My Mom's Basement - EPISODE 218 - 'THOR: LOVE AND THUNDER' REVIEW WITH CLEM

Episode Date: July 11, 2022

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Hey My Mom's Basement listeners, you can find our episodes on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or YouTube, and Prime members can listen ad-free on Amazon Music. Hello, and welcome back to My Mom's Basement, presented by 3C and Barstool Sports. I am your host, Robbie Fox. With me is my co-host, Clem, and we are here to talk Thor, Love, and Thunder. Oh, look at that, he's got the hammer. That's like the needle if you're watching on youtube it's like aureus you didn't see that coming i got unplugged on the line too oh that was funny i didn't expect a tiny little hammer to be whipped out on this podcast clem how we doing doing good bob doing good uh back into the mcu we go we've been in the upside down for a little bit we've been dabbling in some star wars so kind of good to get back in the thing that kind of got us really humming in the basement, the MCU. And all things

considered, I liked it. I went into this movie with reviews on both sides of it. This movie was a lot of fun. It was great. It was awesome. This movie wasn't good. It was mid. It was mad. And I'm kind of just right in the middle. I had fun. I had fun in a movie. You know what's crazy is my brain is just broken at this point because I came out of the press screening of this, and I said, I can't imagine anyone that liked Ragnarok is going to not like Thor, Love, and Thunder. I just thought people were going to love this movie. I thought people were going to be like, back to the MCU we know and love.

The multiverse isn't even mentioned in this movie, so it's kind of a nice refreshing break off that kind of stuff. And then it's The Last Jedi all over again when I go online. I mean, not quite to that level, but people are, oh, Thor's ruined. Taika ruined Thor. He's not serious enough. He's not this. And then the other side, people going, oh, I thought that was the funniest MCU movie.

I thought it was a blast, a romantic comedy, a change of pace. So there are people on both sides of every movie. That's something that I'm going to have to just learn and accept. The internet is not going to universally like anything. Yeah, it is what it is. And I did go in kind of like one eye open, like, oh, this is going to be bad. I'm going to be sitting through this. Because at this point, we have to watch it for work.

I got back from vacation yesterday, drove. It was a seven-hour trip because we'd stopped at a ferry. We had to stop for gas, bathroom breaks, blah, blah, blah. Got home, had to watch a Mets game. I retired Frank the Tank from being allowed to even negatively tweet about the Mets until the end of July. Had to get all that stuff up and then watch the movie. And I was shot by the, I'm an old man, Bob. I'm an old man. I'm 40. I'm a man. I'm 40. And I'm here watching. I'm like, man, this is going to be just a tough watch. It's going to be this. I'm earning my paycheck tonight. And again, I know this is like, I went into that and I was like, all right, there was a couple parts where in the beginning,

I'm starting to like get a little negative, get upset about it. I'm like, you know what? Just have fun. Go into it with a Ragnarok mindset where it's like, this doesn't have to be a great movie or a great superhero movie. Just try to have fun like a Ragnarok. Some of the humor was like, I thought it felt a little, it felt well flat, but it was like kind of almost goofy. But then I'm like, all right, like it's a fucking comic book. Like I'm trying to just to be the other side of the hard-o Scorsese, you know, comic book movie people. And I'm like, just have fun with it. It doesn't have to be perfect and i'm looking here at the rotten tomatoes you said it um the first thor 77 percent uh the dark world 66 percent this movie or i'm sorry ragnarok 93 everyone can agree ragnarok right one of the best so in my mind

i would think this movie probably should fit somewhere between the first thor and ragnarok this is a 68 they're telling me this movie is basically the dark world in terms of reviews. And I have to say. What are we doing there? I vehemently disagree with that. And that's, and again, this movie has its flaws.

There's things, but a lot of the flaws I thought with it is if they had more time, I think they could have made it better. I don't think it was the opposite. It was like, this is a steaming pile of shit. I think I could just watch this in the background and be like amused by it uh i think you also have to realize i think they're trying to take thor into something that is more of a a goofier it's a little lighter character i guess

you could say and it's like if you agree or disagree with that direction that's fine that's up to you who's who that's like me with the mets i like to watch the mets i like to root for my team the franken tanks they like to just be negative about them be negative about i just don't want to see it i said just don't put into my mentions i mute frank and i think frank is preposterous at this point where you he has 30 negative tweets in a row and then it's like the mets won 10 to 2 in that game it's like that that's absurd i do think there is a lot of that with not just marvel movies i think everything i think that's just what the internet has become uh but for me if you're just going, going like,

I want this to be good, it was good. It hit some high marks for me. It got some like good characters and I had some fun Thor shit in it. It was solid. And this was my little, I don't know what the word is. This is what I'm comparing it to. The MCU, it's kind of like a baseball season.

You're going to have your five, three wins. You're going to have your 10, one losses. They go like, oh, that was rough. You have your your 10-1 losses they're like oh that was that was rough you have your 10-1 wins you're like that was fucking awesome but at the end of the day all you want is that to have like when it's the end of the season you want the world series or whatever they are doing to like wrap up the phase you want an infinity war in an end game and these guys have set the bar so fucking high we We're still, I think in like infinity war end game, even no way home, which wasn't at that level,

but where you're having these like monster movies that you want to just wrap up all this stuff. It's like, if you told me if, if Ragnarok and resisted, this would be the best Thor movie of all time. My mind, I just don't even think it's close.

And again, this is someone that is not like a diehard Thor fan, but I do think that it, it, it could And again, this is someone that is not like a diehard Thor fan, but I do think that it could have been better. It could have been worse. We'll get to the fast food reviews at the end, and I think that'll be the way I can really succinctly sum up my feelings without giving anything away right now. But I was perfectly fine with it.

And again, I realize that people are going to be on both sides of the spectrum on this. That's just the fucking internet, man. There is no time where you do you do a poll on twitter and you think you're going to have 90 to 10 and it's 50 50 every time it's crazy yeah it really is and something you said in there i feel very strongly about and that is the fact that this movie could have been longer it's actually one of the shortest mcu movies i think it clocks in at like an hour 40 something minutes and they said the the original cut was like three, four hours, which now we're doing the release, the Taika cut, release the whatever cut for every movie. But Taika was like, this is the cut that I wanted to put out.

The studio didn't tell me to cut anything. I just looked the whole thing. I said, let's chop this down. And he wanted to breathe. He wanted to be like, or he wanted to like move. He wanted to really feel like, all right, we're on to the next thing. We're on to the next thing. I think letting it breathe would have benefited it giving us a little more time with christian bala's gore giving us a little more time with natalie portman as she's becoming thor i thought would have been smart but for me i thought this was

really good like obviously i'm a me so people know that I like everything. I'm a me. But yeah, I saw it twice. The press screening, people were uproariously laughing at so many of the jokes where it was almost like seeing a great comedy in a theater could enhance that experience because people are laughing together. Opening night, it was a little less so, but still like people were cracking up at the goats and all of that stuff. So I did get two really good experiences in the theater that I think enhanced my overall view of it. Yeah. And I do want to see it again. Shout out Bob Fox told me about, is it parentally friendly? I was right about this. Very right.

I almost wanted to text you during the movie and be like, thank you, because I almost took Sienna. I put this one on her. I go, do you want to see it? Uncle Robbie says it has some scary stuff. She said, nope. And then when I was at the movie, she saw in the commercial, she goes, oh, daddy's at Thor right now.

I didn't know Star-Lord's in it. I love him. I want to go see it. She has a crush on Star-Lord dating back to when she was a little kid. She goes, I love Star-Lord. She kind of had the Mama Fox accent when she did that. So when she saw that, but I will say like, this has to be like a Disney plus.

