The 2025 Movie Auction Returns!

Summary

Summary of "The 2025 Movie Auction Returns!" | The Big Picture, July 8, 2025

Hosts: Sean Fennessey & Amanda Dobbins
Guest: Chris Ryan

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Introduction and Welcome

After bypassing the initial advertisements and introductions, Sean Fennessey and Amanda Dobbins welcome returning guest Chris Ryan to discuss the mid-year movie auction, marking the halfway point of the year.

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Sean Fennessey [00:50]: "Big Picture conversation show about auctioning. It is the midway point of the year, and so we are auctioning once again to fill out our slates, which means Chris Ryan's here. Hi, Chris, how are you?"

Reminiscing About "The Wild Bunch"

Sean recalls a memorable night watching "The Wild Bunch" in a special 70mm format, highlighting the enduring spirit of cinema in Hollywood. Chris shares his astonishment at the vibrant movie culture, even amidst unexpected events like a Trump rally.

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Sean Fennessey [01:00]: "Last time I saw you, we were crying arm in arm watching the wild bunch on 70 millimeter Egyptian experience. It was a magical night."

Honoring Michael Madsen

The hosts mourn the tragic passing of Michael Madsen, reflecting on his prolific career and memorable roles, especially in Quentin Tarantino's films.

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Sean Fennessey [02:34]: "Michael Madsen, the great Michael Madsen would have fit right in. He passed away at 67 on July 3rd. Tragically."

Box Office Analysis: "Jurassic World Rebirth"

They analyze the recent release "Jurassic World Rebirth," which debuted with $147 million domestically. Chris points out Scarlett Johansson's ascent to becoming one of the most successful movie stars due to her involvement in long-running franchises.

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Chris Ryan [04:20]: "Scarlett Johansson is our most successful movie star now."

Introducing the Movie Auction and New Scoring System

Sean introduces a revamped movie auction system, acknowledging past shortcomings and presenting a new tiered scoring system developed with the help of Sam Burtwistle. The system assigns points based on box office milestones, Metacritic scores, and Oscar nominations, aiming for a more structured and competitive slate.

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Sean Fennessey [08:07]: "Sam made a proposition about the scoring system that we have for the movie auction."

Details of the New Scoring System

Sean elaborates on the tiered point allocations:

• Box Office:
  • $150M: 1 point
  • $300M: 1 point
  • $450M: 1 point
  • And so on.
• Metacritic Scores:
  • 79: 1 point
  • 82: 1 point
  • 85: 1 point
  • Highest score in the draft: +1 point
• Oscars:
  • Below-the-line nominations and wins: 0.5 points
  • Best Picture win: 1 point

They discuss potential additions like live scoring during auctions, inspired by shows like "Around the Horn."

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Sean Fennessey [09:59]: "There's a exceedingly high chance it will be nominated, at least for Best sound."

Hosts' Slates and Bidding Wars

Chris Ryan's Slate

Chris nominates "Ballad of a Small Player," expressing confidence in its Oscar potential despite its Netflix affiliation.

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Chris Ryan [30:00]: "I think it's going to be seen by a lot of people, and it feels like a good bet, so I'm going to go with that."

Amanda Dobbins' Slate

Amanda selects "Opus," "Phoenician Scheme," and "Marty Supreme," balancing personal favorites with critical acclaim.

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Amanda Dobbins [17:53]: "Phoenician Scheme, which is another one of my favorite movies of the year."

Sean Fennessey's Slate

Sean focuses on "Avatar Fire and Ash," "Superman," and "Hamnet," among others, strategically aiming for high-scoring films.

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Sean Fennessey [20:58]: "I loved 77. Metacritic score, $60 million box office domestically."

Intense Bidding on "Superman"

A heated bidding war erupts over "Superman," with Sean starting at $62, Amanda escalating to $375, and Chris pushing the bid to $400, reflecting their strong interest and differing perspectives on the film's potential.

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Amanda Dobbins [134:54]: "I'm really into this movie for $400 for me."

Recap of Auction Results

The hosts recap their final selections:

• Sean Fennessey: "Avatar Fire and Ash" ($300), "Superman" ($62), "Hamnet" ($28), "Predator Badlands" ($1)
• Amanda Dobbins: "Opus," "Phoenician Scheme," "Marty Supreme," "After the Hunt" ($260), "Roofman" ($100), "J. Kelly" ($420), "A House of Dynamite" ($180), "Down Abbey, The Grand Finale" ($40)
• Chris Ryan: "Ballad of a Small Player" ($165), "Weapons" ($465), "Superman" ($400), "Now You See Me, Now You Don't" ($36), "Bruce Springsteen, Deliver Me from Nowhere" ($150), "House of Dynamite" ($80)

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Chris Ryan [136:08]: "I got ballot of a small player for 165, weapons for 465."

Final Thoughts and Upcoming Episodes

The episode concludes with the hosts expressing excitement for their next viewing of "Superman," discussing logistics around family commitments, and teasing future movie discussions. They also touch upon their personal lives and interests, maintaining a blend of professional analysis and personal anecdotes.

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Sean Fennesi [138:01]: "Thanks to our producer, Jack Sanders, for his work on this episode. No, thanks to Sam for cooking up this new scoring system. And we'll see you for Superman. Bye."

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Notable Quotes Throughout the Episode

• Sean Fennessey [02:28]: "You can't get in the way of a segue like that."
• Amanda Dobbins [05:28]: "I'm bringing like an original auction energy to my personal list and prep for this podcast."
• Chris Ryan [07:24]: "Another savvy career move by ScarJo. Staying in the news."
• Amanda Dobbins [16:56]: "The first one absolutely was...water in the desert in the January release Slate."
• Sean Fennessey [75:39]: "This would give me Big Jim, James Gunn, Chloe Zhao and Kathryn Bigelow. If I could get this film, that would be solid."

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Conclusion

Sean Fennessey, Amanda Dobbins, and Chris Ryan engage in a dynamic and strategic mid-year movie auction, integrating a newly developed scoring system to enhance competitiveness and fairness. Their discussions span critical analyses of recent releases, personal preferences, and insights into the evolving landscape of Hollywood cinema. The episode underscores their passion for movies and their commitment to providing thoughtful recommendations and engaging discussions for their audience.

Transcript

[Sean Fenesi]

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[Amanda Dobbins]

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[Sean Fenesi]

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[Amanda Dobbins]

I'm Amanda Davis and this is The.

[Sean Fenesi]

Big Picture 8 conversation show about auctioning. It is the midway point of the year, and so we are auctioning once again to fill out our slates, which means. Chris Ryan's here. Hi, Chris, how are you?

[Chris Ryan]

Nice to see you guys.

[Sean Fenesi]

Nice to see you, Chris. Last time I saw you, we were crying arm in arm watching the wild bunch on 70 millimeter Egyptian experience. It was a magical night. Me, you, Tyler Parker, 300 other very normal men experiencing cinema together. Any takeaways from that night out?

[Chris Ryan]

I just can't believe how alive and well the spirit of movies is in Hollywood. There was also a Trump rally, I think, in Hollywood last night.

[Sean Fenesi]

But you organized and weirdly made it out to the movie. That was so strange.

[Chris Ryan]

They exceeded me for pre, probably.

[Sean Fenesi]

Uh, Amanda, how are you? How was your weekend? Did you go to the Trump rally?

[Amanda Dobbins]

I was lovely. No, Okay, I. I went to the beach and I had a great time. And now I'm. I'm back here sitting between the two of you.

[Chris Ryan]

You know, I can't tell. Are you getting tired of us?

[Amanda Dobbins]

I was excited. I was excited to see you. And then he got a little spicy about the box office. And then you guys were doing your, your, your Wild Bunch, which sounds really.

[Chris Ryan]

Nice, but you know, the 70 millimeter festival is one of the great things that happens in this city.

[Amanda Dobbins]

It is. It's really cool.

[Sean Fenesi]

It was opening weekend and we've all got for various films throughout the month, which will be exciting. Wild Bunch holds up. It's definitely a movie about men not knowing how to be around each other and alive and constantly making choices about the end of the world. So, you know, resonant in these times. Unfortunately, another man is not alive.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Jesus Christ.

[Sean Fenesi]

That was a segue. You can't get in the Way of a segue like that.

[Chris Ryan]

I'll do a better segue.

[Sean Fenesi]

Okay.

[Chris Ryan]

A guy who wouldn't have been a stranger in a Sam Peckinpah movie. How about that?

[Sean Fenesi]

That's right. Michael Madsen, the great Michael Madsen would have fit right in. He passed away at 67 on July 3rd. Tragically. You know, star of. Probably most memorably for us, for Quentin Tarantino films.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Yeah.

[Sean Fenesi]

I think most of us probably saw him for the first time as Mr. Blonde in Reservoir Dogs. He was also in both Kill Bill movies. He was in the Hateful Eight. Actually going through his filmography, kind of blown away by the depth of work that he did in the 90s and 2000s. He really was in from the Doors to the Natural, to Kill Me Again. Donnie Brasco, Free Willy.

[Amanda Dobbins]

I was gonna say, don't you dare skip Free Willy.

[Sean Fenesi]

Yeah, I mean, Wyatt Earp, Selma and Louise. Really? Yeah, yeah. A ton of movies over the years. A linchpin, often identified as a tough guy, but I always thought more of like your cool nihilist, you know, the anything goes kind of character. Pretty quirky, very strange presence. Yes.

[Chris Ryan]

Let's cut the rug.

[Sean Fenesi]

We'll dance. Yeah, he inspired a lot of your dance moves. Yeah. You know, he's been working mostly in independent and VOD stuff in the last 15, 20 years, but just one of my favorite people to see pop up in a movie. And also one of the stars of your favorite movie species.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Sure. Yes.

[Sean Fenesi]

Which is about an alien woman who comes to this planet and murders her prey.

[Chris Ryan]

And it's apparently gonna be rewatchable. So I've heard Bill is using that.

[Amanda Dobbins]

That's exciting.

[Sean Fenesi]

You're not appearing on that episode.

[Chris Ryan]

I haven't been drafted yet, but, you know, I always. I'm waiting for the bat signal to go up.

[Sean Fenesi]

Okay. Speaking of bat signals, you guys saluted to a dino shaped shadow in the sky called Jurassic World Rebirth. It opened this weekend to $147 million domestically. How are you feeling?

[Chris Ryan]

I feel good. But I think the other underlying story here is Scarlett Johansson is our most successful movie star now.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Yeah, well, the Avengers are counting towards that total. Right. So she's just racking up franchises at this point.

[Sean Fenesi]

Yeah. I think that honestly, when you look at the list of people who are the most successful actors of all time, it's usually because they've been a part of a really long running franchise. Samuel L. Jackson for a while was, I think the reigning box office king.

[Chris Ryan]

Vin Diesel probably cakes up.

[Sean Fenesi]

Definitely. So it's not stunning. But again, Another savvy career move by ScarJo. Staying in the news.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Anything you want to say to the people or to the dinosaurs?

[Chris Ryan]

Have you thought about whether or not you were too hard on that movie?

[Sean Fenesi]

No. This movie's terrible.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Direct to Cameron Gareth Edwards.

[Sean Fenesi]

Gareth, you're a very talented craftsperson. Your scripts are terrible. I don't know what to tell you, man. This is like five movies in a row. The box office has just been killing it though, for three months. Movies. I had my little emotional break in March where I was like, God, tv, White Lotus and all these other limited series. And then ever since then, I spoke it out of existence. It's just been movie time. Cr you hosted television podcast. How's that going?

[Chris Ryan]

It's going fine. Today we talked about the Eternaut, an Argentine Argentinian show about the end of the world or about an apocalyptic event. And then we also talked about Smoke, which is Dennis Lehane's Apple TV show, which Andy hated and I thought was fine.

[Sean Fenesi]

Okay, interesting.

[Chris Ryan]

Yeah, I keep finding myself on the other side of like a very passionate argument that I don't have a ton of passion for.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Okay, yeah. This reminds me that I need your Britbox password so I can watch this show about the Mitfords because there's another.

[Sean Fenesi]

Show about the Mitfords.

[Amanda Dobbins]

I don't think there's ever actually been a show about them, but Amanda's content around you.

[Sean Fenesi]

I'm surprised you didn't create that show.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Obviously many people have been. Many characters have been modeled on them throughout time, including perhaps one movie that one of us will auction in the fall.

[Chris Ryan]

Zora Bennett from Jurassic World Rebirth has got a little bit of a nitpur to her.

[Amanda Dobbins]

There was, you know, there's a mercenary quality to at least one of them.

[Sean Fenesi]

That is true. Any thoughts on Jurassic World? It actually kind of like underperformed relative to the franchise.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Yeah, yeah, sure, yeah.

[Sean Fenesi]

Do you know what the three day weekend box office was for this movie?

[Chris Ryan]

$147 million.

[Sean Fenesi]

No, that was the five day weekend.

[Amanda Dobbins]

That was what? Your dol from Wednesday morning at 8am.

[Sean Fenesi]

Wednesday, the three day weekend was 91.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Okay.

[Sean Fenesi]

Wow.

[Chris Ryan]

What? Cucks.

[Sean Fenesi]

That's pretty low actually, relative to the typical three day weekend for a Jurassic.

[Chris Ryan]

Coming along to bust it out.

[Sean Fenesi]

I don't know.

[Amanda Dobbins]

What else did you do this weekend that has given us this mindset?

[Sean Fenesi]

What do you mean?

[Amanda Dobbins]

Yeah, I'm doing great things. Okay. Okay. Yeah.

[Sean Fenesi]

I. I'm just. I'm still confused by you guys being like, we need more of these Jurassic World movies.

[Chris Ryan]

Do you know what, though? I, I rarely do this, but I will remember you said that, A, the next time you like a bad movie. And B, yeah, you're like. And of course, Jurassic World, which I thought was a really thoughtful depiction.

[Sean Fenesi]

Because.

[Chris Ryan]

I think you count on me not checking the tape, but this one's singed. I'm going to remember this.

[Sean Fenesi]

All right, fair enough. If I do that, you have. You have the privilege to shoot me in the face live on the pod. And I promise Eileen will not press charges.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Right.

[Sean Fenesi]

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[Amanda Dobbins]

Absolutely. You have some updates?

[Sean Fenesi]

Well, we can go through our slate, but a gentleman named Sam Burtwistle has been working on the show for us this summer and he's been helping us build out our documents, provide research, and he made a proposition about the scoring system that we have for the movie auction. Now, the movie auction, I will admit, is one of my least thought out projects in the history of this show.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Right.

[Sean Fenesi]

I came up with it like on a Sunday at 9pm before a Monday record and was just like, guys, can we do this? And you said, yes. I had no parameters for success. We didn't properly track it across the year. There were no stakes whatsoever. A year ago, I added some wrinkles to the rules, which I admit, a.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Year ago or six months ago, I.

[Sean Fenesi]

Think it was, it was for 2024. So, yeah, the triggers.

[Chris Ryan]

Second one of 2024.

[Sean Fenesi]

I believe the triggers were added at the beginning of 2024, which included Metacritic score and box office and Oscar nominations as indicators of a strong slate of auctioned off movies.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Right.

[Sean Fenesi]

Again, not some of my best work. So, Sam, but I think these pods.

[Chris Ryan]

Are some of our best work.

[Amanda Dobbins]

I do.

[Chris Ryan]

I think they're some of our most thoughtful discussions of the state of cinema.

[Sean Fenesi]

I'll take your word for that.

[Amanda Dobbins]

We go to new places, we learn new things about each other and the world, you know.

[Sean Fenesi]

Yeah, that may be true. I don't want to upset that.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Yeah, let me just. I don't want to. I don't want to spoil this auction. But I am bringing like an original auction energy to my personal list and prep for this podcast. That means that I looked at the letterbox list 20 minutes ago. But that's okay.

[Sean Fenesi]

Okay.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Because I did read the new rules. But there are new.

[Sean Fenesi]

There are new rules if we want to adapt this.

[Chris Ryan]

Yeah.

[Sean Fenesi]

So I'll just read them out to you guys and you can let me know if you're interested. I don't know if you're interested in.

[Chris Ryan]

Getting past the Freedom Caucus, but. Yeah.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Excuse me.

[Sean Fenesi]

Yeah. Major Marjorie Taylor Greene energy this morning.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Fuck both of you. And fuck Marjorie Taylor Greene.

[Sean Fenesi]

So this would be the new proposed scoring. Rather than just having triggers like we had in the past, where if you crossed $100 million domestically, that indicates you're cleared and your board is valid, we could have more of a tiered system. So $150 million at the box office would be 1 point. 300 million would be 1 point. 450 million would be 1 point, so on and so forth. Likewise for Metacritic. 79 on Metacritic would be 1 point. 82 on Metacritic would be 1point. 85 would be 1 point. And then the highest in the draft, Metacritic wise, would also get an additional point. Now, I said an 85 Metacritic bar last year, which is pretty high.

[Chris Ryan]

Yeah.

[Sean Fenesi]

There's usually only roughly 10 to 12 movies that cross that threshold, and nine of them are films that most people will not see. And then, of course, there's Oscars. So there's below the line nominations and wins, which only half a point.

[Chris Ryan]

Not very respectful to our craftspeople.

[Sean Fenesi]

Yeah, I think we can also. Anything that Sam has suggested here, above the line would be one point. And a best picture win would also be one point. So thoughts on this framework?

[Chris Ryan]

I like it. I also think that there would be. My, my, my revision to this would be like, should we get a Tony Reali esque kind of like live scoring going too? Like, just to mix it up, you know, where a guy is just like 10 points. That's a great. That's a great idea.

[Sean Fenesi]

You know, like, do you want Jack Sanders to be empowered to be scoring us in real time? I mean, that is something that we.

[Chris Ryan]

Probably could pull off, have a revolving cast of Tony Realis.

[Sean Fenesi]

Okay. You know, you mean you want to have like a guest come in mid auction and determine. You know, when we first started doing the auction, we had Danny Heifetz come in and explain.

[Amanda Dobbins]

That's right.

[Chris Ryan]

Auctioning.

[Amanda Dobbins]

I was very nervous about auctioning.

[Sean Fenesi]

Right. And ringer fantasy football, co host and participant in many a fantasy draft over the years. This is sort of our version of the fantasy draft. So we could. We could do that in the Future. We're not doing it today.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Okay.

[Sean Fenesi]

So we didn't ask anybody as a. As a resource. Sam went through and graded out our 20, 24 slates with these rules, if applied. And the results, which I acknowledge mean nothing because we weren't using these rules.

[Chris Ryan]

Well, because I'm. I'm winning. So that's. Of course, you've acknowledged last year's.

[Sean Fenesi]

Yeah, well, the scores are from last year because of that attitude that you're suggesting. I would have had 38 points. Chris, you would have had 13.5, and Amanda would have had 10. Now, obviously that's. That's meaningless relative to what we're talking about here, but do you want to do this? Do you want to use this system? Sure.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Okay.

[Sean Fenesi]

You're rolling with this?

[Amanda Dobbins]

I'm rolling with it. I don't think anything will materially change.

[Sean Fenesi]

For me in terms of what you're going for.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Yeah. You know, because we introduced. I guess we had some thresholds last summer, but I don't remember that.

[Chris Ryan]

There is sequel stuff.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Yeah. Yeah. But we really got into it in January and I. This strategy, just kind of trying to think in strategy really threw me off, like, my course, which is doing what's best for me and, like, not giving a shit about what anybody else thinks has brought me this far.

[Sean Fenesi]

So where would you say that is.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Dealing with you on a Monday morning?

[Sean Fenesi]

That's what I'm saying. Did you get where you wanted to go?

[Amanda Dobbins]

That's true. But it's like, you know, your own design. Exactly. I don't. I don't run a studio, so I don't really have to care about box office. I. I don't really respect other people's opinions, so I don't need to care about Metacritic. So I think. I think it's good. There was a lot of numbers that you just said, so I'm happy that Sam is doing the math and not me. I don't know who you just referenced is or how that would function. Tony.

[Chris Ryan]

Tony Reali, he was the host of around the Horn, which is like, pardon the interruption. Around the Horn block on espn.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Yeah.

[Chris Ryan]

And like, you know, people would have a take and he would be, like, constantly giving them points or taking away points, depending on, like, what he thought of their takes, whether their opinion was.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Like, live in the episode.

[Chris Ryan]

If you just be like.

[Amanda Dobbins]

I mean, I do think we should have, like, more like buttons and interactive.

[Sean Fenesi]

That you want to be able to definitely look into that.

[Amanda Dobbins]

I think that's a good idea.

[Sean Fenesi]

Definitely going to work in the.

[Chris Ryan]

Where I was winning something.

[Amanda Dobbins]

So you're doing okay this year?

[Sean Fenesi]

Well, you. You are doing well this year, but.

[Chris Ryan]

I thought I was winning.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Just.

[Sean Fenesi]

It's July 7th. A lot of. Lot of ballgame left here. Okay, let's go through our slates from last year because that'll help illuminate, I think, what Amanda is saying about last year or from last. Last.

[Chris Ryan]

Last draft.

[Sean Fenesi]

Okay. First. Yeah. So what did you get last year and where does it. Or last season and what is it? Where does it stand?

[Amanda Dobbins]

Well, let's see. The first one I have is Megan 2.0, which was just, you know, a disaster. I like, did I fuck up? Did they fuck up? Who can really say?

[Chris Ryan]

You should go on the town and talk about.

[Sean Fenesi]

Another postmortem. Megan 2.0.

