E41: Thunderbolts* | The New Avengers Review
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In our latest, we do a full spoilers, in-depth breakdown of Marvel Studios’ latest film, Thunderbolts*, or what has now been retitled The New Avengers, the 36th MCU film, the final film of phase 5, and the introduction of a brand new team of super (anti)heroes.
We finish off the episode discussing the latest movie trailer releases including Highest 2 Lowest, Wednesday Season 2, The Smashing Machine, I Know What You Did Last Summer, and Fear Street: Prom Queen.
Chapters
00:00:00 Intro
00:00:14 Episode Overview
00:01:03 Thunderbolts* Review
00:01:07 SPOILER WARNING
00:01:38 The Retitling of the Movie to The New Avengers
00:03:09 The Plot
00:03:28 Budget & Box Office
00:05:45 The Reviews - IMDB, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic, Cinemascore, Threads
00:07:12 The Direction - Jake Schreier (Robot and Frank, Beef, Paper Towns)
00:08:44 Beef Tangient
00:09:48 The Writing - Eric Pearson (Thor: Ragnarok, Black Widow, Agent Carter, The Marvel One-Shots, Godzilla vs Kong, Transformers One) and JoAnna Calo (The Bear, Bojack Horseman, Hacks, Beef), Lee Sung Jin
00:12:00 The Cast & Characters
00:12:01 Florence Pugh (Fighting with My Family, Midsommar, Black Widow, Hawkeye) - Yelena Belova / White Widow
00:15:12 Sebastian Stan - Bucky Barnes
00:17:24 Is Keeping Up with the MCU Becoming too Much Work?
00:20:27 Julia Louis-Dreyfus - Valentina Allegra de Fontaine
00:21:41 Lewis Pullman - Bob, Sentry, The Void (Steven Yeun was originally cast) & Other SUPER-Powered Heroes
00:26:24 David Harbour - Alexei Shostakov/ Red Guardian
00:27:48 Wyatt Russell - John Walker / US Agent
00:32:33 Hannah John Kamen - Ava Starr / Ghost
00:34:11 Olga Kurylenko - Antonia Dreykov / Taskmaster
00:38:53 Geraldine Viswanathan - Mel & possible Songbird Easter Egg
00:40:43 The Bear & Ayo Edebiri Tangient
00:42:54 Wendell Pierce - Congressman Gary
00:44:19 Should they have thrown de Fontaine in prison?
00:45:08 Final Thoughts
00:55:42 Mid and End Credits Scenes
00:58:49 Who’s on Sam Wilson’s Avengers Team?
01:01:34 What’s Next for the MCU? (Ironheart, Eyes of Wakanda, Fantastic Four: First Steps, Wonder Man, Marvel Zombies, Avengers: Doomsday, Avengers: Secret Wars)
01:03:10 News
01:03:16 Weekly Sinners Box Office Round Up
01:04:11 Captain America: Brave New World passes $200 million Worldwide
01:05:11 Dan Talk Sentry’s Voidblast
01:06:16 Jeremy Renner stated that he turned down season 2 of Hawkeye because they only wanted to give him half his S1 salary
01:06:52 John Malkovich: “Pay that man his money.”
01:07:03 Delroy Lindo: “Stop eating my sesame cake!”
01:07:56 Spike Jones’ Highest 2 Lowest trailer with Denzel Washington
01:09:07 Wednesday S2 Trailer
01:09:36 The Smashing Machine
01:10:56 I Know What You Did Last Summer
01:13:51 Fear Street: Prom Queen Trailer
01:14:47 Physical Media Showcase - One Cut of the Dead 4K Steelbook
01:15:47 Outro
