Sean Fennessey

81 sketches, 1,576 claims, and 559 fun items attributed to them. What was said about them.

Personality, episode by episode

Showing 81–81 of 81 sketches.

Blank Check — Patreon: Dr. Strangelove... with Sean Fennessey (Ad-Free) (guest)

Reveres Strangelove as the most singular Kubrick and a document that still applies. Loves Frankenheimer, Malick, and deep trivia of movie years. Dislikes recent McKay satire but is gentle about it.

Stances

  • Strangelove still applies to how government and masculinity work
  • Kubrick competed with himself to take on a new genre each time
  • Seven Days in May and Frankenheimer's run belongs next to Kubrick's

Humor: Dry, generous and self-effacing, tossing off asides in a calm voice.

In their words

  • “And I love Dr. Strangelove, and I love Stanley Kubrick and everything else that you're doing.” (0:10:35)
  • “this is exactly how government works.” (1:39:54)
  • “this movie comes in the middle of the most underrated five-year run in any American filmmaker's history, which is John Frankenheimer from 1962 to 1966” (2:02:41)

Their shows' recurring bits

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

The Big Picture

The Rewatchables

Their claims

Showing 701–800 of 1,576 claims.

  1. 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)
  2. 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)
  3. 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)
  4. 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)
  5. 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)
  6. 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)
  7. 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)
  8. 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)
  9. 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)
  10. 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)
  11. 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)
  12. 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)
  13. 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)
  14. 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)
  15. 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)
  16. 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)
  17. 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)
  18. 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)
  19. 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)
  20. 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)
  21. 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)
  22. 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)
  23. 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)
  24. 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)
  25. 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)
  26. 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)
  27. 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)
  28. 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)
  29. 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)
  30. 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)
  31. 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)
  32. 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)
  33. 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)
  34. 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)
  35. 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)
  36. 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)
  37. 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)
  38. 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)
  39. 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)
  40. 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)
  41. 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)
  42. 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)
  43. 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)
  44. 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)
  45. 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)
  46. 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)
  47. 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)
  48. 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)
  49. 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)
  50. 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)
  51. 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)
  52. 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)
  53. 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)
  54. 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)
  55. 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)
  56. 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)
  57. 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)
  58. 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)
  59. 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)
  60. 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)
  61. 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)
  62. 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)
  63. 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)
  64. 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)
  65. 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)
  66. 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)
  67. 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)
  68. 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)
  69. 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)
  70. 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)
  71. 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)
  72. 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)
  73. 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)
