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 401–500 of 1,576 claims.

  1. industry (industry): Roy Lee → The Strangers. Roy Lee called Bertino after The Strangers script placed in a screenwriting contest; Lee is known for getting in early with young talent.
    “He got a call from super producer Roy Lee, who's gone on to be arguably the most successful independent producer in Hollywood last year.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Mamma Mia!’ Meets ‘The Strangers'! It’s a Movie Swap! · 0:19:34 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)
  2. programming (programming): The Strangers → The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. In 2008 horror favored slick remakes and torture porn, so a stripped-down original like The Strangers stood out.
    “this was at a time when like Texas Chainsaw Massacre remake was happening, the Nightmare on Elm Street remake was happening, the last house on the left remake was happening”
    The Big Picture · ‘Mamma Mia!’ Meets ‘The Strangers'! It’s a Movie Swap! · 0:20:55 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)
  3. contrast (contrast): The Strangers → Saw. The Strangers arrived amid the torture-porn wave (Saw, Hostel) but works by randomness and withholding rather than gore.
    “there was also a kind of torture porn, uh, saw hostile, you know, those films were also very popular in the horror mainstream.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Mamma Mia!’ Meets ‘The Strangers'! It’s a Movie Swap! · 0:21:08 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)
  4. contrast (contrast): The Strangers → Funny Games. Released a year after the Funny Games remake, The Strangers is similar in kind but is a pure experiential film with no meta commentary.
    “But unlike funny games. This movie could not be less meta.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Mamma Mia!’ Meets ‘The Strangers'! It’s a Movie Swap! · 0:21:31 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)
  5. verdict (verdict): The Strangers → The Strangers (sequel and newer Strangers movies). The sequel and remake-origin follow-ups miss the point; part of the original's power is that it exists out of nowhere with no origin.
    “We don't need an origins right now.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Mamma Mia!’ Meets ‘The Strangers'! It’s a Movie Swap! · 0:22:08 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  6. contrast (contrast): The Strangers → Scream (Ghostface mask). The sack mask feels familiar but not commercialized into oblivion like the Ghostface mask.
    “it's like familiar, but it's also not like the ghost face mask, like commercialized into like total oblivion at this point.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Mamma Mia!’ Meets ‘The Strangers'! It’s a Movie Swap! · 0:26:11 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  7. people (people): Scott Speedman → The Strangers. Sean thinks real-world familiarity with Speedman and Liv Tyler enriches the film because celebrity itself is about cracking a persona, while Amanda finds their star quality the only thing keeping it Hollywood.
    “So I think using Scott Speedman and live, Tyler, 2 beautiful people who you do have some sort of relationship to, like compliments, the themes of the movie.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Mamma Mia!’ Meets ‘The Strangers'! It’s a Movie Swap! · 0:28:20 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  8. what-if (what-if): The Strangers → Mark Romanek. Universal passed on a bigger-budget version and the film works better for being small.
    “He wanted to make it as a $40000000 movie and they didn't want to.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Mamma Mia!’ Meets ‘The Strangers'! It’s a Movie Swap! · 0:30:12 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)
  9. theme (theme): The Strangers → The Strangers. Critics read the film as a post-9/11 horror about random violence, set against the revenge-and-gore reading of torture porn.
    “There are 2 ways of looking at horror in the aftermath of 911.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Mamma Mia!’ Meets ‘The Strangers'! It’s a Movie Swap! · 0:30:23 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)
  10. contrast (contrast): The Strangers → Friday the 13th. Classic slashers punish teens for transgressions; The Strangers rejects that strategy and punishes no one for anything.
    “a lot of horror movies are basically showing the trans, especially slashers are showing the transgressions of other people.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Mamma Mia!’ Meets ‘The Strangers'! It’s a Movie Swap! · 0:35:36 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  11. career (career): Brian Bertino → The Strangers. Bertino looked like a major horror director after The Strangers but never reached the mountaintop again, partly because its spareness is hard to revisit.
    “I thought he was going to be one of the most significant horror directors of his generation, and he's worked, but has never really kind of reached the mountaintop again.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Mamma Mia!’ Meets ‘The Strangers'! It’s a Movie Swap! · 0:47:57 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)
  12. career (career): The Strangers → The Dark and the Wicked. Bertino's second-best feature is a similarly unnerving domestic horror.
