I'd actually love it if they released two Caravan of Garbage episodes on The Last Airbender movie just to see if they cover the same things or if their opinions differ in any way between the two.
Turns out that Warner Bros isn't scrapping Coyote vs Acme after all. People bullied Zaslav so hard he's backpedalling and allowing the movie to be shopped around to outside distributors.
Oh look, new marketing gimmick just dropped! They can threaten to scrap any old movie for a tax write off and generate hype for doing the bare minimum of... releasing a movie that was worked on. Cue "journalistic" outrage on behalf of the poor bullied corporation about how people wanting to see a movie released "sets a bad precedent".
Thank you so much for acknowledging the knock on effects the strikes have had on other industries. The VFX studios have been really struggling in the wake of this and it seems like no one seems to realise. Just another reason why you two are the best brothers on the internet 😂
You guys should release the caravan of garbage for ATLA movie then the next week do a caravan of garbage on the previous caravan of garbage episode. That would be a classic two brothers move
A Great man once said: “I just want Andor, I don’t care about anything else. I want a second season of Andor that’s even better than the first season of Andor, and I’ll be mad if it’s not.” Yes. Exactly this. You speak to me James. You are my spirit animal.
Agreed. Another great season of Andor and maaaaybe some animated shows created by the studios they got for Star Wars visions. But mostly Andor. In a few years time we can do a Knights of the Old Republic movie.
@@li-limandragon9287 Yeah in a few years, let them cook. Also hire Villeneuve to do a Star War. It’s the second thing I want and I won’t ask for anything else. I won’t even ask for a proper Stackpole X-Wing series adaptation which I do also really want 😢
There was a world when Andor was my least anticipated Star Wars project but by virtue of both tRoS being messy and Andor being shockingly well-written and directed, there is nothing SW related that I care about more.
This is my first podcast after the 4 hour long Mr. Sunday Movies RANT video came out. I'd never really clocked that James got so angry at little things before, but now that I'm here? Oh I hear it IMMEDIATELY 😂
WB spent $60-80M so that they could tax write-off and get $30M back. No wonder David Zaslav gets paid $300M a year; what a genius! If I ran the company, I'd simply try to get people to see movies and make money, but Zaslav is thinking 3-dimensionally.
@@HeroicRecapsHow does leaving a comment on youtube preclude one from having a job? You know nothing of the person's life. Perhaps he was on break and left a comment. Maybe he works the night shift. Maybe you should come up with a better comeback next time and stop being such a fucking white knight/shill for a billion dollar corporation😊
I can say that the wrestling movie Iron Claw will definitely be sad. The story of the Von Erich family is one of the most tragic in the history of wrestling.
Well, wrestling is pretty sad. Between McMahon doing PR for the Sauds, all the wrestlers that are pretty heinous human beings and all thw wrestler who ruined theie health or died because od steroids there is little joy to be found.
I really enjoyed The Marvels. I thought it was a breath of fresh air after some more lackluster installments like Secret Invasion and Quantumania. It was fun and engaging, and I loved the humor and the characters. And I was surprised by how impactful it will be to the direction of the MCU. To me, this felt more like getting back to the basics of what makes Marvel movies work. This felt like one of the better Phase 2 movies, and if we think about it, we're really in the "Phase 2" part of the Multiverse Saga right now, so this is exactly the kind of movie that Marvel should be making at the moment. I hope many more people go see it, and even if they don't, I hope this doesn't deter Marvel from making more like this going forward. This, plus the absolutely amazing second season of Loki, is why I still love the MCU so much. In my opinion, they saved the two best stories for last this year.
Yea it is kind of spaceballs. Remember the spaceballs were stealing the air from Druidia with the giant vacuum cleaner. President was sniffing Perrier-air out of a can.
Love the channel, love the content, love the camaraderie. Holy hell though Mason, do NOT go by James's description of the end of Loki as he's quite clearly still smashed from that synopsis.
The Zelda movie has such potential to be the kind of movie that Avatar wanted to be. I'd be more enthusiastic if I knew the og Nintendo guys were involved
Please please do a full review of Loki. I'll be so disappointed if this is all I get. It's the only thing to come out of Marvel worth reviewing in years. So good.
I totally agree when they say that some of the cameos / reveals would have generated a lot more buzz even just a few years ago. The mid-credits of The Marvels made me feel nothing 😂
59:50 "The problem is that a bunch of stuff happened behind the scenes that you didn't see" is legit one of the problems with the MCU. There's a lot of stuff that we do see, that they never use (90% of WandaVision, Secret Wars etc), then an awful lot of things happening off screen. There is a lot of telling us what happened and not showing us.