  74. 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)
  75. 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)
  76. 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)
  77. 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)
  78. 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)
  79. 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)
  80. 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)
  81. 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)
  82. 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)
  83. 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)
  84. 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)
  85. 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)
  86. 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)
  87. 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)
  88. 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)
  89. 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)
  90. 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)
  91. 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)
  92. 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)
  93. 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)
  94. 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)
  95. 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)
  96. 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)
  97. 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)
  98. 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)
  99. 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)
  100. 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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  1. fun, about Sean Fennessey: Sean keeps a Netflix DVD queue and a 1000-plus film list across every streaming service.
    “I'm a member of every significant streaming service.”
    The Big Picture · 300th Episode Ask-Us-Anything Mailbag Spectacular · 0:21:45 · Sean Fennessey (0.90 sure it was them)
  2. fun, about Sean Fennessey: Sean's hair routine: lavender Japanese teak wax, learned from a John Mayer People page in a dentist's office.
    “John Mayer compelled me, went to Amazon, ordered a couple of sticks of this lavender teak.”
    The Big Picture · 300th Episode Ask-Us-Anything Mailbag Spectacular · 0:29:07 · Sean Fennessey (0.95 sure it was them)
  3. fun, about Napoleon (unmade Kubrick film): The book 'Stanley Kubrick's Napoleon' is Sean's heaviest book, with phone-book pages holding thousands of pages of documents.
    “The book is so big that the pages are almost like telephone book pages.”
    The Big Picture · 300th Episode Ask-Us-Anything Mailbag Spectacular · 0:44:39 · Sean Fennessey (0.90 sure it was them)
  4. fun, about William Castle: Gimmicks to lure audiences go back to William Castle: smell-o-vision and people in bug costumes in the aisles.
    “having people dressed up in bug costumes run down the alleyway”
    The Big Picture · 300th Episode Ask-Us-Anything Mailbag Spectacular · 0:49:23 · Sean Fennessey (0.90 sure it was them)
  5. fun, about Movie Pass: Amanda calls MoviePass a debt-ridden Ponzi scheme that eroded loyalty by teaching people to expect cheap tickets.
    “Movie Pass was a Ponzi scheme.”
    The Big Picture · 300th Episode Ask-Us-Anything Mailbag Spectacular · 0:52:13 · Sean Fennessey (0.90 sure it was them)
  6. fun, about Last Night in Soho: Edgar Wright's horror movie slated for September is now pushed to 2021; Sean wants instant classics.
    “I need more instant classics and I trust him to make something like that”
    The Big Picture · 300th Episode Ask-Us-Anything Mailbag Spectacular · 0:59:26 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)
  7. fun, about Last Action Hero: Sean's 'bad movies' show would rescue reputations: Last Action Hero was on Andrew Gruttadaro's Ringer list.
    “my version of a bad movies podcast is not me reveling in the badness”
    The Big Picture · 300th Episode Ask-Us-Anything Mailbag Spectacular · 1:08:32 · Sean Fennessey (0.90 sure it was them)
  8. fun, about A Cure for Wellness: Rotten Tomatoes guess: 42 percent. Sean once told Amanda not to see it.
    “It was 42%.”
    The Big Picture · 300th Episode Ask-Us-Anything Mailbag Spectacular · 1:10:36 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  9. fun, about Marvel: A famous Hollywood guest argued Marvel movies are comedies and displaced studio comedies.
    “Marvel movies are comedies.”
    The Big Picture · 300th Episode Ask-Us-Anything Mailbag Spectacular · 1:18:41 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)
  10. fun, about The Office: The Office was the worst thing to happen to Friends: it reset sitcom tone to awkward and deadpan.
    “The worst thing that ever happened to friends was the office”
    The Big Picture · 300th Episode Ask-Us-Anything Mailbag Spectacular · 1:21:15 · Sean Fennessey (0.85 sure it was them)
  11. fun, about NBA support group video: Ringer video where staffers share love for NBA players who never became stars; Jeff Green was Ryan Russillo's.
    “He can't quit Jeff Green.”
    The Big Picture · 300th Episode Ask-Us-Anything Mailbag Spectacular · 1:30:29 · Sean Fennessey (0.85 sure it was them)
  12. fun, about Letterboxd: Sean likes Letterboxd because it gathers people as obsessed as he is; Amanda asks for more women there.
    “one of the reasons why I like Letterbox as a platform, is you have a lot of people that are as obsessed with this space”
    The Big Picture · 300th Episode Ask-Us-Anything Mailbag Spectacular · 1:35:59 · Sean Fennessey (0.85 sure it was them)
