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#598 - We Have Lingered In Puddles of Melted Gremlins

Michael and Us

Luke Savage and Will Sloan

Tv & Film

4.6668 Ratings

🗓️ 15 February 2025

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

With its Trumpian billionaire presiding over a steamrolling everything-company, Joe Dante's GREMLINS 2: THE NEW BATCH (1990) satirized the 1980s while also predicting the present day. We discuss a classic anti-Spielbergian blockbuster that wasn't. PLUS: Updates on the Canada/U.S. tariff battle, and who are the most readable conservative writers? Join us on Patreon for an extra episode every week - https://www.patreon.com/michaelandus

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0:00.0

What's the what's the movie?

0:09.2

It's going to be really obvious ones.

0:10.4

Is it one of the Batman movies where there's an Ebert character?

0:13.5

Godzilla.

0:14.1

Or it's Godzilla.

0:14.9

Oh, right.

0:15.4

It's the 90s.

0:16.4

I wish it was a better movie.

0:17.9

One of, like, like, it's such an emblematic 90s blockbuster.

0:22.0

And, you know, it's got this weird, like, unipolar world shit where there's that whole

0:26.5

subplot with the French, but then also, I think it's one of like the worst blockbusters,

0:31.2

like, ever made possibly.

0:32.4

I think in some ways, give or take Independence Day by the same director.

0:36.0

I've never seen Independence Day. I think, though,

0:38.9

Godzilla may be the quintessential 90s blockbuster, just in the kind of Adam Curtis sense of the term,

0:46.5

you know, like the movie that most embodied kind of the ambient fears and anxieties of the time,

0:52.6

the movie that just captured the spirit in the air, as well as embodying, you know, all the bad ways, the bad blockbusters were made at that time.

1:00.5

With that movie, Godzilla, you remember, like, the Taco Bell Chihuahua more than you remember, like, the movie.

1:05.8

Or, like, you didn't grow up in a city, so you may not have seen like the ad campaign that was like every bus that

1:11.2

summer had a oh and it's like a big foot right every every bus had a billboard on the side of it that

1:16.4

said his foot is the size of this bus or like every building had you know a big sign that said he is

1:22.2

as tall as this building godzilla size does matter you know we're making fun of this as a blockbuster, but, you know, I bet you in the next

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