Minute One Hundred Nineteen: From Cap Lost in a Looking Glass to Cap Lost in His ThoughtsFather David Mowry, Chaplain of the Movies by Minutes community, joins us in this episode!In the one-hundred-nineteenth minute of The Avengers...We’re back with Cap in that little side mirror. What were they trying to say here? Or was it just something to do because it looks cool and perhaps feels a bit more like an image you’d find on the pages of a comic book? We land on the latter. Regarding Hawkeye’s...

Minute One Hundred Eighteen: From A Game of Follow-the-Arrow to Our Second Odd Mirror Shot of the FilmIn the one-hundred-eighteenth minute of The Avengers...It’s the second half of our fantastic single shot traveling from hero to hero, and we’re here for it. In this minute, we follow Hawkeye’s arrow to the Chitauri it hits to the leviathan it crashes into to Hulk and Thor on the back of the beast. It’s quite a ride! Unfortunately, this does lead to more devastating treatment of our dear sea...

Minute One Hundred Seventeen: From Nat Being Sure to Clint Pointing an Arrow... Right at UsJames Anderson and Colin Parker from the Timeline Scavengers podcast join us in this episode! In the one-hundred-seventeenth minute of The Avengers...Steve gives Nat a boost and it’s quite the maneuver. It leads us to bring up the wonderful Heidi Moneymaker yet again as she does amazing work as Scarlett Johansson’s stunt double. Is this her? Is it Scarlett? No idea, but we celebrate Heidi all the same....

Minute One Hundred Sixteen: From Tony Complaining About the Lack of Invitation From Thor to Nat Asking for a BoostMike Gravagno from The Superhero Show Show and Movie of the Year joins us in this episode!In the one-hundred-sixteenth minute of The Avengers...Tony’s upset that Thor didn’t invite him to play, but why isn’t Tony more concerned about, you know, helping non-supers, like Natasha and Clint, or perhaps actual New York citizens? Well, we all really know that he’s in it for the great...

Minute One Hundred Fifteen: From Fury Watching the News to Tony Praising HawkeyeFilm Critic Ewan Graf from the Quiet on Set podcast joins us in this episode!In the one-hundred-fifteenth minute of The Avengers...After a run through the various news feeds Fury’s tapped in to, we get to chat a bit with Ewan about Samuel L. Jackson’s Nick Fury and why we like him so much. We also get to touch on the potential conflict in the deleted scenes between Fury and Hill, and how this connection to the...

Minute One Hundred Fourteen: From Thor Taking Flight to A Lightning-Induced Explosion at the PortalIn the one-hundred-fourteenth minute of The Avengers...Thor’s off and away! Natasha’s looking tough! That’s right, Steve’s been busy giving orders and everyone’s following as he’s now proven himself to be team leader. Even Hulk listens to him! We do ponder the journey the character of Hulk takes through this franchise and acknowledge that this was a necessary bit of character development for him...

Minute One Hundred Thirteen: From Bringing Down the Leviathan to Cap’s Plan for ThorJames Anderson and Colin Parker from the Timeline Scavengers podcast join us in this episode!In the one-hundred-thirteenth minute of The Avengers...It’s a big one! We’ve got the death of the leviathan but really, we’re here for the hero moment with the camera revolving around all six of our heroes, now finally THE AVENGERS. It’s a great moment.Before we get there, we do talk a bit more about the demise of the...

Minute One Hundred Twelve: From This All Seeming Horrible to An Important Lesson in ‘Duck and Cover’Eric Deutsch, co-host from Flash Gordon Minute and Escape From New York Minute, joins us in this episode! In the one-hundred-twelfth minute of The Avengers...We finally get to find out Bruce’s secret! But first, we get to enjoy Mark Ruffalo at his rumpliest with his perfect reaction to everything going on. We talk about Natasha’s comments, Bruce’s apology, how that plays based on what happened,...

