Is right about Civil War, you credulous dorks

Please stop talking about things you don’t understand. Wicked is an amazing musical and until you have seen it staged, please withhold your takes on the upcoming movie.

Amanda on the Civil War convo was like a cool drink of water in a desert. I feel seen and understood

How are y’all sleeping on Problemista? Didn’t hear it in your top 10 of the year so far and was shook (I assume it’s some technically came out in 2023 nonsense!) Seems worthy of a chat on the show at the very least now that it’s been released wide. Happy to hear your other recs!

Amanda is the best. Her co-host, not so much.

I used to be a REGULAR listener. Subscribed, shared and relistened to many of your episodes, but in the last year and a half or so the general attitude toward film and Hollywood and movie making, especially presented by Sean, has become so disheartening and nihilistic that I wonder if he forgot the reason for the show in the first place. It is called ‘The Big Picture,’ is it not? Hopefully some perspective shifts and I’ll come back to the show when the hosts find joy in the industry again.

The Monkey Man pod is the must unhinged thing I’ve ever heard. And I listened to the Babylon watch along while working and not watching the movie.

A lot of it isn’t really about movies. It’s nice when Adam Neymen comes on or Joanna Robinson but the two hosts don’t seem interested in film. They were talking about their kids and basketball. Listen to Eye of the Duck, All the right Movies, Pure Cinema Podcast, or The Movies that Made Me if you want true insight.

Love learning about movies that I didn’t know existed. Like “The Sorcerer”. I would like to listen to a draft of movies from the 30’s, 40’s, and 50’s. I watched a lot of black and whites as a teen and I would love to know more about them as well as ones that I should seek out. Keep up the great work. Kelly in ND by way of Metro DC and Santa Cruz, CA.

Vocal fry millennial pretentious loud noises.

Still great juice tho

Amanda D - we don’t deserve you. Thank you both for your insight and guidance helping to illuminate the qualities in these motion pictures that we might have noticed but couldn’t verbalize. After seeing a film I like to talk about it with my friends. And this podcast has become a part of that tradition for me.

I really like when Adam is a guest. He’s very calm, measured and knowledgeable. Also I like the movie Drafts it’s fun to not discuss the greater value of cinema every episode. Also love seeing the hosts double Cross one another with their picks

This podcast features Amanda Dobbins, the biggest, most annoying troll on the planet. She’s proudly ignorant and seems to hate movies and people. She’s thin skinned and lashes out at everything like a petulant child. What other job in the world could you be as ignorant, unprepared, and lazy as she is continue to keep your job? Anyone who refers to movies as “boy movies” & “girl movies” or themselves in the third person in 2024 is just plainly an idiot not worth your time. Replace Amanda with literally anyone else! PS-no one is here to listen about your kid.

That should be the name of this podcast. Just overwhelmingly pretentious…for critics, they really hate criticism of themselves even more.

Amanda Dobbins is lowkey the best film podcaster there is idk why y’all are bugging

This is a weird criticism, but the way that the hosts talk on this show - especially Chris and Sean - they always say the title of whatever movie they wish to discuss *~as quietly as possible~*. The most important part of their sentence, invariably, will always be the part you cannot hear. So you’ll be tooling along, listening, and they’ll say, “of course the next one I’m going to mention, absolute triumph, totally overlooked movie, really at the stage for an entire era, one of the few in which John Cassevetes played such a critical role, one that literally almost killed Sissy Spacek and ACTUALLY DID KILL a gaffer, tragically, and of course this movie is…” at which point they will drop to an anxious mutter and say, “blamherfle dorp,” and the other hosts will shriek, “OH MY GOD, I KNOW,” and “RIGHT??” and they will carry on with a rollicking, loud, eager conversation, while you have absolutely no idea what movie they’re talking about. SAY THE MOVIE NAMES LOUDER, SEAN.

