Sean Fennessey

Personality, episode by episode

Showing 61–80 of 81 sketches.

Their shows' recurring bits

Running bits, not opinions; a critic read aloud is cited, not present.

The Big Picture

• Drafts: Hosts and guests draft films in rounds; every pick is a recommendation with an argument.
• Hall of Fame: A star's or director's best, ranked and argued.
• Countdowns: Ranked lists, top five or top ten.

The Rewatchables

• Apex Mountain: The moment a star peaks; where on the mountain a performance sits.
• Who Won the Movie: The hosts name the person who came out of the film best off.
• The Ebert review: Roger Ebert's original review and star rating read aloud. Ebert is cited, never on the show.
• Casting what-ifs: Who was almost cast, or who should have been.
• Most rewatchable scene: The scene each host would stop on while flipping channels.
• Aged best / aged worst: What holds up and what does not.
• Picking Nits: The little things in a film the hosts love that they don't think totally work: the nits.
• Double feature: The film each host would pair it with; a programming pick.

Their claims

Showing 701–800 of 1,576 claims.

701. what-if (recut): Miami Vice → Michael Mann. The theatrical cut throws you into the club; Mann's Blu-ray version adds earlier scenes.

     “really kind of loves the theatrical cut of Miami Vice because he just throws you into the club.”

     The Big Picture · Physical Media Strikes Back With Tim Simons · 0:41:54 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
702. unmapped (Criterion route): The Power of the Dog → The Irishman. Streamer films reach boutique labels: Power of the Dog went to Criterion right away.

     “Like the power of the dog going to the criterion collection right away is interesting.”

     The Big Picture · Physical Media Strikes Back With Tim Simons · 0:43:46 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
703. people (directed): The Devils → Ken Russell. The Devils is Ken Russell's, about France and the church, a psychotic opera of horror.

     “This is Ken Russell's, I think 1977.”

     The Big Picture · Physical Media Strikes Back With Tim Simons · 0:46:06 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
704. unmapped (same journey): Possession → The Devils. Both were hard to see for stretches, art-house classics now regarded highly.

     “I very similar kind of film to the devils in that for some periods of time, it was harder to see”

     The Big Picture · Physical Media Strikes Back With Tim Simons · 0:47:36 · Sean Fennessey (0.55 sure it was them)
705. unmapped (consonant with): Possession → David Cronenberg. Possession is a precursor to many freak-out movies, consonant with Cronenberg.

     “a precursor to a lot of different kinds of movies, you know, kind of like consonant with David Kronenberg”

     The Big Picture · Physical Media Strikes Back With Tim Simons · 0:47:43 · Sean Fennessey (0.55 sure it was them)
706. unmapped (portal): Possession → Andrzej Zulawski. Possession gets so far under your skin that the speaker bought a Zulawski box set to chase more of him.

     “but he gets so under your skin in that movie that I kind of wanted to try to go back to that place.”

     The Big Picture · Physical Media Strikes Back With Tim Simons · 0:49:25 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
707. unmapped (box art): The Renowned Westerns of Budd Boetticher (Indicator box) → Randolph Scott. The Indicator Boetticher box features Randolph Scott painted like a Monet; a child adopted it as a toy.

     “these beautiful images of Randolph Scott, Randolph Scott, like, you know, painted like a, like a, like a Monet.”

     The Big Picture · Physical Media Strikes Back With Tim Simons · 0:56:49 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
708. craft (sound): Apocalypse Now → Apocalypse Now. Watching Apocalypse Now with TV speakers on a streaming service loses the artistic intent.

     “if you want to watch Apocalypse Now, you don't want to watch it with your TV speakers on a streaming service.”

     The Big Picture · Physical Media Strikes Back With Tim Simons · 0:59:42 · Sean Fennessey (0.55 sure it was them)
709. unmapped (format timing): Skinamarink → Skinamarink. Scarier alone at home in the dark; silly in a theater with a chatty crowd.

     “this is a very silly movie that doesn't really work very well.”

     The Big Picture · Physical Media Strikes Back With Tim Simons · 1:00:34 · Sean Fennessey (0.55 sure it was them)
710. unmapped (collection): Killers of the Flower Moon → Martin Scorsese. Wants Killers to round out a Scorsese collection; Apple not releasing physical.

     “I'd like to own it as well to round out my wonderful collection of Martin Scorsese films”

     The Big Picture · Physical Media Strikes Back With Tim Simons · 1:03:49 · Sean Fennessey (0.55 sure it was them)
711. unmapped (orbit): Willard Huyck → George Lucas. Huyck and Katz were in the Lucas orbit in the 70s with an American Graffiti credit.

     “They were in the Lucas orbit in the 70s.”

     The Big Picture · Physical Media Strikes Back With Tim Simons · 1:07:29 · Sean Fennessey (0.55 sure it was them)
712. people (same writers): Messiah of Evil → Howard the Duck. Messiah of Evil's writers-directors are best known for Howard the Duck, which it has nothing to do with.

