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 301–400 of 1,576 claims.

  1. career (career): Kevin Costner → Dances with Wolves. Costner, fresh off Dances with Wolves, could make any film; his blessing and Buena Vista deal shaped Tombstone.
    “Costner was coming off dancing with wolves and could make any movie he wanted and that he bowed out of this.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Tombstone’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:07:11 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  2. industry (industry): Tombstone → Buena Vista. Buena Vista held the film and had casting say.
    “Buena Vista, which was a subsidiary of Disney”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Tombstone’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:07:30 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
  3. craft (craft): Kevin Jarre → Tombstone. Jarre shot only wide masters with no coverage, which got him fired.
    “He was like, if I start shooting closeups, they'll take away the movie from me.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Tombstone’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:09:30 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  4. craft (craft): Tombstone → The Godfather. Russell's intended tone was a Western Godfather; Jarre's version was more elegant.
    “Well, Russell says it, it was basically the godfather of Westerns.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Tombstone’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:10:03 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  5. lineage (lineage): Tombstone → Under Siege. Part of the era of genre films that jump a level above their pitch.
    “It just winds up being like an action movie that's way better than it has any business being.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Tombstone’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:13:16 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  6. career (career): Kurt Russell → Death Proof. Russell pops up every five years in something cool.
    “he pops up in death proof or hateful ate or backdraft”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Tombstone’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:14:53 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
  7. contrast (contrast): Michael Biehn → Michael Rooker. Biehn and Rooker effectively swapped parts: Biehn usually plays the good guy.
    “I think that he and Michael Rooker have basically switched parts in this movie.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Tombstone’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:24:15 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
  8. career (career): Michael Biehn → The Abyss. Biehn went on to appear in The Abyss.
    “He is in the abyss.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Tombstone’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:25:09 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  9. craft (craft): Tombstone → Cobra. The film's intense indiscriminate killing is the Cosmatos effect, like Cobra.
    “It's like, it basically turns into cobra for 5 minutes.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Tombstone’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:28:56 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  10. craft (craft): Tombstone → Rambo: First Blood Part II. The final-third killing spree reads like a Rambo thing.
    “It's totally a Rambo thing where it's like, why are you just killing everybody?”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Tombstone’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:29:00 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  11. career (career): Dana Delany → China Beach. Delany's TV show; a long tangent on its finale.
    “You been a China Beach fan?”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Tombstone’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:31:37 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
  12. lineage (lineage): Tombstone → Deadwood. Tombstone as the bridge from John Ford Westerns to Deadwood.
    “I tend to think of this movie as the bridge from John Ford Westerns to Deadwood”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Tombstone’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:34:31 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
  13. lineage (lineage): Tombstone → John Ford. Contrast: Ford Westerns vs gnarly, vulgar Tombstone.
    “bridge from John Ford Westerns to Deadwood”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Tombstone’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:34:31 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
  14. craft (craft): Val Kilmer → Tombstone. The other actors recognize Kilmer's performance and change theirs, becoming more buttoned down.
    “they change their performances to elevate his because nobody's really behaving quite in the same way.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Tombstone’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:36:13 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  15. what-if (what-if): Willem Dafoe → The Last Temptation of Christ. Dafoe was nearly Doc Holliday but Buena Vista balked over Last Temptation.
    “we're not casting the guy who was... was in Last Temptation of Christ 5 years earlier.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Tombstone’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:41:38 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
  16. career (career): Kurt Russell → Big Trouble in Little China. Big Trouble came after The Thing.
    “And then Big Trouble in Little China comes after that.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Tombstone’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:46:13 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
  17. career (career): Kurt Russell → Escape from New York. Escape was a cult movie that only later got big.
    “Escape from New York was a cult movie that only later became a really big thing.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Tombstone’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:46:18 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
  18. career (career): Kurt Russell → Silkwood. Russell's only Oscar nomination, best supporting actor for Silkwood.
    “He was nominated for best supporting actor, four, Silkwood”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Tombstone’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:48:04 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  19. career (career): Kurt Russell → The Thing. Fennessey's Russell apex mountain: 1982-83.
    “Because 82, 83 is when he was at his best.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Tombstone’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:48:15 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  20. career (career): Val Kilmer → Top Gun. Proposed apex: out of Top Gun, people thought he was neck and neck with Cruise.
    “I would imagine that Top Gun is his Apex Mountain”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Tombstone’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:49:18 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
  21. career (career): Val Kilmer → Willow. Another apex case: 1987 right after Top Gun in Willow.
    “you could make the case that it's 1987 right after Top Gun, because he's Willow, right?”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Tombstone’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:50:11 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
  22. career (career): Bill Paxton → Aliens. Paxton and Biehn were supposed to be the stars of Aliens in any other world.
    “Paxton and Bean are supposed to, like, in any other world, be the stars of aliens”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Tombstone’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:53:10 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  23. career (career): Dana Wheeler-Nicholson → Bye Bye Love. Underrated Dana W-N performance as one of the moms.
    “Underrated Dana Wheeler Nicholson performances Bye-bye Love”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Tombstone’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:56:18 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
  24. industry (industry): Tombstone → The Other Side of the Wind. Warning about reconstructing lost cuts: Welles film is a document, not a great movie.
    “I think the other side of the wind is like an amazing document, is not an amazing movie.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Tombstone’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 1:08:09 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  25. industry (industry): Tombstone → Studio 54. Studio butchering as a movie someone wants to see restored.
    “Studio 54, how the studio completely fucked that movie up”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Tombstone’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 1:08:34 · Sean Fennessey (0.30 sure it was them)
  26. industry (industry): All the Pretty Horses → Billy Bob Thornton. Thornton wanted to make a longer version scored by Daniel Lanois.
    “I still really wanted to see the version of all the pretty horses that Billy Bob Thornton really wanted to make.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Tombstone’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 1:08:55 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
  27. people (people): The Last of the Mohicans → Michael Mann. Mohicans was a rare Western that felt like Michael Mann meets MTV.
    “That's why Last of the Mohicans was so interesting when it came out because it was like Michael Mann meets MTV.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Tombstone’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 1:09:32 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
  28. people (people): Panos Cosmatos → George P. Cosmatos. George's son Panos directed Mandy.
