My Mom's Basement - EPISODE 63 - 'GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY' COMMENTARY WITH CLEM

Episode Date: June 1, 2020

You want more commentary tracks, we'll do more commentary tracks! Robbie and Clem provide commentary for one of their favorite movies in the Marvel Cinematic Universe: 'Guardians of the Galaxy'.You can find every episode of this show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or YouTube. Prime Members can listen ad-free on Amazon Music. For more, visit barstool.link/mymomsbasement

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. Things are obviously so weird in the world right now. Things are hectic. Everyone's literally burning America to the ground right now, it seems. Let's just do a fun movie. Let's watch a fun movie. Let's get our mind off everything. Let's get our mind to the galaxy, space, the MCU. We need like a little little this is just like a little piece of gum for the brain right now just to kind of freshen it up and there's a lot of

things out there i mean obviously even when even like barstool we have some some of the commentary on there and stuff like that and um it kind of i think everyone for people that just need a little break from reality and like someone Andy Milonakis said it. He was like, those astronauts had it right, just leaving the planet. Let's all go to a fucking galaxy not that far away with our friends here and take a little break from reality. Yeah, I've gotten so much great feedback for the commentaries we've done over quarantine. I think a lot of people like us are looking for things to do during the day

and especially long blocks of things to do to kill some time. And people say, you know, hey, I throw on the movie and I put your commentary on in the background, clean the house, do other things, and they just put it on in the background. This is one of the movies that we've never done before. It's your favorite MCU movie, at least until Endgame, Infinity War. We could talk about that. I have a ton of fun facts that I've brought. I've scoured the IMDB trivia page, the James Gunn director's commentary, and a watch-along that James Gunn did just a few weeks ago.

So I got facts all over the place. And if you're queuing this up with us, we have it on Disney+. Go to the page, press play, and then go all the way back to like the 0.00 timestamp. And then I'll count it down for you. Three, two, one, click. And we'll all click at the same time.

All right, everyone queue it up on Disney+. If you don't have it or if you have a DVD or whatever, you can do it that way. If you don't have it queued up yet, pause and then come back. And then I'll count you down. Three, two, one, click. All right. And here we go. Getting started on the Guardians of the Galaxy commentary.

PG-13 for intense sequence. I missed it. Really, this is, like I said, a fun, really funny movie. Like, it's a lighthearted movie, but it does rip your heart out right at the front. So, you mentioned how it's my favorite non-Avengers MCU, or just the last two Avengers, basically. And it's because I watch it with my daughter. I missed it in the theaters. We watched it when she was like one

years old i couldn't get into it because i was chasing her around the house but then we watched it as she got older and i'm like oh it's what you're gonna be asking this scene comes i'm like oh boy i definitely it's up all over again like the way that movie movie, the first scene, you're like, Jesus Christ. This is such a good quick superhero origin though, right? Like superhero origins. I actually just saw James Gunn tweeting it the other day, tweeting about it the other day.

He said that you see a lot of sequels better than the originals tend to be superhero movies. And he says that's because origins like just take a long time to get rid of and get through um this they give james gunn they are they give peter quill a super quick origin and god how tragic and heartbreaking and humanizing like it's not batman a rich kid getting his parents shot in an alleyway by like a criminal it's cancer who hasn't dealt with someone that's like died of cancer so holy shit and like you know they're like the mom is you know she's in a rough place like this i even forget how how rough she's

looking and obviously you know it's not as bad as it could be but it's like oh again he has the black eye so you're like he's having a real tough way with life right now yeah they just fucking nail it and first uh little robbie fox fun fact of the movie for you here this actress here playing his mom laura haddock is one of the few actors or actresses in the entire mcu to pull double duty she acts captain america for an autograph in the first avenger huh bob Fox, fun facts. I do. I like the little stuff like that. It's fun, especially, Oh my God. I just put up the Raiders of the lost Ark commentary we did with Alex Olkin and John Goodman. And that guy was just an encyclopedia, John Goodman. I mean, he knew more about that than I know about anything.

That those guests that they, everyone had that the LCB guys have been getting have added so much i think we're pretty fun with the commentary those guys have added so much though and everyone's so so goddamn cool kind of like reaffirms just how like you hear about some horror stories about some people in hollywood no we've heard we've had some pretty fucking awesome people on and it feels like barstool like legitimately sort of has a movie division now. Since they came in, that was their goal from the start. And it feels that way. Jeff D'Lo, shout out to him and Ken Jack and Trill Ballins

on the other side of the pod. We'll lighten the mood here as we have some serious shit go down. Did you see my fun fact on Friday that I blogged? I don't know if I saw your fun fact. Oh, wait. Was it a WWF one? No. Denise Richards was originally only going to show one nipple in the 360.

Oh, I did see that. And they somehow negotiated to two at the very last minute, which changes the entire world. So there's my fun fact for the pod. I didn't come in as prepared as you did. I got your fun fact blog confused with your WWF blog because on Friday, I also did a WWF fun fact blog in saying that Ricky Steamboat's full name

is Dick's Blood. That blew my mind. I was like, Ricky Steamboat's the coolest name ever? Turns out he has the actual coolest name ever, Dick's Blood. Another fun fact. So this Marvel,

we just see the title card coming coming up here right and that was suggested by kevin feige actually it originally just jumped right into this next scene and they said it was a little jarring so kevin feige suggested they throw that in there and it worked out is this so this is the first movie where they have that little like interstitial i don't know if it's the first but it's definitely wasn't there in the original cut it was at the beginning and he was like oh that's a little and that's that's what i like out of my you know kevin feige a guy in that position you like that he's stepping in getting in the trenches and being like yeah why don't we change this in the editing and stuff yep yep and the only thing that uh he told james gunn like hey we would love if you put this in here, is introducing Thanos and the Infinity Stones.

Those were the two things he was tasked with in this movie. I love like, I'd love to hear like every director or whatever. And like, it's like, all right, this is all we need from you. Like tell your story. And these are the parts we have for this big, massive, overarching, you know, overarching theme, basically. That would have, without that interstitial, that's a big jump from this kid getting beamed up

to just some dude with a fucking weird mask on. Basically, this feels like Indiana Jones, right? This is like the indie stuff right here. Yeah, very, very similar. He said that first scene, even the flashback sequence, was inspired by Wizard of Oz. Okay. Which makes sense, right? It's the only thing on Earth

before going off to this crazy outworldish land. And there really isn't a moment of levity yet. That's James Gunn's dog right there. That seems to be a thing directors do all the time if they could put their

pets in the movie like how can you not we're kind of so we have any pets in the bob fox house right now because i usually i feel like we get like a dog joining us we do i'm in my room right now and the door is closed so they won't come in because they were fighting before they're like uh the fucking magicians from the prestige for like 15 years they've just been at each other's throats great movie by the way prestige one of my all-time underrated like must watch flicks for people is agreed agreed i watched it during quarantine i showed it to my mom i would say for the first time but she has seen it before she just forgets movies and then i get to show it to her like 10 years later i'm like i bet you've never seen this so this song is like the first real like all right this is gonna be a good fun time

yeah you get those first you know couple minutes you're like this is just a downer you're in the movie you're like shit and now you have chris pratt dancing around like an asshole and doing chris pratt kind of stuff where i hadn't seen parks and rec but this is his character basically coming out oh yeah kind of just a scooch his two inspirations for peter quill are margie mcfly and han solo he said oh that's good that's which is so good right when you say that like you can absolutely picture both of those the way they come through it's really like sort of impressive the way that he wears that on his sleeve you know who i always had in there as well um

captain jack sparrow kind of like you know like my name is when he goes star lord he's like you know that's finally and stuff like that that was yes i always wanted to be known um but i mean those are two of my favorite movie characters ever you just mentioned and this song so sienna loves this movie loves the guardians franchise one and two and that's what makes me love it it's our movie this song is her song this we would listen to it every morning on the way to daycare turn on my song we'd have our sing-alongs i get rubber band man obviously as we oh yeah or aj would get his own song. I think he was the start was the one ELO from the second movie with Groot dancing around. I'm blanking on it right now. Mr. Blue Sky.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. This has to be like Raiders of the Lost Ark, right? This feels exactly like it. Got to be. Which is fine. I like those kind of like moments. Totally. And especially for like uh it's a similar world it's not an adventure but it's a sci-fi adventure so it fits it's the same theme sort of thing and that also the orb was red when they were shooting it

because i think it was going to be the power stone or something and then they decided hey the power stone is going to be the thing from thor the dark world so they changed it to purple either in shooting or in post you mean they they originally was red and then they made it purple red yes did i mix that up yeah well it is the power stone you're right they ended up using the power stone in this one yes it was originally reality and then whatever it was red and then they made it purple this this dude he just has a look i don't know where if he's from anything else but i feel like he's been in every movie i've ever seen lcb interviewed him i think recently i'm pretty sure because he's he was in um shazam he's one of the guys that like are either in shazam or

aquaman i know he's done DC and MCU. He's got characters in both. He just has that look. Yeah, I guess. I got to check that out. Such cool weapons. Such cool CGI, too. The way they just suck those people up.

It looks so different than every other mcu movie especially like in 2014 when it came out i feel like ragnarok it has like a guardians feel to it so now we've gone more even uh captain marvel takes guardians vibes and its soundtrack and the way they like tried to make certain things go i think but this in 2014 blew me away the entire look of the movie the feel of it it's more sci-fi than any other superhero movie i feel yeah it's like it's gritty but it still has that superhero vibe to it you know and then obviously i have little camera tricks like this with the slow-mo and stuff like that yeah his the coolest thing in the world yep this when this came out too i mean i'm sure people that are listening probably

remember this or maybe some people were younger they just were like this was a surprise hit like you know fans i never heard of the fucking guardians of the galaxy growing up i was probably like a 7 out of 10 in terms of like as a fan I was an X-Men guy first and foremost as I've said before but I had never heard of the Guardians of the Galaxy and I think even when it was being made it was like MCU's on kind of a hot streak or you know Marvel's on kind of a hot streak and it was like you know see how this goes and this I think outperformed I imagine everyone's wild expectations with this right oh definitely I remember seeing uh concept art the first time i ever heard of the guardians was when they announced that they were making this movie at comic-con

and they just either showed concept art from the movie or it was just uh art from the comics that they were like hey we're making a guardians thing remember just looking at groot and he was way like thicker just being like what the fuck are they thinking like i don't know what this is gonna be and when it even came out i didn't see it came out, I didn't see it on opening night. I didn't see it on opening day. I wasn't that excited for it particularly. I was just like, I'll see it. But you know, I can wait a few days. And I remember I went with my buddy, we ate at a vegetarian restaurant beforehand because he wanted to and I ate the grossest meal I've ever eaten in my life. no disrespect to vegetarians out

there but it just wasn't a good restaurant and then we went and saw it and i was just like i said blown away by this movie at the time i said that's my favorite mcu movie there is i mean this i mean we were at the soundtrack kicking it off right yeah we're at two just great songs um every single song yeah every single song is a beast if i if i had known this was the kind of movie of it it's just hard to tell in the commercials or the 30 second flashes you get of it or whatever um what kind of movie exactly was going to be see a talking raccoon a giant tree and shit like that um but again like the girl kind of like oh i forgot you were here kind of a thing that's han solo come on that's straight harm yeah

um this came out in august of 14 sienna was born in november so i can't blame her for the reason i didn't watch in the theaters i just think i didn't believe all the um you know hype i'm sure there was a movie i probably seen that got great reviews on rotten tomatoes and shit and i got burned by it so i probably just was like, you know what? I'm out of this. I'll wait until DVD. Then Parenthood hit, and everyone who's a parent knows, what's that before?