     “They are probably best known for working on Howard the Duck”

     The Big Picture · Physical Media Strikes Back With Tim Simons · 1:07:35 · Sean Fennessey (0.55 sure it was them)
713. lineage (influence 80s horror): Messiah of Evil → American Graffiti. Messiah of Evil is described as hugely influential on 80s horror that followed.

     “clearly hugely influential on the 80s films that were going to come after it.”

     The Big Picture · Physical Media Strikes Back With Tim Simons · 1:08:01 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
714. unmapped (same label): Messiah of Evil → Miami Blues. Radiance put out Messiah of Evil; the speaker first got hip to the label buying Miami Blues at Fopp.

     “But I bought Miami blues there, which is a really, really good Alec Baldwin, Jennifer Jason Lee movie.”

     The Big Picture · Physical Media Strikes Back With Tim Simons · 1:09:09 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
715. unmapped (same label): Messiah of Evil → Thieves Like Us. Radiance also issued a great edition of the Altman film Thieves Like Us.

     “they put out a great edition of Thieves Like Us, the Altman movie”

     The Big Picture · Physical Media Strikes Back With Tim Simons · 1:09:44 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
716. lineage (spiritual forebear): Ken Russell → Tár. Russell's melodramatic operatic composer biopics like Mahler are a Tar precursor.

     “He made a lot of, um, uh, like melodramatic, stylish operatic recreations of composers lives, like Mahler.”

     The Big Picture · Physical Media Strikes Back With Tim Simons · 1:12:01 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
717. lineage (precursor): Mahler → Tár. Ken Russell's composer-life films like Mahler are a precursor to Tar.

     “It is kind of a tar precursor.”

     The Big Picture · Physical Media Strikes Back With Tim Simons · 1:12:15 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
718. unmapped (Apple physical): The Velvet Underground → Killers of the Flower Moon. Velvet Underground is the one Apple movie with a physical release (Criterion).

     “Actually, that's the one Apple movie that has a physical release.”

     The Big Picture · Physical Media Strikes Back With Tim Simons · 1:14:15 · Sean Fennessey (0.55 sure it was them)
719. unmapped (introduced): Spirited Away → Leonardo DiCaprio. DiCaprio introduced Scorsese to Spirited Away.

     “he was like, but, you know, I did put you onto Miyazaki and specifically spirited away.”

     The Big Picture · Physical Media Strikes Back With Tim Simons · 1:19:08 · Sean Fennessey (0.55 sure it was them)
720. lineage (influence): Hayao Miyazaki → Leonardo DiCaprio. Miyazaki's planet-degradation themes were a critical influence on DiCaprio becoming an environmental activist.

     “Miyazaki is one of the critical influences on DiCaprio becoming such an aggressive environmental activists”

     The Big Picture · Physical Media Strikes Back With Tim Simons · 1:19:29 · Sean Fennessey (0.55 sure it was them)
721. unmapped (unusual PGA nominees): The Zone of Interest → Past Lives. The PGA, which usually goes mainstream, nominated these two smaller art house movies among its ten.

     “It's unusual that films like the zone of interest and past lives that are smaller, intimate, complicated art house movies, really, are nominated among the 10 films here.”

     The Big Picture · Oscar Nomination Predictions, ‘Mean Girls,’ and ‘All of Us Strangers’ With Andrew Scott · 0:05:24 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
722. contrast (campaign contrast): The Color Purple → Origin. The Color Purple had a big initial response but faded at the box office and lacks a PGA bump, while Origin is getting a late grassroots push.

     “that is a film that had an initial huge audience response. The box office is kind of tapered off.”

     The Big Picture · Oscar Nomination Predictions, ‘Mean Girls,’ and ‘All of Us Strangers’ With Andrew Scott · 0:06:41 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
723. unmapped (podcast fandom): Ryan Rosillo → The Rewatchables: JFK. Sean is a devoted fan of Rosillo's non-sports content, naming The Town and JFK Rewatchables.

     “including the town rewatchables, one of like hang his jersey and the rafters for that”

     The Big Picture · Oscar Nomination Predictions, ‘Mean Girls,’ and ‘All of Us Strangers’ With Andrew Scott · 0:13:04 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
724. unmapped (Criterion Closet): Willem Dafoe → Onibaba. In a Criterion Closet video, Dafoe says he tried to remake Onibaba.

     “He was like, I tried to remake Oni Baba.”

     The Big Picture · Oscar Nomination Predictions, ‘Mean Girls,’ and ‘All of Us Strangers’ With Andrew Scott · 0:20:20 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
725. lineage (adaptation recontextualization): The Zone of Interest → Poor Things. Five adapted-screenplay nominees are interesting recontextualizations of their sources, and Zone of Interest is the outside contender that is also one.

     “The one on the outside, I think, is also a best picture contender that is also a recontextualization, which is the zone of interest.”

