Feb. 17, 2025

'Captain America: Brave New World' Movie Review | Marvel Studios

'Captain America: Brave New World' Movie Review | Marvel Studios
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'Captain America: Brave New World' Movie Review | Marvel Studios

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0:00 How brave, how new, How world. I'm Derek, That's Noah, and we'll be answering all of these questions and more on this episode of Abidev when we discuss Captain America. Brave new world. I think they're valid questions. Or is that how we're going to just categorize this movie and the review of how brave it is, how new IT is and how worldly it is? I. Think so? OK, yeah, not worldly world. Oh, just how world it is, whatever that means. We will figure it out when this all right, so we have our first MCU movie of the year. We have two more this year and obviously my excitement meter is just going to go up and up and up from here. So I'm very excited to talk about this because it's a it's a movie that a lot of people are are are discussing at the moment.

0:57 I. Thought you were just going to be like, it's a movie that happened. And a guy was a guy. Yeah, in this movie. The captain was America. All right, as always, before we get into the review, make sure you're following us. So all of that stuff is down below. Sure, follow us, Discord, Patreon, all that great stuff. So spoilers ahead for Captain America Brave New World, the 4th entry for Cap. All right, so let us officially take a bite of Captain America, Brave New World, directed by Julius Ona and written by Rob Edwards, Malcolm Spelman, and Dalan Moussan. In the midst of world powers brokering and agreement for the adamantium resources birth from the Celestial Island, Captain America must work to keep the peace. As the soldiers go rogue and take aim on President Thaddeus Ross, however, a villain lurks in the background, toiling away, forcing Ross to see red.

1:51 What did you think of this false installment, Mr. Noah? So I don't think every movie needs to be huge event. I think that there needs to be movies that are, I just sit there with my popcorn and I'm enjoying what's going on. The MCU is different. I feel just in perception, right? It's connecting universe. Is it going to connect to this? How is it going to drive the MCU forward? How is it going to push this character forward? So there's a lot of things going against any MCU movie as soon as it releases this movie. I feel like it was nice to not really manner speaking, worry about the multiverse, right? We went kind of back down to a smaller issue scope. Earth, I would say had the potential to be great. I think it's good.

2:36 I don't think it's amazing. And I if we're going to say like, OK, these are 4 Captain America movies. This one, it's starting its own new thing because Sam Wilson is Captain America now. So I liked it. Felt like a Falcon and Winter Soldier continuation, but I wanted a little more. I wanted to go further with some of the stuff. Yeah. I think that's baseline how I'm feeling. We'll get into it, but baseline? Yeah, you, you kind of took the words out of my mouth as I was really thinking about this. What I boiled it all down to was it felt small, right? It felt like the stakes were kind of small. The cast was small, the just world players, the world effects felt small and I think when you're used to those big showy pieces, right, this can feel small in comparison.

3:31 Basically, and I think it does, and I'm not saying it is 2 thumbs down worst thing I've ever seen. I was delightfully entertained. I thought there were some good action spots. I thought there were spots that could have been better, but overall I left it going like, OK, that was pretty solid. Yeah, I, I so getting into some general thoughts aside, as far as the movie itself, we, if you've been following it, which I feel like it's almost a detriment sometimes. This movie has gone through some retooling, some cuts and everything like that. It's kind of par for the course now. I feel like, especially in the MCU again, it's connecting a lot of things. Things change. We're getting Robert Downey Junior back as Doom.

4:11 Things are changing right? So this movie, I feel like with the the retooling and restructuring it, it felt solid, but there are some moments where it's like, oh, the character doesn't make sense to be here. Oh, that's weird that this character's in here. What happened to the storyline? What happened to this? So it it's it's an interesting experience knowing that going into it. I wish I didn't. So I feel like that that's only that's like on my fault for knowing that information. How? Dare you have the knowledge in passing, after we left the theater, you were pointing out some things of like, you know, Thaddeus Ross is a Hulk character. Betty is Hulk's ex, the I guess for he's not known as the Leader, but you know, that character coming back, also a Hulk character.

4:57 And then when I looked into this new character, Ruth Batzeroff, she also first appeared in a Hulk comic. So it's so interesting that this is almost a Hulk movie, but without the Hulk. Yeah, I, I think there are parts of it with everything, with Isaiah Bradley, with Falcon, even with Bucky and Sam, it feels like a Captain America movie. And then every other moving part in this is a Incredible Hulk sequel. I don't mind that. I I feel like characters should be able to intertwine their storylines, but I feel like because there was no, I don't know really, no Captain America villain in there. Like a Sam Wilson villain.