It's all over. Because I don't remember, like, life in August of 2014. It's another – So I love – like, the first time you meet Yondu, like, obviously he's in the second movie, and you kind of like – he's just – everything's so much's so much grittier he's like especially so different in this movie yeah he's awesome yeah Michael Roker is in all of James Gunn's movies he's the like one constant every single day yeah they're really good friends he's even going to be in Suicide Squad so he'll

cross over into the DC universe as well um but Yondu i read was very different in the comics i don't know the guardians comics at all and i read he was much more of like a savage type race and less human and less villainous and less like he's more of a mercenary in this um i i guess like more drax he was described as more like that style and james gunn did know when he was writing this he said yondu's true relationship to peter quill the whole time throughout the writing of this movie he like that wasn't a retcon during the second one okay that's cool i like that what a cool villain introduction here too yes this was in the era as well where marvel like the main criticism that a lot of their movies were getting

were that the villains weren't great. So this is a good villain introduction. And even though Ronan isn't, say, Killmonger, he is a fun, like, he serves his purpose and he's just a foil for like the Guardians. This movie is really about getting them and their relationship off the ground. Yes.

And I think we've said it in the past too, like the accuser is just great yeah yeah come on that's that's good stuff takashi the accuser see this kree stuff's gonna be in this next wave of marvel moves i think i feel like the kree and this girl i mean obviously with captain, it kind of dipped into that. This is going to be a big part of it here and I feel like space is going to be a big part of the future of all these

movies. So this is going to sit in the scene for everything this movie did. Obviously Thanos, Nebula, as we see here, all this kind of stuff. The Stones, and James Gunn said about the Stones that he didn't even think much about they said hey can you introduce him but he didn't think that they would be as important as they

eventually wound up being so he was like yeah i just kind of like made it up he's like i literally just made it up and then boom now the stones are the most important thing in the entire you know i don't know past 20 years of cinema like, he also said it was a nightmare trying to fit in all of these new like terms, like the Kree and the Orb and the Xandar. And he was like, I was terrified that an audience would just be like, I don't know what the fuck you're talking about.

And I don't know how to follow this movie. Yep. Again, I did it casually with a one-year-old and I watched this movie three times before I actually watched it all the way through. And I was so out on Guardians and then finally i think i had heard the word i am groot on my timeline enough times like i gotta give this movie a fair shot because i don't want to fuck all these people are talking about but they love this group guy and everyone

is grew i don't know what that means oh he's the best he's the best when you get into things for the memes that's like the most purest like version of being a fan like i got into stranger things to understand the memes and same with the guardians basically what a beautiful planet xandar is oh it's the best it's the best i wish we can get we can go back to xandar with thanos um with the i've said that a hundred times yeah give me a what if Give me some sort of a thing with that. Stan the Man. This is a big one. This is the craziest thing. It's Rock and a Groot right here. You have Bradley Cooper and Vin Diesel.

If you had a billion guesses of who are these two voices, I wouldn't have guessed either of them. It's crazy. This is how it pans out. Never. So I got things on them as well. vin diesel recorded his lines in like a trillion different languages because it's just one line and he says that he said the words i am groot into a mic a true like over a thousand times he's like definitely over a thousand times for these

movies in different languages and then on the flip side rocket raccoon bradley cooper this blew my mind said he was paid more for this movie as rocket raccoon than silver linings playbook and the hangover combined what and like he was kind of like the hangover i'll give one of his first like i guess major like leading big roles right i mean he was in big big stuff before that but let's say okay fine that's his breakout into like a list silver linings playbook he was made by that point he had to make bank for that so i don't know that's crazy that that was after the first like because i'm sure hangover two and three they all just got you know paid yeah that combined that's crazy and the thing is with rocket i couldn't like

he just nails the essence of Rocket so much, I wouldn't want anyone else to do it, you know what I mean? Yeah. Oh, it's perfect. And that Groot fun fact makes me feel so much better, because I get so mad that I'm like, that motherfucker Vin Diesel. So the fact he had to work for it makes me feel a little better. Yeah.

I also love this eyebrows guy. Eyebrows guy. I also love this eyebrows guy. Eyebrows guy. I like that. So he always has the little things behind his ears, basically. Has he ever taken the things out, or is that just kind of he always has them for the mask? I don't know. I think he's always got them. I haven't, I mean, I guess we could pay attention throughout this movie i said to you before we started it's been maybe like over a year plus since i've watched this movie it's been a while

so this is the first time we see what is in essence the power stone like the power stone hasn't made an appearance in the MCU at this point. It's the first time that it's around, right? Yep. As far as I know, yes. Also love Peter Quill's gun. Halo fans will know it looks kind of like the plasma pistol from Halo. Halo is one of my missed opportunities.

I was not an Xbox guy Because the controllers were too big They were huge originally yeah My hands were playing Fucking units they looked like Kingpin from Into the Spider-Verse Whenever I did play Halo Because it was the biggest game in the universe right I would just get destroyed

Because I hadn't played before I didn't know the buttons and i always like had like hatred towards halo because of that but it was one of those games like i was like damn i wish i could just be a halo guy that was that was that was such a huge game i was such a halo guy and all of my friends were call of duty guys so i was always guys like guys come on let's go play halo and they were like no no we're playing cod and i sucked at cod i was pretty good at halo so i was always just like all right geez i guess this is such a fun scene by the way every like the way he throws the the whips around her feet the way he throws that jet packs her out of there groot throwing him in a sack like everything about it fun watching the guardians fight for the first time and like the the comic the very subtle comedy about all of it is...

So bright too, right? That adds to it for sure. Poor Groot. We have the Lego Marvel game. i don't know what you think it's like lego marvel 2 or something like that and there's all these different parts of the universe you can go to all together and i just love i'll just walk in xandar and it's not even that big but it's just fun to just walk around i don't know it's just something about like this is i like this futuristic like kind of a vibe of a planet. I would love if somehow on Disney+,

they could give us a virtual tour of Xandar, a virtual tour of Hoth. Give us all the Disney, Springfield. Give us the Simpsons. You know what I mean? I've seen Zod posting. Our friend Zod Barstool likes to smoke a little hot leaf, as he calls it.

Then he watches a virtual tour of London on Twitter Twitter which I think is so funny and just pure I would love that if they made it for Disney plus and they gave us all different locations I love Zod does like the most random things that are like real like he does train similar yeah real cities but it makes sense now I guess with the quarantine but probably he was doing this way before the quarantine. If only like we could have known this pandemic was coming and he could have like plan that out. But yeah, Bobby Iger, I know you ain't got nothing else. I know you're listening. You're a long time listener. Get that shit done for us, man.

John C. Riley just made his introduction to this movie as well. What a great little role for him in the MCU. That's the thing is I thought John C. Reilly, I heard he was in the movie. I'm like, oh, it's going to be a John C. Reilly movie. And it's like, it's not. He does his role well. And I think he does add, obviously, something to the film.

But it's not like a John C. Reilly movie at all. No. Who is one of my favorites. I almost tweeted this out the other day. Whenever I kind of like, my brain's just off and I just need to like, like just kind of like, like laugh at stuff more and kind of like get into like the right mindset.

I'll just watch Boogie Nights and John C. Rowley and Boogie Nights is just top notch. I'll tell you what, this might upset you. I've never seen Boogie Nights. Oh, Bob, we're going to,

that might have to be the next commentary. Well, it's not a new commentary. We haven't seen it yet. Unless you're Kate who just. Well well maybe i could watch it and then we'll go back and do a podcast about it or commentary about it or something like that if you're giving me that recommendation though where you're like if i ever i need to pick me up it'll make you laugh damn i'll watch that yeah it's like any movie with that mood it's just craziness like unintentional cop like it's intentional unintentional comedy with just idiots. It's fucking fantastic.

That middle finger gets me every time. This movie, and again, having a daughter, a young daughter, they are great at, like, not cursing, but having mature themes, like a middle finger, you know, without being fucking stuff like that. I've noticed that with that scene. i'm like uh look away now that's one of the few moments of uh improv in this movie oh really james gunn says people always think that there's like a ton of improv because the actors have such great chemistry but he's like generally it's 99 of the stuff that was in the script but that middle finger was improv from chris pratt damn that's a good fucking improv because that's basically the essence of star lord right there i was gonna

say yeah that's just a guy that understands the character he's playing yeah i love this prison the whole look of it the scene when they get the yellow jumpsuits put on and they get splashed with the orange, you know, whatever that stuff is. Nickelodeon stuff. At this point, do we know she's Thanos' daughter? They say it when they're in the

lineup. They're like, she's the daughter of the Mad Titan. And how about this dude here leading them that's fucking like Walmart Mac from say it when uh when they're in the lineup they're like she's the daughter of the mad uh the mad titan and how about this dude here leading them that's fucking like uh walmart mac from always sunny basically i was thinking he looks like mac i was really thinking that he's got a horrible haircut horrible haircut giving tree uh i don't know if we've talked about this in the past oh no we talked about it with royal doll shell silverstein giving tree that's another that's a tough yeah now are you a walk like no you were probably all right were you even a discman guy or was it discman gone by the time you started listening like no i was a big discman guy i i went to

summer rec for one summer i'll never forget my mom was like the the i guess the person that runs summer recreation it was like that you know the place kids go whatever you go on field trips you go to the schools when your parents are working you get to go there. And I would bring my Discman every single day with like a different Kiss CD from my brother's collection or a Blink-182 CD. And I would just like sit on with the headphones on and listen all frigging day. I would have my brother burn me discs. I mean, I would put the Fox Racing sticker on top of it. I could picture the Walkman I had or the Discman I had. We called it a Walkman.

I don't know. I guess we just kept that in mind. The one in this movie, the cassette player that Peter Quill actually has, is called the Sony TPS-L2. It's the first personal cassette player ever released in 1979, and it was originally called a Soundabout. They renamed it the Walkman afterwards. Ooh, that's one of those all-time great, like,

more people that, like That made a bunch of money for Sony. Listen, we talked Indiana Jones before. That's literally someone running in, grabbing the hat right before the door closes. What was it called? The Soundabout. Soundabout. Oh my God, that is a bad name.