     The Big Picture · Oscar Nomination Predictions, ‘Mean Girls,’ and ‘All of Us Strangers’ With Andrew Scott · 0:28:46 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
726. lineage (adaptation): Origin → Isabel Wilkerson. Origin is Ava DuVernay's adaptation of Isabel Wilkerson's nonfiction book.

     “It's an adaptation of cast, Isabel Wilkerson's nonfiction, a nonfiction book.”

     The Big Picture · Oscar Nomination Predictions, ‘Mean Girls,’ and ‘All of Us Strangers’ With Andrew Scott · 0:32:57 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
727. unmapped (availability): Fallen Leaves → Aki Kaurismaki. Kaurismaki's film, in few US theaters, streams on MUBI the Friday the episode posts.

     “Fallen leaves for movie subscribers is on movie on Friday when the day this podcast is posting.”

     The Big Picture · Oscar Nomination Predictions, ‘Mean Girls,’ and ‘All of Us Strangers’ With Andrew Scott · 0:35:07 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
728. unmapped (retrospective momentum): Perfect Days → Wim Wenders. Perfect Days is the chalk international-feature pick because Wenders has a huge retrospective at the American Cinematheque.

     “the chalk pick is perfect days, Vim Vendors, beloved, he's having this huge retrospective at the American Cinema at this moment.”

     The Big Picture · Oscar Nomination Predictions, ‘Mean Girls,’ and ‘All of Us Strangers’ With Andrew Scott · 0:36:28 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
729. people (performance vs. film): Maestro → Bradley Cooper. Cooper's performance is one of the best things about Maestro, but he is not quite the center of a movie that is afraid of that.

     “I love his performance. I think that his performance is one of the best things about it, but, He's not the center of the movie.”

     The Big Picture · Oscar Nomination Predictions, ‘Mean Girls,’ and ‘All of Us Strangers’ With Andrew Scott · 0:39:32 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
730. career (career-recognition vote): The Holdovers → Alexander Payne. Voters may nominate Payne because they see The Holdovers as the last great Alexander Payne movie, a miracle they do not make anymore.

     “this is the last great Alexander Payne movie or something, that's sort of like we gotta, we gotta get him his thing that he deserves.”

     The Big Picture · Oscar Nomination Predictions, ‘Mean Girls,’ and ‘All of Us Strangers’ With Andrew Scott · 0:47:15 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
731. unmapped (authorship): Mean Girls → Tina Fey. Sean frames the film as a Tina Fey adaptation of her own screenplay of her own musical.

     “directed this adaptation by Tina Fey of a screenplay by Tina Fey of a musical by Tina Fey?”

     The Big Picture · Oscar Nomination Predictions, ‘Mean Girls,’ and ‘All of Us Strangers’ With Andrew Scott · 0:49:19 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
732. unmapped (moviegoing experience): Mean Girls → Barbie. Seeing Mean Girls alone in an IMAX theater surrounded by young women in bright colors felt just like seeing Barbie.

     “It was very similar to Barbie.”

     The Big Picture · Oscar Nomination Predictions, ‘Mean Girls,’ and ‘All of Us Strangers’ With Andrew Scott · 0:50:23 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
733. unmapped (IP recreation): Mean Girls → The Lord of the Rings. The verbatim echoing of the original is compared to how a future remake of Lord of the Rings would recycle its shtick.

     “when we see a Lord of the Rings movie, you know, 10 years from now, when they're just like doing the same shtick, like it's kind of like IP recreation in a way.”

     The Big Picture · Oscar Nomination Predictions, ‘Mean Girls,’ and ‘All of Us Strangers’ With Andrew Scott · 0:51:59 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
734. lineage (remake): Mean Girls → Mean Girls. The new film reuses the original's iconic lines and jokes nearly verbatim, which Sean found a little flat because no joke lands when you know it is coming.

     “they really do it verbatim, like, and so that's weird with a joke.”

     The Big Picture · Oscar Nomination Predictions, ‘Mean Girls,’ and ‘All of Us Strangers’ With Andrew Scott · 0:52:22 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
735. lineage (remake tolerance): Mean Girls → Transformers. Since the host does not give Transformers and Spider-Man grief for echoing earlier versions, he will not give it to Mean Girls.

     “I guess if I'm not going to give Transformers and Spider-Man shit about that.”

     The Big Picture · Oscar Nomination Predictions, ‘Mean Girls,’ and ‘All of Us Strangers’ With Andrew Scott · 0:54:00 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
736. lineage (generational remake): Mean Girls → A Star Is Born. The speaker is fine with a new auteur remaking a beloved thing every 20 years, as with Star Is Born / Star Wars-style retellings, here giving the social-media generation its own Mean Girls.

     “every 20 years another Otour comes along and is like, I've got a take on this.”