And please be careful not to complain about again and then commit it. Thanks

I’ve always admired Sean Fennessey and his knowledge of film, we share similar world views and have a similar taste in movies. Amanda has taken some warming up to, but she’s been really good of late.

Really enjoy the pod! How do they teach their children the difference between pronouncing “ANT” vs. “AND”?

Simply put, she ruins this podcast. Her voice and hysterical cackle are hard enough on the ears, but worse, she doesn’t watch 90% of the films discussed. Maybe hire someone who has a broad understanding and appreciation of film? Just a thought. Unsubscribed.

Amanda has main character/“pick me” energy

Heartbreak feels good in a place like this.

Loved it! Do more like it! I actually love all episodes focused on one single movie :)))

I really like the comments that you guys say in this pod.You have great ideas and thoughts.Thanks for sharing your commentary with the world!😁

I keep coming back to this pod hoping for something better.

I want to like this, but Amanda and Sean are tough to listen to on a regular basis. This also features some of the worst guests you’ve ever heard, most recently Wesley from the NYT.

Love the show even if I don’t agree with all the takes. One suggestion—please leave the pontificating Wesley morris off… jeeeesus when he’s on it’s like we’re forever waiting for him to “finish his thought”.

This podcast rules. The hosts are smart and funny. Sean’s a good interviewer when he has filmmakers on. And their voices are fine! Can all the baby boomers stop complaining about vocal fry already? The war is over. You lost.

Great pod

He’s absolutely awful. Sean, Amanda, Bobby — Please respect your listeners’ time and loyalty. Wesley is condescending, thoughtless, meaninglessly edgy (opinions are not funny and/ backed by anything enlightening), interrupts the hosts and says things like “saw this movie as a civilian on opening weekend” and “Denis Villeneuve is a fraud.” UGH.

Love Sean, Amanda is so annoying. Please fix this we don’t need all these side stories.

I really want to like this podcast, and I keep coming back to it so there must be something I’m enjoying. But I often turn it off before the episode ends, because in every episode there’s some kind of annoying obsession (primarily from Amanda) about age. I’ve never in my life heard someone be so consumed with being a millennial. Do I not understand the obsession because I’m not a millennial myself? I’m Gen X but many of my friends are millennials (I became a parent late in life, so all my parent friends are millennials). Are these friends also obsessing and I’m just not aware? Are they relating every movie they see to how it plays for millennials? How is this such a big deal to her? How does it come up every episode, in every conversation? This baffles me. Maybe I keep coming back to this podcast because I need to solve this mystery.

Amanda Dobbins is insufferable- all these 2 do is trash stuff- never offer a counter point or discuss the why of why it’s bad or not for them or how it could have been better- they always see each others same view, there is no counter viewpoints- she is terrible Sean certainly has his high horse, I’m the smartest guy in the room vibes- Please more Joanna Robinson I think could be the key, sharp, experienced voice of the people- that is just as knowledgeable but comes across more genuine and humble- Jo feels wasted in the marvel and Star Wars universes, unless that’s her passion. Amanda truly bad

At least all of Coppola’s effort on the movie produced one of the great Soundtrack albums. I always thought that if the tone of the movie matched what Waits created with Gayle it would have worked.

I love this podcast very much, but the vocal fry from Sean & Amanda is like nails on a chalkboard at the end of every sentence. Also, Bobby not liking Spielberg because he’s a billionaire should disqualify him from producing a movie podcast. Stop the vocal fry! Talk like adults!

Bobby Wagner is awful. He chimes in too much and comes across as being very arrogant. He’s really unlikeable. The podcast would be much better without him.

Saw Tampopo at Vidiots, Sean and his wife’s name on this list of donors. The least I could do write a review of an excellent podcast.

Sean and Amanda are both super smart with great, informed, interesting points of view. I could listen to them talk about movies forever. Basically all the negative reviews are because they didn’t like someone’s favorite movie or said something someone disagreed with on the pod. Keep it up lads.