Yeah, man. You want to buy an old Soundabout? Sounds like you're in the 1940s. This is going to be the take where I'm going to stand by it. Music may not exist in the year 2020 if the Soundabout was the name of it. They're like, yeah, I don't know. We'd rather listen to the talkies. Yeah.

The thing about the Discman, too, was having stuff that wouldn't skip. Yeah. Because you'd get to listen to it, and it'd be like you hit a bump when you're driving or whatever. I remember having it on a school bus on the way to school, and you'd hit it, and it would skip. It would just drive you crazy. And that was the biggest thing, was just having something that wouldn't skip. But imagine having a fast forward. I mean i should i probably i had a walkman but i i was big into disc means pretty quickly my dad's a big music guy so he got me one pretty pretty early in life and something that i think is so amazing about the soundtrack of this movie is that it

was nominated for a grammy for best original soundtrack or whatever and if you're james gunn is that not the greatest compliment to your music taste of all time that you literally just put together a playlist and it gets nominated for a grammy i i every time i hear like an old classic song i'm just like all right i can fix this in guardians 3 and i think you said he gets like a billion requests every time he's on yeah yeah i need a quick need a whole new. Quick, quick COVID test for that alien from,

from Groot sticking his branches all the way up that nose. That's fucking, that, that's like COVID-19 right there. Like you just,

Oh yeah. COVID-19 test. That, that alien is voiced by Nathan Fillion. Huh. Why did, why did Gamora get her own cells cells it's kind of like a cooling down for the it's fresh meat kind of a thing and they're kind of just they don't want these people getting torn

apart i think it's because they know that she's thanos's daughter okay so it's like uh you know the what do they call that like maximum security yeah scumbag harvey weinstein goes in a place like that yeah with his with his fucking stupid walker here's our man dave batista that's the crazy thing it's like you have these two actors that are well known and then it's like the wrestler has the role that is you know other than chris pratt um the wrestler has the role of like oh oh, that's him. That's fucking Batista. He broke down in tears, he said, when he found out he got this role, which if you don't like the guy enough as it is from everything that he said in interviews and all that about getting James Gunn back, I love Rocket when he steps up and has that bedhead.

I never noticed that before until now. But just picturing that massive dude tracks the destroyer, like, yeah, you got the part of him being like, it's so funny to me. And Pratt, I love the story behind him getting it. The casting director was like, listen, this guy from Parks and Rec is incredible. He would be perfect for the role. And James casting director was like listen this guy from parks and rec is incredible he would be perfect for the role and james gunn was like no way like i don't want to have the funny guy from parks and rec being our superhero that'd be crazy and she said just bring him in for an audition and james gunn said within 30 seconds he was like i'll give him the

role even if he doesn't want to lose any weight really yeah i mean he's so perfect we've said it a hundred again a hundred times on this about how they nailed the casting of all these different characters across all these movies but this movie is i mean maybe the best i agree of them all i mean it's like a more say but yeah they have all these characters that every single one is a 10 out of 10. I can't imagine anyone else in those roles. Even the two that just do the voices again, I wouldn't trade them for anybody. So, um, yeah. Yeah.

Batista even nails it too, even though he was a wrestler before this. I hate to say it, Bob. If Chris Pratt doesn't get this role, I think he's still married to your girl. I think love still exists. Don't say that, Clem. He lost weight. He got hot. He got rich.

He got big. I hate to do it, but. Don't blame it on Quill. You don't deserve that. I just watched a movie with Anna Faris in it the other day. I watched Grindhouse for the first time. The back-to-back Robert Rodriguez, Quentin Tarantino movie.

Fucked up movies. Crazy. They're fun to watch. I'm too scared of that. There's certain Tarantino movies I'm just scared to fuck with. When I saw the name Grindhouse, I'm like, yep, and Robert Rodriguez too. I was like, I'm going to pass on that one. I'm a huge Tarantino guy. I said to my brother, it felt like Tarantino's

mid. It was like, eh, it's not like definitely doesn't hold up with like the tarantino tarantino movies um but i liked it it was fun i gotta i gotta get it was a hateful eight i wanted to see yes that's the only tarantino movie i would say actively don't like. Really? Yeah, I couldn't get through it. I've tried like three times. I didn't love the Hollywood one with Leo. You watch more and more, they say you like him. I just don't have time to re-watch movies, unfortunately.

Especially a three and a half hour movie. I do love the whole idea of you know thanos being such a name that his daughter is like actively hunted and hated um and this is someone we've talked about this in the past is i never really knew much about thanos i never really cared for thanos the whole space thing i was never into but it kind of like his name rings out in the streets fucking marlo style from the wire like it's oh yeah and i feel like even infinity war and end game make that resonate more and make it even better because they kind of in the flashbacks in those movies show like he was kind of doing his

work planet to planet before he got the stones he was just kind of going brick by brick as dave likes to say um so hearing like everyone like oh, yeah, he destroyed my planet, he destroyed this, and hearing Drax talk about it here makes me go, all right, I understand why in Infinity War he just ran after the guy and ruined the whole plan on wherever the Collector is. Yep, and it also makes – and the other thing I loved about that was, like you guys said, his shadow was just cast upon everyone here. They all know Thanos.

And then when they send Bruce Banner back to New York, and Doctor Strange is like, who? And he doesn't know who it is. So you're like, you guys don't know Thanos? It's fucking bad news is coming, guys. You watch Guardians? How did you watch Guardians, Strange? Yeah, like you got the time stone, brother.

Why don't you start skipping around seeing what's going on now is that maw there is that ebony more is that just like one of thanos's dudes no i think that's just a different dude okay i don't think that's the maw because they kind of like because even this thanos was obviously raw and they only had to put him on for a little bit and i think the way that they made thanos was awesome they didn't really need more for them what he was here this was just introduce him yeah this was kind of cool though you get to see the chair that he's talking about like i know you know of the chair and shit like that and i think this is the first time we get josh brolin i know it's josh brolin for a fact but i don't think he did i know he didn't do the

original avengers appearance the post-credit scene i don't think he did the second one either okay i didn't know this was Brolin here. I didn't realize that. Yep. One of the last things put in the movie. But one of the first things that, you know,

was required. Or I guess heavily suggested. I'll tell you. Nothing. Cold take. All takes exposed. Everything I've said about Thanos pre-corona. You've got to see the way the world has changed

and how there's sadness in the planet. Everyone go back, listen to this podcast, and tweet us your favorite Clem quotes. God, we're going to have Barstool haters. I'm going to get fucking dragged through the Twitter stream. Oh, shit. of barstool haters i'm gonna get fucking dragged through the twitter street hooked on a feeling it's such a good fucking song too like i if i had like the best songs in this movie or in the guardians franchise it's like i don Mount Rushmore, then I'd be leaving that like a fucking just absolute banger. Let me ask you something, Clem. I got a snack over here, movie snack, one of my favorite movie snacks,

one that's kind of rare for me to go to. It's not something that I'll get every time, but I just want to get your take on it. How do we feel about the old Charleston Chew? Are you a fan? I am a fan of Charlleston shoes um some people like to throw them in the in the freezer so you kind of have like i don't like that i don't like that i think the shoe is exactly what you need it to be um i'm a big charleston shoe guy i think it's

great for movies too ironically as i i'm a big fan of it during movies. Big, big movie snack. Get yourself a Charleston chew, a bunch of crunch, some Raisinets. And to be clear, you're doing a mini chew. We're not doing the little bar. No, I don't do the stick. No. The bar, the little minis, dangerous. You can just binge those things. You're chewing.

You're losing, you know. The fact that Groucho's does this as they're discussing the're discussing the plan which again gives you the idea the guardians best lay plans but always these assholes yeah um i'm i'm a milk i i like milk duds during movies but as i've gotten older it's just a little too much some people despise milk d On the internet, you learn everyone hates everything you've ever liked. That's a good way to put it. Yes. Again, I know,

I know we're on the same page here, but the amount of hate, when I heard how much the internet hated the Beatles, I was like, fuck, you guys stink. You guys are like the Beatles. I love this whole sequence.

I love any prison escape sequence, really. It's hard to screw one of those up. Yep. There's a great one in Deadpool 2, also featuring Josh Brolin. So that was actually a question I had for you. Out of every current MCU character, is there anyone you want to see deadpool interact with more than the guardian because i can't name one oh no definitely the guard yeah guardians for sure and i guess like

just for the juxtaposition someone like dr strange who i'm only saying that because i saw the guardians interact with him in infinity war and end game and how funny it could be when they go back and forth so like him breaking the fourth wall with dr strange also this scene here where rocket grabs the gun and then he's on group for the first time we see them like really working together outside of zandar amazing yeah that oh yeah it's fucking great too and i didn't notice right now until just now is how that kind of, when he comes back and he cocks the gun with the Hulk in Endgame when he drops down. And I literally got goosebumps just thinking about that fucking scene.

Badass Gamora here showing she is not to be reckoned with. Zoe, what's how you say the last name? Saldana, I think. Saldana. reckoned with and why can't zoe what's how you say the last name saldania i think saldana just fucking all she does is make fucking bank in her movies i know really and the the little tribal like scar type things on her face are apparently cybernetic implants that thanos put in there so she didn't have those as a kid. I couldn't remember if she, okay. So that makes sense. Yeah. I don't think she did. Or at least if, if she had them as a kid,

Thanos put them in there as a kid. Yeah. Kind of forming a shield with branches also very cool. And a nice thing about his character design. I moved a branch in our forest before and oh my God, I thought I was going to throw my back out doing it on our little balcony there was just like a dead branch lion in the forest and my mom was like i hate looking at that rob i look at it every day and i'm like look at that dead branch it's just blocking my view it's her birthday week so i was like listen i'm gonna be

the good son i waited till she left the house today i was just like i'm gonna fucking move that branch so i threw on gloves i threw on boots i was like i'm going to fucking move that branch. So I threw on gloves. I threw on boots. I was like, I'm going out there. I'm going to do it. And the second I grabbed it, I realized it was way too heavy for me to move. So I just started breaking it down like little by little and moving the little branches. Oh, my God, man, I am sore. Throughout your back along the way.

Branches are a low-key thing. If you get the wrong one because i have them sometimes with like a storm or whatever before i cut the grass i'm like oh you get a whole new respect for people that like handle fucking trees and all that shit there's our first hero hero shot right there yes quill holding a leg over his arm like it's a gun. Groot's casual, like, violence towards people, too. You know, fun. Because, again, this is like, this Groot I forget about. Because we watched the second one a lot more, I think, than the first one.

Because the baby is so beloved. You know, baby Groot is so beloved in the house. I forget all the different stuff Big Groot adds to the comedic stuff. We've done any shit. So great.

It's one of my favorite gags in the movie. Do not ever call me a thesaurus like this is one of those movies you could just like pick apart and get new silly shit off of like i noticed the some of the the banter here until i have it on the closed captioning um there's still one easter egg that people are trying to figure out that james gunn says that they're 60 of the way there it involves like the coordinates of nowhere and all like it's deep dive shit that i'm not even close to being equipped for. But,

uh, they're like you said, this is a movie that you could watch so many times and find new things every time. And it's so quotable. Like this is among the nerds in barstool, like Jeff D low and Ken Jack, that whole corner we got over there.

