers.”
    The Big Picture · The Oscars Schedule Changes, and Andrew Garfield On ‘Under the Silver Lake’ | Interview · 0:08:34 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)
  51. craft (craft): Beyonce → Homecoming. Like a director choosing collaborators, Beyonce picks her choreographer and costume designer for the performance.
    “She's picking her choreographer. She picking the costume designer for all of the costumes during the performance.”
    The Big Picture · The Oscars Schedule Changes, and Andrew Garfield On ‘Under the Silver Lake’ | Interview · 0:09:03 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)
  52. programming (programming): Homecoming → Netflix. Beyonce also picks the platform, and Netflix puts the film in more homes than anywhere else.
    “if you give it to Netflix, it's going to go into more homes than almost anywhere else.”
    The Big Picture · The Oscars Schedule Changes, and Andrew Garfield On ‘Under the Silver Lake’ | Interview · 0:09:08 · Sean Fennessey (0.85 sure it was them)
  53. contrast (contrast): Guava Island → Homecoming. Guava Island's purpose is unclear next to the clarity of Homecoming.
    “how it fits into the childish Gambino mythology, like with homecoming.”
    The Big Picture · The Oscars Schedule Changes, and Andrew Garfield On ‘Under the Silver Lake’ | Interview · 0:11:44 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)
  54. lineage (lineage): Cats → Andrew Lloyd Webber. Cats is Universal's adaptation of Webber's stage musical.
    “Universal's adaptation of Andrew Lloyd Weber's musical”
    The Big Picture · The Oscars Schedule Changes, and Andrew Garfield On ‘Under the Silver Lake’ | Interview · 0:18:56 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)
  55. programming (programming): Cats → Les Mis. Both are Tom Hooper musicals everyone pretends are in the Oscar conversation until release.
    “it was the same feeling that we had with Les Mis, the last big Tom Hooper musical.”
    The Big Picture · The Oscars Schedule Changes, and Andrew Garfield On ‘Under the Silver Lake’ | Interview · 0:20:17 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)
  56. programming (programming): Fair and Balanced → Vice. Sean says the Fox News movie feels like Vice of 2019, and it is also slated for late December.
    “it feels a little bit like the vice of 2019.”
    The Big Picture · The Oscars Schedule Changes, and Andrew Garfield On ‘Under the Silver Lake’ | Interview · 0:23:01 · Sean Fennessey (0.75 sure it was them)
  57. career (career): Jay Roach → Game Change. Roach has made political docudramas like Game Change for HBO, so he can do this.
    “Jay Roach, of course, has experience making movies like Game Change for HBO.”
    The Big Picture · The Oscars Schedule Changes, and Andrew Garfield On ‘Under the Silver Lake’ | Interview · 0:24:12 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)
  58. programming (programming): Cats → The Wife. Their producer says Cats will be the new The Wife: a long-running running bit on the Oscar show.
    “cats is the new, the wife, right?”
    The Big Picture · The Oscars Schedule Changes, and Andrew Garfield On ‘Under the Silver Lake’ | Interview · 0:25:11 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)
  59. programming (programming): The Irishman → A Star Is Born. Producer Bobby suggests The Irishman is this year's A Star Is Born for the hosts' Oscar obsession.
    “perhaps the Irishman is this year's a star is born for us.”
    The Big Picture · The Oscars Schedule Changes, and Andrew Garfield On ‘Under the Silver Lake’ | Interview · 0:25:52 · Sean Fennessey (0.85 sure it was them)
  60. programming (programming): The Irishman → Netflix. Sean assumes the Irishman has a contractual theatrical release while the other Netflix films might not.
    “I assume the Irishman has something contractually that says they'll do that.”
    The Big Picture · The Oscars Schedule Changes, and Andrew Garfield On ‘Under the Silver Lake’ | Interview · 0:27:58 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)
  61. career (career): Little Women → Lady Bird. Little Women is Greta Gerwig's follow-up to Lady Bird.
    “Greta Gerwig's follow-up to Ladybird.”
    The Big Picture · The Oscars Schedule Changes, and Andrew Garfield On ‘Under the Silver Lake’ | Interview · 0:28:09 · Sean Fennessey (0.85 sure it was them)
  62. career (career): Us → Get Out. Get Out is the extraordinary debut and Us is the second-album film, so Us may get makeup votes.
    “get out is the extraordinary debut and us is the, you had 6 months to make your 2nd album kind of film.”
    The Big Picture · The Oscars Schedule Changes, and Andrew Garfield On ‘Under the Silver Lake’ | Interview · 0:30:19 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  63. industry (industry): Star Wars: Episode IX – The Rise of Skywalker → Academy. The Academy will want to reward Star Wars for reviving big-tent box office.
    “they're going to want to acknowledge its achievement in reviving super duper big tent box office.”
    The Big Picture · The Oscars Schedule Changes, and Andrew Garfield On ‘Under the Silver Lake’ | Interview · 0:31:52 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  64. people (people): Stephen Daldry → Roger Deakins. Daldry and Deakins were said to be making the unmade Kavalier & Clay together; Garfield could not confirm it was Deakins.
    “So Dawdry and Deacons were going to make Cavalier.”
    The Big Picture · The Oscars Schedule Changes, and Andrew Garfield On ‘Under the Silver Lake’ | Interview · 0:38:11 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  65. people (people): The Game → David Fincher. Sean identifies The Game as the Fincher movie.
    “The Fincher movie.”
    The Big Picture · The Oscars Schedule Changes, and Andrew Garfield On ‘Under the Silver Lake’ | Interview · 1:01:26 · Sean Fennessey (0.90 sure it was them)
  66. theme (theme): Under the Silver Lake → Russian Doll. Sean pairs Russian Doll as Garfield's New York with Under the Silver Lake as his LA.
    “If Russian doll is my New York under the Silver Lake is sort of my LA.”
    The Big Picture · The Oscars Schedule Changes, and Andrew Garfield On ‘Under the Silver Lake’ | Interview · 1:08:30 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)
  67. contrast (contrast): Shazam! → Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice. Fennessey says Shazam!'s tone differs significantly from Superman versus Batman and the Justice League films.
