I fucking hate having spoilers ruin a movie for me.. So my heart goes out to the many unsuspecting and unfortunate fans, that had Avengers: Endgame spoiled for them.
Star Lord just heard about the leak
Apparently, during a recent screening of the film, a chunk of the movie was poorly captured on a blurry cell phone video. The video ended up online and even if you manage to avoid this video clip, there are detailed descriptions of footage floating around online that spoil major plot points and surprises from the film. We’re talking MAJOR stuff ! Moments that you want to see play out on the big screen opening night. So, unfortunately the fuckwit who took the video and the assholes who kept the descriptions and video drifting around the Internet, ruined the movie for a lot of people.
Cap is pretty pissed too
If that happened to me… Fuck, Hell hath no goddamn fury! If I had Avengers: Endgame spoiled, I would want to track these pricks down and fucking murder the people that pulled this bullshit (oh… and, um… I was totally, um, I was, uh… KIDDING! Haha yeah. I was definitely kidding about wanting to kill anyone who spoiled Endgame for me… yeah, um, kidding)
This is an accurate representation of my level of rage if Avengers Endgame was spoiled for me.
I know this is tough, but with the movie 7 days away, your safest move is to stay off the internet as much as possible until you see the movie. Especially social media, like Twitter and Reddit, which is some of the advice given in the video I posted below. The video below details the best ways to NOT have the movie ruined for you. Without spoiling anything at all, the people in this video give you the best tips on what to avoid until the movie comes out. Watch it here:
I also posted an open letter from The Russo Brothers, who directed Endgame, to the fans, asking people to not ruin the movie for others.
I just wanted to give my loyal readership a little warning, especially if you’re looking forward to this movie as much as I am. As always thanks for reading!
-Paul
P.S. keep a lookout for our long overdue podcast on the Season Premiere of Game of Thrones, which we’ll have up in the next 24 hours.
I know what you’re thinking, “Didn’t the first trailer drop for the final film in a franchise Paul is obsessed with to an unhealthy degree? Why isn’t he on that like flies on shit!?” A very fair question. I’ll just say we have quite a bit on that in the very near future, so stay tuned…
Anyway, with just a few agonizing weeks until Avengers: Endgame hits theatres, it feels like the movie cant get here fast enough. In the meantime, I have some cool stuff to share to make the wait a little easier.
This fantastic poster was done exclusively for MARVEL by BossLogic
First off, Entertainment Weekly and their website EW.com always give fantastic coverage to genre entertainment. From Game of Thrones to Star Wars they always have some great content. The MCU is no exception, for their cover story this week they put out 6 exclusive covers featuring each of the founding Avengers. Check them out:
Another magazine, Empire, probably the best movie magazine in the world had this awesome cover of Thanos in full armor for this month’s issue:
Pretty cool right? We also had some light shed on some intriguing upcoming MCU projects. Marvel and Kevin Feige made some big announcements this week that made me VERY excited. Pretty much since I began reading comics, Hawkeye was always my favorite Avenger. In the Avengers comics, he’s a much more beloved character. To many comic book readers, Clint Barton is THE quintessential Avenger. Even more so than Cap or Iron Man.
Don’t get me wrong, I think Jeremy Renner is a great Hawkeye (Though I do think Jensen Ackles who passed on the role to continue playing Dean Winchester on Supernatural would be closer to the comic book interpretation). However, I do feel like audiences haven’t fallen in love with Hawkeye as much as other characters in the MCU. I don’t think this is Renner’s fault at all, I think he’s great with what he’s given. Any failures when it comes to Hawkeye lie with the writers and how they’ve chosen to use him in the stories.
I think Hawkeye really got his time to shine in Avengers: Age of Ultron. I know that’s one of the more divisive MCU films, but I love it. Hawkeye has some fantastic moments throughout the film, I’d even go so far as to say Hawkeye is the central Avenger in the movie. He even has a cool costume upgrade with a coat that harkened back to his classic comic book look.
