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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301. fun, about Brendan Fraser and John Lithgow: They show up as lawyers in the last 30 minutes in what feels like a different movie, with Fraser cut to erupt thunderously.

     “They're doing an old timey lawyer thing. There's like this thundering explanatory.”

     The Big Picture · ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Is Astounding · 1:13:14 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
302. fun, about Killers of the Flower Moon: The Masonic Hall spanking scene, a Jack Fisk construction with a checkerboard floor, is called funny and strange.

     “I guess the Masonic Hall spanking?”

     The Big Picture · ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Is Astounding · 1:14:15 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
303. fun, about Timothee Chalamet: In his interview with Scorsese he gushes about sitting with the greatest living filmmaker, and Scorsese doesn't blink.

     “Scorsese, like, doesn't blink. He doesn't like demur.”

     The Big Picture · ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Is Astounding · 1:29:14 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
304. fun, about Killers of the Flower Moon: Awards forecast: nominated for lots (Leo, Gladstone, Scorsese, production design, costume, adapted screenplay, maybe score and editing) but no real shot at Best Picture.

     “I just don't think it really has any chance to win best picture.”

     The Big Picture · ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Is Astounding · 1:32:00 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
305. fun, about The Big Picture: Next week: a lawyer-movie draft with Griffin Newman and David Sims of Blank Check, described as long and tense.

     “we're doing it with Griffin Newman and David Sims of the Blank Check podcast”

     The Big Picture · ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Is Astounding · 1:44:10 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
306. fun, about Sight and Sound poll: Sean notes that the Sight and Sound poll ballots include a Looney Tune and a 14-minute film on Adam's list, which includes Duck Amuck and Meshes of the Afternoon.

     “I mean, Adam had a had a had a looney tune and a 14 minute film on his list.”

     The Big Picture · The Top Five Movies of 2022 · 0:20:41 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)
307. fun, about The Eternal Daughter: Sean saw it at the New York Film Festival about five feet from Tilda Swinton and bumped it half a star for it. Amanda had slept on it because Sean did not respond to it at the festival.

     “the movie was bumped up half a star for me by seeing it in the front row and then being less than 5 feet away from Tilda Swinton.”

     The Big Picture · The Top Five Movies of 2022 · 0:38:24 · Sean Fennessey (0.85 sure it was them)
308. fun, about Babylon: Sean's backstory: he left a holiday party at Amanda's, in a bad mood, to drive to Century City for a three-hour-eight-minute screening, and was blown away anyway. He relays a Letterboxd review asking if it's a love letter to cinema or a suicide note.

     “Is this a love letter to cinema or a suicide note?”

     The Big Picture · The Top Five Movies of 2022 · 0:41:24 · Sean Fennessey (0.85 sure it was them)
309. fun, about Babylon: Sean says Margot Robbie is one of the only truly fearless young stars, glorious and disgusting at times, and might deserve a best actress nod.

     “She is one of the only truly fearless young stars we have.”

     The Big Picture · The Top Five Movies of 2022 · 0:42:39 · Sean Fennessey (0.85 sure it was them)
310. fun, about The Fabelmans: Amanda asks if she would trade having her son be as successful as Spielberg for the movie he'd make about her; Sean says to take the Jurassic Park money.

     “But could you be sitting on Jurassic Park money?”

     The Big Picture · The Top Five Movies of 2022 · 1:03:40 · Sean Fennessey (0.75 sure it was them)
311. fun, about Top Gun: Maverick: Sean on Cruise: the film is a beautifully designed vehicle and every viewing he slips into the passenger seat.

     “every time I watch it, I slip right into the passenger seat and I let it take me on a ride.”

     The Big Picture · The Top Five Movies of 2022 · 1:06:49 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)
312. fun, about Tár: Sean says the opening Q&A scene with the New Yorker interviewer is how to use Blanchett: ten minutes of her talking about things she likes. A hosts' joke imagines a Todd Field and Adam Sandler pairing.

