The 2026 Movie Auction

Summary

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Podcast Summary: The Big Picture – "The 2026 Movie Auction"

Host: Sean Fennessey
Co-hosts: Amanda Dobbins, Chris Ryan
Date: January 14, 2026
Theme: The annual Movie Auction – draft-style picks of the most anticipated movies of 2026, broken down with insider strategy, predictions for box office and awards, and plenty of pop culture banter.

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Overview

In this highly anticipated annual episode, Sean, Amanda, and Chris continue the show’s tradition of the Movie Auction: a spirited draft where each host bids on 2026 film releases based on a faux $1,000 budget, with points awarded for box office success, critical acclaim, and Oscar contention. They revisit last year’s results, break down strategy and rule changes, then launch into an intense, often hilarious, bidding war on 2026’s buzziest (and oddest) movies. The episode is packed with personal movie tastes, industry predictions, friendly trash talk, and digressions on sports, hydration habits, and more.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. The Movie Auction Rules & Reflections

• Auction Mechanics: Each host gets $1,000 to bid on five movies per slate (10 total for the year), choosing from the most anticipated films of 2026.
• Scoring System:
  • At least two picks must cross $100M at the domestic box office
  • One must receive at least two Oscar nominations
  • One must score 85+ on Metacritic (a high bar)
  • No more than two sequels in total
• Reflecting on 2025: The hosts analyze last year’s hits and misses, with many lessons on Netflix movies not being box-office plays and the Metacritic bar being almost prohibitively high.

"No one has ever accused you of anything."
—Chris Ryan [06:13]

"The ironic thing is that's how everyone deals with you."
—Amanda Dobbins, ribbing Sean on his loose rules [09:09]

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2. Awards Season Fatigue and Shifting Focus (03:00–05:00)

• The hosts are clearly tired of award-season discourse and declare an intent to pivot toward new films.
• Agreement across the panel on looking to the future rather than rehashing Oscar-season politics.

"We're going to take just, like, a little bit of a break from awards season for the next week and a half until the Oscar nominations are announced because we've been just talking about it way too much."
—Sean Fennessy [04:27]

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3. State of the Franchise Blockbuster and Changing Box Office Tastes (36:39–40:10)

• Sean, Amanda, and Chris analyze the declining returns of legacy franchises like Jurassic, Fast, and Star Wars, while observing new franchises ramping up—Super Mario Bros, Minecraft.
• They debate whether hyperniche media consumption is reshaping film journalism and audience engagement.
• Blockbusters are still reliable for box office points within the auction rules, even as creative cycles shift.

"I've been using the phrase hyperniche lately to explain how all media consumption works, where people just in very, very loyal, dedicated and aggressive packs move to the thing that they really care about."
—Sean Fennessy [38:26]

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4. The Auction Begins: Spirited, Strategic, and Hysterical (41:03–106:13)

Major Highlights:

• Fierce Bidding on Nolan’s The Odyssey:
  • Amanda, Chris, and Sean go all-out for Nolan’s adaptation, pushing the price above $900.
  • Interludes on Greek baby names, vacation stories, and how Anne Hathaway became omnipresent in 2026.
  • Chris and Sean's escalating rivalry for the pick provides running meta-commentary on both their egos and love of cinema.

"Why do you feel you need this? ... I've been thinking a lot about risk in cinema."
—Chris Ryan [53:43]

"You don't get to tell me what I deserve. You are a guest in this chair."
—Sean Fennessy [51:32]

• Methodical Strategy & Self-Awareness:

  • Amanda laments her pure-of-heart strategy: “That’s what I did last year. And I have three points.” [35:50]
  • Chris claims to just “follow his passions” this year, then immediately proceeds to play hard for Resident Evil and Dune 3.
  • Sean, ever the data guy: “I’m a strategist. I’ve always been an editor and a strategist. And I will be until I die." [53:07]

• The Changing Metacritic Game:

  • The group realizes only a handful of movies clear the 85+ Metacritic threshold each year and debate if the rule is too strict.
  • Running joke: Sean set the bar too high and now everyone regrets it.

"Why are we using Metacritic then if Metacritic is giving... [movies] 81 and it was one of the most acclaimed horror movies the last 10 years?"
—Chris Ryan [73:47]

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Rapid-Fire, Notable Bidding Segments:

• Resident Evil (71:23): Chris prevails, riding the “Zach Kreger’s going to rock” hype.
• Toy Story 5 (86:22): Sean nabs it as a pure box office play.
• Dune Part 3 (75:00): Amanda wins after facing tough competition, acknowledging its immense box-office and awards prospects.
• Wuthering Heights (61:01): A buzzy Emerald Fennell adaptation, with much joking about the erotic energy of her influences.
• Project Hail Mary (90:39): Amanda bags this sci-fi adaptation after a measured back-and-forth with Chris.
• Devil Wears Prada 2 (94:19): Chris surprises the group (and maybe himself) by scooping up a crowd-pleasing sequel.
• Disclosure Day (103:00): The group expects Spielberg’s alien movie to be a box office monster.

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Notable Quotes and Memorable Moments

• Sports Analogies and Vida Real Talk:
  "If you bet on good leadership, you’ll never lose money."
  —Chris Ryan [21:54]

• Auction Trash Talk:
  "You don’t get to do it. You don’t get to come in at the end."
  —Chris Ryan, denying Sean the last bid on The Odyssey [51:32]

• Meta-Commentary:
  "Most people are kind of cycling out of pods at this point anyway, so I was just trying to get this up."
  —Sean Fennessy, breaking the fourth wall [52:47]

• Hydration Strategies:
  "I’ve moved to chugging an entire glass...every time I’m near the sink."
  —Amanda Dobbins, defending her switch from giant water bottles [24:47]

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5. Trends, Takeaways, and the Draft Results

2026 Film Climate:

• Consensus: 2026 is a dynamic but risky year for the movie industry. Some franchises are fading; streaming continues to complicate predictions; and the biggest points-makers remain genuinely unpredictable.
• Original movies like Digger (Tom Cruise + Iñárritu) and Jack of Spades (Joel Coen) hold the group’s critical curiosity, even if not their auction dollars.
• Colleen Hoover adaptations (Verity) and projects like Masters of the Universe and Mandalorian & Grogu capture the sense of audience fragmentation.

Critiques of Netflix/Amazon Strategies:

• Multiple picks regretted, since straight-to-streaming films rarely clear box office thresholds.
• Oscars potential remains alluring but rarely justifies big auction expenditures.

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2026 Movie Auction Final Drafts

Sean Fennessy:

• The Odyssey – $926
• Toy Story 5 – $1
• Narnia: The Magician’s Nephew – $18
• Digger – $5
• Jack of Spades – $50

Amanda Dobbins:

• Dune 3 – $775
• Project Hail Mary – $200
• The Social Reckoning – $1
• Verity – $5
• The Mandalorian and Grogu – $19

Chris Ryan:

• Wuthering Heights – $75
• Resident Evil – $72
• Devil Wears Prada 2 – $26
• The Adventures of Cliff Booth – $76
• Disclosure Day – $72

"I went Billy Beane here..."
—Chris Ryan [140:22], referencing his unconventional, spread-the-wealth strategy.

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6. Looking Ahead & The Spirit of the Big Picture

• The hosts will return for a second-round auction in July, as the evolving cinematic landscape (and maybe a few surprise hits/flops) shifts their outlook.
• Tradition, competition, and a celebration of moviegoing pulse through every moment. The real win: Keeping cinema-talk fun, personal, and unpredictable.

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• [01:35] – Hosts check-in, sports banter
• [04:27] – Awards fatigue, pivot to new movie season
• [07:13] – Auction rules & last year's recap
• [36:39] – Analyzing the shifting power of franchises
• [41:03] – Auction begins: The Odyssey bidding war
• [56:02] – Deathless devotion to sports teams and their misery
• [61:01] – Wuthering Heights discussion and bidding
• [75:00] – Dune Part 3 bidding & box office forecasting
• [86:22] – Toy Story 5, franchise value play
• [94:19] – Devil Wears Prada 2—nostalgia as commodity
• [103:00] – Disclosure Day and the Spielberg event movie
• [140:01] – Final rosters and closing thoughts

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The Big Picture’s 2026 Movie Auction:

All about loving the draft, loving movies, and not taking the game (or each other) too seriously.

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Transcript

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[Sean Fennessy]

I'm Sean Fennessy.

[Amanda Dobbins]

I'm amand.

[Sean Fennessy]

This is the big picture. A conversation show about auctioning CR is here. It's January, so of course we need to do a new auction. Hi, Chris. Hey. It's been a while since you've been on the pod. What have you been doing?

[Amanda Dobbins]

Happy new year.

[Chris Ryan]

Happy new year to you guys.

[Sean Fennessy]

What's been going on?

[Chris Ryan]

You both look great.

[Sean Fennessy]

Oh, thanks. I said you look slim this morning.

[Chris Ryan]

I didn't know how to take it.

[Sean Fennessy]

Maybe it's the hat.

[Chris Ryan]

It's possible. It gives me a little bit of elevation, as does this chair that I'm using because I was tired of being interesting in the cuck chair of the picture.

[Sean Fennessy]

You are. Is that a tribute to Bryce Harper? What's happening with the hat?

[Chris Ryan]

I fully believe everything Bryce Harper thinks about raw milk, about his contract. Yeah.

[Sean Fennessy]

That explains your height.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Is there a contract negotiation for Bryce? No.

[Chris Ryan]

He's just. He doesn't want a salary cap in the mlb and Rob Manfred suggested there might be one, and he was like, get the fuck out of my locker room.

[Sean Fennessy]

But you feel that there should be because labor should be controlled by the oligarchy.

[Chris Ryan]

I really do believe that. Yeah.

[Sean Fennessy]

Amanda, how?

[Chris Ryan]

I like capping talent. I like keeping us, like, kind of all in the same spot, you know?

[Sean Fennessy]

Okay. Strong take from you.

[Amanda Dobbins]

I like this as a. As a pop of color also. Thanks. So that's good. We have a. We have A real issue in my home. Just speaking in the Phillies for a second where Knox wants an Eagles baseball helmet, and I'm just like, I don't know how to explain that. That's not. He. Like, he wants, you know, a batting helmet. He wants, like, a hard hat, but he wants it in the Eagle style.

[Sean Fennessy]

That must be available.

[Chris Ryan]

I'm pretend it's not. It seemed like a really, like. It seemed like a tough buy, a tough purchase.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Yeah.

[Chris Ryan]

And it also seemed like something that Amanda would work really hard to get. He would wear once and then be like, I'm done.

[Sean Fennessy]

Well, I'm familiar with that mode of operation, for sure. You know, Amanda and I have just been potting our hearts away about award season.

[Chris Ryan]

How are you feeling about the output? You guys are really cranking it. Do you like being in this place or would you rather be in a more, like, long form considered spot?

[Sean Fennessy]

Thanks for asking. Here's the problem. It's working, and it will destroy us.

[Chris Ryan]

Like, because you guys did 25 for 25, I thought everybody was going to just downshift a little bit, spend more time with their families, maybe read books instead. There's still three a week, four a week. Sometimes.

[Sean Fennessy]

Literally after this week, it will go back to two a week. We had an award show.

[Amanda Dobbins]

I know you say that now.

[Sean Fennessy]

Well, I mean, you just can see the schedule. Trying to be disciplined.

[Amanda Dobbins]

It's. Right. But that's okay.

[Sean Fennessy]

Yeah.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Other things keep popping up. We had a break. We did. We took two weeks away. And I think that was good for restorative. It was sort of. That was work restorative. Was that home restorative? I don't know. You saw me on the very last day before Break it as a shell of a person. I think that we're experiencing a little bit of award season fatigue. We are, the two of us. Because we know that it's two months from now. I listened to you and Andy talk about the Golden Globes, and I heard that you experienced Golden Globes fatigue to the point that you just left halfway through to get a drink.

[Sean Fennessy]

Yeah. A few small beers for you in the middle of the show.

[Chris Ryan]

I just was like, we'll see. Like, you know, Phoebe had gotten back, and I was like, why don't we go get a glass of wine or a couple of Steagalls and, you know, abandon this. This pop stand.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Okay.

[Sean Fennessy]

I mean, I can't say I blame you. We're going to take just, like, a little bit of a break from awards season for the next week and a half until The Oscar nominations are announced because we've been just talking about it way too much later.

[Chris Ryan]

It also feels like we've now. Now we hit the point where everybody's going to lose their minds about these movies too.

[Sean Fennessy]

Where.

[Chris Ryan]

And we're going to, like, deconstruct them to the point of.

[Sean Fennessy]

I witnessed a little outburst of discourse around the political nature of the films nominated for the Oscars over the last couple days. We'll be staying that entirely. I feel like we did our due diligence on all that. I'm going to stay out of it. We're here, really, to talk about new movies and what's happening this year.

[Chris Ryan]

Let's go. This is always. This is.

[Amanda Dobbins]

We're looking ahead.

[Chris Ryan]

I always want to point forward.

[Sean Fennessy]

Yes.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Yeah.

[Sean Fennessy]

And it's a. It's a very exciting year. We did our anticipated movies episode. After we do that episode, we always do this auction where we kind of identify what are the movies that we all want? What are our individual interests. We've been doing this for, I think, three years now.

[Chris Ryan]

Remind me the origins of this. Was it. I was like, how much would you pay to see this movie right now? The idea.

[Sean Fennessy]

I think so. This was your idea. The audience.

[Chris Ryan]

But it has evolved into a kind of more of a Kalshee Polymarket kind of.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Yeah, a little bit. And it's become more disciplined, which is sad.

[Sean Fennessy]

This game has. The episodes historically are not.

[Chris Ryan]

They're not. Yeah.

[Amanda Dobbins]

I mean, that is true. But I mean, I'll never forget the very first episodes. Pre video. Still in the pandemic, all remote. The timer was like, in effect, in the sense that it was Bobby Wagner. Just like Voice of godding. Every 20 seconds, you have run out of time.

[Sean Fennessy]

Seconds. Seven seconds.

[Amanda Dobbins]

And. And you making some absolutely wild bids.

[Chris Ryan]

And obviously what I'm doing is working for me.

[Amanda Dobbins]

And now.

[Sean Fennessy]

Because you are a great success.

[Chris Ryan]

No, just because.

[Sean Fennessy]

A man to be admired.

[Chris Ryan]

I'm just staying true to who I am, you know?

[Sean Fennessy]

No one has ever accused you of anything.

[Chris Ryan]

Exactly what I said I was going to do in my yearbook picture, you know.

[Sean Fennessy]

And yet you chose to bump that chair up to indicate that you are somehow taller than you actually are.

[Chris Ryan]

I used to sit on the right. I don't like sitting in the middle, but if I do, I need a little bit more of the high ground.

[Amanda Dobbins]

And the table has gotten smaller. So, you know, we're close.

[Chris Ryan]

You guys are doing all sorts of stuff with interior design. I'm big believers in the project.

[Sean Fennessy]

I haven't made a single choice. But Amanda has literally, painstakingly, for months been trying to refashion this space.

[Chris Ryan]

Now that she's done, though, can you start putting, like, the most obscene movie posters?

[Amanda Dobbins]

I'm never done.

[Sean Fennessy]

I'm literally gonna get the Jenny McCarthy poster I. When I was 13 years old of her in Playboy, just up on that.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Wall in your solo shot. Okay, so as long as it's not with me, I don't care.

[Sean Fennessy]

That would be something. How would I explain that to my family?

[Chris Ryan]

28 Years Later's Dong hanging over your ear?

[Sean Fennessy]

Save that for later this week, please. So, like I said, we've been playing this for a few years, and we did, in fact, do it last year, and the results are mostly in on our auctions.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Yeah, yeah.

[Sean Fennessy]

Before we get into that, I probably should re explain the trigger rules that we set because they're a little confusing. And also, I just want to note right at the outset, I think I may have broken my own rules and disqualified myself in contention this year.

[Amanda Dobbins]

What a surprise.

[Sean Fennessy]

But I can't remember what we said. So, generally speaking, what we get is we all get $1,000. Our films have to be on the year slate that are coming out. Each slate, once in January and once in July, has five movies. So we'll each be going for five movies. We each got 10 movies total last year, and the triggers were at least two of your films must gross $100 million domestically. At least one film must receive at least two Oscar nominations. We don't have the answer to that question yet, but we can surmise more or less where we're going with that. At least one of your films must hit an 85 meta score on Metacritic, which is unusual. Only between 10 and 20 films a year get that score right, and then no more than two sequels. Now, the no more than two sequels thing, was that Per Slate that rule?

[Chris Ryan]

I don't remember, because these are all your rules. So, okay, you had a meeting with yourself to discuss these bylaws. Amanda and I were not invited.

[Sean Fennessy]

Well, I asked because I had two sequels in round one and two sequels in round two, so. So I assume it was that. It was Per.

[Chris Ryan]

I remember there being some. I think I. The sequels thing up once or maybe, like, I did something where I thought I was, like, a genius, and then I was like, oh, no, now I have. Like, I have. I have to pick sequels or I don't have sequels or something. But, like, you, you seemed to be fine with everything, you know?

[Amanda Dobbins]

Okay, now that you say that and I'm looking at your slate, I would have said that you did Jurassic World Rebirth. And then we're like, I have to save my other sequel. Like, I think that that was something.

[Chris Ryan]

There was something like that right now.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Or I can't do another sequel.

[Sean Fennessy]

But no one called me on the fact that I auctioned off for four sequels.

[Amanda Dobbins]

At some point. The only way to survive when dealing with you is just to pretend it's not happening, you know, so we just didn't engage.

[Sean Fennessy]

The ironic thing is that's how everyone deals with you. So I had Mission Impossible Final Reckon.

[Chris Ryan]

It says no more than two sequels. And you have four sequels.

[Sean Fennessy]

Yes.

[Chris Ryan]

Whether it was. I don't know.

[Sean Fennessy]

Yeah, I genuinely don't know either. Regardless, why don't we just say going forward, two sequels total.

[Chris Ryan]

That's fine.

[Sean Fennessy]

I don't think anyone can really win this game because we didn't put anything on the line. And I don't know what it means to win. But I'll go through my slate from last year. I think all three of us had some good picks, some very bad picks. My slate, my round one slate was Mission Impossible Final Reckoning for 390 bucks. I did get one point because it got $100 million domestic. 28 years later for $355, that did not score any points. 77 Metacritic, $60 million box office.

[Amanda Dobbins]

But we all liked that film.

[Sean Fennessy]

Sure did.

[Amanda Dobbins]

You can feel good that you have it, you know, A big, bold, beautiful journey that was. You took a hit.

[Sean Fennessy]

One of. One of the worst picks in this auction.

[Chris Ryan]

$6 million in the box office, $6 million domestic.

[Amanda Dobbins]

It's on planes now, so you could really.

[Sean Fennessy]

I believe it's going to Netflix shortly. Yeah. 43 Metacritic score.

[Amanda Dobbins]

What production? Oh, how to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying. Is that what Colin Farrell does?

[Sean Fennessy]

I think that's right.

[Amanda Dobbins]

A part of.

[Sean Fennessy]

Yes.

[Amanda Dobbins]

You should watch it just for that. There's one sequence where Colin Farrell's starring in a. In a theater production.

[Sean Fennessy]

Okay. It's like a high school production of.

[Amanda Dobbins]

A very, very confusing.

[Chris Ryan]

Okay.

[Sean Fennessy]

Burger King plays a significant role in the film.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Yeah.

[Chris Ryan]

Do you like Burger King?

[Sean Fennessy]

I was just sharing this with somebody. I don't think I've eaten proper fast food in, like, 15 years. So I don't even know.

[Chris Ryan]

It's just not something.

[Amanda Dobbins]

I've had Chick Fil? A multiple times at my home.

[Sean Fennessy]

That was the one exception.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Yeah. I have, like, gone to get Chick Fil A and brought it to you.

[Chris Ryan]

Is that your only fast food?

[Amanda Dobbins]

Well, I'd say my most frequent for sure. And I'm trying to think. I can't really think of anything else. It obviously unofficially sponsored both my pregnancies, so that was, remember, like the Babylon draft we brought. I brought in just like a whole table full of Chick Fil A because it's the only way.

[Sean Fennessy]

And by sponsor you mean. Yeah, you paid for the food. Okay, I'll keep going. One battle after another. I got for $1. Yeah, that's scored one point so far.

[Chris Ryan]

How did that happen?

[Sean Fennessy]

Amanda kind of gave it to me.

[Amanda Dobbins]

It's fine. You kind of. No, it's fine. I gave it to you. And there is. I set the tone for the year and we didn't follow up on it of, you know, generosity and friendship.

[Sean Fennessy]

Okay. That film has a 95 Metacritic score, which is extraordinarily high.

[Amanda Dobbins]

It's a really good movie.

[Sean Fennessy]

We don't know how many Oscar nominations it's going to get, but it's going to get more than two. So that'll be at least two points there. Eddington for $204, which has a 65 Metacritic score and a $10 million total box office domestic take, but is a great.

[Chris Ryan]

I thought it did better than that, box office wise.

[Sean Fennessy]

No, no, no, no. But I think we've all been, you know, I think it's been recognized as being not just prescient, but on the money in many ways. My second round, I got Avatar Fire and Ash. Not a bad pick. Probably gonna get two Oscar nominations, maybe only one. We'll see how it goes with sound, but it'll get visual effects for sure. That was 300 bucks, so that's two more than likely two points. I got Superman for $62. That crossed the $100 million threshold. Hamnet for one point. That's almost certainly going to get two Oscar nominations.

[Amanda Dobbins]

So it's 84 Metacritic right now.

[Sean Fennessy]

84. It didn't.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Didn't make it.

[Sean Fennessy]

Didn't make it. And I don't think that's going to shift on the cr. Are you going to file your Metacritic review of Hamnet anytime soon? I heard you haven't seen it yet.

[Chris Ryan]

I have not seen it.

[Sean Fennessy]

Will you watch it? That's the real question.

[Chris Ryan]

I kind of feel like I did.

[Sean Fennessy]

What do you mean?

[Chris Ryan]

Like, everybody's already done their Hamnet thing to me and I'm like, okay, I got it.

[Sean Fennessy]

But you hard zagged on materialists. You were like, actually, it's really good and important.

[Chris Ryan]

I said it was fine. I thought it was much better than people were giving it credit for Hamnet, like, yeah, I guess I'll sign up for that.

[Sean Fennessy]

Is it because the film centers a woman? Is that the issue? Okay, it was just an accident. For $41. That's almost certainly going to get me two points for a 91 Metacritic score and Oscar nominations. And Predator Badlands for a Buck, which has garnered zero points, but was a fun time.

[Chris Ryan]

At the very least, very exciting film.

[Sean Fennessy]

Yes. Came up just short of $100 million with 91. Okay. Amanda, you want to go through your slate?

[Amanda Dobbins]

Yeah, it didn't go well for me. Okay, listen, Megan 2.0 was not my fault. And we've done plenty of biopsies about this.

[Sean Fennessy]

You're already blame shifting.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Well, this one.

[Chris Ryan]

How many biopsies did you.

[Amanda Dobbins]

No, there have been countless. Like, what happened here? And what does this say about the state of the industry and Blumhouse?

[Sean Fennessy]

Jason Blum kind of did it himself.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Sure, he did it himself to get out of the. That this absolutely tanked. Like, this was supposed. And this was supposed to clear 100 million for me. And it just straight up did not. So that's a zero points. I also didn't really enjoy it that much. F1. One point so far.