A number of things stand out to show the audience his importance in the film: He has few great action sequences, I think they stepped up the archery tricks and showed off Hawkeye’s agility and acrobatic skills. More importantly, I loved the surprising look into his private life on his family’s farm, it’s the type of scene I adore in MCU movies. The Avengers. In one place. Together. Their chemistry is so real. I don’t care of it’s played for laughs or heavier dramatic scenes. I love seeing The Avengers put into situations where the chemistry between the characters shines and The Farm scenesfacilitate that. It’s sort of implied that he’s the rock on the team. He’s the guy who’s going to always show up and get the job done. Like Clint’s wife says “I see these guys, these… gods…” Clint replies “You don’t think they need me.” His wife says finally “I think they do, which is a lot scarier.”. The last thing I want to mention is one of my favorite scenes in the movie. At the beginning of The Ultron Offensive on Socaovia there this awesome scene/speech with Hawkeye and Wanda which you can watch here:
All of this has been a long winded way of saying that despite what some people think, Hawkeye is a great character. I always thought the ideal way to tell a fantastic Hawkeye story would be a TV series, like what they were doing on Netflix. Even though we’ve lost great characters like Daredevil to the Netflix purge, the good news is Jeremy Renner will be starring as Hawkeye in his own miniseries on Disney Plus. The more I hear about Disney Plus, the better it sounds. After all Disney does have all the good toys to play with. The Hawkeye series will be one of the first Marvel miniseries to launch with the new streaming service. The story will focus on Clint and his protege Kate Bishop. In the trailer for Endgame we see Hawkeye teaching a teenage girl archery. Is this his daughter? In the comics Kate Bishop isn’t related to Hawkeye. Will they change the character for this series and make Kate Bishop his daughter or will they introduce here as a completely new character? Time will tell.
This sounds like the series will be taking it’s cues from the fantastic Hawkeye comic book series written by Matt Fraction and artist David Aja. The entire series is avaiable in trade paperback with a hardcover omnibus containing the entire run. This is one of the best Marvel comic of the last decade, so I’ll be thrilled if the miniseries even partially adapts this comic book run. Which is pretty much what Marvel usually does anyway. Like Civil War and Planet Hulk, Marvel never directly adapts these stories, they take what they need from the story that will work within the context of the MCU. The first volume of this Hawkeye series is “My Life As A Weapon” and I strongly recommend giving it a read. You can pick up the book here on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Hawkeye-Vol-Life-Weapon-Marvel/dp/0785165622/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3TSGCJUV1IWW4&keywords=hawkeye+my+life+as+a+weapon&qid=1555198699&s=gateway&sprefix=Hawkeye+my%2Caps%2C146&sr=8-1
Other miniseries announced for Disney Plus include Loki, a prequel taking place before his death at the hands of Thanos, this series will chronicle the trouble marking shenanigans and adventures of The God of Mischief over the several thousand years he’s been alive in the MCU. We also have a Vision & Scarlet Witch miniseries called WandaVision, which we know the least about right now.
Finally, we have The Falcon and The Winter Soldier, the team up series about Sam Wilson and Bucky Barnes. This is speculation on my part, but one way or another I strongly believe Steve Rogers is not going to make it out of Endgame. I think he’ll probably die or at the very least, be taken off the board in some way. Considering that Bucky Barnes and Sam Wilson have both carried the mantel of Captain America in the comic books in the past, I wouldn’t be surprised if this miniseries revolves around some kind of Who Wields The Shield concept. Who will be the next Captain America? Factoring in the two of them don’t like each other all that much, just makes it that much more interesting. It isn’t the best resolution, but we do have our first look a the logo for the miniseries, which I have posted below.
This is and Hawkeye are the Disney + shows I’m most looking forward too.
Along with The other MCU series I mentioned an animated What if? series is in the works. Like What if Peggy Carter beacame Captain America? or What of Loki was able to use Mjonir?
Disney + will be launching on November 12th for $6.99 per month or $69.99 for the year. In addition to the original content, 500 movies from the Disney library will be available along with 7,000 episodes of Disney TV shows. To put a cherry on top, The Mandelorian will premier on November 12th, available to watch the whole season as soon as the service launches. Disney + will also be the exclusive home to ALL EPISODES of The Simpsons, which is a big move from its current home on one of the FX apps. Fucking crazy, right? Below is photo of the homepage interface that will be broken up into 5 major categories: Disney, Pixar, Marvel, Star Wars, and National Geographic.