    “I think tonally this movie is pretty significantly different from Superman versus Batman and the Justice League films”
    The Big Picture · 'Shazam!’ and the Future of the DCEU With David F. Sandberg | Interview · 0:03:02 · Sean Fennessey (0.90 sure it was them)
  68. contrast (contrast): Shazam! → Aquaman. Fennessey says Shazam! is lighter but not as operatically goofy as Aquaman.
    “it's not quite as operatically goofy as Aquaman was”
    The Big Picture · 'Shazam!’ and the Future of the DCEU With David F. Sandberg | Interview · 0:03:17 · Sean Fennessey (0.90 sure it was them)
  69. lineage (lineage): Shazam! → Big. Fennessey calls Shazam! essentially Big as a superhero movie.
    “the movie is clearly pitched as sort of what if big but superhero”
    The Big Picture · 'Shazam!’ and the Future of the DCEU With David F. Sandberg | Interview · 0:04:17 · Sean Fennessey (0.90 sure it was them)
  70. theme (theme): Shazam! → Wonder Woman. Both films, in Miles's view, start clever and then end in a punching match with a monster or villain.
    “That was also one of my struggles, honestly, with Wonder Woman”
    The Big Picture · 'Shazam!’ and the Future of the DCEU With David F. Sandberg | Interview · 0:06:26 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  71. people (people): Wonder Woman → David Thewlis. The Wonder Woman finale had Diana fighting a demon monster played by Thewlis.
    “ultimately just turned into Diana fighting like a demon monster, who was played by David Thulas”
    The Big Picture · 'Shazam!’ and the Future of the DCEU With David F. Sandberg | Interview · 0:06:31 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  72. contrast (contrast): Shazam! → Joker. Fennessey says Joker is standalone and has virtually nothing in common with Shazam!.
    “Joker, which is coming in October, which also feels quite standalone and seems to have virtually nothing in common with a movie like Shazam”
    The Big Picture · 'Shazam!’ and the Future of the DCEU With David F. Sandberg | Interview · 0:08:06 · Sean Fennessey (0.90 sure it was them)
  73. contrast (contrast): Birds of Prey → Joker. Fennessey says Birds of Prey looks tonally and visually unlike Shazam! and Joker.
    “that tonally and visually looks completely different from those other 2 movies”
    The Big Picture · 'Shazam!’ and the Future of the DCEU With David F. Sandberg | Interview · 0:08:25 · Sean Fennessey (0.90 sure it was them)
  74. industry (industry): Zack Snyder → Justice League. Fennessey ties the stormy shared look of earlier DC films to Zack Snyder, which DC is now abandoning.
    “the same kind of stormy visual aesthetic that Zack Snyder created”
    The Big Picture · 'Shazam!’ and the Future of the DCEU With David F. Sandberg | Interview · 0:08:28 · Sean Fennessey (0.90 sure it was them)
  75. people (people): The Batman → Matt Reeves. Fennessey names The Batman as Matt Reeves's movie, due late next year.
    “the Batman, which is Matt Reeves's Batman movie”
    The Big Picture · 'Shazam!’ and the Future of the DCEU With David F. Sandberg | Interview · 0:08:58 · Sean Fennessey (0.90 sure it was them)
  76. craft (craft): Shazam! → Terminator 2: Judgment Day. Fennessey asks whether an effects shot echoes the T-1000 reassembling in Terminator 2; Sandberg agrees he references other films.
    “this is basically that shot in Terminator 2, when the T 1000 gets, you know, comes back together and rises up”
    The Big Picture · 'Shazam!’ and the Future of the DCEU With David F. Sandberg | Interview · 0:26:01 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)
  77. craft (craft): Wonder Woman → Captain Marvel. Wonder Woman did its origin story in the first 30 minutes and moved on; Captain Marvel spends the whole film on it.
    “What Wonder Woman did was gave us the best version of its origin story in the 1st 30 minutes, and then we were kind of done with that.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Captain Marvel’ Is a ’90s Nostalgia Play. Did It Work? | Exit Survey · 0:03:13 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)
  78. lineage (lineage): Captain Marvel → Captain America: The First Avenger. The film goes back to the Steve Rogers style of origin story.
    “here's how Steve Rogers became a super soldier style of storytelling.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Captain Marvel’ Is a ’90s Nostalgia Play. Did It Work? | Exit Survey · 0:03:27 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)
  79. lineage (lineage): Jude Law → Obi-Wan Kenobi. Law's Yon-Rogg is introduced as an Obi-Wan-style mentor figure.
    “we meet him as a sort of Obi-Wan Kenobi-esque mentor figure in Vere's life.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Captain Marvel’ Is a ’90s Nostalgia Play. Did It Work? | Exit Survey · 0:06:22 · Sean Fennessey (0.85 sure it was them)
  80. lineage (lineage): Captain Marvel → The Avengers. The Tesseract, the glowing box, was a MacGuffin in the first Avengers and in Infinity War.
    “you may remember the Tesseract from the 1st Avengers film, and then, of course, the most recent Avengers film, Avengers Infinity War”
    The Big Picture · ‘Captain Marvel’ Is a ’90s Nostalgia Play. Did It Work? | Exit Survey · 0:09:03 · Sean Fennessey (0.85 sure it was them)
  81. lineage (lineage): Captain Marvel → Avengers: Infinity War. The film is connective tissue, dragging continuity toward the next Avengers movie.
    “this movie is basically a connective tissue movie.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Captain Marvel’ Is a ’90s Nostalgia Play. Did It Work? | Exit Survey · 0:09:16 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)
  82. craft (craft): Captain Marvel → Guardians of the Galaxy. Everything in the film except Brie Larson's polished lead is silly fun closer to Guardians.
    “kind of silly fun, kind of closer to Guardians for lack of a better term.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Captain Marvel’ Is a ’90s Nostalgia Play. Did It Work? | Exit Survey · 0:14:16 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  83. theme (theme): Captain Marvel → Captain America: The First Avenger. Captain America's plucky do-gooder works because Chris Evans gets to be a good guy; Captain Marvel's girl-power messaging feels falsely applied by comparison.
    “when the movie is Captain America the 1st Avenger, and Steve Rogers is this plucky, patriotic do-gooder, we are like, huh, what a good guy.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Captain Marvel’ Is a ’90s Nostalgia Play. Did It Work? | Exit Survey · 0:14:28 · Sean Fennessey (0.75 sure it was them)
  84. theme (theme): Captain Marvel → Wonder Woman. Wonder Woman, like Superman, is a god and needs less emotional complexity; Carol Danvers is a real person who is blank for most of the film.
