pom klementieff's signature: very good
― a Stupendous Leg of Granite (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 31 July 2018 13:00 (five years ago) link
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.
― omar little, Wednesday, 15 August 2018 20:50 (five years ago) link
Get thee to a Parks and Recreation boxset pronto. Pratt is just one of the fantastic and hilarious facets of that great great show.
― Funkface LLC (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 15 August 2018 22:14 (five years ago) link
^^^
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 16 August 2018 00:31 (five years ago) link
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...
― omar little, Thursday, 16 August 2018 15:58 (five years ago) link
For me, he'll always be Bright Abbott from Everwood
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Thursday, 16 August 2018 17:43 (five years ago) link
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.
― |Restore| |Restart| |Quit| (Doctor Casino), Saturday, 29 December 2018 22:08 (five years ago) link
hoo boy maybe avoid the *real* piece of shit sequel
― gabbnebulous (darraghmac), Saturday, 29 December 2018 22:40 (five years ago) link
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.
― |Restore| |Restart| |Quit| (Doctor Casino), Saturday, 29 December 2018 22:41 (five years ago) link
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
― gabbnebulous (darraghmac), Saturday, 29 December 2018 22:44 (five years ago) link
the first one also struck me as shockingly, distractingly violent so hmmm
― |Restore| |Restart| |Quit| (Doctor Casino), Saturday, 29 December 2018 22:54 (five years ago) link
as always ymmv
kurts great but wasted btw
― gabbnebulous (darraghmac), Saturday, 29 December 2018 22:56 (five years ago) link
darragh otm re #2
― sans lep (sic), Saturday, 29 December 2018 23:39 (five years ago) link
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
― sans lep (sic), Saturday, 29 December 2018 23:45 (five years ago) link
EXCLUSIVE! James Gunn back on to direct ‘Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3’ #GOTGv3 https://t.co/sq9aEYt9QR— Deadline Hollywood (@DEADLINE) March 15, 2019
― groovypanda, Friday, 15 March 2019 18:47 (five years ago) link
but what does this mean for the hotly-anticipated suicide squad sequel
― kiss me dadly (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 15 March 2019 18:56 (five years ago) link
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.
― Goody Rickels on the Dime (Old Lunch), Friday, 15 March 2019 18:59 (five years ago) link
great news. firing him was fucking stupid.
― akm, Friday, 15 March 2019 19:29 (five years ago) link
he needs to edit the next one a little tighter-- keep it under 2hrs bud
― pippin drives a lambo through the gates of isengard (Sparkle Motion), Friday, 15 March 2019 19:58 (five years ago) link
also, don't have written a stupid and boring script this time
― steven, soda jerk (sic), Friday, 15 March 2019 20:05 (five years ago) link
they were on Ego's planet for way too long. More high flying space hijinks please.
― pippin drives a lambo through the gates of isengard (Sparkle Motion), Friday, 15 March 2019 20:14 (five years ago) link
― kiss me dadly (bizarro gazzara)
apparently he's still on for that too
― the scientology of mountains (rushomancy), Friday, 15 March 2019 20:25 (five years ago) link
having to do GOTG's effects on Slither's budget would be an improvement imo, except for Rocket Raccoon
― steven, soda jerk (sic), Friday, 15 March 2019 20:30 (five years ago) link
a puppet would be great
― pippin drives a lambo through the gates of isengard (Sparkle Motion), Friday, 15 March 2019 20:35 (five years ago) link
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)
― steven, soda jerk (sic), Friday, 15 March 2019 20:47 (five years ago) link
i loled
pic.twitter.com/ZB3nsBoi9b— Groot (@Guardian__Quill) March 15, 2019
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 15 March 2019 20:48 (five years ago) link
― kiss me dadly (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 15 March 2019 20:55 (five years ago) link
best thing about this news rly is that it ensures dave bautista will be back to deliver another miraculous draw performance
― kiss me dadly (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 15 March 2019 20:57 (five years ago) link
DRAX goddammit
Would be cool with a chunk of the runtime being devoted to Bautista drawing a picture for us tbh.
― Goody Rickels on the Dime (Old Lunch), Friday, 15 March 2019 21:55 (five years ago) link
https://66.media.tumblr.com/ab8fd3c6adcd243da3d9fd21534dc369/tumblr_oqvz1bDhtO1ugklc3o1_250.gif
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 15 March 2019 22:22 (five years ago) link
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
― pippin drives a lambo through the gates of isengard (Sparkle Motion), Friday, 15 March 2019 23:15 (five years ago) link
― Larry Elleison (rogermexico.), Saturday, 16 March 2019 04:20 (five years ago) link