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way. Anyhow, this week we have a rather large amount of news articles that we can talk about. Some of them to lesser degrees than others. Varying between superheroes and other things. Yeah, there's four main news articles. There's two YouTube video things. And then there's the overall main topics. Yeah, more so there's honorable mentions. Yeah. With quick commentary. Yeah. Just that. All right. Kicking it off. You pointed out. Does
this really need a sequel? Really? So my wife and I have been going through this kick lately
of watching. based on a true story films I know that not all of them are 100 % factual there's you know a lot of a lot of dramatization aspects added to the storylines of most of these what's interesting is is we watch this one and I know that parts of it were on point and then a lot of it was just there for the drama yeah with this because Even when the first movie was out, I remember both of us going, oh, this is so overrated. I don't really give a crap. I could care less.
I'm the CEO, bitch. Yeah. I didn't much care for it. Yes, it was Mark Zuckerberg's story, but I found, honestly, all of the different Steve Jobs movies. To be more entertaining. I also have to say this. Sorkin's stuff, while somewhat interesting, I don't really like his filmmaking. It's a specific style, I'll say that. It's a very specific. I know he's been good in the newsroom.
a few good men and things like that the steve jobs film i thought was crap uh studio 60 was good yeah uh yeah the steve steve jobs film there was a lot of liberties taken with that as well like yeah there was a couple of key things that actually happened but then a lot of it was just bull um same thing with this like i didn't much care for the first one my wife didn't either like she's like yeah that's kind of interesting you know and then we were like meh and then promptly
didn't care anymore she was more engaged by the steve jobs films than this and honestly like while while it's interesting to hear that he's doing these social network too is it really necessary like i i get we want the origin story for a lot of these but i don't feel like we need their entire life and rundown of like everything yeah I mean, the thing with Aaron Sorkin is he's mainly a Hollywood writer. He's not a director, so he didn't... He wrote the story for a lot of the
stuff. That's the key here, is that he's a Hollywood writer. Because the first, from 92 to 2015, all of his films, he is not the director. He's the writer. So a few good men, malice, American president, Charlie Wilson's war, social network, money ball, Steve jobs. He's not directing those films. He's just writing them. Yeah. And, and even then, like, that's what I'm getting at. It's like, I don't care who directs it. Cause yeah, it's not, it's not that it's the story. Yeah. Oh,
absolutely. And, and yeah, I mean, out of, out of all of the stuff that he's, done i haven't even finished the newsroom i got to like i don't know the first five or six episodes of the first season i liked what i saw of the newsroom out of the movies that he's written for i liked a few good men i liked the american president i liked the social network it was okay i don't I remember seeing Steve Jobs. I think I saw the other one. I think Steve Jobs is not... Steve
Jobs is not the one with Ashton. Jobs is the one with Ashton. Jobs is the one with Ashton. Steve Jobs is the one with... With Michael Fassbender. Yeah. And it's not a knock against the actors. I mean, they did great for what they were given. Fassbender actually looks like older Steve Jobs.
ashton looks like younger steve jobs yeah yeah and so they do a really good job at playing the character of you know in the person of steve jobs and so those i did enjoy for different reasons i enjoyed jobs more than steve jobs and then of course i've seen pirates of silicon valley of course you have which is which is much older yes and it's got more of the microsoft and uh apple starting yeah but this i mean and especially reading what he wants to more or less wrap into
this into into the social network too yeah he's because obviously the first one was the origins of facebook he wants to follow it up with more of a uh writing about facebook and its impact on democracy and then the january 6th thing and it's like god get out get out shut the fuck do you we can move on i'm done yeah yeah i don't even care yeah so that's that's i have zero interest now like nope not even like uh -uh no no huge difference in wanting to write a sequel to a
movie of an origin story and maybe tell how mr zuckerberg continued on with his story of how he caved to finally putting ads on facebook or maybe he finally did something different than he like maybe he sacrificed one of his morals or something that he said he would never do with facebook or maybe he it would have to be something that in the first movie he said he would never do that he eventually just buckled under the pressure of having to do that something in order
to keep facebook alive or oh hell no yeah so anyways we'll move on yeah i'm done with that that's like I don't, why would anyone want to see that? I don't know if they're going to specifically touch on that specific date, but they're going to definitely be very political with it. And honestly, I'm looking for any escape from it. Like we're living it. I don't like Star Trek had this nice way of, of infiltrating it in, in the story without like being in your face.
And it was more cerebral and made you kind of go, Hmm, you know, like not. in your face with it but they were they were like making you think yeah and that was what i enjoyed about how star trek pulled it off yeah that's the kind of story we want in entertainment is we want to be able to have the entertainment make us think about certain things and not I definitely agree with the ability to question either side. It doesn't matter. I'm not getting critical. No, no, no.
