What is up bros and welcome to the All Bros Podcast.
I am Jonathan.
And I'm Caleb.
And I am Sam..
ă
Sorry, man.
Anyway, we already said our names, right?
I think so. OK.
I sure hope so.
Well, we're a couple of bros on a mission to give you guys
the most detailed movie reviews out there with as little bias as possible.
Welcome to the Albrose.
This week on the podcast,
we got something to talk about with 4K Spotlight,
a movie that me and Caleb definitely both enjoyed.
It's come to 4K.
And then we got nothing for through the wall.
So we'll be jumping into our headliner, which we did have to change
because we read the dates wrong for a for dumb money.
So oops, doesn't it doesn't actually come out recently because like
I think they did because frickin so I watched Grace Randolph's movie mass
and she was playing like how
how dumb money just had like a really bad premiere and everything.
I'm just like, OK, maybe she maybe she also got the dates wrong
because, yeah, this is like the limited release numbers.
This isn't like the this isn't like the theatrically wide release numbers yet.
So I have no life.
I just have my phones in my hand at all times.
Sounds like me. I feel you there, Sam.
Dude, same here.
I'm like so rarely on my social media anymore.
I'm always on ours doing random. That's awesome.
Like my my social media has gotten like weird, like,
and I can always tell when I'm like there used to be a point
when I was switching back and forth. And so like
the Albrows social media and my social media was like pretty similar.
Yeah. Now I can instantly tell when mine or when I'm on mine
because I'm like, oh, that's weird.
And if you weren't like, oh, that's fine.
If it weren't for like
Messenger being the way that we text each other, honestly,
I would just delete my Facebook and just use the Albrows one because I don't know.
I don't even use Facebook.
Really, it's pointless to me now. So.
Yeah. But.
Is what it is, dude.
It's so funny because it's like that my the way that I message you is on Facebook.
I message.
My brother on Snapchat.
I message Brielle on Instagram.
Like there are so few people in my life that I actually just text.
Dude, literally the only people that I text are for work or people, people that I work with.
That is literally the only people that I text.
So, you know, same.
But yet, you know, like text is like the only I don't know.
It seems that you think that, you know, you're paying for unlimited, you know,
talk and text that you'd actually take advantage of it.
But no, I don't do that.
I don't do that.
I rarely even call people to.
That's usually also just for work.
It's like the frickin bullshit, like I like technically
I have to use data to message everyone in my personal life
when I could.
And then like everyone that I text for work is like technically free
because I have like unlimited talk and text, but I have limited data.
So my how the hell does that make sense?
That's phone companies for you, man.
Mm hmm.
Um, shit.
Anyway.
Yeah, I went through the agenda.
So, Caleb, what do you say we get started?
I say let's do it.
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All right. Well, jumping into a 4K spotlight,
we have.
Elemental coming out to 4K and Blu-ray,
and it seems like this Disney is starting to do a very interesting
tactic with their physical releases,
at least starting from The Little Mermaid.
And I'm assuming onward, which is also a Pixar movie.
That was stupid.
But yeah, so like I said, elemental coming to Blu-ray and 4K.
But if you if you want it, so I'm just going to really skip over here.
If you want to get just the regular 4K here,
you have to be subscribed to Disney Movie Club.
That is the only way to get it.
So that was the same case with The Little Mermaid.
So it seems like this is the way that Disney is going,
which I'm just assuming it's to get people to
subscribe more to Disney Movie Club, which, you know, I'm all for that.
Like, I love being a part of the Disney Movie Club.
The only thing that sucks about it is
so you get a notification every single month about your feature title
and you only have a certain amount of time to respond to it.
And if you don't either accept it or decline it,
you automatically receive the item and you're you're charged.
So it does.
And it's happened to me in the past.
It was just this past holiday season.
I forgot to respond to one for this, like for Christmas classics,
Blu-ray set.
Yeah, all of a sudden, I got a package in the mail from Disney Movie Club.
What the hell? I didn't order anything.
And man, there was.
Dude, that is so shady.
It should be the other way around.
That that's seriously pulling like,
hey, don't respond if you want us to send stuff to you and charge you money.
That's that's I mean, that's how the Disney Movie Club is.
Bullshit. In a float, man.
I know. Freaking robbing people.
All right. Oh, you don't get notifications.
That sucks.
Tough times.
Tough tits.
Um, hey, man, you get a you get a cool ass lithograph with most purchases.
So at least there's that.
That's that is so freaking shady, dude.
I mean, but it's Disney. Are you surprised?
Wish I could say I was.
But yeah, so.
So this is just the regular four K.
Modern day Columbia House Records.
Yeah, I think we are.
Yeah, we are too young.
Sorry, Sam.
I have no idea what studio that is.
Yeah, so I said this is the the basic four K.
All the way you can get is through Disney Movie Club.
I like the simplicity, honestly.
And I actually like this better than the Blu-ray cover.
I don't I don't know.
When it comes to Wade and Ember,
I kind of like them.
I don't know.
I like the simplicity of that.
It's Wade upside down, her looking at him, and then it's just a black background.
I don't necessarily care for the.
Background, I think that they kind of
stand out a little bit more on like the bright.
Background like the other the other one to show the first one that we we showed.
I like so let's go back to that one.
Here is. Yeah, like I like the I mean, Wade doesn't.
But I mean, Ember pops really well and there.
I don't know. Like I like the.
I mean, this usually isn't my style, but.
I usually like prefer the darker simplistic backgrounds,
but I like something about this one.
I think you're going to really like the steelbook then.
OK, so yeah, so this is the regular Blu-ray cover, regular 4K.
Next up, we have the Walmart exclusive.
Oh, I like that one. Right.
This one's good.
And it seems like they're going away from the collectible pins
and they're bringing in lenticular covers.
They're bringing back lenticular slip covers.
And I am all for that because lenticular is so freaking cool.
And I wish more studios did them still.
All right, so let's see.
Eleven CDs for. Oh, I've heard of that system before.
You have to buy like six more.
You know, someone's coming in this, you know, the back and no.
Dude, dude, yeah, this is sort of Disney Movie Club,
because when you first signed up, you got how many was it?
It was like four Blu-rays for a dollar.
And yeah, then you were.
And then you had to reach.
So it was four movies.
So for either Blu-rays or DVDs for a dollar.
And then you had to buy a certain amount of movies
before a certain date to reach your commitment.
Otherwise, if you didn't, you would be charged full price
for all of the movies that you got for a dollar.
Dude, that is bullshit.
That is the Disney Movie Club.
Dude, it sounds like highway frickin robbery.
I'm not that proud to say how fast I reached my commitment status, but.
That doesn't surprise me for someone who's a movie fan.
That doesn't surprise me for someone like like you that collects all this stuff.
But I mean, that still seems like a super shady deal.
Like that seems like something where a kid would see, oh, four Blu-ray
or I get four movies for a dollar and they like steal their mom's credit card
because mom's not going to miss a dollar and then ends up getting charged like.
Whatever full price is for the day.
So probably like 80 bucks after after tax and shipping close to 100. Oh, my.
Hell, yeah.
And then how many so you had to buy four or you had to buy
how many did you have to buy?
So you had so you had to select four and it was kind of I don't
I don't know how like selective they were on the ones that you chose, because
when I did mine, I got
I got a goofy movie and holes, which were exclusively on Blu-ray to Disney
Movie Club.
I got the Disney Movie Club exclusive slip cover
edition for Ron's Gone Wrong and then the Blu-ray exclusive for Encanto.
Well. OK.
And then so how many did you have to purchase
to reach your commitment?
I think it was six. Dude, that is some horse shit.
Like, let me let me double check here,
because I don't want to give you misinformation.
Columbia House would send you stuff that was probably pirated
quite often, the CD's were blank inside.
Holy shit.
Dude, with a shady situation like this, I'm surprised.
Friggin Disney didn't do that.
I mean, I mean, it ended up being like pirated versions of their own shit.
But still.
That dude, this seems like a friggin like mafia shit.
So I listen, we're going to give you these give you these these movies.
And like you only got got to select like a certain four, right?
I think so.
Yeah. So it's like, we'll let you pick not out of our full selection,
out of this very limited selection.
We'll give it to you for a dollar.
But you have to purchase six more DVDs.
OK, so it was to reach your commitment.
So it was five.
So I guess since I committed or I was able to
get to commitment status so fast or maybe just because I actually did do it,
I got I'm a super VIP now.
So so with that, so I got the exclusive light year version.
I got the exclusive Thor, the Thor Love and Thunder.
I got Nightmare Before Christmas.
They're exclusive.
That Christmas four pack that I was telling you about, which friggin two of the movies
I've never even actually seen.
It was Jingle All the Way, Home Alone, Miracle on 34th Street and
A Christmas Carol.
A Christmas Carol, dude, all.
And then sorry, the fifth one was the original Aladdin.
They're exclusive. So when.
OK, I got to tell you, when you were saying what you did
and like how you reached the elite VIP status, right?