     “that opening scene, as I wrote in the Ringer piece, where she's taking questions from Gopnik, from the New Yorkers, like, that is how you use Cape Blanchett.”

     The Big Picture · The Top Five Movies of 2022 · 1:18:23 · Sean Fennessey (0.65 sure it was them)
313. fun, about Nope: Sean admires the premise: an invented family that may be descended from the Black jockey in Muybridge's film strip, launching 100 years of film history and people whose names we don't know.

     “that's a genius idea for a drama, let alone a UFO movie.”

     The Big Picture · The Top Five Movies of 2022 · 1:33:59 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)
314. fun, about Clash of the Titans: Argument over Clash of the Titans, the Harry Hamlin original versus the Sam Worthington remake, with a side note that Hamlin is Lisa Rinna's husband.

     “Harry Hamlin's like incredibly handsome.”

     The Big Picture · ‘Black Panther: Wakanda Forever’ Is Here! · 0:26:39 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
315. fun, about Black Panther: Sean says Black Panther built a whole country so well that a Marvel movie got nominated for best picture.

     “they fucking nominated a Marvel movie for best picture.”

     The Big Picture · ‘Black Panther: Wakanda Forever’ Is Here! · 0:54:21 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)
316. fun, about Matt Damon: Damon turned down Jake Sully plus 10 percent of the future growth.

     “In addition to 10% of the future growth of this movie.”

     The Big Picture · The Great ‘Avatar’ Debate with Blank Check’s Griffin Newman and David Sims · 0:15:35 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)
317. fun, about James Cameron: Chris Ryan nicknamed Cameron Big Jim; the sea is dope.

     “As Chris once said, he thinks the sea is dope.”

     The Big Picture · The Great ‘Avatar’ Debate with Blank Check’s Griffin Newman and David Sims · 0:28:00 · Sean Fennessey (0.90 sure it was them)
318. fun, about James Cameron: Cameron got $10 million from Fox in 2005 to run R&D on Avatar and could have walked away.

     “Give me a year to just do R&D.”

     The Big Picture · The Great ‘Avatar’ Debate with Blank Check’s Griffin Newman and David Sims · 0:29:40 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
319. fun, about James Cameron: Speaker calls Cameron the ultimate con artist whose con is real.

     “Like, he is the ultimate, like, con artist whose con is real.”

     The Big Picture · The Great ‘Avatar’ Debate with Blank Check’s Griffin Newman and David Sims · 0:30:08 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
320. fun, about Avatar: How To with John Wilson featured Avatar superfans.

     “There is an extraordinary episode of How to with John Wilson.”

     The Big Picture · The Great ‘Avatar’ Debate with Blank Check’s Griffin Newman and David Sims · 0:48:37 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
321. fun, about The Hurt Locker: Lowest-grossing Best Picture winner, beat the highest-grossing film ever.

     “Hurt Locker, when it won, was the lowest grossing best picture winner ever.”

     The Big Picture · The Great ‘Avatar’ Debate with Blank Check’s Griffin Newman and David Sims · 1:35:45 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
322. fun, about Elvis: Sean's contrast: Elvis was shot with one camera on Ed Sullivan; the movie cuts a hundred times in two minutes to match his magnetism.

     “it literally cuts a 100 times in a 2 minute period of performance because that's almost sort of what it takes to match the Elvis Presley magnetism.”

     The Big Picture · ‘Elvis,’ ‘Walk Hard’ and Top Five Music Biopics · 0:17:28 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)
323. fun, about Tom Hanks: Hanks's Colonel Parker accent is compared to Goldmember; separately Amanda notes this is the film where he contracted COVID.

     “he's doing basically the gold member accent”

     The Big Picture · ‘Elvis,’ ‘Walk Hard’ and Top Five Music Biopics · 0:18:05 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)
324. fun, about Elvis: The film's 68 Comeback Special sequence and 'If I Can Dream' are Sean's favorite moments, close to Elvis's 'A Change Is Gonna Come'.

     “It's as close as Elvis got to a change is going to come.”

