Newcomers: Sports, with Nicole Byer and Lauren Lapkus - Iron Man 2 (w/ Carl Tart and Lamar Woods)
Episode Date: March 15, 2022Well, well, well. If it isn't our old friend Iron Man, back at it again. Nicole and Lauren jump into the third movie in the MCU (and second of our abridged watch-through), 2012's Iron Man 2, ...with their friends from across the Headgum hallway, Carl Tart and Lamar Woods. Can you guess which guest is an actual Marvel superfan? Listen to Carl and Lamar's podcast XOXO, Gossip Kings, and watch the video version here. Next week's movie: Thor (2011) Like the show? Rate Newcomers 5 stars on Spotify and Apple Podcasts and leave a review for Nicole and Lauren to read on the pod! Advertise on Newcomers via Gumball.fmSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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This is a HeadGum Original.
Could we pick up now where we left off?
Mr. Stark, please.
Yes, dear.
Could I have your attention?
Absolutely.
Our priority here is to have you turn over the Iron Man weapon to the American people.
Well, you can forget it.
We're safe. America is secure.
You want my property? You can't have it. But I did you can forget it. We're safe. America is secure. You want my property?
You can't have it.
But I did you a big favor.
I have successfully privatized World Peace.
We're adjourned for the day.
You've been a delight.
Oh, it's good to be back.
I'm so glad you're back.
I'm so glad you're back.
I'm so glad you're back.
I'm so glad you're back.
I'm so glad you're back.
I'm so glad you're back.
I'm so glad you're back.
I'm so glad you're back.
I'm so glad you're back.
I'm so glad you're back.
I'm so glad you're back.
I'm so glad you're back. I'm so glad you're back. I'm so glad you're back. I'm so glad you're back. I'm so good to be back.
You come from a family of thieves and butchers.
And now, like all guilty men,
you try to rewrite your own history.
And you forget all the lives
the Stark family has destroyed.
There will be blood in the water
and the sharks will come. I'm sorry. Oh, wow. Hi, I'm Nicole.
I'm Lauren.
And this is another season of Newcomers.
We're doing the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
Wow. I can't believe it.
We got roped into this.
We did it.
Oh, my God.
Well, look, we're on our
second episode of our fifth
season of this podcast.
We are working our way through this universe.
We have fellow newcomers. We have some
super fans and sometimes we have
people who've contributed to the series.
Yes. But we're doing
20 episodes. We're doing 20 of the
27. I cannot believe it.
That's a lot. It's believe it. That's a lot.
It's too many.
It's too many.
We're on the second one now, and I'm like, whew.
Oh, and they're long.
They're not short.
They're very long movies.
This one was longer than the first one.
And they really started milking this one, I thought, after the success of the first one.
Yes.
Oh, yeah.
Everyone loves this now.
And they went so fucking hard.
I was like, oh, my God. The technology was like 10 million times better too honestly that was nice that was nice that was a really good technology um okay so we're talking about the third film in
the mcu iron man 2 from 2010 we are skipping the second entry in the franchise which is the
incredible hulk for some reason but we're gonna meet the hulk in the franchise, which is the Incredible Hulk for some reason. But we're going to meet the Hulk in the Avengers, apparently.
Okay, but isn't Mark Ruffalo the Hulk?
I thought.
I'm sad I'm not seeing that one.
Wait, isn't the Hulk that man who fights?
Hulk is green.
No, the Fight Club man.
Brad Pitt?
No, the other one. He's Hulk I thought so he's my celebrity crush he is
yeah he's one of them he's very handsome he's cute oh okay so I got to meet him one time you
did yeah I shook his hand and I was like where um it was at it was I had gone to see Judd Apatow
do stand-up in New York and it
was like a party afterwards and I met
him and I met wait hold on Danny DeVito
what yeah I know they were together
yeah they were dating they were holding
hands they're dating you heard it here
first oh wait so okay Edward Norton is the Hulk in the Incredible Hulk and then They were holding hands. They're dating. You heard it here first. Oh, wait. So, okay.
Edward Norton is the Hulk in The Incredible Hulk and then was replaced by Mark Ruffalo.
Oh, shit.
I got to see that old one because I like him.
I want to see him be a superhero.
The original Hulk sucks.
So that's why we're not watching it.
Well, that makes sense.
Interesting, but we're watching other sucky things.
Yeah.
Well, okay.
So if you want to watch Iron Man 2 to catch up with us, it's available on Disney Plus and you can get it for a fee on Amazon, Apple TV Plus, Google Play, and Vudu. And obviously we're going to spoil this movie. So if you want to watch it first, then do that. But you can catch up if you don't want to watch it, I think.
Yeah, just have a nice little listen.
Maybe people are out there who just want to get educated on the MCU so that they can like have a conversation with their boyfriend or something. Yeah, just have a nice little listen. Maybe people are out there who just want to get educated on the MCU so that they can have a conversation with their boyfriend or something.
Yeah, maybe.
They're like, what do girls think about this?
Okay, here are my thoughts.
They're long.
They're long and they suck.
What are your quick thoughts on this film?
Well, it was really easy to watch because the technology was really good.
The CGI was, like, way better.
The first movie had, like, no real special effects, it felt like.
It felt like there were some scenes with, like, a couple little, like, loading, you know, bars on the computer or, like, him making his little, like, wrist guard out of a green thing.
This was much more advanced.
But it was only made two years later, so I was really surprised.
I didn't understand.
Was it just the budget?
Maybe they got more of a budget.
Yeah, yeah.
Because the first one seemed old in that way.
Very, very old.
Very antiquated.
Yeah.
But I liked that, but then I thought the whole thing had gotten really cocky.
I felt like the first one was more humble.
I also thought the first one was a little bit more humble. I also thought the first one was more humble I also thought the first one was a little bit more humble
I also thought the first one was like really easy to follow this one I feel like I glanced down and
then I was like wait what I know the first one we were really happy because the first one was like
here's what's happening she's downloading the file bad file being downloaded it's achieved like
they were like spelling everything out so clearly this one was a little more like expecting us to know something i think and i i felt like they trusted me too much to like
understand stuff yeah and i was like i'm stupid just like really spell it out for me just tell
me what's happening i think gwyneth paltrow i think she really dyed her hair red this time
thoughts i thought it was a wig last time.
I... Oh, I thought it was a wig both times. I thought she
did a lot more, like, bad screaming.
There was a part where she was in the back
of the car and she was like, ah!
Ah! And I was like,
Gwyneth, don't you have an Oscar?
What's going on with these
screams? See, and that is why
I like Robert Downey Jr. because he
really commits. Yes.
He's very authentic
in this role, I would say. That facial hair
though. It's really bad.
It's disgusting. And I didn't like whenever they were
really zoomed in on it. Me either.
When he's in the helmet and they're like, here's what's
happening inside the head. I don't like
any of those helmet shots.
Unnecessary. And we have Don Cheadle
replacing Terrence Howard. Yes. Unceremoniously. we have Don Cheadle replacing Terrence Howard.
Yes.
Unceremoniously.
I want to know more about that.
