Mainly Movies

We've finally seen enough movies for another Top 10! We're including everything released so far this year, so a few movies are technically a part of Q2, but that's what it took to get to 10! Despite that, get ready for a whole lot of Netflix stuff you may or may not have heard about. The Mainly Movies Summer Movie Wager is in full gear! Track our scores for the Summer Box Office here: https://thesummermoviewager.com/index.php?addPlayer=MMPodDJ%2CMMPodAaron%2CMMPodGrace%2CMMPodRow%2CMMPodJAM&playAlongOnly=&year=2019 Join the discussion by emailing us at MainlyMoviesPod@gmail.com

We started this journey 6 months ago and have watched 21 movies to fully prepare ourselves for Avengers: Endgame. Needless to say, we’re REALLY excited. We add Captain Marvel to the rankings, discuss the different “tiers” of our MCU Ranking, and finally do some speculation on what Endgame holds for us! Mainly Marvel Rankings: 1) Avengers: Infinity War 2) Black Panther 3) The Avengers 4) Guardians of the Galaxy 5) Captain America: The Winter Soldier 6) Doctor Strange 7) Iron Man 8) Thor: Ragnarok 9) Spider-Man: Homecoming 10) Captain America: Civil War 11) Ant-Man 12) Captain Marvel 13) Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 14) Ant-Man and the Wasp 15) Avengers: Age of Ultron 16) Thor: The Dark World 17) Iron Man 3 18) Thor 19) Iron Man 2 20) Captain America: The First Avenger 21) The Incredible Hulk Love the rankings? Hate the rankings? Let us know by joining the discussion and emailing us at MainlyMoviesPod@gmail.com and leave us a review on iTunes!

This episode was recorded in April before the Summer Movie Season begins! We assemble a panel and do our best to predict the Top 10 Movies of the summer according to domestic box office. We're piggybacking off of the /Filmcast's "Summer Movie Wager" to make our own guesses. The rules and points are listed here: https://thesummermoviewager.com/help.php?year=2019 Track our scores for the Summer Box Office here: https://thesummermoviewager.com/index.php?addPlayer=MMPodDJ%2CMMPodAaron%2CMMPodGrace%2CMMPodRow%2CMMPodJAM&playAlongOnly=&year=2019 Be sure to come back at the end of the summer so we can discuss how right, or horribly wrong, our choices were! Have a list of your own? Let us know by emailing us at MainlyMoviesPod@gmail.com.

After two monumental successes back to back, Ant-Man and the Wasp can’t help but to feel slightly underwhelming. We don’t spend too long rehashing it since we already did a full episode, but our opinions may have changed slightly since last year. Mainly Marvel Rankings: 1) Avengers: Infinity War 2) Black Panther 3) The Avengers 4) Guardians of the Galaxy 5) Captain America: The Winter Soldier 6) Doctor Strange 7) Iron Man 8) Thor: Ragnarok 9) Spider-Man: Homecoming 10) Captain America: Civil War 11) Ant-Man 12) Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 13) Ant-Man and the Wasp 14) Avengers: Age of Ultron 15) Thor: The Dark World 16) Iron Man 3 17) Thor 18) Iron Man 2 19) Captain America: The First Avenger 20) The Incredible Hulk Love the rankings? Hate the rankings? Let us know by joining the discussion and emailing us at MainlyMoviesPod@gmail.com and leave us a review on iTunes!

DC hits a home-run with Shazam! We know it seems like a new superhero movie comes out every week these days, but Shazam! is actually a lot of fun. After a brief discussion, we take some time to review what's on the horizon for DC. Join the discussion by emailing us at MainlyMoviesPod@gmail.com and leave us a review on iTunes!

Turns out this is our third time devoting an episode to Infinity War. We try not to spend a ton of time praising the movie again, but a little slipped in. Feel free to go back and listen to our other full episodes about Infinity War if you’re excited for Endgame! Mainly Marvel Rankings: 1) Avengers: Infinity War 2) Black Panther 3) The Avengers 4) Guardians of the Galaxy 5) Captain America: The Winter Soldier 6) Doctor Strange 7) Iron Man 8) Thor: Ragnarok 9) Spider-Man: Homecoming 10) Captain America: Civil War 11) Ant-Man 12) Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 13) Avengers: Age of Ultron 14) Thor: The Dark World 15) Iron Man 3 16) Thor 17) Iron Man 2 18) Captain America: The First Avenger 19) The Incredible Hulk Love the rankings? Hate the rankings? Let us know by joining the discussion and emailing us at MainlyMoviesPod@gmail.com and leave us a review on iTunes!

