Marvel Movie Minute

Minute One Hundred Thirty Nine: From The Two Suit Construction Supervisors to New York Unit Medic/Scheduling Richard Fellegara. Joining us today, it’s filmmaker and TruStory FM regular Tommy Metz III, director of ‘30 Nights of Sex to Save Your Marriage’. In the one-hundred-thirty-ninth minute of The Avengers ... We dig deeper on a few names again here, and since the credits shift into the second u...

Minute One Hundred Thirty Eight: From Nine VFX Production Assistants to Prosthetic and Suit Effects by Legacy Effects Joining us today, it’s filmmaker and TruStory FM regular Tommy Metz III, director of ‘30 Nights of Sex to Save Your Marriage’. In the one-hundred-thirty-eighth minute of The Avengers ... We continue our march through the credits with Tommy. In today’s minute, we discuss in more dep...

Minute One Hundred Thirty Seven: From Second Unit Director John Mahaffie to Tech Vis Artist Nic Nicholson Joining us today, it’s filmmaker and TruStory FM regular Tommy Metz III, director of ‘30 Nights of Sex to Save Your Marriage’. In the one-hundred-thirty-seventh minute of The Avengers ... We talk a bit about some of the structure of credits, and then instead of our usual quizzes and game show...

Minute One Hundred Thirty Six: From Joss Whedon’s Name on Iron Man’s Chest to The Opening Riffs of Soundgarden’s Live to Rise Eric Deutsch from Time to Rewind, Escape From New York Minute, and Flash Gordon Minute joins us in this episode! In the one-hundred-thirty-sixth minute of The Avengers ... We end the special credits with the director’s name, which gives us a chance to dig into Joss Whedon’s...

Minute One Hundred Thirty Five: From An Anti-Armor Missile in Iron Man’s Gauntlet to a Hole in Iron Man’s Chest Joining us today, it’s filmmaker and TruStory FM regular Tommy Metz III, director of ‘30 Nights of Sex to Save Your Marriage’. In the one-hundred-thirth-fifth minute of The Avengers ... We’re finishing the special credits (thanks to Andrew Darowski’s kids for the nickname!) with Tommy. W...

Minute One Hundred Thirty Four: From A Big A to Iron Man’s Palm Andrew Darowski from Disney Animation Minute Essentials and Joe Darowski from the Protagonist Podcast join us in this episode! In the one-hundred-thirty-fourth minute of The Avengers ... We finish pulling out of the broken windows at Stark Tower, finding just the A left in the STARK signage out here. We also get a small WHOOSH right w...

Minute One Hundred Thirty Three: From Hill’s Questions for Fury to Repair Work on Tony’s Penthouse. Andrew Darowski from Disney Animation Minute Essentials and Joe Darowski from the Protagonist Podcast join us in this episode! In the one-hundred-thirty-third minute of The Avengers ... Fury finishes his power walk, but what’s with all the scuff marks in the hallway there? Were they moving a piano t...

Minute One Hundred Thirty Two: From The Tesseract Being Dealt With to Fury’s Dramatic Walk TwitchTV’s MarvelousTay joins us in this episode! In the one-hundred-thirty-second minute of The Avengers ... While Fury talks with the World Security Council, we follow our heroes in Central Park as they ship Loki off to Asgard. Where did this handy Tesseract travel tube come from? Did Erik whip that up in...

Minute One Hundred Thirty One: From The Final News Montage to The Tesseract Where It Belongs. Bubbawheat from the time loop podcast It's Time to Rewind joins us in this episode! In the one-hundred-thirty-first minute of The Avengers ... This minute is full of lots of clips from all the various screens we’re watching, and we try talking about the all in one capacity or another. We’ve got news feeds...

Minute One Hundred Thirty: From Realizing There’s One More Thing to Shawna Lynde’s Brief Appearance TwitchTV’s MarvelousTay joins us in this episode! In the one-hundred-thirtieth minute of The Avengers ... Break time! But not quite. Tony really wants to get to Shawarma Palace, but he’ll have to wait because they have to deal with Loki first. But how does Clint get there? And do Natasha and Erik fi...

Minute One Hundred Twenty Nine: From Tossing Tony’s Mask to Not Finished Yet Matthew Costello, author of several works on politics and superheroes including Secret Identity Crisis: Comic books and the Unmasking of Cold War America , joins us in this episode! In the one-hundred-twenty-ninth minute of The Avengers ... Thor rips the face of Tony’s mask off. The image of the face plate laying in the r...

Minute One Hundred Twenty Eight: From The Fall of Tony to Concern About Their Fallen Friend Robin Burdge from Karate Kid Minute and Sword Boys joins us in this episode! In the one-hundred-twenty-eighth minute of The Avengers ... Tony continues his unconscious falling from space back toward the one-sided hole, but will he make it? That’s the big question on everyone’s minds below. Unfortunately, wi...