Hopefully we'll get some more facts.
Okay, we should introduce our guests for today.
We got Carl Tartt and Lamar Woods.
Carl is a former football player
who's now on the same television show as me.
See how the Lord works in mysterious ways
and i love the show it's so good thank you it's called grand crew lamar is a musician
slash writer who writes on the same show with the cult they're also the host of xoxo gossip
kings on head gum they're watching their way through all 121 episodes of
Gossip Girl. I didn't realize this.
I have to
hear about this. I think I'm going to listen to it.
I don't listen to podcasts, but I'm
very curious to hear your thoughts. I gotta hear about that.
Oh my God. A Gossip Girl.
Welcome, Carl Lamar.
Thank you for having me.
Hey, what's up? This is hilarious.
So I said, when y'all was talking about Mark Ruffalo,
and I saw Leah's fingers, she put that cat down and started,
I said, oh, she about to get y'all ass.
It was typing in the chat, telling us.
It was typing in the chat, telling me what we're wrong about.
Wait, okay.
So Lamar, Carl, what are your experiences with Marvel?
Are you familiar with the MCU?
I don't get down.
Okay.
Okay.
I don't get down.
Fair.
So, had you seen this movie before?
Nuh-uh.
I hadn't seen it before.
I think I may have saw the first one at a friend's house.
You know how on a lazy Sunday where you go to your homie's house, like know how like on a on like a lazy sunday where
you like go to your homie's house like your homie who still lives with his mom and uh it was like
you go over his house and they're all just like eating pizza and smoking like well we ain't doing
shit we over here watching iron man and i think i've like seen it in that capacity that makes so
much sense i feel like it's always on in that capacity.
There was a Twitter thread where I got roasted
for not understanding the MCU.
I don't give a shit, man.
Man, I have sex.
Thank you!
Yes, you're in here first.
Carl Tart has sex.
Let him know he be swangin'.
Swangin' around.
I don't know about the fucking Iron Man I have sex
I love this
Lamar what's your take? Lamar do you have sex or
do you get down with them? Do you watch Marvel?
I do not have sex but I watch a lot
I've seen all of the Marvel
I love Marvel
so you've seen this movie before
did you re-watch it for this or have you just seen it after you know it?
I re-watched it
it is my least favorite Marvel movie.
Wow.
All of them?
Yeah.
I was like, oh, this one.
Even the Hulk one?
It was fun to watch it again.
Well, I guess it's weird.
It's like that one, I just don't, it's like feels like a different like category or something,
that original Hulk.
But yeah, this is worse than, I would say this is, I can't even compare that because that Hulk one was like, felt like a different would say this is I can't even compare that
because that Hulk one was like felt like a different kind of thing I don't know if that
gets me in trouble is that gonna get us in trouble no no I think it's good that you're
saying this is your least favorite though because it kind of sets the bar that like
we might like some things that are to come
but it was better this time I had fun watching it though yeah it you know what I will say Nicole
not to scare you but I watched the next movie we're doing, and
I liked this one a lot more than that.
Wait, what is the next one?
Thor.
Thor?
Oh, I couldn't.
Y'all just going in order?
So y'all, you can skip around?
Yeah, but we're skipping some along the way.
Like, we skipped The Incredible Hulk.
But Thor, that's the Hammer Man? Yeah, but we'll save it, because I thor that hammer that's the hammer man yeah but
we'll save it because i can't talk about that right now okay fair so okay let's get into the
daily bugle this is our news segment uh we're going to give a recap of what's going on lately
in the mcu now director james gunn tweeted a storyboard from guardians of the galaxy volume
three that appears to show the character mantis in peril you know
the only thing i really understand from that is storyboard oh oh my fucking god you have to click
the link hold on i gotta send this to you guys i'm gonna put this in the chat it is so stupid how does anybody know he wrote shooting this shot now it's a hashtag game
go ahead guardians of the galaxy gv i don't know what to say okay and then he drew there's a little
picture from the storyboard it looks like a scribble a true scribble it's so funny we should
put it up when we post this episode wait a minute it's so goofy looking that i'm like why
would anyone get excited about this one of the comments is you are so detailed with your work
and that really gets me good oh my god someone wrote r.i.p drax whatever is that the character
is that what that thing is i don't know mantis mantis is in peril that's probably one of the
funniest pictures i've ever seen um Oh, my God. I love
that. That's what happened when we clicked that. Our second item of news is She-Hulk director Kat
Correo revealed recently in an interview that the series would be more of a comedy
than previous Marvel shows. Wow. Oh, She-Hulk. So, yeah, you get a big lady. She got to be funny.
Well, it's Tatiana maslany who is
so funny and she's so talented so i think that's gonna be good because she's awesome
um on tiktok dr stranger the multiverse of madness star sochiel gomez posted a video of herself
and the very first action figure of her character america chavez i wish it was the same picture
as that screenshot we just saw i wish uh here i'll put this tiktok
here
she's very excited you see the the thing dancing around? Yeah. Okay. So, yeah, this little girl put out her...
She has an action figure.
And, yeah, so she's cute.
Was she on Babysitter's Club?
Maybe.
I haven't seen Babysitter's Club.
Oh, my God, I loved it.
Yeah, she was on that.
She was replaced in the next season because she was doing this.
Oh, no.
See, I'm a Babysitter's Club purist.
I really like the Scholastic series.
I love that one.
Do you remember that?
This one is good like that, though.
Oh, it is?
Yeah.
Because I hated the movie with Rachel Leigh Cook.
No, no, no.
It's more like the Scholastic.
It's really sweet.
All right.
Maybe I'll get into it.
Yeah.
All right. Well well that was fascinating news
riveting yes baby says club remember sweet valley high yeah i loved sweet valley high
i loved the television series and i read the books can we talk a little bit about Gossip Girls and what is
what drew you guys
to do a podcast about that?
That's a good question. Oh yeah, so
Lamar had watched it over the
pandemic and
I had been wanting to watch it. It came out
like, it came out September of
2007, which was like my first
semester of college. Like that was when I
like started college. So I missed it.
We were big OC heads in high school, but I missed Gossip Girl.
And we always heard about it.
And then one time I started signing my emails with XOXO Gossip Tart.
And I didn't, I did it without ever seeing the show.
So I kind of felt like a poser.
Like I felt like I was wearing Etni's shoes and didn't know how to skate.
Yeah, I never knew that that was that neck.
These poles are very funny.
I knew that whole time I knew Carl.
I could just picture that perfect chunk of a shoe.
Yeah, truly.
Just a real hunk.
It's like a half circle.
So, yeah, so I started.
I was like, well, I want to to watch it i want to get into it and me
and lamar have been trying to figure out a podcast uh outlet for ourselves and so i was like well
let's just do this like because clearly whatever we think about the show is going to be ridiculous
so yeah i love so intriguing at the same time so i was was like, yeah, let's do that. And that was where Milo Ventimiglia
first came on the scene, right?
He's one of the hot guys.
Have you gotten that?
Milo Ventimiglia?
Oh, wait, is that the guy?
He's from This Is Us?