Absolutely. I feel like you should be able to have that conversation, yes. And I feel like people should not be so far up the butt of either side of it that they can't have a civil conversation. That being said, there are things that both of them do equally that are horrible at different
points of time. And honestly, having it in your face constantly like between the news and social media is why people are so charged and just can't unwind and to have you know i would rather that it was more of like that that thing that makes you go hmm think about it thing rather than an in your face like oh that's let's just rehash this again yeah um when it's been in the news for years now so i i would much rather just have something that's just entertaining which is why
i pretty much stay away from any of these type of things anymore and i watch old stuff unless it's like you know like the new happy gilmore 2 that's going to be coming out and you know some of the just things that are older and based on a true story but they're you know it's it's it's a segment of different point of time and it's not necessarily like horrid yeah constantly so yeah well this is why so for me this is why i so again you know you can tell a story like
you take something like um i'm trying to think what's the what's the um Not 16 blocks. I forget. Double Jeopardy or Basic Instinct or insert whatever old ass movie here. You take like Husband Murders Wife or Wife Murders Husband. X number of whatever. Nowadays for me, that kind of stuff or that kind
of whatever. true crime stuff i watch true crime shows for that kind of stuff for the real like for me movies need to be an escape uh you can do the murder mystery suspense thing that's fine but i don't need i i don't i try my best not outside of marvel and stuff like that i try my best not to do the political thriller thing because I don't like politics in my entertainment most
of the time. Yes, I understand there's going to always be politics in entertainment because that's just the way the Hollywood writers write things and everything else, but specifically saying that you're going to potentially have January... No. So anyway... Over in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, we have Ironheart. And all the reviews are swaying one way. Hey, look, I'm just glad people like something in the Marvel
Cinematic Universe again, finally. I find it funny that they say that it's got, you know. cultural nuance millennial nostalgia and yada yada yada but i don't i just i just don't care now i i've been interested into in reading in into some of the riri williams comics i have not had a chance to check out any of the i've known about the character for years now and i just have never had a chance to check out her character in the marvel comics universe Uh, but
I don't know. I need something in, and we're going to get into this later when we talk about phase four and phase five in the main discussion of the podcast tonight, tonight, today, whenever you find people listening to this, but I just. Every trailer I see of this or every clip or
every snippet I see of this, I'm. interested to find out what it's about so for me to see people talking about it positively even though i'm not going to remember about half of the stuff that people have said at least i know people are talking about it positively will make me think at some point whenever i get to watching ironheart that i know i'm at least going in looking at it as oh this could be good See, I look at it from the stance of like if it's got an average
tomato meter that it's high, I'm generally not going to like it. It's got a 55 percent for average popcorn meter, which is, you know, you're you're every man more or less. Now, that being said, you know, I also watched, you know, the National Treasure Edge of History. And the critics gave it a 38 percent and the audience gave it a 49. And I have to agree it was crap because they missed out on having the biggest one that they could have in it, which was Nicolas Cage. Yes.
Now, that being said, I. I'm not a huge fan of all of the Marvel television series. I don't watch most of them. The only ones I cared to watch. were the ones that were in the actual Avengers films. And so like, did I like, I liked Loki from the perspective of he was trying to fix part of the multiverse, which was all jacked up anyway, because of all the stuff they've been doing. Right. And that's how he kind of comes into play into the next two Avengers films. And
so in that regard, I find that one useful. Hawkeye. That show was was interesting because I again, I like the character. It's not my favorite character of the group, but I do like the character. And then, you know, then you had, you know, Scarlet Witch, you know, show. And then you have the the animated. You know, what if the rest of them, you know. Even the Winter Soldier and Falcon and the Winter Soldier, that one was okay, but it was kind of, again, a miss. What If was generally
entertaining across the board. Hawkeye was entertaining across the board. I have not enjoyed any of the other Marvel shows. I've tried giving some of them a chance. I tried watching She -Hulk. I tried watching a few of the others. I just could not. I watched them most of the way through. I was like, okay, I'm done with the television stuff. I'm just going to stick with the films. Even then, a lot of the films have been a miss. We'll get into that later. In this regard, I
just don't care. yeah i'm it's so for me with marvel right now where i am is it's a wait and see like for me with a lot of stuff right now it's a wait and see because i've got so many other things that i'm currently doing or so many other things i'm currently not doing because i'm so backed up because of my medical stuff that's going on i'm okay folks but Fine, getting
into this. A couple months ago, something happened with my right arm, which is my cerebral palsy arm, where from the top of my shoulder to right above my right elbow, I had nothing but constant pain in my upper bicep, tricep, whatever area this up here. And we did x -rays, we did this, we did that. Did all kinds of stuff. And about, well, by the time you find people who hear this, it'll probably be the 4th of July weekend. Yay!