     The Big Picture · Oscar Nomination Predictions, ‘Mean Girls,’ and ‘All of Us Strangers’ With Andrew Scott · 0:54:17 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
737. people (director filmography): Weekend → All of Us Strangers. Sean lists Haigh's prior films (Weekend, 45 Years, Lean on Pete) and the HBO series Looking.

     “has directed a handful of films, created the looking TV series for HBO, darted weekend, uh, 45 years, lean on Pete.”

     The Big Picture · Oscar Nomination Predictions, ‘Mean Girls,’ and ‘All of Us Strangers’ With Andrew Scott · 1:03:12 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
738. lineage (adaptation): All of Us Strangers → Strangers. The film adapts a Japanese story by Taichi Yamada, described as a ghost story queer romance.

     “He's adapted a Japanese story called Strangers by Taiichi Yamada.”

     The Big Picture · Oscar Nomination Predictions, ‘Mean Girls,’ and ‘All of Us Strangers’ With Andrew Scott · 1:03:32 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
739. people (same director, intimacy): All of Us Strangers → Weekend. Haigh has always been direct about sex between two men, and Weekend shows an intimacy you will not find in a common 2024 love story.

     “if you just watch Weekend, you can see that there's a level of intimacy that is portrayed in that movie that you won't find in your common, uh, love story in in 2024.”

     The Big Picture · Oscar Nomination Predictions, ‘Mean Girls,’ and ‘All of Us Strangers’ With Andrew Scott · 1:09:18 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
740. unmapped (needle drop): All of Us Strangers → Blur. Blur's Death of a Party scores the club sequence where the movie tilts toward the truth about Harry.

     “and blur, uh, death of a party is played. like an amazing needle drop”

     The Big Picture · Oscar Nomination Predictions, ‘Mean Girls,’ and ‘All of Us Strangers’ With Andrew Scott · 1:14:02 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
741. unmapped (needle drop): All of Us Strangers → Frankie Goes to Hollywood. The film closes on The Power of Love, one of Haigh's favorite songs, while the bed pulls away into the stars.

     “The film closes with uh, Frankie goes to Hollywood's uh, Power of Love.”

     The Big Picture · Oscar Nomination Predictions, ‘Mean Girls,’ and ‘All of Us Strangers’ With Andrew Scott · 1:16:55 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
742. contrast (persona contrast): Andrew Scott → Fleabag. Scott is known for slick, verbally dexterous, elusive characters like the Hot Priest and Moriarty, which makes his quiet turn here a recontextualization.

     “very verbally dexterous, you know, hot priest in Moriarty.”

     The Big Picture · Oscar Nomination Predictions, ‘Mean Girls,’ and ‘All of Us Strangers’ With Andrew Scott · 1:21:00 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
743. unmapped (stylistic kinship): All of Us Strangers → The Ozu movie / Bresson movie (as comparison). Unlike Scott's clever, elusive Moriarty and Hot Priest, All of Us Strangers is quiet and still like an Ozu or Bresson film.

     “This is like an Ozu movie or, um, like a Bresson movie.”

     The Big Picture · Oscar Nomination Predictions, ‘Mean Girls,’ and ‘All of Us Strangers’ With Andrew Scott · 1:21:13 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
744. people (actor range): All of Us Strangers → Ripley. Moving from the performative sociopath of Ripley to the recessed, often wordless Adam is one of the biggest leaps between character archetypes.

     “I'm not sure if there could be a bigger leap between character archetype than from Ripley to Adam.”

     The Big Picture · Oscar Nomination Predictions, ‘Mean Girls,’ and ‘All of Us Strangers’ With Andrew Scott · 1:40:59 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)
745. industry (release clash): Mickey 17 → Dune: Part Two. Warner Bros. moved Dune 2 to March 2024, so Mickey 17 likely could not share that month.

     “they're probably not going to do Dune 2 and Mickey 17 in the same month just from like marketing resources”

     The Big Picture · Best Picture Power Rankings and a ‘Poor Things’ Deep Dive. Plus: Julianne Moore and Todd Haynes! · 0:05:08 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
746. unmapped (audience context): Bong Joon-ho → Parasite. Parasite introduced Bong to a huge audience but he makes strange genre films, a concern for Warner.

     “Parasite introduced him to a huge new audience, but he makes really unusual genre movies.”

     The Big Picture · Best Picture Power Rankings and a ‘Poor Things’ Deep Dive. Plus: Julianne Moore and Todd Haynes! · 0:06:21 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
747. unmapped (long-running want): Leonardo DiCaprio → Boogie Nights. PTA wanted DiCaprio for Boogie Nights and has been trying to cast him since.

     “PTA wanted Leo for boogie nights.”

     The Big Picture · Best Picture Power Rankings and a ‘Poor Things’ Deep Dive. Plus: Julianne Moore and Todd Haynes! · 0:08:21 · Sean Fennessey (0.65 sure it was them)
748. people (prior performance): Sean Penn → Licorice Pizza. Penn did fine work in a William Holden-esque stand-in role there.

     “He was in Licorice Pizza, did fine work as a William Holden-esque stand-in in that movie.”