I can fast forward a couple of scenes. Some of the shadow monsters, right? Oh yeah. And literal children getting taken from that. That was the thing that I texted Clem. We'll get into spoilers now. So spoiler territory from this point onwards, I was like, they're targeting children in this movie. So spoiler territory from this point onward. I was

like, they're targeting children in this movie. So I don't know if that's going to cause nightmares, but I would say no. There's yeah, there's absolutely positively no need for that. If I took AJ to the movies, I'd be all right with it because he had a nightmare the other day. And I said, AJ was never, he's like, oh, there was monsters coming after me. And I kicked him in the face. And then there was zombies coming after me and I kicked him in the face. And then there were zombies coming after me, and I kicked him in the face. And then there was an angry hippopotamus, and I kicked him in the face. He's basically becoming Chun-Li. The boy version of Chun-Li is kicking the shit out of him. He's training in his dreams.

I'm like, these are nightmares for the monsters in your nightmares. You're just kicking the shit. That's a dream. You're a hero. You're a conquering hero. But, yeah, I would say people that have kids that are I mean I guess if this were the spoiler part if you have kids that are like easily scared maybe under 10 that part was and he rips the head off during general right like yeah pretty creepy they did a good job transitioning from his daughter

passing away where you're just not like you don't really know she dies but you can you obviously if you have a brain you know she died but stuff stuff like that was even a little dramatic for me. Before we get into this episode, let me tell everyone about our presenting sponsor, 3Chi. You can skip the dispensary and get THC delivered straight to your door with 3Chi. They're the industry leader in Delta 8 THC products, and they've got tons more, even HHC, THCV, Delta 9 products. Go to their website now. It's 3chi.com. That's the number three, chi.com. And use the promo code STOOL5, all caps, STOOL5 to take 5% off and get a free Cannafan flag sticker. This sale is exclusive to Barstool listeners. I tell you about this stuff every week. Edibles, vapes, drink enhancers,

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at gore when he first shows up he's like look at this guy eating all my fruit what the fuck and gore's like oh my you're my god i'm here for the eternal reward starts laughing at him he's like what are you talking about he's like we're here because we killed this guy who had the necro sword and gore gets so mad he throws the necklace at him he says i renounce you and then this god rapoo is like all right i'm gonna fucking kill you that picks him up almost like thanos and loki the beginning of endgame starts squeezing his neck but the necrosword calls to gore or gore calls to the necrosword however you want to call it like that and he stabs him in the throat a bunch of uh like gold blood comes out of this god kind of gross looking and whatnot and it infects gore

with this black venom stuff which as we know in the comics is literally symbiote it's literally connected to venom and null and all of that in the movie is literally symbiote it's literally connected to venom and null and all of that in the movie they couldn't do that with the rights so they kind of just make it this black goo shadow whatever thing i thought it worked i thought the god and overall cgi in this scene looked weird oh yeah it did i forgot i didn't make a note of that like the one scene where i was like the god the way he was moving his head i don't know if the whole headdress was like CG or something. It just looked strange to me where I was almost a little worried. This being the first scene,

like this movie can have a bad CG, but I don't think it did. We're going to have some weird shit going on here. Yeah. I hear that. There was rumors that since null is connected to Spider-Man, they couldn't actually use or reference him as much. I heard that.

And I don't know if symbiote is a thing in terms of it has to get signed off by Sony, I heard that, yeah. And I don't know if Symbio is a thing in terms of it has to get signed off by Sony, which, fuck Sony, man. Sony's so goddamn annoying. Listen, they've done fine with, they've done good with the Tom Holland Spider-Mans. I'm not going to say they've done great, some would say.

You can't give them the credit for it, though. But it's also because Feige is the one who's basically, he's the teacher that comes over and fixes your entire project for you, or the parent. Oh, those goddamn Pinewood Derby races. Were you a Cub Scout growing up? I was not a Cub Scout.

I did a Pinewood Derby race. And you always knew who had the parents that helped them out. And I hated those motherfuckers. It's like, dude, come on. Like, are you just going to dust a bunch of seven-year-old kids here in a fucking car race? And it's the same thing with like Sony and Marvel. It's like Kevin Feige is the guy who comes in. He's an engineer he literally has rocket fucking uh rockets attached to the car it's zooming down the guy morbius is looking like fucking parents help you yeah exactly

morbin time over here we're releasing every fucking that is one of the all-time greatest stories that they re-released it based on like memes and i think just get i tweeted they must be punching air at all the minions memes actually getting them box office revenue too like the teens are going to the movie for the meme they must be like fuck i did not think of that so in suits exactly so i will say like uh we've had jose on and i cannot remember what exact episode he talked about Thor, but we did talk a good amount about Thor. It kind of just like went on its own.

It wasn't a Thor preview. And he said, no, it was like a pretty awesome, bad-ass character. And I wish we could have gotten some of that along with the expanded gore stuff. The,

the, the more gore stuff, the better. In my opinion, you have Christian fucking bail as the actor. Let a, and this one is's more atheist bail good bob fox um and we get to see the guardians of the galaxy pretty much right off the bat and

my guy korg my favorite side character in all of the mcu he kind of starts telling the story of the space god thor fills you in a little bit on endgame and infinity war if you missed those thor got fat in between and now he's getting back into his god bod as we saw in the trailer and we get the first battle of them versus i don't know they were like birds furry birds i don't know what they were but they looked like animal on it they looked like animal from the muppet my guy animal over yeah exactly they kind of did look like that and it was funny it was kind of a comedic battle where they're all coming after him. He's decimating them with pretty much not even breaking a sweat. He does a split in between two of their cars.

He destroys the whole temple. And you get one of those classic, like, job well done scenes. We didn't destroy a thing as you watch it fall behind him. I love all of the back and forth between him and star lord that is the peak of the as guardians of the galaxy to me is when thor and star lord are talking back and forth like when thor gives him his own ship to leave he's like take this as a parting present he's like that's my shit what what are you talking about that and then all of this stuff which we'll get into but all of this stuff with stormbreaker is a jealous ex-girlfriend in this movie i thought was so fucking funny yeah i'm still i will remain angry about this until my

dying day that the james gun cancellation whatever the fuck you want to call it causing him to leave uh the mcu and then causing him obviously to get into dc and because of that he couldn't pick up the guardians after Endgame, and Thor was going to kind of be their sidekick, and now instead we got this as, like, the continuation from that story. It just, and this is someone that the Guardians are, like, my favorite fucking Marvel property, this side of the X-Men. I am so mad that that's how it is, because, like, it was fine.

It was, like, funny. It had a Guardians vibe to it. It was very brief. There's no doubt in my mind James Gunn did not write that, and James and james gunn he like i know he contributed a lot with having the guardians in infinity war right like they mentioned that i read that i think he said he basically just asked for some adjustments after it was made they made the adjustments everything was good you just tell it's like that's not james gunn and listen in the long run i got peacemaker out of it and whatever else is going to come from james gunn in dc that's awesome peacemaker out of it and whatever else is going to come from James Gunn in DC. That's awesome. Peacemaker is worth it.

That show is so good. So fun. I just thought of it the other day. I was like, that show was just so fucking good. I just laughed. Every week that show hit. Yeah,

it did. It really, like the more I look back from it, the more fondly I grow. But the, the guardian stuff, like you said, I feel like you can't really fuck that up.

And Taika has a different sense of humor, but it's still, it's still plays. It's still in the same orbit as, as James Gunn, I'd say. So it was great seeing all those guys. And I just loved that the guardians,

the scrappy plucky guardians, they just have like, it's like playing a role playing game and you just get a boss on your team for like a little arc of the story. And he just fucks everything up. It's like, these guys are always by the skin of their teeth. When I'm like,

no, no, let's just call the God of thundering. And he's just going to wipe the floor with all these motherfuckers. I love that side of it. It was great. And I thought it was funny that like Chris Pratt, Star Lord was almost a little like geeked out by Thor when he was doing the

catchphrase and everything. And he was like, this ends here. And now he's like, that's fucking sweet. That catchphrase. They go back on the ship and they see a bunch of distress signals all over the galaxy.