OK, all I could imagine was like some shady New York, like mafia
a leader that's just like, hey, would you look at this guy?
Let's give him that elite status.
Oh, my God.
Oh, that's fantastic, dude.
Dude, that's exactly like because I've already I already think that this is like
a shady mafia deal because it's like.
I mean, obviously, they're not going to come like break your legs or anything,
but it feels like that's kind of what they're threatening.
No, dude, seriously, like purchase these five or we're going.
We're going to come and we'll we'll find you like.
The more that like I'm a part of it, the more I'm like, OK, yeah,
like your tactics are kind of shady and like they're kind of like bullshit
because so I said I forgot to respond to Guardians three.
And so they charged me for the regular four K and shipped it to me,
but I didn't want the regular four K.
So I shipped it back to them.
I shipped it back, I think, like two weeks ago.
And they said it takes six to seven weeks to receive your refund.
Of course it does.
Yeah, of course it freaking does.
That's how the mafia works, Rose.
This is bullshit.
We'll get you your money when you get it.
Yeah.
Oh, my God.
It's a disrespect fee.
Did I just because I disrespected the mouse?
OK. Mm hmm.
Holy shit.
Half of my school were probably part of that crime family.
Holy shit.
I love it.
Rose, your Columbia house.
Go to hell.
Dude, freaking I know I'm a slave to the mouse, I'll admit it.
Holy shit.
The mouse is a frickin mob boss, dude.
Ha ha. Yeah.
And instead of breaking your legs, he just steals your money.
Oh.
Like he like whispers to you like, hey, you want this exclusive thing?
And when you're like, what?
And he's already reaching in your pocket.
Night now, man, it's fine.
But don't worry, Disney needs this money.
I mean, for the quarter that they've reported, I'm sure they do.
And is that due to strikes or is that due to shitty business?
It's due to shitty business box office failures. Yeah.
Dude, I'm still on team like
movie theaters aren't doing as well as they they used to anymore.
No, they're not, because like, yeah, the streaming
when with Covid truly killed the movie theaters, because nowadays
with how fast these movies roll out to digital, people are just like, OK,
I'm only going to see movie.
I'm only going to see movies and theaters that I feel are worthy of paying
that extra price that that are that need to be seen on the big screen.
Because even if like most like most rentals nowadays, if like
it's only a couple of weeks after it comes out in theaters, it's 30 bucks to rent it.
Or no, it's 25 to rent it, 30 to buy it.
But I mean, if you're watching it with a couple of people, that 25 bucks,
if you're like charging like what, like even on like a five dollar
Tuesday or shit like that, like that's going to add up fast
and you're going to make that money back super easily and especially for,
you know, like smaller films and like I'm going to unfortunately say like elemental
or like TMNT, Mutant Mayhem.
Some people probably don't think that those are worth seeing on the big screen.
I feel mutant mayhem is maybe not elemental.
I loved elemental, but I don't know if it's like worthy of seeing on the big screen.
They were just going to be like, OK, either I'm going to just rent it
on digital when it first comes out, or I'm just going to wait till Disney
plus. I think the movie theater industry is going to have to totally revamp
what it is because I agree like.
Like I'm in total agreeance with you.
There are definitely some movies that need to be seen on the big screen,
and it's like these big blockbuster films, anything Marvel,
frickin anything, Christopher Nolan, anything like all these big names,
all these big names, those movies kind of need to be seen on the big screen.
I think that movie theaters,
not the big ones like Cinemark, AMC, whatever.
I don't think those ones are going to be affected too much
as long as they keep bringing in the big blockbuster movies.
But the little theaters are going to be the ones that get hit.
And I think the the smaller movie theaters, they're trying to keep up.
They're like, oh, like these people want to see the new shit.
And so they get.
I think they put themselves in a bind trying to get their hands on
like the new movies for people to see.
I think they just need to go balls of the wall and be like,
we're just going to re-release old movies.
No, and honestly, I think that's a really good idea,
because there's a lot of movies that I would love to see on the big screen.
I never got a chance to like
a couple of months ago, Cinemark.
So actually, two two occurrences here.
One, Cinemark, I think they do this like every year,
but they actually were showcasing the original Halloween on the big screen
for one night only.
I was able to catch the screening at Orem Cinemark.
Absolutely fricking loved it.
It was so cool seeing that movie on the big screen.
It felt like a brand new movie. I loved it.
And then a couple of weeks ago,
I think after I saw Oppenheimer,
Fathom Events was showcasing a core line to celebrate its anniversary.
So I was able to finally see that one on the big screen.
Absolutely worth it.
Felt like a new movie.
So, yeah, if they're willing to dish out these these old movies
and put them back on the big screen,
people I feel are willing to pay maybe not like full price,
like like the twelve to fifteen dollars,
but like maybe just like a little cheaper,
like say like you're going to like an evening showing.
I pay like eight to ten bucks to see like the original Halloween on the big screen
or the original Ghostbusters.
That is a dream of mine to see the original Ghostbusters on the big screen.
The local Sticky Shoes going to old releases.
Dude, they should.
Like it seemed. Yeah, no, Sam's got a point.
He seemed from what I saw.
So after Sticky Shoe went out of business,
someone bought it out and called it the Old Town Hub.
And like they would do like magic shows.
They would do live like live events there.
And unfortunately, just they recently announced that they just they can't keep it open.
Just business isn't doing as well.
And so it's being sold to a company that is actually going to start showcasing movies again there.
Oh, man. Dude, my.
OK, so I have this weird experience when I went to go see Gran Turismo.
So I went into the movie theater at like.
1230 and it was like dead.
Like dead, dead.
So like I I I went I got there and I didn't think they were open.
Like that's how freaking dead it was. It was damn, bro.
But I walked in and all the employees were sitting around goofing off on their phones
and then they saw me and then they all like got their positions and everything.
But I was walking through the theater after Gran Turismo got out
and like I went to the restroom kind of down the hall and was just kind of like walking around.
And I'm like, dude, I kind of want to own a frickin movie theater.
It would be really cool.
I know. Like it's just like I.
It's like it has every single like little aspect that I think would intrigue me and keep me interested.
Like it's a lot of like construction, fixing stuff up, throwing stuff, like trying to be creative with it
and like trying to find those little like ins and outs of like, hey, like what's going to draw people in?
I have to get creative because it's like I can't spend too much money to put on like this big deal or whatever.
Like I would love to be able to just kind of be like, screw it.
I want to go see this movie and like basically like have a I could have a theater to myself if I so chose.
Yeah, it's true. And just like others.
But just random stuff like that, like it's just like, hey, if I have like a little arcade, like I can go and fix all that stuff.
All these like little different like parts of things that I'm interested in, like I'll kind of come together with movie theaters.
Yeah. And I would love to do something like that, like run old releases.
And I'd like I'd have frickin fun with it like I for like the month of I don't know, like the month of March.
It's I'm only showing like movies that were released in March.
I like that idea. And then doing the same thing with like October only releasing horror movies.
Christmas, nothing but Christmas movie like that's what I would do.
Just like thematic days because like my I know AMC kind of does it every once in a while.
One of our other theaters, they have old releases every they have a different release every week.
But you can only catch it on a Tuesday or a Thursday at a certain time.
And I'm like, well, shit like that's how it was with Halloween.
Yeah. So it's like, oh, Tuesday and Tuesday or Thursday.
But we only have two showings. I'm like, that kind of blows. Yeah.
Like it'd be nice if I had like a little bit more time because there are some movies I'm like, yeah, I'd be super down for that.
But I can't do Tuesday at nine o'clock. Yeah.
Like it'd be nice if you had like a showing at like one or like a little earlier in the day or whatever.
And I think there's I think there's money there.
Like, I don't know how hard I'm going to pursue my like one to own a theater.
I might just build one in my backyard and call it a day. Yes. Hey, that's that's good enough.
I love it. Yeah. Could you imagine just like freaking pimped out like giant ass like IMAX theater?
That would be if I had the money, if I had the money, it would seriously be like a full blown movie like IMAX theater situation with like a handful of seats.
I think that'd be the coolest shit. Yeah. Anyway, talking about my hopes and dreams.
Allow me to squash them. Yeah, I know how much money that that shit would end up costing me. I'm sorry, man.
But you know what? If we ever if this ever does become a reality, count me in on this investment.
That'd be the shit like I'd invest in like the best stuff. Yeah. Like they say, count me in like recliner seats.
Dude, let's let's both go half. Let's make this happen one day.
Maybe not until we're into our like late 30s, early 40s.
We just need to at least make it. I just need to get to a point where I'm not living paycheck to paycheck.
Hey, same. No, dude, same. I mean, I have you know, I have a decent amount of savings, but you know, I don't want to touch that.
So still, I'm moving paycheck to paycheck. But honestly, most of America is. Yeah. And it sucks.
Unfortunately, I'm like, learn it. Maybe I'll learn to like build that IMAX quality like there we go and figure out what we do for now.
The VR big screen works. It does. It very much does.
Like I need to get the like an updated headset. But yeah, just like I want to keep up to date, like just so I can see like how good the video quality will get.
