Jason Concepcion

4 sketches, 44 claims, and 22 fun items attributed to them. What was said about them.

Personality, episode by episode

Showing 1–4 of 4 sketches.

The Rewatchables: 'Mission: Impossible' With Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Jason Concepcion (host)

Likes stylish, playful filmmaking over grim prestige; enthusiastic about Cruise's blinking, Redgrave's chemistry, and franchise lore. Dislikes unbelievable masks. Loves Denis Villeneuve but notes he is never fun.

Stances

  • Masks are unbelievable and break the plot
  • The Cruise franchise is one reason for his later career
  • Hollywood's improvisational chaos is the winner

Humor: Quick riffs and impersonations, hypotheticals such as the Waltzer IP.

In their words

  • “Typically you get a Villeneuve movie and you're like, 0 man.” (0:31:37)
  • “He's like fucking Bill Paxton and aliens in this scene.” (0:23:42)

The Big Picture: Did Disney’s ‘Mulan’ Experiment Work? A Binge Mode Investigation (guest)

Loves a musical, Donnie Yen action, and the 1998 Mulan with its Eddie Murphy humor. Finds the remake kind of boring and wants a grounded, historical version. Sucker for political and economic framing of film controversy.

Stances

  • The remake is fine in a vacuum, a disappointment as a Mulan
  • Wants a more historical, less magical take
  • Sees the Mulan controversy as a symptom of the West-China economic experiment
  • Missing music means missing storytelling

Humor: Wry riffer with quick one-liners about franchise lore ('witch with dragon hands').

In their words

  • “Kind of boring movie.” (0:23:01)
  • “when you take out the music, those roles still have to be filled by something.” (1:13:52)

The Big Picture: Celebrating ‘Scott Pilgrim vs. the World’ 10 Years Later With Edgar Wright (guest)

Loves lo-fi DIY aesthetics, mixing realism and graphics, great fight choreography, and Hong Kong action lineage. A sucker for sublime bad writing and for Knives Chow. Dislikes literal panel-copying comic adaptations.

Stances

  • Too Canadian to hit big in America
  • Ant-Man proves Marvel is a factory
  • A sequel must decenter Scott

Humor: Wry and self-aware, turning a movie's jokes into deadpan analysis and joking about being angry the movie existed.

In their words

  • “I think it's just too Canadian.” (0:15:12)
  • “Unconsciously, perfectly bad writing.” (0:36:29)

The Big Picture: The Past, Present, and Future of Superhero Movies | The Big Picture (Ep. 35) (guest)

Deep comics reader who loves X-Men, Saga, and Ultimate-era stories. Likes tonal confidence and genre flavor. Dislikes fan-service shoehorning and DC's reactive tone.

Stances

  • Reboot X-Men from Ultimate universe
  • Batman's villains should dictate genre
  • Marvel costumes have reasons, which helps disbelief

Humor: Nerdy, specific, rapid-fire riffs and impressions.

In their words

  • “all of the costumes have a reason.” (0:08:33)
  • “base it on the ultimate universe X-Men.” (0:59:47)

Their shows' recurring bits

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

The Big Picture

The Rewatchables

Their claims

Showing 1–44 of 44 claims.