[Sean Fennessy]

Could be two.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Could be two. Because we could get there. In Oscar noms, you get a best picture nomination.

[Sean Fennessy]

I think it's the most. It's the most amusing potential thing.

[Chris Ryan]

It got a pga.

[Sean Fennessy]

Got a PGA nom. I think it's unlikely. Very unlikely, honestly. But if it does happen, it'll be an interesting rejoinder to, like, Can Mania and the International Academy. It's like there's still room for a big old dumb blockbuster that everybody likes.

[Chris Ryan]

Did you like F1 more than Hamnet?

[Sean Fennessy]

I did, Yeah, I did.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Did you put it above?

[Sean Fennessy]

Almost certainly, yeah.

[Amanda Dobbins]

I feel like where you put Hamnet was very funny, and I do. And what was on other side of it was funny. And F1 might be one of the ones on other side of it.

[Sean Fennessy]

Let's look it up. I don't really remember the list. That was definitely down in the 80s.

[Amanda Dobbins]

F1 could definitely. Yeah, that's why I think 80s Hamnet was. Yeah, Hamnet was like 82.

[Chris Ryan]

How far down was F1?

[Amanda Dobbins]

Maybe it's higher than that.

[Sean Fennessy]

Maybe Hamnet was 82 between companion and Paddington and.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Oh, yeah, that's right. Companion being right above it was really funny. When you're right, you're right, Sean.

[Sean Fennessy]

Where. Where is F1?

[Amanda Dobbins]

It could be higher. It might be top 50, honestly, because I think you had a good time anyway. F1 will definitely get a sound nomination.

[Chris Ryan]

War Machine's better than Smash Warfare is better than Smashing Machine.

[Sean Fennessy]

I disagree. They're right next to each other. Where did I put F1 guys gotta have had it.

[Chris Ryan]

It's probably gotta be up in like.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Yeah, I think it was top 50. I would look in the 40s.

[Chris Ryan]

59.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Oh, okay. Wow.

[Sean Fennessy]

59.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Okay.

[Sean Fennessy]

Yeah.

[Amanda Dobbins]

What's the second possible Oscar nom for F1 sound? I said sound was almost the certain one.

[Chris Ryan]

Best picture.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Sure. But I don't think that's gonna happen.

[Sean Fennessy]

So what's another score for Hans Zimmer?

[Amanda Dobbins]

Okay.

[Sean Fennessy]

Cinematography, visual effects. Perhaps cinematography is possible. Claudio Miranda, a previous nominee.

[Chris Ryan]

I don't think that's supporting actor Javier Bardem.

[Sean Fennessy]

Yeah.

[Amanda Dobbins]

I mean if they didn't honor him for Skyfall, then they won't honor him for any of his other. He did. He does look very good in that film. I love the suits.

[Sean Fennessy]

Yeah. I have back pocketed the gif of Bardem reacting to the final victory at the end of the film with the fireworks going off behind him for whenever. Something completely unhappy for when Ham wins best Picture. When the jets draft Dante Moore. That's. That's when I'll be using that. Just. Just letting you guys. I don't. I don't. What are we going to do? Like literally, what are we going to do? I think I'm out. Like, I think it's over.

[Chris Ryan]

If you get Mendoza. You can't.

[Sean Fennessy]

They're not going to get Mendoza. Mendoza is going to go one. Obviously.

[Chris Ryan]

I don't know. There's a huge. Dante Moore.

[Sean Fennessy]

That's a fake thing. There's. I think there's a huge.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Stop listening for one second. Which sport are we talking about?

[Sean Fennessy]

College football.

[Chris Ryan]

I think Dante Moore is coming out because they signed Dylan Rayola.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Oh.

[Chris Ryan]

And so for the Jets.

[Sean Fennessy]

I agree with you. But we did.

[Amanda Dobbins]

We literally turned the page. I thought we were looking ahead.

[Chris Ryan]

College football. I have just a pure. I'm just a fan.

[Sean Fennessy]

It's not. I mean, me too, in some ways, but only to see who my team will draft and it's not going to go well. I think Moore is going to be fine, but not. He should not go to the Jets a quarter. The kind of quarterback the jets need is Mendoza. Somebody who's ready to play right now and is competent. Dante Moore is a project. He's going to have to sit for a year. The jets have terrible infrastructure and they're the most cursed franchise in sports.

[Chris Ryan]

You guys. Yeah.

[Sean Fennessy]

Help me out, guys.

[Chris Ryan]

I mean, I. I just think. I think you should draft on the line draft in the trenches. Build that way.

[Sean Fennessy]

Okay. So Ruben Bane.

[Chris Ryan]

Yeah.

[Sean Fennessy]

Okay.

[Amanda Dobbins]

I do think that this is the darkest time of the year to be a sports spouse for myself anyway, because I did the draft and all that stuff, I just. I can't get into, you know, I can't follow along. Yeah, it's like middle of the NBA season, and it's just, you know, the.

[Sean Fennessy]

Ringer, though, has never been stronger in that respect. We have the McShay show, we have ringer tailgate. I think the ringer fantasy guys are about to shift the draft season.

[Amanda Dobbins]

But, like, my seasonal depression is directly correlated to when the Sixers are on in my home at like 4:45pm and it's dark outside.

[Sean Fennessy]

I just want to let you know your depression is not correlated to those things. It runs much deeper than that.

[Amanda Dobbins]

That is true. But it's like, you know, they teach.

[Chris Ryan]

You, like, nothing to do with it.

[Sean Fennessy]

Do not blame these nice athletes.

[Amanda Dobbins]

They teach you to know the signs, you know, and they teach you to manage and be like, okay, maybe it's time to, like, make some changes. And I know when this NBC Sports Philadelphia is on this screen, I'm just like, oh, God, we gotta.

[Sean Fennessy]

We gotta.

[Chris Ryan]

There's always a funny thing with football where it's like. Like the season's way too long until it's way too short, and then you're like, I can't believe there's no more football.

[Sean Fennessy]

I. I always feel this way in January. Now I really, really miss it. Even though this has just been extremely difficult as a fan of the jets, to continue.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Can I keep going with.

[Sean Fennessy]

Please continue with your slate.

[Amanda Dobbins]

My next slate was Opus, written and directed by my friend Mark Anthony Green, which I love having, even though it did not get any points. So. And then Phoenician scheme, no points. Wes Anderson's wonderful latest installment.

[Chris Ryan]

Well, this is the problem.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Starring future Oscar past and future Oscar winner, in my opinion, Benicio Del Toro.

[Sean Fennessy]

We'll see about that.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Well, we will see about that.

[Sean Fennessy]

No, not even a whiff of oscars and a 70 metacritic for Phoenician scheme.

[Amanda Dobbins]

I don't know.

[Sean Fennessy]

We are country.

[Chris Ryan]

We haven't gotten to the Phoenician scheme revival yet, which is usually due every nine to 15 months on a Wes Anderson movie. The people are like, eh, that was okay. And then they come back and they're.

[Sean Fennessy]

Like, oh, fuck, you're 100% right. Yeah, that's definitely coming within the next two to five years.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Right. And then Marty Supreme.

[Sean Fennessy]

Yes.

[Amanda Dobbins]

89 Metacritic score and we don't know about Oscar nominations yet, so I have one point, but I could get a second.

[Sean Fennessy]

You could get a third if it crosses 100 domestic. Now that's going to be a little tricky.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Go. Tip Jimmy, Go.

[Sean Fennessy]

It's going to be a little tricky.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Go.

[Sean Fennessy]

I would guess it goes.

[Amanda Dobbins]

I know. Lands around that now he's not peacocking anymore. So I don't know.

[Sean Fennessy]

But it's. It's definitely going to get to Oscar nominations.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Yeah.

[Sean Fennessy]

So two points it'll be for Marty Supreme. That was a great pick.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Round two. After the Hunt, Luca Guadagnino. Listen, you. You gotta take big swings. You gotta hold on to your principles. I once again, I said my most anticipated movie of this year, one of them is artificial, directed by Luca Guadagnino. I believe I won't abandon you.

[Sean Fennessy]

Can I just say this is a terrible idea for our programming and maybe even experientially, but I really want the next watch along to be after the Hunt because it's such a deranged, deranged movie and I will not, like, rewatch it alone in my apartment in my house.

[Chris Ryan]

But you think I was gonna. You thought I was gonna zag on it.

[Sean Fennessy]

Did you end up seeing it? No. Well, I. Oh, well, that would be fun. It's another opportunity to kind of explain to you whatever Michael Stuhlbark's doing in that film.

[Amanda Dobbins]

I liked it. Whatever it is he's doing in this movie is also complicated. Okay, the next one is Roofman. Movie I liked and didn't love.

[Sean Fennessy]

Again, you let me down on this one.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Well, I listen to my heart. I follow Kiki wherever she goes.

[Sean Fennessy]

We could have made a great Roofman pod. I just.

[Amanda Dobbins]

It was. I don't know.

[Sean Fennessy]

We could have done it.

[Amanda Dobbins]

I think. I think Channing Tatum was miscast. Anyway, it did not get me any points. Jake. Kelly, listen, I like how you pronounced.

[Chris Ryan]

It in its French pronunciation. J. Kelly.

[Amanda Dobbins]

I.

[Sean Fennessy]

420 bucks for this one.

[Chris Ryan]

I didn't play a single day in the theaters.

[Sean Fennessy]

It's registering as $0. I think it probably earned some money in theaters, but they don't.

[Chris Ryan]

Not $100 million?

[Sean Fennessy]

They don't report it? Yes. No, not 100 million.

[Amanda Dobbins]

I love the work of Noah Baumbach and I just remain perplexed by this experience.

[Sean Fennessy]

I like this more than you.

[Amanda Dobbins]

I know.

[Sean Fennessy]

I think this movie is getting kicked for reasons that I'm a little bit confused by. And it's like it was sort of Bombach's time a little bit to get kicked.

[Chris Ryan]

I Saw this.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Yeah.

[Sean Fennessy]

Didn't like it.

[Chris Ryan]

Love the first half. Andy loved it.

[Sean Fennessy]

Yeah. I think that it's actually. It's been divisive. I know. Some people really loved it. Speaking of Bobby Wagner. I know he just saw it the other day and he said he really, really liked it.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Well, I. I think that's lovely for people who got there. I remained completely confused, and then I had a house of dynamite, which.75. Metacritic. I'm actually surprised to see it's that bad.

[Sean Fennessy]

Yeah.

[Amanda Dobbins]

But, you know, and I liked it. I understand that you have some notes about the ending. Keep it to yourself. Okay.

[Sean Fennessy]

How are you feeling about the nation, state and our defense systems right now?

[Chris Ryan]

Super good.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Yeah, it's really good.

[Chris Ryan]

The thing is, is just like, if you. If you bet on good leadership.

[Sean Fennessy]

Yeah.

[Chris Ryan]

You'll never lose money.

[Sean Fennessy]

That's right.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Yeah. And then finally, I have doubt. Navi. The grand finale, which did not win me any points. $45 million and cracked his top 50. Because those movies were. I rewatched the first down Navi film on the flight back from New York to Los Angeles after we saw a bug.

[Chris Ryan]

Just.

[Amanda Dobbins]

I. I think I've been a little rude to it, honestly.

[Sean Fennessy]

All three?

[Chris Ryan]

Yeah.

[Sean Fennessy]

I ride for all three of them.

[Amanda Dobbins]

They're so good. They're. All three are available on Delta right now. And it's just. What a great. What a great time I had.

[Chris Ryan]

Down Abby. The grand finale, higher or lower than Hamnet?

[Amanda Dobbins]

Way higher.

[Sean Fennessy]

Way higher, really?

[Chris Ryan]

And then higher or lower than F1.

[Sean Fennessy]

I will say Hamnet has significantly higher highs, but also significantly lower lows. Down Abbey. The grand finale is just like a delightful cup of tea.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Okay.

[Sean Fennessy]

You know, just like, it's smooth all the way through.

[Amanda Dobbins]

I'll try to get like, where are you on tea these days?

[Sean Fennessy]

I can't drink tea that's caffeinated. It makes me feel insane, which is weird because I drink three cups of coffee a day, and I'm obviously very different high. Yeah, it is. And my body can't get on a.

[Chris Ryan]

Level dysregulated because Nicoderm discontinued my preferred brand of mini lozenge. So I've been, like, moving around to a bunch of different generics and zinning and, like, just like. I mean, practically, like, just like. Should I just go back to cigarettes? I'm not going to. But, you know, it's.

[Sean Fennessy]

Sean Penn says it's okay.

[Chris Ryan]

I'm Sean Penn. If I was Sean Penn, I would just be smoking right now.

[Sean Fennessy]

Right. Where are you on T?

[Amanda Dobbins]

I am still sort of American about it. I mean, I was more asking if.

[Chris Ryan]

You have become like a tea like Chris Nolan. Like all.

[Sean Fennessy]

I'm drinking mint tea in this thermostat.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Are you?

[Sean Fennessy]

But it's not caffeinated.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Are you like learning about the history of tea? Like, are you learning like flavoring notes.

[Sean Fennessy]

And how to forge this nation?

[Amanda Dobbins]

Yes, that's true. But I'm just like.

[Sean Fennessy]

Which is now being run so elegantly.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Are you like a wine enthusiast but for tea? Because I know that that's like an avenue and I just don't have the power.

[Sean Fennessy]

Not even a little bit. I really don't care. It doesn't mean that there's anything wrong with it and I might get into it in the future. But right now it is purely a tool to allow me to speak at length.

[Chris Ryan]

Because you think the hot water like loosens your vocal cords?

[Sean Fennessy]

It legitimately does.

[Chris Ryan]

I drink cold water, so that helps. Now I drink.

[Amanda Dobbins]

I drink room temperature water. It's best for hydration.

[Sean Fennessy]

Yes, I've read that. That seems like the kind of like old wives tale thing. Like where's the origins of that?

[Amanda Dobbins]

Science Instagram. So you know, let's be real.

[Chris Ryan]

Completely erroneous where they don't refrigerate anything. That's true.

[Amanda Dobbins]

But I do have a new hydration strategy in 2026, as the table got smaller, there's no room for the giant water bottle.

[Sean Fennessy]

That's true.

[Amanda Dobbins]

And also that was like £4.

[Sean Fennessy]

No one has clocked that, including myself.

[Chris Ryan]

That was like your Wayne Jenkins.

[Amanda Dobbins]

But so I. And there was something else.

[Sean Fennessy]

God damn, that's big water bottle.

[Amanda Dobbins]

I think honestly, the traveling for Thanksgiving with the kids, I couldn't also be responsible for a water bottle, you know.

[Sean Fennessy]

So I've moved to your third son.

[Amanda Dobbins]

I've moved to chugging an entire glass. Hopefully a 16 ounce, but 8 to 16 ounce glass of water every time I'm near the sink.

[Sean Fennessy]

Why chugging and then moving?

[Amanda Dobbins]

Just because you just gotta get it down.

[Chris Ryan]

She's a working woman, man.

[Sean Fennessy]

Right?

[Chris Ryan]

Did you see baby boom?

[Amanda Dobbins]

That's right.

[Sean Fennessy]

Women can have it all, including 16 ounce glass.

[Amanda Dobbins]

I don't have to carry it around, so. So when I'm there by the sink, I'm just like, I'm filling up the whole thing of water and down, you know, down in one. And so I don't have to remember to hydrate all the time.

[Sean Fennessy]

Great content. This is some of the best stuff I've heard in years.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Anyway. It's much easier room temperature. In fact, that's how we Used to.

[Chris Ryan]

Do it for most of human history is like if you were by the sink, you'd have a glass of water, not carry it around with you all day.

[Sean Fennessy]

Yeah. Or just head on over to a river, you know, some river water, drink it up. Yeah. Get attacked by a bear, die in the river. That's just something that would happen. Chris, do you want to read your slate?

[Chris Ryan]

Sure. It was sinners for 270 bucks.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Good job.

[Chris Ryan]

Got three points off of that because of its 84 metacritic and it's 278. Bo and I will be putting more points on the board once it gets its deserve.

[Sean Fennessy]

I think this will probably be the best pick.

[Chris Ryan]

Yeah, thanks. Jurassic world, Rebirth for $100. I got one point off the box office. Could it get some tech Oscars?

[Sean Fennessy]

I don't think so.

[Chris Ryan]

Maybe a vfx, Maybe a supporting actor nod for Mahershala.

[Sean Fennessy]

Nope, that's not in the cards.

[Chris Ryan]

Highest to lowest, $205. This is. Well, not only was it a disappointing film for me, but kind of like where we're at with this auction is that I don't feel like movies like this have much value because you're not going to get the box office if it's going straight streaming. If you're not sure it's going to be an Oscar heater, you kind of shouldn't pick it. It's kind of sad because then you leave a lot of movies on the table for the auction. It doesn't quite reflect before it came.

[Sean Fennessy]

Out and said, maybe this is an Oscar movie. We don't know it's Denzel. But that's the game that we're playing. Right. It is taking a risk on that.

[Chris Ryan]

It's a Great game. Sentimental value$110.86 Metacritic. 4 million box office will get Oscar nominal 2 points.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Have you seen this yet?

[Sean Fennessy]

Nope.

[Amanda Dobbins]

I'm excited for you to see it.

[Chris Ryan]

And I'm going to see it. I think I'll probably watch Sentimental Value this weekend. I would say.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Okay.

[Chris Ryan]

It's an incredibly busy time for me, TV wise.

[Amanda Dobbins]

I understand. And no pressure. I just.

[Sean Fennessy]

I'm a little bit.

[Chris Ryan]

I want to see.

[Amanda Dobbins]

I'm alone on my sentimental, like, value.

[Chris Ryan]

I didn't like it.

[Amanda Dobbins]

No, it wasn't that I didn't like it. It's that I'm emotionally dead inside.

[Chris Ryan]

Can you come over to my part of Joachim Trier, which is. We liked it when he made movies about heroin addicts.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Sure.

[Sean Fennessy]

I mean, that's still kind of in the bones.

[Chris Ryan]

Money man. 100 bucks. 56 metacritic 37 box office didn't pan out. Tough Beat City.

[Sean Fennessy]

That was a tough one.

[Chris Ryan]

Round two, continuing along. And this is another example of a movie that if it doesn't get Oscars, you might as well just jump off a ledge. Ballad of a small player165.46 Metacritic and a just $0 in box office.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Have you seen this yet?

[Chris Ryan]

I did.

[Amanda Dobbins]

I'm going to be honest. I still have not seen it. Yeah, I will at some point.

[Chris Ryan]

No, I did not see Ballot.

[Amanda Dobbins]

There's no reason to go see it. It just disappeared.

[Sean Fennessy]

Probably the most disappointing movie of the year for me.

[Chris Ryan]

Burger Farrell.

[Sean Fennessy]

Because I like Burger. I like Burger's two previous films. I love Colin Farrell as we all do. And it's a gambling movie in Macau about a.

[Chris Ryan]

You know, it says a lot about the response to this film that a free movie or a movie that's just on Netflix. With Colin Farrell, I was just like, I should just keep watching.

[Sean Fennessy]

This was my, I think my opening night. Telluride, the second big premiere that I went to in a row of Telluride and the room was packed. I sat in the same row as Colin Farrell and Edward Berger. I was like in a plum spot. Very fired up for the movie.

[Chris Ryan]

How did the crowd receive it?

[Sean Fennessy]

It was dead silent at the end of it.

[Chris Ryan]

How did Colin Farrell and Edward Berger.

[Amanda Dobbins]

They would even clap.

[Sean Fennessy]

It was a polite clap, but I mean, you know, and the movie is beautifully shot and the cinematography is amazing. I think it's a James Friend, the cinematographer, who's really, really talented and no one got into it. It was tough.

[Chris Ryan]

Weapons $465. 81 Metacritic. $151 million at the box office. It will get Oscar nom for Amy Madigan.

[Sean Fennessy]

There's an outside chance at a screenplay nomination. There's also an outside chance at best Picture. I don't think either of those are going to happen, but I'm rooting hard for them both. Should I think that would be really good?

[Chris Ryan]

In my opinion, yeah. Is this thing on 70 bucks. 73 Metacritic, $2 million box office. What do they do to this movie?

[Amanda Dobbins]

They made it.

[Chris Ryan]

What? Like, what do they do to the release of this film? What's the problem here was you liked it, right? I mean, speak your truth. I thought it was like. I. I enjoyed the first half of it and I thought the comedy stuff was like, interesting. I. I had some issues with the second half.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Yeah.

[Chris Ryan]

When a. When a certain professional athlete shows up midway through.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Oh, you didn't like that?

[Chris Ryan]

I did not like that.

[Amanda Dobbins]

But you are fine with the representation of the competitive volleyball? Yeah, sure. Okay. Yeah, Great.

[Chris Ryan]

I like volleyball.

[Amanda Dobbins]

I like it, too. I just. I. And I think Laura Dern can move mountains, but I don't know if I buy her as a volleyball coach.

[Sean Fennessy]

We were really tough on that movie, but I thought it was, like, flawed in its bones. There was something in its construction that, like. No. The same way that the camera is too close to the actors in the movie, it felt like they were too close to the script. And there was, like, not a critical distance from how the story was told that I. I had a hard time just getting through it because of the way that it saw itself, but I don't. Some people seem to like it. It's just. It is not resonating with audiences at all.

[Chris Ryan]

It seemed to lose interest in its own subject matter. And midway through the film, which is when I thought the movie.

[Sean Fennessy]

It's hard.

[Chris Ryan]

Like, where it was like, you guys, this is kind of, like, fascinating. And I also thought it was interesting, like, what happens when this guy runs out of, like, the five stories that he has to tell because he's not really telling jokes.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Jokes.

[Chris Ryan]

So I thought it, like, his sort of nascent comedy career would have been kind of interesting to interrogate.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Right. And then they just kind of leave it.

[Chris Ryan]

And then they're just like, he stopped doing that. Yeah, yeah.

[Amanda Dobbins]

He was successful. There were no barriers to entry. He had, like. He. He did really well.

[Chris Ryan]

There are very little barriers to entry.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Well, sure.

[Chris Ryan]

You know, now you see me, now you don't. 50 in Metacritic. 61 million box office.

[Sean Fennessy]

Could have done better than that. Let me see if I need to update that. Let me double check that.

[Chris Ryan]

I thought that was just, like, a big success.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Did you see it?

[Sean Fennessy]

It's made 240 million global yet.

[Amanda Dobbins]

But we did spoil for you what Rosamund pike is doing in it. Do you remember?

[Chris Ryan]

She's an Afrikaner, right?

[Sean Fennessy]

Yeah, yeah. She's a diamond heiress. Yeah. It's just very normal. It did huge business internationally, but not domestically.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Okay.

[Chris Ryan]

I got that for a buck. Springsteen delivered me from nowhere. We've all been there. We all. We all saw it. $60. 59, Metacritic, 22 box office.

[Sean Fennessy]

So, Chris, you started so hot in round one.

[Chris Ryan]

Yeah.

[Sean Fennessy]

You amassed seven points in your first round and maybe even eight based on what happens with the Oscars. But only one point so far, maybe two.