    “2020 is the Dark and the Wicked is probably his 2nd best feature, which is a similarly unnerving domestic horror, starring Marin Ireland”
    The Big Picture · ‘Mamma Mia!’ Meets ‘The Strangers'! It’s a Movie Swap! · 0:48:14 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)
  13. people (people): Mamma Mia! → Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again. Director Lloyd was replaced on the sequel by Ol Parker, which the speaker thinks was for a reason.
    “Which is an important thing because she very clearly was replaced for a reason.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Mamma Mia!’ Meets ‘The Strangers'! It’s a Movie Swap! · 0:55:24 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  14. contrast (contrast): Mamma Mia! → The Strangers. Sean sets the loose, wander-around-and-pour-wine viewing of Mamma Mia against the locked-in, what-will-happen-to-them viewing of The Strangers.
    “I contrast that with the strangers where I was like sitting in a movie again for 79 minutes, like what is going to happen to these people?”
    The Big Picture · ‘Mamma Mia!’ Meets ‘The Strangers'! It’s a Movie Swap! · 0:57:36 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)
  15. people (people): The Strangers → Mamma Mia!. Both are 2008 films framed around a wedding and a daughter or couple at a wedding crossroads, and the hosts tie both to the marriage-skepticism joke.
    “Are you, and again, this gets back to like our, should we be getting married?”
    The Big Picture · ‘Mamma Mia!’ Meets ‘The Strangers'! It’s a Movie Swap! · 0:59:49 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  16. contrast (contrast): West Side Story → Mamma Mia!. Spielberg's West Side Story is a modern movie musical that works because it adapts an older musical, unlike the modern-musical style Sean dislikes.
    “West Side Story, Spielberg's film. I think that's one of the best movie musicals of the last 50 years.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Mamma Mia!’ Meets ‘The Strangers'! It’s a Movie Swap! · 1:04:50 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  17. lineage (lineage): Stephen Sondheim → Merrily We Roll Along. Sondheim is rarely adapted to film, but Linklater is in the midst of adapting Merrily We Roll Along.
    “I would much prefer Sondheim, but Sondheim is almost never adapted for movie musicals, which is an interesting thing. Like, obviously, Linklater is in the midst of doing merrily we roll along.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Mamma Mia!’ Meets ‘The Strangers'! It’s a Movie Swap! · 1:06:19 · Sean Fennessey (0.75 sure it was them)
  18. what-if (what-if): Mamma Mia! → Twilight. Adding vampires to Mamma Mia would have gotten Sean to see it in theaters, and could solve Mamma Mia 3's casting issues.
    “You know what would have gotten me to go see Mama Me in theaters, putting vampires in it.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Mamma Mia!’ Meets ‘The Strangers'! It’s a Movie Swap! · 1:09:24 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  19. craft (craft): Mamma Mia! → Bergman Island. Bergman Island also uses The Winner Takes It All, which Sean ranks as the second-greatest use of the song.
    “I told you at the time, the 2nd greatest use of the winner takes it all ever.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Mamma Mia!’ Meets ‘The Strangers'! It’s a Movie Swap! · 1:11:35 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  20. contrast (contrast): Mamma Mia! → Wicked. Mamma Mia's loose ABBA karaoke feel contrasts with modern stage-derived musicals like Wicked, whose songs and performative choreography Sean dislikes.
    “Like wicked, there were a lot of people posing in the background and it just took me out every single time.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Mamma Mia!’ Meets ‘The Strangers'! It’s a Movie Swap! · 1:16:31 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  21. career (career): Meryl Streep → The Devil Wears Prada. Mamma Mia followed Devil Wears Prada almost immediately, proving Streep in her 50s was a $100 million box-office draw.
    “Yeah. You know, the greatest actress of her generation. In her 50s is commanding multiple $100 million movies.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Mamma Mia!’ Meets ‘The Strangers'! It’s a Movie Swap! · 1:17:56 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  22. career (career): Meryl Streep → Ricky and the Flash. Streep plays a rock front woman in the Jonathan Demme film, another case of her loving to sing.
    “Ricky and the Flash. That's what I was trying to think.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Mamma Mia!’ Meets ‘The Strangers'! It’s a Movie Swap! · 1:22:21 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  23. theme (theme): Mamma Mia! → The Rocky Horror Picture Show. The older characters' drag-like performances make Mamma Mia like Rocky Horror for people who go to full-service resorts.
