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Guardians of the Galaxy Thread

I saw this today. As others have said, this movie was fun. But it was more than that. It was... I'm not entirely sure how to describe it. The characters, the setting, the action, it all clicked. And I don't know much of anything about the comics this is based off of, either. From start to finish I loved this movie and will see it again.

I would also buy a dancing Groot sapling toy. Also, Dave Bautista was actually pretty damned good as Drax.
 
Man what really has me psyched is how Disney took like, such a risk making this. Let's face it pretty much nobody in American knew a whole lot about Guardians of the Galaxy before the film, it was a relatively obscure franchise, and the person(s) who shilled the script to the execs must have had balls of steel.

"...This character is a talking tree. A talking tree who only says three words."

"Yup! He's the cyborg commando Raccoon's best friend."

"...I'm sorry what?"

And the glorious thing is that it paid off! It mauled all the August release records last I heard and pretty conclusively proved that you most emphatically don't have to keep mining out your old franchises and rebooting your most iconic heroes in order to do well. Which, to be honest, seems to kind of be the MCU's thing. The risk taking and exploring I mean.

Also also eat your goddamn heart out DC.

"Audiences just aren't ready for Wonder Woman."

"I have a character who is literally a talking tree. And he is going to make the audience laugh and bawl."
 
I would like to see what would happen if The Guardians of the Galaxy were dropped into the plot of the Dark Knight Rise. Mostly because I can't stop imagining the WAT on Bane's face when he meets StarLord...
 
I just saw this tonight. It came out yesterday in Australia. I know nothing at all about the comic source material, but I was fairly sure from the trailers I'd like it.

Frankly, this movie pretty much won me over as soon as Starlord started dancing at the start upon entering the ruins. It perfectly communicated everything you needed to know about his character, clearly set up the tone of the movie so you knew that the creators were aware of the inherent silliness of the genre and intended to have fun with it and lastly, the actor didn't have a single missed moment; Chriss Pratt fucking owned this role.

The dialogue rocked consistently too. The jokes and banter between characters was as close to perfect as I think I'm ever really likely to see on film, hilarious characters were still capable of hitting you hard in the fucking feels and just generally balanced all of the required elements you want a Space Opera/Comic-adaption to have. Absolutely loved it, start to finish.

There were a few things that I thought were a little odd. Gamora being the team heart seemed... weird. They needed someone to serve that role, of course, and Peter was always going to be the guy who had to be talked into doing the right thing before he went out of his way to do it, but it still seems really odd to portray the assassin that way.
Seemed a little strange to just abruptly reveal Quill as half-Terran half-BigFuckingDeal as well in this first film. I think it might have been a somewhat smarter choice to leave you with the clues they gave and bring it out in the sequel... but I suppose at least this way they explain why the Guardians could get away with using the Infinity Stone. And his heritage won't seem like it comes out of left field in the future films, for those who haven't read the comics.

Can't wait for the sequel.
 
I wonder if there are any relatively serious villains who would have accepted the danceoff? I mean, at least a few would go, "Eh, I landed on the planet, there's nothing that can stop me, might as well school this poor fool."

Hell, even the Joker would probably just make a quip about, "And they call me crazy."

But, yeah.

Poor Ronan.

He was all set to avenge the blood of generations of his people, it was the climax of everything he had fought to achieve, and then these assholes showed up.

He probably would have been more okay with it if some other band of heroes had challenged him, like, even the Avengers or whatever, and then these are the ones to challenge him.

A traitorous daughter of Thanos (okay, that's got some drama to it, classical origin story), a man out to avenge his family (cool, there are parallels between my search for vengeance and his own, looks like we could get a theme going), some sort of... tree thing that only says three words (well, he is an impressive fighter, and every team can use an eccentric member), some sort of talking raccoon who likes large guns (... okay) and fucking Starlord.

...

Loved the movie, by the way.

I'll see it again once my whole family is free to do so.
 
Maaaaaaybe? Though if I had to guess the Chitauri are serving as the Skrull stand in since iirc that's basically what they are in the Ultimate line. Nova Corps and Xandar are their own thing already in Marvel. But, then again, it's pretty possible that Disney split up the character aspects between the two races.
 
TenfoldShields said:
Maaaaaaybe? Though if I had to guess the Chitauri are serving as the Skrull stand in since iirc that's basically what they are in the Ultimate line. Nova Corps and Xandar are their own thing already in Marvel. But, then again, it's pretty possible that Disney split up the character aspects between the two races.
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Well since the Kree were the arch rivals of the Skrulls in the comics, hell the Kree were the one that turn the Skrulls into a warlike species
 
That was awesome; easily my favorite Marvel film. Needed more Kosmo, but otherwise I loved it, and I'm a massive fan of the comics.

I'm really hoping that this gives Marvel a chance to make a Nova film in the future. I need me some Richard Ryder.
 
It is a beautiful film. I will join a series of people speaking 10 \ 10.
Also, this movie has the best interrupt villains speeches that I have seen.
 
I actually convinced my mother into coming to see this with me a few hours ago, and I could tell she was hesitant about it right up until Peter started playing the first track in the temple while karaoking into a live womp rat. From that point on until the credits rolled she was mostly laughing.
 
BeRzErKeR said:
I mean yes, the main conflict was supposedly serious. Lots of people were supposedly going to die. But it was also, simultaneously, TOTALLY RIDICULOUS. Hydra was going to shoot millions of people from the sky using their GIANT FLYING AIRCRAFT CARRIERS based on their ability to PREDICT THE FUTURE by reading Internet histories! They were going to do this across the whole world! Hundreds of thousands of people shot per hour, presumably because they once bought a hat with a 'Live Free Or Die' slogan or something! They would never come down, they'd just float around up there raining DOOM and GOVERNMENTAL OVERREACH from on high forever! They played that straight!
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That's before getting into the logistics issue. How exactly did they subvert or recruit thousands, if not tens of thousands, of SHIELD soldiers and agents, into being mooks working for a generic "take over dah world" plot? SHIELD's background checks must be seriously fucking terrible. They sort of hinted that it worked because neo-HYDRA's goals were framed as a more extreme version of SHIELD's goals of security and hegemony, but still. Trying to play an organization that is as ridiculous as Cobra in a 100% serious way feels... off.
 
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That's before getting into the logistics issue. How exactly did they subvert or recruit thousands, if not tens of thousands, of SHIELD soldiers and agents, into being mooks working for a generic "take over dah world" plot? SHIELD's background checks must be seriously fucking terrible. They sort of hinted that it worked because neo-HYDRA's goals were framed as a more extreme version of SHIELD's goals of security and hegemony, but still. Trying to play an organization that is as ridiculous as Cobra in a 100% serious way feels... off.
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Hydra had the advantage of working with SHIELD right from the fucking start. It's literally the only reason why they were able to accomplish what they did. Having an In for a international intelligence agency from day 1 is such a massive advantage that nothing else could compare when it comes to subverting SHIELD agents.
 
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