Point Break

Unspooled

Paul Scheer & Amy Nicholson

Film Reviews, Tv & Film

4.6 • 4.7K Ratings

🗓️ 2 May 2024

⏱️ 69 minutes

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This week Paul and Amy are breaking down the 1991 Kathryn Bigelow film Point Break, starring Keanu Reeves and Patrick Swayze. The two dig into this elevated action movie and discuss how Kathryn Bigelow helped launch Keanu Reeves into action stardom. Then, Paul asks if this movie is shaped around the “Female Gaze," and Amy fills us all in about the stunts in this movie and which Red Hot Chili Peppers member didn't take the stunt training seriously. Vaya con dios, friends. Next week, Paul and Amy take a look at the 1976 horror Carrie, as they put a twist on Mother's Day. Check out this week's spotlight episode from the Unspooled archives, Speed, here: https://www.earwolf.com/episode/speed/ You can join the conversation on Paul’s Discord at https://discord.gg/ZwtygZGTa6 and check out Paul's Substack https://substack.com/@paulscheer Paul’s book Joyful Recollections of Trauma is on presale now! Find it at https://www.harpercollins.com/products/joyful-recollections-of-trauma-paul-scheer 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 1991. It's 100% pure adrenaline. Other guys snored it, jab a vein for it, and some people
0:08.3	podcast for it. The movie, Point break. Hello everyone and welcome to Unspoed.
0:37.0	I am Paul Shear joined as always by Amy Nicholson.
0:40.0	We are talking about great movies and this is truly one of my faves
0:45.2	Catherine Bigelow's point break Amy we're gonna get into it.
0:49.2	We are gonna get into it we're gonna get into it like a surfboard cutting through the waves man.
0:55.0	That's right and we're going to do it because you are one radical son of a bitch and you know this
0:59.4	movie I think took a long time for people to appreciate its greatness. Truly, it has always been a film that I think is very high up as far as great action films of the 90s. But in recent years I think we've been
1:17.0	able to look at this film as something even deeper than what people saw the first times they saw it.
1:25.0	Yeah, I'm really interested to have this conversation with you in this episode because the
1:29.0	thing is, films don't change, but audiences change around a film and the audience has changed in a big way around this film
1:36.1	I have changed in a big way around this film and I want to explore all corners of that why we take things
1:40.7	seriously later that we don't take seriously in the moment.
1:43.9	I think of this movie like an Indian dish, which is it's a lot of very strong spices that are put together and they work perfectly. I mean you are talking about truly
1:58.2	a rogues gallery full of large, bombastic personalities.
2:04.2	I mean, we are looking at truly a who's who of crazy
2:07.9	from Gary Busey, John C. McGinley, James Legross,
2:11.6	I mean, and the King of it all, Tom Seismore.
2:15.0	He was working deep cover until you...
2:17.0	You think I like this air, man?
2:19.0	You think I like these clothes?
2:22.0	My wife wants me to stay at Ramana.
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