Guardians of the Galaxy!

[acatfrommars]

Is anyone else excited Guardians of the Galaxy is finally out? Who's already seen it!? If so, share what you thought. ^^

 

[moon]

I really want to see it! In the cinema, even. But I actually haven't found anyone who wants to go and watch it with me yet, haha. If my sister gets better (long story but she's very ill at the moment) I might treat her to a trip to the cinema to see this. She'll probably agree :3

I heard it's part of the official Avengers movieverse. I wonder in what way the story will impact on the plot/characters from the Avengers.

 

[Chaos Rush]

I saw it yesterday, it was freaking fantastic. I'm just gonna flat out give it a 10/10. The climax was also, hands down, one of the best climaxes to come from a Marvel Cinematic Universe movie to date. I don't have much to say because I'm still pretty speechless from it.

Also, ironically, despite the space-opera theme and all the toys that are being made from the movie, this is probably the least kid-friendly MCU movie to date.

I heard it's part of the official Avengers movieverse. I wonder in what way the story will impact on the plot/characters from the Avengers.

All Marvel Studios productions take place within the Marvel Cinematic Universe (NOT Spider-Man and X-Men, since those are produced by Sony and Fox, respectively). Here's just a quick list of references, minor spoilers:

Spoiler:

-The Collector, who we saw in the mid-credits scene in Thor: The Dark World appears in this film

-An image of the Tesseract is visible during the Collector's Infinity Stones presentation

-The Other (the alien that Loki was communicating with throughout The Avengers) appears in this film alongside Thanos

-Thanos (the alien that we saw a very brief glimpse of at the mid-credits scene of The Avengers) appears in this film and very subtly references his past bargain with Loki

Let's just say the events of this film won't directly affect what happens in Avengers: Age of Ultron, but it will most definitely affect what will happen in Avengers 3, which at this point it's pretty obvious that Thanos will be the main antagonist of.

 

[Pinkie-Dawn]

Just went to see the movie on my birthday yesterday; it was fantastic for a film starring one of Marvel's obscure superheroes.

Spoiler:

Was disappointed for no Avenger 2 teaser trailer like in the first Captain America film, and instead we've got a Howard the Duck cameo.

 

[Esper]

Yes, definitely not as kid friendly as other Marvel movies, but no worse than a normal summer action movie. Only little-little kids should probably avoid it.

That said, it's probably the best Marvel movie yet. Everyone I've talked to liked it. I went with people who were in their 50s and 60s and they liked it. Even though it's Marvel it's not a superhero movie. Maybe that's something to do with it. It's just a lot of fun. It's exactly what you want from a scifi adventure movie.

And, oh my goodness, the soundtrack.

Everyone should go see it.

Everyone.

Spoiler:

Yeah, that Howard the Duck cameo was not what I wanted, but with all the 70s-80s stuff in the film it kinda makes sense.

 

[Lozz]

It was really good! Most jokes landed out of every marvel movie out so far. Defintely setting things up for Avengers 3.

 

[Nolafus]

I thought it was really good, but I felt like it fell short in some instances.

I felt like they could have capitalized on character development a little more. They did a good job of that throughout the movie, but there were a couple scenes that I felt like didn't live up to their potential. I decided to put these into spoilers for, well... spoiling reasons.

Spoiler:

I felt like the scene where Rocket was drunk and admitted to some insecurities about being experimented on could have been expanded a little more. I mean, they opened the door to allow some background information and a real growing moment for the team in general, but they set it up, and left it in the dust. Even a little scene afterwards with Rocket apologizing for his drunken fight could have worked. I just wanted a little more out of this.

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I felt like Rocket really broke character at one point. Yes, he's supposed to be a little blunt with his words and not the most sympathetic character ever, but the scene where Drax loses the first fight against the main villain (I can't remember his name for the life of me) and he's reflecting on the death of his family, that was poorly written. I felt like they tried to force the scene to move on too quickly. Having Rocket almost make fun of Drax for mourning by mocking his crying was a quick way to get to the point, but was a little harsh for Rocket, which took away from the scene for me. They did a good job covering it up with Rocket saying that everyone has lost someone, but the scene jarred me a little, and not in a good way.

Despite that, I did really enjoy it. It was a hilarious, action packed adventure, and I certainly wasn't disappointed.

 

[moon]

I went and saw it yesterday! Agree with your points, Slayr. Rocket was so awesome but the best character was GROOT

Spoiler:

Baby Groot dancing when Drax didn't look in the ending was so adorable, as was Rocket keeping him in a pot next to his seat :D

I wouldn't say it's the best Marvel movie I've seen because frankly I still love all the Iron Man movies more. But there were some really nice things about this, like the music and oh the scene with

Spoiler:

that green girl floating in space and Peter (was his name Peter? Why can't I remember names?) saving her. Really eerie but beautiful at the same time.

Also I can't help but being curious as to who is

Spoiler:

the father of the main character.

 

[CJoE]

I really want to see that movie but don't have time to watch it..

 

[Limey-chan]

Going to see this tomorrow, heard fairly mixed reviews so far.

I'm not a huge Marvel fan as it stands, so my expectations aren't that high.