And this is because several gods have been killed by gore already and some of the things they flash to like the gods hanging by their back and everything that's straight from the jason aron comic which i would pull off my shelf but i actually had it on my dresser and my ac leaked all over it ruined yeah that was brutal it's luckily not like an expensive comic or anything i could get it on amazon for like 18 bucks but just a brutal turn of events there did you think that was brutal. It's luckily not like an expensive comic or anything. I could get it on Amazon for like 18 bucks, but just a brutal turn of events there. Did you think that was a bad omen for the movie?

Were you like, oh shit, this is a bad omen. Oh, the Portman curse coming through? That's what I would have thought, yeah. I will let you guys know at the end of this if the Portman curse is still alive. I will say that. Yeah, that's a Portman curse watch is out there for this movie.

But Sif is the one who sends a distress signal that really catches thor's attention because obviously sif is his friend and she's like you gotta come he's killed falagar the behemoth he goes with korg i like their little winter attire they have their like furry outfit for the snowy planet the hoth of the mcu has a very funny scene with sif where he's like oh no you have to die in the battlefield to go to Valhalla like maybe your arm is in Valhalla but no you survived this unfortunately and he goes and basically finds out about gore and then he's on his journey we cut back to Jane Foster Thor's ex-girlfriend if you were not aware who Korg calls Jane Fonda a couple

times Jodie Foster as well in this movie. That was great. And she has unfortunately been diagnosed with terminal cancer. Stage four, we see her best friend Darcy shows up. That was a nice little cameo. It's just a tiny little scene, but it's always nice seeing a character like Darcy show up. And it's like, oh, she's being a good friend while she's going through the chemo and whatnot. She talks to someone next to her who was reading her book. she ruins the book has a little funny interstellar joke and we find out a little later on but we find out that years prior when her and thor were still dating thor looked at mjolnir and he said you always protect

her no matter what and i think he put a little enchantment on mjolnir that years later would come to play yeah uh kind of like they said with Odin about like, you know, being worthy and all that kind of stuff. He does the same with that. So that was their way of kind of making it possible. Because now you know everyone would be freaking out. Why could you just pick it up? I know.

There it is. Done. Let's never talk about it again. It was such an easy, like it's such an easy right away too. It's like, well, you got to be this to be worthy. You got to be this to be worthy. And you go, well, you can't do this. And then it's like, what if you just say Thor said, hey, do it.

That works. It's like setting the Roomba for a certain time to go off. He's like, just do it at this time and everything's going to be fine. Boom, done. I also want to say, I have heard her be called. I might have called her myself. I think I've called Jane Jodie Foster and Jane Fonda at different points in my life. And I feel like everyone who's watched these movies has done the very same so it definitely does fuck with your mind i like how

they did that uh but but seeing this we talked this is again when we talk with jose having cancer in the mcu is one of the things like man i'm just gonna say this right now fuck cancer i i don't think that's like a hot take or anything basically the basement is clearly anti-cancer just fuck cancer man the fucking worst just seeing it on this thing it just made me so angry and then I don't think that's like a hot take or anything. The basement is clearly anti-cancer. Just fuck cancer, man. The fucking worst. Just seeing it on this thing. It just made me so angry. And then seeing the chemo and she's just going through it.

It was tough. And the way they made the makeup look like, they really made her look like she was going through it when she was just in her human form. Yep, exactly. And then I will say having Darcy just pop out of nowhere, I was like, oh, there she is. What happened to you in WandaVision though, Darcy?

You just drove away and never came back. It was so goddamn... And then I should know his name. He's been in a million things. I just call him Tesseract Dude. He's going to be Tesseract Dude the rest of his life, the doctor. Good Will Hunting Guy, yeah. Yes, and Good Will Hunting Guy, too.

Yeah. So at this point, New Asgard gets attacked by Gore and his shadow monsters. Now, I'm not a spider guy. This has been long established on the podcast. No. Some of these shadow monsters looked a little too spider-esque for my liking the way they were coming out of the shadows with the claws with the little legs i hated that we see gore and he looks very intimidating just looking on kind of smiling he's got that black goo he ate that gum from

um yeah it's just disgusting uh and thor meets jane as the mighty thor during this battle we saw this during the trailer this is probably like what we saw the most of during the trailer actually he sees milner and he's like oh my god milner come here boy come here boy starts getting really close to his hand and then it goes away to jane we get to see some of the powers that she has with the hammer as well where she could throw it out like a shotgun and then have everything like kind of like hit back into the hammer very cool the sound effect when they did that was cool everything i thought she looked badass with her costume as well when they're wearing the helmets they look a little weird i think both of them that's the case for i would rather my thor have no helmet but i understand why they get it for the opening

scene where it's like take your helmet off you stealing my look. And then she takes it off and it's Natalie Portman. Good scene though. I loved the little flashback in between it where it was very romantic comedy of how they broke up and whatnot, seeing Thor in a hot dog suit at a Halloween party and everything. I thought that was great. All of the Korg narration stuff that all landed for me, pretty much nothing Korg does or pretty much anything Korg does lands for me like he's my favorite and I love that you have a guy like that because I feel like that I have a lot of just random I always gravitate to like the tertiary characters not even the secondary characters even when Nebula she accidentally shoots uh Korg in the ship and

Thor's like oh my god Korg are you okay and he's like yeah bro yeah bro crack me up uh yeah so the the this is this is weird and I don't I don't know they could have pulled it off it's called love and thunder and maybe if they had tried to just pitch it as portman's coming back I really would have loved to not know she was gonna be Thor I thought that was crazy they revealed it in the trailer. They revealed it at Comic-Con. There you go. Remember that?

That's right, yeah. He was handing her the hammer on stage. He was like, boom, she's Thor. But that's just me. There are some times where it's like you watch a trailer of a movie, and you're like, I just feel like they're giving the whole story away. And I thought that would have been a really cool, like, oh, fuck moment. It does happen pretty early in the movie,

so most of the movie is that, and it's such a big part of it. But that's just, that's just something I would have personally liked a little more. It is quick. Yeah. We never see like a, she's training to be Thor. She's training to do combat.

No, it's just like, she's Thor and she's amazing at it right away, which I didn't have much of an issue with, but I would have liked more in the, in the beginning. Cause I thought she was great. A couple more minutes of like the struggling stuff, which again,

I fucking hated the chemo stuff, but a little just background about what she's just been up to right and it was cool seeing she had her book out that she's been kind of you know working towards and all that stuff and then just maybe a few minutes of her getting to mule near uh practicing and this could be in the watiti cut or whatever which he said he's like dude it's like a four and a half hour movie you don't want to see this four and a half hour movie but i know i do i'm going to see hashtag release my td cut this is what dc unleashed on fucking comic fans or just nerds around the world is we're going to have released the insert name here cut for every fucking thing ever it is what it is it's the world

we live in unfortunately and al i put up the i was the thing at uh the new york comic con i had to sign up i said release without knowing what the fuck that was uh the i loved how new asgard is like a tourist trap now infinity cones i yes that was the best part man we have to fucking do we need to put out an infinity cone shirt um i think we do, Bob. I think we do. They're Infinity Cones, and then later on, did you notice the basketball jersey that Valkyrie was wearing? New Asgard Kings, and it almost looked like the Sacramento Kings.