We're actually recording this Monday, June 30th, 2025. 30 years ago to the date of the release in theaters of Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, the movie. Talk about that later, too. That's a good movie. That's right. We'll talk about that later, too. So as of this date, as of the sound of my voice, about a month and a half ago, I hit my left elbow, which is my good arm on the wall. Don't ask me how I hit. It's a balance issue thing, and I have bad balance issues because
of the cerebral palsy. So you know how when you hit your elbow and the pain is like at first, it's like, oh, holy. I hit my elbow. What the going on here and everything else? And that pain lasts, let's say, 20, 30 minutes, whatever, maybe less than that. And then, you know, two days later, you forget about it. Well, my two days later, my in between my middle finger and ring finger from my ring finger out to my pinky and down to my wrist, that whole side of my left
hand, even right now as I'm speaking. is constantly numb like you sleep on your hand and your hand goes numb and normally you can just rub your hand and like you can shake your hand out and it goes away it's that kind of numbness and tingliness and the more i use like if i'm sitting here typing if i'm sitting here writing or if i'm doing the dishes or if i'm doing laundry the more i use my left hand which is my good hand it's the only hand i can freaking use the more I use it, the
more the numbness spreads to my middle finger, my index finger and my thumb, and it spreads to my whole hand. So again, as of this recording today, I just got out of the doctor's office to do an EMG test, which is basically them putting a bunch of needles in my arm and hand and else to do their tests. And I'm waiting on test results to figure out what the hell's going on. And the whole point of all of this is to say that I haven't been keeping up on a lot of things and everything
else. So, yeah, it's just just just crazy. So just trying to keep up with some of this stuff lately is like I'm not really caring. I'm not keeping up with Marvel as like I'm not so sharp. With Marvel, as I used to be. And like you've already said, and we will talk about later, it's not like, and I've said this before, you name your quote unquote 22nd or 23rd movie, whatever it is, the end game. In my mind, that means it's the end. That means you're wrapping up your story.
I understand you can make more movies and do more stories in the future with different characters
and other characters. And that's all. fine but you wrap up this x number of 15 years 16 you know however the hell many years it was from 2008 to 2019 i'm not doing the math on that right now but like i don't know everything after endgame i was very skeptical at first i liked a lot of it but i i don't know And as far as phase four and five, like we said, we're going to do a deeper discussion in a little bit here, folks on the show, but I just don't pay attention as much
as I used to. And the only reason why we're even talking about any of this now is because Ironheart news came out and it's like, oh, it's coming up. And oh, the reviews are, every review is so positive. It's skewed to the positive. Finally. Somebody's actually talking positive about something. That's what we flippin' need in geekdom right now. We need some flippin' positivity, dammit. See, I used the flippin' and I used my other thing for the dammit. You're lucky, because I've
been trying my best not to fluck off. And fluck it up. I said fluck. I understand negativity and bad things and horrible things happening. I get it. If it bleeds, it leads. I get it in news. Trust me, I understand that. We've been covering news for 15 years, 16 years, whatever it is. I get it. But the fact that these reviews for this show... This six episode show. Six episodes. You got to be kidding. I hate the Disney Plus model. I really do. Oh, for sure. Give me something
I can sync. Look, I'm not asking for 22. I'm not asking for 23. I'm not asking for the old days of that kind of to give me 10. Give me 12.
Give me something. Six. Really? because i guarantee you they're gonna give you six episodes and on that sixth episode they're gonna leave it on cliffhanger and if they don't get enough in the ratings or if they don't get enough in the streaming numbers they're gonna say well we didn't get enough in the streaming numbers so iron heart will never be seen again unless it's in some random movie with groot because let's face it groot is the grogu of the marvel universe sorry
not sorry there you go make a clip out of that buddy Yeah. Oh God. But yeah, no, I mean, I'm interested to see what it is, what, what happens with that show when I, whenever I end up seeing it, whether it's what, whatever, whenever. So we'll, we'll see on the flip side of, of the superheroes. We have DC, uh, where James Gunn says that, um, That Adria Arona or Arjona as Wonder Woman, she'd be a great Wonder Woman.
I've never heard of this person. I would have to click on her name to see what her actual credits actually are. Because literally this is the first time I've ever heard her name from anywhere. American Guatemalan actress known for a lot of roles. Screen debut in 2012. She was in the movie Hitman. Okay. She was in Andor. She was in Morbius. She was in Six Underground. She was in Father of the Bride in 2022. Yeah. Oh, she was. Okay. She was a million. Okay. She was a million. Okay.
