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GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY |OT| ...Who?
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really? I know i mentioned this many times before but I definitely had a feeling this movie would be a big hit and was sincere with my revenue predictions.
Thatoneguy64
Member
This is basically a more detailed breakdown of what the OP is recommending:
Follow this:
Then stop. This picture is where your Guardians train begins and ends. Avoid the current run at all costs.
Nightengale
Member
Good movie, but still below Avengers and Winter Soldier by a fair margin,imo.
Main complaints is that Ronan sucks as a villain, and Gamora felt really weak as a character. Similarly with Drax,but that was more an action thing, his character scenes were good.
And the action cinematography was weak. After Winter Soldier, Guardians looked low budget.
Everything else was excellent though, I'd rate it 3rd or 4th on par or slightly lower than Iron Man 1.
Main complaints is that Ronan sucks as a villain, and Gamora felt really weak as a character. Similarly with Drax,but that was more an action thing, his character scenes were good.
And the action cinematography was weak. After Winter Soldier, Guardians looked low budget.
Everything else was excellent though, I'd rate it 3rd or 4th on par or slightly lower than Iron Man 1.
Not sure who has the highest opening weekend,
but as a whole, Avatar (James Cameron, not The Last Airbender) is the highest grossing movie, so I guess it has a good chance at being the highest grossing U.S. opening for a new franchise.
brandonh83
Banned
I didn't think the action cinematography was weak. To me it had more color and flavor to the shots and sequencing. Winter Soldier was more of a gritty down to earth action movie.
Also after seeing the movie I can at least understand how people thought Ronan was bland, but he's not the first bland villain in these movies and I doubt he'll be the last. And like those, the bland villain hardly made a dent on the overall movie. If I were to judge Winter Soldier as a villain I wouldn't give him remotely high marks.
Also after seeing the movie I can at least understand how people thought Ronan was bland, but he's not the first bland villain in these movies and I doubt he'll be the last. And like those, the bland villain hardly made a dent on the overall movie. If I were to judge Winter Soldier as a villain I wouldn't give him remotely high marks.
PhoncipleBone
Banned
Hunger Games. That thing was a fucking monster. I think before that it was Spider-Man 1 all the way back in 2002.
I might be wrong though.
EDIT: Also, even IF GotG makes over $100m this weekend to set the record for the year, Hunger Games: Mockingjay is going to curb stomp it on opening weekend.
Nothing new for a Marvel movie, though. At least Ronan went out like the complete joke that he was in the movie. I actually enjoyed the fact that he was so inept at his job, and I'm sure that Thanos understand that better than anyone.
Just got back. Overall, I enjoyed it. I thought it tried a little too hard with some of the emotional moments and the comedy, especially in the first act, but when it was on, it really was on. A decent flick, though.
Some thoughts:
-Ronan is yet another disappointing Marvel movie villain, joining such luminaries as Whiplash, Meliketh, and Guy Pierce in "Why aren't you as cool as Loki and the Red Skull" tier. Nebula was also pretty bad.
-Loved the visual look and especially loved the music. I want Peter's mixtape.
-Drax and Gamora sucked. Thankfully, Rocket, Peter, and Groot more than made up for them.
-I want more of the Nova Corps.
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Some thoughts:
-Ronan is yet another disappointing Marvel movie villain, joining such luminaries as Whiplash, Meliketh, and Guy Pierce in "Why aren't you as cool as Loki and the Red Skull" tier. Nebula was also pretty bad.
-Loved the visual look and especially loved the music. I want Peter's mixtape.
-Drax and Gamora sucked. Thankfully, Rocket, Peter, and Groot more than made up for them.
-I want more of the Nova Corps.
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Pelvic Sorcery
Surface of Me
I'm not an NPC. And neither are we.
Sucks Ronan sounds lame. Still cant way to see this.
Eppy Thatcher
God's had his chance.
Around $170 million
Same as Cap 2 and Thor 2. Guess they don't want to go over that.
After seeing it twice, my rankings are:
Avengers > Iron Man > Winter Soldier > GotG >>>>> the rest
It's not the cinematography, it's the choreography and editing. It's just a bunch of blasting, punching, and jumping around. There's nothing flashy about any of it, and the movie constantly cuts between all the different confrontations without giving a clear sense of place or what's actually happening. A lot of the time I wasn't invested in the action at all, it just becomes like background noise. The best action sequence in the whole movie is
Avengers > Iron Man > Winter Soldier > GotG >>>>> the rest
It's not the cinematography, it's the choreography and editing. It's just a bunch of blasting, punching, and jumping around. There's nothing flashy about any of it, and the movie constantly cuts between all the different confrontations without giving a clear sense of place or what's actually happening. A lot of the time I wasn't invested in the action at all, it just becomes like background noise. The best action sequence in the whole movie is
Quill escaping with the gem, right at the start. The layout of the environment is clearly established, there are a number of slow motion shots, which look cool and make the action easy to follow, and the sequence is entirely focused on one subject: Quill.
demosthenes
Member
Was EXCELLENT!
