The Big Picture

“Erm I hate when a conversation show has conversations” 🤓🤓🤓

Occasionally entertaining and thoughtful, but mostly a venue for Sean Fennessy to perform his role as a surly, pompous dweeb. Much of their movie discussion seems to revolve around “the discourse” about a film - what people on Twitter and Letterboxd are complaining about - rather than the film itself. Hard to listen to a bunch of 45 year olds get upset about who got to pick Ocean’s Eleven in a “movie draft,” without feeling a little ill.

Please talk about movies

I love the show and have been listening since 2020 religiously. I find that when Wesley is on it takes the air out of the conversation..he overtakes the conversation but doesn’t add effectively to it. The recent alternative Oscar episode I had to stop after the first 15-20 minutes because I felt like he was taking all the fun out of it..he doesn’t seem to like the Oscars or many of the front running films..so why have him there? Sean and Amanda clearly value his opinions, but often they don’t align with their own, so Wesley goes on long rants that don’t really lead anywhere I find… I’m sure he’s an effective writer, but I’m generally finding when he guests here or Rewatchables I skip it. Sorry!