  13. fun, about Peter Weir: 1997 versus now: Sean could find two Peter Weir films then; the Criterion Channel has all of them.
    “On the Criterion Channel, you could watch all of them.”
    The Big Picture · 300th Episode Ask-Us-Anything Mailbag Spectacular · 1:37:33 · Sean Fennessey (0.90 sure it was them)
  14. fun, about Tenet: Box office reality check: $20 million opening with NYC and LA theaters closed and 25 to 50 percent capacity elsewhere.
    “So Tennant made $20 million at the American box office, the North American box office this weekend, which is fine, I suppose it's not a wow number.”
    The Big Picture · Did Disney’s ‘Mulan’ Experiment Work? A Binge Mode Investigation · 0:01:46 · Sean Fennessey (0.90 sure it was them)
  15. fun, about Tenet: Sean and Amanda drove about 130 miles round trip to a San Diego drive-in to see Tenet in a heat wave, parked side by side. Amanda left claiming she understood the whole film; they will try to explain it on the pod next week.
    “The movie ended and she said, I get it. I know everything that happened.”
    The Big Picture · Did Disney’s ‘Mulan’ Experiment Work? A Binge Mode Investigation · 0:04:30 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)
  16. fun, about Chadwick Boseman: Sean rewatched Black Panther the night before, saying it lived up to unprecedented anticipation, which never happens in mainstream culture.
    “I rewatched Black Panther last night.”
    The Big Picture · Did Disney’s ‘Mulan’ Experiment Work? A Binge Mode Investigation · 0:09:52 · Sean Fennessey (0.90 sure it was them)
  17. fun, about Mulan: Sean on Donnie Yen and Jet Li: one training segment and half a fight for Yen, with Li held captive for the whole film.
    “where Donny and Jelly is basically held captive throughout the movie. So it's a very unusual use of of 2 incredible performers.”
    The Big Picture · Did Disney’s ‘Mulan’ Experiment Work? A Binge Mode Investigation · 0:34:55 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  18. fun, about Mulan: Controversy: filmed in Xinjiang, where Muslims are held in mass internment camps; lead Yifei Liu's Hong Kong police tweet triggered #BoycottMulan.
    “was filmed in uh, Jinjiang, the region in China, where uh, Muslims have been detained in mass internment camps.”
    The Big Picture · Did Disney’s ‘Mulan’ Experiment Work? A Binge Mode Investigation · 0:56:01 · Sean Fennessey (0.85 sure it was them)
  19. fun, about Cruella: Sean reads the logline: a 1970s London fashion designer obsessed with dogskins, especially Dalmatians; Amanda and Jason react with horror.
    “young fashion designer Cruella DeVille becomes obsessed with dogs skins, especially Dalmatians, until she eventually becomes a ruthless and terrifying legend.”
    The Big Picture · Did Disney’s ‘Mulan’ Experiment Work? A Binge Mode Investigation · 1:04:08 · Sean Fennessey (0.90 sure it was them)
  20. fun, about The Little Mermaid (upcoming live action remake): Casting rundown: Halle Bailey as Ariel, Melissa McCarthy as Ursula, Javier Bardem as King Triton, plus voices Daveed Diggs, Awkwafina and Jacob Tremblay; King Triton is described as xenophobic toward humans.
    “Ariel's overprotective father and the king of Atlantica, who is xenophobic towards humans.”
    The Big Picture · Did Disney’s ‘Mulan’ Experiment Work? A Binge Mode Investigation · 1:11:13 · Sean Fennessey (0.90 sure it was them)
  21. fun, about Mulan: Closing joke: a proposed episode recorded as a musical, where they start singing the outline mid-section.
    “We do the outline and then just in the middle of one of the sections. We just start singing what's written down on the outline.”
    The Big Picture · Did Disney’s ‘Mulan’ Experiment Work? A Binge Mode Investigation · 1:14:38 · Sean Fennessey (0.85 sure it was them)
  22. fun, about 12 Angry Men: Left off the list; expecting angry reply guys.
    “we may have 12 angry reply guys”
    The Big Picture · Objection! Top 10 Courtroom Dramas | The Big Picture · 0:11:52 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)
  23. fun, about Courtroom drama checklist: The opposing lawyer's 'I don't know what kind of courtroom you're running here'.
    “I don't know what kind of courtroom you're running here”
    The Big Picture · Objection! Top 10 Courtroom Dramas | The Big Picture · 0:20:31 · Sean Fennessey (0.55 sure it was them)
  24. fun, about Billy Wilder: A staggering decade: Sunset Boulevard through The Apartment.
    “that's just obscene on how many great films that is”
    The Big Picture · Objection! Top 10 Courtroom Dramas | The Big Picture · 0:39:25 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)
  25. fun, about A Man for All Seasons: Sean saw its old-school trailer before The Hot Rock.
    “the film that every living human is talking about of 1966”
    The Big Picture · Objection! Top 10 Courtroom Dramas | The Big Picture · 1:03:32 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)
  26. fun, about The Verdict: Sean tweeted about the judge and Bill Simmons texted back instantly; it is one of Bill's favorites.
    “I got a text message from Bill Simmons instantaneously”
    The Big Picture · Objection! Top 10 Courtroom Dramas | The Big Picture · 1:07:00 · Sean Fennessey (0.90 sure it was them)
  27. fun, about JFK: John Williams wrote six pieces without seeing a frame; Stone cut to the music.
    “he composed 6 separate pieces for the movie without having seen a frame”
    The Big Picture · Objection! Top 10 Courtroom Dramas | The Big Picture · 1:19:26 · Sean Fennessey (0.75 sure it was them)
  28. fun, about My Cousin Vinny: The two utes line is a family refrain.
    “the 2 Utes line being like a common refrain in my household”