Yeah. Because like there's some headsets out there that are like ridiculous.
And like their their quality, like there is one that's so good that it's like this dude, he would like like they have these like these haptic feedback gloves for touching stuff.
And so I like feel like you're you're touching things. And this dude, it was like a model of like a human. Right.
And he like went to like touch the person. And so he's like the haptic feedback really helped sell this.
But the quality of person like it was so like there was zero lag in it.
So it felt like someone was standing right there that I could like sit and touch.
And then they did this thing because they use it for like anatomy classes. And so they like stripped it of its skin like this model.
And he's just he's like I have like a guttural guttural reaction to it because it was just so jarring watching someone that looked real just lose all their skin.
He's like, I could feel my heart rate rise. And I'm just like, damn, dude, like that's insane.
He's yeah. He's like, I've gone back to my other like my normal headset because that was like one that was like in testing and development.
And he's like, it's hard to go back to like he's like, don't get me wrong. Mine's still like super high end quality, but it's not that level.
And that's kind of ruined my headset for me. All right. Fair enough.
Like, damn, yeah, he says that's usually the case.
But I was nervous about where you were taking the glass.
Now, like they have. Yeah, they have these like special gloves and it's usually with like motors and stuff that are attached on like the wrist.
But they'll pull your fingers back like because like each of the fingers is connected to a string. So like pulls it back and makes you feel like you're touching stuff.
So like they'll have it with swords, apples. But it's crazy because they'll like make you feel like you're holding a solid object and just by pulling on your fingers in a in a certain way.
Like with those with those strings. That's insane. Explicit label coming.
Yeah, I mean, it's wild. It is really wild what they're what they're able to do.
Yeah. And honestly, it's just going to get better from here. So that's true. That's very true.
So it is again back to elemental. We got one more release. And that is the Best Buy exclusive steel book.
Oh, so I like that one a lot. Right. So I love that it's, you know, them them touching. And then the back is a flame surrounding their hands about to touch.
Oh, I know. It's so cute. I dig it. Right. Yeah. I love the steel book. It's so good.
And I like this one a lot better than that first one.
That the Blue recovery. Yeah. The first one I.
It's cool. But I think what that one was missing versus this one is one where it looks like they're more interacting with each other, where the other one of just seemed like character poster.
Yeah, I love that this this is truly showcasing that this is a love story.
Yeah, I like it. I like it a lot. Right. So good.
So for me, the steel book wins and also just because I'm basic. I really like the Disney movie club 4k cover.
Fair. Totally fair.
But so that's it for 4k. Like I said,
we got nothing for through the wall.
So Caleb, what do you say we get into our main event of the evening or a headliner? That's what's called was last time we called anything main event of the evening.
What's that been like three years? It has been a hot minute. Rose pre-COVID. I'm sure.
I think it was way pre-COVID. Oh, geez, Louise. Damn.
So I just realized that I never actually said the name of the movie that we were breaking down. I swear I didn't.
No, I don't think I said Guardians of the Galaxy. Oh, so my bad.
Well, surprise, we're breaking down one of our favorite MCU movies.
So yeah, so since we couldn't do Dumb Money and a couple of things, some stuff came up and so we weren't able to go check out another movie that we were talking about.
We move that to next week. So last minute resort, we're going to break down Guardians volume two. Yep. So yeah.
So since we weren't able to do Dumb Money, we don't have a question. We don't have a question of the week. So move that to the actual episode of Dumb Money.
So, Caleb, do we OK, which comes, dude, I am like drawing a blank this up. So what comes first?
Is it is it you saying how we break down movies on this podcast or is it reading with Rose?
Well, it's usually. Oh, shit.
You forgot to OK. No. Well, because you question me on it, like I know that like the typical order of events.
So usually it's question of the week. We can't do that. So, yeah, it's explaining how our breakdown system works.
That's OK. Yeah, because because then you'll say so if you haven't seen this movie, Rose is about to spoil the entire.
OK. Yep. Now it's come back to me. OK. Yeah. All right. Ready and go.
All right. If you are new to our breakdown system, we have split movies into eight different categories that we individually score to come to a final all Bros.
A letter grade, the eight categories that we score are story, writing, acting, character development, effects, music, costumes.
And then we give it our own personal score at the very end.
All of those numbers get magically added up and spit through our algorithm and give us a final all Bros.
A letter grade to compare this movie to others of a similar grade as well as a percentage that doesn't really matter all that much.
But the rankings are pretty fun to throw people off on social media.
So we continue to do them. Yeah. Yeah.
But yeah. So if you have not seen Guardians of the Galaxy volume two, you have had ample time to see it.
So if it is. Yeah. If it is spoiled for you past this point, it's your own damn fault.
You have been warned. They all die. Volume three was an illusion.
It never happened. Yeah. So we will be putting up the spoiler warning.
So, yeah, if you choose to listen beyond this point, you only got yourself to blame. Yep.
So without further ado, it is our favorite segment that we like to call reading with Rose.
All right. In 2014, Peter Quill, Gamora, Drax, Rocket and Baby Groot are renowned as the Guardians of the Galaxy. Aisha, leader of the sovereign race, has the Guardians protect valuable batteries from an Abel Abel Abel
Abelisk, an interdimensional monster in exchange for Gamora's estranged sister Nebula, who was caught attempting to steal the batteries after Rockets, rocket after rocket steals the batteries for himself.
The sovereign attacks the guardianship with a fleet of drones.
A mysterious figure destroys the drones and the guardians crash land on a nearby plane.
The figure reveals himself as Quill's father, Ego, and he is joined by Mantis, his naive empath.
Empath. Empath. Is it empath? Empath. Yeah. Empath. Okay.
Servant. Ego invites Quill, Gamora, and Drax to his home planet while Rocket and Groot remain behind to repair the ship and watch Nebula.
Aisha hires Yondu Udanta and his crew, who has been exiled from the greater Ravagers community for child trafficking to recapture the Guardians.
They capture Rocket, but when Yondu hesitates to turn over Quill, whom he raised, his lieutenant, Craglin Ob.
Do they ever actually say Craglin's last name in the movies?
Not even once. That's what I thought. So Craglin Ob Fentery.
I hope that's how you say it. Questions his objectivity. Objectivity and another lieutenant, Taserface, leads a mutiny, aided by Nebula, who shot, who shoots Yondu.
Taser, or no, aided by Nebula, who shot Yondu. Sorry. Dude, I am. For how many times I have seen this movie, how am I screwing up the plot this bad?
I mean, you're definitely not letting us down with this Reading with Rose segment. Well, thank you. That totally makes me feel better.
Taserface imprisons Rocket and Yondu aboard Yondu's ship and executes his loyalists.
I don't know about you, but that scene even back then was hard to watch.
Like just seeing them like shoved out into space just to freeze to death. That ship was so effed up.
Yeah, real frickin jacked.
Nebula leaves to find and kill Gamora, whom she blames for the torture inflicted on her by their adoptive father, Thanos.
Thanos. That's a period, Jonathan, you dumbass.
Groot and Kraglin, who is remorseful and never intended for a mutiny, free Rocket and Yondu. Using Yondu's arrow, the group destroys the ship and its crew while escaping. Taserface warns the Sovereign before dying.
Ego, a godlike celestial that manipulated the matter around his consciousness to form his home planet, explains that he projected a humanoid guise to travel the universe and discover a purpose, eventually falling in love with Quill's mother, Meredith.
He hired Yondu to collect the young Quill after Meredith's death, but the boy was never delivered and Ego has been searching for him ever since. He teaches Quill to manipulate his inherited celestial power while Mantis grows close to Drax and tries to warn him of Ego's plans.
I don't know about you, but like after after Guardians three, I.
You just appreciate how great of a relationship Mantis and Drax have.
Like, yeah, do freaking them saying a bye to each other like that was the hardest shit ever.
That was so hard.
Freaking rough. Right.
As she warns of Ego's plans, Nebula arrives at Ego's planet and tries to kill Gamora, but the pair reconcile reconcile and reach an uneasy alliance, soon discovering a cavern filled with skeletal remains. Ego brainwashes Quill and reveals that in his travels he planted seedlings on thousands of worlds that can that can terraform into new extensions of himself, but only the power of two celestials can activate them.
To that end he impregnated countless women and hired Yondu to collect their offspring, but killed them all when they fail to inherit his celestial power.
Quill fights off Ego's influence when Ego reveals that he gave Meredith the brain tumor that killed her.
After Quill violently attacks Ego, Ego pair Ego pair.
For all my dude.
Ha ego pair Paris still pair.
Damn it.
I didn't pull this shit up so you're on your own, but damn it.
Paris Paris to parasitically that's the word.
I thought there, I thought there was another T.
Ego parasitically draws Quill's energy to activate the seedlings, which begin to consume the worlds they're on.
Rocket Yondu, Groot and Kraglin arrive and together with Mantis, Drax, Nebula and Gamora, they rescue Quill.