    “Wonder Woman, likes Superman, is a god. And the levels of emotional complexity that we expect from a god are lesser than a real person.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Captain Marvel’ Is a ’90s Nostalgia Play. Did It Work? | Exit Survey · 0:17:07 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)
  85. lineage (lineage): Captain Marvel → Pulp Fiction. Samuel L. Jackson driving around mid-90s Los Angeles evokes Jules Winfield, a clever but surface 90s nod.
    “a Samuel L. Jackson character in the mid 90s driving around in a car in Los Angeles, a la Jules Winfield in Pulp Fiction.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Captain Marvel’ Is a ’90s Nostalgia Play. Did It Work? | Exit Survey · 0:18:39 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)
  86. craft (craft): Captain Marvel → Salt-N-Pepa. The soundtrack's music cues are called very surface, such as a guard listening to 'What a Man'; the speaker likes the songs themselves.
    “all of the music cues are very surface. A security guard can be seen listening to what a man.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Captain Marvel’ Is a ’90s Nostalgia Play. Did It Work? | Exit Survey · 0:19:03 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  87. craft (craft): Captain Marvel → No Doubt. The big fight sequence is set to No Doubt's 'Just a Girl', which the speakers call cute and clever but ham-handed, part of a BuzzFeed-list version of the 90s.
    “And famously, I think what will be sort of infamous is the big fight sequence in this movie is set to, no doubt, just a girl.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Captain Marvel’ Is a ’90s Nostalgia Play. Did It Work? | Exit Survey · 0:19:43 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  88. career (career): Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck → Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck. Indie-90s directors taking a Marvel job; Sean lists Half Nelson, Sugar and Mississippi Grind as their strong earlier films.
    “I think especially half Nelson and Sugar and Mississippi Grind, which I think is one of the best gambling movies ever made.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Captain Marvel’ Is a ’90s Nostalgia Play. Did It Work? | Exit Survey · 0:22:47 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)
  89. people (people): Mississippi Grind → Ben Mendelsohn. Mississippi Grind features a wonderful Ben Mendelsohn performance.
    “And also features a wonderful Ben Mendelssohn performance who is also very funny in this movie.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Captain Marvel’ Is a ’90s Nostalgia Play. Did It Work? | Exit Survey · 0:22:58 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)
  90. contrast (contrast): Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck → Black Panther. Sean says he does not think the directors of Black Panther or Thor: Ragnarok sold out, but the comparison to Boden and Fleck is unavoidable.
    “I love Black Panther, and I love Thor Ragnarok, and I don't think either of those guys sold out when they made those movies”
    The Big Picture · ‘Captain Marvel’ Is a ’90s Nostalgia Play. Did It Work? | Exit Survey · 0:23:14 · Sean Fennessey (0.75 sure it was them)
  91. theme (theme): Captain Marvel → Mid90s. Mid90s was made by a successful actor and longtime aspiring director rendering memories of the 90s.
    “They're made by 2 very successful actors, but also 2 longtime aspiring directors.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Captain Marvel’ Is a ’90s Nostalgia Play. Did It Work? | Exit Survey · 0:25:32 · Sean Fennessey (0.75 sure it was them)
  92. theme (theme): Captain Marvel → Lady Bird. Lady Bird and Mid90s were personal reminiscences of the 90s; Captain Marvel is the Happy Meal version.
    “it's funny to see, you know, the McDonald's Happy Meal version of those movies in a lot of ways.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Captain Marvel’ Is a ’90s Nostalgia Play. Did It Work? | Exit Survey · 0:25:50 · Sean Fennessey (0.75 sure it was them)
  93. craft (craft): Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck → Captain Marvel. The speaker guesses the directors built the soundtrack the way a person makes a mixtape of their favorite 90s songs, with every song going into the film.
    “they just put all the songs that end up in the movie, on their mixtape”
    The Big Picture · ‘Captain Marvel’ Is a ’90s Nostalgia Play. Did It Work? | Exit Survey · 0:26:23 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  94. contrast (contrast): Captain Marvel → Captain America: Civil War. Sean feels closer to Captain Marvel's attempt at a real person than to Civil War, a pop confection.
    “I'm actually much closer to this movie in a lot of ways than I am to a movie like Captain America Civil War.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Captain Marvel’ Is a ’90s Nostalgia Play. Did It Work? | Exit Survey · 0:28:33 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  95. industry (industry): Captain Marvel → Courtney Love. The closing credits end on Hole's 'Celebrity Skin' and Courtney Love is one of the controllers of the Nirvana estate, which the speaker reads as corporate synergy.
    “I couldn't help but notice that the film's closing credits ended with whole celebrity skin and that one of the controllers of the Nirvana estate is Courtney Love.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Captain Marvel’ Is a ’90s Nostalgia Play. Did It Work? | Exit Survey · 0:31:08 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  96. people (people): Brie Larson → Samuel L. Jackson. Larson cast Jackson in her directorial debut Unicorn Store, and they also share Kong: Skull Island.
    “she cast him in her directorial debut Unicorn store, which you can watch on Netflix in April.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Captain Marvel’ Is a ’90s Nostalgia Play. Did It Work? | Exit Survey · 0:32:00 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)
  97. career (career): Brie Larson → Room. Larson does high-level trauma very well, which is why Room is so effective.
    “that's part of why room is so effective is you really feel the weight of the trauma that her character experiences.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Captain Marvel’ Is a ’90s Nostalgia Play. Did It Work? | Exit Survey · 0:33:14 · Sean Fennessey (0.75 sure it was them)
  98. craft (craft): Captain Marvel → X-Men. Expository Marvel dialogue needs a stentorian Shakespearean actor like Patrick Stewart or Ian McKellen, which Larson is not.
    “there's a reason that the X-Men movies cast people like Patrick Stewart and Ian McCellen”
    The Big Picture · ‘Captain Marvel’ Is a ’90s Nostalgia Play. Did It Work? | Exit Survey · 0:34:38 · Sean Fennessey (0.75 sure it was them)
  99. career (career): Ben Mendelsohn → Animal Kingdom. Animal Kingdom is where Mendelsohn became a known commodity to Sean.
