Michael and Us: Own Your Bad

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🗓️ 2 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?

Michael and Us is a podcast about political cinema and our crumbling world hosted by Will Sloan and Luke Savage.

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0:00.0	Music
0:14.0	We're welcome to Michael and I, so I'm Will Sloan, here as always with.
0:17.0	Luke Savage, welcome back everyone.
0:19.0	Folks, the Oscar race is heating up.
0:24.0	Actually I'd like to talk about something that's not the Oscar race.
0:28.0	Something that's even more important, which is the rassy race.
0:31.0	Folks, the rassy race is heating up.
0:34.0	Who's going to win? Who's going to lose?
0:37.0	I think I'd gone a long time on this podcast without ever bringing up the razzies.
0:41.0	But they have been in the news a bit lately.
0:44.0	I don't know if you've ever heard of this, Luke.
0:46.0	The Oscars, they give awards to good movies.
0:49.0	But what if you had an award show that gave awards to bad movies, right?
0:55.0	You're telling me such a thing exists?
0:57.0	It's the annual Golden Razz Vari Awards.
1:00.0	It was founded in 1981 by one John J. B. Wilson, who was a publicist.
1:06.0	He was a publicist at one of the studios.
1:08.0	And all that you need to know about the razzies is that in the first year they nominated Stanley Kubrick for worst director for the shining.
1:16.0	So they're not always quite on the mark.
1:20.0	Well folks, you heard it here first, the problematic history of the razzies.
1:24.0	Sorry, can we, before we move on from that?
1:27.0	Can you unpack that a little more?
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