Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2

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.

Sly is such a stiff actor I can't imagine him convincingly pulling off fast, witty banter/insults, which is what this movie or this type of movie requires. (I think it was the NPR review that basically said it was literally and figuratively about a bunch of squabbling children.) Even the handful of lines Sly gets are kind of off, imo. I like him as an actor, but he's stronger when he's slower (Rocky/Creed, etc; Copland) and weaker when he's doing screwball (Demolition Man, Stop Or My Mom Will Shoot.)

Eh, it's one scene of him being a hardass military commander/dad type. Easy pickings for him.

Here's a thing. I watch a lot of movies with antiheroes and I enjoy the arc of the schmuck as much as anyone - I am that schmuck, that is my arc (I cried at the end of Bridge Of Spies, for fuck's sake (I was on an airplane so prob in the bag, but that's not the point) but when the antihero sacrifices himself, I'm usually like oh, fuck that noise, that's a horrible way to die. This movie probably has the most memorable antihero death I can think of without doing some research, and also, I'm 100% OK with shooting myself into space while I drag my kid up into orbit with me so I can save them. That is the best death. Yondu is the most committed metal space dad ever. I cried a little while I wrote this.

otm

Rooker is a deceptively strong actor

i think rooker might need a strong working relationship with directors cuz i've seen him be mediocre-to-bad in plenty of stuff, but he's good-to-great in everything he's done with james gunn

This movie probably has the most memorable antihero death I can think of without doing some research

Does Han Solo no longer qualify as anti-hero? That one had more shock value at least.

Pffft everyone in the packed theater I saw Force Awakens in knew he was going to die as soon as he and Chewie split up

Spoilers!!!

It turns out Han is Chewie's dad. Shit, spoilers, sorry!

this was a lot of fun

"cranky puppy" made me laugh really hard, as did the "practical joke"

I wish I could have been in the design meeting where someone pitched "how about 40 foot Lladro figurines"? and hear everyone else say "YES!!! How many do you want?"

awful awful awful movie

awful