Minute One Hundred Eleven: From Tony Forgetting Step Two to Bruce’s Arrival on an Old MotorbikeEric Deutsch, co-host from Flash Gordon Minute and Escape From New York Minute, joins us in this episode! In the one-hundred-eleventh minute of The Avengers...Tony got the leviathan’s attention and it pursues him, but when we cut to Clint and Natasha, we don’t see him overhead. Weird, but not really bothersome. This minute focuses on the fight that our non-supers – Clint and Natasha – have with the...

Minute One Hundred Ten: From The NYPD Taking Aim to The End of the Sabrett Hot Dog Cart In the one-hundred-tenth minute of The Avengers...NYPD REPRESENT! That’s right, we get to talk about the NYPD taking on the Chitauri, even after finding out the National Guard isn’t coming. It does give us a chance to talk about the nature of these military organizations and why, perhaps, it makes sense to not feature them in these superhero films. After all, if all the USA’s military might was also here,...

Minute One Hundred Nine: From Fish in a Barrel to More Fish in a BarrelRyanne Bennett from Black Girl Nerds joins us in this episode! In the one-hundred-ninth minute of The Avengers...Is Chris Evans putting on his best Batman voice with his line here? It sure seems that way. This minute gives us a chance to celebrate the power of the non-supers as we really get to see Natasha and Clint doing their best to stop as many Chitauri as they can. We get a bit confused about bus placement, but...

Minute One Hundred Eight: From A Resigned Loki to Fireball! Fireball! Fireball!Ryanne Bennett from Black Girl Nerds joins us in this episode! In the one-hundred-eighth minute of The Avengers...Loki proves himself yet again to be ever malicious toward his brother as he stabs Thor and – after Thor’s surprising body slam power move – rolls himself off the tower. But... did he know a chariot was coming? It seems far too lucky for that to happen. That brings us back to street level with Clint and...

Minute One Hundred Seven: From The Arrival of the Leviathan to Thor Confronting LokiRyanne Bennett from Black Girl Nerds joins us in this episode! In the one-hundred-seventh minute of The Avengers...The leviathan arrives! But... what is it? Is it actually related to the Chitauri? When they’re popping out the sides, is that Chitauri babies being born? It seems that way because of the cords they shoot out with that then seem to retract back in. It’s very strange. These things look cool, but how...

Minute One Hundred Six: From The Quinjet Taking Aim to Ominous Rumblings From the Space HoleRyanne Bennett from Black Girl Nerds joins us in this episode! In the one-hundred-sixth minute of The Avengers...Nat and Clint use the quinjet to take on Loki, but why just bullets? Don’t they have missiles or something? And if they did shoot a missile at Stark Tower and knocked it over, would the Tesseract still be emitting the blue beam, just pointing in a different direction from wherever it fell?...

Minute One Hundred Five: From The Brother Tussle to Hawkeye and Black Widow spotting them.Film Critic Ewan Graf from the Quiet on Set podcast joins us in this episode! In the one-hundred-fifth minute of The Avengers...This minute does a great job of cross-cutting between the heroes as they each work to stop Loki and the Chitauri invasion. We start with Loki and Thor, then drop down to the streets to see the people of New York dealing with the attack, then up to Iron Man as he flies past,...

Minute One Hundred Four: From The Blue Beam to Thor Confronting His BrotherFilm Critic Ewan Graf from the Quiet on Set podcast joins us in this episode!In the one-hundred-fourth minute of The Avengers...Tony fights on, but only in a wide shot. This minute focuses on the people of New York as the Chitauri fly down (rather quickly) and begin raining down on them with blasts from their chariots and forearm guns. It’s quite a mess. But this is also where we get to really meet our waitress Beth!...

Minute One Hundred Three: From Tony Incinerating a Few Pedestrians to Tony Incinerating a Few ChitauriFilm Critic Ewan Graf from the Quiet on Set podcast joins us in this episode!In the one-hundred-third minute of The Avengers...More Mark VII talk! We love the way Tony’s new suit attaches itself to him. But the pedestrians... wouldn’t they be incinerated? Or at least have their eyes filled with dust particles? That’s a fairly brutal spraying they get from Tony. At the very least, they’d be...