    “George Cosmatos's son, Panos Cosmatos is a great director.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Tombstone’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 1:13:00 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  29. people (people): Mandy → Nicolas Cage. Mandy stars Nicolas Cage.
    “He made a movie this year called Mandy starring Nicholas Cage.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Tombstone’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 1:13:06 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  30. lineage (callback): Mission: Impossible → Mission: Impossible – Fallout. Every later MI film calls back to the Langley drop as a hallmark.
    “I realized that they call back to that specific moment every time”
    The Rewatchables · 'Mission: Impossible' With Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Jason Concepcion · 0:06:37 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  31. people (same director, different register): Mission: Impossible → Body Double. Body Double puts De Palma's sexual obsessions on the surface; Mission: Impossible keeps them under it for a mass audience.
    “body double is, like, right on the surface.”
    The Rewatchables · 'Mission: Impossible' With Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Jason Concepcion · 0:08:44 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  32. industry (franchise template): Mission: Impossible → Mission: Impossible – Fallout. Every MI film reuses the same three-set-piece structure plus a McGuffin, which is why the franchise is elastic.
    “they used the same exact structure in every single movie that came forward.”
    The Rewatchables · 'Mission: Impossible' With Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Jason Concepcion · 0:11:13 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  33. industry (franchise turning point): Mission: Impossible → Mission: Impossible II. Hiring John Woo for MI2 is when Cruise's brand became 'I did that stunt myself'; the cliff image set the template.
    “that image of him hanging off the cliff at the cold open of that movie. basically sets the template for what 0 shit thing will he do next?”
    The Rewatchables · 'Mission: Impossible' With Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Jason Concepcion · 0:14:27 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
  34. lineage (franchise influence): Mission: Impossible → The Fast and the Furious. The modern MI films combine Bourne-style hand-to-hand combat with Fast and the Furious over-the-top action.
    “the 2 biggest influences on Mission Impossible are born in the Fast and the Furious.”
    The Rewatchables · 'Mission: Impossible' With Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Jason Concepcion · 0:18:47 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
  35. lineage (heist homage): Mission: Impossible → Rififi. The silent Langley vault heist echoes the Rififi heist where an alarm is triggered by sound.
    “my favorite heist movies were Fifi, which has a heist uh, portion where they very similar, they drill through the roof and it's all in silence”
    The Rewatchables · 'Mission: Impossible' With Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Jason Concepcion · 0:24:41 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
  36. theme (image echo): Mission: Impossible → The Departed. The rat in the air duct at Langley recalls The Departed's final shot, the hunt for a betraying rat.
    “the rat in the air air duct in Langley, like a little bit of like the departed final shot”
    The Rewatchables · 'Mission: Impossible' With Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Jason Concepcion · 0:25:07 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
  37. people (typecasting): Jean Reno → Léon: The Professional. Reno's dickishness here is read through his Leon persona.
    “very similarly coming off of Leon professional and kind of what he represents in our mind”
    The Rewatchables · 'Mission: Impossible' With Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Jason Concepcion · 0:28:04 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
  38. lineage (Hitchcock structural homage): Mission: Impossible → Psycho. Killing off Kristin Scott Thomas's star-billed character early mirrors Psycho killing Janet Leigh.
    “it's completely Hitchcocky and it's killing Janet Lee after 40 minutes.”
    The Rewatchables · 'Mission: Impossible' With Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Jason Concepcion · 0:29:57 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
  39. people (typecasting): Henry Czerny → Clear and Present Danger. Czerny built a 90s career on the office-infighter archetype, with Clear and Present Danger his iconic turn.
    “after clear and present danger, which is, to me, the iconic Henry's or any performance”
    The Rewatchables · 'Mission: Impossible' With Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Jason Concepcion · 0:40:01 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
  40. unmapped (same role): Jean Reno → Ronin. Reno plays basically the same part in Ronin, more gregarious, as the Ving Rhames part here.
    “Basically the exact same role he plays Mission Impossible. He plays in a Ronan.”
    The Rewatchables · 'Mission: Impossible' With Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Jason Concepcion · 0:42:11 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
  41. theme (joke comparison): Mission: Impossible → Tropic Thunder. Joked that Cruise's transformation as an old senator deserved the praise given to Tropic Thunder.
    “Why were we so praiseworthy of Tom Cruise's performance? His transformation in Tropic Thunder?”
    The Rewatchables · 'Mission: Impossible' With Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Jason Concepcion · 0:54:28 · Sean Fennessey (0.30 sure it was them)
  42. verdict (apex pick): Danny Elfman → Batman. Elfman's apex is Beetlejuice or Batman, though Sean prefers Midnight Run's score.
    “I also really like the Midnight Run soundtrack, but nobody asked me.”
    The Rewatchables · 'Mission: Impossible' With Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Jason Concepcion · 1:02:15 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
  43. verdict (apex pick): Brian De Palma → The Untouchables. Panel picks The Untouchables as De Palma's apex.
    “I'm going untouchables.”
    The Rewatchables · 'Mission: Impossible' With Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Jason Concepcion · 1:02:39 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
  44. career (career): Stephen Burum → The Untouchables. Asked to pick the apex of De Palma's cinematographer Stephen Burum, the panel runs his filmography (The Outsiders, Rumble Fish, St. Elmo's Fire, 8 Million Ways to Die) and lands on The Untouchables.
    “I'm going untouchables.”
    The Rewatchables · 'Mission: Impossible' With Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Jason Concepcion · 1:02:39 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
  45. unmapped (negotiations): Noah Baumbach → Barbie. Baumbach and Gerwig are reportedly negotiating a payday to return to Barbie, while Baumbach goes to Warner's Clockwork.
    “Bombach and Gerwig are currently mired into negotiations to get a really good payday to come back to Barbie.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 0:08:22 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  46. craft (craft): Resident Evil → The Crow. Fennessey says DP Darius Wolski is working in his The Crow / Dark City register on Resident Evil.
    “the director of photography of this movie is 70-year-old Darius Wolski, who is best known, I think, recently for his work with Ridley Scott, but who is really in his The Crow Dark City bag in this movie.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 0:19:55 · Sean Fennessey (0.90 sure it was them)
  47. craft (craft): Resident Evil → Dark City. Same remark: Wolski's look here is his Dark City mode, a shared-cinematographer style comparison.
