Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 |OT| Anyone can save the galaxy once - SPOILERS!

This movie is boring as fuck and goes on for an eternity. I was praying for it to end.

How long were they on the Big Lebowski guy's planet? At least 3/5 of the movie. I'd say that there's way too many slow parts in this movie, and when there finally is some action it goes on for too long.

The jokes feel forced af too. And they overdid the 80s shit too.

I don't remember the 80s stuff being so prominent in the first one. Wasn't it just the cassette tape thing and that was it? It's like they saw people liked it so the turned the 80s references to 11. Every song. Pac man. The title of the movie and logo. They even had a scene literally in the 80s. Ffs

Try Hard: The Movie
 
Korey said:
This movie is boring as fuck and goes on for an eternity. I was praying for it to end.

The jokes feel forced af too. And they overdid the 80s shit too.

Try Hard: The Movie
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DeathyBoy said:
That line really changes GOTG completely. And also makes you wonder how awful the rest of Thanos's kids are if Gamora is still the one Nebula hates the least
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Making me wanna rewatch the first one now lol

Slayven said:
To be fair she could have easily been and not noticed. This movie is going to give so many kids a golden skin fetish when they grow up
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Bruh, I looked up what she looks like outside of the movie, and I'm like, "Why do I find her more attractive with golden skin?"
 
Slayven said:
Shout out to the last ravanger of Yondu's crew, dude broke the hell out in this movie.

"They killed my friends"
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What was his line? "I didn't mean to do a mutiny"?

Poor guy really loved Yondu and when he brought up how it was unfair how much he protected Peter, he was being really respectable about it, and then everyone took it to 11 and then a dang ol' mutiny happened.
 
AndersK said:
I mean, the movie clearly didn't try hard enough. Where the fuck was John C. Reiley? I demand answers!
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I'm really afraid for the Nova Corps at Xandar, that seed of Ego's looked like it was either right smack in the middle of Nova Corps HQ or something, and John C. Reilly Dey would be around there, right? I hope he didn't get smothered by DadPlanet.
 
Einchy said:
What was his line? "I didn't mean to do a mutiny"?

Poor guy really loved Yondu and when he brought up how it was unfair how much he protected Peter, he was being really respectable about it, and then everyone took it to 11 and then a dang ol' mutiny happened.
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I still like to think Kirk kidnaps space babies with a blue redneck when he's not juggling his 54 part-time jobs in Stars Hollow.
 
I felt like Baby Groot wasn't in that many scenes. I wouldn't be surprised if the amount of 'I am Groot's were in the single digits.
 
Popping in to post Walter Chaw's review of the film!

As usual, it's a very well written review of the film!

However, his opinion isn't the most... sunshiny of things...

GOTG2 is plagued by the sweat showing. All of the underlying structure is visible. One of the defining triumphs of the first film was how effortless it felt: the chainsaw juggler eating an apple. The closest comparison I can draw is probably Airplane! II: The Sequel versus the original Airplane!. I'm sure some people prefer the second one, though I've never met any. Guardians of the Galaxy's soundtrack of AM Gold standards had subtle things to say about the Jack Kirby visuals and balls-insane world-building, and the cast had none of the burden of sudden stratospheric popularity weighing them down. The songs this time around comes across as desperately-curated rather than inspired. The visuals are stunning and beautiful, it's true, but Avatar-like; there's nothing truly awe-inspiring about really pretty calendar pictures of a national park. What's most painful is the level of emotional exposition going on: the exchange where Yondu lays out, at length, how he and Rocket are just the same broken thing on the inside, for instance, and the inexplicable sacrifice later that the first film has already debunked as inevitable. Worse is the revelation that Nebula's current cyborg state is a result of child abuse and Gamora's--the ostensible romantic lead's--horrifying sociopathy. Suddenly, it's all not so funny anymore. The best part of GOTG2 is Mantis, who's not only completely guileless, but also vulnerable, deeply complicated (she's essentially a comfort woman enslaved by a powerful white guy), and ultimately heroic. Well, for a while, at least. Then she's unconscious and has to be carried around.

The picture substitutes magnification for invention and, having upped the stakes in terms of spectacle, finds itself making caricatures of characters who were beautifully, even subtly, developed in the first film. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 is a fair diversion that feels like a parody of Guardians of the Galaxy. Sometimes a loving one. Sometimes just an accurate one.
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DeathoftheEndless said:
That was Sean Gunn, the director's brother.
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Nothing wrong with being the director's brother
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Einchy said:
What was his line? "I didn't mean to do a mutiny"?

