Category: superheroes

Countdown Continues: “Shazam!” — Episode #4 — A Truly Historic Moment: Our Show’s 1st Perfect Score

by leeeide-, posted in movies, superheroes
Shazam! Movie Poster

Highlights from the show:

#1 – SC: “One of the first things Billy Batson does after he gets superpowers is to go buy beer.” LE: “If I suddenly got superpowers at that age I’d do the same thing.”

#2 – SC: “Okay, which would you rather have, invisibility or the power to fly?” LE: “Okay I have flip flopped on this one. I’d rather have invisibility so I can be that fly on the wall. I figure I can already fly because we have jetpacks but as far as I know, no one’s invented a way to become invisible. SC: “It’s close but I’ll take flying.” LE: “We can work together. You can have the aerial view while I’m on the ground checking things out.”

#3 — SC: “I give it 8.5 kernels. How about you, Lee?” LE: “I’m gonna see your 8.5 and raise it to 10!” SC: “Wow, our first perfect score.” LE: “And maybe the last.” Fist bump ensues.

Okay, I’ll admit it. My score was too high. I got caught up in the excitement (maybe it was the exclamation point! at the end of the title?) of the Shazam phenomena. I mean today I would rate it 9.0, maybe 9.5, but Stephen had a great point about all the monsters that represented the Seven Deadly Sins all kind of blended together in a grayish, evil, metaphorical soup. They should have been different colors or shaped uniquely or something to visually clue in the audience which one was which. Not a HUGE deal but still, a strike against the movie that prevents it from being perfect.

And BTW, my comment in re this might be the last 10 we ever give out on the show turned out to be wrong! Both Stephen and I gave “Avengers: Endgame” a 10 (guest reviewer David Rasmussen give a 9.5 with the length being the only glitch he saw in the movie). So this wasn’t my personal best performance but I think I at least partially redeemed myself with one of my jokes on Lee’s Jokes of the Week:

NOTE: I explain on the show why I can get away with telling a marine biologist joke: It’s because a famous fictional character, Gomer Pyle, who was a Marine, liked to use the phrase, “Shazam, Seargant Carter!”

Okay, here’s the joke: What do you call a marine biologist who’s bad at their job? Answer: A submarine biologist.

Virginia-class U.S. Navy Submarine (most advanced nuclear-powered sub)

Historical note: Captain Marvel was Shazam’s original name when the character was first crafted, as a Superman knockoff, in 1939. He was relaunched in 1973 as Shazam after decades of lawsuits and the debut of Marvel’s own Captain Marvel.

Lastly, this from Quora.com user Sayan Mukherjee: Young Billy Batson got his powers from the wizard Shazam, and his name is an acronym, the letters standing for Solomon, Hercules, Atlas, Zeus, Achilles and Mercury. The point being, he gets certain attributes from these characters, such as the thunderbolt of Zeus and the speed of Mercury.

And that, my movie- and superhero-loving friends, concludes this “The Movie Review Show” blog about episode #4 of our show on YouTube. Here’s the link to that episode:

https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=the+movie+review+show+with+lee+eide+on+youtube+-+episode+%233&&view=detail&mid=EA991210AD7E6AAB483CEA991210AD7E6AAB483C&&FORM=VRDGAR
“The Movie Review Show”, SHAZAM! — episode #4 link

Countdown Continues: “Avengers: Endgame” — Episode #5 — Bonus Materials Abound: Extra Jokes, Extra Reviewer & a Magic Trick!

by leeeide-, posted in movies, superheroes

Since it was our 5th episode (every five episodes we do something different and special), we had a guest reviewer, David Rasmussen, join us on the show. And in addition to recommending a book on magic, Stephen actually performed a magic trick (he read David R.’s mind) plus I told bonus jokes, a total of nine!

Highlights from the show:

#1 – SC: “Early in the movie there’s a lot of drama but not very much action.” LE: “They had to devise a pretty complex plan (to retrieve the Infinity Stones) so there is a lot of intellectual stuff going on so it’s gonna be slower paced…But it sets up what happens in the 2nd half of the movie, which is almost non-stop action.”

#2 – SC: “I wrote down in my notes that was more than a movie. It was an experience.” DR: “Yeah, the experience of a lifetime.” LE: “It was like Marvel Comics created a VR ride and it sucked you into their universe.”

#3 – LE: “It definitely didn’t feel like a three-hour movie. I thought the pacing was great. For the finale of a huge franchise like this is you needed all the time to do things right.” DR: “I would love to go back and watch this movie again to see what I missed…because that movie was huge.”

#4 – After looking up Metacritic rating (77): SC: “You know what guys, I’m gonna say this: You guys are wrong!”

#5 – After all three reviewers finished hugging, Lee said, “Reviewers assemble!”

Avengers: Endgame Poster

And now, drum roll, please, highlights from Lee’s Jokes of the Week:

  1. How does the Incredible Hulk earn money on the side? Answer: He flips houses.
  2. If Dr. Banner always cites his sources, does he become the Credible Hulk?
  3. What do you call Iron Man without his costume? Answer: Stark Naked
  4. What did Cptn. America say to the Avengers after they entered an Ikea store? Answer: “Avengers, assemble!”

Lastly, Stephen and I both gave it 10 kernels while David scored it 9.5 (he thoughjt it should have been a wee bit shorter). And that’s all for this post for our review of the finale of the Avengers epic run of movies.