Classically Abby - HUSBAND VS. WIFE MOVIE REVIEW： Avengers： Endgame ｜｜ We had SO much to say...

00:00:00.000 Hello, beautiful ladies and handsome gentlemen, and welcome to today's video where we're going to be doing another round of husband versus wife movie reviews. 0.77

00:00:11.280 So, the plot of Avengers Endgame. So, we're going to assume we've seen the last movie because this is a sequel.

00:00:18.720 You don't have to assume that because I haven't seen the last movie.

00:00:21.580 Oh, yeah. Thanos, purple space tyrant who thinks the world's overpopulated, wants to cut it in half, gets magic gauntlet that can make your wishes reality.

00:00:33.700 He gets the stones that power it up. They're stones that relate to creation itself.

00:00:37.740 He's super powerful, wipes out half the universe, including half of Marvel's characters. Very sad.

00:00:43.520 Now, our heroes, devastated, want to do something about it. So, they end up finding a way to try and do something about it, maybe through time travel.

00:00:52.940 Go through time, pick up the stones and unite them, and then try and undo what Thanos did.

00:00:58.460 Drama, tension, conflict, and surprises ensue. That's our movie.

00:01:02.680 Cool. And so, our plan is that we are going to each take an index card and write a topic that we would like to discuss.

00:01:10.960 Yeah, you've got to hold it up for the camera. They need to understand that these are standard index cards.

00:01:15.220 They're beautiful. Yeah, Vanna White it.

00:01:17.120 Each one of us is going to write down a topic about the movie that we'd like to discuss, and then reveal.

00:01:22.960 And if we have the same topic, that would be funny. And if we don't, then we'll each discuss our own view of it, and then see what the other thinks.

00:01:31.000 Our idea is that, since we're not movie critics, we're coming here for fun.

00:01:36.180 And what's fun is to hear people talk about what they noticed, what stood out to them, and what mattered in the movie.

00:01:41.740 And there are movies where character doesn't matter. There are movies where it does, and it makes or breaks the movie.

00:01:46.680 So, that's what we're going to do here. Because, quite honestly, a systematic approach to this is not the way anyone normal like us is going to be watching the movie.

00:01:56.340 We'll leave that for film studies classes.

00:01:57.780 This is about just having fun talking about the interesting things of a movie.

00:02:04.220 Do you have two pens, or just one?

00:02:05.920 I have one pen, because I thought of myself.

00:02:08.320 Oh, this is marriage, friend.

00:02:10.040 Three, two, one.

00:02:13.500 What is it? What is your sit?

00:02:15.540 Oh, characters.

00:02:16.860 I have three characters I wanted to discuss.

00:02:20.560 Oh, I like this game. So, you say your three, and then I'll say my three.

00:02:22.860 Yeah. So, Robert Downey Jr.'s Iron Man, Karen Gillan's Nebula, and Brie Larson's Captain Marvel.

00:02:33.780 Yeah. So, I have Captain Marvel, Iron Man, and Black Widow.

00:02:38.420 So, which one do you want to start with? Let's do Iron Man.

00:02:41.580 Yeah.

00:02:42.400 So, Iron Man was the first Marvel Universe character introduced.

00:02:47.120 Yeah, yeah. I like how we are starting with me by you talking.

00:02:50.860 I'm starting.

00:02:51.320 So, Marvel introduced Iron Man first to the world, and Robert Downey Jr. is by far the best actor in all these movies.

00:03:00.260 I mean, he always has been, in my opinion.

00:03:03.300 Josh Broen did a really good job.

00:03:05.580 Right, but he's also not been in as many of them.

00:03:09.420 Right.

00:03:09.640 And Robert Downey Jr. just generally, I think, is a really wonderful actor, and he has taken time to really allow his character to develop from where he started to this movie.

00:03:22.060 And, uh, I think that they worked really well with him and with, uh, his character.

00:03:27.420 Yeah.