And he's also on Gilmore Girls.
I almost just said Gingham Girls.
That's what I mean.
Oh, no, Gilmore Girls.
That makes me think of Gossip Girl.
Yeah, I was about to say, he not in that. Oh, no, yeah, okay, no, Gilmore Girls. I'm mixing up with Gossip Girl. Yeah, I was about to say.
He nodded.
Oh, no.
Yeah, okay.
That's why you both looked at me.
No, Gossip Girl.
Gossip Girl is Blake or whatever.
Ed Chadwick.
Blake Lively.
Blake Lively, yeah.
Late Meester.
And then.
Did I say Gilmore Girls when I said it a minute ago?
Whatever.
I got confused.
You said Gossip Girl.
Oh, I said it right.
Okay.
I got confused in my head.
You got your man confused with the girls.
Oh, my God. that's really you know
who is in it that guy from uh pam and tommy have y'all seen pam and tommy oh my god no i haven't
watched no is it good it's not that good but it's fun to watch do they reenact the sex tape
yeah you know i didn't get that far yet i was like when, when are they going to show the sex thing? But no.
I think it just exists already and it's like,
they show parts of it. But that
guy is in Gossip Girl and I didn't
realize that it's the same guy
who's also in the Marvel Universe.
Yeah, there you go.
He's Captain America?
He plays Captain America's best friend.
Oh. Captain Mexico? He plays Captain America's best friend. Oh.
Captain Mexico.
Yeah.
Captain and their stepbrother, Captain Canada.
I would watch Captain Mexico.
I think that would be very nice and fun.
Yeah, for real.
Okay, we should take a break.
Yeah, let's do it. Ooh, we back.
So Iron Man 2 was rusted,
rusted, written by...
This rusty-ass movie was written by Justin Theroux.
Okay, the last one had like eight billion writers.
This has one.
He's written some big movies.
Justin Theroux? Yes, he wrote Tropic one. He's written some big movies. Justin Theroux?
Yes, he wrote Tropic Thunder.
He's the Prime Minister of Canada.
He wrote Tropic Thunder?
Didn't he?
Yeah, I didn't know he was a prolific like that.
I know.
No, that guy's name is Justin Trudeau.
Oh.
Forgive me.
I've heard some of those people.
Yeah, did he stay with Jennifer Aniston? Yeah, they were married. They're great. Some of the people. Yeah, did he stay up to date Aniston, Jennifer Aniston?
Or is that over?
Yeah, they were married.
They were married?
Whoa, he wrote Rock of Ages and Zoolander 2?
I know, what?
That guy's talented.
I had no idea.
And Tropic Thunder, Reign of Madness?
There was a second Tropic Thunder?
Oh, I don't think I knew that.
Wow.
Wow.
Who knew? Yeah, he's killing it. And he also was on sex in the city twice as two different characters he was yes oh you better work and you're like why
you ran out of men that fast you had to use him again there were no more men in new york city
oh yeah he played jared and then he came back a year later to play vaughn it's absurd
um it was directed by john fevereau and it was released may 7th 2010 um all right so let's look
at our summary here we have to tell you what happened in this movie now this is helpful for
us too because i need to be kind of walked through this one yes okay so we start out in russia where
the media is covering tony stark's disclosure of his identity as iron man ivan vanco mickey rourke
who is so scary watches his father anton dying while tony's press conference plays in the
background his father used to work for stark Industries and Vanco begins building a miniature arc reactor
similar to Tony's. How
does everybody
know how to build
these fucking ring lights?
If you're that smart,
you should have stayed out of jail.
How you let the cops get you?
The police?
The police?
He is so scary to me.
I feel like he's so real.
He's almost too committed.
Like when he's coming at, whatever, Tony Stark, like whipping those like electricity chains.
I was like, this is scary.
It made me a little horny.
Okay.
It was kind of like sexual, yeah.
Yeah, with like his like overalls half off and he's just like, whoop, whoop. Oh my God.
See, I didn't take it.
I truly got scared.
It did look like they were about to double dutch.
Like that did make me laugh when I thought about double dutching.
I was like, oh, that's pretty funny.
That would be cute.
I was hoping for that.
Yeah, Tony would be like, he would say some witty comment and be like, all right, let's double dutch.
He never said it.
He didn't say anything clever.
That's because they probably had no black people in the room punching up to be like, this is a pretty good joke about double dutching.
It's sitting right there.
Speaking of black people, they swapped out my man Terrence Howard for Don Cheadle.
They'd be swapping out the brothers out here.
Wait, Lamar, do you know why that happened?
Why did the brothers get swapped?
Man, I do.
Before I say what I think it is,
does Leia know?
You don't know.
I hope you can correct me if I'm wrong.
We learned in the previous episode
that Terrence Howard was paid way more
than Robert Downey Jr.
So much more.
And then that he was like difficult
or something. So it's like, was it that?
Yeah, I think it was that and they was beefing
him and Robert Downey
Jr. was beefing and
John Favreau
because he wanted to get paid
but they was like, but you're not even
killing it.
Hold on, man. y'all got to understand
what i bring to the movie y'all got to see what's going on with your iron man man
y'all got iron hearts man y'all need to soften up those iron hearts this iron gonna poison your chest, man. And Don Cheadle was like, I can come in here and help y'all out.
Let me tell y'all how Don Cheadle works.
I need some money, man.
You got to pay me shit.
Here's what we've learned.
Downey's salary was increased dramatically for Iron Man
to a rumored $10 million plus a cut of the back-end profit.
Yeah, and the first one got $500,000.
Yeah, and fucking Terrence got $10 million plus a cut of the back end profit. Yeah, the first one got $500,000.
Yeah, and fucking Terrence got $2 million.
That in turn led to Marvel Studios to drastically slash Howard's pay
to what the actor said was just $40,000.
That's crazy.
That's so low.
That's so low.
For that funny movie
after he was already in the first one?
That's crazy.
That's so funny to pay someone $2 million and be That's funny. That's funny. That's funny. That's funny. That's funny. That's funny. That's funny. That's funny. That's funny. That's funny. That's funny. That's funny. That's funny. That's funny. That's funny. That's funny. That's funny. That's funny. That's funny. That's funny. That's funny. That's funny. That's funny. That's funny. That's funny. That's funny. That's funny. That's funny. That's funny. That's funny. That's funny. That's funny. That's funny. That's funny. That's funny. That's funny. That's funny. That's funny. That's funny. That's funny. That's funny. That's funny. That's funny. That's funny. That's funny. That's funny. That's funny. That's funny. That's funny. That's funny. That's funny. That's funny. That's funny. That's funny. That's funny. That's funny. That's funny. That's funny. That's funny. That's funny. That's funny. That's funny. That's funny. That's funny. That's funny. That's funny. That's funny. That's funny. That's funny. That's funny. That's funny. I love it. Yeah, it's pretty exciting. You never think about that. Like, I always, when I was a kid watching, and I was like, why did they swap that black dude out?
Like, that had no concept of behind the scenes industry.
Yeah, it's also.
So if I just was like, yeah, they got a new black guy, whatever.