     The Big Picture · ‘Elvis,’ ‘Walk Hard’ and Top Five Music Biopics · 0:21:20 · Sean Fennessey (0.75 sure it was them)
325. fun, about Selena: Amanda was shown Selena in high school intro to Spanish on a quiet day to learn about Selena and Tejano music.

     “they literally showed us this movie in intro to Spanish when I was in high school.”

     The Big Picture · ‘Elvis,’ ‘Walk Hard’ and Top Five Music Biopics · 0:44:01 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)
326. fun, about Love and Mercy: Director Bill Pohlad is the son of Twins owner Carl Pohlad; he produced Brokeback Mountain, 12 Years a Slave and Tree of Life, a benefactor for filmmakers.

     “a guy named Bill Polad, who is the son of Carl Polad, the billionaire owner of the Minnesota Twins.”

     The Big Picture · ‘Elvis,’ ‘Walk Hard’ and Top Five Music Biopics · 0:55:48 · Sean Fennessey (0.90 sure it was them)
327. fun, about Bird: Warner Bros. and Columbia traded Revenge for the Charlie Parker rights, and Adam jokes Revenge is a gift to history that social media should avoid.

     “Revenge and Bird would be quite a double feature.”

     The Big Picture · ‘Elvis,’ ‘Walk Hard’ and Top Five Music Biopics · 0:59:52 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)
328. fun, about Amadeus: Amadeus won all the Oscars; the lasting memory is F. Murray Abraham's Salieri rather than Tom Hulce's Mozart.

     “I think the lasting memory of this movie is not Tom Holst, but F. Murray Abraham”

     The Big Picture · ‘Elvis,’ ‘Walk Hard’ and Top Five Music Biopics · 1:02:00 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)
329. fun, about Gary Oldman: Running gag: Adam says Oldman is great 'playing Mank or whatever', and Sean protests loudly.

     “Not or whatever, how dare you? Back when he was, he played mank, all right?”

     The Big Picture · ‘Elvis,’ ‘Walk Hard’ and Top Five Music Biopics · 1:08:51 · Sean Fennessey (0.85 sure it was them)
330. fun, about Tom Cruise: Cruise's motion-smoothing PSA with Christopher McQuarrie is a personal Hall of Fame moment, and it plays on the podcast.

     “Video interpolation or motion smoothing is a digital effect on most high definition televisions”

     The Big Picture · The Tom Cruise Hall of Fame · 0:09:28 · Sean Fennessey (0.30 sure it was them)
331. fun, about Risky Business: Amanda says Risky Business has to go in; the dance was seen before the movie.

     “I saw the Risky Business dance before I saw a few good men.”

     The Big Picture · The Tom Cruise Hall of Fame · 0:18:39 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
332. fun, about A Few Good Men: Cruise goes quiet-loud-quiet-loud against Nicholson, like Smells Like Teen Spirit, priming Jessup to explode.

     “It's like listening, it smells like teen spirit.”

     The Big Picture · The Tom Cruise Hall of Fame · 0:39:51 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
333. fun, about Collateral: Chris names Collateral his surprising favorite because of Vincent talking about jazz, comparing the takes to Stanley Crouch.

     “Yeah, his takes on jazz are pretty formative for me, I'd say, it's like him and Stanley Crouch.”

     The Big Picture · The Tom Cruise Hall of Fame · 0:40:22 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
334. fun, about Taps: Sean rewatched Taps and found Cruise as the Sean Penn role: a brat who never plays that part again.

     “He has the Sean Penn role in this.”

     The Big Picture · The Tom Cruise Hall of Fame · 0:47:38 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
335. fun, about Mission: Impossible – Fallout: Henry Cavill and Cruise punch each other in the bathroom and later on a cliff after a helicopter chase; the Henry Cavill speech about being disavowed is remembered.

     “how many times can a man be disavowed, discarded and ignored by his government?”

     The Big Picture · The Tom Cruise Hall of Fame · 1:01:58 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
336. fun, about The Firm: Chris loves The Firm for Hackman, Wilford Brimley and Holly Hunter, a Hollywood movie aspiring to nothing but entertainment; Sean calls his Wilford imitation the best Rewatchables bit.