Yeah. Okay. She was in Book of Boba Fett. Yeah. Okay. Person of interest. Yeah. Yeah. All right. Cool. Cool. Yeah. Huh. Interesting. Okay. Sure. She's dating Jason Momoa. Nobody gives a rip. No, no, no. I find that interesting because he's
Aquaman. well he's aquaman but he's playing lobo yeah that's true in the new dc universe with james gunn yep so yeah it might come with the territory yeah so but yeah i mean i'm i'm fine with it i think it'll be interesting to see i'm not so like dead set on who you know oh no it can only be this person who plays this no no no not at all um yeah I mean, I think it's great when, you know, you can't have a legacy actor continue to play the character, you know, such
as like, um, Obi -Wan Kenobi and, you know, stuff like that, uh, from like Ewan McGregor and, you know, where, where you have other series that kind of continue on with same people. But I get it. Like every time somebody new gets in here, they're going to reboot it. And. Two to three films is about the max. We see somebody play a superhero in most cases. Yep. Marvel, notwithstanding, but true. Even the Sony stuff like you were good for two or three films and then it was like,
all right, bye bye. So I'm I'm fine with this. Like, it'll be interesting to see somebody else take on the role. And. I've seen a lot of different. takes on like i remember years ago when they they had this like casting of who should play who and the guy that played the lone ranger was like on tap to possibly play batman and then yep um yeah so i mean i i'm i'm fine with it i think it'll be interesting either way yeah absolutely uh yeah very fun very fun And then,
folks, we go to animation. Oh, boy. Marge Simpson dies tonight. Well, sort of. Yeah. They killed her off in the season 36 finale. Yeah. In a flash forward scene. Yeah. But yeah. It shows Bart and Lisa grow apart after they stop watching Itchy and Scratchy show. And then Marge thinks that they'll both become estranged and 35 years later she dies. And then it's funny because Homer looks the same age. Everybody else is old. But it says Homer is taken out of retirement home
by the senior protective services. But yeah. I don't know. I haven't watched the show in ages, so it's kind of funny. I haven't either. I don't like if they do a specific spoof. I might watch a clip on YouTube, but I haven't actively watched The Simpsons since 1993. I think it stopped being relevant like 10, 15 years ago. I guess. Yeah. I don't know. It's interesting. What I find funny is when did this episode air? It aired like a week ago. Not even that. All the posts were coming
out on June 25th. and we're sitting at june 30th here so it's it's been almost a week it will have been a week by the time you hear this episode yeah okay because uh the phineas and ferb season the phineas and ferb season five thing kind of did the same thing where they their mom disappeared too and it made it look like that one of their inventions killed her So they did kind of the same thing, which I find ironic considering Disney owns both Phineas and Ferb and The Simpsons.
It's like, wait a minute, guys. Something wrong here. There are no new ideas, man. No new ideas. What would that be? I mean, yeah. i i've not been a fan of a lot of the tv stuff that marvel or not marvel disney or marvel whomever has been putting out like it's all been kind of yeah the original air date was may 18th so we are way safer for spoilers here I just find it funny that it got revealed later. Yeah. Like a month
later. Usually it tells you how much people it somebody must have been like, hey, I think I'll watch the Simpsons finale again. And then they're like, oh, crap. Oh, crap. Yeah. It's crazy. Simply crazy. All right. Yeah. Moving on. I think we
have a couple of other. yes minor clip it's here yep so the minor clip it's are the tom cruise youtube video thing where he lip syncs to the weekends can't feel my face song have you watched this i did it's entertaining yeah because it's tom cruise and it fits with with his 80s 90s aesthetic yeah yeah yeah what i think is hilarious is jimmy jimmy uh fallon's reaction to because like when the song starts he has his fingers up and like his two fingers are between jimmy's
face and jimmy just cracking up i just find this absolutely this is one of those clips that does not need to die like i'm not gonna bring it up all the time but like it just is one of those things where people don't need to forget this because it's just so funny And then the other one, it's just a simple little thing. It's just them announcing that Lilo and Stitch 2 is in development and it's Stitch going around the studio in a car where I think it did say too
fast at first. I was like, wait a minute. Is he going to be in Fast X Part 2? I really hope they don't call it Fast X Part 2. For God's sake, don't do that. Just call it Fast 11, damn it. You know they're bringing back Paul Walker. Yes, I was going to mention that. They're going to use his brothers again, probably. They're going to use mocap on his brothers and bring him back one more time. I just saw the clip or the news
that Vin wants him back. yep which honestly i think is i think it's like why just let it go let it go dom come on man like i get it because they started the franchise together but paul's been dead for a decade now longer did he die because i know he died around the same time i died Which is 10 years ago, this past May. No, oh no, he died two years before my son died. He died in 2013. So, like, I don't know, dude. I... I don't know. I just don't know anymore.
