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 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)