    The Big Picture · Objection! Top 10 Courtroom Dramas | The Big Picture · 1:22:58 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  29. fun, about A Few Good Men: Cruise wins the scene by going toe to toe with Nicholson.
    “Cruz is thundering his way through the cross-examination”
    The Big Picture · Objection! Top 10 Courtroom Dramas | The Big Picture · 1:26:15 · Sean Fennessey (0.55 sure it was them)
  30. fun, about Compulsion: Welles shows up with 30 minutes left and takes over.
    “he doesn't show up until there's 30 minutes left in the movie”
    The Big Picture · Objection! Top 10 Courtroom Dramas | The Big Picture · 1:33:16 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)
  31. fun, about Trolls World Tour: Parents reportedly rented the 48-hour 19.99 title three weekends running; the hosts bless parents and hope kids learned respect for country as well as rock and pop.
    “I had people anecdotally tell me that they rented the movie 3 weekends in a row.”
    The Big Picture · Emergency Mailbag: The Oscars Are Streaming and Hollywood Is Fighting Over Trolls | The Big Picture · 0:20:47 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  32. fun, about Spencer Confidential: At least 85 million people started this Netflix movie; one host will never get over it.
    “85000000 people at least started Spencer confidential. I'll never get over that.”
    The Big Picture · Emergency Mailbag: The Oscars Are Streaming and Hollywood Is Fighting Over Trolls | The Big Picture · 0:25:40 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  33. fun, about The Great Moment: Host watched Preston Sturges's late biopic about William Morton, inventor of ether, during a pandemic film-history bender.
    “I watched Preston Sturgis's The Great Moment last night about William Morton, the inventor of ether, who revolutionized dentistry.”
    The Big Picture · Emergency Mailbag: The Oscars Are Streaming and Hollywood Is Fighting Over Trolls | The Big Picture · 0:34:28 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  34. fun, about Law Abiding Citizen: Same host's quarantine ping-pong viewing includes this 2009 Foxx/Butler thriller, called terrible.
    “I watched law abiding citizen, the terrible 2009 Jamie Foxx, Gerard Butler film.”
    The Big Picture · Emergency Mailbag: The Oscars Are Streaming and Hollywood Is Fighting Over Trolls | The Big Picture · 0:34:39 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  35. fun, about David Fincher: Netflix is betting on a black-and-white, no-movie-star historical drama because studios have not funded Fincher in 7 or 8 years.
    “studios haven't been giving David Fincher money to make movies for the last 7 or 8 years for a reason.”
    The Big Picture · Emergency Mailbag: The Oscars Are Streaming and Hollywood Is Fighting Over Trolls | The Big Picture · 0:38:25 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  36. fun, about Netflix and the Egyptian Theatre: Netflix bought the Egyptian and was refurbishing the Paris Theater; a host reads the moves as overtures to older Academy members.
    “those overtures were made to ingratiate themselves to the older members of the academy”
    The Big Picture · Emergency Mailbag: The Oscars Are Streaming and Hollywood Is Fighting Over Trolls | The Big Picture · 0:43:46 · Sean Fennessey (0.45 sure it was them)
  37. fun, about Alamo Drafthouse: A six-hour evening: movie, whiskey cocktail, fries, rent a video from the same filmmaker at their video store, beer and trivia, which AMC does not offer.
    “And that is a 6 hour evening in a movie palace that AMC is not offering.”
    The Big Picture · Emergency Mailbag: The Oscars Are Streaming and Hollywood Is Fighting Over Trolls | The Big Picture · 0:45:42 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  38. fun, about Academy Awards: From 24 awards to 23 by merging sound; one host wants 75 awards and a five-day festival; another wants best first feature and best breakthrough.
    “There should be 75 awards. This should be a 5 day festival of handing out awards.”
    The Big Picture · Emergency Mailbag: The Oscars Are Streaming and Hollywood Is Fighting Over Trolls | The Big Picture · 0:50:42 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  39. fun, about Stunt Oscar: A host zags on the stunt category: everyone demands it without knowing why, while still wanting to honor stunt work with an honorary award; joke pitch: Zoom Stunt Oscars with DVDs held up.
    “Everybody needs to just settle down with pretending that they really like stunts in movies.”
    The Big Picture · Emergency Mailbag: The Oscars Are Streaming and Hollywood Is Fighting Over Trolls | The Big Picture · 0:51:34 · Sean Fennessey (0.45 sure it was them)
  40. fun, about Twilight Zone: The Movie: An episode of the Shudder series Cursed covers the 1982 set death of Vic Morrow and two children in a helicopter stunt; Landis was acquitted.
    “A helicopter crashed during a stunt and Vic Morrow, Jennifer Jason Lee's father, was killed along with 2 children during the making of this movie”
    The Big Picture · Emergency Mailbag: The Oscars Are Streaming and Hollywood Is Fighting Over Trolls | The Big Picture · 0:53:35 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  41. fun, about Incredible Hulk / Iron Man: Trivia win: the two characters in the first two MCU films, Hulk and Iron Man, earned the team points after a host sprinted out of frame.
    “It's the Incredible Hulk and Iron Man, you fools.”
