It really seems like they are building up to Nebula's moment in Infinity Gauntlet.
What I hope will happen is that she grabs the gauntlet and looks like she did before she was augmented.
It would be cool if she looked like Nebula from the comics, complete with a full head of hair.
Am I imagining things or did the red ravager dude who begged Yondu for help look like The Hoff?
I'm guessing that, as time passes, more and more celebrity cameos are going to be revealed.
Kind of like The Force Awakens, where you only found out months later that it was James Bond in that storm trooper armor, or that it was Simon Pegg in the Unkar Plutt costume
I feel like they should have made Star Lord not as good at fighting as he is, if only to make gamora and dead look better ally comparison
but hes not really all that great a fighter. and the Disney toning down of the violence is definately going to hurt gamora / drax cause thats what they are good at.
This movie was a saccharine spectacle. I was kind of amazed how basically every character was like "AND HERE ARE MY EMOTIONS AND THIS IS WHAT I THINK." Like, everyone was Drax basically. 0 tact, always stating their literal feelings.
It was fun to watch but I think the 3D in IMAX actually hurt it. Foreground objects were not really framed nicely for the 3D effect, making moments where something huge and blurry would be in your face despite the focus pull on something smaller. That might just be my own dislike of that form of 3D.
Also, in addition to telegraphing all feelings, this seemed to telegraph every single plotpoint. Which is fine, it just came off as very simplistic, all primary colors, which might have been part of the intention if this franchise is meant to just speak directly to 1980's nostalgia and appeal to the inner child of those who grew up in that time. Fun, but I don't think I would see it again. I probably would not have gone if it weren't for the fact that I had my ticket paid for by someone else. Nice to see Kurt Russell is still getting work.
So btw....is it Groot as a baby again, or is it literally, Groot's Baby?
Groot's baby.
Depends on who you believe. Gunn said that Baby Groot is a new version, but Feige corrected that statement by saying it's the same Groot, similar to his comics portrayal.
I just saw this. I went to a late showing and had the stadium theater to myself. It made a noticeable positive difference in the surround sound quality to not have all those extra bodies, which was interesting.
Anyway. First it was awesomely silly, and then it was just awesome. And it made me cry.
Standout moments:
Yondu, stone-faced while the mutineers murder his crew in front of him, listening to their pleas and knowing he can't do anything to help :bigfrown:
The look of pure, unadulterated joy on Peter's face when Ego tosses the ball back to him.
Ego mentions giving Peter's mom a tumor... and you realize that the tumor was actually Ego, just like the plants, because Ego is literally cancer. He (it?) is the mindless drive to procreate, personified; and it's terrifying. Which also means that Peter is literally face to face with the cancer that killed his mom - and even after he empties both guns into it, it just ignores him and grows right back because that's what cancer does.
(There's a sci-fi novel whose name escapes me that deals with sort of the same concept - a rapidly-expanding hive mind intent on eradicating humanity - and in that book, the hivemind has out-competed all of the other emergent minds of its species. As a result, it believes that the only way to survive is to kill everything before it either kills you or grows to the point where conflict is inevitable. It cannot comprehend the idea of a single universe supporting more than one life. I couldn't help reading some of that into Ego as well.)
Nebula's body repairing itself. It's one thing for her to claim she suffers; it's quite another to see it so explicitly.
Similarly, Nebula volunteering to power(?) the guns later. In any other movie, that would be a throwaway badass moment. In this one, it underscores how intimately familiar she is with pain.
...and too many others to list. I love it when movies do little character moments that aren't explicitly called out as such; they feel all the more powerful for it.
I just saw this. I went to a late showing and had the stadium theater to myself. It made a noticeable positive difference in the surround sound quality to not have all those extra bodies, which was interesting.
Anyway. First it was awesomely silly, and then it was just awesome. And it made me cry.
Standout moments:
Yondu, stone-faced while the mutineers murder his crew in front of him, listening to their pleas and knowing he can't do anything to help :bigfrown:
The look of pure, unadulterated joy on Peter's face when Ego tosses the ball back to him.
Ego mentions giving Peter's mom a tumor... and you realize that the tumor was actually Ego, just like the plants, because Ego is literally cancer. He (it?) is the mindless drive to procreate, personified; and it's terrifying. Which also means that Peter is literally face to face with the cancer that killed his mom - and even after he empties both guns into it, it just ignores him and grows right back because that's what cancer does.
(There's a sci-fi novel whose name escapes me that deals with sort of the same concept - a rapidly-expanding hive mind intent on eradicating humanity - and in that book, the hivemind has out-competed all of the other emergent minds of its species. As a result, it believes that the only way to survive is to kill everything before it either kills you or grows to the point where conflict is inevitable. It cannot comprehend the idea of a single universe supporting more than one life. I couldn't help reading some of that into Ego as well.)
Nebula's body repairing itself. It's one thing for her to claim she suffers; it's quite another to see it so explicitly.
