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 1–100 of 520 claims.

  1. theme (theme): Working Girl → Younger. The pretending-to-be-someone-else-at-work premise is like the TV show Younger.
    “Oh, well, that's like the TV show Younger, essentially.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ With Bill Simmons, Amanda Dobbins, and Joanna Robinson · 0:08:19 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)
  2. verdict (verdict): Melanie Griffith → Jodie Foster. Comparing the two Best Actress performances, Griffith's might be the harder one.
    “I actually think this one might be harder in some ways.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ With Bill Simmons, Amanda Dobbins, and Joanna Robinson · 0:15:34 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)
  3. career (career): Sigourney Weaver → Dave. Weaver's Dave is a favorite of hers besides Alien and Aliens, and a mirror image of her Working Girl character.
    “I think that's my favorite Sigourney Weaver other than alien and aliens.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ With Bill Simmons, Amanda Dobbins, and Joanna Robinson · 0:28:10 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60 sure it was them)
  4. theme (theme): Carly Simon → Gilmore Girls. The humming of Let the River Run feels like Gilmore Girls (Carole King vibe).
    “the way that she hums throughout the movie is very Gilmore Girls to me.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ With Bill Simmons, Amanda Dobbins, and Joanna Robinson · 0:44:27 · Amanda Dobbins (0.40 sure it was them)
  5. craft (craft): Anne Roth → Working Girl. Anne Roth's costumes make the characters: Tess's makeover communicates who she is trying to be, and Weaver's closet is spot on.
    “once Tess has her makeover, it's like really communicating something, both like very 80s, but very different about who that character is or who that character is trying to be.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ With Bill Simmons, Amanda Dobbins, and Joanna Robinson · 1:09:29 · Amanda Dobbins (0.35 sure it was them)
  6. contrast (contrast): Working Girl → The Devil Wears Prada. Prada knows its heroine becomes a bad person; Working Girl is not written that way.
    “But I but the movie knows that and is written that way.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ With Bill Simmons, Amanda Dobbins, and Joanna Robinson · 2:02:25 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)
  7. programming (programming): Working Girl → Baby Boom. Baby Boom is the top double-feature pick because it is less seen.
    “I think my number one would be Baby Boom because it's not as seen.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ With Bill Simmons, Amanda Dobbins, and Joanna Robinson · 2:05:30 · Amanda Dobbins (0.40 sure it was them)
  8. career (career): Michael Douglas → The American President. For the younger speaker the first Michael Douglas movie was The American President, which made his dark turns a shock.
    “the 1st Michael Douglas movie I saw was the American president.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The War of the Roses’ With Bill Simmons, Mallory Rubin, and Amanda Dobbins · 0:06:45 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60 sure it was them)
  9. career (career): Michael Douglas → Basic Instinct. Douglas discovered a dark streak with Basic Instinct, a genre he excels in.
    “And and then he discovered basic instinct.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The War of the Roses’ With Bill Simmons, Mallory Rubin, and Amanda Dobbins · 0:07:01 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60 sure it was them)
  10. contrast (contrast): The War of the Roses → Father of the Bride. Amanda ranks the Roses house outside her top 20 movie houses, beginning her list with the Father of the Bride house.
    “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)
  11. craft (craft): Nancy Meyers → Father of the Bride. Nancy Meyers is the goat of picking houses; Father of the Bride is the best to live in of all her houses.
    “she was the goat of picking house.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The War of the Roses’ With Bill Simmons, Mallory Rubin, and Amanda Dobbins · 1:00:25 · Amanda Dobbins (0.70 sure it was them)
  12. what-if (what-if): Tom Cruise → Jerry Maguire. Cruise could play the Oliver role as the cocky, beaten-up Jerry Maguire of the first 30 minutes.
    “I'm thinking like collateral cruise crossed with Jerry Maguire cruise.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The War of the Roses’ With Bill Simmons, Mallory Rubin, and Amanda Dobbins · 1:17:39 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)
  13. lineage (remake-distance analogy): Father of the Bride → Blade Runner. A 1991 remake of a 1950 film is like remaking Blade Runner now, 40 years on.
    “think about movies in 1982 now that that would be the 40 year mark where it would be like if they were remaking Blade Runner”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Father of the Bride’ With Bill Simmons and Amanda Dobbins · 0:08:22 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60 sure it was them)
  14. lineage (dad-persona precursor): Father of the Bride → Parenthood. Martin had been doing family-friendly dad stuff before, in Parenthood, but this is where he nails it.
    “he had been doing some of this like family friendly dad stuff before parenthood, et cetera.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Father of the Bride’ With Bill Simmons and Amanda Dobbins · 0:08:43 · Amanda Dobbins (0.85 sure it was them)
  15. unmapped (earlier edgier Martin): Father of the Bride → Dirty Rotten Scoundrels. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels and Three Amigos show a Martin edgier than the dad persona, like discovering your dad was cool in his 20s.
    “you go back and you see 3 of me, it goes, and you see dirty rotten scoundrels.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Father of the Bride’ With Bill Simmons and Amanda Dobbins · 0:14:32 · Amanda Dobbins (0.70 sure it was them)
  16. unmapped (yuppie trilogy): Baby Boom → The Intern. Baby Boom starts a Meyers run that comes back around through It's Complicated, Something's Gotta Give and The Intern.
    “they're sort of like the, the yuppie trilogy that starts with Baby Boom.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Father of the Bride’ With Bill Simmons and Amanda Dobbins · 0:19:10 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60 sure it was them)
  17. lineage (creative lineage): Father of the Bride → Baby Boom. Baby Boom has some of the Meyers aesthetics (the Vermont kitchen), but Father of the Bride is where the full Nancy Meyers formula clicks in.
    “I think Father of the Bride is really where you see the Nancy Myers formula, just like clicking in the house, the kitchen, the skirt suits”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Father of the Bride’ With Bill Simmons and Amanda Dobbins · 0:19:21 · Amanda Dobbins (0.85 sure it was them)
  18. craft (craft): Baby Boom → Father of the Bride. The house and kitchen look of Nancy Meyers movies starts in Baby Boom and clicks into place in Father of the Bride.
    “Baby Booms has some of the aesthetics, like the Vermont home that Diane Keaton moves to has a beautiful kitchen, but I think Father of the Bride is really where you see the Nancy Myers formula”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Father of the Bride’ With Bill Simmons and Amanda Dobbins · 0:19:21 · Amanda Dobbins (0.70 sure it was them)
  19. theme (recurring motif): Father of the Bride → It's Complicated. Everyone in Meyers movies is an architect: Annie here, and Steve Martin renovating Meryl Streep's kitchen in It's Complicated.
    “Steve Martin, later on, and it's complicated, also an architect, renovating Meryl Streep's house, specifically the kitchen, remember?”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Father of the Bride’ With Bill Simmons and Amanda Dobbins · 0:21:04 · Amanda Dobbins (0.85 sure it was them)
  20. career (career path): Nancy Meyers → Something's Gotta Give. After the divorce she developed a corner of films about women of a certain age thriving in later life.
    “the corner that she eventually develops is like woman of a certain age, just real, like figuring out how to thrive in later life”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Father of the Bride’ With Bill Simmons and Amanda Dobbins · 0:22:18 · Amanda Dobbins (0.80 sure it was them)
  21. people (same writer-director): Father of the Bride → The Parent Trap. Meyers directed Parent Trap after the split with Shyer; Dobbins calls it weirdly important and Lohan's double role one of the great kid performances.
    “It's one of the great kid actor performances ever.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Father of the Bride’ With Bill Simmons and Amanda Dobbins · 0:23:33 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60 sure it was them)
  22. people (same actor, later role): Kieran Culkin → Succession. Watching child Kieran Culkin as Matty, they see future Roman Roy in his reaction shots at the dinner table.
    “his tiny little face is not that different from Roman's face sitting at some of the like succession boardroom tables.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Father of the Bride’ With Bill Simmons and Amanda Dobbins · 0:37:39 · Amanda Dobbins (0.85 sure it was them)
  23. lineage (physical comedy callback): Parenthood → Father of the Bride. Parenthood's famous little league scene shows Martin's athleticism, used to argue he made a Father of the Bride trick shot himself.
    “Because you think about like the parenthood, the famous little league scene.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Father of the Bride’ With Bill Simmons and Amanda Dobbins · 0:42:54 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60 sure it was them)
  24. lineage (sequel): Father of the Bride → Father of the Bride Part II. Dobbins is okay with Part II because it comments on weddings and pregnancy smartly and she likes the family; it made $76.6M on a $30M budget.