00:03:28.200 So, Iron Man.

00:03:28.960 Different in this movie as compared to other movies, because here, he comes across the most like a person, like a real character, rather than an assembly line kind of hero will say things to move the plot.

00:03:41.660 But, uh, oh, Quips and Robert Downey Jr. charisma that he was in previous movies.

00:03:46.060 Here, he ends up having a family.

00:03:48.340 He ends up having loved ones, which is different than any other Iron Man appearance.

00:03:52.180 And you can see that there's been a shift.

00:03:54.860 I gotta do it right to left here, because you all are looking at it.

00:03:57.660 Um, there's a shift in his character to a man who has discovered meaning and purpose on a real gut level.

00:04:04.080 Other than either the general heroics of, I wanna save everyone that all the heroes have.

00:04:08.640 Now it's a man with something actual real in front of him that he's kinda humble before.

00:04:13.580 He's humble before his duty as a father.

00:04:15.560 Now he's a husband.

00:04:16.520 He's humble before that.

00:04:17.480 Any sense of threat, and what's really, really nice, is this time travel plot that we mentioned before.

00:04:24.240 There's, of course, risk associated with it, as any heroic venture would be.

00:04:28.340 And for once, we get a hero who's had enough change in his life that now he doesn't want to assume the risk, at least at the beginning.

00:04:35.920 And that was a great feature.

00:04:38.440 Yeah.

00:04:38.580 Because it allows the movie to have themes of maturity, of not risking too much, of what being a hero can mean at multiple levels,

00:04:46.340 of who you have a duty to.

00:04:47.880 Yeah.

00:04:48.020 Are there greater good in theory, or people here and now, and am I going to risk the people here and now to help everyone, or is that not moral?

00:04:56.800 There's a case to be made for either one.

00:04:58.680 The movie's not philosophical.

00:05:00.100 It doesn't get into it.

00:05:01.380 But it does enough with it that finally it came across, like, a mainstream, blockbuster superhero movie that had enough themes to actually be mature enough to be nourishing from, like, an entertainment art perspective for someone who's beyond the age of just 12.

00:05:17.040 And this isn't to be kind of sending about any of the other ones.

00:05:20.100 It's just that it's a little too popcorn a lot of the time.

00:05:22.980 It's the same themes at the same level at the same depth a lot of the time.

00:05:26.000 And this movie brought it up, like, an age range, which was really to be appreciated.

00:05:30.580 And I would say that, like, not that we were going to talk about Ant-Man, but my two favorite characters in Endgame were Iron Man and Ant-Man, because I felt that they were the two most real characters.

00:05:41.400 Probably because they're the two that have a family.

00:05:43.460 Yes.

00:05:43.920 I think that's probably why.

00:05:44.960 Let me just put something out there.

00:05:47.960 We didn't see all of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

00:05:51.480 I've seen most.

00:05:52.220 Yeah, I've seen a lot of them, but I think that in a way that's a good thing, because that allows us to look at Endgame as a movie and a film and not as the culmination of all of these movies that we grew up with and we loved and adored.

00:06:04.120 So we're looking at it from a little bit more of a film perspective, not an emotional one.

00:06:08.700 A film perspective and a general art entertainment evaluation perspective.

00:06:15.100 So Iron Man.

00:06:16.740 So Captain Marvel is our next one.

00:06:19.820 Captain Marvel.

00:06:20.400 Captain Marvel.

00:06:21.540 Everything she says sounds like this.

00:06:25.880 It's really annoying.

00:06:26.720 Or this.

00:06:27.800 It's really annoying.

00:06:29.080 I haven't seen the Captain Marvel movie.

00:06:31.420 Neither have I.

00:06:32.420 And I have zero desire.

00:06:35.100 But Brie Larson is so charismatic in all of the pressers.

00:06:38.240 To be fair, I don't think Brie Larson is ever charismatic, so this didn't really surprise me.

