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 101–200 of 1,576 claims.

  1. career (career): Panic Room → Zodiac. Five years between Panic Room and Zodiac; the effect on Fincher shows in how he tells stories afterward.
    “5 years went by between panic room and zodiac.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:22:21 · Sean Fennessey (0.55 sure it was them)
  2. verdict (verdict): Jodie Foster → The Silence of the Lambs. Sean still thinks Silence of the Lambs is the best thing she has been part of.
    “I still think is probably the best thing she's ever been a part of”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:29:47 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)
  3. theme (theme): Jodie Foster → The Accused. Same steely-in-peril type in The Accused and Flight Plan.
    “in the accused or in this movie or even in the kind of more, you know, B grade stuff, like flight plan.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:29:56 · Sean Fennessey (0.65 sure it was them)
  4. career (career): Jodie Foster → Taxi Driver. Foster has always played steely people in peril, going all the way back to Taxi Driver.
    “and that goes all the way back to taxi driver.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:30:04 · Sean Fennessey (0.65 sure it was them)
  5. lineage (lineage): Panic Room → Charles Bronson. A regular person put in danger who has to knuckle up, like a Charles Bronson movie.
    “This is kind of like a Charles Bronson movie in a way”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:30:27 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  6. craft (craft): Panic Room → John Woo. The syringes thrown into the panic room is like a John Woo moment.
    “it's almost like a, uh, like a John Wu movie or something.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:30:40 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  7. career (career): Jodie Foster → Mel Gibson. In the last decade Foster has directed Mel Gibson and worked with Polanski, taking on complicated collaborators.
    “Like in the last 10 years, she directed Mel Gibson in a movie.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:32:55 · Sean Fennessey (0.55 sure it was them)
  8. career (career): Jodie Foster → Roman Polanski. Foster collaborated with Polanski on a movie in 2011.
    “She collaborated with Roman Polanski on a movie in 2011.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:32:58 · Sean Fennessey (0.55 sure it was them)
  9. career (career): Jodie Foster → Elysium. Foster plays the villain, a Condoleezza Rice stand-in.
    “You know, she's in Elysium as like basically the villain of that movie”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:33:02 · Sean Fennessey (0.55 sure it was them)
  10. what-if (what-if): Nicole Kidman → Panic Room. Kidman was cast as Meg, then injured her knee (aggravated from Moulin Rouge) and was replaced by Foster.
    “Nicole Kidman was cast as the role in the role of Meg.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:34:25 · Sean Fennessey (0.45 sure it was them)
  11. industry (industry): Nicole Kidman → Moulin Rouge!. Kidman's knee injury from Moulin Rouge was aggravated on Panic Room.
    “she aggravated an injury that she had suffered on Moulin Rouge.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:34:30 · Sean Fennessey (0.45 sure it was them)
  12. what-if (what-if): Nicole Kidman → The Hours. Leaving Panic Room freed Kidman for The Hours, which won her the Oscar.
    “one of the movies that she goes on to make in the aftermath of not being able to do panic room is the hours.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:37:51 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  13. people (people): David Koepp → Spider-Man. Koepp, who wrote Panic Room, also wrote Spider-Man (2002).
    “By the way, also written by David Kepp, Spider-Man.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:40:51 · Sean Fennessey (0.45 sure it was them)
  14. contrast (contrast): Panic Room → Seven. Se7en and Fight Club hide twists from the audience; Panic Room is real time with no withheld information.
    “Like 7 and Fight Club, there are these huge twists at the center of these movies that are withheld from the audience.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:42:34 · Sean Fennessey (0.55 sure it was them)
  15. contrast (contrast): Panic Room → Fight Club. Panic Room is one of the first Fincher films where the audience is with the characters the whole time.
    “And panic room is this real-time experience.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:42:42 · Sean Fennessey (0.55 sure it was them)
  16. career (career): Panic Room → The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. After Panic Room, Fincher's films from Zodiac on are less about gotchas and more about ideas.