    “I'm okay with Father of the Bride too.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Father of the Bride’ With Bill Simmons and Amanda Dobbins · 0:46:18 · Amanda Dobbins (0.90 sure it was them)
  25. what-if (joke what-if): Father of the Bride Part II → Succession. Part II might be better if Culkin leaned into Roman Roy as a 13-year-old.
    “Maybe Father of the Bride too is better if Kieran Culkin really is leaning into Roman Roy.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Father of the Bride’ With Bill Simmons and Amanda Dobbins · 0:47:14 · Amanda Dobbins (0.70 sure it was them)
  26. lineage (pandemic sequel): Father of the Bride → Father of the Bride Part 3 (Netflix Zoom reunion). The virtual Netflix reunion is called a low point of the pandemic.
    “The virtual Netflix sequel. I think was one of the low points of the pandemic.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Father of the Bride’ With Bill Simmons and Amanda Dobbins · 0:47:27 · Amanda Dobbins (0.70 sure it was them)
  27. career (career setback): Diane Keaton → The Good Mother. Keaton says Disney wanted nothing to do with her after the failure The Good Mother, and Katzenberg resisted her casting.
    “I'd done a movie called The Good Mother, which was a big failure, like big failure, and that was it.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Father of the Bride’ With Bill Simmons and Amanda Dobbins · 0:55:12 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)
  28. people (same actor, later role): George Newbern → Scandal. Newbern had a long run on Scandal and Providence and looks so different he is not recognized as the Father of the Bride guy.
    “I forgot that he had a long run on Scandal, which I did watch. In Providence.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Father of the Bride’ With Bill Simmons and Amanda Dobbins · 0:57:14 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60 sure it was them)
  29. career (career pivot): Father of the Bride → Steve Martin. The film cements Martin's shift from wild-and-crazy comic to America's dad and starts mainstream Steve Martin (Oscars host, etc.).
    “I don't think he like hosts the Oscars or does any of his sort of just kind of America's dad stuff without this movie.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Father of the Bride’ With Bill Simmons and Amanda Dobbins · 1:01:59 · Amanda Dobbins (0.80 sure it was them)
  30. verdict (career apex): Something's Gotta Give → Diane Keaton. Keaton's mainstream apex is Something's Gotta Give, her full Meyers star vehicle, while her true Apex Mountain is Annie Hall.
    “it's something's got to give, which is her like full Nancy Meyers movie that she stars in.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Father of the Bride’ With Bill Simmons and Amanda Dobbins · 1:02:20 · Amanda Dobbins (0.80 sure it was them)
  31. verdict (peer Apex Mountain): Steve Martin → Diane Keaton. Both Martin and Keaton had their true peaks 13-14 years before this movie.
    “So what's interesting is they both have their Apex Mountain. Right. Like 13, 14 years before this movie.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Father of the Bride’ With Bill Simmons and Amanda Dobbins · 1:02:31 · Amanda Dobbins (0.70 sure it was them)
  32. lineage (genre influence): Father of the Bride → Four Weddings and a Funeral. Father of the Bride starts the 90s wedding-movie explosion that includes Four Weddings, Wedding Planner and Wedding Singer.
    “This like really starts the 90s explosion of everything from 4 weddings and a funeral to wedding planner and wedding singer and you name it.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Father of the Bride’ With Bill Simmons and Amanda Dobbins · 1:03:26 · Amanda Dobbins (0.80 sure it was them)
  33. theme (shared wedding-movie trope): Father of the Bride → My Best Friend's Wedding. Both end with newlyweds leaving for the honeymoon immediately, which never happens in real life.
    “By the way, my best friend's wedding does it too.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Father of the Bride’ With Bill Simmons and Amanda Dobbins · 1:11:05 · Amanda Dobbins (0.80 sure it was them)
  34. theme (revival analogy): Father of the Bride → Sex and the City. Dobbins would watch a Father of the Bride series even if it betrays the original, like she watches the Sex and the City revival.
    “there's a new Sex in the City remake episode to watch, you know, even though it's like one of, it's, it's not really working”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Father of the Bride’ With Bill Simmons and Amanda Dobbins · 1:15:17 · Amanda Dobbins (0.80 sure it was them)
  35. unmapped (ending alternative): Father of the Bride → My Best Friend's Wedding. A last-minute run back for a hug would echo My Best Friend's Wedding and The Graduate.
    “It's like sort of like a reverse to the graduate. Or my best friend's wedding when he pops up at the end”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Father of the Bride’ With Bill Simmons and Amanda Dobbins · 1:23:38 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60 sure it was them)
  36. career (career): Easy A → She's the Man. Amanda Bynes's last film is Easy A, a bookend to a career that included the cult classic She's the Man.
    “she's the man is like a cult classic now.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ With Juliet Litman, Amanda Dobbins, and Shea Serrano · 0:09:19 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)
  37. career (career): Easy A → Hairspray. Amanda Bynes was very good in Hairspray too.
    “she also was very, very good in hairspray”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ With Juliet Litman, Amanda Dobbins, and Shea Serrano · 0:09:19 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)
  38. people (people): She's the Man → Channing Tatum. Channing Tatum is in She's the Man, one of his first movies.
    “obviously Channing Tatum's in it, one of his 1st movies.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ With Juliet Litman, Amanda Dobbins, and Shea Serrano · 0:09:26 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)
  39. lineage (lineage): Easy A → Ferris Bueller's Day Off. Director Will Gluck has said Ferris Bueller is his favorite movie, and Olive's Mohawk and guitar bits echo it.
    “I think the director, Will Gluck, has like talked about how Ferris Bueller is, I think, his favorite movie.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ With Juliet Litman, Amanda Dobbins, and Shea Serrano · 0:12:38 · Amanda Dobbins (0.70 sure it was them)
  40. lineage (lineage): Easy A → John Hughes. Easy A is in open dialogue with Hughes: Olive says her life is not a John Hughes movie and the finale has a Hughes montage.
    “But also she, like, literally says in the dialogue, my life isn't a John Hughes movie.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ With Juliet Litman, Amanda Dobbins, and Shea Serrano · 0:12:55 · Amanda Dobbins (0.70 sure it was them)
  41. theme (theme): Easy A → Mean Girls. Both are self-aware teen comedies that know the tropes, though Easy A is far less vicious.
    “You know, like in a way that mean girls does, though it's far less vicious than mean girls.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ With Juliet Litman, Amanda Dobbins, and Shea Serrano · 0:13:40 · Amanda Dobbins (0.70 sure it was them)
  42. verdict (verdict): Easy A → Clueless. Clueless sits at number one for Amanda; Easy A's Emma Stone is her number two among teen-movie leads.
    “Number 2 for me is Emma Stone.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ With Juliet Litman, Amanda Dobbins, and Shea Serrano · 0:18:24 · Amanda Dobbins (0.70 sure it was them)
  43. career (career): Alicia Silverstone → Clueless. Silverstone is lightning in a bottle in Clueless but never had a soaring career after.
    “she really, she hasn't really had a soaring career after that.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ With Juliet Litman, Amanda Dobbins, and Shea Serrano · 0:20:29 · Amanda Dobbins (0.70 sure it was them)
  44. career (career): Rachel McAdams → The Notebook. Rachel McAdams's 2004 gets credit for both Mean Girls and The Notebook.
    “Which, and I think you really have to credit Rachel McAdams for both of those.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ With Juliet Litman, Amanda Dobbins, and Shea Serrano · 0:21:36 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60 sure it was them)
  45. career (career): Stanley Tucci → The Devil Wears Prada. Easy A is part of Stanley Tucci's comedy phase, alongside The Devil Wears Prada.
    “this is kind of the Stanley Tucci comedy phase”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ With Juliet Litman, Amanda Dobbins, and Shea Serrano · 0:30:55 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)
  46. theme (theme): Easy A → Book Smart. Book Smart (like Easy A) has supportive parents who show up, played by Will Forte and Lisa Kudrow.
    “Like we saw this in book and book smart.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ With Juliet Litman, Amanda Dobbins, and Shea Serrano · 0:31:19 · Amanda Dobbins (0.45 sure it was them)
  47. people (people): Lisa Kudrow → Book Smart. Lisa Kudrow plays a supportive parent in Book Smart alongside Will Forte.
    “It's Will Forte and Lisa Coudreau, right?”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ With Juliet Litman, Amanda Dobbins, and Shea Serrano · 0:31:27 · Amanda Dobbins (0.40 sure it was them)
  48. lineage (lineage): Easy A → The Scarlet Letter (Demi Moore version). The movie nods to the Scarlet Letter and its puritanical heritage; Olive jokes about watching the Demi Moore version.