    “who is really in his The Crow Dark City bag in this movie.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 0:19:55 · Sean Fennessey (0.90 sure it was them)
  48. career (career): Darius Wolski → Ridley Scott. Wolski is identified as best known recently for his work with Ridley Scott.
    “Darius Wolski, who is best known, I think, recently for his work with Ridley Scott”
    The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 0:19:55 · Sean Fennessey (0.90 sure it was them)
  49. people (people): Resident Evil → Ryan Hayes Holladay. The Holladays return to score, implying a repeat collaboration with the earlier Cregger films; Fennessey loves the score.
    “Ryan and Hayes Holiday are back doing the score.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 0:20:07 · Sean Fennessey (0.90 sure it was them)
  50. lineage (tonal influence): Resident Evil → Evil Dead II. Cregger said he wanted an Evil Dead 2 style rock-em sock-em movie and got crazy with the camera.
    “I'm doing it because I think this movie is going to be fucking awesome.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 0:21:02 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)
  51. people (performance comp): Resident Evil → Evil Dead. Online commenters compare Austin Abrams to Bruce Campbell in Evil Dead.
    “a lot of people have compared, uh, this character and this performance to Bruce Campbell and Evil Dead.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 0:29:17 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  52. theme (character comp): Resident Evil → Die Hard. Abrams's Brian reminded the speaker of John McClane, with humor built from the experience; the elevator shoe-melting is a Die Hard nod.
    “He's not as cool and he's not as accomplished with a gun, but he kind of reminded me a little John McClain at times.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 0:29:24 · Sean Fennessey (0.55 sure it was them)
  53. craft (structural comp): Resident Evil → Fargo. Showing the opening crash scene in the trailer is like showing Fargo's opening crime scene.
    “it almost is like he's recreating that.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 0:36:11 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  54. lineage (homage): Resident Evil → The Thing. The farmhouse sequence and the dog at the barn are homages to Carpenter's The Thing.
    “You can see the homage to Carpenters the Thing in all this part.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 0:40:30 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  55. unmapped (rewatchability): Resident Evil → Boogie Nights. Listing the film's scenes reminded the speaker of prepping the Boogie Nights Rewatchables: every scene is the best scene.
    “most rewatchable scene is every scene.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 0:45:35 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  56. contrast (contrast): Resident Evil → Green Room. Without the comedy release valve it would be as upsetting as Green Room or Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
    “otherwise it's like you're watching Green Room. You're watching, you know, Texas Chainsaw Massacre.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 0:52:22 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  57. unmapped (creature/set-piece comp): Resident Evil → Aliens. The elevator ascent and maternity ward pods recall Alien and Aliens; xenomorphs coming out of the wall.
    “this is really where a lot of the alien and aliens stuff starts to come in”
    The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 0:58:53 · Sean Fennessey (0.55 sure it was them)
  58. lineage (homage): Resident Evil → Die Hard. The shoes-melting beat is called a Die Hard nod (walking on broken glass).
    “You have that wonderful diehard nod where his shoes are starting to melt and he has to take his shoes off.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 1:00:42 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  59. career (career comp): Zach Cregger → Paul Thomas Anderson. Early-career PTA was a comp for Cregger, but Resident Evil would be his Punch-Drunk Love (a simpler follow-up after the bigger film).
    “I had been thinking about his career in terms of PTA's early career.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 1:11:14 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  60. career (career comp): Resident Evil → Punch-Drunk Love. The film is Cregger's Punch-Drunk Love: a more direct follow-up after a bigger film, though Punch-Drunk Love feels more weighed down by feelings.
    “this would be his punch drunk love.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 1:11:20 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  61. unmapped (output comp): Zach Cregger → John Carpenter. Twelve 87-minute Cregger films would feel like when Carpenter put out a movie every 18 months.
    “What we imagine it was like to be like our age when Carpenter was putting out a movie every 18 months.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 1:16:03 · Sean Fennessey (0.55 sure it was them)
  62. career (career comp): Zach Cregger → Quentin Tarantino. Four films then a breather would be like Tarantino's Kill Bill then the stop-down.
    “for Quentin, that would have been like the kill Bill and then the stopdown after that, right?”
    The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 1:16:54 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  63. lineage (inspiration): Kane Parsons → Backrooms. Parsons was hugely inspired by Portal; explorable games move at their own pace.
    “Kane Parsons was hugely inspired by portal”
    The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 1:22:46 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  64. unmapped (horror-comedy short list): Resident Evil → Fright Night. Gore plus comedy that works is an extremely short list: Fright Night, American Werewolf, Shaun of the Dead.
    “Like, it's like fright night, an American werewolf in London.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 1:33:39 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  65. people (people): Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma → I Saw the TV Glow. Miasma reuses much of the TV Glow crew: the same cinematographer, editor and composer.
    “A lot of the crew from, I saw the TV glow is back. Cinematographer Eric, you, it's edited by Graham Mason. Alex G is back to provide a score.”
    The Big Picture · The Final Girl Film Canon and ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ With Gillian Anderson, Hannah Einbinder, and Jane Schoenbrun! · 0:01:46 · Sean Fennessey (0.85 sure it was them)
  66. verdict (verdict): Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma → The Odyssey. Seeing Miasma a second time felt like a second viewing of The Odyssey: it improved once the intentions were clear.
    “the 2nd viewing reminded me a lot of my 2nd viewing of the Odyssey”
    The Big Picture · The Final Girl Film Canon and ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ With Gillian Anderson, Hannah Einbinder, and Jane Schoenbrun! · 0:06:23 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  67. contrast (contrast): Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma → Halloween. It could sit between Scary Movie and Halloween in theory but generates a different feeling.
    “In theory this movie lives in between those two, but it doesn't at all.”
    The Big Picture · The Final Girl Film Canon and ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ With Gillian Anderson, Hannah Einbinder, and Jane Schoenbrun! · 0:07:39 · Sean Fennessey (0.55 sure it was them)
  68. contrast (contrast): Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma → I Saw the TV Glow. Both show a child consuming media, but TV Glow carries shame and Miasma carries wonder.
    “but it's not shame, it's wonder.”
