Guardians Of The Galaxy (Gunn, 2014)

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"From MARVEL, the studio that brought you the global blockbuster franchises of IRON MAN, THOR, CAPTAIN AMERICA and THE AVENGERS, comes a new team -- the GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY. An action-packed epic space adventure, Marvel's "Guardians of the Galaxy" expands the Marvel Cinematic Universe into the cosmos, where brash adventurer Peter Quill finds himself the object of an unrelenting bounty hunt after stealing a mysterious orb coveted by Ronan, a powerful villain with ambitions that threaten the entire universe. To evade the ever persistent Ronan, Quill is forced into an uneasy truce with a quartet of disparate misfits -- Rocket, a gun-toting raccoon, Groot, a tree-like humanoid, the deadly and enigmatic Gamora and the revenge-driven Drax the Destroyer. But when Peter discovers the true power of the orb and the menace it poses to the cosmos, he must do his best to rally his ragtag rivals for a last, desperate stand -- with the galaxy's fate in the balance. Marvel's GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY is presented by Marvel Studios. The film releases August 1, 2014, and is distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures!"
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i don't know the story and i don't get the trailer. i see john c reilly and andy from parks & rec in some kind of space movie (i guess) with an angry raccoon and walking plant/mini-ent? seemed pretty dumb when i first heard about it, seems pretty dumb now. might be amusing in a throw-away comic, but clearly trying to make a film franchise out of this? yikes.

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I've never read anything with them in it. From looking over some of the stuff online it looks like it was serious, not a parody. The current version, which the film is based on, came out in 2008 and wasn't written by anyone I follow so I never read it. I think it got canceled actually after a couple of years. Odd choice indeed. But they were tied closely to the Thanos storyline, which if the end of Avengers is to be believed is what we're building to. I suspect this film exists entirely to help build to Avengers 2 (or 3) and probably isn't intended to build a franchise around the characters themselves. Unless it somehow makes tons of money of course.
Just cut them up like regular chickens

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darkness wrote:I've never read anything with them in it. From looking over some of the stuff online it looks like it was serious, not a parody. The current version, which the film is based on, came out in 2008 and wasn't written by anyone I follow so I never read it. I think it got canceled actually after a couple of years. Odd choice indeed. But they were tied closely to the Thanos storyline, which if the end of Avengers is to be believed is what we're building to. I suspect this film exists entirely to help build to Avengers 2 (or 3) and probably isn't intended to build a franchise around the characters themselves. Unless it somehow makes tons of money of course.
You are probably right, it's a bridge to the cosmic battle with Thanos we could be getting in Avengers 3. They could go huge and bring the Guardians back in that movie depending on how things go, or if this one hits a solid action/comedy mix that works with audiences they could get a sequel. I for one am glad they're branching out into some crazier characters; why not?
"I'm like a dog chasing cars, I wouldn't know what to do if I caught one. . . . I'm not a schemer. I just do things."

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it's just cringe-worthy at this point. i mean, i'm sure it will be somewhat amusing and reads well on paper, but the fact that this is the story they chose to make (for obvious ungodly amounts of money) when there are so many other incredible stories out there... i just don't get it.

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I think it looks like a lot of fun. Again, from the director who brought us Humanzee, PG Porn, Slither and Super...outside of X-Men there isn't anything else I can see myself getting excited for this summer.
"I'm like a dog chasing cars, I wouldn't know what to do if I caught one. . . . I'm not a schemer. I just do things."

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I agree, it looks like it could be a fun film if nothing else. I can't say there are a lot of other Marvel properties I'm eager for them to make into a film, since somehow I don't think we'll be seeing Cloak and Dagger any time soon (is it even still a comic series?), so it might as well be this one.
Just cut them up like regular chickens

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They appear to be taking the piss out of the space opera genre the same way Iron Man took the piss out of the superhero genre, which they did with pretty good success a few years back. A good sense of humor goes a long way when you're selling stuff as fundamentally silly as superheroes and space operas, and this appears to have plenty of that. The more I see of the movie from these trailers, the more excited I am to see the whole thing.
"I'm like a dog chasing cars, I wouldn't know what to do if I caught one. . . . I'm not a schemer. I just do things."

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Well nobody's chimed in so I will--great time, Marvel knocks another populist summer action movie out of the park. Yes, there's formula 'o plenty, they are not trying to reinvent the Ingmar Bergman wheel but you probably figured that out when you saw the raccoon on the tree with the gun and the smile. Still, Gunn injects just enough personality and humor in that the familiar beats feel fun and exciting and funny if not hugely fresh. Basically a mashup of Avengers, Serenity and Star Wars, in all the good ways. Soundtrack is used to great effect to ground everything through an earthling's eyes, and above and beyond that there are a variety of other shout-outs to the 80s culture Quill came from that I dare anyone on this forum to not at least smile at if not laugh out loud. We may all have a decade on Quill, but it's clearly written by a guy who's almost exactly our age. Funny, I saw this with a guy who loves to taunt me about how overrated Whedon is, and he came out saying "Gunn out-Whedoned Whedon!" but my sense was of a filmmaker who's a great friend of Whedon's borrowing a lot of his best stuff with love and adding a mix of his own sensibility to Marvel's wacky take on the Lucas DNA (the good stuff), no competition, just success all around.

There have been a lot of complaints about how Marvel movie villains are two-dimensional and the standard issue big final battle is getting old, but I thought Ronan got everything right that Thor 2's dark elf dude got wrong--more screen time, just enough better backstory, cooler character/costume design, the dark elf mother ship improved and perfected, etc. And the battle is built to throughout the movie, feels right in the general progression, fun and exciting. I guess if you hadn't figured it out by now, I call it the summer movie 2014 needed, even if not the summer movie 2014 deserved. Because everything comic book movie has to include a play on that goddamn Dark Knight quote. Which is to say, in closing, lots of things you've seen before, but you should enjoy the shit out of the ride anyway.
"I'm like a dog chasing cars, I wouldn't know what to do if I caught one. . . . I'm not a schemer. I just do things."