Guardians of the Galaxy: Marvel mess in the making?

I just find this all sad and absurd considering Marvel/Disney knew they were hiring the creator of the series PG Porn (2008-9, with episodes Nailing Your Wife, Peanus, A Very Peanus Christmas, Roadside Ass-istance, Squeal Happy Whores, Helpful Bus, High Poon, Genital Hospital) back in 2012. I don't care about GotG (comics weren't my thing as a child, and I find superhero movies problematic in an era where we should celebrate ordinary actions to save us), but its possible to like the outre irreverence of Troma and still be a good person.

At this point I'm expecting Gunn to get rehired.

pom klementieff's signature: very good

finally caught up to this one in my Marvel-watching, and it's the best one I've seen thus far. I miss my main man gr8080 on ILX but disagree with him here, at least in terms of how much i enjoyed it. i do agree that it's not really a particularly fresh take on sci-fi (and hey another smoking ruin descending to the ground slowly at the end), but i do think it's executed really well. Great FX, liked the jokes, liked the use of music (it was 100x less annoying than Baby Driver in that respect), and while all the villains have started to blend together a little bit in all these movies i did like Ronan and Nebula, particularly the latter. it's been the only one i wanted to watch again almost right away. also it's only two hours long, some of these damn things have been taking from the Nolan movie length playbook.

unbelievably i don't think i've seen Chris Pratt in anything before. he's really good but also his speaking voice makes him sound like a VO artist, like in the '80s he'd have handled the speaking duties for a young, inexperienced Transformer.

Get thee to a Parks and Recreation boxset pronto. Pratt is just one of the fantastic and hilarious facets of that great great show.

^^^

i'll check it out! i guess i had seen him in WANTED but that was a very tiny role.

i've loved the look of a lot of recent science fiction, just the colorful visual splendor of this, Valerian, Blade Runner 2049, Altered Carbon, Star Trek Beyond...

For me, he'll always be Bright Abbott from Everwood

wanted to like this more than i did. there were a few really good jokes ("I have part of a plan") but a lot more that just didn't land for me. Rocket was good most of the time. Drax had a couple good gags (but they seemed to sometimes forget the "literal" bit, like when Pratt talks about "giving a shit" it seems like an open goal for some dumb joke but he doesn't bat an eye). The design work kinda bummed me out too, but only because I was hoping for something closer to real 70s cosmic Marvel day-glo saturation, so things like the fussy detailing of Ronan's spaceship fell short of that a bit. Too much climax/too many endings, and Reilly, Close and Del Toro's characters were all kinda pointless - would have been cool to really come up with something for them to do, or alternatively, give those parts to lesser-known actors who need the break. Script seemed kinda sloppy too... where did Pratt get the box with the new tape and letter from Mom at the end? Did I miss a scene? And am I right that his big established weakness - an obsessive need to save the walkman/tape at all costs - was never tested or brought back up after he rescues it from the prison?

Ahhhhh I dunno it was a diverting couple hours. Fast, mostly colorful. I think I was just expecting from word of mouth that it'd be a lot looser and funnier, closer to the Ant-Man films maybe.

hoo boy maybe avoid the *real* piece of shit sequel

oh no!! i was actually thinking i'd give it a whirl due to russell's presence and a vague sense that it thematizes the problematics of nostalgia more... not sure where i picked that up from.

im sure youll find defenders but imo it swaps out pt 1's kooky charm for a general cruel sadism, makes a lot less sense and the do-you-see rating of the randomly-chosen themes hovers at radioactive levels

the first one also struck me as shockingly, distractingly violent so hmmm

as always ymmv

kurts great but wasted btw

darragh otm re #2

it feels like it was made by a hired hand who watched the first and went “cast, insults, space, armoured mercenaries - got it,” not by the same bloke who made the insults zingy and revealing of character, and* built the various rogues’ isolated natures getting ground against each other and meshed into a practical, supportive unit

*though this could have been in the previous screenplay by the writer he fought to have uncredited, who knows

EXCLUSIVE! James Gunn back on to direct ‘Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3’ #GOTGv3 https://t.co/sq9aEYt9QR

— Deadline Hollywood (@DEADLINE) March 15, 2019

but what does this mean for the hotly-anticipated suicide squad sequel

Weirdly and for no supportable reason, I was expecting that very thing to be announced soon (although more likely in the glut of announcements that will assuredly drop immediately after the release of Endgame). Wonder how many extra millions of dollars Disney had to shell out to make that happen.

great news. firing him was fucking stupid.

he needs to edit the next one a little tighter-- keep it under 2hrs bud

also, don't have written a stupid and boring script this time

they were on Ego's planet for way too long. More high flying space hijinks please.

but what does this mean for the hotly-anticipated suicide squad sequel

― kiss me dadly (bizarro gazzara)

apparently he's still on for that too

having to do GOTG's effects on Slither's budget would be an improvement imo, except for Rocket Raccoon

a puppet would be great

I want to agree, but the combination of animators and Gunn's acting are the character now, and Gunn Major really uses the freedom of movement

90% of GOTG2 was an unremarkable sea of pixels though, with not much plot and a massively tedious daddy dilemma behind it (meant to say GOTG3 in previous post)

i loled

pic.twitter.com/ZB3nsBoi9b

— Groot (@Guardian__Quill) March 15, 2019

apparently he's still on for that too

best thing about this news rly is that it ensures dave bautista will be back to deliver another miraculous draw performance

DRAX goddammit

Would be cool with a chunk of the runtime being devoted to Bautista drawing a picture for us tbh.

https://66.media.tumblr.com/ab8fd3c6adcd243da3d9fd21534dc369/tumblr_oqvz1bDhtO1ugklc3o1_250.gif

The irony is that Chris Pratt has become far more gross a figure than James Gunn.

he should go back to being a chubby slob for this next one

he should go back to being a chubby slob for this next one