The Reel Rejects - WHAT IF? 3x1 Marvel Breakdown & Review

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Starting point is 00:01:47 that's why I did so many videos by Deadpool Wolverine yeah all right Coy well what do you think coy I think positively a lot of the visual language was really nice I really let that I shot with dual POVs I totally agree that was a really really cool to interpret it. I do like some of the metaphors they were able to play with with like the commentary on, you know, a dejected, failed government experiment and like him living in one

Starting point is 00:02:09 and him feeling like one. I like the bonds. I personally am a pretty big advocate for mental health being as important, if not more important than physical health, because it's invisible. Like you don't see mental health maladies as much as you notice like a giant gash in your leg. Like it's a different thing. So I think that

Starting point is 00:02:25 addressing those things is very important and I think Hulk is absolutely a character that needs that. So I didn't mind the immediacy of the bond with us having not in our universe experienced Anthony Mackey and Mark Ruffalo. They made us why they'd connect

Starting point is 00:02:41 using the characters that we knew from Falcon Winter Soldier, that theripizing with Mark Ruffalo and his Zen. It actually reminded me a lot of what Ed Norton did with the Hulk, which is like those meditations and his walkabouts and the places the Hulk, too, when they were going to make another Ed Norton Hulk, was going to be

Starting point is 00:02:57 a very existential therapist. like almost fear and loathingy druggy movie which I would love to see to this day but that's where Terry Gilliam was going to make it I would love that yeah yeah I want this is a really off-putting Hulk movie yeah it's just not for anyone

Starting point is 00:03:11 but us but I feel like that is something that worked for the characters to rush into even though it was very like haphazardly paced we got to it really fast but it worked for me and I really think the opening was really captivating

Starting point is 00:03:27 and that's one of my negatives we'll get to after but I really like that it was so many mediums within the animation medium that it made it like textured and layered and fun like there was painted backgrounds and that shot of the two mechs and the foreground them talking on it. The sense of scope was also red. Yes, Coy.

Starting point is 00:03:45 Those are my positives, Greg. Dude, I concur with everything you said. It's going to be hard for me to add on anything new only because you took mainly all the great positives here. Yeah. I know I'm sounding. Timmy first. Really sarcastic.

Starting point is 00:03:57 No, it was. cool like i i think this was that the definition of a cool looking episode i like a kaiju action as much as the next person and the idea of taking your green monster character and then combining it with your super popular japanese kaiju monster character godzilla was a it was i actually thought the way they got there was a little seamless like oh that's a very natural way to actually get there yes i enjoy it and we were talking about it during in the reaction. I don't recall seeing Anthony Mackey and Mark Ruffalo ever

Starting point is 00:04:33 interact. Maybe they've had a couple of exchanges that are just not coming to mind right now. But in terms of like a full scene of them together, I don't really know if we've ever had that. And to get that be the focus here, their bond I think is really cool. I'd like

Starting point is 00:04:49 to that this is the alternate route. If phase four have been going well, this might have been the Avengers that we actually got. And maybe it will be. I think that was the goal. watching this I was like short of Spider-Man, this does feel like they're a building too. Yeah, it seems like this is

Starting point is 00:05:05 the original Avengers plan. They were wanting to get to by the time we got to like Avengers Doomsday and maybe this will be what it's mainly consisting of. Obviously they've had to do a lot of pivots since the whole King Jonathan Major situation and on top of that too, the reception to how Phase 4 was going down. So who knows? Maybe

Starting point is 00:05:21 this will still be the ultimate team that we get so I like getting that. Just the whole thing with like you kept pointing out Voltron. I was thinking Power Rangers. There's Gundam Wing. There's all kinds of things that you could liken this to, attack on Titan. So there's a lot of influences that they really drove home here

Starting point is 00:05:37 that I thought were really fun to be a part of. Absolutely. I do feel, though, now that we're going to transition that... One more positive. Tiona Paris, be back. I really like Tiona Paris's performance. I'm scared of people for it. You know, I just am bringing positive that are going to be so overloaded positive. I'm going to wait for the

Starting point is 00:05:52 negatives. They already left. I'm so scared. Tiona Paris. I really like her, Monica Rambo. And I really did not enjoy the Marvel all that much as you guys know, which I got so much positive critical feedback for that was not at all. Hobbes.