     The Big Picture · Best Picture Power Rankings and a ‘Poor Things’ Deep Dive. Plus: Julianne Moore and Todd Haynes! · 0:08:45 · Sean Fennessey (0.55 sure it was them)
749. career (career milestone): Paul Thomas Anderson → Punch-Drunk Love. His next film is the first contemporary-set film since Punch-Drunk Love.

     “This is the 1st time he's made a movie set in modern time since Punch Drunklove”

     The Big Picture · Best Picture Power Rankings and a ‘Poor Things’ Deep Dive. Plus: Julianne Moore and Todd Haynes! · 0:08:53 · Sean Fennessey (0.65 sure it was them)
750. unmapped (gave break): Michael De Luca → Boogie Nights. De Luca ran New Line and gave PTA his break with Boogie Nights; now runs Warner's films division.

     “gave PTA his big break with Boogie Nights.”

     The Big Picture · Best Picture Power Rankings and a ‘Poor Things’ Deep Dive. Plus: Julianne Moore and Todd Haynes! · 0:09:09 · Sean Fennessey (0.65 sure it was them)
751. lineage (rumored adaptation): Paul Thomas Anderson → Thomas Pynchon. PTA's next film was long rumored to adapt Pynchon's Vineland, set in the 1980s, but this one is contemporary.

     “it has been long rumored that his next, his next film is going to be an adaptation of Thomas Pinchin's Vineland.”

     The Big Picture · Best Picture Power Rankings and a ‘Poor Things’ Deep Dive. Plus: Julianne Moore and Todd Haynes! · 0:09:52 · Sean Fennessey (0.65 sure it was them)
752. unmapped (synthesis of oeuvre): The Boy and the Heron → Hayao Miyazaki. Watching a few earlier Miyazaki films first reveals the Heron as a synthesis.

     “if you watch like 2 or 3 beforehand and then watch it, you'll see that there's like a synthesis going on.”

     The Big Picture · Best Picture Power Rankings and a ‘Poor Things’ Deep Dive. Plus: Julianne Moore and Todd Haynes! · 0:13:05 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
753. people (director identity): Ferrari → Michael Mann. An Italian-set film by 'the most American of directors', with Cruz as a more known international actress.

     “Ferrari, which is an Italian based film made by Michael Mann, the most American of directors.”

     The Big Picture · Best Picture Power Rankings and a ‘Poor Things’ Deep Dive. Plus: Julianne Moore and Todd Haynes! · 0:19:43 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
754. people (actors satirized): May December → Poor Things. Sean says he discussed the satirization of actors in May December with the guests, tied to why actors may have overlooked it.

     “I actually talked about specifically some of the satirization of actors with Julianne and Todd.”

     The Big Picture · Best Picture Power Rankings and a ‘Poor Things’ Deep Dive. Plus: Julianne Moore and Todd Haynes! · 0:21:20 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
755. unmapped (star type): Charles Melton → Clark Gable. Melton is a classical old-school movie star type who knows how to pose.

     “he's really just, like a lot of Clark Gable.”

     The Big Picture · Best Picture Power Rankings and a ‘Poor Things’ Deep Dive. Plus: Julianne Moore and Todd Haynes! · 0:21:51 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
756. contrast (awards contrast): Mark Ruffalo → Willem Dafoe. Dafoe repeats what he has done before while Ruffalo breaks new ground, so Ruffalo's snub is odder.

     “whereas Ruffalo is doing something”

     The Big Picture · Best Picture Power Rankings and a ‘Poor Things’ Deep Dive. Plus: Julianne Moore and Todd Haynes! · 0:23:15 · Sean Fennessey (0.55 sure it was them)
757. people (casting reference): Willem Dafoe → The Lighthouse. Dafoe's Godwin is described as a craggy, monstrous creature, a lighthouse meets Shadow of the Vampire.

     “like a lighthouse meets shadow of the vampire.”

     The Big Picture · Best Picture Power Rankings and a ‘Poor Things’ Deep Dive. Plus: Julianne Moore and Todd Haynes! · 0:23:34 · Sean Fennessey (0.55 sure it was them)
758. theme (parallel role): Mark Ruffalo → Sterling K. Brown. Both play comic relief who force a realization on the lead, which is why one host wants both recognized.

     “Like they're comic relief, but they're also like a critical emotional turning point for the lead character.”

     The Big Picture · Best Picture Power Rankings and a ‘Poor Things’ Deep Dive. Plus: Julianne Moore and Todd Haynes! · 0:24:50 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
759. unmapped (could-have-been-by): Poor Things → Guillermo del Toro. The creature story and design could have come from a del Toro film.

     “This could have been a Giroba Del Toro movie, honestly”

     The Big Picture · Best Picture Power Rankings and a ‘Poor Things’ Deep Dive. Plus: Julianne Moore and Todd Haynes! · 0:32:52 · Sean Fennessey (0.65 sure it was them)
760. people (collaboration pair): Emma Stone → Yorgos Lanthimos. Their partnership (two features, a short, a third coming) is likened to Scorsese and De Niro.