  1. unmapped (TV-to-film precedent): Mission: Impossible → The Brady Bunch Movie. Joked that the Brady Bunch movie a year earlier also proved the TV-adaptation point.
    “This is an active erasure of the Brady Bunch movie, which happened one year earlier.”
    The Rewatchables · 'Mission: Impossible' With Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Jason Concepcion · 0:03:11 · Jason Concepcion (0.50 sure it was them)
  2. people (star-casting economics): Mission: Impossible → Twister. Hollywood realized high-concept blockbusters like Twister did not need top stars, which hurt Cruise's leverage.
    “there was a market inefficiency in not casting stars in blockbusters.”
    The Rewatchables · 'Mission: Impossible' With Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Jason Concepcion · 0:15:34 · Jason Concepcion (0.50 sure it was them)
  3. unmapped (failed handoff): Jeremy Renner → Mission: Impossible. MI is big IP but the attempt to hand it to Renner did not work, so Cruise is essential.
    “they tried to hand it off to Renner and it didn't work.”
    The Rewatchables · 'Mission: Impossible' With Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Jason Concepcion · 0:17:37 · Jason Concepcion (0.40 sure it was them)
  4. industry (franchise rival): Mission: Impossible III → The Bourne Identity. The Bourne films made MI feel dated and less real, delaying the franchise's recovery.
    “Bourne wipes out Mission Impossible because everybody is like, not only is Bourne like an exciting movie.”
    The Rewatchables · 'Mission: Impossible' With Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Jason Concepcion · 0:18:06 · Jason Concepcion (0.40 sure it was them)
  5. people (performance echo): Mission: Impossible → Aliens. Cruise's panicked 'they knew we were coming' on the phone is compared to Bill Paxton in Aliens.
    “He's like fucking Bill Paxton and aliens in this scene.”
    The Rewatchables · 'Mission: Impossible' With Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Jason Concepcion · 0:23:42 · Jason Concepcion (0.40 sure it was them)
  6. what-if (casting what-if): Demi Moore → A Few Good Men. Pairing Cruise again with Demi Moore after A Few Good Men would have made a good Claire.
    “ever since a few good men on cruise doing another movie with Demi Moore, and I thought she would make a good Clare.”
    The Rewatchables · 'Mission: Impossible' With Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Jason Concepcion · 0:33:15 · Jason Concepcion (0.40 sure it was them)
  7. theme (same-year theme): Mission: Impossible → The Rock. Phelps's complaint about being farmed out matches Ed Harris's line in The Rock, a post-Desert Storm military-grievance theme.
    “this is also the same year that the rock came out and that's the same line that Ed Harris has in the at the end of the rock.”
    The Rewatchables · 'Mission: Impossible' With Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Jason Concepcion · 0:38:37 · Jason Concepcion (0.40 sure it was them)
  8. people (shared actor): Emilio Estevez → The Outsiders. Estevez was in The Outsiders alongside Cruise, and he never again appeared in a blockbuster ensemble.
    “the outsiders? Like, this is, it's just really, that Tom Cruise was also in”
    The Rewatchables · 'Mission: Impossible' With Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Jason Concepcion · 0:40:39 · Jason Concepcion (0.30 sure it was them)
  9. contrast (cautionary contrast): Mission: Impossible → Fantastic Four. The chaotic, improvised making of MI is now only a cautionary tale like Fantastic Four or a fired Star Wars director.
    “fantastic 4 is a tragic comedy and now no one will ever work again with that because everything's so formulaic.”
    The Rewatchables · 'Mission: Impossible' With Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Jason Concepcion · 1:03:35 · Jason Concepcion (0.30 sure it was them)
  10. lineage (lineage / homage): Brian De Palma → Alfred Hitchcock. De Palma embraces Hitchcock lineage and makes homage a point; MI draws on the 50s-60s Hitchcock films, especially in Prague.
    “I think he knows that it's good to be in a lineage.”
    The Rewatchables · 'Mission: Impossible' With Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Jason Concepcion · 1:06:03 · Jason Concepcion (0.40 sure it was them)
  11. lineage (Hitchcock homage): Mission: Impossible → The Lady Vanishes. The European mystery shades of the film recall The Lady Vanishes and Shadow of a Doubt.
