The Devil Wears Prada 2006
Sean's comfort watch, cued up in the hospital after his son was born. He picked it over an 'Amanda palette' of A Few Good Men, Working Girl, Casablanca, Skyfall and Ocean's Eleven.
The Big Picture · Discussion
600th Episode Mega Mailbag Extravaganza
September 8, 2023/ 103 min/ Sean Fennessey · Amanda Dobbins · Bobby Wagner
Sean, Amanda, and Bobby mark 600 episodes with a mailbag: comfort movies, the vanishing movie star, dream biopics, Letterboxd, and which fictional bar they'd drink in.
36 films across 8 segments.
AI-generated This episode was transcribed and analyzed with AI models. The matches aren't perfect — expect the occasional misheard title or a link to the wrong film.
Trailers and comfort movies
Rosemary's Baby 1968
Amanda's wrong guess for the hospital pick.
Boogie Nights 1997
Anchor of Sean's college dorm-room rotation, alongside Clerks, The Big Lebowski and The Matrix; Anchorman joined later.
The Bikeriders 2024
The trailer Amanda won't watch; she's going in cold.
Thanksgiving 2023
Eli Roth's fake Grindhouse trailer, made real 15 years later. Sean wants him on the show.
The state of independent film — and going out to the movies
The Green Knight 2021
A24's kids' merch: Sean bought the fox tee for his daughter.
Three Days of the Condor 1975
A sold-out weeknight rep screening at the Aero.
2001: A Space Odyssey 1968
Bobby's sold-out stop on his mission to see every Kubrick projected.
The Talented Mr. Ripley 1999
The 'is this an event or a Tuesday night' example.
The most surprising movie-star trajectory since episode one
Casting the Big Pic movie
The Killer 2023
Fassbender as present-day Sean, bucket hat and rag & bone jeans required.
Manchester by the Sea 2016
The other half of the Fassbender-as-Sean case.
The Starling Girl 2023
Lewis Pullman ('Bob' from Top Gun: Maverick) as Bobby, on a bulking diet and glasses.
Dream biopics and a dinner party
Agatha 1979
Bobby's forgotten pick, the Christie-disappearance drama with Redgrave, Hoffman and Dalton. They vow to watch it before A Haunting in Venice.
A Haunting in Venice 2023
Branagh's new Christie, up next on the show.
Maestro 2023
Cooper's Bernstein fuels Sean's pitch: let Bradley make the Fleetwood Mac 'Rumours' movie.
Mank 2020
Sean's dinner-party fantasy reenacted with Oldman, Fincher and Herman J. Mankiewicz.
Letterboxd, spoilers, and adaptation
Avengers: Endgame 2019
The spoiler that stung most: Iron Man's death, recounted line by line three days before Bobby saw it.
No Time to Die 2021
Spoiled on air; 'only really old people cared.'
Little Women 2019
Gerwig's less-faithful adaptation is a sharper read of the book than the 1994 version.
The Zone of Interest 2023
Diverges hard from the Martin Amis novel.
All of Us Strangers 2023
Another loose fall-festival adaptation of an acclaimed novel.
Killers of the Flower Moon 2023
Sean treating release day like a marathon: building toward it, refusing to reread the ending.
A quick Bond ranking
Quotable lines and fictional bars
Clueless 1995
Amanda's most-used line nobody clocks: 'I mean, yeah, this is America.'
You've Got Mail 1998
The weird 'sushi!' yell Amanda quotes at home.
Goodfellas 1990
'Why'd you do that?' is Sean's most-used, aimed at an aunt named Karen.
Singin' in the Rain 1952
Amanda's on-set-visit answer; she'd skip the fevered title number for 'Good Morning.'
Top Gun 1986
Sean wants to be the meat in the sandwich of the final hug.
Top Gun: Maverick 2022
The Hard Deck as dream fictional bar: Sean would be Penny and run it.
Phantom Thread 2017
Amanda's fictional-restaurant pick: the chic London spot Reynolds frequents.
The Wife 2017
The perennial 'when will you accept this as great' question, met with: 'it's just really not a very good movie.'
Hillbilly Elegy 2020
Glenn Close's other Oscar bait, which Sean rechristened 'Hacksaw Jim Duggan Country.'
Also mentioned raised along the way
The 2017 landscape Star Wars: The Last JediWonder WomanThor: RagnarokThe Shape of WaterLady BirdGet OutCall Me by Your NameLa La LandThe Wolf of Wall Street
Sean's comfort palette A Few Good MenWorking GirlCasablancaOcean's Eleven
College and high-school go-tos The Big LebowskiClerksThe MatrixAnchorman: The Legend of Ron BurgundyFight ClubSe7enPulp FictionReservoir Dogs
Name-checked in passing GrindhouseThe Holiday6 UndergroundEternalsThe Killing of a Sacred DeerThe LobsterThe InternEl CondeArmageddonDeep ImpactLicorice PizzaOnce Upon a Time in HollywoodMission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part OneCitizen KaneThe GodfatherThe Godfather Part IIIThe Social NetworkChasing AmyThe Tender BarCrazy, Stupid, LoveParasiteBarry LyndonDown by LawWhiplashBlack Panther: Wakanda ForeverThe Virgin SuicidesOppenheimerBarbie
Not films filtered out: TV, games, ads
TV Special Ops: LionessCurb Your EnthusiasmThe Price Is RightGirlsWeCrashedDaisy Jones & the SixThe SupermodelsSiskel & Ebert
Podcasts The Ringer NFL ShowThe RewatchablesThe Ringer Fantasy Football Show
Books The Day the Crayons QuitKillers of the Flower MoonGlossier
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