[Amanda Dobbins]

I thought that Jason Blum was very, very savvy to go on the town. And I listened to all of it and enjoyed. Didn't speak to my personal complaints with the film Megan 2.0, which you and I both saw.

[Sean Fenesi]

We did.

[Amanda Dobbins]

That didn't really pan out.

[Sean Fenesi]

No, I think they overthought. I think that Jason was right about the fact that Megan was not as flexible and fungible a character as they had hoped and that the idea of pivoting this into a sci fi action movie.

[Chris Ryan]

I didn't even say they had done that though. That there's something.

[Sean Fenesi]

To me, there's something else. There are a number of other factors going on. I think the movie ultimately is just not as strong as the first movie. It's not as funny, it's not as energetic and propulsive. And then on top of that, it.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Was a little funny, though. That is the. There's some humor. I still chuckled.

[Sean Fenesi]

It's the same filmmaker from the first film.

[Amanda Dobbins]

It's just doing. It's doing too much and it's trying to. There is an opening set piece in like some, you know, weapon system silo in an undisclosed location that has nothing to do with Megan. And you're just kind of like, what's going on?

[Sean Fenesi]

And it's actually pretty CR coded.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Yeah. In that sense, is Megan a lioness? Priebus.

[Sean Fenesi]

There is the villain. The T1000 of the movie is a kind of lioness.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Okay. Yeah.

[Sean Fenesi]

And I think you would be sexually.

[Chris Ryan]

Attracted to the reason why Lioness is such an effective story is you also get a sense of their home life. They're not robots, you know.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Right.

[Sean Fenesi]

I'm sure that's true of Lioness. I think the other thing with the movie is they release in the middle of June, which Jason noticed, which is like a weird release date and it's two hours long and that movies like that should always be 95 minutes. Just. That made no sense to me. Two hours long.

[Amanda Dobbins]

True. Agree with all of what you said. And then as Matt sort of pointed out on the town, they did not have, like the massive viral marketing moment that propelled Megan 1.0 and was just. I mean, you can't control it. You can't fault anyone for not having that. But that was the dancing and the TikTok of it all. Certainly played a part in getting people to theaters.

[Sean Fenesi]

Yeah. I think they were also obviously just competing with a lot more movies for that viral mind sh. Air in June. It's just like how to Train youn Dragon was a massive movie that the same studio put out. There's only so much kind of interesting.

[Chris Ryan]

It's a D movie. It's like a perfect dump.

[Sean Fenesi]

The first one absolutely was. It was like. It was. It was water in the desert in the January release. Slate.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Right.

[Sean Fenesi]

A year and a half ago. So, anyway, anyway, movie didn't work, so that didn't help you very much.

[Chris Ryan]

So.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Yeah. And I was banking on that from a box office perspective. Didn't really work. But I did get F1, which I think is gonna help me with box office and also hopefully technical categories. Though once again, I do think that it's disrespectful that it only gets 0.5.

[Sean Fenesi]

There's a exceedingly high chance it will be nominated, at least for Best sound.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Yeah.

[Sean Fenesi]

Maybe best Editing, Cinematography.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Yeah.

[Sean Fenesi]

Claudio Miranda, I believe, was nominated for Top Gun.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Maverick. Yeah.

[Sean Fenesi]

So I could see that.

[Amanda Dobbins]

See? So listen, we could. We could stack some up. Okay. I got Opus, which is a sentimental favorite, so that's fine with me. Phoenician Scheme, which is another one of my favorite movies of the year. So I feel good about that. I think, you know, once again, the critics are not helping me with the Metacritic score and I don't respect them. And they don't respect me, apparently. Or Wes Anderson, maybe. Oscars. But do you think it's a critics choice?

[Chris Ryan]

They have an Amanda meeting about disrespecting.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Well, I will be honest. I don't really respect the critics choice. The Oscars, you know, also don't really respect Wes Anderson, so that it seems. But it's fine. I have it because I like it. And then Marty supreme hasn't been released yet, you know.

[Sean Fenesi]

Yes.

[Amanda Dobbins]

And Timmy, we pray at the moment.

[Sean Fenesi]

You'Ve got one total point relative to this new scoring system.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Sure.

[Sean Fenesi]

Because F1 is likely to cross $150 million domestically.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Okay.

[Sean Fenesi]

F1 doing pretty well.

[Chris Ryan]

Yes.

[Sean Fenesi]

Not amazingly well at the box office, but well enough, I think.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Yeah.

[Sean Fenesi]

Chris, let's talk about your slate.

[Chris Ryan]

I had sinners, which got two points for its Metacritic score and one point for its $278 million box office. I guess that's domestic.

[Sean Fenesi]

Domestic, yeah.

[Chris Ryan]

I took Jurassic World, Rebirth, where I got one point, will certainly clear the box office threshold.

[Sean Fenesi]

So might get to 2, might get.

[Chris Ryan]

Over 300, and then highest to lowest Sentimental Value and Running man are my other three picks. Not to be released yet. Yet to be released.

[Sean Fenesi]

Highest low. Seeing it tonight. Very excited.

[Chris Ryan]

Are you really?

[Amanda Dobbins]

Yeah, yeah. He's going with my husband.

[Chris Ryan]

I'm very excited for this.

[Amanda Dobbins]

I don't get to go.

[Sean Fenesi]

Yeah, I am looking forward to it. Okay. So, Chris, you've got four points right now. I think you also have probably another point windfall coming on centers in terms of nominations that will turn out to be probably the pick of the year. Yeah, I would guess.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Congratulations, Chris.

[Sean Fenesi]

Well done. Cr. For me, I've got Mission Impossible, Final Reckoning, which, you know, I just didn't really like very much. Unfortunately for me.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Yeah.

[Sean Fenesi]

And that did get me.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Chris hated it more. Would you like to. Would you like to say any more rude things?

[Chris Ryan]

I think I'm on record on the Watch podcast, which I hope people carve out a little bit of time to listen to.

[Amanda Dobbins]

That's your second watch.

[Sean Fenesi]

You can sound like a nonprofit, you.

[Chris Ryan]

Know, like, you know, we're, you know, the Oasis record stage. Standing on the shoulder of giants. On the shoulder.

[Sean Fenesi]

You are the shoulders. You're the wind beneath my wings. Honestly, that movie has gained $191 million at the box office, so that's one point it's not getting past there. 67 on Metacritic, not ideal, though, roughly.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Honestly, pretty much where it sits.

[Sean Fenesi]

Yeah. The idea that the Phoenician scheme is 70 and this movie is 67 is pretty goofy, in my opinion. 28 years later, a movie that I think I'm gonna get no points from, but I feel good about having on my stadium. I loved 77. Metacritic score, $60 million box office domestically. Still, some open question as to whether there will be a third movie in that franchise. The Bone Temple arrives in January.

[Chris Ryan]

I think that January release will be good for the Bone Temple.

[Sean Fenesi]

Could be a Megan situation.

[Chris Ryan]

Well, I just think it's a great time to be like, here's an action horror movie.

[Sean Fenesi]

Totally agree.

[Chris Ryan]

Granted, not Danny Boyle, but we'll See a big bowl.

[Sean Fenesi]

Beautiful. Journey is still to come in September. Have not seen it. Can't say I love the trailer. To be honest though, I really like Kogonada, the director. So hopefully that's good. One battle after another.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Yeah.

[Sean Fenesi]

Paul Thomas Anderson, congrats on you.

[Amanda Dobbins]

You're welcome.

[Sean Fenesi]

That was very kind of you to allow that to happen. I'll view it as penance for all the times I gave you things that you wanted.

[Chris Ryan]

Okay.

[Sean Fenesi]

One buck. One buck for one battle after another.

[Amanda Dobbins]

I know because I was filled with the spirit of, you know, generosity and community.

[Sean Fenesi]

Is this how you treat your children?

[Chris Ryan]

Saint Nick over here?

[Sean Fenesi]

Ten weeks that movie comes out. Yeah, ten weeks. You looking forward to it?

[Amanda Dobbins]

Yes, I would really look. Be looking forward to a Venice opening night premiere.

[Chris Ryan]

Oh yeah?

[Sean Fenesi]

You think that will happen?

[Chris Ryan]

No, I don't either.

[Amanda Dobbins]

But I was, I was thinking about it literally in the shower last night, like, I wonder what was I just.

[Chris Ryan]

Reading about that might go to Venice? And I was like, haha. It was something weird. I was like, that would be funny that she has to see that. I can't remember. But I was like, this is hilarious. It was the Putin movie.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Oh, sure, yeah, listen, I'll be there.

[Sean Fenesi]

Nothing would have been funnier than you seeing Joker Folio do. Unfortunately, that didn't happen.

[Amanda Dobbins]

I know. Yeah. Thank you. Sigh for participating with Beetlejuice 2 being the opening.

[Sean Fenesi]

That would have been great.

[Amanda Dobbins]

No, here's Beetlejuice.

[Sean Fenesi]

He was all right.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Here's the thing about the ovations is that it's just like you're just standing around. They are so weird. It's a good sized theater, but it's not like everyone's on a balcony at the opera removed from you. They're just kind of like sitting there and everyone's just kind of clapping and the lights are up and you're checking your phone and clapping some more. It's very strange.

[Chris Ryan]

Well, honor Vladimir Putin. If that does come to that.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Make sure get in front and center, you know. You think he'll be there?

[Chris Ryan]

No, it's Isaias, right? It's Isaias movie about him.

[Sean Fenesi]

I did not even know that was happening. Olivier Isaias is making a movie about Vladimir Putin.

[Chris Ryan]

I think he's done.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Yeah, I think it's gonna be.

[Sean Fenesi]

I was not aware of that. That's fascinating. Okay.

[Chris Ryan]

And you had Eddington and I had Eddington.

[Sean Fenesi]

That was my last movie, which I've seen and loved and we will talk about on this show in 10 days.

[Chris Ryan]

You know what? When I was watching the trailer For Eddington. Or maybe it was a clip from it. It reminded me of my Romulus story of the two guys holding their phones at each other. That's basically Eddington.

[Sean Fenesi]

It's pretty accurate. It's pretty accurate.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Oh, God, the world is just shitty place. So perfect.

[Sean Fenesi]

Okay, okay. The highest Metacritic scores of the year so far. Three movies. Sorry, baby. Just had Ava Victor on the show last week. Let's talk about that familiar touch, which I recommended on our Best of the Year Episode.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Episode.

[Sean Fenesi]

And Caught by the Tides, which Adam Neiman recommended on that episode as well. Seven movies have broken the $150 million threshold thus far.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Is your meme of the you versus Adam Neyman.

[Chris Ryan]

Oh, Michael Porter Jr. And Cam Johnson. Yeah.

[Sean Fenesi]

Who do you think is going to win that trade?

[Chris Ryan]

The Nuggets.

[Sean Fenesi]

Yeah, I think the Nuggets too. Movies that have crossed the $150 million threshold. Chris, how many of these movies have you seen a Minecraft movie?

[Chris Ryan]

Nope.

[Sean Fenesi]

Lilo and Stitch?

[Chris Ryan]

Nope.

[Amanda Dobbins]

An Outrage.

[Sean Fenesi]

Sinners? Yes. How to Train youn Dragon.

[Chris Ryan]

Nope.

[Sean Fenesi]

Captain America. Brave New World.

[Chris Ryan]

Yes.

[Sean Fenesi]

Mission Impossible. The Final Reckoning? Yes. Thunderbolts? Yes. Five of seven. Pretty good. Joe, popcorn over here. Amanda has seen all of them because she signed up for this Life with Me.

[Amanda Dobbins]

No, I actually didn't see a Minecraft movie yet.

[Chris Ryan]

I thought you wouldn't see that at like 10 in the morning or something like that.

[Amanda Dobbins]

No, I mean every single other movie you just listed I went and saw at 10 in the morning.

[Sean Fenesi]

That's okay. Because the spirit entered my body when I saw Minecraft and that was the turning point for movies are back.

[Chris Ryan]

That's when cinema came back.

[Sean Fenesi]

That was when it all happened.

[Chris Ryan]

Truffaut and Hitchcock rolling around in heaven.

[Sean Fenesi]

Yes. Thank you, Jared Hess, for all that you have done. According to DraftKings, the best picture betting odds right now, sentimental value at +500, which.cr currently has additional films which may or may not be auctioned off today.

[Chris Ryan]

Sorry. Sentimental value is the betting favorite for Best Picture.

[Sean Fenesi]

When you look at that. When you look at the Best Picture.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Race this year, it's confusing.

[Sean Fenesi]

We said this last year and it turned out to be the Inori year. But I remember in the first half of last year we were like, this is a weird year. And this is also kind of a weird year. There's not like a big.

[Chris Ryan]

I won't stand any hit pieces on My guy Joe. My. My guy Joaquim Trier. Yeah, fuck that. We're not doing that.

[Sean Fenesi]

I'm not on this show. We love him.

[Chris Ryan]

I'M just saying, when the Oscars starts, people are just like, what about this?

[Sean Fenesi]

What about that?

[Chris Ryan]

I'm just like.

[Sean Fenesi]

You mean when he gets in the news cycle? Yeah, you. What if I. Amelia Perez. No, that won't. That's not going to happen. Did you watch the trailer for Sentimental Value?

[Chris Ryan]

No, I won't do it.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Yeah.

[Sean Fenesi]

Okay.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Show us the movie.

[Sean Fenesi]

I was quite touched by the trailer.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Yeah. Well, sure. And I'm going to be very moved by the film.

[Chris Ryan]

I won't be watching that trailer. Or that trailer.

[Sean Fenesi]

The weapons trailer.

[Chris Ryan]

All good.

[Sean Fenesi]

Unfortunately. I saw it in a movie theater. The second one. I need that movie to be released immediately.

[Amanda Dobbins]

The Cinemacon footage, and it looked really messed up and good.

[Sean Fenesi]

Yeah.

[Amanda Dobbins]

No, you guys didn't auction that last time.

[Sean Fenesi]

We did not. It is available right now. Yeah. So that can be interesting for us.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Can I auction it if I have no intention of ever seeing it?

[Sean Fenesi]

Sure, you can do whatever you like.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Maybe. Maybe I'll see. But it's.

[Sean Fenesi]

It's.

[Amanda Dobbins]

It's disappearing. Yeah. It seems really.

[Sean Fenesi]

I think it'll be a tough one.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Yeah.

[Sean Fenesi]

Additional films that are on the list for the best picture betting odds. After the Hunt, the Luca Guadagnino movie is plus 700. The Ballad of a Small Player. We'll almost assuredly be Adventist. I think probably a Telluride, too, if I had to guess.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Okay. That's your business.

[Chris Ryan]

Sorry. How are. How is this introduced? Were these lists of films you're doing just films that are.

[Sean Fenesi]

These are just the Best picture odds right now, as we think about what the slates are going to be for us. After the Hunt is the Luca movie. The Ballad of a Small Plater is the Edward Berger Macau Colin Farrell gambling movie.

[Amanda Dobbins]

I know, absolutely.

[Sean Fenesi]

Which we're all very excited about. Now, I have a bit of a riff about Netflix, if you guys are interested to hear it. Sure.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Oh, sure. Let's load it up.

[Sean Fenesi]

Well, it's nothing negative, really. It's just that I would argue that six of the 14 most anticipated movies of the year are all Netflix.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Sure. But then you're taking the box office hit.

[Sean Fenesi]

That's. And that. That's my point.

[Chris Ryan]

Interesting.

[Sean Fenesi]

So.

[Amanda Dobbins]

So you got to want it.

[Sean Fenesi]

You've got J. Kelly, the no Bombach movie. You've got Frankenstein from gdt Train Dreams, which premiered at Sundance and they picked up Wake Up Dead man, the third Knives out movie, the Ballad of a Small Player, and Catherine Bigelow's A House of Dynamite.

[Chris Ryan]

What the fuck?

[Sean Fenesi]

So that's. That's a really exciting Slate for Netflix.

[Chris Ryan]

And that's the new guy, Right.

[Sean Fenesi]

Well, I think that most of those movies are holdovers from the Scott Stuber era.

[Chris Ryan]

Okay.

[Sean Fenesi]

But they'll be pushing them out. And I want to see all those movies now.

[Chris Ryan]

Draft, Electric, State, you can.

[Sean Fenesi]

And then behind them, Hamnet, Sinners, Avatar, Fire and Ash. These are other potential best picture nominees. I think probably only two or three of those movies will be nominated for best picture. And there's going to be a bunch of stuff that we don't know about or isn't listed here.

[Chris Ryan]

Okay.

[Sean Fenesi]

That we'll get into. Okay. Movie auction. Now we have to determine who gets to put the first movie up. Right. So, Jack, can you help us with that?

[Amanda Dobbins]

Jack, you want to explain to people what you're using?

[Chris Ryan]

Absolutely.

[Sean Fenesi]

Rest in peace, Top Gun hat. I do not own one. In the green room, I found a.

[Chris Ryan]

Large Dungeons and Dragons die which I.

[Sean Fenesi]

Will be using to select today's nomination.

[Amanda Dobbins]

So it's like soccer ball size.

[Sean Fenesi]

It is literally the size of a.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Soccer ball, which is, I'm told, is not what the normal die size is.

[Chris Ryan]

I don't believe so.

[Sean Fenesi]

Okay, shall I go? Yeah, Here we go.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Great. Great sound effects panning over here. Yeah.

[Sean Fenesi]

I'm looking out for the audio listeners.

[Chris Ryan]

Nominating first cr.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Yes. Give us the chaos.

[Chris Ryan]

Second will be Sean Fennessy.

[Sean Fenesi]

Third, Amanda Dobbins.

[Amanda Dobbins]

When you. You had first picked the year that you did House of Gucci for like $500, right? Yeah.

[Chris Ryan]

I'm not gonna make that mistake. But I am gonna. I'm gonna keep you guys on your toes.

[Sean Fenesi]

You're gonna make another mistake. So just for the listeners at home, we each have a thousand dollars of imaginary money to auction two. We all need five films to fill out our slate. So we have 10 movies total.

[Chris Ryan]

Yeah.

[Sean Fenesi]

So, Chris, you have the honors. Do you know what you wanna do?

[Chris Ryan]

First pick, first nomination, first movie up for auction.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Let's do.

[Chris Ryan]

Let's keep it in the. The same track we were on. I'm gonna put Ballad of a Small Player up first. Edward Berger on the Sydney Pollock track. Could be the safest pair of hands we've got right now. And this film sounds a little wistful, a little contemplative. It's about a con man on the run, down and out Macau, a place I have not been. And he is confronting ghosts, pandets of the soul, you know? But I'm getting like wafts top notes of Michael Clayton from this one.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Yeah.

[Chris Ryan]

Like, it feels like it's gonna be more than just like Colin Farrell staring at things. And I like. I like its Oscar chances, despite its Netflix pedigree.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Okay.

[Chris Ryan]

I think it's going to be seen by a lot of people, and it feels like a good bet, so I'm going to go. I'm going to go with that.

[Sean Fenesi]

Unlike all the other Netflix titles I mentioned, I haven't really heard much about this movie. I don't.

[Chris Ryan]

Based on a novel. 2014 novel. Yeah.

[Sean Fenesi]

It's. Rowan Joffe is the screenwriter.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Right.

[Sean Fenesi]

Which is a little bit of a.

[Chris Ryan]

What did he write?

[Sean Fenesi]

I was with you 28 weeks later before I go to sleep, the Nicole Kidman movie. Not like he's no Tony Gilroy.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Yeah.

[Chris Ryan]

Okay.

[Sean Fenesi]

We'll see.

[Chris Ryan]

Let's do 100 bucks. We'll put 100 bucks up.

[Sean Fenesi]

Under bucks. Yeah, I'll. I'll. I'll say 125 to play the game with you.

[Chris Ryan]

Also, we'll say Colin Farrell racking up some awards love over the last couple of years.

[Amanda Dobbins]

That's right.

[Sean Fenesi]

Penguin.

[Chris Ryan]

I think everybody enjoys interviewing him.

[Sean Fenesi]

He's like a.

[Chris Ryan]

He's a great guy to have around on the roundtables.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Great speeches.

[Chris Ryan]

Yep. Has been in LA for the last couple years doing Sugar. And I feel like is like out and about. Like, people really like Colin Farrell right now.

[Sean Fenesi]

He will also be in a big, bold, beautiful journey. Ballad of a Small Player, I don't think has a release date. I would assume October, maybe late September. That's pretty soon. It's probably a movie that's in the discussion for the festivals. Netflix usually has a really strong presence at Venice. Do you have any interest in this movie? You like Edward Berger?

[Amanda Dobbins]

I do. And I was. I think I was really, really into it, respectfully, until you brought up Michael Clayton. And I was like, if this is like a B Michael Clayton, then I'll be a little sad. But also I would watch a B. Michael Clayton every day. So I'll. I'll do what you did. 125.

[Sean Fenesi]

Yeah.

[Amanda Dobbins]

140.

[Sean Fenesi]

Okay. We're playing 150.

[Chris Ryan]

150.

[Sean Fenesi]

Is Colin Farrell, if he wins an Oscar, does it feel like you've won an Oscar? Do you feel like that goes on my mental.

[Chris Ryan]

I think that it would put a capstone on one of the great sustained comebacks in acting, modern acting history. Is that. Is that too big of a statement? I think he was really in the wilderness for a minute there.

[Sean Fenesi]

I think he was always working, but working in not a lot of good stuff. And he seemed to have some personal stuff, too, but always super talented what is it, 150? I'll say. 155.

[Amanda Dobbins]

160.

