Amanda Dobbins

41 sketches, 520 claims, and 275 fun items attributed to them. What was said about them.

Personality, episode by episode

Showing 41–41 of 41 sketches.

The Big Picture: Instant Reactions to a Truly Ludicrous Golden Globes | The Oscars Show (Ep. 115) (host)

Loves A Star Is Born, Mark Ronson, and a fun-to-hang actor; ardent about preferential balloting. Can't stand overstated awards punditry and Kevin Hart's handling. Sucker for Queen and Glenn Close moments.

Stances

  • The Globes' winners reflect HFPA flaws
  • Presenting is different from hosting
  • The Academy has no vision

Humor: Dry, deadpan jokes about her husband, her unseen Wife, and singing Shallow.

In their words

  • “I find him so handsome.” (0:25:28)
  • “Glenn Close, I commit to you, I will see the wife.” (0:45:24)

Their shows' recurring bits

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

The Big Picture

The Rewatchables

Their claims

Showing 201–300 of 520 claims.

  1. unmapped (academy habit): May December → Julianne Moore. The Academy does not always love Todd Haynes but always nominates Julianne Moore, so she is a way to recognize the film.
    “the Academy doesn't always love Todd Haynes, but they love Julianne Moore.”
    The Big Picture · Oscar Nomination Predictions, ‘Mean Girls,’ and ‘All of Us Strangers’ With Andrew Scott · 0:27:12 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)
  2. unmapped (screenplay-category stand-in): Asteroid City → Maestro. Asteroid City, wrongly abandoned, was liked more than Maestro, which is only a cowardly default pick for original screenplay.
    “I guess I'm going to put maestro here, but it's a cowardly pick.”
    The Big Picture · Oscar Nomination Predictions, ‘Mean Girls,’ and ‘All of Us Strangers’ With Andrew Scott · 0:34:50 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)
  3. people (great actor, weak film): Rustin → Colman Domingo. Domingo is good but Rustin is a flat, obviously written 2D movie, so a nomination for it would annoy the hosts.
    “It's just a 2D movie.”
    The Big Picture · Oscar Nomination Predictions, ‘Mean Girls,’ and ‘All of Us Strangers’ With Andrew Scott · 0:38:40 · Amanda Dobbins (0.40 sure it was them)
  4. industry (awards-speech complaint): Oppenheimer → Emma Thomas. The hosts say Thomas keeps giving the final acceptance speech instead of Nolan, which they object to.
    “I do feel that the director should be giving the acceptance speech.”
    The Big Picture · Oscar Nomination Predictions, ‘Mean Girls,’ and ‘All of Us Strangers’ With Andrew Scott · 0:44:19 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)
  5. people (auteur respect): Barbie → Greta Gerwig. Barbie's Oscar push comes from the overwhelming respect for Gerwig, which female directors did not used to get.
    “There's an overwhelming amount of respect for her that female directors just didn't use to get.”
    The Big Picture · Oscar Nomination Predictions, ‘Mean Girls,’ and ‘All of Us Strangers’ With Andrew Scott · 0:46:04 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)
  6. unmapped (meta-joke): Mean Girls → Mean Girls. The new film turns the original's October 3rd meme into a meta bit by having a choir sing it.
    “they have like the choir go, it's October 3rd, you know, which like, that's at least like making a meta joke of it”
    The Big Picture · Oscar Nomination Predictions, ‘Mean Girls,’ and ‘All of Us Strangers’ With Andrew Scott · 0:53:15 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60 sure it was them)
  7. craft (tone shift): Mean Girls → Mean Girls. The musical sands the edges off the Plastics and replaces bite with empowerment, a generational update on the original's Tina Fey punchline comedy.
    “the edges are sanded off the plastics. And most of the jokes don't have the same bite.”
    The Big Picture · Oscar Nomination Predictions, ‘Mean Girls,’ and ‘All of Us Strangers’ With Andrew Scott · 0:54:59 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)
  8. theme (persona): Renee Rapp → Beyonce. Rapp's musical numbers stop the movie and play like a full pop-star turn in the Beyonce and Rihanna vein.
    “She's post-Bonce post Rihanna Wyker.”
    The Big Picture · Oscar Nomination Predictions, ‘Mean Girls,’ and ‘All of Us Strangers’ With Andrew Scott · 0:56:31 · Amanda Dobbins (0.40 sure it was them)
  9. unmapped (star power): Renee Rapp → Rachel McAdams. The 2004 film's success depended on the anti-chemistry and star power of Lindsay Lohan and Rachel McAdams, which the new cast lacks.
    “the absence of Lindsay Lohan and the Lindsay Lohan, Rachel McAdams kind of anti-chemistry and star power is a big part of why that movie is so successful.”
    The Big Picture · Oscar Nomination Predictions, ‘Mean Girls,’ and ‘All of Us Strangers’ With Andrew Scott · 0:57:24 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)
  10. people (performance contrast): Angourie Rice → Renee Rapp. Rice is a subtler actress, which is not the skill a musical wants, so she cannot hang with Rapp's outsized, absurdist performer energy.
    “She's actually a much subtler actress, which is not actually the skill you want in a musical.”
    The Big Picture · Oscar Nomination Predictions, ‘Mean Girls,’ and ‘All of Us Strangers’ With Andrew Scott · 0:57:41 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)
  11. people (performance contrast): Avantika → Amanda Seyfried. Avantika plays Karen as a big over-the-top performer, which a fan of the original may not accept after Seyfried's version.
    “but that's not Amanda Syphron, you know”
    The Big Picture · Oscar Nomination Predictions, ‘Mean Girls,’ and ‘All of Us Strangers’ With Andrew Scott · 0:58:10 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)
  12. people (uncanny cameo): Lindsay Lohan → Invasion of the Body Snatchers. Lohan's Mathletes MC cameo in the new film had a touch of body-snatcher uncanniness.
    “There was a little bit of like Invasion of the Body Snatchers.”
    The Big Picture · Oscar Nomination Predictions, ‘Mean Girls,’ and ‘All of Us Strangers’ With Andrew Scott · 1:00:09 · Amanda Dobbins (0.40 sure it was them)
  13. unmapped (backstory): Mean Girls → The Sex Lives of College Girls. Rapp's earlier show is where her feud with millennial women allegedly started, per the hosts' gossip.
    “I think those are the millennial women in question, who she doesn't like.”
    The Big Picture · Oscar Nomination Predictions, ‘Mean Girls,’ and ‘All of Us Strangers’ With Andrew Scott · 1:02:16 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)
  14. unmapped (autobiographical): All of Us Strangers → Andrew Haigh. The film is filmed in Haigh's childhood home and blends his own romantic experiences with those of his partner's parents.
    “The movie is literally filmed in Andrew Hayes' childhood home.”
    The Big Picture · Oscar Nomination Predictions, ‘Mean Girls,’ and ‘All of Us Strangers’ With Andrew Scott · 1:11:11 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)
  15. unmapped (emotional core): All of Us Strangers → Claire Foy. Amanda watched this as a mother for the first time and Foy's mother, regretting her failures, devastated her.
    “This was the 1st movie I think I've ever watched where I was watching it as a mother.”
    The Big Picture · Oscar Nomination Predictions, ‘Mean Girls,’ and ‘All of Us Strangers’ With Andrew Scott · 1:11:58 · Amanda Dobbins (0.80 sure it was them)
  16. unmapped (technique learned from): Maestro → Guillermo del Toro. Cooper learned crane technique from del Toro and used it in the On the Town sequence.
    “executed magnificently in the on the town sequence in Maestro.”
    The Big Picture · Best Picture Power Rankings and a ‘Poor Things’ Deep Dive. Plus: Julianne Moore and Todd Haynes! · 0:17:17 · Amanda Dobbins (0.40 sure it was them)
  17. craft (craft): Yorgos Lanthimos → Robbie Ryan. Amanda notes Lanthimos reunited with his dream team, with Robbie Ryan coming back to shoot Poor Things.
    “Obviously, Robbie Ryan coming back to shoot the film.”
    The Big Picture · Best Picture Power Rankings and a ‘Poor Things’ Deep Dive. Plus: Julianne Moore and Todd Haynes! · 0:31:51 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60 sure it was them)
  18. theme (comparison): Poor Things → Barbie. Both arrived as feminist coming-of-age stories about a created girl learning about the world, six weeks apart.
    “it was about 6 weeks after the Barbie wave and there are some really obvious comparisons to be made here.”
    The Big Picture · Best Picture Power Rankings and a ‘Poor Things’ Deep Dive. Plus: Julianne Moore and Todd Haynes! · 0:33:58 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60 sure it was them)
  19. theme (genre translation): The Favourite → Mean Girls. Lanthimos films are read as his takes on familiar genres; The Favourite is his Mean Girls.
    “Like the favorite is his version of Mean Girls.”
    The Big Picture · Best Picture Power Rankings and a ‘Poor Things’ Deep Dive. Plus: Julianne Moore and Todd Haynes! · 0:35:03 · Amanda Dobbins (0.55 sure it was them)
  20. craft (craft): Poor Things → Holly Waddington. A host raves that the clothes in Poor Things are out of control and credits the costumes to Holly Waddington.
    “The clothes in this movie are out of control.”
    The Big Picture · Best Picture Power Rankings and a ‘Poor Things’ Deep Dive. Plus: Julianne Moore and Todd Haynes! · 0:47:00 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60 sure it was them)
  21. career (career surprise): Mark Ruffalo → Poor Things. Amanda marvels that Ruffalo spent ten MCU years and never did a part like this.
    “I can't believe Mark Ruffalo is just in the MCU for like 10 years and wasn't doing stuff like this”
    The Big Picture · Best Picture Power Rankings and a ‘Poor Things’ Deep Dive. Plus: Julianne Moore and Todd Haynes! · 0:58:05 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)
  22. theme (genre per Lanthimos): The Killing of a Sacred Deer → Poor Things. Sacred Deer is framed as Lanthimos's horror movie, in a run of one-per-genre films ending with the monster movie.