[Chris Ryan]

I mean, but can you really blame me for some of these picks? I mean, I thought Bradley Cooper following up Maestro. I thought Jeremy Allen White playing Springsteen Colin Farrell playing a gambler. You know, like, I just thought, like, these were all valid picks. Amanda's picks are all valid. You know, it's like you swing.

[Amanda Dobbins]

I mean, but I won't be picking as many Netflix movies this time.

[Sean Fennessy]

I don't. We should talk through it and we should. If you guys want to change any rules, we can talk about that too. So, Amanda, I think you had three points total with a possibility of four. Chris, you had eight points total with a possibility of nine. I have 10 points total with a possibility of 11.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Right.

[Sean Fennessy]

But I think I also cheated, and so I'm disqualified unless we decide that we should keep more secrets.

[Chris Ryan]

Well, it depends on what the prize is like.

[Sean Fennessy]

Well, what is the prize?

[Chris Ryan]

Your. Your reentry into the PGA Tour.

[Sean Fennessy]

Do I qualify? Do you think she knows anything about this?

[Amanda Dobbins]

I saw that Andrew Gretadero retweeted a very long statement about the pga. So I was like, something has happened. But I obviously, you know, that was a. Sorry for that happened.

[Chris Ryan]

Not going to really, you know, sorry.

[Sean Fennessy]

I'm happy to explain it to you at length here for the next 20 minutes. Okay, so.

[Amanda Dobbins]

So all the live boys can come back.

[Sean Fennessy]

Saudi Sportswash.

[Chris Ryan]

They can, but they have to give up their equity for a couple of years. They don't get a sponsor exemptions and they have to make a $5 million charitable donation to be agreed upon by the PGA Tour and the player real.

[Sean Fennessy]

Pound of flesh kind of negotiation.

[Chris Ryan]

They have until February 2nd to do it.

[Sean Fennessy]

It. Do you think all four of them will do it? Who is it? It's Brooks, DJ Rom and Bryson. It is Bryson.

[Amanda Dobbins]

The cast of Happy Gilmore 2 minus Rory.

[Chris Ryan]

Yes, I think Rom will do it.

[Sean Fennessy]

I want them all back. I'll take them all back. So I believe in forgiveness and what.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Sophisticated this offer is like Brooks.

[Sean Fennessy]

Brooks kept me going back to the pg. So they're creating a circumstance. My beautiful boy who was my favorite golfer, who is, you know, it seems like kind of an idiot, but is not. Not a bad person. But was an early sign sign up for the.

[Chris Ryan]

No, he was a late signup.

[Sean Fennessy]

Was he a late sign up?

[Chris Ryan]

Yeah, because like the first batch of them and it was like Rom. And then finally it was like Brooks. And it was like, oh, my God, Brooks is going and like PGA could really be wobbling here.

[Sean Fennessy]

Right?

[Amanda Dobbins]

Do we know why Brooks wants to go back to the PGA live?

[Chris Ryan]

Sucks.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Oh, it.

[Sean Fennessy]

I mean, just has no traction. Nobody's watching it. It doesn't matter. It's not. It's just not a Thing, They. They. They took the money and now they're trying to come back so that they can continue to compete in the majors and be, you know, famous American sluts.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Okay.

[Chris Ryan]

Go for him. Yeah.

[Sean Fennessy]

Brooks Kepka.

[Chris Ryan]

Yeah.

[Sean Fennessy]

It does seem like he's completely shot physically as well. We'll see.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Well, that's what I thought, is that they all took the live money because they were no longer as competitive in the pga.

[Chris Ryan]

I think they either that or they have Phil Mickelson, part of PGA leadership.

[Sean Fennessy]

He's not leaving. Yeah.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Yeah, I've read those quotes, quite literally.

[Sean Fennessy]

Let's talk about this year's auction. Are you feeling excited about the year in movies?

[Chris Ryan]

Yes.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Yeah.

[Sean Fennessy]

Yeah.

[Chris Ryan]

I've already seen two good movies from 2026. You want to say what they are 28 years later? The Bone Temple and the Rip.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Oh, shit. I'm watching it tonight. Don't say anything.

[Sean Fennessy]

Seen both as well. I've seen a few good movies.

[Chris Ryan]

Did you like it?

[Sean Fennessy]

I liked the Rip. I loved the Bone Temple.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Yes.

[Sean Fennessy]

The Bone Temple is. I'm very excited to talk with you guys about it. You're feeling excited? I feel like. Too. We had a. We had a spirited conversation about our anticipated movies.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Yeah.

[Sean Fennessy]

I don't know if it. Is it. Is it a good slate for this game?

[Amanda Dobbins]

It's hard.

[Chris Ryan]

I am going to. Because I tried to game the game last time. I actually did. I really did try to win the auction.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Okay.

[Chris Ryan]

I'm just closing my eyes and. And throwing darts here. But the darts that I have.

[Amanda Dobbins]

But the darts. But there is some overlap in Chris Ryan's personal interests and enthusiasms and what will play well in the auction.

[Chris Ryan]

But I think that this year I am. I'm just going to go back to the original concept of, like, if you could. If I could pay money to see this movie tomorrow.

[Amanda Dobbins]

I got to be honest.

[Chris Ryan]

That's nice.

[Amanda Dobbins]

That's what I did last year. And I have three points. I know.

[Sean Fennessy]

So it's not a way to win. But winning isn't everything. It's the only thing. Yeah, I'm excited. I did. I found it to be a little tricky to figure out how to strategize through this. Now, typically, when we do round one, we lean towards movies that we know are coming out and maybe that we know are coming out in the first half of the year. With some exceptions. If you know you really want a Marty supreme or you really want a One battle after another, you might go out of your way to get it.

[Chris Ryan]

Sure.

[Sean Fennessy]

This year there are a couple of massive movies that are at the end of the year. And I think it's probably wise for us to just go for them now. But there are also a couple of streaming movies that I'm like, it's not going to make any money, and it may not even get any Oscar nominations. But I do want it on my slate as a show. Show of personal faith and taste.

[Chris Ryan]

Do you see anything from the way things broke last year that make you feel like we're at, like, an inflection point where.

[Sean Fennessy]

I don't.

[Chris Ryan]

I don't even know how to ask this, but it's like movies that we thought were going to be maybe much bigger, like Jurassic Rebirth, that we're just like, okay, you know, like, we're. We're learning our lessons from things like sinners and weapons, that people have a hunger for more original stuff. And would that do influence or inform what you're picking?

[Sean Fennessy]

Well, I'm curious what you think about this. My feeling is that we're in a transitional moment with the franchises. So Jurassic is on its way out. Fast. Is on its way out.

[Chris Ryan]

Star wars is kind of.

[Sean Fennessy]

Star wars is up in the air. We don't know there will be a Star wars movie this year, but there's stuff that is coming in that is new. There's a new Super Mario Brothers movie this year. There's going to be a new Minecraft movie in a couple of years. Those are the new and powerful franchises, but we're not super likely to tout them in the same way that we touted Mission Impossible for years or Marvel from like, 16 through 2020. Like, so that makes even just the general coverage of blockbusters on the show a little tricky.

[Chris Ryan]

It's kind of odd, right? Yeah, yeah. I mean, it's sort of like you guys might be in a place where I think the TV coverage got to, like, a while back where it was like. Like, if you're covering Succession, you know that only like, Succession's audience is like one third the size of like, say, a CBS show or something like that, you know. But the people who are watching Succession are obsessed with it and want to talk about it all the time. And the same thing kind of goes for.

[Amanda Dobbins]

I think that's where movies are generally. But there was like, a point with.

[Chris Ryan]

Movies, especially with the comic, the superhero stuff, where it was like, we just have to engage with this. And also, I kind of like it from my childhood, so I'm just gonna kind of keep my head down and meet.

[Sean Fennessy]

I've been using the phrase hyperniche lately to explain how all media consumption works, where people just in very, very loyal, dedicated and aggressive packs move to the thing that they really care about. It explains the success of so many podcasts over the years. The mission of the show is still the contemporary cinema. And that may not. Avengers Doomsday may not seem like the contemporary cinema, but it is, and we'll cover it. It's more like, do we need an hour on Minions 3? Right. Like, we didn't do an hour on Zootopia 2, you know, could you actually do that, though?

[Chris Ryan]

Well, I mean, where does this end in the real.

[Amanda Dobbins]

You start, like, if you just set me off and if that were my goal. Just an hour about Minions 3 and the questions that I have inspired by Minions 3. Well, I think I could do it.

[Chris Ryan]

Sure.

[Sean Fennessy]

I think you could too. And you will solo on this show.

[Amanda Dobbins]

That would be your castaway Bond or interviewing Knox. We had. I was listening to the Town in the car the other day, and Knox was in. And as soon as the podcast came on, he said, that's not Chris. Where's Chris? So I. Yeah, you're the only podcaster for him.

[Chris Ryan]

Yeah.

[Sean Fennessy]

Just simmer down. Any thoughts on the state of the franchise and how it relates to this game?

[Amanda Dobbins]

Well, in the game specifically, 100 million domestic is still like a low. Ish bar for a franchise. So, you know, Jurassic World, Rebirth did not set the world on fire and made Sean very mad, but you still got your points pretty easily cleared. So I think that in terms of, like, gaming out where we're trying to get blockbusters, it's a little bit easier than, you know, we're not doing studio balance sheets.

[Chris Ryan]

Yeah.

[Amanda Dobbins]

So I'm not that worried about it. I'm going to follow my passions.

[Sean Fennessy]

Do you guys make a long list of movies that you want?

[Amanda Dobbins]

Yeah.

[Chris Ryan]

Yep. And then I kind of just let it happen. Like, you know, that's the only way.

[Amanda Dobbins]

That you can, because who. People are going to introduce things in different ways.

[Chris Ryan]

Yeah. You never know when the bidding war is going to start for what movie.

[Sean Fennessy]

You know, do you want to let it happen? Do you want to begin?

[Chris Ryan]

Sure.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Absolutely.

[Chris Ryan]

Do we have a jack?

[Sean Fennessy]

Do we have an order? I can set one right now. Okay, thank you.

[Amanda Dobbins]

All right. Dungeons and Dragons. Die. Have you ever played Dungeons and Dragons?

[Chris Ryan]

Chris Ryan, when I was young.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Oh, okay.

[Chris Ryan]

Is there a Dungeons and Dragons movie coming out?

[Amanda Dobbins]

No, he has the prop.

[Sean Fennessy]

The 12 sided die.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Yeah.

[Sean Fennessy]

First selection. Amanda Dobbins.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Oh, interesting. Okay. Hmm.

[Sean Fennessy]

Sean. Second cr. Third. Do you have a clear target? Let's make it start with a bang.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Yeah, let's make it interesting.

[Sean Fennessy]

Okay.

[Amanda Dobbins]

100 bucks. The Odyssey.

[Sean Fennessy]

Yeah, Here we go.

[Chris Ryan]

Now, are we sure it's good?

[Sean Fennessy]

I've done this with Nolan before. I can't keep doing that.

[Amanda Dobbins]

So we forgot to. We forgot to ask, like, are we doing any sort of timer? We don't have the clock run running.

[Sean Fennessy]

No, we don't.

[Amanda Dobbins]

We're not.

[Sean Fennessy]

I'll try to hold you guys accountable best I can.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Okay. But, like, so what's the. What is the time limit?

[Sean Fennessy]

Let's loosely say, like, 30.

[Chris Ryan]

Yeah.

[Sean Fennessy]

30, 40, 45 seconds.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Okay.

[Chris Ryan]

I'll just say this. Matt Damon is an incredible advocate for this film. Every time he opens his mouth about this movie.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Are you bidding on it?

[Chris Ryan]

Yeah. 150.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Okay.

[Chris Ryan]

Every time he opens his mouth about 160, my anticipation goes up. I hope Matt Damon does five films between now and the Odyssey just to talk about the Odyssey when he's talking about the rip.

[Sean Fennessy]

Yeah.

[Chris Ryan]

And most movies like my. As my exposure to them grows, as you hear more about them, as, like, you kind of get a sense of what's coming. And I'm sure this will happen with the Odyssey at some extent. You know, you have a. I'm about.

[Amanda Dobbins]

To walk away with this for 160.

[Chris Ryan]

190. 200.

[Amanda Dobbins]

220.

[Sean Fennessy]

50. Okay.

[Chris Ryan]

All right.

[Sean Fennessy]

We have $1,000 each for five films here, just as a reminder.

[Chris Ryan]

Yeah.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Okay. Is this.

[Sean Fennessy]

Is this the movie of the year?

[Amanda Dobbins]

Yes, yes, yes.

[Chris Ryan]

To me.

[Amanda Dobbins]

They've carved it out. They've announced themselves. They put tickets on sale months ago, which, you know, you didn't like. And 310. They've collected basically every single movie star except for Ben Affleck.

[Sean Fennessy]

Why?

[Chris Ryan]

We don't know about that.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Well, I hope.

[Sean Fennessy]

Who's playing Cyclops? We don't know. It's not James Marsden in this movie. I think 320.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Okay.

[Sean Fennessy]

I.

[Amanda Dobbins]

330.

[Sean Fennessy]

This is the annual. Sorry, honey. We can't travel for the two weeks before and after this movie because I don't. You know, I. We could make Surprise.

[Amanda Dobbins]

There is no July 21st. Is that right?

[Sean Fennessy]

17Th. I thought 17th.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Oh, good. Okay. So it's just July. Yeah.

[Sean Fennessy]

No higher. Amanda has it for 3:30.

[Amanda Dobbins]

3:30.

[Chris Ryan]

3:50.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Okay.

[Sean Fennessy]

Now, this film, in all likelihood, 360.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Should 370.

[Sean Fennessy]

Clear at least two of the thresholds. All of them.

[Chris Ryan]

It will clear all of them.

[Sean Fennessy]

Well, Metacritic, it'll be interesting because I.

[Chris Ryan]

Guess no one, I guarantee you, Tenant.

[Sean Fennessy]

Was his, like, settle down, young man moment where the Critics were like, all right, everybody.

[Chris Ryan]

And they were wrong.

[Sean Fennessy]

Yeah, Totally wrong. We love that movie.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Should have been tenet on our list.

[Chris Ryan]

Did you guys talk about possibly making it Tenant?

[Sean Fennessy]

We talked about it.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Yeah. He said it would be too cute.

[Sean Fennessy]

I mean, it should have been so trolling.

[Amanda Dobbins]

I mean, it should have been the Dark Knight, but whatever.

[Chris Ryan]

Where are we at?

[Amanda Dobbins]

Yeah.

[Sean Fennessy]

Amanda has been for 374. 400. Yes. What was the highest bid filled?

[Chris Ryan]

I feel like we've done something at once. We did like an 800.

[Sean Fennessy]

410 for 430. I. I'm not sure. You can pay too much for this.

[Amanda Dobbins]

That's. That's why I started it.

[Sean Fennessy]

Now it's an interesting one. Yeah, I. I paid 390 for Mission Impossible.

[Amanda Dobbins]

I've. I've just done 410.

[Sean Fennessy]

No, Sean has it for 430.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Oh, okay. 440. Where are you on your. Your odyssey? Pronunciation prep? Like, what's your regimen gonna be?

[Chris Ryan]

I. When I was home in Philadelphia over the holidays, I started rereading Robert Fitzgerald's transition.

[Amanda Dobbins]

460. Sure.

[Chris Ryan]

I was. I was like, I gotta get in. I gotta get in the gym. I gotta get in the gym with all these guys.

[Sean Fennessy]

Telemachus. Yeah.

[Chris Ryan]

And just be like. This is how you say Climonaestra, right, Clyde?

[Amanda Dobbins]

Clytemnestra, I think.

[Chris Ryan]

Clymastra. See, that's the fucking problem.

[Amanda Dobbins]

I guess we're gonna have to do an audiobook. I have several copies of Fagle's translation. You know, because.

[Sean Fennessy]

Several copies.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Copies, yeah. Throughout the. I don't. I don't know. Through my academics.

[Chris Ryan]

Number.

[Sean Fennessy]

Sorry. I guess at 470.

[Amanda Dobbins]

I'll do 500.

[Sean Fennessy]

Sean had it for 480.

[Amanda Dobbins]

500.

[Chris Ryan]

I'll go 515.

[Sean Fennessy]

520.

[Amanda Dobbins]

525.

[Chris Ryan]

I'm gonna go 540.

[Sean Fennessy]

Do you like any Swords and Sandals movies?

[Chris Ryan]

Yeah.

[Sean Fennessy]

What's your favorite?

[Chris Ryan]

I like all the Jason and the Argonauts movies.

[Sean Fennessy]

I love.

[Chris Ryan]

I love Gladiator, which I guess is a sword. Sandals, mov.

[Amanda Dobbins]

550.

[Chris Ryan]

And I'm a big fan of, like, Swords and Shields combat movies.

[Sean Fennessy]

Okay. 560. You don't like them as much, but you did study the classics.

[Amanda Dobbins]

I did.

[Chris Ryan]

This also has everybody she likes is.

[Amanda Dobbins]

And I. I respect Home 75.

[Sean Fennessy]

580 story about a guy trying to get home n haway.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Yeah.

[Sean Fennessy]

Lock in.

[Chris Ryan]

Sure.

[Sean Fennessy]

590. What a year.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Penelope was on the list of possible girl baby names.

[Sean Fennessy]

It's a little overexposed, and I think Penelope is overexposed.

[Chris Ryan]

I need you to do like a straight to camera essay on how Anne Hathaway pulled this off because I feel like she was in half of these.

[Sean Fennessy]

Movies were shot two years ago.

[Chris Ryan]

I know, but I feel like she was in some kind of like Twilight Zone of her career where it was like, what's. What's going on with her? Like she making like Amazon Prime Movies.

[Sean Fennessy]

605.

[Chris Ryan]

And now she's like in the Nolan movie, the David Lowry movie, and a David Robert Mitchell movie.

[Sean Fennessy]

More. She's in it. She's in a Colleen Hoover adaptation.

[Amanda Dobbins]

She's.

[Sean Fennessy]

She's got another devilish Prada 2.

[Chris Ryan]

Come on, dog.

[Sean Fennessy]

Come on. She's got six movies coming out this year.

[Chris Ryan]

Where are we at that?

[Sean Fennessy]

605. I think I have it for. Yep, that is correct.

[Chris Ryan]

I'm gonna go 650. Best and final.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Wow.

[Sean Fennessy]

Best and final. Have we ever had that?

[Chris Ryan]

We do now.

[Amanda Dobbins]

I mean, 655, it's not that hard.

[Chris Ryan]

I know, but I was just like. I'm not gonna. I. I wanna.

[Amanda Dobbins]

I wanna play around.

[Sean Fennessy]

I wanna have.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Okay, David. I'll say.

[Sean Fennessy]

Completely shattering the ceiling of what someone's paying for.

[Chris Ryan]

And now I'm taking you to court to find out if you actually have 675. Because my dad's backstopping me.

[Sean Fennessy]

Did you read Reeves's long story about David Ellison?

[Chris Ryan]

I did.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Oh, my God. I do. It's on my to do.

[Chris Ryan]

Yeah.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Reeves is very talented.

[Sean Fennessy]

Yeah.

[Amanda Dobbins]

655.

[Sean Fennessy]

660.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Okay.

[Chris Ryan]

I can't bid because WFAM pushed my boat out.

[Sean Fennessy]

Sort of like Odysseus.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Okay, what did you say?

[Sean Fennessy]

660.

[Amanda Dobbins]

660.

[Sean Fennessy]

Cr paid 465 for weapons last year.

[Chris Ryan]

Yeah.

[Sean Fennessy]

Which turned out to be.

[Chris Ryan]

I think if you. If you get kind of a smart. If you get this, it's going to be great for you because it's going to tick all the boxes, I guarantee.

[Amanda Dobbins]

I can't believe you bowed out.

[Chris Ryan]

I didn't bow out. It's for content. I tried to do it.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Stare him down or else he's just going to have the Odyssey. 6:75.

[Sean Fennessy]

6:85. I mean, why not?

[Chris Ryan]

The problem is, is that I'm going to say 700. I don't think it's fair that I don't get to do this because I think I've done the work for this.

[Amanda Dobbins]

This.

[Chris Ryan]

For this movie.

[Sean Fennessy]

Yeah, you've done the work, but you didn't go to see the prologue.

[Chris Ryan]

Well, no, I'm not going to go See the prologue.

[Sean Fennessy]

Did you see the whole trailer? Yeah. Okay. You liked it?

[Chris Ryan]

I did it.

[Amanda Dobbins]

I thought it was really good.

[Sean Fennessy]

Yeah. I want to see the prologue. Even though I don't want anything ruined for me henceforth. It's a. It's a. It's a paradox.

[Chris Ryan]

I think that I'm in a good place now with trailers. I know how to watch them and I know when. If it's the first trailer, it's fine. If it's the second trailer, you're in trouble. So I will watch this teaser. I don't know if I will watch a full Odyssey trailer.

[Amanda Dobbins]

I don't want to. I am going to reread.

[Sean Fennessy]

We're in the movie theater all the time. How are you? How are we going to miss it?

[Chris Ryan]

Because you guys always come, like, one minute before the movie starts.

[Sean Fennessy]

That's what she does.

[Amanda Dobbins]

I don't do that. Yeah. What I do and. Or I look at my phone. I'll just, you know, keep shopping.

[Chris Ryan]

How much do you.

[Amanda Dobbins]

My 20. 26.

[Chris Ryan]

Don't do anything else on your phone but shop.

[Amanda Dobbins]

I spend a lot of time just on the RealReal app. Like, I'm not actually buying things. I'm buying this more often than I should.

[Chris Ryan]

But what are you. It's 7:05. 7:06.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Do you. 7:07.

[Chris Ryan]

Do you know.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Do you know about their.

[Chris Ryan]

I know what the real real is. I used to do ads for them all the time, and then they.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Are you serious?

[Chris Ryan]

Strangely abandoned me.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Yeah, you did. And I didn't get real, real ads.

[Chris Ryan]

This is like back when I was in the fucking broom closet making the watch, man.

[Sean Fennessy]

Like, I was 7:09. Yeah.

[Chris Ryan]

7:11.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Okay.

[Sean Fennessy]

Wow.

[Amanda Dobbins]

I like it.

[Sean Fennessy]

Chris Hogan. Always open.

[Amanda Dobbins]

But, like, they're real. Real is its own world, you know? So I got like a bunch of. It's just a way to. It's like letterboxd time. Yeah, it is.

[Sean Fennessy]

It is. Like, well, that's obviously what I do on my phone is I just look at the 5 Blu Ray, you know, companies that I can buy stuff from and look at Letterboxd when I'm trying to not watch trailers.

[Chris Ryan]

I read about Trump.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Okay. Yeah.

[Chris Ryan]

For 11 hours a day, you've been.

[Sean Fennessy]

Resisting really well lately. Like, I've observed the way in which you've been resisting, and it has been strong, forthright, decent.

[Amanda Dobbins]

It's not funny. Ethical, but.

[Sean Fennessy]

Loud. You've been very loud. All those Skeets on Blue sky has been amazing. If you're not following Chris on Blue sky, check it out, because he's had some vociferous language against this administration will not stand.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Zendaya is Athena. Athena. Like I wouldn't have named a child Athena, but Because I'm not that like.

[Chris Ryan]

Honestly, Amanda, it's not too California. It's not too late to go back and name Cy. Athena.

[Sean Fennessy]

I knew an Athena in college. It's a.