    “Lady Vanishes or, or, uh, even like Shadow of a Doubt in some respects”
    The Rewatchables · 'Mission: Impossible' With Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Jason Concepcion · 1:06:25 · Jason Concepcion (0.40 sure it was them)
  12. industry (industry): Mulan → Better Luck Tomorrow. Jason groups the 1998 Mulan with the few films of the era with Asian casts.
    “So it's like Mulan. Rumble in the Bronx and Better Luck tomorrow”
    The Big Picture · Did Disney’s ‘Mulan’ Experiment Work? A Binge Mode Investigation · 0:14:48 · Jason Concepcion (0.80 sure it was them)
  13. industry (industry): Mulan → Rumble in the Bronx. Jason says Mulan, Rumble in the Bronx, and Better Luck Tomorrow were rare 90s movies for Asian American audiences.
    “Rumble in the Bronx and Better Luck tomorrow, you know, from that era.”
    The Big Picture · Did Disney’s ‘Mulan’ Experiment Work? A Binge Mode Investigation · 0:14:50 · Jason Concepcion (0.85 sure it was them)
  14. verdict (verdict): Mulan → Mulan. Jason's verdict: in a vacuum the remake is a fine action movie but a disappointment as a follow-up to the original.
    “In a vacuum, it's fine, I guess, you know, it's fine. It's a fine action movie.”
    The Big Picture · Did Disney’s ‘Mulan’ Experiment Work? A Binge Mode Investigation · 0:24:20 · Jason Concepcion (0.85 sure it was them)
  15. lineage (lineage): Mulan → Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. The remake's wuxia/mystical style follows the wave of Chinese films that grew popular after Crouching Tiger and the Zhang Yimou films.
    “they've gotten very big, kind of post, crouching tiger hidden dragon, and the Jang Yi-Mu films”
    The Big Picture · Did Disney’s ‘Mulan’ Experiment Work? A Binge Mode Investigation · 0:28:58 · Jason Concepcion (0.80 sure it was them)
  16. lineage (lineage): Mulan → Hero. The remake borrows wuxia conventions in an attempt to appeal to international audiences, reading as a try at remaking Hero or House of Flying Daggers.
    “it really just feels like an attempt to remake hero or house of flying daggers, which obviously makes sense to Amanda's point about appealing to international audiences”
    The Big Picture · Did Disney’s ‘Mulan’ Experiment Work? A Binge Mode Investigation · 0:29:22 · Jason Concepcion (0.80 sure it was them)
  17. contrast (contrast): Mulan → Harry Potter (films/books). The remake's fox, witch, and magic lore feel borrowed from Harry Potter and Game of Thrones without gelling.
    “There is these kind of, um, Game of Thrones and uh, Harry Potter kind of lore.”
    The Big Picture · Did Disney’s ‘Mulan’ Experiment Work? A Binge Mode Investigation · 0:33:28 · Jason Concepcion (0.75 sure it was them)
  18. career (career): Mulan → Ip Man. Jason says that after the remake he binged the Ip Man films because Donnie Yen barely does anything in Mulan compared with being the star there.
    “I just, I binged like all the Ipmans on Netflix and it's like, you, this is not a fair comparison because he is the star of that, those, that series.”
    The Big Picture · Did Disney’s ‘Mulan’ Experiment Work? A Binge Mode Investigation · 0:34:12 · Jason Concepcion (0.80 sure it was them)
  19. craft (craft): Mulan → Mulan. Jason says the 2020 version replaces advising characters with ancestral words on the sword, so Mulan is guided by the past not a person.
    “Mulan, in this tale, is guided by the past, is guided by the words of her family”
    The Big Picture · Did Disney’s ‘Mulan’ Experiment Work? A Binge Mode Investigation · 0:41:07 · Jason Concepcion (0.80 sure it was them)
  20. contrast (contrast): Cruella → The Rocky Horror Picture Show. Jason gets Rocky Horror camp vibes from the Cruella publicity photos.
    “I'm getting some very strong rocky horror vibes from it.”
    The Big Picture · Did Disney’s ‘Mulan’ Experiment Work? A Binge Mode Investigation · 1:05:12 · Jason Concepcion (0.80 sure it was them)
  21. contrast (contrast): Cruella → The Silence of the Lambs. Jason jokes Cruella is a Silence of the Lambs prequel about skin.
    “It's kind of like, it's like a silence of the Lambs prequel as well, you know?”
    The Big Picture · Did Disney’s ‘Mulan’ Experiment Work? A Binge Mode Investigation · 1:05:33 · Jason Concepcion (0.70 sure it was them)
  22. contrast (contrast): Scott Pilgrim vs. the World → Watchmen. Jason says Snyder's Watchmen lifts panels straight off the page and loses the magic, while Scott Pilgrim translates the feel of a comic into film.
