Guardians of the Galaxy Volume 3

[FitzTheRuke]

Took the family to see it today. What a great shoe. Do yourself a favour and go see it. I doubt it will disappoint.

 

[FitzTheRuke]

For point of reference that you might understand, @Morrus, comparing Iron Man to Guardians of the Galaxy is like comparing Red Dwarf to Blake's 7. Neither of them are Doctor Who, but one is clearly more well known then the other.


Edit: Though come to think of it, Blake's 7 is probably significantly more well known than the Guardians were before the movie. I hope my point makes sense, anyway.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

Indeed. I not only read Marvel and DC comics but also Gold Key, Comely Comics, First Comics, The Beano, The Dandy, and 2000 AD.

Beano, Dandy and 2000AD where the big three British comics, and about the only ones readily available where I grew up.

I was familiar with Spiderman, Hulk, Batman, Superman and Wonder Woman through TV shows rather than comics.

 

[Older Beholder]

I really enjoyed the film, it's pretty dark given the focus on Rocket's backstory.
I'm trying not to go into too much detail in case anyone's here before seeing the film, but there's a fight scene in a hallway that's up there with some of the best action sequences in Marvel, there's a bit that's among the funniest, and the Rocket backstory is some of the more emotional stuff they've done.

One thing when watching the film, and the way the Adam Warlock action is directed made me think Gunn is probably going to a good job with Superman even if I'm still not 100% convinced his writing and overall style are a great fit.

 

[Tonguez]

For point of reference that you might understand, @Morrus, comparing Iron Man to Guardians of the Galaxy is like comparing Red Dwarf to Blake's 7. Neither of them are Doctor Who, but one is clearly more well known then the other.


Edit: Though come to think of it, Blake's 7 is probably significantly more well known than the Guardians were before the movie. I hope my point makes sense, anyway.

Yeah something like Terrahawks or Tomorrow People or even Space Cops might be more comparable to Guardians as opposed tho Blake’s 7 which at the time had a good following. ie those other ones existed but hardly anyone remembers them

 

[Paul Farquhar]

Yeah something like Terrahawks or Tomorrow People or even Space Cops might be more comparable to Guardians as opposed tho Blake’s 7 which at the time had a good following. ie those other ones existed but hardly anyone remembers them

I remember all of those!

But I think that the reason I had never heard of GotG until the movie was announced was because they never made it onto TV. But, at least with regards to live action, that can be put down to the cost of doing science fiction. When I did hear about them I read some of the comics and thought they were pretty good.

 

[John R Davis]

I'd kinda liked it
The humour and the dark backstory stuff was good. But I found the big-scale action a bit dull

 

[Umbran]

There's a photosensitive trigger warning at the start of the film, but there should probably be trigger warnings for animal cruelty and body horror as well.

Yeah. My wife is a veterinarian, and it poses a real problem. From what we have heard, we probably won't be paying for tickets to see this in a theater. If we see it, we'll be doing so on Disney+, where we can take breaks or fast-forward through ugly bits.

 

[FitzTheRuke]

This movie is good enough - and mixed enough emotionally - to stick with you. I've been thinking about it a LOT. Some things that stick out: I find it interesting how many (most?) of us humans have a much harder time with animal cruelty then we have with human cruelty.

For example, some of that is probably the hardest parts to watch (also some of the best parts, IMO, but I like it when a movie makes me sad). OTOH, there is quite a bit of casual MURDER in the movie (some of which is even played for laughs!)

I mean, a LOT of "people" die in this film. Some "deserve" it, I suppose, but most don't. In many cases, we forgive the murderer. Even applaud them. I don't condemn it, but it does make me think.

Another thought (only tangentally related to the above): I don't think this movie is a good one to take children to. It's pretty traumatic in a number of ways. It's really good, though!

 

[FitzTheRuke]

I was born in 1981 and grew up in the Philadelphia suburbs. I never got into Marvel comics. I was aware of Iron Man (and Captain America and Thor) before the movies showed up but had never heard of the Guardians of the Galaxy before.

I'm a comic book expert. I've owned a comic store for 30 years. I have an encyclopedic knowledge. The only reason I knew much about most of the characters used in the first movie was because they had a very successful launch a few years before the film (which is what inspired the film in the first place, though they used a slightly different mix of characters).

Even that comic launch was specifically done because the publisher of Marvel (or perhaps he was editor-in-chief at the time, whatever) didn't like "space" characters, he only thought that "street" characters were cool, and a pair of British comic writers (Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning) essentially "bet" him that they could make a cool space book, even with totally obscure space characters.

They won.

The NAME, Guardians of the Galaxy had been previously successfully used (in the 90's, relaunching an obscure 70's team) for a group of characters from the 30th century (copying the Legion of Superheroes from DC, but that may be too deep a dive for this story). They sold well for a little while during the 90's boom, but tanked back into obscurity (IMO where they belong). THOSE characters were used in the film for inspiration for the Ravagers (including Yondu, though Rooker is a very very different character).

At any rate, I could go on, but I don't want to nerd out too deeply.