Mad Max: Fury Road (Re-Release)

Unspooled

Paul Scheer & Amy Nicholson

Film Reviews, Tv & Film

4.6 • 4.7K Ratings

🗓️ 30 May 2024

⏱️ 105 minutes

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Amy & Paul race through 2015’s post-apocalyptic action masterwork Mad Max: Fury Road! They learn why director George Miller brought on feminist playwright Eve Ensler as an advisor, praise the film’s playful and careful worldbuilding, and ask whether Miller comes from the ‘tyrant’ school of directing. Plus: Witness young dating show contestant Tom Hardy! You can join the Unspooled conversation on Paul’s Discord at https://discord.gg/ZwtygZGTa6 Follow Paul and Amy on Letterboxd for more of their movie hot takes! https://letterboxd.com/paulscheer/ https://letterboxd.com/theamynicholson/ Paul’s book Joyful Recollections of Trauma is out now! Find it at https://www.harpercollins.com/products/joyful-recollections-of-trauma-paul-scheer Check out more of Paul's writing on his Substack https://substack.com/@paulscheer Episodic Art by Kim Troxall: https://www.unspooledart.com/ Learn more about the show at Unspooledpod.com, follow us on Twitter @unspooled and on Instagram @unspooledpod, and don’t forget to rate, review & subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or where you listen to podcasts.

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0:00.0	The year is 2015, and you will witness me, blood bag!
0:09.7	The movie, Mad Max Fury Road. Hi everybody and welcome to I'm
0:34.0	I'm Amy Nicholson.
0:37.0	And I am Paul Sheer and this is the show
0:39.0	where we are endeavoring to find the
0:41.0	hundred best films of all time. We started on the AFI
0:44.4	top 100 list and now we are working our way through different genres trying to find
0:48.9	films that represent all the best types of cinema trying to find one film that represents one genre perfectly,
0:56.0	trying to not duplicate directors so we could have a really rich tapestry of amazing film that we will eventually shoot into outer space and you can
1:04.7	hear how this list is progressing in about a week as Amy and I sit down to look over our last year of films.
1:13.9	We have spent the last year picking our own films,
1:16.4	having you pick our films,
1:17.9	and we have watched a lot of movies,
1:20.2	and now it's time for us to make some strong hard judgments.
1:24.8	Which ones are going to space.
1:26.2	Right now we have 40, we have 60 slots open.
1:29.2	I imagine we're not going to probably put more than 8 or 10 on, right?
1:34.7	Oh, and it's tough because we've been watching almost exclusively bangers.
1:38.3	Yeah.
1:39.3	I mean, there has not been a Benher or French connection in the mix so this will be tough.
1:44.3	It's going to be really interesting and we are going to continue this experiment into the new year into
1:51.6	September which we already are in, but just kind of start Halloween early, as our next series is
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