5:39 I should say President fine, he's going to be turning into the Hulk. It's not until the end of the movie. I wish we didn't know about it. But other than that, it's like, OK, Sidewinder is a good antagonist for him. The the Serpents, the Serpent society, all of that. He was just a middle man, right? So it's interesting when you kind of look outside of the scope of it and it's like, oh, it's kind of weird that Hulk wasn't involved. Like what does he think? Because Betty is there, Thaddeus Ross, there's a Red Hulk rampaging. So it's when I think there was a moment towards the end of the fight, I can't remember who says it, maybe it was Agent Taylor. The they tell Sam in the fight with Hulk, he's like, oh, backups on the way. And I thought it was going to be Bruce. It wasn't. So I was like, OK.

6:20 Yeah, and I think because there are so many moving parts now with the entire all the phases and the multiverses and everything, you know, I was trying to go like, well, I know at some point Bruce goes to space because at the end of She Hulk, he comes back with his son and I'm like, is he in space at this point in time? When is this taking place in the timeline of the MCU right now? Yeah, I believe it's 2027. I don't know, like, and that's great, but I don't know, I don't know what that means as far as the answer to the Hulk, because I I agree. It was kind of like someone has to come. And you know, I think what's always exciting about these movies in general is that you're always looking to see when another Avenger is going to pop up, right? And so I was hoping for that where where is the other Avenger that's going to come and, and help, you know, Sam, Captain America with this issue, But they never really came. Yeah, I mean, I I do feel like we've gotten especially with Captain America movie because Civil War is like an Avengers light movie T so and even Winter Soldier, right? It had Bucky and Natasha had Zola came back and how are all these other characters?

7:27 And this one did have a lot of characters, but I I get what you're meaning. Like it's like, OK, we're still in new territory and we got Bucky, a surprise cameo of Bucky in here. And that was really it. And I'm not saying that makes or breaks it for me, but it is interesting to have this character that really didn't have any stakes in these villains and things from 17 years ago be the one that's confronting this. I think that is interesting. And I'm almost curious of what the initial thoughts for the movie or the plan was going to be. That's that's where my gears are turning outside of that. So one of the big things in this movie is that Thunderbolt Ross goes to Sam and is like, I want you to redo The Avengers. I want you to bring The Avengers back. You're going to be the leader of them. And Sam very, you know, I guess cautiously is like, what if we don't agree on stuff because the Segovia accords everything that happened with that.

8:22 So what do you feel about this aspect of Sam even at the end of this wanting to do The Avengers? So we have Sam going to do The Avengers. We have Thunderbolts AKA Dark Avengers coming. We have Young Avengers or Champions, whatever they're going to call it, Fantastic Four. Like we have a lot of teams going on. So are you excited for like and what does that look like I. Guess 100% because I guess I am a person when it comes to these storylines. I want to know how they're all going to fit together, right? So you brought up Bucky before. And so we see Bucky in this for maybe 5 minutes. He comes in, he gives Sam a pep talk, and then he leaves again. And I'm thinking, but wait a minute, I just saw the preview for Thunderbolts, and he's in Thunderbolts. And.

9:04 But now they're telling us that he's running to be a congressperson. I'm like, OK, so I don't know where the timeline of this is, but having this thought of Sam, will you put The Avengers back together again? Makes me feel better because I'm going, oh, all right, we're working towards the new Avenger movies, right? That's what we want because we know they're coming, but how is it going to happen? And if this movie does nothing else but you know, really well, I, I feel like obviously it's really situating Sam as Captain America now. And now it's helping us get towards the new Avenger movies that are going to be coming out. So I'm excited for that seed to be planted in this film. We always knew it was coming. It's interesting to see how. And I like that outside of the government interference, that Sam is like, maybe we should get the adventures back together. So I like that he has that plan in motion. And then just to take a step back, the Bucky cameo, which I loved and you know, he had told them that he loves them and then didn't tell it back anyway.

10:01 So he is running to be a congressman, which I find very fascinating for the character. Maybe it's one of those things of like there is no Avenger, so how is he going to help the country? Maybe run it in some type of way or makes decisions. I'm assuming that whenever Thunderbolts picks up because from the trailers we've seen for Thunderbolts, a very much as he's putting that team together. So I don't know if he's already won or he's still running, but it's going to be an interesting campaign of being like, I have all of these criminals on the team with me, but vote for me. He's he's the rogue congressman. You know, he can put on his leather jacket and ride his bike into the sunset. People are like, yeah, Bucky vote Bucky, which I would probably vote for him too. Yeah, the hair.