    “that's also his horror movie.”
    The Big Picture · Best Picture Power Rankings and a ‘Poor Things’ Deep Dive. Plus: Julianne Moore and Todd Haynes! · 1:20:33 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)
  23. industry (awards precedent): The Zone of Interest → Cold War. Zone could win International Feature and director without Best Picture, as Cold War did.
    “And it won't, because Cold War did not get a best picture combination.”
    The Big Picture · Best Picture Power Rankings and a ‘Poor Things’ Deep Dive. Plus: Julianne Moore and Todd Haynes! · 1:35:51 · Amanda Dobbins (0.40 sure it was them)
  24. career (career shift): Alexander Payne → Yorgos Lanthimos. A host is a fan of both directors and felt both The Holdovers and Poor Things were shifts away from what she loved.
    “these movies felt like shifts that I didn't vibe with as much, ultimately.”
    The Big Picture · Best Picture Power Rankings and a ‘Poor Things’ Deep Dive. Plus: Julianne Moore and Todd Haynes! · 1:43:02 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)
  25. industry (awards tiebreaker): Oppenheimer → Poor Things. Oppenheimer bridges the old and new voting blocks the other two split.
    “It is very old versus young and Oppenheimer is the great tiebreaker because it does both.”
    The Big Picture · Best Picture Power Rankings and a ‘Poor Things’ Deep Dive. Plus: Julianne Moore and Todd Haynes! · 1:44:52 · Amanda Dobbins (0.45 sure it was them)
  26. unmapped (joke target): Oppenheimer → Rami Malek. The real joke about Oppenheimer's length was the clipboard business, not the runtime.
    “the real joke was in like what the hell was Ramy Molik doing with the clipboard.”
    The Big Picture · Best Picture Power Rankings and a ‘Poor Things’ Deep Dive. Plus: Julianne Moore and Todd Haynes! · 1:46:36 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)
  27. programming (programming): Black Hat → The Rewatchables. Sean and Chris did a Rewatchables episode on Black Hat that Amanda hadn't heard.
    “I didn't hear that one.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:13:24 · Amanda Dobbins (0.40 sure it was them)
  28. programming (programming): Heat → The Rewatchables. Chris listened to the Reheat Rewatchables episode, celebrating 100 episodes, the morning of recording.
    “I also listened to the reheat this morning”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:13:26 · Amanda Dobbins (0.40 sure it was them)
  29. craft (craft): Ferrari → Killers of the Flower Moon. Ferrari's quick impressionistic opening flashback recalls the silent-film-style opening of Killers of the Flower Moon.
    “it reminded me a bit of the opening sequence of the Killers of the Flower Moon, where it's kind of shot in this old school, like silent film style.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:16:14 · Amanda Dobbins (0.40 sure it was them)
  30. career (career): Penelope Cruz → Pedro Almodovar. Cruz's best work is in Almodovar films, and Ferrari is her closest American approach to that.
    “this felt the closest she had gotten to an Almodivar performance in an American production.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:19:33 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60 sure it was them)
  31. craft (craft): Ferrari → Heat. Penelope Cruz's let-it-rip scene with Driver recalls Diane Venora in Heat.
    “it reminded me a little bit of Dina Vanora in heat where she's just like letting it loose.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:20:07 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60 sure it was them)
  32. craft (craft): Hugh Jackman → Prisoners. Prisoners is the one time Jackman taps the internal rage Ferrari needs.
    “Taps that into that in prisoners.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:28:09 · Amanda Dobbins (0.40 sure it was them)
  33. career (career): Adam Driver → White Noise. Driver's resume is daring, but he sometimes makes a puzzling pick like White Noise.
    “white noise.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:29:25 · Amanda Dobbins (0.30 sure it was them)
  34. career (career): Adam Driver → 65. Driver took a weaker film in 65 while waiting for a good movie like Ferrari.
    “65 was pretty stupid.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:29:29 · Amanda Dobbins (0.30 sure it was them)
  35. verdict (verdict): Heat → Apollo 13. On the Reheat they listed movies that got 1995 Oscar nominations instead of Heat, including Apollo 13.
    “nominated for Oscars instead of heat, including Apollo 13”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:39:48 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)
  36. verdict (verdict): Heat → Natalie Portman. Natalie Portman in Heat is teased as the overacting award winner.
    “a young Natalie Portman getting the overacting award”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:40:37 · Amanda Dobbins (0.40 sure it was them)
  37. theme (theme): Collateral → Clueless. Collateral is part of Amanda's movie map of Los Angeles, with Clueless and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.
    “my movie map of LA is probably like clueless collateral, uh, once upon a time in Hollywood”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:45:20 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)
  38. theme (theme): Collateral → Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. Collateral is part of Amanda's movie map of Los Angeles, with Clueless and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.
    “my movie map of LA is probably like clueless collateral, uh, once upon a time in Hollywood”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:45:20 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)
  39. craft (craft): Collateral → Miles Davis. Collateral features Miles Davis and Audioslave, and Cruise talks about jazz in one of the weirdest scenes of the 2000s.
    “Tom Cruise talking about his appreciation for jazz”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:46:14 · Amanda Dobbins (0.40 sure it was them)
  40. people (people): The Insider → Lowell Bergman. Lowell Bergman is the real person behind the Al Pacino character.
    “the Al Pacino character in real life.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:55:46 · Amanda Dobbins (0.40 sure it was them)
  41. people (auteur persona year): The Killer → Killers of the Flower Moon. 2023 was defined by films that force conversation about the filmmakers (Gerwig, Scorsese, Nolan, Fincher) and their pasts.
    “this year has really been defined by these movies with by filmmakers who have such towering personas.”
    The Big Picture · ‘The Killer’ Is Cold-Blooded Genius. And Something More · 0:15:34 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60 sure it was them)
  42. unmapped (promo absence): The Killer → Killers of the Flower Moon. Because actors weren't doing press during the strike, audiences were thinking about Marty rather than DiCaprio appearances.
    “we didn't get hit with like 10 Leonardo DiCaprio TV and podcast appearances before Killers of the Flower Moon.”
    The Big Picture · ‘The Killer’ Is Cold-Blooded Genius. And Something More · 0:16:02 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)
  43. lineage (genre lineage): The Killer → Gone Girl. It is the closest Fincher has come to a pure thriller since Gone Girl, maybe Dragon Tattoo.
    “he hasn't made a movie quite like this, I guess, since Gone Girl, but even, I mean, you could maybe even going back further to Dragon Tattoo is maybe a little closer to this kind of a pure thriller.”
    The Big Picture · ‘The Killer’ Is Cold-Blooded Genius. And Something More · 0:17:53 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60 sure it was them)
  44. unmapped (pop-culture decay): The Killer → Private Benjamin. The 70s sitcom aliases riff leads Sean to say nobody under 35 knows even Private Benjamin.
    “We were talking about private Benjamin on the rewatchables the other day and I was like, they're not a single person under 35 knows what Private Benjamin is.”
    The Big Picture · ‘The Killer’ Is Cold-Blooded Genius. And Something More · 0:31:51 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)
  45. unmapped (streamer master-work): The Killer → The Irishman. The Killer, Roma, The Irishman and Killers of the Flower Moon are master filmmakers' self-reflective work enabled by streamer power.
    “those are all films from quote unquote master filmmakers who are responding to their own work and life and experience and they're using the outsized corporate power of a streaming service to do so.”
    The Big Picture · ‘The Killer’ Is Cold-Blooded Genius. And Something More · 0:56:25 · Amanda Dobbins (0.55 sure it was them)
  46. career (Netflix career): The Killer → Marriage Story. Baumbach used Netflix to elevate his status, whereas Fincher and Scorsese use it to brand-manage their legacies.
    “he's somebody who used the system to elevate his status in some way, whereas Fincher and Scorsese in a handful of these other people are almost like facilitating and kind of brand managing their legacies”
    The Big Picture · ‘The Killer’ Is Cold-Blooded Genius. And Something More · 0:59:26 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)
  47. theme (thematic echo): The Killer → The Pigeon Tunnel. John le Carre's remark about reaching the room and finding nothing in it fits Fincher's lockbox characters and this film.
    “The room be on the room, and then when you get there, there's nothing in it.”
    The Big Picture · ‘The Killer’ Is Cold-Blooded Genius. And Something More · 1:14:20 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60 sure it was them)
  48. programming (paired double feature): The Killer → Fight Club. Both are very funny first-person-narrated films about sociopaths who rationalize brutal violence as a personal mission.