It's also like a reverse Aunt Viv, because on The Fresh Prince, they went light, and on Iron Man, they went dark.
You ain't never lied to Cole.
That's exactly what happened.
Okay, so meanwhile, Tony's enjoying his celebrity status
and using his Iron Man suit to maintain peace.
To continue the legacy of his father, Howard, John Slattery,
he brings back the Stark Expo at NYC.
So this is why he's on stage at that big thing in his costume.
Yeah.
And at one point they're like, it's the year long Stark Expo.
And I was like, a year long Expo?
Who's ever heard of that?
People really care about this, I guess.
Like people fucking love Iron Man.
That was weird.
I thought that was a very weird thing.
I couldn't figure out why the event was happening at all.
Me either.
I feel like they weren't, I feel like there wasn't like, it didn't feel like there was some reason.
It just felt like we just were picking up and seeing that now he's super famous as Iron Man and everyone cares or something.
I don't know.
But Tony gets subpoenaed to appear before Congress where he is pressured by Senator Schoen, played by Gary Shanling, to turn over his designs to the government.
Senator Schoen brings out Tony's corporate rival, Justin Hammer, Sam Rockwell, as an expert witness to support their case, followed by Tony's best friend, Lieutenant Colonel James Rhodes, now played by Don Cheadle, who just comes in and goes, it's me.
I'm Rhodes.
I'm here.
Let's do this or whatever.
He's like, get over it.
He's like, forget about it.
Fuck off.
Forget about it. I'm snitching on you. I betrayed Rhodes. I'm here. Let's do this or whatever. He's like, get over it. Yeah, he's like, forget about it. Fuck off. Forget about it.
I'm snitching on you.
I betrayed you.
Forget about it.
Let's talk about it.
Sam Rockwell.
First of all, Sam Rockwell is a great actor.
He was so funny.
I didn't even know that was him.
Like, he looks so different in three billboards over Edmunds,
or whatever.
But I definitely feel like this movie was just based, like the whole storyline is just like, this dude is tight and these other dudes is just hating on him.
Yeah.
Yeah, they're all hating.
That man was so mad.
He was just like, I can't stand this dude.
Yeah.
He hates Iron Man.
He hates Tony Stark.
They showed the video of him.
He was embarrassed. The machine was breaking. He showed the video of him. He was embarrassed.
The machine would break.
He was like, hold on.
Plug it back in.
Plug it back in.
So how'd he fix this?
It was crazy.
He was like, that dude didn't die.
He didn't die.
And then he was like, I can't stand this.
Why you gonna pull that up? Why you gonna pull that up?
Why you gonna pull that up right now?
He's trying to take the DVD player out.
Okay, wait.
So Senator Shuren then proves that other attempts by foreign powers to duplicate the Iron Man suit have failed miserably and also embarrasses Hammer, who had testified against him by showing he had also made a bungled attempt at creating a prototype and then fucking tony stark is like i've privatized peace and i was like what is happening
what do you mean you've privatized see the first movie felt so that the plot was so simple it was
like they were just like there's a bad guy we gotta like stop this or you know whatever it's
just like that's it and now i feel like it stop this. It was just like, that's it.
And now I feel like he's doing way too much.
Yeah, he's going to Senate meetings.
He's now in the government.
Okay, so at home, Jarvis.
Jarvis has dots.
Does Jarvis stand for something?
Just a...
Oh, yeah.
Really visual, insensitive.
Jovial.
Succubus.
Succubus!
Confirms to Tony that, oh,
Leah's typing an answer.
Okay, we're gonna find out.
Jarvis is...
Oh, nice.
What?
Just a rather very intelligent system is not a good no it's like it's like they
came up with the name first and then maybe we just did and then who comes up with that
tony's a genius and that's what he came up with yeah okay because that's funny though
that fits tony's brand where he's like yeah i, I'm this smart-ass dude, but also, I'll be
out here bullshitting.
Yeah.
He's like, I ain't really.
You know I'm not even trying right now.
Yeah.
So, Jarvis, just a really, whatever.
Confirms to Tony.
Just a really very, a really very intelligent system?
Confirms to Tony.
Oh, he named after his father's butler, whose last name was Jarvis.
Okay, so he had to come up with the meaning.
Oh, so he had to really shoehorn some shit.
Okay.
Yeah.
So Jarvis confirms to Tony
that the toxic levels in his blood have risen.
What?
Oh, yeah.
Does it mean the shrapnel?
Yeah, he was like,
your heart,
you only have so many of these little things left.
He had the little chips to put in his little...
Yeah.
All his SD cards kept burning up.
Yeah. The palladium. That's just nasty. Yeah. It chips to put in his little... All his SD cards kept burning up. The palladium.
It was like infecting his body because
it's like radiation basically putting
in his soul. Yeah, and they saw, they showed
his chest and it was like all veins
of like crackliness, like it was coming
apart or something. Yeah, and
I didn't like it. It looked like...
I don't know what it looked like. Oh, it looked like that game,
that red game with the knobs
where you make the lines.
Oh, wait. Etch-a-Sketch?
Yep. Oh, yeah.
Like someone Etch-a-Sketch-ed on his body.
Lauren, I gave you no hints.
That red game with the lines.
Wait, what do you mean the red game
with the knobs where you make the lines?
To even call it a game
is a meme.
It wasn't a game it's not a game
that's art
it was like the hardest thing ever and then some people are
really good at it somehow and it makes no sense
it doesn't make any sense because I can only make lines
what if Jarvis was like
you need to stop eating all that pork
stop eating those Burger King
cheeseburgers you ate in the previous video
he loves Burger King heburgers You ate in the previous video He loves Burger King
He wants an American cheeseburger
The palladium
What's palladium?
The palladium that's powering the arc reactor
Oh yeah
Keeping the shrapnel from reaching his heart
Is slowly killing him
And there's no other suitable replacements
Oopsies
I guess our friend Jensen didn't really have a long-term plan for this.
He sure did.
That's why he was like,
I'm good to die.
Tony thinking he'll die.
Makes pepper pots.
Gwyneth Paltrow,
CEO of a Stark industries and makes Natalie Rushman,
Scarlett Johansson,
his new assistant.
Where the fuck did she come from?
She came from nowhere.
And then he's all like horny for her instantly and then she kicks that guy's ass and that was weird for me i was
like and we're all just like chill that this lady i didn't even see her take her shoes off gets in
this ring and then just beats this man up and everyone's like cool i know they're like oh she's
tough too i mean i i took me about an hour and a half
and then I said oh is she Black Widow
oh yeah
Mike was like is she
yeah I guess so
but it took me so long is that the first time we see her
it was kind of trippy watching that
I've never seen her before
yeah I think so yeah that means
dang that was like her intro to the Marvel Universe
yeah so she just comes in as like a sweet little assistant.
And okay, at the Monaco Grand Prix, Tony takes out the Formula One driver who's representing Stark Industries and drives it himself, seeking some enjoyment before he dies, despite putting himself in immediate danger.
Uh-oh, Franco soon appears on the track to jump rope.
and go. Soon appears on the track to jump rope.