We're quoting this movie all the time. Nerd corner. As you call it. It's nerd corner. And then we also got like Smitty, like the jock to, to disrupt it and make sure we're not getting too nerdy. Keep all things balanced as all things should be balanced.

Zero gravity sequence here. Great. Like the guardians always pull out. They always get the winds through those. Like, it's almost like the, yeah, science bitch kind of thing.

Like it's like a Walt White. They always come through when it, it matters the most creative means yes and uh again all the different you know discussions about rocket and his you know what he is and the different names he gets called and stuff like that as a raccoon and raboon just that's one of those running gags I always just love. By the way, so this made $778 million in the box office, and $772, and then second one made $863. So we're at a little more than $1.5 billion for our girl Zoe

in these two movies to go along with the Avengers Doshi Maid as well as the Avatar. The second, second, second highest grossing movie. Oh, did I mention this on the podcast last time when you were on with me that someone, I think Titanic was trending for some reason, like James Cameron was trending. Or no, Avatar was trending when the last Airbender went on Netflix. That's what it was. And I just tweeted the box office things to James Cameron, like, ha-ha, bitch, we're still ahead of you.

But it wasn't his Avatar that was trending. So he just got a ricochet shot out of nowhere. Ricochet shot for Jimmy. But fuck him. him yeah they're like oh the avatar movies will still come out as scheduled just like i'm like i don't give a fuck yeah don't care don't care jimmy um you were just talking about rocket though james gunn said rocket raccoon is like a massive part of the third movie and the scars that we see will like all be played into that they'll reveal it the whole cybernetic thing that they experimented on

him they're going into that guardians three i mean they you know the stuff in two and then i guess some of the stuff with uh you know even like the little things between the way him and nebula interacted and him and the other guy, the other Avengers in Endgame. Yeah. So many, like that character is so great and so deep. And I think that's what makes it so cool. And I guess, you know, the way him and Yondu interacted, you kind of saw it as well.

Peter Quill shooting first, Han Solo type. Yes. That's a great description. So who said that description? James Gunn? No, I think that was Chris Pratt himself. He said those were like his two inspirations when he was actually acting, like thinking about Han Solo and Marty.

No, they're just fucking great songs. He just throws Pina Colada on. Oh, my God. Nothing better. Like, this is one of the, there's certain songs where you say something to piss someone off. Be like, Oh,

my favorite Jimmy Buffett is Pina Colada. And everyone's like, it's not Jimmy Buffett. There's a Billy Joel, you know? Oh, well, I didn't know.

I just say it's your favorite Billy Joel song. You will piss off Billy Joel fans so much. This is another one. I love how Drax is so impressed by anything. Oh, yeah. That poor alien that just wanted to listen to music, too. Yeah. A little Han Solo-ish vibe there.

I guess that would be more of like Luke when he gets off of an empire. Yeah. Coming to the Falcon. I guess that would be more of like Luke when he gets off of an empire. Yeah. Coming into the Falcon. I love how colorful his whole movie is. James Gunn said that was a empire strikes back inspired, like the way this movie looks. He's like, that movie is dark, but it's also colorful. He's like, that movie has so much color splashed in all over the place that's what he went for

with this as you said that rocket was like working on something and it kind of looked like um like that that color scheme with the blue light almost reminded me of cloud city when you know luke and vader are fighting it's that like... Oh, yeah. Carbonite room kind of thing. With like, yeah. It's the metal grating and the lights behind it and the smoke. I'm with you. Guardians have such a great ship, too. The Milano. Yeah, I was going to say,

it's a great name for a ship as well, and it's just a sweet ship in general. The color scheme, everything. I love everything about it. I didn't even know the name of the ship until pretty recently, and again, I've watched this movie a billion times. Named after Alyssa Milano, Peter Quill's childhood crush.

Oh, really? Yeah. I didn't know that. It was a real fun fact. Who's the boss, man? I'm telling you, I grew up when Who's the Boss was on TV. And I mean, definitely a big time crush right there, Alyssa Milano. Yeah, I know she's probably controversial now because a lot of her Twitter feed is like political stuff,

but she just was a smoke show back in the day, ladies and gentlemen. True facts. A heartthrob for teenagers everywhere, including one James Gunn and Peter Quill. Whenever Peter Quill is interacting with people on earth i just like obviously him and peter parker had the whole thing about the different classic movies and stuff but i love i love those those back and forth and i hope we get some more in the future him again him and

deadpool just going back and forth about god knows what right yeah we have some funny shit deadpool making like chris pratt jokes to to Peter Quill would be amazing. Casual come lot, come joke there. We, we've talked to you. Remember there was a thing you got well actually about the first come joke. We did. Yeah. We, we thought, um, what was it with far from home? I mentioned like, Oh, they made a come joke. It must've been the first come joke in MCU. And everyone said, Nope, the Jackson Pollock joke and guardians. And they were correct with that. You're right.

And I've heard that line used a lot. That's a big time stolen joke from people. I mean, they might have stole it from someone in this, but it's... What was it? Room Raiders where they had the black lights? Did they have that in Room Raiders? I feel like there was an MTV show where they had black light and you could look in someone's room and shit.

But you didn't look for cum cum that would have been an aggressive thing black lights had a huge run in like the 90s into the 2000s oh yeah with those posters too like you would the neon jimmy hendrix poster with the third eye on his forehead and all that you'd find him down the shore on the jersey shoreboard boardwalk all the time earn spencer's gifts obviously i can still smell spencers i i did a blog the other day about best carmen electro posters ever i could still hear this the clanging of the metal as you went poster to poster oh yeah a smoke show poster like carmen electro bending over and if someone came you like switchly you're like i'm looking at the marvel ones i love that doing that at the local models or sports authority like it would be all the local sports teams so i'd find the the yankees ones they would always go to that immediately and

oh that is the best and when a poster like took your breath away like i'm getting that i was a big poster guy um Oh, me. I mean, you could still see like in this room, like my mom basically just put a bunch of my old posters all over the walls. Cause I had so many. I got, I got some,

I framed them now, but back in the day I had the push pin. So they had every poster at a thousand pins in each corner. They have a thousand from when they're moved around or whatever, then they'd rip. And it was a whole thing, but I was always pretty particular about frame in mind. was like almost an ocd thing which now i'm glad i have so many frames yeah no it's that's nice i my biggest thing is when i see a poster i like i don't want to buy it because i hate buying frames because i

hate i usually the best place to get them like the the cheapest is like Michael's. And I hate Michael's because I hate the smell of it. I hate all that lame shit that they sell there. My wife loves it. And I just despise it. This is an anti-Michael's podcast. Bob, tell me you're not a Michael's. Unless they sponsor. If they sponsor, it's different.

But I am fine declaring myself anti-Michael's. I'm not generally anti-Michael's. I'm really just riding or dying with Clem here. But Mama Fox loves arts and crafts, so she's in Michaels all the time. So I'm kind of with you in that, like, whenever I'm there, I don't really want to be there. I'm kind of just there for moral support. Yeah, I don't like, again, I don't like potpourri smells.

I get, like, sometimes my nose gets, like, I get, like, itchy and stuff. I only smell it. It doesn't bother me really. It's vanilla smells. So I go to Michaels because I have to go with the wife and i'm just like oh it's like i can't i can't really burn time like looking at shit too because it's like i'm gonna look at like what like fucking again like an unpainted wood like an unpainted wood are um so here's a question regarding smell what do you think about the smell of play-doh how how does that when i say play-doh are you like anti are you thumbs up thumbs down so i forgot

what the smell play that was until i had the kids and i was like oh shit i forgot how much i love the smell of play-doh big well james gunn loves the smell of play-doh and on the set of guardians of the galaxy he would hand out play- plato containers one a day to whoever did the best job on set like whether it was an actor someone behind the scenes if someone did an extraordinary day uh if someone had an extraordinary day he would give them a thing of plato and he said uh i love the smell of plato who doesn't so there you go it's a great uh i think vitalberg had a line about plato but it was like a sexual thing about play-doh and it like ruined play-doh for me for a few years so i'm gonna i'm gonna do

my hardest to ignore what he said but i remember there was something about the smell of play-doh oh no i hope he didn't say it smelled like something else yeah i love that i love that james gunn that was like his like game ball his game ball or the sticker on the college football. I love that. It feels like a James Gunn thing. It's kind of nerdy. It's kind of weird, but it's creative. And it's a cool, oh, you're a cool director, writer guy.

Giving out Play-Doh. If you were the Play-Doh guy, you just walk in and Bob just always has this blue container of Play-Doh. And you just make shit at your desk. You go go home bring it home with you like kind of cool i'm surprised we haven't had anyone like try to pull like that like kb just comes in and like the first day he like was like the play-doh guy i would be like what the fuck is he doing right now he's just fucking with us the entire time yeah um this scene right here this balcony scene is one of my favorite scenes of the whole movie i wanted to point that out it was the like one thing when we were coming into this commentary i was like i want to mention the balcony scene on the commentary when he puts the headphones on her ears

and they like go to kiss and everything it's the perfect introduction to their real love story like they they had a little back and forth you could tell they had chemistry before this but i mean starting here it gets steamy when he puts those headphones on her ear come on when when uh when she like when she when i was trying to like find this scene for something to hear the song and i was shocked it was this early in the movie i honestly thought it was in the second guardians or it's at the end after obviously we won't get into the end not that we're i doubt we're spoiling anything for anyone but um i was shocked that happens this early but it is like a legit big scene you know oh yeah and so well done i read that james gunn i read today when i was looking into it that james gunn originally had a much longer scene plan and he

cut it down to what we see now on the day of shooting so thank god for that edit because i think the scene right now is perfect the kevin bacon reference they're talking footloose like come on and then they bring that back together infinity war and all that stuff so great so great kind of again my fucking like my beloved infinity war when she says here i do not dance and then infinity where she's singing and she's kind of dancing in her seat. Like, you just see the growth of Gamora throughout the movies. And it makes her loss and then even her coming back, but it not really being the Gamora we know.

It makes that so much more tragic. Like, in Guardian 3, it's going to be, let's find Gamora and, like, let's get her back to that point. I get so bummed out when I realized that Gamora is gone forever. Like it's this Gamora basically, you know, like before she even hears this song. Yup. And it's, you can't just get that one back easily. You know, the update leveled up Gamora.

There's a certain path that has to be taken, but I guess there's bigger shit to worry about now than a comic book character but the thing is with comic books you can definitely do tricky shit so if they ever want to bring her back but it won't feel right you know what i mean yeah it they'll have to make it feel earned i love just the different things she says like the harley and she uses all these like 1920s you know terms about it. Yeah. So this is something, one of my favorite facts that I found from the James Gunn watch-along. He said this fight started

because Rocket insulted Drax's tattoos and they're in honor of his family. So you could see how that fight started because of that. That's a fair thing. Do you think, can you get splinters off a group just by like rubbing his skin?

