The year is 1972.

And in space, no one can hear you cry.

The movie, Zalars.

Hello everyone and welcome to UnSpoon.

I'm Amy Nicholson.

And I am Paul Sheer and this is the show where we are endeavoring to find the best films of all time.

Currently we are going through space films and we have found a film that many people think is one of the best films about space ever made.

It's called Zalaris.

And Amy, I gotta tell you, well I know we're gonna get into it today but I was dragging my feet on this episode because I knew it was gonna be two hours and 47 minutes and I just gotta say to anyone out there, maybe in my same boat.

Do it. Take the trip. Go to Zalaris. Let the waters wash over you.

That's what I'm gonna say to all those people out there that may not feel like they want to get into an epic, epic film.

I will yes and that and say what we're gonna be talking about later in this episode is how so many of the ideas we have about space movies and I think so many of the modern movies that people are really drawn to come from Zalaris.

I think if you spend the investment watching Zalaris, it will reframe how you see like 10 movies you already really like and I think that the conversation you can have as a person who see in Zalaris is really interesting.

That said, would we say like what space movies should we do? Lots of people like you have to do Zalaris. That's not even a question.

This is considered like one of the touchstones of the space genre, a movie that I can say now I feel like a lot of the thrust of our conversation will be like how Zalaris works in conversation with a film that came out just a couple years before 2001.

Absolutely.

I think these two films together, this is what I'm excited to talk about with you today Paul, really show the range of what sci-fi can do while having so much that seems like in common in their style.

I'm really excited to dig into it. From these two texts, these are the two parents of all sci-fi films to come.

Well, I love this. Last week you called an audible.

I called it. I slammed it down. We're going to do it.

We are going to watch aliens. We're adding that into our space series here.

I think it's going to be a really interesting discussion. That will be next week and the reason why we're doing it next week is because the debate is still raging.

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