Minute One Hundred Forty Three: From The Final Climactic Beats in Alan Silvestri’s Amazing Theme to The Studio Logos... With a Little Stop at Shawarma Palace in BetweenMike Gravagno from The Superhero Show Show and Movie of the Year joins us in this episode! In the one-hundred-forty-third and final minute of The Avengers...The credits finally come to an end, but not before we get to talk about the MPAA film numbers. We also ponder when Dolby Atmos started up, and sure enough it was 2012. Not...

Minute One Hundred Forty Two: From The Rest of the Visual Effects Thank You List to The Start of the Logos.The TruStory FM Entertainment Podcast Network’s own Justin Jaeger joins us in this episode! In the one-hundred-forty-second minute of The Avengers...We continue our journey through the credits. We get all 214 people who worked on the stereoscopic conversion for this film, which leads to a fun conversation about going to 3D movies. We talk a bit about the main title and the iconic...

Minute One Hundred Forty One: From The 34 Lighting TDs•Shader Writers at Weta Digital to The First Six of the Visual Effects ThanksThe TruStory FM Entertainment Podcast Network’s own Steve Sarmento joins us in this episode! In the one-hundred-forty-first minute of The Avengers...We’re knee deep in credits for the visual effects teams who worked on this movie. We look at how many people are credited with each team here, and then we jump into our names that we each picked. Steve picked the...

Minute One Hundred Forty: From The Marvel Studios Team to the 32 Weta Digital AnimatorsJoining us today, it’s filmmaker and TruStory FM regular Tommy Metz III, director of ‘30 Nights of Sex to Save Your Marriage’. In the one-hundred-fortieth minute of The Avengers...We wrap up our time with Tommy continuing our discussions about various crew members in this minute of credits. Today, Andy talks about production assistant Peyton “Buck” Rodgers, Tommy discusses Rob Grosser’s important work in...

Minute One Hundred Thirty Nine: From The Two Suit Construction Supervisors to New York Unit Medic/Scheduling Richard Fellegara.Joining us today, it’s filmmaker and TruStory FM regular Tommy Metz III, director of ‘30 Nights of Sex to Save Your Marriage’. In the one-hundred-thirty-ninth minute of The Avengers...We dig deeper on a few names again here, and since the credits shift into the second units, that’s who we’re discussing. Andy talks about Meriwether Nichols in New Mexico’s costume...

Minute One Hundred Thirty Eight: From Nine VFX Production Assistants to Prosthetic and Suit Effects by Legacy EffectsJoining us today, it’s filmmaker and TruStory FM regular Tommy Metz III, director of ‘30 Nights of Sex to Save Your Marriage’. In the one-hundred-thirty-eighth minute of The Avengers...We continue our march through the credits with Tommy. In today’s minute, we discuss in more depth makeup artist Heba Thorisdottir, the interesting job of Jodi Trippi (or is it Tripi?), and the...

Minute One Hundred Thirty Seven: From Second Unit Director John Mahaffie to Tech Vis Artist Nic NicholsonJoining us today, it’s filmmaker and TruStory FM regular Tommy Metz III, director of ‘30 Nights of Sex to Save Your Marriage’. In the one-hundred-thirty-seventh minute of The Avengers...We talk a bit about some of the structure of credits, and then instead of our usual quizzes and game show antics we do, we each pick one of the people listed in this minute and discuss them in a bit more...

Minute One Hundred Thirty Six: From Joss Whedon’s Name on Iron Man’s Chest to The Opening Riffs of Soundgarden’s Live to RiseEric Deutsch from Time to Rewind, Escape From New York Minute, and Flash Gordon Minute joins us in this episode! In the one-hundred-thirty-sixth minute of The Avengers...We end the special credits with the director’s name, which gives us a chance to dig into Joss Whedon’s career a bit and our thoughts on him, and we only call him Tig Notaro a few times! After that, we...

Minute One Hundred Thirty Five: From An Anti-Armor Missile in Iron Man’s Gauntlet to a Hole in Iron Man’s ChestJoining us today, it’s filmmaker and TruStory FM regular Tommy Metz III, director of ‘30 Nights of Sex to Save Your Marriage’. In the one-hundred-thirth-fifth minute of The Avengers...We’re finishing the special credits (thanks to Andrew Darowski’s kids for the nickname!) with Tommy. We chat through the various images we see and again try to figure out if there’s any rhyme or reason...

Minute One Hundred Thirty Four: From A Big A to Iron Man’s PalmAndrew Darowski from Disney Animation Minute Essentials and Joe Darowski from the Protagonist Podcast join us in this episode!In the one-hundred-thirty-fourth minute of The Avengers...We finish pulling out of the broken windows at Stark Tower, finding just the A left in the STARK signage out here. We also get a small WHOOSH right when we pass the A, as if to tell us that it’s something we need to notice. We talk about ideas like...

Minute One Hundred Thirty Three: From Hill’s Questions for Fury to Repair Work on Tony’s Penthouse.Andrew Darowski from Disney Animation Minute Essentials and Joe Darowski from the Protagonist Podcast join us in this episode!In the one-hundred-thirty-third minute of The Avengers...Fury finishes his power walk, but what’s with all the scuff marks in the hallway there? Were they moving a piano through here? Or does this have to do with his bazooka love? It’s a bit of an awkward cut to Fury’s...

Minute One Hundred Thirty Two: From The Tesseract Being Dealt With to Fury’s Dramatic WalkTwitchTV’s MarvelousTay joins us in this episode! In the one-hundred-thirty-second minute of The Avengers...While Fury talks with the World Security Council, we follow our heroes in Central Park as they ship Loki off to Asgard. Where did this handy Tesseract travel tube come from? Did Erik whip that up in his spare time? It’s certainly convenient, and clearly knows how to get Thor and Loki back to...

