Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2

They'll probably make him all CGI.

Ladies and gentlemen, Adam Warlock:
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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

So what you're saying is

(Also, you are wrong.)

shocker, deems hates fun

Maybe they should have included The Killers on the soundtrack

im not trying to upset yis but i read yr posts yes yr posts and thought this would be good also the first one was great and light and made such good use of the talents and visuals and lightness and size of universe but guuuuuuuuuuuuys cmon you know how bad this was

yeah btw some killers wouldve helped

this wasnt even worth two posts noting how bad it was so im morbsing it outta here

still lurking iow

hey we figured out how to get rid of deems who knew it was that easy

:D

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.

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lol