Seven

Unspooled

Paul Scheer & Amy Nicholson

Film Reviews, Tv & Film

4.6 • 4.7K Ratings

🗓️ 31 October 2024

⏱️ 70 minutes

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This week Paul & Amy break down the 1995 David Fincher crime thriller Seven starring Morgan Freeman, Brad Pitt and Gwyneth Paltrow. They talk about how this movie reinvented the cop movie, how there were 12 drafts of the script, Brad and David's allergy to "the cheese" and more. You can rent Seven on your streaming service of choice 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
0:02.0	1995, gluttony, greed, sloth, envy, wrath,
0:08.0	wrath, pride, lust, and podcasts.
0:12.0	The movie. Lust and Podcast Podcasts.
0:14.0	The movie?
0:15.0	Seven. Hello. Hello everyone and welcome to
0:36.5	to On Spood. I am Paul Sheer, I am a lover of film and I am Paul Sheer. I'm a lover of film and a lover of my co-host who is an amazing critic
0:48.0	she writes for the Washington Post in New York Times, the LA Times, please welcome Amy Nicholson. Amy, how are you?
0:54.8	Paul, I'm feeling sinful. You want to get down and dirty and podcast with me?
0:59.3	Oh, I want to do it. Let's get gluttonous about this venture film, which I have to say I'm so
1:06.4	excited to talk to you about and I'm going to say this right now. This might be the best episode of Law and Order SUV ever made.
1:17.4	That's how I feel about this movie. Like, it's, it is like a great episode, not even
1:22.4	Law and Order, maybe just like one of the best cop movies
1:26.0	It's so simple, but it's so much deeper than that. So I'm so excited to kind of look at this again and break it down because I remember
1:35.2	watching this in the theater.
1:38.0	You do?
1:39.0	Oh yeah. I was there. I didn't know what to expect, and it freaked me the fuck out, which also concerns me because
1:46.4	when I watched it now, I was like, oh, this is not scary, nor is it disturbing.
1:50.6	And I'm like, wow, from 95 to now, the culture has changed.
1:54.5	Like you could air this movie pretty much on television
1:59.2	with all the gore intact.
2:01.0	I'm almost positive about that. Okay I do think you could
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