    “does its best or at least at times nods to the Scarlet letter and kind of like, you know, the puritanical heritage”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ With Juliet Litman, Amanda Dobbins, and Shea Serrano · 0:52:04 · Amanda Dobbins (0.70 sure it was them)
  49. what-if (what-if): Jennifer Lawrence → Silver Linings Playbook. Emma Stone could have done Silver Linings Playbook, and Lawrence could have done Crazy, Stupid, Love, but not La La Land.
    “Do you think Jennifer Lawrence could have been in crazy stupid love?”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ With Juliet Litman, Amanda Dobbins, and Shea Serrano · 1:06:08 · Amanda Dobbins (0.40 sure it was them)
  50. what-if (what-if): Jennifer Lawrence → La La Land. Lawrence could not have done La La Land because of its performative singing and dancing.
    “Do you think, I'm trying to think, do you think that Jennifer Lawrence could have been in La La Land?”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ With Juliet Litman, Amanda Dobbins, and Shea Serrano · 1:06:14 · Amanda Dobbins (0.40 sure it was them)
  51. craft (craft): Emma Stone → La La Land. Stone's performative quality works in Easy A's numbers and webcam and also in La La Land.
    “I mean, it also works in La La Land.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ With Juliet Litman, Amanda Dobbins, and Shea Serrano · 1:07:19 · Amanda Dobbins (0.40 sure it was them)
  52. career (career): Malcolm McDowell → Entourage. Amanda always thinks of Malcolm McDowell as Terrence from Entourage because of the glasses.
    “I always think of Terrence from entourage for some reason.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ With Juliet Litman, Amanda Dobbins, and Shea Serrano · 1:09:30 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60 sure it was them)
  53. career (career): Cam Gigandet → Twilight. Amanda knows Gigandet as one of the Twilight guys.
    “He's just always like one of the Twilight guys.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ With Juliet Litman, Amanda Dobbins, and Shea Serrano · 1:11:02 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60 sure it was them)
  54. career (career): Dan Byrd → A Cinderella Story. Dan Byrd played a similar role in the Hilary Duff, Chad Michael Murray Cinderella remake.
    “he plays a somewhat similar role in the Hillary Duff, Chad Michael Murray Cinderella remake”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ With Juliet Litman, Amanda Dobbins, and Shea Serrano · 1:12:23 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60 sure it was them)
  55. industry (industry): Easy A → Black Swan. Stone should have been nominated for the 2010 Best Actress race against Black Swan, The Kids Are All Right, Rabbit Hole, Winter's Bone and Blue Valentine; the Oscars don't acknowledge comedy.
    “However, the Oscars... Don't really acknowledge comedy.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ With Juliet Litman, Amanda Dobbins, and Shea Serrano · 1:26:52 · Amanda Dobbins (0.70 sure it was them)
  56. verdict (verdict): Easy A → Emma Stone. Easy A isn't Stone's peak, but she doesn't reach it without this movie.
    “it's not technically her Apex Mountain, but she doesn't get to her Apex Mountain without this movie.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ With Juliet Litman, Amanda Dobbins, and Shea Serrano · 1:26:57 · Amanda Dobbins (0.70 sure it was them)
  57. verdict (verdict): Emma Stone → La La Land. Not Easy A but La La Land is Stone's Apex Mountain, once she wins the Oscar.
    “It's got to be La La Land, right?”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ With Juliet Litman, Amanda Dobbins, and Shea Serrano · 1:27:50 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)
  58. career (career): Will Gluck → Easy A. Easy A is probably director Will Gluck's peak.
    “Probably the director well Glock's peak, in my opinion.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ With Juliet Litman, Amanda Dobbins, and Shea Serrano · 1:31:25 · Amanda Dobbins (0.55 sure it was them)
  59. career (career): Easy A → Peter Rabbit. After Easy A, Will Gluck made Friends with Benefits and then the live-action Peter Rabbit movies.
    “he makes friends with benefits and then he does the live action Peter Rabbit movies.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ With Juliet Litman, Amanda Dobbins, and Shea Serrano · 1:31:29 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)
  60. verdict (verdict): Javier Bardem → The Social Network. Not nominating Bardem is her number 2 Oscar outrage of the decade, behind The Social Network not winning.
    “That's my number 2 outrage of Oscar outrage of the decade behind social network, not winning.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Skyfall’ With Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Amanda Dobbins · 0:07:35 · Amanda Dobbins (0.80 sure it was them)
  61. contrast (contrast): Skyfall → Pacific Rim. Skyfall's action is legible and grounded, unlike Pacific Rim.
    “rather than like either Pacific Rim, what the fuck is the going on right now?”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Skyfall’ With Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Amanda Dobbins · 0:39:00 · Amanda Dobbins (0.80 sure it was them)
  62. verdict (verdict): Naomie Harris → Eve Moneypenny. Harris's Moneypenny reads as girl-power and out of tone with the sedate movie.
    “It's almost like she's doing like girl power Money Penny.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Skyfall’ With Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Amanda Dobbins · 0:56:33 · Amanda Dobbins (0.40 sure it was them)
  63. career (career): Daniel Craig → Knives Out. Craig's Skyfall is his Apex Mountain; Knives Out lacks equal power.
    “He's pretty great in knives out.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Skyfall’ With Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Amanda Dobbins · 1:00:28 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)
  64. contrast (contrast): Charlie's Angels → James Bond series. A female Bond marketed to women risks becoming dumbed down like Charlie's Angels.
    “I just saw Charlie's Angels, which is such a depressing example of what happens when they try to market these things to women”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Skyfall’ With Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Amanda Dobbins · 1:17:28 · Amanda Dobbins (0.80 sure it was them)
  65. what-if (what-if): Emily Blunt → Edge of Tomorrow. Blunt as a female Bond because of action credibility in Edge of Tomorrow and Sicario.
    “She's the biggest badass and you buy it.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Skyfall’ With Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Amanda Dobbins · 1:18:07 · Amanda Dobbins (0.40 sure it was them)
  66. lineage (lineage): Mean Girls → Clueless. Clueless brought the teen genre back and made it female; Mean Girls inherits that more female guiding hand.
    “Clueless brought the genre back and I think people missed it.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Mean Girls’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Amanda Dobbins · 0:07:10 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60 sure it was them)
  67. career (career before): Mean Girls → The Hot Chick. McAdams had been in Canada and The Hot Chick before Mean Girls made her career.
    “She was in the hot chick, but I didn't see that.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Mean Girls’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Amanda Dobbins · 0:26:38 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)
  68. programming (recommendation): Rachel McAdams → Red Eye. Red Eye is called very underrated.
    “And the very underrated redeye.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Mean Girls’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Amanda Dobbins · 0:26:52 · Amanda Dobbins (0.40 sure it was them)
  69. theme (character descent): Mean Girls → Heathers. Regina George is framed as the legacy of the original Heather (Kim Walker), the first Heather killed.
    “Regina George. To me is the legacy of the 3 Heathers and Heathers.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Mean Girls’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Amanda Dobbins · 0:29:42 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)
  70. craft (craft): Kelis → Mean Girls. Kelis's "Milkshake" needle-drop is singled out as the best use of music in a soundtrack the speaker otherwise finds weak.
    “The best part is when they use Khalis, when she like sees everything, it's like a jungle in the milkshake.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Mean Girls’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Amanda Dobbins · 0:37:24 · Amanda Dobbins (0.40 sure it was them)
  71. unmapped (same cohort): Lindsay Lohan → Mischa Barton. Barton is in the same paparazzi-era cohort on a similar trajectory, though judged less talented.
    “Misha Barton. She's on a very similar trajectory as Lindsay Lohan.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Mean Girls’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Amanda Dobbins · 0:40:17 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)
  72. what-if (casting what-if): James Franco → Mean Girls. Considered for Aaron Samuels; would have been darker, taken up space, and played up the satire.
    “he kind of changes the energy of the, of the movie.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Mean Girls’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Amanda Dobbins · 0:52:19 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)
  73. career (career springboard): Tina Fey → Mean Girls. Fey's Apex Mountain: writing Mean Girls gave her the power to do 30 Rock, with Sarah Palin on top.
    “Writes Mean Girls has an incredible amount of power that then allows her to do 30 rock.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Mean Girls’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Amanda Dobbins · 1:03:46 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)
  74. theme (nitpick parallel): Mean Girls → Clueless. Cher's heifer line in Clueless shows women are conscious of calories, backing the Regina-would-know nitpick.
    “It's like that moment in clueless when she's like, I'm such a heifer.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Mean Girls’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Amanda Dobbins · 1:08:45 · Amanda Dobbins (0.40 sure it was them)
  75. lineage (remake vibe): Mean Girls → Election. A hypothetical 'Mean Girls 2020' would have an election vibe like Tracy Flick.
