Brokeback Mountain

Unspooled

Paul Scheer & Amy Nicholson

Film Reviews, Tv & Film

4.6 • 4.7K Ratings

🗓️ 25 February 2021

⏱️ 102 minutes

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Summary

Paul & Amy can't quit 2005's groundbreaking gay romance Brokeback Mountain! They analyze how the beginning and ending shots of the film mirror each other, ask why so much early coverage of the film felt tone deaf, and praise all four central performances as the emergence of a new generation of great actors. Plus: What makes Ang Lee one of our greatest living directors. This is the seventh episode in our Couple Goals series; next week’s film, and the winner of the Couple Goals fan vote, is the Princess Bride! 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]! Photo credit: Kim Troxall

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0:00.0	The year is 2005.
0:03.0	And what are you waiting for, cowboy?
0:04.5	A podcast?
0:05.8	The movie?
0:06.8	Broke Back Mountain.
0:07.8	Hello everybody and welcome to Unspooled.
0:30.0	I'm Amy Nicholson.
0:31.2	And I am Paul Sheer and this is the show where we are endeavoring to find the hundred
0:35.5	best movies of all time.
0:38.1	And when we do, we are going to blast them off into outer space.
0:42.3	Right now we are on a mini series called Couple Goals and we have really run the gamut.
0:47.3	This is the end of our selections and next week we'll be going into our audience selection
0:53.1	which I'm very excited to announce if you don't know it already we'll tell you at the end
0:55.9	of the episode.
0:57.0	But Amy, it's been so fun to kind of look at all these different couples and the way that
1:01.7	these stories unfold that I really feel like you can fall in love so many times in so
1:08.3	many different ways.
1:09.3	I don't feel tired of this genre.
1:11.2	I thought in the beginning like, oh, are we going to see the same type of story and after
1:17.2	watching Broke Back, I'm like, no, it always the underlying architecture is there but the
1:22.4	buildings always look different.
1:24.0	Yeah, I mean, I think when we came up with the title Couple Goals, we both put in imaginary
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