Minute One Hundred Twenty Seven: From Tony’s Final Push to Tony Falling in Space In the one-hundred-twenty-seventh minute of The Avengers ... Tony somehow manages to not hit Stark Tower, which now looks like AI Tower. It’s a bit ridiculous, but it’s a movie so it’s fine. Hulk watches in a dramatic shot, as does Nat. Where’s Clint? Still stuck in that apartment? Cap and Thor watch from the streets...

Minute One Hundred Twenty Six: From Tony’s Missile Chase to Tony’s Missile Heave Ho Lester Clark and Kynan Dias from The Exorcist Minute join us in this episode! In the one-hundred-twenty-sixth minute of The Avengers ... The chase is on! Tony spots the nuke and does a great U-turn under the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge between Staten Island and Long Island. What does this say about where the F-35 was...

Minute One Hundred Twenty Five: From Pushing the Button to Tony’s Info About the Nuke Coming In In the one-hundred-twenth-fifth minute of The Avengers ... The nuke is off and away! We’ve got a two minute and thirty second clock that starts ticking right here. Will it play out in real time as it does in movie time? We’ll find out two-and-a-half minutes from now!  We come into the fight in slow moti...

Minute One Hundred Twenty Four: From Director Nick Fury in Motion to the F-35 Lightning II in Motion Lester Clark and Kynan Dias from The Exorcist Minute join us in this episode! In the one-hundred-twenty-fourth minute of The Avengers ... Hill’s comments on the F-35 Lightning II that’s been put into action by the World Security Council sends Fury scrambling to stop it in the only way he knows how....

Minute One Hundred Twenty Three: From Close-Range Arrow Fighting to A Bird in Motion Robin Burdge from Karate Kid Minute and Sword Boys joins us in this episode! In the one-hundred-twenty-third minute of The Avengers ... What happens when Hawkeye runs out of arrows? We get to explore that in this minute in great detail. First off, how does he even get them out of his quiver? It doesn’t look like a...

Minute One Hundred Twenty Two: From Erik’s Secret Safety to Quickdraw Archery on the Rooftop Lester Clark and Kynan Dias from The Exorcist Minute join us in this episode! In the one-hundred-twenty-second minute of The Avengers ... There’s a space where the film might have made more sense if Erik was blinded by his passion for science and willingly did all this work to make this machine, only to re...

Minute One Hundred Twenty One: From Nat’s Tuck-and-Roll Landing to Erik’s Big Reveal... Almost Lachlan Thiele from the Quiet on Set Podcast joins us in this episode! In the one-hundred-twenty-first minute of The Avengers ... Nat nails her landing on the tippity-top of Stark Tower, and luckily they have walls so she doesn’t roll right off. What’s perfect about her landing is the fantastic match cut...

Minute One Hundred Twenty: From Fury Recognizing the Council’s Decision to Black Widow’s Leap of Faith Father David Mowry, Chaplain of the Movies by Minutes community, joins us in this episode! In the one-hundred-twentieth minute of The Avengers ... Ah, the World Security Council. We have fun delving into the complexities of a shadow organization like this, and how it relates to SHIELD. And Fury’s...

Minute One Hundred Nineteen: From Cap Lost in a Looking Glass to Cap Lost in His Thoughts Father David Mowry, Chaplain of the Movies by Minutes community, joins us in this episode! In the one-hundred-nineteenth minute of The Avengers ... We’re back with Cap in that little side mirror. What were they trying to say here? Or was it just something to do because it looks cool and perhaps feels a bit mo...

Minute One Hundred Eighteen: From A Game of Follow-the-Arrow to Our Second Odd Mirror Shot of the Film In the one-hundred-eighteenth minute of The Avengers ... It’s the second half of our fantastic single shot traveling from hero to hero, and we’re here for it. In this minute, we follow Hawkeye’s arrow to the Chitauri it hits to the leviathan it crashes into to Hulk and Thor on the back of the bea...

Minute One Hundred Seventeen: From Nat Being Sure to Clint Pointing an Arrow... Right at Us James Anderson and Colin Parker from the Timeline Scavengers podcast join us in this episode! In the one-hundred-seventeenth minute of The Avengers ... Steve gives Nat a boost and it’s quite the maneuver. It leads us to bring up the wonderful Heidi Moneymaker yet again as she does amazing work as Scarlett J...

Minute One Hundred Sixteen: From Tony Complaining About the Lack of Invitation From Thor to Nat Asking for a Boost Mike Gravagno from The Superhero Show Show and Movie of the Year joins us in this episode! In the one-hundred-sixteenth minute of The Avengers ... Tony’s upset that Thor didn’t invite him to play, but why isn’t Tony more concerned about, you know, helping non-supers , like Natasha and...

Minute One Hundred Fifteen: From Fury Watching the News to Tony Praising Hawkeye Film Critic Ewan Graf from the Quiet on Set podcast joins us in this episode! In the one-hundred-fifteenth minute of The Avengers ... After a run through the various news feeds Fury’s tapped in to, we get to chat a bit with Ewan about Samuel L. Jackson’s Nick Fury and why we like him so much. We also get to touch on t...