    “I feel like that has like an election vibe, like the Tracy Flick.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Mean Girls’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Amanda Dobbins · 1:16:45 · Amanda Dobbins (0.40 sure it was them)
  76. unmapped (timeless social dynamics): Mean Girls → Clueless. Clueless and The Princess Bride are named alongside Mean Girls as films that will live on because they capture transcendent social dynamics.
    “Clueless is like that.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Mean Girls’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Amanda Dobbins · 1:20:25 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)
  77. programming (programming): Sense and Sensibility → Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse. The 2019 swap pairing Spider-Verse and Sense and Sensibility taught Amanda how she watches animation and became a reference for later animated films.
    “it taught me a lot about how I watch animation, what I respond to”
    The Big Picture · ‘Mamma Mia!’ Meets ‘The Strangers'! It’s a Movie Swap! · 0:10:10 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)
  78. programming (programming): Terminator 2: Judgment Day → One Battle After Another. The 2021 Cameron swap of Terminator 2 versus Titanic was great prep for the Cameron-return era and, per Amanda, for One Battle After Another.
    “that was also great prep for one battle after another.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Mamma Mia!’ Meets ‘The Strangers'! It’s a Movie Swap! · 0:12:22 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)
  79. career (career): Mamma Mia! → Les Misérables. Mamma Mia and Les Mis are Seyfried's core work that Sean had not seen.
    “And you have just not seen any of her core work, including, but Mama Mia and Les Misera.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Mamma Mia!’ Meets ‘The Strangers'! It’s a Movie Swap! · 0:16:51 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60 sure it was them)
  80. verdict (verdict): Mamma Mia! → Sense and Sensibility. Mamma Mia is not as important to Amanda as Sense and Sensibility or Four Weddings, but is pop-culturally significant.
    “Is it as important to me as Sense and Sensibility or for weddings in a funeral or the, you know, any of those. No.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Mamma Mia!’ Meets ‘The Strangers'! It’s a Movie Swap! · 0:17:15 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60 sure it was them)
  81. lineage (lineage): The Strangers → The Town That Dreaded Sundown. The tall stranger's sack mask calls back to The Town That Dreaded Sundown.
    “wears a kind of sack mask that recalls like the town that dreaded sundown.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Mamma Mia!’ Meets ‘The Strangers'! It’s a Movie Swap! · 0:26:00 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60 sure it was them)
  82. lineage (lineage): The Strangers → Manson family murders. Bertino cited the Manson family murders as an inspiration, but the speaker finds that unsatisfying because Manson had intent while the Strangers act at random.
    “Bertino says that the Manson family tape murders were a big inspiration for this.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Mamma Mia!’ Meets ‘The Strangers'! It’s a Movie Swap! · 0:33:41 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60 sure it was them)
  83. craft (craft): The Strangers → Nightmares. Scott Speedman's late-night drive is a horror trope, like the woman in Nightmares who leaves for cigarettes while a killer is loose.
    “she's like, I just fucking need cigarettes.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Mamma Mia!’ Meets ‘The Strangers'! It’s a Movie Swap! · 0:40:21 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)
  84. craft (craft): Merle Haggard → The Strangers. A Merle Haggard record the intruders put on supplies the film's closing haunting song, Mama Tried.
    “Yeah, but, you know, mama tried as like the closing haunting jam, you know, is kind of that's a tough one.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Mamma Mia!’ Meets ‘The Strangers'! It’s a Movie Swap! · 0:47:03 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)
  85. lineage (lineage): Mamma Mia! → ABBA. The film is aesthetically and spiritually in tune with ABBA's incandescent, inescapable and stupid songs.
    “It is a film that is very, like aesthetically and spiritually in tune with its source material, being the, like, incandescent, inescapable, wonderful, and also really stupid songs of ABBA.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Mamma Mia!’ Meets ‘The Strangers'! It’s a Movie Swap! · 0:52:57 · Amanda Dobbins (0.80 sure it was them)
  86. craft (craft): Mamma Mia! → Phyllida Lloyd. A celebrated theater director made poor camera choices; the speaker says it is some of the worst direction they've seen.
    “The actual direction of the film is some of the worst I've ever seen.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Mamma Mia!’ Meets ‘The Strangers'! It’s a Movie Swap! · 0:54:46 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60 sure it was them)
  87. career (career): Phyllida Lloyd → The Iron Lady. Lloyd also directed The Iron Lady, which the hosts connect to Streep having had a good time with her.
    “She directed the Iron Lady.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Mamma Mia!’ Meets ‘The Strangers'! It’s a Movie Swap! · 0:55:08 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)
  88. career (career): Amanda Seyfried → Mean Girls. The film comes shortly after Mean Girls and just before "end time" (as transcribed) and Jennifer's Body, with Seyfried going for the brass ring.
    “It's shortly after Mean Girls.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Mamma Mia!’ Meets ‘The Strangers'! It’s a Movie Swap! · 0:59:06 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)
  89. people (people): Meryl Streep → Into the Woods. Streep was in Into the Woods, but Sean skips it because he dislikes the Rob Marshall production and the show itself.
    “But, um, I mean, Meryl Streep was into the woods.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Mamma Mia!’ Meets ‘The Strangers'! It’s a Movie Swap! · 1:06:29 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)
  90. people (people): Mamma Mia! → Pierce Brosnan. Brosnan, Firth and Skarsgard are icons in Ireland, England and Sweden, which the speaker offers as one reason the film was so huge in the UK.
    “you've got an Irish, English and Swedish, like kind of icon.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Mamma Mia!’ Meets ‘The Strangers'! It’s a Movie Swap! · 1:07:41 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)
  91. industry (industry): Mamma Mia! → Wicked. Excluding Disney animation and adaptations, Mamma Mia is the third highest-grossing movie musical behind Wicked and Wonka.
    “this is the 3rd highest grossing movie musical and the history of movies behind Wicked and Wonka, which only just came out in the last 2 years.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Mamma Mia!’ Meets ‘The Strangers'! It’s a Movie Swap! · 1:08:09 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)
  92. industry (industry): Mamma Mia! → The Dark Knight. In 2008, a year dominated by The Dark Knight and Iron Man, Mamma Mia still became a global phenomenon.
    “it was the Dark Knight and Iron Man year”
    The Big Picture · ‘Mamma Mia!’ Meets ‘The Strangers'! It’s a Movie Swap! · 1:09:09 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)
  93. craft (craft): Mamma Mia! → West Side Story. In Dancing Queen, Baranski and Streep's chiffon skirts allow one Jerome Robbins-style moment that echoes West Side Story.
    “they do like one Jerome Robbins, like, uh, sachet moment.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Mamma Mia!’ Meets ‘The Strangers'! It’s a Movie Swap! · 1:17:19 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)
  94. what-if (what-if): Meryl Streep → Salt. The hosts joke about casting Streep in Wanted or Salt in place of Angelina Jolie.
    “Meryl does have like a regal Russian quality to it.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Mamma Mia!’ Meets ‘The Strangers'! It’s a Movie Swap! · 1:21:07 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)
  95. career (career): Meryl Streep → Florence Foster Jenkins. Streep keeps singing on film, and Florence Foster Jenkins riffs on her not being a great singer.
    “Florence Foster Jenkins is so funny, though, because it's kind of a riff on how she can't really sing that.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Mamma Mia!’ Meets ‘The Strangers'! It’s a Movie Swap! · 1:21:59 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)
  96. industry (industry): Mamma Mia! → Bohemian Rhapsody. Both succeed because audiences want to hear beloved band songs in a theater, but Mamma Mia has a sense of humor a biopic lacks.
    “Bohemian Rhapsody was so successful because of the songs and because of this, you know, portrayal of this band who we have a big relationship to.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Mamma Mia!’ Meets ‘The Strangers'! It’s a Movie Swap! · 1:26:44 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)
  97. theme (theme): Mamma Mia! → The Strangers. Mamma Mia, by never confirming the father, honors not-knowing the way The Strangers does, which Amanda says gives it more nerve.
    “This movie understands that the greatest fear and the greatest power lies in not knowing.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Mamma Mia!’ Meets ‘The Strangers'! It’s a Movie Swap! · 1:29:03 · Amanda Dobbins (0.70 sure it was them)
  98. lineage (lineage): Mamma Mia! → Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again. The sequel is both prequel and sequel, with Lily James as young Donna in Donna and the Dynamos.
    “can I tell you it's both a prequel and a sequel?”
    The Big Picture · ‘Mamma Mia!’ Meets ‘The Strangers'! It’s a Movie Swap! · 1:35:44 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60 sure it was them)
  99. career (career): Harry Styles → Eternals. Styles' Eternals appearance was his favorite part and only seconds long.