Oh, yeah. That group, yeah. Gotta. There's nothing, and I'll tell you, nothing worse than a splinter. I agree. When like your first 10 years of your life, you have that splinter and they're just digging in there. And I'll tell you, as a dad who's had to try to get splinters out,

the second worst thing is trying to get a splinter out of a kid that you know is in pain and they can just digging in there. And I'll tell you, as a dad who's had to try to get splinters out, the second worst thing is trying to get a splinter out of a kid that you know is in pain and they can't stay still because you know how much it hurts. It's the fucking splinters. You bring the tweezers out and everything. Yeah, the squeeze and the, oh. I haven't had to think about that in a while. The problems that we have as children, man, splinters, rug burn.

When was the last time you had rug burn you know and those are the things you just like encountered like all the time or like a bee sting and then yes you but then you've spent your whole life you're worried about quicksand or like yeah tornadoes i used to be so afraid of tornadoes like in suburban new jersey but i i used to just look at my parents' back door anytime there was a great cloud in sky. I'd be like, oh, fuck, we're going to die. I couldn't watch Wizard of Oz because then it got in my head

and I went down this whole thing. I'm with you on the tornado. I always found it fascinating if anyone else was as scared of tornadoes as I was in suburban New York. It's good to know across the river, a young man. We owned the Twister VHS.

So I think that implanted the memory in my head. The Twister is a fun movie to rewatch. The collector's collection. The collector's collection. I mean, I'm sure there's a ton of Easter eggs already. This is like, if they wanted to ever just put some more shit in digitally down the road to even put some more easter eggs I'd be in for it

the special edition that George Lucas cut yeah exactly throw like a greedo species oh shit that would be kind of cool I don't hate that at all I think Stan Lee was originally going to be in one of these, and then they changed it to putting him on Sandar on the end.

Howard the Duck is in one, famously. Yep. So Howard Duck was another movie I watched as a kid that scared the living shit out of me. The monster in it. I didn't realize how big of a flop it was, which I think is kind of the reason Marvel got so fucked, right? I think so, yeah. That was pretty related, yeah.

And it kind of like, I think they were so bad, it kind of set them back. I mean, it led to where we are now, so it's all good in the end. Speaking of George Lucas, he was heavily involved in that. Yeah. of george lucas he was heavily involved in that yeah gamora my daughter's favorite superhero number one with a boat which it's a weird superhero to have because she's such a fun girl and gamora is the epitome of anti-fun i mean she's only dresses her as halloween she she's living vicariously through you know good morning she's happy and then she's like good morning is nice and mysterious like when we were like posing for

halloween she wouldn't smile she's good morning doesn't smile oh that's perfect that's perfect yeah can't prove kayfabe right it's a kayfabe is the word right yeah i think i think i i pulled that on my mom when i was neo for halloween when six. I was Neo for the night. I was like, there's no way I'm smiling. So here you go. Here's the first explanation of the Infinity Stones in the MCU for you. They pretty much look like what they look like in Endgame. I love Groot playing with the hologram. I'm like Like what is this

Those His pink girls freak me out Yeah Just like the almost robotic Servant I don't like when a human plays a robot Like what was it Small Wonder I think was the name of the

It was a show Back in the day Did not like that one bit human plays a robot like uh what was it small wonder i think was the name of the um the cart it was a it was a show back in the day it did not like that one bit this is something i feel they would have made cooler looking if they if this movie was made today like the whole who had the infinity stones back in the day that monster was thor two is it thor no thor one is the is the giant monster i think right uh no that's two thor one is just loki and then uh god i don't remember thor one is so boring to me thor two i know gets so much shit but thor's got thor two has that like big guy with the fucking staff and all that that must be what I'm thinking of then Thor 2 I watched Thor 2 the other day it

was like the last 10 minutes of it and I was like it's like man this I don't know if I even I think I might have like walked out of the theater I like Loki like Loki's death scene in Thor 2 and like the way they trip you out with it I like that that's one of those things that's almost like a movie saver and all of the loki in prison scenes are pretty cool there's just a lot of shit that goes way too deep and i think i took non-marvel fans to it and it's like a casual fan can not get into that shit that's that's a weird it's inherently a weird scene with ass guard and all stuff it's just they didn't do it right. Again, is it Portman's fault? We'll find out. She bombs in this one like,

come on, Ragnarok gave us something. Dude, I cannot wait until we're in the movie theater again for Thor, Love and Thunder or any MCU movie. Just like that feeling of being back in a theater and being like,

oh my God, superheroes. The world is back to normal i want that you get black widow in the theater or you think it ends up just uh getting i think i think we'll get it in the theater right that would probably be the next mcu movie unless something jumps it i don't know if anything could jump it i don't know what i don't think because it's done that's the thing like it's done yeah we we we acknowledge how excited we were to see it like oh we'll see in like a month man we'll talk about it on the pod i think we'll get it in like november maybe that's my guess just and i obviously don't have any inside info there that's just my gut something we didn't bring up during

that fight scene when peter quill kind of like breaks it up and he's like listen no no you're drunk rocket that's the first real layer that rocket gets where he's like you think i asked to be created and then they like you said he becomes like a very layered character later on and we see that with him talking thor through his problems and infinity war and everything and him talking to nebula afterwards and endgame and great character but that was really the start of hey there's more to him than just he's got machine guns yeah and it's crazy like i would have never thought when i saw this character in the commercials and shit, just that he would go that path.

Like, that character is the one that's tugging at your heartstrings so often. Exactly. Shit's getting real intense now did and drax called this in right he's a fucking yeah yeah um that power stone thing too i love just kind of showing you the power it has how it destroys everything and then all the different parts of the collector shit just obviously the pooch running away yeah that's like that that seeing the tesseract now in avengers like all of that stuff seeing how powerful the stones were individually makes them way cooler in endgame and infinity war just because you're like oh shit this is our girl

Karen Gillian who we've given huge props on the on the pod a thousand times I read this and I was like man that's like knowing how everything played out pretty heartwarming story when she got the part James Gunn told her listen this is a super tiny part but if everything goes the way I want it to go you'll eventually be one of the guardians of the galaxy. And hell years later, you know, six, almost seven years after this movie has come out, holy shit, that couldn't have worked out better for her. She got such a prominent role in the biggest movie of all time and game. Yeah. Yeah. It's again, it's like their,

their relationship is always so weird. Her relationship with Thanos and Gamora and even kind of the guardians in itself. And then she ends up playing just like, she's the reason Thanos comes back and end game spoiler alert, all that kind of stuff. It's great. I had no idea that was, that was a thing. And the way she embraced the role, right. She shaved her head. Yeah. Shaved her head for, you know, she probably didn't have to, they probably could have done a bald cap with the way she did it but she was like no fuck it let's make this

look good let's do this right no and that's man if you get cast in one of these movies i know that nobody listening to this podcast is probably an aspiring actor like that's gonna get cast hey maybe you will i would say the key to winning over the fan base is just like show that you really care about the character like do do something like that and the fan base will love you forever over something like tiny like that show that you're thinking about it in your off time you know i mean with all these things we we can tell like uh the last part we talked about like when you can tell when someone has a passion for this shit, it always shines through on the product for the most part. Um,

and I, that's why I think suicide squad will, if, if James Gunn approaches it, like, I think he will, I think DC will be in a good spot unless they fuck it up again. Yeah.

A little bit. The way he's talking about it, he really is like, this is one of the best movies i've made like i'm so excited about this i'm so excited for people to see this it's one of my favorite scripts like he he's hyping it up to a level that i don't think he would just for you know like oh making a quick buck on this one like he made mcu hold put guardians 3 on hold so he could finish that so i'm excited for the potential that one

has i watched birds of prey in the last week i hadn't seen that very uh nothing about it was bad it was just like it never really hooked me and like made me care a ton it was reminded me of suicide squad a lot and that like margot robbie was amazing ewan mcgregor was amazing and uh in suicide squad i thought will smith was great margot robbie was great they just didn't have a lot to work with yep by the way the snyder cut the snyder goes yeah the snyder cuts coming out we should mention that as a nerdy podcast right you had that snyder cut sign released the snyder cut someone put a picket sign in clem's hand at New York comic on and snatched a picture. He was instantly like,

cause you were to go to UFC thing. And I'm like, fuck it. Which Bob was here. Cause I don't know what I'm protesting. I'm pretty intrigued by the Snyder cut. I wasn't one of the guys actually, you know, really hoping it would come out and like advocating for or whatever. But now that it's coming out, Snyder says 75% of his movie is unseen. Like we only saw 25% of his footage. I'm excited as a movie geek, I guess,

to see the differences between the Snyder cut and the justice league. That's what intrigues me the most. I don't think the Snyder cut is going to be this incredible movie. I just want to see how like Joss Whedon pulled off making a different movie with 25% Zack Snyder footage. I think that's really interesting. And is that, does he have this whole movie basically made? He just has to edit it or was- No, it's done. Like I talked to someone, I shouldn't say who it is. i talked to someone i shouldn't say who it is i talked to someone over a year ago who had seen it and they were like oh i saw they were like the agent of someone that was in the movie and they were like oh yeah i saw it's it's a good movie and i was like all right cool like i

hope to see it one day as well but i thought it was a pipe dream no we're really getting it dark side is in it like it's got a completely different villain than the one we saw in justice league so i'm intrigued now that we know you know it's happening give me everything during the quarantine man we got nothing else going on take chances everything's weird let's fucking go with it yeah this seems really cool yes i was gonna say this scene is awesome and it kind of gives you a good look into Star-Lord throughout all this shit. And I think he wins over the Guardians a lot here. Yes. The other Guardians when they see him do this.

They shot this underwater, which James Gunn later said was a big mistake. He was like, that made things very difficult. And also, what was the other thing i had about this one it was shot underwater and oh they consulted with nasa for it and they were like oh yeah somehow some way this would work i love nasa like they're like trying to do whatever the fuck they're talking elam was putting people on moons or mars and it's like oh and we got this guy from this movie uh guardians never read that book but uh they want to know if this thing works yeah sure it looks good man don't worry yeah definitely some guy nasa was like it doesn't matter yeah sure fucking he'd breathe on his face and then his eyes would

get red yeah i won't say what i'm gonna say here about what would happen if this happened in a galaxy far far away and how it would be if i don't say you know what i'm saying i'm not gonna say it well you know what i'm gonna say just because you kind of hinted at it i had a fact that i was like maybe i'll bring this up maybe i won't your boy robert downey jr clem was actually scheduled to have a cameo in this movie that he shot down because he was in contract negotiations and he was in that weird period where he was like you know i may never play iron man ever again so we could have gotten iron man in your favorite movie the guardians of the galaxy your favorite hero in your favorite movie he didn't make it happen perfect this could have changed the whole movie and then a heartwarming fact to uh flip that chris pratt allegedly stole his costume from

the set with the purpose of visiting children's hospitals in it which he is known to do he still does that that's fucking awesome if you don't love that guy already what's wrong with you but there's a good fact to add to your love i i know a lot of people get upset i know like the what is it the um what the cinema sins it's like one of those everything honest trailers oh yeah every time there's a serious moment they make a joke and stuff like that and i'm fine with it just because it kind of is part of the quirks of it for better or worse and it kind of does stop it from going one way brings it back to like it centers it out you know

but um it does seem like there is always like a punch line even during the serious stuff but again i kind of dig it personally it's kind of my my personality is when when we're going to say shit going on i try to make a joke just to kind of lighten the mood so maybe my sick brain is kind of how this movie works too i don't know totally totally that's how i go when when too too much craziness is going on i love putting on movies that make me happy usually it's like mcu movies or star wars movies or batman movies or Batman movies or Into the Spider-Verse. Such a good go-to when you're looking for something to lighten the mood. Oh, Into the Spider-Verse will hit every single time by the what's up danger scene when he's jumping off the building. Amazing.