    “it's like rocky horror picture show for people who like to go to, like, Cabo to all, like, to, you know, um, full service resorts”
    The Big Picture · ‘Mamma Mia!’ Meets ‘The Strangers'! It’s a Movie Swap! · 1:22:55 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  24. verdict (verdict): Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again → Mamma Mia!. Letterboxd consensus says the first film stinks but the sequel is like crack, with Fernando used breathtakingly.
    “Everybody on Letterbox was like, this movie actually stinks, but 2 is like crack, like it's so good.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Mamma Mia!’ Meets ‘The Strangers'! It’s a Movie Swap! · 1:25:43 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)
  25. contrast (contrast): Mamma Mia! → Michael. The upcoming Michael biopic is expected to lack the humor of Mamma Mia's lighter use of music.
    “Michael is gonna be, it's not gonna have any of the sense of humor.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Mamma Mia!’ Meets ‘The Strangers'! It’s a Movie Swap! · 1:26:57 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  26. people (people): The Invite → Olivia Wilde. Wilde directs The Invite, an adaptation of a Spanish film.
    “Olivia Wilde, who is the director of this movie, which is an adaptation of a Spanish film”
    The Big Picture · The 10 Most Misused Stars in Hollywood and the Gnarly Magic of ‘Send Help’ · 0:02:47 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)
  27. people (people): The Invite → Little Miss Sunshine. The Invite was originally to be made by the Little Miss Sunshine directors.
    “Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Ferris, who made Little Miss Sunshine, were going to make it.”
    The Big Picture · The 10 Most Misused Stars in Hollywood and the Gnarly Magic of ‘Send Help’ · 0:04:19 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)
  28. industry (industry): LaKeith Stanfield → Delroy Lindo. Lindo's Oscar nomination without precursors reminds the speaker of Stanfield's Judas nomination.
    “But what it really reminds me of is LeHeath Stanfield.”
    The Big Picture · The 10 Most Misused Stars in Hollywood and the Gnarly Magic of ‘Send Help’ · 0:11:26 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  29. industry (industry): Parallel Mothers → Penelope Cruz. Cruz's Oscar nomination for the Almodovar film with no precursors is compared to Lindo's.
    “And then I also thought about Penelope Cruz getting nominated for Parallel Mothers, the Almedovar film”
    The Big Picture · The 10 Most Misused Stars in Hollywood and the Gnarly Magic of ‘Send Help’ · 0:12:01 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)
  30. industry (industry): Mercy → Columbia / Coca-Cola. Corporate product placement in studio films has precedent, which makes Mercy's Ring placement unsurprising but ugly.
    “Coca-Cola being a product placement when Colombia is owned by the broader corporation.”
    The Big Picture · The 10 Most Misused Stars in Hollywood and the Gnarly Magic of ‘Send Help’ · 0:25:33 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
  31. contrast (contrast): Mercy → Searching. Screen movies are hard to make compelling; Searching does it well, Mercy does not.
    “I think searching does it very well.”
    The Big Picture · The 10 Most Misused Stars in Hollywood and the Gnarly Magic of ‘Send Help’ · 0:28:33 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  32. craft (craft): Mercy → Mission Impossible (franchise). Mercy's phone-and-drone-camera look is likened to a franchise opening stretched to feature length.
    “It's like the opening 3 minutes of a Mission Impossible movie for 96 minutes.”
    The Big Picture · The 10 Most Misused Stars in Hollywood and the Gnarly Magic of ‘Send Help’ · 0:29:56 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  33. career (career): Chris Pratt → Harrison Ford. Pratt was expected to use B-minus Harrison Ford franchise roles to fund more interesting work.
    “he was going to take gigs as B minus Harrison Ford as Star Lord and the Guardians movies as the dinosaur tamer in Jurassic World.”
    The Big Picture · The 10 Most Misused Stars in Hollywood and the Gnarly Magic of ‘Send Help’ · 0:31:38 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  34. people (people): Chris Pratt → James Gunn. Star-Lord was a good fit for James Gunn's writing style.
    “He's a good fit for James Gunn's writing style.”
    The Big Picture · The 10 Most Misused Stars in Hollywood and the Gnarly Magic of ‘Send Help’ · 0:32:45 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  35. career (career): Chris Pratt → Jason Statham. Pratt's persona has narrowed to a solemn gun-holding savior, like Statham without martial arts.
    “only now wants to be like Jason Statham minus the martial arts.”