[Amanda Dobbins]

It's a great. Oh, listen. Yeah, of course. Listen.

[Sean Fennessy]

You have to bet she was also Greek.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Well, right. That's the thing, is that I don't. I don't have the heritage.

[Chris Ryan]

And I'm not your Greek kid. Athena. Kind of like naming an Italian American kid Polly Walnuts.

[Sean Fennessy]

It has been 45 seconds.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Okay, who.

[Chris Ryan]

Where are we?

[Sean Fennessy]

Were at CR for 7:11.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Okay.

[Sean Fennessy]

Not. Not calling it over, just stating the 7:14.

[Chris Ryan]

I think I had it though. Like.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Yeah, he did. By the rule of law.

[Chris Ryan]

Well, it's been over a minute.

[Sean Fennessy]

Yeah, you post that on Blue sky, see if we get any feedback. Technically, I had the Odyssey. 7:14.

[Chris Ryan]

7:15. Yeah.

[Sean Fennessy]

Wow.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Yeah.

[Sean Fennessy]

7:16.

[Chris Ryan]

Are you out or are you waiting?

[Amanda Dobbins]

I think I might be out.

[Chris Ryan]

7:20.

[Sean Fennessy]

7:20. Yeah, you might be out.

[Amanda Dobbins]

I think so.

[Sean Fennessy]

7:25.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Okay.

[Sean Fennessy]

Is this a prequel or a sequel?

[Chris Ryan]

We only have to draft five movies here, Right?

[Sean Fennessy]

Right, Five movies.

[Chris Ryan]

Okay.

[Amanda Dobbins]

I mean, it is. Technically it is a sequel to Troy for the film, but it's not made. I mean, in the. In the sense that the Odyssey is continuing the event of the Iliad.

[Sean Fennessy]

722, 725, 737, 740. Okay. 771.

[Amanda Dobbins]

We just saying planes now.

[Chris Ryan]

777.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Okay.

[Sean Fennessy]

784. Okay.

[Chris Ryan]

I don't. I don't think you deserve this.

[Amanda Dobbins]

What do you mean?

[Chris Ryan]

I think you love movies and you love cinema, but I don't know if you love Nolan enough to have this. You don't get to do it. You don't get to come in at the end.

[Sean Fennessy]

You don't get to tell me what I deserve. You are a guest in this chair. We allowed you to roll this chair into this room.

[Chris Ryan]

I can't let you have it. I can't.

[Sean Fennessy]

Great.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Play the game. Keep going. Go.

[Chris Ryan]

What are you at?

[Amanda Dobbins]

Go.

[Sean Fennessy]

787.

[Amanda Dobbins]

No, no, you're.

[Sean Fennessy]

Sean just outbid himself, but that's fine.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Yeah, you're at 787. 87 is the number.

[Chris Ryan]

788.

[Sean Fennessy]

What are you afraid of?

[Chris Ryan]

I'm afraid that you're going to leave me at like 795 and be like, haha, you overpaid for the Odyssey, this.

[Sean Fennessy]

Is the most Dangerous game.

[Amanda Dobbins]

I don't think that you can overpay it. Overpay for it.

[Chris Ryan]

But the problem is, is that in the past 815, I've gotten to points in the auctions where like I wind up drafting like four other movies for a dollar.

[Amanda Dobbins]

So if you really want it.

[Sean Fennessy]

Yeah.

[Chris Ryan]

You know, you can say 812.

[Sean Fennessy]

You said 8:15. Yeah, that's where you.

[Amanda Dobbins]

So yeah, you could do. You could just do 996.

[Sean Fennessy]

Yes, that would have.

[Chris Ryan]

But then I don't get to really bid for the rest of the time.

[Amanda Dobbins]

That's not fun. Yeah, that's true.

[Sean Fennessy]

CR is at 8:15 in a tough spot.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Yeah.

[Sean Fennessy]

You know, but here's the thing. We've been potting for about an hour. We got a good solid hour of content. Most people are kind of cycling out of pods at this point anyway, so I was just trying to get this up. I was really glad that Amanda put it on the board at the Reliant.

[Chris Ryan]

On the data man.

[Sean Fennessy]

What do you mean?

[Chris Ryan]

Because you're an artist?

[Sean Fennessy]

You know, I am truly not an artist.

[Chris Ryan]

Look at the canvas and do what you feel. Don't worry too much about the editor.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Right.

[Sean Fennessy]

I'm a strategist. I've always been an editor and a strategist. And I will be until I die. Okay. 8:23.

[Amanda Dobbins]

I'm reading here on the Wikipedia page that Christopher Nolan described Odysseus as complicated quote, an amazing strategist. There you go. And a very wily person.

[Chris Ryan]

You see yourself as this guy stuck out in the. In the ocean.

[Sean Fennessy]

I'd do anything to get back to my family. Yeah, yeah, Yeah. I would. 8:30 and take you to the fucking wall. Eight thirty. That's the number. Why do you. Why do you feel you need this? What is it?

[Chris Ryan]

Because I've been thinking a lot about.

[Sean Fennessy]

Because we cried it in.

[Chris Ryan]

I'm thinking about risk.

[Sean Fennessy]

Risk?

[Chris Ryan]

Yeah, risk in cinema.

[Sean Fennessy]

Is this a risk?

[Chris Ryan]

Yeah, it's a risk.

[Sean Fennessy]

Okay. Well, he's in it. He's in his.

[Chris Ryan]

Like you think this is a layup to take the. The story. The only story.

[Sean Fennessy]

I don't think it's a layup. And I'm not trying to denigrate what he's done here.

[Chris Ryan]

And to do practical effect.

[Sean Fennessy]

This is a well known story in UNESCO site. He cast.

[Chris Ryan]

In UNESCO sites.

[Sean Fennessy]

He cast a real.

[Amanda Dobbins]

He is honoring that.

[Sean Fennessy]

Yes, these sirens are real. That Sila is a real silla.

[Chris Ryan]

But Matt Damon's like, he doesn't. It's it's all practical. When you're on the set, you're like, holy.

[Sean Fennessy]

850.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Go, go.

[Chris Ryan]

855.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Yeah. I love it.

[Sean Fennessy]

There's only one way but up.

[Amanda Dobbins]

You guys been to Greece?

[Sean Fennessy]

Never, never, never. I'd like to. I'd like to go.

[Chris Ryan]

We could go for the movie.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Let's do it live.

[Sean Fennessy]

Grease. I'm available. Well, do you think we have Greek fans?

[Amanda Dobbins]

I don't know. I'd love to hear from them.

[Chris Ryan]

There's, like, an American who happens to be working in Greece who's like, I like this podcast.

[Sean Fennessy]

One American.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Yeah, that would be nice. What about a Brit?

[Chris Ryan]

That'd be great. Yeah, they, they, they.

[Sean Fennessy]

56.

[Amanda Dobbins]

I've only been once on my honeymoon. It was amazing.

[Sean Fennessy]

Oh, you were on your honeymoon?

[Amanda Dobbins]

It was really magic.

[Chris Ryan]

Classical, like, yeah, I did.

[Amanda Dobbins]

So we went. I mean, you know, 860. We did Greek island for the honeymoon. You know, like a pretty classic honeymoon thing. But we did fly through Athens, and with the flight schedule, we ended up spending a night in Athens. And I sort of. Without a lot of research, I was just like, well, I'll just pick this hotel. And it turned out to be like 500 yards from the Acropolis.

[Chris Ryan]

That's great.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Which was, like, lit up at night. And we. You could walk right up to it. It was like our night in Athens was one of the most, like, unplanned, magical parts of the trip. It was really cool. I'd like to go back.

[Chris Ryan]

61.

[Sean Fennessy]

I said 862.

[Chris Ryan]

864.

[Sean Fennessy]

You okay? You're feeling a little loose.

[Amanda Dobbins]

864 also, I want to go wherever they went in the trip to Greece. The 2020 or the rob Bryan.

[Sean Fennessy]

Yeah. Wonderful film. Underrated. All The Trip Films.

[Chris Ryan]

864.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Where in Greece do they go?

[Chris Ryan]

What if I told you you could have a Mets World Series, but you have to give up?

[Sean Fennessy]

The Odyssey would do it in a heartbeat. I would do it in five seconds. Yeah, I would. I would do it in one second.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Do you believe Bradley Cooper when he says that he wants an Eagles super bowl win over an Oscar? Yeah. You do?

[Sean Fennessy]

Yeah.

[Chris Ryan]

I think Bradley Cooper kind of knows all this is bullshit and flags fly forever.

[Sean Fennessy]

I think he's right. And I don't. But I don't know. Cause I've never experienced it. So. I was thinking back the other day about how it's been. The teams that I root for have one title in 53 years.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Where are we in the auction?

[Sean Fennessy]

53 years. Sean has. I was four years old.

[Amanda Dobbins]

It was a mess. It's 860.

[Chris Ryan]

870.

[Sean Fennessy]

Okay. So here's the upside of me getting it at 996.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Yeah.

[Sean Fennessy]

I can still host the show and talk about the movies. And also, people don't really like me anyway, so they don't want me to get good stuff.

[Chris Ryan]

What's going on with you?

[Sean Fennessy]

But you guys, like, can then compete in an amusing way, but not a way that is.

[Chris Ryan]

She and I just do our frickin frack thing and like, we just pick a bunch of movies that like.

[Sean Fennessy]

That would suck.

[Chris Ryan]

Yeah.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Pylos. Ithaca. I'm just. I'm Googling.

[Sean Fennessy]

That's why I want this film as I'm a graduate of Ithaca College.

[Amanda Dobbins]

The.

[Sean Fennessy]

Can you claim that? Can you claim fear t to Ithaca?

[Chris Ryan]

70 something?

[Sean Fennessy]

You have it for 870. I do 875.

[Chris Ryan]

Nine best and final.

[Sean Fennessy]

Nine.

[Chris Ryan]

Nine best and final. I'm walking. I'm walking out. My lawyers. The lawyers have the car running. They're keeping the engine warm.

[Sean Fennessy]

We already know based on your return to the bidding at 700, that you are spineless.

[Chris Ryan]

So you have $900. Best and final. No, I can do.

[Amanda Dobbins]

The Pelion is where I googled and I wanted to go in Greece.

[Sean Fennessy]

Just having her own little podcast over here.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Well, you guys.

[Sean Fennessy]

Yeah.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Rick Steves, if anyone knows about it. I'm sorry if I'm not pronounc, but it looked really beautiful. And I remember I watched the trip.

[Sean Fennessy]

To 900 best and final. I mean, 901.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Okay.

[Sean Fennessy]

You can't hurt me. What are you gonna do?

[Chris Ryan]

903.

[Sean Fennessy]

903.

[Chris Ryan]

I fired my lawyers.

[Sean Fennessy]

The person that this affects the most is a manic. Is. You gotta step up for the rest of this podcast. No more Wikipedia. You gotta carry us.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Oh, I'm sorry that I'm not. I'm providing color commentary about Greece.

[Sean Fennessy]

Okay, who are the. Who's your favorite character from the Odyssey?

[Chris Ryan]

Also shot in.

[Amanda Dobbins]

I was gonna ask you guys how many Odyssey characters you could name.

[Sean Fennessy]

Let's save that for the Odyssey episode.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Okay. Or the pre Odyssey I haven't read. Do you guys know about the book Cersei? Do you know about this whole.

[Chris Ryan]

So it was a kind of visionist tape.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Yes. Yeah. You know what?

[Sean Fennessy]

902. Not 902. 904.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Okay.

[Chris Ryan]

905.

[Amanda Dobbins]

906.

[Chris Ryan]

920. Best and final.

[Sean Fennessy]

921.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Okay. This is what happens when I try to teach you about the perspective of women.

[Sean Fennessy]

That's what it was like in School.

[Chris Ryan]

For me, too, you know, 9:25.

[Sean Fennessy]

9:26. I'm out. Okay.

[Chris Ryan]

No, I. I really am out.

[Sean Fennessy]

He get out of it. Okay. Yeah. What?

[Amanda Dobbins]

All right, 9:26 with room to move.

[Sean Fennessy]

I'll take it.

[Amanda Dobbins]

You did good.

[Chris Ryan]

I just wanted to talk about it differently.

[Amanda Dobbins]

This is real, like, it's just. You just have to run out the clock on you that at some point you will get fidgety and you'll go to something.

[Chris Ryan]

Well, my shirt's just, like, grabbing at me a weird way, but.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Is this Carhartt? What are we. Is this big? What is brother Universal works or something? Okay.

[Sean Fennessy]

I don't know. All right, this is a good. This was a good one to do because it is July, so we will have some. Some clarity on where we're going with it. There's a bunch of movies, so I have to put a movie up now. I'm very happy to have this, honestly, because I don't think there are very many Tic Tac Toe contenders this year that could hit all three.

[Amanda Dobbins]

I would.

[Sean Fennessy]

You'd be surprised if this got 85 on Metacritic, right? I. What? Because it's a blockbuster. Like, I think Oppenheimer skewed.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Everything can be surly. Critics can be surly and be like. I don't know whether any seller get on the.

[Sean Fennessy]

I was just looking up Inception. Inception has a 74.

[Chris Ryan]

Well, that's fucking deranged.

[Sean Fennessy]

But that's what I'm saying. Like, his movies are not a guaranteed. Oppenheimer changed everything. Interstellar is a 74.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Okay. Interstellar. No, I didn't ask about Interstellar. I asked about Dark Knight.

[Sean Fennessy]

I'm looking up the Dark Knight. That's like a sub 85. It's 85 even.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Ah, so there you go.

[Sean Fennessy]

The most acclaimed comic book film of all time is an 85.

[Chris Ryan]

Interstellar might be the most beloved movie out of all three of them. Those that you just mentioned.

[Sean Fennessy]

Okay, well, possibly dunkirk. Probably over 85. Yes.

[Amanda Dobbins]

This is a podcast for grownups, so. Not here.

[Sean Fennessy]

What movie should I put on the board? You want me to pick it for you guys? I guess I should pick it.

[Amanda Dobbins]

You have $74.

[Sean Fennessy]

Yeah, no, I know, but I'm not going to be able to outbid anybody with $74 right now. Like, if I put a big movie.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Up, we'll do whatever you want. It's. It's your time. We'd like you to engage with us.

[Sean Fennessy]

I will. I promise you I will.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Okay.

[Sean Fennessy]

Gosh. Where should we go from here? I guess I'll put up for. For $1. Weathering Heights, Emerald Fennels adaptation. Now, I do want to talk about this. This movie's coming out very soon.

[Chris Ryan]

It is coming out so soon. When are they going to start showing it to people?

[Sean Fennessy]

I don't. It's coming out in a month, so presumably in the next two weeks, people will start to get a chance to.

[Chris Ryan]

See this mouth now.

[Amanda Dobbins]

That's right. You a Bronte guy?

[Chris Ryan]

Not really, but I get it, okay? I get it.

[Amanda Dobbins]

All right?

[Chris Ryan]

The ripping, the botus, you know?

[Amanda Dobbins]

Is that how you're saying bonus?

[Sean Fennessy]

I think it's bodice.

[Amanda Dobbins]

I. I have.

[Chris Ryan]

Historically, I guess I've never said bodice out loud.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Okay.

[Sean Fennessy]

Have you ever torn a bodice without knowing how it's pronounced?

[Chris Ryan]

No, I've never, like, ripped a woman's clothes off, you know.

[Sean Fennessy]

You never have?

[Chris Ryan]

No.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Never. Tornado.

[Chris Ryan]

Have you torn them off? Like, have you. Sorry if I'm, like, seeking consent.

[Sean Fennessy]

Have you had sex with them or, like. Okay, so every time you have sex with a woman, you look her directly in the eye. Excuse me. All right, that's getting cut. That's getting cut.

[Amanda Dobbins]

It's his. Come on.

[Sean Fennessy]

You gotta leave it there, J.D. that's all right. On the record, Jack Sanders, you know, planted my flag. That was too good. Okay, so, okay, this pod is gonna be three hours. So glad I picked this up.

[Amanda Dobbins]

So, $1.

[Sean Fennessy]

So we got a nice email this morning from Richard Pickard, who works in bfi, and he shared with us that Emerald Fennel did a syllabus for this film.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Oh, that's cool.

[Sean Fennessy]

So she identified all the movies that inspired this movie, and it's an incredible lineup of movies. I'll read a few of them off to you. Guys, guys, They've only been over 45, by the way, just going to. $1 is on the board for Sean. Okay. A Matter of Life and Death from the Archers.

[Amanda Dobbins]

$5.

[Sean Fennessy]

Far from the Madding Crowd, Sler's adaptation, the Night Porter, Bram Stoker's Dracula.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Come on, Saltburn, get in.

[Sean Fennessy]

David Cronenberg's Crash, Baz Lman's Romeo and Juliet.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Yeah.

[Sean Fennessy]

Two Katherine Briot films. The Handmaiden, Partan Wug, and Sophia Coppola's the Beguiled. Those are the key, the inspiration points. Points for her Weathering Heights adaptation.

[Amanda Dobbins]

By the way, your beguile jokes on the top 50. Rewatch.

[Chris Ryan]

$10.

[Amanda Dobbins]

$11. I was laughing a lot. I thought it was really, really.

[Chris Ryan]

I was just, like. We were trying to figure out, remember the name of the Beguiled and Be.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Like who you were suggesting other call other Sophia Coppola movies that might be on Bill's list after Lost in Translation. And it was very funny. I liked it. You guys did a good job on what was my favorite podcast of 2025.

[Sean Fennessy]

Thanks.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Shout out to Bill.

[Sean Fennessy]

Sometimes he's got it. Not prepare. You have it for $11.

[Amanda Dobbins]

I have $11 right now.

[Sean Fennessy]

Yep. 11. This movie could be a huge hit.

[Chris Ryan]

15 bucks.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Yeah.

[Sean Fennessy]

I think critically there's definitely a swing back potential for Emerald Park.

[Chris Ryan]

We're underrating women at the box office. We're underrating women. I think women powered the housemate Valentine's Day.

[Amanda Dobbins]

We are probably overrating the importance of us of a intelligence script versus everything else that this movie has going for it.

[Sean Fennessy]

Marco, Robbie, Charlie, xcx.

[Amanda Dobbins]

And like she's in it or she.

[Chris Ryan]

Just do the music.

[Sean Fennessy]

Does music.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Yeah, the whole score. But you're not brat.

[Sean Fennessy]

So $22.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Yeah.

[Sean Fennessy]

I feel like this is a good movie. It's just a fun movie to have. Yeah. Like I might not. I might hate it. I really did not like 22.

[Chris Ryan]

Is that where you're at?

[Sean Fennessy]

22? Yeah.

[Chris Ryan]

25.

[Amanda Dobbins]

30.

[Chris Ryan]

The syllabus talked me into it.

[Amanda Dobbins]

I'll do 30.

[Sean Fennessy]

She's got two Katherine Briot films here and David Cronenberg's Crash.

[Chris Ryan]

Like if she's channeling, she's got to get MCs and she's got to get BOS. That's what she's got to do.

[Sean Fennessy]

Bos, I think is. I think it's possible.

[Amanda Dobbins]

I think Bo.

[Chris Ryan]

So what does she have to get.

[Sean Fennessy]

To 100 million to get a point? I don't think it's an Oscar movie. Saltburn wasn't an Oscar movie. Promising young woman was in Covid. You know, she won an Oscar for promising young woman, Best original screenplay.

[Chris Ryan]

What number are we at?

[Sean Fennessy]

Amanda has it for 30.

[Chris Ryan]

35.

[Sean Fennessy]

I gotta be careful here.

[Amanda Dobbins]

I was gonna try to reread this, but then I remembered the experience that I had with Train Dreams where I had not read the Dennis Johnson novella. Yes.

[Sean Fennessy]

And you liked it more.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Yeah. And I just. I went in and. Cause I like. I have read the Brontes, but I'm obviously, I'm awesome.

[Sean Fennessy]

I read. I read Train Dreams after I saw the movie and I was like, huh, $40. Some weird choices here. The adaptation.

[Chris Ryan]

Yeah.

[Sean Fennessy]

$40. Okay.

[Chris Ryan]

Did you do Vineland after.

[Sean Fennessy]

Before.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Thank you also for. Sorry. You are closer to me and it's nice to have you here. And also I'm. I'm waking you up the pinch and pinch on thing.

[Chris Ryan]

That was.

[Amanda Dobbins]

So we didn't talk about it on Sunday night, but I did also panic in the moment. And I was like, is this how.

[Chris Ryan]

We'Re probably has at least talked to him on the phone?

[Sean Fennessy]

It's. I would assume so.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Yeah.

[Sean Fennessy]

Or maybe just over like carrier pigeon. You know, you can imagine there's a world in which their. Their correspondence was sure virtual and Thomas.

[Chris Ryan]

Pinchon was like, it's Pinchon, actually.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Yeah. And if, like anyone knows the thing.

[Sean Fennessy]

I liked about on the watch, you talked about Paul Thomas Anderson's pronunciation of Pinchon versus Pinchon. He said Pinchon at the Golden Globes and you identified it as a California la. Nasally.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Yeah.

[Chris Ryan]

Kind of a Pinchon, man. Yeah. You know, Thomas Pinchon.

[Sean Fennessy]

That was a dude.

[Chris Ryan]

Thanks, dude.

[Sean Fennessy]

I like that.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Where is the bidding right now?

[Sean Fennessy]

Amanda has it for $40.

[Chris Ryan]

Okay, 45.

[Amanda Dobbins]

All right. I'm looking at my list.

[Sean Fennessy]

I'm pumped for this episode because this episode will also feature Pillion, which is one of my favorite movies of last year that people haven't seen yet, but it all comes out the same weekend.

[Chris Ryan]

What do you mean? Like you're going to talk about movies together?

[Sean Fennessy]

Yeah.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Okay. As W Heights. I thought you meant this auction episode. Yeah, I was like, what?

[Sean Fennessy]

Not this episode right now. The one that we'll do in February.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Yeah.

[Sean Fennessy]

For Valentine's Day Day.

[Amanda Dobbins]

I. 50. $50. $50, man.

[Chris Ryan]

How hot is this movie going to be? How racy.

[Sean Fennessy]

How sexy.

[Chris Ryan]

Yeah.

[Sean Fennessy]

Have you seen the Handmaiden?

[Amanda Dobbins]

Yeah.

[Sean Fennessy]

I mean.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Yeah.

[Chris Ryan]

Okay.

[Sean Fennessy]

You know that movie? That movie gets after it.

[Chris Ryan]

You're at 50. 55.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Okay. Where are you on.

[Sean Fennessy]

I'm not going to 60.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Where are you on a Lordy Chris fan?

[Sean Fennessy]

Really Good question.

[Chris Ryan]

I'm a fan. I think he's like a kind soul. Seems like a good guy.

[Sean Fennessy]

Seems like a nice guy.

[Chris Ryan]

Yeah. He does rather be. I feel bad for him. He seems like he's getting harassed by paparazzi a lot. Doesn't. He is not reacting well to it.

[Sean Fennessy]

There were some photos of him talking to Chase infinity and she seemed.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Yeah.

[Chris Ryan]

Mesmerized.

[Amanda Dobbins]

I guess so. I mean, he just. He is very tall.

[Sean Fennessy]

Yeah.

[Amanda Dobbins]

The AI the quote about not wanting to talk about AI. I'd rather be kissing on a beach, getting sunburnt, reading a novel. I All time. He had me forever. And then he said the last movie that made him cry was Sense and Sensibility. Kate Winslet just throwing you the vibe?

