For year 1997 and Amy, what the fuck are you doing?

What does it look like I'm doing? Recording a podcast. Get out, shut the door.

The movie, Boogie Nights.

Hello everyone and welcome to On Spooled. I'm Amy Nicholson. And I am Paul Sheer in this

podcast where we are trying to find the 100 best movies of all time and when we do, we are sending them into outer space.

We are in the middle of our contender series where we are looking at current Oscar nominees and checking out some of their past work.

Today on the show we're talking about Boogie Nights but before we get into that, Amy still getting so much feedback on the shining.

Everyone is sending in their own theories. People are agreeing with us, disagreeing with us and I will tell you this.

After we spoke, I went and watched Room 237 and I absolutely loved that movie. I had never seen it and I had heard so much about it.

I think what was so amazing to me was the way that that director uses Kubrick footage and other film footage never shows the people that are being interviewed.

You just kind of hear them as voiceover, the entire film and it paints these incredibly elaborate pictures.

It really is, I know it's an overused term but it has a very trippy feeling to it because you're watching other works of Kubrick as people are talking about the shining and their experience watching it.

But I don't know, it's really, really well done if you've not seen Room 237. It actually scared June watching it. She made me turn it off.

I think the slow-pans, the slow pushes the monotone nature of the doc, I think lets you live in those scenes a little bit longer and I think it makes the creep factor a little bit higher.

I mean it does make you feel like you're living in the afterlife, like pacing around hearing voices in your head.

I love what filmmakers have been doing with the shining, just using it as like a text for making their own crazy things. Have you ever seen the shining backwards and forwards where they layer the final frame over the beginning frame and they just play the two layers of the movie on top of each other?

It's really trippy when I went to the very first overlook film festival, you know the film festival. They love quite deeply.

They had it at one of the shining hotels and one of the hotel room channels was just set to play like the shining backwards and forwards the whole time.

And you really see like how symmetrical it is and of course people are like, whoa I'm getting toped and like seeing all these like crazy symbols in here that I know we're deliberate and you're like, they weren't. But I love that we're just doing this.

We should do with all films. What if we did the Titanic backward and forward?

Well, let's not get ahead of ourselves there. I mean, the end of the Titanic is pretty different than the beginning. I mean, that's like you're going to be watching a boat crash, but maybe you're looking at a relationship doomed from the very beginning. Maybe that's what you're seeing.

I mean, I guess I'm looking at a movie about the afterlife and love continuing.

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