     “This is like a Scorsese De Niro thing that is happening.”

     The Big Picture · Best Picture Power Rankings and a ‘Poor Things’ Deep Dive. Plus: Julianne Moore and Todd Haynes! · 0:33:06 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)
761. theme (theme link): Poor Things → Fair Play. The sex-in-American-movies topic was discussed in the Fair Play episode.

     “We talked about it in the Fairplay episode last year.”

     The Big Picture · Best Picture Power Rankings and a ‘Poor Things’ Deep Dive. Plus: Julianne Moore and Todd Haynes! · 0:37:20 · Sean Fennessey (0.55 sure it was them)
762. theme (character echo): Poor Things → The Island of Dr. Moreau. Godwin, fusing creatures on his island, is likened to a Dr. Moreau figure.

     “he's kind of an, uh, an island of Dr. Moreau kind of figure”

     The Big Picture · Best Picture Power Rankings and a ‘Poor Things’ Deep Dive. Plus: Julianne Moore and Todd Haynes! · 0:40:21 · Sean Fennessey (0.55 sure it was them)
763. lineage (sequel in spirit): Poor Things → Dogtooth. Both are about who gets to dictate the rules; Poor Things is described as a sequel to Dogtooth's fathers-and-language themes.

     “It's like the sequel to that movie in some ways because the Godwin character”

     The Big Picture · Best Picture Power Rankings and a ‘Poor Things’ Deep Dive. Plus: Julianne Moore and Todd Haynes! · 0:41:25 · Sean Fennessey (0.55 sure it was them)
764. people (prior role): Kathryn Hunter → The Tragedy of Macbeth. Hunter, the Madam in Poor Things, was the witches in Macbeth.

     “who we last saw in uh, Tragedy of Macbeth, as the witches, is an incredible performer”

     The Big Picture · Best Picture Power Rankings and a ‘Poor Things’ Deep Dive. Plus: Julianne Moore and Todd Haynes! · 0:57:15 · Sean Fennessey (0.55 sure it was them)
765. contrast (tonal contrast): The Lobster → Poor Things. The Lobster ends in tragedy while Poor Things is called Lanthimos's most heartful movie.

     “I do think this is the most like heartful movie he's made.”

     The Big Picture · Best Picture Power Rankings and a ‘Poor Things’ Deep Dive. Plus: Julianne Moore and Todd Haynes! · 1:10:42 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
766. lineage (influence): Poor Things → Bride of Frankenstein. Sean says the Frankenstein novel and the first two Frankenstein movies are major influences on Poor Things.

     “the Frankenstein and Bride of Frankenstein are, like, huge influences on this movie.”

     The Big Picture · Best Picture Power Rankings and a ‘Poor Things’ Deep Dive. Plus: Julianne Moore and Todd Haynes! · 1:14:03 · Sean Fennessey (0.75 sure it was them)
767. contrast (inversion): Poor Things → Frankenstein. Frankenstein is a cautionary tale about science; Poor Things uses its framework to arrive at redemption and closeness.

     “There's a lot of other ideas in Frankenstein, but this movie in many ways is the opposite.”

     The Big Picture · Best Picture Power Rankings and a ‘Poor Things’ Deep Dive. Plus: Julianne Moore and Todd Haynes! · 1:15:07 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)
768. lineage (source novel): Poor Things → Alasdair Gray. The film is based on the Scottish author's novel, from which Lanthimos took liberties.

     “this is actually based on a novel by Alice Dare Gray, the Scottish author.”

     The Big Picture · Best Picture Power Rankings and a ‘Poor Things’ Deep Dive. Plus: Julianne Moore and Todd Haynes! · 1:18:42 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
769. theme (genre translation): The Favourite → Mean Girls. Sean praises the Mean Girls reading, then says the film is really about power and lonely futility.

     “The favorite is Mean Girls. I think that's super smart reading of that movie”

     The Big Picture · Best Picture Power Rankings and a ‘Poor Things’ Deep Dive. Plus: Julianne Moore and Todd Haynes! · 1:19:05 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
770. unmapped (temperament): Yorgos Lanthimos → Stanley Kubrick. Sean calls Lanthimos a 'we are all alone' filmmaker in the Kubrick mold, at least until now.

     “he is like a Kubrickian, we are all alone kind of filmmaker.”

     The Big Picture · Best Picture Power Rankings and a ‘Poor Things’ Deep Dive. Plus: Julianne Moore and Todd Haynes! · 1:21:34 · Sean Fennessey (0.65 sure it was them)
771. industry (awards viewership): May December → The Zone of Interest. Argues May December is widely seen on Netflix, more than Zone, Anatomy or Past Lives.

     “Main December is way more widely seen, in my opinion, than the zone of interest.”