    “He was my favorite part of Eternals, I think.”
    The Big Picture · The 10 Most Misused Stars in Hollywood and the Gnarly Magic of ‘Send Help’ · 0:06:45 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)
  100. career (career): Barry Keoghan → Eternals. Keoghan, now playing Ringo, is linked back through Eternals.
    “speaking of Eternals and Barry Hogan of the Beatles guys?”
    The Big Picture · The 10 Most Misused Stars in Hollywood and the Gnarly Magic of ‘Send Help’ · 0:06:52 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)

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  1. fun, about Poor Things (ending): Abbott's character gets a goat brain and ends up on all fours chewing shrubbery; the household includes a pug that is also a chicken.
    “Christopher Abbott on all fours, uh, chewing the shrubbery, like the, like the goat that he is.”
    The Big Picture · Best Picture Power Rankings and a ‘Poor Things’ Deep Dive. Plus: Julianne Moore and Todd Haynes! · 1:08:43 · Amanda Dobbins (0.45 sure it was them)
  2. fun, about Oscar nominations (Amanda): Amanda asked her OB to delay her induction a day so she could host the Oscar-nominations pod; the baby arrived the next afternoon.
    “And I said, well, because the Oscar nominations are being announced on Tuesday morning, and if he's not here, at, you know, at least I'd like to do my job.”
    The Big Picture · Best Picture Power Rankings and a ‘Poor Things’ Deep Dive. Plus: Julianne Moore and Todd Haynes! · 1:37:25 · Amanda Dobbins (0.75 sure it was them)
  3. fun, about Oppenheimer / Golden Globes: Joe Koy's line about Oppenheimer length is dismissed; the real joke would be Rami Malek and the clipboard.
    “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)
  4. fun, about Heat: On the Reheat they went through the 1995 Oscar nominees; best actress doesn't really apply in Heat.
    “well, best actress doesn't really apply in heat.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:40:23 · Amanda Dobbins (0.40 sure it was them)
  5. fun, about The Insider: Amanda would have had it higher except for her deep love of cigarettes; Mann brought down cigarettes.
    “for my deep love of cigarettes.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:56:55 · Amanda Dobbins (0.40 sure it was them)
  6. fun, about Miami Vice: The go-fast boat scene: Colin Farrell takes Gong Li to Havana for mojitos.
    “he drives around a go fast boat to Havana.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:58:55 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)
  7. fun, about Heat: Heat hosts joke: Chris should take shrooms before the foreheat pod or work for a triad.
    “maybe take shrooms before the pod.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 1:00:29 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)
  8. fun, about Heat: Amanda rewatched Heat for work; her husband sat down and watched the whole movie, so Mann brings her closer to people she loves.
    “once again, I think Michael Mann, for bringing me closer to the people I love.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 1:01:23 · Amanda Dobbins (0.70 sure it was them)
  9. fun, about The Killer: Hotel trick to look for: he balances a glass on the door handle with the room-service tray underneath so a jiggled handle smashes it, then sleeps in a chair for three and a half hours.
    “if anybody jiggles the handle, the glass will smash and make a noise and wake him up”
    The Big Picture · ‘The Killer’ Is Cold-Blooded Genius. And Something More · 0:29:42 · Amanda Dobbins (0.70 sure it was them)
  10. fun, about The Killer: He expects six to seven minutes to interrogate Parnell and the man dies almost instantly; the hosts take it as proof the killer is bad at his job.
    “he kills Charles Parnell and thinks that he's going to have 6 to 7 minutes to interrogate him and he dies almost instantaneously.”
    The Big Picture · ‘The Killer’ Is Cold-Blooded Genius. And Something More · 0:34:03 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60 sure it was them)
  11. fun, about The Killer: The Miami fight in the dark: grabbing for a weapon in the kitchen, he finds a cheese grater, a huge laugh, then uses it as a noise distraction. Also he miscalculates the dose of a dog-drugging treat for the pit bull.
    “and comes up with a cheese grater and you're like, ooh, a cheese grater.”
    The Big Picture · ‘The Killer’ Is Cold-Blooded Genius. And Something More · 0:38:41 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)
  12. fun, about The Killer: Tilda Swinton scene in Beacon, NY: she eats solo at the bar, orders a whiskey flight tasting menu and asks for her own bottle, and the hosts debate whether she is the life he could have had.
    “when Tilda Swinton's doing a tasting menu with a whiskey flight.”
    The Big Picture · ‘The Killer’ Is Cold-Blooded Genius. And Something More · 0:40:08 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)
  13. fun, about The Killer: Shot out of a cannon: on Netflix there is no box-office report, Fincher hasn't had a traditional theatrical release since Gone Girl, and Adam saw it at Alamo and Toronto theaters.
    “He hasn't released a movie to the public since Gone Girl in the traditional theatrical style.”
    The Big Picture · ‘The Killer’ Is Cold-Blooded Genius. And Something More · 0:50:51 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)
  14. fun, about David Fincher: At the Academy Museum Q&A, an audience member asked how to make iconic movies in the age of TikTok. Fincher sighed and said he never thinks 'how can I make this more iconic' when setting up a shot.
    “when I set up a shot, I don't think, dude, how can I make this more iconic?”
    The Big Picture · ‘The Killer’ Is Cold-Blooded Genius. And Something More · 1:16:18 · Amanda Dobbins (0.70 sure it was them)
  15. fun, about Killers of the Flower Moon: They saw it twice, the second time together at 2:30 p.m. at a local AMC the day before recording; Sean calls it a masterpiece but jokes he needed seven hours to get there.
    “I don't know whether the joke is on the movie or me that I had to see it twice to get to that, um, point”
    The Big Picture · ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Is Astounding · 0:02:29 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)
  16. fun, about Killers of the Flower Moon: Early rewrite lore: DiCaprio was to play FBI investigator Tom White in the procedural version, then pushed Scorsese to rewrite and took Ernest instead.
    “Leo was originally slated to play FBI investigator Tom White in the more procedural version of the film, and he went to Scorsese and said, I think there's something missing here”
    The Big Picture · ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Is Astounding · 0:26:09 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)
  17. fun, about Killers of the Flower Moon: Owl motif: Molly's mother sees an owl before dying; the second viewing, a bathroom break caused Amanda to miss the first owl on the windowsill.
    “I realized about 30 minutes later that I had missed that 1st image of the owl landing on the windowsill”
    The Big Picture · ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Is Astounding · 0:43:59 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)
  18. fun, about Christopher Cote: Osage language consultant's widely quoted reaction: he wished it had been from Molly's perspective and says conspiring to murder a family is not love; the hosts treat it as a valid challenge.
    “when someone conspires to murder your entire family, that's not love.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Is Astounding · 0:45:43 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)
  19. fun, about Lily Gladstone: She was offered Molly in the original script version; per Allison Willmore's New York profile she calls the attention of 'the masters' to Native stories a double-edged sword.
    “You want to have more natives writing native stories. You also want the masters to pay attention to what's going on.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Is Astounding · 0:52:03 · Amanda Dobbins (0.40 sure it was them)
  20. fun, about Martin Scorsese: Quip: his relationship to love is complicated, but his relationship to TikTok, and to his daughter, seems to be thriving.
    “His relationship to TikTok seems to be thriving.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Is Astounding · 1:07:04 · Amanda Dobbins (0.40 sure it was them)
  21. fun, about Robert De Niro: William Hale opens a ballet studio and poses with ballerinas, played for laughs; the film treats him as simply Satan.
    “He opens like a dance studio, the William Hale, like a ballet studio, and like is posing outside with all the ballerinas”
    The Big Picture · ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Is Astounding · 1:09:55 · Amanda Dobbins (0.40 sure it was them)
  22. fun, about The Simpsons: Amanda's masonry knowledge extends only to the Stonecutters episode, which she calls one of the greatest half-hours in TV history.
    “the Stonecutters episode of The Simpsons is one of the greatest half hours in television and history”
    The Big Picture · ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Is Astounding · 1:15:09 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)
  23. fun, about Killers of the Flower Moon: Sean worries about watching it in installments on Apple TV+; the movie is meant to overwhelm and is not episodic.
    “It's not episodic. Yeah. It builds. Correct. And it is meant to completely pulverize you over 3.5 hours.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Is Astounding · 1:17:51 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)
  24. fun, about Oppenheimer: Running bit: Amanda rages against Oppenheimer, with Sean needling her; Amanda says Nolan thinks great men existed and Scorsese isn't sure any did.