     “That might be the best episode of the rewatchables ever, in my opinion.”

     The Big Picture · The Tom Cruise Hall of Fame · 1:04:30 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
337. fun, about Tom Cruise: Cruise mailed his Golden Globes back when the HFPA was called fraudulent.

     “Just mailing them back.”

     The Big Picture · The Tom Cruise Hall of Fame · 1:25:25 · Sean Fennessey (0.30 sure it was them)
338. fun, about The Mummy: The Dark Universe cast photo (Russell Crowe, Johnny Depp, Javier Bardem, Angelina Jolie) was taken and then no more movies were made because The Mummy was so bad; Chris says it is the only non-festival movie he walked out of.

     “I think this is the only non-festival movie I've ever walked out of.”

     The Big Picture · The Tom Cruise Hall of Fame · 1:29:15 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
339. fun, about Nightmare Alley: Host watched it four times; first lukewarm, a soft-focused noir, he came around.

     “And then I watched this movie a 4th time.”

     The Big Picture · ‘Nightmare Alley’ and Our Favorite Films Noir, With Patton Oswalt! · 0:03:01 · Sean Fennessey (0.95 sure it was them)
340. fun, about Nightmare Alley: Leonardo DiCaprio was originally supposed to star; rumored to have passed over the dark ending and irredeemable lead.

     “this was originally supposed to be Leonardo DiCaprio.”

     The Big Picture · ‘Nightmare Alley’ and Our Favorite Films Noir, With Patton Oswalt! · 0:36:51 · Sean Fennessey (0.90 sure it was them)
341. fun, about Ron Perlman: Reportedly handed Del Toro the Gresham novel in the mid-90s, so he is why the film exists.

     “So he's the reason this movie exists.”

     The Big Picture · ‘Nightmare Alley’ and Our Favorite Films Noir, With Patton Oswalt! · 0:39:49 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)
342. fun, about Nightmare Alley: Patton reads Carlisle's carnival origin as like Trump rallies: a traveling apparatus that sets up and leaves.

     “he was called a carnival barker many, many times during his administration and he embraced it.”

     The Big Picture · ‘Nightmare Alley’ and Our Favorite Films Noir, With Patton Oswalt! · 0:45:30 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)
343. fun, about Pharos of Chaos: Host recommends the documentary about Sterling Hayden's agonized life, including HUAC testimony; Patton had not seen it.

     “there's an incredible documentary about him in his life, Pharos of Chaos”

     The Big Picture · ‘Nightmare Alley’ and Our Favorite Films Noir, With Patton Oswalt! · 0:55:06 · Sean Fennessey (0.85 sure it was them)
344. fun, about The Nickel Ride: Host watched it for the first time two weeks earlier and loved it.

     “Just watch this for the 1st time 2 weeks ago.”

     The Big Picture · ‘Nightmare Alley’ and Our Favorite Films Noir, With Patton Oswalt! · 1:01:17 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)
345. fun, about Under the Silver Lake: Host champions it as the modern noir worth rescuing, with a real idea about our current condition.

     “is under the Silver Lake, that that's the one that I feel like people are really trying”

     The Big Picture · ‘Nightmare Alley’ and Our Favorite Films Noir, With Patton Oswalt! · 1:06:10 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)
346. fun, about Ghostbusters: Afterlife: The movie pencil-sketch-over-a-Xerox feel.

     “the movie does often feel like a pencil sketch over a Xerox.”

     The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:04:54 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
347. fun, about Ghostbusters: Afterlife: Nine-year-olds not knowing ghosts terrorized New York is a nit: it would be the biggest thing since the Crusades.

     “This would be the biggest thing since like the Crusades.”

     The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:12:51 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
348. fun, about Ghostbusters: Afterlife: A character is named Podcast, with a joke about the podcast finding its voice in episode 46.

     “There is a character named podcast in a movie.”

