Marvel Movie Minute

Minute Fourteen: From I WANT YOU to Erskine Wants Steve Joining us again, we have Kyle Olson and Rob Kubasko from seasons two and three. In the fourteenth minute of Joe Johnston ’s 2011 film Captain America: The First Avenger ... Steve sees the iconic I WANT YOU Army recruitment poster. We talk about the design of J.M. Flagg’s poster as well as some other characters created to inspire Americans –...

Minute Thirteen: From Howard Stark to Something Catching Steve’s Eye Joining us again we have back from seasons two and three, it’s Rob Kubasko and Kyle Olson! In the thirteenth minute of Joe Johnston ’s 2011 film Captain America: The First Avenger ... Howard Stark shows up, and it’s the third actor we’ve had play him so far in the MCU – this time it’s Dominic Cooper. We do a little IMDb game with...

Minute Twelve: From Cheering Steve Up to the Start of Something Starky Joining us on the show today and all week, it’s Kyle Olson and Rob Kubasko from seasons two and three! In the twelfth minute of Joe Johnston ’s 2011 film Captain America: The First Avenger ... Steve’s glum, so what’s Bucky supposed to do? He tries cheering Steve up, of course! But let’s face it – it’s his last night here before...

Minute Eleven: From Trying to Do This All Day to Bucky’s Orders Joining us on the show today and all week, we have Rob Kubasko and Kyle Olson from seasons two and three! In the eleventh minute of Joe Johnston ’s 2011 film Captain America: The First Avenger ... Steve says possibly his most iconic line from the MCU – “I can do this all day.” Yes you can, Steve. Yes you can. But Bucky won’t let you b...

Minute Ten: From 4F to a Trash Can Lid Joining us on the show today and all week, we have Kurtis Findlay from the Epic Marvel Podcast. In the tenth minute of Joe Johnston ’s 2011 film Captain America: The First Avenger ... The doc seems to think he’s saving Steve’s life, but this is Steve’s movie so we know it doesn’t end here. Steve takes solace by going to the pictures. We find him as they’re wa...

Minute Nine: From The Killing of a Nordic Tower Keeper to Asthma Ineligibility Joining us on the show today and all week, we have Kurtis Findlay from the Epic Marvel Podcast. In the ninth minute of Joe Johnston ’s 2011 film Captain America: The First Avenger ... Turns out, Schmidt was telling the Tower Keeper that he already has burned. Is that metaphoric, like that he’s so evil he’s already in He...

Minute Eight: From A Secret Compartment to a Prediction Joining us on the show today and all week, we have Kurtis Findlay from the Epic Marvel Podcast. In the eighth minute of Joe Johnston ’s 2011 film Captain America: The First Avenger ... Schmidt very easily figures out the secret button for the secret compartment on the secret wall in the secret tower. And there it is – the Tesseract. We saw th...

Minute Seven: From Shattering the Tesseract to A Snake in the Roots Joining us on the show today and all week, we have Kurtis Findlay from the Epic Marvel Podcast. In the seventh minute of Joe Johnston ’s 2011 film Captain America: The First Avenger ... Schmidt, the bumbling fool, drops the Tesseract and shatters it! His lieutenant is shocked! But wait, what’s this? It was a fake?!??! That Schmidt...

Minute Six: From Schmidt’s Big Entrance to a Fake Tesseract Joining us on the show today and all week, we have Kurtis Findlay from the Epic Marvel Podcast. In the sixth minute of Joe Johnston ’s 2011 film Captain America: The First Avenger ... We play the IMDb game with Schmidt (or is it Shmidt?) himself, Aussie actor Hugo Weaving. This is his big reveal, after all. Well, as Weaving with a human f...

Minute Five: From a Tumbling Wall to a Silhouetted Bad Guy In the fifty minute of Joe Johnston ’s 2011 film _Captain America: The First _... The Tower Keeper and Jan are shocked as the rumbling intensifies, stops, then the wall explodes. The tumbling stones crush poor Jan and the Tower Keeper pulls the stone off his face. But how does he end up on his back on the floor moments later? While somethi...

Minute Four: From Ship Exploration to Castle Protection In the fourth minute of Joe Johnston ’s 2011 film Captain America: The First Avenger ... Our lieutenant’s busy looking at the chair in the cockpit, but the SHIELD tech discovers Captain America’s shield. But how do they know what it is? Is the history of WWII SHIELD operations part of SHIELD school? Why does SHIELD Lieutenant Gorman assume Ca...

Minute Three: From Outside the Plane to Inside the Plane In the third minute of Joe Johnston ’s 2011 film Captain America: The First Avenger ... This minute is all about SHIELD tech and ship exploration. Where did they get this fantastic laser? Can you really drill with lasers? How long have they been here excavating this plane? And do they have any sense about what they’re entering? We get the in...