    “This movie would make a neat pairing with Fight Club. Two very funny films about sociopaths whose inner monologues rationalize brutal violence as expressions of a personal mission.”
    The Big Picture · ‘The Killer’ Is Cold-Blooded Genius. And Something More · 1:20:30 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60 sure it was them)
  49. theme (character echo): Killers of the Flower Moon → The Wolf of Wall Street. Both feature a too-smart-for-his-own-good man doing dumb things who thinks he'll get away with it.
    “I thought a lot of Wolf of Wall Street. While doing it because that is a guy who is too smart for his own good, but also doing a lot of really dumb shit.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Is Astounding · 0:26:35 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)
  50. contrast (inverts): Killers of the Flower Moon → Goodfellas. Same crimes by white men but with no romance or good life, a deliberate answer to Goodfellas' seductiveness.
    “there's a romance to Goodfellas that does not exist here.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Is Astounding · 0:28:46 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)
  51. lineage (callback): Killers of the Flower Moon → Titanic. The car make-out scene is a funny Titanic callback.
    “I thought there was a really funny callback to Titanic when they're making out in the car.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Is Astounding · 0:35:48 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)
  52. unmapped (late-period reflection): Killers of the Flower Moon → The Irishman. Both are gut-punch late-period re-examinations of his career and life.
    “especially Irishmen and this film, which I think are just absolutely, like, gut punch”
    The Big Picture · ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Is Astounding · 0:58:41 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)
  53. unmapped (gothic abstraction): Killers of the Flower Moon → The Last Temptation of Christ. Ernest's poison-fever abstract sequence is the kind of artistic reach seen in Last Temptation or Silence.
    “really Gothic abstract sequence that is very uncommon that you only really see in kind of like last temptation of Christ or silence.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Is Astounding · 1:02:00 · Amanda Dobbins (0.40 sure it was them)
  54. programming (viewing double feature): Killers of the Flower Moon → Silence. Amanda watched Silence the day before and went straight to Killers.
    “I watched silence yesterday and immediately went to sit down with you to watch Killers of the Flower Moon”
    The Big Picture · ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Is Astounding · 1:18:30 · Amanda Dobbins (0.40 sure it was them)
  55. contrast (contrast): Lessons in Chemistry → Killers of the Flower Moon. Greenwald's critique of anachronistic righteous modern politics in a period piece is contrasted with Killers refusing pop morality.
    “This movie does not do that.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Is Astounding · 1:33:41 · Amanda Dobbins (0.40 sure it was them)
  56. people (same director): The Eternal Daughter → The Souvenir. Amanda says the character is named Julian, linking it to Hogg's Souvenir project as a coda.
    “this is a part of her souvenir, I guess, trilogy now, or like the project.”
    The Big Picture · The Top Five Movies of 2022 · 0:36:00 · Amanda Dobbins (0.85 sure it was them)
  57. verdict (ranking): Happening → Saint Omer. Amanda places Happening at four as a clear-eyed thriller structured week by week; Adam later places Saint Omer, another French film, at two.
    “it almost like becomes a thriller of her trying to get the abortion and it goes like week by week”
    The Big Picture · The Top Five Movies of 2022 · 0:52:03 · Amanda Dobbins (0.85 sure it was them)
  58. contrast (contrast): Happening → Blonde. Amanda says Andrew Dominik should be made to rewatch Happening's abortion scene as penance for Blonde.
    “I think that Andrew Dominic should be sentenced to rewatching the abortion scene in this movie for the rest of his life is penance for what he did in blonde”
    The Big Picture · The Top Five Movies of 2022 · 0:52:50 · Amanda Dobbins (0.90 sure it was them)
  59. verdict (ranking): The Fabelmans → The Eternal Daughter. Amanda ranks The Eternal Daughter at five and The Fabelmans at three, noting a taste for directors making movies about themselves.
    “But I like all of the director projects of let me just make a movie about myself.”
    The Big Picture · The Top Five Movies of 2022 · 1:01:51 · Amanda Dobbins (0.85 sure it was them)
  60. people (performance): Tenoch Huerta → Black Panther: Wakanda Forever. Amanda says Huerta is really dynamic as Namor, and the film picks up once he emerges as the main rival.
    “is really dynamic.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Black Panther: Wakanda Forever’ Is Here! · 0:09:13 · Amanda Dobbins (0.65 sure it was them)
  61. unmapped (backdoor pilot): Black Panther: Wakanda Forever → Ironheart. Amanda feels the Riri Williams plot turns the movie into a backdoor pilot for the Ironheart show, which weighs down an already crowded film.
    “the movie also simultaneously kind of becomes like a backdoor pilot for the Ironheart TV show.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Black Panther: Wakanda Forever’ Is Here! · 0:35:38 · Amanda Dobbins (0.85 sure it was them)
  62. theme (teen character problem): Black Panther: Wakanda Forever → Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. Sean sees Riri Williams as the second recent puckish teen hero, after America Chavez, whom the audience has no prior relationship with.
    “we just had this with America Chavez in Doctor Strange in the multiverse of Madness.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Black Panther: Wakanda Forever’ Is Here! · 0:38:18 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60 sure it was them)
  63. unmapped (runtime): Black Panther: Wakanda Forever → Black Panther. The sequel runs 2:41 against the original's 2:12, which Amanda reads as the film trying to do too much.
    “it's 2 hours and 41 minutes for a reason because they're trying to do too much.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Black Panther: Wakanda Forever’ Is Here! · 0:39:26 · Amanda Dobbins (0.80 sure it was them)
  64. unmapped (CGI weakness): Black Panther: Wakanda Forever → Black Panther. The first film's video-game-looking CGI showdown is doubled down on in the sequel, with flying robots and an aircraft-carrier fight.
    “You know, it just kind of looked like a video game a little bit.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Black Panther: Wakanda Forever’ Is Here! · 0:46:42 · Amanda Dobbins (0.70 sure it was them)
  65. unmapped (CGI standard): Black Panther: Wakanda Forever → Avatar: The Way of Water. Amanda guesses the upcoming Avatar will look a thousand times better than the sequel's underwater CGI.
    “I guarantee you we're going to see Avatar in a couple weeks and it's going to look a 1000 times better.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Black Panther: Wakanda Forever’ Is Here! · 0:47:06 · Amanda Dobbins (0.80 sure it was them)
  66. craft (craft praise): Ruth E. Carter → Black Panther: Wakanda Forever. Amanda says Carter's costume design and the production design are the electrifying part, even though she did not like the film, and that Carter should win another Oscar.
    “I think Ruth Carter should win another Oscar, even though I didn't really like this movie.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Black Panther: Wakanda Forever’ Is Here! · 0:53:03 · Amanda Dobbins (0.80 sure it was them)
  67. unmapped (action set piece): Black Panther: Wakanda Forever → Black Panther. Amanda rewatched the first film's casino fight, built around Okoye, and found nothing in the sequel as exciting.
    “I really loved the casino fight. I think that's like a really great action set piece.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Black Panther: Wakanda Forever’ Is Here! · 0:55:45 · Amanda Dobbins (0.80 sure it was them)
  68. unmapped (parody target): Walk the Line → Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story. Amanda argues effective parody must work from something that works, and watched the two back to back; the buzz-saw brother incident mirrors Walk Hard's setup.
    “for something, to be an effective parody, it has to be working from something that actually works.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Elvis,’ ‘Walk Hard’ and Top Five Music Biopics · 0:04:20 · Amanda Dobbins (0.90 sure it was them)
  69. unmapped (parody of a parody): Elvis → Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story. Elvis seems to parody Walk Hard's parody of women ripping open shirts at the star.
    “somehow this movie is doing a parody of the Walkhard parody of the scene of like women like busting open.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Elvis,’ ‘Walk Hard’ and Top Five Music Biopics · 0:09:20 · Amanda Dobbins (0.80 sure it was them)
  70. people (same director, style as substance): Elvis → The Great Gatsby. Style-as-substance can't hold up a whole film, as Luhrmann's Great Gatsby shows.
    “I think that that can't hold up a film, as we've learned in like many other Buzzlerman films, including Great Gatsby”
    The Big Picture · ‘Elvis,’ ‘Walk Hard’ and Top Five Music Biopics · 0:13:03 · Amanda Dobbins (0.85 sure it was them)
  71. career (career echo): Elvis → Cloud Atlas. Hanks's accent work in Elvis recalls his big swing in Cloud Atlas; accents are not where he excels.
    “it reminded me a little bit of Cloud Atlas where he's like, I want to have some fun.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Elvis,’ ‘Walk Hard’ and Top Five Music Biopics · 0:23:20 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60 sure it was them)
  72. unmapped (missing scene): Elvis → Respect. Respect's songwriting-in-the-studio scene always works; Elvis disappointingly has no 'they're writing Jailhouse Rock' moment.