    “I think he really became a known commodity to me when Animal Kingdom came out”
    The Big Picture · ‘Captain Marvel’ Is a ’90s Nostalgia Play. Did It Work? | Exit Survey · 0:36:06 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)
  100. career (career): Ben Mendelsohn → Terrence Malick. Mendelsohn worked long and prosperously before, including in Terrence Malick and Baz Luhrmann movies.
    “he had appearing Terrence Malik movies and Baz Luhrmann movies”
    The Big Picture · ‘Captain Marvel’ Is a ’90s Nostalgia Play. Did It Work? | Exit Survey · 0:36:23 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)

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  1. fun, about Brendan Fraser and John Lithgow: They show up as lawyers in the last 30 minutes in what feels like a different movie, with Fraser cut to erupt thunderously.
    “They're doing an old timey lawyer thing. There's like this thundering explanatory.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Is Astounding · 1:13:14 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
  2. fun, about Killers of the Flower Moon: The Masonic Hall spanking scene, a Jack Fisk construction with a checkerboard floor, is called funny and strange.
    “I guess the Masonic Hall spanking?”
    The Big Picture · ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Is Astounding · 1:14:15 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
  3. fun, about Timothee Chalamet: In his interview with Scorsese he gushes about sitting with the greatest living filmmaker, and Scorsese doesn't blink.
    “Scorsese, like, doesn't blink. He doesn't like demur.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Is Astounding · 1:29:14 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  4. fun, about Killers of the Flower Moon: Awards forecast: nominated for lots (Leo, Gladstone, Scorsese, production design, costume, adapted screenplay, maybe score and editing) but no real shot at Best Picture.
    “I just don't think it really has any chance to win best picture.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Is Astounding · 1:32:00 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
  5. fun, about The Big Picture: Next week: a lawyer-movie draft with Griffin Newman and David Sims of Blank Check, described as long and tense.
    “we're doing it with Griffin Newman and David Sims of the Blank Check podcast”
    The Big Picture · ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Is Astounding · 1:44:10 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
  6. fun, about Sight and Sound poll: Sean notes that the Sight and Sound poll ballots include a Looney Tune and a 14-minute film on Adam's list, which includes Duck Amuck and Meshes of the Afternoon.
    “I mean, Adam had a had a had a looney tune and a 14 minute film on his list.”
    The Big Picture · The Top Five Movies of 2022 · 0:20:41 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)
  7. fun, about The Eternal Daughter: Sean saw it at the New York Film Festival about five feet from Tilda Swinton and bumped it half a star for it. Amanda had slept on it because Sean did not respond to it at the festival.
    “the movie was bumped up half a star for me by seeing it in the front row and then being less than 5 feet away from Tilda Swinton.”
    The Big Picture · The Top Five Movies of 2022 · 0:38:24 · Sean Fennessey (0.85 sure it was them)
  8. fun, about Babylon: Sean's backstory: he left a holiday party at Amanda's, in a bad mood, to drive to Century City for a three-hour-eight-minute screening, and was blown away anyway. He relays a Letterboxd review asking if it's a love letter to cinema or a suicide note.
    “Is this a love letter to cinema or a suicide note?”
    The Big Picture · The Top Five Movies of 2022 · 0:41:24 · Sean Fennessey (0.85 sure it was them)
  9. fun, about Babylon: Sean says Margot Robbie is one of the only truly fearless young stars, glorious and disgusting at times, and might deserve a best actress nod.
    “She is one of the only truly fearless young stars we have.”
    The Big Picture · The Top Five Movies of 2022 · 0:42:39 · Sean Fennessey (0.85 sure it was them)
  10. fun, about The Fabelmans: Amanda asks if she would trade having her son be as successful as Spielberg for the movie he'd make about her; Sean says to take the Jurassic Park money.
    “But could you be sitting on Jurassic Park money?”
    The Big Picture · The Top Five Movies of 2022 · 1:03:40 · Sean Fennessey (0.75 sure it was them)
  11. fun, about Top Gun: Maverick: Sean on Cruise: the film is a beautifully designed vehicle and every viewing he slips into the passenger seat.
    “every time I watch it, I slip right into the passenger seat and I let it take me on a ride.”
    The Big Picture · The Top Five Movies of 2022 · 1:06:49 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)
  12. fun, about Tár: Sean says the opening Q&A scene with the New Yorker interviewer is how to use Blanchett: ten minutes of her talking about things she likes. A hosts' joke imagines a Todd Field and Adam Sandler pairing.
    “that opening scene, as I wrote in the Ringer piece, where she's taking questions from Gopnik, from the New Yorkers, like, that is how you use Cape Blanchett.”
    The Big Picture · The Top Five Movies of 2022 · 1:18:23 · Sean Fennessey (0.65 sure it was them)
  13. fun, about Nope: Sean admires the premise: an invented family that may be descended from the Black jockey in Muybridge's film strip, launching 100 years of film history and people whose names we don't know.
    “that's a genius idea for a drama, let alone a UFO movie.”
    The Big Picture · The Top Five Movies of 2022 · 1:33:59 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)
  14. fun, about Clash of the Titans: Argument over Clash of the Titans, the Harry Hamlin original versus the Sam Worthington remake, with a side note that Hamlin is Lisa Rinna's husband.
    “Harry Hamlin's like incredibly handsome.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Black Panther: Wakanda Forever’ Is Here! · 0:26:39 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  15. fun, about Black Panther: Sean says Black Panther built a whole country so well that a Marvel movie got nominated for best picture.
    “they fucking nominated a Marvel movie for best picture.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Black Panther: Wakanda Forever’ Is Here! · 0:54:21 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)
  16. fun, about Matt Damon: Damon turned down Jake Sully plus 10 percent of the future growth.
    “In addition to 10% of the future growth of this movie.”
    The Big Picture · The Great ‘Avatar’ Debate with Blank Check’s Griffin Newman and David Sims · 0:15:35 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)
  17. fun, about James Cameron: Chris Ryan nicknamed Cameron Big Jim; the sea is dope.
    “As Chris once said, he thinks the sea is dope.”
    The Big Picture · The Great ‘Avatar’ Debate with Blank Check’s Griffin Newman and David Sims · 0:28:00 · Sean Fennessey (0.90 sure it was them)
  18. fun, about James Cameron: Cameron got $10 million from Fox in 2005 to run R&D on Avatar and could have walked away.
    “Give me a year to just do R&D.”
