-
Hey, guest user. Hope you're enjoying NeoGAF! Have you considered registering for an account? Come join us and add your take to the daily discourse.
Time to eat crow regarding "Guardians of the Galaxy"
- Thread starter Dalek
- Start date
- Status
She's Captain Marvel now, but yes. Give me that Carol Danvers.
I am in love with her.
Hopefully it's not as dull as her ongoing. Also needs some extra Jessica Drew.
bananafactory
Banned
Wow at all the cinematography salt. I thought, aside from a few scenes, it was shot beautifully.
Opinions, man.
Opinions, man.
WadiumArcadium
Member
Same. The space shots were amaaaaazing.
elrechazado
Banned
How do you not know this
jackissocool
Member
Is there some difference between the the previous ~20 issue run and the new one? Cause I haven't gotten to the new one yet but I enjoyed the writing in the first so much that I put with Andrade's truly horrendous art.
Zantetsuken
Member
More proof GAF usually gets it wrong with movies.
It was evident from the trailer, man!
lol
Nope it's still Kelly Sue as far as i know it's just outside of the first arc i thought it was pretty boring. Sacrilege to some but i enjoyed her Ms Marvel ongoing that went through Civil War/Secret Invasion a great deal more. The Captain Marvel costume is awesome though aside from the stupid helmet.
*Shrugs*. Looks like a TV Show, right?
cinematography noun (Concise Encyclopedia)
Art and technology of motion-picture photography. It involves the composition of a scene, lighting of the set and actors, choice of cameras, camera angle, and integration of special effects to achieve the photographic images desired by the director. Cinematography focuses on relations between the individual shots and groups of shots that make up a scene to produce a film's effect.
The best part is that I'm in IT, a job where there is regular "downtime" so to speak. So in the 20-30 minutes it took me to do an Advanced Search in NeoGaf for "Guardians of the Galaxy" thread titles, and then quote posts that stood out...I was getting paid.
Secret_asian_man
Member
I'll have two servings. Lol
MisterHero
Super Member
lol @ people doubting an Avengers tie-in
I always believed in Batista!
I always believed in Batista!
Pretty much. I wish TV shows looked like that.
Chezzymann
Member
I thought the cinematography was fine, sure it was nothing special but in my opinion it wasn't "bad" like some people are (Arrogantly) claiming as if it was an undeniable fact. The film itself was beautiful in my opinion, I loved all the colors, the look of the cities, and the overall style. I just wanna fly around in a spaceship in that universe after watching it.
It doesn't look like a "TV show"(this makes no sense as an insult anymore, a TV show like Mad Men has magnificent photography), but it's nothing special.
Manmademan
Member
This is indeed a sweet deal.
For sure-I agree too. I think it looked great (as do many TV shows: Hannibal, Mad Men, etc), but I can see that it's nothing "Special"-it's just not bad as the put down "TV Show" seems to indicate.
Are you new to people saying, "I told you so"?
Razgriz-Specter
Member
I really didn't think anyone besides the most hardcore comic fans would give a shit.
It's really totally fine.
a Master Ninja
Member
Did anyone go on record saying they thought Batista would be anything but terrible? I remember nothing but negativity when his casting was announced, and he defied those expectations.
but it not being something special also doesn't mean bad cinematography
BTW I always was a believer, hopefully this success bring us more cosmic properties from marvel, its a shame the Fantastic Four remain on Fox, I don't like them, but they have some big cosmic IPs on there that sadly we won't see in cinema in a long long time.
Marvel handled this IP like masters, as I read somewhere they didn't have to market this for hardcore comic fans, the simple fact that a movie of GotG was made is enough, Marvel didn't need to do any more marketing for them, so they filled the trailers with pop references, appealing to nostalgia with the soundtrack and all sort of things the mainstream audience love, and if on top of that the movie is good, then you have a winning formula.
Kai Dracon
Writing a dinosaur space opera symphony
Manmademan
Member
It's the 21st Century.
