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Avengers assemble! We've made it, it's time to watch Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 in theaters, but before we do, we've got some unfinished Avengers business to take care of. Naaim Siddiqi from the Rain Delay Radio podcast is back to cover part 2 of the Infinity War story, the 3 hour masterpiece, Avengers: Endgame. This movie is set in 2023 despite being released in 2019, notably before COVID ravaged the planet in real life. With the post-COVID hindsight in mind, it puts this movie in a new perspective and we compare real life trauma of 9/11 and COVID to the "snap." Did COVID accidentally fix the Marvel timeline? Plus, Naaim has a theater manager story where an employee got fired as a result of an early screening of this film and is the final battle scene with all the women heroes just a tone deaf pandering spectacle?

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Kick names, take ass. As we get ready for Guardians 3, we have now reached the final movies of Phase Three, arguably the most important MCU movies. We begin with Avengers: Infinity War and we are joined by Naaim Siddiqi from the Rain Delay Radio podcast. Naaim explains to us why this is his favorite Avengers movie because of how it can tell a bunch of different stories and still keep everything concise. Plus, is the whole ending of this movie Star Lord's fault and do we have Thanos all wrong, is he actually the protagonist of this movie?

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Yeah, it’s called the... uh... Revengers! Kent Fellure from the Ritual Misery podcast joins us as we continue our Guardians 3 Marvel watch-through and this time we're covering a Thor movie, specifically Thor: Ragnarok. This movie showcases Loki in a very different light than The Avengers and we've come up with the term "anti-villain" to describe him, we'll explain. Plus, Kent talks about this movie's similar Guardians humor and why these MCU movies break down a long standing trope of "serious" comic book movies and why that's a good thing and despite Asgard being destroyed in the end, as a viewer it seems like there's no emotional connection or attachment to it being destroyed, but why is that?

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So, you like cats. Our Marvel journey to fulfill our quest to watch Guardians 3 in theaters continues with Jeffrey Sax joining us to discuss the movie Avengers: Civil– oh sorry, Captain America: Civil War. While there might be a story reason for why this movie is a Captain America movie, it turns out that there were a lot of internal politics between different movie studios that led to this being a Captain America movie, and it requires us to go over the complete history of Marvel to fully understand it all. Plus, Willie makes the case for why this movie should be retroactively renamed to Avengers: Civil War and is this the first big fight scene in a movie that actually makes the movie pace slower?

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How do we know who the bad guys are? If they're shooting you, they're bad. To get ready for the theatrical release of Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, we are going back and watching some important Marvel movies. Our first one is Captain America: The Winter Soldier and Tom DiGianvittorio joins us to reminisce about the glory days of being able to watch an MCU movie standalone and not have to worry about context. Plus, there was a Marvel TV series about the S.H.I.E.L.D organization in progress during this movie's release and Willie theorizes how this movie might've disrupted that entire series and we discuss a potential flaw in Captain America's fighting strategy.

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No, I am your father! It's Star Wars Day and we are joined by Kent Fellure from the Ritual Misery podcast to continue our Star Wars series of episodes. This time, we'll be discussing the 2nd movie released, Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back. While this movie appears on the surface to just be a Luke Skywalker training session, could it just be more of a reinforcement to make sure Luke doesn't join the Dark Side? Plus, this Star Wars movie along with the others in the trilogy have edits that were made after the movie's release, a total of 4 to be exact. Some Star Wars purists believe that the movies shouldn't have been tampered with, but we discuss why these changes may actually have been necessary, and the big reveal at the end of this movie is the biggest spoiler of all time, does it ruin the viewing experience for a first time watcher?

The Empire Strikes Back: All of the Changes George Lucas Made to the Film

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I'm living to 102 and then I'm dying like the city of Detroit. This year's Valentine's Day movie is Deadpool and we are joined by regular Game Night contributor Dolan Moles to discuss it. Deadpool is a very unique superhero, err, antihero movie that has so many 4th wall breaks and self aware moments. The story also jumps forward and backward a lot, but Willie explains why this wasn't a problem for this particular movie for him. Plus, we look back at the Deadpool x Fortnite collaboration and realize that it's pretty crazy they added Deadpool to a kid's game and why does Wade trust Francis who seems to be selling an obvious con to cure his disease?

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Ice cream! Regular Game Night contributor Brian Kofford joins us to talk about the film Close Encounters of the Third Kind and the fact that this movie arguably doesn't have a plot at all and Willie compares it to 2001: A Space Odyssey. Does that make the movie age poorly as a result? Plus, at first it may seem that the whistler guy who says he's seen Bigfoot during the Air Force press conference is a complete non sequitur but we realize that he may have single-handedly made the entire last half of the movie possible, we'll explain why and first time watchers might've missed the reason how Roy gets sunburned on only half of his face. Hint: The alien spaceship is involved.

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Buckle your seatbelt, Dorothy, 'cause Kansas is going bye-bye. This week we are talking about the movie The Matrix with the founder of Scynewave Engineering Ki Scyne. What exactly is The Matrix? We see it in the movie, but does Willie actually understand what it is? Scyne helps us try to understand it using lucid dreaming and live concerts in Fortnite as examples of what The Matrix is like. Plus, Scyne got to be a character in The Matrix Online game that the directors of the movie say is technically cannon in the Matrix universe and is Neo and Trinity's kiss at the end just a fairytale-like ending or does it mean more about The Matrix than that? Dodge this!

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I will live in Montana. And I will marry a round American woman and raise rabbits, and she will cook them for me. And I will have a pickup truck... maybe even a "recreational vehicle." And drive from state to state. Do they let you do that? We are joined by regular Game Night contributor Jeffrey Sax to discuss the movie The Hunt for Red October. What happens when you know so much about submarines that you unknowingly figure out information about them that is classified? That's the exact scenario that Tom Clancy found himself in when he released the original novel that this movie is based on. We speculate what would happen if he hypothetically accidentally leaked classified information as a result of writing this story. Plus, an actor in this movie has had quite the career including being elected as a real life senator and then later starring in Law and Order and does Ramius have a reason for defecting from the Soviet Union, and is it a sound one?

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