10:43 Sebastian Stan. I mean, come on. Yeah, a Romanian Prince. So going into the more into the nitty gritty of this movie, how did you feel about Sidewinder? How did you feel about the Leader? How did you feel about Ross? Like the antagonist slash villains of this movie. I thought that again. I felt like no one really made me scared, right? So the stakes weren't there. Right. The stakes weren't there for me. It was like, like you said, Sidewinder was there in the beginning, you know, being really mean to some people in Mexico for some reason. And then he kind of just they, they capture him and that's it.

11:25 He gives them some Intel and that's about it. So it wasn't like he was really an antagonist throughout the entire film. He was the antagonist for like the first bumper, you know what I mean? And then after that, he was just an informant in a way. As far as the leader, again, the thing about the leader that's interesting is that, yes, he looks unsettling, but his powers aren't very scary because he's telling you about math equations that he's done. You know, he's like, I've seen the percentages and it's like, you know, other than him being able to, you know, brainwash people through their phones and stuff like that and music. With the same song?

12:07 Yeah. Come on, guys. What? If it's just playing on the radio, yeah. What if they're just listening to serious oldies station? But and then as far as Thaddeus Ross, I thought this was an interesting arc for the character, right? He's obviously, he shaved his mustache. He is now Harrison Ford and he has gone through some anger management, right, Which obviously hasn't fully worked because he's been doing some dirty deeds with the leader. What did you think about the villains? I mean I think all of them, they didn't phone it in. Every single person gave 100%. I think specifically Harrison Ford granted to him more screen time. Tim Blake Nelson, I think as the leader, he did OK. The the character of the leader was odd to me as well. Like to your point, he talks about all these probabilities and everything like that.

12:54 And it's very like Doctor Strange. Like I saw how many futures and this is the right one. And it's like, OK, fine. Like, but I don't really know what your plan is here. Like, OK, you're getting back at Thunderbolt, Ross. Yeah, it was more just a personal vendetta than anything. Which is fine, I I get that, but it it it's odd like it didn't again feel like, OK, what does this have to do with Sam? He just happens to be in the middle of this. Let's I need a little more from the leader. He's like a big villain, especially with the Hulk. I did like his design. So originally his design was going to look more like the comics where he just has a really long head because he has a big brain. But in this one, I liked that it was a little more of a mutation as opposed to just like an extended version of his head. So I'm not mad at that.

13:38 I like that a lot. I just needed a little more. What did you think of the relationship that he had with Ross? I I liked it. I mean, again, it's a continuation of Incredible Hulk 'cause he got fucked over, Mr. Blue got fucked over by Ross. So it was this long game of him helping Thaddeus, but then he turned it over on him. Fine, OK. It's just it was a weird time, I guess. It's like weird timing. It's like it's been how long and you've just been there. OK, he's just been toiling away in that. Underground Lab, I really liked Sidewinder. Giancarlo I think did a fantastic job and again, I just feel like he was wasted a little bit. I thought he was going to be in and a lot more. I hope that he's going to continue to be a thorn in Sam's side because that could be fun.

14:27 So like I heard them say the word serpent once or twice but it was never really explained who they were. Yeah, I mean, that's how I feel like a lot of this movie was like the big thing that this movie promised was Red Hulk adamantium. That was the things that it kept showing in the trailers. Unfortunately, we knew when the Hulk was going to transform, so we're kind of expecting that. And then the adamantium being in the Celestial from Celestial Island. I thought that whole action sequence was phenomenal. Those are the things like those are the moments from Falcon and Winter Soldier that I really, really, really liked. And I'm glad that they transferred it over to this. But unfortunately, the whole movie didn't feel like that, right? I loved those sequences. I think having the adamantium come from the celestial that was coming out of the Earth, we finally got mention of it. I know there's been how many movies since the Eternals? We got it finally.

15:17 My question though, is what does that mean going forward? So we had the US and Japan, which makes sense fighting over this. So we got we can get Silver Samurai, we can get Lady Death Strike. But what does that mean going forward? Like so are they going to do weapon X IE meaning. Wolverine. Right or not? Right. I feel like adamantium is so synonymous with Wolverine. It's right. It's like to, to have this word out in the world, that's what you first think of. That's the correlation between them. So it feels that way. But then in the back of my mind, I'm like, I'm like, well, Monica Rambo is in another X-Men universe right now.