Tony, and he baits Tony
by attacking the racing cars using his
modified harness and electric whips.
Happy Hogan.
That's his name?
Jon Favreau
is Happy Hogan.
Happy Hogan.
Happy Hogan. And Pepper,
these names show up to the race track
to save Tony.
And throw him in the...
You have to be a noun or an adjective.
Pepper Potts.
Pepper Potts.
Pepper Potts.
Pepper Potts.
Pepper Potts.
Happy Hogan.
These are the race.
My name is Happy Hogan.
I'm here to save you.
Ruin it for ruin.
It's not the way.
Yeah.
They had a fun dance.
Pepper Potts and Happy Hogan.
That was good.
They were having fun together on the track.
That was an intense scene on a racetrack. It was very intense.
And dare I say, sexy.
So they show up to save Tony by like driving a car into him.
And then he just like really faints fast.
And then they give him his
portable mark 5 suit and then vanco wakes up and then he like defeats vanco um tony visits vanco
in prison discovers that ivan is the son of disgraced russian physicist anton vanco who
collaborated on the first arc reactor with tony's father vanco is later broken out of jail by justin
hammer who recruits him to make his own iron Man suits to gain revenge on Tony by ruining his reputation.
Oh, my God.
A lot.
A lot happened.
A lot of stuff.
I truly, I just was, I found, what's his name?
Mickey, I always want to say the wrong one.
Rooney.
Mickey Rourke?
Yeah, Mickey Rooney.
I've said that like four times. Mike was like, it's not Rooney. say the wrong one. Mickey Rourke? Yeah, Mickey Rourke. I've said that like four times.
Mike was like, it's not Rooney.
Shut the fuck up.
But I always think he's creepy.
Like when he was in The Wrestler, he's so raw.
Like the way he looks, it looks like he's been like,
just like his face is just like stretched and leathery.
And he's just so intense.
And I really was curious what it was like to actually act
with this man because he seemed so scary when he was approaching him on the on the Grand Prix track
he was so intense that it it looked it looked real I felt it was very authentic it was a very
authentic performance um he did he have plastic surgery something's up, right? Yeah. Something's going on with the face.
Did he?
What's his story?
I think it's a nice face.
People think he's handsome.
Everyone's handsome to somebody.
Yeah, he looks like he's lived a life.
It's one of the top searches is plastic surgery.
Okay, so what's...
Yeah, because he's got these lips that are...
Oh, my God.
When he was young?
Whoa, you got to look at when he was young.
Wasn't he in Point Break or something? What movie was he in? Was he? I don't know, but he was.? Whoa, you got to look at when he was young. Wasn't he in like Point Break or something?
What movie was he in?
Was he?
I don't know, but he was.
Top Gun?
He was?
Top Gun?
Oh my God, you got it.
Maybe one of them 80s movies.
Okay, I got to find out which one that was.
Doing slow motion scenes or something?
Oh wow, yeah, he was cute.
It's kind of shocking.
There's this one picture
that looks like he has a mask
he looks like auntie now
auntie Rourke
interesting
he was a man on fire
I don't know why he did this
because he was a super good looking man
and he has
messed with his face a lot.
I have questions.
I'm going to Google Mickey Rourke plastic surgery.
Why?
Yeah.
Like he has an explanation.
Let me tell you why.
He suffered a few broken ribs, a compressed cheekbone, and a split tongue.
And then he got memory loss.
What happened?
Split tongue.
Why did it start in the middle of
vaccination?
What the fuck?
I want to know what happened.
Yeah, me too.
There's a whole vice article about his face.
The Pope of Greenwich Village.
He was in the Pope of Greenwich Village.
You did not think of that. Yeah, that was the one I was thinking about. The Pope of greenwich village he was in the pope of greenwich village that's the one i was you did not think of that yeah that was the one i was thinking about the pope of greenwich village
it was i was thinking top gun or you know but it was the pope of greenwich village i get those
movies yeah that one's really famous and popular oh okay so boxing he became a boxer oh that's where
okay because then he was in the wrestler where it was like really i think that was why he was
put in the wrestler oh yes okay boxing so maybe he got clocked in the head a handful of
times and he kind of changed the you know makeup of the situation because he i mean look that's a
that's a shocking once people start doing plastic surgery it's dangerous though because you just
you lose track of what you looked like before and then it's just a whole path that you're on
and yeah i'm watching darcy and stacy's faces evolve in real time 90 day fiance oh my god i know it's it's wild on instagram
just i i stopped watching 90 day which i think is a huge problem because i think i'm missing out on
some amazing stuff i know you really are my dad recently started watching and i'm like you started
when i stopped i've been like begging him to watch it for years. This before the 90 days is really incredible.
There are some true blue loony tunes.
This woman, Kim, she's everything.
And then she gets pretty bad.
Anyway, back to Iron Man.
Okay, okay.
Back to Iron Man, even though we could talk about that.
I feel like that plastic surgery thing is a good metaphor
for what Tony Stark was going through.
Because he's wearing this suit and he's becoming
he's losing track of who he was
before. Wow.
You just made that, that sounds smart.
Wow.
Tony Stark.
That's true. Okay, so where do we leave off here?
Okay, so Tony throws what he believes
will be his last birthday party and stumbles
around drunk in his armor when
Tony begins to endanger his party guests
by blasting objects out of the air in their vicinity,
his friend Lieutenant Colonel James Rhodes
dons a silver suit to subdue him.
The next day, Tony, disgraced and hungover
and sitting in a donut, is approached...
Oh, yeah, he's in the Randy's donut sign.
...is approached by Nick Fury of S.H.I.E.L.D.,
Samuel L. Jackson and Rushman.
Who's really Natalie or Natasha Romanoff.
Sorry.
And undercover shield agent who provides him with a box of his father's old
research that can hopefully be used to find a cure for his palladium poisoning
plan.
Palladium palladium.
Palladium.
Who knows?
I did like that.
Samuel L.
Jackson's asked him to get out of that donut.
That made me laugh.
That was funny.
And I thought that was a cool shot to be in the donut.
And then he's like,
what's going on?
Should I look at your eye patch?
I was like,
is this more improv?
It felt like he was kind of like being loose.
I thought it was rude too.
I would never ask someone with an eye patch,
where do I look?
I just look at your face.
Like he's never encountered someone
with anything,
I don't know,
unusual. Yeah. Yeah. But he, I think that at your face. Like he's never encountered someone with anything, I don't know, unusual.
Yeah.
Yeah.
But he, I think that was improv probably.
It felt very loose and fast.
Yeah.
Using his father's research, Tony watches a video with a message from his detty that
leads him to examine the original 1974 diorama.
See those diarrhea? We're going to examine the original 1974 diorama. See that was diarrhea?
We're going to examine the original 1974 diarrhea.
Was this when I looked down?
I was like, what?
Did I miss that part?
In reality, a disguised diagram for the molecular structure of a new element.
Tony goes into hardware mode,
hand building a particle accelerator with Jarvis' help
and synthesize the new element increase.
