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)

Their fun items

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  1. fun, about Sean Fennessey: Sean keeps a Netflix DVD queue and a 1000-plus film list across every streaming service.
    “I'm a member of every significant streaming service.”
    The Big Picture · 300th Episode Ask-Us-Anything Mailbag Spectacular · 0:21:45 · Sean Fennessey (0.90 sure it was them)
  2. fun, about Sean Fennessey: Sean's hair routine: lavender Japanese teak wax, learned from a John Mayer People page in a dentist's office.
    “John Mayer compelled me, went to Amazon, ordered a couple of sticks of this lavender teak.”
    The Big Picture · 300th Episode Ask-Us-Anything Mailbag Spectacular · 0:29:07 · Sean Fennessey (0.95 sure it was them)
  3. fun, about Napoleon (unmade Kubrick film): The book 'Stanley Kubrick's Napoleon' is Sean's heaviest book, with phone-book pages holding thousands of pages of documents.
    “The book is so big that the pages are almost like telephone book pages.”
    The Big Picture · 300th Episode Ask-Us-Anything Mailbag Spectacular · 0:44:39 · Sean Fennessey (0.90 sure it was them)
  4. fun, about William Castle: Gimmicks to lure audiences go back to William Castle: smell-o-vision and people in bug costumes in the aisles.
    “having people dressed up in bug costumes run down the alleyway”
    The Big Picture · 300th Episode Ask-Us-Anything Mailbag Spectacular · 0:49:23 · Sean Fennessey (0.90 sure it was them)
  5. fun, about Movie Pass: Amanda calls MoviePass a debt-ridden Ponzi scheme that eroded loyalty by teaching people to expect cheap tickets.
    “Movie Pass was a Ponzi scheme.”
    The Big Picture · 300th Episode Ask-Us-Anything Mailbag Spectacular · 0:52:13 · Sean Fennessey (0.90 sure it was them)
  6. fun, about Last Night in Soho: Edgar Wright's horror movie slated for September is now pushed to 2021; Sean wants instant classics.
    “I need more instant classics and I trust him to make something like that”
    The Big Picture · 300th Episode Ask-Us-Anything Mailbag Spectacular · 0:59:26 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)
  7. fun, about Last Action Hero: Sean's 'bad movies' show would rescue reputations: Last Action Hero was on Andrew Gruttadaro's Ringer list.
    “my version of a bad movies podcast is not me reveling in the badness”
    The Big Picture · 300th Episode Ask-Us-Anything Mailbag Spectacular · 1:08:32 · Sean Fennessey (0.90 sure it was them)
  8. fun, about A Cure for Wellness: Rotten Tomatoes guess: 42 percent. Sean once told Amanda not to see it.
    “It was 42%.”
    The Big Picture · 300th Episode Ask-Us-Anything Mailbag Spectacular · 1:10:36 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  9. fun, about Marvel: A famous Hollywood guest argued Marvel movies are comedies and displaced studio comedies.
    “Marvel movies are comedies.”
    The Big Picture · 300th Episode Ask-Us-Anything Mailbag Spectacular · 1:18:41 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)
  10. fun, about The Office: The Office was the worst thing to happen to Friends: it reset sitcom tone to awkward and deadpan.
    “The worst thing that ever happened to friends was the office”
    The Big Picture · 300th Episode Ask-Us-Anything Mailbag Spectacular · 1:21:15 · Sean Fennessey (0.85 sure it was them)
  11. fun, about NBA support group video: Ringer video where staffers share love for NBA players who never became stars; Jeff Green was Ryan Russillo's.
    “He can't quit Jeff Green.”
    The Big Picture · 300th Episode Ask-Us-Anything Mailbag Spectacular · 1:30:29 · Sean Fennessey (0.85 sure it was them)
  12. fun, about Letterboxd: Sean likes Letterboxd because it gathers people as obsessed as he is; Amanda asks for more women there.
    “one of the reasons why I like Letterbox as a platform, is you have a lot of people that are as obsessed with this space”
    The Big Picture · 300th Episode Ask-Us-Anything Mailbag Spectacular · 1:35:59 · Sean Fennessey (0.85 sure it was them)
  13. fun, about Peter Weir: 1997 versus now: Sean could find two Peter Weir films then; the Criterion Channel has all of them.
