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🗓️ 15 December 2017
⏱️ 42 minutes
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0:00.0 | My favorite movie is...there will be blood. |
0:02.7 | I think it's certainly the best movie of the century, maybe the best movie ever made. |
0:11.6 | I'm Sean Fantasy, editor-in-chief of The Ringer, and this is the big picture. |
0:15.2 | Today we're going back to 2007. |
0:17.4 | That was when the first iPhone was released. |
0:19.4 | Barry Bond's broke Hank Aaron's all-time home run record. |
0:22.4 | Beyonce's irreplaceable top-the-charts, and American Idol was the most popular television show in America. |
0:27.8 | And at the movies? |
0:29.2 | Well, it's just about the most fascinating movie-year in recent memory. |
0:32.0 | A time when a Cohen Brothers film won best picture at the Oscars. |
0:34.8 | A small indie about a pregnant teenager grossed more than $230 million. |
0:39.2 | The world met an oil man named Daniel Plainview, and Michael Bay showed the industry what a transformer can do. |
0:44.3 | Over the course of the past year at The Ringer, we've looked back at some of the most compelling movies from 2007. |
0:48.8 | Films like Super Bad and Radatouille. |
0:51.0 | Just this week, we released a 2007 themed episode of the Rewatchables podcast, |
0:54.6 | focusing on David Fincher's Masterful Zodiac. |
0:57.2 | So for today's episode of The Big Picture, I've asked the watch co-host Chris Ryan and Andy Greenwald |
1:01.6 | to join me to talk more in depth about the phenomenon of 2007 at the movies. |
1:05.8 | Why things happen the way that they did, and if we'll ever see another year like it again? |
1:10.0 | So without further ado, here are me, Chris and Andy, on the year in the movies 10 years ago. |
1:14.6 | So it's Chris Ryan and it's Andy Greenwald, guys. Thank you for joining me. |
1:30.0 | Thanks for having me. |
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