A new perfected arc reactor that cures his palladium poisoning.
Realizing Hammer's involvement with Vanko,
Tony races to the Stark Expo.
Wait, did we miss a part where Vanko asked for his bird?
Oh, yeah.
Well, I think that was before that.
I really liked the scene where he's in a...
And the jail?
In a...
Yeah, when he breaks out of jail,
he's in that hangar with the plane.
I was like, why is he eating dinner with a plane there?
And then he's like, my bird.
I want my bird.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Sam Rockwell was funny when he was like,
oh, so you like the bird now?
Like it was even his bird. But he's just like... That was a funny thing to point out. Yeah, he was so passionate. I'll take this other bird. I couldn't get a read on that Russian guy.
When he was helping him, it was weird. Like, I couldn't tell if he was like really wanting to help him or what was going on. I don't think they ever made a choice. It was very like waffling on what he was actually doing.
Yeah.
And then I like Sam Rockwell, though.
That was a fun character.
Yeah, it was.
He's very, you know, he's been dating Leslie Bibb since 2007,
who was in the first Iron Man.
Really?
What?
Who knew this?
Which means they met before they were both in Iron Man.
Oh, my word.
And then she's in this for a second with him, right?
Or was that something I'm mixing up in my head?
Yeah, no, that happened.
And I thought, oh, how fun for this couple.
They both get to be in such a big movie together.
She's tall.
He's tall?
She's tall.
I was like, yeah, no, he's not.
Because I was like, I think she's taller than him.
So unless she's like 6'5".
They met in Los Angeles when he was filming Frost Nixon.
That's when they met.
Oh.
How cute.
Frost Nixon.
I wonder what he say to get at her.
Like, listen, you know, what's good, ma?
What's good, bib?
What's good, bib?
What's good, bib? good bib what's good bib they call me big rock dog
you want me to dribble on that bib
maybe that's what they said
oh my god
alright now I gotta get in this mixing character
okay we have to take a break.
So, okay, at the Stark Expo,
Justin Hammer unveils his new military drones captained by Rhodes in a heavily weaponized version
of the confiscated Mark II armor.
However, they realize that Vanko has hacked them and has complete control of both the
drones and Rhodes' new armor, and Tony arrives just as they go on the attack.
As Tony battles against these remote-controlled enemies, Happy Hogan and Romanoff race to
Hammer Industries' headquarters to stop Vanko.
Romanoff is able to give Rhodes control of his armor again so that he and tony can fight the drones and vanco together meanwhile hammer's attempts to regain control
of the drones get him placed into nypd custody uh the two armored allies combine their powers
and successfully take vanco down by vanco's armor and the hammer drones are revealed to have uh to
be equipped to self-destruct as they begin to
detonate tony races to save pepper pots flying her to a rooftop where they reconcile and smooch
wait so did we skip the part two where they were fucking venko gets that like potato in his food
oh yeah because that's earlier yeah so so he gets given like, wait, who sent him that? That's, oh, so Sam Rockwell sent him that potato and then a person to kill who's wearing his outfit?
Yeah, so Venko gets like, yeah, wait, no, I think that's who replaces him.
So it looks like he's still in jail because he had the same number on his jail.
Yeah, but he blew him up.
Yeah, I think, I don't know what that was supposed to be.
So he gets this like, he gets his meal delivered, and it has, like, mashed potatoes, and then
the notes, like, enjoy the potatoes, and he, like, picks them up, and they flip them over,
and there's, like, a bomb inside them with, like, a countdown clock on it.
And then he, then, like, they-
He knew exactly what to do.
This guy brings over-
Yeah, he asked no questions.
Yeah, like, the jail guy brings over, like, a key and, like, places it there, and then
they bring in another guy who's basically his stunt
double who's gonna like die for him yeah he's looking at him like oh no i know he looks at his
like chest where he has like his number his like prisoner number or whatever and then he it's the
same as his and then he's like okay i got all the clues i need and he just like he slaps the mashed
potatoes onto the wall and it sticks and then it starts to count down
and then it blows up everyone and he
like runs away and gets out.
So that's what happened there. I feel like
they never paid off that fake death.
It would seem like they were trying to fake his death, but
it's like no one seemed to care.
Oh my god, he's alive!
I know. And they put a bag
on his head and dragged him out.
I got a little confused.
They also like his whips never come back.
I was like, why did he have them in the first place?
He was going to use that to do something.
Yeah.
He used it to intimidate him on the on the track or whatever.
I don't know.
Yeah, it didn't pay off.
A lot of things didn't pay off.
So, OK, at the debriefing, Fury tells, it's Fury, right?
Or Furry?
Fury.
Fury.
Tells Tony that while he's furry.
So, Furry tells Tony he's unsuitable for the Avengers Initiative.
S.H.I.E.L.D. wants him as a consultant.
My God, reading is so hard sometimes.
Tony agrees on the condition that-
My eyes start to cross when I'm reading these things.
Same. I'm like, what?
And I almost just said Senator Sperm,
but it's Senator Stern
presents him in Rhodes with their medals of victory,
which Schoen does
reluctantly.
Meanwhile,
in the post,
Stern, Sperm, Sperm, I don't know.
Meanwhile, in the post-credits scene, we see S.H.I.E.L.D. agent Phil Coulson driving to a't know meanwhile in the post-credit scene we see shield agent
phil colson driving to a remote impact crater in the new mexico desert over the phone colson
informs fury that they found it which is revealed to be a mysterious hammer and that's thor thor
has a hammer yeah so wait are all of these like teasers they're just teasing to the next movie
that's coming out i think so because like samuel
jackson was in the previous one and then he's in this movie he like showed up just in the in the
last moment in the teaser oh um and like he's in tony stark's house or whatever so that's i mean i
guess it's to get everyone really excited huh when you're if you're a big marvel fan you get really
excited to see what the next little trailer is going to be at the end of the movie I'll be like
oh shit
this is going to be crazy but it's like two years
from now
it's going to take forever
I know you have to wait two years
okay well this movie
oh my god this movie was nominated
for an Oscar for best visual effects
wow the Oscars were hard for Iron Man.
I know, they really were.
They were nominated previously for Sound or something.
But this was like, the visual effects were so much better than the first one.
It was like so much easier on the eyes.
It was very well done.
And they also won Favorite Action Movie at the People's Choice Awards.
And critically, the film was less well received than the first Iron Man.
It has an approval rating of 72% on Rotten Tomatoes.
The original Iron Man had 94.
That is high.
Brian Lowry of Variety wrote,
Iron Man 2 isn't as much fun as its predecessor, but it will do.
It'll do.
All right, Brian.
Roger Ebert gave it three out of four stars writing iron man 2 is polished
high octane sequel not as good as the original but building once again on a quirky performance
by robert downey jr yes uh it holds a 71 audience score in rotten tomatoes it has the
fifth had the fifth largest opening weekend ever at the time, earning $128 million that weekend and $623.9 million
worldwide by the end of its run.
That's a lot of fucking money, baby!
That's huge. Now, it's time
for our segment, Is Chris in This?