    “On the Criterion Channel, you could watch all of them.”
    The Big Picture · 300th Episode Ask-Us-Anything Mailbag Spectacular · 1:37:33 · Sean Fennessey (0.90 sure it was them)
  14. fun, about Tenet: Box office reality check: $20 million opening with NYC and LA theaters closed and 25 to 50 percent capacity elsewhere.
    “So Tennant made $20 million at the American box office, the North American box office this weekend, which is fine, I suppose it's not a wow number.”
    The Big Picture · Did Disney’s ‘Mulan’ Experiment Work? A Binge Mode Investigation · 0:01:46 · Sean Fennessey (0.90 sure it was them)
  15. fun, about Tenet: Sean and Amanda drove about 130 miles round trip to a San Diego drive-in to see Tenet in a heat wave, parked side by side. Amanda left claiming she understood the whole film; they will try to explain it on the pod next week.
    “The movie ended and she said, I get it. I know everything that happened.”
    The Big Picture · Did Disney’s ‘Mulan’ Experiment Work? A Binge Mode Investigation · 0:04:30 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)
  16. fun, about Chadwick Boseman: Sean rewatched Black Panther the night before, saying it lived up to unprecedented anticipation, which never happens in mainstream culture.
    “I rewatched Black Panther last night.”
    The Big Picture · Did Disney’s ‘Mulan’ Experiment Work? A Binge Mode Investigation · 0:09:52 · Sean Fennessey (0.90 sure it was them)
  17. fun, about Mulan: Sean on Donnie Yen and Jet Li: one training segment and half a fight for Yen, with Li held captive for the whole film.
    “where Donny and Jelly is basically held captive throughout the movie. So it's a very unusual use of of 2 incredible performers.”
    The Big Picture · Did Disney’s ‘Mulan’ Experiment Work? A Binge Mode Investigation · 0:34:55 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  18. fun, about Mulan: Controversy: filmed in Xinjiang, where Muslims are held in mass internment camps; lead Yifei Liu's Hong Kong police tweet triggered #BoycottMulan.
    “was filmed in uh, Jinjiang, the region in China, where uh, Muslims have been detained in mass internment camps.”
    The Big Picture · Did Disney’s ‘Mulan’ Experiment Work? A Binge Mode Investigation · 0:56:01 · Sean Fennessey (0.85 sure it was them)
  19. fun, about Cruella: Sean reads the logline: a 1970s London fashion designer obsessed with dogskins, especially Dalmatians; Amanda and Jason react with horror.
    “young fashion designer Cruella DeVille becomes obsessed with dogs skins, especially Dalmatians, until she eventually becomes a ruthless and terrifying legend.”
    The Big Picture · Did Disney’s ‘Mulan’ Experiment Work? A Binge Mode Investigation · 1:04:08 · Sean Fennessey (0.90 sure it was them)
  20. fun, about The Little Mermaid (upcoming live action remake): Casting rundown: Halle Bailey as Ariel, Melissa McCarthy as Ursula, Javier Bardem as King Triton, plus voices Daveed Diggs, Awkwafina and Jacob Tremblay; King Triton is described as xenophobic toward humans.
    “Ariel's overprotective father and the king of Atlantica, who is xenophobic towards humans.”
    The Big Picture · Did Disney’s ‘Mulan’ Experiment Work? A Binge Mode Investigation · 1:11:13 · Sean Fennessey (0.90 sure it was them)
  21. fun, about Mulan: Closing joke: a proposed episode recorded as a musical, where they start singing the outline mid-section.
    “We do the outline and then just in the middle of one of the sections. We just start singing what's written down on the outline.”
    The Big Picture · Did Disney’s ‘Mulan’ Experiment Work? A Binge Mode Investigation · 1:14:38 · Sean Fennessey (0.85 sure it was them)
  22. fun, about 12 Angry Men: Left off the list; expecting angry reply guys.
