Oh, and the songs remind you of the good scenes. You can kind of do that with more traditional scores--the music of Batman driving Kim Bassinger to the Batcave or "Stealing the Enterprise," but it isn't like remembering the "dance off" or explaining "Footloose" while "I Fooled Around and Fell in Love" plays. Makes you want to see them again.
Oh! Right! Kevin Bacon is another Easter egg! Kevin Bacon was in "Super", also by Gunn. Gunn was kinda playing the Kevin Bacon game in that scene.
It was just BS. Star-Lord makes loads of references to the 80's...Stamos, Kevin Bacon, even his ship the (Alyssa) Milano.
And here I was thinking it was named after the Milano cookie. Oh get your minds out of the gutter, I wrote cookie!
Didn't like it. I'm going to have to stop going to these Marvel films every time the hype begins to convince me that they're worthwhile.
Someone I know has said every Marvel movie to date has been crap. He said he couldn't even finish The Avengers. That made the diagnosis pretty easy: "Don't watch superhero movies. You clearly don't like them." Look at what we got this year. If you can't be entertained by Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Guardians of the Galaxy, X-Men: Days of Future Past, etc., I doubt any movie whose origin is in comic books will entertain you. (I'll note that even the disappointing Amazing Spider-Man 2 is not a bad film, just one that tries to do too much.) If you haven't enjoyed at least 2 out of 3 of these excellent movies, I submit you simply don't like the genre.
Is Guardians even in the superhero genre? Isn't it more like space opera? (Still hasn't come out in Germany, damn it.)
I liked most of the Batman movies, to a lesser extent the Superman movies, a couple of the X-Men movies and Watchmen. But the first Iron Man movie is the only one of the Marvel movies that I have . Not sure what it is about them.
Guardians takes place in the same universe as the Marvel superhero movies and it has "superheroish" themes. But, yes, it'd probably best be described as space opera. Interesting. I'm trying to find a common theme to what you like/dislike and I'm not really seeing it. In the end, you just like what you like.
Looks like light humor. Which mean he should like Cap 2 which had very little of the trademark Marvel jokes.
For the most part the Marvel heroes are anti authoritarian ubermensch. Rick would rather see them cast as the villains.
ANTI-authoritarian? I think maybe the opposite. Tony Stark is not the 1%; he's the 1% of the 1% of the 1%. Captain America (at least til recently) has been very much the good soldier, the tool of American foreign policy. Thor is not only aristocratic, but a religious figure of sorts. Black Widow and Hawkeye are repeatedly referred to as assassins in government employ. Hulk's whole repertoire is overwhelming force.
In trying to catch up for not getting to the theater, I saw Cap2 and Guardians back to back. I enjoyed both but I thought Guardians was much better. Loved the movie. To me it had perfect balance in that it didn't go overboard on the action, the comedy and the camp. They all worked well with each other. This movie done in the 80's or 90's could have been a campy disaster. But they gave it just enough humor to not be distracting. I could easily go see it again. I thought Cap2 was a bit obvious in that you could see plot developments coming a mile away. It was an okay movie but nothing really memorable sticks out. I felt the same away about Thor2. I give them both B's. But Guardians I give an A+.
Yeah, but Hulk throws Army tanks around. Hulk's force serves a misanthropic anarchy. But a libertarian misanthropic anarchy because he just wants to be left alone.
You are correct. It's not a bad film. It's a fucking horrific wreck of a disaster of writing, acting, pacing and anything else that makes a motion picture actually worth watching. Like the Atari E.T. cartridges of the 1980s, they should hunt down every copy of Amazing Spider-Man 2, encase them in concrete and bury them in a New Mexico landfill. Further, the NSA should develop a virus that seeks out every digital copy of Amazing Spider-Man 2 and erases it, as well as destroying the user's computer/tablet/phone as punishment for ever downloading such a horrible awful piece of shite. And to be absolutely certain nothing like this ever happens again, every person involved in the making of Amazing Spider-Man 2 (including the caterers) should be executed. Except for Emma Stone, who shall become my personal sex slave.
I agree with all of this, and especially the last line; you can have her, just as long as you never let her near any acting job again.
Another reason I need to go see it again--and I suspect I'm imagining things and if I'm not it is likely just a coincidence, is the "dancing Groot" bit. I want to say he is using the dance moves of the "Dancing Baby" program, most famously featured on "Ally McBeal" around 1996. So what did Ally McBeal's dancing baby get his groove on to? Blue Swede's "Hooked on a Feeling." Ooga-chaka.
I just got back from finally seeing this movie. I'll start out by saying that my mom died of cancer five years ago. I sat by her her bed and watched her die. Having said that, the opening of this movie had me crying like a baby. This movie was an emotional roller coaster. The best way to describe this is to say it's this generation's Star Wars:ANH. The kids that are growing up with Marvel movies will hold them dear to their hearts as much as most of us hold movies like BTTF, Indiana Jones and Superman dear to our hearts. I'm glad we got a more fleshed out explanation for the infinity stones. Anyway, I got to say that this movie really surprised me in so many ways. The tagline should have been, "you will believe a Raccoon can talk." I don't like government taking a portion of my paycheck, but Marvel, please keep taking my money. This movie was awesome and I can't wait to see it again. I am Groot!