The reunited guardians travel to Ego's brain at the planet's core, where Yondu reveals that he kept Quill to spare him from Ego.
As the sovereign's drones return and attack, Rocket makes a bomb using the stolen batteries, which Groot plants on Ego's brain.
Quill uses his newfound celestial powers to fight Ego, distracting him long enough for the other guardians and Mantis to escape.
The bomb explodes, killing Ego and disintegrating the planet, which strains Quill of his celestial powers.
Yondu sacrifices himself to save Quill and dies in the vacuum of space.
Despite having reconciled with Gamora, Nebula chooses to leave and resume her quest to kill Thanos.
The guardians, with Mantis as a new member, hold a funeral for Yondu.
Rocket and Kraglin are elated as dozens of Ravager ships arrive, acknowledging Yondu's sacrifice and accepting him as a Ravager again.
In a series of mid and post-credit scenes, Kraglin takes up Yondu's telekinetic arrow and control fin.
Ravager leader Stakkar Ogard reunites with his ex-teammates and Aisha creates Adam, a new artificial being with whom she plans to destroy the guardians and Groot grows into a teenager.
That one was rough.
Yeah.
Oh, shit.
I got no words.
That sucked.
You did alright.
Thanks, man. I appreciate that.
Alright.
Well, starting off with story.
This one, out of all like the Guardians movies, I probably enjoyed the third.
Like it was, it's weird.
I think I hold the third one in higher regard than the second only because I feel in terms of like quality of film.
I think that it's higher.
This one, I had a lot more fun than I did the first.
I can definitely agree with you there.
I feel like I don't want to compare the third one to this one.
But like say like, like I am going for two for a minute because I definitely agree with you.
You definitely hold the third one to a higher rank.
When you're reading names from other worlds, are you spoiling the English language?
Yes. Yes. Let's go with that.
Abracers parasitically is still an English word.
No, no, no, no, no, it's not.
I don't know what you're talking about.
You know that that that that word originated on nowhere.
So, uh huh. Sure.
Yeah, yeah, did.
It really did ask Kevin Feige himself.
Okay.
Or no, ask James Gunn. He'd probably be the guy to ask.
But yeah, yeah, like I said, definitely agree with you hold Guardians three to a higher rank.
But yeah, this is the most fun out of the two.
I will say Guardians three I feel has a better villain.
Like don't get me wrong. I like ego as a villain.
But just I feel that the the grant.
Oh my God. The Grandmaster.
No.
What was the guy's name in Guardians three?
Well, obviously he wasn't that frickin memorable.
He was.
The the high evolutionary high evolutionary.
God damn it.
You weren't even into the ballpark.
I wasn't. What the hell is wrong with me?
But yeah, I thought that one had a better film.
But just I agree with you.
This one is just the funnest out of the three.
And that is a huge positive about this movie.
That's that's not me saying, oh, you know, like the store, the story is not that great.
The villains are great. But, you know, at least it's fun.
No, the fun is what makes it a good Guardians movie.
And I would say the story is actually really, really good.
I think that, you know, the Guardians are already established as a group.
And so we're able to dive even more into these characters just makes it that much more of an enjoyable time.
I frickin love being able to see especially Gamora and Nebula's relationship even more.
And just how how neglected Nebula was as the sister.
She was definitely the run of the litter when it came to the two frickin the back.
Like everything that we got for Yondu in this movie is frickin amazing.
All the stories for him are all the story for him.
The introduction of Mantis, she was such a great addition to the story.
And as the movies went on, she arguably became my favorite Guardian, especially in the third one.
God, I frickin love Mantis.
Just yeah, it's it's it's it's a great second edition and like arguably,
I feel like the Guardians movies is like the best trilogy in the MCU.
I do very easily. So right.
Like like it has no competition.
It doesn't because like like like the Iron Man trilogy, I have problems with two and three.
Captain America just like I don't like the first one's good.
But I have problems with our soldiers. Fantastic.
Oh, yeah. Winter Soldier's perfection.
Civil War, though, that one's basically just Avengers 2.5.
Yeah. Yeah. The Avengers.
The I mean, those movies are OK.
But I mean, Age of Ultron is just meh.
I feel Age of Ultron gets too much hate, but that's just me.
I'll say that save that for future.
My thoughts on that.
I was even I mean, there's four movies, but Thor, like the first one's good.
Second one sucks.
And the third one's good. The fourth one sucks.
Yeah.
But just yeah, the Guardians trilogy is the only trilogy in the MCU that all three of them are genuinely good.
Some are better than others.
But at the end of the end of the day, they're all genuinely good.
They James Gunn truly understands these characters and the fact that he was able to.
I think that's what why it is because it's the exact same director for all three.
He was able to handle these characters from the beginning and he was able to give them the ending that they should.
Sorry. He was able to give them the ending that he wanted.
And even though this is the middle chapter, these characters still are taken to great.
They're taken to great, great spots in their character development.
Some are honestly given choices that I feel are like huge or huge stakes for these characters.
Just yeah, just such great character moments, especially between Star-Lord and Yondu.
Yeah, I can't say enough good about volume two.
I feel it gets too much hate and I never understand it.
This is one that I've never heard too many bad things being said about.
It's just the only thing that I've always heard is just like when they're comparing it to like the the first and third,
they're just like, oh, the second one just sucks compared to those two.
I know about that because I would say out of the three, the one that struggles most with the villain is number one.
Agreed. Ronan, I'm sorry, is not the greatest villain.
Yeah, I mean, he was a decent threat, but I don't think he was a great.
As great of a villain, I'll say as great because I still think he was a pretty good villain.
I don't think he was as great as ego or high evolutionary was.
Yeah, I agree.
And I think something that James Gunn really understood well was giving the
villain a good motivation rather than just making him evil for evil's sake, which I mean, in.
I'll say this, I don't quite think that ego is.
Evil in a sense, he's not it's like he's not wanting to.
He's a celestial. He lives forever.
He just like converted his consciousness into something else.
And I think with him, he's just grown bored.
And so now he's wanting to like spread, spread out over multiple galaxies, see what the world like other worlds have to offer.
But I think with him being basically immortal, it's made him very apathetic to life.
Because, like, obviously, he's like he like what he's doing, like Yondu is is bringing him these kids and he's like, like hunting around for something for some cosmic power.
And then he's like, oh, nope. And then just drop some. Yeah.
And like what it's just like, like I said, very apathetic villain. So it's not like he's evil. He just doesn't care. Yeah.
And like, I can see how that would happen with someone that has abilities and like the immortality that he has.
And it's interesting, like to think, especially now that we it's like basically confirmed or it not basically it is confirmed that Mantis and Peter are siblings that.
Even like the first go around, like you kind of got that that hint that something was was happening there.
That's fair. You understood he didn't really care about Mantis either. He just found her useful to him. Yeah.
And so that's why he kept her around.
And so I think in terms of like apathetic villains, like I think he's really like a high quality villain.
That's fair. No. Yeah, I definitely agree with everything he said.
Yeah. But I mean, this story was kick ass. Like it had its emotional moments.
Like, I remember the frickin like when we went to go see this when ego made the comment about putting the tumor in Peter's mom or in Meredith's brain.
Like, I remember how quick I was like, whoa, yeah, like that.
What did you just say? Yeah.
And then, yeah. And then frickin Peter going all ham. Like that was the shit.
I think my only real complaint with that whole sequence was they like ego had said, like, oh, it'll take you like a few thousand years to really get this down.
But he ended up like being able to go toe to toe with ego. Yeah. And I'm like, that's fair.
And that doesn't quite line up. Yeah, it doesn't really add up.
Yeah. But yeah, I think story wise, that might have been my only real complaint.
That's fair. Because like, yeah, even just like looking past just the the directions that the characters go.
Ego as a villain. I'm just I'm just remembering like the little things throughout like the the argument, the arguments that Peter and Rocket have that I feel set up their characters even more for like volume three going forward and just how even though like they seem like they don't get along that they actually truly love each other.
Yeah, just such a good story for a second movie. James got knocked it out of the park with this one. He knocked out.
Yeah, I remember, like, I still feel like hold this in as high regard as I do when it first came out. Same here. That can't be said about most MCU movies, but it can definitely be said about this trilogy.
Yeah, and no one can frickin did. And I will go to my grave with the statement that baby Groot is so much more cuter than Grogu or baby Yoda, whatever.
Bro, that's a close frickin fight. But I know it is. But I'm sorry, babe. Have you seen the I am Groot shorts.
I haven't seen the new ones yet. I have. Okay. So but I've seen the the the first batch that came out.
Yeah, that's just like that like truly solidified. I'm like, okay, baby Groot is so much cuter than Grogu. Like those were frickin adorable.
You can't I can't count how many times because I watched them with Christina. I just all of a sudden hear a shout. He's so cute.
Man, of all the times I wish he was watching right now.
That would have left to see her thoughts on that impression of her.
I think I nailed it, Christina.
Good thing Stacey's.
Do you have your volume up high or like what was the deal with that?
But yeah, so getting into the story like what were you sit.