    The Big Picture · The Final Girl Film Canon and ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ With Gillian Anderson, Hannah Einbinder, and Jane Schoenbrun! · 0:11:28 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  69. craft (craft): Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma → Zucker Brothers. The tone swings between madcap Zucker-style gags, slasher POV horror and Sundance coming-of-age sincerity.
    “almost like Zucker Brothers gags, into pure slasher POV horror”
    The Big Picture · The Final Girl Film Canon and ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ With Gillian Anderson, Hannah Einbinder, and Jane Schoenbrun! · 0:17:18 · Sean Fennessey (0.55 sure it was them)
  70. theme (theme): A Nightmare on Elm Street 2 → Commando. The same question of unintended queer subtext could be asked of Commando.
    “You say the same thing about commando, frankly?”
    The Big Picture · The Final Girl Film Canon and ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ With Gillian Anderson, Hannah Einbinder, and Jane Schoenbrun! · 0:31:50 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  71. industry (industry): Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma → Horror Movie (Paul Tremblay novel). Tremblay's novel has executive meetings uncannily close to Miasma's, though the two are independent.
    “And it's uncanny how close his scenes meeting with the executives are to the scenes in, um, in miasma.”
    The Big Picture · The Final Girl Film Canon and ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ With Gillian Anderson, Hannah Einbinder, and Jane Schoenbrun! · 0:35:37 · Sean Fennessey (0.45 sure it was them)
  72. verdict (verdict): Obsession → Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma. The speaker likes Miasma exponentially more than Obsession.
    “I like camping miasma exponentially more, you know, like much, much more.”
    The Big Picture · The Final Girl Film Canon and ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ With Gillian Anderson, Hannah Einbinder, and Jane Schoenbrun! · 0:39:49 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  73. verdict (verdict): Obsession → Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma. Miasma gets an A plus; Obsession is incomplete but has dirty hands and opens a can of worms.
    “I'd say obsession is kind of incomplete.”
    The Big Picture · The Final Girl Film Canon and ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ With Gillian Anderson, Hannah Einbinder, and Jane Schoenbrun! · 0:40:14 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  74. what-if (what-if): Obsession → Fatal Attraction. Imagine Fatal Attraction arriving in the Twitter era; that is the scale of Obsession's discourse.
    “If Fatal Attraction had come out when Twitter existed, or if Twitter had existed for Fatal Attraction,”
    The Big Picture · The Final Girl Film Canon and ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ With Gillian Anderson, Hannah Einbinder, and Jane Schoenbrun! · 0:41:02 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  75. craft (craft): Obsession → Smile 2. Obsession takes its sound design and camera movement from Smile 2.
    “obsession is certainly grabbing quite a bit in terms of its mechanical decision making from smile to.”
    The Big Picture · The Final Girl Film Canon and ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ With Gillian Anderson, Hannah Einbinder, and Jane Schoenbrun! · 0:44:22 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  76. unmapped (theory): Halloween → Carol Clover. Laurie Strode is the signature final girl of Clover's tradition.
    “and Lori Strode being the signature.”
    The Big Picture · The Final Girl Film Canon and ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ With Gillian Anderson, Hannah Einbinder, and Jane Schoenbrun! · 0:46:38 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  77. theme (theme): Carrie → Carol Clover. Carrie White is both the monster and the final girl at the same time.
    “It's funny to think of Carrie White as a load bearing character who was both the monster and the final girl at the same time.”
    The Big Picture · The Final Girl Film Canon and ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ With Gillian Anderson, Hannah Einbinder, and Jane Schoenbrun! · 0:48:27 · Sean Fennessey (0.45 sure it was them)
  78. theme (theme): Sleepaway Camp → Hellraiser. Angela Baker flips the final girl through its reveal, while Kirsty Cotton is called a really good one.
    “Angela Baker from Sleepaway Camp, which kind of flips that on its head because of the shocking reveal of that film.”
    The Big Picture · The Final Girl Film Canon and ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ With Gillian Anderson, Hannah Einbinder, and Jane Schoenbrun! · 0:49:53 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  79. contrast (contrast): The Cabin in the Woods → You're Next (title not said; 'your next', Adam Wingard). The speaker pairs Cabin with the Wingard film in which the final girl is tougher than the killer.
    “what if Lori Strode studied jiu-jitsu before encountering Michael Myers”
    The Big Picture · The Final Girl Film Canon and ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ With Gillian Anderson, Hannah Einbinder, and Jane Schoenbrun! · 0:53:13 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  80. lineage (lineage): You're Next (title not said; 'your next', Adam Wingard) → Ready or Not. Ready or Not riffs on the same stronger-than-the-killer final girl.
    “ready or not, is kind of riffing on this at this point now, too.”
    The Big Picture · The Final Girl Film Canon and ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ With Gillian Anderson, Hannah Einbinder, and Jane Schoenbrun! · 0:53:37 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  81. theme (theme): Us → Midsummer. Us and Midsummer are prestige films that actively explore what it means to be a final girl though not pure slashers.
    “I think Danny in Midsummer really, really fits the bill”
    The Big Picture · The Final Girl Film Canon and ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ With Gillian Anderson, Hannah Einbinder, and Jane Schoenbrun! · 0:55:08 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  82. lineage (lineage): X → Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma. After X, Pearl and MaXXXine the self-referential riffing on rape revenge and slasher films hit a dead end, and Miasma rebuilds the bridge.
    “we have kind of gotten to the conclusive point of self-referential riffing on rape revenge and slasher films”
    The Big Picture · The Final Girl Film Canon and ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ With Gillian Anderson, Hannah Einbinder, and Jane Schoenbrun! · 0:55:42 · Sean Fennessey (0.45 sure it was them)
  83. career (career): Austin Abrams → Resident Evil. Abrams is floated as this fall's final girl across Resident Evil and Whalefall.
    “Is is Austin Abrams This Falls Final Girl?”
    The Big Picture · The Final Girl Film Canon and ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ With Gillian Anderson, Hannah Einbinder, and Jane Schoenbrun! · 0:59:30 · Sean Fennessey (0.55 sure it was them)
  84. people (people): John Carpenter → Halloween. Carpenter told the speaker he did not know what a 'final girl' was, until told it came from a Carol Clover essay.
