"Guardians of The Galaxy" Offical Movie Thread

[50%grey]

Well it's confirmed

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/guardians-...2.html#f1Hznfe

[sacredbob]

Just saw it with my wife (who's usually resistant to "superhero crap") and we both loved it! Nice balance of action, humor, and character development/storytelling.

[Ace Corona]

I just got back from seeing it, I actually liked it. In its own weird way, everything seemed plausible, and I thought Star Lord was cool.

[PTX40]

I saw it last night. I thought it was pretty good, but had a few glaring problems.

- I agree with dmario: Why are the Nova Corps a bunch of seemingly comically inept cops? Where's that Nova power?

- WAAAAY too many long winded expositional speeches. Whole lotta tell, not a lot of show.

- Gamora was definitely a little weak here. Wouldn't have minded a little more work on her story.

- Also got a little overly sappy in some scenes.

Don't get me wrong. Still plenty fun, would watch again. Groot and Rocket are fantastic. I'd rank it on par with the Thor movies.

[Huerta]

Which, near as I can tell, means they're mixing up the colors. 'Cause the Tesseract is blue, the Aether was red, and The Orb was purple... Wikipedia sez that should be Mind, Power and Space, but clearly not.

Yeah, the movie versions are different from the comic versions.

[Inkthinker]

Tesseract - Space
Aether - Reality
The Orb - Power

Which, near as I can tell, means they're mixing up the colors. 'Cause the Tesseract is blue, the Aether was red, and The Orb was purple... Wikipedia sez that should be Mind, Power and Space, but clearly not.

[dmario]

God im like one of 50 pple who were unimpressed by Avengers after 5he second time...at first I was like AWESOME...then I was like waitaminnit....

[Huerta]

Sure, I just made it through the first volume of Annihilation; and in the second volume I just stopped. I couldn't find it in myself to give a damn about Silver Surfer, or any of these jokers.

It's a hard sell. A series that was in a similar boat for me forever was Green Lantern, until the Sinestro Corps war. I'm not particularly a fan of Ethan Van Sciver and his often asymmetrical art; but that series finally sold me on the Green Lantern universe being cool.

This is just a fight Marvel is coming to handicapped for me. The other "big" cosmic thing I read was Infinity Gauntlet and that was pretty lame too. All the power in the universe and ol' nuts-for-a-chin still gets clowned by some humans?

I'll see when this comes out on DVD. I gave Avengers a shot, and that didn't change my mind of that franchise either. I like Cap. I like Hulk. I don't care about the rest of these characters.

You're missing out. But if you're not into Silver Surfer, GoTG, Celestials, Nova, Infinity gems, Thanos, Adam Warlock, Ronan and all thats jazz, then yeah, skip it. Even though this movie is getting mad love from regular people who have no idea who Thanos is, this movie delivered way more than the Avengers did.

[Pencilero]

The Annihilation event was some of the best Cosmic shit in a comic I've read. Its because of that series and the other minis around that time, that I became a fan of the Guardians of the Galaxy and anything Marvel space related. The art wasn't bad or great, but I got a full story out of it.

Sure, I just made it through the first volume of Annihilation; and in the second volume I just stopped. I couldn't find it in myself to give a damn about Silver Surfer, or any of these jokers.

It's a hard sell. A series that was in a similar boat for me forever was Green Lantern, until the Sinestro Corps war. I'm not particularly a fan of Ethan Van Sciver and his often asymmetrical art; but that series finally sold me on the Green Lantern universe being cool.

This is just a fight Marvel is coming to handicapped for me. The other "big" cosmic thing I read was Infinity Gauntlet and that was pretty lame too. All the power in the universe and ol' nuts-for-a-chin still gets clowned by some humans?

I'll see when this comes out on DVD. I gave Avengers a shot, and that didn't change my mind of that franchise either. I like Cap. I like Hulk. I don't care about the rest of these characters.

[Huerta]

The Annihilation event was some of the best Cosmic shit in a comic I've read. Its because of that series and the other minis around that time, that I became a fan of the Guardians of the Galaxy and anything Marvel space related. The art wasn't bad or great, but I got a full story out of it.

I never cared for the original team and that brown kid from Captain Planet with CA's shield.

[Pencilero]

I also don't like this version of Drax. I grew up with the SUPER powered version. While i loved his role in the movie, I was waiting for him to fly or do something well.... Drax like.

As a casual observer, these versions of the characters costumes are by far the lamest.

It doesn't help that my opinion is also informed by some of the terrible Annihilation comics with dubious art.

Marvel cosmic stuff is such a hard sell to me, that I still can't bring myself to care.

[hadesillustrations]

Did you guys notice that the Ravager ships firing vertically at the Necrocraft was a nod to Galaga? The ship shapes were similar and the way they were firing was straight out of an old school video game. That could NOT have been an accident, especially after the fun Galaga comment in Avengers.

[Huerta]

I really reallly liked this movie. All the 80s music and space scenes gave me a Heavy Metal woody.

I thought the "Tessaract" on Asgard was the "power" infinity gem? That having been said, i'm having a hard time reconciling the movie appearances with what the "canon" gems are/do.

Good stuff though, liked it all.

mattPLOG

Tesseract - Space
Aether - Reality
The Orb - Power

[jeffchris50]

Went to see GOTG last night in a fully-packed, 300+ theater hall and everyone in the audience loved the movie and even gave it a standing ovation at the end, something I haven't seen happen in a very long time. I'm going to wait and see it one more time before I post a review simply due to the fact that there is SO much to take in in the movie that I don't feel it can be fairly critiqued, at least not with any depth, without at least a second viewing. What I saw I like a lot (a few missteps here and there) and I look forward to posting "deeper" thoughts after I see it again.

[PLOG]

I really reallly liked this movie. All the 80s music and space scenes gave me a Heavy Metal woody.

I thought the "Tessaract" on Asgard was the "power" infinity gem? That having been said, i'm having a hard time reconciling the movie appearances with what the "canon" gems are/do.

Good stuff though, liked it all.

mattPLOG