15:58 So it's just so interesting of where this is all. Going my if I had a theory, I don't think it's they could do a weapon X thing. But again, we're almost up against a running clock here because we know Secret Wars and we know Doomsday are coming out. We know that it's going to reset, slash, smash a bunch of things together, birthing the mutants, bringing the mutants here in some form or fashion. So I'm not thinking that it's going to directly relate to the X-Men in some way in our current Earth, but I think it might have something to do with stopping either Doom or Doom needs that material to build something like it's a material at this moment and it's a resource. So what would that mean going forward, right? They wouldn't introduce it now if it didn't have a big thing going forward.

16:49 So I don't know. That's my. Thought there's a such thing as and this might be like sacrilegious as the MCU being too big. No, I just think there's been a lot of reworking these last two ish phases ever since End Game. You know, I think they had a plan of what they wanted to do and then actors and controversies and just things change. And so I think reworking it and some of the stuff feeling like multiverse, some of it not feeling like it getting new characters, but they're not seeing them for years. I get it. It can feel a little confusing. I think going forward, maybe Thunderbolts maybe.

17:30 But I think Fantastic Four is really going to give us the OK. I'm seeing really where this is going, right? And I think they just needed to kind of wrap up. Not wrap up, but really get Sam in there because if he's going to lead The Avengers, they kind of need him back in the fold. Totally. Yeah, You know, I wanted to talk a little bit about the new character in this and sort of the returning new character as well. So in Ruth and Joaquin, right, So with Ruth Betzeroth, who I'm calling Lil Widow, right, because. Little pocket sized, yeah. Just a little pocket sized widow, because we learned that she was part of the Black Widow program, right? And so we see like she sort of has a little bit of a costume, but she doesn't have much to play in this. And, you know, I think that speaks to what you brought up about having to rework things because of things that are going on in the world.

18:25 And so it was just unfortunate that this character was introduced and then kind of didn't get to do anything. I you know, stuff with this, I think I think they would have been better off not even doing this. You know, there there's something with these movies and shows and stuff where like people that are creating things, there's like a like a hat that there's these characters that are sitting there that they can use and another hat of like you can't use characters from this. And I think Sabra, who is this character's name was in this and they're like, oh, let's just use that. And where the, her being part of the Red Room and not actually a mutant and stuff, where that decision was made, we'll never know the behind the scenes stuff. I honestly think they should have never included her in this movie.

19:11 I think it's silly. She has no business being in this movie. They could have added any other widow that we might know or just a Taskmaster could easily have been in it. You know, I, it's just it, it was a weird choice to then specifically have a shot where we see her in her suit of some sort and then nothing. Nothing. It's like guys like. You really didn't. Like, you didn't need to include her. You could have done anything else or even just had Agent Taylor, who I would have loved to maybe be a love interest for Sam. Because there's moments where it felt like that where I was like, oh, like, they seem like they want to like, get to know each other a little more to like, just have Agent Taylor in that role, you know, like, she didn't.

19:53 She was pointless. Yeah. That's my thought, yeah. It was definitely a bummer just because I always love a strong female character and so. Just bad choice. Yeah, it just. Unfortunately didn't work out however. I think personally, I think fortunately it didn't work out. That's what I think. Like, I think that they should like, just the character itself, like, guys, yeah, like be a little more thoughtful of what you're including and not including this. Sure. Especially with like a geopolitical thing. I don't know. That's me all right. Fair. But I do think that the return of Joaquin Torres, as you know, our our new Falcon, I think we could firmly say that was a delight love.

20:34 I think that he played a really good sort of newbie to Sam's veteran and that dynamic worked really well for them. He's showing them the ropes. He's showing him. He's training him in a sense of how to fly, how to use the wings, how to be Falcon without actually telling him that he's doing that. And I like this pair together because I think Sam is, you know, he's very strong willed. I think he's very tough and he's always kind of moving forward in a militant way, you know? And I think Joaquin added a little more fun and a dash of more zaniness to to the relationship. Yeah, I, it's always interesting to see 'cause we got the, we got the Steve and Bucky dynamic, we got the Steve and Sam dynamic, we got the Bucky and Sam dynamic, we got all of those three.