    The Big Picture · The Great ‘Avatar’ Debate with Blank Check’s Griffin Newman and David Sims · 0:29:40 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  19. fun, about James Cameron: Speaker calls Cameron the ultimate con artist whose con is real.
    “Like, he is the ultimate, like, con artist whose con is real.”
    The Big Picture · The Great ‘Avatar’ Debate with Blank Check’s Griffin Newman and David Sims · 0:30:08 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  20. fun, about Avatar: How To with John Wilson featured Avatar superfans.
    “There is an extraordinary episode of How to with John Wilson.”
    The Big Picture · The Great ‘Avatar’ Debate with Blank Check’s Griffin Newman and David Sims · 0:48:37 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  21. fun, about The Hurt Locker: Lowest-grossing Best Picture winner, beat the highest-grossing film ever.
    “Hurt Locker, when it won, was the lowest grossing best picture winner ever.”
    The Big Picture · The Great ‘Avatar’ Debate with Blank Check’s Griffin Newman and David Sims · 1:35:45 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  22. fun, about Elvis: Sean's contrast: Elvis was shot with one camera on Ed Sullivan; the movie cuts a hundred times in two minutes to match his magnetism.
    “it literally cuts a 100 times in a 2 minute period of performance because that's almost sort of what it takes to match the Elvis Presley magnetism.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Elvis,’ ‘Walk Hard’ and Top Five Music Biopics · 0:17:28 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)
  23. fun, about Tom Hanks: Hanks's Colonel Parker accent is compared to Goldmember; separately Amanda notes this is the film where he contracted COVID.
    “he's doing basically the gold member accent”
    The Big Picture · ‘Elvis,’ ‘Walk Hard’ and Top Five Music Biopics · 0:18:05 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)
  24. fun, about Elvis: The film's 68 Comeback Special sequence and 'If I Can Dream' are Sean's favorite moments, close to Elvis's 'A Change Is Gonna Come'.
    “It's as close as Elvis got to a change is going to come.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Elvis,’ ‘Walk Hard’ and Top Five Music Biopics · 0:21:20 · Sean Fennessey (0.75 sure it was them)
  25. fun, about Selena: Amanda was shown Selena in high school intro to Spanish on a quiet day to learn about Selena and Tejano music.
    “they literally showed us this movie in intro to Spanish when I was in high school.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Elvis,’ ‘Walk Hard’ and Top Five Music Biopics · 0:44:01 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)
  26. fun, about Love and Mercy: Director Bill Pohlad is the son of Twins owner Carl Pohlad; he produced Brokeback Mountain, 12 Years a Slave and Tree of Life, a benefactor for filmmakers.
    “a guy named Bill Polad, who is the son of Carl Polad, the billionaire owner of the Minnesota Twins.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Elvis,’ ‘Walk Hard’ and Top Five Music Biopics · 0:55:48 · Sean Fennessey (0.90 sure it was them)
  27. fun, about Bird: Warner Bros. and Columbia traded Revenge for the Charlie Parker rights, and Adam jokes Revenge is a gift to history that social media should avoid.
    “Revenge and Bird would be quite a double feature.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Elvis,’ ‘Walk Hard’ and Top Five Music Biopics · 0:59:52 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)
  28. fun, about Amadeus: Amadeus won all the Oscars; the lasting memory is F. Murray Abraham's Salieri rather than Tom Hulce's Mozart.
    “I think the lasting memory of this movie is not Tom Holst, but F. Murray Abraham”
    The Big Picture · ‘Elvis,’ ‘Walk Hard’ and Top Five Music Biopics · 1:02:00 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)
  29. fun, about Gary Oldman: Running gag: Adam says Oldman is great 'playing Mank or whatever', and Sean protests loudly.
    “Not or whatever, how dare you? Back when he was, he played mank, all right?”
    The Big Picture · ‘Elvis,’ ‘Walk Hard’ and Top Five Music Biopics · 1:08:51 · Sean Fennessey (0.85 sure it was them)
  30. fun, about Tom Cruise: Cruise's motion-smoothing PSA with Christopher McQuarrie is a personal Hall of Fame moment, and it plays on the podcast.
    “Video interpolation or motion smoothing is a digital effect on most high definition televisions”
    The Big Picture · The Tom Cruise Hall of Fame · 0:09:28 · Sean Fennessey (0.30 sure it was them)
  31. fun, about Risky Business: Amanda says Risky Business has to go in; the dance was seen before the movie.
    “I saw the Risky Business dance before I saw a few good men.”
    The Big Picture · The Tom Cruise Hall of Fame · 0:18:39 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
  32. fun, about A Few Good Men: Cruise goes quiet-loud-quiet-loud against Nicholson, like Smells Like Teen Spirit, priming Jessup to explode.
    “It's like listening, it smells like teen spirit.”
    The Big Picture · The Tom Cruise Hall of Fame · 0:39:51 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
  33. fun, about Collateral: Chris names Collateral his surprising favorite because of Vincent talking about jazz, comparing the takes to Stanley Crouch.
    “Yeah, his takes on jazz are pretty formative for me, I'd say, it's like him and Stanley Crouch.”
    The Big Picture · The Tom Cruise Hall of Fame · 0:40:22 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
  34. fun, about Taps: Sean rewatched Taps and found Cruise as the Sean Penn role: a brat who never plays that part again.
    “He has the Sean Penn role in this.”
    The Big Picture · The Tom Cruise Hall of Fame · 0:47:38 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  35. fun, about Mission: Impossible – Fallout: Henry Cavill and Cruise punch each other in the bathroom and later on a cliff after a helicopter chase; the Henry Cavill speech about being disavowed is remembered.
    “how many times can a man be disavowed, discarded and ignored by his government?”
    The Big Picture · The Tom Cruise Hall of Fame · 1:01:58 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
  36. fun, about The Firm: Chris loves The Firm for Hackman, Wilford Brimley and Holly Hunter, a Hollywood movie aspiring to nothing but entertainment; Sean calls his Wilford imitation the best Rewatchables bit.
    “That might be the best episode of the rewatchables ever, in my opinion.”
    The Big Picture · The Tom Cruise Hall of Fame · 1:04:30 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
  37. fun, about Tom Cruise: Cruise mailed his Golden Globes back when the HFPA was called fraudulent.
    “Just mailing them back.”
