Starship Troopers

Unspooled

Paul Scheer & Amy Nicholson

Film Reviews, Tv & Film

4.6 • 4.7K Ratings

🗓️ 28 July 2022

⏱️ 97 minutes

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Summary

Paul & Amy fight a new kind of war with 1997’s science fiction action film, Starship Troopers. They dissect the movie’s initially negative reception, show some love for Jake Busey, and consider the underappreciated high-wire act of cinematic satire. Plus: how close did Matt Damon really come to starring in Verhoeven’s film? Next week, our Heroes series continues with two very special guests and a double feature to match! 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 1997, and this is an ugly podcast, a bug podcast.
0:06.6	Would you like to know more?
0:08.1	The movie Starship Troopers.
0:30.1	Hello everyone and welcome to unspoold.
0:35.4	I'm Amy Nicholson.
0:36.4	I'm Paul Sheer and this is the podcast where we are trying to find the best movies of all
0:40.0	time and when we do, we're going to send them into outer space.
0:42.7	That's not a joke.
0:43.7	That is for real.
0:45.3	And right now we are in the middle of our hero's series going into our villain series
0:50.6	and we're using our bridge movie to be Starship Troopers.
0:55.2	Are they heroes?
0:56.2	Are they villains?
0:57.2	We don't know, but it's also our second week of Verhoven.
1:02.7	We are going back to Verhoven.
1:04.8	We just did Robocop.
1:05.8	And Amy, there were so many great reactions to Robocop.
1:10.6	I finally saw some pictures of Peter Weller playing a trombone like you told me he did
1:16.9	on the set.
1:17.9	What?
1:18.9	I didn't see those.
1:19.9	I want to see those.
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