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WOOT 0281 (Spoiler Filled) We review Spiderman: No Way Home and Most of 2021’s Movies

WOOT 0281: (Spoiler Filled) We review Spiderman: No Way Home and Most of 2021’s Movies (& The Matrix Resurrections)

It has been quite a year and we decided to review the recent Spiderman: No Way Home movie and then we go into many of the other movies that we went to this year including Shang Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings and all other MCU and DCEU and related movies and TV shows including The Matrix Resurrections. We then go to ranking the various movies and shows for 2021. Then we go to each of our overall top 5 movies for the year and there was a lot of disagreements and discussions in this area. We also look forward to the upcoming MCU and DCEU releases that are scheduled for the upcoming year plus a bit. After that we then say goodbye to the lovely Vicki and go into the new Matrix movie Resurrections. The movie seems to be very divisive and we have quite strong views on this reboot of the Matrix.

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Vicki, Jennifer, Alan, and Bill

Hosts of the Garage Heroes In Training Podcast and Garage Heroes In Training racing team drivers

Highlights for this No Way Home and 2021 Movie Review episode are:

1) Spiderman: No Way Home is the beginning of the episode and we then have to walk Alex off the Amazing Spiderman cliff. Vicki gets a bit confused over some of the Andrew Garfield Spiderman movies. We then debate the best movie Spiderman.

2) Alex is firmly on the side of Andrew Garfield and also says the Venom movies are good, so we question most of his opinions, lol.

3) Alex’s top 5 all time MCU movies starts a war and then the discussion of each of our MCU Top 5 movies of all time.

4) Then we turn to the order of each of the MCU and DCEU movies and shows for 2021. We agreed on one movie amongst us, lol.

5) A quick review of The Witcher season two.

6) If you are looking for some ideas for movies and TV shows, we also go into our top 5 movies and TV shows of 2021 that we would recommend to everyone.

7) What about what is upcoming and scheduled? It is in here too. Alex, as always, stays positive. It was great knowing him on the podcast, lol.

8) Our thoughts on The Matrix: Resurrection ends this episode. Since this is Bill’s all time favorite movie, you knew we could not skip this one.

So what is your Top 5 MCU releases to date:

1 Iron Man

2 The Incredible Hulk

3 Iron Man 2

4 Thor

5 Captain America: The First Avenger

6 Marvel’s The Avengers

7 Iron Man 3

8 Thor: The Dark World

9 Captain America: The Winter Soldier

10 Guardians of the Galaxy

11 Avengers: Age of Ultron

12 Ant-Man

13 Captain America: Civil War

14 Doctor Strange

15 Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2

16 Spider-Man: Homecoming

17 Thor: Ragnarok

18 Black Panther

19 Avengers: Infinity War

20 Ant-Man and the Wasp

21 Captain Marvel

22 Avengers: Endgame

23 Spider-Man: Far From Home

24 Black Widow

25 Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings

26 Eternals

27 Spider-Man: No Way Home

We would love to know

WOOT 0281: (Spoiler Filled) We review Spiderman: No Way Home and Most of 2021’s Movies (& The Matrix Resurrections)

The Suicide Squad

And Comparing the MCU and DCEU

And Then the Battle Royale Broke Out

WOOT Stands for Way Off Our (normal) Topic so this is NOT a driving or racing episode. What began as a simple review of James Gunn’s new movie The Suicide Squad quickly became a debate of the DC Extended Universe and the MCU from Marvel. Benny and Alex return to their WOOT origin and feel Bill is biased against the DCEU. So we rank all the DCEU and the MCU movies to date and discuss the upcoming movies in both series. We also had a short discussion of the first three Marvel tv shows on Disney+.

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You can subscribe to our podcast on the podcast provider of your choice. This includes the Apple podcast app, Google music, Amazon, and YouTube etc. Also, if you could give our podcast a (5-star?) rating. Even better, a podcast review. We would greatly appreciate it and it would help us to grow the passion and sport of high performance driving.

For instance, leaving an Apple Podcast rating is very easy. If you go to your podcast library, under shows and click on the podcast. There you can leave a (5?) star rating and enter your review.

A link to the episode is: https://tinyurl.com/ThompsonPart1

We hope you enjoy this episode!

Best regards,

Vicki, Jennifer, Alan, and Bill

Hosts of the Garage Heroes In Training Podcast and Garage Heroes In Training racing team drivers

WOOT 0229: The Suicide Squad and Comparing the MCU and DCEU

Battle Royale over the MCU vs the DCEU and The Suicide Squad

Loki, Black Widow, Falcon & the Winter Soldier, and WandaVision

WOOT 0212: Our Thoughts on Loki, Black Widow, Falcon and the Winter Soldier, and WandaVision

It has been several months since we did a WOOT episode where we go Way Off Our Topic of racing and go into another are of our lives, our fandom of virtually all things superheroes. In this episode , we go over our thoughts about the three recent Disney+ MCU related shows: WandaVision, Falcon and the Winter Soldier, and Loki, as well as the most recent Black Widow movie. This recording was prior to the season finale of Loki, so our predictions may prove accurate, insightful, or down right stupid, still TBD, lol.

We tried to cover a lot during a single episode, but if you want more details, let us know. There is easily a ton more detail one every single one of these shows.

We hope you enjoy this bonus WOOT episode!!! We are Garage Heroes In Training after all.

Thankfully we are not training in the Red Room.

If you make it to the end, we cover the HPDE planning for both of our teams at the upcoming PittRace event hosted by NASA Great Lakes.

Link to this episode: https://tinyurl.com/WOOT2021July

PS please don’t forget our discount code for all ApexPro’s. You will receive a free Windshield Suction Cup Mount for the system, a savings of $40. Just enter the code “ghitlikesapex!” when you order. They are a great system and truly invaluable in safely increasing your speed on track and/or autocross etc. The recently released second generation systems and app update increases the capability of the system greatly. Especially if you have a team or friends that race.

WOOT 0212: Our Thoughts on Loki, Black Widow, Falcon and the Winter Soldier, and WandaVision

WOOT 0086: Our 2019 Year In Movies Review Plus More

**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 Billâs discussion include:

1)Â Alex does his favorite robot impression early on
2)Â âBaneâ makes several appearances and interviews Alex a bit
3)Â Benny and Alex give their thoughts on Star Wars:Â Rise of Skywalker
4)Â Bill lights up Alex like a lightsaber with a Xerox discussion, lol
5)Â Benny shares our opinion on Joe Pesci
6)Â 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

Discussion of The Rise of Skywalker

Star Wars Episode IX: The Rise of Skywalker

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

SPOILER FILLED EPISODE: On this weekends 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