00:06:43.560 But she immediately shows up and is like, well, I'm just going to take Thanos down.

00:06:46.980 And I was thinking, you know what?

00:06:49.480 No one else thought of that.

00:06:51.060 That's brilliant.

00:06:51.860 I mean, you've got a god, you've got super genius with technology that's world-changing.

00:06:57.640 You've got Gaia 1940s steroids with a piece of metal banged into a circle.

00:07:02.660 These guys couldn't defeat them all together.

00:07:04.620 I honestly was like, oh, are we just going to start the movie and this is going to be the

00:07:09.580 solution to everything?

00:07:10.340 So I was glad that that wasn't the immediate solution.

00:07:13.960 She immediately starts with her haughty, charisma-free, just stern, I'm better than you

00:07:18.940 all and I know it kind of routine.

00:07:20.940 And no one calls her on it.

00:07:23.000 Everyone's just like, yeah, you're right, Captain Marvel.

00:07:26.160 And then Thor just immediately is like, I like her.

00:07:30.180 So there's the idea of art of show, not tell.

00:07:34.720 But just having Thor immediately say, I like her.

00:07:37.460 She's a member of the crew.

00:07:39.180 Oh, we dreaded what we thought was going to happen and for being a big part of the movie.

00:07:43.800 She was not.

00:07:44.280 She was not, thank goodness.

00:07:45.280 But she does get a major haircut and that made her worse. 1.00

00:07:47.680 But Thanos, hypothetically, when he took out half the population, took out half randomly,

00:07:52.580 it wasn't randomly.

00:07:53.880 It was every competent hairstylist in the universe wiped out.

00:07:57.880 Done.

00:07:58.660 Gone.

00:07:59.080 The five-year time skip in which mistakes were made.

00:08:02.860 There's nothing earned.

00:08:03.980 She's just told, we're told that she's the most powerful and there's no heroic character.

00:08:07.780 There's no character there.

00:08:08.780 It's just that she's better and she's strong and everyone knows it and everyone recognizes

00:08:13.740 and she acts very arrogant, very dismissive.

00:08:17.680 And that's not fun.

00:08:19.020 Thematically, does not fit in with what's compelling and charismatic about the series.

00:08:23.320 It comes down to her feeling like she thinks she's better than everyone else.

00:08:27.240 And I think that's true.

00:08:28.220 And the movie not calling her out for it.

00:08:29.100 Yeah, and I was going to say, I think that's true of Brie Larson generally, is that she thinks 0.64

00:08:32.960 that Captain Marvel is better than all these other characters who we've come to know and

00:08:36.680 love.

00:08:37.020 So you speaking down to everyone, not really going to work for us as an audience.

00:08:42.280 Bam.

00:08:42.580 So Black Widow was the character I wanted to talk about.

00:08:46.040 She was one of the characters who had a terrible dye job. 0.78

00:08:49.220 Her hair was really bad.

00:08:50.720 I thought it was really interesting how over the course of the series, she started off as

00:08:55.380 this really big sex symbol because Scarlett Johansson is a sex symbol. 1.00

00:08:58.420 And by the end, she's still a sex symbol just because Scarlett Johansson is beautiful. 0.91

00:09:03.100 But that's really not the point of her character.

00:09:05.080 The point of her character is that she's kind of everyone's big sister or their mom.

00:09:09.840 And she is really taking care of everybody and taking them on this role, not of being

00:09:14.760 a hot woman who can fight, but she's really the emotional caretaker for most of the men. 0.67

00:09:19.940 For many of them.

00:09:21.080 Yeah, for many of the men in the movie.

00:09:23.460 And it's not really even about how well she can fight or any of the other aspects.

00:09:27.620 Although she does.

00:09:28.640 Yeah, she does.

00:09:29.280 It's just really, I thought that was a really interesting take on her, especially given

00:09:33.400 that there is obvious sexualization of most women superheroes because they're in really

00:09:39.600 tight outfits and they're fighting in kind of sexy ways.