    “Benjamin Button, all of these movies are less about like, boom, gotcha, and more about thinking about the ideas at the center of the movie.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:43:08 · Sean Fennessey (0.55 sure it was them)
  17. lineage (lineage): Panic Room → See for Me (transcribed 'C for Me'). A new home-invasion movie in the same vein, with a blind cat sitter who robs houses.
    “It's very much in the same vein as panic room”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:50:36 · Sean Fennessey (0.55 sure it was them)
  18. lineage (lineage): See for Me (transcribed 'C for Me') → Wait Until Dark. Sean notes the blind-woman home invasion was done in Wait Until Dark with Audrey Hepburn.
    “Wait until dark is the original version of that, right?”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:51:07 · Sean Fennessey (0.45 sure it was them)
  19. contrast (contrast): Panic Room → The Batman (transcribed 'Black Cat'). Bill thought it was really bad, Chris thought it was good.
    “I'd like to stand by the fact that when the movie was over, when Chris and I saw it together, I was like, that was really bad”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:53:15 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
  20. theme (theme): Panic Room → Max von Sydow. Whitaker as the good burglar echoes Max von Sydow as the good Nazi in the Victory episode.
    “We talked in the victory podcast about Max Van Saido as the good Nazi.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:57:33 · Sean Fennessey (0.45 sure it was them)
  21. career (career): Forest Whitaker → The Color of Money. Whitaker went toe to toe with Newman in The Color of Money in the mid-80s.
    “going toe to toe with Newman.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:03:03 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
  22. career (career): Dwight Yoakam → Sling Blade. Fincher cast Yoakam after seeing him in Sling Blade.
    “I think Fincher said he saw him in Sling Blade, and that was what made him want to cast him.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:09:08 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  23. career (career): David Fincher → Conrad Hall. Fincher and Hall, the cinematographer who replaced Khondji, have not worked together since Panic Room.
    “this is the guy who shot seven, you know, is one of the most accomplished cinematographers and they haven't worked together since, obviously.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:20:37 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  24. verdict (verdict): Kristen Stewart → Adventureland. Sean's favorite Kristen Stewart is Adventureland; Panic Room is the question.
    “I would say Adventureland is my favorite, Kristen Stewart”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:34:50 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  25. contrast (contrast): The Ice Storm → Michael Clayton. Michael Clayton has several standalone scenes you watch when it airs; The Ice Storm must be seen as a whole.
    “The ice storm kind of needs to be seen as a total package.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Ice Storm’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:07:46 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  26. career (career): Ang Lee → Sense and Sensibility. Ice Storm was Lee's first American film; the film before was the English-set Sense and Sensibility.
    “the movie he makes before, this is Sense and Sensibility, which is an English story”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Ice Storm’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:08:53 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  27. career (career): Ang Lee → Hulk. Fennessey cites Lee's varied filmography, a superhero movie among martial arts, dramas and comedies.
    “He's made a superhero movie.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Ice Storm’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:09:13 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  28. craft (craft): Ang Lee → Brokeback Mountain. Lee is a master of teleporting into new worlds; Brokeback is the other proof.
    “Brokeback Mountain, and, you know, many times over the years that he is a master of like teleporting into new worlds every time he makes a film.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Ice Storm’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:10:05 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  29. lineage (lineage): The Ice Storm → Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice. Fennessey pairs the 1969 Mazursky satire of the early sexual revolution with Ice Storm, which comes at the end of that era.
    “I think there's a really interesting movie to pair this movie with that's called Bob and Carol and Ted and Alice.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Ice Storm’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:14:04 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)
  30. theme (theme): The Ice Storm → The Brady Bunch Movie. Fennessey says the Brady Bunch movie made subtext into text, while Ice Storm stays subtext.
    “did take that subtext and make it text.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Ice Storm’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:17:13 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  31. craft (craft): Jenny → Jaws. Fennessey says the woman in the key party scene looks like Jaws, ready to eat everyone.