I'm pretty sure this happens every time they talk about Zelda but I have to do it anyway. All of the mainline games take place in the same universe at different times. Zelda and Link are different in each one because they're essentially reincarnations
The Marvels felt like an actual finished movie, both with the effects but also in terms this actually seems to be settings up something. Like, the post credit scenes are related to the movie we just watched and progress their story further while teasing new characters. When was the last time that happened? It was also the first movie in a while to actually cross over characters in a meaningful way. The MCU seems to have completely forgotten characters like Shang-Chi or Sam Wilson’s Captain America even exist! And the Wong cameos have started to feel lazy the way they include him without much rhyme or reason. Where the Guardians Vol 3 left like a closure to a story, The Marvels really felt like a beginning. I wish this had come out much sooner, the heads at Marvel tried to put the franchise on the backs of Multiverse Of Madness and Quantumania and failed but The Marvels offers such a great way forward that those movies didn’t. Left the theater after seeing The Marvels with renewed interest in the MCU, something that had seriously started to wane. Loved the goofy singing planet, reminded me of Guardians 1 and Ragnarok, would’ve loved to get more of that! The only criticism I have for this movie is that there seemed to be a whole movie’s worth of backstory between Dar-Benn and Carol that gets a 3 minute recap in that movie, needed to be fleshed out much more especially considering the short runtime of the movie.
Why aren't studios legally obligated to release movies after certain milestone of creative process is reached or something? How is it they are shelving the result of work of many people without any serious reason?
The Weekly Planet but they're brothers, and it's called Two Brothers, with a podcast, and there are angry old ladies, with viking axes, coming after them, and they're gonna get them, and there is an asteroid coming, and it's The Weekly Planet, but it's just two brothers, having a podcast, and it's called Two Brothers, weekly. That is where my brain went during this intro.
I like how Mason's idea of how they are going to merge the multiverses is just exactly what they did at the end of the CW Arrowverse after the crisis on infinite earths crossover. I think it's what they will do as well.
Can an US based accountant explain the Warner Bros tax issue? Even if they get 30M "back" from the Feds, they still get to write off the other 50M in loses against their balance sheet. But if they spent another 30M in marketing, it's likely (if the movie is as good as people say) that the movie would gross say 120M world wide (Blue Beetle made 130M for example), which would mean the same net 50M in losses for the movie, but now they could use that IP forever slowly clawing back revenue. If the movie is a hit, it has a good chance at being profitable. Honestly, the chances they make 60M in revenue to cover 30M in advertising + 30M from the feds are well over 50/50. Taking the 30M and destroying the IP seems like a really bad idea from a financial perspective.
I really wish that when companies did this tax dodge movie stuff, that that movie would have to be released, for free online somewhere in the public domain. Art being created only to get buried is such a travesty
I think the Marvels is one of the best MCU movies because it feels like a comic book. It's fun, it's fast paced, it's not a groundbreaking dramatic work, but every part of it feels like it works. And even the parts that the boys felt could have gone longer, I think were better short so that they didn't interrupt the movie's pacing too much and left you wanting more of it rather than less, which I think more movies need to rediscover.
My only issue with The Marvels is that it did the same thing as Ms. Marvel where the villain was defeated by the hero shouting “but it will kill you” and then it kills her.
It’s more general than that: powers as plot-resolution. Remember when the plot-resolution was a logical result of pre-established mechanics/limitations (“How did you solve the icing problem?”). Now it’s just: Yeh, 2 bangles is too much power; Yeh, I can re-start a star; Yeh, I can sew multi-verses.
You guys have gotta do something about the intro theme, the audio quality is ROUGH these days! The original version will always hold a special place in my heart and ... elsewhere. But that doesn't mean the rest of the song can't sound as crisp as it used to!!!
I never know where they will land on a movie and I appreciate that they don’t pretend that everything is “TRASH AND I’M ANGRY!” The few times they actually hate something, it’s organic and hilarious (ie James after seeing Geostorm)
On the star wars news... why Kevin Fiege? Why not Favreau or Filloni, or both? Maybe allow some directors of the more successful episodes of the shows to helm movies. If they allowed Gareth Edwards more free reign, he'd certainly be able to make another good Star Wars movie that could actually make money if they sticks to the methods that worked for him in the past. Him and his team are clever filmmakers.
