David_TA fashion yes-man is no good to me.Copenhagen, DenmarkRegistered Userregular
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I have never felt so pumped up hearing Fleetwood Mac.
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Halos Nach TariffCan you blame me?I'm too famous.Registered Userregular
I just saw this with my dad, it was pretty good!
I thought the character beats were better than the first one, but the overall story and action sequences were less good, overall I still liked it a lot, I always enjoy fun character stuff over other elements.
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RingoHe/Hima distinct lack of substanceRegistered Userregular
Saw it today, enjoyed it, but it really reaches hard for laughs and that felt hollow to me. The first movie was very organic, this was "We're going to play music and tell a joke now!"
However everything done with the characters was superb. The emotions in this one were strong
Yondu dick-sucking in this. We get it, he's cool, he has what is apparently the strongest weapon in the entire universe, etc. Even then, 2 funeral scenes??
Yondu dick-sucking in this. We get it, he's cool, he has what is apparently the strongest weapon in the entire universe, etc. Even then, 2 funeral scenes??
I thought this movie got a lot more visually interesting with its action sequences than the first Guardians
Yondu and Rocket clearing out so much of the ship from the security room was so much better than I was expecting, just conceptually
There's one particular moment where I thought it fell flat, but I was also kind of in love with this movie's weird clinging to glitchy, pixelly 80s electronics aesthetics
The Sovereign armada as a weird mass arcade with screaming assholes was amazing, but Pac-Man made me go "what the fuck" without pushing it quite hard enough to make me laugh
Yondu dick-sucking in this. We get it, he's cool, he has what is apparently the strongest weapon in the entire universe, etc. Even then, 2 funeral scenes??
Yondu dick-sucking in this. We get it, he's cool, he has what is apparently the strongest weapon in the entire universe, etc. Even then, 2 funeral scenes??
Everyone eulogizing around his body and incinerating it, then the Ravagers showing up and posthumously honoring him for the rest of the movie.
I saw it as two stages of one funeral. The closest people say their goodbyes first, then the wider circle during the cremation.
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Blake TDo you have enemies then?Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.Registered Userregular
I am shocked no one mentioned.
Drax, quietly reminiscing about his family, and then Mantis touching him and fucking sobs, that was just so powerful
I didn't like this as much as the first, it felt a bit too sequelly? where everything has to be a lot bigger because it is a sequel. That, and someone mentioned accurately, they went a lot smaller with this soundtrack, and I think that is to the detriment of the movie, I can tie bits of the original movie and remember exactly what song was playing there, it was very much a character of the movie. This one just felt it had music.
I feel like there was a moment - and I'm struggling to remember when, exactly, it happens - where a ship passes over a planet with two 'people' fighting.
I think it was during the
700 jumps sequence, towards the beginning. I had the impression it was a reference or an easter egg, though not one I understood.
Drax, quietly reminiscing about his family, and then Mantis touching him and fucking sobs, that was just so powerful
I didn't like this as much as the first, it felt a bit too sequelly? where everything has to be a lot bigger because it is a sequel. That, and someone mentioned accurately, they went a lot smaller with this soundtrack, and I think that is to the detriment of the movie, I can tie bits of the original movie and remember exactly what song was playing there, it was very much a character of the movie. This one just felt it had music.
Yeah I feel like if the movie had gone the other way and told a much smaller story it would have worked out well.
Most of the movie feels like a bottle episode anyway and in the end Ego didn't need to be taking over the world right the heck now.
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Munkus BeaverYou don't have to attend every argument you are invited to.Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPAregular
This movie was fucking amazing, guys.
Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but dies in the process.
I feel like there was a moment - and I'm struggling to remember when, exactly, it happens - where a ship passes over a planet with two 'people' fighting.
I think it was during the
700 jumps sequence, towards the beginning. I had the impression it was a reference or an easter egg, though not one I understood.
oh yea i remember this!
I read an article that states that the movie takes place about 2 months after the first one, so when i see it again im going to keep my eye open because i think maybe it was the fight in Thor Dark World. Could also be from Thor Ragnarok seeing as how Jeff Goldblum is in the credits dancing scene
So the first Guardians is a very special movie for me, as it came out about a month before my dad passed from cancer and I had no idea the cancer elements were going to be in there so they hit home very effectively and also made me have a real connection with Star-Lord beyond my usual fondness for the roguish outlaw archetype.