[Sean Fennessy]

Think he's been listening.

[Amanda Dobbins]

I just.

[Chris Ryan]

The future Mr. Dobbins I think that.

[Amanda Dobbins]

We would have a lot to talk about.

[Chris Ryan]

Second husband.

[Amanda Dobbins]

That's all.

[Sean Fennessy]

Do you and your partner have a celebrity hall pass? Hall pass?

[Amanda Dobbins]

We have not discussed hall passes. I think because we're both sort of horrified by what the other person, who the other person would choose as a hall pass.

[Chris Ryan]

It sounds like you would choose Jacob a lot.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Yeah. But I think in all of my other, like, interests, Zack seems somewhat disgusted by and, like, it doesn't reflect well on him. And, you know, Sean, Zack and I had a conversation on the subway recently about some of Zach's preferences. You know, the Fergie thing that you and no Fergie is him alone and Kaylee Cuoco as you and Zack together. And I just go in a different direction.

[Chris Ryan]

I'm totally fine with that also, if you've listened to my work.

[Sean Fennessy]

Yeah. You understand.

[Amanda Dobbins]

What's the bidding right now?

[Sean Fennessy]

You have it for 60. I asked because there's a film at Sundance that David Wayne directed called Gail Daugherty and the Celebrity Sex Pass about a couple, and a guy, I believe, meets his sex pass, his hall pass.

[Chris Ryan]

And does the deed.

[Sean Fennessy]

Does the deed with. And then a woman, Zoe Deutch, goes to trash to get her pass check.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Okay.

[Sean Fennessy]

Yeah.

[Chris Ryan]

60. What are you at?

[Amanda Dobbins]

60.

[Chris Ryan]

75.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Oh, okay. You can have it.

[Sean Fennessy]

Okay.

[Amanda Dobbins]

There you go. This episode is brought to you by State Farm. Life is all about choices.

[Sean Fennessy]

You know, I was thinking about recommending Radiance films to my buddy Chris Ryan, a physical media company, because I knew he had a real taste for Italian crime films. And no one does it better than Radiance. And of course, I was right. Chris got involved in Radiance, and now he feels great about it.

[Amanda Dobbins]

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[Sean Fennessy]

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[Chris Ryan]

My turn.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Your turn.

[Sean Fennessy]

Your turn.

[Chris Ryan]

Okay. In September, we are getting a film.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Okay.

[Chris Ryan]

Brought to us.

[Sean Fennessy]

Okay. This is exciting.

[Chris Ryan]

By our Lord and savior, Zach Kreger.

[Sean Fennessy]

Ah. Okay.

[Chris Ryan]

And we are going to Raccoon City, baby, for Resident Evil, which I think will cross the threshold on box office and Metacritic.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Wow.

[Chris Ryan]

Bold. I think this movie's Gonna be fucking rocking, man.

[Sean Fennessy]

I. I think you're right.

[Amanda Dobbins]

On metac.

[Sean Fennessy]

Metacritic. I don't know, bro.

[Chris Ryan]

What did weapons get on Metacritic?

[Amanda Dobbins]

All right. I can't.

[Chris Ryan]

What did barbarian get on that?

[Amanda Dobbins]

I can. I'm just allowed to get up, right? With all words. I really liked weapons, but I'm not bidding on this. No, but my hair, the one little. My little cowlick is coming out.

[Chris Ryan]

That's great. Don't worry about it.

[Sean Fennessy]

No one can see that.

[Amanda Dobbins]

I can't go.

[Sean Fennessy]

Literally no one can see that.

[Amanda Dobbins]

It keeps going like this. And then in the thumbnail, there' like a line right here. I don't like it.

[Sean Fennessy]

A thumbnail.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Yeah.

[Sean Fennessy]

We have AI Jack Sanders who can get all that out.

[Amanda Dobbins]

You know what? Can you.

[Sean Fennessy]

Can you get chatgpt to fix the cowlick on Amanda's hair? That's exactly what I'll do.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Okay.

[Sean Fennessy]

Raven's got an 81 on Metacritic.

[Chris Ryan]

I am opening the bidding at $40.

[Sean Fennessy]

45.

[Chris Ryan]

Okay. I am opening the. The next round of bidding.

[Sean Fennessy]

You're not opening anything.

[Chris Ryan]

$60.

[Sean Fennessy]

$62.

[Amanda Dobbins]

To see whether we can this.

[Chris Ryan]

Are you excited for this?

[Sean Fennessy]

I mean, I'm pumped.

[Chris Ryan]

Resident. I played a couple of. Of the chapters.

[Sean Fennessy]

Yes.

[Amanda Dobbins]

What happened in those chapters?

[Chris Ryan]

Well, there's a lab leak.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Great.

[Sean Fennessy]

A lab leak.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Oh, good.

[Chris Ryan]

There's a. There's a problem in a small town in the Midwest that is being like. Essentially, it's a company town for a chemical company. And, you know, you're this chick, and you go to the.

[Amanda Dobbins]

The.

[Chris Ryan]

To the town.

[Amanda Dobbins]

So it's. It's representation for women.

[Chris Ryan]

It's Austin Abrams. I mean, Zach Kruger has said, like, this is going to have almost nothing to do with the video game in terms of its okay story. It's going to be spiritually an adaptation.

[Amanda Dobbins]

So what is said to me, what is the spirit that it is.

[Sean Fennessy]

Let's credit Sean. This was. This was number six. Am I most anticipated?

[Amanda Dobbins]

Okay, what. What is the spirit, then that it is adapting? Describe it.

[Chris Ryan]

The spirit is just like, you're walking around this town fucking slaughtering zombies and freaks of nature.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Cool.

[Chris Ryan]

And it's a really fun game. And then sometimes you solve puzzles.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Okay.

[Chris Ryan]

Like, how do I get up to the second level if I have to move boxes to get up there? You know?

[Sean Fennessy]

I learned some additional information about this movie from someone who has explicit knowledge of the movie last Friday. And I won't be spoiling it here for okay listeners at home.

[Chris Ryan]

So you're just, like, letting us know that, you know.

[Sean Fennessy]

Yeah, it's actually A crypto adaptation of Wuthering Heights. So it's kind of weird that they're coming out in the same year, but.

[Chris Ryan]

Crypto, like it's about Wuthering Heights. If they had crypto.

[Sean Fennessy]

Yeah, it's Doge.

[Chris Ryan]

Where are we at CR?

[Sean Fennessy]

I believe you have it for 60.

[Chris Ryan]

62, 65.

[Sean Fennessy]

I don't know how much money I have left.

[Amanda Dobbins]

You have $74, so just take it from him.

[Sean Fennessy]

66.

[Chris Ryan]

70.

[Sean Fennessy]

Well, I can't do that, so I can't go up any. Well, I could go up.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Yes, you can.

[Sean Fennessy]

I can go to 71. 1.

[Chris Ryan]

72. So I have Wuthering Heights and Resident Evil.

[Sean Fennessy]

Sick.

[Chris Ryan]

What a fucking guy I am.

[Amanda Dobbins]

That's true. You can have it all.

[Sean Fennessy]

I don't think either of those are gonna cross any of the threshold. Except for domestic box office, but that's good.

[Chris Ryan]

I disagree.

[Sean Fennessy]

You think they're getting Oscars?

[Chris Ryan]

I know.

[Sean Fennessy]

Metacritic weapons got 81 and it was one of the most acclaimed horror movies the last 10 years.

[Chris Ryan]

Why are we using Metacritic then if Metacritic is giving Said?

[Amanda Dobbins]

Last year he was like, I set this way too high. 85 is really hard.

[Sean Fennessy]

Didn't. The whole point was that it's hard to.

[Chris Ryan]

But then you drafted like nine sometimes.

[Sean Fennessy]

No, I got.

[Amanda Dobbins]

I got.

[Sean Fennessy]

It was just an accident to get. To get this. Like, that's the thing is you got. You got a Palm Door watch. You got a.

[Chris Ryan]

Okay, I'll worry about Palm Door next. Next. Next auction.

[Sean Fennessy]

Wow. Cuz those are not American.

[Chris Ryan]

Why would I care about Palm Door? I don't get extra points for being at Con.

[Sean Fennessy]

No, but those are the films that get the review.

[Amanda Dobbins]

They do. Yeah.

[Chris Ryan]

See? Okay, we'll see.

[Sean Fennessy]

If it's not in English, you won't watch it. That's what you said.

[Chris Ryan]

No, I've been watching tons of Japanese films.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Films.

[Sean Fennessy]

Interesting. Like what?

[Chris Ryan]

I watched Cloud the other day.

[Sean Fennessy]

Kyoshi Kurosawa's Cloud. What'd you think?

[Chris Ryan]

That'll make you bummed out about modernity, man.

[Sean Fennessy]

Yeah. And how is your black market selling going?

[Chris Ryan]

Reselling? My drop shipping. Oh, God, it's tough out there, you know?

[Sean Fennessy]

What are all your side businesses? Let's talk about them. Because Amanda's got to figure out what she wants to put up. No, I believe it's cr.

[Chris Ryan]

Yeah, no, it's my.

[Sean Fennessy]

Oh, we do Snake. Yeah.

[Chris Ryan]

Yeah.

[Sean Fennessy]

Oh, God, my bad.

[Amanda Dobbins]

So, like, I'm just. I'm just sitting here.

[Sean Fennessy]

Do we need to do Snake?

[Amanda Dobbins]

Learning about. I. I don't know.

[Chris Ryan]

We don't. But I'll just put the movie that we need to talk about. Anyway, it's doing Part three.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Okay.

[Sean Fennessy]

So it's a little early to put.

[Chris Ryan]

This on the board early in this auction because we've been here for quite a while.

[Sean Fennessy]

Well, it's a movie that's not coming out till December.

[Chris Ryan]

Yeah, but you're getting in early on something that will probably get Best Picture.

[Sean Fennessy]

Yeah.

[Chris Ryan]

Probably freak the box office and probably do Metacritic. Well, maybe not Metacritic. What a dune part 2 get.

[Sean Fennessy]

Probably sub 85 from the geniuses of the critical community. Shots fired.

[Chris Ryan]

Well, I just.

[Sean Fennessy]

Your least favorite film critics.

[Amanda Dobbins]

I mean, this is dune part two.

[Sean Fennessy]

Got 79.

[Chris Ryan]

All right.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Sure.

[Chris Ryan]

So maybe it won't get. Maybe it won't get an 85, but I think it'll get Best Picture as the kind of like Return of the King nod.

[Sean Fennessy]

I wonder. Avatar is obviously not getting that. Wicked. Didn't get that. That. It might. It might. Obviously we don't. I'm not going to doubt dune part 3. I love the first scene when we.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Were talking About Dune Part 2, you kept invoking Returns. Yeah. And we kept screaming, no, Dune 2 is the time to do it because Dune 3 is going to get weird. That said, I think it definitely will be nominated. What is your bid? What's your bid?

[Chris Ryan]

50 bucks.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Okay.

[Chris Ryan]

I realized that I was off. I was wrong about like my Dune 3. It's going to be weird, but it's not going to be as weird as it could be be in terms of like what happens in the future books. That was my bad. I haven't read them.

[Sean Fennessy]

That was just propaganda.

[Amanda Dobbins]

In terms of celebrities.

[Chris Ryan]

75.

[Amanda Dobbins]

I did say 75.

[Chris Ryan]

90.

[Amanda Dobbins]

100. This is, this is high for this one. Not.

[Sean Fennessy]

This could tic tac toe for sure.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Yeah, this could tic tac toe. And it's not the Odyssey, but it does have Shalam, Zendaya, Florence Pew, Anya Taylor, Joy, Momoa Brolin, Rebecca Ferguson and Robert Pattinson.

[Chris Ryan]

Oh, yeah.

[Sean Fennessy]

Big year for Rob.

[Chris Ryan]

Yeah, Big, big shot.

[Sean Fennessy]

Bob, what is the bidding? You have it for $100.

[Chris Ryan]

125.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Okay. 150.

[Chris Ryan]

175.

[Sean Fennessy]

I'm really fascinated to see how this is received. I know it's going to be a hit.

[Amanda Dobbins]

200.

[Sean Fennessy]

Probably going to get moved to. Feels like mid October is the time.

[Chris Ryan]

To put from December. Yeah, they can move it up two months like that.

[Sean Fennessy]

Sure. Yeah. It's happened before. I. I don't. I think staying on that date is not wise.

[Chris Ryan]

Well, the, the problem is, is all the competition for IMAX screeners Right.

[Sean Fennessy]

There's no big. That's exactly why the plf.

[Amanda Dobbins]

But Narnia is not until can. Do you know the title of Greta Gerwig's Narnia film without Googling it?

[Chris Ryan]

Uh, know lion the Witch, Narnia the.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Magician's Nephew is not until November.

[Chris Ryan]

Got lock in that needed a couple more minutes in the oven, dog. So the Magician's Nephew, that is apparently.

[Amanda Dobbins]

It is the prequel to Lion, Witch and the Wardrobe. I learned this from Wikipedia the last time that we were podcasting about this. It is apparently about the creation of Narnia.

[Chris Ryan]

Wow.

[Sean Fennessy]

If I were doing three, I would go to October 16th. Amanda has it for 200.

[Chris Ryan]

220.

[Sean Fennessy]

October 16th.

[Amanda Dobbins]

250.

[Sean Fennessy]

Has one wide release film right now.

[Chris Ryan]

How much do I have left?

[Sean Fennessy]

Jack, you have almost all of it. You've only spent about, like $150.

[Chris Ryan]

I'm just killing it.

[Sean Fennessy]

You lost the Odyssey. I don't know what to tell you.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Okay.

[Sean Fennessy]

You lost the. You're the Nolan guy. You're like, I define my life by being a Nolan head.

[Chris Ryan]

Yeah, but I wanted to participate in this podcast. I wanted to make good.

[Sean Fennessy]

I'm right here talking.

[Chris Ryan]

Yeah, but like, you're kind of not. You're not like, now. You're like, when am I going to get to pick again?

[Sean Fennessy]

I'm thinking about Kyle Tucker on the Mets. That's what I'm thinking about.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Did that happen?

[Sean Fennessy]

It could. Four years, 160. Opt out after two weeks.

[Chris Ryan]

Baseball player contracts. Like we're talking about.

[Sean Fennessy]

160 with an opt out after two years. Would you sign up for that? I would contribute all of my savings to the contract to make that happen.

[Chris Ryan]

Because he's a good glove?

[Sean Fennessy]

No, because he is.

[Chris Ryan]

Is he not a good glove?

[Sean Fennessy]

He's a five WAR player. He's fine in the outfield. Totally average outfield. No left fielder or right fielder, but they'd probably move him to the left.

[Chris Ryan]

Two. What is it?

[Amanda Dobbins]

I said 250.

[Chris Ryan]

275.

[Sean Fennessy]

This is way undervalued right now, in my opinion.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Okay, thank you.

[Sean Fennessy]

These are my contributions. I mean, this is. You want me to talk. This is what I'm saying.

[Chris Ryan]

You are.

[Sean Fennessy]

I'm surveilling.

[Amanda Dobbins]

You are the polymarket Chiron at the bottom of this broadcast right now. 300.

[Chris Ryan]

320.

[Sean Fennessy]

Are you actually excited for this?

[Chris Ryan]

Do the rest of this in Mark Malkin voice.

[Amanda Dobbins]

350.

[Sean Fennessy]

So she said no to $10 million to do the play by play at the Globes.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Would you do it look at what happened to Mark Malkin. I knew on Sunday night I was like, this is not good.

[Sean Fennessy]

Can't happen to me. Yeah, that can't happen to me. I'm in. Perfect.

[Amanda Dobbins]

This is not going to go well, you know, so it's. It's 10 million for the rest of your life.

[Chris Ryan]

But there would be so much stuff at the Globes that you'd be like, I have not seen he Rivalry.

[Sean Fennessy]

That's true. For the TV stuff. I would need some. Some prep. Yeah, I'd watch it. I would watch it. If I got for $10 million, I'd watch heated rivalry for $10 million, I would as well.

[Chris Ryan]

Yeah, you would like it.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Everyone says that. I have a checkered history with adaptations of romance texts as opposed to romantic.

[Chris Ryan]

It's just. It's a very entertaining series.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Okay.

[Chris Ryan]

And it's not very demanding. You know, it's like six episodes.

[Sean Fennessy]

Okay, where are you guys at?

[Chris Ryan]

353 75.

[Amanda Dobbins]

I'll do 400.

[Chris Ryan]

Yeah.

[Sean Fennessy]

Is this the second most desired movie of the year?

[Chris Ryan]

I think so, because I think it's the one that I think will also get. Get Oscar noms, whereas Doomsday won't, you know, like. But where are we at? Sorry, what was it?

[Amanda Dobbins]

400?

[Chris Ryan]

425.

[Amanda Dobbins]

450.

[Chris Ryan]

I mean, it's definitely. What do you think's gonna make more money? Dune 3 or Odyssey?

[Amanda Dobbins]

The Odyssey? Which is, boy, I don't know, insane.

[Sean Fennessy]

I don't. I. I feel like Oppenheimer 6-2- reset the trajectory for Nol where like, a movie like that has never made $980 million and the Odyssey is way bigger.

[Chris Ryan]

How much of Oppenheimer was based on, like, dude, they set off a bomb to make this movie. Like the, the kind of like, spectacle of it. And how much do they need to talk about what's in the Odyssey to get people to go see it? I think people are gonna go see it because I think a lot of people have had to read this book over the course of their lives.

[Sean Fennessy]

An extraordinarily well known story. Arguably. Arguably after the Bible and the story of Christ, the most well known story in Judeo Christian culture. So, yeah, there's some awareness, I would say, of the material. But, you know, Dune Part 3 is like a classic situation where you had two previous movies that were both box office hits, the second one bigger than the first one, and all of the central stars have only gotten significantly more famous since those movies started coming out.

[Chris Ryan]

What did we add, Jack?

[Sean Fennessy]

Amanda has it for 450. And also. So Oppenheimer made 50 million more domestic than Dune part two.

[Chris Ryan]

Interesting.

[Amanda Dobbins]

But I also do think that internationally, I mean, I. I don't think that American high schools are the only place where you read the Odyssey.

[Sean Fennessy]

No, The Odyssey is going to play everywhere.

[Chris Ryan]

Yeah. I'll do it for 475. 500, 525.

[Amanda Dobbins]

550.

[Sean Fennessy]

Callum Turner, as in Denis Villeneuve's Bond.

[Chris Ryan]

600. Apparently he's going all over town in London saying, I'm Bond.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Callum Turner.

[Sean Fennessy]

Yeah.

[Chris Ryan]

It's done deal.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Good for him. I mean, he's marrying Dua Lipa and he's going to be James Bond. I'm excited for him. 625.

[Chris Ryan]

Really nice.

[Sean Fennessy]

It's really nice.

[Chris Ryan]

Yeah, it's really nice.

[Sean Fennessy]

Searing commentary.

[Chris Ryan]

I like the idea of young Bond and I like the idea of, like him coming out of like the Navy. Is this what they're going to do? An origin story, you think or did villain said, I don't want to do one of those.

[Sean Fennessy]

Alan Turner's 35.

[Chris Ryan]

Yeah. But you know, he's not. He's not gonna be like, oh, I'm late middle age Bond. I'm broken down like Daniel Craig.

[Sean Fennessy]

I'm seeing here on Wikipedia he previously was with Vanessa Kirby.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Yeah. You didn't know that? Damn. He's really. He's doing very well.

[Sean Fennessy]

That's fire.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Yeah.

[Sean Fennessy]

Vanessa Kirby to do a leap on.

[Amanda Dobbins]

And you were like, I don't understand. Attorney.

[Sean Fennessy]

I understood Eternity doesn't make it a good movie. I mean, he's obviously a very handsome. You guys see the boys in the boat? Yeah.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Yeah.

[Chris Ryan]

He's also in Masters of the Sky. Air. Masters of the Air.

[Sean Fennessy]

Yeah. That was a good. That was a TV show.

[Chris Ryan]

No, but it's kind of amazing that Austin Butler and Callum Turner were like the leads of an Apple series that it feels like only I and 7580 year olds watched.

[Sean Fennessy]

Right. But not Andy.

[Chris Ryan]

Andy watched like the first one.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Okay.

[Chris Ryan]

Yeah, maybe. I don't even know if Andy's seen the Pacific.

[Sean Fennessy]

Do you see the film starring David Ellis in Flyboys?

[Chris Ryan]

I didn't. Is he in it?

[Sean Fennessy]

Yeah, he's one of the leads.

[Chris Ryan]

I haven't seen it. I haven't seen Flyboys.

[Sean Fennessy]

Great bit in Reeves New York Mag. Profile. David Ellson about how he pivoted away from acting.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Wow.

[Sean Fennessy]

Because of the struggles of the film. Flyboys. Flyboys. Watch along. Amanda has it for 625.

[Amanda Dobbins]

I'm just googling column. Turner right now.

[Chris Ryan]

45.

[Amanda Dobbins]

650.

[Sean Fennessy]

Is he gonna lose his hair.

[Chris Ryan]

675. He'll get it taken care of. All the British guys do kind of a.

[Amanda Dobbins]

You said 660.

[Sean Fennessy]

Got a large forehead. C.R.

[Chris Ryan]

Said 675.

[Sean Fennessy]

Yeah.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Oh, 700.

[Chris Ryan]

Bald bond.

[Sean Fennessy]

Well, that's what I was gonna ask. I mean, could we do a bald bond? I mean, I guess Connory was a bald bond.

[Chris Ryan]

But he wore.

[Sean Fennessy]

Wore a rug with a piece. Yeah, but he was. He was bald AF some of it.

[Amanda Dobbins]

I'm looking, though, at the younger photographs with longer hair and. And he still got the forehead. So maybe that's.

[Sean Fennessy]

Amanda has it for 700. Los Angeles, California.

[Chris Ryan]

$725.

[Sean Fennessy]

We're at the absolute centerpiece of culture right now. This is where it's all happening. Not the city, this room.

[Amanda Dobbins]

7:30.

[Chris Ryan]

7:50. I feel like Odyssey kind of set the market for a movie this big.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Yeah, 750. Okay.

[Sean Fennessy]

We're just shattering records. Well, so that means whoever doesn't get this will get another big blockbuster then in this one. So that means the 750.

[Amanda Dobbins]

I don't have anything, so.

[Sean Fennessy]

Anything?

[Amanda Dobbins]

No.

[Sean Fennessy]

Oh, my goodness. Amanda.

[Amanda Dobbins]

775.

[Sean Fennessy]

Wow. You guys are going big time for dune three.

[Chris Ryan]

I'll give it to you at 775.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Okay. I think that's good. I think that that's.

[Sean Fennessy]

Good balance. Good balance.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Yeah.

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[Sean Fennessy]

I'm putting something up now, Is that right? Yes, if we're going in snake fashion. That's correct. Hmm. For a dollar, I'll put up Toy Story 5.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Do you know who the villain of Toy Story 5 is? Christopher?

[Sean Fennessy]

No.

[Amanda Dobbins]

It's an iPad. Introduces.

[Sean Fennessy]

Do you know who's voicing the iPad?

[Amanda Dobbins]

No.

[Sean Fennessy]

Greta Lee.