     The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:14:17 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)
349. fun, about Ghostbusters: Afterlife: Bill Murray declined a third Ghostbusters for 25 years; speaker found the cameos pathetic.

     “Why he came back for this movie, I have no idea.”

     The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:16:15 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
350. fun, about Ghostbusters: Afterlife: Jason Reitman filmed a plea before the movie not to spoil the end.

     “Jason Reitman filmed a little thing to go in front of the movie being like, please don't spoil the end of the movie.”

     The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:17:22 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
351. fun, about Andrew Garfield: Pundits call an Oscar nomination a lock; speaker finds it a divisive, litmus-test performance.

     “it is now a lock that Andrew Garfield will be nominated for an Oscar for this performance”

     The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:24:16 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
352. fun, about Tick, Tick... Boom!: The tick, tick... Boom! musical was unfinished and completed after Jonathan Larson's death; it workshops Rent riffs.

     “I believe it was finished after Jonathan Larson's untimely death”

     The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:25:50 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
353. fun, about That Thing You Do!: Joke: the band is literally called the Wonders because they are one-hit wonders.

     “They are literally called the Wonders.”

     The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:44:15 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
354. fun, about Local Hero: Burt Lancaster plays a Bezos/Musk type batty oil billionaire.

     “Burt Lancaster plays like a kind of like Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk before they were Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk type type character.”

     The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:47:14 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
355. fun, about Local Hero: Speaker watched it in month three or four of quarantine and felt better when hard to feel good.

     “I just felt better at a time when it was hard to feel good about very much.”

     The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:47:39 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
356. fun, about My Neighbor Totoro: Gemma Gracewood (Letterbox) told the speaker to start a kid with Ghibli, starting with Totoro.

     “just start with Ghibli, just start with Totoro and she will be a creative and open-minded soul.”

     The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:50:50 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
357. fun, about Pee-wee's Big Adventure: A man goes across hell on earth to get his bike back; it taught speaker you can do anything in a movie.

     “And he goes across hell on earth to get his bike back.”

     The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:57:10 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
358. fun, about Pee-wee's Big Adventure: The finale features a Hollywood version of Pee-wee with James Brolin and Morgan Fairchild.

     “James Brolin and Morgan Fairchild portray Pee Wee and Dottie”

     The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:58:44 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
359. fun, about Mike Mills: Sean says Mills's 20th Century Women conversation in January 2017 was the first ever for the show.

     “We talked about 20th century women.”

     The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 1:29:50 · Sean Fennessey (0.90 sure it was them)
360. fun, about The Fast and the Furious: The family-is-said 300 times joke.

     “I don't know if something can be a theme if it's a word that is said 300 times in a movie”

     The Big Picture · ‘Fast 9’ and the ‘Fast & Furious’ Rankings · 0:12:15 · Sean Fennessey (0.85 sure it was them)
361. fun, about F9: Corona beer: Diesel sets it down and does not drink in F9.

     “he doesn't take a drink.”

     The Big Picture · ‘Fast 9’ and the ‘Fast & Furious’ Rankings · 0:15:32 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)
362. fun, about Han: Han stands with hands in pockets, the coolest person Sean has seen in years.

     “He just stands there with his hands in his pockets”

     The Big Picture · ‘Fast 9’ and the ‘Fast & Furious’ Rankings · 0:19:57 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)
363. fun, about F9: Magnet set pieces redeem F9 for Sean.

     “anytime there's a magnet on screen, I'm like, I'm into this movie.”

     The Big Picture · ‘Fast 9’ and the ‘Fast & Furious’ Rankings · 0:36:44 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)
364. fun, about Eva Mendes: Her last film role was Lost River, directed by Gosling.

     “next to it, it says final film role.”

     The Big Picture · ‘Fast 9’ and the ‘Fast & Furious’ Rankings · 0:42:42 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)
365. fun, about Axelrod / Billions: Sean quotes a line from Billions about negotiation.

