Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2

Here we go here we go, etc.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sD9NVxYRrZs

https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--lMO7rtuY--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/ijbqhybaqxvblkch5sjx.png

Dammit, Ned, you beat me by 10 seconds.

You're welcome!

this was -relatively- a good superhero movie, and it was still garbage and the thought of seeing another one makes zero sense to me... definitely not clicking on that raccoon but i applaud your efforts to market this movie on marvel's behalf

good contribution

nice post, great lettering

or were you talking to ned?

Dave Bautista continues to be hilarious in this role, I see.

Why sleepingbag, I never knew that you never posted about anything you ever liked ever.

Bautista lookin' like he's preparing to star in an entirely different kind of movie, wink wink.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AefQEN3e7do

Man, Dave Bautista is so great. These movies may have the best casts of any of the Marvel joints.

i'd be cool if they just kept making these movies well after everyone stopped caring about all the other avengers MCU franchises

is that a tron character on the poster?

damn this is one super-colourful movie

also dave bautista is a born scene-stealer

I was worried that this would actually overplay itself in about a half-dozen different ways, but this is actually great - the excellent cast is only improved by more time for Michael Rooker.

Nice. Can't wait for next Thursday.

there's a lot of deft character work in here - everyone gets a little arc of their own and it's all pretty satisfying, even *sob gasp* touching at times

the way the central conflict sneaks up is clever - i spent a while not quite certain of when the villain would show up and from where

**rockets magically eject from ankles and propel me skyward as Looking Glass' "Brandy" plays**

― ╲╱\/╲/\╱╲╱\/\ (gr8080), Wednesday, 3 September 2014 21:26 (two years ago) Permalink

thought this was mostly bad tbh. Everything grating about the first film x10 (and I really liked the first film in general)

Nah, it was totally great start to stop (and beyond). Too many good moments to count, and it all looked beautiful to boot. Rooker and Bautista FTW but the whole ensemble was pretty sharp.

(Plus eight million perfectly timed easter eggs, cameos, etc.)

I'm seeing this on Sunday morning and I can't WAIT :D

i am so going to see this so hard.

probably tonight. my olde tyme theater has it in two rooms. which is nice.

i should probably call over there and ask which is the bigger screen...

Perhaps even more than the first, it is the ultimate VegGrrl movie.

:D :D

There are a couple of moments I'm thinking of where you will completely lose your shit. They're that perfectly done.

can I watch this movie from inside a bag of doritos

Haha, noticed this just now from IMDB -- clearly Gunn's parents:

Jim Gunn Sr. ...
Weird Old Man

Leota Gunn ...
Weird Old Man's Mistress

Also a number of Farscape nerds have been happy to note Ben Browder's in the film. (As is Rob Zombie.)

Nice interview with Gunn on music:

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/la-et-mn-guardians-of-the-galaxy-2-james-gunn-soundtrack-20170504-story.html

Clearing the use for such classic chart-toppers can sometimes prove an onerous process. Gunn feared that securing the rights to “The Chain” could be particularly difficult, with each member of the famously contentious Fleetwood Mac needing to sign off on its use.

I am imagining Gunn desperately trying to get a hold of each of them and dealing with each of their individual manias.

i find the music clearance stuff really interesting

If you didn't like this you're wrong

Gunn's brother becomes worthy of his SAG card with the pretty hat line

"One's BLUE."

All the Mantis / Drax stuff.
All the family stuff.

What struck me, especially hanging around for the several mid-credits scenes and the post-credits one, is how much collective creativity movies like this represent. Shit on the DisneyMarvel machine all you want, there are thousands of little touches in here that come from hundreds of people and you can tell. It doesn't feel like an auteur piece, but at the same time it's very close to Wes Anderson In Space, in a good way.

"it's very close to Wes Anderson In Space..."

you can't scare us out of seeing this movie.

It's very close to Wes Anderson in Space if Wes Anderson was any good.

If you don't like Fantastic Mr. Fox you're also wrong.

I knew when I wrote that sentence I was going to immediately catch shit from the ILX

We are cruel that way.

I do love that Gunn's big change this time around was essentially to up the Rooker content.

Good

In every way, literally.

I get the idea you liked this movie, tombot.

All the Mantis / Drax stuff.

These two were really funny. That was the best stuff in the movie.

https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--dK83bKv6--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/h4zt6xbwcyuzjag7swam.jpg

my "in every way" was to Ned's remark about "up the Rooker content"

but they also upped everyone else - the first movie was about Star Lord, this one is really about everybody else.