Nothing. yeah i stopped watching that like after the second film i would it's not a knock against it it really is i just i just lost interest it was more so that and then like i know three like was technically like a prequel or some sort or something and then it wasn't really a prequel three was out of so if you look at it in was it like david s pumpkins it was its own thing yeah kind of because because sean boswell or sean beeswell or whatever the sean character
i don't know because honestly i i have seen tokyo drift exactly once in my lifetime and unfortunately here pretty soon i'm going to have to see it twice in my lifetime so here so well it's my own fault but um i know yeah so so here's the thing with tokyo drift originally As far as I know, Tokyo Drift was its own thing. We just assumed that they weren't going to do any more after Tokyo Drift, etc., etc., etc. They came back with a vengeance in 2009. Tokyo Drift was
2006. They came back with a vengeance with Fast and Furious 4 in 2009. 2011 was Fast 5. Yada, yada, yada. Fast 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11. Well, they haven't done 11 yet, but basically the events of Video Drift fit in between Fast 6 and Fast and Furious 7. And the reason why they do that is because at the end of Fast 6, you see Deckard Shaw, who is Owen Shaw's old brother. Deckard is played by Statham. You see him in Tokyo, quote -unquote, killing Han, who is the character that
was in Tokyo Drift. I say, quote -unquote, killing Han because he's not really dead. Spoiler, not spoiler, because I know you don't care. So that's how they made it fit into the franchise story. So technically, the franchise goes 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 3, 7, 8, 9, Hobbs & Shaw, 10, and then 11, and hopefully they'll really actually be done at 11, because that's what Diesel has said, 11 is the last film. Hopefully. Speaking of films and stuff, and... Marvel vs. DC and everything
else. So we have... We have news of Marvel doing their own film re -release. Because Marvel actually loves their fans, and they want their fans to be, you know, happy. And they want their fans to actually see their movies in theaters. Fucking DC. Release the Schumacher cut, you bastards. They will after they get bought. Who's buying DC? No, I'm just saying, like, Warner Brothers. Warner Brothers here. Yeah, that's true. Okay, so Sam Raimi's Spider -Man trilogy returns to
theaters. The success of Spider -Man in 2002 helped launch the modern era of superhero films. All eight live -action Spider -Man movies returned to theaters last spring, much to the delight of fans. The re -releases racked up millions of dollars in ticket revenue. Yada, yada, yada, yada, yada. It does not say when. that the three will release, but they are re -releasing in theaters
this fall. So that's the big news there, which is just like Marvel to actually care about their fans, unlike DC, who doesn't give two shits about their Batman Forever fan people. What's it going to hurt you, DC? It's actually going to make you money if you release it. You know that old saying, if we build it, they will come. If you re -release it, they're going to buy the fucking tickets, you idiots. Well, movie theaters are kind of on their way out anyway. Yeah, I know.
But the same token, people were like, give us the Snyder Cut. And DC was like, yeah, nice, nice, nice try, guys. All right. So here we go. Marvel phases four and five. I'm going to run down the quick list for films and TV shows for each phase. I think we should also mention which ones we watched and which ones we enjoyed after you list them. Well, yes, we will. That's that's the point. But I just want to get the list out
first. We'll list movies first, and then we'll say our favorites and least favorites, and then ones we haven't even watched, because there are some that I haven't even watched. And then we'll, yeah, so. All right, phase four. This is phase four, correct? Yes, phase four. Make sure I hit the right link. Do your job, Mike. Do your job.
All right, in phase four. Ehad, Black Widow, Shang -Chi, The Eternals, Spider -Man No Way Home, Doctor Strange and the Monsters of Madness, Thor Love and Thunder, and Black Burp and Wakanda Forever. So that's Black Widow, Shang -Chi, Eternals, No Way Home, Doctor Strange 2, Thor Love and Thunder, and Black Panther and Wakanda Forever. What do you got? So. I watched. I watched Black Widow, Spider -Man No Way Home, Doctor Strange, Thor out of these grouping, Shang -Chi and Eternals.
I just didn't care. Again, third tier characters. Black Panther. I was interested. when we had the original actor yeah after that point i just didn't care anymore um not that that one would have been bad i i probably would have cared about that just because like they were some of the stronger parts of the infinity war and end game um just from part of the roles that they played But out of these that that I've seen, the only like Black Widow was really good. Gave us kind
of a glimpse of, you know, during the blip. Yeah. And then or at least pre blip because. Romanoff's sister, you know, Yelena disappeared during the blip. Yep. So this was pre blip. But anyways, I found that film to be really entertaining, really good. And then Spider -Man No Way Home was like. My absolute favorite of that year. Of that of that phase was because. We got. We got all of the Spider -Man. Yep. So that that was like, OK, we're paying tribute to all of
the previous Spider -Man. Yeah, pretty much so. And my favorite was always like the Tobey Maguire Spider -Man. So that that in essence and then the William Dafoe Green Goblin and, you know, Otto Octavius. And so I really enjoyed it. And that that for me was like the icing on the cake for for my favorite of that that phase. Doctor Strange was weird. And I liked some of the fan moments, especially with the parallel universe and, you know, the Reed Richards and Professor
X and things like that. But again, they just love to kill Patrick Stewart as Professor X because it happened in X3. It happened in Multiverse of Madness and it happened in Logan. So we were three for three at that point. Or Patrick. Thor would have been OK, but it was just too goofy.
