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 501–520 of 520 claims.

  1. craft (craft): Ludwig Goransson → Hans Zimmer. His Black Panther score carries a Hans Zimmer-style propulsive action feel.
    “plus that sort of like sweeping Alan Sylvestri, Hans Zimmer, kind of propulsive feeling that you need in an action movie”
    The Big Picture · Oscars 2019: Instant Reactions to ‘Green Book’ and the Two Warring Academies | The Oscars Show (Ep. 131) · 0:54:52 · Amanda Dobbins (0.40 sure it was them)
  2. contrast (contrast): Green Book → BlacKkKlansman. The back-to-back Green Book original screenplay and Spike adapted screenplay wins showed the old/new academy dichotomy.
    “It showed it did show really that dichotomy we were talking about earlier in the show.”
    The Big Picture · Oscars 2019: Instant Reactions to ‘Green Book’ and the Two Warring Academies | The Oscars Show (Ep. 131) · 1:01:56 · Amanda Dobbins (0.40 sure it was them)
  3. what-if (what-if): Sam Elliott → Can You Ever Forgive Me?. Too bad for Sam Elliott and Richard E. Grant, who may have lost a final chance to win.
    “it's too bad for Sam Elliott and Richard E. Grant in particular”
    The Big Picture · Oscars 2019: Instant Reactions to ‘Green Book’ and the Two Warring Academies | The Oscars Show (Ep. 131) · 1:03:30 · Amanda Dobbins (0.40 sure it was them)
  4. contrast (contrast): Vice → Nixon. Vice might be forgotten like Oliver Stone's twin portraits Nixon and W.
    “I don't think anybody really talks about Oliver Stone's kind of twin portraits.”
    The Big Picture · Oscars 2019: Instant Reactions to ‘Green Book’ and the Two Warring Academies | The Oscars Show (Ep. 131) · 1:10:47 · Amanda Dobbins (0.40 sure it was them)
  5. contrast (contrast): The Favourite → The Killing of a Sacred Deer. The Favourite is in keeping with The Lobster but different from The Killing of a Sacred Deer.
    “It is in keeping with the lobster, but it's like way different than a killing of a sacred deer.”
    The Big Picture · Oscars 2019: Instant Reactions to ‘Green Book’ and the Two Warring Academies | The Oscars Show (Ep. 131) · 1:13:26 · Amanda Dobbins (0.40 sure it was them)
  6. contrast (contrast): Green Book → Three Billboards. The Green Book win is this year's Three Billboards: a flawed, problematic movie critics must tangle with for months.
    “I just didn't want another movie that, from a purely professional editorial perspective, you and I were just going to have to tangle with for 2 months”
    The Big Picture · Instant Reactions to a Truly Ludicrous Golden Globes | The Oscars Show (Ep. 115) · 0:11:36 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)
  7. people (people): Bohemian Rhapsody → Bryan Singer. The film's winner status ignores that Singer, now a pariah, shot about 60% of it.
    “There's no mention of Brian Singer, during this telecast, he filmed approximately 60% of this film.”
    The Big Picture · Instant Reactions to a Truly Ludicrous Golden Globes | The Oscars Show (Ep. 115) · 0:13:48 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)
  8. industry (industry): Bohemian Rhapsody → Graham King. Producer Graham King fought for years, got a real budget, a big director and the right star, a good story for the studio system.
    “he got it done at a studio with a real budget and they did it big.”
    The Big Picture · Instant Reactions to a Truly Ludicrous Golden Globes | The Oscars Show (Ep. 115) · 0:15:33 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)
  9. industry (industry): Bohemian Rhapsody → First Man. Bohemian Rhapsody on the PGA list comes at the expense of films like First Man, which is gone.
    “Like 1st man is gone.”
    The Big Picture · Instant Reactions to a Truly Ludicrous Golden Globes | The Oscars Show (Ep. 115) · 0:16:00 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)
  10. industry (industry): Beasts of the Southern Wild → If Beale Street Could Talk. The Academy sometimes goes where the PGA does not, as with Beasts of the Southern Wild, so Beale Street could still make it.
    “sometimes you have Bisa of the Southern Wild, which is like not on the PJs radar.”