    “She kind of, she kind of looks like Jaws in that scene.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Ice Storm’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:25:51 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  32. theme (theme): The Ice Storm → The Texas Chain Saw Massacre. Fennessey places the film between Deep Throat (1972) and Texas Chain Saw (1974) as culture coarsened after Watergate.
    “This movie takes place right in between those 2 things.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Ice Storm’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:28:56 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  33. theme (theme): The Ice Storm → Brokeback Mountain. The shared superpower is what is unsaid between characters; in both, characters feel lonely even with their partners.
    “This movie is all about what is unsaid between characters.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Ice Storm’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:36:03 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  34. people (people): James Schamus → Ang Lee. Lee and Schamus are longtime producing and writing partners who know each other's strengths.
    “Like those guys are thickest thieves.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Ice Storm’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:36:26 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  35. theme (theme): Ang Lee → Hulk. Even in a Hulk movie he dislikes, Fennessey sees Lee chasing a battle between two sides of a man.
    “There's the 2 sides of a man that he's really interested in that.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Ice Storm’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:36:45 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  36. what-if (what-if): Christina Ricci → Natalie Portman. Ricci's darker, more withering energy suits Wendy better than Portman would have.
    “Christina Ricci just has like a slightly darker energy and is a little bit more withering.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Ice Storm’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:58:57 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  37. what-if (what-if): Macaulay Culkin → Elijah Wood. Fennessey proposes swapping Elijah Wood for Macaulay Culkin or any Culkin.
    “what if we just swapped Elijah Wood for Macaulay Culkin?”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Ice Storm’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:04:56 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  38. career (career): Ang Lee → Life of Pi. He has two Best Director Oscars, the second for Life of Pi.
    “he won for Life of Pi as well.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Ice Storm’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:09:16 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  39. career (career): Joan Allen → Face/Off. 1997 was Allen's year: The Ice Storm and Face/Off, leading to Pleasantville.
    “It's ice storm and face off in the same year leading to Pleasantville.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Ice Storm’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:10:23 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  40. career (career): Joan Allen → The Upside of Anger. Fennessey likes Upside of Anger, which he says came out in the wrong decade.
    “It should have come out in like 1997.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Ice Storm’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:12:05 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  41. contrast (contrast): The Contender → The Ice Storm. Allen's best dramatic performance besides The Contender, which is problematic now.
    “this is probably her best dramatic performance other than the contender.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Ice Storm’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:25:12 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  42. programming (programming): The Ice Storm → The Squid and the Whale. Fennessey says Squid and the Whale was the biggest near-miss for Fucked Up Family February.
    “I think was probably the biggest one that could have made it.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Ice Storm’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:26:54 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  43. industry (Oscar context): The Color of Money → The Verdict. Newman lost for The Verdict in a brutal year (Hoffman in Tootsie, Kingsley in Gandhi) then won in 1987 against a weaker slate.
    “In 87 when they give out the 86 Oscars. You know, it's it's a much weaker slate”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Color of Money’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:06:30 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)
  44. industry (Oscar context): The Color of Money → Cool Hand Luke. Newman was nominated for Cool Hand Luke in a stacked 1968 lineup that Rod Steiger won.
    “Cool Hand Luke is the most iconic, I think, of all of those parts.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Color of Money’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:12:15 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  45. people (writer-director fusion): Richard Price → The Color of Money. Price, Scorsese and Newman each count as authors; Newman hired the director and badgered Price to keep fixing the script.
    “He hired the director. He badgered Richard Price to fix stuff, make stuff better”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Color of Money’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:19:07 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  46. career (career context): The Color of Money → Absence of Malice. Newman's early-80s over-the-hill roles (The Verdict, Absence of Malice) led into choosing this role.
    “he had already been doing over the hill parts for like 5 or 6 years.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Color of Money’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:21:42 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  47. theme (movie-star persona): Tom Cruise → Cocktail. Cruise in Top Gun, Cocktail, and this film plays with no wink or self-awareness, unlike later movie stars.