    “I don't know what that is.”
    The Big Picture · The Final Girl Film Canon and ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ With Gillian Anderson, Hannah Einbinder, and Jane Schoenbrun! · 1:01:42 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
  85. contrast (contrast): Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma → The Black Hole. Black Hole is aware of genre tropes but is not about them.
    “Black Hole is aware of genre tropes, but it is not about genre tropes.”
    The Big Picture · The Final Girl Film Canon and ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ With Gillian Anderson, Hannah Einbinder, and Jane Schoenbrun! · 1:02:20 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
  86. craft (craft): The Invite → Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma. Anderson's pick, The Invite, also glides between tones, as Miasma does.
    “Another movie that kind of glides between tone pretty comfortably in the same way as your movie.”
    The Big Picture · The Final Girl Film Canon and ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ With Gillian Anderson, Hannah Einbinder, and Jane Schoenbrun! · 1:54:12 · Sean Fennessey (0.90 sure it was them)
  87. career (career-launch comp): Obsession → The Sixth Sense. Obsession might be like The Sixth Sense, a breakout that puts a new filmmaker on the map and starts a brand.
    “is it more like maybe a 6th sense kind of thing where that kind of puts Shamalan on the map and then there's like a Curry Barker brand?”
    The Big Picture · The Top 10 Fantasy Films, The Toy Movie Hall of Fame, and ‘Masters of the Universe,’ with Griffin Newman! · 0:06:13 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  88. lineage (handmade lineage): Obsession → The Texas Chain Saw Massacre. Foundational horror films like Night of the Living Dead and Chain Saw were handmade and unpolished, an essential quality Obsession shares in kind though not in quality.
    “But so if you look back at Night of the Living Dead or, um, Texas Chainsaw Massacre or Last House on the Left or even Halloween to some extent.”
    The Big Picture · The Top 10 Fantasy Films, The Toy Movie Hall of Fame, and ‘Masters of the Universe,’ with Griffin Newman! · 0:17:36 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  89. unmapped (emotional comp): Masters of the Universe → Ghost World. Watching it as a fan-turned-commentator, the speaker thought of Seymour in Ghost World saying he hates his interest.
    “I kept thinking of the Sibu semi-character in Ghost World when Thor Burch recommends that he meets a woman his age, who shares his interest, and he goes, I hate my interest.”
    The Big Picture · The Top 10 Fantasy Films, The Toy Movie Hall of Fame, and ‘Masters of the Universe,’ with Griffin Newman! · 0:42:57 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  90. contrast (quality contrast): Masters of the Universe → Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem. Mutant Mayhem triggered a similar spiral in Griffin but is an infinitely better film.
    “watching Mutant Mayhem, the Ninja Turtles movie, which I think is an infinitely better film.”
    The Big Picture · The Top 10 Fantasy Films, The Toy Movie Hall of Fame, and ‘Masters of the Universe,’ with Griffin Newman! · 0:43:12 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  91. unmapped (end-credit tease): Masters of the Universe → Evil Dead. Orko's three-second end-credits cameo feels like Bruce Campbell saying groovy in the Alvarez Evil Dead credits.
    “the end of the Fede Alvarez evil dead reboot where in the end credits, it just inserts a shot of old Bruce Campbell saying groovy.”
    The Big Picture · The Top 10 Fantasy Films, The Toy Movie Hall of Fame, and ‘Masters of the Universe,’ with Griffin Newman! · 1:12:05 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  92. verdict (ranking): The Dark Crystal → The NeverEnding Story. Sean would add Dark Crystal and Excalibur to Griffin's fantasy list as the two worthy of sitting alongside it.
    “Yeah, I would I would throw Dark Crystal and Excalibur into that cannon.”
    The Big Picture · The Top 10 Fantasy Films, The Toy Movie Hall of Fame, and ‘Masters of the Universe,’ with Griffin Newman! · 1:18:46 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)
  93. contrast (post-LotR contrast): The Green Knight → The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring. After Lord of the Rings, nothing high-fantasy worked in movies until Narnia; Green Knight is great because it does its own thing.
    “Nothing works in movies, post Lord of the Rings until Narnia, which then fell off a cliff.”
    The Big Picture · The Top 10 Fantasy Films, The Toy Movie Hall of Fame, and ‘Masters of the Universe,’ with Griffin Newman! · 1:19:50 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  94. lineage (lineage): Conan the Barbarian → Dragonslayer. Conan kicked off the 80s fantasy wave; before it, Weissmuller Tarzan films evolved into things like Dragonslayer.
    “that's sort of the Johnny Wart Mueller Tarzan films are sort of what evolved into things like Dragon Slayer and things like that.”
    The Big Picture · The Top 10 Fantasy Films, The Toy Movie Hall of Fame, and ‘Masters of the Universe,’ with Griffin Newman! · 1:20:51 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
  95. craft (craft): Michael Bay → Transformers (Michael Bay films). Bay is incredible at sounding images and Transformers is an excuse to do that at scale.
    “The guy's incredible at putting like sounding images together.”
    The Big Picture · The Top 10 Fantasy Films, The Toy Movie Hall of Fame, and ‘Masters of the Universe,’ with Griffin Newman! · 1:30:09 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  96. programming (recommendation): Mike Flanagan → Ouija: Origin of Evil. The second Ouija film, directed by Flanagan, is really good, as is the Daley-Goldstein D&D film.
    “I mean, I do think the 2nd Mike Flanagan Ouija movie is really good.”
    The Big Picture · The Top 10 Fantasy Films, The Toy Movie Hall of Fame, and ‘Masters of the Universe,’ with Griffin Newman! · 1:35:22 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  97. unmapped (movie kink): Clue → Transformers (Michael Bay films). Clue and Transformers touch something personal in the speaker beyond critical distance.
    “like clue and like Transformers.”
    The Big Picture · The Top 10 Fantasy Films, The Toy Movie Hall of Fame, and ‘Masters of the Universe,’ with Griffin Newman! · 1:38:52 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  98. theme (theme): The Strangers → Mamma Mia!. Amanda argues the two 2008 films share a theme of knowing thyself and what can't be known; later both end by withholding the answer.