[Sean Fenesi]

A movie about a high stakes gambler in Macau is also I Pretty pornography to me.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Trust Edward Berger.

[Sean Fenesi]

Yeah.

[Amanda Dobbins]

You know, I. It's like I. I do kind of believe this.

[Sean Fenesi]

Let me, let me proffer a question to you both. Would you rather have Edward Berger make the next Bond and Denis Villeneuve make what other whatever movie Edward Berger was going to make next?

[Amanda Dobbins]

Yeah, I think so.

[Sean Fenesi]

Yeah. I think that's probably, you know, we.

[Chris Ryan]

All agree prisoners 2 still in captivity.

[Sean Fenesi]

That'S the film that you want to see Denis make next.

[Amanda Dobbins]

That's the. Which one? Enemy's the Big Spider. And Prisoners two is Gyllenhaal and Hugh Jackman. Yeah, I mean prisoners, but also.

[Chris Ryan]

And Prisoners is when Jake Gyllenhaal goes to the guy's house, he's like, why were you shopping in the kids section?

[Sean Fenesi]

But Enemy is the unofficial sequel to the Wild Bunch about the division between man.

[Chris Ryan]

It's about a pregnant lady and twins.

[Amanda Dobbins]

That's cool.

[Sean Fenesi]

And spiders.

[Chris Ryan]

Yep.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Oh, my God.

[Sean Fenesi]

What do you got? You got 155.

[Amanda Dobbins]

I think I said 160.

[Sean Fenesi]

160.

[Chris Ryan]

165.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Okay.

[Sean Fenesi]

I think I'm good. I do want to see this really bad. I just think no box office makes it complicated.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Yeah. And probably. I mean, the. The Oscars. The Academy does like Edward Berger.

[Chris Ryan]

This is my thing.

[Sean Fenesi]

But they don't like him enough to nominate him. They didn't nominate him last year.

[Chris Ryan]

Yeah, but I think they nominated him.

[Amanda Dobbins]

For All Quiet on the Western Front, didn't they?

[Sean Fenesi]

Yeah.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Hmm.

[Sean Fenesi]

Did they? They may not have.

[Amanda Dobbins]

I. Let's. Yeah, find out about that.

[Chris Ryan]

Remember when you were like that?

[Sean Fenesi]

No, they did not. Only for screenplay.

[Chris Ryan]

So he hasn't been nominated.

[Sean Fenesi]

He's never been nominated for director.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Oh, okay.

[Chris Ryan]

Okay. Well, I'm sticking with my guns. It's 165. I can't take it back.

[Amanda Dobbins]

I can't take. I can't take Colin Farrell Gambling Macau from you.

[Chris Ryan]

Thank you.

[Sean Fenesi]

I think this is a. This is gonna be a fun movie. This is a movie we should see together.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Is it gonna be fun or is it gonna be, you know, if it's dark.

[Sean Fenesi]

Night of the Soul. That's great. For me, as somebody who loves to.

[Chris Ryan]

Gamble, I just don't think it's going to be the card counter. I think it's gonna be. I think it's gonna be a little bit more pop. Tilda Swinton swanning around.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Right. I Mean conclave, you could also say is about longing and, you know, a man trying to figure out.

[Chris Ryan]

But it's very procedural.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Exactly. So this could be. Proceed.

[Chris Ryan]

I hope that this has some.

[Amanda Dobbins]

If this has court intrigue as well.

[Sean Fenesi]

Are you suggesting the card counter was not procedural?

[Chris Ryan]

I think it was more of like a.

[Sean Fenesi]

You know, it's about the procedures and.

[Chris Ryan]

Yeah, right. Interrogation of torture.

[Sean Fenesi]

Right. Okay. So I have to put a movie up. Congrats to you.

[Chris Ryan]

Okay, thanks.

[Amanda Dobbins]

So 165 is what you did.

[Chris Ryan]

Yeah. That was value.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Okay.

[Chris Ryan]

To me.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Wow.

[Sean Fenesi]

I think this is good. Good fodder for conversation. I'll put after the hunt on the board.

[Amanda Dobbins]

All right.

[Sean Fenesi]

I feel like we should just talk it out now.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Okay.

[Sean Fenesi]

This is a campus cancel culture drama from Luca Guadagnino. And is it Justin Karitzkis?

[Amanda Dobbins]

That's a great.

[Chris Ryan]

He wrote Sergeant Rock. I don't know if he wrote this.

[Amanda Dobbins]

I don't think so screenplay.

[Chris Ryan]

Do you see Lucas doing his Nora Garrett excuse? The Sam Altman movie right now? Who is Luke is going to make a Sam Altman movie next month about OpenAI without Andrew Garfield.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Do you know what else Nora Garrett wrote?

[Sean Fenesi]

No, don't.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Beirut.

[Chris Ryan]

Oh, shit.

[Sean Fenesi]

Wow. Wow. There are millions of people listening at home who have no idea what Beirut is.

[Chris Ryan]

Right?

[Sean Fenesi]

Sure.

[Amanda Dobbins]

But we had a Slack channel devoted to Chris that Chris started.

[Sean Fenesi]

Chris's favorite film of 2016, Beirut, starring Jon Hamm.

[Amanda Dobbins]

No, no, no, no. She was in it. Sorry. I fucked up. Of course he did. Yeah.

[Sean Fenesi]

Has Nora Garrett written a film?

[Amanda Dobbins]

I don't know. You know what? I got to tell you, Google, I really fucked me on that one.

[Sean Fenesi]

Has she written an email? Has she written a postcard?

[Amanda Dobbins]

Upcoming. This is still actress IMDb redesign. Also not helping. I don't. I don't really know what else that she has written. Okay. Did she write Criminal Minds?

[Sean Fenesi]

Congratulations to first time screenwriter Nora Garrett.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Yeah.

[Sean Fenesi]

On her original, which is being adapted by Luca Guadagnino and stars Julia Roberts. Julia Roberts plays a college professor, as does Andrew Garfield, Michael Stuhlbarg, Chloe Sevigny and I believe IO Edebury is a student or a TA of some kind.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Yes.

[Sean Fenesi]

And there is some suggestion of impropriety.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Correct.

[Sean Fenesi]

And things unravel from there. This is obviously a very loaded setting. A loaded topic. A loaded filmmaker.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Yeah.

[Sean Fenesi]

Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross are back for the score of this movie. I will note. Very excited about it. $100 to start our conversation.

[Chris Ryan]

What's your last favorite Julia Roberts movie?

[Amanda Dobbins]

My last favorite. Well, so I'm always glad that she's back in my life.

[Chris Ryan]

Yeah.

[Amanda Dobbins]

So I enjoyed both Leave the World behind and what was the.

[Chris Ryan]

The Ticket to Paradise?

[Amanda Dobbins]

Ticket to paradise.

[Sean Fenesi]

You know, where did you stand on Ben is back?

[Amanda Dobbins]

We put it in the hall of fame because she's really, really, really good in that very upsetting movie. That's fine. Sorry if I'm a Julia Roberts completist. You know.

[Sean Fenesi]

What about.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Sorry if I've seen it all.

[Sean Fenesi]

Did you like her performance in Mother's Day?

[Amanda Dobbins]

Oh, and I actually didn't see that. And I thought you were gonna say money monster.

[Sean Fenesi]

How about we do a live watch along in person on Mother's Day? Mother's Day.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Not on Mother's Day. On Father's Day.

[Sean Fenesi]

Should we do it in. In Atlanta?

[Amanda Dobbins]

No. Though you know, Julia Roberts. Also Smyrna, Georgia. That's right.

[Sean Fenesi]

That's my point. Well, my double point.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Yeah. I love Julia Roberts and. But it is true that she slowed down. She's. Yeah. Also when I did the hall of Fame, there's like a 15 year stretch between I think it was like maybe Notting Hill. And then we didn't put anything.

[Sean Fenesi]

I thought she was great in homecoming.

[Chris Ryan]

She was really good at homecoming.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Listen, she's Julia fucking Rock. She's great in homecoming, you know, so.

[Sean Fenesi]

I. Oh, I didn't tell you we watched. By the way, it's a hundred dollars, so you might want to pay something.

[Amanda Dobbins]

125.

[Sean Fenesi]

We watched. Went to Vidiots over the weekend to get to rent something.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Okay.

[Sean Fenesi]

And Alice pulled Mirror Mirror off the shelf.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Oh boy.

[Sean Fenesi]

Which speaking of Julia, I'd never seen before. And honestly, not bad.

[Amanda Dobbins]

No, she was fine.

[Sean Fenesi]

A movie with a terrible critical reputation. Directed by Tarsem Singe, who made the Sell and the Fall, which are both beautiful movies that are somewhat incoherent.

[Amanda Dobbins]

That was why the Fall was one of Julia Roberts's Letterboxd 4.

[Sean Fenesi]

That makes a lot of sense. Yeah, she loves Tarsem. And I thought Mirror Mirror was not bad. It also is.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Who is the. Who's Cinderella in that?

[Sean Fenesi]

Is that Lily Collins?

[Amanda Dobbins]

Oh, it's Lily Collins. And then the Cinderella was Lily James, Correct?

[Sean Fenesi]

Yeah, Lily Collins and Armie Hammer.

[Amanda Dobbins]

I do remember that.

[Chris Ryan]

Who's in the which Lily is in the Riz Ahmed movie. That I think looks good. Relay.

[Sean Fenesi]

That's Lily James.

[Chris Ryan]

Lily James.

[Sean Fenesi]

Yeah.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Yeah. All right.

[Sean Fenesi]

Yeah. That's the new David McKenzie movie. You have Hell or High Water fame.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Okay.

[Chris Ryan]

Nobody bid on this yet. Nobody.

[Amanda Dobbins]

I'm 125.

[Sean Fenesi]

125. Are you. You're not interested in this because you don't like Julia Roberts and hate college campuses.

[Chris Ryan]

I just think that it's a fool's errand to go up against the Guadalino twins.

[Sean Fenesi]

You don't really care about Luca.

[Chris Ryan]

I think he's fine.

[Sean Fenesi]

Interesting.

[Chris Ryan]

I liked. I liked Challengers.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Okay. Yeah, that's.

[Chris Ryan]

And I like how much he works.

[Sean Fenesi]

I'll say. 135.

[Chris Ryan]

I think his prolific 150 is cool.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Yeah, you don't. But where are you on 165?

[Chris Ryan]

The peach one?

[Amanda Dobbins]

Well, that's. Call me by your name, but what about a bigger splash? 175. Love that I am.

[Chris Ryan]

I feel like I liked Luca Guadagnino before he became Luca Guadagnino.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Yeah.

[Sean Fenesi]

Oh, interesting. Punk rocked us. Yeah.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, guess what? I like it all. So.

[Sean Fenesi]

I said 165.

[Amanda Dobbins]

I said 175.

[Sean Fenesi]

185.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Okay.

[Sean Fenesi]

I think this is a big awards contender in what could be a soft year.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Sure.

[Sean Fenesi]

Now, Luca, he does make movies, and people are like, I don't like this.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Yeah. But that's fine. I do 200.

[Sean Fenesi]

Okay. 210.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Did you like. He did the Suspiria, right?

[Sean Fenesi]

Yeah, he did.

[Chris Ryan]

Which I did.

[Amanda Dobbins]

You like that?

[Chris Ryan]

No, I didn't.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Okay. All right.

[Chris Ryan]

Well, no, not in a mean way.

[Sean Fenesi]

Because of Dakota.

[Chris Ryan]

I was just being definitive.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Okay.

[Sean Fenesi]

Because that's story centered women.

[Chris Ryan]

Or.

[Sean Fenesi]

What was the. What was the issue?

[Chris Ryan]

There wasn't an William Walden.

[Amanda Dobbins]

220.

[Sean Fenesi]

230.

[Amanda Dobbins]

240.

[Sean Fenesi]

Do you think Julia will be better or worse than she was in Larry Crown in this movie?

[Chris Ryan]

You guys are in the twos for this.

[Amanda Dobbins]

So I'm in 240. Yeah, I.

[Sean Fenesi]

This is one of the big dramas of the year.

[Amanda Dobbins]

I am a lifetime Luca guy, really.

[Chris Ryan]

Gesticulating at me, and I was just like, you know, this is a Netflix film. So the BO Is out.

[Sean Fenesi]

No, it's not. It's an Amazon MGM film getting a theatrical release.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Just like your disinterest has been wafting towards me about Julia and about Luca and about, you know, men and women.

[Chris Ryan]

Very dismissive of Denis Villeneuve's early work.

[Amanda Dobbins]

You know, that's not true.

[Sean Fenesi]

You should be forced to watch Enemy every six months just so you understand what it's like to be a man in this world.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Do I have it right now? Yeah, I have 240 is what I have.

[Sean Fenesi]

I'll say 250.

[Amanda Dobbins]

260.

[Sean Fenesi]

I haven't even been using the Board. The board is so helpful.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Okay.

[Sean Fenesi]

You went right to 260.

[Amanda Dobbins]

So Andrew Garfield, Monica Barbaro. Where are you guys on this? They were women.

[Chris Ryan]

They're both in the Sam Altman movie.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Chris Ryan]

They're working together.

[Amanda Dobbins]

I know, but they.

[Sean Fenesi]

Did you see. Yes. Very dramatically photographed at Wimbledon. Yes.

[Amanda Dobbins]

And they were canoodling in the. I don't know whether it was the Royal Box or one of the.

[Chris Ryan]

Olivia Rodrigo is with a guy or she's just. Is she into a tennis player? There was like a video of her being like, ooh.

[Amanda Dobbins]

No. But I think she. She was there with someone. She was on a date.

[Sean Fenesi]

I think you're just noting that she was also at Wimbledon. It had nothing to do with Andrew Garfield.

[Chris Ryan]

I'm just talking about celebrities at wool. Right.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Okay.

[Chris Ryan]

There's not a lot of sports on right now.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Yeah.

[Sean Fenesi]

Is that hard for you?

[Chris Ryan]

I mean, I like the Phillies, but it just takes me a long time to first place.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Why are they. What's up? I understand that like Sunday night baseball or whatever and there's like only the one game, but it like yesterday at 4:30, the end of a holiday weekend. I like, you know, we try not to put too. Too much screen time for the kids but like sports don't count. So I was like, give me something, give me anything. And there was just like nothing on. We got to expand the program.

[Sean Fenesi]

It's a travel day for baseball. Like so usually you get a lot of day games on Sunday so that people can travel on Sunday.

[Amanda Dobbins]

I know, but like just for. Until football starts, you know, there's a window.

[Sean Fenesi]

I love an afternoon ball game.

[Chris Ryan]

I agree.

[Amanda Dobbins]

I couldn't even get like a restream of the Wimbledon that I wasn't awake for.

[Sean Fenesi]

Might have been a lot of west coast teams on the East Coast.

[Chris Ryan]

Oh, you can get it on ESPN plus.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Oh, okay. But I. If I don't have that, I'm insulted at this point because of how much I'm paying. So.

[Sean Fenesi]

Fair enough. I'm going to let you have after the hunt.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Okay, great.

[Sean Fenesi]

I'm so excited. I know that you would like to have that.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Really hope that I get to see Julia Roberts on the red carpet at Venice. But I don't want to meet her. I already met her once. It was great and very stressful and that's enough for a lifetime. It was stressful.

[Sean Fenesi]

She was super normal and nice. She was wonderful.

[Amanda Dobbins]

She was the best. But I don't. I was stressed.

[Sean Fenesi]

I asked her about Larry Crown. She answered my question deeply.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Asked her about dancing on store pants.

[Sean Fenesi]

Okay. You now have to have to pick a movie.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Okay. Wow. All right, so I got the Luca.

[Sean Fenesi]

Is this, like, an exciting slate for the rest of the year?

[Chris Ryan]

What do you think? I'm not seeing a lot of box office pop.

[Sean Fenesi]

Well, that would lead to you having to pick a movie that maybe we're unsure about now. I think I had a rule, at least for myself, that I wouldn't draft something that I've already seen.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Right.

[Sean Fenesi]

So that takes a couple things off the board for me. Of note. Not a lot, but it does not take off. For example, Superman.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Okay.

[Sean Fenesi]

Or the Fantastic Four. I don't think I haven't seen either of those.

[Amanda Dobbins]

I'm not gonna draft Superman.

[Chris Ryan]

Do you think that we're getting away from, like, just expressing enthusiasm for certain movies if we put too much emphasis on box office? No, I guess not. We're fine.

[Sean Fenesi]

What do you. What do you like too much in the game, you mean? Yeah, no, I think it's a component of the show.

[Amanda Dobbins]

We're doing Snake. Right. So I have to do two Jack. Yeah. Jack is nodding. Oh, okay. Can we do Snake?

[Chris Ryan]

It doesn't matter.

[Amanda Dobbins]

We don't have to because we're forbidding. So I'm trying to clarify on do.

[Sean Fenesi]

I remember if we did that?

[Amanda Dobbins]

Okay, well, what would you like to do today, Sean?

[Sean Fenesi]

Let's live in the moment you've just gotten. After the hunt, I need you to be a little bit kinder in this experience and just consider warmth. Consider reaching out across the aisle from the Marjorie Taylor Greene seat to the side of good.

[Amanda Dobbins]

I don't think that's funny.

[Sean Fenesi]

Well, unfortunately, you're alone in that. There are millions at home just thinking of themselves.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Okay.

[Chris Ryan]

They're having a good chuckle.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Well, I'm glad. Everyone needs laughter, I guess. Okay, let's make it interesting.

[Sean Fenesi]

Wow.

[Amanda Dobbins]

100 bucks. Avatar, fire and whatever. I don't even know the full name.

[Sean Fenesi]

Fire and ash.

[Chris Ryan]

Okay, I'm gonna go buck 20. I never seen an Avatar movie, so why not start?

[Amanda Dobbins]

What? Really?

[Chris Ryan]

I think I saw a little bit of the first one.

[Sean Fenesi]

There's only been two.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Yeah, but you didn't. You didn't go.

[Chris Ryan]

No, couldn't care less. It just seems like an incredibly giant waste of resources and talent. Honestly, the dumbest I've ever seen is getting Sam Worthington as a 6 foot 5 small forward who'd breath underwater. Give me a break. Are you kidding me? This is one of the greatest filmmakers we've ever seen who has wasted his life making these movies, huh? The. The dumbest idea.

[Amanda Dobbins]

I just. I agree with this.

[Chris Ryan]

I'm 47. I don't have the time to learn all this new shit.

[Amanda Dobbins]

But also.

[Chris Ryan]

Yes, but I need a box office hit. So I'm gonna go 140 and I'm gonna see this. I'm gonna see fire and ash. Because I am.

[Amanda Dobbins]

But you're not gonna see the other two.

[Chris Ryan]

I've become more interested in fire the older I get. And ash. So I think that also. Who's new in this?

[Sean Fenesi]

Winslet.

[Chris Ryan]

Was she in the last one?

[Sean Fenesi]

She was.

[Chris Ryan]

Recording her breath.

[Sean Fenesi]

But you think that these movies are stupid, but you haven't seen any of them.

[Chris Ryan]

I know what they're about, though. I've seen most of one.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Can you guess?

[Sean Fenesi]

You have to love James Cameron. You wouldn't even try it.

[Chris Ryan]

A giant betrayal of his.

[Sean Fenesi]

You haven't seen the movie.

[Chris Ryan]

Okay, fine. Sean, is it good?

[Sean Fenesi]

Of course it's good.

[Chris Ryan]

Okay, outside of the visual aspect, the. The.

[Amanda Dobbins]

The technological achievement, I mean, they're ecological fables. It's fun. Yeah, we like the Earth. What do you think the world record is for holding her breath?

[Chris Ryan]

That seven minutes.

[Amanda Dobbins]

That's seven minutes, 15 seconds. Okay, that was. I was hoping you would guess.

[Chris Ryan]

Like, I usually get seven minutes. The way you fight record time.

[Sean Fenesi]

Same is.

[Chris Ryan]

Is take what you can do and multiply it by three.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Okay, so you can do two minutes. You think? Yeah.

[Sean Fenesi]

Oh, God. I couldn't get close to that at this point.

[Chris Ryan]

Yeah, it's been a while, but I could. I think I could do two minutes.

[Amanda Dobbins]

I gotta tell you. So I do, like, test it out. I. No, bring in the water tank.

[Sean Fenesi]

Waterboard.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Chris. No, but I do the. You know, the ice cubes. The thing.

[Sean Fenesi]

Yeah, Paul Newman.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Yeah, the Paul Newman thing.

[Chris Ryan]

Because you're hungover.

[Amanda Dobbins]

No. Well, I started doing it when I was pregnant because skin health, very swollen, but. But no.

[Chris Ryan]

Wellness just takes over all the cool shit.

[Sean Fenesi]

I agree. This is for guys who want to drink nine scotches. This is not for women who need to glow on YouTube.

[Amanda Dobbins]

It is. Suddenly we got, like, at 9:30am Record time. I'm like, fuck, I'm 40. I'm on YouTube. I need to dunk my head in a bucket of ice water. But I couldn't even make it to counting to 30 this morning. Now it is very cold, cold water. It is true. So. So you would. You think you can do two minutes at, like, average?

[Chris Ryan]

I think so.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Okay.

[Chris Ryan]

I think so.

[Sean Fenesi]

What did you think of the fact that William Holden's face looked like an old Shoe in. In the Wild Bunch. Just like a guy who'd been left in the sun for several years.

[Chris Ryan]

I forgot about the flashback scenes in Wild Bunch and the fact that they're like, let's just shave his mustache. That means he's young.

