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Michael and Us

#399 - Own Your Bad

Michael and Us

Luke Savage and Will Sloan

Tv & Film

4.6668 Ratings

🗓️ 1 February 2023

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

A key moment in the evolution of the modern blockbuster, JURASSIC WORLD (2015) is a cynical reboot about cynical reboots. We discuss what this enormously popular movie says about the world that spawned it, as well as its very peculiar sexist streak you may have noticed. PLUS: Why is Canada's conservative movement so Americanized?

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0:00.0

Welcome to Michael and us. I'm Will Sloan, here as always with.

0:16.9

Luke Savage, welcome back, everyone.

0:18.6

Folks, the Oscar race is heating up.

0:23.5

Actually, I'd like to talk about something that's not the Oscar race.

0:27.5

Something that's even more important, which is the Razzie race.

0:31.4

Folks, the Razzie race is heating up.

0:34.2

Who's going to win?

0:35.2

Who's going to lose?

0:36.6

I think I'd gone a long time on this podcast

0:39.4

without ever bringing up the Razies. But they have been in the news a bit lately. I don't know

0:44.7

if you've ever heard of this, Luke. The Oscars, they give awards to good movies. But what if you

0:50.3

had an award show that gave awards to bad movies, right?

0:55.2

You're telling me, such a thing exists?

0:57.1

It's the annual Golden Raspberry Awards.

0:59.8

It was founded in 1981 by one John J.B. Wilson, who was a publicist.

1:06.3

He was a publicist at one of the studios.

1:08.8

And all that you need to know about the Razzis is that in the first

1:11.8

year, they nominated Stanley Kubrick for Worst Director for The Shining. So they're not always,

1:17.6

not always quite on the mark. Well, folks, you heard it here first, the problematic history of the

1:23.4

Razies. Sorry, can we, before we move on from that, I mean, can you unpack that a little more?

1:28.4

I mean, what do you mean they nominated The Shining for Worst Movie of the Year?

1:32.2

For Worst Director, well, I mean, it's just, as you know, whenever a Kubrick movie came out,

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