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'Black Panther.' 'Infinity War.' 'Venom.' The Heat Vision Breakdown team assembles for a deep dive into the best and worst of 2018's action, horror and sci-fi films.

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00:00Hello friends, it's been a great year for blockbusters and genres from horror, sci-fi, action, superhero genres, and everything in between.

00:08To celebrate the year-endstravaganza, I have gathered the entire Heat Vision Breakdown team, or as you may know us,

00:15the third place winning at the 11th annual National Arts and Entertainment Journalism Award in the Soft News Under 5 Minute category.

00:22Woohoo!

00:22Yeah!

00:23Yeah!

00:30To celebrate the end of the year, let's take a look back at some of the great moments from 2018,

00:35and let's start with the movie that most pleasantly surprised you.

00:38Why don't you go first?

00:39I can go first.

00:40I'm going to say Infinity War, which is a little bit surprising, maybe, because I thought it was going to be great,

00:46and I kind of felt that it was going to be great, but it was amazing to me how they juggled so many characters in a movie that bloated,

00:53and it never felt like a character didn't get enough screen time or wasn't done service.

00:58There's like 78 superheroes in that movie, and everybody got a little bit of time and a fulfilling story in that movie.

01:04My pleasantly surprised movie was in the same vein as you were saying about Infinity War, Widows,

01:11because it was very dense, there was a lot going on in that script, and I didn't really have any expectations going in,

01:17and then I was pleasantly surprised.

01:19Mine is Venom because, I mean, look at the trailers. It looked kind of bad. The CGI looked kind of bad.

01:24You go in. There's no Spider-Man in this movie. That's the whole point of the character.

01:28So, I went to the premiere thinking, okay, we'll see what happens, and then it was awesome.

01:33It knows it's a pretty bad movie, except for Tom Hardy. He doesn't know, and he commits so fully to it, and he's awesome in it.

01:40It's like Nicolas Cage in the 90s, a guy that is an Oscar-caliber actor in Con Air, you know, in The Rock,

01:46in these amazing bad movies that are so good.

01:49One movie I was really excited about coming out was Ocean's 8, and then it kind of got a little bit of mixed reviews,

01:54so I, like, didn't see it for a while, and then it was on my airplane, and I watched it on the plane,

01:59and it was very much a plane movie, but it was even better than that, and I enjoyed it.

02:02I enjoyed Sandy B and Anne Hathaway, and it was great.

02:04We actually did an episode of that, and that was, like, one of my favorite episodes.

02:07I like that your biggest pleasant surprise was you on an airplane watching a movie for free.

02:11Well, it was an airplane movie, but it was a very good airplane movie.

02:13It was a good airplane movie.

02:14It was great.

02:15What was the most underrated movie, scene, or performance from this year?

02:20I thought The Ritual was really underrated, the Netflix movie.

02:23I didn't really hear anybody talking about it.

02:25I don't really like horror personally, but when we watched it, I thought it was really well done.

02:29The third act really paid off with that monster.

02:32It really does pay off the monster.

02:34The monster's horrifying.

02:35It's like a giant deer demon meme.

02:37If that doesn't get you to log in to Netflix right now and watch that movie.

02:40Yeah, it was good.

02:41Speaking of monsters, I think the best monster this year was the Megalodon, and the Meg,

02:45which I don't think a lot of people saw, but Jason Statham and Rainn Wilson and that

02:49were just incredible.

02:50It was a really jumpy movie where you didn't know where the Meg was at all times.

02:53I thought it was really underrated.

02:54I haven't seen the Meg, but a gigantic shark from the Cretaceous period, it sneaks up on people?

03:00Yeah.

03:01Okay.

03:02A lot.

03:03That's hard to do.

03:04Did you have one, Aaron?

03:05I think I'm okay.

03:06Let's go the complete opposite direction with it, and I'm going to ask you what movie let you

03:11down the most this year.

03:12I'm going to say that A Quiet Place, though I liked it, actually let me down more than

03:17maybe any other movie this year, which isn't really the movie's fault.

03:20It's everybody else's fault who told me it was a great movie, but there are so many inconsistencies

03:26in this movie.

03:27The worst of which being that they could have just lived next to that waterfall or dug a

03:31big hole with spikes in it and just put a radio down there to kill these monsters.

03:34It doesn't do enough world building for me to make it a great movie, especially the way

03:39that people talked about it.

03:41I think you were just too, you had too high of expectations.

03:43I think so.

03:44I'm poking holes in it.

03:45Sorry, Krasinski.

03:46Yes.

03:47I went into it not really thinking I was going to like it, and of course I was one of those

03:51people that really loved it.

03:53But I think I was most let down by Ready Player One.

03:56I was way too excited.

03:57I'm a huge fan of the book, I've read the book several times, and then, I don't know,

04:03I just went in trying to manage expectations, and even with that I came out of the theater

04:07feeling really let down just by the story, the character, I don't know.

04:11There wasn't enough nostalgia in it.

04:13I wish it would have relied a little bit more on it.

04:15Wait, you're kidding.

04:16No.

04:17Okay, no.

04:18I'm not the first person to say this, but Solo, A Star Wars Story, is the first Star Wars

04:22movie that is not essential viewing.

04:23You know, you might not like The Last Jedi.

04:26You might not like Episode 1, but things happen in there where if you care about the story,

04:30you need to see this.