[Sean Fenesi]

There's a black, like, pomade in his hair. You know, that shoe shine. Okay. Is it 140? Yeah, 140. I'll say 150. I mean, these movies are good. They're obviously very flawed by.

[Chris Ryan]

Is he still making 5?

[Sean Fenesi]

Simplistic. N. Nature of the fable. He says that, but that seems unlikely.

[Amanda Dobbins]

But now he's also making, you know, Oppenheimer 2.

[Chris Ryan]

Yeah, yeah, I'll do 170.

[Sean Fenesi]

So you. You're not gonna watch the first two films, but you will watch this one? Well, maybe it's gonna be confusing.

[Chris Ryan]

It'll be good. Fall project is to get into. I. I think I got it broadly, you know, that human beings are jacked into this different world. Right, right, right. They have, like, a little thing in their back.

[Sean Fenesi]

I don't want to spoil it for you. I mean, things evolve around the technology is what I'll tell you.

[Chris Ryan]

All right, so the second one is more surfing underwater, right?

[Sean Fenesi]

Yeah, yeah.

[Chris Ryan]

And then the third one, we're gonna go.

[Amanda Dobbins]

What is the other aspect?

[Sean Fenesi]

The. The. The people from Earth who want to take over the land, which is Giovanni.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Oh, I forgot about them. Yeah.

[Chris Ryan]

Is she good?

[Sean Fenesi]

She is, yeah. Well. But, yeah, I don't want to. But there's something complicated that, you know, weird. The second one is quite strange and really good, but also not rewatchable.

[Chris Ryan]

Okay, I'll watch it for the first time.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Can you watch it on one of the things. Those still happening?

[Sean Fenesi]

You can still buy them, but they're not. They didn't really take off as a consumer product.

[Amanda Dobbins]

It was pretty heavy. You'll. You need to get a neck support. Okay, so do you need. You need a second box? We need two box offices.

[Sean Fenesi]

We need. Well, the old rules were where you needed two movies to GROSS More than $100 million.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Okay.

[Sean Fenesi]

But the only way to score points now is to have a high grosser. Now, this is a good pick. I'll say 180, by the way. This would be a good pick because these movies always make a billion dollars. They always make hundreds of millions of dollars in the United States.

[Amanda Dobbins]

But he has sinners.

[Sean Fenesi]

He has sinners.

[Amanda Dobbins]

So. But he needs another.

[Sean Fenesi]

Well, it's just a point total, I.

[Chris Ryan]

Think also the fact that there's a lot of, like, streaming stuff. Stuff or A lot of the, the critic stuff, as Sean pointed out with, with Netflix, might not get any box office. Who knows? Like, it could come and go. Like, one of the problems of those streaming. Streaming movies is sometimes it's like, oh, it's. It just, just happened. Just out.

[Sean Fenesi]

Yes. You've also got to consider what's going to be the highest grossing domestic film.

[Amanda Dobbins]

190.

[Sean Fenesi]

Yeah, I'll say 200. I think we should. I mean, this is an important movie to the movie year.

[Chris Ryan]

Yeah, yeah.

[Sean Fenesi]

And not to Cameron's legacy or anything, but these movies always get a ton of Academy Award nominations.

[Chris Ryan]

So I think it would be more helpful for him for the Academy Awards if he promised this would be the last one and it would be more helpful to me.

[Sean Fenesi]

That's fair.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Okay.

[Chris Ryan]

Because I. It's a big difference between me being like, I'll catch up on three of these and. And have like a more well informed opinion versus this is going to be a fiver because I'm out.

[Sean Fenesi]

So this is a. This is kind of similar to where the first two Lord of the Rings movies were, in my opinion, where like the last film got best Picture and then just sound, production, design and visual effects. Will this movie get more nominations? Less. Is it actually a series contender for picture? I don't know. I will say. You didn't see the footage from this, right?

[Amanda Dobbins]

No, I left.

[Chris Ryan]

You were like, it's mind blowing, right?

[Sean Fenesi]

I mean, I thought it was fucking amazing. Now I already like these movies and I love them visually, but obviously fire is a different element applied to the story. And I thought it just looked really, really cool. So I'm very excited about this.

[Chris Ryan]

I'll go 210.

[Amanda Dobbins]

I guess I'll go 220.

[Sean Fenesi]

I'll say 230.

[Chris Ryan]

I'll do 240.

[Sean Fenesi]

Wow. I'll do 250. This is a movie I want to see. There's actually not a ton of movies on this list that I'm like, I really want to see this in a big movie theater.

[Amanda Dobbins]

I mean, if we're applying that, then I don't really. I don't really want to see it that much. I mean, I will.

[Sean Fenesi]

I'm sure that's not the only metric. That's not for me personally. I like to have movies on my slate that I want to see.

[Amanda Dobbins]

I respect Big Jim, but also, you know, I'm kind of with Chris on this. I just like, also how much time we've collectively spent.

[Sean Fenesi]

Would you be like, if he was making another alien movie? Would you be happy about that?

[Amanda Dobbins]

I guess.

[Sean Fenesi]

True lies too. So, I mean, it's like think of the alternative. He created new ip. This is a new story.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Sure.

[Chris Ryan]

Does anybody like, oh, I can't wait to iterate off of the Avatar story?

[Sean Fenesi]

No, I just mean it's an. It's an original event movie. It's the hardest thing to do in.

[Amanda Dobbins]

The world with their braids.

[Sean Fenesi]

That's how they communicate and mate.

[Amanda Dobbins]

That is how they made.

[Sean Fenesi]

Yeah, okay.

[Chris Ryan]

I knew that part probably because I.

[Sean Fenesi]

Told you one time when we were about to watch a movie about two guys getting ready to kill each other. So here's what happens.

[Chris Ryan]

Chris.

[Sean Fenesi]

Like their hair, like, intertwines. I'll happily take this movie for 250.

[Chris Ryan]

260. Okay, you're getting annoyed because you think I'm beating you up, but I'm not. I am interested.

[Sean Fenesi]

You put it on the board. Yeah, I'll say.270. I would like to see it. How many noms did the first film get?

[Chris Ryan]

275, but you're going to jump up there.

[Sean Fenesi]

9. Nine nominations for the first film.

[Chris Ryan]

Not so many for the second.

[Sean Fenesi]

280. I'll say the second.

[Amanda Dobbins]

You're what's wrong with Hollywood, though.

[Sean Fenesi]

What do you mean? I'm what's wrong with. With Hollywood. Proclaim that Jurassic World Rebirth was good on a publicly.

[Chris Ryan]

That was about.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Didn't say it was. Didn't say it was good. I said it was not bad and I had fun.

[Sean Fenesi]

Yeah, fun. Which is code for I've turned my brain off and I expect less.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Yeah, but you do that all the time. It's just when you do it about, you know, genre movies that you like.

[Sean Fenesi]

Yep.

[Amanda Dobbins]

It's fine.

[Sean Fenesi]

Yeah. They call it. They call it taste. And when I do it, it's called taste.

[Amanda Dobbins]

I have the best taste of anyone, you know Know, it's like. It's actually incredible how good my taste is. Do you think you.

[Chris Ryan]

I don't want to get into this actually, so I'll do 290.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Ooh.

[Sean Fenesi]

300.

[Chris Ryan]

Well, I'll step out. I'll step there. I wanted to get you high.

[Sean Fenesi]

High up there, not 3,000. Come on, guys. 300.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Okay. Congratulations.

[Sean Fenesi]

Thank you. Thank you. I feel good about this. I feel like I needed this.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Okay.

[Sean Fenesi]

I don't really have another, so I.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Need to do another one.

[Sean Fenesi]

Big box office winner. I don't. Maybe it'll get good reviews.

[Chris Ryan]

Wait, who put up Avatar? Him.

[Amanda Dobbins]

No, I did, but do I have the snake or not? I don't care.

[Chris Ryan]

No, you got it. Are there two?

[Amanda Dobbins]

Are there not?

[Chris Ryan]

You're right. You're doing a great job so far.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Thank you so much.

[Chris Ryan]

Like, obviously have the best taste of any human being on planet Earth.

[Amanda Dobbins]

I just, you know.

[Sean Fenesi]

So Avatar had an 83 Metacritic score. And Avatar, the of water had a 67 Metacritic score.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Yeah.

[Chris Ryan]

You think it's going to rebound?

[Sean Fenesi]

Probably not, but you never know. Hopefully it's not in the 50s.

[Amanda Dobbins]

What should I do? I mean, some of these movies look good. You know, it's a bold stance. I'm open to them. Let's see.

[Sean Fenesi]

Did you see the Knicks are strongly considering Ben Simmons.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Oh, my God.

[Chris Ryan]

Good luck with that.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Really? Lol.

[Chris Ryan]

That's funny.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Even I know that's funny. Even I know that guy.

[Chris Ryan]

You guys are getting dark. Little too much right now.

[Sean Fenesi]

Oh, yeah.

[Chris Ryan]

Don't get too ahead of yourselves. As someone who's been there, presumptive Eastern Conference finalists, etc, as I recall, you.

[Sean Fenesi]

Have not been to the Eastern Conference finals.

[Chris Ryan]

Just. Just enjoy what happened last year is all I'm saying.

[Sean Fenesi]

Okay. Yeah.

[Amanda Dobbins]

What's this Ramy Malik movie? I mean, not that I'm gonna check.

[Sean Fenesi]

Oh, my God.

[Amanda Dobbins]

I'm really not gonna do that.

[Sean Fenesi]

The contracts of your biggest stars.

[Chris Ryan]

Yeah, I'm well aware of. We're in a transition phase. We're moving towards a younger generation of players while still having some veteran leadership in the building.

[Amanda Dobbins]

$75. Roofman.

[Sean Fenesi]

Roofman.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Yeah.

[Chris Ryan]

Derek, Sean, Fritz.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Chris Ryan]

They put a lot of this movie in the trailer. Just gonna say that.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Okay.

[Chris Ryan]

I felt like. Yeah, but I thought it looked cool and. And fun. And I love Derrick and France a lot. Everything from his dick sporting goods commercials to place beyond the Pines. So I'm gonna bid 80 bucks.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Okay.

[Sean Fenesi]

$85. This will almost certainly be a fun time at the movies. Will it be a good time at the movies?

[Amanda Dobbins]

Oh, boy, here we go.

[Sean Fenesi]

We don't know.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Concern troll. Sean.

[Sean Fenesi]

We don't know. I think so.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Yeah.

[Sean Fenesi]

Good star.

[Chris Ryan]

Channing Tatum.

[Sean Fenesi]

Good cast.

[Amanda Dobbins]

It was Chris who did 85, right? Yeah, Chris was 85.

[Sean Fenesi]

I think Chris went to 80, and I went to 80.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Oh, you went to 85. Oh, great. Oh, that was fast. 90. Sure.

[Sean Fenesi]

Kirsten Dunst. Yes.

[Chris Ryan]

Who's the other guy? Is there another guy in it?

[Sean Fenesi]

Plenty. No, I believe it's. Oh, my God. Tyrion from Lord of the Rings.

[Chris Ryan]

Oh, Dinklage.

[Sean Fenesi]

Dinklage. Not Lord of the Rings from Game of Thrones. Peter Dinklage is in it. Who else?

[Amanda Dobbins]

Ben Mendelsohn is in it.

[Sean Fenesi]

Of course, of course. Gotta be in him.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Lakeith Stanfield, Juno Temple, Ben Mendelsohn in.

[Chris Ryan]

Place beyond the pines. Holy shit, man.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Yeah.

[Sean Fenesi]

Yeah. The only thing that's better is him and killing me softly.

[Chris Ryan]

That's true. Did you ever watch Andor?

[Sean Fenesi]

No.

[Chris Ryan]

Remember you're gonna watch that on the plane when you went to Atlanta?

[Amanda Dobbins]

No, what happened? What'd you watch on the plane instead?

[Sean Fenesi]

I had no Internet on the way there and I forgot to download it.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Okay.

[Sean Fenesi]

I probably watched a movie on the seat. Yeah, I'm trying to think of what. I could probably look it up if you'd like. If you'd like to vamp.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Okay, but. So it wasn't andor I didn't. I haven't done Andor yet either. I have a lot of catch up.

[Sean Fenesi]

The less said about my trip to Atlanta, the better in my opinion.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Except for the lovely people that you met, right?

[Sean Fenesi]

Honestly, the people were awesome. Yeah, I really had a nice time chatting with strangers there.

[Amanda Dobbins]

But everything else I got into andor I'm behind on it just like that. Now I got to finish the bear.

[Sean Fenesi]

You know what I watched.

[Chris Ryan]

I gotta tell you something, Amanda. Honestly. Go ahead, Snow White.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Okay?

[Chris Ryan]

We have to have a serious conversation about what's going on with Carrie and Miranda on this fucking show.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Oh, okay. I know I have to catch up, but it almost got spoiled for me. Apparently they like, accidentally. They've killed someone twice now or something. I don't really know what's going. There are plot holes. Listen, I'm gonna do it tonight, okay? He is going to see the new Spike Lee film with my husband. And I am staying home, preparing a zucchini pasta and watching it just like that. Okay, so that's.

[Sean Fenesi]

Women can't have it all.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Face mask. I honestly was thinking about it. It's maybe time for my Manuka honey face mask again.

[Sean Fenesi]

So this is a huge night.

[Chris Ryan]

This is incredible.

[Sean Fenesi]

A real roofman night. $95 for roofman.

[Amanda Dobbins]

You don't have feelings.

[Sean Fenesi]

I think Roofman will get any Oscar noms.

[Chris Ryan]

I don't know where I'm at with Channing right now.

[Sean Fenesi]

He is actually weirdly, in what I'll call the Statham Zone, which is that he has a fan base that will kind of get him to $30 million at the box office pretty much every.

[Chris Ryan]

Time he's like, yeah, I made a movie with the dog.

[Sean Fenesi]

People are like, that seems cool. In this movie, he plays a bank robber who's incarcerated, breaks out and then holes up, holes up. Hides out in a Toys r Us?

[Amanda Dobbins]

Yeah.

[Sean Fenesi]

Toys R Us. Probably the single most exciting place in the universe to me from the ages of 1 to 9.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Were you a Toys R Us person? Chris Ryan?

[Chris Ryan]

I was, but.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Wow. See, I knew. I knew that this was.

[Chris Ryan]

Yeah, I was.

[Sean Fenesi]

Until you discovered hip hop.

[Amanda Dobbins]

What toys did you lifeguarding?

[Chris Ryan]

Star wars dolls. Like Star wars action figures.

[Amanda Dobbins]

I will.

[Chris Ryan]

And transformers.

[Amanda Dobbins]

I'll do 100 for Roofman. I listen. And that's all for Kiki. 99 of my hundred dollars is for Kirsten Dunst.

[Chris Ryan]

Okay.

[Amanda Dobbins]

And then the other one.

[Chris Ryan]

But she didn't support her in Civil War.

[Sean Fenesi]

Interesting how that shook out.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Alex Garland didn't support her, you know.

[Chris Ryan]

Yes, he did.

[Amanda Dobbins]

It's true.

[Sean Fenesi]

He put her in her. The biggest box office hit of her career.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Is that true? Even beyond even.

[Chris Ryan]

He said Bring it On.

[Sean Fenesi]

Definitely bigger than Bring it on. Let's look rude. Well, bring it on as more of a cult hit.

[Amanda Dobbins]

That's true. But what an achievement it is.

[Sean Fenesi]

Was she ever in a big franchise movie? She must have been.

[Chris Ryan]

Are we giving this to Amanda?

[Sean Fenesi]

Sure.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Okay.

[Sean Fenesi]

Well, of course she was in Spider Man. What am I thinking?

[Amanda Dobbins]

Yeah.

[Chris Ryan]

You got two of the movies that I feel like are very You. You.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Thank you.

[Chris Ryan]

Oriented. You coded.

[Sean Fenesi]

Thank you so much.

[Chris Ryan]

I guess. Sean, then you're up.

[Sean Fenesi]

Yes, I'm up. She was. She was in. Here are her biggest box office hits. Just for the sake of conversation. The three Spider man movies, of course. Hidden Figures.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Oh, yeah.

[Sean Fenesi]

In which she supported.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Yeah. She's the racist administrator at the. At Nashville.

[Chris Ryan]

Kirsten Dunst is a racist in that movie.

[Amanda Dobbins]

In the movie. In the movie. And then. But then Glenn Powell as John Glenn is not.

[Sean Fenesi]

This is really interesting.

[Chris Ryan]

You know, where she wasn't racist.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Kevin Costner is on the case. And then.

[Sean Fenesi]

So. So you were right about something.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Yeah.

[Sean Fenesi]

Interview with the vampire comes next. Then Jumanji.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Yeah.

[Sean Fenesi]

Then Civil War, but only by $400,000. About Bring It On.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Okay. And is that adjusted for inflation?

[Sean Fenesi]

No, it is not. But you gotta if you want to consider international.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Great hair. The boys all loved his dare. That's right. Yeah. Incredible film. When will you show it to Alice? When can I show it to Alice?

[Sean Fenesi]

Us. That feels a little early.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Okay.

[Sean Fenesi]

I would say for Bring It On.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Sure. Four this week lessons, you know.

[Sean Fenesi]

Yeah, absolutely. I support them.

[Amanda Dobbins]

What were your favorite toys at Toys R Us? So Star Wars. That's it.

[Chris Ryan]

BMX bikes.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Okay.

[Sean Fenesi]

Huh.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Do you know what a Tamagotchi is?

[Chris Ryan]

I do.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Okay. You don't have to say it like that.

[Chris Ryan]

No, I just Do.

[Amanda Dobbins]

All right.

[Chris Ryan]

Have you started introducing those to the house?

[Amanda Dobbins]

No, I jacked it know. So I had to explain what Tamagotchi are. You know about Labubus?

[Chris Ryan]

I heard it referenced recently. I don't know what that is though.

[Amanda Dobbins]

It's a bag charm. That's like. But they're Beanie baby gotcha level prices and interest.

[Chris Ryan]

Kids put stuff on Crocs and bags now. Charms I saw.

[Sean Fenesi]

Yeah, that's all over the place. It's a lot. This episode is brought to you by State Farm. Life's full of decisions, big and small, and sometimes you make one you can really stand behind. For example, I'm trying to get my daughter to watch more movies. I suggested a childhood favorite recently and she bought in. And I'm glad I did. State Farm gets it. Making confident choices can make all the difference. That's why with the State Farm personal price plan, you can choose the right amount of coverage to help create an affordable price for you. Talk to a State Farm agent today to learn how you can choose to bundle and save with a personal price plan. Like a good neighbor. State Farm is there. Prices are based on ratings plans that vary by state. Coverage options are selected by the customer. Availability, amount of discounts and savings and eligibility vary by state. I'm putting weapons on the board.

[Chris Ryan]

Remember when we used to wear Jordans instead of Crocs?

[Sean Fenesi]

You know, used to still wearing Jordans.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Knox has Jordans. He hasn't shown you his Jordans? No, he likes to say Jordans, but the way he says ours, like, very weird. Still because he's my son, it's like I'm wearing Jordans. That's Michael Jordan.

[Sean Fenesi]

Okay, I'll have to speak to him about that. $50 for weapons.

[Chris Ryan]

$150.

[Sean Fenesi]

$150.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Oh, here we go.

[Chris Ryan]

Come on.

[Sean Fenesi]

This is the second, I guess Techn. The third feature film from Zack Kreger. First since Barbarian.

[Chris Ryan]

This is the movie I'm most excited to see this. This not one battle after another.

[Sean Fenesi]

But otherwise this is number one. Yeah, after one battle after another.

[Chris Ryan]

Number two.

[Sean Fenesi]

I see not Springsteen delivering me from nowhere.

[Chris Ryan]

We. We'll talk about that in a bit.

[Sean Fenesi]

$200.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Okay, game on.

[Chris Ryan]

Did you check out the viral website that they made for this this?

[Sean Fenesi]

I did not.

[Chris Ryan]

I didn't yet either.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Do it right now. Weapons movie website.

[Sean Fenesi]

Well, loves to spoil.

[Chris Ryan]

We're just two guys trying to stay in a state of wonder.

[Sean Fenesi]

I was super mad when the trailer started for this.

[Amanda Dobbins]

I'm not trying to stay in a state of wonder. Oh, hold on this. I. I honestly can't now. I'm really sorry. Like, it's. This is. I. I'm sure it's a really good movie. No disrespect to Zack Kreger. It just like. I. No, thanks. Topic wise.

[Chris Ryan]

$225.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Okay. I think that you are. You're both. If this pops, you handle your. Your issues in different ways and that's okay.

[Sean Fenesi]

What issues? I just want to be excited. I just want to sit down and feel deep.

[Chris Ryan]

I want to be dominated by film.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Yeah. All right.

[Sean Fenesi]

Zack Kreger, put on a high heel and step on Chris's neck.

[Chris Ryan]

225. Is that what I have?

[Sean Fenesi]

Yes.

[Chris Ryan]

Where does he go after this if this is. If this blows up?

[Sean Fenesi]

He already signed up to do Resident Evil.

[Chris Ryan]

That's cool.

[Sean Fenesi]

He's doing Resident Evil.

[Chris Ryan]

Mikey Madison in that.

[Sean Fenesi]

I believe she. What did she turn. She turned down Star wars for that. To do that. Is that true?

[Chris Ryan]

I mean, I think in this she was just going to be like, looking at Ryan Gosling and being like, you're so cool.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Well, show me the last. I.

