Agreed. Great points. The way it started w Rocket playing Creep and feeling depressed and hitting rock bottom and it ending w Rocket playing Dog Days are Over and feeling happy and seeing the light the end of his tunnel was so impactful. No Sleep til Brooklyn for the hall fight was a great choice. Huge bonus points for In the Meantime during the space walk scene and Come and Get your Love as a callback to the start of ep1 to end the trilogy.
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No joke, Rocket playing Creep was a surprisingly dark sad moment. That was brilliant.
Originally Posted by Urc Burry:
Guardians is by far my favorite in the MCU, but have twin toddlers so don’t know if I’ll make it to the theaters. Went ahead and spoiled myself. Just need some opinions on one aspect
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What do you think about how they handled the Quill/Gamora story?was really hoping they would end up back together. I realize it’s a different Gamora but Thanos holding her in front of Peter in Infinity War hit so hard
I’ve read that Zoe is probably done with the MCU so I guess that could have had an impact on how it was written
I think it was perfectly done and made sense. Definitely felt real. [Reply]
Eh. I actually think Gunn kind of fucked Gamora up. I get she's past Gamora and all that but even the version from the original GOTG was nowhere near as unpleasant as she started out in this movie. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Superturtle:
Eh. I actually think Gunn kind of ****ed Gamora up. I get she's past Gamora and all that but even the version from the original GOTG was nowhere near as unpleasant as she started out in this movie.
Making her sympathetic to Nebula enough to overthrow her father in endgame, then saying that she's incapable of becoming the old Gamora just because she hasn't been on the adventures that the Guardians have been on is a stretch, but yeah he made her a bigger dick than she had any right being. [Reply]
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Yeah. First of all, I really enjoyed this. It was about as good as a superhero movie could be for me. The flaws in it were really the flaws of the genre itself and I got what I expected and more. And I really do have a much greater appreciation for Rocket Raccoon. One of my favorites now. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Sure-Oz:
If you have little kids I'd be cautious. Probably the most violent MCU movie and the movie is darker.
I agree. I took my 6 year old last night. He got scared with it. Also it’s too long of a movie for little kids to sit thru. He was getting up and moving. Luckily we were in a theater where the sidles were like 4 feet apart so he couldn’t Dustin anyone
He seen the other Guardian movies but it wasn’t in a huge theater with a huge screen a very loud noises.
It was on a tv in his own atmosphere [Reply]
Originally Posted by listopencil:
Yeah. First of all, I really enjoyed this. It was about as good as a superhero movie could be for me. The flaws in it were really the flaws of the genre itself and I got what I expected and more. And I really do have a much greater appreciation for Rocket Raccoon. One of my favorites now.
I found myself getting pissed off at the way they were ****ing with him. How painful it was for him. A movie. That’s some serious manipulation. Well done Mr. Gunn. [Reply]
Looks like I’m in the minority here, I saw this last night and left disappointed. Now that is not to say that it is in any way a bad movie, because it isn’t. But what I absolutely loved about the first two was how much fun they were. This latest installment really is not a fun movie. This was just dark and somber with only a smidge of the elements that made the first two so great. And even one of those aspects, the intertwining of the music into the story, just felt bleak most of the time. I kept waiting for someone to hit play on a thumping rock song for one of the fight scenes and it never happened.
Like I said, it is not a bad movie, the quality of the production and acting is all there. It just wasn’t fun like the first two. And it is that fun element that took much less known comic characters and surprised everyone and catapulted them amongst the most popular and loved in the MCU. But to each their own. [Reply]