    The Big Picture · Emergency Mailbag: The Oscars Are Streaming and Hollywood Is Fighting Over Trolls | The Big Picture · 1:05:03 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  42. fun, about Postponed films: Sean tracks 18 postponed undated films that could drop when theaters reopen, listing New Mutants, Promising Young Woman, Bad Trip, The High Note, Run, Military Wives, Greyhound and Malignant.
    “there have been 18 movies that have been postponed and are undated at the moment.”
    The Big Picture · Emergency Mailbag: The Oscars Are Streaming and Hollywood Is Fighting Over Trolls | The Big Picture · 1:08:49 · Sean Fennessey (0.55 sure it was them)
  43. fun, about Uncut Gems: Julia Fox gets a mock-solemn pro-Julia Fox podcast declaration, and Jonathan Majors wins breakthrough.
    “Great. This is a pro Julia Fox podcast through and through.”
    The Big Picture · Our Alternative Academy Awards | The Oscars Show · 0:21:05 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
  44. fun, about Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese: Sharon Stone's completely invented segment where she and her mother join Dylan's tour at 17 and she is converted from Kiss to Dylan. Sean wins best cameo with it.
    “I love the myth making of Bob Dylan, and the idea that maybe the best myth made about him is coming from Sharon Stone.”
    The Big Picture · Our Alternative Academy Awards | The Oscars Show · 0:26:42 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  45. fun, about Always Be My Maybe: Keanu Reeves wins best cameo, but the complaint is he's in the movie for about 11.5 minutes.
    “He's in like 11.5 minutes of the movie and it actually goes on.”
    The Big Picture · Our Alternative Academy Awards | The Oscars Show · 0:27:43 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
  46. fun, about Alita: Battle Angel: Sean watches strangers watch Alita on planes and tracks the actors he recognizes; the 15-minute motorball fight keeps breaking for exposition and restarting.
    “I watched people watch it on the plane and then at some point I just took kept track of like the actors I could recognize.”
    The Big Picture · Our Alternative Academy Awards | The Oscars Show · 0:38:54 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  47. fun, about John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum: The dog-fight sequence took six months to design and train, and director Chad Stahelski told this podcast it was the hardest thing he had done. Wins best action sequence.
    “I took 6 months to design and train the dogs to execute this fight.”
    The Big Picture · Our Alternative Academy Awards | The Oscars Show · 0:40:37 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
  48. fun, about Spider-Man: Far From Home: Sean argues the post-credits scene (J.K. Simmons outing Peter Parker on a Times Square screen) is the best ending of 2019 because the theater erupted; Amanda calls it a teaser, not an ending.
    “That was the loudest vocal reaction I had heard to a movie in 2019.”
    The Big Picture · Our Alternative Academy Awards | The Oscars Show · 0:43:21 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  49. fun, about Midsommar: Sean defends the ending by asking whether anyone has been sewn inside a bear skin and lit on fire in a giant triangle; Midsommar also wins best meme inspiration and Halloween costumes.
    “Have you ever been sewn inside of a bear skin and lit on fire in a giant triangle.”
    The Big Picture · Our Alternative Academy Awards | The Oscars Show · 0:45:39 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  50. fun, about The Lighthouse: Sean is so devoted he'll launch a minute-by-minute Lighthouse podcast alone in a lighthouse; Amanda calls him an A24-merch-bro Reddit nerd and says Eggers shows his work too much.
    “what you are is a Reddit nerd, bro, and you hate this. I believe what I said was A24 merch, bro.”
    The Big Picture · Our Alternative Academy Awards | The Oscars Show · 0:53:00 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  51. fun, about Richard Jewell: Paul Walter Hauser was a guest and recited A Few Good Men past the code red, continuing through the officer on deck; Sean says he can do it too.
    “He started doing like this, the extended a few good men recitation, like we had done, the normal code red stuff, and then he just kept going”
    The Big Picture · Our Alternative Academy Awards | The Oscars Show · 1:14:04 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  52. fun, about Richard Jewell: Hauser's home scene with Kathy Bates sells the age of the relationship with comfort alone, and the film cooks whenever Jewell, Rockwell and Bates share a room.
    “these 3 people are amazingly comfortable with each other.”
    The Big Picture · Our Alternative Academy Awards | The Oscars Show · 1:16:37 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
  53. fun, about Academy: The Academy is old and weird.
    “There's only 8000 people in this group and a lot of them are old and weird.”
    The Big Picture · The Snubs and Surprises of the 92nd Academy Award Nominations | The Oscars Show · 0:08:42 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  54. fun, about Academy: Nominees diet: donut with sour milk in the frosting.
    “it's a donut with a little bit of sour milk in the frosting.”
    The Big Picture · The Snubs and Surprises of the 92nd Academy Award Nominations | The Oscars Show · 0:10:57 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  55. fun, about Honeyland: First film nominated in both international feature and documentary.
    “This is the 1st time that a movie has been nominated in both international feature and best documentary.”