[Sean Fenesi]

Would you do that?

[Chris Ryan]

They're not going to rush.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Would I stare at Sean Levy calls you. I would giggle. I, like, I couldn't do it. I would just giggle if it were ryan Gosling.

[Sean Fenesi]

Monday, 9am yeah. You've just removed your face from an ice cold bowl.

[Chris Ryan]

You reek of zucchini from the night before.

[Sean Fenesi]

You're covered in pasta. Children are crawling all over you, and Shawn Levy says, good morning, Amanda. Yes, I'm glad you have awoken. You may still feel as though you were sleeping because I am the dream.

[Chris Ryan]

You have beautiful skin.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Thank you.

[Chris Ryan]

I think you would be great next to Ryan Gosling.

[Sean Fenesi]

You will. You will only be on your knees for the entirety of this film, but you will be genuflecting in the general direction of our star Jedi, Ryan Gosling in the first new Star wars feature film in seven years.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Two follow up questions. Am I allowed to ask follow up questions of Shawn Levy?

[Sean Fenesi]

I don't know. I'm not sure.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Is it like a Miranda Priestly situation?

[Sean Fenesi]

I don't know. I can't say for sure.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Number one, where. Where are we filming?

[Chris Ryan]

Probably Turkey or like Hungaria. Hungarian?

[Amanda Dobbins]

Hungary.

[Chris Ryan]

Hungary.

[Sean Fenesi]

Hungaria.

[Amanda Dobbins]

No, in England.

[Chris Ryan]

England.

[Sean Fenesi]

We're shooting in England.

[Chris Ryan]

Pinewood.

[Sean Fenesi]

Yeah, we're shooting at Pinewood.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Okay. Open to that. Number two, what's, you know, what's the money?

[Sean Fenesi]

Your salary is 88 bucks.

[Chris Ryan]

Interesting money. Your. Your money, huh?

[Amanda Dobbins]

Yeah.

[Sean Fenesi]

No, your salary Is whatever is remaining from your draft late?

[Chris Ryan]

No.

[Sean Fenesi]

Your salary is more than scale but less than an a. A list Star.

[Chris Ryan]

Yeah.

[Sean Fenesi]

You're getting $800,000 to do this, but you have to turn over two plus years of your lives, including re shoots.

[Amanda Dobbins]

For so $800,000 for two years. So 400k a year if you want.

[Sean Fenesi]

To break it down like that. Sure. That's not how it works in the movie biz.

[Amanda Dobbins]

I understand that, but that is factor in. I'm. I'm.

[Chris Ryan]

You need to like business mom.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Okay, I got it.

[Sean Fenesi]

So you got to.

[Chris Ryan]

You've got to promote the film 10% to your representation, you know?

[Amanda Dobbins]

Right, right, right. You got it. Talking 10%, that's.

[Sean Fenesi]

That's low.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Are you handling all of my kids and like, my family's like, housing Star Wars.

[Sean Fenesi]

You don't. You don't have leverage to negotiate?

[Amanda Dobbins]

No.

[Chris Ryan]

Okay.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Okay.

[Sean Fenesi]

You're turning it down on the face of that.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Yeah. I can't go to. I can't go stare at rising Ryan Gosling for two years without my children.

[Sean Fenesi]

It's great timing because I've just gotten word that in Atlanta they will greenlight the Mother's Day screening that we discussed because of your response to that question. So congratulations. Well done. 250.

[Chris Ryan]

260.

[Sean Fenesi]

We're still bidding on weapons. 270. I'd really like to see it. I would like to show it to me. I don't know why I haven't been shown this film. I'm just gonna put that out there right now.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Okay.

[Chris Ryan]

Did you ever watch Ozark?

[Amanda Dobbins]

No, but I listened to you talk about it quite.

[Chris Ryan]

And you know the Julia Garner meme?

[Amanda Dobbins]

Which one?

[Chris Ryan]

If you want to stop me, you're gonna have to fucking kill me.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Yeah, I do have that.

[Chris Ryan]

275. Just a little. Little jab right in the chin right there. Not. Not big. Just like.

[Sean Fenesi]

You're just gonna draw me out. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. And you're hoping that I go for the uppercut only for you to shadow, duck and move.

[Chris Ryan]

Mike Tyson's knockout. Watch out.

[Amanda Dobbins]

I'm just thinking about, like, what number I would leave my children for. Well, you know, at some point.

[Sean Fenesi]

Do you think about that every day?

[Amanda Dobbins]

No, no, no. It's at some point, then, like, I can handle the. I have. If they give me enough money, then I'll just pay for all the stuff, you know.

[Chris Ryan]

But Amanda, respectfully, Steel Magnolias too. Julia Roberts comes back as a force ghost. The problem is I'll pay you $2 million, but you have to live in Atlanta for two years.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Oh, yeah.

[Chris Ryan]

It's you and Casey Musgraves and I mean, she seems. Julia, Garfield Corner are the new Steel Magnolias.

[Sean Fenesi]

I love the Casey Musgraves call. That's excellent.

[Chris Ryan]

But you also have. You can't see your children.

[Amanda Dobbins]

But in Atlanta they would just stay with their grandparents. No.

[Sean Fenesi]

Oh, then no. It's a close set.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Because it's a close set.

[Sean Fenesi]

So it's very secretive.

[Chris Ryan]

Yeah. Code name Star Wars.

[Sean Fenesi]

Yeah.

[Chris Ryan]

But it's actually still magnolias. Two 285, 300 hundred.

[Sean Fenesi]

You really want this film? What if you don't like it?

[Chris Ryan]

It's not possible. It's not. Up, kids. Those kids are up.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Yeah.

[Sean Fenesi]

Do we even know that they run around like this?

[Chris Ryan]

Right.

[Sean Fenesi]

Well, something was calling to them. Clearly I don't know what it was. Last night at 2:17am Every child from Mrs. Gandy's class woke up, got out of bed, went downstairs, opened the front door, walked into the door dark, and they never came back. You know what that reminds me of? This movie is good, but not great. But when I first saw the commercial on TV for Needful Things, the Stephen King adaptation, I felt alive. That was like one of the first times I can remember feeling like I need to see that now. And I probably didn't see it for some years because it was R rated. And I was like 10 when it came out. But this movie gives me a similar feeling to that commercial. 310.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Wow.

[Chris Ryan]

320.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Okay.

[Sean Fenesi]

325.

[Chris Ryan]

335.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Are you guys gonna be able to see this together?

[Chris Ryan]

Hopefully.

[Sean Fenesi]

I think that's the idea.

[Amanda Dobbins]

That's nice.

[Chris Ryan]

At 2:17am they should do a 2:17am screening.

[Amanda Dobbins]

I'm gonna be on Steel Magnolies too.

[Sean Fenesi]

2:17Am Screening.

[Chris Ryan]

Yeah.

[Sean Fenesi]

That's the only time I am able to sleep. So I really can't do it.

[Chris Ryan]

Then I thought about going to see Jurassic world Rebirth, the 12am screening last week when we were doing that.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Okay.

[Chris Ryan]

And I was just like, I don't think I can do that. I don't want to get out of Jurassic World at 2:45am it's crazy.

[Sean Fenesi]

As recently as two years ago, I was ripping midnight screenings and I just can't do it anymore. It's over.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Yeah.

[Sean Fenesi]

It's curtains. Like kid plus aging is just not.

[Amanda Dobbins]

If it's a tail.

[Chris Ryan]

But we used to have a stop o' clock on these and yeah, we're hanging out.

[Sean Fenesi]

It's okay.

[Chris Ryan]

Okay.

[Amanda Dobbins]

There's a clock right there.

[Sean Fenesi]

3:45. 3:45. Chris.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Chris is like, I want this.

[Chris Ryan]

355. He's getting me back for bidding him up on Avatar.

[Sean Fenesi]

365.

[Amanda Dobbins]

I think you both just really want this. And I think that's beautiful.

[Sean Fenesi]

This is among my most anticipated movies, at least the year.

[Chris Ryan]

$400.

[Amanda Dobbins]

It looked very good.

[Sean Fenesi]

Wow. $400.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Well, I mean, what else are you.

[Sean Fenesi]

Going to bid on Wicked for good?

[Amanda Dobbins]

I. I won't be.

[Sean Fenesi]

Can you believe we have to do Wicked for good this year?

[Amanda Dobbins]

I really cannot.

[Chris Ryan]

Do you think that that's going to be like the Avatar 2 of Wicked movies where just like, we just agree that we're not going to do it again this year? It's like, are they going to really go through the same cycle again?

[Amanda Dobbins]

Right.

[Chris Ryan]

And they're going to play with puppies and talk and cry and I think.

[Sean Fenesi]

Obviously the core fan base is extremely excited about. About it.

[Chris Ryan]

Yeah.

[Sean Fenesi]

And it's going to do good business. Will it be bigger than the last movie is an interesting question.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Right.

[Sean Fenesi]

And then will it be able to match? Whatever. Did it have 10 nominations? I can't remember. Maybe. Maybe more.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Right. And the buzz on it is, of course, that the second half is musical. The songs aren't as good, and it's just.

[Chris Ryan]

They should take some songs from Nebraska and put it in Wicked for good.

[Sean Fenesi]

That's a good idea.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Yeah.

[Sean Fenesi]

State Trooper. Yeah. Yeah. And that fit in really well. Prince Fiero sings State Trooper. Trooper. That'd be awesome.

[Amanda Dobbins]

You know, I did think Jonathan Bailey was very good in Jurassic.

[Sean Fenesi]

He was very good.

[Amanda Dobbins]

There you go. I was impressed.

[Sean Fenesi]

I felt like he had real incredible.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Yeah.

[Sean Fenesi]

Movie presence.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Totally.

[Sean Fenesi]

410.

[Chris Ryan]

420. Because I'm gonna get high watching weapons, if you know what I mean.

[Sean Fenesi]

Yeah. You're smoking on that weapons pack. 4:30.

[Chris Ryan]

Interesting.

[Amanda Dobbins]

This is expensive. Yeah. Yeah.

[Chris Ryan]

I think you know that there's no limit for me, and I think you're driving me up.

[Sean Fenesi]

But for me, the action is the juice.

[Chris Ryan]

440. 440.

[Sean Fenesi]

$440 for weapons.

[Chris Ryan]

420 or 430.

[Sean Fenesi]

445.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Okay. But he's showing weakness.

[Chris Ryan]

465.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Wow.

[Sean Fenesi]

You can have it.

[Chris Ryan]

Okay.

[Amanda Dobbins]

All right. Can I tell you something? This was smart.

[Chris Ryan]

Thanks.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Past drafts or auctions have taught us that we should really. We should spend the money on.

[Chris Ryan]

You know, what I've gotten, I've done before is where, like, I'm like, I'm just going to equally distribute $50 across five movies. So I. I'm happy I'm really happy with the two films.

[Amanda Dobbins]

I. I could have used a little more help from you, but personally, how so we'll get there when we get there. But it's okay. I support you. I just. I needed you to take out some cash flow from him. But it's fine. It's fine.

[Chris Ryan]

Like push up Avatar more.

[Amanda Dobbins]

No, I needed. If. If he only had $300 left, I would be in a better spot.

[Chris Ryan]

Oh, I'm sorry.

[Amanda Dobbins]

But it's okay.

[Chris Ryan]

Yeah. Is it my turn to pick a film?

[Sean Fenesi]

I believe it is. I really want to see this movie. I do not think it's a good movie for this game. Game.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Okay.

[Sean Fenesi]

Which is not a demerit. And to Chris's point, about are we leaning too much into the box office to suggest quality or something? This movie is the perfect example of probably will not, Almost certainly will not cross $100 million domestically. Could be wrong, but probably not. Will not have an 85 Metacritic score because it's horror and very low likelihood of Oscars. Now, if it gets any of those three things, that probably means it's like fucking amazing.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Right?

[Sean Fenesi]

If it goes over 100 million or over 85 or it gets at least one Oscar nomination, that will mean, you know, we have a new M. Night Shyamalan on our hands.

[Chris Ryan]

Yeah.

[Sean Fenesi]

Which would be phenomenal. I would love that. So we'll see. But nevertheless, we'll do two hours. Locked. Locked in on the movie in August.

[Chris Ryan]

Is it my turn to pick a film?

[Amanda Dobbins]

It is.

[Sean Fenesi]

Yeah.

[Chris Ryan]

I'm going to grab or I'm going to nominate. Is this thing on?

[Sean Fenesi]

On.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Okay.

[Sean Fenesi]

Is this gonna come out this year?

[Chris Ryan]

They say Wikipedia says that Fox Searchlight is eyeing a fall release. We have not heard Hide Her Hair nor seen a still from it. Bradley Cooper's James L. Brooks homage. It sounds like it's about a divorcing couple or a couple whose marriage is falling apart. And the. The man, the husband played by Will Arnett, gets super into the New York City comedy scene. Scene features a bunch of supporting turns from contemporary New York City based comedians like Jordan Jensen, Chloe Radcliffe. Laura Dern is in this. Bradley Cooper is playing a supporting role and directed it and wrote it with Will Arnett, Right?

[Sean Fenesi]

Yes. This sounds like his punchline.

[Chris Ryan]

That's exactly what I have in my dock.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Oh, my God, that's beautiful. Yeah.

[Sean Fenesi]

The Tom Hanks Sally Field dramedy that I would say is now underage rated was eagerly anticipated, considered a huge disappointment, and now is kind of an interesting character study. Brad Cooper, I think a Damn good filmmaker.

[Chris Ryan]

And it's a really interesting left turn after Maestro.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Yeah.

[Chris Ryan]

Yeah, because he could keep making these sort of great men movies until he finally gets his. I mean, his Oscars.

[Sean Fenesi]

So.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Okay, how do you know this isn't a different type?

[Chris Ryan]

He's a broken man.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Sure.

[Chris Ryan]

Who's trying to laugh his way.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Yeah. Maybe he's going to find his great greatness, you know?

[Chris Ryan]

What do you think would be your biggest new, like your, your most unexpected new hobby? Were you God forbid to get divorced?

[Amanda Dobbins]

Oh my God, that's an incredible question. I mean, don't you kind of.

[Chris Ryan]

I feel like I'm like wnba.

[Amanda Dobbins]

You mean like not playing?

[Chris Ryan]

But you should be a WNBA ref.

[Amanda Dobbins]

I mean, the thing is, is that my sister in law, Ruthie, our beloved Ruthie is, is like a huge ticket holder. So in the divorce, if it's an ugly one at that kind of thing, you get Ruthie. No, no, I think that the, the Barons get the WNBA kind of what I think, you know, I mean, I could be wrong.

[Sean Fenesi]

WNBA is going to go crazy in my house. It's going to go crazy. Yeah.

[Amanda Dobbins]

I do feel like I'm in a phase of life where I'm already. It's like I'm doing the divorce hobbies without the divorce. Oh, don't you think.

[Sean Fenesi]

Skincare, I hope you mean not.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Oh, no, I don't mean that. I don't mean that.

[Sean Fenesi]

You gotta be careful with that. Yeah, no, just to be clear, carefully navigate or frame phrasing.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Okay. No, I. I'm more meant like I'm.

[Sean Fenesi]

Gonna really get into polyamory, you know?

[Amanda Dobbins]

Yeah, No, I haven't told you about my like infrared box.

[Chris Ryan]

Yes, you have.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Yeah, See, so that sort of thing.

[Chris Ryan]

Yeah, no free ads, you know, but.

[Sean Fenesi]

Did you put a dollar amount on? Is, is this thing on?

[Chris Ryan]

50 bucks.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Okay, I don't know whether it would be stand up comedy, but maybe I could get into a performance space.

[Chris Ryan]

You know, I would pay honestly no less than $10,000 to watch you do stand up comedy. You doing crowd work would cause an actual civil disturbance. The first time you got heckled, your.

[Sean Fenesi]

Fucking head would explode.

[Amanda Dobbins]

I would like charge the crowd. It would be like a reversible. You're right.

[Chris Ryan]

Don't let me fucking walk out of here with Bradley Cooper's.

[Sean Fenesi]

I'll say maestro. I'll say 60 bucks.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Okay.

[Sean Fenesi]

Did you see Maestro?

[Amanda Dobbins]

Yeah.

[Sean Fenesi]

Did you?

[Amanda Dobbins]

Yeah.

[Sean Fenesi]

We never discussed it. I thought it was maybe an Avatar situation. Everyone assumed you'd seen it.

[Amanda Dobbins]

I'll do 65.

[Chris Ryan]

I think I've been pretty open about my skepticism of the navi tale. I. This is not like, new, but I am now frustrated, and it didn't really appreciate the shots of Nolan. I thought, like, that was honestly poor form. Make your own movie. Let's see. Let's. Let's try to like.

[Sean Fenesi]

Wow.

[Chris Ryan]

Yeah.

[Sean Fenesi]

Wow. You have really thrown down the gauntlet on Big Jim. Former guest of this show, one of.

[Chris Ryan]

My favorite filmmakers up until you started making imaginary underwater movies.

[Sean Fenesi]

Do you like Titan Panic?

[Chris Ryan]

I thought it was pretty good. I thought it was pretty good. It's a long way to get to that sinking ship. You know what I mean? You got to deal with a lot.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Of stuff, but you learn a lot, you know?

[Chris Ryan]

I knew it.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Okay.

[Chris Ryan]

I inherently understood. Did you know you knew the challenges of the Irish?

[Sean Fenesi]

Yeah. How do you feel about class at that time? Do they think we had it right?

[Amanda Dobbins]

What about art?

[Chris Ryan]

Oh, like him drawing her?

[Amanda Dobbins]

Well, no, she was. She was a collective, you know, Billy Zane didn't understand.

[Chris Ryan]

That's right.

[Sean Fenesi]

You dedicated that to memory. Him drawing her. She's making a return.

[Amanda Dobbins]

That's why the payment, like one of your French girls, is one of the great memes.

[Sean Fenesi]

Yeah.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Yeah. You know.

[Sean Fenesi]

Yeah.

[Chris Ryan]

That's how I feel about VJ Edgecombe painting him and scored 28 in summer league. Where are we?

[Sean Fenesi]

Amanda has $65 on. Is this thing on? So Searchlight does not really have a major Oscar contender this year other than this movie, if they decide to put it out. Except maybe. I don't think this is going to happen, but the new Martin McDonagh movie is. I think the script is done. It may have started shooting. I can't really tell. It's called Wild Horse nine, and the cast is Sam Rockwell, Malkovich, Steve Buscemi, Parker Posey, and Tom Waits.

[Chris Ryan]

Geez, is he going back on his seven psychopaths?

[Sean Fenesi]

It's a. It's a. It's a thriller. It's not a comedy.

[Chris Ryan]

Cool. 70 bucks. What's up with the James L. Brooks movie? Is that ever coming out?

[Sean Fenesi]

December?

[Amanda Dobbins]

Yeah.

[Sean Fenesi]

Ella McKay.

[Chris Ryan]

Hey.

[Sean Fenesi]

Yeah.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Okay.

[Sean Fenesi]

That's 20th Century Studios.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Oh, okay.

[Sean Fenesi]

Not Searchlight. Even though it feels like a Searchlight movie, I don't. I don't. I really enjoy the two movies that Cooper direct.

[Chris Ryan]

Me too.

[Sean Fenesi]

I think Maestro is, like, flawed, but, like, such a fascinating choice.

[Chris Ryan]

Me, too.

[Sean Fenesi]

I really wish that that movie would be released on physical media.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Okay.

[Sean Fenesi]

That's a quite the first time that.

[Chris Ryan]

You'Ve said that you should go to his cheesesteak.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Yes, I was Joking. Do you think that Bradley Cooper is into physical media?

[Sean Fenesi]

I think he's into collecting stuff.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Okay. Okay.

[Sean Fenesi]

So I think he would get it.

[Amanda Dobbins]

All right.

[Sean Fenesi]

Maestro was beautifully shot.

[Amanda Dobbins]

It's. Yeah, it's very beautiful. You know what the standing ovation was for Maestro at Venice? Because it was during the strike.

[Chris Ryan]

So he couldn't be there.

[Amanda Dobbins]

He couldn't be there. So it was just Leonard Bernstein's children, like, conducting along for like six minutes while the credits rolled. It was pretty.

[Chris Ryan]

That's cool.

[Amanda Dobbins]

I mean, sure.

[Sean Fenesi]

I'm gonna let you have this.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Yeah. Okay.

[Chris Ryan]

I'm fucking killing this driver.

[Sean Fenesi]

You've got a streaming movie. You've got a horror movie for $500.

[Chris Ryan]

It's gonna go beyond horror. You know this, you know your bones that. We've been waiting for a movie like.

[Sean Fenesi]

This to jump out undated. Bradley Cooper, stand up comedy dramedy starring Will Arnett, known box office hero.

[Chris Ryan]

Okay, well, call me next year.

[Amanda Dobbins]

And. And mobile entrepreneur anymore, you know.

[Sean Fenesi]

That's true.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Yeah.

[Sean Fenesi]

And. And. And successful podcast host. That's true. And. And his performance in Arrested Development is the funniest comedy performance of the century. So I have nothing bad to say about him. Joe Bluth is the best character on TV in this century. Okay. Is it me?

[Chris Ryan]

Yeah.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Wait. Yeah. Chris.

[Chris Ryan]

Oh, I go twice.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Another one.

[Sean Fenesi]

Hmm.

[Chris Ryan]

I'm gonna do. I'm gonna do. Now you see me, now you don't. AKA NYSM3, which I think actually might be a sneaky big box office movie.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Okay.

