Saving Private Ryan

Unspooled

Paul Scheer & Amy Nicholson

Film Reviews, Tv & Film

4.5 • 5K Ratings

🗓️ 7 March 2019

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Amy and Paul storm the beaches of 1998's Steven Spielberg WWII picture Saving Private Ryan! They plunge into the disorientation of the storied opening sequence, look at what the film means to the Greatest Generation, and ask whether Sausage Party could take Private Ryan's place on the list. Plus: A look at the latest controversy between Spielberg and Netflix. For A Night At The Opera week, who would you cast as the modern day Marx Brothers? 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

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0:00.0	This episode of Unspooled is brought to you by our buddies at Mooby, who are celebrating
0:04.5	International Women's Day and they want you to celebrate with them and you should because
0:08.0	they are starting with the Bigamist. This movie is by a person I love, Idle Lupino. She's amazing.
0:14.1	I've talked about her a bit. She shot some amazing episodes of The Twilight Zone.
0:18.0	Yes. She shot a bunch of stuff. I love a movie called The Hitchhiker. Idle Lupino is amazing.
0:22.0	She should be bigger than she is and if you haven't caught up on her, you can watch an Idle
0:26.0	Lupino movie right now for free on Mooby, the Bigamist. What you want to do is you want to go to
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0:36.9	month of great cinema for free and you can celebrate International Women's Day with them and Idle.
0:41.2	Oh my god, it'll be fun. Enjoy. I love it. Mooby. It's 1998 and faces are falling off.
0:48.7	The movie saving private life.
0:56.0	Hey everybody, welcome to Unspooled. I am Paul Sheer. I am Amy Nicholson. And this is the podcast where
1:14.9	we watch a film from the AFI top 100 greatest films of all time list from 2007 to see if they are
1:20.9	really as good as people say do they hold up and how have they influenced the films that we watch.
1:25.6	Now, Amy, last week we talked about the graduate and I think it's good to kind of look back and see
1:32.3	what people were saying. Someone found the who's the boss clip that I referenced in the episode and
1:38.6	I have to tell you I watched it this morning and just as sexy as I remember it. The conceit that
1:45.4	they had to go through for Angela not to hear Tony entering was that she was wearing a pair of
1:51.2	portable headphones with antennas out of them so she couldn't hear him creeping up but I also
1:56.5	was confused like why was Tony using her bathroom to take a bath. It's a great sequence. You should
2:02.4	watch it. It's flawless just like the graduate. Well, you cannot say who's the boss without me at
2:08.6	least saying maybe we have a hat to to Mrs. Helmand Catherine Helmand from who's the boss who we lost
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