Nobody: …. Amanda: I HAVE A CHILD!!! If other parents used their children as excuses for being unprepared and entirely awful at their job, they’d eventually be let go.

I really enjoy this show and I have learned a lot from listening, but the best ones are when Amanda twists off and goes on angry rants. I want a special episode where she can share her views on Hillary Clinton. Or a compilation of her getting angry at drafts. Keep up the good work everyone.

I have been listening to this podcast for years, but was especially moved to hear Sean’s recent tribute to Philip Seymour Hoffman - I’ve never heard him do a pre-recorded tribute like that before in all my years of listening. Love the show, the guests, and Sean is one of the most insightful interviewers out there. I never an episode.

The real heads are On the Silver Globe. New Physical media episode is my favorite of the year already. Rolling Thunder is one of my favorite discoveries of 2023. After reading cinema speculation I’ve been on deep 1970s kick, this pod was one for the books. I feel seen, my black hat is tipped fine sirs. My collection grows weekly between Arrow, Vinegar syndrome and steelbooks.

Sean is Hollywood’s Young Podcast Lord, obviously — but it was great to be introduced to Tim Simons, whose podcast & performances I’ll seek out. I’m sure every listener can 100% relate, to the discussion of how the simple presence of random items in the house you grew up in — in Sean’s case, the book “Needful Things” — can, and in some cases do, have significant / unintended / unpredictable repercussions, on the course of your entire life. And being from an older generation, the ‘stakes’ used to be even higher, than missing out on a chance to own a DVD copy of a film that’s important to you. (Which I totally get.) The example that came to mind was when a 205-minute print of “Andrei Rublev” was being shown around the U.S. in the 80’s, we had to go…because it plausibly felt like it might / would be your one-and-only chance to see the film — in any format — during your lifetime. It felt a lot like the point in this episode, when Tim brought up a recent sale where classic Blu-Rays were priced down to $8.99 — and Sean said, “I mean, how could I not…?” When we heard about the “Andrei Rublev” showing, my friend and I just looked at each other, and shrugged. As if to say: there’s no real ‘choice’, or ‘decision’ to be made here, and enough said. (Even though literally nothing was said.) I miss that about living in LA; once you leave, you don’t often meet people like Sean, who can casually talk “off the dome,” about how the “Howard the Duck” filmmakers actually influenced the evolution of horror movies, before their duck movie became the “Heaven’s Gate” of its time. And Tim illustrated the point hilariously, recounting how seemingly half his neighbors, are in a position, to either provide him a Blu-Ray ‘rabbit hole’ to go down — or else they’re giving him a knowing ‘thumbs-up’ while jogging in the park or walking their dog nowadays…to acknowledge their mutual membership in the Brotherhood of the Blu-Ray — or both. Thanks for a truly great episode, guys 🙏

So happy I have 600 eps to go

The hosts are good but they put far too much weight on their opinions which are just opinions. They’re reasonably well informed and interesting to listen to, to a degree, but their attempts to ‘go deep’ are not often that deep - that should prevent them from endlessly hammering a point but it does not.

I love the banter, the arguments, the discussions, and the hot takes. amanda is hilarious and sean is insightful.

Best rant ever!!!!!

Seriously? You might as well have just said “stay in your lane Hillary and let the experts handle all things movies and Oscar. You as a private citizen don’t get to have an opinion on this and frankly you should be working on solving things even though you are now a private citizen and deserve rest and to watch movies just like the rest of us”. Given than maybe I should stop listening because I am not in the entertainment field just an interested bystander. So god forbid I may some day have an opinion that I want to share.

Lately, Amanda’s rants are putting the show on the brink of unlistenable. I have turned off eps recently that I was looking forward to over that. The post-Oscar eps week were the nadir. They also spend too much real estate on their personal lives. However, it is a great source of information, analysis, and interviews. Draft episodes, especially the year-specific ones, are quite fun.