Poor guy really loved Yondu and when he brought up how it was unfair how much he protected Peter, he was being really respectable about it, and then everyone took it to 11 and then a dang ol' mutiny happened.
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Yeah they turned a human resources meeting into a bloodbath
 
Bobby Roberts said:
Popping in to post Walter Chaw's review of the film!

As usual, it's a very well written review of the film!

However, his opinion isn't the most... sunshiny of things...
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Worse is the revelation that Nebula's current cyborg state is a result of child abuse and Gamora's--the ostensible romantic lead's--horrifying sociopathy.
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Wait. What the fuck?

Gamora, like Nebula, suffered from severe abuse as a child. Gamora, like Nebula, was forced to inflict violence on her siblings on her parent's behalf, under duress and threat of severe violence. Fuck, it's literally stated in the text of the film itself that the only reason why Gamora allowed Nebula to continually be tormented by Thanos was that she was terrified of suffering that same violence herself and only wanted to be secure.

And the reviewer thinks that that is an example of her sociopathy?

That's horribly written. Jesus Christ!
 
Yeah, I'm not sure if you can call a child a sociopath because she's scared of being literally torn apart if she doesn't win...
 
Kin5290 said:
Wait. What the fuck?

Gamora, like Nebula, suffered from severe abuse as a child. Gamora, like Nebula, was forced to inflict violence on her siblings on her parent's behalf, under duress and threat of severe violence. Fuck, it's literally stated in the text of the film itself that the only reason why Gamora allowed Nebula to continually be tormented by Thanos was that she was terrified of suffering that same violence herself and only wanted to be secure.

And the reviewer thinks that that is an example of her sociopathy?

That's horribly written. Jesus Christ!
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Yeah the reviewer seems to only remember Nebula's telling of how Gamora only wanted to win and fight, and not Gamora's side of the story where she says the didn't care about winning, only surviving. In fact, it seems to me that Gamora didn't even realize that Nebula wanted a relationship as a sister, since it seemed Nebula had always felt that way but didn't communicate it. All Gamora, and us the audience saw for most of the two films, was her resentment.

I definitely think there was quite a bit of nuance that was lost on that reviewer, especially if he thinks the damage was done to Nebula by Gamora and not Thanos himself. I was surprised at how good their arc was.
 
Korey said:
I don't remember the 80s stuff being so prominent in the first one. Wasn't it just the cassette tape thing and that was it? It's like they saw people liked it so the turned the 80s references to 11. Every song. Pac man. The title of the movie and logo. They even had a scene literally in the 80s. Ffs
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I feel like this is reaching a bit.
 
Alright, I'll bite. What the heck does "forced" even mean in the context of comedy and jokes? Everything in the movie is written and performed from the same source, what constitutes a joke being "forced" or not?
 
Marvel film crew can time travel and they even altered the timeline to have Russell in Big Lebowski. This tech is getting impressive.
 
So those blue blob things of Ego jizz happened around 2014 chronologically right?
Why haven't the other movies mentioned them?

I mean obviously I know why but I hope they address that in the future.
 
spyroflame0487 said:
So those blue blob things of Ego jizz happened around 2014 chronologically right?
Why haven't the other movies mentioned them?

I mean obviously I know why but I hope they address that in the future.
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It really only destroyed a DQ and a few people died. I mean, that's bad and all but it's a pretty small accident in the grand scheme of things.
 
spyroflame0487 said:
So those blue blob things of Ego jizz happened around 2014 chronologically right?
Why haven't the other movies mentioned them?

I mean obviously I know why but I hope they address that in the future.
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I'm not sure why the other movies would need to address it, to be honest. It was a single area in a small town that lasted a couple minutes.

No real reason for that to get brought up in other movies.
 
ZeoVGM said:
I'm not sure why the other movies would need to address it, to be honest. It was a single area in a small town that lasted a couple minutes.

No real reason for that to get brought up in other movies.
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It actually hit a bunch of planets, including some city's center
 
Slayven said:
Shout out to the last ravanger of Yondu's crew, dude broke the hell out in this movie.

"They killed my friends"
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The emotion he let out when the other Ravagers showed up at the funeral. I wanted to yell "YES!" with him, tears and all.

Litan said:
He did die. This isn't the exact same groot from the first. It's kinda like a clone of him.
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No, it isn't. He's the same Groot, just growing again. I don't know why people keep saying this.
 
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