It doesn't get better. And every time Biggie beats him in that movie, it's just like, oh, man, come on. I may have to – yeah, this kind of, like I said, with the Boogie Nights thing, I'm going to have to watch Boogie Nights. I mean, this has kind of done the job for the day for sure. But I imagine the world isn't going to become a happier place in the next couple days or weeks. So Boogie Nights is definitely getting back on the playlist ASAP. One of my favorites too is the – it's called, I think,

Journey to WrestleMania 30, Daniel Bryan. And they just did a documentary about him leading up to that match. Every single time I get chills, I usually cry at the end. I'm a bitch. We all know that. I've never claimed otherwise. But if you haven't seen that and you're a wrestling fan, I believe it's on the WWE Network.

I own the Blu-ray version of it, which has a little more footage. Daniel Bryan, if you're unaware, if you're not a wrestling fan i believe it's on the wwe network i own the like blu-ray version of it which has a little more footage daniel bryan if you're unaware if you're not a wrestling fan if you just tune into the mcu movies is my favorite wrestler of all time yep you're you're diehard i one of the things i always that always makes me laugh with grew and then there's other um other other movies or tv shows have done this is when there's a character that just says shit like I'm Groot and it always it gets more and more complex I know they're the only friends we've ever had

or I guess Star Wars maybe I was gonna say I feel like R2 and Chewie and yeah I know I don't think he likes you I don't like you either I like uh I like Ronan's ship by the way that long like twisting design it's cool anytime that you could do something that I just go like oh that's unique I haven't seen that before it's impressive because there's so many of these fucking movies and with you know obviously with thanos's ship we've talked about in the past and the milano like these are all unique different ships we're not just like up to spaceship a spaceship b spaceship c they all have their own kind of vibe to them and they're all recognizable

they all have silhouettes which i heard kathleen kennedy talking about i'm like damn i never realized how important that was but she said like think about all the iconic characters silhouettes which i heard kathleen kennedy talking about i'm like damn i never realized how important that was but she said like think about all the iconic characters silhouettes like superman you could picture a silhouette of him with his hands on his hips like indiana jones we were talking about you could picture him with the hat the silhouette uh luke skywalker you could definitely picture a silhouette of him with a lightsaber like you you don't credit how important the little things are for massive things like branding where you need something recognizable you need something that kids are going to gravitate towards buy toys of buy video games of you know i love how uh um ronan kind of like just fucking like ghost thanos like that is such a yeah and i like the

the unique weapon like the hammer kind of thing he has going there and it the stone goes perfectly inside of it um it's pretty fucking sweet it's definitely what happens in those situations too when there's like a guy at the main crime syndicate he's like oh get this like valuable item for me and then bring it back to me. As soon as they get it, they're like, wait a minute. Now I have it. Yeah, like the children of Thanos do that move. Maul delivers it.

He gets the goods. That's why Maul's the guy, yeah. Yeah, yeah. It's almost like in The Mandalorian when that shithead toro calican bobby conor valley son when he uh gets that hit and mandalorian's like all right let's go bring it back and he's like wait a minute yeah i don't know about anything that he tries to bring it back yeah very similar we haven't even brought up how great the whistle arrow is i was gonna say when there was a moment before when he did the whistle and you mentioned somebody were going somewhere else because i was

like he's gonna talk about the list because the whistle arrow is so goddamn good and roker's the perfect guy for it because you could see like reminds me of like that guy that you would always see mowing your lawn in town that your parents told you to stay away from. Like, he's always, like, whistling to get his dog around. Like, hey, I got you over here. Roker is that guy. So that's so perfect. And something that was interesting, and this is unrelated to this, but just kind of that Roker is his father figure and Peter Quill's actual father.

In the comics, it's not ego. I didn't know that until today, but that's like something that James Gunn totally made up for the movie. Ego exists in the comics, but he's just completely unrelated. Peter Quill has a different father and James Gunn was like, fuck it.

I'm going to combine it too because I think that that would be better. And I do like the story. I like Guardians too. I like the whole Kurt Russell thing. Is he half God in the books or is he just a regular human or what's what's peter quill's dad i don't know but i don't think he's half god i think his dad's name is like it was like just sore or something it was something weird like that where it was like j apostrophe and then three letters i don't really

remember i will say this about Yondu too. Like another one where they just nailed the casting. Like I couldn't imagine anyone else as Yondu. I'm sure. He wrote that with Roker in mind. Gotcha. It reminds me of John Katzenmeyer, whatever the dude who played the pig in a toy story.

And he's in all the Pixar movies. Yes. Perfect guy. I couldn't imagine anyone else in those roles. And he's just the perfect voice for it. I love rocket too. Fucking shoot first, ask questions later.

Yeah. For those that don't know, Kraglin, who is next to Michael Roker and all of this, that is Sean Gunn, James Gunn's brother. And he does a lot of the, not motion capture, but motion, like basing for Rocket Raccoon all of this, that is Sean gun, James guns, brother. And he does a lot of the, not motion capture, but motion, uh,

like basing for rocket raccoon onset. He's on all fours, like running around like a raccoon. And then the animators will sort of, he's more of a guide for them and then for the actors to play off someone. I think I saw like a video or a little snippet of it once that it blew my mind. And it's why I can, I never want to see Bradley Cooper do the voice of a rocket raccoon. Have you ever seen like the Simpsons voice actors do the voices? Well, I saw them do inside the actor studio when I was little.

And man, when I found out that Bart was voiced by a woman, I, my mind was blown. I was like, what are you? But he talks like a boy. I thought he was a boy my whole life. It bugs you up big time. So that's why I don't want to see Bradley Cooper do like, he probably has like weird faces too because it's like a weird voice. And ever since, again, the Bart Simpson thing,

it kind of melted my brain. Like I'm no part of seeing this again. Impressions, maybe I'm just a simpleton. They're one of those things that will always get me going and blow my mind when people could like do an interesting voice or change their voice in a funny way. Joey Molinari is a Molinaro. I don't know how to say his last name. I feel bad. He's a new guy. I haven't met him. Molinaro. I feel like I'm like, I'm like buddies with Joey already. And I've never been in the same room with him it's great because we just started doing commentaries together and we hit it off well we've had fun we text all the

time but like I don't think I've ever had a conversation with him face to face um but every video he puts up makes me laugh even the ones that I like a lot of my college football coaches that I don't know and I'll look up a video to hear them talking just to enjoy the impression because I think they're so funny his Jimmy Fallon cracks me up every time. He essentially has a superpower in my mind. Being able to do impressions, you're almost like a person who morphs into other people. You're like Shane.

It's crazy. When we were on with Alex Tolkien and he was like, oh, he just knew Joey. He's like, oh, you're the Nick Saban guy. And I was like, Joey, that's incredible. He knows you as the Nick Saban guy. And I was like, I was like, I was like, Joey, that's like fucking like, that's incredible. He knows he was the Nick Saban guy. That's what you put on your tombstone. And I was like,

I hope I didn't piss off Alex when I said it, but I was like, I was honestly like, that is so cool that like, you're just, you know what I mean? Yeah, no,

it's impressions or something that I can't do. And I wish I could do. That's definitely like, if you could have one hidden talent, I feel like being able to whip out a crazy impression would be great at a party. I'm very much like the I love you man guy where it's like I say an accent and someone is like – I try Jamaican and I go like Scottish. I'm so bad at it.

I try to just do basic accents, right, where this guy is turning into other people and fucking with your eardrums. I think the main guy from the clone wars the guy that does like all the voices the clones he does the intro where it's like welcome back to the clone wars blah blah blah um he's one of those guys where in hollywood he has a trillion different things mark hamill even who doesn't have like a bunch of different voices, but just the way he could turn that Joker on, I wish I even had that. I don't even have one.

I just, I have like the one voice I have is like angry dad. I'm like, hey! I just like. No, that's not true. I've seen you do an impression. You've got a decent Marge in Who is Clem? When you did Who is Clem as Marge? That was pretty good.

Our guardians are getting together here. Emotional moment. Back to the movie. Yep. Yep. Quill, I didn't realize Quill has, so he just has like the long jacket, which I guess is for like pillaging. And then there's the short jacket, which is for business and interplanetary travel, right?

Because it's like he has this two – like they're a similar color jacket, no? Is it a zip off? Does he somehow – does he unzip? Is it a Velcro? I don't know. They're like the exact same color. He's also got – earlier in the movie he wears it sort of like a vest i don't know if he's got a vest in that color as well also and this is maybe

a question not just for you but for the listeners i guess they sell replicas of that jacket could i pull that jacket off and not be like oh look at the nerd in the guardians jacket could people could i walk down the street in that jacket and people just think that I'm wearing like a maroon cool jacket? Not the trench coat version, the short version. Yeah. Yeah, the trench coat would be tough. Yeah.

You can. You got it. But like it's just as much on like you saying I am rocking this. I got to own it. Yeah. Well, I am fucking Robert M. Fox. What's your middle name matthew m you nailed it i nailed it yeah i hear robert matthew fox that actually makes me feel good because i'm like hey

that that must have sounded natural robert m fox yeah good on my parents for like knowing that's the way to way to go i'm also a sucker for a good montage i think i said that in our star wars commentaries because you usually get a good um you get a good like gearing up montage in every star wars movie but every time you'll put chills on my arms you'll put tingles down my spine john c riley his gear up here i think i could pull that i'm gonna look up a picture of that jacket i got some cash to to spend maybe I buy a Peter Quill jacket. Quarantine.

Have you had like an outrageous quarantine buy yet? That was like crazy. I bought a guitar at the beginning of quarantine, but I've been playing it. So like, I feel like I've already sort of like earned some of that money back and just how many hours I've put into it. You know what I mean? That's a smart buy.

