Finally watched Guardians.
Despite the huge amount of hype and love that movie gets...I still loved it to death. Re-watched it twice already. Goddamn I love me some fun space opera. Star Wars, Guardians, Riddick, Mass Effect, Deep Space 9, Battlestar remake...I wish we could get more fun space opera out there. I like having pink skinned girls from one night stands wearing old band t-shirts or hanging out in a space station that's really a giant celestial head.
We need novels like this - most sci-fi novels are so obessed with getting their sci right that they miss out on the fun.
I don't care if connects to the outside universe (though they kind of have to since SHIELD and the Guardians share a kind of mission in finding and securing the infinity gems), I would love a trilogy by James Gunn with these fuckers.
PS: okay, the Tesseract instead of Cosmic Cube, I get that, but what's the issue with using the world "gem" instead of "stone"? Really? Does some other studio own the rights to "infinity gems", like Sony or Fox, or is like the Cube in that you're worried people won't take it seriously with a name like "Gem"? The whole thing is truly outrageous.