Minute One Hundred Two: From Everything on Loki to The Mark VII Attaching to TonyFilm Critic Ewan Graf from the Quiet on Set podcast joins us in this episode!In the one-hundred-second minute of The Avengers...Tony’s finishing his response to Loki, and this is where he gets close to calling out the name of the film again in this scene. It plays, but it might be too clever by half. The real issue comes immediately afterward when Loki decides to try his mind control scepter tap on Tony’s chest,...

Minute One Hundred One: From Loki’s Periodic Reminder About the Chitauri to Tony Acknowledging Loki’s Army Might Come.TwitchTV’s MarvelousTay joins us in this episode! In the one-hundred-first minute of The Avengers...It’s been just enough time that we needed to have the Chitauri mentioned again. Tony doesn’t seem to care because as he says, “We have a Hulk.” It’s a fun line, but he doesn’t say “the Hulk” or just “Hulk”... is he implying he knows more about where these gamma experiments are...

Minute One Hundred: From A Barrier of Pure Energy to Tony Pouring Himself a DrinkTwitchTV’s MarvelousTay joins us in this episode!In the one-hundredth minute of The Avengers...JARVIS tells Tony that the Tesseract’s barrier is pure energy. So... should Tony have maybe realized something like that and not blasted at it? And meanwhile, was Loki just standing below giggling as he watched Tony’s attempt? What this leads to – plan B – is Tony landing on his platform and letting the car wash take...

Minute Ninety-Nine: From Fury Looking at Coulson’s Cards to Tony Blown Back by the Tesseract Barrier’s EnergyLachlan Thiele from the Quiet on Set podcast joins us in this episode! In the ninety-ninth minute of The Avengers...Fury responds to Maria Hill’s comment about where Coulson had his cards, letting us in on his big lie. Knowing what we know about the deleted scenes with her, this moment actually feels like a point where the character makes a shift, starting to see what he sees. It’s a...

Minute Ninety Eight: From Steve Entering the Sick Bay to Hill Revealing the Actual Location of Coulson’s CardsPlaywright Dean O’Carroll joins us in this episode!In the ninety-eighth minute of The Avengers...Steve finds Natasha in the sick bay and seems to have forgotten that she flew him to Stuttgart and back in a quinjet as he asks her if she knows how to fly one. Okay, so the line is really only there to get Clint in the room where he and Steve meet, but it’s an awkward line. But Clint is...

Minute Ninety Seven: From Tony’s Thoughts on Fury’s Fifing to Selvig Busy on the Top of Stark Tower Playwright Dean O’Carroll joins us in this episode! In the ninety-seventh minute of The Avengers...We wrap up our conversation about Tony and Steve dealing with the aftermath of Coulson’s death. While Tony comes to terms with losing him, Steve tries to get them back on track and focused on Loki’s search for a power source. Tony seems stuck on Coulson, and realizes that Loki made it personal. We...

Minute Ninety Six: From ‘Red in My Ledger’ to ‘We Are Not Soldiers’Matthew Fox from the Superhero Ethics Podcast and season 4 joins us in this episode! In the ninety-sixth minute of The Avengers...We wrap up our conversation about Clint and Natasha as she, once again, brings up the red in her ledger. Does this play? We certainly have thoughts. We also talk about Steve finding Tony in the detention area as they talk about the loss of Coulson. The scene plays well and brings interesting...

Minute Ninety Five: From Clint Unsure of Loki’s Whereabouts to Natasha CompromisedMatthew Fox from the Superhero Ethics Podcast and season 4 joins us in this episode! In the ninety-fifth minute of The Avengers...We’re nearing the end of the conversation in the sick bay between Natasha and Clint. This minute, their dialogue leads to several issues we have. One, didn’t Clint know more of the plan? It seems to be convenient for the plot for him to not know now as we need Tony to make the...