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Michael and Us

PREVIEW - #557 - Demonstrated Social Impact Initiatives

Michael and Us

Luke Savage and Will Sloan

Tv & Film

4.6668 Ratings

🗓️ 9 September 2024

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Summary

Our Superdelegate patron tier voted for us to discuss GARDEN STATE (2004), a millennial touchstone that may or may not have "aged well." We discuss Manic Pixie Dream Girls, whether or not the Shins are "cringe," and our own lost youths. PATREON-EXCLUSIVE EPISODE - https://www.patreon.com/posts/111698763

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0:00.0

Well, our movie on this episode is last month's winner of the Super Delegate Contest.

0:09.2

We threw the listeners a curveball by first talking about the second place finisher,

0:13.5

Medium Cool.

0:14.6

But now it's a date with Destiny.

0:16.6

We're talking about Garden State, the Zach Braff classic, that if I know anything about the

0:21.8

demographic of our podcast, I'm suspecting a lot of you grew up with this one.

0:26.4

You probably had the DVD at your parents' house.

0:29.3

It's probably next to your Sony PlayStation, right?

0:31.9

And, you know, there are some movies that win the Super Delegate contest because, you know,

0:36.0

what kind of momentum gets behind them of, well,

0:38.1

this is one that the host need to see. This is an underappreciated thing that needs to be on

0:43.5

their radar like the Tony Buba film. Or sometimes it's, you know, when RBG died, there was

0:49.7

momentum for us to talk about the documentary, the act of killing more recently because of current events.

0:55.1

And then there are ones that, correct me if I'm wrong, superdelegates, I suspect that you were

1:00.2

kind of hoping that we would watch this and maybe, well, if not tear it apart, at least like

1:05.5

interrogate how it's become dated, right? We all know, manicic Pixie Dream Girl, a particular style of like 2004

1:14.1

era, sad boy, middle class, emo, affect, you know, you want us to interrogate that, right? Luke,

1:24.0

do you think that's what they want? Yeah, I mean, that is very much my impression of why this film won in the poll.

1:30.4

I will also note it is the 20th anniversary, it was the 20th anniversary of the film just last month. reporter has this kind of oral history they published, which features director Zach Braff,

1:44.6

Natalie Portman as well, both of whom, of course, star in the movie. In some ways, I'm not super

1:48.8

excited to discuss Garden State, partly because I feel like everyone listening is going to be

1:54.6

like very familiar with the film. Sometimes when you and I talk about films on this show,

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