    The Big Picture · The 10 Most Misused Stars in Hollywood and the Gnarly Magic of ‘Send Help’ · 0:32:54 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  36. career (career): Rebecca Ferguson → Mission Impossible (franchise). The Mission Impossible paycheck is gone because her character was killed off.
    “I'm sympathetic to the fact that they killed her off in Mission Impossible.”
    The Big Picture · The 10 Most Misused Stars in Hollywood and the Gnarly Magic of ‘Send Help’ · 0:36:03 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  37. career (career): Mercy → House of Dynamite. Rebecca Ferguson may have planned House of Dynamite for prestige and Mercy for a big start to 2026.
    “okay, we'll do like House of Dynamite for Prestige and Mercy for...”
    The Big Picture · The 10 Most Misused Stars in Hollywood and the Gnarly Magic of ‘Send Help’ · 0:36:13 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  38. what-if (what-if): Mercy → Back to the Future Part II. Mercy's hover jet skis prompt the speaker to say they want the hover tech Back to the Future II promised.
    “I stand on hovering exactly where I stood when Back to the Future 2 came out, which is give it to me now.”
    The Big Picture · The 10 Most Misused Stars in Hollywood and the Gnarly Magic of ‘Send Help’ · 0:40:25 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  39. people (people): Send Help → Bill Pope. Raimi reteams with longtime collaborators: cinematographer Pope, editor Murawski, composer Elfman.
    “Bill Pope, the cinematographer, uh, Bob Moroski, the editor, Danny Elfman, the composer”
    The Big Picture · The 10 Most Misused Stars in Hollywood and the Gnarly Magic of ‘Send Help’ · 0:47:00 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)
  40. people (people): Send Help → Danny Elfman. Elfman scores Send Help as one of Raimi's longtime collaborators.
    “Danny Elfman, the composer, and it does star Rachel McAdams, and Dylan O'Brien”
    The Big Picture · The 10 Most Misused Stars in Hollywood and the Gnarly Magic of ‘Send Help’ · 0:47:00 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)
  41. people (people): Send Help → Bob Murawski. Murawski is the editor among Raimi's longtime collaborators reunited on Send Help.
    “it's kind of reteems a lot of his uh, longtime collaborators, Bill Pope, the cinematographer, uh, Bob Moroski, the editor, Danny Elfman, the composer”
    The Big Picture · The 10 Most Misused Stars in Hollywood and the Gnarly Magic of ‘Send Help’ · 0:47:00 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  42. lineage (lineage): Send Help → Swimming with Sharks. The office-revenge opening resembles Swimming with Sharks.
    “it starts out as kind of swimming with sharks meets working girl.”
    The Big Picture · The 10 Most Misused Stars in Hollywood and the Gnarly Magic of ‘Send Help’ · 0:48:43 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)
  43. lineage (lineage): Send Help → Working Girl. The office-revenge opening resembles Working Girl.
    “it starts out as kind of swimming with sharks meets working girl.”
    The Big Picture · The 10 Most Misused Stars in Hollywood and the Gnarly Magic of ‘Send Help’ · 0:48:43 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)
  44. lineage (lineage): Send Help → Cast Away. Send Help pivots into a desert-island survival story.
    “and then it pivots pretty quickly to cast away meets a perfect getaway.”
    The Big Picture · The 10 Most Misused Stars in Hollywood and the Gnarly Magic of ‘Send Help’ · 0:48:47 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)
  45. lineage (lineage): Send Help → A Perfect Getaway. Its island second half is likened to A Perfect Getaway.
    “and then it pivots pretty quickly to cast away meets a perfect getaway.”
    The Big Picture · The 10 Most Misused Stars in Hollywood and the Gnarly Magic of ‘Send Help’ · 0:48:47 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)
  46. career (career): Rachel McAdams → Mean Girls. Her Send Help charisma echoes the Regina George mix of evil and charming.
    “it's the Rachel McAdams Regina George thing where it is, it can be evil or it can be really charming”
    The Big Picture · The 10 Most Misused Stars in Hollywood and the Gnarly Magic of ‘Send Help’ · 0:57:12 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  47. theme (theme): Send Help → Triangle of Sadness. Triangle of Sadness touches the same idea of competing definitions of success and contentment.
    “Although triangle of sadness does kind of touch this.”
