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Paul Scheer & Amy Nicholson

Film Reviews, Tv & Film

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🗓️ 15 December 2022

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Amy & Paul upload their consciousness into 2009’s otherworldly sci-fi spectacle Avatar! They confirm the concept of ‘unobtanium’ wasn’t invented by the film, learn which movie stars were up for the role of Jake Sully, and ask themselves why they feel protective of director James Cameron. Plus: did Cameron really insist the Na’Vi need to have breasts? Next week, tune in as we discuss Die Hard! 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]!

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0:00.0	The year is 2009 and I see you, bro. The movie Avatar.
0:06.2	Hello everyone and welcome to UnSpool! Where we unspool the most famous films of all time to find out
0:35.2	if they truly deserve to be called classics? Or if they are just remembered that way. That was Paul
0:41.4	Sheer, comedian, baraniac, marvelous person. Oh Paul, I adore you. Well I think you are amazing and
0:47.6	who do I think is amazing? Well it's just Amy Nicholson who writes for The New York Times is a James
0:53.4	Cameron file. I think maybe I mean we'll see. I mean you definitely have some issues with Cameron
1:00.7	and then we're going to get into those today. I think issues is right. I think I should schedule a
1:05.3	better help meeting just to talk about how my feelings about James Cameron. Well I'm excited to
1:09.2	break into this movie because Avatar is a movie that I've had a lot of conflicting opinions on
1:14.8	and I realized that it was really based in the fact that I haven't seen it in 13 years. I put it
1:20.8	behind a door and an opinion grew really out of nothing else. I feel the same way. I basically
1:30.4	saw this movie in 2009 and then locked it away in a cryo tube and you know when you break something
1:34.8	out of a cryo tube it sure feels like drinking a lot of tequila. Part of being conflicted about
1:38.6	this movie I think stems from the casting. You know James Cameron has created iconic roles
1:43.6	for beloved actors and in this film I think you might have missed the mark on some of his casting.
1:50.1	We'll get into that. Can this man be too ambitious? Can Daddy Cameron be too ambitious?
1:56.4	Well with that being said Amy let's from Wannit that is Navi for report on it.
2:03.6	I thought you were going to say it's the guy that's Navi for begin.
2:11.8	The year is 2009 and it has been 12 years since James Cameron directed the biggest
2:18.7	blockbuster in the world. How has he followed up Titanic? Well he hasn't. James Cameron has not
2:25.6	released a fiction film in over a decade. He's just been making documentaries on deep sea diving
2:30.5	with even more visits to the Titanic. Some people are saying he won't make another movie again
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