Very true. And it was nice how it wasn't just redoing plot beats from the first but expanding on a lot of specific points/arcs from it instead.

Nice hyperbreakdown of a lot of the Easter eggs. Spoilers, obv.

http://screenrant.com/guardians-galaxy-2-easter-eggs/

http://i.imgur.com/aSXzjWf.png

cyberhyberhyper

i liked this a lot. i might not have liked it as much as the first one but that might just be because when i saw the first one i was so shocked and surprised that i was enjoying a marvel movie so much. i would have to go back to john carter to think of a movie that was as fun to me.

i do wish they had traveled around more. being on one planet with one foe - and yeah the golden people were foes but they seemed more like comic relief and i never thought of them as a threat - made me wish for more people/places/aliens/etc. still lots of fun though. and i did get choked up by some of the family stuff as corny as some of it was. and there was still plenty of cool stuff to look at.

sums it up more or less. It ran a little long and the body count was a little too explicitly high for my taste but generally a good time that I'd probably sit through again.

the off screen surround sound tape gag had me proper laughing.

I had myself convinced at one point that the climatic moment of the movie would be Starlord kicking his dad in the balls. And it would have worked, too.

Now I feel a tiny bit bad that I may have set darraghmac's expectations high and that contributed to his having no fun

Machiavellian bit of trolling there

i liked this. maybe not as much as the first one but it was certainly enjoyable. i've yet to be completely let down by any marvel movie TBH.

Just saw this. I think this has the longest length between setup and payoff of any movie ever. I'm talking about how the beginning sets the movie in 2014 and then it gets ignored until the ending. I was also thinking during the intro that the production crew must have been cheap because they used a Dairy Queen in the 1980 scene, which you could film with a modern DQ and it would look the same, and it turned out that yes that is the joke.

I don't get it.

I believe he's referring to the product placement at the end.
And the (exactly the) same DQ shows up later when the "seed" goes off.

wait why was the movie set in 2014?

It takes place a few months after the first one

I thought the 2014 setting was for the "recent trip to Earth" to include Zune mania. I see it was discontinued in 2012, so maybe not.

the introduction of the zune at the end of the movie made me wonder if the next movie would have a 00s soundtrack. It would be a terrible idea so probably and hopefully not.

Nah, the fact that the whole idea was he went to "Father and Son" shows that focus'll likely stay.

Fiiiinally saw this yesterday. Surprisingly hilarious at points, v. good overall. It's always so pleasantly surprising that the movie side of the MCU maintains such a shockingly-high level of consistency (looking directly at you, Iron Fist).

I felt like such a bad Marvel Zombie, wondering first 'why did they hire Stallone to play some character I don't even know?' and later 'wait, now why the hell was Ving Rhames just in this thing for five seconds?' and then I remembered the crystal dude with Stallone and I was like, 'well, shit, of course.'

Also pleasantly surprised to see the Watchers. I would've thought for sure Fox held the rights as part of the FF package.

The impending arrival of Adam Warlock better damn well mean that Pip is also on the way. Just sayin'.

this wasnt even worth two posts noting how bad it was

c'mon deems, it has that surly wisecracking raccoon whatchamajig that sounds like it grew up in Yonkers, which fact fairly shouts FUN TIMES at you, while only slightly spraying you with spittle as it does so, unless you like to sit up front, and that would be your own fault don't you see.

the body count was a little too explicitly high for my taste

― Max-Headroom-drops-a-deuce-while-shredding (Sparkle Motion), Tuesday, May 16, 2017 5:54 PM (two weeks ago)

This, mostly for Yondu's slo-mo arrow slaughter scene.

While the barrage of million-dollar rainbow space puke certainly kept my eyeballs busy, there's precious little story holding it all together. The events of the plot, of which there are a great and colorful many, exist primarily to separate the beats of various relationship arcs. I can't really fault this approach, as "getting by on charm" is the established brand, and the conclusion delivers sufficient emotional payoff to make the preceding ramble feel worthwhile. But the midsection (by which I mean the hour leading up to the last 20 minutes) felt awfully long and aimless.