I don't know, man. This one. This one cracks 90s for me. I'm not going to this one cracks 90s for me to hell.
Honestly, I'm not quite throwing it. Oh, she loves Grogu.
Oh, yeah, I forgot about that. Yeah.
You know what, Sam? I'm totally cool. She tells me.
Let's go at it, Stacey. Let's fight. Come on.
You know, I'm just going to get her something baby Groot for Christmas just out of spite.
That's what I'm going to make it look like Grogu though.
Dude, if only frickin build a bear had a frickin baby Groot plush and I dress it up in like the Grogu costume.
That'd be hilarious.
Right. Ah, damn it. I wish that they still because I know for Guardians 2 when it came out that they did have the baby Groot plush.
But of course, the Mandalorian wasn't even close to coming out yet. Yeah.
So damn. Oh, well, the frickin story.
I have like a nine.
I'm going to go in 93.
I'm actually super close to that. I'm obviously in 94. Hell, yeah.
Nice knowing you. I'm afraid of her.
I know Rose is talking a big game right now, but I'm sure the second he gets confronted, he's like, I think she's cute, too.
Wait, Grogu is a girl. No, no, I.
You said she's cute. Yeah, but you said she's cute.
He was like, wait, well, you just blew my mind.
Yeah.
All right. Moving on over to writing. I think if there's anywhere where the it's suffer or not suffered.
I have this issue with like all the Guardians movies.
I think like the the the writing is like on point when it hits like the emotional stuff and it has like really good solid lines.
I think it's just when it comes to the comedy, sometimes it may be a tad overdone.
Yeah, that I can definitely agree with you there.
Like, if I'm thinking about like the like the opening the whole like the whole like thing with like drags not wearing one of Rockets arrow rigs and because it like chaps his nipples.
Yeah, it hurts his nipples. That joke definitely went on a little too much.
What else? They're like, don't get me wrong.
There were some like really good jokes in there.
Like my favorite is when he was the frickin batteries.
Like kept like calling them like because they're like amulet batteries and he's like harbularies batteries.
That's not even close to what I said.
And then when he's like talking about him like you stole these amulet batteries, their harbularies batteries. No, they're not.
Oh, I freaking loved like that kind of joke.
It's like I don't know. Maybe it's just tracks, dude. I freaking love tracks. No, it's like his delivery is so good.
I know. I think what got me was just how matter of fact tracks was and just how frustrated Peter was.
Like, I think it was just a mixture of everything. No, I was just like, no, it's not like.
Like I know there was one line that they did in the trailer that like I didn't think I would just because the joke got ruined.
I thought I wouldn't laugh, but I laughed even more in the movie. It's when they're talking to.
Oh, my God. What is her name?
The sovereign fleet leader.
Oh, I.
I. When I'm rocket straight up goes, you know, they said they said that you people work in seated douche bags.
But that isn't true at all. And then he winks. He's like, oh, my bad.
You guys weren't supposed to see that. Oh, my gosh.
Yeah, I like shit like that. I really liked.
But I think what what got me was like, yeah, the whole it chafing his nipples.
What about what did you. Oh, sorry.
I don't know. None to go ahead. No, I'm because I want to know about how you felt about because it's the I don't know if you like the it's the faces of background, especially the face that Gamora gives.
But when they're talking about like Drax is talking to Peter about ego and all of a sudden he goes, it's like, yep, Drax, I have a penis.
And you know what? It's not half bad. And I don't know if you remember the face that Gamora gives in the background.
Have you seen the face that she gives? I haven't.
Her eyes are like, so why? It's freaking hilarious.
Like in shock that he said that or. Yeah, exactly. Yeah.
It's freaking hilarious because I'm sure she's just like thinking like, hmm, does that mean Peter's package?
That's that's what I would assume.
Yeah, I didn't catch that.
I feel sorry. Sorry. Keep interrupting. I'm sorry. No, you're good.
I'm just trying to think of like other.
Shit like any any issue that I had with the writing was mostly comedic stuff.
All of like the heartfelt things were were really good.
Oh, I remember now Taserface.
I think his joke went on a little long. Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah. It was like it.
Don't get me wrong. It was funny occasionally.
But I think it like really lost its umph like later on.
I would have been I wish that they would have just stuck when I'm stuck with just when Rockets is like,
I just can't imagine looking in the in the like when you're a kid or something and looking in the mirror
and just think you know, would be a kickass name Taserface like that.
That was great. That made me laugh.
And but just yeah, after after even after that, they they will not let the joke die.
And it's it's really annoying.
I think it was because they played it up as something that was way more funny than it actually was.
That's fair. I think if they if I think it would have been funnier for instead of rocket to be like freaking belly laughing.
I think it would have been better had he just kind of like chuckled. Yeah.
And then him be like, what the hell was that?
And and then like that whole situation.
And then when he's talking to Aisha and being like, let him know that he was destroyed by Taserface.
And then if she like she just like because I think her little like chuckle like really sold the joke.
But I think that's fair. Rocket just guttural like like that is too much.
It's just so you have to have some self-aware in it.
Like, no, I agree. I think the the issue is like and sometimes it works.
Like, don't get me wrong. But I think it's just thinking your joke is funnier than it actually is.
Like you think like the whole joke with Rocket having to tell baby Groot so many times that don't press this button that it would get annoying.
Like it wouldn't be as funny. But no, like every single time that they kept kept doing that joke, I felt it got funnier and funnier.
Whereas the Taserface joke. Yeah, just the first time Rocket has a really good laugh at him.
It's like, OK, it's funny. I get it. It's not that funny, bro. But let's move on. Let's let's you know, like let's either have a serious moment or come up with a new joke.
But nope, they just kept it going. Yeah.
I mean, but like dramatic moments, though, like somehow way like the bat, like the you know, that kind of stuff, because that that scene between Rocket and Yondu where Yondu is straight up just being like,
this is who you are. This is who you are. And you know why I know that? Because you're me. You and me are exactly the same.
Oh, my gosh, dude, that's still freaking like got punches. Right. It's so good.
And then, of course, you know, when Yondu is, you know, Yondu saves Peter and, you know, literally just apologizing being, you know, I'm sorry I didn't do anything, any of it right.
But, you know, I'm proud that to have raised you and be the dad that basically you you deserved.
Yeah. Like, oh, man, just that like and then again, some of the frickin other lines from Yondu like the like, he may have been your daddy boy or or maybe your father.
Boy, but he wasn't your daddy. Yeah. Frickin OK. Like, don't get me wrong. I love that line. It's a great line. But I hate the media is ruined.
Yeah, I hate the Internet so much because they yeah, literally all I can think of when someone says daddy is sexual. That's all I can think of.
So unfortunately, I'm right there with you. Yeah. So whenever. Yeah. So like for such a great, powerful scene, such an emotional scene, it's ruined because I'm the son of a bitch.
It's ruined because I'm the site hat like you kind of have to laugh about it because you're just like, I know it's not what they mean, but that's what my brain is thinking.
And I fricking hate my brain for going to that to that that area or that.
I am seriously hoping that that trend eventually dies. I doubt it, dude. I doubt I know.
But I'm hoping it does, because eventually it's going to get to the point where I think like Iris is eventually going to get like called out or made fun of for calling me that.
And it's going to just break my heart. Yeah, that's fair. Yeah. I mean, hopefully, it hopefully it either is just not weird because like I am her dad.
But fingers crossed, fingers absolutely cross. But I get what you mean. But I mean, dude, you had some frickin like killer lines.
She still love the like I'm Mary Poppins, y'all. Oh, yeah. So great.
I mean, that's like in between him and Sylvester Stallone's character, his his ravager where he's you know, he's he's trying to explain himself. He's just like, no, you broke the code. And that's why you that's why you were exiled from the ravagers.
That scene frickin breaks you for because like yondu did not deserve the hate. Yeah, dude. It was weird, like, because you don't understand what that's about.
At least at first. No, yeah, you don't. And like eventually when you realize like, oh, shit.
Yeah, I mean, good writing all around. Like it was overall, I think I'll put it a little bit lower than story, but not much. No, I agree.
Like, honestly, I think I'm still cracking nineties. Oh, same here. I think I'm at a 91.
Yeah, that's what I'm gonna stick with. I think I'm sitting at like a 93.
I'm like, not much lower. You are a lot nicer to this movie.
That's funny. All right. Next up, we got acting.
So going through the cast list here, we got Chris Pratt, who played Peter Quill slash Star Lord Zoe Saldana who plays Gamora.
Dave Bautista, who plays Drax the Destroyer. Bradley Cooper, who plays or does the voice for Rocket Raccoon.
Vin Diesel, who did the voice for Baby Groot. Kurt Russell, who played Ego. Oh, geez, I don't know how to say her name.
Palm Clementeaf. I think it's Clementeaf Clementeaf, who played Mantis.
Karen Galen, who plays Nebula. Michael Rooker plays Yondu. Sean Gunn plays Kraglin.
And then Chris Sullivan plays Taserface.