21:20 And then now they're adding another kind of partner in this. And so it's always interesting to see how that's going to work because we really didn't get to see too much of it in Falcon and Winter Soldier. So this one, I was hoping for more. We got some of those moments where it's like, OK, they've grown in their relationship of some sort. I wanted a little more because I was enjoying everything we saw. I actually really enjoyed Isaiah, Joaquin and Sam together. I, I really liked those 3 together. Eli was sadly not included in this, which I thought was very odd, but I liked it. And again, I think that goes back to my just my main critique of this movie of like they didn't go far enough with some of the stuff.

22:02 They didn't give enough of the elements that could really work. It was just kind of like, oh, this, this thing, there's this thing we need to move to this thing and this thing and that kind of goes along with Danny as well. Danny Ramirez's character. I liked it, but I don't think they needed to really injure him to get him out of that fight, you know, So it's like it's, it's a little weird, but. But he's new to the wings, Noah. He doesn't know what he's doing. Has he not been training for three years? He's been lightly training every so often. No, it's fine. I think it's just more of a like a selfish thing to me. Like I liked it and I wanted more of that, especially that Celestial Island fight. Yeah, yeah. I think where this movie really shown and really sparkled was in those aerial fights.

22:45 I mean, those were kick ass, especially with Sam's, you know, Captain's new wings from Wakanda, right? That can like pulse out this crazy Sonic blast. Like that was just fire. I thought that that choreography, I thought those effects looked so good and were so effective. Yeah, I I will say though, I did think some of the hand to hand combat was a little lacking. Yeah, I mean, I guess it goes back to, again, this movie kind of feeling a little wonky in some ways. It was like, there's really strong moments here, but then like some similar moments are like, not as strong, you know?

23:26 It it that's unfortunate, because I think Winter Soldier is one of a lot of people's in their top five, rightfully so. It's great film through and through, all the way from start to finish, how it was made and everything. And I think a lot of people, especially when it comes to Captain America, that's what we're expecting. We're expecting kind of this like political thriller. We're expecting excellent hand to hand combat. And unfortunately, like not every movie is going to live up to that. So like expectations are a little wonky. But it was it, it stuttered a little bit with that. And same thing with dialogue. Like I think the writing and some of the choreography was a little, it was a little odd. It was, it didn't ruin it. It was just more of like, oh, this feels like a weird 80s action movie. Predictable, right?

24:08 In some senses, some of the some of the lines that they said felt almost stuck, like very much like, what are you doing here? You know, kind of like these things. I was told to. Yeah, Why? Why are you asking me that? You, you knew I was going to be here, you know, So it just felt like something. Yeah, it it did. I like that. A comparison of like an 80s cop procedural or something like that. It was like, we're going into the lair. Watch out. Yeah, I back to his suit. I really like it. I'm I'm kind of hoping maybe he'll get because he got broken, maybe he'll get like an adamantium suit. I don't know how that would work, but that could be cool. I wanted a little more of the Wakanda tech being used. That would have been really neat.

24:49 He only used it at the very end to, you know, knockout Red Hulk. What did you think about how he defeated Thaddeus? I mean, granted, Daddy a line in this movie is Thaddeus is like, can he change? Can he be a change man? So like I'm glad it didn't come to like one of them had to die. But how did you think about like the Sun's getting real low defeating the Hulk? I have been in therapy for almost three years, steadily in my life. I believe in therapy. I believe in mental Wellness. I don't think someone's Red Hulk rage is going to be acquiesced by Captain America going think about Betty.

25:34 It's always Betty. Always Betty. I mean, the fight was good, but I think you really hit the nail on the head and the thing of we knew when the Red Hulk was coming, right? So there's a part when they're on a boat and the leaders really trying to get him to become Red Hulk. But we're sitting there going, we know it happens at the White House, right? You know, it's so it's almost like the detriment of a trailer. Well, it to me what it feels like. And again, I don't, I don't want to like keep like harping on the production and like things that we knew and it changed because even in the trailers, there's a funeral scene that they continue to show even this year that we never got to see. So part of me feels like almost like, was Ross supposed to die initially? Like was that what was going to happen? And then I guess the message would be like, what would it be like for the black Captain America to kill the sitting president of the United, You know what I mean? So it's like maybe they retold that. But Barnaby feels like the reaction that they got at Comic Con for like Harrison Ford as Red Hulk. It was such a big and good reaction that they're like, OK, let's just like keep showing that. Let's keep doing that.

