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Ep. 101. My Thunderbolts* Review! · Vigilante Vibes Podcast

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  Hi guys, it's Megan with vigilante vibes and today I am
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  here to give my review on Thunderbolts.
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  I just got back from the theater just a little bit ago and I'm
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  still reeling from the movie. I have so, so many thoughts and
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  it exceeded every single one of my expectations.
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  It was a beautifully done movie. My gosh, I just.
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  If you've seen the movie, then you know how primarily the topic
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  of mental illnesses in the movie and I see you Marvel, you made
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  this movie come out in May and May is mental health awareness
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  month. So love that so much happened in
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  the movie. I'm still trying to get my
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  thoughts together. It was all so, so beautiful
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  starting all the way from the beginning with the new Marvel
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  logo. That was all comic books.
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  It was all Marvel Comics. Usually it shows the MCU heroes
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  or the MCU past movies, all comic books, and then it turns
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  to Pitch Black for The Void. They handled The Void and
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  Century so perfectly. I was really, really worried
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  about it because Century is such an overpowered hero and I always
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  think that the MCU just isn't able to handle overpowered
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  heroes. It's just too much for them.
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  But this was beautifully done. This The void was terrifying and
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  made your spine curl and it not curl it made it was spine
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  chilling. Is that the how you say it?
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  I don't know, but it was unhinged.
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  It was as it is in the comics. How the void is in the comics
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  and I love how Lewis Pullman handled it.
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  I love how he handled Bob being Century and all that was
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  amazing. Alexi was the perfect humor for
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  this movie. Absolutely phenomenal.
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  He worked off so well with every character.
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  I mean, you can't go wrong with David Harbour, but I'm sorry,
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  this is really shiny. I even zoomed in my camera so it
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  wouldn't make that big of a deal, but I'm so sorry.
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  Whatever Alexa was perfect, phenomenal Yelena Yelena that I
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  don't even know how to go into how incredible Florence P was in
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  this movie. She handled Yelena's trauma,
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  Yelena's feelings, her emotions, her her taking on others
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  emotions and being able to give her opinion and give I don't
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  know how to describe it but like it was just that was one of the
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  best performances of MCU. You could see that Florence Pugh
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  put her entire soul into it and I love her for that.
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  Also, I'm pretty sure my sexuality, my preference, I'm a
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  straight woman, but I'm pretty sure now it's preferences is
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  men. And Yelena Blova, there's no
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  other way to say it. She has changed me as a person.
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  But going back to it all, I like how Bucky wasn't the center of
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  attention. I thought he would be because
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  it's Bucky. Like he's been in nine MCU
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  projects. 99 is a huge number. I like how he was more part of
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  the team rather than the main focus.
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  The main focus was the team, but it was more told from Elena's
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  perspective, which it should have been.
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  They handled that great. I love that that's where it came
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  from. I do wish we would have gotten
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  more time with Ghost, working with each character and kind of
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  taking the lead on some things towards the beginning when she's
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  going to bat for these motherfuckers she doesn't even
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  know. I really like that it showed a
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  different side of her and it showed that she was the first
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  one to work as on the team. Taskmaster.
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  I just want to say that I finally got a theory right that
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  Taskmaster would have been taken out right at the beginning, Loki
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  and Infinity War style so quick. And it was Ghost to do it.
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  That's go for, go Ghost. I did like that Yelena showed
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  compassion for Taskmaster. She said, yeah, I knew her.
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  She did a lot of bad things in her life.
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  She's trying to get better, but now she's dead.
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  And that's probably going to be all of us pretty soon.
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  So that was a very, very, very real.
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  The one thing I will say about this movie is that I think it'll
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  make people look back at the Black Widow movie more fondly,
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  with more appreciation. I think for Alexi, who's Red
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  Guardian, Yelena, maybe even Taskmaster, probably not.
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  But for those two, for sure, absolutely.
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  Because I watched Black Widow last night.
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  I love that movie. I I love it.
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  I've always liked it. I just think it was pushed out
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  at the exact wrong time because why?
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  Why would I want to watch a Black Widow movie?
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  But when Black Widow's dead, it was definitely used to introduce
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  Jelena and Alexi, which like, I love those two characters so
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  fine, but I wish I would have came out right earlier.
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  I didn't feel like I have very much weight to it because I
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  mean, Natasha wasn't going to die in the movie, so it's like
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  no matter what happens, she'll be fine.
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  I'm getting off track here, but I think people will look back on
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  that movie and enjoy it a lot more.
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  I liked everything that happened in the movie.
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  There are a few things that I would have changed, like little,
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  little tiny things. Like I think it was very
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  predictable, but I don't think that's always a bad thing when
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  it when it's as hard hitting as it was like when the big like in
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  climatic event that happens in every action movie, but this one
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  was it was Bob century fighting void, the void, and but the void
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  wanted him to. So he's finally turning
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  completely turning over to the dark side and all of the
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  thunderbolts. Yelena, Bucky, Ghost, US Agent
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  and Alexi all run to hug him and say we're here for you, we're
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  here, we care. That whole thing.
