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Unspooled

The Maltese Falcon

Unspooled

Paul Scheer & Amy Nicholson

Film Reviews, Tv & Film

4.55K Ratings

🗓️ 15 August 2019

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Summary

Amy & Paul fly through 1941's Humphrey Bogart proto-noir The Maltese Falcon! They ask if this is the ultimate "dad movie," learn about all of Malta's unique animals and praise the incredible fonts of 1940's San Francisco. Plus: Adam Savage (Mythbusters) talks about his obsession with recreating the original Maltese Falcon prop. How would you recast The Philadelphia Story's love triangle in 2019? 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 This episode is brought to you by Sonos (www.sonos.com) and National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

The year is 1941 and the bird bird bird the bird is the word the movie the Maltees felt

0:06.6

Hey everybody and welcome to Unspooled. I'm your meeniklson Paul Sheer will be in here in

0:30.2

just a second but as you know this is the podcast where every week we watch a film from

0:34.3

the A.F.I. top 100 list of 2007 how have these films held up how do they relate to the movies

0:39.8

of today would we keep them on the list if we were voting again and the tragic news of last week

0:45.3

is that we had Nashville on the show and the unspoolers have voted it off. Alas Paul and I were

0:51.2

we've really good to love that little messy ambling crazy experimental film so where

0:57.4

do I read some pros and cons about Nashville Steve Wagner wrote this movie was just rambling

1:02.6

nonsense remake this movie but have it be Lil Nas X and is fighting against big Nashville and

1:08.1

then the cast grows progressively as he has more and more people to his subsequent remixes

1:12.3

which yes I would also watch that and it will probably also be rambling nonsense and that's fine

1:17.0

on the pro side we had Kobe Jones who said this might be the rare movie to know the ending

1:21.7

beforehand to fully appreciate the moments getting there otherwise the movie may just seem like a

1:25.9

collection of scenes with loosely connected characters and otherwise seem pointless to be watching

1:29.5

for over three hours. Travis Burgess said for the love of god don't fall in love with Walker who

1:34.4

I kind of did he was the political candidate driving around with his van being like a new national

1:38.6

anthem which I guess maybe will be why little noss X Travis Burgess says his entire stick is

1:43.6

winning over a vapid media he is definitely a corollary to modern day and not the one you'll think

1:48.5

yikes okay thank you for that wake up call and also Andrew Harmon says as somebody whose

1:53.7

family comes from Nashville and who went to high school there allow me to vouch for googoo clusters

1:58.2

as we were poking from the googoo clusters ads that exist when you go to the grandled

2:02.1

apri says googoo clusters have been in existence for more than a hundred years and they are indulgent

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