 

[Pepperton]

I really want to go see it, looks amazing and the characters are well designed. Also the soundtrack looks great. I'll hopefully be able to take myself out to see it soon!

 

[moon]

Yeah, even though they could have worked a little more on several of the main characters, they were still a very nice team of oddballs. Not at all a bunch of superheroes like the Avengers, just a ruddy pack of criminals more or less.

 

[Esper]

Regarding Slayrs point

Spoiler:

The scene where Rocket mocks Drax about his family did feel a little off, but thinking back on it I feel like the whole movie was built around scenes like this, ones where a character says something unexpected or shocking, usually for a joke, but I think in this case it was meant to be shocking to make it feel more natural that Drax could get out of his funk. I dunno, thinking about it now, it works for me.

Also I can't help but being curious as to who is

Spoiler:

the father of the main character.

Spoiler:

Of course things in comics and the movie adaptations are never exactly the same, but in at least one version of the comics Peter's dad is royalty who crashed on Earth and shacked up with Peter's mom before returning to space to fight wars, etc., and wants Peter to join him.

 

[Ozymandias]

Regarding Slayr's point: ehh I thought it was kinda in line with his character, but to each his own.

Really enjoyed the movie! Although I did have some slight problems with some of the dialogue being off and the way they put the exposition in the beginning of the movie. Overall I though it was great, a solid 8/10 and my favorite Marvel movie as I haven't seen Cap 2 and I the only other Marvel film that I would give above a 7 is the Avengers and maybe the first Iron Man.

Edit: forgot to mention that soundtrack... so freaking good

 

[Limey-chan]

I think i'd probably agree with the 8/10 rating the user above gave it. It was actually a very solid film, arguably the best film i've seen this year (albeit i've not seen many).

Would probably recommend, even if, like myself, you're not a huge Marvel fan.

 

[Sir Codin]

It looks really terrible to me. It's as if Jar Jar Binks got his own movie. Pass.

 

[Treecko]

It looks really terrible to me. It's as if Jar Jar Binks got his own movie. Pass.

I can assure that, in my opinion, it's far from terrible. Don't understand what you mean when you say "if JarJar Binks got his own movie, but whatever. I went to see it tonight with a few friends, and really , really enjoyed it! Probably the best movie I've seen in while (though I may be exaggerating, but it really was awesome). Definitely the best I've seen this year, although I rarely go to see movies and have only seen three current movies (one from 2013 that was Frozen) in 2014. I'm not the one to get really critical about movies, though. I like almost anything. But it definitely exceeded my expectations.

I disagree with Slayr's post. Although maybe not the best, his character in that scene was still rather solid. He really didn't seem off-character to me.

The soundtrack was also really fun!! I think "Hooked on a Feeling" will be stuck in my head for days and I really want my own Awesome Mix 1! Overall, I'd say a good 9 or 10/10. I would go see it again to be honest, loved it that much.

 

[Cherrim]

I didn't... really like it all that much? I wasn't even going to see it, originally, because I thought all the trailers for it were really boring. The internet hype that it got (all those amazing reviews) and the fact that I really enjoy Marvel movies... well, I caved and went to see it.

It was alright. Better than I expected, but I'd gotten my hopes up a little too high because of the reviews and walked out of the theatre kind of disappointed. Most of the jokes fell flat to me, it kind of dragged on at times, the special effects didn't seem quite as up to par... (there were a lot of moments when I was pulled out because the CGI was so obvious in action scenes when I've never had that problem with a Marvel film before).

I ended up never caring about almost any of the characters, too. I only liked Peter and maaybe Gamora. Everyone else was either boring or... well, I just didn't really see the point of them. (Well, okay, I kind of warmed up to Groot by the end.) I keep comparing it to Avengers, which was the first Marvel movie I'd ever seen. I was enthralled during that whole movie when I first saw it, and when I left the theatre I was so excited to go home and find all the other movies in the timeline so I could learn more about all the characters. This one? If I found out that there were more films that introduced me to the characters in this group, I'd maybe check out Starlord's and then I probably wouldn't want anything to do with the others. :( I don't know why these characters were so uninteresting to me!

Still, it was definitely worth watching. I was entertained and I don't regret paying my admission to see it.

 

[Aquacorde]

Wheee I saw this today and was highly entertained tbh. It was gleefully chaotic and took nothing too seriously even when there was the potential for it to go that way and I loved that. I loved that I really, properly enjoyed it and there were no points where I was like "oh well that doesn't seem right". I mean I'm a fan of both Schlock Mercenary and Firefly which are somewhat comparable to the movie so that style of thing obvs sits well with me. And GotG delivered pretty much what I like in space opera in a nice amount of time. Wrapped up well, too- clearly the saga ain't over, but it's not like the main plot was left hanging in anticipation of a sequel. It feels like that's done and they're off to new adventures and idk everything about the movie just felt alive and fun. That's what I like in media. :P

 

[Peter Quill]

I've really enjoyed the movie. My hype for it for the past few months were all not in vain.
The soundtrack is really nostalgic, too. My only disappointment (well, not really) was that the post-credit scene didn't really reveal that much.