That's a time waster. It's a hobby. Yeah. It's a hobby waster it's a hobby yeah it's a hobby you picked up a hobby you have the time to do a hobby you probably always wanted to do that's a good and you're you're a musician so totally i've been having a lot of fun with that so i feel that was a big purchase for me but i definitely feel justified on it and i didn't make the purchase till it went like super on sale so i I feel, I feel great about that one. That's perfect. I'm looking at this jacket.

It's, it's, it's loud. It's definitely like you're making a statement when you're wearing this, but I think I'm going to buy it and just give it a shot and be like, Hey, fuck it. If it doesn't work,

it doesn't work. But even having a Peter Quill jacket in the closet, like that's kind of cool. You never know. Yeah. I mean, shit, you're fucking throw that on for a couple of pup punks even an mcu premiere i'm a nerd there you go i'll do it i don't care

i mean what is that 22 guardians three at this rate gotta be yeah because especially because they said um thor love and thunders first. Yeah, that's right. Nova Prime. Glenn Close, by the way. Unbelievable. Just fucking chilling in this movie. Yeah. The John C. Reilly seems like a bit of a big name for a small role.

And then Glenn Close is just casually he's in the background of this entire thing which um let me just do a double check here my favorite fun fact about glenn close also known as my only fun fact about glenn close is she is the boo box pirate from hook. Did you know that? No. Oh yeah. Oh, I just recommended someone watch hook the other day. I own hook on DVD. Uh,

remember there was a big to do with, um, whether hook was in like the top 50 and Dave said it wasn't. And Kevin and big cat said it was, and it was like a, but then Dave named 50 movies that he likes or better than hook. and it began this whole thing with the rundown yeah um I was so heavily on Big Cat and KFC side of that like Hook is just one of those classic movies for I think my generation and I mean you're a little younger but I think it kind of a remixed Peter Pan story I think was something the world needed and obviously Robin Williams fucking crushes it.

Crushes it. My brother was a big Peter Pan guy. And we've talked about him on the podcast before. He's 12 years older than me. So he is more that generation. And like that was really how I got Hoke passed down to me. Him and my sister. For you, it has to get passed down.

But I think it still plays. And I'm pretty – I think Sienna got into it because she's younger we've done she gets scared during jumanji we try to get some robin williams into her by the way we watched the will smith paladin i hated that movie oh really i'm i haven't even given it a shot i haven't given the the favreau lion king a shot because i haven't heard good things and i was excited about it when it came out but but everyone said it was just too realistic. I just don't get into any of those remakes. Even like Beauty and the Beast, a couple people got into it.

I didn't get into that. I saw that. I didn't think it was all that. And it just, it's like, guys, come on. You guys are like the best. I mean, Disney, in essence, just takes other fairy tales and just remakes them into their own thing. But don't then turn a live-action movie, which Robin hood is another one they're gonna do with the fox which was oh wow a

classic underrated disney movie if you guys are watching this on disney plus you need someone to do with the kids or just kind of want to go back i love the disney robin hood kfc used to always mention that in his blogs and it kind of was what made me realize barstool was for me is he had all these random robin hood disney jokes in there and i fucking this flight sequence this whole battle uh james gunn said he based way more on like top gun and do the right star not do the right stuff i'm mixing do the right thing and the right stuff um top gun and the right stuff more than any other thing some people thought it was like star wars trench run and he was like no i wanted to do it like in the atmosphere on a planet so people wouldn't think we were just trying to do the star wars space thing

i don't think i ever saw like the entire top gun from front to like oh wow here and there yeah i get the whole gist of it funny thing about top Top Gun is it's a Nintendo game for the olds like me, the old NES, the first Nintendo. And it was impossible to land in that fucking game. And I just – my buddy had it. I didn't even have it. And I fucking hated Top Gun because of it. So I had all the goose stuff.

Like the OG flight simulator. Yes, exactly. So even the lines from um meet the parents with goose and maverick and all that and all this stuff that goes on now i i understand it's fucking a tom cruise staple of the yeah definitely one of my blind spots is top gun i i also got a little star wars vibe there just because the lasers are Star Wars colors. Yeah. But it's definitely Star Wars dogfights.

And I love when they land and Drax gives that big yes. And Gamora turns to Quill and she goes, we're just like Kevin Bacon. It's an amazing line. Amazing. Out of everywhere in the MCU and the space, I think Xandar would be the place I'd want to live.

I guess a lot of the planets kind of stink, but this just like, this just seems like a good ass place to, to just go. Just seems like a government kind of has their shit together. I'm with you. They definitely got podcasts there. We can host this show.

This was added in reshoots, this scene right here, which I really do like. It's a, it's a cool, like, like we said, a creative way

to defeat an enemy that we hadn't seen before the interlock i didn't realize that james gunn said that they threw this in there because it seemed like the people of zandar were like a little too hopeless before to win the battle without it okay i always the the cool thing with the guardians i love how they always split into different groups they're always in this guy it reminds me of always sunny right where it's like my wife always like oh i love when like you know dennis is with mac and then charlie's with you know frank or whatever it's like they always pair off and the way the episode the way the combinations work is always how the episode goes and uh the guardians kind of have a similar thing i mean i feel like amora and peter are usually together but when they're

not i feel like it can be some cool stuff. And it definitely allows for the chemistry between them to stay fresh and not stale when you can do the breaking. And I'm sure, I don't know what the main, if you sat James Gunn down and you were like, what's the main reason you break them up? Is it for story? Is it for that reason? I don't know what it would be, but for me, I feel like that's probably what it does more than

anything keeps everything fresh what a cool scene from group when he illuminates the whole room he's like uh pretty sure the answer is i am group but group probably had some sweet ass tricks that he didn't get to pull out during this goddamn movie it's kind of bullshit i know because he gets to such an advanced level you you have to think like he starts over basically when he becomes baby crew. He has to relearn everything. I love that just casual bazooka shot. Both of my guys always kill me in movies. I mean Indiana Jones, right? The knife scene and he just fucking shoots him. Dark Knight Rises, Bane doing his whole monologue over Batman

and then Catwoman comes in and shoots him at the pod. Oh man. It's going to be a mcu like the kind of these foot soldiers basically is what they are you know like a ninja they just are they're so disposable they basically just die on their own but it's like if they were better and stronger, like Thanos would win everything. I'm fine with them

being these disposable characters essentially, which was something Thanos would do. Gross scene. Gross scene. Oh, don't laugh. Cool sister fight here. i don't know if they're sisters in the comics i don't think they are because i know nebula is thanos's granddaughter i think or gamora is his granddaughter it's one of the other i i mean i don't know based on the comics but I feel like there's probably been

enough changes throughout the years and different timelines you know everything oh yeah timelines and shit change so man

we're really again like complaining about like the things coronavirus has changed in our lives fuck it but it's like everything we've wanted

like we were all excited about like when we're gonna get the X-Men in. Everything just got pushed back. It just stinks, man. I really want to see. I remember they were talking about cable might be in and Brolin wants to do cable and shit like that.

There's the girl from the beginning of the movie. There's that whole time. Cool callback. Oh, hamsters. That's a really particularly insulting one. I'm a big fan of the finally gif of Star-Lord. Whenever I see that used, when he says the name Star-Lord, I always get it.

It doesn't even look like Peter Quill. It looks like he's someone else at the time, but I always liked that one. This is really just like, hey, we're going to show you how badass these guys could be. And their strength in numbers, not only in the citizens of Xandar, but in the Guardians.

Once they start working together, good things happen. A good metaphor for life right now, eh? I will say, like, you know, whenever it's like the main character, who in this case is Quill versus like a secondary character that you like, you always take his side about who's the better pilot or who's the better fighter. There honestly is a case that Rocket could be better than him and he should be the captain of this shit. You know, Quill has the personality for it,

but Rocket is showing a guy that he's fucking resourceful as shit. And he, he comes through so many goddamn times, you know? And he's been around the block. Like I feel like Rocket's been doing his stuff a lot longer than peter's doing his stuff yes and he has obviously the genetic like you know the the brain for it and whatever kind of like things he's gotten in the lab so there is a chance he is the way and it's just i mean they're always busting each other's balls about it but yo that is such a badass thing to say to someone before you kill me even though it's completely another like yeah like big moment that gets the comedic thing yeah we're making shish kebabs out of you. And that turn.

I remember that just getting like the people were in stitches in the theater. When he turns around and smiles, especially. Ronan the snitch Yeah you stand accused Alright cool like whatever Power stone is some shit man I would love to see some of the Power Stone is some shit, man. I would love to see some of the stones. I mean, the stones are gone, but I would have liked to have seen maybe a little more

some weird shit happen with the Reality Stone. I guess it's probably because I don't really love Thor 2, but some more crazy shit. Thanos did some awesome shit with the Reality Stone, I guess, in Infinity War. But I guess they're all just gone now like there's

there's like a movie where there's a flashback there's gonna be no more Infinity Stones which is kind of a bummer I saw someone saying that maybe in what if there was like a rumor or a screenshot or something they said what if uh Peter Parker was Hawkeye existed like that might be one of the things that's coming out that would be kind of cool They said, what if Peter Parker was Hawkeye existed?

Like that might be one of the things that's coming out. That would be kind of cool. That'd be sweet. There was a what if I saw it on Reddit. It was a joke though. It was like, what if, and it was the portal scene. And then Thanos was like, I brought some of my old buddies back from 2014. And it was like, hella.

It was ego. And it was, oh, Dormammu or whatever oh shit holy shit dormammu couldn't have because like that's like unfair even a hella or anyone would have been unfair ego fucking planet but uh uh it would have been pretty fucking sweet if if if like because i don't really know if there's any way you can do that you know given the way i'll be you know bring a dead villain back which someone's like that could be what they do 10 years from now in the next end game is they have like five super duper awesome villains together joining forces yeah well i thought there was one of my theories going into end game that time travel would be involved and that they would somehow get the villains to team up

against Thanos with them. I thought somehow maybe they'd bring in Killmonger and maybe they'd bring in all of these guys that have passed, Hela and Loki and everyone, and that's how you finally defeat Thanos. Obviously, that's not what happened. Yep. But before we saw Endgame, I was like, hey, who knows?

Maybe. I love this here, too. you're like oh shit you know this is like a they did it moment fired it off perfectly yep i'd be down for that though like uh i always love when the villain switches sides oh i'm such a sucker for it x2 magneto working with the x that's so sick magneto's such a dope character too oh yeah the the prison they put him in the little plexiglass like plastic prison i was just thinking about that the other day because I was like thinking what if wrestling or what if comic books were wrestling and like

could you imagine a cage match where Magneto had to wrestle the cage match in a plexiglass cage like that'd be sick wrestling and X-Men fucking or Marvel crossover I kind of dig those kind of things I was thinking about that like starting to write blogs and even saying it here i hope people aren't like oh my god you got to do that because i don't know how i would do it but writing blogs of like what if the x-men were a wrestling franchise and like rewriting a movie as a wrestling angle you could a fucking rocket guy comes through clutch too i i say grude is the fucking robert ori at this shit but yeah he's about to prove his case this is like he realizes what must be done. Doctor Strange gives him the one finger.

