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WOOT 0086: Our 2019 Year In Movies Review Plus More

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GHiT’s Year in movies review, plus our look forward and back.

Another Way Off Our Topic (WOOT)) episode this time, where we review 1)  the past year in movies and select our favorites.  2)  We then go into the top movies of the decade.  3)  We also go into the movies of 2020 we are most looking forward to and finally, 4) we cover the worst movies of the past year.  While initially, it does not seem like we have any car talk, we did manage to get a few related car topics into the show.  We hope you enjoy this episode where we cover a bit over 100 movies and shows. 

If you agree, disagree, or have any comments, please feel free to let us know on Instagram at GarageHeroesInTraining or on Facebook at GarageHeroesIT or via email at [email protected].

Highlights from Benny, Alex, Vicki, and Bill’s discussion include:

1)  Alex does his favorite robot impression early on
2)  “Bane” makes several appearances and interviews Alex a bit
3)  Benny and Alex give their thoughts on Star Wars:  Rise of Skywalker
4)  Bill lights up Alex like a lightsaber with a Xerox discussion, lol
5)  Benny shares our opinion on Joe Pesci
6)  Bill does not seem to understand directions for these lists and also finds various ways to cheat his way to having ties

If you have any show requests, please let us know. 

We end with our sincere condolences to the family, friends, and fans of Neil Peart from the band Rush.  He will always be our vote for the most air drummed drummer of all time, even when not close to the way he actually performed. 

Best regards,

Bill, Vicki, and Alan

Hosts of the Garage Heroes In Training podcast
and team members in the GHiT
Immature Endurance Racing Team

WOOT 0086: Our 2019 Year In Movies Review Plus More

WOOT 0080: SPOILER FILLED Discussion of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker

Star Wars Episode IX
Star Wars Episode IX: The Rise of Skywalker

SPOILER FILLED EPISODE:  On this week’s Way Off Our Topic (WOOT) episode, we try to review the most recent Star Wars movie, “The Rise of Skywalker”.  We try to get a broad range of opinions from relatively hard core Star Wars fans to fans who have seen the movies and we also range from 11 years old to over 50.  In general, we all liked the movie.  We had issues with some parts, but in general, the internet backlash is much stronger than any of us felt it should be.  With us this week, we had returning Guest Jeff with his son Josh (11), returning guest Craiggers with his son Noah (18), along with Vicki and Bill. 

Highlights and Discussion centers on the following points:

1)  Our individual Star Wars history and fandom
2)  An in-depth review of most of the major points of “The Rise of Skywalker” along with several discussions along the way, as well as our usual trivia bits
3)  Jeff discusses Roger Bannister’s breaking of the 4-minute mile
4)  New canon and force capabilities expansion
5)  The very full nature of this movie plot and Craig’s very likely theory
6)  Potential editing choices/options to simplify the movie and add more to sections and/or stakes to the movie
7)  Is Hux really Biff
8)  Force users:  anyone vs by birthright/family lineage
9)  Acting comparison between prequels and sequels
10)  The Han Solo cameo and would it have happened is Carrie Fisher had not passed away
11)  Luke’s change in tone vs Episode 8
12)  Overall thoughts and rating of the movie
13)  Impact of Carrie Fisher’s death on the movie and plot points
14)  Star Wars:  Disney vs Lucas films, Closer than you would think
15)  Retcon of The Last Jedi/Episode 8
16)  Favorite characters, both lead and supporting
17)  Coolest Light Saber of the entire series
18)  The Star Wars family tree discussion and significant Naboo commonality
19)  The original sequel trilogy layout vs what we saw

Our Final Ratings:

Jeff:  Wanted to shift focus and expand upon certain other areas 8.0
Josh:  Too Complex, 8.0
Craig:  Sith level avoidance, as would be expected, but 8.0
Noah:  Avoided, rather similarly, Sith in training? 7.0
Vicki:  Still shipping Ben and Rey to a 8.0
Bill:  8.5, not quite a 9 as was thought upon first viewing

And finally a check in on The Mandalorian through episode 7 and a bit about The Witcher

Did we cover everything?  If not, let us know in the comments and we may have a part 2. 

Best regards,
Bill, Vicki, and Alan
Hosts of the Garage Heroes In Training podcast
and team members in the GHiT
Immature Endurance Racing Team

WOOT 0080: SPOILER FILLED Discussion of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker

WOOT 0076: The Mandalorian Episodes 1-3 (Spoiler Filled)

We Got Egg Yo

The Mandolorian
As seen on Disney +

SPOILER FILLED EPISODE.  We had a chance to finally review the new Disney+ star Wars related series the Mandalorian.  After the first three episodes, we are all impressed and looking forward to seeing where we go from here.  Our hosts were joined by our friend Jeff from the Everyone Racers podcast, a long time Star Wars fan and pop culture in general.  In this episode, we gave a brief synopsis of all three episodes so far. 

Thoughts, Theories, and Discussions included:

1)  Show timeline and summary of what we know about the series as a whole

2)  Is Mando a good fighter or does he always need saving by outside forces

3)  Favorite moments

4)  Weekly releases yeah or nay

5)  Favorite characters and then quickly Favorite Character not including “baby yoda”

6)  Things we are hoping for or looking forward to

7)  Several of the popular “baby yoda” theories and their potential impact

8)  Thoughts on Disney plus and the various content

9)  Episode 9 theories and desires:

Somehow we even managed to make several auto and racing realaed references in this episode.  I doubt there are any other Mandorlorain review podcasts that made those connections, lol. 

