RoboCop

Unspooled

Paul Scheer & Amy Nicholson

Film Reviews, Tv & Film

4.6 • 4.7K Ratings

🗓️ 14 July 2022

⏱️ ? minutes

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Amy & Paul get the future under control with 1987’s Paul Verhoeven dystopian action film RoboCop! They discover how Verhoeven satirized corporate America despite being completely new to American culture, analyze his technique of making violence comical by exaggerating it, and praise Peter Weller for finding the humanity inside the robot suit. Plus: a look back at James Caan’s career. Next week, we've got a special treat for you as we take a break between our Heroes and Villains series! 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]!

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0:00.0	The year is 1987 and this is a social commentary
0:05.6	disguised as an action movie.
0:07.8	I'll buy that for a dollar.
0:10.3	The movie RoboCop.
0:13.2	Hello everyone and welcome to our school.
0:39.5	I'm Amy Nicholson.
0:40.6	I'm Paul Sheer and this is the show where we are trying to find the best films ever made
0:46.7	and when we get a hundred of them we are sending them into outer space.
0:50.1	We're right now in the middle of our hero series where we are trying to figure out what
0:54.8	makes a good hero.
0:56.9	We've met bears, we've met aliens, we've met vampires and this week we're talking about
1:03.9	someone who is part man, part machine and all cop.
1:08.1	That's right, we are talking about RoboCop but before we get into that I just want to
1:13.0	take a moment to talk a little bit about James Con who passed away last week.
1:17.5	Amy, James Con obviously has been in so many giant movies, classic films.
1:24.1	Films that we've done here on this show.
1:25.6	Do you have a favorite James Con film?
1:28.3	You know what's funny is the movie that is of course on my mind about James Con's passing
1:33.3	is one that we covered here on the show.
1:35.0	A Brian song.
1:36.0	Do you remember that one?
1:37.0	I do.
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