     The Big Picture · Best Picture Power Rankings and a ‘Poor Things’ Deep Dive. Plus: Julianne Moore and Todd Haynes! · 1:29:58 · Sean Fennessey (0.65 sure it was them)
772. industry (release-timing theory): The Iron Claw → A24. A24 had too many good films; releasing The Iron Claw earlier would have helped Zac Efron.

     “I think if you had, if they had released Iron Claw in November, that's a movie that I think Zach Efron would be competing.”

     The Big Picture · Best Picture Power Rankings and a ‘Poor Things’ Deep Dive. Plus: Julianne Moore and Todd Haynes! · 1:31:03 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
773. industry (release-timing theory): Bo Is Afraid → A24. Bo Is Afraid could have been an October awards play for makeup/hair or costumes.

     “That could have been an awards movie if they dropped it in October in some certain respects”

     The Big Picture · Best Picture Power Rankings and a ‘Poor Things’ Deep Dive. Plus: Julianne Moore and Todd Haynes! · 1:31:28 · Sean Fennessey (0.45 sure it was them)
774. industry (awards precedent): The Zone of Interest → Another Round. Another Round got a screenplay nomination but not Best Picture.

     “We saw this with another round where got a screenplay nomination, but it didn't get in to best picture.”

     The Big Picture · Best Picture Power Rankings and a ‘Poor Things’ Deep Dive. Plus: Julianne Moore and Todd Haynes! · 1:35:59 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
775. industry (awards rivals): Poor Things → The Holdovers. The two are tied, appealing to different voting blocks: old classical versus young and visual.

     “the holdovers is just a very classical movie that feels like it was made in the 70s and speaks to that nostalgia factor for a lot of voters”

     The Big Picture · Best Picture Power Rankings and a ‘Poor Things’ Deep Dive. Plus: Julianne Moore and Todd Haynes! · 1:44:27 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
776. unmapped (creative counterpart): May December → Safe. Haynes and Moore's collaboration traces to Moore's Safe audition; it is their fifth film together.

     “This is your 5th collaboration.”

     The Big Picture · Best Picture Power Rankings and a ‘Poor Things’ Deep Dive. Plus: Julianne Moore and Todd Haynes! · 1:48:26 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)
777. lineage (influence): Far from Heaven → Douglas Sirk. Sean asks whether Moore studied Sirk films; Haynes says Far from Heaven derives from other movies and 1950s domestic melodramas.

     “do you watch Douglas Cirque films when you're preparing”

     The Big Picture · Best Picture Power Rankings and a ‘Poor Things’ Deep Dive. Plus: Julianne Moore and Todd Haynes! · 1:56:54 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)
778. contrast (ambiguity contrast): May December → Dark Waters. Sean says Dark Waters is the only Haynes film where what is real is clearer.

     “Maybe Dark Waters is the only one where it's a little bit more clear to me, what, what, what is real in some respects.”

     The Big Picture · Best Picture Power Rankings and a ‘Poor Things’ Deep Dive. Plus: Julianne Moore and Todd Haynes! · 2:14:59 · Sean Fennessey (0.75 sure it was them)
779. career (career): Ferrari → Sydney Pollack. Mann began talking with Sydney Pollack about Ferrari in the 90s.

     “I guess he started talking with Sidney Pollock about this movie in the 90s”

     The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:05:12 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
780. lineage (lineage): Ferrari → Brock Yates. Ferrari adapts the Brock Yates book on Enzo Ferrari.

     “by Brock Yates”

     The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:05:18 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
781. people (people): Ferrari → Troy Kennedy Martin. Troy Kennedy Martin wrote the screenplay and died in 2009.

     “Troy Kennedy Martin, the man who wrote the screenplay for this film, passed away in 2009”

     The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:05:25 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
782. lineage (lineage): Michael Mann → Heat. Mann has said he wants to adapt his Heat novel as a sequel and prequel to Heat.

     “he's been publicly talking about his desire to find a way to adapt his novel of heat to the sequel and prequel to heat.”

     The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:08:38 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
783. people (people): Michael Mann → Adam Driver. Mann has begun a love affair with Driver like many auteurs in the last ten years.

     “He's obviously begun a love affair, like so many Otours in the last 10 years have with Adam Driver”

     The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:08:50 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
784. contrast (contrast): Ferrari → Bohemian Rhapsody. Ferrari is a man of contradictions, not a flawless-icon biopic like Bohemian Rhapsody.

     “this isn't Bohemian Rhapsody, you know, it's not just like, God, Freddie Mercury is perfect.”

     The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:09:31 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
785. theme (theme): Ferrari → Heat. Ferrari carries Mann's themes of men pushing themselves to greatness with their obsessions.

     “men pushing themselves as hard as they can with the tools that they are obsessed with to achieve greatness”

     The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:10:16 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
786. career (career): The Last of the Mohicans → Black Hat. Mann's look ranges from the classical Mohicans to the pinhole cameras of Black Hat.