    “we may have 12 angry reply guys”
    The Big Picture · Objection! Top 10 Courtroom Dramas | The Big Picture · 0:11:52 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)
  23. fun, about Courtroom drama checklist: The opposing lawyer's 'I don't know what kind of courtroom you're running here'.
    “I don't know what kind of courtroom you're running here”
    The Big Picture · Objection! Top 10 Courtroom Dramas | The Big Picture · 0:20:31 · Sean Fennessey (0.55 sure it was them)
  24. fun, about Billy Wilder: A staggering decade: Sunset Boulevard through The Apartment.
    “that's just obscene on how many great films that is”
    The Big Picture · Objection! Top 10 Courtroom Dramas | The Big Picture · 0:39:25 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)
  25. fun, about A Man for All Seasons: Sean saw its old-school trailer before The Hot Rock.
    “the film that every living human is talking about of 1966”
    The Big Picture · Objection! Top 10 Courtroom Dramas | The Big Picture · 1:03:32 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)
  26. fun, about The Verdict: Sean tweeted about the judge and Bill Simmons texted back instantly; it is one of Bill's favorites.
    “I got a text message from Bill Simmons instantaneously”
    The Big Picture · Objection! Top 10 Courtroom Dramas | The Big Picture · 1:07:00 · Sean Fennessey (0.90 sure it was them)
  27. fun, about JFK: John Williams wrote six pieces without seeing a frame; Stone cut to the music.
    “he composed 6 separate pieces for the movie without having seen a frame”
    The Big Picture · Objection! Top 10 Courtroom Dramas | The Big Picture · 1:19:26 · Sean Fennessey (0.75 sure it was them)
  28. fun, about My Cousin Vinny: The two utes line is a family refrain.
    “the 2 Utes line being like a common refrain in my household”
    The Big Picture · Objection! Top 10 Courtroom Dramas | The Big Picture · 1:22:58 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  29. fun, about A Few Good Men: Cruise wins the scene by going toe to toe with Nicholson.
    “Cruz is thundering his way through the cross-examination”
    The Big Picture · Objection! Top 10 Courtroom Dramas | The Big Picture · 1:26:15 · Sean Fennessey (0.55 sure it was them)
  30. fun, about Compulsion: Welles shows up with 30 minutes left and takes over.
    “he doesn't show up until there's 30 minutes left in the movie”
    The Big Picture · Objection! Top 10 Courtroom Dramas | The Big Picture · 1:33:16 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)
  31. fun, about Trolls World Tour: Parents reportedly rented the 48-hour 19.99 title three weekends running; the hosts bless parents and hope kids learned respect for country as well as rock and pop.
    “I had people anecdotally tell me that they rented the movie 3 weekends in a row.”
    The Big Picture · Emergency Mailbag: The Oscars Are Streaming and Hollywood Is Fighting Over Trolls | The Big Picture · 0:20:47 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  32. fun, about Spencer Confidential: At least 85 million people started this Netflix movie; one host will never get over it.
    “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)
  33. fun, about The Great Moment: Host watched Preston Sturges's late biopic about William Morton, inventor of ether, during a pandemic film-history bender.
    “I watched Preston Sturgis's The Great Moment last night about William Morton, the inventor of ether, who revolutionized dentistry.”
    The Big Picture · Emergency Mailbag: The Oscars Are Streaming and Hollywood Is Fighting Over Trolls | The Big Picture · 0:34:28 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  34. fun, about Law Abiding Citizen: Same host's quarantine ping-pong viewing includes this 2009 Foxx/Butler thriller, called terrible.
    “I watched law abiding citizen, the terrible 2009 Jamie Foxx, Gerard Butler film.”
    The Big Picture · Emergency Mailbag: The Oscars Are Streaming and Hollywood Is Fighting Over Trolls | The Big Picture · 0:34:39 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  35. fun, about David Fincher: Netflix is betting on a black-and-white, no-movie-star historical drama because studios have not funded Fincher in 7 or 8 years.
    “studios haven't been giving David Fincher money to make movies for the last 7 or 8 years for a reason.”
