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I'll come back when I've made my list of ranked MCU films. 

This whole thing started when I entered college and culminated into Infinity War when my high school 10 year reunion started getting discussed.

Weird to think about.

Ok, I've finally got some time to listen. Technically, I came into my office to grade portfolios, but that's easy and now I'm distracted. To hell with Future Joey's time and sanity. 

I guess I didn't pick up on the different characterizations of Drax? I've seen Guardians 1 & 2 and thought his character changes were a pretty natural progression and that he really didn't change THAT much. 

I enjoyed Thor: Ragnarok as well, because of the humor and the imagery, but I was baffled when critics said the tone was handled really well ... ummm ... they were cracking a joke not two seconds after Asgard fell. Felt pretty jarring to me. 

I honestly don't think you HAVE TO watch any other Marvel movie to enjoy and understand the fairly simple and straightforward overall plot of Infinity War. You'd definitely get more out of it if you're familiar with the characters, but I don't think any adult moviegoer would necessarily be confused by it. But again, you definitely would have a better experience not going in blind, so I question why someone wants to see this if they haven't seen others. Only one I understand is people who were super excited for Black Panther just wanting to see him again when that's the only Marvel movie they saw. 

The last party I was at, someone brought up Footloose and a lot of people hadn't seen it. A lot of people at that party still have not seen it. I saw the remake a few years back via Red Box. It was ok. 

Wait, who gave Justice League a pass on SFX? Did you avoid reviews of that movie? The shitty SFX were definitely harped on to no end. Deservedly so in my opinion. 

I honestly wasn't as affected by any of the deaths as anyone else I've talked with, because I didn't care as much about the dead-dead characters and I found the dust thing unconvincing as far as a permanent end for anyone. 

I missed most of the last part of that while grading. 

John Gholson is a familiar sounding name and voice and not just from this podcast, but I cannot figure out where else I'd have heard him. 

Anyway, I had a list of MCU movies ranked, but Phase Three is just too hard to rank for me at the moment, so I gave up. Those are all pretty similar in quality to me.

In Guardians 1, Drax has no sense of humor. The funny part about him is that he is serious to a fault and doesn't understand when people are joking. In Guardians 2, which is set just months later, he's cracking all sorts of dumb jokes and laughing at everything. It was jarring, and especially annoying for me, because I found his loud laughing to be incredibly irritating. So I appreciated that, in Avengers, he was back to being serious and saying things that are funny only because he doesn't understand that they're funny. 

John has definitely been on a ton of podcasts besides ours, and he's written for numerous movie sites and been in quite a few indie movies, including Zero Charisma, Meet Me There,  and Slash (which I am also in). 

Hmmm ... So I can see what you're saying about his change, but that felt like a natural progression to me that he would try to be more jokey. And he still had tat asperger's-like misunderstanding of what is socially appropriate, a la the "Hahahaha you just told everyone your deepest, darkest secret" scene. I'm a bit biased, since Guardians are some of my favorite Marvel films, but I just didn't see any character changes between 1 and 2 as jarring.

And I wouldn't know him from any of those places, so it must be the voice, but great for John! (and you; forgot you were in a movie). I'll have to check out that one and Zero Charisma, which I have seen the trailer for.