***This is a Spoiler Filled Episode***
Spider-Man: Homecoming, Thor: Ragnarok, Black Panther & much of the MCU is given the full spoiler treatment in this review.

Spider-Man: Homecoming
Cast and Crew - 2:28
Box Office/Reception - 7:46
Plot Overview - 12:15
Where it Fits in the MCU - 14:55
Best Scenes - 19:55
Worst Scenes - 25:38
Oscar Lens - 28:22

Thor: Ragnarok
Cast and Crew - 30:25
Box Office/Reception - 33:11
Plot Overview - 37:02
Where it Fits in the MCU - 39:02
Best Scenes - 46:08
Worst Scenes - 51:37
Oscar Lens - 54:27

Black Panther
Cast and Crew - 59:11
Box Office/Reception - 1:07:16
Plot Overview - 1:09:34
Where it Fits in the MCU - 1:10:40
Best Scenes - Check out MMO Episodes 42 + 43
Worst Scenes - Check out MMO Episodes 42 + 43
Oscar Lens - 1:16:29

See, Buy, Skip - 1:21:24

Final Thoughts - 1:22:49


This episode covers Spider-Man: Homecoming, Thor: Ragnarok, & Black Panther, films 16-18 and perhaps the strongest trio in our six 3-film reviews of the MCU.

We made it!  The Mikes of Oscar have completed our review of the first 3 Phases, the first 18 films of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.  We did it in 6 episodes, analyzing all the movie specs including the cast & crew filmographies, box office, critical reception, and production histories.  We broke down every plot in a necessarily spoiler filled review format, where these stories fit in the overall MCU story as well as commentary on the structural stabilities or plot holes of the many franchise films.  Unlike other movie pods, we shared our unique Oscar Critic lens on each film, stacking these landmark movies up against the nominations in their years’ Academy Awards.  But most important, weeee had - the time of our liiiiives - and we’ve never felt this way before.  (Please rewatch either the Get Out scene with Allison Williams, that Eli/OBJ commercial, or the entirety of Dirty Dancing NOW...I’ll wait…. OK?  You are welcome.)

Spider-Man: Homecoming masters the art of genre bending, giving us a John Hughes movie inside of a patented Disney Marvel Superhero film.  The accomplishment that is the Spidey screenplay was super-snubbed, Tony Stark’s fate has become dicey at best, and we now have a new favorite villain to gush over in Michael Keaton’s Vulture.  

Thor: Ragnarok was beloved for many a good reason, and we talk about it’s adaptation of the Planet Hulk storyline in a brilliant crossover with the Thor MCU entries.  Also Mike breaks down some screenwriting efficiencies, Mike 1 nitpicks some unworthy clunkiness, but we both fall into gush-mode at the comedy and action spectacular-ness of the finale.

Then we update you on Black Panther since we last reviewed the film in episodes 42 & 43 of our show.  Check those out if you’d like a deeper review and breakdown of the film.  But we do refresh you on the movie specs, chronicling Black Panther’s continued success at the box office and in the hearts & minds of Academy voters (we hope).  We also nail down some MCU principles played to perfection as we tout this film as a bonafide Oscar contender.

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