    The Big Picture · Emergency Mailbag: The Oscars Are Streaming and Hollywood Is Fighting Over Trolls | The Big Picture · 0:38:25 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  36. fun, about Netflix and the Egyptian Theatre: Netflix bought the Egyptian and was refurbishing the Paris Theater; a host reads the moves as overtures to older Academy members.
    “those overtures were made to ingratiate themselves to the older members of the academy”
    The Big Picture · Emergency Mailbag: The Oscars Are Streaming and Hollywood Is Fighting Over Trolls | The Big Picture · 0:43:46 · Sean Fennessey (0.45 sure it was them)
  37. fun, about Alamo Drafthouse: A six-hour evening: movie, whiskey cocktail, fries, rent a video from the same filmmaker at their video store, beer and trivia, which AMC does not offer.
    “And that is a 6 hour evening in a movie palace that AMC is not offering.”
    The Big Picture · Emergency Mailbag: The Oscars Are Streaming and Hollywood Is Fighting Over Trolls | The Big Picture · 0:45:42 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  38. fun, about Academy Awards: From 24 awards to 23 by merging sound; one host wants 75 awards and a five-day festival; another wants best first feature and best breakthrough.
    “There should be 75 awards. This should be a 5 day festival of handing out awards.”
    The Big Picture · Emergency Mailbag: The Oscars Are Streaming and Hollywood Is Fighting Over Trolls | The Big Picture · 0:50:42 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  39. fun, about Stunt Oscar: A host zags on the stunt category: everyone demands it without knowing why, while still wanting to honor stunt work with an honorary award; joke pitch: Zoom Stunt Oscars with DVDs held up.
    “Everybody needs to just settle down with pretending that they really like stunts in movies.”
    The Big Picture · Emergency Mailbag: The Oscars Are Streaming and Hollywood Is Fighting Over Trolls | The Big Picture · 0:51:34 · Sean Fennessey (0.45 sure it was them)
  40. fun, about Twilight Zone: The Movie: An episode of the Shudder series Cursed covers the 1982 set death of Vic Morrow and two children in a helicopter stunt; Landis was 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)
  41. fun, about Incredible Hulk / Iron Man: Trivia win: the two characters in the first two MCU films, Hulk and Iron Man, earned the team points after a host sprinted out of frame.
    “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)
  42. fun, about Postponed films: Sean tracks 18 postponed undated films that could drop when theaters reopen, listing New Mutants, Promising Young Woman, Bad Trip, The High Note, Run, Military Wives, Greyhound and Malignant.
    “there have been 18 movies that have been postponed and are undated at the moment.”
    The Big Picture · Emergency Mailbag: The Oscars Are Streaming and Hollywood Is Fighting Over Trolls | The Big Picture · 1:08:49 · Sean Fennessey (0.55 sure it was them)
  43. fun, about Uncut Gems: Julia Fox gets a mock-solemn pro-Julia Fox podcast declaration, and Jonathan Majors wins breakthrough.
    “Great. This is a pro Julia Fox podcast through and through.”
    The Big Picture · Our Alternative Academy Awards | The Oscars Show · 0:21:05 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
  44. fun, about Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese: Sharon Stone's completely invented segment where she and her mother join Dylan's tour at 17 and she is converted from Kiss to Dylan. Sean wins best cameo with it.
    “I love the myth making of Bob Dylan, and the idea that maybe the best myth made about him is coming from Sharon Stone.”
    The Big Picture · Our Alternative Academy Awards | The Oscars Show · 0:26:42 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  45. fun, about Always Be My Maybe: Keanu Reeves wins best cameo, but the complaint is he's in the movie for about 11.5 minutes.
    “He's in like 11.5 minutes of the movie and it actually goes on.”
    The Big Picture · Our Alternative Academy Awards | The Oscars Show · 0:27:43 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
  46. fun, about Alita: Battle Angel: Sean watches strangers watch Alita on planes and tracks the actors he recognizes; the 15-minute motorball fight keeps breaking for exposition and restarting.
    “I watched people watch it on the plane and then at some point I just took kept track of like the actors I could recognize.”
    The Big Picture · Our Alternative Academy Awards | The Oscars Show · 0:38:54 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  47. fun, about John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum: The dog-fight sequence took six months to design and train, and director Chad Stahelski told this podcast it was the hardest thing he had done. Wins best action sequence.