    “there's no point where they're just like, oh my god, they're writing Jailhouse Rock or whatever.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Elvis,’ ‘Walk Hard’ and Top Five Music Biopics · 0:37:48 · Amanda Dobbins (0.80 sure it was them)
  73. unmapped (breakthrough role): Selena → Jennifer Lopez. Selena was J.Lo's breakthrough; her presence overrides standard biopic filmmaking.
    “this was her big breakthrough performance, and this is an example of just someone taking over the screen”
    The Big Picture · ‘Elvis,’ ‘Walk Hard’ and Top Five Music Biopics · 0:43:13 · Amanda Dobbins (0.90 sure it was them)
  74. contrast (structure contrast): Love and Mercy → Elvis. Love & Mercy splits its story across two Brian Wilsons (Cusack, Dano) rather than a cradle-to-grave Wikipedia run.
    “it gives you kind of 2 lenses to, to go through the 60s and the creation of the Beach Boys”
    The Big Picture · ‘Elvis,’ ‘Walk Hard’ and Top Five Music Biopics · 0:54:54 · Amanda Dobbins (0.85 sure it was them)
  75. contrast (contrast of approach): Amadeus → Elvis. Amadeus conveys Mozart's genius without answering who he was; Elvis also skips interiority but fails to fill the gap.
    “it's smart that Elvis doesn't do that, even though you feel the lack of it because Elvis doesn't fill anything else in.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Elvis,’ ‘Walk Hard’ and Top Five Music Biopics · 1:02:36 · Amanda Dobbins (0.85 sure it was them)
  76. people (double bill, auteur): I'm Not There → The Velvet Underground. Both show Haynes's fascination with originating power: where it came from and how pieces assembled into a singular figure or band.
    “the thing that it fascinates him is originating power. It's like, where did this come from and how did it come together?”
    The Big Picture · ‘Elvis,’ ‘Walk Hard’ and Top Five Music Biopics · 1:16:00 · Amanda Dobbins (0.80 sure it was them)
  77. theme (comparison): Tom Cruise → Brad Pitt. Brad Pitt negates his charm in roles; Cruise stays utterly himself.
    “Brad Pitt in the way that Brad Pitt has chosen to navigate his career”
    The Big Picture · The Tom Cruise Hall of Fame · 0:26:14 · Amanda Dobbins (0.40 sure it was them)
  78. career (career arc): A Few Good Men → Mission: Impossible. Few Good Men shows the possibility and edge of Cruise that fades as he moves to Ethan Hunt.
    “the edge of Tom Cruise characters kind of goes away as he moves towards Ethan Hunt.”
    The Big Picture · The Tom Cruise Hall of Fame · 0:38:18 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)
  79. career (career arc): Oblivion → Top Gun: Maverick. Oblivion has a football scene mocked as Cruise loves sports in films; Sean rewatched it to prep for Maverick.
    “I did just rewatch oblivion to prep for Maverick”
    The Big Picture · The Tom Cruise Hall of Fame · 0:50:03 · Amanda Dobbins (0.40 sure it was them)
  80. unmapped (sentimental pick): Legend → Top Gun. Legend is a weak film kept for sentiment, not argued over Top Gun.
    “You're not going to try to like make the case for legend over, say, Top Gun.”
    The Big Picture · The Tom Cruise Hall of Fame · 0:51:59 · Amanda Dobbins (0.40 sure it was them)
  81. unmapped (duplicate role): Top Gun → Cocktail. Cocktail is questioned as duplicative of Top Gun: the cocky guy brought down a notch.
    “do you think that there is anything in the in cocktail that can't be gotten from Top Gun?”
    The Big Picture · The Tom Cruise Hall of Fame · 0:54:40 · Amanda Dobbins (0.40 sure it was them)
  82. unmapped (transformation): Tropic Thunder → Born on the Fourth of July. Cruise's wig and transformation in Tropic Thunder was for laughs, the opposite of Born on the Fourth of July.
    “Not until Tropic Thunder.”
    The Big Picture · The Tom Cruise Hall of Fame · 1:00:20 · Amanda Dobbins (0.40 sure it was them)
  83. verdict (ranking): A Few Good Men → The Firm. The hosts treat them as the two lawyer movies and only one can survive the final Hall of Fame cut; A Few Good Men wins.
    “I didn't realize that this was a one lawyer only hall of fame.”
    The Big Picture · The Tom Cruise Hall of Fame · 1:05:25 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60 sure it was them)
  84. verdict (ranking): Eyes Wide Shut → Magnolia. Forced to cut between them, one host expects Eyes Wide Shut and Magnolia choice but both stay.
    “You're going to make me choose between eyes wet shut and magnolia then.”
    The Big Picture · The Tom Cruise Hall of Fame · 1:32:37 · Amanda Dobbins (0.40 sure it was them)
  85. verdict (ranking): Born on the Fourth of July → Rain Man. Two Oscar-bait Cruise films; the hosts prefer Born on the Fourth of July and cut Rain Man despite its Best Picture win.
    “I prefer born over rain man.”
    The Big Picture · The Tom Cruise Hall of Fame · 1:36:50 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)
  86. verdict (ranking): Collateral → Edge of Tomorrow. Collateral and Edge of Tomorrow are the self-indulgent last picks; the group questions whether the list reflects Big Picture taste.
    “this is a big picture self-indulgent list.”
    The Big Picture · The Tom Cruise Hall of Fame · 1:38:09 · Amanda Dobbins (0.40 sure it was them)
  87. career (career arc): Rain Man → Born on the Fourth of July. Rain Man, Born on the Fourth of July and The Color of Money are grouped as his Oscar bait run defining an era.
    “was almost like his Oscar bait run.”
    The Big Picture · The Tom Cruise Hall of Fame · 1:40:06 · Amanda Dobbins (0.40 sure it was them)
  88. industry (industry): Ghostbusters: Afterlife → Ghostbusters. Walmart product placement for marshmallow men sells toys to children.
    “that scene was the real low point because that is definitely takes place in a product placement Walmart ad”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:06:42 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60 sure it was them)
  89. verdict (verdict): Ghostbusters: Afterlife → Ghostbusters. Afterlife strips out the art and humor of the original.
    “all of the art and the humor that you and I associate with the original Ghostbusters is like totally missing.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:07:31 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60 sure it was them)
  90. verdict (verdict): Ghostbusters → Ghostbusters. The first movie is a perfect piece of 80s pop entertainment, and smart: the villains are bureaucrats.
    “the 1st movie is a diamond.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:08:17 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60 sure it was them)
  91. craft (craft): Laszlo Kovacs → Ghostbusters. The first film had top-class craftspeople: Kovacs shot it, Bernstein scored it.
    “It's also a movie that was shot by Laslo Kovacs and scored by Elmer Bernstein.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:08:35 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60 sure it was them)
  92. people (people): Ghostbusters: Afterlife → Ghostbusters. Speaker liked the 2016 film defensively and because Hemsworth was funny.
    “I thought the Chris Hemsworth character was just like very funny and they should let Chris Hemsworth just be a comedian more often.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:09:55 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60 sure it was them)
  93. industry (industry): Ghostbusters: Afterlife → Marvel's Avengers. Afterlife and the 2016 film both chase the Marvel model of serialized connected stories to succeed at the box office.
    “trying to recreate what Marvel has done and just that's the only way you have success at the box office now is by latching onto that serialized story.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:10:08 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60 sure it was them)
  94. verdict (verdict): Jason Reitman → Tully. Speaker loved Tully except the last five minutes, which push a family moral.
    “I loved everything but the last 5 minutes of Tali.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:19:31 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60 sure it was them)
  95. craft (craft): Andrew Garfield → Tick, Tick... Boom!. Garfield's performance is described as Gene Kelly on Adderall, constantly bopping.
    “it feels like Gene Kelly on Adderall, his performance in this movie.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:24:08 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)
  96. industry (industry): Tick, Tick... Boom! → Marvel's Avengers. The movie is full of Broadway cameos, like Avengers but for Broadway.
    “this movie is kind of secretly like Marvel's Avengers, but for Broadway.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:28:02 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)
  97. career (career): Andrew Garfield → Under the Silver Lake. Speaker will follow Garfield wherever he goes, citing Silence, Under the Silver Lake, Tammy Faye.
    “I'll go there with under the silver lake.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:28:39 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)
  98. contrast (contrast): Come On, Come On → Ghostbusters: Afterlife. Both are about families; Come On, Come On is self-aware where Afterlife is not.
    “This is self-aware, even if Ghostbusters Afterlife is not.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:32:05 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60 sure it was them)
  99. theme (theme): Dave → Dave. Dave is a feel-good pick about one good guy bringing out good in everyone.
    “One guy being good can make a difference and can bring the good in everybody else”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:38:49 · Amanda Dobbins (0.55 sure it was them)
  100. people (people): Tom Hanks → That Thing You Do!. Hanks wrote, directed and supporting-acts in That Thing You Do!
    “written and directed by Tom Hanks, and he plays a supporting role”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:43:37 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)

