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[Boss Doggie]

The dart fin thing is way overpowered. That's the only problem I have with it.

Judging by the post credits scene it's actually hard to control. Yondu just mastered it really well.

For people that hate baby groot. Just how miserable is your life right now?

The character is fine. I hate his scenes though as they drag on and/or distract for something important.

 

[LionPride]

Judging by the post credits scene it's actually hard to control. Yondu just mastered it really well.



The character is fine. I hate his scenes though as they drag on and/or distract for something important.

When do they take away from something important?

 

[Cuburt]

Hopefully there's a scene where Rocket actually gets to see real earthling raccoons too. Still bummed the movies haven't explained his origin.

I think they are saving it for a potential Rocket and Groot spin-off film.

I think Peter has got his origin story pretty fleshed out, Gamora, Nebula and Drax will play a decent role in Infinity War due to them all being the only characters that really have some sort of personal connection to Thanos (and their origins directly tie into that), and that basically leaves Rocket and Groot to have their origins explored more in Vol. 3 or in their own film. Marvel is just saving that in their back pocket like Black Widow where they now there is demand and their backstories are interesting enough to slowly dole out more details, but they don't want to step all over a solo film if it ever comes to that.

 

[TheFurizzlyBear]

Will have to wait for home video to confirm, but looked like the classic brick to me.

It was defo OG brick Zune. When I saw that I geeked out too much. My friends teased me in high school about having a Zune. Loved that chunky beast

 

[Litan]

Anyone still holding out for a BW film is going to be dissapointed. I think the time for that was phase 2, and they missed it.

Also, not every character's back-story needs to be told.

 

[GAMEPROFF]

Anyone still holding out for a BW film is going to be dissapointed. I think the time for that was phase 2, and they missed it.

Also, not every character's back-story needs to be told.

Whats BW?

 

[Litan]

Whats BW?

Black Widow.

 

[friskykillface]

Yondu stole every scene he was in, which only makes the ending that much sadder.

🐐

RIP

 

[Gordon Shumway]

Black Widow.

I think it could still happen..

 

[GAMEPROFF]

Black Widow.

I see. Thanks.

 

[Einchy]

I like Black Widow and all but she works better as a supporting character than the main.

 

[Shaanyboi]

I think it could still happen..

Well she's on the run right now. Now would've been literally the perfect time to have her movie with the Avengers mostly disbanded and her being a fugitive.

Yelena restarting the Red Room program, maybe with Red Guardian too.

 

[Litan]

I think it could still happen..

I just don't see people caring that much in Phase 4. The OG Avengers' stories will have wrapped up and focus would have shifted to the newer characters.

 

[Gordon Shumway]

Well she's on the run right now. Now would've been literally the perfect time to have her movie with the Avengers mostly disbanded and her being a fugitive.

Yelena restarting the Red Room program, maybe with Red Guardian too.

Basically what I was thinking.

I just don't see people caring that much in Phase 4. The OG Avengers' stories will have wrapped up and focus would have shifted to the newer characters.

Might be right..guess we'll just have to wait and see.

 

[A-V-B]

Just saw it tonight.

That was one hell of a Yondu film.

 

[LotusHD]

I just don't see people caring that much in Phase 4. The OG Avengers' stories will have wrapped up and focus would have shifted to the newer characters.

I won't lie, that shipped has long sailed for me.

 

[Dalek]

I like Black Widow and all but she works better as a supporting character than the main.

Usually yes-but her last two series have been great and very cinematic.

 

[Unicorn]

As a Zune fan boy just want to confirm it was the translucent brown OG ZUNE.

Glad Quill got the superior mp3 tech. Yondu stay winning.

 

[Dalek]

As a Zune fan boy just want to confirm it was the translucent brown OG ZUNE.

Glad Quill got the superior mp3 tech. Yondu stay winning.

 

[Cat Party]

That Zune bit was incredible.

"300 songs?!"

 

[Killer Queen]

My generation has ruined the word daddy so when Yondu said he was Quill's daddy my friends and I could not stop lookin at each other and chuckling

Sorrynotsorry

 

[Unicorn]

Zune software is still better than iTunes dawg

 

[Kadey]

Zune and the Nomads were still popular just not as much. They should have went with minidiscs because those were niche compared to MP3 players.