    “I took 6 months to design and train the dogs to execute this fight.”
    The Big Picture · Our Alternative Academy Awards | The Oscars Show · 0:40:37 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
  48. fun, about Spider-Man: Far From Home: Sean argues the post-credits scene (J.K. Simmons outing Peter Parker on a Times Square screen) is the best ending of 2019 because the theater erupted; Amanda calls it a teaser, not an ending.
    “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)
  49. fun, about Midsommar: Sean defends the ending by asking whether anyone has been sewn inside a bear skin and lit on fire in a giant triangle; Midsommar also wins best meme inspiration and Halloween costumes.
    “Have you ever been sewn inside of a bear skin and lit on fire in a giant triangle.”
    The Big Picture · Our Alternative Academy Awards | The Oscars Show · 0:45:39 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  50. fun, about The Lighthouse: Sean is so devoted he'll launch a minute-by-minute Lighthouse podcast alone in a lighthouse; Amanda calls him an A24-merch-bro Reddit nerd and says Eggers shows his work too much.
    “what you are is a Reddit nerd, bro, and you hate this. I believe what I said was A24 merch, bro.”
    The Big Picture · Our Alternative Academy Awards | The Oscars Show · 0:53:00 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  51. fun, about Richard Jewell: Paul Walter Hauser was a guest and recited A Few Good Men past the code red, continuing through the officer on deck; Sean says he can do it too.
    “He started doing like this, the extended a few good men recitation, like we had done, the normal code red stuff, and then he just kept going”
    The Big Picture · Our Alternative Academy Awards | The Oscars Show · 1:14:04 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  52. fun, about Richard Jewell: Hauser's home scene with Kathy Bates sells the age of the relationship with comfort alone, and the film cooks whenever Jewell, Rockwell and Bates share a room.
    “these 3 people are amazingly comfortable with each other.”
    The Big Picture · Our Alternative Academy Awards | The Oscars Show · 1:16:37 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
  53. fun, about Academy: The Academy is old and weird.
    “There's only 8000 people in this group and a lot of them are old and weird.”
    The Big Picture · The Snubs and Surprises of the 92nd Academy Award Nominations | The Oscars Show · 0:08:42 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  54. fun, about Academy: Nominees diet: donut with sour milk in the frosting.
    “it's a donut with a little bit of sour milk in the frosting.”
    The Big Picture · The Snubs and Surprises of the 92nd Academy Award Nominations | The Oscars Show · 0:10:57 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  55. fun, about Honeyland: First film nominated in both international feature and documentary.
    “This is the 1st time that a movie has been nominated in both international feature and best documentary.”
    The Big Picture · The Snubs and Surprises of the 92nd Academy Award Nominations | The Oscars Show · 0:17:45 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  56. fun, about Diane Warren: 11th nomination, 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)
  57. fun, about Scarlett Johansson: Joins a short list of double nominees in one year.
    “there's only been 10 people in the history of the Oscars who have been nominated twice”
    The Big Picture · The Snubs and Surprises of the 92nd Academy Award Nominations | The Oscars Show · 0:19:02 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  58. fun, about Toy Story 4: Amanda refuses to schedule it; Sean pushes back.
    “This podcast is not called Amanda's Planner.”
    The Big Picture · The Snubs and Surprises of the 92nd Academy Award Nominations | The Oscars Show · 0:26:26 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  59. fun, about Hark: Sean pitches a public play-in vote for a tenth nominee, like March Madness.
    “The Oscars needs a playing game.”
    The Big Picture · The Snubs and Surprises of the 92nd Academy Award Nominations | The Oscars Show · 0:35:29 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  60. fun, about Thanos: Sean's counter-proposal for tenth nominee.
    “And I say Thanos.”
    The Big Picture · The Snubs and Surprises of the 92nd Academy Award Nominations | The Oscars Show · 0:38:36 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  61. fun, about Joker: Fans may tune in angry, which fits the film's theme.
    “The movie is about a kind of discontent, a kind of isolation and not getting what you want feeling.”