Okay, review time.
+Rocket is far and away the best part of the movie. The best written, best acted, most fully realized character. Bradley Cooper KILLS it.
+Groot and Drax are a lot of fun too, and Pratt is a cool, charismatic lead.
+CGI is great and art design especially looks fantastic
+Really funny at times, particularly Rocket
+Soundtrack
+Did not see that post-credits scene coming :lol
-Villains are terrible. I don't just mean they're written in the "intentionally generic to give an excuse for heroes to team up" sense, but that they also didn't look good, sound good, and were basically totally uninteresting. I'm a little concerned about building up Thanos as the endgame villain now because I was not impressed with how he appeared here.
-Gamora is a really underwritten and inconsistent character. She's presented as the deadly badass assassin, but acts the complete opposite way, and just moves to the story's whims. She's also nerfed as hell. Drax was too to an extent, but Gamora came off as really powerless here. Pretty disappointing, especially since I really like Zoe Saldana.
-Humor feels forced sometimes.
-Plot progression feels forced a lot of the time. Tons of on-the-nose exposition dialogue that just sounds bad.
-Cinematography is definitely TV-ish bland; I think EviLore said that there's a very jarring and noticeable difference between the CGI establishing shots and how the actual sets are shot, and I totally agree. Also, too much sped up motion on the fight choreography, it was way too obvious that hits weren't actually connecting.
In spite of the list of negatives, I liked it a lot. It's a fun, funny, mostly earnest superhero space adventure story, and it opens up the Marvel universe in some cool new ways. I had some issues with the script, mostly in regards to the villains, and I'm a little wary of the overall plan with Thanos now, but it was an overall cool movie.
...I think Winter Soldier still blows this one away though.
+Rocket is far and away the best part of the movie. The best written, best acted, most fully realized character. Bradley Cooper KILLS it.
+Groot and Drax are a lot of fun too, and Pratt is a cool, charismatic lead.
+CGI is great and art design especially looks fantastic
+Really funny at times, particularly Rocket
+Soundtrack
+Did not see that post-credits scene coming :lol
-Villains are terrible. I don't just mean they're written in the "intentionally generic to give an excuse for heroes to team up" sense, but that they also didn't look good, sound good, and were basically totally uninteresting. I'm a little concerned about building up Thanos as the endgame villain now because I was not impressed with how he appeared here.
-Gamora is a really underwritten and inconsistent character. She's presented as the deadly badass assassin, but acts the complete opposite way, and just moves to the story's whims. She's also nerfed as hell. Drax was too to an extent, but Gamora came off as really powerless here. Pretty disappointing, especially since I really like Zoe Saldana.
-Humor feels forced sometimes.
-Plot progression feels forced a lot of the time. Tons of on-the-nose exposition dialogue that just sounds bad.
-Cinematography is definitely TV-ish bland; I think EviLore said that there's a very jarring and noticeable difference between the CGI establishing shots and how the actual sets are shot, and I totally agree. Also, too much sped up motion on the fight choreography, it was way too obvious that hits weren't actually connecting.
In spite of the list of negatives, I liked it a lot. It's a fun, funny, mostly earnest superhero space adventure story, and it opens up the Marvel universe in some cool new ways. I had some issues with the script, mostly in regards to the villains, and I'm a little wary of the overall plan with Thanos now, but it was an overall cool movie.
...I think Winter Soldier still blows this one away though.
roodiculous
Member
Your my boy, Groot!
WHY DIDNT THIS HAPPEN
I was surprised how much I enjoyed the entire ensemble; I went in thinking Drax and Gramora would take a back seat, after how prominent Rocket/Groot were in the trailers. It was really well balanced. Drax's humor and the alternation in Groot's behaviors were so great.
Rocket was the heart and soul of the movie. Just wonderful character work all around.
Hallway smash --> oh hai guys grin brought the house down. Drax's thesaurus line demolished me for like, 30 seconds after.
Rocket was the heart and soul of the movie. Just wonderful character work all around.
ShinoguTakeruKoeru
Member
So nice, I saw it twice.
I loved how Peter's mixtape figured into the whole soundtrack of the film, and all of the casting worked so well in my opinion. Bradley Cooper and the animators behind Rocket really brought it, second character in a row that really got to me that was also a CG Creation (Koba from Dawn of the Apes being the first).
