Also, it isn’t too clear to me why it runs 59 hours. Watching all 22 films (including Endgame) would take 47 hours and 53 minutes (thank you Movie Marathon Time and your movie time adding abilities!). A half hour break between each film adds 11 hours to the marathon, so perhaps that is where the 59 hour length comes from.
If you watched all of the movies in their lineup back-to-back, that’s a cool 42 hours and 47 minutes. Getting paid $23 an hour to watch movies is a pretty good wage! You also get some additional goodies:
Every Marvel MCU Blu-Ray film for your collection
A Captain America popcorn popper
Orville Redenbacher popcorn kernels
Thanos Infinity Gauntlet mug
Iron Man snuggie
I’m not sure I need all those things, but an Infinity Gauntlet mug does sound pretty badass
I loaded up their lineup into my movie marathon app. The app tells me that if you watched all of these movies back-to-back, this is what your next two days would look like:
Iron Man (2008) 12:00 PM 2:06 PM
The Incredible Hulk (2008) 2:06 PM 4:00 PM
Iron Man 2 (2010) 4:00 PM 6:04 PM
Thor (2011) 6:04 PM 7:59 PM
Captain America: The First Avenger (2011) 7:59 PM 10:03 PM
The Avengers (2012) 10:03 PM 12:26 AM
Iron Man 3 (2013) 12:26 AM 2:36 AM
Thor: The Dark World (2013) 2:36 AM 4:28 AM
Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014) 4:28 AM 6:44 AM
Guardians of the Galaxy (2014) 6:44 AM 8:45 AM
Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015) 8:45 AM 11:06 AM
Ant-Man (2015) 11:06 AM 1:03 PM
Captain America: Civil War (2016) 1:03 PM 3:30 PM
Doctor Strange (2016) 3:30 PM 5:25 PM
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017) 5:25 PM 7:42 PM
The hero we’re looking for is not only a Marvel fanatic, but also an active, outgoing social media personality who’d be enthusiastic about live-tweeting their MCU marathon experience while tagging CableTV.com (@CableTV, #CableTV).
Also, I’m disappointed to find this isn’t really a movie marathon!
And don’t worry… we will let you sleep. The chosen candidate will have three days to complete this epic binge.
What is the challenge in that? Anyone with opposable thumbs can watch some movies and tweet about it. Binge watching them over 42 hours takes real skill!
Ah well – I’ll just have to wait for the next opportunity to get paid to watch movies. I’m sure it’ll come some day.
Well here it is, in all its sample glory. This would be one sweet movie marathon, if I do say so myself. If only we had latent superpowers unlocked by sleep deprivation, instead of anger.
Also, I put the films in chronological order of their release for no particularly good reason. Perhaps it will help you appreciate the special effects as they go from worst to best. Enjoy!
My take: Patrick Stewart plays himself as a totally awesome psychic leader of superhero mutants battling other villainous mutants. Things go boom. Punches are exchanged.
My take: Tobey Maguire plays a half-human, half-spider. Surprisingly, very few fluids are sucked out of ensnared victims. Mostly, stuff blows up and people smooch and whatnot.
My take: The Punisher fights crime using….no superpowers and pretty conventional weaponry. He’s like Batman without infinite resources, a utility belt, or any kind of working ethical system.
My take: A cocky millionaire invents cold fusion and a flying mechanical battle suit with the help of various robots and artificial intelligences of his own design. This is Showgirls for engineers.
My take: The god of thunder comes to earth to participate in a deadly martial arts tournament….oh wait. That’s Mortal Kombat. In this one, the god of thunder goes to New Mexico and flirts with an attractive astrophysicist. Which film do you think is more plausible?
My take: Captain America – the superhero who is…really strong due to chemical enhancements…and he has a shield. So – he’s pretty much Barry Bonds with a shield instead of a bat.
My take: Calling Team Awesome! Assemble in the flying aircraft carrier and fight an evil God and his invincible alien army from another dimension! Clearly the best movie ever made.
While goofing around on the internet (is there another purpose to the internet?), I ran into this post from an undergrad at FIU that described her top 10 movie marathons. One idea I really liked was a Marvel Movie marathon. Marvel has been making some quality movies lately – why not cram the best into a 24-hour marathon?
