Pain & Gain (with Olivia Willke)

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"When it started, America was just a handful of scrawny colonies. Now, it's the most buff, pumped-up country on the planet."

- Daniel Lugo

To celebrate the most buff, pumped-up country on the planet, Rotten Rewind is kicking off our most epic miniseries to date. For the next 6 months, we'll be asking listeners the question: "What is Vulgar Auteurism?" In its simplest terms, it's a movement that celebrates the reappraisal of filmmakers that critics have often scorned or even lamented as the death of cinema. In other words, it's a perfect subject for the podcast. And what better filmmaker to kick the series off with than the most buff, pumped-up filmmaker on the planet: Michael Bay.



We're joined by #1 Bay Stan, Olivia Willke, to finally unpack one of the films we've been thirsty for since we first conceived of the podcast: Michael Bay's "Pain and Gain." A pulverizing, grimly funny, relentlessly entertaining satire on the American Dream gone awry, "Pain and Gain" might have been one of Bay's most well-received films at the time of its release, but that didn't stop a majority of un-American critics from trying to stop the party. Thankfully, we're here to put these unpatriotic cucks in their place as we pay our fucking respects to the big dick king of Bayhem. So join us as we discuss Bay's unfiltered vision of American vulgarity and the modern masterpiece known as "Pain and Gain."