Sean Fennessey

[upbeat music] I'm Sean Fennessey.

I'm Amanda Dobbins.

And this is the Big Picture, a conversation show about the end of summer.

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I, I do wanna mark time.

But, but you're trying to say, but I don't, but I, Sean Fennessey, don't wanna hear about them?

I've just heard about them a lot already, you know? Like-

I mean-

I, th- so, like, I have to imagine that the absolute craziest possible...

Like, based on what people in that room, um, seemed to come out wanting to talk about, uh, which, like, one thing that stood out to me was that our own Sean Fennessey and I believe a Variety review of it both, like, jumped pretty quickly to, "Let's discuss how much of an Oscars contender this could be."

Mm-hmm.

So there's a pretty, like, strong reaction in the room that went swiftly to an idea of like, "This is of a qualitative...

[upbeat music] I'm Sean Fennessey.

I'm Amanda Dobbins.

And this is The Big Picture, a conversation show about the fall film festivals.

Uh, the problem is is if you tell one person you know, then it gets out pretty quickly that, oh-

Yeah

... well Sean knows.

And so accounting for that was, it was fine.

It, it was honestly fun to hear people guessing, and the, the guesses were myriad.

who

doesn't love Monsters, Inc.? Sean Fennessey on the big picture.

I heard him say, Monsters, Inc. isn't one of my Pixar movies.

And that made me sad.

[upbeat music] I'm Sean Fennessey and this is The Big Picture, a conversation show about Onslaught.

Today on the show we're having a very metal episode of The Big Picture because we're discussing a very metal movie, black and chrome metal that is.

Adam Wingard has a new movie that throws back to the halcyon days of sawed-off shotguns, unkillable super soldiers, desolate American survivalism, government conspiracy, and insane action set pieces.

That'll get us kind of in there, obviously.

By the way, Sean Fennessey said this is the best dad goes on a work trip movie of all time.

And yeah, Christopher Nolan loves to work backwards.

I agree with you that this was such an easy marriage.

[upbeat music] I'm Sean Fennessey.

I'm Amanda Dobbins.

And this is the Big Picture, a conversation show about the fall movie season.

Yeah, wait until your son is like, "Can we watch a video about jellyfish?"

Well, I don't have a son yet

And then... [laughs] I know, but he's gonna come over and be like, "Hey, Sean, can I teach you about jellyfish?"

God, I hope a kid doesn't show up at my door like 30 years later, he's like, "Hey, Dad, it's me."

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