[Amanda Dobbins]

That's really funny and I'm happy for her.

[Chris Ryan]

Greta Lee. So wait, Toy Story. Does this have something to do with.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Hello. Houston's Pasadena enthusiast? Well, I don't know whether it's actually an iPad. Oh, it's like a tablet, but it's a tablet. And Screen Time is competing with all the other toys. It's a good idea.

[Sean Fennessy]

Now, obviously I'm the animation lover. Did you?

[Chris Ryan]

Wait, that's the nominated movie.

[Sean Fennessy]

Toy Story 5 for $1. I love the Toy Story films. Were you. You were not on the Toy Story rewatchables?

[Chris Ryan]

I don't think I've ever seen Toy Story on that.

[Sean Fennessy]

Rewatchables. Mallory.

[Chris Ryan]

Me ban.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Was it Mina Story rewatchables? Might have been.

[Sean Fennessy]

Mina and Mal.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Sean Fennesee. Mallory Rubin and Shay Serrano.

[Sean Fennessy]

Shay, of course. My beautiful boy shay. Toy Story 4 rocked. Toy Story 3 rocked. Quentin Tarantino said top 10 movie of the century.

[Chris Ryan]

What else did Quentin say?

[Sean Fennessy]

He recommended the film Chocolate, which I had not heard of before. Have you seen that film? But from the director of Ang Bak and ang bak 2. Will you check that one out for sure? Yeah. Toy Story 2. Good. Toy Story 1. All time classic.

[Chris Ryan]

Yeah.

[Sean Fennessy]

Life changing movie.

[Chris Ryan]

Do you think this is the best franchise?

[Sean Fennessy]

It's in the conversation. Never really stumbled in my opinion.

[Chris Ryan]

I was thinking about that with Bone temple.

[Sean Fennessy]

I think 28 months later is highly flawed.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Yes.

[Sean Fennessy]

Have you, by the way, Sean has this movie for a dollar.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Okay. Have you?

[Sean Fennessy]

I'll take it.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Done this with Alice.

[Sean Fennessy]

We did one and two. We got really obsessed with Jesse from two. Who is the female cowboy voiced by? Who is it who voices Jesse? Is it Joan Cusack? It is Joan Cusack.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Oh, that's nice.

[Sean Fennessy]

And we have never done three and we've never done four. Three is very scary. There's a lot of potential toys.

[Chris Ryan]

Is it three is the one where it's like they get left behind somewhere, right?

[Sean Fennessy]

Yeah, well, that kind of always happens, but yeah. Five I'm pumped for. And this is like, this is a value play.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Okay.

[Sean Fennessy]

This movie's gonna make a shit ton of money and it's almost certainly gonna be nominated for at least one Oscar.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Well, I think that's great, but we just don't really want it. So you can have it.

[Sean Fennessy]

Well, I needed to get something like This I understand. So I think that's good to fill out my roster. Now, you have two recommendations.

[Amanda Dobbins]

We have done Toy Story, and it doesn't. No offense. I'm just too old. That doesn't mean anything to me. But I will say, when Knox encounters.

[Chris Ryan]

You're old.

[Sean Fennessy]

You're younger than I am.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Yeah, but I just never watched it.

[Sean Fennessy]

You just don't watch animated stuff because you were raised like a monk in Tibet in 1850.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Listen, I'm doing my best to overcome When Knox encounters a Buzz Lightyear toy. He is. He is kind of like, oh, what's this?

[Sean Fennessy]

I think he would really enjoy the Woody and Buzz dynamic. I would be surprised. I'll happily invite your son over to watch the movie.

[Chris Ryan]

Imagine him encountering some of the franchises that Sean and I grew up with and had to wait years and years for the next movie to come out. And now he's just got 12 of them or whatever to watch.

[Sean Fennessy]

Yeah, yeah. And then Paw Patrol. I'll show them that. And bring that into your house.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Threw out a Paw Patrol toy this Christmas.

[Sean Fennessy]

Pretty good idea.

[Chris Ryan]

Did you get it for him?

[Amanda Dobbins]

No, absolutely not. Someone else said a grandparent who will not be named, but I bet you can guess. And goodbye to that toy.

[Chris Ryan]

How's the volume on the keyboard doing?

[Amanda Dobbins]

So we. We got a replacement Casio keyboard.

[Sean Fennessy]

Yeah.

[Chris Ryan]

I got to tell, I think that might have too much firepower.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Man. I know.

[Sean Fennessy]

And.

[Amanda Dobbins]

But Nox, like, understands how the volume top. And he will just turn it all the way up and then hit the drums and you can yell, knox, turn it down as loud as possible. And he will not do that. It's really psychotic.

[Sean Fennessy]

Be careful. He's very precious.

[Amanda Dobbins]

No, I know, but Chris and Phoebe gave him his first keyboard, so I blame them. Is it my turn?

[Sean Fennessy]

It is.

[Chris Ryan]

I thought he would love music.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Okay. He does love music. All right, let's have fun. Project Hail Mary.

[Chris Ryan]

Yep.

[Amanda Dobbins]

$50.

[Chris Ryan]

60 bucks.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Yeah.

[Sean Fennessy]

70 bucks.

[Chris Ryan]

75 bucks.

[Amanda Dobbins]

80.

[Chris Ryan]

A hundred dollars for project Hail Mary.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Okay.

[Chris Ryan]

Although I'm. I'm a little concerned. What is the most recent example of Amazon's, like, the theatrical stuff working out, like, on a big box office way it's never happened.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Yeah.

[Sean Fennessy]

Except for James Bond, I guess.

[Chris Ryan]

So I guess this would be. You're betting on box office? I bet it'll do fine critically, but pro. Probably not like 85.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Yeah.

[Chris Ryan]

Like, what did the Martian get?

[Sean Fennessy]

You know, the Martian's what business. Oh, on Metacritic.

[Chris Ryan]

On Metacritic.

[Sean Fennessy]

I would guess 81.

[Amanda Dobbins]

But it was nominated for a bunch of Oscars Several Oscars.

[Chris Ryan]

There's a little bit of concern that they have given away too much about Mary.

[Sean Fennessy]

Mm.

[Chris Ryan]

140.

[Sean Fennessy]

Amazon's highest grossing film worldwide is Air with $90 million.

[Chris Ryan]

That's crazy.

[Sean Fennessy]

That's not good.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Sean Fennessy]

And this is one of the reasons.

[Chris Ryan]

But I know that they're trying to. Like, they're trying.

[Sean Fennessy]

They hired Courtney Valenti. They're trying to be a real, proper movie studio.

[Chris Ryan]

175.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Okay.

[Sean Fennessy]

I'll be seeing crime 101 imminently. Yeah, that's a new Amazon film.

[Chris Ryan]

But I thought it was going straight to video.

[Sean Fennessy]

It is and it is not. Okay, Chris Hemsworth, AKA Thor.

[Amanda Dobbins]

I'm just doing math about how much I have left. You've done 175? 180. If you want it, just take it.

[Chris Ryan]

I don't really. I mean, I'm interested.

[Amanda Dobbins]

So you're just bidding me up?

[Chris Ryan]

No, I'm not just bidding you up. It's not. It's just not something. Wait, what's the last bid?

[Amanda Dobbins]

180.

[Chris Ryan]

182.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Okay, hold on. 185.

[Chris Ryan]

190. Because I now I have a new, new strategy.

[Sean Fennessy]

What's your new strategy?

[Chris Ryan]

Well, if I get this, I feel good about where I'm at and I'll just take wacko things for the rest of the auction.

[Sean Fennessy]

Right. You'll have Withering Heights, Resident Evil and Project Hill.

[Chris Ryan]

Mary, you only have the Odyssey in Toy Story 5. That's right. And you have Dune.

[Sean Fennessy]

I similarly feel like I can now take some risks because of my slate. I have some guaranteed points in the bin.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Okay, I will do 200. I'm excited about this film.

[Sean Fennessy]

Mm. Now, what do you make of the March release date of this movie?

[Chris Ryan]

Wasn't Martian pretty early? Oh, no. Martian was September.

[Sean Fennessy]

Or maybe. Maybe it was fall.

[Chris Ryan]

Yeah, same author. In case everybody's like, why do you keep bringing up the author, Andy?

[Sean Fennessy]

We're not. Also adapted by Drew Goddard, just as the Martian was.

[Amanda Dobbins]

I think I'm more worried about the Bride's March release date, because that's another. We now have a history of Warner Brothers putting big names. Director swings in March and it not panning out box office wise. This is Amazon. I don't know how much of a strategy they have besides trying to find a soft weekend.

[Sean Fennessy]

They knew it was going to be sitting there for a long time. This movie is opening opposite Billie Eilish. Hit me hard and Soft the Tour.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Directed by James Cameron and Billie Eilish.

[Chris Ryan]

You can have Project Hill and Mary.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Okay, great. Thank you.

[Sean Fennessy]

March is going to be interesting. A lot of weird movies. Scream 7. You pumped about that? Maybe we can wait. Maybe we'll hold it.

[Chris Ryan]

I don't know. I don't know.

[Amanda Dobbins]

All right.

[Chris Ryan]

Because it's just like all the old people back now.

[Sean Fennessy]

Yeah. I don't love that they did that.

[Chris Ryan]

I feel like they had a pretty decent cast kind of put together.

[Sean Fennessy]

Melissa Barrera. Yeah.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Okay, So I have $25 left. And another pick. Devil Wears Prada 2.

[Sean Fennessy]

$1. We got to bid her up. Got to bid her up.

[Chris Ryan]

Five bucks.

[Sean Fennessy]

Six bucks.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Okay.

[Chris Ryan]

How much do you have left?

[Amanda Dobbins]

I have $25.

[Chris Ryan]

I don't really want DE Wars Pride 2. Is that coming out in going to make 100 mil? I'll do $26. I guess that's where I'm at.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Wow.

[Sean Fennessy]

You're just taking it.

[Amanda Dobbins]

You're taking Devil wor. Pride of two.

[Sean Fennessy]

You just took it.

[Chris Ryan]

Yeah, that's bit her up. I mean, she. But how many do you have, right?

[Amanda Dobbins]

No, I can't. Yeah. So you're taking it. That's fine. You can have it.

[Sean Fennessy]

Wow.

[Amanda Dobbins]

I'm a little disappointed.

[Chris Ryan]

I like Devil Wars Prada. I like that movie.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Okay.

[Sean Fennessy]

Would you say it's the number one most rewatchable film?

[Chris Ryan]

I would not say it's in my top 50 of their most rewatchable.

[Sean Fennessy]

Is it in your top?

[Amanda Dobbins]

That is why I love Bill Simmons.

[Sean Fennessy]

And because he in front of us. I mean, I think.

[Amanda Dobbins]

I mean, it's a great choice. I love saying it to the two of you. I love you both. Just being dumbfounded. Can you three quotes from the original Devil Wears Prada go?

[Chris Ryan]

No, I can't.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Remember, you can't do a single quote. Can you do three?

[Sean Fennessy]

No. Yeah.

[Amanda Dobbins]

You guys are absolutely.

[Sean Fennessy]

The movie is fine. It's like it's the most 7 out of 10 movie of all time.

[Amanda Dobbins]

It's an incredible movie.

[Sean Fennessy]

Okay, who's the director of the Devil Wears Prada?

[Amanda Dobbins]

David Frankel.

[Sean Fennessy]

Yeah.

[Chris Ryan]

Is he directing?

[Sean Fennessy]

What are your other David Frankel faves?

[Amanda Dobbins]

Didn't he. Did he direct Marshally and Me?

[Chris Ryan]

Wedding Crashers?

[Sean Fennessy]

He did direct Marshall Crashers. That was.

[Chris Ryan]

David Dopkin directed Wedding Crashers.

[Amanda Dobbins]

I mean, you're talking to me like I don't know these things. Like, I know what's up.

[Sean Fennessy]

Who threw a lineup of the other films he's Directed?

[Amanda Dobbins]

Elaine Rush McKenna wrote this. She wrote 27 Dresses, which I don't care that much about. Morning Glory. Deeply underrated, in my opinion.

[Sean Fennessy]

Are you a fan of collateral beauty from 2016.

[Amanda Dobbins]

That was tough.

[Sean Fennessy]

Starring Will Smith.

[Amanda Dobbins]

I wasn't.

[Sean Fennessy]

What about one chant? Have you seen that?

[Chris Ryan]

What's that about?

[Sean Fennessy]

Probably not.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Meryl Streep is in this film.

[Sean Fennessy]

Stars James Corden as Paul Potts.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Yeah, right. I've heard details about the plot and I like it.

[Chris Ryan]

You too. You're getting a little too inside. Baseball, you know. You know about Resident Evil. You know about Devil Wars. Prada too. You're losing touch with the working man.

[Sean Fennessy]

Who ever said I was in touch with the working man? It's a fucking movie podcast.

[Chris Ryan]

Joe Lunch Bale is going to the cinema with with his last $5. So I have Devil wars product too.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Yeah. Can't do a single quote. Not florals for spring. Groundbreaking.

[Chris Ryan]

What's the one?

[Amanda Dobbins]

Are those the Chanel boots?

[Sean Fennessy]

I like the devil.

[Chris Ryan]

Yeah, I do.

[Sean Fennessy]

It's just. I don't really understand it as a phenomena.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Are those the Chanel boots? Yeah, because that's a meme. Yeah.

[Chris Ryan]

What does Adrian Grenier say?

[Amanda Dobbins]

I'm going to Boston to learn how to make French fries or whatever.

[Sean Fennessy]

Yeah. Okay, so you're going to be end up. You're going to be left with quite a. Quite a large sum of money because Amanda has $25 remaining and I have $74 or $73, meaning my pick or it's my pick.

[Chris Ryan]

It's your pick.

[Sean Fennessy]

It is.

[Chris Ryan]

Didn't you just do.

[Sean Fennessy]

Sorry. No, Amanda just put up. She just put two up. So I got to find another one. H.

[Amanda Dobbins]

You didn't.

[Sean Fennessy]

I'll put the Adventures of Cliff Booth on the board for a dollar.

[Chris Ryan]

So you're basically. Because you want it.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Yeah.

[Chris Ryan]

And I was thinking about this too.

[Sean Fennessy]

Now it probably ain't gonna get you much.

[Chris Ryan]

I'm gonna probably you up here. You know what I mean? Because, you know, but like, you're gonna get. You can probably get Metacritic here.

[Sean Fennessy]

Well, strategically, I don't know if you can.

[Amanda Dobbins]

People have been a little bit salty about the David Fincher movies. They are not.

[Chris Ryan]

Listen, do you know what I was just watching the other night because it was on cable.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Tell us.

[Chris Ryan]

Girl with a Dragon Tattoo.

[Sean Fennessy]

Yeah.

[Chris Ryan]

You kidding me?

[Amanda Dobbins]

Yeah, it's good.

[Chris Ryan]

It's like, honestly, like his, like his not even tossed off, but his like B level work is so much better than most people's, like, crowning achievements. I mean, crazy.

[Amanda Dobbins]

One of the great.

[Chris Ryan]

You know when fucking Daniel Craig comes in with the. With the pastry and the coffee, he's like, kick your girlfriend out. So I have to talk to.

[Sean Fennessy]

I think. I think Quentin and Fincher are both really funny, but in very different ways.

[Chris Ryan]

Insane that he is directing this.

[Sean Fennessy]

I know, I know.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Also, can I tell you something? Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. Hollywood. 84 metacritic. So, yeah.

[Sean Fennessy]

I mean, that's evil.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Listen, I didn't get it.

[Chris Ryan]

Yeah.

[Sean Fennessy]

PT has his detractors.

[Chris Ryan]

I think 85 is too high.

[Sean Fennessy]

What about 80? I feel like all these movies, we keep searching. It's like 81. 80.

[Amanda Dobbins]

It's too late.

[Sean Fennessy]

Too late.

[Amanda Dobbins]

He said it at 85.

[Sean Fennessy]

This is the fun of the game.

[Chris Ryan]

About the Scott connaissance.

[Sean Fennessy]

I don't really care. I mean, I hope he's good in the movie. Yeah, don't really have. I'm not gonna go rewatch Hawaii 5o.

[Chris Ryan]

No, right.

[Sean Fennessy]

I've seen that. Speculated. And if that is the case, that's really fun. And if there is a lot more real world collision, that would be exciting. Yeah.

[Chris Ryan]

Olafants in this Carlo Gaggino.

[Sean Fennessy]

I'm just having a hard time picturing it. Like I. It just seems. It's just. It is total fantasy football for movies.

[Chris Ryan]

Yeah.

[Sean Fennessy]

You know, where it's like David Fincher and Quentin Tarantino and Brad Pitt are on the same team and, like, are they going to score enough points for me to win this week?

[Chris Ryan]

I think this is just going to be. I think I have a feeling this is going to be kind of a bummer of a movie.

[Sean Fennessy]

But. But, like, really. See, I feel like it's going to be way more of like a kind of like celebratory. Yeah, like goofy, like, fun.

[Chris Ryan]

Anyway.

[Amanda Dobbins]

What.

[Chris Ryan]

What did you. Where's the bidding on this?

[Sean Fennessy]

I bid $1 for the adventures of Cliff Booth on Netflix.

[Chris Ryan]

I'll bet 10 bucks.

[Sean Fennessy]

Do you think it's going to be the summer or the fall?

[Chris Ryan]

I don't know. I would imagine knowing Fincher, there's probably a lot of VFX on it, but I don't.

[Sean Fennessy]

I don't know. What do you think? Summer or fall?

[Amanda Dobbins]

You know, they did the Killer at Venice. And Netflix, I do think, still likes Venice. I mean, I know they like Venice and Venice likes them, but like, as a kind of free advertisement to make the people slightly more aware of the movies than they would be otherwise. For the prestige stuff, gotta look at.

[Sean Fennessy]

What their slate's gonna be because they're gonna have Narnia. Probably not a Venice movie, but I would doubt it. You never know. Yeah. And I don't even know what else they're gonna have this fall that's gonna. I'm sure there's stuff that's Bubbling Ray Gun, the Brad Bird movie.

[Amanda Dobbins]

You just. You're done. You're closed.

[Sean Fennessy]

Ben Affleck's Animals.

[Chris Ryan]

I think I can remember the movies. I want to go for $12. 15 bucks.

[Sean Fennessy]

16.

[Chris Ryan]

20 bucks.

[Sean Fennessy]

17.

[Chris Ryan]

25 bucks.

[Sean Fennessy]

18.

[Chris Ryan]

I'm at 25.

[Sean Fennessy]

Yeah. 19.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Yeah, you don't have. Yeah, okay. All right, so it's yours.

[Sean Fennessy]

20.

[Chris Ryan]

So I have 26.

[Sean Fennessy]

No, no, no, no, you're still in it.

[Amanda Dobbins]

No, you're out of money.

[Sean Fennessy]

No, I have $73.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Oh, you're right. I was doing the wrong.

[Sean Fennessy]

You have $25.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Oh, six.

[Chris Ryan]

How much money do I left?

[Sean Fennessy]

Pretty much infinite compared to these two.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Yeah, you can do whatever you want.

[Sean Fennessy]

You really want it.

[Chris Ryan]

I mean, my slate's pretty sick. If I get that, I mean, you're.

[Sean Fennessy]

Not gonna get any points from this movie. Maybe you'll go. Maybe you'll get Oscars.

[Chris Ryan]

Maybe you'll get Oscars. You're right. And I, I, I want to give it to you.

[Sean Fennessy]

You don't have to give me anything. I'm. We're playing the game.

[Chris Ryan]

I still have two slots left, so you're out.

[Sean Fennessy]

The thing is, is the game kind of falls apart if you don't give it to me because you got to put up two movies after that. This.

[Chris Ryan]

That'S, that's just the order of the picking, you know that. Order of the nominations. And you spend 900 something dollars on the Odyssey. Taking yourself out of this conversation.

[Sean Fennessy]

I've been.

[Chris Ryan]

And you're talking about Kyle Tucker and, and what you've heard about Raccoon City.

[Sean Fennessy]

You know we've got two more recordings together this week.

[Chris Ryan]

I know.

[Sean Fennessy]

And if the Kyle Tucker thing happens in the middle of the pod, I'm just going to ask you guys to leave the room so that I can solopod about it. Actually, I probably got to call Zach Lowe. That's what I'm going to end up doing. Got to do. Mets corner. Mets corner on Netflix. Guys hear about this. You guys hear about this? Mets corner on Netflix.

[Chris Ryan]

What do you mean?

[Sean Fennessy]

Like, that's the Zach Low show's on Netflix.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Yeah.

[Sean Fennessy]

Yeah. Mets corner, going to Netflix.

[Chris Ryan]

Congratulations.

[Amanda Dobbins]

That's great.

[Sean Fennessy]

This is notable.

[Chris Ryan]

Yeah, congratulations.

[Sean Fennessy]

The bets.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Do you think that that gets you a world championship? Because it hasn't gotten anyone a best Picture.

[Sean Fennessy]

Good point. Well taken.

[Chris Ryan]

$70.

[Sean Fennessy]

$71. I can bid $71. I certainly can.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Do it. Do it, do it.

[Chris Ryan]

You think I should take it from him?

[Amanda Dobbins]

Yeah, it's fine. Yeah, it's venture and Tarantino.

[Chris Ryan]

$76.

[Amanda Dobbins]

There we go.

[Sean Fennessy]

Why would you not just do 72?

[Amanda Dobbins]

Well, because.

[Sean Fennessy]

$76 over here. So you have one spot open, but you have to put two films up.

[Amanda Dobbins]

That's fun. Now you just pick who you like more.

[Chris Ryan]

I have one spot open. I have to put two films up, so I have to.

[Sean Fennessy]

Well, you got to get another movie. Yeah, but it doesn't even have to be a movie that you're putting up.

[Chris Ryan]

Disclosure day.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Okay.

[Chris Ryan]

Steven Spielberg's rumored alien invasion film. We got the trailer a couple weeks ago. Emily Blunt, Colin Firth, Josh o'. Connor.

[Sean Fennessy]

I mean, you're going to be.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Yeah.

[Sean Fennessy]

So we. I'll just.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Do you want it?

[Chris Ryan]

I think it'll go.

[Sean Fennessy]

I'll go right to 71.

[Chris Ryan]

I think it'll go over in box office.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Yeah, I think so as well. You don't. Okay, I'm just going to.

[Sean Fennessy]

I'm just going to seed that. That I know that Universal needs it to.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Okay.

[Sean Fennessy]

And that they have started this campaign very early to create awareness. We've got an original event movie. Well, it's one of the biggest movies of the year for them, for the studio, and they want the movie to be really successful.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Honestly, Chris, if your lineup is Wuthering Heights, Resident Evil, Devil wears Prada 2, Adventures of Cliff Booth, and Disclosure Day, like cooking, you've absolutely won. Even though he has the Oscar, none.

[Sean Fennessy]

Of those movies will get 85. And none of those movies will get Oscar Wilde.

[Chris Ryan]

Well, this is why we've arrived at this weird kind of place, the auction, where we're just playing for these strange.

[Sean Fennessy]

This is why. But this is why I made the game cool.

[Amanda Dobbins]

What fun it is to be across the table with you crunching numbers. I like the list. If you do that. And I support you.

[Chris Ryan]

So what did you bid?

[Sean Fennessy]

Well, 71 is the most I can bid. Okay.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Do it. I. You should do it.

[Chris Ryan]

I would do it.