Two questions:
1. Towards the end, when Nebula
2. Do you guys think they'll skip over Guardians of the Galaxy for next year's Act 2 marathon event before the midnight show of Age of Ultron? I'd rather they didn't but it will still definitely stick out as an anomaly when there's Iron Man 3, Thor Dark World and Winter Soldier preceding next year's big film.
I loved how Peter's mixtape figured into the whole soundtrack of the film, and all of the casting worked so well in my opinion. Bradley Cooper and the animators behind Rocket really brought it, second character in a row that really got to me that was also a CG Creation (Koba from Dawn of the Apes being the first).
Two questions:
1. Towards the end, when Nebula
landed on the Milano, didn't she fling Rocket out of the ship and fly away with it? How did Rocket then get right back onto it to fly it into Ronan for the big heroic crash?
ShinoguTakeruKoeru
Member
Wow really? PHEW, both times I saw the film I thought it was him. I blame the film showing Rocket prominently as a lot of the other Ravagers got taken down by suicide bombers.
I bought the deluxe soundtrack CD set today before the evening show. Can't wait to put this on my phone. I want an Awesome Mix cassette tape-looking case for my phone now!
Dr Duncan Steel
Member
so is the imax any good? is it necessary?
illmatic22
Banned
Trailers I saw were
Interstellar
The Hobbit 3
The Equalizer
Was hoping for Big Hero 6.
Interstellar
The Hobbit 3
The Equalizer
Was hoping for Big Hero 6.
I saw it in Imax 3D and it was pretty damn good. Some brilliant shots in this movie.
It demolishes the shit out of IM1. Then again, I never really got into IM1 as much as other people did (it used to be a distant 3rd to Avengers, Cap 2 prior to GotG), so my opinion is a little biased.
SolidChamp
Banned
Would my wife enjoy this, even though she has zero interest based on the trailers and has no knowledge of this world? She's barely into sci-fi, but enjoyed popcorn "appeal to all audiences" flicks like Star Trek '09 and The Fifth Element.
Hell, I'm barely interested myself, but I think I'll go based on the solid reviews and good word-of-mouth.
Hell, I'm barely interested myself, but I think I'll go based on the solid reviews and good word-of-mouth.
It's a beautiful thing... going monday afternoon AND night!!
Ooh child, things are gonna be brighter.
My wife is very similar. After the show tonight I asked her what she thought. She said going in, she expected to not like it, but ended up enjoying it a lot. The humor and heart won her over.
SolidChamp
Banned
This is good news, because I don't feel like going alone, but also don't want to drag her to it. I'm practically dragging myself at this point. It's so fucking hot here in Taipei, the humidity hits me in the face so fast, sweat forms on my brow in mere seconds. There is nothing else to do but sit in an air conditioned movie theatre, and there really are very few options.
Guardians of the Galaxy gets my ticket money by default. Low expectations should do wonders for our viewing. Fingers crossed.
Just saw this. Pretty good.
The beginning setup was super weird. The end fight sequence was excellent. Am interested in what the sequel will do.
As for characters, Drax stole the show for most hilarious and fun character. The fact that he the go to comic relief character rather than rocket is pretty great.
As for characters, Drax stole the show for most hilarious and fun character. The fact that he the go to comic relief character rather than rocket is pretty great.
Mine isn't, went it with no knowledge at all and loved every second.
MagicWithEarvin
Member
I just realized Chris Pratt is the douche best friend who was banging James McAvoy's girlfriend in Wanted.
I don't know if it's been made yet, but someone needs to do the Zoolander meme with the GotG cast. I need that in my life.
Bornstellar
Member
So I went to see it again tonight.
Still loved it. Awesome movie confirmed.
I do agree that they really need to improve the action for the sequel. Hopefully we see an improvement similar to what we saw from The First Avenger to the Winter Soldier.
Still loved it. Awesome movie confirmed.
"Boo hoo, my wife and daughter were murdered" + Groot reaction
I do agree that they really need to improve the action for the sequel. Hopefully we see an improvement similar to what we saw from The First Avenger to the Winter Soldier.
PhoncipleBone
Banned
Not really fair putting Watchmen into that DC chart. It was always its own separate little world.
And where is Jonah Hex?
And where is Jonah Hex?
properpropaganda
Member
Big Hero 6 was the last one at my showing. I liked that they added that it was based off a Marvel comic to it as opposed to the first trailer.
properpropaganda
Member
I actually really liked Thor 2, even more so than Thor 1.
Then again, I like Cars 2 over Cars 1, so I don't know if my opinion matters. lol.