Minute Two: From Three Figures in the Snow to a Wing in the Ice In the second minute of Joe Johnston ’s 2011 film Captain America: The First Avenger ... We meet our SHIELD Lieutentant – Lieutenant Gorman himself! – our SHIELD tech, and our search team leader as they discuss then look at the immense wing sticking out of the ice. But is Andy the only one who thought it looked like a UFO? According t...

Minute One: From Logos to a Silhouette in the Snow In the first minute of Joe Johnston ’s 2011 film Captain America: The First Avenger ... It’s still Paramount! It’s still Marvel’s flipbook logo. But there’s a lot of wind and some of Alan Silvestri’s music. Pete and Andy are hosting this season, and kick things off with a bit of their history of this film and the Captain America character in gener...

Minute One Hundred Fifteen: From Legends to Loki’s Puppetry In the one hundred fifteenth minute of Kenneth Branagh ’s 2011 film Thor ... “Legend tells us one thing, history another.” What the hell is Fury actually saying here? Is this just a line that’s meant to sound cool? It’s not that clear when taken by itself. And then we have the Tesseract set up in some sort of case that makes it look like...

Minute One Hundred Fourteen: From Thor Will Return to Erik Is Confused In the one hundred fourteenth minute of Kenneth Branagh ’s 2011 film Thor ... We kick the minute off with ‘Thor Will Return in The Avengers.’ How far in advance did they know? Erik’s reaction to this hallway is funny because we agree – it seems like he’s down here to be killed. Nick Fury is so enigmatic. Does he always need to...

Minute One Hundred Thirteen: From Actual Roto to Fictitious Warnings In the one hundred thirteenth minute of Kenneth Branagh ’s 2011 film Thor ... If we did some recasting, what would we change? We talk again about music supervision and why it matters as much in this film as it does in something like Guardians of the Galaxy . Location, location, location. How about the locations for this movie? We...

Minute One Hundred Twelve: From Creature TDs to Stereoscopic Artists In the one hundred twelfth minute of Kenneth Branagh ’s 2011 film Thor ... We talk about how our appreciation for the film has grown after watching and exploring it this way. We also talk about some stand-out performances that really clicked for us. So many VFX artists. We continue talking about each of the FX companies and what...

Minute One Hundred Eleven: From Paint Foreman to Lighting Lead In the one hundred eleventh minute of Kenneth Branagh ’s 2011 film Thor ... What were our overall thoughts? We each discuss our favorite parts of the movie, along with areas we’d change. It’s hard to believe but that damn Foo Fighters song is still playing... What do all these drivers do on a film? Only two first aid medics for New Mex...

Minute One Hundred Ten: From Fourteen Production Assistants to the New Mexico Greensman/1st Utility Standby Foreman Joining us to discuss this minute is Paul Hoppe, aka ZenMadman. In the one hundred tenth minute of Kenneth Branagh ’s 2011 film Thor ... So many assistants! What do they all do? Speaking of assistants, where are the assistants of the big producers now? Did they ever make anything of...

Minute One Hundred Nine: From Five Compositors to One Assets Assistant Joining us to go through the credits name by name (kidding!) is ZenMadman, aka Paul Hoppe! In the one hundred ninth minute of Kenneth Branagh ’s 2011 film Thor ... Why so many accountants? What’s a best boy do? Hey! Cricket Sloat from Iron Man worked on this! Names, names, Paul Hoppe, and more names. Tune in! Join the conversat...

Minute One Hundred Eight: From Kenneth Branagh to Patrick Bareis Joining us to look at so many names and talk about Foo Fighters is Paul Hoppe, aka ZenMadman. In the one hundred eighth minute of Kenneth Branagh ’s 2011 film Thor ... We have the unfortunate musical transition from Patrick Doyle’s majestic themes to Foo Fighters’ Walk. It’s a tough shift. Seriously, we know the song was in the movie...

Minute One Hundred Seven: From Dave Jordan to THOR Joining us to discuss space Yggdrasil and all these names is Paul Hoppe, aka ZenMadman. In the one hundred seventh minute of Kenneth Branagh ’s 2011 film Thor ... We continue the journey through Yggdrasil and lo and behold end up back in that upside down Asgard we saw at the start of the film. You know, with the crystal mountain peaks on the under...

Minute One Hundred Six: From A Smith Motors Goodbye to Patrick Doyle in Space Joining us to discuss the ending of the movie proper is Paul Hoppe aka ZenMadman. In the one hundred sixth minute of Kenneth Branagh ’s 2011 film Thor ... Darcy’s looking for her taser. Just seems like Darcy. Jane gives us a funny look directly into camera. What’s with breaking the fourth wall here? Is the camera meant t...

Minute One Hundred Five: From Father & Son to Scientists Three Joining us to close out his week with us as we talk about Thor, Odin, and the Scientists Three is Will Freeland, host of the Hype Is My Superpower podcast! In the one hundred-fifth minute of Kenneth Branagh ’s 2011 film Thor ... Again, that look from Odin as he talks with Thor. There’s a lot Anthony Hopkins gives us to talk about a...