     “nobody walks away from a negotiation happy”

     The Big Picture · ‘Fast 9’ and the ‘Fast & Furious’ Rankings · 0:45:48 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)
366. fun, about Vin Diesel: Amanda finds Diesel sees Dom as a profound figure of literature.

     “He sees himself as a noble warrior.”

     The Big Picture · ‘Fast 9’ and the ‘Fast & Furious’ Rankings · 0:52:09 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
367. fun, about Fast franchise: Sean imagines Ingmar Bergman style emotional drama.

     “severe emotional dramas like Ingmar Bergman, Circa 1965.”

     The Big Picture · ‘Fast 9’ and the ‘Fast & Furious’ Rankings · 0:56:49 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)
368. fun, about Black Widow: Disney moves Black Widow to July 9 on Disney+ Premier Access (and in theaters) which a theater owner feels is a kneecap.

     “I honestly feel kneecapped. Disney is our lifeblood.”

     The Big Picture · Top Five Gen X Director Debuts, the Fate of ‘Black Widow,’ and a Potential Oscars Disaster · 0:04:12 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)
369. fun, about Snyder Cut: The hosts recorded a 4-hour-5-minute Snyder Cut episode.

     “Thanks for listening to all 4 hours and 5 minutes.”

     The Big Picture · Top Five Gen X Director Debuts, the Fate of ‘Black Widow,’ and a Potential Oscars Disaster · 0:14:53 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)
370. fun, about Errol Morris: Idea for the Oscars: hire people like Morris to make short documentaries, like the one with Donald Trump misreading Citizen Kane.

     “he completely misreads Citizen Kane and misunderstands it”

     The Big Picture · Top Five Gen X Director Debuts, the Fate of ‘Black Widow,’ and a Potential Oscars Disaster · 0:21:06 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)
371. fun, about (Oscars telecast): Joke: a purple 'stories matter' sweatshirt with 'monetize me, daddy' on the back.

     “It's a purple sweatshirt. and on the back it says, monetize me, daddy.”

     The Big Picture · Top Five Gen X Director Debuts, the Fate of ‘Black Widow,’ and a Potential Oscars Disaster · 0:22:26 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
372. fun, about Pi: The most famous actor in Pi is Mark Margolis, from Scarface and Breaking Bad.

     “Mark Margolis from who was also on Breaking Dead.”

     The Big Picture · Top Five Gen X Director Debuts, the Fate of ‘Black Widow,’ and a Potential Oscars Disaster · 1:05:43 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
373. fun, about Margin Call: Revisit the boardroom scene where Jeremy Irons shows up, and the 'more lucrative' rocket-scientist answer.

     “I just fire up the scene where Jeremy Iron shows up in the boardroom.”

     The Big Picture · Top Five Gen X Director Debuts, the Fate of ‘Black Widow,’ and a Potential Oscars Disaster · 1:12:20 · Sean Fennessey (0.65 sure it was them)
374. fun, about Reservoir Dogs: Sean says he would not be doing the podcast or anything at The Ringer without Reservoir Dogs.

     “I probably would certainly not be doing it.”

     The Big Picture · Top Five Gen X Director Debuts, the Fate of ‘Black Widow,’ and a Potential Oscars Disaster · 1:17:53 · Sean Fennessey (0.90 sure it was them)
375. fun, about The Ringer / Chris Ryan: Sean says he founded the Ringer to platform brilliant friends, naming Chris Ryan as the prime example.

     “I would like to support and show the world how clever, entertaining smart and useful my friends are.”

     The Big Picture · Thirteen Awards Movies to Watch Out for, Oscar Do-Overs, and More From the Mailbag · 0:25:31 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)
376. fun, about Oscars 2021: The hosts catalogue the thirteen awards movies not yet widely seen and where to stream them, with Nomadland the clear frontrunner.

     “There are 13 more movies that most people have not seen that I think are going to be meaningful to the Oscar conversation.”

     The Big Picture · Thirteen Awards Movies to Watch Out for, Oscar Do-Overs, and More From the Mailbag · 0:30:00 · Sean Fennessey (0.75 sure it was them)
377. fun, about Casablanca: Sean tells Bobby to watch it and text him when they start singing La Marseillaise.

