Back To The Future

Unspooled

Paul Scheer & Amy Nicholson

Film Reviews, Tv & Film

4.6 • 4.7K Ratings

🗓️ 5 August 2021

⏱️ 113 minutes

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Amy & Paul zoom at 88 miles per hour into 1985's Robert Zemeckis time travel comedy Back To The Future! They ask why Eric Stoltz wasn't the right choice for Marty McFly, discuss the film's critique of Reaganomics, and debate whether Steven Spielberg has had too much influence on our brains. Plus: Was the DeLorean originally supposed to be a fridge? Next week Unspooled's summer blockbuster series continues with Speed! 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

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0:00.0	The year is 1985 and progress is our middle name. The movie back to the future.
0:23.6	Hello everyone and welcome to unspooled.
0:27.1	I'm Amy Nicholson and I am Paul Sheer and this is the podcast where we are endeavoring to find the hundred best films of all time and we're doing that
0:37.4	By going through different genres different types of films right now
0:41.0	We are in the middle of our summer blockbuster series every film picked by you our listeners who are so smart so good and
0:50.2	I've been
0:51.3	Loving the debates that people have been having about this series because while these movies are all fun
0:58.6	We are desperately trying to make sure that we showcase a lot of different styles of summer blockbusters here and Amy
1:06.1	Anything jumping out at you from people's reaction to the first couple episodes so far?
1:11.3	I yeah
1:13.3	Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, that I'm not alone in like
1:14.9	Imagine that Laura Dern and Sam Neal are a couple in Jurassic Park, but maybe aren't a couple there has been much debate about this
1:24.8	With some people really honing in on the scene where it looks like
1:29.8	Jeff Goldblum is about to maybe start hitting on Laura Dern and he turns to Sam Neal and Sam Neal
1:35.5	He asked him you look as well as just sort of say it and say go what do you think about this and Sam Neal just says yeah and
1:41.6	there's
1:42.8	People interpret this in different ways like is he saying yes, isn't they are a couple or is he saying yes?
1:47.4	Is then he thinks they should be a couple and he's just gonna claim it now?
1:50.8	He is scaring away a man a contender to his girlfriend thrown without actually doing anything about it like I don't know if that
1:57.7	Yeah, means they are actually dating and I enjoy parsing this one syllable with much much much much
2:03.7	Well more passion that I should have there are also people out there that said that we were absolutely crazy
2:08.8	For thinking that because at one point they talk about having kids. I talk about having kids with all of my friends
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