00:09:42.500 And that's, is what it is.

00:09:44.960 I just thought it was interesting that they kind of reeled that back and went into her

00:09:49.060 as like a sister figure.

00:09:49.840 Not mention her because that's an over, that's exaggeration.

00:09:52.940 But just, yeah, a more thoughtful, emotional, and very platonic relationship with everyone.

00:10:01.260 Especially Hawkeye.

00:10:02.160 That worked really well for having the two normie human characters on the cast being emotionally

00:10:07.960 there.

00:10:08.300 Black Widow now has her surrogate family in this team. 0.51

00:10:12.100 And they kind of previously mentioned, oh, she's a Russian super assassin who's had like 0.99

00:10:17.140 all emotion drained from her as part of her training.

00:10:19.780 But now she has a team, and I think that's been nice to see with the character if you

00:10:24.000 stop to think about it.

00:10:24.800 So I gave her the thumbs up.

00:10:26.280 A sleeper hit of a character for me, or not really a hit, because I noticed it, I appreciated

00:10:31.300 it, but it's not like a big part of the entertainment value of the movie.

00:10:35.420 It was the character of Nebula.

00:10:36.800 What's been nice to see is she started as a one note, I'm dark action girl, I'm gonna

00:10:42.020 kill all the enemies of Thanos, yada yada, and I hate my sister, and I'm ruled by hate.

00:10:46.240 And then Guardians of the Galaxy 1 and Guardians of the Galaxy 2, she actually has her big 0.54

00:10:51.720 weird turnaround moment where she becomes sisters with her sister effects, spending 1.00

00:10:55.140 all her rage and realizing it's futile, and that her sister Gamora does not return it.

00:10:59.460 And now she's been integrated into the team, the last movie, and then even more so this

00:11:04.300 movie.

00:11:04.800 And it was really interesting to see this character remain dark in the sense that she

00:11:09.580 has a sensitive stakes.

00:11:10.600 She is her pain from her abuse of Thanos' father, but she's been redeemed, and now

00:11:16.140 she's on the right side, because she's let go of the more embittering aspects of the things

00:11:21.220 she's been through, and now is an eye towards, pain is bad, I suffered a bad thing.

00:11:25.500 So the thing to do about it is prevent it for others, while maintaining a serious outlook.

00:11:29.620 And she's still grim and husky and everything like that with her voice and her outlook.

00:11:33.760 Grim and husky.

00:11:34.500 Yeah, Karen Gillan's not husky, so I want to be clear about that.

00:11:37.160 Karen Gillan got into shape for the movie, she looks great.

00:11:39.340 It's just, it's been nice to see a multi-film redemptive art that is not shallow, it's

00:11:46.700 not stupid, not a big feature of the movie.

00:11:48.700 The Tony Stark character change was much more compelling. 0.98

00:11:51.360 Yeah.

00:11:51.800 But I really like what they did, and for a character who's relatively minor, but made

00:11:57.520 a main stage player, more or less, for this movie, it was nice to see that level of depth

00:12:01.980 and thought put into it.

00:12:03.000 I will say, husband versus wife, I agree about the character.

00:12:07.140 I just, her voice actually really did annoy me, because I didn't really feel like it

00:12:12.180 gave her enough range as an actress to really show, I understood the point of it, but I

00:12:17.820 was like, oh, okay.

00:12:18.500 And the makeup, and her being half a robot. 1.00

00:12:21.100 All these get in the way of Shakespearean style acting and communicating human expressions.

00:12:27.680 Yeah, mm-hmm.

00:12:28.440 Yeah.

00:12:28.740 I appreciated it, and I liked it, and I want to see that done more often, and it added

00:12:32.940 some value.

00:12:33.560 So, 60 degree, if that is approximate, thumbs...

00:12:36.960 One, two, three.

00:12:41.220 What did you write?

00:12:43.020 Writing is what I wrote.

