#283 - Nuance Mongering

Michael and Us

Luke Savage and Will Sloan

Tv & Film

4.6 • 668 Ratings

🗓️ 7 November 2021

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

FALLING DOWN (1993) features Michael Douglas as an ordinary man who's mad as hell, turning into a Travis Bickle for the Rush Limbaugh era. It's Hollywood's attempt to make a serious statement about a post-Cold War malaise, and folks, it's a very, very bad movie. PLUS: we share memories of Canada''s greatest bad filmmaker.

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0:00.0	Welcome to you're missing y'all, swinging while I'm singing.
0:03.7	Hey, giving what you're getting, knowing what I'm knowing while the black band's sweating, in the rhythm around rolling.
0:10.0	Got to give us what we want.
0:11.7	Got to give us what we need.
0:14.1	Our freedom of speech is freedom of death.
0:16.4	We got to fight the power.
0:18.9	Fight the power.
0:24.3	Welcome to Michael and us. I'm Will Sloan, here as always with.
0:26.1	Luke Savage, welcome back, everyone.
0:30.1	We watched a really bad movie just now, and we're going to get to it soon.
0:35.5	I was just thinking, you know, this is a movie that I saw very early in lockdown, and when I watched it, I thought this will be perfect for the podcast.
0:38.5	And it took until now. And, you know, watching it again today, I was trying to figure out what
0:43.0	exactly was my enthusiasm, because it is so painful, so difficult to get through. And I made me
0:49.6	realize that in terms of the bad movies that we do, I'd probably rather watch a Dinesh D'Souza movie
0:54.6	because one of those is kind of all-killer, no-filler.
0:57.9	It's got funny shit happening every second.
1:01.0	But this movie, like, it's got a funny premise.
1:03.9	It's got a lot to talk about.
1:05.5	But also, you just spend a lot of time seeing that premise over and over again and a lot of just Hollywood bullshit too.
1:11.6	Yeah, it's the middlebrow quality of shit like this or the attempted middle brow quality
1:15.9	that makes it so difficult to sit through. Like, I would rather watch any of those movies we've seen
1:21.0	that are bankrolled by like an evangelical film company or something, you know?
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