Minute One Hundred Thirty One: From The Final News Montage to The Tesseract Where It Belongs.Bubbawheat from the time loop podcast It's Time to Rewind joins us in this episode!In the one-hundred-thirty-first minute of The Avengers...This minute is full of lots of clips from all the various screens we’re watching, and we try talking about the all in one capacity or another. We’ve got news feeds plus what looks like various YouTube types of videos people have posted, all relating to the...

Minute One Hundred Thirty: From Realizing There’s One More Thing to Shawna Lynde’s Brief AppearanceTwitchTV’s MarvelousTay joins us in this episode! In the one-hundred-thirtieth minute of The Avengers...Break time! But not quite. Tony really wants to get to Shawarma Palace, but he’ll have to wait because they have to deal with Loki first. But how does Clint get there? And do Natasha and Erik find a ladder or something to climb down? Is that how she got the scepter in the first place?  We find...

Minute One Hundred Twenty Nine: From Tossing Tony’s Mask to Not Finished YetMatthew Costello, author of several works on politics and superheroes including Secret Identity Crisis: Comic books and the Unmasking of Cold War America, joins us in this episode! In the one-hundred-twenty-ninth minute of The Avengers...Thor rips the face of Tony’s mask off. The image of the face plate laying in the rubble was something we saw in the alternate opening for the film. We talk a bit about what that...

Minute One Hundred Twenty Eight: From The Fall of Tony to Concern About Their Fallen FriendRobin Burdge from Karate Kid Minute and Sword Boys joins us in this episode!In the one-hundred-twenty-eighth minute of The Avengers...Tony continues his unconscious falling from space back toward the one-sided hole, but will he make it? That’s the big question on everyone’s minds below. Unfortunately, with a nuclear explosion heading their way from the other side of the hole, Steve has to make the tough...

Minute One Hundred Twenty Seven: From Tony’s Final Push to Tony Falling in SpaceIn the one-hundred-twenty-seventh minute of The Avengers...Tony somehow manages to not hit Stark Tower, which now looks like AI Tower. It’s a bit ridiculous, but it’s a movie so it’s fine. Hulk watches in a dramatic shot, as does Nat. Where’s Clint? Still stuck in that apartment? Cap and Thor watch from the streets below. Tony flies the nuke through the one-sided space hole and everyone cheers, but the battle’s...

Minute One Hundred Twenty Six: From Tony’s Missile Chase to Tony’s Missile Heave HoLester Clark and Kynan Dias from The Exorcist Minute join us in this episode!In the one-hundred-twenty-sixth minute of The Avengers...The chase is on! Tony spots the nuke and does a great U-turn under the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge between Staten Island and Long Island. What does this say about where the F-35 was though? Wasn’t the helicarrier off the east coast of Long Island? And why don’t we ever get to see...

Minute One Hundred Twenty Five: From Pushing the Button to Tony’s Info About the Nuke Coming InIn the one-hundred-twenth-fifth minute of The Avengers...The nuke is off and away! We’ve got a two minute and thirty second clock that starts ticking right here. Will it play out in real time as it does in movie time? We’ll find out two-and-a-half minutes from now!  We come into the fight in slow motion on Thor and Cap as they each retrieve their tools, then ramp up as they battle the Chitauri. It’s...

Minute One Hundred Twenty Four: From Director Nick Fury in Motion to the F-35 Lightning II in MotionLester Clark and Kynan Dias from The Exorcist Minute join us in this episode! In the one-hundred-twenty-fourth minute of The Avengers...Hill’s comments on the F-35 Lightning II that’s been put into action by the World Security Council sends Fury scrambling to stop it in the only way he knows how. A bazooka. Uh, is this Fury’s weapon of choice? Is there bazooka storage in the elevator? We decide...

Minute One Hundred Twenty Three: From Close-Range Arrow Fighting to A Bird in MotionRobin Burdge from Karate Kid Minute and Sword Boys joins us in this episode!In the one-hundred-twenty-third minute of The Avengers...What happens when Hawkeye runs out of arrows? We get to explore that in this minute in great detail. First off, how does he even get them out of his quiver? It doesn’t look like arrowheads could make it out of its top. We try to figure out the system he has for selecting...

Minute One Hundred Twenty Two: From Erik’s Secret Safety to Quickdraw Archery on the RooftopLester Clark and Kynan Dias from The Exorcist Minute join us in this episode! In the one-hundred-twenty-second minute of The Avengers...There’s a space where the film might have made more sense if Erik was blinded by his passion for science and willingly did all this work to make this machine, only to realize at this point that he was wrong. That’s not the story we get, and so the fact that Erik...

Minute One Hundred Twenty One: From Nat’s Tuck-and-Roll Landing to Erik’s Big Reveal... AlmostLachlan Thiele from the Quiet on Set Podcast joins us in this episode!In the one-hundred-twenty-first minute of The Avengers...Nat nails her landing on the tippity-top of Stark Tower, and luckily they have walls so she doesn’t roll right off. What’s perfect about her landing is the fantastic match cut we get from her flipping her hair (certainly required in every film by this point) to Loki doing the...

Minute One Hundred Twenty: From Fury Recognizing the Council’s Decision to Black Widow’s Leap of FaithFather David Mowry, Chaplain of the Movies by Minutes community, joins us in this episode!In the one-hundred-twentieth minute of The Avengers...Ah, the World Security Council. We have fun delving into the complexities of a shadow organization like this, and how it relates to SHIELD. And Fury’s positional relationship to them – are they all equal in their roles or is Fury subordinate? And if...