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  1. fun, about Harrison Ford: Hottest moment in the movie: the shirtless office change as the women cheer; Ford plays a nothing role with charm.
    “He's just there to like be handsome and support her and he does it with such charm”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ With Bill Simmons, Amanda Dobbins, and Joanna Robinson · 0:31:32 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60 sure it was them)
  2. fun, about The War of the Roses: Amanda's unranked top-20 list of best movie houses, which grows past 30 as others add theirs.
    “This is not even a top 20 movie house.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The War of the Roses’ With Bill Simmons, Mallory Rubin, and Amanda Dobbins · 0:59:09 · Amanda Dobbins (0.85 sure it was them)
  3. fun, about Father of the Bride: The film's catchphrase-adjacent scene: the dad's opening monologue to camera. Dobbins hates talking to camera as a device but says it works here because the monologue is excellent, and it sets up voiceover narration that lets George say what he cannot say to the family.
    “It works in this one because the monologue's really good and he's really good in it.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Father of the Bride’ With Bill Simmons and Amanda Dobbins · 0:26:18 · Amanda Dobbins (0.85 sure it was them)
  4. fun, about Father of the Bride: Steve Martin's dinner list of consolations: Paul Simon tickets at the Forum, a Lakers game, and 'independent communications consultant' as code for unemployed. Dobbins used the line on her in-laws.
    “Independent communications consultant is still...”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Father of the Bride’ With Bill Simmons and Amanda Dobbins · 0:33:04 · Amanda Dobbins (0.85 sure it was them)
  5. fun, about Father of the Bride (most rewatchable scenes): Cutting the wedding list: the crossing-off gag where they ask if someone died last year is a Simmons favorite. Also the blender box scene with Martin grappling a blender.
    “wait, didn't Harry Kirby die last year?”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Father of the Bride’ With Bill Simmons and Amanda Dobbins · 0:35:15 · Amanda Dobbins (0.70 sure it was them)
  6. fun, about Father of the Bride (hot dog buns): The hot dog bun math gag still persists: Dobbins had a meltdown ordering curtain rings (7 holes, packs of 9) and thought of the scene; Simmons tells his daughter that tips and hot dog fractions are the only math adults need.
    “All I could think about was the hot dog, hot dog bun scene and father of the bride.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Father of the Bride’ With Bill Simmons and Amanda Dobbins · 0:45:00 · Amanda Dobbins (0.85 sure it was them)
  7. fun, about Martin Short: Worst-aged: the whole fake-accent wedding planner gag is one note, and Simmons's teenage daughter just found him annoying; Dobbins says the gag is not comedy in 2021. Both think B.D. Wong is funnier.
    “I actually think B.D. Wong is funnier than him.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Father of the Bride’ With Bill Simmons and Amanda Dobbins · 0:52:36 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)
  8. fun, about Diane Keaton: Casting what-if: Keaton says Disney's Jeffrey Katzenberg did not want to work with her after The Good Mother flopped, and Shyer and Meyers had to beg to get her into the film.
    “Charles Shire, Nancy Myers, who'd worked with me before, had to beg to get me into Father of the Bride.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Father of the Bride’ With Bill Simmons and Amanda Dobbins · 0:55:06 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)
  9. fun, about Father of the Bride (remake as series): Unanswerable: Dobbins talks Simmons into a 10-episode series called Grandfather of the Bride with Kimberly Williams and George Newbern as the parents and Martin and Keaton as grandparents, and no Zoom version.
    “Kimberly Williams and George Newburn would be the parents.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Father of the Bride’ With Bill Simmons and Amanda Dobbins · 1:15:58 · Amanda Dobbins (0.80 sure it was them)
  10. fun, about Annie Banks: Unanswerable: is Annie a good daughter? Simmons prosecutes (never told them for 3 months, ignored dad at the wedding, only called to say goodbye); Dobbins defends: she is 22, and the call is a great movie moment. Verdict: Simmons says bad daughter.
    “Is she a bad person or is she just inexperienced?”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Father of the Bride’ With Bill Simmons and Amanda Dobbins · 1:23:00 · Amanda Dobbins (0.80 sure it was them)
  11. fun, about Father of the Bride (who won the movie): Who won the movie: Steve Martin. Nancy Meyers is the alternate, though it comes together more for her later.
    “I think it has to be Steve Martin.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Father of the Bride’ With Bill Simmons and Amanda Dobbins · 1:25:52 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)
  12. fun, about Easy A: Amanda's pick: the Knock on Wood performance is pure star quality and needed in a teen comedy.
    “And you always need a musical number in a teen comedy, in my opinion, or some sort of performance.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ With Juliet Litman, Amanda Dobbins, and Shea Serrano · 0:26:36 · Amanda Dobbins (0.80 sure it was them)
  13. fun, about Patricia Clarkson, Stanley Tucci: Olive's parents are called the most underrated movie parents; the table's quip-heavy family bit.
    “I think that these are probably my most underrated movie parents”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ With Juliet Litman, Amanda Dobbins, and Shea Serrano · 0:31:51 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)
  14. fun, about Easy A: Emma Stone famously auditioned via YouTube, sending a webcam reel.
    “Emma Stone famously auditioned via like YouTube.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ With Juliet Litman, Amanda Dobbins, and Shea Serrano · 0:36:11 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60 sure it was them)
  15. fun, about Ojai: Ojai is the Woodstock of California: wealthy, hippie-ish roots, a Ferris Bueller suburb it's not.
    “It's kind of like the woodstock of California.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ With Juliet Litman, Amanda Dobbins, and Shea Serrano · 0:38:31 · Amanda Dobbins (0.55 sure it was them)
  16. fun, about Easy A: Ojai has 'pink moments', branded sunsets on the mountains; one shows when Olive and her mom talk on the car roof.
    “they have what they call the pink moments”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ With Juliet Litman, Amanda Dobbins, and Shea Serrano · 0:38:58 · Amanda Dobbins (0.90 sure it was them)
  17. fun, about Easy A: Bart's Books, the outdoor Ojai bookstore, is where Olive goes to read the Bible.
    “Barts books featured in EZA.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ With Juliet Litman, Amanda Dobbins, and Shea Serrano · 0:40:33 · Amanda Dobbins (0.70 sure it was them)
  18. fun, about Easy A: The chlamydia subplot: Thomas Haden Church's marriage ends; Shea feels bad for him, the movie skates through.
    “she gives the student chlamydia.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ With Juliet Litman, Amanda Dobbins, and Shea Serrano · 0:57:50 · Amanda Dobbins (0.70 sure it was them)
  19. fun, about Zendaya: Amanda's recast: Zendaya, because you trust she will be okay.
    “You need to believe they're going to be okay.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ With Juliet Litman, Amanda Dobbins, and Shea Serrano · 1:23:12 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60 sure it was them)
  20. fun, about Skyfall: Severin scene: Bond sneaking up on her in the shower after she says she was in a sex ring, flagged as the film's worst-aged moment.
    “It really jumped out at me last time I watched it when he's like, I'm going to sneak attack you in the shower”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Skyfall’ With Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Amanda Dobbins · 0:53:53 · Amanda Dobbins (0.40 sure it was them)
  21. fun, about Skyfall: Bond gets a Heineken and khakis after sex, a long running nitpick.
    “And then you're like, I'm gonna get a Heineken and put on some khakis.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Skyfall’ With Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Amanda Dobbins · 1:19:27 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)
  22. fun, about Skyfall: Hacking nitpicks: a list of NATO agents on one hard drive, villain posts reveals on YouTube.
    “The hacker is using YouTube.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Skyfall’ With Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Amanda Dobbins · 1:22:36 · Amanda Dobbins (0.40 sure it was them)
  23. fun, about Mean Girls: Mean Girls is dated April 30, 2004, but fans celebrate Mean Girls Day on October 3rd, after the line about the date; Simmons only learned of it while researching.
    “People think Mean Girls Day is October 3rd, but actually it came out on April 30th.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Mean Girls’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Amanda Dobbins · 0:01:48 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)
  24. fun, about Lindsay Lohan: The rewatchables crew remembers an MTV 'Diary' episode filmed right before Mean Girls, plus a hosted SNL with Debbie Downer, and a 2005 return whose monologue was about her problems.
