Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2

Also, I loved that it was so colourful! Since in the recent years the "muted tones mean serious business" disease has infected even sci-fi movies (like Star Wars), this was a welcome relief from that (as was the previous one). Space operas and superhero comic movies should have some bright colours, for chrissakes!

Btw, Marvel has finally finished reprinting the entire cosmic saga that began in Keith Giffen's Annihilation, continued with Annihilation Conquest, and with Abnett & Lanning's Nova and Guardians of the Galaxy ongoing series (as well as various crossovers), and culminated in The Thanos Imperative. They've all been reprinted in omnibus editions, so if you missed the whole saga the first time around, grab them now! This is pretty much the best Marvel cosmic comic since the 1970s.

Lotta orange and teal in this one.

Loved it. Tonally different than the first, but still really enjoyable.

Lost it completely with "Father & Son" - that song has made me weep uncontrollably since I was a teenager. I legit fell apart for a few minutes there

Lotta orange and teal in this one.

You're kidding, right? (Compared to a lot of other films right now, this was far more all over the place color-wise.)

Was gonna say

can't say I thought it was particularly egregious but I did read this in an interview with James Gunn

"I wanted to make the second movie have a very distinct visual look that was much different than the first movie.

"One of the first things I did was ban the use of the colour purple.

"There's purple in the movie, but there's very little purple in the movie. Because purple was by far the dominant colour in the first movie.

"This movie is more about yellow and blue and teal and orange."

Weird.

I think a lot of what Tuomas diagnoses as overdoing it is stuff that I read as exhalation, having some more fun, "it's all but guaranteed we're going to make a shitload of money so let's play around" silliness with the occasional overextension. The opening credits fight sequence is brilliant; the "got any tape" bit is about the best use of surround sound in a theater that I can readily remember. I feel like you don't get those things without also having to accept the risk of some googly-eyed space jump gags or a mildly overwrought mutineer execution sequence.

i loved the casting of Kurt Russell
mainly bc latter-day Kurt looks like an old mythological god like Zeus etc 😃

Where did he go for a while? Like, all seemed quiet on the Kurt Russell front, and then, bam, Death Proof, Bone Tomahawk, Hateful Eight, this ... And now Goldie is back in action, too.

Kurt Russell is sort of the antecedent to Bruce Willis, no? Same sort of modest origins, crossover action appeal, leading man, able to do indie stuff in addition to pay the bills crud.

A former kid star - from Wikipedia: 'In 1966, Walt Disney wrote "Kurt Russell" on a piece of paper as his final words.'

apparently they were really close!

Final words is an exaggeration. Also he wrote "Kirt Russell"

https://www.mouseplanet.com/9734/Walts_Last_Words_NOT_Kurt_Russell

"Where did he go for a while? Like, all seemed quiet on the Kurt Russell front, and then, bam, Death Proof, Bone Tomahawk, Hateful Eight, this ... And now Goldie is back in action, too."

Death Proof came out almost a decade ago... but yeah it looks like after that he kinda stopped working for a while (going from at least a movie every year to one every couple years until 2015).

The idea that in 2017 one of the summer's top-grossing movies would co-star Kurt Russell and have a small but important role for Sylvester Stallone is kinda mind-boggling.

Not sure why. Resurrecting old stars for big budget spectaculars is kind of a thing, right? Also is Kurt Russell really co-starring in this?

Pretty much yeah - he gets as much screen time as anyone who isn't Chris Pratt.

Given his charisma at some points it felt like everyone else was supporting him.

That is, he felt like the center of the whole thing - the epicenter of the planet system, as it were - with the rest of the dozen or so cast members orbiting his stationary character like satellites.

I'm not sure I follow your metaphor.

Anyway Kurt & Goldie became empty nesters not that long ago, probably decided to actually take some time to themselves. He's been working for like 60 years.

An accompaniment to the io9 Easter egg dump that Ned posted above:

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/guardians-galaxy-2-end-credit-scenes-who-were-ravagers-1000653

We'll need an Adam Warlock casting thread soon imo

Must be more genetically perfect than Elizabeth Debicki

Kurt was a fantastic choice for this role. So good.

Must be more genetically perfect than Elizabeth Debicki

$146 M weekend

congrats all, here's a lollipop

This movie essentially is a lollipop.

no!!!!!

the Emily Dickinson biofilm is *almost* to $500 G btw

Must be more genetically perfect than Elizabeth Debicki

Haha I know

of fucking course a Reddit person suggested Owen Wilson, possibly without irony: https://www.reddit.com/r/marvelstudios/comments/5p7bik/dream_casting_for_adam_warlock/

And some site I've never heard of has this list which, like other neural networks, has fits of brilliance in between the complete misapprehensions of what anything means:

Alexander Skarsgård
Ewan McGregor
Charlie Hunnam
Travis Fimmel
Matthew McConaughey
Karl Urban
Matt Bomer
Rodrigo Santoro
Ryan McPartlin
Billy Crudup
Sharlto Copley
Ryan Kwanten
Stuart Townsend
Michael Shanks
Barry Pepper
Hugh Dancy
Joseph Mawle
Adrien Brody
Laurence Fox
Christian Camargo

All of this is utter garbage of course. Adam Warlock belongs to Wanda Sykes.

I think Michael Fassbender could be a good contender? He has the required Aryan good looks, and he's capable of doing the smugness and intellectual superiority that's Warlock's trademark. Though I guess they can't use him cos he's in that other Marvel franchise...

I think "required aryan good looks" is exactly the wrong way to go about casting adam warlock

this is their opportunity to make amends for casting a white englishwoman as the Ancient One

if it has to be a dude, then I vote Richard Ayoade

ansel elgort IS adam warlock

Well his origin story is that he was genetically engineered by supervillains to be an Übermensch, so I don't see why it would be a wrong choice?

oh god i just had a nightmare vision of armie hammer as adam warlock

Though in the movie he's engineered by aliens, but those aliens felt pretty fascist too, with all their talk of genetic superiority.

"genetically engineered ubermensch" looking like some ripped-but-not-roided edition of Dolph Lundgren is outdated, bad, racist, sexist and unimaginative

it's a wonderful opportunity to cast against type and they should take it as far as it can go

young Viggo would have been good, but not old Viggo

Rebel Wilson

They'll probably make him all CGI.

Ladies and gentlemen, Adam Warlock:
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Kj65h9M9PhY/TlQNerRBbYI/AAAAAAAAANc/precImo1q6E/s1600/ANDY-SERKIS-007.jpg

So nobody besides Marvel nerds - and really, Starlin Marvel nerds, a specific subset - have an attachment to any specific idea of Adam Warlock. What we do know is that whoever emerges from that cocoon is probably going to be covered in gold paint, and a version of a supreme being. Why go aryan when you can go happy buddha? I'm changing my vote to Bishamber Das.

(I'll keep the remainder of what probably comes across as performative wokeness to myself unless there's a really, really good one)

(But if they cast a tall white guy I'll be really fucking pissed)

you know it's gonna happen

It's going to be Steven Mnuchin.

OK, I'm sorry already. Let's go back to talking about the movie that exists.