[Amanda Dobbins]

I mean, I'm sorry to.

[Chris Ryan]

And then I have to put up another phone for you. You guys.

[Sean Fennessy]

Yeah, well, no, you can't, because he doesn't have any money. So if we don't want to bid on it, it's like the game is kind of over now. This is why. It was not that fun to take.

[Chris Ryan]

No, let me put up a movie.

[Amanda Dobbins]

For you two to bid on.

[Sean Fennessy]

You can't put a movie up because you don't have.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Stop being mad at us.

[Chris Ryan]

Stop being mad at us.

[Sean Fennessy]

We've done this before in the episode. We've done this before. Like, you would have to put it up for a dollar Amount. But if we choose not to bid on the movie, you can't take it because you don't have an open slot.

[Chris Ryan]

You're not gonna not choose to bid on the movie.

[Sean Fennessy]

Movie.

[Chris Ryan]

I doubt it. Okay, go ahead. You go.

[Sean Fennessy]

You go ahead.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Go ahead. Then you do it. I just don't understand why you got so mad at us. Like, you're really, really mad. No, I explained this with the Cliff.

[Sean Fennessy]

Booth thing that if it disallows Chris to continue playing the game.

[Chris Ryan]

I'm sorry. Yes, You're.

[Sean Fennessy]

You're. That was part of my thinking with putting Cliff Booth. You know what I mean?

[Chris Ryan]

Like, I gotcha. Yeah.

[Sean Fennessy]

So now I have to put a movie up.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Okay.

[Sean Fennessy]

How many spots do you have?

[Amanda Dobbins]

You can do it. I have three spots left.

[Chris Ryan]

And you have two.

[Sean Fennessy]

I have two. And you have $25.

[Amanda Dobbins]

I do.

[Sean Fennessy]

And I have $71.

[Amanda Dobbins]

I do. Yes.

[Sean Fennessy]

What do we both want?

[Chris Ryan]

Social reckoning.

[Sean Fennessy]

I'm looking at it.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Okay.

[Sean Fennessy]

I'm looking at it. I'm just knocking everything off of my list that has been taken.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Okay.

[Sean Fennessy]

Wuthering Heights project. Hail Mary. I had. So here's how I organize this for Metacritic for box office for me.

[Chris Ryan]

I want you to pick something for you. I'm not looking at the list.

[Sean Fennessy]

I've got three open spots for me right now.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Yeah.

[Sean Fennessy]

So I don't have to. I don't have to go for it right now. Devilish Prattu. Also off the board.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Yeah, it's tough. We all make sacrifices. No, no, it wasn't a question.

[Sean Fennessy]

I mean, for $1. Narnia the magician's Nephew.

[Amanda Dobbins]

All right, so this will be a box office thing.

[Sean Fennessy]

Well, now will it?

[Amanda Dobbins]

Well, because it's going to get a.

[Sean Fennessy]

Limited amount of time in IMAX, IMAX, two weeks. IMAX exclusive. Can a movie cross $100 million that quickly? Probably, but not.

[Chris Ryan]

Is Narnia like that. Hot on the streets.

[Sean Fennessy]

Say they're going to sell the out of this movie. Yeah, it's a res. I don't know.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Daniel Craig, I believe, is Aslan. And Emma Mackey.

[Sean Fennessy]

Carrie Mulligan, bigger.

[Chris Ryan]

Mackie is bouncing back.

[Amanda Dobbins]

I believe in her. Did you see Ella McKay?

[Chris Ryan]

No.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Okay, that would. That would be a fun thing.

[Chris Ryan]

But I like. Did you ever see her Hermione imitation that she did?

[Amanda Dobbins]

Oh, yeah. That's good. I like her. I like her.

[Sean Fennessy]

Emma Mackey, I like her too. I did not like Ella McKay.

[Amanda Dobbins]

I, you know. Sure. $5. The Magic Magician's Nephew. A knock by us. $7.

[Sean Fennessy]

I can't even say I'M anticipating this movie, but I am fascinated by it. I have no relationship to Narnia. I've never, I've never read the books. I don't really know the series.

[Chris Ryan]

Read them when I was a young kid. But like, yeah, this is. This is way less.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Wow. It's a thousand years before that. $12. 13.

[Chris Ryan]

What do you mean a thousand years?

[Amanda Dobbins]

It's a thousand years before the lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.

[Chris Ryan]

So we're getting a.

[Amanda Dobbins]

They participate in the be of Narnia's history. 1. Here, let me just read the second paragraph. It's $13. The magician's nephew is a prequel to the series. David Sims has still not texted me, by the way.

[Sean Fennessy]

I spoke with him about it last week. He explained why this is a good choice.

[Amanda Dobbins]

I know for this annotation he was texting you, being like, haha, Amanda, David, you have my phone number. The middle third of the novel features the creation of the Narnia world by Aslan the Lion centered on a section of a lamp post brought by accidental observers from London in 1900.

[Sean Fennessy]

This is kind of a spoiler. I would have liked to have learned this while watching the film. Okay, $16. I think I'm gonna read this with Alice before we go see it. Oh, that's nice.

[Amanda Dobbins]

That is nice.

[Sean Fennessy]

That's my plan. We just finished the wizard of Oz. The book version, like the actual book. It has some illustrations, but it's the first real proper book we've read. And now we're going to Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone book version.

[Chris Ryan]

I'm going to read your son's Cormac McCarthy's Boulder Trilogy.

[Sean Fennessy]

Where do you see start?

[Amanda Dobbins]

I'm going to ask you a point of order. Are you allowed to doctor auction films that you've seen?

[Sean Fennessy]

No.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Oh, okay.

[Chris Ryan]

Well, so you got Narnia, I got Narnia.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Okay, so for.

[Sean Fennessy]

No, no, no added for 16.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Yeah. 17.

[Sean Fennessy]

Yeah. 18.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Okay.

[Chris Ryan]

Like being Wimbledon.

[Sean Fennessy]

I mean, I will get this if I need to get it. Okay, then take it at 18.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Yeah, what do I care?

[Sean Fennessy]

I feel like it's a good get.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Great.

[Sean Fennessy]

Not a sequel or a prequel. Right.

[Amanda Dobbins]

I mean, it is a prequel, but.

[Sean Fennessy]

But it doesn't exist.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Not in the rules.

[Sean Fennessy]

It's not been established yet. Right. Yeah.

[Chris Ryan]

Right.

[Sean Fennessy]

This is the first in this series, this version of this adaptation.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Oh, no, I just saw the word multiverse on this Wikipedia page. I gotta close it.

[Sean Fennessy]

Okay, so I'll take Narnia the magician's nephew for $18.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Okay. There's a multiverse in Narnia to the Wikipedia page.

[Sean Fennessy]

Now, we haven't done too much high minded stuff yet. Now you have the chance to put up two movies here.

[Amanda Dobbins]

I do.

[Sean Fennessy]

And you've got three open spots.

[Chris Ryan]

So you're like, where are you at on Social Reckoning? Is it a bit that you're like, no, I don't want this, or are you actually curious?

[Amanda Dobbins]

I'm working through it in real time, I think.

[Sean Fennessy]

I think you gotta get it.

[Amanda Dobbins]

You think I have to get it.

[Sean Fennessy]

Just think for your soul.

[Chris Ryan]

I think it's also, it's really good.

[Amanda Dobbins]

For your brand that I have to heal, not get it.

[Sean Fennessy]

It's like, it's just like a collect them all Pokemon situation where you can just like, you signed up for the Aaron Sorkin subscription and you're just. You're a lifetime subscriber.

[Amanda Dobbins]

I know, but I. But I actually saw that you guys.

[Chris Ryan]

Made this the number one movie of the century. And he's like, I could. I could iterate on that.

[Sean Fennessy]

Yeah, I'm doubling down.

[Amanda Dobbins]

As I said, participated episodes. This be my year of rest and relaxation and also getting what I want. And is it what I want? Do you know what I mean? Devil Wars. Prada too.

[Chris Ryan]

I don't know what has to do with the world of Sinnoh.

[Sean Fennessy]

You did not say this would be your year of rest and relaxation. I assure you it will not.

[Amanda Dobbins]

What if I just.

[Sean Fennessy]

I know, but what if I peaced out? Sorry, I didn't see Social Reckoning. I was relaxing.

[Amanda Dobbins]

I mean, what if I just recreate that novel, you know, live on the podcast?

[Sean Fennessy]

Well, you know, you're starting from a place, sure, but seasonal depression, so that'll work.

[Amanda Dobbins]

And Sense and Sensibility too, you know, they're. They're making movies for me now. There isn't.

[Chris Ryan]

Sense and Sensibility isn't a TV show.

[Sean Fennessy]

It's a remake.

[Amanda Dobbins]

It's a remake. Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility, they're doing another movie. Have you seen the 1995 Sense and Sensibility?

[Chris Ryan]

Which one is that? Who's in it?

[Amanda Dobbins]

Emma Thompson and Kate Winslet.

[Sean Fennessy]

Have you seen that?

[Chris Ryan]

I saw that.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Okay. All right.

[Chris Ryan]

I can't quote it, but I've seen it.

[Sean Fennessy]

Yes.

[Chris Ryan]

I can't quote it. I can't quote it.

[Sean Fennessy]

That was a curious thing. Can you quote what is your favorite Devil Wears product?

[Chris Ryan]

She just started doing.

[Amanda Dobbins]

I just started doing all of them. You know.

[Sean Fennessy]

What's your favorite?

[Amanda Dobbins]

What's my favorite? Well, I mean, I think. I think the Cerulean sweater speech is Important. You know, when she's in there and she like chuckles about the fun of high fashion and they're like, it's all so different.

[Sean Fennessy]

Seen the film like 1.7 times. I really, I really don't.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Oh. And you know, and then Meryl Streep is like, oh, so you think this is funny. You think this is just a pile of stuff. And then she like goes through the thing and it turns out this sweater was chosen for you 20 years ago by the people in this room. So that's a. That's a good speech. That is. I mean, it's good about the world of fashion, but, you know, can also. That's just good, good writing, good job. I think about the line when Stanley Tucci is like, you know, these people, you know, made art, but that you live your life in. When he's giving her the lecture about how she sucks at life, which is. And at her job, which is also a good one. I mean, you know, flat.

[Chris Ryan]

Is that when Stanley Tucci puts the gun underneath her chin and says, you are in the land of wolves.

[Sean Fennessy]

Now, What's your favorite tooch? Favorite touch? Performance.

[Chris Ryan]

Really big fan of Big Knight. Really big fan of him in Margin Call. Even though it's a very small role.

[Sean Fennessy]

Did you like him as the serial killer in the Lovely Bones?

[Chris Ryan]

I did like him as the murderer in Pelican Brief.

[Sean Fennessy]

The assassin.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Yeah.

[Sean Fennessy]

That's good.

[Amanda Dobbins]

All right, I'll do social reckoning for $1.

[Sean Fennessy]

That's yours.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Okay, great.

[Sean Fennessy]

Cool.

[Amanda Dobbins]

That's fine. And I have another one.

[Chris Ryan]

Who's playing Francis Haugen? Oh, Mikey. Mikey.

[Sean Fennessy]

Great cast. Intrigued by the cast.

[Chris Ryan]

I think it two Jeremy's.

[Sean Fennessy]

Yeah, My beautiful Jeremy.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Okay, I have another one. Verity. $1.

[Chris Ryan]

Oh, I thought you were gonna pick some. Something else.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Yeah.

[Sean Fennessy]

Intriguing. Now.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Yeah, See? So do you know what this is?

[Chris Ryan]

I do. It's a Colleen Hoover.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Yes. You know who's in it?

[Chris Ryan]

Anne Hathaway and.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Josh Hartnett and Dakota Johnson. Clint Eastwood would be good. Clint Eastwood. I'd ask the Colleen Hoover. That's good.

[Sean Fennessy]

Here's the logline for Verity. Hired to be a ghostwriter for renowned author Verity Crawford Lohan. Ashley's assignment takes a dark turn when she discovers chilling autobiographical notes. Faced with a series of deadly family secrets, Lohan struggles to separate fiction from reality while also blurring the lines with Verity's husband.

[Chris Ryan]

So Dakota Johnson is the ghostwriter or she's the one who's being ghostwritten about?

[Sean Fennessy]

Yes.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Dakota Johnson is the best selling author.

[Sean Fennessy]

Great.

[Chris Ryan]

I can't wait to See Dakota Johnson's level of commitment to this film. She is very funny in splitsville.

[Sean Fennessy]

Dakota Johnson or Dua Lipa.

[Chris Ryan]

As what?

[Amanda Dobbins]

In a nice fight I wasn't gonna name me.

[Sean Fennessy]

I'm doing it. Yeah.

[Amanda Dobbins]

This was the thought exercise that I proposed to Zach and Sean.

[Chris Ryan]

But like, as a road trip companion. Like, as, like what?

[Amanda Dobbins]

That's it. As a road trip companion.

[Sean Fennessy]

As your ghostwriter.

[Chris Ryan]

Yeah, yeah, but like as my partner.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Yeah, yeah.

[Sean Fennessy]

As your sex partner.

[Chris Ryan]

No, no, don't put it like that.

[Sean Fennessy]

That was how it was put to me.

[Amanda Dobbins]

That's. And I didn't do it on the podcast.

[Sean Fennessy]

Some things I'm not sharing my opinion.

[Chris Ryan]

I think.

[Sean Fennessy]

I'm just asking.

[Amanda Dobbins]

I think.

[Chris Ryan]

I think that I. I think I would say Dakota Johnson.

[Sean Fennessy]

You would have to ask for her consent.

[Chris Ryan]

I would say Dakota Johnson.

[Sean Fennessy]

Would you ask for her consent?

[Chris Ryan]

I thought we cut that whole part.

[Sean Fennessy]

No, no, that's staying in. Do not cut that. Do not cut it. Verity for $1.

[Amanda Dobbins]

$2, $3.

[Sean Fennessy]

When's the dam going to burst on Colleen Hoover? Because I don't think it's going to be on this one.

[Amanda Dobbins]

No, I don't. And this is directed by Michael.

[Chris Ryan]

It's going to go super huge wide. Or it's going to be like, oh, we've run out of.

[Sean Fennessy]

Probably use the wrong metaphor. I think it was thinking the lines are going to like, when's it going to run dry?

[Chris Ryan]

Nah.

[Sean Fennessy]

You think we're going strong.

[Amanda Dobbins]

We're at.

[Chris Ryan]

We're at the. The Client. The Grisham.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Yeah.

[Sean Fennessy]

I like, you made a similar comp when you were like, I went back and read the Pelican Brief. It's not very good.

[Amanda Dobbins]

I mean, and this is also. So we're in Nicholas Sparks territory as well, but, like, trashier.

[Sean Fennessy]

There's going to be an eight year run of these movies. At least five of them are going to go over 100 million domestic. We do also have reminders of him coming in March starring Micah Monroe.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Yeah, I don't.

[Chris Ryan]

What was the Dave Franco, Allison Williams movie called?

[Sean Fennessy]

Regretting youg.

[Chris Ryan]

That's right. I watched that.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Yeah.

[Sean Fennessy]

You watched it. Did you enjoy it?

[Chris Ryan]

It wasn't terrible.

[Sean Fennessy]

Dude, dude. Did you think Allison Williams?

[Chris Ryan]

What?

[Sean Fennessy]

It is horrible.

[Chris Ryan]

I mean, but it's like fun movie to watch.

[Sean Fennessy]

You got to be intoxicated to have some fun.

[Amanda Dobbins]

I saw it at 10:15 in the morning.

[Sean Fennessy]

I really wish that I was drunk for that screening for the housemaid Zelda. You need to be honest. Devil's PR to the Odyssey. Michael Showalter. Directed this movie. How much did you. You have it for? 13. 3, $4 5. It's not. It's not getting an 85.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Yeah.

[Sean Fennessy]

It's not getting any Oscars, but it.

[Chris Ryan]

Could go for box office.

[Sean Fennessy]

It could go for box office, yeah. Now, have you read that the Housemaid is on track to make $275 million?

[Chris Ryan]

Just like, kind of keeps putting up.

[Sean Fennessy]

Putting up numbers.

[Chris Ryan]

Yeah.

[Sean Fennessy]

Right. He has Simple Favor. Did very well.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Yeah.

[Sean Fennessy]

I'm surprised too.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Really tough.

[Sean Fennessy]

Yeah. What's the other Melissa McCarthy comedy that he directed? The Heat. Did he direct the Heat?

[Chris Ryan]

That was a while ago, but even I think feel like. Oh, and then Simple Favor, too. That didn't do well.

[Sean Fennessy]

That was streaming. Spy. Spy, yes. And. And. And he did the Heat last Christmas, which should be deleted.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Oh, yeah. Did you ever see Last Christmas? Emilia Clark, Henry Golding, Emma Thompson?

[Sean Fennessy]

I walked out.

[Chris Ryan]

Did you?

[Amanda Dobbins]

Actually, you were. Were you with us and then you left?

[Sean Fennessy]

I did.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Oh, I stayed till the end.

[Sean Fennessy]

I left for the last 20 minutes. I was like, there's a zero percent chance this improves my life.

[Chris Ryan]

We. Isn't the end 20 minutes like a huge twist?

[Amanda Dobbins]

I don't know. When it's revealed. It might be revealed sooner than that. That might be the issue.

[Sean Fennessy]

We didn't talk about it on a pot. Right. We just saw it.

[Amanda Dobbins]

I saw it. Juliet and I talked. Juliet.

[Sean Fennessy]

I was doing my job, but I was like, if this is good, we'll cover it.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Juliet and I talked about it.

[Sean Fennessy]

Okay. That's great. You can have. You can have Verity.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Thank you.

[Sean Fennessy]

You're welcome.

[Amanda Dobbins]

I wanted it.

[Sean Fennessy]

So now I can just have any movie I. I want.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Yeah.

[Chris Ryan]

Can I make you some suggestions?

[Sean Fennessy]

Yeah, let's.

[Chris Ryan]

Let's do that game Paper Tiger.

[Sean Fennessy]

I think it's a little early. That feels like a wait and see for.

[Chris Ryan]

I've heard good things about it, I think from you from Source, but I've heard good things.

[Sean Fennessy]

I mean, I'm fired up for it.

[Chris Ryan]

Paper Tiger Behemoth.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Yeah, sure.

[Chris Ryan]

Gone through some David harbor recast as with Will Arnett open to it.

[Sean Fennessy]

I like that. I'm intrigued by that Paper Tiger drop driver. Scarjo Teller.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Yes.

[Sean Fennessy]

Driver with James Gray. Now we're cooking. Yes, that's.

[Chris Ryan]

And really good stuff. James Gray back on his the Yards, We Own the night bullshit. Come on, man.

[Sean Fennessy]

Guys getting shot in dark train stations. That's what I want.

[Chris Ryan]

So. Paper Tiger Behemoth. And what's the third one I would throw at you? October.

[Sean Fennessy]

You think we should wait, though? Like, that's for us.

[Chris Ryan]

Let's wait.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Okay.

[Sean Fennessy]

I saw Tracy last week and he was like telling me that he was watching Rebel Ridge but he had fallen asleep or something and finished it. And I was like, it's probably the best film Netflix has ever made. And he was like, really? I was like, are you familiar with the works of Saulnier? And he was like, yeah, he seems fine. Seems like a good filmmaker. And I was like, no, he's John Ford. Do you not understand?

[Amanda Dobbins]

I do remember because I think that came out while I was on leave with Psy and like your voice changed tone on the watch. Like you were. You were like. It was like cronkite voice.

[Chris Ryan]

Yeah.

[Amanda Dobbins]

And then I was like, well, I guess I gotta go watch this important work of cinema. Like while pumping it, like. And it's like, that's good. Yeah.

[Chris Ryan]

Remember when he's like F A S T, you know, he's like, people don't know that movie rocks. I can quote Rebel Ridge.

[Sean Fennessy]

Yeah. October is a Vine violent action horror thriller. Yeah.

[Chris Ryan]

But we'll. Let's save that for the second half of the year.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Okay.

[Sean Fennessy]

You want to suggest anything else? I mean, I could just get Avengers Doomsday.

[Chris Ryan]

I have one. I was curious to hear you say.

[Sean Fennessy]

A little weird, but I could do it.

[Chris Ryan]

Is Flower Veil street coming out in August?

[Sean Fennessy]

Yes.

[Amanda Dobbins]

So you could wait until the 2nd.

[Sean Fennessy]

I could wait until July 6th.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Later.

[Sean Fennessy]

Yeah, maybe we'll have had a chance to even see it by then.

[Chris Ryan]

Oh, what about.

[Amanda Dobbins]

About Digger?

[Sean Fennessy]

Yeah. So that's in the for me pile, right? That's near the top of the for me pile.

[Chris Ryan]

Jesse Plen said it. It's. It's like a modern day Dr. Strangelove.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Okay. I mean I like Jesse Plemons a lot. I think he's a great actor. I also really like Tom Cruise.

[Sean Fennessy]

We could wait for this as well. Because it's October. We grabbed a bunch of end of year stuff here. Digger going over 100 million domestic. Weirdly a test of Tom Cruise's stardom.

[Chris Ryan]

You know, 65 don't in retu movies generally do really well.

[Sean Fennessy]

Usually do pretty good business.

[Chris Ryan]

Did Birdman do more than 100 at a different time? I know.

[Sean Fennessy]

I don't know. Let's look that up.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Birdman box office.

[Sean Fennessy]

Certainly the Revenant did Bardo did not. Birdman made 103 million worldwide. Worldwide.

[Chris Ryan]

Okay.

[Sean Fennessy]

4:42 domestic. Digger is going to be a bigger movie, right? It's going to be a much bigger movie.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Yeah.

[Sean Fennessy]

I'll do Digger. Okay, Good wreck five bucks.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Floy Worse than.

[Sean Fennessy]

Thank you.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Congratulations.

[Sean Fennessy]

Thanks. I'm excited about it. I. You know, I'm not a biggie and a ritu guy. I'm just not. But I am a big Tom Cruise guy. Been a big Tom Cruise guy my whole life, ever since I first saw him in what legend? Taps, probably. Legend. You saw legends before I was born.

[Chris Ryan]

Okay, so no big deal. Released in the five years that I was alive before for you, wasn't it?

[Sean Fennessy]

81. Taps.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Yeah.

[Chris Ryan]

When were you born?

[Sean Fennessy]

82.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Yeah, I know, I know. Chris Ryan, 77.

[Chris Ryan]

That's right.

[Sean Fennessy]

Taps, directed by Harold Becker.

[Chris Ryan]

Yeah. Starring Sean Penn.

[Sean Fennessy]

Fan of his work, Timothy.

[Amanda Dobbins]

You know what? We got a 20. 26 now, so it's like 18 months, so we gotta start concepting.

[Sean Fennessy]

Oh, 55.

[Amanda Dobbins]

The big five. Zero.

[Chris Ryan]

Oh, I was thinking about that. I was like, what would be a fun thing? I was like, honestly, I was thinking about being like, do you guys want to go to London?

[Amanda Dobbins]

Yes.

[Chris Ryan]

Let's go and just hang out.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Let's do it. That would be so fun.

[Chris Ryan]

I think it would be fun.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Okay, great.

[Chris Ryan]

Or Philly. No, no, I think London would be fun.

[Amanda Dobbins]

I could honestly do London and then go to Philly.