00:12:45.100 I wrote plot.

00:12:46.680 First, I want to get out of the way of criticism I have of the movie, because overall I thought

00:12:51.960 it was very good, but there was something that they didn't do well, which was tone in

00:12:57.860 the movie.

00:12:58.940 They were pretty inconsistent at times with the tone that they were achieving, and it

00:13:04.360 undercut what did work about the movie, right?

00:13:06.860 I liked how they were more serious in this movie.

00:13:10.160 I liked Robert Downey Jr.'s Tony Stark seriousness.

00:13:12.680 A bunch of the other characters, like you said, about Ant-Man, more real, more serious.

00:13:17.960 And again, it's a very fun movie, but what makes it more appealing is that the characters

00:13:23.220 have stakes, and they feel it, and also they're reeling from the biggest disaster anyone's

00:13:27.800 ever experienced.

00:13:28.960 And so you have moments where people are grappling with that, and they equips, and that just

00:13:35.060 brought me out of the scene when that happened.

00:13:37.600 Yeah.

00:13:37.740 And so there's a metaphor I like to use here, which if we think of the movie as a giant ship,

00:13:44.000 this is a hole in the boat.

00:13:45.620 Now, this is not a big hole.

00:13:47.700 It's like a fist-sized punch and a very big-sized ship.

00:13:52.340 So for the duration of that ship's travel, it's not going to be waterlogged.

00:13:56.140 It's not going to sink.

00:13:57.020 We're not going to have a problem.

00:13:58.380 Nonetheless, you don't want holes in your boat.

00:14:01.580 And if you're a viewer thinking about what works or doesn't work in movies, if you're

00:14:05.660 an audience demanding things in a movie, trying to set the tone for what's considered good

00:14:09.140 art, or good entertainment at the very least, a good rule is to not have holes in the boats.

00:14:15.360 Even if it's not going to sink this one, it's good to know what causes holes in the boats.

00:14:20.100 So that's my view towards it.

00:14:21.280 So I'm going to give an example.

00:14:22.860 Yeah.

00:14:23.120 An example is Thor's character in this movie, right?

00:14:25.700 So previous Marvel movies, he was fun and funny, and then he became steadily more comedic

00:14:32.000 over time.

00:14:32.680 The third of Thor movie, he's an outright comedic character at many moments, and Chris Hemsworth

00:14:37.320 is good at it.

00:14:38.780 Yeah, he's a good comedic actor.

00:14:40.520 I just want to put that out there.

00:14:41.580 I think he's really funny.

00:14:42.600 He gets everything.

00:14:43.560 He gets the height.

00:14:44.640 He gets the looks.

00:14:45.640 He gets the charisma.

00:14:46.520 I would describe Thor as having gone off the rails in some ways in response to the big

00:14:52.680 tragedy that has happened.

00:14:54.440 I know we're kind of assuming that people have seen the movie, but nonetheless, if you

00:14:57.780 haven't, it's so fun what they've done with him in this way, I don't want to ruin it for

00:15:01.740 you.

00:15:02.380 But he's gone off the rails in response to the psychological tragedy of what Thanos did.

00:15:07.960 Okay, we got stakes.

00:15:09.320 Okay, this is serious.

00:15:10.920 Except how he went off the rails is really, really darn funny.

00:15:13.940 It's inherently comedic. 0.97

00:15:15.380 It's inherently silly.

00:15:16.820 And so we'll get moments where he's very serious talking about what caused him to go off

00:15:21.340 the rails, and it hits you.

00:15:22.600 Okay, but then the next second, it's just funny, and jokes are played off of how he's

00:15:27.260 gone off the rails.

00:15:28.520 And a movie can have humor right alongside tragedy by having it be dark humor, by making

00:15:34.140 it a coping mechanism, stuff like that.

00:15:36.520 This isn't that.

00:15:37.560 This is dark.

00:15:39.020 And then, hey, now we're in light, fun, happy mode.