    “By the time she comes back in 05.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Mean Girls’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Amanda Dobbins · 0:15:54 · Amanda Dobbins (0.40 sure it was them)
  25. fun, about Mean Girls: Amanda picks the first lunch scene as most rewatchable: Regina introducing the Plastics in about three minutes.
    “I think I'm going with the 1st lunch scene.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Mean Girls’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Amanda Dobbins · 0:25:55 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)
  26. fun, about Janice Ian: Lizzy Caplan said Janice was styled to stand out as an outcast, but years later people dressed like her.
    “But then people actually started dressing like Janice in a few years later.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Mean Girls’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Amanda Dobbins · 0:32:44 · Amanda Dobbins (0.40 sure it was them)
  27. fun, about Mean Girls: It was an early meme movie, with Tumblr-era life and even the Obama campaign using Mean Girls memes.
    “the Obama campaign was using mean girl means and it had this 2nd internet life”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Mean Girls’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Amanda Dobbins · 0:34:59 · Amanda Dobbins (0.45 sure it was them)
  28. fun, about Tim Meadows: Best 'heat check' pick: Tim Meadows sells the worst-written character; they cannot understand why he is not a bigger star.
    “I don't understand why he's not a bigger star after seeing him this”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Mean Girls’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Amanda Dobbins · 0:56:51 · Amanda Dobbins (0.40 sure it was them)
  29. fun, about Mean Girls: Best quote picks: 'Stop trying to make fetch happen' is the iconic line; others include 'I'm a cool mom' and 'On Wednesdays, we wear pink'.
    “Gretchen, stop trying to make fetch happen.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Mean Girls’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Amanda Dobbins · 1:13:36 · Amanda Dobbins (0.40 sure it was them)
  30. fun, about Regina George: Unanswerable question: Regina becomes a lacrosse star at Duke or Northwestern or Williams.
    “Duke for her.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Mean Girls’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Amanda Dobbins · 1:17:04 · Amanda Dobbins (0.40 sure it was them)
  31. fun, about Marriage take: Sean's hot take that past a certain tax bracket people should not marry, because marriage is a business arrangement propped up by the tax code.
    “past a certain tax bracket, you just like should not get married anymore.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Mamma Mia!’ Meets ‘The Strangers'! It’s a Movie Swap! · 0:11:04 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)
  32. fun, about The Strangers: Amanda admits the film gets under her skin without being gory or supernatural, because her horror problem is irritation, not fear.
    “it's actually not fear that is my issue.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Mamma Mia!’ Meets ‘The Strangers'! It’s a Movie Swap! · 0:18:51 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60 sure it was them)
  33. fun, about The Strangers: The hosts guess the unmasking was shot but cut because the film is stronger if you never see the faces.
    “they filmed it where they take the masks off and then they realized an edit that it's more powerful if you never see their faces.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Mamma Mia!’ Meets ‘The Strangers'! It’s a Movie Swap! · 0:31:59 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60 sure it was them)
  34. fun, about The Strangers: The final line: asked why, the masked woman answers because you were home. The hosts debate whether no answer would be better.
    “she says, yes, doll face.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Mamma Mia!’ Meets ‘The Strangers'! It’s a Movie Swap! · 0:34:44 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)
  35. fun, about The Strangers: Self-defense riff: the hosts argue about whether you can kill an intruder and why the couple never barricades the door with furniture.
    “It's just a real like barricade the home situation.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Mamma Mia!’ Meets ‘The Strangers'! It’s a Movie Swap! · 0:46:25 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)
  36. fun, about The Strangers: The couple's vinyl collection includes Joanna Newsom, Merle Haggard, Gillian Welch, Billy Bragg and Wilco and Richard Buckner; later the strangers put on the Merle Haggard record, with Mama Tried as the closing jam.
    “This couple had awesome taste in music.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Mamma Mia!’ Meets ‘The Strangers'! It’s a Movie Swap! · 0:46:41 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)
  37. fun, about The Strangers: Sean gives it 3.5 stars on Letterboxd and notes the strangers franchise is now IP.
    “Uh... 3.5?”
    The Big Picture · ‘Mamma Mia!’ Meets ‘The Strangers'! It’s a Movie Swap! · 0:47:49 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)
  38. fun, about Mamma Mia!: The cast treated it like a vacation in Greece, slightly sunburnt and unglamorous, which Sean finds charming.
    “everybody's a little sunburnt, and it does kind of feel like they've had a couple of glasses of wine while performing”
    The Big Picture · ‘Mamma Mia!’ Meets ‘The Strangers'! It’s a Movie Swap! · 1:03:12 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)
  39. fun, about Mamma Mia!: It made $610 million worldwide, $144 million domestic, and was huge in the UK.
    “this movie has made $610 million worldwide at the box office.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Mamma Mia!’ Meets ‘The Strangers'! It’s a Movie Swap! · 1:07:15 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)
  40. fun, about Mamma Mia!: Meryl Streep singing The Winner Takes It All at Pierce Brosnan on a cliff is a favorite scene, with Brosnan looking confused.
    “Pierce Brosan just stands there looking confused.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Mamma Mia!’ Meets ‘The Strangers'! It’s a Movie Swap! · 1:10:27 · Amanda Dobbins (0.70 sure it was them)
  41. fun, about Meryl Streep: A running bit, checking whether Meryl Streep ever holds a gun in her filmography, and recasting her in Wanted and Salt.
    “Meryl Streep is hard to talk about. It's kind of like talking about Coca-Cola on a warm summer day.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Mamma Mia!’ Meets ‘The Strangers'! It’s a Movie Swap! · 1:21:32 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)
  42. fun, about Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again: Amanda applauded alone at the Arclight when Fernando played in the sequel and has told Sean what happens before.
    “I maybe did start applauding at the arc light, like, alone when Fernando shut up.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Mamma Mia!’ Meets ‘The Strangers'! It’s a Movie Swap! · 1:26:00 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)
  43. fun, about Mamma Mia!: Mamma Mia remake game: Rihanna in Barbados.
    “if we're doing Rihanna, then you do Barbados, right?”
    The Big Picture · ‘Mamma Mia!’ Meets ‘The Strangers'! It’s a Movie Swap! · 1:28:33 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)
  44. fun, about Pierce Brosnan: Brosnan's long residence near Hanalei on Kauai and a rumored $100 million Malibu property turned up in an Architectural Digest search.
    “he lived like outside Hanalay for like 25 years in on the north shore of Kauai”
    The Big Picture · ‘Mamma Mia!’ Meets ‘The Strangers'! It’s a Movie Swap! · 1:31:25 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)
  45. fun, about Mamma Mia!: The who's-the-father debate: Sean and Amanda both pick Pierce Brosnan; the director and screenwriter reportedly say Stellan Skarsgard, and Amanda offers a diary-order ovulation argument for the middle man.
    “the middle person is going to be the closest to ovulation.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Mamma Mia!’ Meets ‘The Strangers'! It’s a Movie Swap! · 1:33:56 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)
  46. fun, about Harry Styles: Styles was in St. Peter's Square when the new pope was announced.
    “Harry Styles was in St. Peter's Square when the new pope was announced”
    The Big Picture · The 10 Most Misused Stars in Hollywood and the Gnarly Magic of ‘Send Help’ · 0:05:26 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)
  47. fun, about Mercy: Reenacting the closing line: Pratt says we all make mistakes and learn, then the AI judge appears on a lobby screen and says yes, we do.
    “Human or AI, we all make mistakes, and we learn.”
    The Big Picture · The 10 Most Misused Stars in Hollywood and the Gnarly Magic of ‘Send Help’ · 0:23:16 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)
  48. fun, about Mercy: The movie's chase footage shows the truck braking, with no A-team stunt drivers.
    “And also like, you can just, like, you can see the truck breaking sometimes.”
    The Big Picture · The 10 Most Misused Stars in Hollywood and the Gnarly Magic of ‘Send Help’ · 0:30:49 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)