    The Big Picture · The Snubs and Surprises of the 92nd Academy Award Nominations | The Oscars Show · 0:17:45 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  56. fun, about Diane Warren: 11th nomination, fifth in six years.
    “This is Diane Warren's 11th Oscar nomination, and this is the 5th in the past 6 years.”
    The Big Picture · The Snubs and Surprises of the 92nd Academy Award Nominations | The Oscars Show · 0:18:21 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  57. fun, about Scarlett Johansson: Joins a short list of double nominees in one year.
    “there's only been 10 people in the history of the Oscars who have been nominated twice”
    The Big Picture · The Snubs and Surprises of the 92nd Academy Award Nominations | The Oscars Show · 0:19:02 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  58. fun, about Toy Story 4: Amanda refuses to schedule it; Sean pushes back.
    “This podcast is not called Amanda's Planner.”
    The Big Picture · The Snubs and Surprises of the 92nd Academy Award Nominations | The Oscars Show · 0:26:26 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  59. fun, about Hark: Sean pitches a public play-in vote for a tenth nominee, like March Madness.
    “The Oscars needs a playing game.”
    The Big Picture · The Snubs and Surprises of the 92nd Academy Award Nominations | The Oscars Show · 0:35:29 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  60. fun, about Thanos: Sean's counter-proposal for tenth nominee.
    “And I say Thanos.”
    The Big Picture · The Snubs and Surprises of the 92nd Academy Award Nominations | The Oscars Show · 0:38:36 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  61. fun, about Joker: Fans may tune in angry, which fits the film's theme.
    “The movie is about a kind of discontent, a kind of isolation and not getting what you want feeling.”
    The Big Picture · The Snubs and Surprises of the 92nd Academy Award Nominations | The Oscars Show · 0:42:11 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  62. fun, about Julia Butters: Tarantino made her accept the trophy for him.
    “Quentin made me come up here and say thank you.”
    The Big Picture · The Snubs and Surprises of the 92nd Academy Award Nominations | The Oscars Show · 0:45:08 · Sean Fennessey (0.45 sure it was them)
  63. fun, about Critics Choice Awards: Tie for best director.
    “Let's have a runoff then.”
    The Big Picture · The Snubs and Surprises of the 92nd Academy Award Nominations | The Oscars Show · 0:51:58 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
  64. fun, about Blair Witch (The Woods): Sean praises the attempted surprise release: the film was announced as Wingard's haunted-forest movie The Woods.
    “this is one of my favorite little wrinkles of the last decade is the attempted surprise release.”
    The Big Picture · The 10 Best Horror Movies of the Decade | The Big Picture · 0:19:29 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  65. fun, about Blair Witch (The Woods): Sean says its last 30 minutes are the most scared he has ever been in a theater, though he doesn't think the film is good.
    “the last 30 minutes of Blair Witch is the most scared I think I may have ever been in a movie theater”
    The Big Picture · The 10 Best Horror Movies of the Decade | The Big Picture · 0:19:51 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  66. fun, about The Exorcist III: A pitch for an Exorcist III episode: George C. Scott plays it big in a fascinating sequel.
    “George C. Scott just playing with house money.”
    The Big Picture · The 10 Best Horror Movies of the Decade | The Big Picture · 0:20:20 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  67. fun, about Green Room: They propose recategorizing Green Room and The Invitation as terror, and note the Ringer's Slack channel called terror.
    “At the ringer, we have a slack channel called hashtag terror.”
    The Big Picture · The 10 Best Horror Movies of the Decade | The Big Picture · 0:33:03 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)
  68. fun, about What We Do in the Shadows: iTunes files it under thriller; Sean blames Apple and jokes about summoning Tim Cook.
    “Shall we call Tim Cook here on the big picture?”
    The Big Picture · The 10 Best Horror Movies of the Decade | The Big Picture · 0:34:06 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)
  69. fun, about Breck Eisner: The hosts read out Eisner's credits live, from Sahara to The Last Witch Hunter to a TBA Karate Kid 2.
    “And it says here that he's got a TBA for the karate kid 2.”
    The Big Picture · The 10 Best Horror Movies of the Decade | The Big Picture · 0:36:07 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  70. fun, about Sean Fennessey: Sean wrote 'The Horror Oscars' last year, a prize for the best horror film across 40 years.
    “Last year, I wrote a piece called The Horror Oscars, in which I gave for across 40 years, the best horror movie a prize.”
    The Big Picture · The 10 Best Horror Movies of the Decade | The Big Picture · 0:38:15 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)
  71. fun, about The Witch: The goat, Black Philip, went viral.
    “That goat went viral.”
    The Big Picture · The 10 Best Horror Movies of the Decade | The Big Picture · 0:43:43 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  72. fun, about Don't Breathe: Sean asks if Chris has used a turkey baster since the film; Chris says he's off turkey.
    “Have you ever have you used a turkey-baster since seeing that film?”
    The Big Picture · The 10 Best Horror Movies of the Decade | The Big Picture · 0:46:08 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)
  73. fun, about Get Out: Sean calls it the best horror film of the decade and cites the sunken place as a shared reference.