As with the last one, I enjoyed it but feel like I'm missing whatever it is that makes people go nuts for the franchise.

in the MCU I still maintain the first 2 Cap movies as their best output

Re: why people are nuts for the franchise, I can't speak for others, but I dig Marvel and these are the best movies that have been made of Marvel properties, and on top of that they're all interconnected. I'm not gonna pretend that it's high art, but in terms of what it is and what it does, it's pretty much everything I could've hoped for.

agreed

It's kind of miraculous that they keep hitting that sweet spot of the Venn diagram where Marvel fans and the general public intersect. Like, they could easily go the DC route and be like, 'here's another movie about that Super Man intellectual property we own, have fun people who kind of know who that is, fuck you people with any vested interest'. I'm thrilled that these movies are crack for my nerd brain and also that I get to overhear little kids excitedly leaving the theater and looking forward to more.

old lunch massively OTM in last 2 posts.
mk2 (13) enjoyed these films way more than any other superhero film.
marvel or dc based.

I am for this.

https://io9.gizmodo.com/david-hasselhoffs-guardians-of-the-galaxy-rap-is-gettin-1796789156

...audiences who lingered for Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2's end credits were serenaded by an obscenely funky song called Guardians Inferno, complete with a David Hasselhoff rap that successfully managed to rhyme “procyon lotor” with “good with motors.”

But the good news is you’ll get to hear it and see it all over again when Guardians of the Galaxy Vol.2 gets its home release, because James Gunn has announced that there’s an honest to god music video for the song that’ll be included on the disc. And if the poster’s anything to go by, it seems like it’s going to involve the main Guardians cast getting their funk on with Hasselhoff.

Yes, that really is Karen Gillan, Chris Pratt, Pom Klementieff, Sean Gunn, Dave Bautisa, Zoe Saldana, Michael Rooker, and presumably either Vin Diesel or Bradley Cooper dressed up as a silvery robot in the background.

https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--u67nwkKv--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/wcksvd3lettbcsdbphtb.png

lol

I somehow doubt this will improve darraghmac's opinion of the piece

that's a pretty depressing bar you've set

Hey I'm just feeling guilty let me wallow

deems otm tbf

Tombot otm

Sic otm

Hey sic. Dyou remember when we bid our fond goodbyes in Dublin, I ran into a fella from home and was half talking to him half talking to you? (I may be asking for a total recall here)

This is...scarily accurate.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VlUdkRBOv64

So...rumors about this all day now?

BREAKING: JAMES GUNN has reportedly been removed as director of the GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY franchise following old tweets that have come to light. Developing...

— Jeff Sneider (@TheInSneider) July 20, 2018

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/james-gunn-exits-guardians-galaxy-vol-3-1128786

shitcanned by jack fuckin posobiec, ouch

sounds like bullshit

but deserved sacking after sequel anyway

was some load of old shit

ugh, revived the other thread without seeing this one

it is truly remarkable that people don't delete all their old tweets the moment they get any kind of success

surprising the film companies don't have policies on this stuff. acquaintance who is a political spin doctor got a promotion and was given a day off before commencing the job to delete/edit any questionable internet content that he may have posted on social media or forums

nobody knows whomst tf I am and I rarely tweet anything particularly inflammatory (and uh certainly nothing approaching what's in those Gunn tweets) and I *still* have them set to auto-delete after like three weeks

whats in the tweets

Examples are in the links above. Pretty bad “Transgressive” rape and pedophilila jokes from 10-12 when there was less of a pushback against that. He was criticizing Trump this week than people like Cernovich and his followers started looking through his past tweets.

He's an ex-Troma guy, right? That makes it *extra* wild to me that he wasn't digitally vetted.

how it got to this is inane. dude wrote Tromeo and Juliet, nobody thought of looking at any of his social media before investing hundreds of millions of dollars in him directing a family friendly franchise for Disney.

what he said

See, this is why I use my govt. name as little as possible online. Can you even imagine how my ILX posts might come back to bite me on the ass, given that I'm the current vice president of the United States? WHOOOOOOOMPS

obviously the bad faith of Jack Posobiecus is off the fucking charts but I can't really go along with everyone on left twitter who is already calling this a clear symptom of gamergate culture because one of those tweets uses the adjective "disgusting" to describe someone who is likened to a "tranny" and if a conservative cultural figure tweeted that these folks would be calling for their head.

I love the idea of mike pence writing that stephen king sex paragraph parody

I AM TOOTH pic.twitter.com/ohkYIrRGan

— Hector 🅰️ Parayuelos (@hecpara) August 22, 2018

OMG, there is a video... pic.twitter.com/oqqIv1tNaM

— Derek Slager (@derekslager) August 22, 2018

the sequel we all need

hmmmm

https://io9.gizmodo.com/james-gunn-is-going-to-dc-and-will-write-the-next-suici-1829631777

deeply mixed feelings