    “In all 3 of those movies that you just mentioned, cocktail, Top Gun, and this movie. There's no self-awareness.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Color of Money’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:30:25 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  48. craft (directorial style): The Color of Money → The Wolf of Wall Street. Same Scorsese fast-cutting montage-with-music technique appears in both.
    “We also talked about it years ago and we did Wolf of Wall Street.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Color of Money’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:35:52 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  49. craft (directorial style): The Color of Money → The Departed. The fast-cutting montage with a blues soundtrack explosion in the Grady Seasons scene is a Scorsese move they also discussed on The Departed and Wolf of Wall Street.
    “This like super fast cutting montage blues soundtrack explosion thing that he does”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Color of Money’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:35:54 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)
  50. craft (craft): Robbie Robertson → The Color of Money. A host praises Robbie Robertson's score as excellent.
    “Robbie Robertson's score is excellent.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Color of Money’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:38:04 · Sean Fennessey (0.35 sure it was them)
  51. craft (craft): Eric Clapton → The Color of Money. A host says the Clapton song playing before Werewolves of London is great and gets the audience hyped, even if 80s Clapton has aged unevenly.
    “that song is when they're playing that before werewolves of London, you're just like getting so hype.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Color of Money’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:38:26 · Sean Fennessey (0.35 sure it was them)
  52. lineage (star lineage): Paul Newman → Denzel Washington. The actor-and-movie-star blend passes from Newman to Denzel to Leo.
    “Newman then passes it to Denzel, then Denzel passes it to Leo.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Color of Money’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:43:19 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)
  53. lineage (sequel/continuation): The Color of Money → The Hustler. Newman's Eddie Felson in 1986 becomes the George C. Scott hustler-mentor character of the original, and the sequel answers rather than remakes it.
    “the Newman character in the color of money becomes the George C. Scott character in the Hustler.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Color of Money’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:45:31 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  54. lineage (callback): The Color of Money → The Hustler. Newman getting drunk and hustled by Amos is the first time he plays the Jackie Gleason role of the original, drunk and overconfident.
    “it's basically the 1st time he plays Jackie Gleason and the hustler where he's just like wasted and thinks he's going to win and then gets gets hustled.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Color of Money’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:45:56 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  55. lineage (source material): The Color of Money → The Hustler. The film is theoretically based on Walter Tevis's follow-up novel to The Hustler but has almost nothing to do with it; Minnesota Fats was in the novel.
    “this is theoretically based on Walter Tevis's follow-up novel to the Hustler, but the movie has almost nothing to do with the novel”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Color of Money’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:52:26 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  56. career (career): Eric Clapton → The Color of Money. A host says the film's use of Clapton was about as good as his comeback got after the drug years, before MTV Unplugged.
    “Clapton, comeback, Clapton, I think this is about as good as it got for him after he'd gotten through all the drug stuff.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Color of Money’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:02:04 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
  57. career (career phase): Bill Murray → Rushmore. Sean splits Murray's career into pre-Rushmore (1980-1995, star vehicles) and post-Rushmore (character actor).
    “So it's like pre-Rushmore post-Rushmore.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘What About Bob?’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Van Lathan · 0:03:51 · Sean Fennessey (0.90 sure it was them)
  58. unmapped (straight man / crazy man): What About Bob? → The Odd Couple. The premise is another straight-guy-vs-crazy-guy movie like The Odd Couple and The In-Laws, but Murray makes it special.
    “We've seen movies like this before, the odd couple, the in-laws.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘What About Bob?’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Van Lathan · 0:04:16 · Sean Fennessey (0.90 sure it was them)
  59. theme (talent on silly premise): What About Bob? → Analyze This. Both are silly-seeming comedies staffed by hugely accomplished crews, which makes them better.
    “a ton of people that are incredibly accomplished working on a movie that seems really silly and it makes the movie that much better.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘What About Bob?’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Van Lathan · 0:17:15 · Sean Fennessey (0.90 sure it was them)
  60. craft (craft): Anne V. Coates → Lawrence of Arabia. Sean notes the editor of What About Bob? is the woman who cut Lawrence of Arabia, part of an unexpectedly accomplished crew on a silly comedy.