    “And I would, I'll argue, has some things in common with Mama Mia.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Mamma Mia!’ Meets ‘The Strangers'! It’s a Movie Swap! · 0:02:42 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  99. lineage (lineage): The English Patient → David Lean. Amanda dismissed The English Patient as a David Lean rip-off in the 2022 swap.
    “this is David Lean rip off”
    The Big Picture · ‘Mamma Mia!’ Meets ‘The Strangers'! It’s a Movie Swap! · 0:12:56 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  100. programming (programming): Mamma Mia! → Shrek. Reflecting on their movie swaps, Sean ties Shrek, the earlier one-way swap, to Bobby Wagner's last episode.
    “Bob's last episode was like a one-way movie swap, which was Shrek.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Mamma Mia!’ Meets ‘The Strangers'! It’s a Movie Swap! · 0:13:57 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)

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  1. fun, about Bohemian Rhapsody: Queen's opening felt like a Jones Beach concert you'd see with your mom; and there were as many cutaways to Brian May in the show as in the film.
    “It was just sort of like a concert you'd see at Jones Beach, like with your mom.”
    The Big Picture · Oscars 2019: Instant Reactions to ‘Green Book’ and the Two Warring Academies | The Oscars Show (Ep. 131) · 0:12:20 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
  2. fun, about Glenn Close: Seven nominations and never a win; the hosts felt terrible and note her diagonal-face reaction on the telecast.
    “Glenn Close, who has now been nominated 7 times and never won.”
    The Big Picture · Oscars 2019: Instant Reactions to ‘Green Book’ and the Two Warring Academies | The Oscars Show (Ep. 131) · 0:16:09 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  3. fun, about Spike Lee: His acceptance speech was bleeped in the first minute; rumored to have said not to turn the clock on.
    “I don't know what Spike said for the 1st minute or so of his acceptance because it was bleeped out”
    The Big Picture · Oscars 2019: Instant Reactions to ‘Green Book’ and the Two Warring Academies | The Oscars Show (Ep. 131) · 0:20:33 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  4. fun, about Roma: Compares the Vista's Roma screening with Netflix: in theaters and on Netflix.
    “if you go to the Vista in Los Angeles today,”
    The Big Picture · Oscars 2019: Instant Reactions to ‘Green Book’ and the Two Warring Academies | The Oscars Show (Ep. 131) · 0:24:09 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
  5. fun, about A Star Is Born: Hosts covering their faces watching the Shallow performance, feeling like Jackson Maine and Ally's embarrassed parents.
    “Somewhere along the way, I feel like you and I became Jackson, Maine, and Allie's mom and dad.”
    The Big Picture · Oscars 2019: Instant Reactions to ‘Green Book’ and the Two Warring Academies | The Oscars Show (Ep. 131) · 0:27:58 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  6. fun, about A Star Is Born: Mason-jar joke about the energy between Gaga and Cooper.
    “inside that jar is the cure to cold fusion.”
    The Big Picture · Oscars 2019: Instant Reactions to ‘Green Book’ and the Two Warring Academies | The Oscars Show (Ep. 131) · 0:31:36 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
  7. fun, about Maya Rudolph: Rudolph is Minnie Riperton's daughter and can sing.
    “She can sing her ass off.”
    The Big Picture · Oscars 2019: Instant Reactions to ‘Green Book’ and the Two Warring Academies | The Oscars Show (Ep. 131) · 0:35:05 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
  8. fun, about Alfonso Cuaron: His wife likened his repeated speeches to a Russian doll; each began with thanks to Marina de Tavira and Yalitza Aparicio.
    “it's just like Russian doll.”
    The Big Picture · Oscars 2019: Instant Reactions to ‘Green Book’ and the Two Warring Academies | The Oscars Show (Ep. 131) · 0:53:18 · Sean Fennessey (0.35 sure it was them)
  9. fun, about Glenn Close: The 'Close Zone' becomes a running bit: Amy Adams, Willem Dafoe and Bradley Cooper with five nominations and no wins.
    “Once you get 5 and you get no love, you're in the close zone.”
    The Big Picture · Oscars 2019: Instant Reactions to ‘Green Book’ and the Two Warring Academies | The Oscars Show (Ep. 131) · 1:05:56 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
  10. fun, about Vice: Speaker invoked the unitary executive in podcasts because a scene in Vice lodged in their head.
    “I've invoked the unitary executive in various convert, like, podcasts that we've done a couple times”
    The Big Picture · Oscars 2019: Instant Reactions to ‘Green Book’ and the Two Warring Academies | The Oscars Show (Ep. 131) · 1:11:26 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
  11. fun, about Die Hard / Red Desert: His list runs from Fellini and Antonioni to Predator and Die Hard; Fennessey sums it up as Die Hard 8 or a Red Desert remake.
    “either Die Hard 8 or a remake of Red Desert”
    The Big Picture · Pro Wrestling Goes to the Movies, Plus Stephen Merchant on ‘Fighting With My Family’ | Interview (Ep. 130) · 0:52:02 · Sean Fennessey (0.55 sure it was them)
  12. fun, about Green Book: Peter Farrelly shushed the play-off music and gave a long typed-out speech about solving the world's problems.
    “He had typed it all out.”
    The Big Picture · Instant Reactions to a Truly Ludicrous Golden Globes | The Oscars Show (Ep. 115) · 0:08:49 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  13. fun, about Green Book: The speaker says it is neither something to destroy nor the best movie of the year.
    “I don't hate green book.”
    The Big Picture · Instant Reactions to a Truly Ludicrous Golden Globes | The Oscars Show (Ep. 115) · 0:10:42 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  14. fun, about Bohemian Rhapsody: Verdict: fun and enjoyable is not the same as good.
    “to tell the difference between movies that are fun and enjoyable and movies that are good.”
    The Big Picture · Instant Reactions to a Truly Ludicrous Golden Globes | The Oscars Show (Ep. 115) · 0:14:47 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  15. fun, about Sandra Oh and Andy Samberg: The monologue lifted Samberg's nice-person roast bit for eight minutes.
    “they took Andy Sandberg's bit from the Justin Bieber roast”
    The Big Picture · Instant Reactions to a Truly Ludicrous Golden Globes | The Oscars Show (Ep. 115) · 0:18:49 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  16. fun, about Amy Poehler and Maya Rudolph: Their presenting showed what seasoned comedy chemistry looks like.