00:15:41.040 I will say, I think that's kind of like Marvel's thing, but yeah, I agree.

00:15:45.320 I did feel that way.

00:15:46.300 I was thinking more of like Don Cheadle's character, whose name I literally cannot remember,

00:15:52.500 so I'm just going to call him War Machine.

00:15:54.840 Other Iron Man.

00:15:56.480 Iron Supplement Man.

00:15:58.340 Fortified Iron Man.

00:15:59.500 Oh, he is bigger and bulky.

00:16:02.120 Yeah, right, right, right, right.

00:16:03.780 And I think that, yeah, he would kind of say things that the audience felt like they should

00:16:10.160 laugh, but didn't.

00:16:11.200 So it was a little bit awkward.

00:16:13.360 That was my interpretation.

00:16:14.840 Yeah.

00:16:15.160 I wrote down a plot, but I probably should have written down tactics.

00:16:18.060 In the first 15 minutes, a few of the characters decide that they're going to go and attack

00:16:25.140 Thanos with, you know, no plan in place, and that kind of drove me crazy because later in

00:16:31.380 the movie, they actually do come up with a plan, and they come up with great tactics,

00:16:34.640 and both times it works, and I don't feel like it should.

00:16:37.880 It should be something where if you make a plan, then it works, and if you go in with

00:16:41.560 just the heat of your emotions behind you, it's not going to work.

00:16:44.500 And they really, the only reason that they succeeded in that first 15-minute segment was

00:16:49.380 because of, it was lucky.

00:16:51.100 The worst part about this plan is that it was Captain Marvel's plan, and it was all part

00:16:56.880 of her, I can do no wrong, I am the best, I am the strongest, what I want goes, what

00:17:03.320 you're going to challenge me, and no one does.

00:17:05.280 That was my issue as far as the plot.

00:17:09.280 There were other things in the plot that were also kind of annoying, but generally, most

00:17:13.700 of the movie was well put together.

00:17:15.860 Yeah, the story in many ways was a contravence for character moments, especially with time

00:17:22.160 travel.

00:17:22.940 Time travel is in many ways kind of an inherently fan service thing, because it doesn't mean

00:17:28.040 it has to be bad, but it's, you're going back in time to be like, ooh, as a fan, what

00:17:33.180 if this character was there for this event?

00:17:35.000 To your point about characters going in with no tactics being something that was annoying

00:17:40.660 and took you out of things?

00:17:42.380 When characters go in with no tactics in a movie like this, you kind of end up in a bad

00:17:48.780 binary situation.

00:17:50.480 Either your heroes win with no tactics and any emotion, in which case, how big was the threat

00:17:56.680 that they can just do that?

00:17:57.980 Exactly.

00:17:58.460 That evaporates tension.

00:17:59.880 Or, they fail.

00:18:01.820 And they fail in the context of not taking things seriously enough or professionally enough

00:18:07.560 that they had even a plan.

00:18:09.080 Why have they not taken the consequences of either one seriously enough to even think

00:18:13.080 of what you, how you strike it as?

00:18:14.840 Which is why I thought that Marvel's character was a joke, because she just... 0.99

00:18:19.300 Captain Marvel's character.

00:18:20.440 That's...

00:18:20.920 Sorry, you say Marvel.

00:18:21.800 Right, that's the thing.

00:18:23.020 Captain Marvel's character is a joke, because I just think she, she thinks she's so powerful

00:18:28.900 that she can literally do anything without a plan, and that's not entertaining.

00:18:33.380 It's not entertaining, it's not dramatic, it's not likable.

00:18:35.720 It's not likable.

00:18:36.640 If you're that powerful that you don't need a plan, then I have no interest in watching

00:18:41.440 you do anything.

00:18:42.600 And if you're not powerful enough, then you need to come up with a plan.

00:18:47.060 What is yours saying?

00:18:49.120 Genre.

