Marvel Movie Minute

Minute Thirty-Nine: From Guard Down to Ocular Extraction Jay Shepard from MCULocationScout.com and RetroZap.com joins us in this episode! In the thirty-ninth minute of The Avengers ... It’s rare to have a full minute without speaking in these films, but it does happen and this is one of them. We listen to the string quartet play Schubert while we follow action in three locations. It’s fun and work...

Minute Thirty-Eight: From Near Mint to A Thwip Jay Shepard from MCULocationScout.com and RetroZap.com joins us in this episode! In the thirty-eighth minute of The Avengers ... We get to talk about foxing in this minute. What the hell is it? And, of course, there’s more of the face trace as Agent Sitwell, making his appearance known with some lines finally, gets a hit. That’s right, they’ve found L...

Minute Thirty-Seven: From Erik Telling His Assistants Where They Can Put It to Coulson Telling Steve About His Vintage Set Jay Shepard from MCULocationScout.com and RetroZap.com joins us in this episode! In the thirty-seventh minute of The Avengers ... Following our last minute’s extended scene, we already have another one. We’re in Loki’s underground lab and there is more between Erik Selvig and...

Minute Thirty-Six: From A Bet Fulfilled to All the Toys Jay Shepard from MCULocationScout.com and RetroZap.com joins us in this episode! In the thirty-sixth minute of The Avengers ... We’ve got more helicarrier bridge, and it starts off with Steve paying $10 to Nick. Apparently, a flying ship did surprise Steve. We talk about this callback a bit. We also dig in on the use of face trace and how gro...

Minute Thirty-Five: From The Bridge Reveal to Vanished Gentlemen Will Freeland, aka SylverDreamer on TwitchTV, and one of the hosts from the Hype Is My Superpower podcast joins us in this episode! In the thirty-fifth minute of The Avengers ... It’s the bridge! And it’s awesome. But where the hell does Natasha disappear to? We get a lot of SHIELD people – now wearing SHIELD logos – working hard on...

Minute Thirty-Four: From Confusion for Bruce and Steve to Entry to the Bridge Will Freeland, aka SylverDreamer on TwitchTV, and one of the hosts from the Hype Is My Superpower podcast joins us in this episode! In the thirty-fourth minute of The Avengers ... There’s a submarine joke and a Hulk joke, but wouldn’t it actually be much worse for Bruce to be in a sub rather than an air vehicle? Regardle...

Minute Thirty-Three: From Agent Romanoff Meeting Captain Rogers to Machinery in Motion Will Freeland, aka SylverDreamer on TwitchTV, and one of the hosts from the Hype Is My Superpower podcast joins us in this episode! In the thirty-third minute of The Avengers ... Agent Phil Coulson introduces Natasha Romanoff to Steve Rogers before he has to run off to do something called a ‘face trace.’ That so...

Minute Thirty-Two: From The Other’s Threat to Arrival on the Helicarrier In the thirty-second minute of The Avengers ... The wrap-up of this conversation between The Other and Loki is full of threats and head trauma. How does The Other transfer pain from Sanctuary to Earth? That’s quite a power. Loki does seem worried though. What’s up with The Other’s dental work though? And hey! We get a leviath...

Minute Thirty-One: From The Meager Might of Earth to The Other's Concession In the thirty-first minute of The Avengers ... Why does it feel like this scene was shot so strangely? The positions of Loki and The Other feel odd. Or maybe it’s that way they choose to shoot the scene with the actors rotating around the set, not looking at each other. The script here also feels a bit clumsy. They’re real...

Minute Thirty: From Coulson’s Input to The Other’s Question Matthew Costello, author of Secret Identity Crisis: Comic books and the Unmasking of Cold War America , joins us in this episode! In the thirtieth minute of The Avengers ... The relationship between Steve and Agent Coulson is central to our conversation here. How does it play for Steve as the man out of time? It’s interesting how he reads...

Minute Twenty-Nine: From 40 Minutes Out to Coulson’s Reassuring Words Jonathan Carlisle from UHF 62nd and The Princess Bride Minute join us in this episode! In the twenty-ninth minute of The Avengers ... It’s so fun watching Agent Coulson chat with Steve. Well, it’s awfully uncomfortable, but Clark Gregg and Chris Evans play the scene perfectly. We talk a bit about the quinjet and how Steve’s catc...

Minute Twenty-Eight: From Tony Throwing Holograms Around the Room to Two Pilots in a Quinjet Cockpit Jonathan Carlisle from UHF 62nd and The Princess Bride Minute join us in this episode! In the twenty-eighth minute of The Avengers ... Such fun hologram toys Tony plays with! We look at his fantastic holographic displays and debate what’s actually in the room with them as opposed to what’s on the s...