    “they have extraordinary chemistry”
    The Big Picture · Instant Reactions to a Truly Ludicrous Golden Globes | The Oscars Show (Ep. 115) · 0:19:44 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  17. fun, about A Star Is Born: Mark Ronson accepted the Best Song award and read a poem about the SS Shallow to Gaga's face.
    “it did basically end with Mark Ronson reading a poem that he composed about the SS Shallow”
    The Big Picture · Instant Reactions to a Truly Ludicrous Golden Globes | The Oscars Show (Ep. 115) · 0:25:55 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  18. fun, about Olivia Colman: Her speech used 'blimey', thanked people for sandwiches, and was bleeped.
    “I believe the word blimey was used.”
    The Big Picture · Instant Reactions to a Truly Ludicrous Golden Globes | The Oscars Show (Ep. 115) · 0:33:44 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  19. fun, about Christian Bale: He thanked Satan in his speech to big laughs.
    “I mean, him thanking Satan.”
    The Big Picture · Instant Reactions to a Truly Ludicrous Golden Globes | The Oscars Show (Ep. 115) · 0:37:21 · Sean Fennessey (0.45 sure it was them)
  20. fun, about Golden Globes: Quiz: last year's best actor in a comedy was James Franco.
    “The answer is James Franco.”
    The Big Picture · Instant Reactions to a Truly Ludicrous Golden Globes | The Oscars Show (Ep. 115) · 0:38:46 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  21. fun, about Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse: Won best animated feature, a pick the speaker feels strongly about.
    “a pick that I made and feel very strongly about, which one best animated feature”
    The Big Picture · Instant Reactions to a Truly Ludicrous Golden Globes | The Oscars Show (Ep. 115) · 0:40:30 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  22. fun, about Amy Pascal: Shout out to Pascal's fur and blowout, and her path from Sony to Spider-Man.
    “I would like to give a shout out to Amy Pascal's look.”
    The Big Picture · Instant Reactions to a Truly Ludicrous Golden Globes | The Oscars Show (Ep. 115) · 0:40:46 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  23. fun, about Chuck Lorre: Held the Golden Globe like his firstborn son, said Netflix five times, hard cut to Ted Sarandos.
    “hold a Golden Globe as if it was his firstborn son.”
    The Big Picture · Instant Reactions to a Truly Ludicrous Golden Globes | The Oscars Show (Ep. 115) · 0:43:42 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  24. fun, about Kevin Hart: Ellen teed up Hart's hurt and relayed the Academy wanting him back.
    “the academy told me, we want him back.”
    The Big Picture · Instant Reactions to a Truly Ludicrous Golden Globes | The Oscars Show (Ep. 115) · 0:47:22 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  25. fun, about Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse: Sean: when first made aware of the film he thought it a bad idea; it turned out great.
    “I was like, well, this is a bad idea.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse’: One of the Best Superhero Movies Ever | Exit Survey (Ep. 108) · 0:01:06 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)
  26. fun, about Spider-Man: Joke that this is the 101st Spider-Man movie.
    “So this is the 101st Spider-Man movie.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse’: One of the Best Superhero Movies Ever | Exit Survey (Ep. 108) · 0:01:22 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  27. fun, about Sunflower: Sean thought the song trash on Spotify until seeing Miles mime its syllables in the opening.
    “I was like, this is trash.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse’: One of the Best Superhero Movies Ever | Exit Survey (Ep. 108) · 0:11:23 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)
  28. fun, about Peter B. Parker: Sean identifies with the tall, paunchy, graying, unshaven Peter B.
    “I saw a lot of myself, Miss Peter Parker.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse’: One of the Best Superhero Movies Ever | Exit Survey (Ep. 108) · 0:13:47 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)
  29. fun, about Peter B. Parker: Sean tucked in his shirt: an adult man of 36.
    “I'm an adult man of 36.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse’: One of the Best Superhero Movies Ever | Exit Survey (Ep. 108) · 0:14:06 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  30. fun, about Liev Schreiber: Sean calls him the god of vocal work, from HBO sports docs on.
    “who is just the god of vocal work from his times doing HBO sports documentaries”
    The Big Picture · ‘Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse’: One of the Best Superhero Movies Ever | Exit Survey (Ep. 108) · 0:26:20 · Sean Fennessey (0.90 sure it was them)
  31. fun, about Chris Pine: A huge movie star doing about seven line readings.
    “who's a huge movie star who's doing like 7 line readings in this movie.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse’: One of the Best Superhero Movies Ever | Exit Survey (Ep. 108) · 0:26:40 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)
  32. fun, about Amanda Dobbins: She calls animated movies cartoons and will not watch them.
    “Amanda Dobbins doesn't watch animated movies, she calls them cartoons”
    The Big Picture · ‘Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse’: One of the Best Superhero Movies Ever | Exit Survey (Ep. 108) · 0:28:42 · Sean Fennessey (0.90 sure it was them)
  33. fun, about Incredibles 2: Sean now roots for Spider-Verse for a strange silly award.
    “I now find myself rooting for it for this strange silly award.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse’: One of the Best Superhero Movies Ever | Exit Survey (Ep. 108) · 0:29:24 · Sean Fennessey (0.85 sure it was them)
  34. fun, about Steven Spielberg: The Soderbergh Raiders remix: Hardcore Chris Ryan content.
    “Hardcore Chris Ryan content.”
    The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan | The Big Picture (Ep. 57) · 0:10:35 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  35. fun, about Saving Private Ryan: The D-Day opening is 40 minutes without a breath, and the film doesn't even tell you what it's about yet.
    “We don't even learn what the movie is about.”
    The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan | The Big Picture (Ep. 57) · 0:11:36 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  36. fun, about Schindler's List: Rumor: Billy Wilder asked Spielberg for the rights to make it as his last movie.
    “And this may be hearsay, but from what I was told, Steven Spielberg said, nope, I'm gonna do it.”
    The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan | The Big Picture (Ep. 57) · 0:13:47 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)
  37. fun, about Schindler's List: The girl in the red dress as an icon of innocence lost.