    The Big Picture · The 10 Most Misused Stars in Hollywood and the Gnarly Magic of ‘Send Help’ · 0:58:25 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  48. lineage (lineage): Rachel McAdams → Screwball comedians of the 1930s. Her comic energy recalls 30s screwball comedians who are both smartest and dumbest in the room.
    “She reminds me a lot of 30s kind of screwball comedians”
    The Big Picture · The 10 Most Misused Stars in Hollywood and the Gnarly Magic of ‘Send Help’ · 1:04:17 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  49. career (career): Rachel McAdams → Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. McAdams was in a Raimi film but terribly underused in it.
    “when we saw the trailer for Dr. Strange 2 directed by Sam Raimi, she was in flashback”
    The Big Picture · The 10 Most Misused Stars in Hollywood and the Gnarly Magic of ‘Send Help’ · 1:06:37 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  50. lineage (lineage): Rachel McAdams → Red Eye. Red Eye is a similar plane-set thriller to Send Help.
    “number 10 is a similar kind of movie to send help, which is Red eye.”
    The Big Picture · The 10 Most Misused Stars in Hollywood and the Gnarly Magic of ‘Send Help’ · 1:07:44 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  51. people (people): Red Eye → Wes Craven. Red Eye is a Wes Craven movie.
    “Very good movie, Wes Craven movie.”
    The Big Picture · The 10 Most Misused Stars in Hollywood and the Gnarly Magic of ‘Send Help’ · 1:07:50 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  52. career (career): Amanda Seyfried → Mean Girls. Seyfried, a Mean Girls costar, became the most visible and commercially viable of that cast.
    “You got Lindsay Lohan and Amanda Seyfrid.”
    The Big Picture · The 10 Most Misused Stars in Hollywood and the Gnarly Magic of ‘Send Help’ · 1:08:43 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  53. what-if (what-if): Keira Knightley → Vanessa Redgrave. In the 2010s Knightley looked like the next Vanessa Redgrave or Charlotte Rampling.
    “you might think this is the new Vanessa Redgrave, right?”
    The Big Picture · The 10 Most Misused Stars in Hollywood and the Gnarly Magic of ‘Send Help’ · 1:15:53 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  54. theme (theme): Rachel McAdams → John Wick. McAdams has a unique skillset and can kill you many ways.
    “She's kind of like John Wick.”
    The Big Picture · The 10 Most Misused Stars in Hollywood and the Gnarly Magic of ‘Send Help’ · 1:16:38 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
  55. people (people): LaKeith Stanfield → Boots Riley. Stanfield led Sorry to Bother You and will be in Riley's next movie.
    “Um, I know he's going to be in the next uh, Boots Riley movie.”
    The Big Picture · The 10 Most Misused Stars in Hollywood and the Gnarly Magic of ‘Send Help’ · 1:17:22 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  56. career (career): James McAvoy → Chris Pratt. McAvoy got swole and drifted toward psychopath action, like Pratt.
    “So he's another one where he's like Chris Pratt.”
    The Big Picture · The 10 Most Misused Stars in Hollywood and the Gnarly Magic of ‘Send Help’ · 1:19:56 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  57. career (career): Angelina Jolie → Salt. Jolie's face alone on the poster of Wanted or Salt was the movie.
    “You could put just her on the poster of wanted or salt, and then that's your movie.”
    The Big Picture · The 10 Most Misused Stars in Hollywood and the Gnarly Magic of ‘Send Help’ · 1:21:43 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  58. people (people): Salt → Phillip Noyce. Salt was directed by Philip Noyce (transcribed Noise).
    “A very well-known filmmaker, Philip Noise.”
    The Big Picture · The 10 Most Misused Stars in Hollywood and the Gnarly Magic of ‘Send Help’ · 1:22:12 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  59. craft (craft): Salt → Robert Elswit. Salt was shot by Elswit and edited by John Gilroy.
    “This film was shot by Robert Ellswitt and edited by John Gilroy.”
    The Big Picture · The 10 Most Misused Stars in Hollywood and the Gnarly Magic of ‘Send Help’ · 1:22:40 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  60. career (career): Angelina Jolie → Maria. Jolie's recent awards-race film Maria was liked by the speaker and no one else.
    “which is a movie that I liked and apparently nobody else did, the Pablo the Rain movie.”
    The Big Picture · The 10 Most Misused Stars in Hollywood and the Gnarly Magic of ‘Send Help’ · 1:23:37 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  61. career (career): Angelina Jolie → George Clooney. Both are stars who keep trying and it keeps going wrong.