Yeah, exactly. I was really hoping not to do this for you fucking jerks. In their most desperate moment, look at this. How could you not get chills how could you not love this movie moment that's the thing about these one of the best movies moments in the whole mcu by the way yeah it's like top 10 if not top five these movies they're they're they're they're superhero fictional fucking whatever movies but i'm telling you man it gets as much a reaction out of me as any other movie i mean all movies are fictional i know these are like you know the cinema this or that like all

the fucking hard-o directors and producers say but like that shit a fucking animated tree makes me feel more things than some of the shit that you know i see on all these like serious whatever movies so oh you can get the fucking firefly shit going on i know beautiful visual look at this he's even throwing pillows for gotta give pillow leaves for the boys gotta do it yeah how those three words could be so powerful credit to james gunn what a masterpiece of a movie masterpiece you met this guy like two hours not even two hours ago and you're just like devastated when he says you know two words different yeah he says which and to be like i think rocket has like the craziest uh thor has a really rough go of it in terms of like loss and stuff and you know obviously all these guys lose shit along the way but man like he's seen some shit go down and he's just his movies alone right just his guy yeah group like having to watch him die twice and then uh obviously what happens you know he finds out

about quill and all that kind of shit it's fucking tough man but yeah i'm gonna see that shit twice at least tony doesn't see his parents and all this other stuff shout out the uh the fucking tape deck tape deck survives yeah not everything if my ipod was on there it would have broke 10 different ways that's fucked up too man just all the fucking just shrapnel or it would have broke 10 different ways. That's fucked up too, man. Just all the fucking just shrapnel. You can catch a splitter too, if you don't watch out.

You want to talk about splitters. Oh my God. Anyone loves your splitter. Winter City. And then this fucker's still around, like Jesus Christ. It's like early Undertaker vibes. Like this guy just does not go down. Yeah. There's Rocket Raccoon doing his Han Solo shooting at Darth Vader.

Yeah, exactly. All right, man. We appreciate you showing balls in that moment. Stand-up guy, even though it clearly was never going to work. And we had a, not only does he say, you know, not only does he say The title of the movie With the Guardians of the Galaxy But he names the fucking group too

Which is a dumb thing Yeah Leo pointing at the screen Yes Live meme Love that meme by the way Love that meme Oh it's so great

One of the best All resourceful quill here. That face from Gamora is so great. i heard about the dance off before i saw this movie and i thought it would be a lot different than this i didn't know what the fuck was going on the first time I saw it. You think a massive dance floor was going to arise from the ground? The legendary dance that saved the galaxy or whatever. Just a quick distraction was all that was necessary.

Shout out to Quill, too, getting that jump on it. That's not easy. Oh, yeah, what a dive. That's the lead athleticism. Some Derek Jeter shit, although I'm sure you would say Derek Jeter would have grabbed it and then jumped into the ship and then. You know Derek Jeter bladed himself in the crowd. He had a little blade in his wrist tape. Jeter!

Get all the Yankees fans. Oh, Jeter! Jeter! I do like this whole like what the stone looks like inside of it and just the fucking chaos that goes on when people oh yeah um I dig this scene it's almost like freaky. Like, don't touch the stone because this shit is serious. And then we're going to have this fucking throwback. Yeah, if it can't get more emotional, we're going to show you his mom on her deathbed.

He realizes what's going on. He's oh fuck they get it they're gonna link hands that that look where his face is coming off they did that look and they do that look in the comics a lot and they actually nailed it pretty well here i feel yeah skin coming off the body and the dude's screaming that little hand coming up little hands awesome perfect score shout out the guy that made the score to this one i would say guardians has a sick theme it's you know you don't hear about it a lot because the infinity the avengers theme is so big but they got a sweet theme oh yeah triumphant defiant you know having the power stone must be a hell of a feeling you know for the rest of his life peter quill is telling people like you know i felt the

power stone it was crazy and then they put it back in the thermal detonator the thermal detonator exactly that's the feeling when you have the unlimited... It's like the Konami code, where you have the unlimited lives, unlimited ammo, and just like you have the best gun. Yeah. Mario getting the star. Yes.

Yes. Before all the nookie nookie starts, what a fucking... It's like, Y yondu you're embarrassing me do you know the uh do you know the mouse rat song sex hair someone should rewrite that to be stone hair for for peter in this scene you got stone hair yeah it gave it to you p stone hair so something i loved about james gunn's commentary and his uh watch along that he

stated he said at this point in the movie he told michael roker listen the direction you should give is you know that you have been had you know that he is playing one on you right now but you just know that you can't kill him because you don't want to kill him so like planting the seeds of hey in the future like this is going to mean a lot more I love that yeah no I and that line too about the dad I love how they just throw that in there but yeah the whole thing with

I always wondered like is he supposed to kind of know because like he doesn't look and I know he can't really look but it just felt like he kind of had something in there I didn't know that he says yeah he says he knew yeah but it just felt like he kind of had something in it. I didn't know that. I didn't realize that. He says, yeah. He says he knew. Oh, what a great line. Rocket definitely has a splinter that's why he's crying he's like i got so many even the way like mantis has become drax's foil, like obviously they have the great stuff together,

but it's crazy how they can just add people to this. He starts petting. Totally reminds me of me and my dog. That's how I sit with him on the couch every day i like how they kind of tied up that loose end too because that felt weird at first it's like this guy just fucking survived the goddamn power stone thing totally find out more in the next movie but it just him in space all of it. Yeah. Damn, rest in peace to Glenn Close's MCU character.

And Johnson Urales. They're definitely toast? I mean, unless they got off Zandar, I guess. Did he wipe it out, or did he do the half-gum? No, I think he wiped. He just wiped it out. Yeah.

They're probably dead. By the way, this fit. Gamora. Oh, daddy! Fire, yeah. Big time. It's the one thing that was, not to get into the quarantine hornies, but the sundress day. The first day when the sundress is out, it's men and women alike.

Everyone's happy when that day's going on. Yeah. And the fact that that day has come and gone, and it, it might be fucking a fall by the time we can actually, or fuck winter next spring. By the time you can actually have a, like people together in like a mass standing. It's just, I know people keep bringing up the second spike word. And every time they say,

I'm like, don't fucking say that. Just if it happens, it happens. We'll deal with it when we get to that, when we will, you know, we'll cross that bridge when we get to it but don't fucking say that let's just pretend like

this winter it's gonna be okay let's just for the time being let's just pretend it's not gonna hurt the nfl season is starting on time it's finished everything's gonna be normal i've convinced myself that that's actually the worst John C. Raleigh just delivers that line perfect he's like that's that was John C. Raleigh it was for that I know yeah that that's why you bring him in he's the vet yeah what does he say to is like

he's not a total asshole but he's uh oh well I love when he has the line where he's like well I don't believe that anyone's 100% a dick, ma'am. Not a total dick. Kind of a back to the future, you know, homage here, ending the movie with a letter. Yeah. That you introduced in the beginning of the movie, right?

How old was he when he got snagged by Yondu? Was he nine? I think he was like nine or eight yeah and then that final thing right there she calls him star lord that's why he wants to be called star lord so bad that's tell you what as a mama's boy myself that gets me every time that note my mom was big with notes you get them in the lunchbox you get them i remember my mom left me a note at college and i didn lunchbox you get them i remember my mom left me a note at college and i didn't notice it until it was like my first day like they dropped me off i left and i went to sleep and under my pillow she put a note and i'll tell you man it was not a good

idea my mom because i was i was fucking an emotional wreck it was freshman year which i went to seton hall i hated it at seton hall and'd read that letter, and I'd hate it even more. I couldn't wait to leave. And it wasn't because I missed my family. I just hated the situation I was in, you know? Yeah. I think I'm transferred. But, yeah, man, mom notes.

My wife has dropped a couple lunch notes into Sienna's lunchbox, and that's just the best, man. My mom used to draw on my lunch bags and she's like pretty good artist too so she would draw like the ultimate warrior on my lunch bag and i would go into school with it and kids would think it was the coolest thing so i was just that was my favorite thing that's a good mama thing like i mean this song this might be the best song of all and i know i forgot that was even in this movie me and sienna belt this out Like when we drop AJ off at daycare, I'll do the guy part. She does the girl part.

And AJ is just screaming and having fun. What a goddamn song. This is – Remember the Titans is the first song I think of, though, when I hear this song. I don't know about you, but that's the first thing. I haven't seen Remember the Titans. Really? Yeah, it's another one that I've missed out on.

Great ending. I'm also, yeah, I'm just like a sucker for a nice happy ending montage. Yep. This is exactly what the doctor ordered, Rob. This was a breath of fresh air during some tough times, and this was a good fucking call this movie man and here comes baby group a little bit didn't see that coming either you know i know the way that they tie everything up in this with the awesome mix volume two with the baby group coming out like

just it's a masterpiece we we heard um alex Sulkin was talking about Raiders of the Lost Ark, and he said it was the equivalent of a perfect game in a movie. Every aspect of it really falls into place perfectly. He's like, that's a perfect game. I would put Guardians of the Galaxy, this movie we just watched, up against any superhero movie, up against any MCU movie. Yes, there's the Endgames and the Infinity Wars that I like better, but for what they were going for with this, it's as good as any superhero movie. Yes, there's like the Endgames and the Infinity Wars that I like better, but for what they were going for with this,

it's as good as any superhero movie there is. Yep. Yep. I'm with you. This is James going on the motion capture for Baby Groot here. Is it really? Yep. This is my favorite Michael Jackson song.

Like anything with Michael Jackson in it. Jackson 5, obviously. I just love this song. Anything with Michael Jackson in it. Jackson 5, obviously. I just love this song. I've always loved it. I forgot. This is maybe the fucking best song in the movie. It's crazy the fucking soundtrack this thing has. One of the best bass grooves of all time. Great dance sequence

and clerks too with this song. Yes. It doesn't make sense. It comes out of nowhere. Yeah. That scene. and clerks too with this song yes yeah it doesn't make sense it comes out of nowhere but yeah yeah there's our that scene that you want to talk about animated guests i was like what the fuck and there you have it guardians of the galaxy um we won't stick around for the after credit scene i think we did that with one of them and they we just wound up waiting through the credits and like silently being like all right all right what was the credits oh it's um howard the duck right yeah it's howard the duck in the collector's thing i think

they originally were going to put the dancing baby group midway through but they were like listen it's too good we got to put it right up front this was a blast like you said it's sort good. We got to put it right up front. This was a blast. Like you said, it's sort of what the doctor ordered. Just a funny, good, nice vibes movie. Feel good movie, if you will. Great movie in the MCU. I hope that if you listen to this podcast, you enjoy it. I hope that you've been listening to all of the other commentaries, but if this was the first time you stuck in, we've got a bunch you could go back and find. So there you go. Guardians of the Galaxy. Thank you, Clem, for joining us and we'll talk to you next week.