All right. So what's your what's your top three looking like?
Number one, I got to give to Michael Rooker as Yondu. Absolutely fantastic.
I'm honestly still sad that this was his last movie, but he went out on such a high note and just so good as Yondu.
Like, I loved him as Yondu in the first one, but I feel that he didn't really have as huge of an impact on me as he did in volume two.
Because after we walked out of this movie, he was my favorite character in the movie.
And just, yeah, from the emotional beats that he had to hit, learning about his more of his character, his past with Peter and just everything that he he did to basically save Peter from Ego.
So, so good. So yeah, Michael Rooker, number one.
Number two. Honestly, too, I probably give to Bradley Cooper, his rocket. Once again, he was absolutely fantastic.
He knocks out of the park every single time with rocket and that this time was no exception.
Absolutely loves his character and I rocket story definitely comes full circle in the third one, but we're definitely given more information in this one to, I guess piggyback off of what we were given in volume one, which I which I always love love learning anything about rocket.
And when his in this when his full backstory comes to fruition and the next installment frickin gut punches you so bad.
Which is what we get here with rocket is fantastic and Bradley Cooper is incredible as in this number three.
Three.
I probably give to Zoe Saldana, Gamora loved her in this. This is I think her best performance as Gamora is unfortunate what happens to the character in Infinity War.
I get it as a character. It makes sense for her for her being sacrificed. Sorry, spoiler alert for Infinity War.
Oops.
Yeah, we didn't give a proper warning for that Rose. Sorry. Okay, but if you if you people haven't seen Infinity War, like, come on.
Yeah, what are you doing at this? Yeah, like, that's just me.
But yeah, this is the best she's ever been as this character. Just all of literally her scenes with Nebula her scenes with Peter. Just everything just so so good here.
To the point that actually you know what, now that I'm thinking about it, I'm going to switch I'm going to switch my two and three. So I'm sorry, Zoe Saldana is number two Bradley Cooper's number three, because I I'm I truly remember I'm.
I'm remembering how much I love her character so much in this movie and just how that like like I've driven home that this is the best that Gamora has has been and unfortunately the best that she was when it came to this version of Gamora.
I like I love Zoe Zoe Saldana as Gamora and you know, volume three, but it's not the Gamora that we fell in love with in volume one and volume two.
But you know, it worked for what they did in volume three and I was completely fine with the direction. They took her with because still you get some sweet moments with her, but where she's taken within this one is so good.
It's so fantastic that I have to give her number two. So like I said, switching two and three. So she's two now Bradley Cooper's number three.
Okay.
Bless you that's not up on me.
All right, my number three.
Gosh.
Yeah, my number three I'm going to give to Michael Roker and this has nothing to do like this order like these these three are so close. It's not even funny.
But yeah, I'm giving Michael Roker my number three. I freaking love him in this role. I thought he was so much fun as just a character and like I I liked him a lot in the first one.
I mean, I thought he was really cool. But I was I was like with you like I thought he was cool but I didn't really think too much of him until like obviously that final scene where he's like using his arrow on everybody like I thought that was freaking sick.
And in this we get a scene that's equally if not better than that than that scene. Dude, I would say it's way better and the song choice. Oh my god, don't get me started. Dude, I cannot wait to talk about the soundtrack.
Yeah, so I loved everything that he was able to pull off like he.
I think like I have issue with people that are a little bit more on the gruff side trying to portray deep emotional moments.
But I think he freaking killed it.
Yeah, he did an amazing job with the emotional moments and being like that hard tough gruff like it didn't feel out of place like I feel like that's an issue that I have with a lot of the people that are like a little bit more on the gruff side, when they go for emotional it's
either like overly emotional, or just like a very emotionless scene but he was able to give like full like deep emotion in his performance and I freaking loved it.
My number two.
I think I'm going to give to palm. I thought she was so much freaking fun dude, she was adorable.
Best way to describe her.
I thought she's so funny. She, like, is ridiculously funny, but the way that tracks like tricks her into like petting rocket, and then when rocket bites her.
Her.
The sadness in her eyes like made me want to freaking cry.
It was like so much freaking fun.
And like I loved every time she was like touching tracks like whenever he was laughing and like just laughing right along with him like they made such a perfect duo.
And I freaking love her. She is.
She's amazing.
Like, I, she could have easily like come off as like an annoying character, but she didn't like she, she absolutely sold her role.
Okay. And this just ties into my number one, given it to Dave Batista.
All right, that's fair. I like it.
I love Dave Batista in this, this iteration like so, so freaking good.
Like, man, I.
It's hard to come up with like what like as specifics on why I loved him so much, but it's just like this just random shit.
This, I want to make sure I'm not getting this confused with the first but this is the one where he said, like talks about dancing.
Yes, yeah, yeah, that's this one.
Okay, okay, good. I thought it for a second might have been the first but yeah I'm remembering this scene that you're talking about.
I love how he's talking to, to star Lord and just talking about like how he's like frail and feminine because he dances and Gamora is like a hardened warrior, so she doesn't.
And then he just, he starts talking about his, his long lost wife, and then just saying like, she could hear the most melodic music that you can imagine she wouldn't even tap her.
I don't know why I freaking love that line delivery so much.
He's just like many would think that she was dead.
He's so good. So good.
Oh good. And then, oh, oh freaking hell like when met this comes into his room.
And he's just like, like gagging.
I'm just thinking about being with you physically.
Like, good Lord you're horrifying.
Oh, it's so good. So good.
I know, then, like, if it's everything like I can't think of a single thing about tracks and this that I disliked.
He was the shining grace for it and then, like, not even like the comedic moments like getting into his more emotional side.
Like, his yell when he's talking to rocket.
When they're like leaving Peter on the planet.
Or that's like what they think is happening like his yell like for rocket is just like chilling.
Agreed. That shit's heartbreaking. Yeah.
So, like, he frickin delivered some emotional gut punches too. So I, yeah, have to give it to Dave. I freaking love him.
Completely understandable. Great, dude. Great list. I love yours.
What are you given acting? Dude, like everyone just frickin brought their a game and just the acting is so frickin good here.
Like, I don't have I rarely have problems with anyone.
Like even like, even though you know like the joke goes on for so long. I feel, even though he's a joke, Taser face actually isn't that bad.
No, not even a little bit. Yeah, like the teaser face joke wasn't his fault. No, but the actual character is actually really good. And the guy that portrayed. What was his name that portrayed him again?
Chris Sullivan. He did fantastic.
So, you know, I'm going to go in 96.
Honestly, I'm right there with you. I think the only people that brought this down for me were the sovereign, but they weren't too significant of a role in this for me to dog in too much.
That's fair.
Yeah, like they're definitely keeping me from putting it any higher than 96. Yeah, but I think the main cast does well enough to deserve the 96.
But yeah, fantastic frickin cast here.
All right, next up we got character development, which for this, this is again one of Peter's stories. Yes, definitely.
This is one where I feel like he, like it's hard to rate this one.
That is fair.
I don't know because like, you know, through, you know, he meets his, his real dad, you know, they have they get along great have a great connection, you know, are having some really good father son time.
And he's like, Oh, hey, I killed your mom. And so it feels like he, he starts at square one. And then by the time the movie ends he's kind of back to that because not only does his real dad turned out to be an asshole, but he frickin loses the only guy that actually
felt like a dad to him. So I don't know if there's really that much character growth in this for Peter cool and I'm not, and I'm not saying that's a bad thing, because the, the events that unfold makes sense and there's under.
It's understandable why I feel he goes but goes from square one back to square one.
So, like, I don't know I can't. It's it's not a horrible character development but just there's not a lot I feel for Peter in this movie.
Yeah, I think the biggest thing with this is moving like coming from the first like he is kind of internally resolved his mommy issues, like that feeling like he abandoned his mother.
Like he kind of he kind of dealt with that and grew to grew with this family in the guardians.
I think where with this one he was dealing with more paternal issues and kind of being like, I think it was like a mixture of dealing with like being coming the leader of the guardians or being the leader of the guardians, whether officially or unofficially.
Yeah, dealing with like the paternal void that he's been feeling.
And I think once he like gets a taste of that like you kind of see that he doesn't want to accept what the more told him about like the frickin mass grave of other like other of egos children.
And you kind of see that that's an issue and then he like has to like when he faces off against his, his dad you see like there was kind of a struggle for him to start facing off against his, his father until he revealed like made the reveal about his mom.
Yeah, and then once that was revealed it was frickin game on.
And I think they, I won't say they like rushed it but I think it was very quick for them to be like yandos the like the dad I never had.
That's fair I will I will admit, like, just thinking about it over the past couple years since this came out it does feel a little rushed.
It does kind of come out of left field, it makes sense. You know the way that it comes to a conclusion the way that they explain it. But yeah, it definitely kind of just comes out of nowhere.
Yeah, I mean, not like completely out of nowhere because I feel like they touched touched on it in the first, a little bit, because everyone's like, given yondu a hard time about going easy on Peter, or like taking it easy and then same thing
with this one, he, they start a frickin mutiny because he goes easy on Peter.