    The Big Picture · Instant Reactions to a Truly Ludicrous Golden Globes | The Oscars Show (Ep. 115) · 0:16:45 · Amanda Dobbins (0.45 sure it was them)
  11. unmapped (fun): Bohemian Rhapsody → Brian May. Queen's presence dominated the room, including May behind Malek.
    “And silver maneed Brian May sitting behind Ramy Molik.”
    The Big Picture · Instant Reactions to a Truly Ludicrous Golden Globes | The Oscars Show (Ep. 115) · 0:24:59 · Amanda Dobbins (0.45 sure it was them)
  12. career (career): A Star Is Born → Bradley Cooper. Actors, the largest Academy voting bloc, love the film and what Cooper becoming a director means for their futures.
    “actors are far and away the largest subcategory of voters.”
    The Big Picture · Instant Reactions to a Truly Ludicrous Golden Globes | The Oscars Show (Ep. 115) · 0:27:01 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)
  13. people (people): A Star Is Born → Lady Gaga. The Star Is Born campaign looks shaky after neither Gaga nor Cooper won and Mark Ronson accepted the song award.
    “for neither Gaga nor Cooper to win actor, and of course not to win best drama”
    The Big Picture · Instant Reactions to a Truly Ludicrous Golden Globes | The Oscars Show (Ep. 115) · 0:28:21 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)
  14. theme (theme): A Star Is Born → Green Book. All three films share a polished, studio, historically Hollywood approach; Star has more grit and anxiety.
    “There's something like very polished and studio and historically Hollywood in the approach of all 3 of those movies.”
    The Big Picture · Instant Reactions to a Truly Ludicrous Golden Globes | The Oscars Show (Ep. 115) · 0:30:40 · Amanda Dobbins (0.45 sure it was them)
  15. verdict (verdict): Olivia Colman → Glenn Close. Colman's loose speech made her seem the winner, then Close's speech made Close the winner.
    “I watched that speech and I was like, oh, great, okay, Olivia Coleman's going to win.”
    The Big Picture · Instant Reactions to a Truly Ludicrous Golden Globes | The Oscars Show (Ep. 115) · 0:34:22 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)
  16. verdict (verdict): Vice → Christian Bale. Vice went one for six, and the performance is the one thing everyone likes.
    “Out of 6 nominations, I believe, the most of any film tonight.”
    The Big Picture · Instant Reactions to a Truly Ludicrous Golden Globes | The Oscars Show (Ep. 115) · 0:39:20 · Amanda Dobbins (0.45 sure it was them)
  17. what-if (what-if): Vice → Amy Adams. If Bale and Adams had won, Vice would have gained renewed momentum.
    “if Amy Adams and Christian Bale won, that it would kind of, again, have some renewed momentum”
    The Big Picture · Instant Reactions to a Truly Ludicrous Golden Globes | The Oscars Show (Ep. 115) · 0:39:41 · Amanda Dobbins (0.45 sure it was them)
  18. programming (programming): The Kominsky Method → The Americans. The TV winners were Kominsky, The Americans and Versace; the Globes were early on streaming shows like Atlanta.
    “the shows were Kaminsky Method, American, and Assassination of Dionni Versace.”
    The Big Picture · Instant Reactions to a Truly Ludicrous Golden Globes | The Oscars Show (Ep. 115) · 0:42:59 · Amanda Dobbins (0.45 sure it was them)
  19. programming (programming): Kevin Hart → The Upside. Hart was promoting The Upside when he appeared on Ellen about the Oscars hosting gig.
    “Kevin Hart, who is promoting his new movie, The Upside, started to do press.”
    The Big Picture · Instant Reactions to a Truly Ludicrous Golden Globes | The Oscars Show (Ep. 115) · 0:46:18 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)
  20. verdict (verdict): Roma → A Star Is Born. Globes moving away from critics' picks is a problem for Roma as well as Star.
    “then I think that's a problem for Roma as well as Star is born.”
    The Big Picture · Instant Reactions to a Truly Ludicrous Golden Globes | The Oscars Show (Ep. 115) · 0:56:14 · Amanda Dobbins (0.40 sure it was them)

Their fun items

Showing 1–100 of 275 fun items.

  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)