It's weird when you watch old episodes... those guys are so happy, so joyful, they got so much energy, they smile... like the moopies didn't break them yet...
They actually stated that in either the Endgame or Infinity War review. They were nervous that Avengers would be bad that all the characters would bog down the story. Lol, well clearly they hadnt seen IW coming. They praise both EG AND IW
"All I kept thinking, who's gonna clean all this up? 'Avengers Property Damage: The Movie'" Oh shit, rewatching this years later and Mike literally predicts the premise of Spider-Man: Homecoming
The cool thing is there is a Marvel Comic called Damage Control about a group of powered beings whose job it is to clean up the messes left behind by Superheroes and villains. The Eric O'Grady who was the third incarnation of Antman was part of it.
> I went to Denmark > Everything is weird there > The Danes love their bicycles > Sometimes they ride them drunk > It's a very weird country > There was lots of drinking I can confirm we drink and love our bicycles.
I like when big time Hollywood sitcoms finally leave their studios and visit their settings in real life, like Frasier shooting in Seattle, Cheers in Boston, Hack Frauds in Shithole.
This was the first Half In The Bag I ever saw and all I remember was the sense of utter confusement as to what on earth I was watching for that first five minutes.... Nowadays, this is my favourite channel!
1:55 The cut from Mike pimping out Jay on the street to the two of them walking down the theater aisle is hilarious. It' only becomes more hilarious when you realize Mike made him turn enough tricks to not only buy tickets, but also drinks and popcorn for both of them. Bravo gentlemen, bravo.
So crazy to rewatch these reviews after 10+ years now, I don't think I ever finished the video before because I've never seen Mike talk about his trip to Denmark before, very cool that he finally got to see a full house for one of his videos!
“I wonder what marvels gonna do now they’ve completely blown their wad.” “Blow their wad multiple times, over and over again… until that wad ceases to produce money” *looks at Marvel wad in 2024*
@@stevepisano5566 I'm not too sure, at 21:49 mike is clearly touching the red theatre chair in fron of him. I think the problem is they're sitting in the chairs just like they sit on the usual boxes
@@holdenraymorris I was just saying it about the wide shot. Them in the chairs seems real although it's oddly dark which makes me think it's a smaller set. Idk for sure though.
Actually Black Widow is a superhero because she's been biologically enhanced similiar to Captain America. They should have included that info in the movie to give more credence to her character's abilities because most people think she's just a regular human who's really really athletic.
It’s 2022. I came to this review thinking, I remember this movie, I even liked it. I bet now that there’s a bunch more it’ll be a bit more boring to me, like they feel now. No, I legitimately just forgot about how simple, clever, and interesting this movie was. And I probably thought it was good at the time because it was a big action fest.
I cringed at that same scene with Black Widow too. Shouldn't her arm have been torn off? Black Widow's showings pretty much makes the super-soldier serum superfluous. She seemed more super-soldier than Cap in The Avengers.
Was it? The story itself goes all over the place and stuff just happens out of nowhere like the scene in the cave. There's an awkward shoehorned-in romance with a creepy thing about how a woman is a "monster" because she's competent, but can't have children. The action sequences themselves are just Transformers style clanging around. The characters have almost all devolved into stereotypically Whedon snarky flapping heads, and lose some of their personal voice. Hawkeye is the "weakest" member of the team and his presence "Makes no sense" but in the first Avengers movie, he was perfectly competent, even when he ran out of arrows. He was depowered to set up a "he's going to die" subplot, and that subplot was just another stereotypically Whedon fakeout. Even the opening sequence doesn't make much sense in the context of regular storytelling. They just show up and start hitting people, and it's not made clear they're bad people acting with specifically evil intent until later. The viewer is expected to assume the people being hit deserve it because you know the people doing the hitting are the "good guys." You and I, I'm sure, read all the behind the scenes stuff that explains what was happening, but not everybody does, and no movie should be that heavily dependent on metatextual information to be comprehensible. Imagine the extreme, take Mad Max: Fury Road and ONLY imagine the parts where there are people on poles throwing bombs at each other. Ignore all the parts where they explain who Furiosa is, or why, or what the state of the world is, or anything else. And them imagine you needed to watch the three other Mad Max movies and play Fallout and read interviews with Charlize Theron to understand what's going on. People would say that sucks. Age of Ultron isn't that bad, but it's getting there and as a movie in and of itself, it's not that different from any other big action sequence movie. It was fine, but it wasn't really all that special. Also, I'd pay to watch a new Ninja Turtles movie if it's subtitle was "Age of Ultrom"