    “There's a, there's many, many scenes in Zack Snyder's Watchmen that are ripped directly from the pages of the book.”
    The Big Picture · Celebrating ‘Scott Pilgrim vs. the World’ 10 Years Later With Edgar Wright · 0:11:55 · Jason Concepcion (0.80 sure it was them)
  23. contrast (contrast): Scott Pilgrim vs. the World → Zack Snyder. Jason frames the Watchmen adaptation (Snyder) as the literal-panel approach to comics that Scott Pilgrim avoids.
    “loses the magic of the of the book.”
    The Big Picture · Celebrating ‘Scott Pilgrim vs. the World’ 10 Years Later With Edgar Wright · 0:12:04 · Jason Concepcion (0.80 sure it was them)
  24. contrast (contrast): Scott Pilgrim vs. the World → Brian De Palma. Jason says De Palma's split screen announces itself, while Scott Pilgrim's split screens feel like comic panels you are inside.
    “if you're watching like a Brian DePalma movie and he does split screen, he's trying to draw attention to the fact that this is a split screen.”
    The Big Picture · Celebrating ‘Scott Pilgrim vs. the World’ 10 Years Later With Edgar Wright · 0:13:01 · Jason Concepcion (0.80 sure it was them)
  25. contrast (contrast): Scott Pilgrim vs. the World → Iron Man. Jason says Iron Man and Watchmen spend time on origin and world setup, while Scott Pilgrim drops you in the middle with no explanation.
    “Scott Pilgrim just drops you into it.”
    The Big Picture · Celebrating ‘Scott Pilgrim vs. the World’ 10 Years Later With Edgar Wright · 0:18:38 · Jason Concepcion (0.80 sure it was them)
  26. contrast (contrast): Christopher Nolan's Batman films → Scott Pilgrim vs. the World. Jason says Nolan's decade of heavy-origin, grounded superhero films were really psychological thrillers, the opposite of Scott Pilgrim's approach.
    “They're really psychological thrillers with Batman in them.”
    The Big Picture · Celebrating ‘Scott Pilgrim vs. the World’ 10 Years Later With Edgar Wright · 0:20:28 · Jason Concepcion (0.75 sure it was them)
  27. craft (craft): Scott Pilgrim vs. the World → Jackie Chan. Jason says the fights used some of Jackie Chan's choreography people.
    “So they used some of Jackie Chan's choreography people for these fights.”
    The Big Picture · Celebrating ‘Scott Pilgrim vs. the World’ 10 Years Later With Edgar Wright · 0:31:51 · Jason Concepcion (0.80 sure it was them)
  28. craft (craft): Scott Pilgrim vs. the World → Drunken Master 2. Jason says Matthew Patel's leg-gyrating move echoes a Ken Lo move in Drunken Master 2.
    “Matthew Patel even does some of the moves that Ken Lo, as Johnny does in Drunken Master 2”
    The Big Picture · Celebrating ‘Scott Pilgrim vs. the World’ 10 Years Later With Edgar Wright · 0:31:56 · Jason Concepcion (0.80 sure it was them)
  29. industry (industry): Ant-Man → Edgar Wright. Jason says Ant-Man still came out as a solid Marvel movie, which shows how little a director's input matters in the Marvel factory.
    “tells you a lot and maybe in a disheartening way about the way those movies are pumped out”
    The Big Picture · Celebrating ‘Scott Pilgrim vs. the World’ 10 Years Later With Edgar Wright · 0:40:49 · Jason Concepcion (0.80 sure it was them)
  30. craft (craft): Baby Driver → Edgar Wright. Jason says Wright does genre by deconstructing it, as in Baby Driver.
    “he does it in a way that's almost deconstructs the genre that he's doing.”
    The Big Picture · Celebrating ‘Scott Pilgrim vs. the World’ 10 Years Later With Edgar Wright · 0:41:58 · Jason Concepcion (0.80 sure it was them)
  31. lineage (lineage): Blade → X-Men. Blade is credited as the film that set the tone for the modern superhero era, with X-Men following two years later.
    “the 1st superhero movie that really set the tone for what we consider the modern era of superhero films is Blade, 1998”
    The Big Picture · The Past, Present, and Future of Superhero Movies | The Big Picture (Ep. 35) · 0:01:16 · Jason Concepcion (0.70 sure it was them)
  32. industry (industry): X-Men → Iron Man. The X-Men films' approach of introducing everyone at once was the standard until Marvel changed it.
    “that approach is really the kind of, what the standard approach for superhero films was up until that time”
    The Big Picture · The Past, Present, and Future of Superhero Movies | The Big Picture (Ep. 35) · 0:03:24 · Jason Concepcion (0.60 sure it was them)
