Redshirt Cinema Club

We've arrived! But where?

At the muster station for wayward Marvel superheroes, also known as (genuinely) the biggest thing to happen to cinema since Star Wars. The Avengers is the culmination of an ever-evolving plan for the comic book publisher to make it's own movies, to control its own stable of characters, to give Stan Lee as many screen credits as possible, and to make gigantic stacks of money. It just happens to be really, really good as well.

Iron Man, Hulk, Thor, Captain America, Black Widow, and arrows guy better watch out, because there's an alien army waiting in the middle of space for a magic gate to open to they can invade Earth. And the aliens better watch out, because Earth has been learning self defence.

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Hello and welcome to Redshirt Cinema Club, a podcast about fandom and watching movies with friends.

Now the film we’re watching this week is called Captain America: The First Avenger, despite the fact he’s actually the last one to be introduced before Marvel’s superhero superteam assemble.

Chris Evans stars as the titular Cap, breaking free of his Fantastic Four shackles and establishing himself as a true leading man. Can he win over the Redshirts? Let’s find out!

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Here's the schedule for our MCU season...
Iron Man (2008) -14/9/26
BONUS (Resident Evil) - 16/9/26
The Incredible Hulk (2008) - 21/9/26
Iron Man 2 (2010) - 28/9/26
BONUS - 30/9/26
Thor (2011) - 5/10/26
Captain America: The First Avenger (2011) - 12/10/26
BONUS - 14/10/26
The Avengers - 19/10/26
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Film number four in the Marvel Cinematic Universe is Thor, and we've come a long way from Tony Stark's cave in Afghanistan.

All the way to Asgard, in fact, as the bounds of the MCU expand even at this early stage to embrace other worlds, mythical beings, and stuff happening somewhere in the gap between endless space and affordable CG.

THERE IS A LOT GOING ON. The MCU gets its first supervillain, Chris Hemsworth and Tom Hiddlestone launch mega careers, a blue box turns up, and Marvel seems to prove once and for all that you can keep making films that are only OK so long as there's another film that might be better just around the corner...

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You can also follow us at x.com/redshirtcinema and get in touch at redshirtcinemaclub@gmail.com.

Here's the schedule for our MCU season...
Iron Man (2008) -14/9/26
BONUS (Resident Evil) - 16/9/26
The Incredible Hulk (2008) - 21/9/26
Iron Man 2 (2010) - 28/9/26
BONUS - 30/9/26
Thor (2011) - 5/10/26
Captain America: The First Avenger (2011) - 12/10/26
BONUS - 14/10/26
The Avengers - 19/10/26
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Three episodes into our MCU series and we’ve already got our first sequel - 2010’s Iron Man 2 - which Marvel couldn’t resist making after the success of the original. Robert Downey Jr returns as Tony Stark, facing off against both Mickey Rourke’s Whiplash and the age-old conundrum of what do you do with a superhero after their origin story? You talk about them on a podcast, that’s what. Let’s go!

Join the Redshirt Cinema Club! Support us at patreon.com/redshirtcinemaclub to receive two bonus episodes every month as well as our newsletter, The Civilian Observer.

You can also follow us at x.com/redshirtcinema and get in touch at redshirtcinemaclub@gmail.com.

Here's the schedule for our MCU season...
Iron Man (2008) -14/9/26
BONUS - 16/9/26
The Incredible Hulk (2008) - 21/9/26
Iron Man 2 (2010) - 28/9/26
BONUS - 30/9/26
Thor (2011) - 5/10/26
Captain America: The First Avenger (2011) - 12/10/26
BONUS - 14/10/26
The Avengers - 19/10/26
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Hello and welcome to Redshirt Cinema Club, a podcast about fandom and watching movies with friends. We’re doing it! We’re getting through Phase One of the MCU, and today that means our opinion lens is focused on 2008’s The Incredible Hulk, a complicated entry in that it came out mere months after Iron Man, features a star in Edward Norton who never returns to the franchise, and is a sort of sequel but not really to 2003’s Hulk directed by Ang Lee. What do we make of it? Let’s find out!

Join the Redshirt Cinema Club! Support us at patreon.com/redshirtcinemaclub to receive two bonus episodes every month as well as our newsletter, The Civilian Observer.
You can also follow us at x.com/redshirtcinema and get in touch at redshirtcinemaclub@gmail.com.

Here's the schedule for our MCU season...
Iron Man (2008) -14/9/26
BONUS - 16/9/26
The Incredible Hulk (2008) - 21/9/26
Iron Man 2 (2010) - 28/9/26
BONUS - 30/9/26
Thor (2011) - 5/10/26
Captain America: The First Avenger (2011) - 12/10/26
BONUS - 14/10/26
The Avengers - 19/10/26
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