    The Big Picture · The Tom Cruise Hall of Fame · 1:25:25 · Sean Fennessey (0.30 sure it was them)
  38. fun, about The Mummy: The Dark Universe cast photo (Russell Crowe, Johnny Depp, Javier Bardem, Angelina Jolie) was taken and then no more movies were made because The Mummy was so bad; Chris says it is the only non-festival movie he walked out of.
    “I think this is the only non-festival movie I've ever walked out of.”
    The Big Picture · The Tom Cruise Hall of Fame · 1:29:15 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
  39. fun, about Nightmare Alley: Host watched it four times; first lukewarm, a soft-focused noir, he came around.
    “And then I watched this movie a 4th time.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Nightmare Alley’ and Our Favorite Films Noir, With Patton Oswalt! · 0:03:01 · Sean Fennessey (0.95 sure it was them)
  40. fun, about Nightmare Alley: Leonardo DiCaprio was originally supposed to star; rumored to have passed over the dark ending and irredeemable lead.
    “this was originally supposed to be Leonardo DiCaprio.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Nightmare Alley’ and Our Favorite Films Noir, With Patton Oswalt! · 0:36:51 · Sean Fennessey (0.90 sure it was them)
  41. fun, about Ron Perlman: Reportedly handed Del Toro the Gresham novel in the mid-90s, so he is why the film exists.
    “So he's the reason this movie exists.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Nightmare Alley’ and Our Favorite Films Noir, With Patton Oswalt! · 0:39:49 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)
  42. fun, about Nightmare Alley: Patton reads Carlisle's carnival origin as like Trump rallies: a traveling apparatus that sets up and leaves.
    “he was called a carnival barker many, many times during his administration and he embraced it.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Nightmare Alley’ and Our Favorite Films Noir, With Patton Oswalt! · 0:45:30 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)
  43. fun, about Pharos of Chaos: Host recommends the documentary about Sterling Hayden's agonized life, including HUAC testimony; Patton had not seen it.
    “there's an incredible documentary about him in his life, Pharos of Chaos”
    The Big Picture · ‘Nightmare Alley’ and Our Favorite Films Noir, With Patton Oswalt! · 0:55:06 · Sean Fennessey (0.85 sure it was them)
  44. fun, about The Nickel Ride: Host watched it for the first time two weeks earlier and loved it.
    “Just watch this for the 1st time 2 weeks ago.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Nightmare Alley’ and Our Favorite Films Noir, With Patton Oswalt! · 1:01:17 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)
  45. fun, about Under the Silver Lake: Host champions it as the modern noir worth rescuing, with a real idea about our current condition.
    “is under the Silver Lake, that that's the one that I feel like people are really trying”
    The Big Picture · ‘Nightmare Alley’ and Our Favorite Films Noir, With Patton Oswalt! · 1:06:10 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)
  46. fun, about Ghostbusters: Afterlife: The movie pencil-sketch-over-a-Xerox feel.
    “the movie does often feel like a pencil sketch over a Xerox.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:04:54 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  47. fun, about Ghostbusters: Afterlife: Nine-year-olds not knowing ghosts terrorized New York is a nit: it would be the biggest thing since the Crusades.
    “This would be the biggest thing since like the Crusades.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:12:51 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  48. fun, about Ghostbusters: Afterlife: A character is named Podcast, with a joke about the podcast finding its voice in episode 46.
    “There is a character named podcast in a movie.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:14:17 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)
  49. fun, about Ghostbusters: Afterlife: Bill Murray declined a third Ghostbusters for 25 years; speaker found the cameos pathetic.
    “Why he came back for this movie, I have no idea.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:16:15 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  50. fun, about Ghostbusters: Afterlife: Jason Reitman filmed a plea before the movie not to spoil the end.
    “Jason Reitman filmed a little thing to go in front of the movie being like, please don't spoil the end of the movie.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:17:22 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  51. fun, about Andrew Garfield: Pundits call an Oscar nomination a lock; speaker finds it a divisive, litmus-test performance.
    “it is now a lock that Andrew Garfield will be nominated for an Oscar for this performance”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:24:16 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  52. fun, about Tick, Tick... Boom!: The tick, tick... Boom! musical was unfinished and completed after Jonathan Larson's death; it workshops Rent riffs.
    “I believe it was finished after Jonathan Larson's untimely death”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:25:50 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  53. fun, about That Thing You Do!: Joke: the band is literally called the Wonders because they are one-hit wonders.
    “They are literally called the Wonders.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:44:15 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
  54. fun, about Local Hero: Burt Lancaster plays a Bezos/Musk type batty oil billionaire.
    “Burt Lancaster plays like a kind of like Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk before they were Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk type type character.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:47:14 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  55. fun, about Local Hero: Speaker watched it in month three or four of quarantine and felt better when hard to feel good.
    “I just felt better at a time when it was hard to feel good about very much.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:47:39 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  56. fun, about My Neighbor Totoro: Gemma Gracewood (Letterbox) told the speaker to start a kid with Ghibli, starting with Totoro.
    “just start with Ghibli, just start with Totoro and she will be a creative and open-minded soul.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:50:50 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  57. fun, about Pee-wee's Big Adventure: A man goes across hell on earth to get his bike back; it taught speaker you can do anything in a movie.
    “And he goes across hell on earth to get his bike back.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:57:10 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  58. fun, about Pee-wee's Big Adventure: The finale features a Hollywood version of Pee-wee with James Brolin and Morgan Fairchild.
    “James Brolin and Morgan Fairchild portray Pee Wee and Dottie”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:58:44 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  59. fun, about Mike Mills: Sean says Mills's 20th Century Women conversation in January 2017 was the first ever for the show.
    “We talked about 20th century women.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 1:29:50 · Sean Fennessey (0.90 sure it was them)
  60. fun, about The Fast and the Furious: The family-is-said 300 times joke.
    “I don't know if something can be a theme if it's a word that is said 300 times in a movie”
    The Big Picture · ‘Fast 9’ and the ‘Fast & Furious’ Rankings · 0:12:15 · Sean Fennessey (0.85 sure it was them)
  61. fun, about F9: Corona beer: Diesel sets it down and does not drink in F9.
    “he doesn't take a drink.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Fast 9’ and the ‘Fast & Furious’ Rankings · 0:15:32 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)
  62. fun, about Han: Han stands with hands in pockets, the coolest person Sean has seen in years.