This one carried that torch.
I have never more instantly hated a villain than when Ego said he placed the tumor in Meredith's brain and seeing Peter's immediate reaction of "fuck any justification you are gonna try to say, you killed my mom and you're dead"
Was very cathartic for me
And my dad was similar in a lot of ways to Yondu. He was a former marine corps boxer who loved to drink and was a total hardass who thought I was a weird kid and didn't really get me but loved me anyways and showed it as best he could, which wasn't always that well. So everything with Peter and Yondu and especially the funeral made me cry like a baby.
I've got a bunch of thoughts beyond that I'll probably write up tomorrow but as a whole this movie did everything I wanted it to and then some and will happily sit next to the first one as some of my favorite movies
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TrippyJingMoses supposes his toeses are roses.But Moses supposes erroneously.Registered Userregular
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I love all the materialization/dematerialization tech they've got going on.
Also, there has to be some kind of market for Earth-made trinkets.
This movie reminded me to buy "Rumors" and for that I will forever be grateful to it.
Because, fucking shit, "Rumors" is such a good album.
I'd picked it up a few years back for Go Your Own Way, but never really listened to the whole disc. Hearing The Chain for the first time prompted a full listen. Yeah, that's a perfect album.
hey anyone else get romantic vibes from yondu and rocket
i did and i was kinda sad that it wasn't developed
I didn't get that one ;p
pairing em up just seemed to serve the illustration that Rocket is headed the same way as Yondu, and will be left with no (or very few)
people who care about him if he keeps being an asshole.
But people also seemed to take away Drax and Mantis being a thing, like his over the top disgust with her was a school kid crush thing, when to me they seemed very much a dad n' step daughter more than anything else
So, I really liked this movie for a lot of reasons. It wasn't as...surprising? Or fresh? As the first one but I think that was inevitable as a sequel
I really like that basically every character except Groot had their own proper character arc and moments. I think GotG definitely has the strongest character work in the MCU, as a franchise. Only movies that really come close to me are Iron Man 3 and Civil War.
I also really like that the Guardians got to do some more superheroic shit in this one
in the first they just kinda fought some goons and had a couple of spaceship fights
In this one Quill is out fighting fighter ships just with his jetpack and pistols, Gamora is hoisting battle cannons and Rocket is laying traps for and successfully outmaneuvering dozens of Ravagers. It really helped show why these assholes are the Guardians of the Galaxy,
as opposed to some other random schmucks.
And jesus god I am so in love with the Cosmic MCU setting. The contrast between the grungy shitholes and spaceships that the Guardians and Ravagers live in versus The Sovereign's utter extravagance, the weird technology like the space suits and aeropacks and a whistle controlled arrow and the soundtrack of classic rock hits to back it all up.
telling Drax she doesn't like "what type of thing he is" as her saying she's attracted to ladies?
Gunn has been doing the same kinda shitty MAYBE THERE'S A GAY CHARACTER thing that was done with Rogue One and Beauty and the Beast but that is 100% how I took that scene
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David_TA fashion yes-man is no good to me.Copenhagen, DenmarkRegistered Userregular
telling Drax she doesn't like "what type of thing he is" as her saying she's attracted to ladies?
Gunn has been doing the same kinda shitty MAYBE THERE'S A GAY CHARACTER thing that was done with Rogue One and Beauty and the Beast but that is 100% how I took that scene
I mostly read it as just because she looks humanoid doesn't mean she is humanoid. Especially combined with her telling them that Ego found her in her larva form.
telling Drax she doesn't like "what type of thing he is" as her saying she's attracted to ladies?
Gunn has been doing the same kinda shitty MAYBE THERE'S A GAY CHARACTER thing that was done with Rogue One and Beauty and the Beast but that is 100% how I took that scene
telling Drax she doesn't like "what type of thing he is" as her saying she's attracted to ladies?
Gunn has been doing the same kinda shitty MAYBE THERE'S A GAY CHARACTER thing that was done with Rogue One and Beauty and the Beast but that is 100% how I took that scene
This is a stretch considering
Later on he specifically says he likes women with meat on their bones.