 

[Cuburt]

I'm pretty sure Marvel has acknowledged that Black Widow is one of the Avengers with the most demand for a solo film that doesn't already have one, probably outside of the Hulk. Kevin Feige himself has commented that they are still thinking about making the film, it just seems to be a matter of timing.

I think the beginning of Phase 4 seems pretty likely, especially since they've done lots of the heavy lifting of establishing all the various corners of the MCU and can now just focus on introducing more characters that inhabit the universe. They will also need a few more fresh faces headlining franchises now that Cap and Thor films seem to be done like Iron Man's series. Widow is not a new face, but she'd have the recognition, while also being a new series with a new angle. It could be a fresh way of repackaging the characters we already know.

I'd like it if they still kept guys like Thor/Cap/Tony around but have their films be mostly one-offs when they have a story to tell instead of every film needing to be a trilogy. Or have a Captain America film starring Bucky or Sam (or Bucky and Sam, road trip style) or similar to Antman and Wasp, have duo movies Nat and Clint (Hawkeye and Widow?), Vision and the Scarlet Witch, Thor and Hulk, Rocket and Groot, etc. it opens up more possibilities of stories to tell with the characters we have. The Winter Soldier was a bit like a Cap and Widow film, Thor Ragnarok seems to be billed as a Thor and Hulk road trip film, I think it could be the best way to juggle so many characters that could headline a film without trying to make every character have their own isolated corner of the universe as a trilogy.

 

[Gordon Shumway]

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[ryutaro's mama]

https://youtu.be/wMNNnYXDBbM

My man.

 

[BreezyLimbo]

They went so much further with the living planet stuff than I thought they would

I'm surprised that Ego was the antagonist of the movie. I thought he would've just shown up in a couple scenes and be like 'Oh hey it's you son'. I dig the whole planet thing though, and just going in with it.

On the movie, there were alot of character moments. Like, one after another. Felt strange for a marvel movie.

 

[EviLore]

Yikes.

Meandering. Flat. Forced. The original might be formulaic in many ways, sure, but there's a casual, self-assured coolness to it. It's brisk, gets to where it wants to go, and is totally unafraid when it counts. None of that carried over to the sequel. Pacing grinds to a halt to stare at Baby Groot because Baby Groot is cute and everyone loves Baby Groot, have more Baby Groot. Pacing grinds to a halt to force characters into awkward on-the-nose bonding moments that no one seems to want to be in the room for; well, when they're not just yelling over each other obnoxiously as if they're rewinding back to the beginning of the first story, rather than acting anything like the comrades they've become. Animators seem to be told to fill in the ubiquitous disjointed green screen background behind every static character shot with a thousand frantic explosions. Recurring traits and jokes play out as bizarre, slow-motion-winking hyper-aware fanservice rather than as straightforward character continuity.

Trying too hard.

 

[Nostremitus]

That doesn't make murder okay.

It wasn't murder.

It was his ship in intergalactic space.

He is the rule of law.

They staged a mutiny and murdered the other half of his crew. As Captain, he sentenced them to death, then carried out the sentence.

 

[Shaanyboi]

That doesn't make murder okay.

Someone please think of the murderous space pirates!

 

[Moppeh]

Yikes.

Meandering. Flat. Forced. The original might be formulaic in many ways, sure, but there's a casual, self-assured coolness to it. It's brisk, gets to where it wants to go, and is totally unafraid when it counts. None of that carried over to the sequel. Pacing grinds to a halt to stare at Baby Groot because Baby Groot is cute and everyone loves Baby Groot, have more Baby Groot. Pacing grinds to a halt to force characters into awkward on-the-nose bonding moments that no one seems to want to be in the room for; well, when they're not just yelling over each other obnoxiously as if they're rewinding back to the beginning of the first story, rather than acting anything like the comrades they've become. Animators seem to be told to fill in the ubiquitous disjointed green screen background behind every static character shot with a thousand frantic explosions. Recurring traits and jokes play out as bizarre, slow-motion-winking hyper-aware fanservice rather than as straightforward character continuity.

Trying too hard.

Sums up most of my problems with the film.

I still had fun watching it but yeah, the movie has plenty of problems.

 

[duckroll]

Here's a visual guide to everything wrong with GotG Vol2:

 

[Gordon Shumway]

Someone please think of the murderous space pirates!

lol..