Starting point is 00:06:06 But I thought, Tiana Paris, I really love her Monica Rambo and it feels like it is authentic to what she wants to play and not like someone else wrote it and she has to go through the motions of it. And even though this was only

Starting point is 00:06:17 probably five minutes total, it felt like what I want to see from her as a commander, as someone with a military background, as someone who grew up in this, as someone has all this power. I really liked her relationship with Anthony Mackey

Starting point is 00:06:28 and I really liked the growth in her. Like, the character feels so formed here, and I like that. Well, yeah, but they're the two characters on this Avengers team outside of Bucky who are fully military trained individuals, so for them to be the military leaders of the Avengers, I thought was really great. And it felt right. And so I just wanted to give credit to Tiona Parris, who doesn't get enough credit, because it's not her fault. The things I don't like about the movies, she's not part of that.

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Starting point is 00:08:29 this should have just been a sketch, whatever. Usually, sometimes they don't belong to the right format. To me, this seemed like this should have been at least at bare minimum an hour of television to properly breathe and get things right. Because the first, like, half of this is like just a prologue to the last 15 minutes. That's what I mean. It's just like a big prologue. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:08:48 There's speeding, passing. So it's like cool. Again, cool looking. However, this could have been something with actual stakes and true, emotional investment and maybe you you guys felt that and that's totally okay we'd never want to strip you or rob you from that i just wasn't really feeling those things didn't feel very connected personally yeah that's the thing and and some people think like you know oh it's because you're talk if some people like might want you know screw that i'm not even going to try to justify i

Starting point is 00:09:14 i gave a miss five stars i connected yeah i didn't really connect with it um in terms of emotional level but they're really cool visual aspects or like yeah dude if i saw these like toys available even now i would be like i absolutely love that i've never heard you bring up toys and i never i've never bring up toys and like but i would absolutely love like you see these mecas who's brought so i'd be freaking out in the theaters i feel like that would be a really cool thing to do and this is an implementation of something i never thought they would ever bring to live action i think it would be really cool to bring this a live action and in fact if you have a captain america sam wilson who has to really prove himself and he doesn't have the superpowers

Starting point is 00:09:49 to see rogers give him a freaking mex suit one there it goes pretty cool powers that would be pretty sweet powers uh but yeah for the most part i mean it's a good start i i remember last season was the nebula episode that felt very blade runner ish that coy and i were big fans of but a lot of that episode we loved it a lot of people weren't so big on it the way we were and i feel i noticed that sometimes we can have kind of opposite opinions to the emotional connections to yeah especially with what if like a lot of a lot of episodes that we tend to love um you're like we get a lot of like yeah that's why i don't like yeah it's why i like watching them in a vacuum. I love that we get to watch

Starting point is 00:10:26 them and then put it out in the world. We don't have to deal with like, oh, what a thing? Yeah, we're very fortunate in that regard. But hey, yeah, I'd probably give this episode like a five out of emotional connection and a seven out of cool. I'll give it like an eight out of cool looking.

Starting point is 00:10:42 I give it so what is that a six? I was going to give it, I was going to give a six total. But I was going to go a little lower on the, my issue was the 80s style animation is so much more interesting. Absolutely.

Starting point is 00:10:55 So I didn't like see it. Yeah, I was like, what a cool. Is this whole episode gonna be? And then I went a game because I just, I'm not as big of a fan of cell shading style animation

Starting point is 00:11:04 in this format, like this thing. And especially because the opening was like the limbs looked odd and the way people were moving right after the animation was actually hand drawn style in the 80s.

Starting point is 00:11:13 So it was really hard for me to connect after I had just been like, yeah. So that was, that took me out of it. And then like, so connectivity is always difficult. She was watching a show.