  49. fun, about Mercy: The wife's lover is a chef at the Loews Hollywood, and a rooftop fight on its helipad is called a big look for the hotel.
    “And I just want to say that's a really big look for the low's Hollywood and congratulations.”
    The Big Picture · The 10 Most Misused Stars in Hollywood and the Gnarly Magic of ‘Send Help’ · 0:42:36 · Amanda Dobbins (0.40 sure it was them)
  50. fun, about Send Help: Raimi shoots McAdams in gross close-up, including tuna fish at the corner of her mouth.
    “you know, there's a whole bit about tuna fish”
    The Big Picture · The 10 Most Misused Stars in Hollywood and the Gnarly Magic of ‘Send Help’ · 0:50:47 · Amanda Dobbins (0.40 sure it was them)
  51. fun, about Send Help: The film keeps seeming over and then turning again, at least five false endings.
    “we thought we had gotten to the conclusion or I thought we had gotten to the conclusion, like, at least 5 times.”
    The Big Picture · The 10 Most Misused Stars in Hollywood and the Gnarly Magic of ‘Send Help’ · 0:58:04 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)
  52. fun, about Angelina Jolie: Salt was a $110 million movie that grossed $300 million, and nobody can name its director.
    “If I paid you a million dollars, could you tell me who directed salt?”
    The Big Picture · The 10 Most Misused Stars in Hollywood and the Gnarly Magic of ‘Send Help’ · 1:22:06 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)
  53. fun, about Bradley Cooper: Cooper's roles this decade are cameos like a two-foot-tall Dungeons and Dragons appearance.
    “at the scream when he shows up on Dungeons and Dragons, like 2 feet tall.”
    The Big Picture · The 10 Most Misused Stars in Hollywood and the Gnarly Magic of ‘Send Help’ · 1:31:38 · Amanda Dobbins (0.40 sure it was them)
  54. fun, about Amy Adams: The pair argue over whether Amy Adams is to blame for her roles, with a roll call of Hillbilly Elegy, Justice League, Woman in the Window and Dear Evan Hansen.
    “Hillbilly Elegy Justice League, woman in the window.”
    The Big Picture · The 10 Most Misused Stars in Hollywood and the Gnarly Magic of ‘Send Help’ · 1:36:43 · Amanda Dobbins (0.40 sure it was them)
  55. fun, about Amanda Dobbins: After Chris takes Top Gun first, Amanda announces she needs a meeting with herself, then admits she was being a petulant brat.
    “I had to have a meeting with myself about not being a petulant brat for the rest of the thing”
    The Big Picture · The 2022 Movie Draft · 0:25:58 · Amanda Dobbins (0.90 sure it was them)
  56. fun, about Top Gun: Maverick: Chris sat in another room watching it with Amanda's son while they dealt with power loss during the fires.
    “you sat in the other room with my son watching Top Gun Maverick while we figured out what to do.”
    The Big Picture · The 2022 Movie Draft · 0:30:40 · Amanda Dobbins (0.70 sure it was them)
  57. fun, about Tár: Amanda laughed with joy at the ending and recalls small observed moments like the deleted email and Petra's father.
    “I started like laughing with joy and I can't believe you're doing this at the end of this movie”
    The Big Picture · The 2022 Movie Draft · 0:35:17 · Amanda Dobbins (0.85 sure it was them)
  58. fun, about Tár: The Juilliard confrontation is an instant time capsule of cancel culture, done less well since.
    “The Juilliard set, you know, confrontation between the student and Lydia Tar is sort of like a, an instant time capsule”
    The Big Picture · The 2022 Movie Draft · 0:37:23 · Amanda Dobbins (0.80 sure it was them)
  59. fun, about Avatar: The Way of Water: Sean's tears over Jake Sully and the whale are teased as the closest he's come to crying on the podcast.
    “that was just him crying about a whale.”
    The Big Picture · The 2022 Movie Draft · 0:51:03 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60 sure it was them)
  60. fun, about Downton Abbey: A New Era: Amanda pitches it as Singin' in the Rain: Lady Mary dubs a silent star, and Lady Violet inherits a French Riviera house from a torrid affair.
    “Lady Violet, a.k.a. the dowager countess, like had a torrid love affair, and she got left a house.”
    The Big Picture · The 2022 Movie Draft · 0:56:19 · Amanda Dobbins (0.90 sure it was them)
  61. fun, about Prey: The group teases the speaker who likes Prey for being largely silent yet wants chatter, noting no foreign or silent films.
    “So no foreign films and no silent films.”
    The Big Picture · The 2022 Movie Draft · 1:11:06 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)
  62. fun, about Minions: The Rise of Gru: Amanda saw it alone at her childhood theater in Atlanta; a minions choir appears from nowhere and sings, which made her crack up.
    “There's a minions choir that shows up from nowhere and they just start singing.”
    The Big Picture · The 2022 Movie Draft · 1:16:31 · Amanda Dobbins (0.90 sure it was them)
  63. fun, about Jennifer Lopez: Halftime: Amanda says cameras caught Lopez backstage devastated after losing the Golden Globe, the most defeated moment, and she's the third most thought-about 2022 movie.
    “the most defeated, disappointed, like, I can't believe like I let you guys all down for a fucking golden globe”
    The Big Picture · The 2022 Movie Draft · 1:18:44 · Amanda Dobbins (0.85 sure it was them)
  64. fun, about Steve Madden: Dobbins tells of 90s Steve Madden four-inch chunky loafers on Long Island, towering over 13-year-old boys, and the pump-and-dump that sidelined him.
    “the chunky 4 inch loafer heel.”
    The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 11 - 'The Wolf of Wall Street’ · 0:39:37 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)
  65. fun, about Brad Pitt: His best performance: it does not ask him to speak much and he is great at looking pissed or regretful, unless eating a Twinkie.
    “I think it's his best performance.”
    The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 14 - ‘Moneyball’ · 0:12:04 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)
  66. fun, about Brad Pitt: Opening of the film: old playoff footage, then Pitt alone in a stadium turning a radio on and off. Riveting because he holds the frame.
    “him sitting alone in a stadium just turning a radio on and on. And it is riveting.”
    The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 14 - ‘Moneyball’ · 0:12:27 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)
  67. fun, about Brad Pitt: Lost the Oscar to Jean Dujardin for The Artist; audience groaned, Weinstein blamed.
    “I do understand what happened there. Harvey Weinstein happened.”
    The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 14 - ‘Moneyball’ · 0:27:03 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)
  68. fun, about Moneyball: The Mets version of Moneyball would be Dog Day Afternoon, a hostage situation in 100-degree heat.
    “What would the Mets version of Moneyball be?”
    The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 14 - ‘Moneyball’ · 0:29:11 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)
  69. fun, about Challengers: An audience member suggests Challengers as a sports movie they should have done; the hosts say it is not on the list and Amanda jokes about her own list.
    “Challengers is not on the list.”
    The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 14 - ‘Moneyball’ · 0:30:22 · Amanda Dobbins (0.40 sure it was them)
  70. fun, about Moneyball: The show kept refusing Moneyball screening requests; the hosts say they said no four times.
    “You said no 4 times.”
    The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 14 - ‘Moneyball’ · 0:30:58 · Amanda Dobbins (0.40 sure it was them)
  71. fun, about Spike Jonze: Great cameo in a beautiful peaceful living room, in sandals; Amanda owned similar sandals at 15 and wore them in March to Long Island high school.
    “I think I own those sandals when I was like 15.”
    The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 14 - ‘Moneyball’ · 0:33:34 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)
  72. fun, about Pretty Woman: Amanda wonders about wearing a Pretty Woman polka-dot dress to a wedding where younger guests may miss the reference.
    “I was internet shopping to avoid the world the earlier today, and then there was a brand polka address”
    The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 0:31:10 · Amanda Dobbins (0.85 sure it was them)
  73. fun, about The Hunt for Red October: Amanda imagines herself as the sonar operator listening to pings at double speed.
    “If I could listen to the sonar pings at 2X.”
    The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 0:42:16 · Amanda Dobbins (0.80 sure it was them)
  74. fun, about Metropolitan: Amanda says Metropolitan showed her people who seemed to value being terrible the way she did.
    “didn't know that there were people out there who wanted to be like this and are terrible”
    The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 1:00:50 · Amanda Dobbins (0.85 sure it was them)
  75. fun, about Postcards from the Edge: The Shirley MacLaine dinner-party song is painful and amazing, with Streep watching her.
    “But then also what Meryl Streep is doing in that scene watching her and hating her and loving her.”
    The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 1:17:24 · Amanda Dobbins (0.85 sure it was them)
  76. fun, about Mermaids: The movie was Amanda's first sight of Cher; the family took their little woman to see a film with three women.
    “This might have been my 1st introduction to share also.”
    The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 1:26:00 · Amanda Dobbins (0.80 sure it was them)