    “Martin Scorsese's like, I'm honestly not sure. in retrospect.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Is Astounding · 1:36:43 · Amanda Dobbins (0.40 sure it was them)
  25. fun, about Lily Gladstone: Worry that her Oscar clip reel lacks the usual screaming scene because her performance is quiet.
    “there's no one screaming at the top of their lungs, which is your favorite part of every single Academy Award.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Is Astounding · 1:41:56 · Amanda Dobbins (0.40 sure it was them)
  26. fun, about Decision to Leave: Amanda still thinks weekly about the sushi takeout shot.
    “that shot, that sushi takeout. I just, I think about that once a week.”
    The Big Picture · The Top Five Movies of 2022 · 0:47:12 · Amanda Dobbins (0.85 sure it was them)
  27. fun, about Speak No Evil: A Danish couple visits a Dutch couple in the Netherlands. Chris calls it a what-the-fuck-is-wrong-with-you movie and a gut test for horror fans; Amanda says friends who took Sean's recommendation confronted her about it.
    “This is the what the fuck is wrong with you, movie?”
    The Big Picture · The Top Five Movies of 2022 · 0:49:49 · Amanda Dobbins (0.70 sure it was them)
  28. fun, about Happening: Amanda tried not to pick it because of another year of abortion dramas in her top five, noting the timing alongside the overturning of Roe v. Wade; she calls it a week-by-week thriller.
    “another year, another abortion drama in my top 5 list”
    The Big Picture · The Top Five Movies of 2022 · 0:50:48 · Amanda Dobbins (0.90 sure it was them)
  29. fun, about Top Gun: Maverick: Jennifer Connelly acts like she has been at the bar the whole time; the hosts joke that her Porsche is safe parked on the street in Miramar as an admiral's daughter.
    “And the idea that she just acts like she's been there the whole time is the funniest thing.”
    The Big Picture · The Top Five Movies of 2022 · 1:28:09 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60 sure it was them)
  30. fun, about Black Panther: Wakanda Forever: Before the screening Sean tells Amanda the IMAX holding poster shows Namor and promises she will learn a lot about him.
    “Sean was just like, cool, okay, you're going to learn a lot about Neymar.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Black Panther: Wakanda Forever’ Is Here! · 0:12:39 · Amanda Dobbins (0.70 sure it was them)
  31. fun, about Black Panther: Wakanda Forever: Amanda says she was out when the whales floated in and Namor talked to the animals.
    “I think when the whales started floating through to do whatever the whales did is when I was like, oh, all right, okay.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Black Panther: Wakanda Forever’ Is Here! · 0:16:40 · Amanda Dobbins (0.80 sure it was them)
  32. fun, about Working Girl: After Van gives his top five, a host complains Working Girl is missing and calls it an all-time spiritual favorite for both hosts, then riffs on Alec Baldwin popping in and out.
    “It's been, we've talked about this before.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Black Panther: Wakanda Forever’ Is Here! · 1:09:35 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)
  33. fun, about Elvis: Amanda zoned out and missed that Elvis's mother died, and only realized the fancy house was Graceland when the film moved on; the pacing is endless yet frenetic.
    “Like, quite literally, I missed that Graceland was purchased as Graceland, you know, like 2 hours in the movie.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Elvis,’ ‘Walk Hard’ and Top Five Music Biopics · 0:05:43 · Amanda Dobbins (0.90 sure it was them)
  34. fun, about Elvis: Sean and Amanda attended the same screening unknowingly; Amanda left with alacrity.
    “We were at the same screening. We didn't know this and I did watch you just leaving with like alacrity, even for you.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Elvis,’ ‘Walk Hard’ and Top Five Music Biopics · 0:24:08 · Amanda Dobbins (0.75 sure it was them)
  35. fun, about Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story: Amanda saw it on a Netflix mailer on a couch with a group of young people, which she thinks is how this whole generation of films should be experienced.
    “which is how I think all this this entire generation of movies should like truly be experienced.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Elvis,’ ‘Walk Hard’ and Top Five Music Biopics · 0:31:43 · Amanda Dobbins (0.90 sure it was them)
  36. fun, about Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story: The film's jokes annotate themselves: characters introduce themselves and each scene has a thesis statement, which the film dares you to call out.
    “daring you to call it, call bullshit on this trope of just people saying who they are at all times, which I think is priceless.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Elvis,’ ‘Walk Hard’ and Top Five Music Biopics · 0:35:37 · Amanda Dobbins (0.70 sure it was them)
  37. fun, about 24 Hour Party People: The real Howard Devoto, as an extra in the frame, turns to camera during a scene of Devoto sleeping with Tony Wilson's wife to say he doesn't remember it happening.
    “there's an extra in the frame who turns to camera and says, I definitely don't remember this happening and the person who does that is the real life Howard DeVoto.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Elvis,’ ‘Walk Hard’ and Top Five Music Biopics · 0:52:28 · Amanda Dobbins (0.80 sure it was them)
  38. fun, about Walk the Line: Amanda was embarrassed about picking Walk the Line at number one but took a 'Tony Hawk 720' route to going with her heart; she notes Reese Witherspoon is lit like a Greek goddess.
    “Also, she's lit like a Greek goddess. It's extraordinary how beautiful she looks in this movie.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Elvis,’ ‘Walk Hard’ and Top Five Music Biopics · 1:05:02 · Amanda Dobbins (0.90 sure it was them)
  39. fun, about A Few Good Men: Amanda notes a tiny scene of timing where Kaffee says sit down to people already sitting and pauses for a second before moving on, without Sorkin-ing it.
    “He doesn't oversell it.”
    The Big Picture · The Tom Cruise Hall of Fame · 0:43:33 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)
  40. fun, about Tom Cruise: Cruise's Hall of Fame bylaws: the 2005 year (couch jump, Brooke Shields, Scientology videos) coincided with a career nadir and the shift to Ethan Hunt as a safe harbor.
    “Ethan Hunt just does everything for everyone all of the time and has no faults and is always on the right side.”
    The Big Picture · The Tom Cruise Hall of Fame · 0:46:39 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)
  41. fun, about Tom Cruise: Cruise appeared on 106 & Park and did the young jock dance during the Night and Day promo tour.
    “Was this when he appeared on 106 in Park and did the young jock dance?”
    The Big Picture · The Tom Cruise Hall of Fame · 1:21:22 · Amanda Dobbins (0.30 sure it was them)
  42. fun, about Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One: Hayley Atwell on Wikipedia says she did not know who her character was, as they wrote the movie as they went.
    “I do not know who my character is nor what she is doing.”
    The Big Picture · The Tom Cruise Hall of Fame · 1:23:55 · Amanda Dobbins (0.40 sure it was them)
  43. fun, about Tom Cruise: The Cruise cake: a white chocolate coconut bundt from Stone's Bakery in the Valley that Cruise sends every Christmas to famous friends; the hosts eat it on air and put it in the Hall of Fame.
    “Tom Cruise sends it to all of the famous people in his life every year.”
    The Big Picture · The Tom Cruise Hall of Fame · 1:41:37 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)
  44. fun, about Ghostbusters: Afterlife: Stay Puft marshmallow men are shown across a Walmart product placement scene with Paul Rudd.
    “there is just a lot of time spent of Paul Rudd showing you the various deals available at Walmart”
    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)
  45. fun, about Ghostbusters: Afterlife: Muncher the blue blob humping a fire hydrant is the one moment of joy; speaker was the only one laughing in the theater.
    “So when like muncher, the blue blob shows up and is humping a fire hydrant.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:11:25 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60 sure it was them)
  46. fun, about Ghostbusters: Afterlife: The Ghostbusters theme only plays in the end credits.
    “Why did I have to wait until the end credits for the Ghostbusters theme song?”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:11:59 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60 sure it was them)
  47. fun, about Ghostbusters: Afterlife: Muncher is a photocopy of Slimer, but with glue.
    “it was just a basically also a photocopy of Slimer, but with glue.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:12:20 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60 sure it was them)
  48. fun, about Tick, Tick... Boom!: Broadway cameo roll call: Andre De Shields, Renee Elise Goldsberry, Phillipa Soo, Phylicia Rashad, Bernadette Peters, Judith Light.
    “all these people who have all of this experience on Broadway, crop up in this movie”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:28:08 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)
  49. fun, about Dave: Speaker laughs at Kevin Kline at the auto factory: the fish this big joke from age 8; Sean has it on Blu-ray.
    “I once had a fish this big with like the giant arms also going this big”
    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)
  50. fun, about Big: Speaker's mall memory of FAO Schwartz giant piano, referencing the movie's piano scene.
    “There was like a FAO Schwartz at the mall.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:42:13 · Amanda Dobbins (0.40 sure it was them)
  51. fun, about That Thing You Do!: Speaker has seen it at least 75 times, has the soundtrack, and calls it the greatest pop song written for a movie.
