Started a mcu rewatch when binge mode kicked off their series a few weeks back. Other than skipping Thor dark world, I went movie for movie with them until last week when I got to the end of phase 3. Fiancée wanted to watch the last few, so we did infinity war, ant man and captain marvel last weekend and then endgame and spider man far from home this weekend. What a stretch of films. Endgame hit me harder on the rewatch (my first since I saw it in theaters). Really fun watching these over the last couple of months
I'm kind of starting to lose interest in the Binge Mode stuff. Maybe it's just because there have been so many of them and they get kind of repetitive after a while, but at some point it just gets annoying when Mallory goes on these rants about how stupid it is that Heimdall didn't see something coming, or when she's saying IW has a real time line problem because we don't know where everyone was for 2 years in a 2.5 hour movie that doesn't have time to explain every single detail. Or that every male and female in a room together were clearly fucking. I get picking nits about certain plot things that work or don't work, but at some point it gets stupid if you're arguing for things that would stop movies from existing because they would be really boring if every character always did everything right and no conflicts happened.
Haha I can see that 100%. I have them on while I’m working and only kind of pay attention and really focus when jayson gets going on the larger marvel canon bc i have no idea about anything comic books related and I find that stuff fun. But I get it for sure.
That's usually how I listen to them, as well. And a lot of that kind of stuff can be funny and amusing in small doses when they're talking about the overall movies and stuff. There are just times where it kind of becomes the Honest Trailers thing where it's fun to do that kind of stuff about shitty movies. When you're going overboard trying to figure out ways to nitpick great movies to that extent it's just an eye roll for me. I don't want to watch a Thor movie where Heimdall is announcing everything that is about to happen. And I don't want to watch an Infinity War movie that spends 20 minutes showing me where Cap and crew were living and how they got money between CW and IW. No one does.
I agree with most of this. At times they are great, but Mallory can really wreck the show. Jason is always strong. Their CA:WS pod was trash. I got really pissed at how much of the stuff they missed because Mallory was obsessed with whether Cap and Nat had fucked.
Don’t know about all that but I would watch a movie where the two of them just shoot the shit for 90 minutes.
And coming from him you know its genuine too, seeing as how he cast a native as his on screen best friend, Miek.
Mallory incessantly referencing Harry Potter gets obnoxious. It really annoyed me on the Dr. Strange podcast because she was acting like many of the magical elements used were similar to Potter. No dummy, they’re from the source material written in the 60s and 70s stop comparing everything to Harry Potter.
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Well, your frame of reference is built off lies and thievery. A brief synopsis of the 1986 classic Troll: “The Potter family – Harry Sr. and Anne with teenage son Harry Jr. and young daughter Wendy – move into a new apartment complex in San Francisco.......” Harry Potter has to rescue his kidnapped sister by entering into a magical world through a secret portal in an upstairs apartment where and old witch lives. There Harry learns about his connection to the world and must awaken his powers to save his sister, his home and his family.
because they don't fuck around, make you quarantine in a hotel for 2 weeks.. give you a list of food items to select for the day that will be delivered to you. And you have to quarantine before you leave.
I can deal with all of it except her gasping laugh, it’s super annoying. Their actual analysis is great. The comedy bits don’t land with me.
Advice request. My wife has never been into Marvel, but has been sitting in the room while I was WandaVision with my oldest. She’s now hooked and wants to watch the entire MCU catalog. Do I go order of release (usually my preferred) or timeline (might make more sense)?
Timeline. Went through a similar situation with my wife after Black Panther and now we are making our way through the accompanying TV shows.
I think you lose something going in timeline order. I can't imagine watching Captain Marvel first or second (depending on what you do with Cap1), for example. I don't think Fury would be as enjoyable without knowing who he became first, and then I'd spend the next 22 movies wonder how all this shit is happening and Fury never called CM to help.
Release order. It's not purely chronological but that's okay. Many of the best stories aren't told A to B to C to D. Watch them in the order the world watched them, because chronological or not, they were made and released with the movies that came before in mind, and with those that would come after in mind too, and that influenced some of the writing and subtlety and foreshadowing that pays off as you watch. You also watch the actors and special effects grow and improve as things progress, as well.
I kind of think you need to watch Hulk to get the proper level of mad at the hypocrisy of Ross during Civil War. I guess you can save yourself that anger by skipping it, though, because it's otherwise irrelevant in the MCU the rest of the way.
Watching with my kids right now and doing release order. Debating still on skipping Iron Man 3 but outside of that I think it is watch everything.
Especially with unexplained actor change, you as well have to deal with that with Rhoadie but WarMachine ain’t no Banner.
I like to alternate between watching one in release order then IM3 then back to release order then IM3 all the way through so I’ve seen every movie once and IM3 like 25 times.
So one thing about Wandavision and Marvel in general - they’re starting to feel and play out more like comic books than super hero movies used to. You could almost see most movies being a short run series. Almost like a part 1 of 6 that you’d grab at the store or read at Barnes and Noble. then the Avengers movies are the big annual stories that would drop over summer. DC can’t really capture that. wandavision has a short run series feel as well.
I'm happy for you, but your wife really got hooked into the MCU from 3 episodes of WandaVision? And absolutely release order sans Hulk and IM3.