***** I'm going to have to disagree with your points to some degree here. I disagree that the story is that tight. I feel it's prone to some moments of excess, particularly the farmhouse and the oracle pool thing. The farmhouse is character building for Hawkeye, but then it's a single extended sequence of character building for one guy who isn't particularly the focus of the end. All of the vulnerability and backstory he gets is in service to the implication that he's going to die, like the old "two days from retirement" trope. That implication is in service to a fakeout. It's nice to see Hawkeye get more characterization, but putting the focus on him for an extended period then making it not mean all that much in the end isn't what I'd call focused. Remember that the central conflict was about Tony Stark unilaterally assuaging his own fears and creating a monstrous parody of himself, and how others were affected by or reacted to it. In addition to that, there was the whole pool sequence. If we take in information from outside the text, we know that Whedon was forced to cull either the pool or the farmhouse and Whedon chose the pool. The pool sequence is clunky and confusing and does not serve the plot of the movie as much as it serves the plot of the greater series. Regarding the romance subplot, remember that I'm commenting on a RLM review that states the opinion that Avengers should be commended for not doing that, if you want to quibble with the monster statement, that's another thing that you can discuss with a whole lot of people, but the central point is that the hack frauds felt that it was a wise move not to let the movie be burdened with another subplot. AoU is burdened with that subplot, I'm pointing out that they did that. Regarding AoS. They did the same sort of integration with The Winter Soldier, but that was a lot smoother. There, they demonstrated that there is value to watching everything and being aware, like knowing who Jasper Sitwell is, and the implications of his interactions with the crew on The Bus, or the senator from the Iron Man movies, but it did not rely entirely on that external information to tell a story. Also, taking external information into account, Whedon himself says he doesn't count AoS and didn't make the movie with the series in mind. I feel like that was really apparent in how slapdash the integration of AoU into the plot was... Raina basically spouts a trailer, and Coulson took a side trip to get a thumb drive, and some people were mad Coulson wasn't talking about something (which could have been anything) and that was about it. With that in mind, it's not necessarily possible to argue that the opening is that way because you had to watch AoS. It may have been though, Whedon could have been forced to do it that way. I think we're approaching these things from two slightly different perspectives. I'm saying that RLM pointed out a bunch of things that made Avengers surprisingly great as a self contained movie and AoU didn't do any of that. In turn, I feel that as a single movie AoU is sort of bloated, it would be nearly three hours with the pool scene restored, and nowhere near as interesting to watch. Others may feel that it's fun in the context of being part of a what is essentially a large serial, and it is fun. I look forward to Doctor Strange and Black Panther and so on and so forth, but I do feel that relying too heavily on that serial structure comes with problems. Mainstream comic books themselves have been doing "crisis" style events, massive reboots that delete or rewrite tons of previous material, every few years for decades because everything is a gargantuan serial now and all of the contradictions begin to pile up. If that never happened and Kevin Feige managed to keep a tight hold of the reins, you still have the issue of a prerequisite to seeing a single film is seeing everything before it. By Infinity War Part 1, that would be 17 movies to watch for it to make sense if they didn't work on making it accessible and pare down how much stuff actually fed into it.
Magnus Nygaard There are white Europeans, assimilated everyone else, and just plain and simple everyone else. Also, plain and simple everyone else can go fuck themselves if they think that they can have their own way in other countries.
Haha I love how Mike is talking about who cleans up the mess that the Avengers do because there is a show coming out about the people who clean it up haha I think it's called "damage control".
In retrospect, it's funny how Jay feared the first ”Avengers” would be a clusterfuck, with only six superheroes. Now we just got one with 60 characters, and neither turned out to be a clusterfuck. PS: I'm writing this from the future.
S̶u̶b̶t̶l̶e̶ ̶I̶n̶s̶a̶n̶i̶t̶y̶ Well this movie is a subject of the "Multi-MacGuffin Theory". That the more MacGuffins you have, the better the movie. So far there are six great MacGuffins that power the All-Mighty MacGuffin.
=In 2012= Jay: "I wonder what Marvel's going to do now that they've blown their wad?" Mike: "Blow their wad over and over again, until that wad ceases to produce money." =In 2023= Marvel blew their wad over and over again, and is now struggling immensely to find footing post-Endgame, with literally every attempt at pivoting towards a new plot crashing and burning right out of the gate, fan interest waning in everything but a handful of Disney+ shows, etc... Truly, Mike and Jay are the great prophets of our time.
They did do an animated Avengers movie with an alien invasion before the live action came out and it was pretty good, so that may have been a bit of a 'test run ' by Marvel to see how it would work out in the first place.
