#378 - Decision Points

Michael and Us

Luke Savage and Will Sloan

Tv & Film

4.6 • 668 Ratings

🗓️ 1 November 2022

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Adam McKay's VICE (2018) sought to give Dick Cheney the full reckoning for his crimes through art that he will never receive in life. Is the film necessary cinematic intervention in the ongoing Cheney reclamation project, or a condescending failure? Your hosts disagree sharply on this cinematic polemic. PLUS: fiery hot takes on Elon Musk's Twitter takeover. "'Damn right,' I said" by Eliot Weinberger - https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v33/n01/eliot-weinberger/damn-right-i-said Join us on Patreon for an extra episode every week - https://www.patreon.com/michaelandus

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0:00.0	Al Gore lives on my street.
0:04.4	320 something,
0:06.6	Linwood Boulevard.
0:08.6	And he doesn't know me, but I voted for him.
0:14.0	Yeah, I punched the card.
0:16.5	Welcome to Michael and us.
0:17.7	I'm Will Sloan, here as always with.
0:19.7	Luke Savage.
0:20.5	Welcome back, everyone.
0:21.6	We're recording this episode on Halloween, by the way, and it's going to drop after Halloween.
0:26.2	And just minutes before recording, somebody sent me some of the spookiest news I've seen,
0:31.3	which is that my favorite character in film history, Jason, from the Friday of the 13th movies,
0:37.4	Jason, he's back, folks. That's of the 13th movies, Jason.
0:38.3	Uh, he's back, folks.
0:40.2	That's right, Tinseltown's original bad boy, Jason is back on the scene.
0:44.3	I like, I like how even though you're saying this in your ironic voice, like your lack of
0:48.9	enthusiasm, uh, shines through.
0:51.2	Well, you know, the thing is I genuinely do love the Friday the 13th movies.
0:55.5	I've seen them all. There's a consistency to them. There's a ritualized quality to them that I really
1:01.7	respect. And I especially like the second half of the series where like the first four or five,
1:06.8	the first four really kind of set the template. And then after that, the series, as it struggles to keep the audience's attention, keeps introducing fun new gimmicks like Jason takes Manhattan.
1:19.9	There's the one where he goes to space.
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