Batman Returns

Unspooled

Paul Scheer & Amy Nicholson

Film Reviews, Tv & Film

4.6 • 4.7K Ratings

🗓️ 19 September 2024

⏱️ 77 minutes

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This week Paul & Amy break down the 1992 Tim Burton sequel Batman Returns. They talk about how THIS is the Batman movie Tim Burton originally wanted to make, how Danny Devito came up with having black bile, how this movie predicts modern day political figures and more. Next week...Office Space. You can rent or stream Batman Returns on several streaming services but don't forget to check your local library or apps like Hoopla and Kanopy! You can join the Unspooled conversation on Paul’s Discord at https://discord.gg/ZwtygZGTa6 Follow Paul and Amy on Letterboxd for more of their movie hot takes! https://letterboxd.com/paulscheer/ https://letterboxd.com/theamynicholson/ Paul’s book Joyful Recollections of Trauma is out now! Find it at https://www.harpercollins.com/products/joyful-recollections-of-trauma-paul-scheer Check out more of Paul's writing on his Substack https://substack.com/@paulscheer Episodic Art by Kim Troxall: https://www.unspooledart.com/ Learn more about the show at Unspooledpod.com, follow us on Twitter @unspooled and on Instagram @unspooledpod, and don’t forget to rate, review & subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or where you listen to podcasts.

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0:00.0	The year is 1992.
0:03.0	And you poor guys, always confusing your pistols with your podcasts.
0:09.0	The movie, Batman returns. Hello everyone welcome to
0:23.0	to welcome to
0:33.0	to unspoosed.
0:37.0	I am Paul Sheer joined by film critic
0:40.0	extraordinary Amy Nicholson Amy how are you?
0:43.6	I'm okay.
0:44.6	Well, I like how you say extraordinary.
0:46.3	I know.
0:47.3	I feel like we need to really up the ante on the show.
0:48.9	I have to say I was just in Denver at a book event. And so many people came up to me talking about
0:54.8	unspooled and I wanted to say thank you to everybody who came out in Denver and
0:59.2	this is going to be after our
1:05.0	unspooled fans, I can't believe I'm doing book events four months after my book has come out
1:06.0	and it only has been growing.
1:08.0	So I thank our unspooled fans.
1:09.0	I thank you for introducing me to that wild L. Club and that was an amazing treat and I
1:16.4	would imagine not unlike this movie that we're going to be talking about today full of
1:26.1	very specific odd choices and but very self-assured at the same time we are of course talking about Batman Returns a movie that I have to say, I got wrong. When I saw this in
1:36.6	1992 in the theater, I was one of those people who walked out being like,
1:42.8	ugh, that stunk.
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