Agree. The Marvels isn’t as bad as everyone was saying. Really enjoyed it. Some campy scenes but loved how the actors/characters interacted with each other. Good fun movie.
Regarding Jonathan Majors/Kang, there is a super easy, barely an inconvenience solution. Recast the character. It's a multiverse. The woman in Loki, who's name I've already forgotten, is really the female version of Loki. So change Kang. My choice is Leslie Jones. "I'M FROM A DIFFERENT UNIVERSE! YOU GOT A PROBLEM WITH THAT?"
I don’t want that, purely because I can’t stomach what the internet will do to her after how they singled her out, harassed her, doxed her and hacked her after Ghostbusters 2016.
I don't think there's reason to believe they're not just moving forward with Jonathan Majors. I find anytime people talk about the MCU replacing Kang's actor or the character's relevance to their ongoing narratives it's always based on conjecture and plays to public perceptions and nothing else. And, listen, I don't have a dog in this fight, I don't care about the issue itself but I do think it's pretty crummy to keep spreading an idea that floats around as if it's some badly kept secret that everyone knows is true. Because for as long as the idea has been rumored by all the second-hand journalists out there, as far as I can tell it has never had any factual basis. If anyone can refer me to actual proof that Jonathan Majors is, in fact, being considered for replacement at Marvel Studios as Kang, and not just an article where someone suggests that it is a possibility, please do.
I don’t think there is any actual proof yet that marvel is making moves to replace him, but the reason people are talking about it so much is because there is just no way they aren’t working on some sort of plan B. They need to be ready in case he does turn out to be guilty.
@@pugman9672 It's gonna be hard for him to "turn out to be guilty" considering a video released (that the prosecution team deliberately hid) showing the ex with literally 0 injuries (no broken middle finger, no ear laceration, absolutely no strangulation as they claimed) about 8 minutes after the alleged altercation happened and bragging to strangers about her being Majors's girlfriend. Then he walks by without even touching her like he wants nothing to do with her and she shouts after him and pushes away some other lady. There's also another video of her at the club the same night, again with no injuries. He's not being tried for "some shit a bunch of people posted on twitter to ride the wave", he's being tried for physical domestic violence, with video evidence that the woman in question wasn't even hurt in the least bit, and NYPD having "probable cause" to arrest the woman instead and then actually arresting her with two misdemeanor charges.
I'm so happy there was a X-Man in this film even though it wasn't the one I wanted nor the one that would've made the most sense to appear in a Captain Marvel film. So happy to see Kelsey Grammer's Beast *but it should've been Rogue and she should've been the villain*
Was it just me who thought afterlife was the final movie? I also think this could be good, I genuinely like the look of this modern Ghostbusters, not always can you bring back old stuff for a new era but they might have cracked it
Weekly Planet, Holy shit have you not seen The Fanatic directed by Fred Durst and starring John Travolta? The opening line is bout Travolta having to poop and It is just the most brilliantly awful thing you'll ever see. Highly suggest it. You 2 would absolutely love it.
God I hate what has happened to the Young Avengers because unlike most other teams they have a specific team with a few additions but the MCU has made everyone treat them like a dumping ground for any younger heroes and while at least the Avengers sorta kept their start having Kate assemble it completely ruins her role along with Cassie who were the second wave of the team and helped actually bring it together as a proper team. And it really gets me when people just completely ignore the fact that Hulkling has absolutely nothing to do with Hulk it was simply a name that the team choose to make them look more legitimate as the next generation he isn't a Hulk he's a Kree/Skrull hybrid and currently the Emperor of Space with his husband Wiccan. I also bet that they will barely have him and Wiccan together and will conveniently never show that Speed is Bi(because Vision can't produce a single Het kid lol).
"The Marvels" is an ok movie. My 8yr old daughter had a good time. I'd say it's a "Marvel Jr." movie. Just a fun popcorn flick for a family movie night. If you don't have kids tho, this is probably not for you. The quality is more Disney+ than MCU movie level.
COLLINS! You didn't leave time codes! I rely on you for those! Seriously, speaking to Batgirl and the Wile E Coyote movie, I don't understand how studios make money on these tax scams. You hire actors, costume designers, cinematographers, people to score the film, writers, craft services etc, you use time and resources to make this product, you pay people to be in focus groups and you complete the film only to not release it so that you can get 30 million dollars back?? Didn't you spend more than that to make the thing? How does it make sense to never release the product to get a small return that won't cover the cost? Isn't that still a loss?