[Sean Fenesi]

Have you seen either of the first now you see me films?

[Amanda Dobbins]

I have not.

[Sean Fenesi]

Okay.

[Chris Ryan]

I have multiple clips, I think great plane franchises.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Okay.

[Chris Ryan]

If you are on a plane, you will find that the hours slip away watching my S M. Okay. Close up magic.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Yeah.

[Chris Ryan]

Illusions, plot twists.

[Sean Fenesi]

I'd like to read a message I received a mention I received on X.com yesterday. It's from a man named David Coursero.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Okay. Not Superman.

[Sean Fenesi]

Not Superman. That's David Corn Sweat, AKA Corn Sweeper, as I believe you dubbed him some years ago during the release of the film Twister. David Coursero says. Anyone have Sean Fenasey's email address? I'm trying to invite him to the Magic Castle in early August.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Oh, wow.

[Sean Fenesi]

I have not responded to this man. I am calling him out right here on this podcast. He is a magician who does close up magic and is performing. Will you take me at the Magic Castle?

[Chris Ryan]

Since I just nominated now youw See Me three?

[Sean Fenesi]

I certainly would. The Magic Castle. One of the most fun places in Los Angeles. And I'M very interested in now youw See Me Colon, now youw Don't. What are you bidding?

[Chris Ryan]

$30.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Wow.

[Chris Ryan]

Value pick.

[Sean Fenesi]

Will you catch up on these films?

[Chris Ryan]

Do you want me to tell you.

[Amanda Dobbins]

When is it coming out of here?

[Sean Fenesi]

It's August. Right. It looks like.

[Chris Ryan]

Watch this. And I mean this in a. In a really, the sweetest way I could possibly say this.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Yeah.

[Chris Ryan]

It seems like Jesse Eisenberg has had a brain transplant when he's in these movies. Like, it is so unlike anything else he has.

[Sean Fenesi]

Right.

[Amanda Dobbins]

But he likes doing them, right?

[Chris Ryan]

I think so, yeah.

[Sean Fenesi]

He loves doing them. This movie comes out November 14th.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Oh, wow.

[Sean Fenesi]

It's right. Right up against Wicked for Good and Zootopia 2.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Okay.

[Sean Fenesi]

The cast. Are you familiar with this? Do you know the premise of this film?

[Amanda Dobbins]

Well, I do know that Dave Franco is in it because of. I. I mean, I remember that, but his studio.

[Chris Ryan]

Playing cards at people.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Okay, what was. What movie is that in where someone throws playing cards at people?

[Sean Fenesi]

That's what Gambit does. Channing Tatum.

[Amanda Dobbins]

X Men.

[Sean Fenesi]

He powers them.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Maybe we're not allowed to talk about this movie yet. Oh, yeah. No, in F1.

[Sean Fenesi]

F1.

[Amanda Dobbins]

I didn't know. Like, they all blur together.

[Sean Fenesi]

Oh, like into a hat.

[Chris Ryan]

Dave Franco plays Jack Wilder.

[Amanda Dobbins]

I know. And he talks about it on his studio recap.

[Chris Ryan]

Jesse Eisenberg plays J. Daniel Atlas.

[Sean Fenesi]

Danny Atlas.

[Chris Ryan]

Danny Atlas.

[Sean Fenesi]

Kind of an homage to Danny Ocean.

[Chris Ryan]

And then Woody Harrelson plays Merritt McKinney. And Ela Fisher is now.

[Sean Fenesi]

Isla Fisher has been in all the.

[Chris Ryan]

Films Lizzy Caplan was in.

[Sean Fenesi]

She was in two.

[Chris Ryan]

She was in two.

[Amanda Dobbins]

She's the Kaplan Beta Jones.

[Sean Fenesi]

The thing with this one is that there's new young magicians on their heels. And they are portrayed by future movie stars. Justice Smith, Ariana Greenblatt from Barbie. And Dominic Sessa.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Oh, good for. Oh, I do remember that film Updates to me, which is like, Dominic Cessa has joined the cast. Tough. Okay, so are they just magicians? Are they magicians who fight crime? Are they magicians who commit crimes?

[Chris Ryan]

They commit crimes, but they. They're like Robin Hoods. They, like, rob a casino vault and then throw the cash to people.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Okay, that's cool.

[Chris Ryan]

Yeah.

[Amanda Dobbins]

You know. Okay, you have it right now for $30. Are you bidding on this?

[Sean Fenesi]

I'm not sure yet.

[Amanda Dobbins]

So Jack. Jack just disappeared.

[Chris Ryan]

It's going to be like a funnier bit. And now it just is like me having nice C. Me.

[Amanda Dobbins]

So you guys are going to go to. To Castle together?

[Sean Fenesi]

I think that we have been before.

[Amanda Dobbins]

I went with you last time. It was very fun.

[Sean Fenesi]

That was some years ago.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Yeah. I think it was, like, early when.

[Chris Ryan]

You just moved here.

[Sean Fenesi]

Yeah.

[Amanda Dobbins]

So almost 10 years ago.

[Sean Fenesi]

Reuben Fleischer directed this movie. He directed Jesse Eisenberg to great acclaim in Zombieland. Yes.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Yeah.

[Chris Ryan]

The first two are. Louis Leterrier.

[Sean Fenesi]

Yes. And he has pivoted to fast 11. Oh, which is definitely happening.

[Chris Ryan]

Is Ruffalo in my S at Free that?

[Sean Fenesi]

No, I don't think so. If he is, they're not revealing that.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Oh, but that would be exciting.

[Chris Ryan]

I wonder if Melanie Laurent is coming back. Dynamite.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Yeah.

[Sean Fenesi]

Rosamund pike is the villain in this movie.

[Chris Ryan]

Oh, shit. Are you sure you're 135?

[Sean Fenesi]

Yeah, this is her. The description.

[Amanda Dobbins]

She needs this because they canceled her Wheel of Time money, you know?

[Chris Ryan]

So she plays Veronica versus Zack Ritten.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Yassi Salak, also a fan, I learned.

[Chris Ryan]

So, Zach, Wheel of Time.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Yeah. So Zach and Yassi are starting a letter.

[Sean Fenesi]

Yasi also came out as a very loud proponent of materialists, and she said she went to go see it because you compared it to Hal Hartley on the podcast, and she agreed.

[Chris Ryan]

Many people have been like, shut the fuck up. You don't know what you're saying, but that's okay.

[Sean Fenesi]

Rosamund pike plays Veronica Vanderburg, the main antagonist and matriarch of the crime scenario.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Oh, is it the crime syndicate that they work for or. They are. They're stealing from the crime syndicate to give money back to.

[Sean Fenesi]

In the trailer, she's holding a diamond, and she's like, but the diamond is safe. And then Jesse Eisenberg goes like, poof. And then it shatters in her hands. It's a great moment. Fucking love movies.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Okay.

[Sean Fenesi]

This is kind of firmly in the potential, like, Jurassic World Rebirth zone, where it's like, it's fun, but it's kind of evil, you know, and, like, maybe shouldn't exist.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Are you betting on it?

[Sean Fenesi]

$35.

[Chris Ryan]

Are you going to bid on it?

[Amanda Dobbins]

No, but I'm really enjoying learning about this.

[Chris Ryan]

I kind of want to keep bidding, but I also don't have anything else to say about it.

[Sean Fenesi]

I just want to say this is the best movie podcast there are. No, there are many movie podcasts, but only one of them will give you all of this.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Sure. Okay. It's true.

[Chris Ryan]

It's true.

[Sean Fenesi]

You're not going to take this film.

[Chris Ryan]

$36.

[Sean Fenesi]

You can have it.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Okay. All right.

[Sean Fenesi]

That's good, I guess.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Yeah. Okay. Okay, it's your turn. You have $700 left. Sean.

[Chris Ryan]

I have such a Normal draft this year. Usually I have like $900.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Yeah.

[Chris Ryan]

You know.

[Sean Fenesi]

Yeah, well, yeah, you. You went big on weapons and that.

[Amanda Dobbins]

That.

[Sean Fenesi]

That was a move.

[Chris Ryan]

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[Sean Fenesi]

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[Amanda Dobbins]

I've been on hold to make a doctor's appointment for 23 minutes now. The automated voice has told me 47 times that my call is very important to them. H. I'm starting to think that they don't think my call is important at all.

[Sean Fenesi]

With Amazon One Medical 24. 7 Virtual Care, you'll get help fast without having to remain on the line to make an appointment. Amazon One Medical Healthcare just got less painful. For $1, I'll put Superman on the board.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Okay, I really. I understand you're doing this from a strategy perspective because you think it'll do well box office, which in our other game I'm banking on. And you're open to superheroes and what I said. I was talking Rachel Brosnahan with Chris.

[Sean Fenesi]

And Andy Greenwald outside right before the recording.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Great.

[Sean Fenesi]

And Andy said, have you seen it? And I said, no. And I said, on the one hand, I haven't loved what I've seen, as we've discussed. Sure haven't. I think the most recent trailer is by far the best one they put out. But the first two I really didn't like very much. And we had kind of a weird experience watching them sell it at Cinemacon. However, there's pretty much not a James Gunn movie I don't like. Yeah, I like every movie he's ever made, frankly. So if I don't like it, it will be a surprising to me.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Yeah. So I guess are you. You. You're still in the mix.

[Chris Ryan]

I'm not gonna be bidding on this. I mean, I can bid on this. I can say $5.

[Sean Fenesi]

But sure you don't want your 264 going in that direction?

[Chris Ryan]

No, I don't.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Okay.

[Chris Ryan]

I have another. Another hero in mind.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Oh, wow.

[Sean Fenesi]

Do you?

[Chris Ryan]

Yeah.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Okay.

[Sean Fenesi]

Roofman's off the board.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Here is. The thing, is that I really don't like James Gunn movies. Like, I just really. And we all know that I. I'm allergic to it.

[Sean Fenesi]

I know, but you hate me making a really strong strategic move.

[Amanda Dobbins]

No, but I also have fears of you thinking it's funny and sticking me with it, so. And then getting something that I really want. But, like, I also know I should bid you up. Up. But we all know that I just.

[Sean Fenesi]

It's win, win for me.

[Amanda Dobbins]

I. You know, it's. And that's great. Congratulations for you. I guess. Whatever.

[Sean Fenesi]

I mean, the movie could be terrible and could bomb miserably.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Yeah. But even if it bombs, it'll make 100 million domestic.

[Sean Fenesi]

Almost certainly. Yeah. It's going to make 100 million in the opening weekend.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Sure. That. Okay.

[Chris Ryan]

What do you think it's missing? What?

[Amanda Dobbins]

Why? I really don't. I don't want to bid on it. I know you want to, like, make me bid on it, but I just. I don't.

[Chris Ryan]

I think I bid $50.

[Amanda Dobbins]

You already have it for $5. Right now. Don't bid yourself up.

[Chris Ryan]

All right, well, he's gonna bid.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Okay.

[Chris Ryan]

He was gonna be six. I just can't see him get it for six dollars.

[Sean Fenesi]

Six dollars.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Okay. All right.

[Chris Ryan]

$50. Because if I did get it, well, I mean, that's good for me, right? It's gonna do best.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Exactly. That's the thing. Sure.

[Sean Fenesi]

Yeah. Definitely. Only $51.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Okay.

[Chris Ryan]

Are you excited about Predator Badlands?

[Sean Fenesi]

I'm excited to talk to you about it as soon as it comes up on the board.

[Chris Ryan]

Yeah.

[Sean Fenesi]

But we gotta sort out the Superman situation first.

[Chris Ryan]

I just. I don't know what it is, man. I don't know what it is.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Are you big on James Gunn?

[Chris Ryan]

I like the first Guardians.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Okay.

[Chris Ryan]

I think. I think Sean likes him more than me.

[Sean Fenesi]

Me?

[Amanda Dobbins]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Chris Ryan]

It's not. Not. Not a personal thing. Please don't. Don't tweet at me. James Gunn?

[Sean Fenesi]

Yeah. You're really more Zack Snyder. That's what you're interested in?

[Chris Ryan]

I would say that Zack Snyder's dawn of the Dead is my favorite film. Either Zack Snyder or James Gunn is.

[Sean Fenesi]

You know who wrote the screenplay of dawn of the Dead?

[Chris Ryan]

James Gunn.

[Sean Fenesi]

James Gunn.

[Chris Ryan]

Maybe they should be like Garland, stronger together.

[Sean Fenesi]

It's been suggested in the past that. That Would have been the most useful way to pursue Superman. Which is to take Zack Snyder's visual sensibility and let James Gunn write the screenplay for him. That didn't happen. They both had to get a crack at it.

[Chris Ryan]

I would like to have seen James Gunn writing 300.

[Amanda Dobbins]

I mean, I was just thinking about, like, what would be better or worse for me. Would it be the two of them making Superman together? Yeah, together. Or I'm subjected to all their different individual versions.

[Chris Ryan]

55. We're just gonna go one.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Did you see Guardians of the Galaxy 3?

[Sean Fenesi]

I mean, you don't want this. You should just let me have it.

[Chris Ryan]

Would you do that for me? Of course I would.

[Sean Fenesi]

I gave you weapons.

[Chris Ryan]

Okay, that's a good point. I'm not gonna get him up to like 500.

[Amanda Dobbins]

I'm not expecting you to do anything.

[Chris Ryan]

Okay.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Yeah, you can, I guess.

[Chris Ryan]

Sean has an incredible value pick. But there's something a little bit like congratulations.

[Amanda Dobbins]

You know what?

[Chris Ryan]

You auctioned a movie coming out in four days.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Okay. Get him up to 61.

[Chris Ryan]

$61.

[Sean Fenesi]

Okay, $62.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Great.

[Sean Fenesi]

She just wants to have.

[Amanda Dobbins]

I want to have more money than me. Yeah.

[Sean Fenesi]

Which is not really relevant anymore.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Yeah.

[Sean Fenesi]

But.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Okay, thank you.

[Sean Fenesi]

Congratulations.

[Chris Ryan]

She's got to make her money back.

[Sean Fenesi]

Now that she's kicked off the.

[Amanda Dobbins]

That Steel magnolia.

[Sean Fenesi]

I'll take it for 62.

[Chris Ryan]

Okay.

[Sean Fenesi]

Well, I think I've. Okay, done my job box office wise.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Yeah.

[Sean Fenesi]

And now onto quality. Okay, so, Amanda, you have two in a row, right?

[Chris Ryan]

Yes.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Oh, I have two in a row.

[Sean Fenesi]

Yes.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Okay.

[Sean Fenesi]

Cuz I'm in the middle.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Okay. What am I going to do here? What will I do here? The thing is, is that I don't care about box office that much because I'm just. I'm going for me, you know?

[Sean Fenesi]

Do you think Superman will get any Oscar nominations?

[Chris Ryan]

No.

[Amanda Dobbins]

No. Sorry.

[Sean Fenesi]

I'm just curious.

[Chris Ryan]

I don't.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Yeah.

[Sean Fenesi]

Visual effects.

[Chris Ryan]

I. Not based on what I've seen so far.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Let's see. All right.

[Chris Ryan]

Face is not, like, good.

[Sean Fenesi]

What about the Kaiju?

[Amanda Dobbins]

Okay.

[Chris Ryan]

Is that good?

[Sean Fenesi]

You know what the Kaiju is?

[Chris Ryan]

I mean, I. I think I know what a Kaiju is, generally speaking. Is there one in the movie?

[Sean Fenesi]

There is. Yeah.

[Chris Ryan]

That's cool. I feel like we've been here for three hours.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Yeah, no, we have. I mean, let's just. Let's do it. J. Kelly.

[Sean Fenesi]

Go. Let's do it.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Let's do it. Jay Kelly, what's this movie about?

[Chris Ryan]

It's about a guy.

[Amanda Dobbins]

George Clooney is. I believe in Aging movie star and. And some other stuff happens. And Adam Sandler is also in it. I don't want to know anymore. I just want to go see it.

[Chris Ryan]

Does Adam Sandler play his brother?

[Amanda Dobbins]

I think so.

[Sean Fenesi]

I believe so, yeah. It is written by Noah Bombach and Emily Mortimer.

[Chris Ryan]

Oh, wow.

[Sean Fenesi]

And it is directed by Noah.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Yeah. Okay, so $100.

[Sean Fenesi]

This is, I think his fourth movie for Netflix now.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Yeah.

[Sean Fenesi]

You said $100.

[Amanda Dobbins]

I did.

[Sean Fenesi]

Yes. This is also shot by Linus Sandgren. I believe it's his first film. Did he shoot White Noise? He may have shot White Noise as well. He also notably shot La La Land and Babylon and First Man. And he shot the upcoming White Noise, Weathering Heights Law Crawley. Right. Yeah. So this is his first time working with Bon, which is really interesting. I'll say. 150.

[Chris Ryan]

Is Emily Mortimer in this film?

[Sean Fenesi]

I don't think so. But I believe her son with Alessandro Nivola was in White Noise.

[Chris Ryan]

Yes, right.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Correct.

[Chris Ryan]

He was in White Lotus.

[Sean Fenesi]

White Lotus, Yeah. Good actor.

[Amanda Dobbins]

According to Wikipedia, she is listed in the cast, but great.

[Sean Fenesi]

The cast is incredible.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Yeah.

[Sean Fenesi]

It's Clooney and Sage.

[Amanda Dobbins]

200.

[Sean Fenesi]

Billy Crudup, Laura Dern, Riley Keough, Patrick Wilson, Jim Broadbent, Eve Hewson, Alba Rohrwalker, Josh Hamilton, of course, Greta Gerwigs, Isla Fisher.

[Chris Ryan]

Lars Edinger, Kyle Solar from Fucking Andor.

[Sean Fenesi]

Yes.

[Chris Ryan]

If you know, you know him too.

[Amanda Dobbins]

How about that?

[Sean Fenesi]

225. 5.

[Amanda Dobbins]

250.

[Sean Fenesi]

Who ended up with White Noise last time? A movie. I like.

[Amanda Dobbins]

I like it also. I. I don't remember. You can't psych me out of this. I thought.

[Sean Fenesi]

What do you mean psych you out of it?

[Amanda Dobbins]

I don't know. You're just like. You're gonna bring up White Noise and you're gonna say critically. We're not.

[Sean Fenesi]

So you got a mix, you got a podcast. This is what we're here to podcast.

[Amanda Dobbins]

That is true, but I'm just. My podcasting is being like, no, you will not psych me out of. Of this.

[Sean Fenesi]

Okay.

[Amanda Dobbins]

I. I am excited about J. Kelly. I'm excited about George Clooney.

[Chris Ryan]

Me too.

[Amanda Dobbins]

I'm excited about 263.

[Chris Ryan]

You.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Oh, I love it.

[Sean Fenesi]

You flew back for the live taping of Good Night and Good Luck. How was that? Did you enjoy yourself?

[Chris Ryan]

I didn't. I didn't see either the stage version or the live TV version. I felt a theater sized hole in my life this year actually.

[Amanda Dobbins]

What do you.

[Sean Fenesi]

What are your feelings on Edward R. Murrow?

[Chris Ryan]

He did his Best. But it doesn't seem like it's going to work out for us.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Yeah.

[Sean Fenesi]

You know, interesting. 270, 280.

[Chris Ryan]

Now I just sit on the sidelines.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Yeah. Sorry.

[Sean Fenesi]

Early speculation is Sandman big time Oscar campaign coming.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Wonderful.

[Sean Fenesi]

Is it time for Sandman?

[Amanda Dobbins]

Yes.

[Chris Ryan]

Do you think if Sandman didn't make super dumb movies other than these Oscar bait movies, like, if he can, can he find like a middle ground between, like, I have a remote control that controls my wife and J. Kelly that like it would be cool.

[Sean Fenesi]

He did, he does those. He did funny people.

[Chris Ryan]

That was a long time ago. And that was also like slyly like trying to get an Oscar too.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Right?

[Sean Fenesi]

I don't know about that. He just did Hustle. I disagree. I think he's actually one of the best purveyors of this. I mean, I'm obsessed with Sandler, so I thought about this a lot. But I think one of the best things about him is he has three modes. He can do your Happy Madison dumb comedy and there's a huge audience for those movies. He can do this kind of like mid level dramedy like he did Spanglish years ago. He does these kinds of movies all the time.

[Chris Ryan]

I remember Spanglish.

[Sean Fenesi]

Not in a film I like at all, but he did it. And he also can do uncut gems and movies with bombach. So I think he's like legitimately one of the most versatile movie stars of all time. That's my piece.

[Amanda Dobbins]

I don't, I don't disagree.

[Sean Fenesi]

No, George Clooney cannot do Happy Gilmore. He simply cannot do it.

[Amanda Dobbins]

That's true.

[Sean Fenesi]

He's Adam Sandler can do Adam Sandler.

[Chris Ryan]

I think George Clooney in O Brother the Idiot Cohen Clooney can, could do something. Think approaching the Sandler comedies.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Yeah, it's. I think it's sort of like a. It's a Jon Ham thing where you're like too handsome to be that funny, even though you really want to be funny. Okay.

[Sean Fenesi]

He's funny for a handsome guy.

[Amanda Dobbins]

And it's like. And he definitely appreciates the other people being funny. You know, I think he, he's a.

[Sean Fenesi]

Good laugher, but, you know, I'll say 290, 300. You know, who else needs to have in its time is no back. It's really Noah's time. We gotta acknowledge one of the greats.

[Chris Ryan]

How do you feel about the two of them, Noah and Greta just working for, for Big Ted?