  77. fun, about Made in America: Ted Danson wore blackface at a Friars Roast while dating Whoopi Goldberg; Richard Benjamin directed Made in America.
    “Ted Danson wore blackface at the fryer roast.”
    The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 1:26:35 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60 sure it was them)
  78. fun, about Napoleon Dynamite: Amanda finds it a little overrated, though she chuckled in the moment.
    “It's a little overrated, in my opinion.”
    The Big Picture · ‘A Minecraft Movie’ Is the Most Important Movie of the Year So Far. And These Flicks Are the Best … · 0:05:43 · Amanda Dobbins (0.55 sure it was them)
  79. fun, about Kool-Aid Man movie: The joke: Minecraft is to Barbie as a Kool-Aid movie, 'not Martin Scorsese's Kool-Aid.'
    “you know, it's not Martin Scorsese's Kool-Aid.”
    The Big Picture · ‘A Minecraft Movie’ Is the Most Important Movie of the Year So Far. And These Flicks Are the Best … · 0:15:51 · Amanda Dobbins (0.55 sure it was them)
  80. fun, about Black Bag: Casting a particular actress as the coder/satellite tech expert is still the funniest thing that's ever happened.
    “By the way, just casting her as the coder is still the funniest thing that's ever happened.”
    The Big Picture · ‘A Minecraft Movie’ Is the Most Important Movie of the Year So Far. And These Flicks Are the Best … · 0:57:39 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)
  81. fun, about Amanda Seyfried: Sean's fan trivia: her Vogue get-ready-with-me discussing her eczema, a Jimmy Fallon clip singing Joni Mitchell, an Architectural Digest tour full of hiding places.
    “doing her get ready with me, talking about her eczema.”
    The Big Picture · ‘A Minecraft Movie’ Is the Most Important Movie of the Year So Far. And These Flicks Are the Best … · 1:12:16 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)
  82. fun, about Kinda Pregnant: Amy Schumer steals a pregnancy bump from Hatch, the noise-machine company, pretending to be pregnant to keep up with her friend; one sex scene, harder than you'd expect.
    “harder than you might expect”
    The Big Picture · ‘A Minecraft Movie’ Is the Most Important Movie of the Year So Far. And These Flicks Are the Best … · 1:24:00 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)
  83. fun, about Babygirl: The film opens on Kidman's orgasm sounds piped in loud; in one screening nobody made a noise for a long time, in another people laughed.
    “And those sounds are like piped in loud and there's nothing else, no one else was making any noise for a very long time.”
    The Big Picture · The Nicole Kidman Hall of Fame, and ‘Babygirl’ · 0:06:30 · Amanda Dobbins (0.45 sure it was them)
  84. fun, about Secretary: Jesse Eisenberg's date to Secretary: his future wife put her coat over her head the whole time and he decided he wanted to marry her.
    “And I believe his wife was so uncomfortable that she just put her coat over her head throughout the thing and he says, and then I was like, wow, she's so weird.”
    The Big Picture · The Nicole Kidman Hall of Fame, and ‘Babygirl’ · 0:30:14 · Amanda Dobbins (0.45 sure it was them)
  85. fun, about Moulin Rouge!: The defender was 17 in 2001 and calls the film a masterpiece and Baz Luhrmann a visionary.
    “I think this movie is a masterpiece and I think Baz Lerman is a visionary.”
    The Big Picture · The Nicole Kidman Hall of Fame, and ‘Babygirl’ · 1:11:04 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)
  86. fun, about Babylon: Amanda's famous take: she likes the middle two hours best, and found the opening party a lot after the elephant.
    “I famously really like the middle 2 hours of this movie.”
    The Big Picture · The ‘Babylon’ Watch-Along · 0:07:04 · Amanda Dobbins (0.80 sure it was them)
  87. fun, about Poor Things: A Los Angeles bar printed a Poor Things martini ad, not from Searchlight but because the bar manager liked the movie.
    “oh no, the bar manager just does that when he likes stuff.”
    The Big Picture · Oscar Nomination Predictions, ‘Mean Girls,’ and ‘All of Us Strangers’ With Andrew Scott · 0:16:52 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60 sure it was them)
  88. fun, about Dominic Sessa: Praise for his red-carpet styling: tuxedo, leather jacket, sunglasses, a Strokes look that plays to the hosts' era.
    “you go to the old classics, you get a sick tuxedo, you get a sick leather jacket, you get great sunglasses.”
    The Big Picture · Oscar Nomination Predictions, ‘Mean Girls,’ and ‘All of Us Strangers’ With Andrew Scott · 0:18:24 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)
  89. fun, about Maestro: Amanda's in-laws, who grew up going to Bernstein's Young People's Concerts, walked out of Maestro because they were bored.
    “They were also telling me about how they walked out of Maestro.”
    The Big Picture · Oscar Nomination Predictions, ‘Mean Girls,’ and ‘All of Us Strangers’ With Andrew Scott · 0:26:14 · Amanda Dobbins (0.70 sure it was them)
  90. fun, about Oppenheimer: Gripe that Emma Thomas gives every final acceptance speech instead of Christopher Nolan: the unavoidable Nolan wife problem.
    “It's never going to make up for the Christopher Nolan wife problem.”
    The Big Picture · Oscar Nomination Predictions, ‘Mean Girls,’ and ‘All of Us Strangers’ With Andrew Scott · 0:44:28 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)
  91. fun, about Nancy Meyers: A joking aside that Nancy Meyers recommends L.L.Bean sheets, spoken in mock-ad voice.
    “Sheets that Nancy Myers recommends from LLB.”
    The Big Picture · Oscar Nomination Predictions, ‘Mean Girls,’ and ‘All of Us Strangers’ With Andrew Scott · 0:46:20 · Amanda Dobbins (0.40 sure it was them)
  92. fun, about Mean Girls: Every October 3rd the Aaron Samuels meme returns, and the new film makes a choir sing it.
    “So every October 3rd, you get that meme of the Aaron Samuels turning around and Katie being like, it's October 3rd.”
    The Big Picture · Oscar Nomination Predictions, ‘Mean Girls,’ and ‘All of Us Strangers’ With Andrew Scott · 0:53:15 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60 sure it was them)
  93. fun, about Mean Girls: Renee Rapp's numbers stop the movie so she can do a full pop-star vamp, because the movie knows what it has.
    “it's kind of like the movie stops and she does a number and then it keeps going. because the movie knows what it has.”
    The Big Picture · Oscar Nomination Predictions, ‘Mean Girls,’ and ‘All of Us Strangers’ With Andrew Scott · 0:56:56 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)
  94. fun, about Mean Girls: A new bit in the talent show: Damian performs the iCarly theme song in French, with a slow reveal from tight on his face.
    “his performance at the talent show is, um, the theme song to iCarly in French, which is one of the funniest jokes.”
    The Big Picture · Oscar Nomination Predictions, ‘Mean Girls,’ and ‘All of Us Strangers’ With Andrew Scott · 0:59:00 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)
  95. fun, about Mean Girls: Damian recaps the Regina/Janice drama using plushies, a new joke the hosts loved.
    “when he recaps the Regina Janice drama, he uses Plushies, and I also thought that was really funny.”
    The Big Picture · Oscar Nomination Predictions, ‘Mean Girls,’ and ‘All of Us Strangers’ With Andrew Scott · 0:59:17 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)
  96. fun, about Renee Rapp: Rapp's loose publicity tour: she said she dislikes millennial women and called out a tour-company guy named Buddy.
    “she's agist and that she really doesn't like millennial women.”
    The Big Picture · Oscar Nomination Predictions, ‘Mean Girls,’ and ‘All of Us Strangers’ With Andrew Scott · 1:01:16 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)
  97. fun, about Poor Things (toddler performance): Amanda says Stone's baby-to-toddler stages matched her son Knox's development between viewings, six months apart.
    “I was like, wow, we've really charted the development here over 6 months.”
    The Big Picture · Best Picture Power Rankings and a ‘Poor Things’ Deep Dive. Plus: Julianne Moore and Todd Haynes! · 0:43:19 · Amanda Dobbins (0.65 sure it was them)
  98. fun, about Poor Things (Lisbon): The first section is black and white; the Lisbon title card cuts to color and the 'furious jumping'. Bella wears yellow silk shorts (maybe Victorian underwear) with white heeled ankle boots, costumes by Holly Waddington.
    “The 1st section is all shot in black and white.”
    The Big Picture · Best Picture Power Rankings and a ‘Poor Things’ Deep Dive. Plus: Julianne Moore and Todd Haynes! · 0:46:25 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)
  99. fun, about Poor Things (the three things she can say): At dinner Bella is told to say only 'delighted', 'how marvelous', and 'so flaky, so crisp' about the pastry, then yells that she must go punch a wailing baby.
    “I must go punch that baby”
    The Big Picture · Best Picture Power Rankings and a ‘Poor Things’ Deep Dive. Plus: Julianne Moore and Todd Haynes! · 0:48:18 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)
  100. fun, about Poor Things (Willem Dafoe): Dafoe's Godwin has a burp bubble, and gastric juices removed for an experiment ('It turns out we need them').
    “His burp bubble is an incredible psych gag.”
    The Big Picture · Best Picture Power Rankings and a ‘Poor Things’ Deep Dive. Plus: Julianne Moore and Todd Haynes! · 1:00:44 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)