    “He just stands there with his hands in his pockets”
    The Big Picture · ‘Fast 9’ and the ‘Fast & Furious’ Rankings · 0:19:57 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)
  63. fun, about F9: Magnet set pieces redeem F9 for Sean.
    “anytime there's a magnet on screen, I'm like, I'm into this movie.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Fast 9’ and the ‘Fast & Furious’ Rankings · 0:36:44 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)
  64. fun, about Eva Mendes: Her last film role was Lost River, directed by Gosling.
    “next to it, it says final film role.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Fast 9’ and the ‘Fast & Furious’ Rankings · 0:42:42 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)
  65. fun, about Axelrod / Billions: Sean quotes a line from Billions about negotiation.
    “nobody walks away from a negotiation happy”
    The Big Picture · ‘Fast 9’ and the ‘Fast & Furious’ Rankings · 0:45:48 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)
  66. fun, about Vin Diesel: Amanda finds Diesel sees Dom as a profound figure of literature.
    “He sees himself as a noble warrior.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Fast 9’ and the ‘Fast & Furious’ Rankings · 0:52:09 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  67. fun, about Fast franchise: Sean imagines Ingmar Bergman style emotional drama.
    “severe emotional dramas like Ingmar Bergman, Circa 1965.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Fast 9’ and the ‘Fast & Furious’ Rankings · 0:56:49 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)
  68. fun, about Black Widow: Disney moves Black Widow to July 9 on Disney+ Premier Access (and in theaters) which a theater owner feels is a kneecap.
    “I honestly feel kneecapped. Disney is our lifeblood.”
    The Big Picture · Top Five Gen X Director Debuts, the Fate of ‘Black Widow,’ and a Potential Oscars Disaster · 0:04:12 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)
  69. fun, about Snyder Cut: The hosts recorded a 4-hour-5-minute Snyder Cut episode.
    “Thanks for listening to all 4 hours and 5 minutes.”
    The Big Picture · Top Five Gen X Director Debuts, the Fate of ‘Black Widow,’ and a Potential Oscars Disaster · 0:14:53 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)
  70. fun, about Errol Morris: Idea for the Oscars: hire people like Morris to make short documentaries, like the one with Donald Trump misreading Citizen Kane.
    “he completely misreads Citizen Kane and misunderstands it”
    The Big Picture · Top Five Gen X Director Debuts, the Fate of ‘Black Widow,’ and a Potential Oscars Disaster · 0:21:06 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)
  71. fun, about (Oscars telecast): Joke: a purple 'stories matter' sweatshirt with 'monetize me, daddy' on the back.
    “It's a purple sweatshirt. and on the back it says, monetize me, daddy.”
    The Big Picture · Top Five Gen X Director Debuts, the Fate of ‘Black Widow,’ and a Potential Oscars Disaster · 0:22:26 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  72. fun, about Pi: The most famous actor in Pi is Mark Margolis, from Scarface and Breaking Bad.
    “Mark Margolis from who was also on Breaking Dead.”
    The Big Picture · Top Five Gen X Director Debuts, the Fate of ‘Black Widow,’ and a Potential Oscars Disaster · 1:05:43 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  73. fun, about Margin Call: Revisit the boardroom scene where Jeremy Irons shows up, and the 'more lucrative' rocket-scientist answer.
    “I just fire up the scene where Jeremy Iron shows up in the boardroom.”
    The Big Picture · Top Five Gen X Director Debuts, the Fate of ‘Black Widow,’ and a Potential Oscars Disaster · 1:12:20 · Sean Fennessey (0.65 sure it was them)
  74. fun, about Reservoir Dogs: Sean says he would not be doing the podcast or anything at The Ringer without Reservoir Dogs.
    “I probably would certainly not be doing it.”
    The Big Picture · Top Five Gen X Director Debuts, the Fate of ‘Black Widow,’ and a Potential Oscars Disaster · 1:17:53 · Sean Fennessey (0.90 sure it was them)
  75. fun, about The Ringer / Chris Ryan: Sean says he founded the Ringer to platform brilliant friends, naming Chris Ryan as the prime example.
    “I would like to support and show the world how clever, entertaining smart and useful my friends are.”
    The Big Picture · Thirteen Awards Movies to Watch Out for, Oscar Do-Overs, and More From the Mailbag · 0:25:31 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)
  76. fun, about Oscars 2021: The hosts catalogue the thirteen awards movies not yet widely seen and where to stream them, with Nomadland the clear frontrunner.
    “There are 13 more movies that most people have not seen that I think are going to be meaningful to the Oscar conversation.”
    The Big Picture · Thirteen Awards Movies to Watch Out for, Oscar Do-Overs, and More From the Mailbag · 0:30:00 · Sean Fennessey (0.75 sure it was them)
  77. fun, about Casablanca: Sean tells Bobby to watch it and text him when they start singing La Marseillaise.
    “And then when they start singing the Marseilles, just text me like you were right.”
    The Big Picture · Thirteen Awards Movies to Watch Out for, Oscar Do-Overs, and More From the Mailbag · 0:52:08 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)
  78. fun, about Pretend It's a City: Scorsese's on-screen role is mostly laughing at Lebowitz; the one time he talks over 20 seconds, he corrects her Penny Arcade into Penny Serenade and explains Grant's career.
    “Martin Scorsese's role on the show, his physical role, is largely just to laugh at the things that friend Leboitt says.”
    The Big Picture · Thirteen Awards Movies to Watch Out for, Oscar Do-Overs, and More From the Mailbag · 0:58:40 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  79. fun, about Penny Serenade: Sean fact-checks Scorsese on air: Cary Grant was nominated twice, for None but the Lonely Heart and Penny Serenade, not once; Amanda dubs it very un-Cary Grant energy.
    “And when a person says a fact about a movie that I know to be not correct, even if it is perhaps the greatest living filmmaker, I just have to note that.”
    The Big Picture · Thirteen Awards Movies to Watch Out for, Oscar Do-Overs, and More From the Mailbag · 1:00:45 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  80. fun, about A Muppet Christmas Carol: Sean's wife Eileen, who will never appear on the podcast, has an unhealthy addiction to the film, and also yells Heat Miser at dinner.
    “she has like an unhealthy addiction to a Muppet Christmas carol.”
