This Is The End

Unspooled

Paul Scheer & Amy Nicholson

Film Reviews, Tv & Film

4.6 • 4.7K Ratings

🗓️ 1 August 2024

⏱️ 57 minutes

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This week Paul & Amy break down the 2013 apocalyptic comedy horror film This Is The End. They discuss Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg's directorial choices, what makes a good comedy ensemble movie, and who is the MVP of the movie: Danny McBride or Jay Baruchel? Next week we'll be continuing on with our Disaster Movie Summer with the 2014 sci-fi action film Dawn of the Planet of the Apes. You can stream Dawn of the Planet of the Apes on Disney+, Hulu and Max 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	It's 2013 and I don't want to die on James Franco's podcast. The movie, this is the end. Oh, Hello everyone and welcome to and I am Paul Shear joined as always by my friend Amy Nicholson. We are talking about
0:37.1	disaster movies all this summer. We've talked about action ones. We've talked about dramatic ones but now we're going to talk about a
0:45.1	comedy one Amy remember where you were in 2013 I do it was a special time I was
0:52.2	newly installed as the chief film critic of the LA
0:54.5	weekly and when there's a cameo of an LA weekly sign in this taxi I just I kind of
0:59.0	melted oh I missed that paper. So Amy let's go back to 2013 and everybody wants to ruin the world. I mean at
1:08.1	least in film right because there's all these apocalyptic films dominating the movie theaters, so many of them that I don't even think I've seen more than 50 of them.
1:19.9	More than 50% of them. All right, like we're talking about World War Z,
1:24.1	after Earth,
1:25.4	oblivion, snow piercer,
1:28.9	I'm putting Shark NATO in there,
1:30.1	it shouldn't technically count,
1:31.2	but it does.
1:33.0	It's apocalyptic if it's not sharks in a tornado.
1:36.0	Come on Twisters guy.
1:37.0	Oh I'm sorry, I was in Twisters and now I'm like really judgmental about tornadoes.
1:40.4	You know look I like to keep my cinema and my TV movies on TV.
1:45.0	All right, I don't want to talk about disgusting television actors and television movies.
1:51.0	Well, have you seen like the other famous Apocalypse franchise, The Left Behind series?
1:56.2	Have you seen either like the straight one that with Kirk Cameron?
1:59.9	No, and no I've heard about it.
2:02.0	Yeah, I know yeah. Oh heard about it. Yeah, no, yeah.
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