    “the little girl in the red dress, which is this iconic image of innocence lost in the middle of conflict”
    The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan | The Big Picture (Ep. 57) · 0:14:11 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)
  38. fun, about Close Encounters of the Third Kind: Chris moved it up the list mid-conversation after realizing how many ideas are in it; the Lucas/Spielberg wager story.
    “Maybe I might have fucked up.”
    The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan | The Big Picture (Ep. 57) · 0:22:54 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)
  39. fun, about Jurassic Park: See Laura Dern with her head down on the breathing triceratops, and the T. rex footprint pressed in the ground.
    “you can see the tyrannosaurus claw foot pressed down and the footprint.”
    The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan | The Big Picture (Ep. 57) · 0:25:40 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  40. fun, about Hook: Rufio's chant echoes forever in the speaker's mind.
    “I also just the chance of Rufio in the back of my mind echoing forever.”
    The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan | The Big Picture (Ep. 57) · 0:31:20 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  41. fun, about Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull: Sean jokes about caping for it as a longtime Shia fan.
    “you want to cape for that as a longtime Shia fan?”
    The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan | The Big Picture (Ep. 57) · 0:32:17 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)
  42. fun, about Jaws: Sean's friend Nils spent days communicating only in Robert Shaw dialogue.
    “Nils would spend days at a time communicating to me and my friends”
    The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan | The Big Picture (Ep. 57) · 0:35:46 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  43. fun, about Amy Irving: Spielberg's divorce from Amy Irving, glossed over in the HBO documentary.
    “He married his lead actress from Raiders 2, who he mistakenly said he met in 1985”
    The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan | The Big Picture (Ep. 57) · 0:57:07 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  44. fun, about Tom Cruise: The hosts ask if they'll ever do a podcast without discussing what Cruise should do next.
    “Will there ever be a podcast where you and I don't talk about what Tom Cruise should do next?”
    The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan | The Big Picture (Ep. 57) · 1:02:21 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)
  45. fun, about Sean Fennessey: The host adopts the set sing-along idea for his job.
    “I will start applying the Friday sing-along.”
    The Big Picture · Joe Wright Bounces Back From His Darkest Hour | The Big Picture (Ep. 37) · 0:19:03 · Sean Fennessey (0.90 sure it was them)
  46. fun, about Thor: Ragnarok: Waititi said the scariest part was Marvel being 16 for 16.
    “they're 16 for 16.”
    The Big Picture · The Past, Present, and Future of Superhero Movies | The Big Picture (Ep. 35) · 0:17:11 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)
  47. fun, about Justice League: Sean cannot name the actor playing Cyborg; Ray Fisher is supplied.
    “I can't name the man who's playing cyborg, which is that's bad news.”
    The Big Picture · The Past, Present, and Future of Superhero Movies | The Big Picture (Ep. 35) · 0:33:18 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  48. fun, about Logan: Logan called incredible; hosts agree it is the template for letting a character breathe.
    “Logan is incredible.”
    The Big Picture · The Past, Present, and Future of Superhero Movies | The Big Picture (Ep. 35) · 0:42:51 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
  49. fun, about Sean Fennessey: Sean admits empathy for Cyclops, jokingly his cross to bear.
    “I have a lot of empathy for Scott Summers.”
    The Big Picture · The Past, Present, and Future of Superhero Movies | The Big Picture (Ep. 35) · 0:46:59 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  50. fun, about Black Panther: Ryan Coogler is the first black filmmaker on a superhero movie in these worlds.
    “1st black filmmaker to make a superhero movie in one of these worlds.”
    The Big Picture · The Past, Present, and Future of Superhero Movies | The Big Picture (Ep. 35) · 0:48:34 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  51. fun, about Sinister Six: Sean is still waiting for a Sinister Six movie he doubts will happen.
    “a sinister 6 movie, which I don't think will ever happen.”
    The Big Picture · The Past, Present, and Future of Superhero Movies | The Big Picture (Ep. 35) · 1:01:10 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
  52. fun, about Death Note: Teaser for next week: Adam Wingard on getting Death Note to Netflix.
    “We have a really great episode with one of my favorite directors, Adam Wingard”
    The Big Picture · Janicza Bravo and Brett Gelman Channel Rejection and Anxiety to Make ‘Lemon’ | The Big Picture (Ep. 22) · 0:40:23 · Sean Fennessey (0.90 sure it was them)
  53. fun, about Saw X: A Mexican 10-year-old soccer-playing sidekick for Jigsaw; the final shot is hilarious.
    “He has a Mexican 10-year-old soccer playing sidekick in that movie”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Mank with Sean Fennessey (Ad-Free) · 0:15:08 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)
  54. fun, about World War Z 2: Fincher nearly made World War Z 2 as a way to get money to play around and do what he wanted.
    “he was using that as a way to get the money to play around and do what the fuck he wanted.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Mank with Sean Fennessey (Ad-Free) · 0:27:06 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)
  55. fun, about Fincher: Fincher's rule: human beings mostly use words to lie.
    “human beings mostly use words to lie.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Mank with Sean Fennessey (Ad-Free) · 1:49:05 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  56. fun, about Oscars: Sean's pitch: a countdown from tenth place at the Best Picture announcement.
    “I want to know what came in 10th place.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Mank with Sean Fennessey (Ad-Free) · 2:10:57 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)
  57. fun, about Netflix: Every other streamer won a series award before Netflix; Apple won Best Picture before it did.
    “Is that basically every other streaming company won a series award before Netflix.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Mank with Sean Fennessey (Ad-Free) · 2:14:03 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)
  58. fun, about Tracy Reed: Kubrick cast Carol Reed's daughter and put her in a bikini; speaker calls it perverse.
    “My favorite tidbit is that Stanley Kubrick cast one of his hero's daughters in this movie and put her in a bikini in a scene.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Dr. Strangelove... with Sean Fennessey (Ad-Free) · 1:48:24 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  59. fun, about Peter Sellers: Sellers received a best actor nomination for what are effectively three supporting roles; the speakers think it may be the only such nomination.
    “It is such a unique nomination to be like, this guy is the lead of the film because he plays 3 supporting characters in an ensemble.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Dr. Strangelove... with Sean Fennessey (Ad-Free) · 1:53:07 · Sean Fennessey (0.45 sure it was them)