Bottom line is that a SPECTACULAR as everything we’ve seen from The MCU so far, I think thes type of annoucements as well as Kevin Fiege confirming that though it’s great to have the X-Men back home, it would be a mistake to rush them onto the MCU. Fiege explained that a 5 years plan is in place for the films AFTEREndgame. Let the good times rolll! EXCELSIOR!
Fuck I can’t wait for this movie. I’ve been going to these huge blockbuster movies all my life, movies like Star Wars and The Dark Knight, but I never saw the point of buying tickets weeks before a big movie comes out. In the past I never had trouble getting tickets the day before or even the night of a huge opening night movie, and that includes Star Wars The Force Awakens and Avengers Infinity War. So I thought it was bullshit when I heard tickets were selling out for opening night in droves. Thank God Paul Sr. pushed me on it and actually looked up the ticket times, because we bought tickets the day they went on sale and if we had waited any longer we wouldn’t of been able to go opening night. So I hope you guys have your tickets ready, this is The Empire Strikes Back of our generation. I. Can’t. Fucking. Wait.
In the meantime, check out this new featurette Marvel put out to sate our appetites until the movie finally comes out:
As Avengers: Endgame fast approaches, Marvel has released character posters for many of the major players in the MCU. What’s interesting about these new posters is that they confirm the death or survival of some characters whose status was left somewhat ambiguous after Avengers: Infinity War. Each poster has the tagline “Avenge The Fallen”, with the surviving characters in color and characters who were killed in “The Snap” or “The Decimation” in black and white.
We can now definitively confirm that Valkyrie, Wong, Pepper Potts, and Happy Hogan survived The Decimation to live another day. While Shuri, sadly and surprisingly, was a victim of Thanos’ Universal genocide.
Marvel also released this interesting video where the head of Marvel Studios Kevin Fiege and the cast discuss Avengers: Endgame. It’s definitely worth a watch, so check it out here:
As is so often the case, the biggest reveals from the year’s biggest movies come Toy marketing. Avengers: Endgame is no differentWeirdly this photo is from Orville Redenbacher. This is the best and clearest picture yet we’ve seen of (some) of the team post “The Snappening” or as it’s officially referred to at Marvel, The Decimation (which is grammatically incorrect, but sounds way cooler).
Note that only the six original Avengers are shown here. The original team from the first film. We know that Captain Marvel, Rocket, War Machine, Nebula, and Ant-man are all on the team in Avengers: Endgame. But it’s just one piece of promo art, so let’s not lose our goddamn minds. Gamespot.com had this official sysnopsis:
The Avengers will attemp to “undo Thanos’ actions and restore order to the universe once and for all, no matter what consequences may be in store.”
Oh, really? Thanks for the sysnopsis Marvel! Because I thought The Avengers were going to sit this one out!
When I watch the Super Bowl every year, my favorite thing is to see all of the cool new trailers that debut during the game. The biggest movies of the upcoming year usually reserve spots to debut teasers and trailers during the game’s commercials. But if you have no interest in watching the game or you just want one easy place where you can find all of the coolest trailers as soon as they drop, I’ve got you covered. Instead of trying to find them all on YouTube, keep checking back to this page all night. I’ll be updating each new trailer and posting them here, live as they debut!
Enjoy the game and check back here starting at 6:40pm EST…
All right!!!! GAME TIME! Aaaand… here… we… GO!
CAPTAIN MARVEL
This looks awesome! Can’t wait! March 8th!
AVENGERS: ENDGAME
Oh, Fuck Yes. Marvel is BRINGING IT tonight!
Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw
This looks like an absolute blast! I loved the full trailer they put out earlier this week. Johnson has charisma to spare and Statham’s the man. Not to mention Iris Elba as the super soldier villain! Someone made a great comment on YouTube saying “The next movie will have Hobbs and Shaw fighting Thanos.”