     “And then when they start singing the Marseilles, just text me like you were right.”

     The Big Picture · Thirteen Awards Movies to Watch Out for, Oscar Do-Overs, and More From the Mailbag · 0:52:08 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)
378. fun, about Pretend It's a City: Scorsese's on-screen role is mostly laughing at Lebowitz; the one time he talks over 20 seconds, he corrects her Penny Arcade into Penny Serenade and explains Grant's career.

     “Martin Scorsese's role on the show, his physical role, is largely just to laugh at the things that friend Leboitt says.”

     The Big Picture · Thirteen Awards Movies to Watch Out for, Oscar Do-Overs, and More From the Mailbag · 0:58:40 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
379. fun, about Penny Serenade: Sean fact-checks Scorsese on air: Cary Grant was nominated twice, for None but the Lonely Heart and Penny Serenade, not once; Amanda dubs it very un-Cary Grant energy.

     “And when a person says a fact about a movie that I know to be not correct, even if it is perhaps the greatest living filmmaker, I just have to note that.”

     The Big Picture · Thirteen Awards Movies to Watch Out for, Oscar Do-Overs, and More From the Mailbag · 1:00:45 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
380. fun, about A Muppet Christmas Carol: Sean's wife Eileen, who will never appear on the podcast, has an unhealthy addiction to the film, and also yells Heat Miser at dinner.

     “she has like an unhealthy addiction to a Muppet Christmas carol.”

     The Big Picture · Thirteen Awards Movies to Watch Out for, Oscar Do-Overs, and More From the Mailbag · 1:02:52 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)
381. fun, about Eyes Wide Shut: Sean's pick for a day on a historic set: a long shoot, one of the greatest filmmakers, two stars in the midst of a marriage, and some of the wildest scenes ever shot.

     “just some of the wildest scenes ever shot in the history of movies occur in that film.”

     The Big Picture · Thirteen Awards Movies to Watch Out for, Oscar Do-Overs, and More From the Mailbag · 1:12:07 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)
382. fun, about Sundance 2021: Sundance goes virtual, roughly 50 to 100 films in three-hour blocks, and anyone can buy tickets for the first time.

     “many people out in the world can just buy tickets.”

     The Big Picture · Thirteen Awards Movies to Watch Out for, Oscar Do-Overs, and More From the Mailbag · 1:12:52 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)
383. fun, about 12 Monkeys: Sean fired it up on his iPad at one in the morning when he could not sleep, and enjoyed it.

     “let's just fire up 12 monkeys to see how that goes down.”

     The Big Picture · Thirteen Awards Movies to Watch Out for, Oscar Do-Overs, and More From the Mailbag · 1:28:04 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)
384. fun, about Aaron Sorkin: The 'I'm never, ever sick at sea' line turns up in Malice and again in Charlie Wilson's War; the references are like a drinking game.

     “I'm never, ever sick at sea, shows up in malice, and then it shows up in Charlie Wilson's war”

     The Big Picture · Aaron Sorkin Top 5s and ‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’ · 0:16:12 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
385. fun, about Aaron Sorkin: Lord of the walk and talk; the intercut is his newer trick for real events.

     “He's the lord of the walk and talk.”

     The Big Picture · Aaron Sorkin Top 5s and ‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’ · 0:38:02 · Sean Fennessey (0.55 sure it was them)
386. fun, about A Few Good Men: As a kid Amanda or Sean practiced Jessup's speech on a park basketball court shooting free throws.

     “The Jack Nicholson speech from a few good men out loud while shooting free throws”

     The Big Picture · Aaron Sorkin Top 5s and ‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’ · 0:41:34 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
387. fun, about Moneyball: Billy Beane joining the Fenway owners group is an end cap to the movie; Red Sox lure scene.

     “he is joining the Fenway owners group, which is John Henry's company”

     The Big Picture · Aaron Sorkin Top 5s and ‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’ · 0:51:56 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
388. fun, about Steve Jobs: Seth Rogen as Wozniak should have won an Oscar.