Very good point.
So it's like, you, you get you get those vibes from yondu perspective.
You don't really get them from Peters.
Yeah.
So, if there's anywhere in this that I feel suffers quite a bit and I think I, I don't have the scores like pulled up but I'm pretty sure this was, this might have been the case with volume three.
I think character developments where this kind of took a little bit of a dive. Yeah, not much though because I feel like they had enough growth for everyone to kind of make up for the, the lack of with the, with Peter.
I think a more ahead had some decent growth with with Nebula.
Yes, definitely.
I think tracks had some decent growth with with mantis.
My god I love their whole discussion about being ugly and, and everything, and then kind of rocket with with yondu.
Like if I mean if there's any guardian that didn't get any it was probably group.
Yeah.
Which makes sense. Like, yeah, understandable.
They made up for it with cuteness. Yeah, they absolutely did.
But yeah, personally I didn't.
This was above average, but I think this is definitely the lowest category for me.
So I'm probably sitting around 84.
No, I think I'm gonna match you, because I was going to do an 85 but I'm just like, with what everything that you said yeah I, I gotta go just a little lower.
All right, moving on over to effects.
These weren't half bad.
Yeah, there were definitely some like crazy CGI shit.
There.
I'm for the most part it looked really good.
Yeah, I mean it didn't, it didn't look completely out of place there was definitely think like I think it was just more odd than anything like the whole Peter turning himself into a giant Pac Man.
Like that was yeah.
I felt like something that belonged in pixels.
A little bit. Yeah.
Which is weird because it's like that felt odd, but like the full like when you zoom out onto ego and you see the giant face in the planet that looked really good.
That is true. Yeah.
I mean the space travel looked like it was very on par with, like the MCU quality, at least at that time.
Yeah, like the good side of it.
Yeah, I think it was once it started getting past this point that it started getting a little funky.
Yeah, because it was this and then it went into Thor Ragnarok right. Yep.
Yeah, and then right before this was Dr. Strange.
And Dr. Strange was actually that had really good special effects.
Yeah, I felt Dr. Strange was how the hell did we go from the special effects in the first Dr. Strange to the ones in the second one, and just how the one in the second one wasn't like horrible.
No, it wasn't horrible but just like I'm just reminded of that I did that that looks so bad. I was horrid. Yeah.
Did you see the, the, like, it's, I think that they came out and said that I'm Marvel VFX artists have officially decided to unionize.
Freaking good. Yeah.
Like seriously, they deserve better pay and they deserve to be given actual proper time to get this shit done.
I will take higher quality stuff over a longer period of time.
Agreed, like any day of the week. Yeah.
Like unless you want to frickin batch out some shows like I'll take a, I'll take a lower quality show, as long as it's written well.
Yeah, yeah, that's fair.
Like in turn like special effects wise is what I'm talking about like, no, no, I get you lower quality. Anyway.
Yeah, so this was I think this was the, the last great CGI.
That that's fair because I mean, yeah rocket looked great group look great.
Freaking I mean I don't know how easy, or like how hard it was to do.
But like that scene where yondu is using his arrow to take out all of those.
Oh my god, they're not ravagers where they.
Now they were ravagers, they were just the ones that were mutinous mean okay.
He's using it to take out all of his fellow ravagers.
Just like I said I don't know how hard of an effect that was. But that shit looks so crisp so clean so frickin cool. And like when it's passing through one of them in slow mo just coming through his chest.
That should look so cool.
Yeah, I look frickin sick.
Yeah, no real issues effects wise.
Yeah.
I'd say I'm, I'm still probably in the, in the 80s here I'm in the high 80s, for sure. That's why I don't think I quite correct 90s.
That that that's yeah I can agree with that.
I'm like probably I like an 88.
I think I was leaning more towards like an 89 on given an 89.
Yeah.
All right, next up music. I will fight for a 10. Oh, I have no issues giving it a 10.
This soundtrack was banging, dude, seriously.
I can't decide if this or volume three is my favorite, but I definitely liked this better than volume one.
When it comes to soundtracks.
Okay, that's a that's a bold statement. I know I'm giving in order of like great soundtrack. I'm giving this one number one, I'll give the first one number two and then the third one three.
Wow, wow, no love for volume free, what the hell.
That is bullshit, and you know it.
I have nothing but love for volume three.
Yeah, but I did.
This one was freaking like the bomb.com dude. It's so good.
Like, I, I have more like in this is the reason that I, I put it in that order. I have all of volume to saved.
I have a majority of volume one saved, and I have a couple of volume three saved.
Okay.
So I have that's, that's the reasoning behind my. That's, that's fair. I mean, so yeah, I'm with you I have all volume two saved.
I have all volume three saves to as well.
But yeah, only a couple of volume one, so like, I guess if I'm being for how much I love volume three I probably would still put volume to number one.
The volume three would definitely go number two and then volume one for me at number one, or not volume one and number self.
Dude like the like I know we're talking about volume two but like the, because I am so grateful with volume three that I did not looked up what the soundtrack was going to be before I saw the movie, because when they started playing dog days are over at the end, I'm just like,
Okay, you're going for this song, and it just kept getting more.
It just, it just kept getting more perfect and perfect for the scene and I'm just like, James Gunn How did you make this song work so perfectly for a send off to the guardians.
Just, it's so perfect.
You want to hear a frickin hot take. I hated that song before volume three.
I know a lot of people did I loved it. I've always loved that song.
But I can understand why I completely get it.
Yeah, Brielle love that song before and so she was super excited to see that it was in the movie.
But yeah, that was one that's like it started playing and I was like, ah, and, yeah, like when it started playing I was just like, well, shit, like, wait a minute, leave off on a, yeah, way to ruin ruin the ending and it actually ended up being like a
banger like actually really appreciate that song now, but only under the context of the ending of volume three. I have tried listening to it outside of volume three I can't do it. Really made me love that song even more.
But yeah, getting back to volume two. Yeah, frickin.
I'm trying to remember all the songs. Um, Lake Shore Drive love that song. And this is it's not played that much though I wish it was. It's literally being taken off as it's literally being played as they are.
What is it.
Taking nebula to so it's after they give the ant is amulet batteries.
Yeah, yeah. After they give the amulet batteries, I was gonna say it actually their harbularies batteries.
You should have no frickin hilarious I missed opportunity. I like I already started answering you as it was like coming up only.
No, damn. Yes, after they they give back fee and amulet batteries and they get nebula and they're taking her to where did they say they were taking her, I can't remember.
I think they were just trying to keep her with that's going to take her to Nova. That's what it was.
And so that songs playing as like frickin. It's like showing baby group just like looking out the the back window at the frickin sovereign.
So, not sovereign planet sovereign.
I don't know the fleet school. Yeah, sovereign fleet.
And it's a really cute moment I just love that song. You got that frickin come a little bit closer. That's playing when frickin yondu is just destroying all the ravagers with his arrow and walking in slow mo with a rocket and baby group by his side.
So frickin good.
Just thought there's so many good songs frickin Fox song isn't Fox on the run playing when it's ego and Star Lord fighting.
I think.
I want to say yes. Okay.
That's what I thought.
I, I could honestly I could probably listen to the soundtrack and tell you where the scenes are, or what the scenes are like that frickin iconic. Yeah, it's so so good.
Yeah, 10 out of 10. Like that there was no frickin question like I was about, like when we were getting this set up I was just like, might as well just fill this in now like there's no serious about it.
Like, even though volume one is my third favorite soundtrack it still gets a 10 out 10. All volume, all guardians movies get a 10 out 10 for their soundtracks, the way that James gun works in these songs to benefit the story, and just how it works so well with
the scene.
I feel as it's, it's honestly a craft.
How he's able to do this.
Oh yeah, it just adds to the scene so much more.
Dude, have you ever listened on Spotify to his.
Meredith quill awesome mix.
No, I haven't.
It's a friggin, it's a banger. Yeah, okay, let's check it out. Yeah, so he had like every song that he, he feels Meredith quill would have had on, like repeat, or like a copy of he put in this playlist and it frickin rocks.
Okay, okay, I'll definitely have to check that out.
That's awesome.
Yeah, anytime I'm in a mood for like, not my normal type of music but just kind of I want something playing like I'll usually throw that on.
I have it saved and everything it's frickin fantastic. I like it. Hell yeah.
Alright, next up we got costumes.
This is a tough one.
That's fair.
Because I know I pointed out to Caleb before we started recording like the biggest standout for me is that in this yondu actually gets like the classic like Finn, it's not like the like, like just like the flat fin that it is in the first one it's like the full on like
swooped up thin. And this and it's frickin great I love it.
But like other than that there's really no big standouts I mean I guess you know like with mantis and the introduction to her you get her new costume.
But you know the guardians are wearing basically the same stuff they were in the first one.
Only thing about Star Lord is now he has a longer jacket it's more of like a trench coat instead of his leather jacket I guess.