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Blake TDo you have enemies then?Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.Registered Userregular
My favorite part of gotg is that even in the far reaches of space you can count on every species to maintain a strict gender binary and universal heterosexuality
My favorite part of gotg is that even in the far reaches of space you can count on every species to maintain a strict gender binary and universal heterosexuality
I was weirded out by the presence of only female looking androids(?) hanging out with the giant ravager crew on the snow planet. Surely statistics alone would mean some ravagers prefer dude bots
(There were also few (no?) female ravagers around in that scene. So maybe they all went to a different establishment.. But also where are the lady ravagers who prefer ladies )
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I thought the character beats were better than the first one, but the overall story and action sequences were less good, overall I still liked it a lot, I always enjoy fun character stuff over other elements.
However everything done with the characters was superb. The emotions in this one were strong
And the Zune!
And Mary Poppins, y'all!
There's one particular moment where I thought it fell flat, but I was also kind of in love with this movie's weird clinging to glitchy, pixelly 80s electronics aesthetics
I didn't like this as much as the first, it felt a bit too sequelly? where everything has to be a lot bigger because it is a sequel. That, and someone mentioned accurately, they went a lot smaller with this soundtrack, and I think that is to the detriment of the movie, I can tie bits of the original movie and remember exactly what song was playing there, it was very much a character of the movie. This one just felt it had music.
Satans..... hints.....
Which scene was that song played in?
it was in the trailer, and in the movie:
And I was pretty sad that wasn't in the movie! But eh, happened with Spirit in the Sky in the first film
Also Kurt Russel as Chris Pratt's dad was perfect casting.
I think it was during the
Yeah I feel like if the movie had gone the other way and told a much smaller story it would have worked out well.
oh yea i remember this!
This one carried that torch.
Was very cathartic for me
And my dad was similar in a lot of ways to Yondu. He was a former marine corps boxer who loved to drink and was a total hardass who thought I was a weird kid and didn't really get me but loved me anyways and showed it as best he could, which wasn't always that well. So everything with Peter and Yondu and especially the funeral made me cry like a baby.
I've got a bunch of thoughts beyond that I'll probably write up tomorrow but as a whole this movie did everything I wanted it to and then some and will happily sit next to the first one as some of my favorite movies
Liked by James Gunn.
Because, fucking shit, "Rumors" is such a good album.
Brofist.
I'd picked it up a few years back for Go Your Own Way, but never really listened to the whole disc. Hearing The Chain for the first time prompted a full listen. Yeah, that's a perfect album.
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I didn't get that one ;p
people who care about him if he keeps being an asshole.
But people also seemed to take away Drax and Mantis being a thing, like his over the top disgust with her was a school kid crush thing, when to me they seemed very much a dad n' step daughter more than anything else
I really like that basically every character except Groot had their own proper character arc and moments. I think GotG definitely has the strongest character work in the MCU, as a franchise. Only movies that really come close to me are Iron Man 3 and Civil War.
I also really like that the Guardians got to do some more superheroic shit in this one
In this one Quill is out fighting fighter ships just with his jetpack and pistols, Gamora is hoisting battle cannons and Rocket is laying traps for and successfully outmaneuvering dozens of Ravagers. It really helped show why these assholes are the Guardians of the Galaxy,
as opposed to some other random schmucks.
And jesus god I am so in love with the Cosmic MCU setting. The contrast between the grungy shitholes and spaceships that the Guardians and Ravagers live in versus The Sovereign's utter extravagance, the weird technology like the space suits and aeropacks and a whistle controlled arrow and the soundtrack of classic rock hits to back it all up.
Gunn has been doing the same kinda shitty MAYBE THERE'S A GAY CHARACTER thing that was done with Rogue One and Beauty and the Beast but that is 100% how I took that scene
No bug form, no party.
This is a stretch considering
Satans..... hints.....
I was weirded out by the presence of only female looking androids(?) hanging out with the giant ravager crew on the snow planet. Surely statistics alone would mean some ravagers prefer dude bots
(There were also few (no?) female ravagers around in that scene. So maybe they all went to a different establishment.. But also where are the lady ravagers who prefer ladies
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