Yes, that was awesome. I was like, we might have to make a new Asgard Kings logo because that was fire. I thought she had a shirt that just said King, as in I'm the king of Asgard. I was like, that is a fucking move. I love that they just wear, yeah, it's a flex indeed. I like that she was kind of the person for all of that though.

She's clearly sick of it. Like she probably wants to be on the battlefield fighting and she's having to make Old Spice commercials and cut ribbons and whatnot. I thought Valkyrie was handled very well in this movie actually. Valkyrie would much rather be in Montauk in miami you know doing her thing you know fighting her battles doing it filming her pizza reviews whatever has to be done instead of being in the office with a bunch of

fucking professional idiots two professional idiots included not throwing stones at anybody because we are professional leads as well i also liked going back to this scene the ambush at night when she showed up she was in like like a Phantom of the Opera sweater. Clearly, she was just sitting at home doing nothing. And then she was like, oh, I guess I got to fucking go and couldn't change into her Valkyrie suit. So she just did the battle in a sweater, which I thought was great. And the whole battle is good. We get to see Gore fight Thor for the first time.

And it's kind of how he uses the shadows, how he goes into the shadow, comes out the other side. It's very unfair. I think a noob sailbot does that in mortal kombat or something that's not fair when you go into the ground come out on the other side but hey that's bad guy for you and he kidnaps all the children on the way out they look up they're like oh the children the spiders come out of their shadows in their room that's gonna give me nightmares i don't know if i was okay to see that and yeah gore kind of wins the first battle in a way because he escapes with the children in that weird fucking cage that also is like a living spider but yeah i would say i would say point one to gore yeah and i liked i liked the battle scene i like how gorgeous is like right at the bat we're throwing this little dark shadow thing and it's going to infest

it. It's like, oh, fuck. Stuff's going to get bad. Alright, let me say this in the right way so I don't get in trouble. Kidnapping children is a fucked up move, but it's a really good villain move. There's a reason why villains do it in all these movies, and I have to tip my cap to them for doing it. It was a fucking good move, and it's like, if you're going to

want to lure a good guy, you steal the kids it was bravo bravo and it enters you into a different like level of being a villain too if you're willing to go for the kids like all right we're dealing with a bad motherfucker and i appreciate how they you show him later where he's not just like looking like torture the kids or anything like he's trying to like be the fun uncle gore it's not working but i did appreciate that side of her. It's like, all right, he's not like an absolute, complete monster. And also, with the villains that Thor faces, so many of them have been like, you know, sometimes he's like absolute. I forgot the guy from Ragnarok, the big fire guy and stuff like that,

who Thor, like he will end up committing the Ragnarok. But it's like, Gore, it's like he has like the sword, but he is kind of like still learning his powers. He's not some undis undefeatable villain. So it was like, all right, I feel like we have a chance here. Thor has a billion experience points from being alive forever. So it's like, if Thor, like being able to win, doesn't feel like it's cheap. It feels like it could happen, but it feels like the sword is the great equalizer here, the Necro sword or whatever. So I did like just the whole dynamic of villain versus hero in in the story in general and the next day we see the whole town regrouping in their town center whatever you would call that getting the food

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come stop me without of parents and new asgard having that conversation over there hello fresh order cracks me up it's like well we don't the kids aren't here this week we don't have to make chicken nuggets every fucking night anymore this This is actually kind of nice. So the group travels to Omnipotence City with the help of their two goats too, which we have not mentioned. I think it was like Toothgrinder, Toothnasher or something. They were given to Thor by the

king of whatever planet they were on at first. Very funny goats. Do you remember when goats screaming like humans was the funniest thing on the internet and it was and every time you saw it you would laugh and they could show you a video that would be three minutes long non-stop of just different goat screaming and you would watch the entire three minutes just with the dumbest smile on your face it just brought me back to simpler times in the internet man i was so happy whatever i remember names of goats doing like the the lines

in taylor swift songs like like the cold hard ground one, the goats replacing Brock Lesnar screams with goat screams, all of that. I liked the goats in this movie. And also people in my theater both times loved the goats. Like they got the most laughs out of the whole movie, which I was shocked. Every time they screamed, people were uproariously laughing at my feet. Goats crushed. Matt Damon coming back to play Loki again, crushed. Forgot to mention that crushed matt damon coming back to play loki

again crushed forgot to mention that that was and melissa mccarthy coming in to play hella that that whole scene was so well done and even when they go ask about like hey can we put this on for the production and they were like get out of here we don't have time for this they're like i did not hear a no that was funny line the loki thing i love I love about the MCU is that you have all these actors who are huge names and they're playing these iconic roles. And then you have Matt Damon who's just going to have to be a guy who plays Loki in a play, and that's just going to be Matt Damon. Unless I could – ooh, I just saw this live on the pod.

I could see a variant Loki where Matt Damon actually is Loki. That would be funny. I'm calling it right now july 10 2022 or what if in the next season of loki like he somehow meets that matt damon goes down to asgard and he's like are you a variant like are you loki and he's like yeah i'm loki and like just like is like yeah yeah remember the hello thing all that stuff went down he's like yeah okay you're loki yeah so they go to this city to warn the other gods and ask for their help we see a bunch of the gods we see one is bow god of dumplings that was very funny just a random dumpling god and then we meet zeus played

by russell crowe who i thought was so damn good he almost stole the movie in this little performance where he's talking about the orgies and he's talking about oh yes that thing that looks like a stage yes get on the stage when he does the whole thing when he acts for the bolt and he's like throwing it up and down up and down doing a thing darth maul tricks and then he just goes no cracked me up i loved russell crowe as who's such a dick such just a horrible uh role model one of those don't meet your heroes things which thor tells the kids later on another funny scene i saw some concept art as well that said zeus was originally going to be satan not mephisto satan which people thought maybe they changed that because people were going to be like is he fucking mephisto so no he's just i think it makes more sense with him

as zeus to be honest like someone being thor's former role model that he's betrayed by works better for this scene where he throws the bolted cord you think cord is dead which also no i'm a cord fan oh my god it was like chewy and rise of skywalker it was like no and then two seconds later you're like all right our guy's fine seeing the powers that natalie portman displayed in this scene where she really sends the mjolnir bursts out goes all around the people and the way they like faded into gold dust was cool too and thor eventually kills for the time being zeus sends his own bolt through him grabs the bolt and then they go off to the tune of sweet child of mine

which also this movie for my money features, the best use of guns and roses ever beats out the wrestler and Terminator two, two great movies in terms of using guns and roses. But the four songs they used in this all four times, it was like, Oh, that hit perfectly,

especially November rain at the end. That was just. When they throw like the end of it. And I was like, Oh, they fucking crushed that and piano comes in you're like oh my god they're about to do a gore battle to the fucking slash solo in november rain like that's awesome and this is right around the time where mtv used to do like the best videos ever countdown and that would be either number one or two every single time without

fail and you just watch it and that's what i the first thing i thought of when i heard that and when i heard they were gonna it was gonna be a lot of guns and roses i didn't know if like every scene was gonna have a guns and roses become like a fucking lynn miranda mango or whatever like musical i don't know how to say it right i've never i'm never going to learn uh but i didn't know it was just become like a musical at some point it was gonna be nothing but guns and roses absolutely, granted, it's like you can't really go wrong with those songs. Paradise City for New Asgard. I called that, by the way. As we were on our way to the theater, I turned to Jeff and I was like,

you think they used Paradise City for New Asgard? He's like, I don't know. We'll have to see. And then as soon as it came on, he looked at me and he's like, fucking good call. I like how Zeus was A, he was like an old Greek guy because he's a Greek guy. I like how he had like the accent and everything going. And then B I also like how the gods are earmuffs kids. They're cunts.