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  I thought that was beautiful. I am not someone that cries
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  during movies. I'm not, not at all.
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  Not even a tiny bit. I will not cry during a movie,
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  but I felt every single emotion in this movie.
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  I don't like talk about it very often.
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  I have my own set of mental health problems I try to work
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  through daily, but Thunderbolts pretty much nailed each and
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  every one of them. So I think it was very
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  validating. It was very, It felt like you
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  were seen because these are characters I read from the
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  comics that I saw from other projects, and they're going
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  through these things. They're feeling the
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  hopelessness, they're feeling like no one wants them here.
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  And they make you very, very aware of it immediately.
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  Immediately. The movie starts off with Yelena
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  talking about how she doesn't feel anything, how she's
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  hopeless. She doesn't see a point.
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  She doesn't know what she's doing.
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  She doesn't she doesn't feel anything.
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  And I think a lot of us have felt that, but I think it starts
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  to hit a lot harder when it comes to Bob Lewis Pullman's
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  character when they are in Val's place where she tells them all
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  to show up to take out their target.
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  But each and every each of Thunderbolt character is each
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  other's targets. So she was just trying to kill
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  them all off. And Bob is there.
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  He was not invited. He was just there because he was
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  part of the Century project and Val didn't know he was there.
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  He didn't know she didn't know he was sleeping there.
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  So Yelena says we all towards the end of it, I don't want to
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  give everything away. Also, like I don't think I could
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  put into words everything that happened.
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  But towards the end Yelena said, OK, we we all got to go.
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  We all, we don't have anyone. All of us are alone.
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  So we have to work together to get out of here.
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  And then Bob says I'll stay behind.
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  And Elena says that's crazy. You you'll die.
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  And he said, no, I think it's better for everyone if I stay
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  behind. I think everyone felt that.
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  I mean, not everyone goes through these feelings, but I
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  think people who have gone through these, these feelings of
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  hopelessness and feelings like, why would you?
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  Why would anyone care if I'm still here?
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  I don't want to be here. No one cares.
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  No one's depending on me to be here.
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  I think everyone who's had those feelings felt that when he said
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  it, it hit really, really hard. It was really, really well done.
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  And I'm really appreciative to Marvel for doing that because
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  like I said, May is Mental Health Awareness Month, and you
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  can spout it out all day long that, you know, people have
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  these problems, You're not alone, all that.
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  But what does that really do when you're going through those
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  feelings? You know, you're not alone.
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  Great. If I felt that way right now,
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  you saying that would do absolutely nothing for me.
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  But seeing it in a movie that you really aren't the only one
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  that felt that way. That hit home.
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  I was an absolute mess in the theater in the best way.
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  It it just felt nice. It felt good.
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  It's it's hard. Mental health is so, so hard to
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  handle to deal with. And I think a lot of us can
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  agree to that. And if you can't, that's fine.
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  That's how I feel. But I think the media does a lot
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  of talking but doesn't do a lot of the work.
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  You know, they say, here's the resources, here's who to call,
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  but they don't show it. They don't make us relate to
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  them. But this movie did just that.
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  We. Whether you deal with Elena, who
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  is feeling the hopelessness of depression, not knowing where
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  she's going in life and knowing she's wasting her life.
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  Whether you feel like Bucky, who failed at being a congressman or
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  senator or whatever he was, I don't know.
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  But who failed at that? Or you're like Century, who who
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  cares if you live or die? Or, you know, you feel like
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  Ghost, who's been a science experiment all of her life.
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  Or you feel like John Walker whose wife and child left him
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  because he was a mess. I think each person of the
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  Thunderbolts you can relate to on a different level.
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  Or like Alexi, he had this limo driving business where he drives
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  around people and it was very clear that he wasn't happy in
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  his life, but he was making himself think he was.
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  He was distracting himself from his real feelings.
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  They did such a beautiful job of that.
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  Like no matter who you are you could find 1 character you can
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  relate to in some way and that's just not something that happens
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  anymore. Everything is so flashy.
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  Everything is like like with Thor 11 Thunder.
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  We all expected, most of us expected to see Thor go through
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  the depression that he had and Infinity War an end game.
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  The we all thought he would go through that, but we saw a
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  montage of him losing the weight, getting thinner, getting
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  stronger, a hat saying strongest Avenger, and it's like that was
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  disservice. We should have seen him go
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  through those emotions. We should have been able to
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  relate to those emotions. Thunderbolts did just that.
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  By the end of it, I agreed with what Alexi said.
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  I'm very full, very filled. There just so much about it that
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  I really appreciate. I there's not many movies that
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  I'll watch and right at the end of it, I think to myself, I wish
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  I could go back and watch it again for the first time, but
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  this was one of them. I'd say this is easily my
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  favorite MCU movie because it hit so many different tones for
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  me. So many the action, the
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  friendships, the the humor even it was all just so top tier.