Minute Twenty-Seven: From Phil Saying He Can’t Stay to Pepper Asking What All of This Is Jonathan Carlisle from UHF 62nd and The Princess Bride Minute joins us in this episode! In the twenty-seventh minute of The Avengers ... More wonderful banter between Tony, Pepper, and Phil. Following up on our conversation yesterday with Matthew Costello, these actors feel so perfect in the roles. They absolu...

Minute Twenty-Six: From Credit for Pepper to ‘Phil?’ Matthew Costello, author of Secret Identity Crisis: Comic books and the Unmasking of Cold War America , joins us in this episode! In the twenty-sixth minute of The Avengers ... It’s hard to go wrong with the Tony/Pepper dynamic. That certainly holds true with Robert Downey Jr./Gwyneth Paltrow as well. They clearly are movie stars and carry a rea...

Minute Twenty-Five: From More Me to a Tap on the Chest James Anderson and Colin Parker from the Timeline Scavengers podcast join us in this episode! In the twenty-fifth minute of The Avengers ... We have a lot of love for the location shots in midtown Manhattan where we see Grand Central Station and the area around the MetLife building. You can even see cranes, showing that Tony’s still working on...

Minute Twenty Four: From Steve’s Exit to Christmas Joining us today, we have Ryan Dalton, author of the Time Shift trilogy and This Last Adventure. In the twenty-fourth minute of The Avengers ... We wrap up our conversation about Steve and Nick Fury, then head underwater to find Tony Stark. The transition from one scene to the next provides a nice contrast in personalities and world views. So what...

Minute Twenty Three: From Steve’s Inquiry to Nick’s Inquiry Joining us today, we have Ryan Dalton, author of the Time Shift trilogy and This Last Adventure. In the twenty-third minute of The Avengers ... Steve Rogers – a man out of time. What has he been doing since we last saw him? It’s been about six months. We talk about that time that leads to this. Does it make sense for Nick to have had othe...

Minute Twenty-Two: From Furiously Beating to Fury Conceding Matthew Costello, author of Secret Identity Crisis: Comic books and the Unmasking of Cold War America , joins us in this episode! In the twenty-second minute of The Avengers ... We really dig in on Steve Rogers and his place in 2012. Why is he so angry? What’s it say about his character? And is he just mad that he lost Peggy? Is there mor...

Minute Twenty-One: From The Avengers Initiative’s Status to Angry Steve Jonathan Carlisle from UHF 62nd and The Princess Bride Minute joins us in this episode! In the twenty-first minute of The Avengers ... We wrap up our conversation about this scene featuring Nick talking to the World Security Council. Why are they designed like some shadow organization? Is it just to give us a sense that Fury a...

Minute Twenty: From Bruce Talking Natasha Down to Fury Needing a Response Team Joining us, it’s Justin Jaeger from TruStory FM’s entertainment network. In the twentieth minute of The Avengers ... JJ gives us his take on Ruffalo as Bruce/Hulk. We talk a bit about the start of the relationship between Bruce and Natasha and how this scene is our first window into that. But why does Scarlett play this...

Minute Nineteen: From What Bruce Tries to Avoid to a Gun in Our Face Joining us today is Robin Burdge from Karate Kid Minute, Fright Night Minute, and Superman & Lois TV Talk. In the nineteenth minute of The Avengers ... Natasha pitches Bruce on helping Fury with this global catastrophe. What we love so much about Ruffalo’s hulk is he really feels dangerous. When he talks about trying to avoid...

Minute Eighteen: From Young Spy to Global Catastrophe Joining us today, we have Ryan Dalton, author of the Time Shift trilogy and This Last Adventure. In the eighteenth minute of The Avengers ... The small bit at the start of this minute about Natasha starting so young is great script economy – we get just a line but it says so much. How does Bruce know what SHIELD is though? It never came up in T...

Minute Seventeen: From A Coughing Child to Bruce Asking Natasha About Her Actress Buddy Joining us today, we have Ryan Dalton, author of the Time Shift trilogy and This Last Adventure. In the seventeenth minute of The Avengers ... We dig more into Mark Ruffalo and how we feel about him as Bruce and how the Hulk works for us in this film. We also talk about Natasha and what Scarlett brings to the r...

Minute Sixteen: From Strike Team Delta’s Abidjan Operation to a Sick Man in Bed Joining us today is Phillip Mottaz, author of the Psychic Barber Mystery series. In the sixteenth minute of The Avengers ... Natasha finds out Barton’s not really in danger. Does that change our sense of Coulson’s call and how he pitched it to her? Regardless, her reaction when she realizes she has to get the ‘big guy’...

Minute Fifteen: From the Moron Giving Her Everything to an Inquiry About Barton Joining us today is Phillip Mottaz, author of the Psychic Barber Mystery series. In the fifteenth minute of The Avengers ... We’re getting into the good stuff with the interrogation, particularly as we now learn that Natasha’s the one in charge. Georgi’s comments to her and her look at him says so much. It’s one of the...