Similarly, Nebula volunteering to power(?) the guns later. In any other movie, that would be a throwaway badass moment. In this one, it underscores how intimately familiar she is with pain.
...and too many others to list. I love it when movies do little character moments that aren't explicitly called out as such; they feel all the more powerful for it.
I'm 99% certain that book you're thinking of is Pandora's Star and it's sequel Judas Unchained by Peter Hamilton
I just saw this. I went to a late showing and had the stadium theater to myself. It made a noticeable positive difference in the surround sound quality to not have all those extra bodies, which was interesting.
Anyway. First it was awesomely silly, and then it was just awesome. And it made me cry.
Standout moments:
Yondu, stone-faced while the mutineers murder his crew in front of him, listening to their pleas and knowing he can't do anything to help :bigfrown:
The look of pure, unadulterated joy on Peter's face when Ego tosses the ball back to him.
Ego mentions giving Peter's mom a tumor... and you realize that the tumor was actually Ego, just like the plants, because Ego is literally cancer. He (it?) is the mindless drive to procreate, personified; and it's terrifying. Which also means that Peter is literally face to face with the cancer that killed his mom - and even after he empties both guns into it, it just ignores him and grows right back because that's what cancer does.
(There's a sci-fi novel whose name escapes me that deals with sort of the same concept - a rapidly-expanding hive mind intent on eradicating humanity - and in that book, the hivemind has out-competed all of the other emergent minds of its species. As a result, it believes that the only way to survive is to kill everything before it either kills you or grows to the point where conflict is inevitable. It cannot comprehend the idea of a single universe supporting more than one life. I couldn't help reading some of that into Ego as well.)
Nebula's body repairing itself. It's one thing for her to claim she suffers; it's quite another to see it so explicitly.
Similarly, Nebula volunteering to power(?) the guns later. In any other movie, that would be a throwaway badass moment. In this one, it underscores how intimately familiar she is with pain.
...and too many others to list. I love it when movies do little character moments that aren't explicitly called out as such; they feel all the more powerful for it.
I'm 99% certain that book you're thinking of is Pandora's Star and it's sequel Judas Unchained by Peter Hamilton
It is, thank you! I couldn't remember any Googleable details.
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So I have a background image of the pre-production concept art they released of the Guardians.
Noticing it post-viewing, I realized: The only time Yondu flies with his arrow is the Mary Poppins moment.
The presence of Ben Browder in this one really struck home how Farscape-ish Gunn's take on the material is.
I didn't realize until I googled it today that Gunn had already basically admitted he had ripped off been heavily inspired by Farscape.
Wasn't GotG in existence before farscape was created? (as a comic i mean...or are you just talking the general themes)
The comic used to be a lot different. Drax was originally a human soul in a mad science homonulus body built to kill Thanos, for example. The particular adaptations of the Guardians in the MCU are based on Moya's original crew at least as much, arguably more so, than the same characters in the 616.
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Also Starlord wasn't a Guardian until a few years ago. And you know what? He had a handgun that shot all kinds of elements! Not zinc and iron, but earth, fire, air, and water! I think movie Peter's planet-morphing powers might've been a nod to that.
The presence of Ben Browder in this one really struck home how Farscape-ish Gunn's take on the material is.
I didn't realize until I googled it today that Gunn had already basically admitted he had ripped off been heavily inspired by Farscape.
Wasn't GotG in existence before farscape was created? (as a comic i mean...or are you just talking the general themes)
The GotG originated in a 70's anthology series, as a group of genetically modified human colonists of the Sol system (plus one native of Alpha Centauri and a time-lost human from the 20th century) forming a resistance against an oppressive alien threat (the Badoon) that had completely taken over the Sol system. The idea of Stakar, Yondu and the rest being an old gang is an homage to this team, as those characters were the original Guardians in the comics.
They vanished in the 80's but came back in a big way in the 90's with their own ongoing by Jim Valentino, which kicked ass and greatly expanded the concept and roster. It lasted some 60 issues.
The concept was later revisted for the anti-Annihilation team created by Peter Quill in the wake of two universal near-destruction events happening back to back. This was a paramilitary group who's primary purpose was to keep the Universe from getting trashed again. They took their name from a further time-lost Vance Astro (the 20th century astronaut who woke up from stasis in the year 3000, only to get sent back to modern times) who they ran into early on in their careers.
The team disappeared from 2010 to about 2013 when the movie went into production, and the team was slowly shifted over from being a bunch of grizzled soldiers and cosmic heavy hitters to being the more movie-esque "criminals with a hearts of gold" over the next few years.
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I think she is an actor at one of the Disney parks that goes around as Mary Poppins.
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Wherein Mary Poppins is magic super soldier who has a gun in her umbrella.
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It would be cool if she looked like Nebula from the comics, complete with a full head of hair.