Best regards,

Bill, Vicki, and Alan

Hosts of the Garage Heroes In Training podcast

and team members in the GHiT

Immature Endurance Racing Team

WOOT 0076: The Mandalorian Episodes 1-3 (Spoiler Filled)

WOOT 0062: D23 2019: Our Review and Impressions

Super D23
Our D23 Review

Another new intro bumper starts off our summary of Disney’s D23 expo with most of the highlights.  We cover most of the announcements and also give our opinion on most and background in many cases if you are not familiar with the different properties.  We also highlighted two additions to the Disney park areas.

We cover a wide variety of the recent announcements including:

  • Moon Knight
  • She Hulk
  • Ms. Marvel: Kamala Khan version
  • Black Panther 2:  May 6, 2022, title still TBD
  • The Eternals: November 2020, added Gemma Chan as Sersi (no longer playing Dr Minerva?) and Barry Keoghan and Kit Harrington (as Black Knight)  (Bill makes two feeble joke at Mr. Harrington’s expense, but Bill knows nothing!)(and Benny doesn’t get either)
  • Black Widow:  Footage was shown, not released, yet
  • Star Wars 9: Rise of Skywalker:  Trailer #2 shown, and internet predictions abound
  • Kingsman 3
  • We WooT our WooT episode by talking about The Matrix and Bill’s top movies of all-time list
  • Artemis Fowl
  • Star Wars:  The Mandalorian
  • Raya and the last Dragon: with Awkwafina and Cassie Steel 11/2020
  • Spiderman and His Amazing Friends: on Disney Junior – Animated
  • Lizzie McGuire:  Hillary Duff starring on Disney+ show
  • The Muppets:  Short form TV show on Disney+
  • Obi Wan Kenobi:  Series Disney+ starring Ewan McGregor
  • Star Wars Galactic Cruiser Hotel:  Specifically for Jeffe, announced for Disney World
  • Mulan:  Showed some of the live action footage
  • Frozen 2
  • Avatar:  Logo for revealed
  • Maleficent:  Mistress of Evil:  Poster shown
  • Cruella Deville:  Emma Stone starring as
  • Soul:  Disney Pixar movie
  • Noelle:  Disney+ movie starring Anna Kendrick and Bill Hader
  • Clone Wars:  animated series returning
  • Monsters at Work:  Disney+ TV series
  • Avengers Campus: Announced for Disney Land
  • Tom Holland presented for Disney/Pixar movie Onward,  …… “I love you 3000”, seemed quite sad during talk
  • Spiderman Sony/Disney Talk here
  • Krypton Soapbox Time again
  • Top 5 Most Wasted villain list (attached)

Our open invitation to Kevin Feige remains!  We won’t try for spoilers but would love to review the MCU and his career to date.

WOOT 0062: D23 2019: Our Review and Impressions

WOOT 0060: Our Review of SDCC 2019

2019 San Diego Comic Con Review

Our SDCC Review
We review the latest news from San Diego Comic Con

We (Finally) cover the recent San Diego Comic Convention (SDCC).  We cover the entire event with what we found of interest.  Marvel dominated most of the announcements, but we tried to cover everything. 

Including:

  • Krypton, several times
  • The Witcher and Henry Cavil
  • Top Gun Maverick Trailer
  • Jay and Silent Bob Reboot movie and all of Kevin Smith’s movies
  • Terminator:  Dark Fate
  • The Cats Trailer
  • It 2
  • Picard trailer
  • The Orville
  • The Watchmen TV series
  • Pennyworth
  • Akira (delay)
  • The Boys on Amazon
  • Bill is back into buying comic books!  Especially the recent Hickman X Men series reboot
  • Marvel TV news:  Agents of Shield final panel, and ABC’s new show speculation, Cloak and Dagger, The Runaways
  • All the CW DC shows, The Flash, Arrow, Supergirl, Legends of Tomorrow, Black Lightning and the Crisis on Infinite Earths crossover event this coming year
  • Doom Patrol series renewed
  • The animated Harley Quinn tv series
  • Marvel Phase 4 announcements
  • Black Widow in May 2020
  • The Eternals November 2020
  • The Falcon and the Winter Soldier tv series in Fall 2020
  • Shang Chi and the Legends of the Ten Rings Starring Simu Liu in February 2021
  • Bill bets Benny a Slurpee that Benny likes the movie and it will break One Billion Dollars
  • Wanda Vision TV show in the spring of 2021
  • Dr Strange and the Multiverse of Madness May 2021
  • Loki TV Series speculation coming in 2021
  • The Hawkeye TV series in the Fall 2021 with both Clint Barton/Jeremy Renner and Kate Bishop
  • Thor Love and Thunder in November 2021
  • West Coast Avengers and Young Avengers speculation/discussion
  • MCU Phase 4 and Phase 5 speculation
  • Also announced movies like:
  • Guardians of the Galaxy 3
  • Captain Marvel 2
  • Black Panther 2
  • Fantastic Four
  • “Mutants”
  • What If animated series with Jeffery Wright
  • Blade in Phase 5
  • Sony-Marvel Crossover potential speculation on Venom 2 and Mobius movie tie ins
  • Howard the Duck animated series
  • D23 Speculation
  • Bill gets on a soapbox, twice, this episode including:
  • Krypton is a must watch show
  • Why the short season/few episode season is a bunch of OOOGAAA horn
  • Vicki has homework to watch Akira and listen to The Sessions Podcast with Bob /Marley

Thoughts about the recent new Corvette C8 reveal since our last episode

And we wrap up with our most looking forward to picks and a big shout out to:

Christian James Hand and his podcast called “The Session” where he breaks down popular songs track by track in a most entertaining manner.  We can’t wait to see him live when he comes to the east coast. 

We will follow up with a D23 review as soon as possible, hopefully with some Marvel Phase 5 information. 

WOOT 0060: Our Review of SDCC 2019