[Chris Ryan]

This is my Thanksgiving. And then it would be like, on the way back.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Yeah.

[Sean Fennessy]

Yeah.

[Chris Ryan]

I thought you were gonna be like. And then I could go to some shop somewhere that I wanna go to.

[Sean Fennessy]

Can I tell you something?

[Chris Ryan]

Yeah.

[Sean Fennessy]

I'll be wherever you want, whenever you need.

[Amanda Dobbins]

That's beautiful.

[Sean Fennessy]

50. You excited?

[Chris Ryan]

I mean, it's two years from now or like 18 months from now.

[Amanda Dobbins]

It's like. It's like 20. I rounded up.

[Sean Fennessy]

I don't want it.

[Chris Ryan]

I'm fine. I'm. I'm fine.

[Amanda Dobbins]

I think it'll be great. Gwyneth paltrow is over 50, so.

[Chris Ryan]

Yeah, I didn't like the. I didn't like. I didn't like the Amy Gwyneth conversation where they're like, you can't drink. You. You gotta have like. I was just like, don't tell me that.

[Sean Fennessy]

Yeah, you gotta Zach on that. You gotta be like, I'm. I'm getting a ketamine. Yeah.

[Chris Ryan]

I think I might be closer in some regards to Sean Pen's 50s than Gwent.

[Sean Fennessy]

Think is more. Do you. Who do you think is more healthful, you or Gwyneth Paltrow? I don't know.

[Chris Ryan]

I think. I think the. The jury's out on some of her methods. You know, we're going to find.

[Sean Fennessy]

Is there a jury?

[Amanda Dobbins]

It's cats called the Internet.

[Sean Fennessy]

It's It's a good point. Yeah, yeah.

[Chris Ryan]

Yeah.

[Sean Fennessy]

Wonderful actress, Gwyneth.

[Chris Ryan]

Yeah.

[Sean Fennessy]

What a great performance. I'm.

[Amanda Dobbins]

I'm still stuck on the fact that they Both can get 6pm reservations. I mean, I know that they have an Oscar and multiple Emmys and golden Oscars between them. And multiple Emmys also, I believe.

[Chris Ryan]

I think six is gettable. I don't think they're talking about Friday. Saturday night.

[Amanda Dobbins]

6Pm'S real tough.

[Sean Fennessy]

Just for the record, they're both very famous.

[Amanda Dobbins]

No, I know. I. I mean, I understand and we.

[Sean Fennessy]

Are not, but Mets Corner on Netflix. I mean.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Yeah.

[Sean Fennessy]

Have you guys heard about this?

[Chris Ryan]

Yeah. There's a diner in Queen on Netflix.

[Amanda Dobbins]

So I have.

[Chris Ryan]

What is your.

[Amanda Dobbins]

What is your deal?

[Sean Fennessy]

Just doing a bit. Okay. Mets Corner on Netflix.

[Amanda Dobbins]

That's. There you go. Like I said, it does not mean.

[Chris Ryan]

You'Re going to get Strokes. Yeah.

[Amanda Dobbins]

So I could go two ways here. I could pick a movie that I want.

[Sean Fennessy]

Yeah.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Or I could pick a box office movie that I will be seeing.

[Chris Ryan]

Avengers, Doomsday.

[Amanda Dobbins]

No, there's another one that is expiring before our next auction.

[Sean Fennessy]

That's the thing you gotta look for.

[Chris Ryan]

Yeah.

[Sean Fennessy]

And what is expiring?

[Amanda Dobbins]

Well, both of these are, but I don't. Here's the thing. You know what? I already have a Robert Pattinson and Zendaya movie. I paid a lot of money for Dune 3. So while I'm very excited for the drama, I'm gonna zag. I'm gonn my almost 4 year old's heart and I'm gonna do Mandalorian and Grogo.

[Chris Ryan]

Oh, good.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Yeah. Which. Or Grogo as he's known in my home. God, this is terrible. How much? It's gonna be so bad. I don't even know what. What it's about. Like, what is. Is the Mandalorian a bounty hunter? Like what is. What is he?

[Chris Ryan]

He is a bounty hunter. He comes across Grogu, it changes him.

[Amanda Dobbins]

He becomes a sure975 softer. So I can do $19 for this.

[Chris Ryan]

Then there's a lot of lore about the Mandalorians and their armor.

[Sean Fennessy]

So if I want to take it from you at $20, I can do that.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Sure.

[Sean Fennessy]

And then I put up another movie. Or. No, that would be my last movie.

[Chris Ryan]

Yeah, you can't put up a movie. She would have to.

[Sean Fennessy]

Yes. Amanda, you have $19.

[Chris Ryan]

Okay, $19 and you have one more slot in $20.

[Sean Fennessy]

Yeah, I mean, what's.

[Amanda Dobbins]

I don't really think Sigourney Weaver up to.

[Sean Fennessy]

Can we just put pause on the bidding. So we can talk through this for a bit. Because I want to. I want to think about it. Obviously, if I wanted, I. I can. Can take it. Let me ask you a question about this specifically. So I'm watching the Star wars movies with my 4 year old. She's watching them. She's into it. I told you this morning. She woke up this morning. She woke me up this morning and said, dad, when are we seeing the Phantom Menace? The first time any 4 year old's ever said those words in their entire lives. She's seen the first three films, the original trilogy. Every Saturday for the next eight weeks, we're going to see Star wars movies. See them out at the Academy Museum. They're screening at the Academy Museum every Saturday. So we're skipping Solo and Rogue One because it just seems incoherent to try to explain where those movies fit in the timeline. But she can't wait to get to Rey. She knows about Rey. She's super fired up. So we're going to go all the way through episode nine. I'll podcast at her about episode nine, when it ends and be like, this is why this destroyed my childhood. Do we watch the Mandalorian show to prepare for Mandalorian and Grogu?

[Chris Ryan]

Talk to Amando a little bit about this. I think that you could probably get away with a YouTube highlight reel of Grogu from the Mandalorian, because what they did to that show where they did two seasons and then they did a book of Boba Fett, but then just made it into the Mandalorian and then did more Mandalorian and the Mandalorian is like a very.

[Sean Fennessy]

I. I think, like, the first season is so good. Yeah. And second season is.

[Chris Ryan]

So watch the first season with her and then be like. And then we'll go see him and Grogu and Mandalore in the movie.

[Amanda Dobbins]

I won't be doing any of that. We have have Grogu the toy at home and in his boat. And we'll go more of a hovercraft. Sure. And you know where Grogu.

[Chris Ryan]

It's like a bassinet that floats.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Yeah. When he's not in the car, he often spends a lot of time in the mini kitchen in the ice maker. That's where Knox has decided.

[Sean Fennessy]

Ice maker.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Yeah.

[Sean Fennessy]

That's cute. It's a good spot.

[Amanda Dobbins]

We're just going to go see it. And Knox, like, every once in a while will be like, how is the green baby? Like, how is Grogo? And then he'll say, Is the Mandalorian nice to me? Which is his way of being like, is that a scary person or is that not a scary person?

[Chris Ryan]

It's ambiguous.

[Amanda Dobbins]

You know, what is it? What's up with Sigourney Weaver?

[Chris Ryan]

I think she just plays, like, the fixer who, like, sets Grogu or sets the Mandalorian up with this job that he has to do.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Okay.

[Chris Ryan]

Yeah. I don't think she has a major role.

[Sean Fennessy]

You don't think this is gonna be good, this movie? No. I'm going to let you have it for $19.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Okay. I think that's great. I mean, it's a box office play, and I'll be there.

[Chris Ryan]

I kind of wonder whether it's box office is going to translate to movie theater tickets. I think they have done some real negative stuff.

[Amanda Dobbins]

That's true. But I am also. I have taken Knox to see three movies in his lifetime, and I will be there.

[Chris Ryan]

No, I'm not doubting you going there with him. I'm sorry. Saying I think that there is a. There is no buzz for this movie. There's no, like, Star wars fan anticipation for this movie. They're not going to, like, see anything in it that they haven't seen before. It's like a continuation of a show that is, like, its best days were behind it.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Yeah, I just meant more like, like, kids. Oh, no, I'm just talking.

[Chris Ryan]

Yeah. I'm just talking about, like, you know, what's going to happen to this film. And since they made Dave Filoni the head of Lucasfilm, you know what happened to Kathy Kennedy? She's leaving.

[Sean Fennessy]

She's retiring. Where's she moving?

[Chris Ryan]

I don't know.

[Sean Fennessy]

I've got one movie left.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Okay.

[Sean Fennessy]

I guess I've got, like, 50 bucks that I can spend on it. I don't know what to do. Is it 50 bucks? 40 bucks?

[Amanda Dobbins]

I closed the tab. Let me scroll down back up. Okay. 926.

[Sean Fennessy]

50 bucks.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Okay.

[Sean Fennessy]

My lizard brain.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Yeah.

[Sean Fennessy]

Tells me to take Spider Man. Brand new day.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Okay. What's the release date on that?

[Sean Fennessy]

It's July.

[Chris Ryan]

Yeah.

[Amanda Dobbins]

So we could wait.

[Sean Fennessy]

Yeah, we could wait.

[Chris Ryan]

But that will feel almost like. That would be like drafting Bone Temple.

[Amanda Dobbins]

By the time we get to wow.

[Chris Ryan]

To June. You're not going to want to. You're not going to want to draft something that's so close.

[Sean Fennessy]

I think it's just July 31st.

[Amanda Dobbins]

July 31st. Yeah.

[Sean Fennessy]

Yeah.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Wow.

[Sean Fennessy]

Yeah. It's your birthday movie.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Happy birthday to me.

[Sean Fennessy]

Well, so if I do this, then that's my last Sequel. Then if we're abiding by these new sequel rules.

[Chris Ryan]

Well, they were the old sequel rules, so you just didn't follow them.

[Sean Fennessy]

You've also got two sequels.

[Amanda Dobbins]

I totally forgot about that rule until just now.

[Sean Fennessy]

But you also have two sequels.

[Chris Ryan]

Cool.

[Sean Fennessy]

The Devil Wars, Prada 2, and the Adventure Adventures of Cliff Booth.

[Chris Ryan]

It's more of a continuation than it is a sequel.

[Sean Fennessy]

It is a sequel. It's the same characters from the same writer. I don't have two sequels. And I guess I could wait because you guys can't even get Spider Man. Brand new day. That's not even available to you. Next time. Right.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Okay.

[Chris Ryan]

But in that case, what do you want? What are you thinking about?

[Sean Fennessy]

Well, if I were going to really be me me, I would get. Take Masters of the Universe, Travis Knight's fourth comic book of the He Man. The he man was my first favorite toy cartoon show.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Are you into He Man?

[Chris Ryan]

I was Skeletor. Curious. You know, I think I was more into Mask and Transformers than I was into He Man.

[Sean Fennessy]

Mask is just a little before my time. I didn't really get that one. Transformers.

[Chris Ryan]

Voltron, I was really into.

[Sean Fennessy]

Yeah, I like Voltron, GI Joe. I was, obviously. And then comic books. And then here we are. Cut to cut two, 45 years later. Masters of the Universe. I have no idea if this is going to work. It's a really funny cast. I was talking about a little bit on the episode. It's Idris Elba. Alison Brie.

[Chris Ryan]

Is it.

[Sean Fennessy]

Noah Centineo is the Nicholas Gallatin and Camila Mendes and Jared Leto as Skeletor, which I don't like. Wow.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Yeah.

[Sean Fennessy]

You see Tron Aries?

[Chris Ryan]

No, but I listened to the soundtrack.

[Sean Fennessy]

What if I just grabbed Werewolf Robert Eggers?

[Chris Ryan]

That's not until November, right?

[Sean Fennessy]

Christmas, I believe. Yeah, Christmas. I'm trying to run back the Nosferatu playbook. See Nosferatu. Pretty good.

[Chris Ryan]

I saw Nosferatu.

[Sean Fennessy]

I liked it.

[Chris Ryan]

I was on the pod, brother.

[Sean Fennessy]

Yeah, that was a good episode. Talking about vampire movies. It was no Northmen are we doing giving birth. What are you doing that say Nosferatu?

[Amanda Dobbins]

Sai was already here, but I was basically trying to keep two children quarantined in different parts of the house so they didn't leave each other sick. That was a cool time in my life.

[Sean Fennessy]

Gonna take a risk.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Okay.

[Sean Fennessy]

Because this movie might be a can. I don't know.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Yeah.

[Sean Fennessy]

So I want to get ahead of it. I'm taking Jack of Spades. Joel Cohen's new film starring Josh Oconnor. I don't know if it's.

[Chris Ryan]

Nobody knows anything about this.

[Sean Fennessy]

I guess it's apple.

[Chris Ryan]

Oh, and it's a mystery in 19th century Scotland.

[Sean Fennessy]

Is that what it is? Feels very Edgar Allan Poe coded.

[Chris Ryan]

I just want the brothers to get back together.

[Amanda Dobbins]

We all do.

[Sean Fennessy]

My guess is that they will after this. My gut is telling me that they will come back for at least one more. They'll probably come back and make something that you're like, I don't know about this. And then it'll turn out to be great, which is what happens every time with them. There's a number of different Cannes films I was considering. We mentioned Paper Tiger. We talked about Fjord on our last episode. Everybody's really excited about the Christian Manju film. The entertainment system is down.

[Chris Ryan]

Is that Ruben Ostland?

[Sean Fennessy]

That's Ruben Osland movie. Probably will be a big fall release, but it's going to be a Cannes movie. The Na Hong Jin movie Hope, which I think you and I should look at for future purposes. The guy who made the Wailing, it's his first movie since the Wailing, which is like 10 years ago. The Pavlikowski movie, 1949. There's a Pedro Almodovar movie, Bitter Christmas, singing about all those kind of thinking about Mortal Kombat 2.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Okay.

[Chris Ryan]

I think that might be the worst trailer I've ever seen.

[Sean Fennessy]

I enjoyed it.

[Chris Ryan]

Yeah.

[Sean Fennessy]

What about Street Fighter? I haven't played it.

[Chris Ryan]

Street Fighter.

[Sean Fennessy]

Oh, I know you have, but have you played Street Fighter 2? No.

[Amanda Dobbins]

I think I've played five video games in my life. What are they? Let's see. So Super Mario Brothers. Duck Hunt. Duck Hunt.

[Sean Fennessy]

Crack.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Duck Hunt was so awesome. Shout out to my friend Leslie who had Duck Hunt and the first Nintendo when I wasn't allowed to have them. Mario Kart, I played.

[Sean Fennessy]

I don't understand. You've just named three all time classic games that you clearly enjoyed and you're like, no one is allowed to play video games in society.

[Amanda Dobbins]

I mean Tetris. I'm not saying. I'm not saying no one. I'm saying my two sons and in my home. And.

[Sean Fennessy]

I have so many plans.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Well, that's fine. On your.

[Sean Fennessy]

So many.

[Chris Ryan]

On your reading Cormac McCarthy plan. Playing Max Payne in Halo. Watching and. Or multiple times.

[Amanda Dobbins]

What's the. He spins in a little ball.

[Chris Ryan]

Sonic.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Sonic. That was on say. I think I played Sonic once. Right.

[Sean Fennessy]

Regarding Andor, we didn't really talk about how Mon Motha is like, that's like, that's.

[Chris Ryan]

That's my Speed, senatorial and redheaded.

[Sean Fennessy]

That lady.

[Chris Ryan]

Yeah.

[Sean Fennessy]

Wow, that's real. That's step on my neck territory right there. She's. She's a powerful lady. I wonder, what's her name? Genevieve Riley.

[Chris Ryan]

Genevieve O'Reilly.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Maybe I will.

[Sean Fennessy]

What?

[Amanda Dobbins]

Get to Andor season two.

[Sean Fennessy]

I think you would enjoy it.

[Amanda Dobbins]

I think I would, too, but I just like the tv. At some point, you're just too late, and it's like, wow.

[Sean Fennessy]

Not to be a complete dork, but it is actually fascinatingly complex and philosophical. Like, there is a lot going on that you are in real time during episodes. You're thinking about the conflict.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Tony Gilroy, I love it, but I think Zach did it without me.

[Sean Fennessy]

So what should I do? What should I. I do here?

[Amanda Dobbins]

I thought you did Jack of Spades.

[Sean Fennessy]

Oh, yeah, I did. How much do you want to put down, Sean? 50 bucks. Let's do a clean thousand.

[Chris Ryan]

Who else is Frances McDormand in this?

[Sean Fennessy]

She is. Did you watch? What did he make? Macbeth?

[Chris Ryan]

Yeah, I watched Macbeth.

[Amanda Dobbins]

The tragedy of Macbeth.

[Chris Ryan]

Tragedy. Macbeth. I watched that.

[Sean Fennessy]

You like that?

[Chris Ryan]

I thought it was pretty good, actually.

[Sean Fennessy]

Did you see Honey Don't.

[Chris Ryan]

What's the first. First one?

[Sean Fennessy]

Driveway Dolls.

[Chris Ryan]

Yeah, wasn't.

[Amanda Dobbins]

There.

[Chris Ryan]

Wasn't the. I thought there was one about a, like, with beaver in the title?

[Sean Fennessy]

No, it was supposed to be Driveway Dykes was the original title of it, and they kind of, like, revealed.

[Chris Ryan]

I saw Driveway Dolls. I did not see Honeydon't.

[Sean Fennessy]

You saw Honey Don't.

[Amanda Dobbins]

I didn't.

[Sean Fennessy]

You know, it really. It wasn't good.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Yeah, well, that was the thing. Because, remember, I remember I took another month of leave in August, and it came out in August, and I was like, I guess I could go back.

[Sean Fennessy]

You know, I have such fealty to the Cohens. I love them so much. And Ethan just got to reunite with his bro. What do we leave on the table? Anything else?

[Chris Ryan]

I mean, there's a lot, but we shouldn't really spoil it because we're going to be coming back at you in a couple months.

[Sean Fennessy]

Well, I guess we can talk quickly about big movies coming out the next six months that we will not have gotten. Right? So Jackass five. We didn't talk about that. That was announced.

[Chris Ryan]

I mean, holy shit, dude.

[Sean Fennessy]

Yeah, that's great. One of my favorite episodes of this show, no disrespect, is Chris and I just talking about the best stunts of all time. Were you on leave during that episode or were you just like. I'm not seeing that.

[Amanda Dobbins]

No, I think I was on leave. Yeah.

[Sean Fennessy]

Jackass 4 was very fun. And Jack S5 will no doubt be very fun. Supergirl.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Okay.

[Sean Fennessy]

You know you didn't get minions three.

[Amanda Dobbins]

I know.

[Sean Fennessy]

It's July 1st, so we're probably going to pod right then at that moment for the second round. What else mentioned? Mortal Kombat 2. Well, Michael.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Yeah.

[Sean Fennessy]

No one wanted Michael. What if Michael's nominated for 10 Oscars?

[Chris Ryan]

How would that happen? They had to like, reshoot the entire thing in, like, the last five minutes.

[Sean Fennessy]

It's a musician biopic. This happens sometimes, bro. The Mummy. Did you watch that teaser?

[Chris Ryan]

I thought I didn't watch the teaser.

[Sean Fennessy]

Okay.

[Chris Ryan]

No.

[Sean Fennessy]

Thought it was pretty cool. Mm.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Hoppers, I will take Knox.

[Chris Ryan]

Okay.

[Sean Fennessy]

Scream 7? No. What'd you think of the they will kill you trailer? You watch that?

[Chris Ryan]

I enjoyed it. I think they gave away a bit much in the trailer itself, but I'm interested in it. Is there a Ready or not 2 coming out this year?

[Sean Fennessy]

There sure is.

[Chris Ryan]

That's cool.

[Sean Fennessy]

I don't know what. It's March 20th, 27th. It's the same dudes either ready or not one. What's their name?

[Chris Ryan]

Not Radio Silence.

[Sean Fennessy]

Radio Silence. Yes.

[Chris Ryan]

Okay.

[Sean Fennessy]

Yes. Bettinelli Olpin and Tyler Gillette. Amanda. Anything we forgot? Super Mario Bros. Galaxy movie. The Super Mario Galaxy movie. Which is introducing Rosalina, voiced by Brie Larson.

[Chris Ryan]

Oh, cool. I have to admit, I have to pee so bad. I think that my.

[Sean Fennessy]

Let's keep going through this. Yeah.

[Amanda Dobbins]

And my stomach has also been rumbling for like.

[Sean Fennessy]

What about the sheep detectives? You guys excited to see that one?

[Amanda Dobbins]

I'm so hungry. I. Don't you remember though, when that trailer debuted at Cinemacon and we were like, is this a joke? Like, is this a parody trailer?

[Sean Fennessy]

CGI sheep in that trailer. In that featurette. But then I watched the trailer and it's all CGI sheep. Like being detectives.

[Amanda Dobbins]

What they did.

[Sean Fennessy]

That's what the movie is.

[Chris Ryan]

Who's voicing the sheep?

[Amanda Dobbins]

No, no.

[Sean Fennessy]

Cast of thousands.

[Amanda Dobbins]

Aren't there humans?

[Sean Fennessy]

There are Hugh Jackman's in it.

[Amanda Dobbins]

And isn't Emma Thompson in it?

[Sean Fennessy]

She is in the film, but it's about sheep.

[Amanda Dobbins]

For the featurette, she was just like on some random street in London and then someone was like rolling their suitcase. Funny.

[Sean Fennessy]

Not allowed to pee. We're keep going. What else do you want to talk about? Hokum. I'm excited about that movie.

[Chris Ryan]

Faces of Death.

[Sean Fennessy]

It doesn't have a release date. It doesn't have a distributor.

[Chris Ryan]

Free. That movie.

[Sean Fennessy]

I agree. Free Faces of Death. Daniel Goldhaber's. Adaptation of VHS that Chris and I watched when we were 13 and thought was real.

[Amanda Dobbins]

I mean, live action Moana. Will it be before things in the.

[Chris Ryan]

Yes, there are. Because the. The Bud Dwyer thing is real right now.

[Sean Fennessy]

You are the. It's still real to me. Damn it. Wrestling fan. Who's crying in the bleachers?

[Chris Ryan]

You have to make an episode of the Pit about how. How bad I have to pee.

[Sean Fennessy]

Okay. Thanks to our producer, Jack Sanders, for his work on.

[Chris Ryan]

I was gonna say.

[Sean Fennessy]

Let's recap before we recap what to say.

[Chris Ryan]

Say you're not. Movies.

[Sean Fennessy]

I got five movies. I got the Odyssey. Perhaps you've heard.

[Chris Ryan]

Heard of it for $926.

[Sean Fennessy]

Yes. I got Toy Story 5 for $1, Narnia the Magician's Nephew for $18, Digger for $5 and Jack of Spades for $50. Amanda, what you got?

[Amanda Dobbins]

I got Dune 3 for $775. I got Project Hail Mary for $200, The Social Reckoning for $1, LOL, Verity for $5 and The Mandalorian and Grogu for $19.

[Chris Ryan]

I went Billy Bean here Wuthering Heights for 75, Resident Evil for 70, 72, The Devil Wears Prada 2 for 26, The Adventures of Cliff Booth for 76 and Disclosure Day for 72. Spread it around.

[Sean Fennessy]

Okay. Thanks to Jack Sanders for his work on today's episode. We'll be back on Friday with a visit to the Bone Temple. We'll see you then, Sam.