    The Big Picture · The Snubs and Surprises of the 92nd Academy Award Nominations | The Oscars Show · 0:42:11 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  62. fun, about Julia Butters: Tarantino made her accept the trophy for him.
    “Quentin made me come up here and say thank you.”
    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)
  63. fun, about Critics Choice Awards: Tie for best director.
    “Let's have a runoff then.”
    The Big Picture · The Snubs and Surprises of the 92nd Academy Award Nominations | The Oscars Show · 0:51:58 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
  64. fun, about Blair Witch (The Woods): Sean praises the attempted surprise release: the film was announced as Wingard's haunted-forest movie The Woods.
    “this is one of my favorite little wrinkles of the last decade is the attempted surprise release.”
    The Big Picture · The 10 Best Horror Movies of the Decade | The Big Picture · 0:19:29 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  65. fun, about Blair Witch (The Woods): Sean says its last 30 minutes are the most scared he has ever been in a theater, though he doesn't think the film is good.
    “the last 30 minutes of Blair Witch is the most scared I think I may have ever been in a movie theater”
    The Big Picture · The 10 Best Horror Movies of the Decade | The Big Picture · 0:19:51 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  66. fun, about The Exorcist III: A pitch for an Exorcist III episode: George C. Scott plays it big in a fascinating sequel.
    “George C. Scott just playing with house money.”
    The Big Picture · The 10 Best Horror Movies of the Decade | The Big Picture · 0:20:20 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  67. fun, about Green Room: They propose recategorizing Green Room and The Invitation as terror, and note the Ringer's Slack channel called terror.
    “At the ringer, we have a slack channel called hashtag terror.”
    The Big Picture · The 10 Best Horror Movies of the Decade | The Big Picture · 0:33:03 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)
  68. fun, about What We Do in the Shadows: iTunes files it under thriller; Sean blames Apple and jokes about summoning Tim Cook.
    “Shall we call Tim Cook here on the big picture?”
    The Big Picture · The 10 Best Horror Movies of the Decade | The Big Picture · 0:34:06 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)
  69. fun, about Breck Eisner: The hosts read out Eisner's credits live, from Sahara to The Last Witch Hunter to a TBA Karate Kid 2.
    “And it says here that he's got a TBA for the karate kid 2.”
    The Big Picture · The 10 Best Horror Movies of the Decade | The Big Picture · 0:36:07 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  70. fun, about Sean Fennessey: Sean wrote 'The Horror Oscars' last year, a prize for the best horror film across 40 years.
    “Last year, I wrote a piece called The Horror Oscars, in which I gave for across 40 years, the best horror movie a prize.”
    The Big Picture · The 10 Best Horror Movies of the Decade | The Big Picture · 0:38:15 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)
  71. fun, about The Witch: The goat, Black Philip, went viral.
    “That goat went viral.”
    The Big Picture · The 10 Best Horror Movies of the Decade | The Big Picture · 0:43:43 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  72. fun, about Don't Breathe: Sean asks if Chris has used a turkey baster since the film; Chris says he's off turkey.
    “Have you ever have you used a turkey-baster since seeing that film?”
    The Big Picture · The 10 Best Horror Movies of the Decade | The Big Picture · 0:46:08 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)
  73. fun, about Get Out: Sean calls it the best horror film of the decade and cites the sunken place as a shared reference.
    “One of the cool things about get out was it becoming a conversation topic”
    The Big Picture · The 10 Best Horror Movies of the Decade | The Big Picture · 0:46:54 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  74. fun, about Soul / Inside Out: Sean can only remember Inside Out as a drawing and confuses its Sadness creature with Tina Fey's Soul; Amanda saw it in a theater.
    “No, I saw that in a movie theater. Really? Yeah, I just couldn't remember anything about it because it's a drawing.”
    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 · 0:13:03 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
  75. fun, about Paul Thomas Anderson / Once Upon a Time in Hollywood: Sean riffs on the DGA podcast, where PTA gushed about Brad Pitt, and impersonates him on the Moana bit.