Like the gods have been cunts forever. You just pray to them, pray to them. And they never, you know, drop down. And it's almost like, it feels like with like,

uh, like bosses or billionaires, it's like, come on, just help the people down here, politicians, everything. And it's just like,

they don't give a fuck about you. They're talking about orgies and stuff like that while i'm referring to them so i just makes gore like a little more understandable too yeah you know the best villains think that they're the hero in their story where you're like wait a minute they are fucking abandoning all these people and when he gets real close to thor too and he's like two things mister one yes i am afraid he has the necrosaur i don't want him to kill me like that was so funny where he's just like yeah he is a coward That's what he is

I appreciated that line more than anything else I'm like yeah I don't want to die I'm fucking Zeus I'm having orgies I'm going to do whatever the fuck I want I can shoot lightning bolts up people's asses It's awesome being Zeus I don't want to not be Zeus anymore I don't want to get killed by some

It's Christian Bale with a fucking necrosaur Of course I don't want to get killed I really thought he was going to show upcrosaur. Of course I don't want to get that. I really thought he was going to show up too. I thought it would have been cool if he showed up and just did a mass god butchering. But, you know, obviously with the times, that might have been weird. I don't know. I would have rooted for... Well, we in the preview, that was like one

of our predictions after we saw the trailer, is we were like, oh, Zeus is dead as a motherfucker. We saw the Thunderbolt being used by Valkyrie and we were like, oh, yikes. Yeah. I will say this. If Zeus is known for his entrance, I could have used a little more. And that was my first ever Zeus entrance I've ever seen.

Maybe it's just someone I grew up in the 90s when every basketball team had a laser entrance, and I grew up with my – I was going to say, you grew up watching The Undertaker make his entrance. Exactly. I need a little more from Zeus if he's going to be able to beat out some of Vince McMahon's. We're not going to use the VM word. That's problematic right now. We'll just say that. Who's the guy who writes the music for the Titan Tron and stuff like that? Oh, Jim Johnston.

Jim Johnston, like him and all the people at the pyrotechnics and the big screens. Those people are fucking geniuses. Zeus needs maybe to get them. He needs the DX pyro, but in like a Z. Exactly. That would be incredible uh but all things considered like it was an interesting way to introduce gods by the way bow the god of dumplings if you if anyone i'm gonna just put this this out there right now i've i've watched it i believe as a new parent i don't even i'm not even sure i was a parent if you watch bow oh it was definitely apparent bow the short film it was before one of the pixar movies it's cry worthy it might be the greatest short film

i've ever seen in my life it's really good and that's what i thought when they said bow the god of dumb is like oh no not that one i've never watched it since i'm gonna watch it right after this and i'm gonna i'm just gonna be on disney plus i showed it to my girlfriend a couple months ago because she had never seen it and i was like like, oh, you've never seen this. I showed her that one. And there was one that, listen, if that one makes you cry, go watch the one with the bird going into the water. Have you seen that one? Yes. Yes.

Piper. I believe it's called Piper. Yes. That one will make you feel a little bit better after the cry. Yep. Exactly. I agree. I also love Omnipotent City.

It's such a stupid, preposterous name. But it's like, oh, let's just have some fun with it. And last but not least, I have to shout out my guy the best zeus of all time zeus from die hard with a vengeance samuel l jackson not hey zeus he's saying hey zeus like mount olympus shove a lightning bolt up your ass or whatever i absolutely love that goddamn movie such a goddamn good movie so as the journey continues thor and jane kind of refoster their refoster a little little double enchanted they kind of rekindle their relationship bob you were having a dad joke day right now there was i believe one in our stranger things recap that you nailed and you've

had two or three in this one alone so bravo you're you're keeping you're out before me right now by far and they're traveling to kind of an mma reference here the shadow realm as soon as i said that i was like oh we're sending people to the shadow realm unreal get jorge mazdal in this movie and they're talking and kind of she reveals that she has cancer doesn't want to reveal it kind of does it in like a moment of oh shit and thor says like i want to feel shitty about someone i think that's you that i'd like to feel shitty about she's confused by that but it all goes back to the guardians dialogue we get a nice dialogue between korg and valkyrie where they're kind of bonding korg is just a face at this point and he kind of reveals how his species makes kids which is a foreshadowing moment for later on

which i'm gonna say right here and now the next Thor movie is going to sell $1 billion worth of baby cork merch. Oh, put it, put it in the books right now. I like that. $1 billion worth of it. Imagine a little baby Taika Waititi voice. Like if they just pitch him up and it's like a little Australian baby

voice. I mean, the blueprint is there. We already saw Groot has like aged into this, like bratty, I'd say preteen. He's still putting stuff in his mouth, but he's not like a teenager yet. So I'm trying to figure out what exactly age do you think Groot is?

I think he might be a little older. I think he might be like 14, 15. 14, he's a teenager. Okay. Yeah. I don't know my, you're closer to a teenager than I am by far. Shit, Bob, how many years ago were you a teenager? Turned 24 yesterday. So five years ago were you a teenager turned 24 yesterday so five years ago happy birthday five no five yeah i went to 18 for some reason but yeah

so five years ago since you were a teenager i'm bad at math 24 years old i'm so happy we got that live on the podcast that was incredible so the group travels to the shadow realm To save the children but they find out In the words of Admiral Ackbar It's a trap Jane has to send Stormbreaker off Into the distance which made me laugh

In the moment just the way she did it She just like flings that thing out to the universe You're like oh he created that in the heart of a dying star Or whatever forged it the way he did It was like Uncle Rico throwing the stake Where I was just like, what did you just do? I liked that they had Heimdall's son in this movie. We haven't mentioned him. And he wanted to be known as Axel because of the band he likes from the 80s on Earth.

And when they're talking about that, Gorg is in the background. He just goes, G&R, bro. He was good the way that he was able to use his father's powers to communicate with thor the whole movie i thought was you know a clever little thing they try to communicate obviously he's not there right then and then they get kind of vechned by our guy gore the god butcher like the way that he puts them in the tentacles into the wall and everything me and my girlfriend looked at each other we were like that's exactly how vechned puts them in the tentacles into the wall and everything. Me and my girlfriend looked at each other. We were like, that's exactly how Vecna does it in the Stranger Things finale. And he kind of says, oh, call the sword, call the axe or whatever.

Senses that Jane is also dying. Valkyrie, he makes her cry by being like, all your sisters died on the fucking battlefield because there's no gods. And then they fight. This is a big fight where he makes a bunch of shadow monsters to kind of distract everyone but thor fights thor for a while valkyrie comes in she gets stabbed by the thunderbolt i thought that was curtains for her as well jane gets very weak when she brings valkyrie back to safety and thor also leaves behind stormbreaker for him to open the gate to eternity that's what he's after the whole time is the gate to eternity this was a pretty heroes are down moment where it's like all right jane can't do

anything because she's got cancer valkyrie just got stabbed korg is just a face at this point and he's got the stormbreaker so it's like you know you got you're looking at your watch you're like we got 15 minutes left in this movie how the fuck are they gonna make our heroes win here they did it pretty well though the way you said uh jane can't do it she got cancer it's like, we got 15 minutes left in this movie. How the fuck are they going to make our heroes win here? They did it pretty well though. The way you said Jane can't do it. She got cancer. It's like the Haley Joel Osment. I have AIDS.

It's like walking Texas Ranger. Just the way you said that. She does kind of reveal it like that too. Like they're just in the middle of a conversation and he's like, she's like, I have cancer. And he's like, wait, what? What are you talking about? He's cramping. I have cancer. Yeah he's like, wait, what? What are you talking about? Yeah, he's cramping. Yeah, I have cancer.

Yeah. Again, this movie could have been so much better. I think 20 minutes longer. And listen, old man here. I was 20 more minutes. Yeah. I was on fumes when I went to this movie at 830 at night after driving home. And I was like, oh, shit, it's over.