    “she's sort of a Clooney as well.”
    The Big Picture · The 10 Most Misused Stars in Hollywood and the Gnarly Magic of ‘Send Help’ · 1:25:36 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
  62. people (people): Julia Roberts → Sam Esmail. Esmail keeps working with Roberts, which is credited as good news.
    “our friend Sam Esmail has is definitely and is still working with her”
    The Big Picture · The 10 Most Misused Stars in Hollywood and the Gnarly Magic of ‘Send Help’ · 1:27:25 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  63. career (career): Julia Roberts → After the Hunt. Roberts was great in Guadagnino's After the Hunt despite its script.
    “in Luca Guadalnino's after the hunt.”
    The Big Picture · The 10 Most Misused Stars in Hollywood and the Gnarly Magic of ‘Send Help’ · 1:27:36 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  64. career (career): Dev Patel → Lion. Lion, a Best Picture nominee, is called one of the most forgotten ever.
    “he's in Lion, which gets nominated for Best Picture, which is like one of the most forgotten best picture nominees of all time.”
    The Big Picture · The 10 Most Misused Stars in Hollywood and the Gnarly Magic of ‘Send Help’ · 1:29:43 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  65. career (career): Dev Patel → The Green Knight. The Green Knight, by David Lowery, is called fantastic but was missed in COVID.
    “the Green Knight, which I think is fantastic, David Lowry's movie”
    The Big Picture · The 10 Most Misused Stars in Hollywood and the Gnarly Magic of ‘Send Help’ · 1:29:54 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  66. career (career): Dev Patel → Monkey Man. Patel directed himself in Monkey Man because nobody would cast him as an action star.
    “one of the reasons why he says he's going to direct himself in it is because he's like, nobody will cast me as an action star.”
    The Big Picture · The 10 Most Misused Stars in Hollywood and the Gnarly Magic of ‘Send Help’ · 1:30:05 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  67. career (career): Bradley Cooper → Guardians of the Galaxy. His Rocket Raccoon voice work is cited as good.
    “I mean, you know, Rocky Raccoon, that was good.”
    The Big Picture · The 10 Most Misused Stars in Hollywood and the Gnarly Magic of ‘Send Help’ · 1:32:43 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  68. career (career): Is This Thing On? → Maestro. Cooper's small character piece was meant as a pullback from Maestro's grandeur toward a James L. Brooks movie.
    “so that I can get away from the grandeur of Maestro as a filmmaker and I can do my James L. Brooks movie, right?”
    The Big Picture · The 10 Most Misused Stars in Hollywood and the Gnarly Magic of ‘Send Help’ · 1:33:30 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  69. verdict (verdict): Bradley Cooper → Nightmare Alley. Nightmare Alley is a great performance about a possessed gross man, little beyond.
    “it's a great performance about like a demon, like a possessed gross man and very little beyond that.”
    The Big Picture · The 10 Most Misused Stars in Hollywood and the Gnarly Magic of ‘Send Help’ · 1:34:18 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  70. lineage (lineage): Clara and the Sun → Kazuo Ishiguro. Clara and the Sun is based on an Ishiguro novel.
    “That's based on the Ishigar, that Kazoorish guro normal, right?”
    The Big Picture · The 10 Most Misused Stars in Hollywood and the Gnarly Magic of ‘Send Help’ · 1:37:28 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  71. people (people): Regina Hall → Paul Thomas Anderson. PTA tapped capabilities in Regina Hall beyond comedy in One Battle After Another.
    “who identified the capabilities of Regina Hall beyond being the funniest person in any room or on any Golden Globe stage”
    The Big Picture · The 10 Most Misused Stars in Hollywood and the Gnarly Magic of ‘Send Help’ · 1:38:08 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  72. career (career): Regina Hall → Girls Trip. Her emotional speech at the end of Girls Trip shows her ability to pull people in.
    “I still remember the species she gives at the end of girls trip”
    The Big Picture · The 10 Most Misused Stars in Hollywood and the Gnarly Magic of ‘Send Help’ · 1:38:25 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  73. lineage (lineage): Judgment Day → Money Monster. The Stoller comedy has the same hostage-of-a-TV-host premise as Money Monster.
    “That's kind of weird because that's also the premise of Money Monster.”