    “One of the cool things about get out was it becoming a conversation topic”
    The Big Picture · The 10 Best Horror Movies of the Decade | The Big Picture · 0:46:54 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  74. fun, about Soul / Inside Out: Sean can only remember Inside Out as a drawing and confuses its Sadness creature with Tina Fey's Soul; Amanda saw it in a theater.
    “No, I saw that in a movie theater. Really? Yeah, I just couldn't remember anything about it because it's a drawing.”
    The Big Picture · The Future of ‘Star Wars,’ Marvel, Pixar, and Disney’s Movie Monopoly. Plus: Our Summer Movie Awards and Paul Downs Colaizzo on ‘Brittany Runs a Marathon’ | The Big Picture · 0:13:03 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
  75. fun, about Paul Thomas Anderson / Once Upon a Time in Hollywood: Sean riffs on the DGA podcast, where PTA gushed about Brad Pitt, and impersonates him on the Moana bit.
    “Because Paul Thomas Anderson is being like, Quentin, fucking Brad. In this movie.”
    The Big Picture · The Future of ‘Star Wars,’ Marvel, Pixar, and Disney’s Movie Monopoly. Plus: Our Summer Movie Awards and Paul Downs Colaizzo on ‘Brittany Runs a Marathon’ | The Big Picture · 0:21:39 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  76. fun, about Rocketman: Sean went to Rocket Man night at a Dodgers game and nothing Rocket Man related was given away.
    “I went to a Dodgers game yesterday and it was quote unquote rocket man night, which didn't mean anything.”
    The Big Picture · The Future of ‘Star Wars,’ Marvel, Pixar, and Disney’s Movie Monopoly. Plus: Our Summer Movie Awards and Paul Downs Colaizzo on ‘Brittany Runs a Marathon’ | The Big Picture · 0:28:01 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  77. fun, about Once Upon a Time in Hollywood: Favorite scene is the out-of-time montage, with Cliff driving Leo home as LA changes in real time.
    “just the out of time montage in Once upon a time in Hollywood, which is my favorite part of that movie now”
    The Big Picture · The Future of ‘Star Wars,’ Marvel, Pixar, and Disney’s Movie Monopoly. Plus: Our Summer Movie Awards and Paul Downs Colaizzo on ‘Brittany Runs a Marathon’ | The Big Picture · 0:30:15 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)
  78. fun, about The Art of Self-Defense: Sean watched it in an Airbnb kitchen at South by Southwest and it was still effective.
    “I watched that movie in a kitchen of an Airbnb at South by Southwest.”
    The Big Picture · The Future of ‘Star Wars,’ Marvel, Pixar, and Disney’s Movie Monopoly. Plus: Our Summer Movie Awards and Paul Downs Colaizzo on ‘Brittany Runs a Marathon’ | The Big Picture · 0:48:03 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  79. fun, about Fleabag / Succession vs Once Upon a Time in Hollywood: Sean says that's why the show is The Big Picture and not The Watch: he would take one great movie over Fleabag.
    “And that's why this is the big picture and not the watch.”
    The Big Picture · The Future of ‘Star Wars,’ Marvel, Pixar, and Disney’s Movie Monopoly. Plus: Our Summer Movie Awards and Paul Downs Colaizzo on ‘Brittany Runs a Marathon’ | The Big Picture · 0:52:43 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)
  80. fun, about Homecoming: Beyonce embedded the year's criticism of her Coachella set into the film itself, a self-reflexive analysis.
    “And so she essentially embedded all that into the documentary itself.”
    The Big Picture · The Oscars Schedule Changes, and Andrew Garfield On ‘Under the Silver Lake’ | Interview · 0:04:34 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)
  81. fun, about Guava Island: Glover seems to have only two dance moves, repeated from This Is America.
    “it makes me think that he only has like 2 dance moves.”
    The Big Picture · The Oscars Schedule Changes, and Andrew Garfield On ‘Under the Silver Lake’ | Interview · 0:10:11 · Sean Fennessey (0.85 sure it was them)
  82. fun, about Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope: Sean casts Amanda as Rey of the podcast and himself as Kylo.
    “I will say I have often thought of you as the ray of this podcast in me as the Kylo.”
    The Big Picture · The Oscars Schedule Changes, and Andrew Garfield On ‘Under the Silver Lake’ | Interview · 0:32:38 · Sean Fennessey (0.90 sure it was them)
  83. fun, about Andrew Garfield: Sean and Garfield are both Leos born in 1983.
    “We are the same age. We're the same, 1983 guys.”
    The Big Picture · The Oscars Schedule Changes, and Andrew Garfield On ‘Under the Silver Lake’ | Interview · 1:06:34 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)
  84. fun, about The Trench: Sarcastic hype for the planned Aquaman Trench spinoff.
    “Can't wait for the trench.”
    The Big Picture · 'Shazam!’ and the Future of the DCEU With David F. Sandberg | Interview · 0:07:13 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)
  85. fun, about Captain Marvel: The 90s signaling: a never-worn Guns N' Roses T-shirt, and Carol stealing a Nine Inch Nails shirt off a mannequin as a metaphor for the film.
    “steals a 9 inch nails t-shirt and a leather jacket off of a mannequin outside of a boutique.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Captain Marvel’ Is a ’90s Nostalgia Play. Did It Work? | Exit Survey · 0:19:11 · Sean Fennessey (0.75 sure it was them)
  86. fun, about Captain Marvel: The big fight scene is set to No Doubt's Just a Girl while she punches Jude Law, which Sean finds cute and clever but ham-handed.