    “It's got Ann Coates as the editor, the woman who cut Lawrence of Arabia.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘What About Bob?’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Van Lathan · 0:17:41 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)
  61. people (actor persona): Richard Dreyfuss → Jaws. In the 70s Dreyfuss was the audience POV for nerdy filmmakers (Close Encounters, Jaws), a nice-guy hero, before becoming a true asshole in What About Bob?
    “He was this like POV character for all of these nerdy filmmakers, right?”
    The Rewatchables · ‘What About Bob?’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Van Lathan · 0:22:36 · Sean Fennessey (0.90 sure it was them)
  62. unmapped (age check): Kathryn Erbe → Kiss of Death. Three years later Erbe plays David Caruso's wife in Kiss of Death, so she reads as an adult, supporting Sean's post-college theory for Anna.
    “Catherine Erb, 3 years later, plays David Caruso's wife in Kiss of Death.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘What About Bob?’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Van Lathan · 0:30:46 · Sean Fennessey (0.90 sure it was them)
  63. craft (craft): Michael Ballhaus → What About Bob?. Sean says Ballhaus shoots the scene of Siggy scaring Bob like a horror scene, with two heads in the frame, one in back and one in front.
    “that's Michael Bauhaus. He's shooting that scene like it's a horror scene, you know, like the 2 heads in the frame, like one in the back and one in the front.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘What About Bob?’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Van Lathan · 0:35:13 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)
  64. lineage (comedy-mom lineage): Julie Hagerty → Lost in America. Hagerty has been a consistent comedy presence from Airplane! to Lost in America to this film to Marriage Story.
    “the mom of our lives from airplane to Lost in America to this movie”
    The Rewatchables · ‘What About Bob?’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Van Lathan · 0:37:48 · Sean Fennessey (0.90 sure it was them)
  65. unmapped (rewatchables wishlist): Lost in America → What About Bob?. Van pitches Lost in America as an episode; the group has not done it.
    “Albert Brooks and Gary Marshall talking in the casino is like one of my 5 favorite scenes of all time.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘What About Bob?’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Van Lathan · 0:38:59 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)
  66. people (shared writer): What About Bob? → Ordinary People. Alvin Sargent, who wrote Ordinary People, provided the story for What About Bob?, which signals respect for therapy.
    “the story for the movie comes from Alvin Sargent. Alvin Sargent was the writer of ordinary people.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘What About Bob?’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Van Lathan · 0:46:20 · Sean Fennessey (0.90 sure it was them)
  67. lineage (genre lineage): What About Bob? → Pacific Heights. Sean calls What About Bob? a logical successor to Pacific Heights, part of the late-80s/early-90s 'from hell' subgenre where a transactional acquaintance won't leave your life.
    “Think of this movie as a logical successor to Pacific Heights. It is it is the same thing.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘What About Bob?’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Van Lathan · 0:46:51 · Sean Fennessey (0.90 sure it was them)
  68. unmapped (prior episode): What About Bob? → Mrs. Doubtfire. Williams's 1987-93 run as one of the two biggest stars was discussed on Mrs. Doubtfire.
    “We did this when we did Mrs. Doubtfire.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘What About Bob?’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Van Lathan · 0:48:42 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)
  69. unmapped (friendship / Muppets): Fran Brill → Frank Oz. Fran Brill, a Sesame Street/Muppets puppeteer, is in the movie because she is friends with Frank Oz.
    “she's friends with Frank Oz.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘What About Bob?’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Van Lathan · 0:52:23 · Sean Fennessey (0.90 sure it was them)
  70. industry (Oscar year): Bugsy → What About Bob?. The loaded 1992 Oscars (Hopkins, De Niro, Nolte, Williams, Beatty) explain Murray's lack of a nomination for Bob.
    “we've talked in previous episodes about how loaded the 1992 Oscars was.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘What About Bob?’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Van Lathan · 0:59:16 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  71. industry (industry): Michael Mann → Jerry Bruckheimer. Mann used Bruckheimer here, who became a major producer.