    The Big Picture · The 10 Most Misused Stars in Hollywood and the Gnarly Magic of ‘Send Help’ · 1:39:25 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  74. craft (craft): Carousel → Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. Carousel's kitchen-counter fight scene is compared to the best acting the speaker has seen.
    “where it was like, Julia Butters in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, I was like, that's the best acting I've ever seen in my life.”
    The Big Picture · The 10 Most Misused Stars in Hollywood and the Gnarly Magic of ‘Send Help’ · 1:40:48 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  75. career (career): Chris Pine → Star Trek. His Kirk should not have worked and totally worked.
    “He's a great Captain Kirk.”
    The Big Picture · The 10 Most Misused Stars in Hollywood and the Gnarly Magic of ‘Send Help’ · 1:41:27 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  76. people (people): Chris Pine → Rachel Lambert. Pine chooses female filmmakers: Lambert (Carousel) and Cavalli.
    “a male star in his mid 40s choosing to work with female filmmakers.”
    The Big Picture · The 10 Most Misused Stars in Hollywood and the Gnarly Magic of ‘Send Help’ · 1:42:58 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  77. people (people): Alpha Gang → Sasquatch Sunset. The Zellner Brothers made Alpha Gang and the Sasquatch movie with Jesse Eisenberg.
    “They made the Sasquatch movie a couple years ago with Jesse Eisenberg.”
    The Big Picture · The 10 Most Misused Stars in Hollywood and the Gnarly Magic of ‘Send Help’ · 1:43:25 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  78. people (people): The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement → Chris Pine. In Princess Diaries 2 Chris Pine is a pretender to the throne of Genovia.
    “I think Chris Pine is like a pretender to the throne of Genovia.”
    The Big Picture · The 10 Most Misused Stars in Hollywood and the Gnarly Magic of ‘Send Help’ · 1:44:37 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  79. people (people): Kirsten Dunst → Alex Garland. Dunst's Civil War part is cited as a good one from Garland.
    “Alex Garland knew.”
    The Big Picture · The 10 Most Misused Stars in Hollywood and the Gnarly Magic of ‘Send Help’ · 1:49:33 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
  80. what-if (what-if): Kirsten Dunst → Paul Thomas Anderson. They propose Dunst would be great with PTA.
    “she would be great with PTA.”
    The Big Picture · The 10 Most Misused Stars in Hollywood and the Gnarly Magic of ‘Send Help’ · 1:49:59 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
  81. contrast (contrast): Kirsten Dunst → Bugonia. Dunst's reel argues Plemons' Bugonia work was more complex than Chalamet's Marty Supreme.
    “what Jesse Clemons did in Begonia was more complex than what Timothy Chalamet did in Marty Supreme.”
    The Big Picture · The 10 Most Misused Stars in Hollywood and the Gnarly Magic of ‘Send Help’ · 1:50:18 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
  82. career (career): Javier Bardem → F1. Bardem is so good at F1 they want him used more, in a suit that fits.
    “I also put Javier Bardem on here because he's so good at F1.”
    The Big Picture · The 10 Most Misused Stars in Hollywood and the Gnarly Magic of ‘Send Help’ · 1:52:04 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  83. craft (craft): The Brutalist → untitled prison film. The cinematographer of The Brutalist, Lol Crawley, is shooting Damien Chazelle's upcoming prison film.
    “The brutalist guy is shooting it.”
    The Big Picture · The 2022 Movie Draft · 0:34:05 · Sean Fennessey (0.30 sure it was them)
  84. theme (thematic): Nope → The Fabelmans. Sean says Nope, like The Fabelmans, explores self and what you do in the act of making movies.
    “similar to the Fablemans, like exploration of self and like what you do in the act of making movies”
    The Big Picture · The 2022 Movie Draft · 0:41:32 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)
  85. career (filmography progression): Nope → Get Out. Get Out is a neat, legible, pop statement while Us and Nope are messier with more strands, which Sean likes.
    “The get out is such a complete statement. Like, it's a movie that is very legible.”
    The Big Picture · The 2022 Movie Draft · 0:43:04 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  86. career (filmography progression): Nope → Us. Us and Nope are described as messier and less neat than Get Out, with more strands.
    “But us and Nope, or like a little messier, have a lot of strands around them.”
    The Big Picture · The 2022 Movie Draft · 0:43:17 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  87. people (director follow-up): Barbarian → Weapons. Sean says Barbarian made Zach Cregger a filmmaker to follow, which paid off with Weapons.