I'm guessing that, as time passes, more and more celebrity cameos are going to be revealed.
Kind of like The Force Awakens, where you only found out months later that it was James Bond in that storm trooper armor, or that it was Simon Pegg in the Unkar Plutt costume
Phrasing.
but hes not really all that great a fighter. and the Disney toning down of the violence is definately going to hurt gamora / drax cause thats what they are good at.
Groot's baby.
It was fun to watch but I think the 3D in IMAX actually hurt it. Foreground objects were not really framed nicely for the 3D effect, making moments where something huge and blurry would be in your face despite the focus pull on something smaller. That might just be my own dislike of that form of 3D.
Also, in addition to telegraphing all feelings, this seemed to telegraph every single plotpoint. Which is fine, it just came off as very simplistic, all primary colors, which might have been part of the intention if this franchise is meant to just speak directly to 1980's nostalgia and appeal to the inner child of those who grew up in that time. Fun, but I don't think I would see it again. I probably would not have gone if it weren't for the fact that I had my ticket paid for by someone else. Nice to see Kurt Russell is still getting work.
Depends on who you believe. Gunn said that Baby Groot is a new version, but Feige corrected that statement by saying it's the same Groot, similar to his comics portrayal.
I didn't realize until I googled it today that Gunn had already basically admitted he had ripped off been heavily inspired by Farscape.
Serenity got a movie. Moya and crew in GotG 3 or I frown!
They got a bigger budget two part mini-series.
And Crichton needs to meet Quill.
Anyway. First it was awesomely silly, and then it was just awesome. And it made me cry.
Standout moments:
Yondu, stone-faced while the mutineers murder his crew in front of him, listening to their pleas and knowing he can't do anything to help :bigfrown:
The look of pure, unadulterated joy on Peter's face when Ego tosses the ball back to him.
Ego mentions giving Peter's mom a tumor... and you realize that the tumor was actually Ego, just like the plants, because Ego is literally cancer. He (it?) is the mindless drive to procreate, personified; and it's terrifying. Which also means that Peter is literally face to face with the cancer that killed his mom - and even after he empties both guns into it, it just ignores him and grows right back because that's what cancer does.
(There's a sci-fi novel whose name escapes me that deals with sort of the same concept - a rapidly-expanding hive mind intent on eradicating humanity - and in that book, the hivemind has out-competed all of the other emergent minds of its species. As a result, it believes that the only way to survive is to kill everything before it either kills you or grows to the point where conflict is inevitable. It cannot comprehend the idea of a single universe supporting more than one life. I couldn't help reading some of that into Ego as well.)
Nebula's body repairing itself. It's one thing for her to claim she suffers; it's quite another to see it so explicitly.
Similarly, Nebula volunteering to power(?) the guns later. In any other movie, that would be a throwaway badass moment. In this one, it underscores how intimately familiar she is with pain.
...and too many others to list. I love it when movies do little character moments that aren't explicitly called out as such; they feel all the more powerful for it.
Wasn't GotG in existence before farscape was created? (as a comic i mean...or are you just talking the general themes)
I'm 99% certain that book you're thinking of is Pandora's Star and it's sequel Judas Unchained by Peter Hamilton
It is, thank you! I couldn't remember any Googleable details.
Noticing it post-viewing, I realized: The only time Yondu flies with his arrow is the Mary Poppins moment.
That was planned from the very beginning.
The comic used to be a lot different. Drax was originally a human soul in a mad science homonulus body built to kill Thanos, for example. The particular adaptations of the Guardians in the MCU are based on Moya's original crew at least as much, arguably more so, than the same characters in the 616.
Seriously, there's a noticable drop in quality for the makeup effects due to budget constraints in the mini.
The GotG originated in a 70's anthology series, as a group of genetically modified human colonists of the Sol system (plus one native of Alpha Centauri and a time-lost human from the 20th century) forming a resistance against an oppressive alien threat (the Badoon) that had completely taken over the Sol system. The idea of Stakar, Yondu and the rest being an old gang is an homage to this team, as those characters were the original Guardians in the comics.
They vanished in the 80's but came back in a big way in the 90's with their own ongoing by Jim Valentino, which kicked ass and greatly expanded the concept and roster. It lasted some 60 issues.
The concept was later revisted for the anti-Annihilation team created by Peter Quill in the wake of two universal near-destruction events happening back to back. This was a paramilitary group who's primary purpose was to keep the Universe from getting trashed again. They took their name from a further time-lost Vance Astro (the 20th century astronaut who woke up from stasis in the year 3000, only to get sent back to modern times) who they ran into early on in their careers.
The team disappeared from 2010 to about 2013 when the movie went into production, and the team was slowly shifted over from being a bunch of grizzled soldiers and cosmic heavy hitters to being the more movie-esque "criminals with a hearts of gold" over the next few years.
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Yes, but the movies take a very liberal take on the IP. Especially with Starlord.
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