     “It's absurd to me that Seth Rogan was not nominated for an Oscar.”

     The Big Picture · Aaron Sorkin Top 5s and ‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’ · 0:55:18 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)
389. fun, about Steve Jobs: Kate Winslet has more of a Polish accent in the later sequences than the first; a filming-order theory.

     “I don't totally understand why she has a Polish accent in the future, but not in the past.”

     The Big Picture · Aaron Sorkin Top 5s and ‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’ · 0:55:27 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)
390. fun, about Sports Night: A laugh track was added at some point; the show tried to change the network sitcom form.

     “And at some point there was a laugh track, which is ill conceived.”

     The Big Picture · Aaron Sorkin Top 5s and ‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’ · 1:09:27 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
391. fun, about A Few Good Men: Among the most rewatched movies of a lifetime, alongside Network, Oz, Godfather, Goodfellas, Pulp Fiction.

     “It's in the conversation for the most rewatched movie of my lifetime.”

     The Big Picture · Aaron Sorkin Top 5s and ‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’ · 1:19:23 · Sean Fennessey (0.55 sure it was them)
392. fun, about The Trial of the Chicago 7: Bobby Seale is bound and gagged in the courtroom in an extraordinary sequence.

     “he was bounding, gagged in the courtroom in this extraordinary sequence”

     The Big Picture · Aaron Sorkin Top 5s and ‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’ · 1:37:38 · Sean Fennessey (0.55 sure it was them)
393. fun, about The Trial of the Chicago 7: The score pairs fake 60s guitar rock with syrupy film music; real radicals would be playing the MC5.

     “you have to play the MC5.”

     The Big Picture · Aaron Sorkin Top 5s and ‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’ · 1:43:06 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)
394. fun, about The Trial of the Chicago 7: Sorkin intercuts real brutality footage but cuts back to dramatized versions, which is less scary.

     “the real stuff is scarier and realer.”

     The Big Picture · Aaron Sorkin Top 5s and ‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’ · 1:43:19 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)
395. fun, about Mark Rylance: Rylance as Kunstler is the custodian of decency in a film by a believer in decency.

     “he's the custodian of decency”

     The Big Picture · Aaron Sorkin Top 5s and ‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’ · 1:51:47 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)
396. fun, about The Trial of the Chicago 7: A drive-in screening at the Rose Bowl, courtesy of Netflix.

     “We went to a lovely drive-in screening of this film at the Rose Bowl.”

     The Big Picture · Aaron Sorkin Top 5s and ‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’ · 1:54:53 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
397. fun, about Jane Fonda: Hayden later married Jane Fonda; the host wants her take and recommends her autobiography.

     “All I want to know is what Jane Fonda thinks of this movie.”

     The Big Picture · Aaron Sorkin Top 5s and ‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’ · 1:57:28 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
398. fun, about Mank: Fincher's teaser makes both the film and the trailer look 1940s; Sean treats Dec 4 as his day.

     “I turn into a Dragon Ball Z character and I am lit a flame and I'm powered by the energies of David Fincher”

     The Big Picture · 300th Episode Ask-Us-Anything Mailbag Spectacular · 0:02:07 · Sean Fennessey (0.90 sure it was them)
399. fun, about Soul: Soul on Disney+ at Christmas could be the most widely seen Disney movie ever, in 70 million homes.

     “This could turn out to be the most widely seen Disney movie of all time”

     The Big Picture · 300th Episode Ask-Us-Anything Mailbag Spectacular · 0:03:43 · Sean Fennessey (0.85 sure it was them)
400. fun, about Transformers: Sean's first adult LA trip was a Transformers premiere, driving an Escalade supplied by the film's car sponsor; it hooked him on movies.

     “going to a movie premiere as an adult with a VIP ticket talking to the people that were in the movie”

     The Big Picture · 300th Episode Ask-Us-Anything Mailbag Spectacular · 0:10:51 · Sean Fennessey (0.90 sure it was them)