DIRECTOR’S CUT: Therapist Ranks MARVEL Bromances
How do you know if a friendship is strong and everlasting? Do you put in the work to maintain your friendships?
Licensed therapist Jonathan Decker and filmmaker Alan Seawright are ranking Marvel bromances, brought to you by the healthiest bromance on the internet. They’re taking a look at ride and die besties and some unexpected friendships that were made along the way: Tony and Rhodey, Steve and Bucky, Bucky and Sam, Peter and Ned, Rocket and Groot, and Strange and Wong (the Benedicts). They’re ranking the bromances from least bro-y to most bro-y aka the healthiest friendships… can you guess which one the therapist said? Friendships take a lot of work, but sometimes there’s natural chemistry. Expect great banter, bickering, secret handshakes, and tears. Always tears.
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“Rhodey just has to figure out who he is.” Me: Ha. Yeah he LITERALLY changed between movie one and two……(lol actor change)
For Sisterhood of the travelling pantses - see Audrey and Morgan from the spy who dumped me. Trash movie (I love it tho) but epic friendship. They are beautiful together, healthy and loyal and unyielding.
I love Peter and Ned... pity Ned will probably become a villain after No way home, or so I'm guessing. the fact that Peter did not respect Ned's wishes will be part of the resentment or something like that.
Why would he, though? It wouldn't make any sense for Ned to become a villain because he resented Peter not honoring his wishes. But beside that just being a BAD reason, why are you so sure he would become a villain in the first place?
Women just call it friendship.
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants begs to differ :)
Heck yeah I want Jono to rate the therapist from Falcon and the Winter Soldier!
Speaking of bromances, as a fellow elder millennial, I'd love to see you guys do an episode on The Sandlot. Not just because of its friendships, but also how their childhood imaginations lead to them envisioning the Beast as some epic monster, how they portray heroes/legends in both Babe Ruth and Benny, and how Scotty tries to connect with his stepdad.
Someone said rank worst to best movie therapist. YES PLEASE!!!
This is awesome, and just proves how great Marvel is.
This was all delightful! Only quibble I have is that Steve and Bucky aren't a bromance - there's no "b" there lol. Seriously though, in the first movie Bucky is straight up the damsel-in-distress role. Peggy has far more agency than he does. I'd love to see an evaluation of MCU parent/child relationships.
You are great. Fried or Freid... hahaha
I was right there with you, Alan - crying as Peter said goodbye to MJ and Ned. Perhaps another element you could explore within the MCU canon is the non-romantic male/female relationships, the power of 'office husband/office wife' for want of a better term. Steve and Nat for example. Yes, Steve IS my favorite and I just want you two to talk about him more!
Love this take on Marvel movies!
If we're allowing TV into the conversation, best bromance in history is obviously JD and Turk, followed closely by Shawn and Gus
AGREEEEEEEEEEEEEEED! JD and Turk walked so Gus and Shawn could run! Hahaha. 😂
Please please do Star Wars Friendships!!!!
Yes yes yes Jono should break down the movie therapist!
Sorry, I'm watching and commenting as I go. Still, I'm not too fond of Imalda, even though it is purely due to her awesome acting skills as Delores Umbridge. Can we do a rank of worst to best movie therapist?
We've been toying around with the idea of doing a therapist ranking episode... who would you want to see included in the list?
The sneeze announcement made me cackle!
Literally squealed seeing this! So excited to watch!