Barkley's Justice
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The GAF eating crow trail is long and vast. See for example many examples including paying for online multiplayer (PSN) and other future crow-eating endeavors such as digital library ownership, VR, PSNow...
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Time to eat crow regarding "Guardians of the Galaxy"
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The name Thor is kinda well known outside simply being a superhero
That's right, he was a skinny white alien too.
XANDER CAGE
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I think the most surprising thing about this is learning that GotG cost 170mil to make. For some reason I thought it would be even more than that.
I knew about Rocket Raccoon from MvC3. Didn't know about the other team members though.
Yeah I was thinking they must have payed the other actors a relatively small amount because damn that movie was filled to the brim with (good) CG.
reptilescorpio
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This is how I got 2 people to come along to GotG. They watched Cap 2 with me and were pretty sick of having to know/remember how everything ties in, since one of them hadn't seen Avengers and wasn't sure what was going on.
After seeing a GotG they were interested since it looked like a standalone Marvel movie.
Trickster
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All this conflict...
Where is that from ?
Guardians of the Galaxy.
ViewtifulJC
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/russoswerve
Now THAT would make a great movie.
Wouldn't work. Rogue, Wolverine, Daken, Havok and Sunfire are essential to the story. And we get a planet full of mutants. The movie is a dream away.
Trickster
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Is there a trailer or something it's from, google and youtube aren't helping me locate a source.
They're coming.
God this looks so fucking bad. If this does better than GOTG then that would be disgusting.
Marvel is notoriously cheap with their actors. Chris Hemsworth was only paid 200,000 dollars for The Avengers.
Mister Wilhelm
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This is great news, but strange for me because the theater I was in on Friday night was less than half full.
Sapiens
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Trickster
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NotTheGuyYouKill
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It's a real good one though.
All this conflict...
Heh.
A bit early to pull some receipts I think, but a bomb this ain't.
It's just a fun movie to me. People will read from it what they want.
It's just a fun movie to me. People will read from it what they want.
Its sort of meaningless because either they will eventually get paid big money by Marvel when they sign a new contract, or much like Chris Hemsworth use the fame to make a shit ton of money in other films. He was one of the highest paid actors last year.
SCULLIBUNDO
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That's some pretty big reaching for crow in that OP. I'll happily send mine back.
Some of the effects in that released trailer that I commented about DO still look like shit.
Some of the effects in that released trailer that I commented about DO still look like shit.
Yeah you can totally get a crow refund. Have you seen the movie yet? Lots of the effects in the actual film look like shit too! I love the art direction, but the visual effects and cinematography totally doesn't do it justice. There are some pretty nice establishing shots, but by and large it looked really cheap.
Winter Soldier has more to say about politics/spy shit (which, admittedly is very very little) than TDK did on crime... or politics.... or much of anything... i dunno nolan something something hero we don't deserve something oh fuck it
Guardians of the Galaxy was alright. Unsurprising that it made money. It's fun and features the one and only Kevin Feige absurdly-safe-no-creative-risks-whatsoever stamp of approval.
Guardians of the Galaxy was alright. Unsurprising that it made money. It's fun and features the one and only Kevin Feige absurdly-safe-no-creative-risks-whatsoever stamp of approval.
F0rneus
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I thought it had some of the best cinematography and visuals in a Marvel Studios picture, so I really disagree there. Film was pure visual bonbon. Even outside of the setpieces, it was a gorgeous movie.
SCULLIBUNDO
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Seeing it next weekend.
The only possible way I can even imagine this opinion being logical is if you're unable to differentiate actual cinematography merits with good set design and art direction. Sorry.
SCULLIBUNDO
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Still haven't seen GotG, but the best photography in any Marvel film thus far is Winter Soldier - shaky action scenes notwithstanding. A DP who was allowed to light a set properly actually worked on the film! I was shocked.
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Black Panther is heavily rumored to be one of the Phase 3 movies, plus Wakanda is probably in Avengers 2 in some capacity, don't see where this is coming from.
It is a good movie and a nice change of pace from most Marvel movies (until the third act.) It didn't rise above that for me, though.
The city shots are probably the worst. The people and the scenery did not fit together at all. A movie of this scope definitely could've benefited from a more ambitious budget, but I guess it was a risk just as it is.
I'm willing to bet these actor accept those cheap paychecks because Superhero movies catapult their careers and then they can negotiate for more lucrative deals, who was chris hemsworth before thor? also RDJ's career pretty much revived after IM1.
It looked sterile. Like no one was happy on set when it was shot.
I'm surprised some of the jokes worked as well as they did considering how it was shot, and the tone it imparted.
Secret Fawful
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There's no way in hell you're actually going to eat crow on this one, I think. I could be wrong, but I doubt this movie is going to really mean that much to film GAF. And I like the movie.
Can't agree on the cheap. The visual effects looked great. The cinematography is unimaginative most of the time but gets the job done. The critique that the cinematography doesn't do a very good job of showing off the effects is a valid one, I'd say.
Yankee Ruin X
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I am really hyped for this film and going to see it with some friends on Wednesday. Got to admit I hadn't even heard of the guardians of the galaxy before the trailers for this film popped up so going in blind really. The trailers alone sold it to me and now with all the great reviews and hype surrounding it I really can't wait to see it which is strange for me as I don't usually get this hyped to see a film but something about it has just captured me.
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Yeah I think it's the Sci-fi aspect that has me hooked, I am getting a bit bored of things being set in New York or some other City. This is bringing something different to me and I love my space opera films so had me interested from the first trailer.
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Yeah I think it's the Sci-fi aspect that has me hooked, I am getting a bit bored of things being set in New York or some other City. This is bringing something different to me and I love my space opera films so had me interested from the first trailer.
XANDER CAGE
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Guardians isn't super imaginative from a cinematography standpoint, although it is LEAGUES better than the basic-cable drama camerawork in The Avengers.
I was thinking about how far we have come.
I remember wayyy back, when X-Men: Last Stand came out, thinking they could never do a character like Juggernaut faithfully, since his power comes from a gem that originates from outer space. The mainstream audience would never tolerate that "corny nerd sci-fi crap" or however you'd describe it.
It is now 2014 and we have GOTG. Amazing.
I remember wayyy back, when X-Men: Last Stand came out, thinking they could never do a character like Juggernaut faithfully, since his power comes from a gem that originates from outer space. The mainstream audience would never tolerate that "corny nerd sci-fi crap" or however you'd describe it.
It is now 2014 and we have GOTG. Amazing.
Darkmakaimura
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I think they're still a bit concerned with certain origins and taking risks. That's why Asgard is not magic, but an advanced technology. I have a feeling Dr. Strange will be similar. It won't be magic, but some kind of 'cosmic force', maybe related to the Cube/Tesseract. In fact, isn't Juggernaut's helmet magical or something anyways?
I'm talking about gaf reactions. Nothing super positive but enough to say it's not the abomination that GAF is over-exaggerating it to be for the past year.
Man fuck twitter reactions they don't mean jack shit.
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