Armageddon

Unspooled

Paul Scheer & Amy Nicholson

Film Reviews, Tv & Film

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🗓️ 22 August 2024

⏱️ 73 minutes

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This week Paul & Amy break down the 1998 Michael Bay action/sci-fi film Armageddon starring Bruce Willis, Ben Affleck and Liv Tyler. They discuss how the film and Bay goes after the "nerds", the birth of Bayhem, Affleck mocking the film on the DVD commentary, and more. Next week it's the end of summer movie round up where we're talking all things Deadpool & Wolverine, It Ends With Us, Trap and more. Did the summer movie box office bounce back?! Tune in to find out! You can join the Unspooled conversation on Paul’s Discord at https://discord.gg/ZwtygZGTa6 Follow Paul and Amy on Letterboxd for more of their movie hot takes! https://letterboxd.com/paulscheer/ https://letterboxd.com/theamynicholson/ Paul’s book Joyful Recollections of Trauma is out now! Find it at https://www.harpercollins.com/products/joyful-recollections-of-trauma-paul-scheer Check out more of Paul's writing on his Substack https://substack.com/@paulscheer Episodic Art by Kim Troxall: https://www.unspooledart.com/ Learn more about the show at Unspooledpod.com, follow us on Twitter @unspooled and on Instagram @unspooledpod, and don’t forget to rate, review & subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or where you listen to podcasts.

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0:00.0	The year is 1998 and I do not want to close my eyes because if I do I'm going to miss like 9 million explosions.
0:07.0	The movie? Armageddon. I'm going to Hello everyone and welcome to
0:34.0	unspoed
0:37.0	I am Paul Sheer joined as always by Amy Nicholson
0:41.0	and this is unspooled's Disaster Summer, our last film of Disaster Summer and we are doing
0:48.8	it with a film that has been selected by criterion to be one of the best films, one of the
0:57.4	films that needs to be studied, I'm of course talking about Michael Bayes
1:02.4	Armageddon. Amy, I can't wait to get into it with you
1:07.0	Yeah, I mean this movie wasn't just selected for a criterion this movie was selected for criterion the year after it came out. It was only the 40th movie to ever get the full criterion treatment.
1:19.0	I mean, we're saying that this movie was put in a criterion collection before the Red Shoes, Knights of Kiberia, Brazil,
1:25.0	Yojimbo, 39 steps, charade, Lawrence Olivier's frigid,
1:29.0	L'Olivier's friggin hamlet.
1:30.0	Now, I will say it probably has nothing to do with the fact that didn't Disney buy Criterion at one point was that part of the issue?
1:39.0	Well I heard that it was more like a generous offer on Michael Bayes part.
1:43.4	He heard that criterion was in trouble and he was like, hey, my new movie just was like a huge, huge hit.
1:47.6	You can also put it out and make some money and keep yourselves alive.
1:50.1	I love it.
1:51.9	And I love criterion.
1:53.0	All right, so let's set the table here.
1:55.0	The year is 1998.
1:58.0	The films that come out that are unspooled worthy,
2:01.0	saving Private Ryan, Blade, Ringu, out of sight.
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