Iron Man: $585,174,222
The Dark Knight: $1.005 billion
Avengers: $1,518,594,910
Thor 2: $644.8 million
Iron Man 2: $623,933,331
Iron Man 3:$1,215,439,994
Captain America: Winter Soldier: $713.2 million
Man of Steel: $668,045,518
Xmen: Days of Future Past: $739,709,253
Everyone is a comics fan. Nerds have won.
edit: Jesus christ @ Captain America > Superman. Zero to Hero indeed.
Magic Mushroom
Member
Have you seen it?
That's not even the right version
Awesome at the time, terrible in retrospect.
Maybe in ten years time I'll turn back around the other way on it lol.
I'm not offering a prediction; just saying that it's not my cup of tea. Could do amazing, could bomb. I don't know anything about this movie or the people in it (or its fanbase).
If it does well, then good for the movie and its fans.
Here's how to eat crow for those who haven't done it before
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOrkttA0Xns
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgKG-37mHOw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOrkttA0Xns
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgKG-37mHOw
SlowRevolution
Member
these are the guardians of the galaxy of youtube videos
Finaika
Member
They're coming.
wtf is this?
That's my point though: it's not going to bomb. Suggesting it could as we literally watch it gross, right now, an over $90 million opening weekend is kind of ridiculous.
also, you're clearly not the only person to not know anything about the movie, the people in it, or its fans, but a movie like this doesn't make that much money in that short period of time on fanbase alone. How would you know it's not your cup of tea if, by your own admission, you don't know anything anything about it?
MisterHero
Super Member
There were people probably doubting the Batista Bomb since his return to WWE. He's smaller than he was before and seemed kinda tired. Movie magic can deal with those easily.
I still think he's cool though!
DrForester
Kills Photobucket
Dang, I should have posted in one of the old treads how I have no familiarity with these characters and how every new picture or trailer I saw made me more excited.
Manmademan
Member
He was fine in man with the iron fists. But most people didn't see that one.
Hot Coldman
Banned
people who still make the "looks like a TV show" comment need to find a new meme
it's kind of lazy
the TV show thing, like people said, doesn't make sense when Utopia, True Detective and Mad Men are on screens
it's kind of lazy
the TV show thing, like people said, doesn't make sense when Utopia, True Detective and Mad Men are on screens
OK, cool. The movie's doing well. I wasn't aware.
As for what I bolded: the trailers are a real turn off. Every time I see them, I think, "I never want to see this."
BocoDragon
or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Realize This Assgrab is Delicious
I didn't say much to eat crow about, but I am surprised by how it's done.
I guess Disney's marketing works a treat... Because GOTG really doesn't have much built-in audience at all (relative to the masses of movie watchers)
I guess Disney's marketing works a treat... Because GOTG really doesn't have much built-in audience at all (relative to the masses of movie watchers)
I feel that should have been clear after Thor and Captain America, which weren't really big in the public eye in the same way as Spider-Man before their blockbuster movies.
Manmademan
Member
uh...yeah? Winter Soldier, Avengers, and now GOTG have not only massive, massive box office performance but nigh-universal critical acclaim. Even marvel's weak output (Incredible Hulk) is still miles above industry average.
Please, tell us more about how you didn't read the very first line of the OP.
Razgriz-Specter
Member
Those make sense, most are ingrained in American popculture,
Who the fuck besides an extreme niche of even comic fans knew of GotG?
Marvel knows what they are doing.
john whiteguy84
Banned
Few laypeople knew Thor was a superhero before the Thor movie and the Avengers came out.
Manmademan
Member
Iron Man and Cap really weren't until their films hit, and Cap2 and IM3 literally doubled the box office gross of their prequels. Edit: Thor was also fairly obscure for a marvel hero.
at this point the MCU and comics themselves are mainstream. the "marvel" tag alone is going to bring a ton of people out.
- Status