By the time the credits rolled, I was like, I was ready for a little while longer. I forgot to look up the runtime beforehand, but I thought it was, I thought it was at least two hours going back behind the whole thing. I feel like I'm not even going to, if I say the name wrong, it's just going to, that's just how I'm going to say. I'm going to probably say it different every single time. I feel like they, the MCU fell victim to, we cast someone who we thought was awesome.

They were even more awesome than we ever could have imagined. And we just lost them. Cause like, they're not gonna be like, Hey, Idris, you're going to come back and be like the fourth role of a Thor movie. That's not going to happen. So I'm happy we got his kid back. Cause I liked him a lot. I liked him a lot.

The, the funniest line of the movie for me was when Thor was like, we're going to get your children and we're going to feast, but not on the children. That was a very dark time. Like, I think that humor hit. I did think there was some humor that hit.

I think if you just go into the movie, trying to have fun, instead of being like, this is going to be a good movie, it's going to be a huge building block. It's going to be a, you know, I think infinity war and end game has definitely stepped up the level of

these movies so much. We're expecting just awesome movies. And the, like the, I guardians three will be the next movie. I expect an A or a B plus at absolute worst from here. But this battle scene I thought was a good battle scene. The fucking when Thor summons goddamn Stormbreaker. It's like a Jon Snow move.

I'm like, dude, it's the one thing you cannot do. And it's like you're just going to do this. And the entire universe is going to be at peril if you do it and i i have to admit you said it i saw them get like sucked up by these little uh tentacle things and i'm like we're doing this again and then i realized that was from a completely different series it didn't even happen in the mcu and i was rolling my eyes as something that was just happened to be i happened to watch a day earlier with stranger things and stuff like that so that was on me I have to admit I'm with you on that one Bob and now obviously Gore uses the Stormbreaker axe to open the gate to eternity but what he could have done was listed immediately on Whatnot if you haven't heard of

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And you'll be the first to be notified when we go live. Use the link in the description to get $10 off your first purchase on WhatNot as well. Or you missed out. You wanted to open that eternity gate. You should have just sold stormbreaker and whatnot okay like you could sell stormbreaker for enough money to then like buy it the eternity gate you just purchased it knock on the door and just slip a slip a check under the little thing i have a question for you so obviously this like we had to deal with some pretty heavy stuff with eternity and the gods and stuff how did you think they handled all that stuff in this movie in terms of having that because i think we're going to be

dealing with a lot of eternal stuff which is in the car oh yeah we saw some celestials yeah you see them in the background whatever city i thought they handled it well in terms of they never made it so complex that it was confusing but i also would have liked a little more context on eternity and the like one wish thing and i know people from the comics know all of that and it's you know like the back of their hand at this point but for the movie i thought it was much clearer on the second watch where i was like oh so that's how the whole ending happened with the daughter bringing her back instead of destroying the gods all of that at the end could have been made a tad clearer in my opinion i i agree with that i think it's like

i just think a lot of times again i never really got into thor i didn't get into even thanos and stuff because my eyes would glaze over when they're talking about lady death and i'm sure they touch with eternity and celestials and these omnipotent beings and shit like that it's just a lot for my dumb brain to comprehend it's like no, no, let's just go to the X-Men and Magneto can make things move like a magnet. That is much more my speed. But it's going to be an extremely important part, I think, in this phase and with all the crazy Kang shit that's coming up.

So I hope that people are able to wrap their heads around it. I do think every single move with the Infinity Stones, they reintroduced and explained what the stones could do. And it's going to kind of have to be that, but with bigger concepts and full-blown characters and stuff. And I hope that they can do it. Again, hashtag trust the Feige. They're going to do it. It's just going to be interesting to see how they do it.

Yeah. At this point, Thor finds all the kidnapped children. He gives them a great speech where he's like, you're all Asgardian today. We're going to do this all together. And it's thor and all of these kids versus gore in the final battle kind of reminded me this whole movie is 80s-esque in its music and its branding and all of that this reminded me of the ending of like an 80s goonies type movie where i was like oh my god this is like thor and all the kids he gives them the power of thor to fight gore's creatures all of their eyes are glowing they're using ridiculous weapons like stuffed animal bunnies and whatnot and then jane

senses that gore is about to kill thor and she joins the battle she shows up on valkyrie's horse and i don't know if pegasus whatever you call that thing i it feels feels like I'm underselling it. They call it a horse. Yeah, it does feel like you're underselling it. She joins the battle with Mjolnir, and she destroys the Necrosword in a very cool way. She has Thor hold it in a way where she throws Mjolnir at it, shatters it, and then it starts to reform, and she sucks the piece up like a vacuum into Mjolnir and fucking destroys it with lightning. This is when November rain is blasting and just everything like that.

She uses one of her catchphrases, eat my hammer, kind of in one of her like corny moments, but that was funny. The crowd cheered actually when she was like, you could call me Dr. Jane Foster. People were like, yeah. So that was cool. They destroy it. They still go to eternity because the gate has been opened.

Gore gets to make his wish. Thor is like, of course you've won. You're going to destroy all gods, whatever. And then kind of employs him like, you don't have to do that, though. You could just bring your daughter back. If this is all for your daughter, bring her back. And that is what he winds up doing. He's like, she'll have no one to save her because I'm about to die.

He's like, I'll look after her. Jane says he'll look after her, basically. Jane also dies. So it's like i'll look after her jane says he'll look after her basically jane also dies so it's like jane gore both die the two that are left are thor and his daughter love and then you get this nice ending where it's korg talking about jane the new thor kind of like uh into the spider-verse reminded me of where it's like all right one last time there's you know only one spider-man the end of that and the children in new asgard are given self-defense classes by sif and valkyrie i thought that was funny and then the the finale is we see thor thunder and love and you see where the title of the movie comes from people knew them as love and thunder he's looking after gore's

daughter they're together it is actually chris hemsworth's real daughter in real life that plays love which that's got to be the coolest thing in the world like the final shot of this movie 20 years from now they're going to look at and be like look at us like in one of the biggest movies of all time i thought the actual ending of this movie where cork delivers that line says you know those just knew him as love and thunder i thought that was awesome like chills were the ending for this movie it was a spoiler bob the whole time we were looking at the spoiler right in the face whenever we looked at the movie poster and it's like oh that's what happens at the end i'll say what if

you were like a kid that read for the part of love, and then you find out fucking Hemsworth's daughter got it. Like nepotism. Nepotism. This is bullshit. Six-year-old in the world being like fucking Hollywood. It's a good lesson to learn early in life. They probably gave all those kids little roles as Asgardian children.

That's what I would do. Exactly. Anyone that showed up for love automatically became Asgard children. And then I feel like the one that had the teddy bear that kind of became like a big moment. That was probably who would have been loved. Yeah. If fucking the lead actor's goddamn daughter didn't get the role over everyone else. That's a good point.

But yeah, good final battle there. The reason I have to show Sienna this movie is because I know she is going to freak the fuck out And she's going to mark out when she sees That there's a girl Thor She's going to go nuts for it She's going to love Jane Foster We're just going to skip the scary shit We'll probably skip the chemo shit to be honest too

I feel like not knowing what cancer is Is a good thing as long as you could possibly Not really know all that kind of stuff But she's going to freak the fuck out I love how they kind of went going back to space viking that was like a big role worth i think they're going more into space with thor even more so than like ragnarok they were pretty big on uh the one thing i'm gonna ask i've asked this before and they're not listening to me can we just stop killing the villains in

every goddamn movie can we just again darth v, make them spin out to end the movie. And then when we pick up in the next movie, again, you don't have to have them come back. You could say they're in a fucking coma. I don't know. Just like I would like to have Gore the God Butcher out there and potentially still be mad. I guess with his daughter around, it makes it a little trickier. But, like, there are good villains. And I would say Christian Bale, he's gone.