  33. theme (theme): Batman Begins → Iron Man. Both the late-90s Batman films and the X-Men films hid the comic-book look; Marvel instead embraced what was authentic about its characters.
    “They're very abashed to be like, this is a comic book movie.”
    The Big Picture · The Past, Present, and Future of Superhero Movies | The Big Picture (Ep. 35) · 0:07:52 · Jason Concepcion (0.50 sure it was them)
  34. career (career): Kevin Feige → X-Men. Feige began as an assistant producer on the X-Men films before running the MCU.
    “started as like an assistant producer on those X-Men films and was put in charge of these properties”
    The Big Picture · The Past, Present, and Future of Superhero Movies | The Big Picture (Ep. 35) · 0:09:13 · Jason Concepcion (0.50 sure it was them)
  35. contrast (contrast): Thor: Ragnarok → Thor. Ragnarok is called one of the five best Marvel movies, reached only after two bad Thor films.
    “one of the 5 best Marvel movies ever now is the Thor movie that came out 2 weeks ago.”
    The Big Picture · The Past, Present, and Future of Superhero Movies | The Big Picture (Ep. 35) · 0:10:42 · Jason Concepcion (0.40 sure it was them)
  36. career (career): Thor → Chris Hemsworth. Marvel cast up-and-comers like Hemsworth who grew with the franchise.
    “Chris Helmsworth knows, I'm going to be, you know, a household name because of this Thor role”
    The Big Picture · The Past, Present, and Future of Superhero Movies | The Big Picture (Ep. 35) · 0:13:16 · Jason Concepcion (0.40 sure it was them)
  37. programming (programming): Guardians of the Galaxy → Ant-Man. After Guardians' success with unknown characters, Ant-Man was an easy next gamble.
    “you do Ant-Man after that because you're just like, yeah, let's do Ant-Man.”
    The Big Picture · The Past, Present, and Future of Superhero Movies | The Big Picture (Ep. 35) · 0:17:03 · Jason Concepcion (0.40 sure it was them)
  38. lineage (lineage): Wonder Woman → Batman Begins. Wonder Woman is the first DC movie since the Nolan films that understands what it is.
    “Wonder Woman is the 1st movie that they've made.”
    The Big Picture · The Past, Present, and Future of Superhero Movies | The Big Picture (Ep. 35) · 0:24:27 · Jason Concepcion (0.40 sure it was them)
  39. industry (industry): Suicide Squad → Deadpool. Suicide Squad felt reactive to Deadpool's success.
    “Suicide Squad felt like it was very influenced by the success of Deadpool”
    The Big Picture · The Past, Present, and Future of Superhero Movies | The Big Picture (Ep. 35) · 0:29:25 · Jason Concepcion (0.40 sure it was them)
  40. craft (craft): Man of Steel → Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice. BvS's newscaster lines patching the Metropolis destruction from Man of Steel show DC's lack of confidence.
    “that kind of thing shows the lack of confidence that DC really has in its voice”
    The Big Picture · The Past, Present, and Future of Superhero Movies | The Big Picture (Ep. 35) · 0:30:16 · Jason Concepcion (0.40 sure it was them)
  41. contrast (contrast): Aquaman (planned film) → Ant-Man. Marvel leans into a dumb hero name (Ant-Man) while DC casts a macho Aquaman to make you forget his name.
    “lay into the fact that that name is dumb.”
    The Big Picture · The Past, Present, and Future of Superhero Movies | The Big Picture (Ep. 35) · 0:33:48 · Jason Concepcion (0.40 sure it was them)
  42. lineage (lineage): X-Men → Joss Whedon. Whedon's Astonishing X-Men comic captured Cyclops better than the movies did.
    “he's really the 1st guy that captured what makes Cyclops an interesting character.”
    The Big Picture · The Past, Present, and Future of Superhero Movies | The Big Picture (Ep. 35) · 0:46:35 · Jason Concepcion (0.50 sure it was them)
  43. craft (craft): X-Men: The Last Stand → James Marsden. The Last Stand kills off Cyclops offscreen in the first half hour, wasting the character.
    “kills Cyclops James Marsden.”
    The Big Picture · The Past, Present, and Future of Superhero Movies | The Big Picture (Ep. 35) · 0:47:13 · Jason Concepcion (0.50 sure it was them)
  44. career (career): Iron Man → Jon Favreau. Iron Man's director had only Swingers and Jumanji behind him.
    “a director whose experience with swingers and Jumanji.”
    The Big Picture · The Past, Present, and Future of Superhero Movies | The Big Picture (Ep. 35) · 0:54:48 · Jason Concepcion (0.40 sure it was them)