more than ragnarok ragnarok fit this was just like okay we're stretching it yeah so but yeah those those out of those films like spider -man no way home and black widow were my favorite yep i have only seen black widow and spider -man no way home i don't care about any of the other films in phase four i black panther wakanda forever i might watch just to see how that story kind of concludes kind of thing but i don't feel like it's something i absolutely have to watch i was
done with thor after the dark world i did watch ragnarok i thought ragnarok was the best out of the thor movies i thought if they did another thor movie it would only go downhill from here and from what you've said and from what others have told me I was right. I'm not judging it based on something I have not seen. I'm just judging it based on your opinion and what others have told me. So I'm not making my own assumptions on something I have not watched. I'm just going
off of what others have said. But I had zero interest in Shang -Chi. I had zero interest in the Eternals. I don't know. I just had no interest in either of those. Black Widow I really enjoyed. Black Widow I wish had come out so much earlier than when it did as far as the continuity of the film itself. But it is what it is. So that's the Phase 4 films. Here is the Phase 4 television series. We have... WandaVision, Falcon and the Winter Soldier, Loki Season 1. These are all
Season 1. What If, Hawkeye, Moon Knight, Ms. Marvel, and She -Hulk, Attorney at Law. So, out of this batch, I... I watched WandaVision. I watched Falcon and the Winter Soldier, Loki, What If, Hawkeye, and She -Hulk. Ms. Marvel didn't interest me whatsoever. Moon Knight really didn't interest me whatsoever. I enjoyed WandaVision for what it was. Didn't love it, but it was better than what they did to her character in Doctor
Strange. Yeah. and the multiverse of madness the falcon and the winter soldier was okay had they just kept it to um to falcon and the winter soldier yeah instead of all the other people that they added uh that later became a part of phase five um loki was a slow burn season one i kind of was like okay like it got better. And then when they, they brought in Kane, uh, I think, I think that's his name. Kang. Kang. Yeah. I, you can tell how much I cared. Um, I, I didn't
care for his character whatsoever. Didn't like the actor. Didn't like portrayal, whatever. I just didn't care for it. Uh, what if I enjoyed Hawkeye? Enjoyed she Hulk. I tried. It was trying way too hard. And so in that, I didn't care for it either. So out of this batch, the only ones I really enjoyed were What If and Hawkeye. I liked WandaVision for the psychology of it all, to see what she was dealing with. But in general,
I'm not... The... The easiest way I can equate this is you take Lord of the Rings and put it on one side and you take Star Wars and put it on the other side. I'm going to choose Star Wars every day. So you take something like WandaVision and Falcon and Winter. I'm going to pick Falcon and Winter every day of the week. Or even if you want to take WandaVision and put Hawkeye on the other side of that, I'll take Hawkeye every day of the week. I didn't dislike WandaVision.
I enjoyed it for what it was, but it just wasn't... I don't know. I'm not... I'm more Batman than Jason the Magic Boy, his adversary that he goes up against sometimes. So there's that. Falcon and winter. I really enjoyed what I really enjoyed about Falcon and winter was the two of them constantly arguing like a bitter old married couple. Like those counseling sessions in that show, the therapist sessions between the two of them. Oh, good fun right there. I did not watch Loki because I don't
care about Loki as a character. I never have cared about Loki as a character. The less Loki I see in the Marvel Universe, the better. I was done with Loki after the very first Avengers movie. If Loki just fell into the Earth's core and died, I would not care. What If is amazing. All three seasons, even though I haven't watched the third season yet, but the first two seasons of What If, simply amazing. I can't wait to finally get a chance to watch the third season. Hawkeye
is great. Absolutely love Hawkeye. Kate is hilarious. Kate and Clint together are even more hilarious. Absolutely love that. I'm not a Moon Knight or Ms. Marvel fan. I just didn't get into those shows. And I am actually waiting to watch She -Hulk with the Chaos Queen. So, yeah, I'll have to reserve judgment on She -Hulk. So that is Marvel Phase 4. All right, getting into Phase 5 with the film. I forgot that Phase 5 actually started with Ant -Man. And the wasp, Quantumania.
Shoot me now. Don't wait till you get home. Shoot me now. I stopped watching the Ant -Man movies after the Ant -Man. I could give two craps less about Ant -Man and his Quantumania of whatever. So I didn't watch that one. I'll just come out and say it. The only movie I've seen in phase five so far is Deadpool. I kind of had interest in watching them. I don't know if I'll watch the models. I know I want to watch Brave New World and I know I want to watch Thunderbolts.
So that's my experience with the phase five films to this point. So. I have watched Ant -Man 3. I had started Guardians 3. And then I watched Deadpool and Wolverine. And then I've had no interest in the rest. The Marvels, I didn't like Captain Marvel anyway. And I just honestly didn't like. The premise, so I just didn't care. And. Kind of the same thing with like Guardians of the Galaxy three, I just lost interest. Captain America Brave New World with the amount of reshoots
that we'd heard that they'd had and. I just it's just not the same. But it's nothing against it's nothing against Falcon. It's, it's, it's nothing against the actor. Cause like, I, I think he would do fine. I just think that there was a lot of. Okay. But the reshoots and all of that and whatever else that they had to do, we don't know what that original movie was going to be. So whatever reshoots they had to do, whatever movie they ended up giving us, that's the movie
we got. It's kind of, I know I, it's not what I'm. Okay, so what are you trying to say? It's not what I'm beating it up for. I just think that it... Yes, they brought in things like adamantium and, you know, other things to kind of bring aspects of the pre -MCU parts of this into the
MCU. Yeah. But... I think that they're I mean, yeah, they're setting him up, you know, Wilson, obviously, to become Captain America here, like officially outside of Falcon and the Winter Soldier and and to kind of tee up the multiversal battle. Yeah, but I just I don't know. I just it didn't. The trailers didn't do it any favors. In my opinion. And then Thunderbolts, I just didn't care to have one. Then they got the asterisk on there because they're like, oh, the new Avengers. Yeah.