    “I've seen this one, at least 75 times, had the soundtrack.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:43:32 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)
  52. fun, about Bringing Up Baby: Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn screaming at each other in impeccable costumes while a real leopard runs around.
    “Carrie Grant and Catherine Hepburn like kindly screaming at each other in impeccable costumes while a real leopard just runs around for no reason.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:48:14 · Amanda Dobbins (0.55 sure it was them)
  53. fun, about Frances Ha: Speaker was the same age as Frances in New York; the movie made by two people falling in love.
    “this is a movie made by 2 people who were very clearly falling in love as it was being made”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:52:00 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)
  54. fun, about Singin' in the Rain: Speaker saved it for the night before surgery as medicine.
    “I had surgery last year.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:54:35 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)
  55. fun, about Fast Five: Amanda came to the series with Fast Five and it was her first Fast film, a baptism by fire.
    “I was taken by friends to see Fast 5 in a theater.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Fast 9’ and the ‘Fast & Furious’ Rankings · 0:06:31 · Amanda Dobbins (0.85 sure it was them)
  56. fun, about The Fast and the Furious: The Fast Wikipedia pages lose their car descriptions by Fast 6.
    “it's really it's about a submarine at this point.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Fast 9’ and the ‘Fast & Furious’ Rankings · 0:07:43 · Amanda Dobbins (0.90 sure it was them)
  57. fun, about Fast Five: Onion video: interview with a child as Fast 5's screenwriter.
    “the interview was with a small child”
    The Big Picture · ‘Fast 9’ and the ‘Fast & Furious’ Rankings · 0:14:29 · Amanda Dobbins (0.85 sure it was them)
  58. fun, about Hobbs & Shaw: Helicopter scene effects were called garbage.
    “the effects were so garbage”
    The Big Picture · ‘Fast 9’ and the ‘Fast & Furious’ Rankings · 0:33:38 · Amanda Dobbins (0.55 sure it was them)
  59. fun, about Fast Five: Amanda's evergreen: the Rio safe drag, which she yells about again at the close.
    “So they just hitched their cars to it and took the safe with them.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Fast 9’ and the ‘Fast & Furious’ Rankings · 1:01:50 · Amanda Dobbins (0.85 sure it was them)
  60. fun, about Stories Matter (Oscars theme): Amanda hates the Oscars theme 'stories matter' and compares it to a corporate PowerPoint.
    “I just can't set through like a PowerPoint deck presentation of an Oscar show, which is what stories matter is.”
    The Big Picture · Top Five Gen X Director Debuts, the Fate of ‘Black Widow,’ and a Potential Oscars Disaster · 0:17:19 · Amanda Dobbins (0.75 sure it was them)
  61. fun, about Tiger: Amanda's husband Zach, a golf maniac, whoops quietly at every golf shot as they watch, like a gallery of one.
    “every time a golf shot would be showed, Zach would just be like, whoa.”
    The Big Picture · Thirteen Awards Movies to Watch Out for, Oscar Do-Overs, and More From the Mailbag · 0:05:32 · Amanda Dobbins (0.90 sure it was them)
  62. fun, about Tiger: The end of part one cuts to a famous woman sidling up to the camera, called great filmmaking; one director says the moment is a Sopranos homage scored with the song Evidently Chickentown.
    “Because of a very famous woman, just sidling up to the camera.”
    The Big Picture · Thirteen Awards Movies to Watch Out for, Oscar Do-Overs, and More From the Mailbag · 0:07:01 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)
  63. fun, about Tiger: Amanda points out that the documentary shows a magazine photo shoot taken five days after the birth of his first child, which cannot have been accidental, and that a viewer has to look for the clue.
    “there is no way that a posed photo shoot is taken 5 days after the birth of a child without the participation and not just the participation, but the planning of the people involved.”
    The Big Picture · Thirteen Awards Movies to Watch Out for, Oscar Do-Overs, and More From the Mailbag · 0:14:59 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)
  64. fun, about Malcolm & Marie: A joke: Malcolm & Marie compared to 1917, until it turns out Malcolm & Marie is about World War One.
    “Malcolm and Marie is about World War one, which was a twist when I when I got to look at it.”
    The Big Picture · Thirteen Awards Movies to Watch Out for, Oscar Do-Overs, and More From the Mailbag · 0:32:11 · Amanda Dobbins (0.40 sure it was them)
  65. fun, about Malcolm & Marie: A famous meme: Sean says the Malcolm and Marie meme sums up the podcast, with one person saying something unforgivable and the other punching a wall.
    “It's just like you saying something unforgivable and me punching a wall.”
    The Big Picture · Thirteen Awards Movies to Watch Out for, Oscar Do-Overs, and More From the Mailbag · 0:38:40 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)
  66. fun, about Working Girl: Amanda's easy-listening Oscar do-over is Working Girl over Rain Man, and she rallies Justice for Working Girl.
    “I'm going for easy listening over here and I would have picked working girl over Red Man.”
    The Big Picture · Thirteen Awards Movies to Watch Out for, Oscar Do-Overs, and More From the Mailbag · 0:43:18 · Amanda Dobbins (0.80 sure it was them)
  67. fun, about The Godfather Part II: Sean says giving Pacino the 1975 Oscar might have changed the pattern of waiting twenty years too late to reward great actors, and wonders if Chris would still be yelling Pacino impressions.
    “Would Chris would Chris still be yelling Al Pacino impressions on every single podcast?”
    The Big Picture · Thirteen Awards Movies to Watch Out for, Oscar Do-Overs, and More From the Mailbag · 0:44:34 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60 sure it was them)
  68. fun, about A Star Is Born: Dave Chappelle suddenly turns up in the film while Bradley Cooper hides in a bush for half the scene.
    “Bradley Cooper's like in a bush for half the seat anyway.”
    The Big Picture · Thirteen Awards Movies to Watch Out for, Oscar Do-Overs, and More From the Mailbag · 0:47:40 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60 sure it was them)
  69. fun, about The Imitation Game: The only complete film Amanda has watched with her husband's parents, who do not watch movies; the mother asked at the end if they could do something else.
    “I've watched one complete movie with Zach's parents.”
    The Big Picture · Thirteen Awards Movies to Watch Out for, Oscar Do-Overs, and More From the Mailbag · 1:06:33 · Amanda Dobbins (0.80 sure it was them)
  70. fun, about Reds: Amanda and her husband never finished Reds, and Sean spoils it.
    “I've never seen the end of Reds.”
    The Big Picture · Thirteen Awards Movies to Watch Out for, Oscar Do-Overs, and More From the Mailbag · 1:07:15 · Amanda Dobbins (0.80 sure it was them)
  71. fun, about Michael Clayton: Amanda's husband Zach refuses to rewatch it with her, and instead reenacts it, yelling I am Shiva, the god of death about fourteen times.
    “he did yell, I am Shiva, the god of death like 14 times.”
    The Big Picture · Thirteen Awards Movies to Watch Out for, Oscar Do-Overs, and More From the Mailbag · 1:07:33 · Amanda Dobbins (0.85 sure it was them)
  72. fun, about Pretty Woman: Amanda's husband claims her favorite movie is Pretty Woman, which she says is not even in her top 50 rom-coms.
    “I was like, what have I ever talked to you about Pretty Woman in my entire life?”
    The Big Picture · Thirteen Awards Movies to Watch Out for, Oscar Do-Overs, and More From the Mailbag · 1:08:13 · Amanda Dobbins (0.90 sure it was them)
  73. fun, about The West Wing: Amanda has the first four seasons memorized and would have won a charity trivia night.
    “I have the 1st 4 seasons memorized”
    The Big Picture · Aaron Sorkin Top 5s and ‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’ · 0:04:24 · Amanda Dobbins (0.90 sure it was them)
  74. fun, about Aaron Sorkin: Gilbert and Sullivan references recur in every major speech, usually HMS Pinafore.
    “My guy just loves Gilbert and Sullivan and at every single major speech at some point someone will give Gilbert and Sullivan reference.”
    The Big Picture · Aaron Sorkin Top 5s and ‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’ · 0:13:44 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60 sure it was them)
  75. fun, about Molly's Game: The Kevin Costner father-daughter scene has no reason to be in the movie and is the best part.
    “there is absolutely no reason for that scene to be in the movie or the father-daughter thing to be in the movie.”
    The Big Picture · Aaron Sorkin Top 5s and ‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’ · 0:17:45 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60 sure it was them)
  76. fun, about The Trial of the Chicago 7: Sorkin's father-of-daughters tic reaches even Chicago 7, where a minor character has two daughters.