    “Because Paul Thomas Anderson is being like, Quentin, fucking Brad. 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 · 0:21:39 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  76. fun, about Rocketman: Sean went to Rocket Man night at a Dodgers game and nothing Rocket Man related was given away.
    “I went to a Dodgers game yesterday and it was quote unquote rocket man night, which didn't mean anything.”
    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 · 0:28:01 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  77. fun, about Once Upon a Time in Hollywood: Favorite scene is the out-of-time montage, with Cliff driving Leo home as LA changes in real time.
    “just the out of time montage in Once upon a time in Hollywood, which is my favorite part of that movie now”
    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 · 0:30:15 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)
  78. fun, about The Art of Self-Defense: Sean watched it in an Airbnb kitchen at South by Southwest and it was still effective.
    “I watched that movie in a kitchen of an Airbnb at South by Southwest.”
    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 · 0:48:03 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  79. fun, about Fleabag / Succession vs Once Upon a Time in Hollywood: Sean says that's why the show is The Big Picture and not The Watch: he would take one great movie over Fleabag.
    “And that's why this is the big picture and not the watch.”
    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 · 0:52:43 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)
  80. fun, about Homecoming: Beyonce embedded the year's criticism of her Coachella set into the film itself, a self-reflexive analysis.
    “And so she essentially embedded all that into the documentary itself.”
    The Big Picture · The Oscars Schedule Changes, and Andrew Garfield On ‘Under the Silver Lake’ | Interview · 0:04:34 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)
  81. fun, about Guava Island: Glover seems to have only two dance moves, repeated from This Is America.
    “it makes me think that he only has like 2 dance moves.”
    The Big Picture · The Oscars Schedule Changes, and Andrew Garfield On ‘Under the Silver Lake’ | Interview · 0:10:11 · Sean Fennessey (0.85 sure it was them)
  82. fun, about Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope: Sean casts Amanda as Rey of the podcast and himself as Kylo.
    “I will say I have often thought of you as the ray of this podcast in me as the Kylo.”
    The Big Picture · The Oscars Schedule Changes, and Andrew Garfield On ‘Under the Silver Lake’ | Interview · 0:32:38 · Sean Fennessey (0.90 sure it was them)
  83. fun, about Andrew Garfield: Sean and Garfield are both Leos born in 1983.
    “We are the same age. We're the same, 1983 guys.”
    The Big Picture · The Oscars Schedule Changes, and Andrew Garfield On ‘Under the Silver Lake’ | Interview · 1:06:34 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)
  84. fun, about The Trench: Sarcastic hype for the planned Aquaman Trench spinoff.
    “Can't wait for the trench.”
    The Big Picture · 'Shazam!’ and the Future of the DCEU With David F. Sandberg | Interview · 0:07:13 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)
  85. fun, about Captain Marvel: The 90s signaling: a never-worn Guns N' Roses T-shirt, and Carol stealing a Nine Inch Nails shirt off a mannequin as a metaphor for the film.
    “steals a 9 inch nails t-shirt and a leather jacket off of a mannequin outside of a boutique.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Captain Marvel’ Is a ’90s Nostalgia Play. Did It Work? | Exit Survey · 0:19:11 · Sean Fennessey (0.75 sure it was them)
  86. fun, about Captain Marvel: The big fight scene is set to No Doubt's Just a Girl while she punches Jude Law, which Sean finds cute and clever but ham-handed.
    “certainly the chorus of that song makes it fit when she's punching Jude Law on the face repeatedly.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Captain Marvel’ Is a ’90s Nostalgia Play. Did It Work? | Exit Survey · 0:20:01 · Sean Fennessey (0.65 sure it was them)
  87. fun, about Captain Marvel: The film's 90s is the BuzzFeed list version, a pile of references like the Blockbuster and grunge.
    “this is the BuzzFeed article version of the BuzzFeed list version of the 90s.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Captain Marvel’ Is a ’90s Nostalgia Play. Did It Work? | Exit Survey · 0:20:28 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  88. fun, about The Ringer office: A Ringer Slack prompt for the most 90s song stopped work for an hour; Dan Devine said Smells Like Teen Spirit immediately.
