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Unspooled

Forrest Gump

Unspooled

Paul Scheer & Amy Nicholson

Film Reviews, Tv & Film

4.55K Ratings

🗓️ 7 November 2019

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

Paul & Amy run through 1994's satirical American history tour Forrest Gump! They learn the nutty plot of the sequel book Gump & Co, listen to a bit of the Lt. Dan Band, and ask how John Candy would have played the Forrest role. Plus: We take your calls and hear why this film has resonated with so many movie fans. What do you think The Best Years Of Our Lives is about? 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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

The year is 1994 and you got a murder podcast,

0:05.1

you got interview podcasts, you got a comedy podcast,

0:08.4

you got a politics podcast, you got a sports podcast,

0:11.7

uneven a podcast about forest, go.

0:14.6

Hey everybody, welcome to Unspooled.

0:35.9

And I am Paul Sheer and this is the podcast where each week

0:38.4

we watch one film from the AFI top 100 greatest films of all

0:41.3

time list, the 2007 edition to see if they really are as good

0:44.8

as people say. Do they hold up and how have they influenced

0:48.0

the films we watch today? Amy, this week we're going to be

0:51.0

talking about forest, gump, last week we talked about grapes of

0:54.0

wrath, but before you even get into grapes of wrath and kind of

0:57.4

recapping what people thought about it, I wanted to ask if you

1:00.0

saw an op-ed written by Martin Scorsese in this week's New

1:02.5

York Times about Marvel movies. Paul, we're not doing this

1:06.6

again. Okay, well, fair enough, fair enough. But last week we

1:11.0

talked about grapes of wrath and it really seemed to resonate

1:13.6

with a lot of our listeners, I think they found themselves like

1:17.5

we did kind of surprised at how, you know, topical this movie

1:22.8

felt and how alive it was. Yeah, a lot of people listening to

1:26.2

podcasts who watch grapes of wrath thought about how this film

1:29.3

could be so relevant still today, you know, like at Moop 2000,

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