And I know it takes place after the Captain America Brave New World. Yeah. I. I don't. I don't love the aspect of them being the new Avengers. Well, OK, so the and it kind of rubbed me wrong that it's more like more like Suicide Squad. So for me, in essence, yeah, in essence, you're right, because that's kind of what it is. But here's the thing. I care more about Yelena. And Red Guardian. than any single member on the Suicide Squad ever. I've never cared, never cared about
any of the members on the Suicide Squad. Yeah, you got Deadshot in there. Yeah, you got King Shark in there. Yeah, you got, who's the other guy? Captain Boomerang. You've got Captain Cold sometimes. Captain Cold, maybe. I've cared about him a couple. Let me get Harley Quinn. Yeah, you got Harley. Okay, sure. A stand -in for Yelena. Sure, fine, whatever. Vice versa, if you really want to say. But, like, I don't know, man. And I think for me, the biggest thing, and I don't
have my phone with me. I'll have to. They use the song in the trailers by some band. And I'll have to figure it out later. And it just kind of... Those trailers where she's just letting go and just diving off that building. That swan dive off the building. Just, ugh. It just sunk me in to wanting to watch that damn movie. It
really did. And I'll tell you all now, the single reason why I am not actively paying attention to the films directly is because At some point, probably next year, Studio 2009 is going to go through the whole cinematic universe from the beginning. Films and shows in story order. It's going to be the big thing for Studio 2009, 2026.
i don't know who's gonna be on it with me and it can be rotating because i know not everybody would be welcome to do rotating because like there's some of these yeah no i'm i how long you know me like i would make you watch everything you gotta be kidding me come on dude no i that's why i said it's going to be rotating because i know not everyone likes but my thing is i want to explore it all So for me, it has to be everything. For everybody else, you pick and choose what
you want. And we go from there. But I've been thinking about this for years. Because we tried doing this years ago when they first started. I remember on MWire. We tried doing Iron Man 1, 2, 3. We did Avengers. We did this. We did
that. yada yada yada yada yada we did batman begins dark knight and dark knight rises and here we are 20 freaking years later getting ready to do one podcast in a couple of weeks talking about the 20th anniversary and we're going to talk about all three films because 20th anniversary of batman begins is this year i'm sure the actual date has already passed but 2025 2005 It is the year 2005. Don't zipper it in me. I'll do what I want. I was putting something in my backpack.
Anyways, yeah, I mean, as far as the films are concerned, there's a lot that I don't care for in the later, you know, phase four and five. Yeah. And then Phase 5 TV shows. Make sure. Yep. Phase 5. Series. Phase 5 TV series include. Sorry to cut you off. Nope. Secret Invasion, Loki, What If, Seasons 2 and 3, Echo, Season 1, Agatha All Along, Season 1, Your Friendly Neighbor, Spider -Man, Daredevil, Born Again, and Ironheart.
Ironheart. debuted today, actually. Well, by the time you people are hearing it, it debuted July 1st. You need that list again? No, no. I watched Secret Invasion. I did not enjoy it, especially what they kind of I enjoyed part of it. Like the very end. But I didn't like how they kind of ruined Nick Fury. Yeah. Otherwise, it was decent. Loki season two was pretty good. What if season two and three? Great. Ended it on a pretty good note. Echo didn't care. Agatha
all along really didn't care. The friendly neighborhood Spider -Man kind of irrelevant to. You know, I just didn't care. Daredevil. I know a lot of people love that, especially the fact that they brought him back from the the old ABC cinema or, you know, ABC Universe or Netflix or whatever. Yep. And then and then there's Ironheart, which I don't care. But. And Daredevil's already kind
of shown up in. Spider -Man. yeah no way home and uh so i mean he's he's in the mcu uh the other ones like i just none of them i really felt resonated with me like so honestly out of this group it'd be loki and what if yeah like i i could go without the rest of them and not care because in the grand scheme of things i don't feel like a lot of these outside of like daredevil and loki are really going to play any role in what's coming down the pipe well i thought
echo was going to because that's a part of the daredevil world um but uh yeah i secret invasion i thought was going to be better because it was nick fury and it was based on the whole thing and i thought it was going to lead to have some sort of lead up to secret war What if season two I've seen? I loved it. I need to see season three. I'm sure I'm going to love it, but I love the what if animated series. And yeah, the rest of it, I have not seen any of it yet. I want
to see Friendly Neighborhood Spider -Man. I think that's going to be really cool. So, yeah. The only thing I probably will not watch, obviously,
is Loki. and agatha because i just don't care loki is the only one that i could see making sense from the multiversal standpoint right it also in order to fully understand deadpool and wolverine i feel like you have to have watched loki to fully understand what they're doing with the multiverse crap Because a lot of the characters from the TBA, it's all relative and kind of ties over. The Kang the Conqueror stuff, it ends up being irrelevant because he wrote himself out
by, you know, getting fired. He got fired. He got fired. But no, I mean. They and they kind of. By the end of season two of Loki, like they already knew they were firing him and he was already gone, and so Loki essentially takes on the mantle. And that's he's the one holding the universe together. So he becomes like goes from like kind of villain to like anti hero to hero.