Their fun items

Showing 1–22 of 22 fun items.

  1. fun, about Tom Cruise: Cruise brings the Ethan Hunt voice to the phone in 'my team is dead' scene; Sean rewound it four times for loud, crazed Cruise. 'They knew we were coming, man' is compared to a Ruffalo impression and Bill Paxton in Aliens.
    “He goes Ruffalo in this scene before Ruffalo even knew.”
    The Rewatchables · 'Mission: Impossible' With Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Jason Concepcion · 0:23:35 · Jason Concepcion (0.40 sure it was them)
  2. fun, about Mission: Impossible: First time the speaker ever heard of an air-gapped computer: the vault machine is not connected to the internet for security.
    “that was the 1st time I've ever, I ever encountered the idea of an air gapped computer”
    The Rewatchables · 'Mission: Impossible' With Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Jason Concepcion · 0:26:06 · Jason Concepcion (0.40 sure it was them)
  3. fun, about Vanessa Redgrave: As Max, she looks at Cruise 'like he's a steak', calls him dear boy, smiles like a shark; wins the Dion Waiters award.
    “she looks at him. Like, he's a steak.”
    The Rewatchables · 'Mission: Impossible' With Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Jason Concepcion · 0:36:02 · Jason Concepcion (0.30 sure it was them)
  4. fun, about Mission: Impossible: Hunt has masks that make anyone's face, so why not a mask of William Donloe to walk into the vault? Nobody has an answer.
    “Why not just put a mask on as Don Lo walk into the office, steal the nocalyst, and walk out?”
    The Rewatchables · 'Mission: Impossible' With Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Jason Concepcion · 0:44:09 · Jason Concepcion (0.30 sure it was them)
  5. fun, about Apple: Apple was nearly bankrupt and used MI for Powerbook placement plus an early promo site, the Mission Impossible Web Adventure; they spent about $15 million.
    “they also set up a early website promotional tie-in called the Mission Impossible Web Adventure.”
    The Rewatchables · 'Mission: Impossible' With Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Jason Concepcion · 0:49:23 · Jason Concepcion (0.40 sure it was them)
  6. fun, about Mission: Impossible: Best quotes: 'Do you read me? The list is in the open', 'You've never seen me very upset', 'Just mail him his clothes'. Winner of the best line: 'You've never seen me very upset.'
    “I just want him manning a radar tower in Alaska by the end of the day.”
    The Rewatchables · 'Mission: Impossible' With Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Jason Concepcion · 0:58:59 · Jason Concepcion (0.30 sure it was them)
  7. fun, about Mission: Impossible: Who won the movie: the panel suggests Cruise, De Palma, and the old chaotic Hollywood studio system that built an aquarium to blow it up. A cautionary-tale approach now.
    “giving them the money needed to build an aquarium and blow it up.”
    The Rewatchables · 'Mission: Impossible' With Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Jason Concepcion · 1:03:06 · Jason Concepcion (0.30 sure it was them)
  8. fun, about Mulan: Jason worked in a movie theater in 1997-98 and saw every release; he calls Mulan rare as an American production of an Asian story with a mostly Asian cast.
    “It's not like you get a whole lot of opportunities to watch a, um, American production of an Asian story with a primarily Asian casket.”
    The Big Picture · Did Disney’s ‘Mulan’ Experiment Work? A Binge Mode Investigation · 0:14:25 · Jason Concepcion (0.85 sure it was them)
  9. fun, about Mulan: Jason's one-line summary of the remake's magic: add Harry Potter's fox and a witch with dragon hands for no reason.
    “let's throw fox from Harry Potter in there and why don't we add a witch for no reason with dragon hands?”
    The Big Picture · Did Disney’s ‘Mulan’ Experiment Work? A Binge Mode Investigation · 0:23:10 · Jason Concepcion (0.85 sure it was them)
  10. fun, about Mulan: Jason's logic complaint about the witch: shapeshifting only makes her easier to kill.
    “I was confused as to what the advantage of shapeshifting for the witch was other than she's very killable in that form.”
    The Big Picture · Did Disney’s ‘Mulan’ Experiment Work? A Binge Mode Investigation · 0:38:43 · Jason Concepcion (0.85 sure it was them)