00:18:49.980 Oh, mine says lesson.

00:18:50.940 The lesson, I thought, of this movie was really nice.

00:18:54.720 I think it's easy in Marvel movies, in comic book movies, in superhero movies, to just

00:18:59.520 make it about good versus bad, and good should win, even though the forces of bad are usually

00:19:04.560 stronger, and...

00:19:06.220 And less restrained.

00:19:07.860 Yes.

00:19:08.580 And so, I think that that's still a good lesson, but I think it's one that's not as relevant

00:19:14.580 to someone who's a little bit older and kind of knows that already.

00:19:17.620 I thought that the lesson in this movie was actually something that could expand beyond

00:19:22.820 the boundaries of, you know, something, a morality that a 12-year-old or 13-year-old

00:19:29.480 needs to learn.

00:19:30.560 I really liked the idea that it talked about, which, to me, was the importance of kind of

00:19:36.140 a happy home life.

00:19:37.980 Tony in the movie has grown because he has a family.

00:19:41.200 And as soon as somebody has a family, and we can view them as more similar to ourselves

00:19:46.480 as a person who wants to live a life dedicated to raising a new generation, I found that really

00:19:53.060 moving and meaningful.

00:19:54.800 And that applies to a few other characters in the movie as well.

00:19:57.880 And I think that that's what gives the movie its lesson, and I think it's what makes this

00:20:02.040 Marvel movie the best of the ones that we've seen.

00:20:05.280 So, actually, my idea of genre here was really the same idea as lesson for you, which is

00:20:13.240 it was interesting to me what this movie was able to achieve within the genre of superhero

00:20:20.700 action comic book movie.

00:20:22.980 Because, for the most part, these movies, rather formulaicingly that they've been done, that's

00:20:28.040 especially been a criticism of the Marvel movies, that standard origin sequence plot for

00:20:32.940 all the characters, second act, everything like that.

00:20:36.160 Whereas, for this movie, it actually, it didn't break the mold.

00:20:40.220 Again, these are normal stories to tell.

00:20:42.180 They're all in the mainstream.

00:20:43.500 But, for what Marvel's been doing, this was the most adult.

00:20:46.140 And I keep stressing that because I was surprised by it and so much more entertained.

00:20:51.420 Yes.

00:20:51.740 But, to what you were saying about the lesson, what I like that they did with the genre is

00:20:55.740 they went beyond the struggle and heroic journey of just, hero, put self on the line for the

00:21:03.960 greater good, as an abstract thing, the city, or the nation, or the entire universe.

00:21:09.240 These are unreal concepts.

00:21:10.740 They don't actually exist.

00:21:11.960 And really what the hero is doing in a lot of these cases, especially if they're more

00:21:14.960 immature and thrill-seeking, the way Iron Man was or whatever, is they're kind of doing

00:21:20.300 it for glory.

00:21:21.220 In a way, they're doing it for them.

00:21:22.320 They're not really sacrificing something because they care less about them than they

00:21:26.920 do the idea of the greater good.

00:21:29.240 Real sacrifice in heroism is having something you really care about and being willing to

00:21:35.460 risk it for the sake of something that is a greater good that might be a little less

00:21:41.260 real to you or compelling, but you know as well.

00:21:44.300 This isn't a profound or novel thing, but it's this genre grappling with it on a level

00:21:50.340 of kind of realism and authenticity just to life as the audience will experience it as

00:21:55.360 normal people that you can take more from it, right?

00:21:59.020 Just you feel the characters kind of stakes more and you feel the sense that, you know,

00:22:03.520 it isn't boldening.

00:22:04.920 It is ennobling.

00:22:06.020 It is hardening to be willing to sacrifice yourself for something meaningful for a family

00:22:12.060 or like a close kin group and things like that.

00:22:13.900 And it's kind of motivating to do it, you know, good entertainment slash light art will

00:22:18.800 be inspiring in that way.