He's out of the MCU. We've used him, and he is not coming back i guess i guess everyone's coming we're about to talk about another guy who's coming back that was we thought was dead so i i just that that kind of bummed me out but i love dad thor i was i almost wish she had said i like you don't like pancakes and she's like what are these i wish she had been like you like pancakes you ate them yesterday because that's what it's like being a dad my kids are like i don't my brother aj goes uh i don't like pancakes? And she's like, what are these? I wish she had been like, you like pancakes. You ate them yesterday. Because that's what it's like being a dad. My kids are like, I don't, my brother, AJ goes, I don't like chicken nuggets. It's like, you don't like chicken nuggets?

That's all you fucking ate last week. What are you talking about you don't like chicken nuggets? And it is such a real true thing about being a parent. So I do think there could be some funny stuff if they keep that going. Is there a chance that love goes into like a Young Avengers? Maybe, I guess.

I don't know enough about the character. She has powers, clearly. She's like, she calls him a demon and she like sends a laser at him. And he's like, you're in another pan. So I think I will have to talk to Jose about that. See what he, he'll tell us. I wonder if she is a character from the comics. I don't even know if she is.

I have no idea. All right. This is going to be a live from the comics. I don't even know if she is. I have no idea. All right. This is going to be a live on the podcast. Love Marvel character. What do we got? Mistress Love is an abstract being who is the cosmic embodiment of love itself. How she came to be and how her true origins are shrouded in mystery. Oh, maybe we know the mystery.

You know, the audience was let in on that in the movies. Well, yeah, exactly. This is from Marvel.com, the audience was let in on that in the movies. Well, yeah, exactly. This is from Marvel.com, motherfucker. So this is from the main source itself. She first appeared to the Asgardian known as the Enchantress, who was seeking true love. So, yeah, we got a we just saw a secret that was so secret. It never Marvel.com didn't even know how it happened. And they just brought that in the thing.

So, yeah, I'm going to say that's the next call on today's My Mom's Basement. Love will be in a Young Avengers movie if there is one, which I feel like there has to be. We never even talked about this. There's a Thunderbolts movie coming out, right? Or a- I don't know if that-

Dark Avengers? I think it was confirmed. Yeah, let me look it up. Dark Avengers movie. I think there was like a director or producer came out in. I thought it came out. The MCU Thunderbolts movie. Yeah.

It came out in early June. It was somewhat announced. Obviously, Thunderbolts. I missed that. The Thunderbolts died. Yeah. That's what I was thinking. I was like, did that put a delay on the project?

I'm not sure jake schreier jake schreier is the director also captain america four got its director and i don't mean to throw judgment at announcements like this the only thing i knew the director from is the cloverfield paradox which is a really really just horrendous like unwatchable movie and that was like what he did two movies ago. He did a movie since then that everyone said was pretty good. So maybe he's improving, but it did worry me a little bit as a cap guy.

It was like, Ooh, Cloverfield paradox is one of my least favorite movies ever made. Then the way the Hollywood reporter like worded that tweet, they're like, he will be returning, but not as Falcon. It's like,

yeah, you fucking, yeah, we know. Yeah. Like, yeah, that was like the biggest part of the goddamn series.

The whole reason that series existed. Oh, God damn it, Bob, you must've completely missed her boy. It was Justin crawler boy from deadline. Who's the one who, who had this really,

they tapped a Marvel's Marvel's Thunderbolt movie taps Jake Schreier as director. It was like on a weekend and I was like, Oh, maybe we'll do like a quick hitter on it. But I had shit going on. I think you were probably, you were probably flying to like a rough and rowdy or something like that. Yeah and I was like, oh, maybe we'll do like a quick hitter on it. But I had shit going on. I think you were probably you were probably flying to like a rough and rowdy or something like that. Yeah. So Jake Schreier, who, by the way, he's known for Robot and Frank and Paper Towns.

I do not know. Paper Towns is a good movie. OK, so I've seen that. So Jake Schreier is we're going to say good. We're going to say good. It's a good movie, but it's not like what you would expect from like a Marvel director. That's like a young adult novel would expect from like a marvel director that's like a young adult novel that they turn into a movie so doing so he's going from that picture

like perks of being a wallflower ask huh yeah okay but it was well done i saw it when i was maybe a freshman in high school and i liked it that was like four days ago mid credits and post credits oh yeah it was a good one let's talk about the mid credits and post-credits. Oh, yeah. That was a good one. Let's talk about the mid-credits and post-credits scenes here. The mid-credits scene, Clem, easily was the hardest thing for me not to mention to you in between seeing this movie. Because I know how big of a Ted Lasso guy you are. Because I'm the same way. We get fucking Roy Kent in the MCU. We see Zeus talking about, oh, these gods don't respect me anymore nobody

respects the gods we got to send someone after you hercules go get thor whatever it fucking says and then it cuts to roy kent as hercules the theater went nuts both times gasps people going roy kent oh my god it's roy kent what casting what an actor to bring into the mcu this is almost like if someone hated this movie, they get to the mid credit scene. They're like, all right, I'm back in the MCU.

How could I not love Roy Kent as Hercules? He's here. He's there. He's every fucking where. Hercules. I can't believe like out of all the people that you could get as Hercules shadow to fucking, I'm not going to even try to figure out the actor.

I don't know what his name is. He's Roy Kent until he's not. And there was a whole thing about how Roy Kent is CGI that I blog on it. I remember that was the thing. So everyone was convinced Roy Kent is CGI. If they're just using CGI for Hercules, because the actor is not an actual human. He is actually a computer graphic,

even better. i just thought like hercules you're thinking and i know we've gone past the days of like the mark mcguire hulking that's what you think though i was the same way yeah like hercules is the king of that hercules you expect like arnold like in his peak weightlifting days yeah so unless they're gonna juice this guy up down the road, I was shocked that this is our Hercules for the MCU. And Hercules was a big, I feel like Hercules is a big part of the Marvel universe in general.

I think he had his own comic series and everything. So I don't know how they're going to use him. If they're going to do his own Disney plus thing or whatever, I would almost just like him to be the villain in the next Thor movie. Yeah. Like imagine Thor versus Hercules. That could be the title in the next Thor movie. Imagine Thor vs. Hercules. That could be the title of the fucking movie. That sounds amazing.

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Don't send us to Valhalla.com and keep the funky baseball lights on. Keep the lights on. Don't send us to Valhalla. We don't want to die in Valhalla. Valhalla. Is that how you say it? Valhalla? Valhalla. Valhalla.