    “that really just came to fruition with weapons and the success that Zach Kreiger had with that movie.”
    The Big Picture · The 2022 Movie Draft · 1:00:04 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)
  88. industry (franchise): Prey → Predator. Prey is chronologically a prequel but accepted as part of the franchise.
    “Prey is chronologically a prequel.”
    The Big Picture · The 2022 Movie Draft · 1:13:38 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  89. industry (awards backlash pattern): Everything Everywhere All at Once → Green Book. Chris says EEAAO went through the same awards spin cycle backlash as Green Book, hurting its reputation.
    “the movie went through the spin cycle in the same way we were just at a conversation on the last episode about Green Book.”
    The Big Picture · The 2022 Movie Draft · 1:20:55 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  90. people (director): Mr. Scorsese (Apple documentary, dir. Rebecca Miller) → Rebecca Miller. The five-hour Apple documentary is directed by Rebecca Miller.
    “directed by Rebecca Miller that is an extraordinary all access look at his entire career and his life”
    The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 11 - 'The Wolf of Wall Street’ · 0:02:52 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  91. unmapped (reappraisal): The Wolf of Wall Street → Mr. Scorsese (Apple documentary, dir. Rebecca Miller). Watching the documentary colors a host's regret about Wolf's placement at 11.
    “That's going to color this conversation and maybe some of my regret around its placement at number 11.”
    The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 11 - 'The Wolf of Wall Street’ · 0:03:10 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  92. craft (style culmination): The Wolf of Wall Street → Martin Scorsese. Wolf is the apotheosis of a hyperkinetic style Scorsese developed in the 21st century.
    “it's like the final boss of a thing he developed in the 21st century as a director.”
    The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 11 - 'The Wolf of Wall Street’ · 0:03:29 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  93. craft (music): The Wolf of Wall Street → Robbie Robertson. Scorsese and Robertson were obsessed with the hungry, lascivious blues records used in the soundtrack.
    “a kind of like, um, Hungry, lascivious quality to some of those blues records that Scorsese and Robbie Robertson were obsessed with”
    The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 11 - 'The Wolf of Wall Street’ · 0:15:02 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  94. lineage (genre lineage): Industry → The Wolf of Wall Street. The TV show Industry belongs to the same lineage of finance stories.
    “Boiler room, margin call and industry.”
    The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 11 - 'The Wolf of Wall Street’ · 0:42:18 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  95. lineage (lineage / scale): Wall Street → The Wolf of Wall Street. Oliver Stone's Wall Street is part of the lineage but feels small beside Wolf.
    “That movie feels very small compared to Wolf of Wall Street.”
    The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 11 - 'The Wolf of Wall Street’ · 0:42:46 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  96. people (director): Wall Street → Oliver Stone. Wall Street is Oliver Stone's movie; Stone is not among the speaker's favorites in the Stone episode.
    “it's not my favorite as we've when we did our stone episode, it's not really high for me personally.”
    The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 11 - 'The Wolf of Wall Street’ · 0:42:55 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  97. craft (craft): The Royal Tenenbaums → The Rolling Stones. The film uses a more obscure Rolling Stones song and then 'Ruby Tuesday'.
    “he gives you slightly more obscure Rolling Stone song and then he gives you a Ruby Tuesday.”
    The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 12 - 'The Royal Tenenbaums’ · 0:20:09 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
  98. craft (craft): The Royal Tenenbaums → Bob Dylan. Two very obscure Bob Dylan songs are in the film, 'Wigwam' among them, which became well known after its use here.
    “he gives you 2 very obscure Bob Dylan songs.”
    The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 12 - 'The Royal Tenenbaums’ · 0:20:21 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
  99. craft (craft): The Royal Tenenbaums → Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid. The wordless acoustic guitar theme from Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid is one of the film's needle drops.
    “And then the theme from Pacyard and Billy the Kid in that amazing, you know, that's just like a worldless acoustic guitar composition.”
    The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 12 - 'The Royal Tenenbaums’ · 0:20:30 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
  100. craft (craft): The Royal Tenenbaums → The Ramones. A Ramones punk track plays over the go-kart racing, part of Anderson blending styles of music as he blends cinematic styles.
    “while racing in the go-karts too, with the Ramones, like, and him blending all these different styles”
    The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 12 - 'The Royal Tenenbaums’ · 0:21:02 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)

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