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Unspooled

Alien

Unspooled

Paul Scheer & Amy Nicholson

Film Reviews, Tv & Film

4.64.7K Ratings

🗓️ 17 June 2021

⏱️ ? minutes

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Summary

Amy & Paul burst out of 1979's sci-fi horror pioneer Alien! They learn about the film's original darker ending, contrast it with another classic horror film Unspooled has covered, and ask whether today's filmmakers have lost the visual imagination that made Alien feel so innovative. Plus, the eternal debate: Alien or Aliens? Next week Unspooled's space series continues with Solaris (the 1972 original)! You can join the conversation for this series on the Unspooled Facebook Group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/unspooledpodcast, and on Paul’s Discord at https://discord.gg/ZwtygZGTa6. Learn more about the show at unspooledpod.com, follow us on Twitter @unspooled and Instagram @unspooledpod, and don’t forget to rate, review & subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher and Spotify. You can also listen to our Stitcher Premium game show Screen Test right now at https://www.stitcher.com/show/unspooled-screen-test, and apply to be a contestant at [email protected]! Photo credit: Kim Troxall

Transcript

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0:00.0

The year is 1979 and in space no one can hear your podcast the movie alien

0:08.5

Hello everyone and welcome to unspooled. I'm Amy Nicholson and I'm Paul

0:32.6

Sheer and this is the podcast where we are endeavoring to find the best movies of all time

0:37.6

and we do we're going to send them to outer space which is very interesting because this is our

0:43.3

space series our third in our mini series of space films there's a lot of talk last week

0:49.7

about our last film Amy contact we did not decide whether or not we were going to send it

0:54.8

into space and I wanted to just hit you with that right now what do you think would you send

0:59.8

into space quick gut reaction oh probably not probably not for me either even though I loved

1:08.9

it and I'm going to say spoiler alert there may be a film that I want us into space coming up and

1:16.5

that one not contact off my list so how about that I am with that you know what just made

1:23.8

my call and I hate that I'm saying is out loud yeah is really thinking about how like contact

1:30.3

inside of the lands are so similar I was like I can't that was it for me as much as I like

1:36.3

the religious aspect of contact maybe won't make makes me want to keep it on it's interesting

1:40.4

you bring it up I want you to hold that thought for a little bit as we get into alien but

1:44.0

before you even get into alien I want to bring up one more thing um Ned baby passed away

1:49.0

uh fantastic actor and I was actually talking about one of his roles that I just truly truly

1:56.1

love um which is his role in the movie white lightning which is I guess the prequel to Gator

2:05.5

uh as Bert Reynolds movie or yeah I think it's a prequel to Gator because Gator is a lot more

2:10.4

of an action film and white lightning is more of the uh the gritty drama action car film

2:18.3

so I recommend that and Amy if you've not seen white lightning it is I have it one of the

2:22.8

sweatiest movies of all time and not sweaty like uh it's desperate like sweaty like you

2:27.9

feel the sweat on on these actors it's amazing and truly one of the actors who's popped up

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