    “certainly the chorus of that song makes it fit when she's punching Jude Law on the face repeatedly.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Captain Marvel’ Is a ’90s Nostalgia Play. Did It Work? | Exit Survey · 0:20:01 · Sean Fennessey (0.65 sure it was them)
  87. fun, about Captain Marvel: The film's 90s is the BuzzFeed list version, a pile of references like the Blockbuster and grunge.
    “this is the BuzzFeed article version of the BuzzFeed list version of the 90s.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Captain Marvel’ Is a ’90s Nostalgia Play. Did It Work? | Exit Survey · 0:20:28 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  88. fun, about The Ringer office: A Ringer Slack prompt for the most 90s song stopped work for an hour; Dan Devine said Smells Like Teen Spirit immediately.
    “Dan Devine gave immediately, which was smells like teen spirit.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Captain Marvel’ Is a ’90s Nostalgia Play. Did It Work? | Exit Survey · 0:27:15 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  89. fun, about Green Book: Sean needles Amanda about Green Book; she calls it rude.
    “just release green book, though.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Captain Marvel’ Is a ’90s Nostalgia Play. Did It Work? | Exit Survey · 0:29:41 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  90. fun, about Captain Marvel: Closing credits song is Hole's Celebrity Skin, and Courtney Love controls the Nirvana estate, which Sean calls synergy.
    “one of the controllers of the Nirvana estate is Courtney Love.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Captain Marvel’ Is a ’90s Nostalgia Play. Did It Work? | Exit Survey · 0:31:08 · Sean Fennessey (0.75 sure it was them)
  91. fun, about Brie Larson: Sean's tolerance for her running: she is more jogging, but one full sprint shot impressed him.
    “Did not strike me as a natural athlete.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Captain Marvel’ Is a ’90s Nostalgia Play. Did It Work? | Exit Survey · 0:34:13 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  92. fun, about Ben Mendelsohn: Sean calls Mendelsohn one of his favorite living people and loves his charmed lisp.
    “he is one of my favorite living people.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Captain Marvel’ Is a ’90s Nostalgia Play. Did It Work? | Exit Survey · 0:35:58 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)
  93. fun, about Talos: Sean would watch a Talos movie; the villain-turned-comic-relief-turned-emotional-center arc in face paint.
    “I would watch a Talos movie.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Captain Marvel’ Is a ’90s Nostalgia Play. Did It Work? | Exit Survey · 0:38:08 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)
  94. fun, about Guardians of the Galaxy: Amanda knows Guardians only as the raccoon voiced by Bradley Cooper, and Sean suggests she go by Amanda the Accuser.
    “perhaps you should go by Amanda the accuser in future podcasts.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Captain Marvel’ Is a ’90s Nostalgia Play. Did It Work? | Exit Survey · 0:43:24 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)
  95. fun, about Captain Marvel: Nick Fury's pager at the end of Infinity War is the same two-way pager from this film.
    “the two-way pager at the end of Avengers Infinity War is the same one that he's using in this film.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Captain Marvel’ Is a ’90s Nostalgia Play. Did It Work? | Exit Survey · 0:49:04 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)
  96. fun, about Captain Marvel: Opening weekend benchmark: less than $150 million would be called a disappointment, even though few can open a movie on name alone.
    “less than $150000000 in the opening weekend would be considered a relative disappointment for a Marvel movie like this”
    The Big Picture · ‘Captain Marvel’ Is a ’90s Nostalgia Play. Did It Work? | Exit Survey · 0:52:15 · Sean Fennessey (0.75 sure it was them)
  97. fun, about Kingdom Come: Sean explains the Alex Ross series, set 50 or 60 years later with an older Batman in a wheelchair and gray-streaked Wonder Woman, calling it very melodramatic.
    “Batman was 58 and confined to a wheelchair.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Captain Marvel’ Is a ’90s Nostalgia Play. Did It Work? | Exit Survey · 1:02:24 · Sean Fennessey (0.75 sure it was them)
  98. fun, about Green Book: Both hosts picked Roma but felt wrong by the end of the week; one predicted Bohemian Rhapsody and the other Green Book.
    “I thought it was going to be Bohemian Rhapsody, and you thought it was going to be Green Book.”
    The Big Picture · Oscars 2019: Instant Reactions to ‘Green Book’ and the Two Warring Academies | The Oscars Show (Ep. 131) · 0:01:34 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  99. fun, about Green Book: On the Oscars: tradition of best picture getting it wrong is part of the fun of watching and complaining.
    “There's like a tradition of best picture getting it wrong, right?”
    The Big Picture · Oscars 2019: Instant Reactions to ‘Green Book’ and the Two Warring Academies | The Oscars Show (Ep. 131) · 0:05:53 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
  100. fun, about Julia Roberts: Reading the words 'Green Book' with a 1000-watt smile that the speaker reads as 'why is it me?'
    “Sure, but, you know, her smile has many tones, and I know that tone.”
    The Big Picture · Oscars 2019: Instant Reactions to ‘Green Book’ and the Two Warring Academies | The Oscars Show (Ep. 131) · 0:11:35 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)