 

[Einchy]

Here's a visual guide to everything wrong with GotG Vol2:

You're a bad person.

Only bad people say stuff like this.

Baby Groot is a good person, you are not.

 

[ZeoVGM]

Baby Groot was so good.

 

[Einchy]

I want a spinoff where Baby Groot has an amazing adventure while the Guardians are doing some boring ass mission.

 

[Poor GRIMES]

So... are they going to spinoff Sylvester Stallone's team as their own franchise in the galactic MCU?

There's no way they'd get a recognizable actor for a bit role like that. Pretty sure that robot was voiced by Miley Cyrus too.

 

[Dalek]

So... are they going to spinoff Sylvester Stallone's team as their own franchise in the galactic MCU?

There's no way they'd get a recognizable actor for a bit role like that. Pretty sure that robot was voiced by Miley Cyrus too.

It was. All of them were known actors basically. I imagine they'll be in Vol. 3 because I'm just not confident Marvel would give them their own spinoff sight unseen.

Krugarr's little mystic gesture was fucking awesome though.

 

[clay_ghost]

It was. All of them were known actors basically. I imagine they'll be in Vol. 3 because I'm just not confident Marvel would give them their own spinoff sight unseen.

Krugarr's little mystic gesture was fucking awesome though.

Sylvester Stallone's old, wonder how long will it take Marvel to make GotG 3. I don't think we will see much of him if they take too long, maybe the movie will just be him giving commands to others lol.

 

[Dalek]

Sylvester Stallone's old, wonder how long will it take Marvel to make GotG 3. I don't think we will see much of him if they take too long, maybe the movie will just be him giving commands to others lol.

I thought about this too. Stallone is really old now. But he did awesome in his few scenes. If nothing comes of it, at least it was nice world building, but Gunn did say we'd see them again.

 

[Glass Rebel]

At the end of Phase 3 Groot will break off a twig for every member so we can get Baby Groots in every single MCU movie.

World Peace is achieved.

 

[Dalek]

At the end of Phase 3 Groot will break off a twig for every member so we can get Baby Groots in every single MCU movie.

World Peace is achieved.

You know it's funny you suggest this...

Spoilers for latest issue of GOTG

Spoiler

Theres a mysterious character in the latest issue who seems to be doing just that-growing an army of Groots from twigs.

 

[Linkstrikesback]

At the end of Phase 3 Groot will break off a twig for every member so we can get Baby Groots in every single MCU movie.

...

#teamthanos
Only he can save us from this madness

 

[Acidote]

Just watched this last night.

Michael Rooker my man!

It was his movie! It's a pity he's done with this, I liked the movie very much (although I think the first one was considerably better) and he was the best in it.

By the way, was that diamond-like guy Lex Luthor?

 

[sinkfla87]

You're a bad person.

Only bad people say stuff like this.

Baby Groot is a good person, you are not.

I honestly felt like he was (surprisingly) barely in it. Drax got a TON of screentime... which is cool with me. RIP Yondu, you were my favorite .

 

[Kill Your Masters]

Rooker stole the show.

This was Yondus movie.

 

[ZeoVGM]

Sylvester Stallone's old, wonder how long will it take Marvel to make GotG 3. I don't think we will see much of him if they take too long, maybe the movie will just be him giving commands to others lol.

Vol. 3 is likely 2020.

 

[Glass Rebel]

Just watched this last night.

Michael Rooker my man!

It was his movie! It's a pity he's done with this, I liked the movie very much (although I think the first one was considerably better) and he was the best in it.

By the way, was that diamond-like guy Lex Luthor?

Yup, Michael Rosenbaum was Martinex.

 

[Acidote]

Yup, Michael Rosenbaum was Martinex.

I knew he was in the movie but never found him, so I guessed it was Martinex (don't know the character). I don't remember if he has any lines but I wouldn't have recognized him anyways since I had to watch the movie dubbed in Spanish ._.

 

[Nostremitus]

I knew he was in the movie but never found him, so I guessed it was Martinex (don't know the character). I don't remember if he has any lines but I wouldn't have recognized him anyways since I had to watch the movie dubbed in Spanish ._.

Dude made of crystal who followed space Rambo around.