This is a segment where we
have to have a yes or no conversation about
if a Chris, Chris Hemsworth, Chris Evans,
Chris Pratt, or Chris Pine is
in this film. Now, was a Chris in this film?
I don't think so. I don't think Chris in this film? I don't think so.
I don't think so either.
No.
I didn't see one.
Yeah.
I didn't see not a Chris.
Now, should a Chris have been in this film?
Maybe, but also I thought it was a very convoluted plot
where a lot of things didn't pay off.
So no, no Chris.
I would say I would, again, put Kristen Chenoweth in this film.
In just a little,
a little suit.
In a little Iron Man suit.
That would be so cute.
I'm going to put
Chris Brown in this film.
When he's whipping
the thing on,
Chris Brown just comes in,
does a back flip
and like starts dancing.
In Monaco?
He just happens to be in Monaco.
He's saying the
Star Spangled Banner
in Monaco.
I need to be somewhere real quick.
Okay, you want to do some trivia?
Hell yeah.
Okay.
Okay.
So the Latin phrase that Natalie slash Natasha says to Tony is,
Fallaces sunt rerum species.
I'm going to like summon a demon into my house.
Yeah, that's what it truly sounded like.
It actually translates to the appearance.
The appearances of things are deceptive.
So I guess that means she's going like, I'm not who you think I am.
Well, many actresses were considered for the role of Natasha Romanoff, including future Marvel stars Natalie Portman's in Marvel movies and Brie Larson.
future marvel stars natalie portman's in marvel movies and brie larson emily blunt was actually offered the part before scarlett johansson but had to pass
you to scheduling wait i could really see that i think that would have been cool
i would have liked emily blunt yeah i like that would have been good she's kind of she's her devil
wars product character where she's like a bitch is real i i love that character i feel like she
could really do that with this like kind of like be badass and she probably gets to wear a cool outfit
eventually well a lot of people she was doing what gulliver's travels oh gulliver's travel no one saw
that i didn't see that either i don't think that anyone not one person it feels like it didn't come
out something is that a book it's like a really old movie it's a well at least a really old story i don't know if it was like maybe it was a book but that's been done before
right because they did that was like an old 90s movie too i think why i have a question did
anybody notice natasha's hair change like she like she had a perm all of a sudden like was she
wearing a wig the whole time yes her hair got totally different like near the end yeah yeah
when she started going to battle mode she had curly hair and i was like when did she wearing a wig the whole time? Yes, her hair got totally different near the end. Yeah, when she started going to battle mode,
she had curly hair.
I was like, when did she get a perm?
Maybe that's like, is that how the character is drawn?
Oh, maybe.
I don't know.
I don't know either, but maybe she got a perm
when she was getting dressed in the car
and Happy fucking was getting too happy.
Happy Hoodlum or whatever his name is.
That was Happy Hoodlum?
Happy Hogan was
he was a huggle.
Happy Hogan?
What if Happy Hogan
Happy Hogan is heroes?
What if he isn't
what if he's in
in beauty school?
And so he was like
hey can I please
just practice
so you have an exam?
He's like I'm staring
at your hair
not your body.
Please let me put
these perm mods in.
And he just looked at her
and he's like ooh man
she could really use
a perm back there
that's crazy
but the thing is I never saw her wear
curly hair in other movies
maybe it was just a crazy wig
they had to put on her randomly or something
this next piece of trivia is wild
what
a lot of Venko's identifying features were suggested
by Mickey Rourke he wanted to perform half of his role in Russian the trivia is wild what a lot of vanco's identifying features were suggested by mickey
rourke he wanted to perform half of his role in russian what do you mean half what and consulted
on the character's tattoos and gold teeth as well as having a pet cockatoo uh in fact rourke paid
for the bird and the gold teeth out of his own pocket okay i kind of love that that's so crazy
i love him.
And he's like,
I need to have gold teeth.
And they were like, no.
And then he's like,
I'll get them.
I'll make it.
He's like, it's not in the budget.
And he was like,
it's in my budget.
You don't tell me,
no, I'm Mick's roommate.
I like that he had that bird.
He paid for the bird?
It was funny.
It was funny.
It was a good addition.
He knew what he was doing. Yeah, it was funny. It was quirky. It was a good addition. He knew what he was doing.
Yeah, it was funny.
It was quirky.
Okay, compared to the first film, there are more Easter eggs and references to other Marvel
characters that speak to the growing cinematic universe.
For example, Black Panther's Wakanda can be spotted on a map.
Wow, that's really small, like, Easter egg.
Tony has an older version of Captain America's shield in storage.
Why?
In storage. Aging. It's, like, in the back Captain America's shield in storage. Why? In storage.
It's like in the back.
It's behind the door, but it's there.
Agent Coulson finds Thor's hammer in New Mexico and so on.
Fans, including actor Tom Holland, have retroactively decided that the child wearing the Iron Man helmet who Stark saves at the end of the film is young Peter Parker, a.k.a.
Spider-Man? You can't just
say it's that.
That's crazy.
I'm going to click and see the child.
I was wondering about that.
It won't open for some reason. Oh, he got on a glove.
Oh.
No, you can't
watch a movie and then years later decide
that's what happened.
Ask Justin Theroux.
Yeah, he...
Someone wrote it.
He wrote it.
He wrote it down.
He knows who that child is.
Is that a Spidey glove, Leah?
What he's got on that picture?
It's not a Spidey glove?
No, he's just got the Iron Man outfit on.
Oh.
Yeah.
I'm tripping.
It could be anybody.
You can say it's anyone.
Yeah, it was me
as a little girl.
Yeah.
Oh, I get it
from the Marvel Universe.
It could be you too.
No, no, no.
I get it.
It's Ant-Man
or it's fucking
who's in Marvel?
It's Thor.
It's little Thor. It's Thor when he was a baby in the Met's Thor. It's little Thor.
Thor when he was a baby.
He was a little black panda when he was white.
Nicole's like,
I don't know if you know this, but when I was a little
girl, I met Iron Man.
He saved my life. He did.
So Tom Holland
said in an interview that he talked to Kevin
Feig, the president of Marvel Studios
and can confirm that it's Peter. Okay, but so the president of Marvel Studios, and can confirm that it's Peter.
Okay, but so the president of Marvel Studios
is just some guy who then eventually became the president.
So he's also kind of just saying it is that, right?
I mean, they know everything about it.
It's whatever you dream of.
Yeah.
That's cute, I guess.
Yeah.
I guess.
Okay, so Lamar, what is your overall review of this?
Like, what do you, like, did you like it the second time around?
No, I didn't like it, but I was, it was fun to watch it the second time around
because I was seeing all these cool, like, hidden things that I didn't know.
Like, Elon Musk is in the movie, which I was like, that was crazy.
Oh, I know, that was crazy.
Yeah, he was at that party when they was like up in as an extra?
he had lyrics
he goes like this
he's like
he had lyrics
he had verses
he did
he walks up to
Tony and he's like I have an idea for
a big product to sell or something and then he's like okay man and then he keeps going and then he sits down and he's like, I have an idea for a big product to sell or something.