[Sean Fenesi]

I don't love it. Yeah, I don't love it. But I guess this is where I'd like to go see his movies in movie theaters. Yeah.

[Chris Ryan]

He can't get himself, like, an Indian paintbrush deal. Like, where just like some. Some rich guy is like, here's 40 mil. You can go make a movie.

[Sean Fenesi]

He's never made a movie that has made very much money in theaters. So in some ways, when. When Netflix's whole thing was the Noah Baumbachs and the. And the Bong and make their movies, that was an amazing moment in movie history that will not never be replicated. Yeah. Apple did a very small version of it, and that's kind of over, too. I'll say. 310. Very. I'm really into this movie. It's a good. It's a good movie for this show.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Good movie for us. 320. This is another. I'm hopeful that it will be at Venice, and I think it's pretty cool. Yeah. Because Netflix does. The Venice Film Festival likes Netflix, and Netflix likes to show up there. So that would be 3:30, sort of 3:40. The main issue is, like, the scheduling, you know, because I really. Last time they scheduled Sofia Coppola as Priscilla for after I was supposed to leave.

[Sean Fenesi]

Why not extend your trip?

[Amanda Dobbins]

I did extend it, but then I will have to extend it again. And I don't know, you know, is.

[Sean Fenesi]

It because you have to go straight to the set of Steel Memories, too, that you want to see your family?

[Amanda Dobbins]

Right, Right.

[Sean Fenesi]

Yeah, it's tough. 3, 350, 360, 370, 380.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Yeah. The cursor. The can't keep up with.

[Sean Fenesi]

With us. Seems like a lot.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Sure.

[Sean Fenesi]

You just want to get what you want to get.

[Amanda Dobbins]

That is true in the auction and in life.

[Sean Fenesi]

Yeah. How's it going? Are you achieving what you want?

[Amanda Dobbins]

Just not at all.

[Sean Fenesi]

You're not getting what you want.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Yeah. You know, but tonight when I put that honey mask on, you know, then you'll feel you.

[Sean Fenesi]

You are completed. This honeymoon mask completes me.

[Amanda Dobbins]

I figure out the plot holes and then just like that.

[Sean Fenesi]

390, 400. My, my, my. Is there anything else we would go up against one another for in the rest of this auction? Sierra's got only one slot left, so we're. It's going to be me and you.

[Chris Ryan]

I could see things would bring you two together.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Yeah. But like, the. The thing is. And it's a little ugly, which is in the theme of this podcast. But Bombach is what brings us together.

[Sean Fenesi]

Yeah.

[Amanda Dobbins]

You know, and so now we are pitted against each other over the things that we Love.

[Sean Fenesi]

The single biggest meeting point of our taste.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Probably. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Chris Ryan]

That and big Tom Cruise action movies.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Yeah, I guess that's true.

[Sean Fenesi]

We've been let down by one of those.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Yeah.

[Sean Fenesi]

Ready?

[Amanda Dobbins]

This year we're there together.

[Sean Fenesi]

410.

[Amanda Dobbins]

420. 20. I don't have a weed joke to make. Sorry. I got some.

[Sean Fenesi]

Not a weed person.

[Amanda Dobbins]

No, I'm not. And I got some edibles that were recommended for sleep and they didn't. It didn't work for me. And also, I just don't like how they taste. They're. They're like BlackBerry, but, you know, they have strong weed aftertastes. I like. Really. I don't like the notes.

[Sean Fenesi]

I mean.

[Amanda Dobbins]

No, thanks.

[Sean Fenesi]

It is weed after all.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Yeah, I know. It's. It's not.

[Sean Fenesi]

Not a weed guy.

[Chris Ryan]

They just killed the goose, man. They shouldn't have. They just. I just.

[Sean Fenesi]

You got a weed take?

[Chris Ryan]

No, I just. I just think, like, what we think of as weed now is not, like, what weed was.

[Sean Fenesi]

You mean the oregano that you smoked in 1996?

[Chris Ryan]

Honestly, I was better for it. It was better off smoking, like, some ground up herbs and spices in Washington Square park than I was getting my. My frontal lobe dissolved by, like, whatever's in this stuff. And I really resent their real estate footprint.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Yeah, that is insane.

[Chris Ryan]

The real estate footprint of the weed industry.

[Sean Fenesi]

I see. I don't really have a comment. I.

[Chris Ryan]

Why are there more weed stores than DVD stores?

[Amanda Dobbins]

Well, it's.

[Sean Fenesi]

It's market capitalism, right? I mean, what do people want?

[Amanda Dobbins]

Oh, great.

[Sean Fenesi]

How are they spending their time?

[Chris Ryan]

Well, I think that they should spend their time with DVDs, as you know.

[Sean Fenesi]

I agree. I just received a box.

[Chris Ryan]

I don't know why they can't just do things. Ever have a weed store where it's like, here's a gummy and then here's the perfect movie to go with that Gummy.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Yeah, there you go.

[Sean Fenesi]

I mean, I don't think movies are best experienced.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Why are you turning your back on his innovation?

[Sean Fenesi]

You know, no one's ever thought about taking a gummy and watching a movie.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Before selling them together.

[Sean Fenesi]

Yeah, that could be cool. Okay, that could be cool. Should we call the local video stores?

[Amanda Dobbins]

You don't seem that excited about it.

[Sean Fenesi]

Well, most of the time I don't want to watch a movie.

[Amanda Dobbins]

I got stoned and sold your DVDs on the sale on the street also.

[Sean Fenesi]

Another thing is that given the strength.

[Chris Ryan]

Of weed now I should be able to sell lewds, like, in a store, you know?

[Sean Fenesi]

Yeah. I know what you're saying.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Yeah.

[Sean Fenesi]

But I don't agree with it. I'll let you have it for 420.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Thank you. You're welcome so much. That's really nice of you.

[Chris Ryan]

Chris's Quaaludes. Quaalude from any occasion.

[Sean Fenesi]

The branding is right there. It's all Leo's faces from Wolf of Wall Street. That would be really good. Okay. You got to put another movie up.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Yeah. All right. Deliver me from nowhere.

[Sean Fenesi]

Wow.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Five bucks.

[Sean Fenesi]

Wow. Let's go. I will not be bidding on this movie.

[Chris Ryan]

Oh, 10 bucks.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Okay. 15.

[Chris Ryan]

50.

[Amanda Dobbins]

I don't know. I mean, I guess you don't.

[Chris Ryan]

How are you feeling?

[Amanda Dobbins]

How am I feeling?

[Chris Ryan]

About him. About Jeremy? As.

[Sean Fenesi]

As.

[Amanda Dobbins]

I mean, just.

[Chris Ryan]

Just about Jeremy.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Pick a menu. Just pick one and just stick with it. The bear, you know, just. That's just.

[Chris Ryan]

You gotta.

[Amanda Dobbins]

I know.

[Chris Ryan]

Charlie Parker didn't play the same notes every night.

[Amanda Dobbins]

It's. I just can't believe how long we've been talking about.

[Sean Fenesi]

Yeah.

[Amanda Dobbins]

You know, just. He. What? And the components and just pick one. So that's how I feel. But I think that when he's not sitting in a. In, like, the weirdly lit kitchen, being like, I need more ingredients because I have demons. He's really good.

[Chris Ryan]

Yeah.

[Amanda Dobbins]

He was really good in the Wedding up to.

[Chris Ryan]

Do you believe him as Bruce Springsteen?

[Amanda Dobbins]

I don't really sure. I. The.

[Chris Ryan]

So much so that you would go over $50?

[Amanda Dobbins]

Sure. 50. 53. Let's go. You want to keep talking about. About it. You're not even bidding because you have a moral opposition to musical biopics.

[Sean Fenesi]

I'm just not that excited about this movie.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Okay.

[Sean Fenesi]

I haven't. There's been a long time since I've seen a Scott Cooper movie I like.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Yeah.

[Sean Fenesi]

I think Jeremy Allen White's a good actor. I'm not sure if I'm sold on him at this level. And I will go. I will walk into the ocean for Jeremy Strong. I will support him in anything he does. I believe he is one of the most important people alive, and I will not move off of. Of that opinion. And so that alone, I might like this. But, you know, I just think these kinds of movies stink.

[Chris Ryan]

How much are $638?

[Sean Fenesi]

I've got three slots left. Yeah, I got Superman for 62 bucks. I actually don't know, like. Like, is this movie going to get nominated for best picture, or is it going to get, like, destroyed by. I have no clue.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Did you guys see the lunch in Sardinia? That was Scott Cooper. Jeremy Strong, Bradley Cooper.

[Chris Ryan]

Nope.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Someone else was there. They were just all someone else who was not related to this movie, but makes movies.

[Chris Ryan]

That's Blue Zone right there. Yeah, Forever. That's good olive oil.

[Sean Fenesi]

Would you get on a rocket ship and go into space with those guys?

[Chris Ryan]

Yeah, that would be an amazing movie too.

[Sean Fenesi]

What was the name of that trip?

[Amanda Dobbins]

Honestly, if. If Blue. The Blue Origin. They. If they'd had you on that trip. Not the. Not the women, because you can't be a girl boss, but like, just to.

[Sean Fenesi]

Break up the self seriousness, if.

[Amanda Dobbins]

If they had you on the dude version of that trip, everyone would love Bro Origin. Yeah, you'd kill it. And I think you'd look good in the blue suit too.

[Chris Ryan]

What would happen, though, if they Martianed me and I had to grill potatoes out of my own feces?

[Sean Fenesi]

Those Irish jeans, though.

[Amanda Dobbins]

As long as someone is videotaping it, then we have, you know, a box office.

[Chris Ryan]

It would be tough to dismiss the Odyssey if I got lost in space.

[Sean Fenesi]

This episode is dedicated to cr, who is in oblivion right now. Chris, we're so happy we got to see the Odyssey.

[Amanda Dobbins]

He's sending us robot messages.

[Chris Ryan]

Do you think I could do every Mars soldier?

[Sean Fenesi]

We would put you right here on the big screen.

[Chris Ryan]

Can I make a wish it. And do you think, like, if I was like, I have like, two hours of oxygen left. Christopher Nolan, please beam the Odyssey into my suit so I could see.

[Sean Fenesi]

I think the runtime is going to be a little longer than two hours. Yeah.

[Amanda Dobbins]

So the format, it's a good point.

[Sean Fenesi]

You wouldn't want it on your honesty.

[Chris Ryan]

What if he could, like, broadcast it against the moon? You know what I mean? Like, yeah, that would be the widest of screens.

[Sean Fenesi]

Yeah, but would the sound be synced properly?

[Amanda Dobbins]

Then you'd have to wait for like a full, you know.

[Sean Fenesi]

Know.

[Amanda Dobbins]

What is it? What's like a. How does the moon wax him? Wait on Mars.

[Chris Ryan]

Oh, I'm in Mars. I thought we were just going up and doing a quick lap.

[Sean Fenesi]

CR's got this.

[Amanda Dobbins]

For 60 bucks, I'll let him have it.

[Sean Fenesi]

Well, that's the end of his slate.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Yeah, it's okay.

[Chris Ryan]

I could still chime in, talk a little bit. I have to nominate something.

[Sean Fenesi]

That's true.

[Chris Ryan]

Let you two fight over it.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Yeah. You're up, Big dog.

[Sean Fenesi]

I'm up.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Yeah.

[Sean Fenesi]

Five slots left. I like that. I accept Big dog.

[Amanda Dobbins]

It does really feel like we've been here forever.

[Sean Fenesi]

It's been a long pod.

[Chris Ryan]

I wonder if it's cool for people listening. They're like, this is. This is. This is good. I think so. I think that we've got a lot of ideas.

[Amanda Dobbins]

The moon Wax and Wayne on Mars. I guess it's not Mars's moon. Does Mars have.

[Chris Ryan]

I think if I was on Mars, that would be a much bigger story than the Odyssey because I would be the first man on Mars.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Mars has two moons, which I guess are the moons that carry its chariots. Now the. The horses, you know, now that I think about it.

[Sean Fenesi]

Okay. Please. Chloe Zhao's hamnet. 50 bucks.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Oh, okay.

[Chris Ryan]

Oh, this could get contentious.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Yeah. Yeah. Did you read this?

[Sean Fenesi]

No, and I won't.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Okay. Did I spoil it for you?

[Sean Fenesi]

No.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Adaptation. Maggie O' Farrell novel, which I thought was absolutely sensational. I mean, 75 for sure.

[Sean Fenesi]

I'll say. 100. This is actually quite different from anything Chloe Zhao has ever done before.

[Amanda Dobbins]

True.

[Sean Fenesi]

Her first three films are, if not improvised, very naturalistic and the story is very threatening.

[Chris Ryan]

Improvised, naturalistic film.

[Sean Fenesi]

And Eternals is what Eternals is. This is meant to be like a return to form kind of a thing. But also, you know, period piece adaptation is not something she's ever experimented with.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Right.

[Sean Fenesi]

I'm still a believer in her talent.

[Amanda Dobbins]

I am as well.

[Sean Fenesi]

I really love Nomadland. I said it then and I say it now. I really, really like that movie. I think it's very insightful, emotionally. So.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Also, you know, I know that period piece does historically mean very mannered corset.

[Chris Ryan]

Not necessarily, though.

[Amanda Dobbins]

But it doesn't have to be. And it would make sense with this story for it to be.

[Chris Ryan]

You know, it's a period piece that kind of comes. Jumps right off the page. What, Valkyrie?

[Amanda Dobbins]

Yeah, there you go.

[Sean Fenesi]

Yes, it sure does. Jumps right off the page and right into your laptop where you post memes on 8chan125. I'll say 150. The other reason for this, to be excited about this movie, obviously. Paul Mescal playing William Shakespeare and Jesse Buckley playing Agnes Shakespeare.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Yes.

[Sean Fenesi]

Jesse Buckley. One of my favorites. Paul Mescal. Kind of in need of a comebacking.

[Chris Ryan]

Glastonbury for that guy, though.

[Amanda Dobbins]

I'm unreal.

[Chris Ryan]

Smoking darts with Gracie.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Yeah.

[Sean Fenesi]

Gracie Abrams. Are you a fan?

[Chris Ryan]

No, but I. You know, they're obviously. They're staying together.

[Amanda Dobbins]

You think so?

[Sean Fenesi]

You think for good.

[Chris Ryan]

If I had to bet, if I was a betting man, they've gone past the point where it would just be convenient for like, pop paparazzi points.

[Sean Fenesi]

Do you think Wedding bells. Right.

[Chris Ryan]

For them, maybe.

[Sean Fenesi]

Interesting. Joe Alwyn plays Bartholomew in this film.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Okay. 175. Joe Allen has good taste in films. I don't remember or know who Bartholomew is, but that's fine.

[Sean Fenesi]

Emily Watson plays Mary. Emily Watson, wonderful actress.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Agnes is a great name.

[Sean Fenesi]

It was on the list.

[Amanda Dobbins]

It was. That's really nice. I think it would have been on the list for us as well, though. We know. We know an Agnes. Like a similar generation Agnes. So I wouldn't want to say that.

[Chris Ryan]

Like, how many names? How many, like Steve's, do you guys know?

[Amanda Dobbins]

It's really.

[Chris Ryan]

No.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Yeah. No, There are no Chris's.

[Chris Ryan]

Dave.

[Amanda Dobbins]

There are no Sean.

[Sean Fenesi]

No. I've done this bit before with other parents. It's just Michael. There are no Michaels.

[Amanda Dobbins]

That preschool tour will just blow your hair back. You just look at those.

[Sean Fenesi]

Jonathan this. You just don't meet a Jonathan anymore.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Yeah.

[Sean Fenesi]

You're more likely to meet a George than a Jonathan in 2025.

[Chris Ryan]

It's just gonna be so crazy when it's like 2060 and it's like President Ryder, you know, like.

[Sean Fenesi]

Yeah. Longfellow. Yeah, yeah. They're all the names of the kids in Alice. I mean, we live in Los Angeles, the east side of Los Angeles.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Sean Fenesi]

So, yeah, the names are.

[Chris Ryan]

It's a bubble.

[Sean Fenesi]

It's a bubble. 200.

[Amanda Dobbins]

I mean, I. 210. Sure.

[Sean Fenesi]

211.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Okay. 212.

[Sean Fenesi]

213.

[Amanda Dobbins]

214.

[Chris Ryan]

Chunk it up.

[Sean Fenesi]

215.

[Amanda Dobbins]

You want to do it? Like, do you.

[Sean Fenesi]

I mean, I think this is going to be one of the big films of the year. I think it's going to be one of the Oscar heavyweights.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Okay. Okay. 2:18.

[Sean Fenesi]

I'll take it for 219.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Okay. There you go.

[Chris Ryan]

There you go.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Was that fun?

[Sean Fenesi]

It was. I feel good about it.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Okay.

[Sean Fenesi]

I needed an Oscar contender.

[Chris Ryan]

Proud owner.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Yeah. Great book. If you haven't read it. Upsetting, but great.

[Sean Fenesi]

This film is produced by Sam Mendes and Steven Spielberg.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Okay, well, good job.

[Sean Fenesi]

Very interesting. I wonder if they were both attached to direct at a certain point.

[Chris Ryan]

Oh, and then they were like, I won't. But I'll lend my name to it.

[Sean Fenesi]

Seems possible. We shall see. Okay, Chris, you've got to put a movie up.

[Chris Ryan]

I can't bid on it, but I can watch you two talk about out Caught stealing. Darren Aronofsky's comic thrower.

[Amanda Dobbins]

So what are the rules here?

[Sean Fenesi]

I don't know.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Like, do you.

[Sean Fenesi]

We've never been in this situation before.

[Chris Ryan]

Neither of you want it? I can throw up another one.

[Sean Fenesi]

I think we can just pass and move on to another. I really do. Did not like the trailer for this movie.

[Chris Ryan]

Okay.

[Amanda Dobbins]

I believe in the members of the cast, like, a lot. Austin Butler, Zoe Kravitz, Matt Smith, Regina King. Like, sure. Bad Bunny. Why not? Once again, I'm reading from Google AI. So if that's wrong, blame AI. Like everything else.

[Sean Fenesi]

You could click one button just to confirm.

[Amanda Dobbins]

I know, but, you know, it's suddenly like I had the.

[Sean Fenesi]

This is what has happened to America.

[Amanda Dobbins]

It's true.

[Sean Fenesi]

This is what has happened to the minds of consumers.

[Amanda Dobbins]

It's a time crunch thing. I don't.

[Sean Fenesi]

Not an issue on this episode.

[Amanda Dobbins]

But I can see Jack, like, holding his head in despair. Your lighting's great today and we have like a. It's like the corner of the TV is over your forehead. But then I see him being.

[Sean Fenesi]

No.

[Chris Ryan]

1 bidding for this.

[Sean Fenesi]

No one's bidding costume.

[Chris Ryan]

Do you want me to put up a different film or a second film? Now on the turn.

[Sean Fenesi]

I enjoy Darren Aronofsky's work, but this feels a little low rent for him, in my opinion.

[Chris Ryan]

I think it looks cool. And Austin Butler has got my vote. Same President Butler. Speaking of presidents House of Dynamics.

[Sean Fenesi]

Yeah.

[Amanda Dobbins]

That's the Bigelow.

[Sean Fenesi]

Yeah. This is interesting.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Okay.

[Sean Fenesi]

Have seen nary an image from this film.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Yeah.

[Sean Fenesi]

It's got, I believe, an October release date.

[Chris Ryan]

Is Idris Elba been in the White House too much just in his career. Yeah. To be believable in this House of Dynamite scenario in which I assume he is the president.

[Sean Fenesi]

He's first billed in the movie, so that seems logical.

[Chris Ryan]

Or maybe he's like.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Like. But maybe. Maybe it's one of those where the president is just in another room.

[Chris Ryan]

Is Greta Lee the president. Is Tracy Letts the president?

[Amanda Dobbins]

That would be great.

[Sean Fenesi]

I do. Tracy. I do not believe Tracy is the president of this film. I could be wrong. I've talked to him about this movie, but not what he's doing in the movie.

[Chris Ryan]

Okay.

[Sean Fenesi]

The log line is a group of White House officials scramble to deal with an incoming missile attack on the U.S. i don't know for sure, but I think it might even be a TikTok specifically of what happens when it is announced.

[Chris Ryan]

Not TikTok.

[Sean Fenesi]

Yes. CK is not the. Catherine Bigelow did not direct a TikTok.

[Amanda Dobbins]

For Netflix, although we do have to clarify in 2024.

[Sean Fenesi]

Maybe she should have done that. No. Like a little countdown from the moment when the missile is fired at the United States to what on what transpires, which is just A great premise for a movie.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Yeah.

[Sean Fenesi]

Fail Safe is a very similar premise. The Lumet movie. So Idris Elba, Rebecca Ferguson, Tracy Letts, Anthony Ramos, Greta Lee, Renee Elise Goldsberry.

[Chris Ryan]

That's a lot of Broadway talent right there.

[Sean Fenesi]

A lot of stage actors in the White house. I'll bid 10 bucks.

[Amanda Dobbins]

25.

[Sean Fenesi]

How do you feel about another year of Bigelow, Big Jim going toe to toe?

[Amanda Dobbins]

I. Historically, it's been fruitful. It has. That seems good.

[Sean Fenesi]

50 bucks. Kind of pumped about this.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Yeah.

[Sean Fenesi]

White House threw it.

[Chris Ryan]

Directed.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Listen, I'm very 60.