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  There were a few things that like I wish they would have done
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  differently. Like Mel, who is Val's assistant
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  who wears A songbird necklace. Songbird's name is Melissa Gold.
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  There's like no reference to her being Songbird at all.
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  I don't know if that's maybe it's a deleted scene.
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  Maybe I'm just reaching really bad, but like, I made an episode
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  in everything explaining who Songbird is, for goodness sake.
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  You can check that out on my channel if you're interested.
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  But it was in, it was a lot. Val was a horrible person, as
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  she should have been. She plays that character so, so
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  well. But at the end of it, when
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  Yelena says we own you now, that was beautiful.
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  But yeah, by the end of it, they we found out what the asterisk
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  meant. It meant New Avengers, not dark
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  Avengers like I thought it would be.
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  It's New Avengers, which is interesting because like, none
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  of them were on the Earth 616 New Avengers team.
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  So I'm curious to see where that that goes.
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  But I might also make an episode all about the New Avengers.
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  So who knows what the future holds for this little content
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  creator. But the post credit scenes, we
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  got to talk about the credit scenes.
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  The first one was Alexi standing in the cereal aisle at the store
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  and he was saying, huh, look at this.
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  Look at this box of Wheaties, Who's on this one?
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  And the poor Alexi, the woman just did not care at all that he
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  was on that box. So that that was very funny.
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  But the post credits scene, like so much happened in that post
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  credits scene, and it's like Sam Wilson wants to sue for the name
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  Avengers. No one's taken them seriously as
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  the New Avengers, which I think we're all very confused because
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  Sam said he was going to start Avengers, a new set of Avengers,
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  and then they did so a little confused about that.
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  But most of all, it showed us our first look at the Fantastic
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  Four arriving to the MCU, besides the trailers and all
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  that. But they said, oh, a spaceship
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  is coming towards the Earth, it's unidentified, all that, all
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  that and all that. But then they zoom in on it and
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  it has the four for Fantastic Four.
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  So can I just say like my theater had like no idea what
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  they're talking about 'cause everyone was waiting for the
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  trailer for not the trailer for the post credit scene, 'cause I
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  had to tell a few people like, hey, there's two just so you
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  know, 'cause they're like standing up and I'd want to be
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  told. So at the end of it were all
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  like bated breaths for this really long post credit scene.
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  And at the end it shows the spaceship and everyone in that
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  audience was like, oh, it's it's Doom, it's Doctor Doom.
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  Or like just saying like the most random thing.
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  Like there was a few who was like, oh, it's Guardians of the
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  Galaxy, oh it's Adam Warlock, oh it's going to be Silver Surfer.
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  And I was like, oh, it's Fantastic Four just 'cause I
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  knew it and someone laughed at me for saying it, and then it
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  was Fantastic Four. So.
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  But whatever that was, I'm sorry to go on that little ramp, but I
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  was right. So that's what matters.
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  I'm not right very often. So I'm going to live on this
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  high for a long time. But yeah, I would say
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  Thunderbolts. I'd say 99.5 out of 10.
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  It's easily my favorite one. Like I said, my favorite MC
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  movie, top MCU movie in top MCU movie.
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  I'm sorry it is so late right now.
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  I am so tired. But I had to get this out before
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  I went to bed while it was so fresh in my memory.
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  But yeah, so I'll probably, this won't be the last time I talk
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  about it on my podcast and I'm really hoping to see it again
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  because it just, I don't know, it's been a lot lately,
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  personally, it's been a lot. And I guess I really just needed
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  to know that I'm not the only one that's felt those things and
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  I really appreciate that. So if anyone else is out there
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  struggling, I, I hope you find some comfort in the movie or
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  somewhere else, I don't know. But if you do have these
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  feelings, please reach out to someone, a friend, family.
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  I know you're not alone. You're not alone in your
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  feelings, but it is nice to feel, actually feel that you're
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  not alone, not just be told it. So I hope you guys are OK.
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  I hope you guys also enjoyed the movie.
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  Please let me know in the comments.
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  Did you get any merch? Because I did.
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  I got the Bucky top for my cup and I got the popcorn bucket.
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  So I was very happy about that. And look at it, it's like.
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  The eyebrows, that's amazing so funny.
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  I was very happy about this because I never get to get
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  these. So that is my review.
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  Please let me know in the comments what you thought of it
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  did you like it? Did you hate it?
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  Do you love it? Do you not like it?
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  What was your favorite part and how many times are you guys
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  going to see the movie? Because like I want to see see
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  it so many times because I feel like I've missed a lot.
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  Just I'm not good at picking up things on the first try.
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  When I first watch a movie, I have to watch it a few times.
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  So if I missed a bunch of references, I'll get on the
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  second time. So thank you for listening to
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  this. Sorry I started rambling.
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  That's kind of what I do when it is 12:30 at night and I woke up
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  at 4:00 AM. So with that being said, be sure
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  to like and subscribe and have a marvelous day.