And then he's like, okay, man. And then he
keeps going and then he sits down and he's like, yes.
Like, you know. Yeah, yeah.
I did not clock that at all.
That's exactly what happened, Thorin.
It was so weird
because I was like, in my mind, I'm like
when I saw, like, it was actually
a part of the movie, but I'm like, when I saw that movie
it's just like that scene
just completely went by my head. Well, because you didn't know who he was then, right?'s just like that scene just well because you didn't know who he was then right because it's like i feel like we didn't
know who he was until more recently like he became like a person where we knew what he looked like
and all this stuff before but he was obviously making all his shit back then but we weren't
really aware of it i feel like when did tesla become tesla um because he you know what he said
he said i got an electric airplane i got an idea for an electric private jet.
And I was like, oh, so he's already thinking about Tesla.
It was founded in 2003.
Okay, so they were already a thing, but only like what, crazy rich people had them or something?
Like real rich people knew about Teslas.
Right.
But yeah, so I didn't like the movie necessarily, but I liked watching it again.
It was cool to see how cocky, I didn't realize, yeah, Tony Stark was real cocky and it's cool to see him get like, you know, humbled in front of
everybody, in front of the world. I like that. But ultimately it was way too long, especially,
you know, I woke up this morning to watch it and I was like, this is a long movie.
That's hard. Very long.
Yeah. But I appreciate being taken back to that time because that was the beginning.
That was the beginning of it all.
Carl, what did you think?
This is your first time seeing this for real.
Yeah.
You know, I was up washing dishes and doing laundry and things as it was on.
I was catching little things.
I thought that. I love it. You really I was catching little things. I thought that
I didn't watch the movie.
I didn't see any of it.
I don't have an opinion
because I didn't watch it.
It was on
and I had some things to do.
No, no, no.
I definitely think
Robert Downey Jr.
is very funny in the movie.
I like that.
I also thought Tom Holland
was really funny.
Not Tom Holland.
What's his name?
Sam Rockwell. That's how much you didn't watch. You I also thought Tom Holland was really funny. Not Tom Holland. What's his name? Sam Rockwell.
That's how much you didn't watch.
You're like, Tom Holland was great.
No, we were just talking about Tom Holland.
No, yes.
Tom Holland was Zendaya.
Anyway, I
thought they were both funny. I thought that it was
a really funny juxtaposition, like how
Sam Rockwell's suits wasn't as
tight as Tony Stark's.
He just wanted to beat his dude so bad. He was such a big hater.
And so I'm happy that Tony Stark still wins
because, you know,
death to all haters.
But he, that was,
yeah, I did not like the film.
No, I did not.
That's fair, that's fair.
I like all these aspects about it, but.
With that being said.
With that being said, I did not enjoy the film.
I thought it was funny.
I thought it was some funny parts.
Yeah.
Also, it was the first time we see him kiss Gwyneth Paltrow.
That was like, I didn't realize that's when that happened.
That was crazy.
Yeah, yeah.
We did get a kiss, which we didn't get in the first film
and i did appreciate the kiss because i'm hoping that marvel movies have more sexiness
i know say stir wars or the magical hike or no what was the other one
only abusive sexual interactions yes if you're in a relationship, you're going to get hit.
No kisses.
There's never like a nice sex scene in that.
Well, anyways, we have our five-star review.
What do you call it?
Section.
What do you call it?
Segment.
That's the word I'm looking for.
Five-star industries.
Okay.
Now, this one comes from MC Jones 51.
They say five stars about our newcomers podcast.
Good hosts, good guests, good movies. Good God, good god let's eat wow they had fun with that so in this season in addition to apple reviews
of newcomers we also will be reading reviews from letterboxd so we'll be we will also rate the film
and we'll give it a one sentence review ourselves on letterboxd and we have our own account on there
called newcomers if you want to see how we
review each movie.
If you don't know what Letterboxd is,
it's just where people write reviews on films.
And if you don't know, neither do I because I actually
don't fully know. I've heard about Letterboxd
and my friend made
a comment about being
embarrassed if his Letterboxd got seen.
So I'm like, maybe people are on there writing a lot of
detailed reviews about everything. Kind of like like um the yelp for movies uh okay so here's an example ellie rewatched
uh in 2019 and said kind of cool how roadie and tony devite vanco with the power of gay love
okay and then neve gave it three and a half stars and said, Iron Man who?
I'm only here.
I'm here only for Miss Natasha Romanoff.
Okay.
All right, Neve.
Calm down.
Now, we have to rate the movie and give it a sentence.
And I think we have to rate it lower than we did Iron Man because I think we liked Iron
Man more than the sequel.
So I would say we give this one two and a half stars.
Does that feel fair? I agree one two and a half stars i agree two and a half stars came for mickey rourke left with sam rockwell yeah and uh yep hard to follow for me
at times a little meandering uh uh two and half stars. And I will add
Gwyneth and
Scarlett were good.
Robert Downey Jr.
remains funny and charming,
however, too cocky in this
sequel. Also,
welcome to the franchise
fucking...
Don Cheadle?
Don Cheadle. What's his name? Don Cheadle.
You were nice and good.
Bye-bye, Terrence.
Goodbye, Terrence.
Rest in peace, man.
I'm going to Empire.
So, is that what he did?
I think so.
Yeah, he went to Empire.
So, right into Empire.
Well, 588-2300.
Empire!
Today.
So please leave us a review on Apple Podcasts.
We will read a five-star review.
So don't give us less than that.
That's just rude.
We will pick one to read.
And we will also ask that you please rate us on Spotify.
That helps us get
seen by more people and they can listen to our podcast um lamar carl thank you for doing this
you guys have anything you want plug uh yeah just come on over to uh come on down the hallway
to the xoxo gossip king located right here in Anya's living room.
And Grand Crew.
Oh yeah and Grand Crew we're on the TV show. It's really funny.
It is on Peacock,
Hulu and
NBC.
It's super funny. Yeah. Thank you.
Thank you Lauren for watching. Oh my god yes. I have to catch up.
I've seen the first two episodes so far
and I love it and it's great. There's so many
fun UCB people on that show.
It's a whole fun crew.
The Grand Crew. The Grand Crew
is a fun crew. I googled
Grand Crew when Phil first
announced it and I learned that that's a wine
term. I didn't understand that was a wine
term, which is interesting.
Crew, a C-R-U.
There's layers. There's levels and layers. Layers. Alright, a C-R-U. I, it's very, there's layers,
there's levels and layers.
Layers.
Um,
all right.
Well,
everyone watch that,
listen to their podcast and we'll be back next week
with Thor,
which came out in 2011.
So if you want to watch that
and be prepared for the episode,
do that.
I already watched it.
Nicole,
you're not going to have fun.
I'm really sorry.
I'm like not excited
about this long haired man
with a fucking hammer. I, I know. And I, I think you'll remain unexcited. I'm really sorry. I'm like not excited about this long haired man with a fucking hammer. I
know and I think you'll remain
unexcited. I feel like I'm
curious what you'll think but okay
we'll see. We'll see.
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