04:31There's nothing in Solo that you need to know that if it answers any questions, they're not

04:36questions that it matters at all if you watch it.

04:38How did he get his name?

04:39Yeah.

04:40It was an immigration officer, so.

04:41Oh!

04:42And that was the first five minutes of the movie.

04:44Yeah, you know, it's unfortunate, but I think there was a lot of behind the scenes troubles

04:48on that one.

04:49And Disney's learning its lesson.

04:50I think they're not going to have Star Wars movies coming out every year now, and so that's

04:54a good thing.

04:55That's a tough one.

04:56I really want you to think about this.

04:57Imagine a world where you can only see one movie, so this might be on a plane.

05:02One movie that comes out in 2019, what's your pick?

05:06It's between Captain Marvel and Endgame.

05:08I really, maybe it's weird, but I really want to see Captain Marvel.

05:12What's weird about that?

05:13I don't know, because the way Infinity War ended and then to not see the ending of the

05:20story.

05:21Oh, okay.

05:22I see what you're saying.

05:23But we all know what's going to happen.

05:24I mean, they're coming back to life.

05:25Are they though?

05:26I know you'll be mad at me, Pat, but it really is hard for me to pick Star Wars 9 or Endgame.

05:34You bastard.

05:35I'm saying Endgame though.

05:36Don't worry.

05:37Endgame.

05:38Yeah.

05:39I have to know how it comes back.

05:40You have to see it.

05:41And I need to see Chris Evans retire or Downey retire possibly, all that stuff.

05:45It brings up a really great point because I have no investment at all in Star Wars at

05:49this point.

05:50I don't really care about Finn.

05:51I don't really care about Rey.

05:52I don't really care about Kylo Ren.

05:54I don't care.

05:55But I care so much about what happens in the Avengers.

05:57So it's like a tale of two blockbusters.

06:00And one I really care about and one I don't really care about that much.

06:03So Endgame for you as well.

06:04It has to be Endgame.

06:05Endgame is your Endgame.

06:07Endgame is my Endgame.

06:08Pretty much.

06:09So I hope they're playing it on the plane that I'm on.

06:12I'd say between Dumbo, Aladdin, and The Lion King.

06:16No.

06:17Just one.

06:18Oh, okay.

06:19More so Aladdin.

06:20Just because the teaser trailer that came out, the ending of it where you see Aladdin

06:22and you see the lamp, you just really want to see the movie.

06:25Whereas when I saw the Lion King trailer, and I love lions, I love The Lion King.

06:30Having an animated film about Simba, it didn't feel like Simba to me.

06:34It's interesting that for you it's the experience.

06:37It's not about knowing information like who are Rey's parents or how did the Avengers come

06:41back.

06:42More about the experience.

06:43Yeah.

06:44Exactly.

06:45See, your love of movies is pure.

06:46Mine is completely driven by corporate greed.

06:48It's true.

06:49And now we actually have a new thing we're doing.

06:51It's called the Heady's Awards.

06:52Woohoo!

06:53Hopefully no one gets third place.

06:56Oh.

06:59So the first Heady Award, best stunts category, and the winner is Mission Impossible Fallout,

07:05which we actually didn't really talk about that much.

07:07Tom Cruise learned how to fly a helicopter for this movie.

07:09It's insane.

07:10You love Tom Cruise so much.

07:11I love Tom, yeah.

07:12He's a great movie star.

07:13Okay, I'll read the second one.

07:14Cool.

07:15The breakout character who should most certainly get their own spin-off is Shuri, Letitia Wright

07:20from Black Panther.

07:21Woohoo!

07:22She was awesome.

07:23She was.

07:24She was.

07:25Yeah.

07:26Alright, this is by far my favorite category.

07:27The meanest Heat Vision Breakdown viewer comment comes from Spiritscar on YouTube who

07:32said, was it possible to find a more obnoxious, annoying douchebag of a human being to present

07:37this story?

07:38Probably not.

07:39Thanks for watching him though.

07:41To balance that out, the nicest viewer comment is the person who called you a cute little

07:45muffin.

07:46There's that.

07:47So most gut-wrenching moment that you weren't expecting and that made you bawl like a baby?

07:51Spider-Man.

07:52Ah!

07:53I'm sorry, what was that?

07:54Spider-Man's death in Infinity War.

07:56Spider-Man!

07:57Yeah.

07:58It's coming back.

07:59Is he?

08:00He's gone.

08:01I don't know.

08:02Okay, this is near and dear to my heart.

08:04Best use of an actor's time at a movie premiere.

08:07That was when Benedict Cumberbatch told me you can tell the Hollywood Reporter absolutely

08:12nothing.

08:13Should we roll that tape?

08:14Yeah, let's see the video.

08:15I can tell the Hollywood Reporter absolutely nothing.

08:17What a wonderful moment.

08:19Yeah.

08:20Oh, that was fun.

08:21Yeah, it was fun.

08:22What a great year guys.

08:23Yeah.

08:24It's been a lot.

08:25I'm proud of us.

08:26What do you guys think were the best moments of 2018 in movies?

08:28Or just in general?

08:29What happened in your life?

08:30Let us know in the comments right down there.

08:32And join us here every Friday morning next year for new episodes of Heat Vision Breakdown.

08:36Thank you so much for watching you guys.

08:37Yeah, thanks guys.

08:38Woo!

08:39We won an award kind of.

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