Starting point is 00:11:23 I didn't get it in the context of the, modern day world why they have like a really crappy animated 80s cartoon I know it's not crappy I'm just saying like they're watching a modern day show about modern day Avengers so I guess in this modern day world with the Avengers

Starting point is 00:11:36 Marvel Cinematic Universe they made a show that is in the 80s aesthetic well I guess that's the original Avengers were like years ago because it was the original team and now the new Avengers yeah there's no 1980s Avengers in this universe and this what if universe yeah did they say that they didn't have

Starting point is 00:11:52 to say it's really important to be very technical about these things so and let it rob you iron man thor captain america all in the 80s is all a anthony those avengers and then moon night and that makes more sense yeah so they're the modern avengers i thought this was just our phase four avengers no no no 80s like that was yeah i'm gonna need a whole what-if explanation uh that'd be that won't slow the pace of it all i give this episode of two now oh well because it insults gregg's intelligence because i question things uh i give it a passing grade i give it a six uh and i think um it could have used a little more time in Fleshing out the Gamma War and investing us in these characters in this version of them

Starting point is 00:12:28 because I really was just enjoying hearing actors I like more than I was like, this take on blank. Yeah, that's true. That was an issue. They really give Simu very special lines in this one. Simu is back. We have not had Simo so long, and he's back with 10 rings of Mexu. I did like that the rings connected are.

Starting point is 00:12:46 Yeah, that's what I mean. I think, Willie, we could have spent way more time with like almost everything. single character. And Oscarus is Moon Night? Everything we could have spent more time with. Moon Night's tech suit was a mex suit was so dope and we didn't get to see it except for like twice.

Starting point is 00:12:59 We didn't really get to take anything in. And I understand too that a lot of these actors are going to be in multiple episodes or another one. So it's not like, oh, we got to see him back to read just generic lines. I know we're going to have like him and other stuff. But anyway, guys, what did you think about this first episode? How correct are we objectively and how wrong are we objectively?

Starting point is 00:13:18 Yeah. Nothing is subjective in the form of. animation certainly not art leave your thoughts down below um i'll see you for the next one thank you for being here lex it's time you join the marvel cinematic universe for this wonderful christmas yes well we know which character lex is going to be um here let me just pull up my favorite one i just want to make sure i get their name right um all time let me just find ending it just typing a little description here oh yeah that's right they're going to be by beast i love by beast uh which is a a huge monster with two heads of course and and and they're

Starting point is 00:14:04 orange weird italian character yeah weird weird italian character which your name lex obviously is italian reeks of the pinocchio that's right of pasta sauce and boot shaped land oh yeah and being ostracized when they come to America. Oh, yeah. That's right in Ellis Island. I totally feel like being by Beast is like a perfect fit for you because I feel like the by implies that half of you is just a

Starting point is 00:14:32 sweet soul, sweet, gentle human being. Yeah, absolutely. And the other half is a bit of a workout and influencer fiend. That's right. Going a beast mode. You're in the manosphere, Lex. You're like those jump rope. What are you doing in the manosphere? You bring a much needed, you know, tough but gentle

Starting point is 00:14:48 energy. Temper things out. Or you could be my version of By Beast, which was a real character I came up with when I thought it might be a good idea. Now, in retrospect, I'm realizing this would have been a terrible idea and probably would have got me in a lot of trouble. So I'm going to tell it to you and the shout out of who I think you as By Beast could absolutely be Lex, which is you are like the most hetero-homophobic guy in the world. This is a comedy. Yes, my dear. A little do you know you have a split personality and that other side is super gay. You are all genders and all sexualities.

Starting point is 00:15:22 You are just so wildly gay. You're so gay, but also adamantly strange. What if a homopop had a split personality? It was gay. Oh, my God, classic. That's right. We need it. This comic book writes itself.

Starting point is 00:15:37 We need it. By Beast. And it's, of course, going to be starting Pauly Shore playing you. So, guys, what do you think about Lex's by beast idea? His idea, not mine. But if you like it, it's mine. Merry Christmas.

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The Reel Rejects - WHAT IF? 3x1 Marvel Breakdown & Review

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