00:22:20.000 And this movie gave you a stronger sense of heroism, really feeling it for these characters

00:22:25.300 rather than mind-numbing action sequence again for the vague idea of the greater good that

00:22:30.840 no one ever really can interact with.

00:22:32.860 You can interact with family.

00:22:34.080 You can feel sacrificed there.

00:22:35.580 You can't do it for just the faceless concept of all of people.

00:22:40.320 Yeah.

00:22:41.280 So I like that.

00:22:42.140 I would give this a 5 out of 5 stars.

00:22:45.520 I.

00:22:46.740 Asterisk.

00:22:47.560 I will give this.

00:22:49.840 Are you saying you want to put a little star?

00:22:51.380 I'm putting a 6 star, but it's a different one.

00:22:56.000 Asterisk.

00:22:56.640 And I'm going to explain my 5.

00:22:58.780 Okay.

00:22:59.100 Well, I wanted to say that I would give this 4 and a half stars.

00:23:02.440 So why would you give this 5 stars?

00:23:03.700 No, no, no, no.

00:23:04.460 Why your 4 and a half stars?

00:23:06.100 I would give this 4 and a half stars because I think for this genre, this is my issue.

00:23:10.060 I think with rating systems generally is that they're not within their drama.

00:23:13.220 So it's kind of, or within their genre.

00:23:15.260 So we're just preempting my explanation for the asterisk, I see.

00:23:18.660 Oh, I didn't know that's what you guys said.

00:23:19.940 That's entirely what the asterisk was.

00:23:21.980 Yeah.

00:23:22.220 Well, so that's my point.

00:23:23.280 Is that I think that a lot of the time we'll say 5 out of 5 stars, but you know, you're comparing

00:23:28.340 Marvel Universe to what?

00:23:32.760 Casablanca?

00:23:33.240 Like, you're not going to compare those two things.

00:23:35.940 You have to compare them within their genre.

00:23:38.000 And Marvel Universe, Cinematic Universe is its own genre at this point.

00:23:42.560 I mean, it's superhero movies.

00:23:43.900 So superhero movies, popcorn movies, movies you go to to get just kind of light entertainment.

00:23:49.660 And I thought that it raised itself above the level of just entertainment.

00:23:54.140 It had more meat to it.

00:23:55.960 But I'm taking off a half star just because I thought that there were a few plot devices

00:24:00.580 I really didn't like that much.

00:24:02.520 And just a couple of the things that we mentioned, some of the characters were annoying.

00:24:06.420 But generally, overall, 4 and a half out of 5 stars.

00:24:09.600 Yeah.

00:24:10.040 So I'm going to give my 5 out of 5.

00:24:12.200 And that's exactly what you said.

00:24:14.220 Every genre is in its own lane of what it's intending to do.

00:24:18.280 Its purposes, what defines the objective of what the movie is going to achieve.

00:24:22.740 And so for a superhero movie, it is entertainment.

00:24:26.380 It's to spend an enjoyable one and a half to, I guess in this case, three hours and one minute of your time

00:24:32.820 in a way that just does not compare to two hours of your time spent on something that's art that you grapple with.

00:24:40.340 They're not meant to be fun.

00:24:41.720 They're meant to be satisfying that you went through this and you got something from it.

00:24:44.820 Maybe you've learned or you've changed because it's really challenged you.

00:24:48.120 That's not this.

00:24:49.160 So why would I evaluate something doing that challenge thing well in the same way and with

00:24:54.740 the same kind of score that it would, something that's trying to achieve entertainment well?

00:24:58.420 So this movie, trying to be entertainment, trying to be the most comic book movie that there

00:25:02.280 could be.

00:25:02.840 And I would say that 5 out of 5, why?

00:25:05.320 This was the most comic book movie that there could be.

00:25:09.520 I could do without some of the ending little sequence elements, but that's not going to

00:25:13.660 take a 5 out of 5 away from a three hour and one minute long movie for me.

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