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Sean Fennessey

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The Rewatchables
‘Close Encounters of the Third Kind’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey

It's the same kind of...

The Rewatchables
‘Close Encounters of the Third Kind’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey

It's the same kind of...

The Rewatchables
‘Close Encounters of the Third Kind’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey

Yeah, so he blends the paranoid 70s with the modern sci-fi era, but as a Steve Spielberg movie. Yeah. I call him Steve.

The Rewatchables
‘Close Encounters of the Third Kind’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey

Yeah, so he blends the paranoid 70s with the modern sci-fi era, but as a Steve Spielberg movie. Yeah. I call him Steve.

The Rewatchables
‘Close Encounters of the Third Kind’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey

Yeah, so he blends the paranoid 70s with the modern sci-fi era, but as a Steve Spielberg movie. Yeah. I call him Steve.

The Rewatchables
‘Close Encounters of the Third Kind’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey

And it's an unbelievable follow-up to Jaws, which is the other piece of this. He makes Jaws, which basically we talked about in Star Wars. Star Wars gets all the credit for kind of ruining movies and where we went, but Jaws kind of started it.

The Rewatchables
‘Close Encounters of the Third Kind’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey

And it's an unbelievable follow-up to Jaws, which is the other piece of this. He makes Jaws, which basically we talked about in Star Wars. Star Wars gets all the credit for kind of ruining movies and where we went, but Jaws kind of started it.

The Rewatchables
‘Close Encounters of the Third Kind’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey

And it's an unbelievable follow-up to Jaws, which is the other piece of this. He makes Jaws, which basically we talked about in Star Wars. Star Wars gets all the credit for kind of ruining movies and where we went, but Jaws kind of started it.

The Rewatchables
‘Close Encounters of the Third Kind’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey

Everyone wants to be Jaws and wants to own all the movie theaters. And he starts that and he's 27 at that point and he's in what's next mode. And he's probably the most scrutinized director of that era other than Coppola at that point in 75. Scorsese, Schrader, all those dudes, De Palma, they're all kind of like indie bands underground.

The Rewatchables
‘Close Encounters of the Third Kind’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey

Everyone wants to be Jaws and wants to own all the movie theaters. And he starts that and he's 27 at that point and he's in what's next mode. And he's probably the most scrutinized director of that era other than Coppola at that point in 75. Scorsese, Schrader, all those dudes, De Palma, they're all kind of like indie bands underground.

The Rewatchables
‘Close Encounters of the Third Kind’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey

Everyone wants to be Jaws and wants to own all the movie theaters. And he starts that and he's 27 at that point and he's in what's next mode. And he's probably the most scrutinized director of that era other than Coppola at that point in 75. Scorsese, Schrader, all those dudes, De Palma, they're all kind of like indie bands underground.

The Rewatchables
‘Close Encounters of the Third Kind’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey

But he follows it up with this, which it feels like a ballsy move. Yeah. To follow up Jaws with a way bigger, more ambitious movie.

The Rewatchables
‘Close Encounters of the Third Kind’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey

But he follows it up with this, which it feels like a ballsy move. Yeah. To follow up Jaws with a way bigger, more ambitious movie.

The Rewatchables
‘Close Encounters of the Third Kind’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey

But he follows it up with this, which it feels like a ballsy move. Yeah. To follow up Jaws with a way bigger, more ambitious movie.

The Rewatchables
‘Close Encounters of the Third Kind’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey

Yeah. Well, Jaws, this movie, E.T., three movies that have now been all out for at least 40 years. Jaws will be 50 years this year. And you can still watch it. Like, producer Craig will probably have a kid at some point, I'm guessing, in the next 10 years. And 10 years from now, we'll be able to watch all three of those movies with that kid, and they'll probably hold up.

The Rewatchables
‘Close Encounters of the Third Kind’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey

Yeah. Well, Jaws, this movie, E.T., three movies that have now been all out for at least 40 years. Jaws will be 50 years this year. And you can still watch it. Like, producer Craig will probably have a kid at some point, I'm guessing, in the next 10 years. And 10 years from now, we'll be able to watch all three of those movies with that kid, and they'll probably hold up.

The Rewatchables
‘Close Encounters of the Third Kind’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey

Yeah. Well, Jaws, this movie, E.T., three movies that have now been all out for at least 40 years. Jaws will be 50 years this year. And you can still watch it. Like, producer Craig will probably have a kid at some point, I'm guessing, in the next 10 years. And 10 years from now, we'll be able to watch all three of those movies with that kid, and they'll probably hold up.

The Rewatchables
‘Close Encounters of the Third Kind’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey

Even though a lot of it's dated, and the clothes are weird, and there's no phones, but... It's something like eternal.

The Rewatchables
‘Close Encounters of the Third Kind’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey

Even though a lot of it's dated, and the clothes are weird, and there's no phones, but... It's something like eternal.

The Rewatchables
‘Close Encounters of the Third Kind’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey

Even though a lot of it's dated, and the clothes are weird, and there's no phones, but... It's something like eternal.