Yeah. So it's a redemption arc for Loki. And so in that manner, I feel like they kind of redeemed him, but it was in a tasteful manner that he. The struggle he has to go through to get there, I feel like it was earned. And when he gets to see Thor again and some of the others, like he'll have a deeper appreciation for the Avengers.
So it may actually be him plucking. alternate versions of the avengers that are dead to fight doom i guess i don't know i could i could see this i could see him being more important in the the final unraveling of the the multiverse right now he's kind of sitting on his tree throne you know that he's and he's kind of like the Madam Web of the universe, like observing things from the outside. I mean, when I say Madam Web,
I mean from like the 90s. I know, I know what you're talking about, but no. So I feel like that one's more deserved. The rest of them, I don't care. Yeah, I don't know. It's going to be interesting to see where it goes. That's all I know. So that's all I got. Oh, did you see the other tirade? What? Oh, wait a minute. What did I miss? You missed something and it came out. It has nothing to do with the Marvel Cinematic
Universe. This is this is just a. tangent that we can we can touch on in the future on all things transformers oh no they're discussing bringing michael bay back oh yes there is that too to the franchise and it's funny because even comicbook .com goes the transformers franchise is dead if michael bay returns yes yes yes it says if michael bay returns and the transformers movies truly are dead and buried uh Because honestly,
I was done with it. They're even saying returning to the old is a sign of creative stagnation. I think Transformers 1 got a bad rap. It got a horrible rap because of poor marketing. And they're like, oh, well, we want to see explosions. There were plenty of explosions. Where were you? Yeah, where were you? It was well written. The animation was good. You could clearly hear them. You could clearly see them. Yeah, it, it didn't
need to be like, we don't need a crossover. Like even they even have an article saying transformers and GI Joe don't need a crossover. Yep. Nope. Uh, the, um, what was the third or something else with that? Oh, these people now having to. Okay. So we've always said transform 2007, right?
we've never okay these people now are using vernacular transformers one 2007 and i'm sitting here thinking stop that don't do that just say transformers 2007 transformers one is from when did it come out 2024 whatever the hell like don't try to confuse people with the vernacular people stop it I remember what the other thing is. Happy anniversary. Mighty Morphin Power is the movie of the year today. Just finished watching it before we recorded the podcast. Oh, God. That
movie. So good. That, okay. That's a movie that, that's a movie that I don't think is good today. Because if you... Whether it's effects or whatever, but specifically runtime. That movie's runtime is... Where the hell's the runtime? Hello? How long is your movie, sir? How long is your movie, ma 'am? Is it down here? Where is the damn... Seriously, I just looked. We don't know. Oh, for... Hold on. It pulled up the stu... I know I put in the movie after I hit... There. It is...
It comes in at 96 minutes. So it's an hour and a half plus six minutes. Okay? Mm -hmm. I watched up until when they got the great power. And then I just kind of started doing stuff around the apartment for the last... Because by the time they get the power and they go back to Angel Grove for the final fight, it's the final fight. I know that final fight like the back of my hand. Like, you know, they destroy one of the ectomorphicons
and... And then Ooze does something stupid and he makes himself grow and get into the other ectomorphicon and they fly into space and they use Titan's comet or Orion's comet or whatever comet to blow him up. Giant Ooze man go boom and they save the day and we get Fred Campbell, the Gold Ranger. Fred Campbell. Get off my one. But no, the point is, is that 1995, June 30th, 1995, Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, the movie released the theaters. I was there and it was
awesome. And I missed Jason David Frank immensely. And I wish he was here to celebrate the anniversary. And obviously we know he can't be here to do that. I'm glad all the other actors are here now with us and everything else. That movie has a perfect beginning, middle, and end. There are no wasted moments. There are a few comedy moments I could do without. I mean, I roll my eyes at,
what's the character's name? Mordant. which is the the second alien that's that's with uh uh goldar he's kind of like yeah that one was weird because like he didn't really exist anywhere else yeah no he doesn't and he's kind of like the squat and babu version of me um because they didn't bring in squat and babu um but yeah so yeah But no, I mean, you don't have too much
bulk and skull in this. I mean, you got them doing the whole skydive thing, and you got them doing the whole thing with the foreman when they land. But other than that, no, I really dig this movie. It's so fun. It's just really fun. I enjoy it. Yeah, absolutely. So happy 30th, Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. So I think with that, I think that's all we have on this episode. Yup, I see it. That's all she wrote. Yup. Yup. So thank you as always for listening to Altered Geek.
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