Meh. I’d watch this, I guess. Maybe. I’ve heard mixed things. I might see it and give a review for the site. We’ll see. I think it looks kind of cool, but it also could be another Ghost In The Shell.
This movie looks fucking HORRIFYING, in the best way. I almost shit my pants just watching the trailer! This is from Jordan Peele who gave us the excellent Get Out. I love horror movies, so this is definitely must see for me.
The Twilight Zone (New TV Series)
There have been a few attempts to revive this show with varying degrees of success, but Jordan Peele’s involvement gets my hopes up. CBS ALL ACCESS is really bringing it for this Super Bowl
Toy Story 4
I almost missed this one because it technically aired after the game, but I wanted to make sure to include it. I’m a big believer that great stories need great endings and Toy Story 3 is one of the greediest endings to a trilogy of films of all time. So Toy Story 4 better have a damn good reason to justify its existence other than the obvious answer which is: money. Hopefully I’m wrong and it’s just the masterpiece we need to follow up one of the all-time great animated films Toy Story 3. But I doubt it.
Well, another Super Bowl comes to an end. While not the best year for Super Bowl movie trailers, there were a few solid ones in there. Particularly Captain Marvel and Avengers: Endgame. I hope you guys enjoyed my coverage of the movie trailers that played during the game and I hope you come back next year to enjoy some more of the same! Thanks for watching!
I haven’t been a big fan of the Academy Awards for years now, but I must admit I was very excited when Black Panther received an Oscar nomination for Best Picture. This is the first time a comic book film, a superhero film has been nominated for Best Picture at the Oscars. Even though I don’t consider the Oscars to be the standard by which excellence in film should necessarily be judged, it’s still a great feeling of validation to a lifelong comic book fan. Not to mention that it’s all too rare to see a big budget superhero film with a predominantly black cast that, as put so well by Marc Bernardin in his Entertainment Weekly cover story, Black Panther is a movie about celebrating “Excellence”. Which is all too rare. This movie’s cultural impact cannot be understated. Even putting all of that aside, Black Panther is just a great fucking movie that absolutely deserves this recognition.
The cast of Black Panther after their win for Best Ensemble Cast at The Screen Actors Guild Awards.
So, With Black Panther nominated for Best Picture at the Academy Awards, on this episode we wanted to acknowledge that historic accomplishment as well as talk about other comic book films that deserved Oscar noms. We also discuss some of the upcoming DC films, like Birds of Prey. To top it all off, we try to figure out (if you could pick ANY character from ANY comic book universe) who would have the best chance in a face off against Thanos with The Infinity Gauntlet! All this and so much more on this episode of “The World’s Best Podcast”! Enjoy! Listen here or subscribe on Stitcher and iTunes:
In this follow up to last week’s episode, The Best & Worst Of 2018, this podcast is all about what’s to come in 2019! This episode as well as the end of the year retrospective arealways fun to record. So Paul Sr. and I discuss our most anticipated movies, TV series, and comics in 2019. We talk about Glass, the long awaited sequel to Unbreakable, the final EPIC season of GameofThrones, Avengers: Endgame, the new Hellboy movie, and much, much more!
Below the links for the podcast, I’ve included a list of my personal most anticipated movies and TV shows coming out in 2019 and when they’re scheduled for release.
DON’T MISS this killer episode! Listen here or subscribe on iTunes and Stitcher:
On this episode of The World’s Best Podcast, Writer and Filmmaker Mike Cole returns to the podcast as guest co-host where we discuss movie and TV fan theories. We cover popular fan theories from Harry Potter, Pixar films, The Flash and more. Of course with some fun detours along the way! Enjoy! Listen here or subscribe on Stitcher and iTunes:
Also, if you get a chance, check out our Facebook page, World’s Best Media, to see my video breakdown of the new trailer for the highly anticipated Avengers: Endgame! It’s one of my best trailer breakdown videos, so I’d love for you all to give it a watch. Please feel free to leave any questions or comments below. We love hearing feedback from you guys, good or bad! Thanks for listening!
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