Valhalla. So speaking of Valhalla and the post-credit scene, Jane Foster arrives and she is greeted by Heimdall. We actually get to see they brought back Idris just for a little post-credit scene. There are rumors that she's not done in the MCU, that Natalie Portman will be back. I don't know if that means they'll do another series in Valhalla, maybe like Valhalla, however you fucking say it. Someone gets to the heaven of the gods and they cause some mischief. Or if like someone is able to resurrect Janeane somehow because that's what happens in the comics

thor is able to resurrect her which i thought was going to happen here i thought it was going to be like because he also made it to eternity with his axe or something he got a wish as well but that's not how it happened here i thought it was uh for the first post-credit scene the mid-credit scene being like uh fired up for the next phase of the mcu one i thought this one was a nice wholesome like oh a time doll like catching up with old friends one yep i was fine with it and uh our guy had these spoilers on his youtube he had a theory that uh jane comes back as a valkyrie that's what happens in the comics yeah that's what happens in the comics which makes perfect sense and i think we could all like live with that like having two thors around is a lot to wrap your head around

again you're having i don't need to see thor and his fucking axe getting into these awkward x's anymore doesn't need to be every fucking time the way it just creeped in from like the side of the frame it's just like it's so funny i always i thought of uh my guy brand star too when he would just awkwardly be staring at people like oh that last season in the wheelchair where we just cut to him and then you're like oh how long have you been there yeah it's so fucking weird we got a funny how long have you been here seen with uh craglin too speaking of the guardians of the galaxy sean gunn just being like oh by the way this is my wife and they're like you can't get married on every planet craglin you said you

get you fall in love too easy i love cragglin just being one of the greatest words of all time is coos hound so yeah tony soprano is called a coos hound i believe by christopher moltisanti by the way rfp paulie walnuts that was devastating news to find out the other day but our boy cragglin is like he's not like a hardcore coos hound because he doesn't marry the girls afterwards but i just love that he's he's catching that check peter james gunn's brother is just doing the thing and marrying people i love he's also in chris pratt's new show the terminal list on amazon highly highly recommend that show to everyone listening it's on amazon prime the whole first season's out called the terminal list chris pratt sean gunn he's got

good actors in it chris pratt's the lead he's like a navy seal and some shit goes awry with his mission in the first episode and then it's like whoa whose side is the government on whose side am i on the whole show is kind of a mystery in that way couldn't recommend it anymore don't watch it with the kids it couldn't be more violent it is one of the more violent shows i've ever seen good to know good to know my recommendation for the week uh pluto tv has a challenge channel nothing but mtv challenge it's just marathons non-stop it's what mtv should be it's incredible so that's my instead of ridiculousness yeah exactly it's that but with the challenge and it's free you just download pluto i feel like i'm giving a pluto tv ad and this isn't good

portland's gonna or not that's it we're gonna start giving away free ads on this show if they're gonna cancel us we're just gonna keep it going yeah maybe that's maybe that We're going to start giving away free ads on this show. If they're going to cancel us, we're just going to keep it going. Yeah. Maybe that's the, maybe that's the way to get around it. Just free ad city. All right. Let's get into our fast food reviews for Thor love and thunder. If you're not aware, we review every Marvel movie as if it were a fast food item.

So it's like, if it were a fast food item, what would it be? Clem, in your opinion, what is Thor love and thunder? I have Thor love and thunder as the Arby's curly fries. Curly fries from Arby's right there.

We're going to have a similar one. Okay, explain. So I feel like Arby's, a lot of people don't like Arby's in general. It's become like a meme on the internet where it's like Arby's sucks, this and that. Again, everything on the internet sucks. However, I also feel like there's now been a backlash. It's like Arby's is actually good, guys. What are you guys talking about? I feel like the thor series have kind of like that connotation

with them from the early days however it's gotten better throughout the years ragnarok did a huge job in terms of making thor movies looking better and i do feel like there are some people who maybe don't like curly fries they don't like seasoned fries or whatever and i've seen a little bit of slander towards them but in the end end, I fucking love curly fries. And I think this movie was perfectly fine. I'll fuck. It's different. Just like curly fries are, you go to all these different fast food joints. It's basically, you're getting the same fries. I guess Chick-fil-A is a little different. You get the waffle fries, but everywhere else you have the curly fries, a little different. I don't even need to see the whole movie, a little rogue curly fry. Nothing gets the blood flowing. Like Stephen, a little rogue curly

frying your regular fry bin. So again, Arby's takes a lot of heat, curly fries kind of don't get the love, but you know what, I'm not going to complain if I'm eating my curly fries, and I'm not going to complain if Love and Thunder is on the TV, so it's a little different, but it's a little spice of life that sometimes you need, and it's not like anything else you're going to find out there, again, you're watching all these other hero movies Doesn't have the same music Doesn't have the same vibes, doesn't have the same humor So Thor, Love and Thunder Arby's Curly Fries

I have basically all of the same reasoning In terms of people not liking these And then people kind of coming back and being like No, they're awesome I go Five Guys Fries It's a big bag of fries, right? You order a cup and they give you a big bag like i ordered some jokes for the mcu and they gave me a comedy movie which i was like oh all right

and i like it i could snack on it a little bit i could watch 15 minutes here and there on disney plus or i could watch the whole movie eat a whole bag and i'll feel fine afterwards so i'm gonna go five guys fries i like five guys fries a lot i don't like the people that slander oh too much grease in the bag what do you mean too much grease? That's what you're there for. Go to McDonald's if you want regular fries, you know? Put McDonald's fries in a paper bag and see what it looks like. I'm telling you, it's just going to be clear by the end too.

Yeah. As a fellow Five Guys lover, anytime I see Five Guys slander, I completely discount that person's not only food takes, but their takes in life in general. Maybe I might have unfollowed people based on five guys. Five guys is my number one. Like, uh, if I'm looking for a great burger, five guys in Shake Shack, I go over in and out over any of those five guys, being able to put mushrooms. I mentioned earlier, I'm a mushroom guy,

being able to put those on my burger. I love that. Hey, Portnoy, guess what? I love five guys too. Five guys, a new Asgard right next to the Infinity Cones. It's great. The only time I don't choose Five Guys over any of those other, I don't even know what's fast. It's not fast casual, but it's like superior fast food where you're getting a little more than your Mickey D's, your Burger King and Wendy's. It's Five Guys every single time for me and to come I don't even consider in and out a competitor to it I consider Shake Shack a competitor to it Shake Shack though they decided to Shake Shack has decided that their thing is going to be you're going to wait for your food that's not a way to get my business I do not like waiting for things and not that you

get your five guy or your five guys saying uh uh, like instantly, but they give you peanuts. They give you peanuts while you wait. As soon as you come in, I just hear him say two patties. And you're like, all right, that thing's going on fresh and the bag of fries. Like, uh, coach Doug's actually has a great tweet on this. Have you ever seen coach Doug's tweet on five guys? I don't think so. No, I believe it is actually his pin tweet. Cause I think it did some numbers as the people say around here. So let me see if I can pull it up right now live on the pod. Here we go. I'm going to share it on the YouTube for anyone that wants to see because I have to say as

soon as I saw it, I go, Duggs, that was a good ass tweet. And the K next to his likes confirmed that it is a good tweet. Oh, yeah. And it is this. I ordered a large fry at Five Guys. They just pulled up a chair next to the fryer and told me I have one hour. Good-ass tweet. Almost 50,000 favorites.

Good for you, Doug. That's a pretty damn good Numbies tweet. That was some legit Numbies, Doug. But, yeah, they give you Numbies when they give you fries of five guys. And I just – I don't know. I could just talk about five guys for like an hour so i'll just leave it at that good good comparison bob good speaking of numbies though if you're watching on the youtube i want everyone to follow this tiktok right here

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this extended Thor Love and Thunder review. If you made it all the way to the end, we really appreciate it. Hit us with a hashtag, Clem, for the people that made it to the end. Hmm. What are we going to do here? What are we going to do here? Let's see. Infinity cones?

Yes. Hashtag infinity cones. We're going to try to work on a shirt for infinity cones. So hashtag infinity cones for anyone that made it all the way to the end comment in the comments leave your fast food review what fast food is thor love and thunder hey and why give us a little description i like that when people like oh this is why exactly because then we're learning about your fast food takes as well and listen if you if you hate it you hate it like we do not judge here in the basement everyone has their own these are two guys you couldn't get more different reviews on the last jedi like bob said it's completely different everyone has their own

thing on the internet stop trying to figure out what other people like that's just the way to go have fun enjoy it and except for frank the tank the way he treats the nuts is not right and he has now been muted the rest of the way all right thank you to everyone for tuning in we will see you later this week for our stranger things season four 4 recap with KFC and possibly some other special guests.