I mean even like in combat, he wasn't even wearing that he was wearing the long sleeve like gray t shirt. That's true. Yeah, yeah, that's very true.
Which I mean even like that is in its own right, an iconic look because you can see someone wearing that out anywhere and be like, that's frickin Peter quill. Yeah, easy.
So I mean that that's one of those costumes that was like it was tricky for me.
That's fair tracks really didn't have anything I mean other than being shirtless but I mean that's just the iconic tracks look, the more didn't really have anything too special.
But I mean the only thing that changed about rocket is like literally the exact same costume but instead of like the main colors being orange they're blue this time. Yeah, that's really it.
Yeah, so it this one's like harder to rate so like I put this on the same level as the first.
That, yeah, I can definitely agree there.
Yeah, I mean it's iconic enough because I mean you got yondu is the is frickin carrying the weight of this team on this on their shoulders.
I mean you got some cool ravagers.
I think Sylvester Stallone's ravager outfit was pretty bitching.
That's fair, I can I can but I mean you can't really weigh him in too much because he was just such a small part.
Yeah.
So yeah, I think this is somewhere, I think I'm like maybe an eight.
Yeah, I can agree with you.
Yeah, I mean, I can be talked down to a seven, if I feel that I'm out to me yondu's thin, that that just that really brings me up to an eight, just because it's so comic accurate and it just makes me, it put a huge smile on my face.
And I know for that alone that pushes me to an eight.
Fair.
Alright, last up we got our own personal scores.
Who do you want to take this one.
You're leading this one you pick. Alright, let's have you do this one.
Okay.
This is easily one of the best sequels to come out within the MCU.
I love this movie to death.
One of the big things that I have, especially when it comes to like MCU or something I find that's hard to come back to is the origin. And that's usually what the first movie is.
It's usually an origin and that's exactly what that was it was an origin to the team.
And I don't get me wrong, it was good. But if I'm going to, I'm going to, I always kind of lean more towards watching the, the film where they're already kind of established.
Like, and it's weird because like, and this is like, can be said with like any of the franchises, like, I'm, I'm more inclined to watch Age of Ultron versus the Avengers.
And the, and listen, listen, hold up, hold up. I see you judging me.
A little bit.
No, the reason that I I'm more inclined to is because the Avengers are already established as a team.
Avengers kind of built up to it. But like, I like to see them fight as a team. And Age of Ultron is going to give you that same thing with like Iron Man.
I'm probably going to watch Iron Man 2 over Iron Man 1. I know Iron Man 1 is a better movie, but Iron Man 2 is an established Iron Man.
Also, I feel Iron Man 2 gets way too much hate.
Iron Man 2 is not bad. It's not as bad as people think. Iron Man 3 is meh.
But I honestly hate Iron Man 3.
I won't say I hate it, but I'm going to be honest right here. But really, sorry, I just want to, can we just touch upon that? It's kind of bullshit that we only actually got to see the Avengers.
Like, I don't know, like, reassemble fully as a team in just two movies. We only got to see them actually assemble as a team in two movies.
Like the OG six.
They never assemble in Infinity War and they never assemble in Endgame.
Technically.
Well, I guess they technically do.
Yeah, but it's not like combat. Yeah, it's more just it's not the same.
Yeah, not quite.
Yeah, it is bullshit. Yeah, sorry. How do you mean? I'm sure of you. No, you're good.
But yeah, this is the same issue that I have. I know objectively.
That like I that a lot of the the ones where they're a little bit more established as a character is either like usually a lower quality film than the origin.
But most of the time, this is one of those cases where I'm more inclined to watch two versus one.
And it's because of how like how much of a good time I have watching this film.
I love this film. I think it's so much frickin fun. And it still has the emotional moments that you kind of like come to expect from Marvel.
But it's done so frickin well. And that's just because James Gunn is a frickin bomb of a director.
So my personal score for this, I think I'm going to give a 91.
I thought you're going to be a lot higher, actually. I was thinking about it.
I. Sorry, I don't mean to. I'm not trying to change your mind.
I know you made me question myself. My bad. Sorry, bastard. I'm sorry.
I'll stick with 91. I'll stick with 91. I feel good about it. All right.
No, completely. No, it's a good score.
Honestly, I don't really have anything else to add with with other than just agreeing with everything Caleb said.
This is it's definitely the rare sequel that is better than the original and early or at least to us.
And arguably, I'd say it's one of the not only the best sequel in the MCU, but one of the best sequels I've actually seen.
Just the characters are great. Music's great. Just overall, just a really, really good sequel.
And I remember for for years that this was like one of the biggest MCU movies that I always caught myself coming back to
because just I just had so much fun with it and I love these characters so much.
And so, yeah. So personal score.
I think I'm going to go slightly higher than Caleb. I'm going to go I'm going to go a 93. All right.
Well, with that, that wraps up this breakdown. So going through these scores real quick.
All right. Starting off with story, we ended up averaging out to a 94.
Moving on over to writing, drop down a couple of points sitting at 92.
Acting, we did a pretty decent bump up to a 96.
Character development wasn't quite as strong as other films, so it ended up being around 84.
The effects ended up averaging out to an 88.5.
Our music, no surprise here, 10 out of 10.
Our costume score ended up averaging out to an eight out of 10.
And then our personal score ended up averaging to a 92.
So with that, the final all bros letter grade for Guardians of the Galaxy Volume two has come out to a.
They've got to get into a noise. Sorry, I'll figure that out.
Let's come out to an A minus. Yes.
I was really open about it. Yes. Oh, it makes me so happy.
Yeah, it I won't say barely cracked because I mean, it's it's got a like a solid footing in the A minus range.
Our cutoff is 90. OK. And this end up getting a 91.4.
OK. So it's not like right on the edge, but it's yeah, it's like I said, it's got it's got a firm holding.
Yeah. So. I'm digging where it's at.
Me too. But yeah, it's it's not an A minus. Hell, yeah.
I love it. Yeah, same here.
All right. Comparing this to other A minus movies.
Let's see. I feel like there's going to be some hot takes in here.
It's the kind of stuff possibly. Yeah.
All right. So Guardians of the Galaxy Volume two sitting at a 91.43.
Which is an A minus. Everything I'm about to list off is also an A minus movie.
It is sitting below the Super Mario Bros movie.
I'm OK with it. So so barely.
It's not it's point zero two percent difference.
You know, dude, for how much I love that movie, like I think that it's still my favorite animated movie of the year.
I'm OK with that. Yeah, same here.
Sorry, I thought I heard noise outside. No, you're good.
All right. It's sitting below the Batman.
OK. Which is at a 91.62.
It is sitting below Logan, which is at a 91.81.
Fair. It is sitting below Our Friend, which is at a 92.12.
That's fair. God, that's such a good movie. Yeah.
It is sitting below the Eternals, which is at a 92.25.
Oh, wow. OK, that's OK. We're going to have some pissed off people
because even I'm going to disagree with that.
Guardians two is definitely higher than Eternals.
Man, dude, I think you're giving the Eternals way too much shit.
It was like a good movie. No, it was. Don't get me wrong.
Like they definitely they definitely deserve to be held on the same pedestal.
But I think Guardians a little higher.
I would switch those scores if it makes you feel better.
It's less than a percentage difference, like at least a full percent.
OK. Well, all right. Yeah.
Less than a full percentage. It's a point. I'll take the point.
Eight. If I'm doing the math properly, it's a point eight percent difference.
It is so close. All right. I'll take that.
All right. Then lastly, it is below Elvis, which is adding 92.31.
I had no idea we ranked Elvis that high. Damn.
Yeah. So seriously, to get a full percentage away from Guardians, it's 12 movies.
Damn. OK, wow. Yeah.
And the one that's a full percentage away is a pulp fiction.
OK, wow. So it is a ridonkulously close like tight margins are a minus.
I feel have like some of the tightest margins.
I agree. Yeah. No kidding.
All right. Go in the opposite direction.
We put Guardians above Coco, which is at a 91.4.
That's definitely make people mad.
Yeah, it's above Creed three, which is adding 91.31.
I can respect that.
It is above Shang Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, which is at 91.2.
It is above Puss in Boots, the last wish, so that 91.1 to.
If there's one that I disagree with, it's that one.
All right. Fair. But I think that's I think that's because my personal score for it was higher than Guardians.
All right. It is also above Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, which is adding 91.1.
And then it is above How to Train Your Dragon, The Hidden World, which is at a 91.
OK. So again, tight, tight, tight margins. Yeah. Wow.
All right. Like so going a full percentage away from.
Guardians, that's let's see above. Yeah, it's 16 movies before you're a full percentage away.
Damn. Yeah. Wow. Yeah. And it's 1917 is the movie that's the full percentage.
That's insane. Yeah. Like I said, the margins here are stupid close. Yeah. Wow. OK.
So I'm not too upset with the ranking here. I'm not either. Yeah.
I'm pleasantly surprised with this. Yeah. All right.
Well, unless you got anything else you want to add about Guardians to that, I do not.
All right. Well, I would say that that brings this episode to a close.
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