26:42 And then it was almost this thing of like, well, we know when it happens and it's like end of third, the third act. So this is an interesting pay off to wait this long for it. It was effective, but again, I wanted more. Yeah. Totally because if you think about it though, like if right a trailer is supposed to get you excited. Although I mean those aerial fights were awesome, but how you can't show the entire aerial fight and the only really other huge action set is at the end of the movie. It is it is odd to like give the end of the movie away in that aspect, because I feel like almost like like if your dad, I highly doubt your dad has probably seen the trailers for this. And I feel like if he was to go and see this movie, he would be like. Whoa.

27:25 Yeah. That dude came out of nowhere. Yeah, but like, you know what I mean? And like, it's Harrison Ford. So like that would have been a cool surprise, you know? So that kind of sucks. But again, like I know we've kind of like picked this movie apart a little bit. Again, that's kind of what we're doing, right? Other than that, like other than the the things that we're talking about, the things that really again worked was Sam Wilson as Captain America. I think this movie again, cement cities Captain America. I don't think that we really needed more of like him still feeling like he's not Cap because that's what the entire Falcon and Winter Soldier show was about. It was nice to see the public accept him like in the beginning was like it's all me Cap. That's fantastic, right.

28:09 The government hadn't really caught up to that fine, but that really worked for me. His relationship with other people really worked. I think Harrison Ford as Thunderbolt Ross. Amazing. Amazing. Yeah, I'm excited. I'm excited to see where he goes from here. Yeah, I want. To see who the new Avengers are going to be. Who would you put on The Avengers of everybody that we have alive right now? So many, but you know this. Is where? It gets complicated, though, right? Because I'm like, oh, I want Kate Bishop on there. I'm like, but no, she's going to be Young Avengers, you know? And it's like. Let's have adults. She's an adult. She's in college, Sam.

28:50 Right, Joaquin? Let's get Bucky back. How about some Monica Rambo? Wherever she is, bring her back. That would be cool. How about some She Hulk? And right, you know, I it's so funny. I don't I don't really know exactly know why they can't really do a Hulk sequel and stuff like that. And like they kind of have to keep doing these sneaky ways of doing it. But like just like to think of like if she Hulk Hulk Red like all of these characters into one, I would love to see Mark Ruffalo Bruce slash Hulk interact with Liv Tyler's Betty Ross. Like I would love that. I'm just like very. Excited. I mean, I think that's that's that's the thing we should really be focusing on for the fact that Liv Tyler was back. Yeah.

29:34 I mean was she even on set or did she just phone and. I don't know it. It did feel a little bit like the Kim Cattrall and just like that cameo where she was nowhere near anybody else. Which is fine. It's fine, Yeah. I mean, as I think the possibilities at the moment for The Avengers team is we know who's probably going to be in it, right. It's like Doctor Strange, Shang Chi, Captain Marvel, Captain Mum Row. Oh, maybe not even Doctor Strange because he went off with with Cleo. Yeah, I don't know. Never mind. Let's bring Shang Chi back. Where's Shang Chi? I don't know. OK. All I will say is that they are all coming back. They all have to come back for the big Avengers movies.

30:16 If it's not in Doomsday, it's going to be in Secret Wars. So I don't know, maybe we'll see all of them. So final thoughts, Go see it. Go see it versus off. It's a good time. I think it's a good movie. It's not life changing, it's not a big event movie. It's fun. It addresses some things that we haven't had answers on in sometimes a decade or like four years. So that's just go see it. Yeah, I agree. I again, I thought it was entertaining. I thought that it moved our Avengers timeline along, which we desperately needed. It finally brought back the Celestial Island, which we all wanted to know about. And I just love to seeing the new Falcon get to spread his wings.

30:57 And if they really want to like, mix things up and do something new, give me like a origin story of Isaiah Bradley. Give me that. Because also Carl Lumbee. Oh my, every time he was in this movie. Sold. Yeah, that was, I mean, if we think about it, that was really the, I think the emotional part of this movie was him being a political pawn once again being used by someone unfairly and treated unfairly and being imprisoned. And also like script wise, it's it's kind of fucked up for Sam to like go to Isaiah and be like, come on, let's go to the White House, let's go to the president. It's like dude, like I think he could say no. Yeah, yeah. Like, and the the part where like he was getting arrested and he's like, watch my suit. And I'm like, these are like the emotional moments that you're like that not that you want to happen, but like, those are the things that really speak to people when they're watching the movie.

31:45 And again, I just wanted more more of that kind of thing. Yeah, but more Isaiah Bradley. That would be fire. I want him to get his own super suit. Oh, Isaiah. Yeah, that would be cool. That'd be fire. All right, so till next time. Till next time, folks. Goodbye, goodbye.