We’re doing mini-episodes for the movies we’ve already talked about at length! We originally discussed Black Panther when it came out last year, so we try not to spend another hour singing its praises. It’s still amazing though! Mainly Marvel Rankings: 1) Black Panther 2) The Avengers 3) Guardians of the Galaxy 4) Captain America: The Winter Soldier 5) Doctor Strange 6) Iron Man 7) Thor: Ragnarok 8) Spider-Man: Homecoming 9) Captain America: Civil War 10) Ant-Man 11) Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 12) Avengers: Age of Ultron 13) Thor: The Dark World 14) Iron Man 3 15) Thor 16) Iron Man 2 17) Captain America: The First Avenger 18) The Incredible Hulk Love the rankings? Hate the rankings? Let us know by joining the discussion and emailing us at MainlyMoviesPod@gmail.com and leave us a review on iTunes!

Have any lingering questions about Jordan Peele's Us? So do we! We do our best to try and discuss some of the themes and subtle elements of Jordan Peel's sophomore debut, but we ended up having questions too. Have "Us" figured all the way out? Share your insight by emailing us at MainlyMoviesPod@gmail.com. Feel free to leave us a review on iTunes!

We’re officially in overlap territory! Our first take on Thor: Ragnarok was recorded back when we weren’t really sure what we were doing, so this might be a slightly more polished discussion! Jump to 6:26 to skip the plot synopsis. Mainly Marvel Rankings: 1) The Avengers 2) Guardians of the Galaxy 3) Captain America: The Winter Soldier 4) Doctor Strange 5) Iron Man 6) Thor: Ragnarok 7) Spider-Man: Homecoming 8) Captain America: Civil War 9) Ant-Man 10) Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 11) Avengers: Age of Ultron 12) Thor: The Dark World 13) Iron Man 3 14) Thor 15) Iron Man 2 16) Captain America: The First Avenger 17) The Incredible Hulk Love the rankings? Hate the rankings? Let us know by joining the discussion and emailing us at MainlyMoviesPod@gmail.com and leave us a review on iTunes!

When the box office lets us down, Netflix is there to safe the day! We tackle two pretty different movies, Paddleton & Triple Frontier. While Triple Frontier is the big budget headliner for Netflix this month, the smaller scale Paddleton is one of the best movies of 2019 so far! Skip to 21:00 for the Triple Frontier discussion. Join the discussion by emailing us at MainlyMoviesPod@gmail.com and leave us a review on iTunes!

*This is a re-upload of the episode that was posted 7 days ago. Technical issues prompted us to re-upload, but the content remains the same* The first big blockbuster of 2019 is finally here! Captain Marvel, aka MCU Episode #21, is here to get everyone even more hype for Avengers: Endgame! Does the movie succeed on its own, or did Marvel miss this time around? Join the discussion by emailing us at MainlyMoviesPod@gmail.com and leave us a review on iTunes!

Folks, we know it seems like all we do is talk about Marvel these days, but the end(game) is in sight. We’re getting to a point where the movies we’re rewatching, don’t actually seem to be so far away. Spider-Man: Homecoming still feels as fresh as it ever did, despite the fact there seems to be a ton of “Spider-Man” content out there these days. Jump to 9:37 to skip the plot synopsis and our brief thoughts on the other Spider-Men through the years. Mainly Marvel Rankings: 1) The Avengers 2) Guardians of the Galaxy 3) Captain America: The Winter Soldier 4) Doctor Strange 5) Iron Man 6) Spider-Man: Homecoming 7) Captain America: Civil War 8) Ant-Man 9) Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 10) Avengers: Age of Ultron 11) Thor: The Dark World 12) Iron Man 3 13) Thor 14) Iron Man 2 15) Captain America: The First Avenger 16) The Incredible Hulk Love the rankings? Hate the rankings? Let us know by joining the discussion and emailing us at MainlyMoviesPod@gmail.com and leave us a review on iTunes!

It’s time for Captain Marvel!!! Well, almost. Before that episode drops in a few days, we’ll continue along with our Mainly Marvel episodes as usual. This time we’re discussing Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2. This is a bit of a polarizing sequel, so be sure to let us know which side you end up on. Jump to 6:29 to skip the plot synopsis. Mainly Marvel Rankings: 1) The Avengers 2) Guardians of the Galaxy 3) Captain America: The Winter Soldier 4) Doctor Strange 5) Iron Man 6) Captain America: Civil War 7) Ant-Man 8) Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 9) Avengers: Age of Ultron 10) Thor: The Dark World 11) Iron Man 3 12) Thor 13) Iron Man 2 14) Captain America: The First Avenger 15) The Incredible Hulk Love the rankings? Hate the rankings? Let us know by joining the discussion and emailing us at MainlyMoviesPod@gmail.com and leave us a review on iTunes!