    “Michael Mann uses Jerry Bruckheimer in this movie, who goes on to become such an important producer”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Thief’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:08:02 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  72. lineage (lineage): Thief → Blade Runner. Thief and Blade Runner mark a new era: neo-noir lone heroes in dystopian landscapes.
    “Blade Runner also just feels like a new era.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Thief’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:08:46 · Sean Fennessey (0.55 sure it was them)
  73. contrast (contrast): Thief → Blade Runner. Blade Runner is inscrutable and picked over; Thief is straightforward.
    “Whereas Thief is much more straightforward, but, you know, Ridley Scott uses Vangelis, Michael Mann uses Tangerine Dream”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Thief’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:09:35 · Sean Fennessey (0.55 sure it was them)
  74. craft (craft): Thief → Blade Runner. Both films mark a new era partly through their synth scores: Mann used Tangerine Dream, Scott used Vangelis.
    “Ridley Scott uses Vangelis, Michael Mann uses Tangerine Dream, like these, the, it sounds different.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Thief’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:09:35 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  75. lineage (lineage): Thief → Rififi. Thief draws on Bogart movies, Rififi, samurai movies, French New Wave.
    “in thief, you can feel Humphrey Bogart movies, you can feel, Rafifi, you can feel samurai movies, you can feel French new wave.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Thief’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:11:29 · Sean Fennessey (0.55 sure it was them)
  76. career (career): Thief → The Jericho Mile. Mann pulled the story's texture from prison guys he met making Jericho Mile.
    “It was being pulled from the stories he had heard from the guys he had met working on Jericho Mile.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Thief’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:12:52 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  77. theme (theme): Thief → Heat. The wife who must be sent packing recurs in Mann films.
    “Michael Mann has this movie where he has to send the wife packing.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Thief’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:44:37 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  78. people (people): Jim Belushi → John Belushi. Jim Belushi's casting reminded the speaker of John, who visited the set.
    “John Belushi visited the set often.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Thief’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:50:56 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  79. people (people): Jessica Lange → Tuesday Weld. Weld's best friend Jessica Lange was a 'market correction' for her.
    “Jessica Lang, kind of market corrected Tuesday well, just center packing, right around here.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Thief’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:51:47 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
  80. people (people): James Caan → Willie Nelson. Caan and Nelson were the two draws in 1981.
    “It was James Conn and Willie Nelson were like the 2 draws.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Thief’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:55:30 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  81. lineage (lineage): Thief → Heat. Caan said scenes cut from Thief went to Heat.
    “All the scenes that weren't used in our picture came over to you guys.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Thief’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 1:15:06 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  82. craft (craft): Darius Khondji → Seven. Sean says the Oscars could easily have nominated Darius Khondji for best cinematography on Se7en.
    “You could very easily make the case for best director, for best screenplay, and Darius Conji for best cinematography.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Se7en’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:06:32 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  83. career (career): Seven → Alien 3. Fincher's miserable Alien 3 experience made him swear off features; the Se7en script pulled him back.
    “it was only because he loved the script so much, the 7 script that he ultimately decided to do this movie.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Se7en’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:11:56 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)
  84. lineage (lineage): Seven → Alfred Hitchcock. Se7en is a Hitchcock movie in its pulling-your-chain structure of mystery, reveal and anxiety, and Hitchcock is Fincher's biggest influence.
    “I think as much as this seems like a modern movie, it's also just completely a Hitchcock movie in so many ways.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Se7en’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:14:30 · Sean Fennessey (0.85 sure it was them)
  85. career (career): Brad Pitt → Inglourious Basterds. Pitt does better work once writers like Tarantino give him funnier material that suits his twitchiness.
    “I think later on when Pitt starts working with writers who are a little bit funnier, he does better work in some ways”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Se7en’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:26:47 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  86. craft (craft): Seven → Burn After Reading. Pitt's comic-idiot characters in Burn After Reading and Killing Them Softly echo Mills, though more mature.