     “this sort of classical look of last the Mohicans all the way to the, you know, the sort of pinhole cameras of black hat.”

     The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:11:44 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
787. craft (craft): Ferrari → The Insider. Ferrari has the best script Mann has worked with since The Insider.

     “this has the best script he's worked with since insider”

     The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:12:05 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
788. career (career): Ferrari → Thief. The dialogue-driven Ferrari returns to the writing that made his films from Thief through the early 2000s.

     “starting with thief all the way roughly through like the early 2000s, like his signature movies.”

     The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:12:32 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
789. career (career): Ferrari → Black Hat. Ferrari fuses the classical Mann with the digital abstractions of Black Hat, per critic Bilge Ebiri.

     “the digital abstractions of black hat and public enemies and Miami Vice and collateral”

     The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:12:51 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
790. career (career): Ferrari → Public Enemies. Ferrari fuses the classical Mann with the digital abstractions of Public Enemies, per critic Bilge Ebiri.

     “the digital abstractions of black hat and public enemies and Miami Vice and collateral”

     The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:12:51 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
791. career (career): Ferrari → Miami Vice. Ferrari fuses the classical Mann with the digital abstractions of Miami Vice, per critic Bilge Ebiri.

     “the digital abstractions of black hat and public enemies and Miami Vice and collateral”

     The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:12:51 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
792. career (career): Ferrari → Collateral. Ferrari fuses the classical Mann with the digital abstractions of Collateral, per critic Bilge Ebiri.

     “the digital abstractions of black hat and public enemies and Miami Vice and collateral”

     The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:12:51 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
793. theme (theme): Michael Mann → Ferrari. Enzo Ferrari, with his department heads and team who report to him, reads as a stand-in for Michael Mann the filmmaker.

     “Enzo Ferrari is Michael Mann.”

     The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:17:09 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
794. what-if (what-if): Ferrari → Christian Bale. Bale was the original Ferrari, identified by Pollack and Mann, but stepped aside rather than gain weight.

     “originally when the film was being conceived, Sidney Pollock and Michael Mann had identified Christian Bale as Ferrari.”

     The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:26:27 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
795. what-if (what-if): Ferrari → Noomi Rapace. Noomi Rapace was attached to Ferrari alongside Jackman in 2017.

     “in 2017, Hugh Jackman and Numi Rapas were going to join the film.”

     The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:27:08 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
796. what-if (what-if): Ferrari → Hugh Jackman. Hugh Jackman was going to play Ferrari in 2017; Sean thinks it would have been wrong but interesting.

     “Hugh Jackman was going to play Ferrari.”

     The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:27:50 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
797. career (career): Ferrari → Thief. Mann's arc from James Caan's laborer in Thief to Ferrari the CEO is a late-career transformation.

     “he sees himself as this as the James Conn character and thief, a laborer.”

     The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:32:23 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
798. verdict (verdict): Heat → Joanna Hogg. Director Joanna Hogg named Heat the last great thing she'd seen.

     “she said heat”

     The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:41:04 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
799. industry (industry): Collateral → Michael Mann. Collateral was the first digital experiment, and many lesser directors have tried to copy it.

     “so many shitty directors have tried to do what this movie does”

     The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:43:47 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
800. craft (craft): Collateral → Tom Cruise. Collateral is a great two-hander with Cruise playing against type as the heavy.

     “playing against type and playing the heavy”

     The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:44:00 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)

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201. 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)
202. 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)
203. 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)
204. 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)
205. 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)
206. 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)
207. 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)
208. 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)
209. 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)
210. 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)
211. 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)
212. 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)
213. 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)
214. 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)
215. 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)
216. 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)
217. 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)
218. 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)
219. 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)
220. 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)
221. 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)
222. 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)
223. 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)
224. 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)
225. 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)
226. 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)
227. 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)
228. 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)
229. 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)
230. 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)
231. 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)
232. 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)
233. 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)
234. 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)
235. 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)
236. 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)
237. 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)
238. 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)
239. 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)
240. 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)
241. 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)
242. 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)
243. 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)
244. 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)
245. 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)
246. 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)
247. 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)
248. 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)
249. 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)
250. 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)
251. 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)
252. 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)
253. 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)
254. 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)
255. 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)
256. 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)
257. 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)
258. 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)
259. 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)
260. 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)
261. 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)
262. 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)
263. 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)
264. 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)
265. 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)
266. 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)
267. 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)
268. 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)
269. 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)
270. 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)
271. 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)
272. 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)
273. 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)
274. 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)
275. 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)
276. 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)
277. 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)
278. 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)
279. 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)
280. 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)
281. 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)
282. 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)
283. 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)
284. 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)
285. 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)
286. 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)
287. 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)
288. 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)
289. 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)
290. 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)
291. 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)
292. 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)
293. 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)
294. 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)
295. 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)
296. 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)
297. 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)
298. 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)
299. 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)
300. 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)