[Sean Fenesi]

75. This could just become a movie that doesn't exist. Like, it's possible that it comes out and people are like, okay. And then they move on. It could be like, it's a Catherine Bigelow movie.

[Chris Ryan]

It could be like Triple Frontier, which she was supposed to direct, but it could be like one of those movies where it's like, man, I'm so pumped. And then it comes out on Netflix and everybody like, cool.

[Sean Fenesi]

But it never died in our memory. Yeah, that's a big one.

[Chris Ryan]

Our personal rewatch.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Big size Twixes.

[Chris Ryan]

I do remember that.

[Amanda Dobbins]

That was. That was a great day.

[Sean Fenesi]

Great day. 85.

[Amanda Dobbins]

90.

[Sean Fenesi]

That's. I feel like the awareness of this in the public at large is low.

[Amanda Dobbins]

True.

[Chris Ryan]

I would say that for a lot of these films.

[Sean Fenesi]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. 95.

[Amanda Dobbins]

I mean, what am I going to do if I don't do this?

[Sean Fenesi]

This would give me Big Jim, James Gunn, Chloe Zhao and Kathryn Bigelow. If I could get this film, that would be solid.

[Amanda Dobbins]

$100. Because I believe in women filmmakers.

[Sean Fenesi]

I'm not even making this about gender. I don't see gender.

[Amanda Dobbins]

No.

[Chris Ryan]

I only see a missile coming right at us.

[Sean Fenesi]

What I see is a thriller, a pulse pounding thriller from one of our great thriller makers.

[Amanda Dobbins]

All right.

[Sean Fenesi]

105. Have you seen Point Break recently?

[Amanda Dobbins]

Yeah, it's really good. 110.

[Sean Fenesi]

Wow, that's a film. 115.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Are we. Are like, are we just going to do this all the way? 1. 120.

[Sean Fenesi]

I don't know. Jack is so. He's like so hungry.

[Chris Ryan]

He wants. He's not Frenchie so bad.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Yeah. Oh, yeah. Can we get. Will you throw string cheeses in here? Will that like interrupt with the, like.

[Sean Fenesi]

Let'S run it right now. Oh, string cheese.

[Amanda Dobbins]

120. Okay. Yeah. 120. I feel good about that.

[Sean Fenesi]

130.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Okay. 135.

[Sean Fenesi]

140. I'm sorry, Chris. This is just. This is important.

[Chris Ryan]

I agree. I wasn't yawning.

[Amanda Dobbins]

145.

[Sean Fenesi]

150, Bigelow.

[Amanda Dobbins]

155. Like, who's saying? Who's saying? No, not me.

[Sean Fenesi]

Would you have bid on this, Chris?

[Chris Ryan]

Yeah. It's gonna be sick.

[Sean Fenesi]

You got. Now you see me.

[Chris Ryan]

That was more like. I thought I was gonna throw that out there. There was gonna be some laughs. I didn't really think I was gonna wind up.

[Sean Fenesi]

Here we go.

[Amanda Dobbins]

All right.

[Sean Fenesi]

Nice.

[Amanda Dobbins]

There we go.

[Sean Fenesi]

One, two. Oh, dear.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Okay. Thank you.

[Sean Fenesi]

Thank you.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Sick. All right.

[Sean Fenesi]

Wow. String cheese break.

[Chris Ryan]

A bunch of people eating cheese on video.

[Sean Fenesi]

People love it when cheese is in someone's mouth and they talk. People love to hear that.

[Amanda Dobbins]

So this is. This is cold. So that is bad for you, lactose wise? I don't know how much lactose is in that.

[Sean Fenesi]

I do have some mozzarella allowances.

[Chris Ryan]

Did you get that piece of information? Where'd you get that from?

[Amanda Dobbins]

Sean? So I'm cold.

[Chris Ryan]

Cheese is bad for you.

[Sean Fenesi]

Cooked cheese. If you're lactose intolerant is. Okay. There's like, gradation.

[Amanda Dobbins]

155.

[Sean Fenesi]

I'm not officially diagnosed. 165.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Do you think Catherine Bickelow eats string cheese on set? No.

[Sean Fenesi]

What do you think?

[Amanda Dobbins]

Catherine Bigelow. He's on at 1 7.

[Chris Ryan]

She vapes if she does.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Do you know that?

[Chris Ryan]

No, but it seems like something that she would do.

[Sean Fenesi]

She probably has, like, a protein bowl.

[Chris Ryan]

Yeah. What's in the protein bowl?

[Amanda Dobbins]

Is that acai?

[Sean Fenesi]

Is.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Is it protein? I don't think that is. It's superfood. But.

[Sean Fenesi]

175.

[Amanda Dobbins]

180. I've never had an acai bowl.

[Chris Ryan]

There's too many blueberries in it for me.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Yeah. Like, I don't. It's just not a food center.

[Sean Fenesi]

You can have it for 180.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Sick. Okay.

[Sean Fenesi]

It's a good get.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Thanks. I'm excited.

[Sean Fenesi]

It's also a Netflix movie.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Well, whatever. I don't care. As I said, I exist outside of box office.

[Sean Fenesi]

I exist for the cinema. That's what I exist for. Which is why I acquired Superman.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Cool.

[Sean Fenesi]

You put another movie movie up Me? Think so. No. Cr.

[Chris Ryan]

Well, I put up cut stealing.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Oh, yeah.

[Chris Ryan]

I put up pos. Dynamite.

[Sean Fenesi]

So then it'll be me.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Yeah. H.

[Sean Fenesi]

How do I thread the needle here?

[Amanda Dobbins]

I don't know, Sean.

[Sean Fenesi]

I'll put. It was just an accident. For $1 on the board, Jafar Panahi's Pom Door winning new film acquired by Neon.

[Amanda Dobbins]

And what is the release date? It does. It's October, right?

[Sean Fenesi]

October yeah, Certainly one of the big awards contenders of the year. Iranian thriller.

[Amanda Dobbins]

I mean, it's not going to do box office, but Oscar wise.

[Sean Fenesi]

I mean.

[Amanda Dobbins]

I'll do 40 if you want it. You can take it from me.

[Sean Fenesi]

I'll take it for 41.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Okay.

[Sean Fenesi]

I feel like I need to pump up those Oscar numbers and that Metacritic score.

[Chris Ryan]

Got to get those numbers up, you know.

[Sean Fenesi]

What is Jafar Panahi's history? Those are rookie on Metacritic. Pump up those numbers. My quant on this. So he has a career average score of 82 on Metacritic.

[Amanda Dobbins]

You're just. You're a wizard of strategy, Sean.

[Sean Fenesi]

And we're no bears. Had a 93. 93.

[Amanda Dobbins]

All right.

[Sean Fenesi]

It was just an accident. Currently sits at 87.

[Amanda Dobbins]

What?

[Chris Ryan]

You won Metacritic.

[Sean Fenesi]

Yeah.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Congratulations.

[Chris Ryan]

So you pull it apart.

[Amanda Dobbins]

I don't always, but right now I am. What's up with if I have money left over?

[Chris Ryan]

Oh, I have money left over. Right.

[Amanda Dobbins]

No, I know, but like, where does it go? Does it go away? Do I want to spend everything? Do I want to.

[Sean Fenesi]

It goes right into the budget of Steel Magnolias too.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Yeah, but does it go back to me? Me?

[Sean Fenesi]

No. Under no circumstances. So you've got $40 left. Okay, I've got $378 left.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Sure.

[Sean Fenesi]

So good luck to you on whatever it is that you want.

[Amanda Dobbins]

No, I know exactly what I'm going to do. I'm not stressed at all. I just want to make sure I get the full title right. For $40, I'll take down Nabby. The grand finale.

[Sean Fenesi]

This is valueless though, because it will not cross $100 million. It will not get any Oscar nominations.

[Amanda Dobbins]

I'll tell you what, I will tell you this.

[Sean Fenesi]

Please stop pointing at me.

[Chris Ryan]

What happened? Did this kick in?

[Sean Fenesi]

I will tell you what.

[Amanda Dobbins]

It's pure protein. Yeah, I had the protein boost.

[Sean Fenesi]

You actually are now more channeling Margaret Thatcher. I would say if I had to choose a female leader. Yeah, the Iron Lady.

[Amanda Dobbins]

That's. I mean, listen, that's fine. Except for my hair. It's actually not fine. That's fine.

[Sean Fenesi]

That's fine.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Because of her policies, I'm down. Down with Margaret Thatcher. Down with Mar. Maggie, you seen that YouTube clip of the Irish lady?

[Chris Ryan]

Of course.

[Amanda Dobbins]

That's one of the great ones. The first film.

[Sean Fenesi]

What is going on?

[Amanda Dobbins]

The first down Nabi film made like.

[Chris Ryan]

$98 million as it continued its. Its box office.

[Amanda Dobbins]

2022 was a weird year at the box office. And I have to tell you, you down, Abby, the grand tour or whatever. The second one was called. Was an excellent film.

[Sean Fenesi]

Yeah. It was titled down Abby Colon F1.

[Chris Ryan]

There's nothing like getting two. Two hours deep into a pod and having you on the verge of tears. As you recall, the box office performance of ground down Abby 2.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Did you ever see Down Abby too?

[Chris Ryan]

No.

[Amanda Dobbins]

So Sybil. No, Sybil's dead. Sorry. Sybil's daughter.

[Sean Fenesi]

You cannot do this right now.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Inheritance inherits a mansion in France.

[Chris Ryan]

Okay.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Because. Well, actually, I guess Lady Violet inherits it. That's Maggie Smith.

[Chris Ryan]

She's still on the show.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Downton Abbey too. She was Force Ghost Maggie Smith and. But so then they all go to the south of France.

[Chris Ryan]

Did you ever see Flight Plan?

[Amanda Dobbins]

And the guy who is the. No, that's the Mel Gibson one. Right.

[Sean Fenesi]

This is like I. We do every episode together. This is what it's like all the time.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Like Rome. What was his name? The guy from the bureau who's like the handler, who's not the main guy?

[Chris Ryan]

Uhhuh. I don't. I don't remember. Honestly.

[Amanda Dobbins]

He's his long lost cousin. Okay.

[Sean Fenesi]

So down Abbey 1 made $198 million worldwide. Down Abbey 2 made $92 million worldwide.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Yeah, I. Again, I don't care.

[Sean Fenesi]

As I.

[Amanda Dobbins]

As I said when we started that I'm doing this for me. Okay? And I am fucking psyched for Downton the Grand Finale.

[Sean Fenesi]

I'm on the record as enjoying all of these movies. So Lily James will be appearing as Late Lady Rose. Matthew.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Matthew Good is not available for one day to film. Yes.

[Sean Fenesi]

He's being listed in the cast. He is listed in the cast of the Grand Finale.

[Chris Ryan]

And he's not Scottish in Department Q. He's an Englishman. But he's in Scotland working in Edinburgh.

[Sean Fenesi]

Yeah.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Okay.

[Sean Fenesi]

No, he's not listed. I lied.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Mm. He's not. It's too bad he's not in the trailer.

[Chris Ryan]

Do you really need a 50 ounce water if you're only gonna drink 3 ounces of it? Have you thought about that?

[Amanda Dobbins]

It's true that I. My hydration goals have been stymied. Stymied by my embrace of the free iced latte.

[Sean Fenesi]

Yeah. So I.

[Amanda Dobbins]

But I do. Because then you don't have to refill it as much.

[Sean Fenesi]

Much.

[Chris Ryan]

This is. This is your.

[Sean Fenesi]

I can get anything I want for $378.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Okay.

[Sean Fenesi]

H. Can you guys vamp for a second? Sure.

[Chris Ryan]

Here's some movies that I was like, kind of considering throwing out because I don't think Sean's going to throw any of these. Blue Moon, the Richard Linklater Movie about Lawrence Hart and his night at Sardis with Ethan Hawk.

[Sean Fenesi]

Very excited about that.

[Chris Ryan]

Margaret Qualley. Andrew Scott, who apparently gives a wonderful performance in this film. Film. And then a movie I would like to see with you.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Yes.

[Chris Ryan]

It's called Pressure, and it's directed by John Carney, and it's about a meteorologist who has to give the D Day weather forecast. And it also stars Andrew Scott.

[Sean Fenesi]

Wow.

[Chris Ryan]

Yeah.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Yes.

[Chris Ryan]

Yeah.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Let's go.

[Sean Fenesi]

Yeah.

[Chris Ryan]

And there's an American guy in it, but it's not Scoot McNary. But it was something where I was like, holy, there's an American guy in this pressure movie.

[Amanda Dobbins]

I'm Googling it now. Well, no, that's about. About sea diving. But Matthew Good is apparently in the 2015 film Pressure. Pressure Movie. Andrew Scott.

[Chris Ryan]

The other one that I was really kind of fired up about, but I don't think Sean is gonna take is Sacrifice, which is the new film from Romaine Garvis, who made Athena. And this is a movie. What's that? Sorry. And this one's Anya Taylor Joy and Chris Evans.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Evans.

[Chris Ryan]

And Anya Taylor Joy plays a political radical who kidnaps a movie star played by Chris Evans.

[Sean Fenesi]

Oh, don't know if that's coming out.

[Chris Ryan]

This year, but I just was saying that I. I'm interested.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Is Nouvel Vogue coming out this year?

[Sean Fenesi]

It is.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Okay. I mean, but also Netflix, which is why I. I've got. I'm too heavy on Netflix.

[Chris Ryan]

You're also going to miss lots.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Well, I know, but that's why I did Downton Abbey, the grand finale.

[Sean Fenesi]

Can I throw out some things I'm thinking about? Of?

[Amanda Dobbins]

Yeah, sure.

[Sean Fenesi]

I'm thinking of on the Netflix side. Wake up, dead Man. Which feels like a return to a slightly more serious tone for Ryan Johnson.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Okay.

[Sean Fenesi]

Starring Josh o' Connor as a priest. Or is he.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Or is he.

[Sean Fenesi]

Frankenstein? Gdt. I didn't think I'd have much competition for you guys, but I am looking forward to it.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Ch Paa.

[Sean Fenesi]

You think Frankenstein will sing Ch Papa in the film?

[Amanda Dobbins]

Frankenstein is also a fascist.

[Chris Ryan]

The Doctor or the.

[Amanda Dobbins]

The monster Guillermo del Toro made? Well, I mean, I think Pinocchio, like, maybe had fascist origins. I'm not really sure, but yeah, he was in.

[Chris Ryan]

You know, it's crazy. Mussolini's grandson got signed by an Italian soccer club, and he looks a lot like him.

[Sean Fenesi]

That's great.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Does he. He doesn't use Mussolini.

[Chris Ryan]

He sure does. I don't know if you visited Italy recently, but you're about to get a.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Okay.

[Sean Fenesi]

Does he do, like the whole. The stance and the posture and the.

[Chris Ryan]

No looking him up.

[Sean Fenesi]

The secret agent. I'm thinking about Clabber Mendoka Filo's movie. Brazilian film starring Mora.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Okay.

[Sean Fenesi]

Begonia.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Yeah. You do see it. Yeah.

[Sean Fenesi]

Grazi Milligrazi.

[Chris Ryan]

Of course. He's playing for Latzi.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Gosh.

[Sean Fenesi]

The mastermind.

[Chris Ryan]

Yeah.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Yeah.

[Sean Fenesi]

Kelly Reichert's Kelly Reichert.

[Chris Ryan]

Hell yeah.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Is the drama coming out this year?

[Sean Fenesi]

It's on my list. I don't know.

[Chris Ryan]

It's not.

[Amanda Dobbins]

That's another one. That's the Robert Pattinson Zendaya A24 experience. I'm open to it.

[Sean Fenesi]

As you can see. It's. So the movies I got left on my list just to keep previewing things. Predator Badlands we briefly mentioned. I did put the Fantastic Four first steps.

[Chris Ryan]

It looks like Sanding lives on a planet of predators.

[Sean Fenesi]

It does. I believe she's an Android.

[Chris Ryan]

Well, she definitely gets like. Her eyes do something funny.

[Sean Fenesi]

Yeah.

[Chris Ryan]

But she seems like she's pretty human in her response to the.

[Sean Fenesi]

We should do a watch along of Killer of Killers with Amanda and she's never seen it before. Oh, yeah. Animated Predator film.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Okay.

[Sean Fenesi]

It's an omnibus movie about four different figures in history who have gone toe to toe with a predator.

[Chris Ryan]

You know how we were talking about. About Craig.

[Amanda Dobbins]

But don't tell me who they are.

[Sean Fenesi]

I won't. I'm just saying Mary Poppins.

[Amanda Dobbins]

But I would.

[Sean Fenesi]

Are they like Julia Robertson, Mother's Day.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Are they obscure pieces like figures in history? Or is it like Napoleon?

[Sean Fenesi]

They're archetypal warriors.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Okay. But not Napoleon.

[Sean Fenesi]

Not. No famous figures in history. More, you know, it's like a samurai.

[Amanda Dobbins]

For the next movie. Okay.

[Sean Fenesi]

Okay. That's good. I would say that Running Man.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Oh, yeah, yeah.

[Sean Fenesi]

Tron Aries.

[Chris Ryan]

No, didn't CR. Take that in the first auction.

[Sean Fenesi]

Oh, yes, you did. That's right. Thank you, Jack.

[Chris Ryan]

Tron Aries. No.

[Amanda Dobbins]

There'S another one I was interested in.

[Chris Ryan]

Kaczynski did the first Tron reboot. Right.

[Sean Fenesi]

He did. You Tron.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Smashing Machine.

[Sean Fenesi]

I've already seen it.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Yeah. So I should.

[Chris Ryan]

I should have thought about Supreme.

[Sean Fenesi]

You could have had the Safdie double.

[Amanda Dobbins]

I could have. And my heart. I do.

[Sean Fenesi]

Yeah. In my spiritual board I have the Smashing Machine.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Okay.

[Sean Fenesi]

But unfortunately I can't select it here. I'll take Predator Badlands just for kicks.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Okay.

[Sean Fenesi]

Movie. That's probably not going to score me too many points, but I'm super excited about. And Trachtenberg does.

[Chris Ryan]

We're doing the. For me.

[Sean Fenesi]

Have fun List. Trachtenberg has been killing it. 10 Cloverfield Lane. Prey. Hey. Killer of killers. And now Predator Badlands. Well, we'll do it for $1.

[Chris Ryan]

For $1. So we're all going to walk out of here with cash.

[Amanda Dobbins]

No, I didn't. I spent at all.

[Chris Ryan]

Oh, how?

[Amanda Dobbins]

Yeah, but it doesn't go anywhere, so.

[Chris Ryan]

Well, we'll see.

[Sean Fenesi]

We'll listen to the weapons pod and see where that money goes. You know, that's what it's all about.

[Chris Ryan]

Find these kids.

[Sean Fenesi]

Let's recap our picks. Chris, why don't you go first?

[Chris Ryan]

I got ballot of a small player for 165, weapons for 465. Is this thing on? $70. Now you see me, colon. Now you don't. For $36. And for $60, I got Bruce Springsteen, Deliver Me from Nowhere. You're fucking killing it. Look at that.

[Sean Fenesi]

That's a really weird board, you know.

[Amanda Dobbins]

You wouldn't want it any other way.

[Sean Fenesi]

I'm happy for you. Avatar Fire and Ash for $300 for me. Superman for 62 bucks. Hamnet for doll, an accident for $41. And Predator Badlands for $1.

[Amanda Dobbins]

We got after the Hunt for $260. Roofman for $100. J. Kelly for $420. A House of Dynamite for $180. And Down Abbey, the grand finale for $40.

[Chris Ryan]

I got to say, you could be such a goofball. And then, like, as soon as you do voiceover, you're like. And then I got House of Dynamite and I.

[Sean Fenesi]

That was your NPR voice.

[Chris Ryan]

I love it.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Thank you.

[Sean Fenesi]

The thing about this game, which is very stupid, is that we can put this graphic on social media. People can be like, oh, my God, this person did amazing. It's all contextual. It's all about the flow of the game when it's happening.

[Chris Ryan]

Maybe instead we should just put a picture of Mussolini's grandson up.

[Sean Fenesi]

We'll probably do better numbers.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Great grandson.

[Sean Fenesi]

Yeah.

[Chris Ryan]

Great grandson.

[Sean Fenesi]

Yeah. That's it.

[Amanda Dobbins]

That's a good one.

[Sean Fenesi]

No other thoughts? We're talking about Superman later this week. We're seeing it tomorrow. How you feeling?

[Amanda Dobbins]

I'm excited. I wish we had time for dinner beforehand.

[Sean Fenesi]

Oh, do we not? I guess we don't.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Yeah. Because of our children.

[Sean Fenesi]

Yeah. Shoot. What about after? Can break it all down.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Okay.

[Sean Fenesi]

Talk about that immigrant story. No.

[Chris Ryan]

You could do the pod before the pod.

[Sean Fenesi]

I know it's tough. You and Andy don't do that. You guys task.

[Chris Ryan]

We try not to. To retext you text.

[Sean Fenesi]

Amanda and I rarely talk about the movie.

[Chris Ryan]

Andy likes to text during his watching of episodes.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Okay. And how do you feel about that?

[Sean Fenesi]

That sounds terrible.

[Chris Ryan]

Well, it's usually quite charming, intelligent and funny, but I'm always like, save it for the pod.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Yeah, it's tough. Now I'm hungry.

[Sean Fenesi]

Thanks. Thanks to our producer, Jack Sanders, for his work on this episode. No, thanks to Sam for cooking up this new scoring system. And we'll see you for Superman. Bye.