    “those characters are just supposed to be kind of funny.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Se7en’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:29:07 · Sean Fennessey (0.55 sure it was them)
  87. lineage (lineage): Seven → Lethal Weapon. Mills plays the reckless young cop with Mel Gibson in Lethal Weapon energy.
    “he's playing that like Mel Gibson and lethal weapon energy”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Se7en’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:29:28 · Sean Fennessey (0.55 sure it was them)
  88. career (career): Morgan Freeman → Driving Miss Daisy. Freeman's 1989 trio of Glory, Driving Miss Daisy and Lean on Me made him a star after Street Smart.
    “Glory driving Miss Daisy and lean on me.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Se7en’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:31:59 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  89. what-if (what-if): Will Patton → Seven. Will Patton, warm or devious, could have played John Doe, though Spacey's fame made the reveal more shocking.
    “who I think could have been good at this is Will Patton.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Se7en’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:46:54 · Sean Fennessey (0.45 sure it was them)
  90. lineage (lineage): Seven → Nine Inch Nails. Se7en caught industrial rock at its peak and led to Fincher-Reznor scores.
    “Fincher and Rezner go on to make this incredible partnership”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Se7en’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:55:04 · Sean Fennessey (0.45 sure it was them)
  91. craft (craft): Seven → Zodiac. Zodiac similarly does not show most of its murders.
    “It's very similar to zodiac in that way, too.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Se7en’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:58:07 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  92. career (career): Seven → Gwyneth Paltrow. Se7en was her first major movie, after Fincher saw her in Flesh and Bone.
    “this was the movie that kind of made her a star”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Se7en’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 1:06:20 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  93. what-if (what-if): River Phoenix → Seven. River Phoenix, had he lived, could have been Mills.
    “One guy I thought of was River Phoenix for the Brad Pitt part”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Se7en’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 1:07:11 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
  94. verdict (verdict): Seven → Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves. Apex Mountain for Freeman: Bill asks if the moment before Robin Hood is his apex.
    “Would you guys argue that the moment before Robin Hood comes out as his apex mountain?”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Se7en’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 1:10:18 · Sean Fennessey (0.45 sure it was them)
  95. contrast (contrast): Seven → Copycat. Copycat, a similar thriller one month later, is fine but forgettable; Se7en persists because of the people involved.
    “There was a movie that came out one month after this movie called Copycat with Sigourney Weaver and Holly Hunter.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Se7en’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 1:21:35 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  96. people (people): Darius Khondji → Seven. A Se7en revival without Fincher, Pitt, or Darius Khondji would not interest the host, because the film persists on the strength of those people.
    “if you're telling me that we're bringing 7 back, and Fincher's not a part of it, and Pitt's not a part of it, and Darius Kanji's not a part of it.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Se7en’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 1:22:06 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  97. verdict (verdict): David Fincher → Seven. The group answers Who won the movie with Fincher, with Freeman nearly sharing it.
    “I say Fincher.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Se7en’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 1:25:35 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  98. career (career): Seven → Fight Club. Without Se7en's power Fincher does not get to do The Game and Fight Club his way.
    “I think without this movie, he doesn't go on this run”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Se7en’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 1:27:28 · Sean Fennessey (0.55 sure it was them)
  99. theme (persona aspiration): Chevy Chase → Cary Grant. Early on Chase seemed to think he was Cary Grant or Jimmy Stewart in lighthearted mystery and mix-up movies, a miscasting of himself.
    “It kind of seems like he thinks he's like Carrie Grant or Jimmy Stewart”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Fletch’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:04:57 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)
  100. what-if (career what-if): Chevy Chase → Johnny Carson. A sideways comment about not wanting a nightly TV job and Carson's jab back may have cost Chase the Tonight Show path; a Carson clip shows tension between them.
    “you can sense that Johnny just thinks that Chevy Chase is an asshole”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Fletch’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:13:43 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)

Their fun items

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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)