GBW #94: This is Not America (Spring Breakers / Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas / Natural Born Killers)

<p>Hello, and welcome to another episode of The Good, The Bad, and The What!? The show in which we discuss three films that we have deemed &quot;good,&quot; &quot;bad,&quot; or &quot;what!?&quot; within a subgenre, theme, motif, director or actor&#39;s filmography, and more!<br></p> <p>This week, Ryan and Chris dive into three exhaustive, polarizing, auteurist satires about the heart of America, American pop culture, and American media. We start with Harmony Korine&#39;s &quot;Spring Breakers&quot; from 2013, which one of us named as their #1 film of the 2010&#39;s and believes it&#39;s a stone-cold masterpiece in the way it depicts a generation callously raised on popular culture. Then, we move into Terry Gilliam&#39;s 1998 now-cult-classic &quot;Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas,&quot; a film that has fun in fits and starts and two firecracker leads, but its point is muddied and is ultimately more numbing than exhilarating. Finally, we move into Oliver Stone&#39;s 1994 no-holds-barred media satire &quot;Natural Born Killers,&quot; a film that is undeniably bold, superbly acted, yet deeply scattershot. </p> <p><br>You can find this and future episodes - as well as subscribe to our show - on <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-good-the-bad-and-the-what/id1554493814">Apple Podcasts,</a> <a href="https://open.spotify.com/show/0RcsQUeNROydClA6p6P9ht">Spotify</a>, <a href="https://www.stitcher.com/show/the-good-the-bad-and-the-what">Stitcher</a>, <a href="https://iheart.com/podcast/78028350/">iHeartRadio</a>, <a href="https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9hbmNob3IuZm0vcy80Nzg1Y2NmYy9wb2RjYXN0L3Jzcw==">Google Podcasts</a>, and more! You can subscribe to our Patreon at <a href="http://patreon.com/thegoodbadwhat">patreon.com/thegoodbadwhat</a>. Feel free to email us at thegoodthebadthewhat@gmail.com if you have any questions, comments, or just want to say hello. You can follow us on <a href="https://www.instagram.com/thegoodbadwhat/">Instagram</a> @thegoodbadwhat. You can also like us on <a href="https