Doctor Strange finally introduces the MCU to the Mystic Arts! This movie is awesome and definitely worth discussion after the events of Infinity War. Jump to 5:22 to skip the plot synopsis. Mainly Marvel Rankings: 1) The Avengers 2) Guardians of the Galaxy 3) Captain America: The Winter Soldier 4) Doctor Strange 5) Iron Man 6) Captain America: Civil War 7) Ant-Man 8) Avengers: Age of Ultron 9) Thor: The Dark World 10) Iron Man 3 11) Thor 12) Iron Man 2 13) Captain America: The First Avenger 14) The Incredible Hulk Love the rankings? Hate the rankings? Let us know by joining the discussion and emailing us at MainlyMoviesPod@gmail.com and leave us a review on iTunes!

We made it to Phase 3! We take a few minutes at the beginning of the episode to review our thoughts on Phase 2 and see if any changes to the list need to be made. The Captain America: Civil War discussion starts at 10:17 and feel free to skip past the plot synopsis at 16:09. Mainly Marvel Rankings: 1) The Avengers 2) Guardians of the Galaxy 3) Captain America: The Winter Soldier 4) Iron Man 5) Captain America: Civil War 6) Ant-Man 7) Avengers: Age of Ultron 8) Thor: The Dark World 9) Iron Man 3 10) Thor 11) Iron Man 2 12) Captain America: The First Avenger 13) The Incredible Hulk Love the rankings? Hate the rankings? Let us know by joining the discussion and emailing us at MainlyMoviesPod@gmail.com and leave us a review on iTunes!

We're sorry for the long break between main episodes, but we're back again to talk Alita: Battle Angel and The Lego Movie 2! The discussion about Alita is by far one of the most fun episodes we've recorded, so feel free to skip to that section at 27:56. We also take some time to make some last minute Oscar predictions! Join the discussion by emailing us at MainlyMoviesPod@gmail.com and leave us a review on iTunes!

Ant-Man closes out Phase 2 of the MCU, for some reason. Even though it’s a smaller scale movie, it’s a lot of fun! Jump to 5:40 to skip the plot synopsis. Mainly Marvel Rankings: 1) The Avengers 2) Guardians of the Galaxy 3) Captain America: The Winter Soldier 4) Iron Man 5) Ant-Man 6) Avengers: Age of Ultron 7) Thor: The Dark World 8) Iron Man 3 9) Thor 10) Iron Man 2 11) Captain America: The First Avenger 12) The Incredible Hulk Love the rankings? Hate the rankings? Let us know by joining the discussion and emailing us at MainlyMoviesPod@gmail.com and leave us a review on iTunes!

We’ve made it to another Avengers movie! Avengers: Age of Ultron is one of the most jam-packed movies we’ve talked about so far, for better or for worse... Jump to 6:21 to skip the plot synopsis. Mainly Marvel Rankings: 1) The Avengers 2) Guardians of the Galaxy 3) Captain America: The Winter Soldier 4) Iron Man 5) Avengers: Age of Ultron 6) Thor: The Dark World 7) Iron Man 3 8) Thor 9) Iron Man 2 10) Captain America: The First Avenger 11) The Incredible Hulk Love the rankings? Hate the rankings? Let us know by joining the discussion and emailing us at MainlyMoviesPod@gmail.com and leave us a review on iTunes!

We really tried to avoid quoting the entire movie, but we may have failed. Guardians of the Galaxy was one of the most confident steps Marvel had taken at the time, and it still holds up! Jump to 6:26 to skip the plot synopsis. Mainly Marvel Rankings: 1) The Avengers 2) Guardians of the Galaxy 3) Captain America: The Winter Soldier 4) Iron Man 5) Thor: The Dark World 6) Iron Man 3 7) Thor 8) Iron Man 2 9) Captain America: The First Avenger 10) The Incredible Hulk Love the rankings? Hate the rankings? Let us know by joining the discussion and emailing us at MainlyMoviesPod@gmail.com and leave us a review on iTunes!

We bring on another special guest to tackle one of the most well-regarded sequels in the MCU, Captain America: The Winter Solider! Jump to 6:23 to skip the plot synopsis. Mainly Marvel Rankings: 1) The Avengers 2) Captain America: The Winter Soldier 3) Iron Man 4) Thor: The Dark World 5) Iron Man 3 6) Thor 7) Iron Man 2 8) Captain America: The First Avenger 9) The Incredible Hulk *These rankings are subject to change at our discretion* Love the rankings? Hate the rankings? Let us know by joining the discussion and emailing us at MainlyMoviesPod@gmail.com and feel free to leave us a review on iTunes!