Out of Sight

Unspooled

Paul Scheer & Amy Nicholson

Film Reviews, Tv & Film

4.6 • 4.7K Ratings

🗓️ 25 January 2024

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Paul & Amy get in the trunk with 1998's sly George Clooney & Jennifer Lopez crime comedy Out of Sight! They discuss why Elmore Leonard's stories lend themselves so well to Hollywood adaptations, learn how Lopez's fearlessness made her the perfect match for Clooney, and ask if this is the Steven Soderbergh movie that deserves to go to space. Plus: How to have charisma like Clooney. Next week, Paul & Amy are talking about Jackie Brown! You can join the conversation on Paul’s Discord at https://discord.gg/ZwtygZGTa6. Check out this week's spotlight episode from the Unspooled archives, Mean Girls: https://www.earwolf.com/episode/mean-girls/. Paul’s book Joyful Recollections of Trauma is on presale now! Find it at https://www.paulscheer.com/my-book 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, Spotify or where you listen to podcasts.

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0:00.0	The year is 1998 and Paul I will pay you 3,000 dollars for that goldfish.
0:08.0	The movie? Out of sight. Oh, Hello everyone and welcome to all. Unspold.
0:35.0	I am Paul Sheer.
0:37.0	I am a professional movie lover joined by
0:40.0	Amy Nicholson, a professional movie critic.
0:44.2	Lottie da, I even have a couple cards.
0:46.8	Amy, I can't tell you what movie it was, but I pulled up one of your reviews the other day and read it to my wife June because you and her had a similar feeling about a film and she was dying laughing and I just have to always say you capture criticism of certain films in such a way
1:05.6	that no one else is hitting the nail exactly on the head like you do and I just
1:10.5	I just wanted you to know that when we were driving home I read that to her and she was
1:15.6	cackling the whole ride home. That warms my cold little critical heart so much. I'm going to take a guess based on your movie going habits and say it was my
1:25.1	review of the beekeeper in the New York Times.
1:27.1	Hmm, interesting. We'll never know. Now, Amy, I imagine if you were to write a review for out of sight you would have been in the camp that
1:38.4	Love this movie. I mean this is a big movie because not only does it announce really like a new chapter in George
1:46.4	Klini's career but it's about the rebirth of Sotomayor and you are, dare I say a part of the reason why this movie got out in the public.
1:55.0	Not then, but you are a part of the Critics Association
1:58.0	which made this the best film of the year, right?
2:01.0	Oh, yes, although I definitely was not in that group at the time. Although I know a lot of the year right? Oh yes although I definitely was not in that group at the time
2:04.0	although I know a lot of the people who were so I should thank them all.
2:06.5	Think what I love about this movie and we'll talk about this in the podcast is the adept
2:11.9	hand of Sotaberg from casting to production design to really kind of finding the perfect
2:19.2	Elmore Leonard tone. We have Jackie Brown, we have Get Shorty, to name a few of other films that were coming out
2:25.6	around this time. But this, I feel like if you are an Elmore- Leonard fan, you might say this might be the best
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