    “Dan Devine gave immediately, which was smells like teen spirit.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Captain Marvel’ Is a ’90s Nostalgia Play. Did It Work? | Exit Survey · 0:27:15 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  89. fun, about Green Book: Sean needles Amanda about Green Book; she calls it rude.
    “just release green book, though.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Captain Marvel’ Is a ’90s Nostalgia Play. Did It Work? | Exit Survey · 0:29:41 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  90. fun, about Captain Marvel: Closing credits song is Hole's Celebrity Skin, and Courtney Love controls the Nirvana estate, which Sean calls synergy.
    “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 (0.75 sure it was them)
  91. fun, about Brie Larson: Sean's tolerance for her running: she is more jogging, but one full sprint shot impressed him.
    “Did not strike me as a natural athlete.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Captain Marvel’ Is a ’90s Nostalgia Play. Did It Work? | Exit Survey · 0:34:13 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  92. fun, about Ben Mendelsohn: Sean calls Mendelsohn one of his favorite living people and loves his charmed lisp.
    “he is one of my favorite living people.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Captain Marvel’ Is a ’90s Nostalgia Play. Did It Work? | Exit Survey · 0:35:58 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)
  93. fun, about Talos: Sean would watch a Talos movie; the villain-turned-comic-relief-turned-emotional-center arc in face paint.
    “I would watch a Talos movie.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Captain Marvel’ Is a ’90s Nostalgia Play. Did It Work? | Exit Survey · 0:38:08 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)
  94. fun, about Guardians of the Galaxy: Amanda knows Guardians only as the raccoon voiced by Bradley Cooper, and Sean suggests she go by Amanda the Accuser.
    “perhaps you should go by Amanda the accuser in future podcasts.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Captain Marvel’ Is a ’90s Nostalgia Play. Did It Work? | Exit Survey · 0:43:24 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)
  95. fun, about Captain Marvel: Nick Fury's pager at the end of Infinity War is the same two-way pager from this film.
    “the two-way pager at the end of Avengers Infinity War is the same one that he's using in this film.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Captain Marvel’ Is a ’90s Nostalgia Play. Did It Work? | Exit Survey · 0:49:04 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)
  96. fun, about Captain Marvel: Opening weekend benchmark: less than $150 million would be called a disappointment, even though few can open a movie on name alone.
    “less than $150000000 in the opening weekend would be considered a relative disappointment for a Marvel movie like this”
    The Big Picture · ‘Captain Marvel’ Is a ’90s Nostalgia Play. Did It Work? | Exit Survey · 0:52:15 · Sean Fennessey (0.75 sure it was them)
  97. fun, about Kingdom Come: Sean explains the Alex Ross series, set 50 or 60 years later with an older Batman in a wheelchair and gray-streaked Wonder Woman, calling it very melodramatic.
    “Batman was 58 and confined to a wheelchair.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Captain Marvel’ Is a ’90s Nostalgia Play. Did It Work? | Exit Survey · 1:02:24 · Sean Fennessey (0.75 sure it was them)
  98. fun, about Green Book: Both hosts picked Roma but felt wrong by the end of the week; one predicted Bohemian Rhapsody and the other Green Book.
    “I thought it was going to be Bohemian Rhapsody, and you thought it was going to be Green Book.”
    The Big Picture · Oscars 2019: Instant Reactions to ‘Green Book’ and the Two Warring Academies | The Oscars Show (Ep. 131) · 0:01:34 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  99. fun, about Green Book: On the Oscars: tradition of best picture getting it wrong is part of the fun of watching and complaining.
    “There's like a tradition of best picture getting it wrong, right?”
    The Big Picture · Oscars 2019: Instant Reactions to ‘Green Book’ and the Two Warring Academies | The Oscars Show (Ep. 131) · 0:05:53 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
  100. fun, about Julia Roberts: Reading the words 'Green Book' with a 1000-watt smile that the speaker reads as 'why is it me?'
    “Sure, but, you know, her smile has many tones, and I know that tone.”
    The Big Picture · Oscars 2019: Instant Reactions to ‘Green Book’ and the Two Warring Academies | The Oscars Show (Ep. 131) · 0:11:35 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)