    The Big Picture · Thirteen Awards Movies to Watch Out for, Oscar Do-Overs, and More From the Mailbag · 1:02:52 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)
  81. fun, about Eyes Wide Shut: Sean's pick for a day on a historic set: a long shoot, one of the greatest filmmakers, two stars in the midst of a marriage, and some of the wildest scenes ever shot.
    “just some of the wildest scenes ever shot in the history of movies occur in that film.”
    The Big Picture · Thirteen Awards Movies to Watch Out for, Oscar Do-Overs, and More From the Mailbag · 1:12:07 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)
  82. fun, about Sundance 2021: Sundance goes virtual, roughly 50 to 100 films in three-hour blocks, and anyone can buy tickets for the first time.
    “many people out in the world can just buy tickets.”
    The Big Picture · Thirteen Awards Movies to Watch Out for, Oscar Do-Overs, and More From the Mailbag · 1:12:52 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)
  83. fun, about 12 Monkeys: Sean fired it up on his iPad at one in the morning when he could not sleep, and enjoyed it.
    “let's just fire up 12 monkeys to see how that goes down.”
    The Big Picture · Thirteen Awards Movies to Watch Out for, Oscar Do-Overs, and More From the Mailbag · 1:28:04 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)
  84. fun, about Aaron Sorkin: The 'I'm never, ever sick at sea' line turns up in Malice and again in Charlie Wilson's War; the references are like a drinking game.
    “I'm never, ever sick at sea, shows up in malice, and then it shows up in Charlie Wilson's war”
    The Big Picture · Aaron Sorkin Top 5s and ‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’ · 0:16:12 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  85. fun, about Aaron Sorkin: Lord of the walk and talk; the intercut is his newer trick for real events.
    “He's the lord of the walk and talk.”
    The Big Picture · Aaron Sorkin Top 5s and ‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’ · 0:38:02 · Sean Fennessey (0.55 sure it was them)
  86. fun, about A Few Good Men: As a kid Amanda or Sean practiced Jessup's speech on a park basketball court shooting free throws.
    “The Jack Nicholson speech from a few good men out loud while shooting free throws”
    The Big Picture · Aaron Sorkin Top 5s and ‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’ · 0:41:34 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  87. fun, about Moneyball: Billy Beane joining the Fenway owners group is an end cap to the movie; Red Sox lure scene.
    “he is joining the Fenway owners group, which is John Henry's company”
    The Big Picture · Aaron Sorkin Top 5s and ‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’ · 0:51:56 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  88. fun, about Steve Jobs: Seth Rogen as Wozniak should have won an Oscar.
    “It's absurd to me that Seth Rogan was not nominated for an Oscar.”
    The Big Picture · Aaron Sorkin Top 5s and ‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’ · 0:55:18 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)
  89. fun, about Steve Jobs: Kate Winslet has more of a Polish accent in the later sequences than the first; a filming-order theory.
    “I don't totally understand why she has a Polish accent in the future, but not in the past.”
    The Big Picture · Aaron Sorkin Top 5s and ‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’ · 0:55:27 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)
  90. fun, about Sports Night: A laugh track was added at some point; the show tried to change the network sitcom form.
    “And at some point there was a laugh track, which is ill conceived.”
    The Big Picture · Aaron Sorkin Top 5s and ‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’ · 1:09:27 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  91. fun, about A Few Good Men: Among the most rewatched movies of a lifetime, alongside Network, Oz, Godfather, Goodfellas, Pulp Fiction.
    “It's in the conversation for the most rewatched movie of my lifetime.”
    The Big Picture · Aaron Sorkin Top 5s and ‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’ · 1:19:23 · Sean Fennessey (0.55 sure it was them)
  92. fun, about The Trial of the Chicago 7: Bobby Seale is bound and gagged in the courtroom in an extraordinary sequence.
    “he was bounding, gagged in the courtroom in this extraordinary sequence”
    The Big Picture · Aaron Sorkin Top 5s and ‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’ · 1:37:38 · Sean Fennessey (0.55 sure it was them)
  93. fun, about The Trial of the Chicago 7: The score pairs fake 60s guitar rock with syrupy film music; real radicals would be playing the MC5.
    “you have to play the MC5.”
    The Big Picture · Aaron Sorkin Top 5s and ‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’ · 1:43:06 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)
  94. fun, about The Trial of the Chicago 7: Sorkin intercuts real brutality footage but cuts back to dramatized versions, which is less scary.
    “the real stuff is scarier and realer.”
    The Big Picture · Aaron Sorkin Top 5s and ‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’ · 1:43:19 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)
  95. fun, about Mark Rylance: Rylance as Kunstler is the custodian of decency in a film by a believer in decency.
    “he's the custodian of decency”
    The Big Picture · Aaron Sorkin Top 5s and ‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’ · 1:51:47 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)
  96. fun, about The Trial of the Chicago 7: A drive-in screening at the Rose Bowl, courtesy of Netflix.
    “We went to a lovely drive-in screening of this film at the Rose Bowl.”
    The Big Picture · Aaron Sorkin Top 5s and ‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’ · 1:54:53 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  97. fun, about Jane Fonda: Hayden later married Jane Fonda; the host wants her take and recommends her autobiography.
    “All I want to know is what Jane Fonda thinks of this movie.”
    The Big Picture · Aaron Sorkin Top 5s and ‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’ · 1:57:28 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  98. fun, about Mank: Fincher's teaser makes both the film and the trailer look 1940s; Sean treats Dec 4 as his day.
    “I turn into a Dragon Ball Z character and I am lit a flame and I'm powered by the energies of David Fincher”
    The Big Picture · 300th Episode Ask-Us-Anything Mailbag Spectacular · 0:02:07 · Sean Fennessey (0.90 sure it was them)
  99. fun, about Soul: Soul on Disney+ at Christmas could be the most widely seen Disney movie ever, in 70 million homes.
    “This could turn out to be the most widely seen Disney movie of all time”
    The Big Picture · 300th Episode Ask-Us-Anything Mailbag Spectacular · 0:03:43 · Sean Fennessey (0.85 sure it was them)
  100. fun, about Transformers: Sean's first adult LA trip was a Transformers premiere, driving an Escalade supplied by the film's car sponsor; it hooked him on movies.
    “going to a movie premiere as an adult with a VIP ticket talking to the people that were in the movie”
    The Big Picture · 300th Episode Ask-Us-Anything Mailbag Spectacular · 0:10:51 · Sean Fennessey (0.90 sure it was them)