Dr. Strangelove, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

Unspooled

Paul Scheer & Amy Nicholson

Film Reviews, Tv & Film

4.5 • 5K Ratings

🗓️ 9 January 2020

⏱️ 102 minutes

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Summary

Paul & Amy sap your bodily fluids with 1964's Cold War satire Dr. Strangelove, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb! They unpack how director Stanley Kubrick manipulated his cast to get the best performances, learn the origin of Strangelove's voice, and play a Strangelove-inspired song by a classic SoCal punk band. Plus: recapping the Golden Globes! What other satires would you add to the AFI list? Call the Unspooled voicemail line at 747-666-5824 with your answer! Follow us on Twitter @Unspooled, get more info at unspooledpod.com and don’t forget to rate, review & subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts. Photo credit: Kim Troxall This episode is brought to you by Sonos (www.sonos.com). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The year is 1964, but it feels a lot like 2020.
0:04.4	The film, Dr. Strange Law.
0:24.4	Hello everybody and welcome to Unspooled.
0:28.2	I'm Amy Nicholsson.
0:29.0	And I am Paul Sheer and this is the podcast where each week we watch one film from the AFI's
0:33.0	top 100 greatest films of all time.
0:34.6	List 2007 edition to see if they are really as good as people say do they hold up and how have
0:39.8	they influenced the films that we watch today.
0:42.6	Today we're talking about Dr. Strange Law or how I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb.
0:47.0	But before that, we are doing our live show in Los Angeles at the Alma Draft House in downtown
0:51.7	Los Angeles. I can get tickets on the Alma Draft House site or through the app.
0:55.3	January 20th, come down and see how these shows have been so much fun.
0:59.7	And there's a theme cocktail.
1:02.1	Oh yeah, I think cocktails are really good.
1:04.2	Amy, we've just gotten off a bunch of weeks of specials and we dropped Star Wars in there as well.
1:11.7	And we are in the middle of, I would say, movie season.
1:15.9	Like because this is award season has begun.
1:20.2	We're recording this the day after the Golden Globes.
1:23.3	And I feel like a lot of people on their break probably want to see a lot of movies.
1:27.5	Talking about a lot of movies.
1:28.9	Last night, I watched Golden Globes and I have to say I was I was pretty happy.
1:33.9	So as I actually I was hooting a bit.
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