  11. fun, about Mulan: Jason ties the Mulan and NBA controversies to the failed bipartisan theory that engaging economically with China would liberalize it.
    “if we engage economically with China, we will liberalize them through our influence, right?”
    The Big Picture · Did Disney’s ‘Mulan’ Experiment Work? A Binge Mode Investigation · 0:58:20 · Jason Concepcion (0.85 sure it was them)
  12. fun, about Scott Pilgrim vs. the World: Jason was angered that someone made the movie he felt he was supposed to make, and the opening credits sold him.
    “I was just absolutely dumbstruck by it and angered to this day angered by it.”
    The Big Picture · Celebrating ‘Scott Pilgrim vs. the World’ 10 Years Later With Edgar Wright · 0:08:56 · Jason Concepcion (0.90 sure it was them)
  13. fun, about Lucas Lee: Jason loves the fake Lucas Lee action-trailer line as sublime bad writing, because the gun is empty.
    “It's like sublime bad writing.”
    The Big Picture · Celebrating ‘Scott Pilgrim vs. the World’ 10 Years Later With Edgar Wright · 0:36:25 · Jason Concepcion (0.80 sure it was them)
  14. fun, about The Connect: Jason and Shea Serrano's new show pairs two films per week on a theme, such as Office Space and Scarface as work friends, or Contact and Interstellar as McConaughey in outer space.
    “Each week, Shane and I will talk about 2 movies and the theme that connects them.”
    The Big Picture · Celebrating ‘Scott Pilgrim vs. the World’ 10 Years Later With Edgar Wright · 0:45:55 · Jason Concepcion (0.85 sure it was them)
  15. fun, about Blade: Blade grossed about $131 million on a $45 million budget in 1998.
    “$131.200000 on a $45000000 budget in 1998.”
    The Big Picture · The Past, Present, and Future of Superhero Movies | The Big Picture (Ep. 35) · 0:03:21 · Jason Concepcion (0.40 sure it was them)
  16. fun, about Guardians of the Galaxy: Marvel's gamble: a wrestler, the Parks and Rec guy, and a raccoon; selling point was Marvel goes to space.
    “The selling point on that movie was Marvel Goes to Space.”
    The Big Picture · The Past, Present, and Future of Superhero Movies | The Big Picture (Ep. 35) · 0:16:40 · Jason Concepcion (0.40 sure it was them)
  17. fun, about Suicide Squad: The trailer was more of a Marvel trailer than the movie in the can, due to reshoots.
    “the trailer for Suicide Squad was more of a Marvel trailer than the movie that they had in the can”
    The Big Picture · The Past, Present, and Future of Superhero Movies | The Big Picture (Ep. 35) · 0:28:50 · Jason Concepcion (0.40 sure it was them)
  18. fun, about The Batman: Each Batman movie should be a different director and genre set by the villain: Killer Croc horror, Joker noir.
    “Killer Croc is a horror movie.”
    The Big Picture · The Past, Present, and Future of Superhero Movies | The Big Picture (Ep. 35) · 0:38:21 · Jason Concepcion (0.40 sure it was them)
  19. fun, about X-Men: Why Cyclops is a downer: his eyes would kill everyone he loves.
    “every time he opens his eyes, he threatens to kill everyone that he cares about.”
    The Big Picture · The Past, Present, and Future of Superhero Movies | The Big Picture (Ep. 35) · 0:46:49 · Jason Concepcion (0.50 sure it was them)
  20. fun, about Iron Man: Iron Man called the highest Q rating for a character nobody cared about in comics.
    “Iron Man is probably the most the highest Q rating for a character that nobody gave a flying F about”
    The Big Picture · The Past, Present, and Future of Superhero Movies | The Big Picture (Ep. 35) · 0:55:00 · Jason Concepcion (0.40 sure it was them)
  21. fun, about Saga: Pick for a screen adaptation: Saga, a swashbuckling space odyssey love story.
    “one of the great love stories of the past 3 to 4 years”
    The Big Picture · The Past, Present, and Future of Superhero Movies | The Big Picture (Ep. 35) · 0:59:14 · Jason Concepcion (0.60 sure it was them)
  22. fun, about Ultimate X-Men: Reboot X-Men on the Ultimate universe, solo movies building to a team-up.
    “base it on the ultimate universe X-Men.”
    The Big Picture · The Past, Present, and Future of Superhero Movies | The Big Picture (Ep. 35) · 0:59:47 · Jason Concepcion (0.60 sure it was them)