    “character has 2 daughters who takes walking on the park.”
    The Big Picture · Aaron Sorkin Top 5s and ‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’ · 0:18:45 · Amanda Dobbins (0.55 sure it was them)
  77. fun, about The American President: The president really should not date a lobbyist.
    “The president shouldn't date a lobbyist.”
    The Big Picture · Aaron Sorkin Top 5s and ‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’ · 0:35:28 · Amanda Dobbins (0.70 sure it was them)
  78. fun, about The American President: Amanda showed the VHS to a Republican friend's dad at a sleepover: too liberal for him.
    “I just remember him saying, he's too liberal for me.”
    The Big Picture · Aaron Sorkin Top 5s and ‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’ · 0:36:24 · Amanda Dobbins (0.70 sure it was them)
  79. fun, about Moneyball: The hosts joke about a Moneyball-every-week spinoff podcast and not being invited on The Rewatchables.
    “Just talk about moneyball every week.”
    The Big Picture · Aaron Sorkin Top 5s and ‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’ · 0:53:15 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)
  80. fun, about Michael Fassbender: Fassbender's Wikipedia page now says actor and race car driver.
    “Michael Fassbender is just his Wikipedia page now as his actor and race car driver.”
    The Big Picture · Aaron Sorkin Top 5s and ‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’ · 0:57:35 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60 sure it was them)
  81. fun, about Steve Jobs: The iPod is invented on top of a parking roof.
    “Can't believe we didn't talk about how he just invents the iPod on top of a parking roof?”
    The Big Picture · Aaron Sorkin Top 5s and ‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’ · 1:01:08 · Amanda Dobbins (0.55 sure it was them)
  82. fun, about Sports Night: Sports Night and the West Wing were being written simultaneously, so plots overlap.
    “I believe that Aaron Sorkin is writing the 2nd season of Sports Night and the 1st season of West Wing”
    The Big Picture · Aaron Sorkin Top 5s and ‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’ · 1:11:27 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60 sure it was them)
  83. fun, about A Few Good Men: Kids in Atlanta quoted 'you can't handle the truth' as an elementary school joke.
    “I remember like you can't handle the truth being like an elementary school joke”
    The Big Picture · Aaron Sorkin Top 5s and ‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’ · 1:23:22 · Amanda Dobbins (0.70 sure it was them)
  84. fun, about The West Wing: Start with season two; a Netflix mini hub of Sorkin work mirrors Scorsese and Baumbach.
    “I would recommend that you start with season two.”
    The Big Picture · Aaron Sorkin Top 5s and ‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’ · 1:28:30 · Amanda Dobbins (0.70 sure it was them)
  85. fun, about The Trial of the Chicago 7: Tom Hayden reads the names of the war dead at sentencing; the film ends there.
    “chooses to read the names of every single American's older who has died in Vietnam”
    The Big Picture · Aaron Sorkin Top 5s and ‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’ · 1:39:19 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60 sure it was them)
  86. fun, about Michael Keaton: Keaton plays Ramsey Clark; Amanda cheered when he appeared.
    “I just want to see Michael Keaton walk in and just like explain to people how it is.”
    The Big Picture · Aaron Sorkin Top 5s and ‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’ · 1:49:48 · Amanda Dobbins (0.55 sure it was them)
  87. fun, about Jeremy Strong: Strong's Jerry Rubin line is a new catchphrase: you've asked that question in a form of a lie.
    “you've asked that question in a form of a lie”
    The Big Picture · Aaron Sorkin Top 5s and ‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’ · 1:51:07 · Amanda Dobbins (0.55 sure it was them)
  88. fun, about Good Will Hunting: Amanda videotaped the Oprah episode where Damon and Affleck talked about the Minnie Driver breakup.
    “I videotaped the Oprah episode that Matt Damon and Ben Affleck were on”
    The Big Picture · 300th Episode Ask-Us-Anything Mailbag Spectacular · 0:08:45 · Amanda Dobbins (0.90 sure it was them)
  89. fun, about Joker: Opening-day Joker had four people in the theater and a dog in a stroller; Bobby riffs on a 'Joker dog' sequel.
    “there was a dog in a stroller, not counting as a person”
    The Big Picture · 300th Episode Ask-Us-Anything Mailbag Spectacular · 0:20:28 · Amanda Dobbins (0.90 sure it was them)
  90. fun, about The Secret History: A Joan Didion and John Gregory Dunne script and a Gwyneth Paltrow circa-2000 attachment: Amanda wants it made.
    “Gwyneth Patra and the secret history, like Circa 2000 is just, I can't believe that didn't happen.”
    The Big Picture · 300th Episode Ask-Us-Anything Mailbag Spectacular · 0:42:31 · Amanda Dobbins (0.90 sure it was them)
  91. fun, about Avengers: Endgame: The Cap-and-hammer moment: a crowd cheered; Amanda turned to Chris Ryan to ask why.
    “I also remember seeing the hammer thing and then turning to Chris and being like, why are they cheering?”
    The Big Picture · 300th Episode Ask-Us-Anything Mailbag Spectacular · 0:56:51 · Amanda Dobbins (0.85 sure it was them)
  92. fun, about Mother: Mother! got a fresh round of debate when David Sims called it a masterpiece; Amanda: 'I already did this podcast'.
    “I already did this podcast.”
    The Big Picture · 300th Episode Ask-Us-Anything Mailbag Spectacular · 1:11:46 · Amanda Dobbins (0.90 sure it was them)
  93. fun, about Creed: Amanda's husband Zach saw Creed early, said it wasn't fun, and would not see it again; she cried alone at the 34th Street theater.
    “It was just crying by myself, moved by the power of cinema because Zach wouldn't go with me”
    The Big Picture · 300th Episode Ask-Us-Anything Mailbag Spectacular · 1:16:26 · Amanda Dobbins (0.90 sure it was them)
  94. fun, about Paul Newman: Paul Newman has great hair; Amanda ties it to the earlier John Mayer Japanese teak bit.
    “Do you think he discovered Japanese teak before John Mayer or? I tell you what, Paul Newman had great hair.”
    The Big Picture · 300th Episode Ask-Us-Anything Mailbag Spectacular · 1:27:39 · Amanda Dobbins (0.70 sure it was them)
  95. fun, about Armie Hammer: Amanda's 'tantalizing but unrealized' actor is Armie Hammer; Sean's is Jessica Chastain.
    “My my pick is Army Hammer.”
    The Big Picture · 300th Episode Ask-Us-Anything Mailbag Spectacular · 1:31:10 · Amanda Dobbins (0.90 sure it was them)
  96. fun, about Chadwick Boseman: Amanda recalls the 2018 video of Ron Clark Academy students dancing with joy before seeing Black Panther, as a reminder of what the film meant to young Black kids.
    “a group of students at the Ron Clark Academy in Atlanta who are just about to see Black Panther and are just so excited and dancing”
    The Big Picture · Did Disney’s ‘Mulan’ Experiment Work? A Binge Mode Investigation · 0:06:57 · Amanda Dobbins (0.85 sure it was them)
  97. fun, about Hamlet: Amanda recalls the Lion King remake episode where Sean said Hamlet was bad and then went to the bathroom and undermined his own point.
    “at one point you tried to say that Hamlet was bad and at another point, I just like had a breakdown”
    The Big Picture · Did Disney’s ‘Mulan’ Experiment Work? A Binge Mode Investigation · 0:24:44 · Amanda Dobbins (0.70 sure it was them)
  98. fun, about Mulan: Amanda was so lost on the witch's shapeshifting that when her husband walked in she couldn't tell which bird was the witch.
    “Also, my husband came in at some point and started watching and so I had like every time the bird showed up on the screen. I was like, that's the witch.”
    The Big Picture · Did Disney’s ‘Mulan’ Experiment Work? A Binge Mode Investigation · 0:37:54 · Amanda Dobbins (0.85 sure it was them)
  99. fun, about Mulan: Amanda skips the music debate by calling the Reflection ballad 'an average ass ballad about finding yourself' after eight emails about Christina Aguilera's cover.
    “this is just like an average ass ballad about finding yourself. Okay, whatever. It's not Elton John.”
    The Big Picture · Did Disney’s ‘Mulan’ Experiment Work? A Binge Mode Investigation · 0:49:22 · Amanda Dobbins (0.90 sure it was them)
  100. fun, about The Lion King: Amanda notes 'SEX' famously flashes across the screen in the original Lion King, and jokes about the love song playing while lions frolic.
    “I just X literally flashes across the screen in the original Lion King.”
    The Big Picture · Did Disney’s ‘Mulan’ Experiment Work? A Binge Mode Investigation · 1:07:51 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)