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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mannahnin" data-source="post: 8856955" data-attributes="member: 7026594">That first one was good and could have been great if they came up with a better ending.  Seriously, beating the god of war in a fight?  That's one of those paradoxical seemingly-impossible challenges which screams for a clever solution.  Something more like what Dr. Strange did at the end of his first movie.  It'd be thematically appropriate too- in a lot of the Greek myths the heroes win through by cleverness rather than brute force.  Even Hercules with his labors often had to resolve really tricky situations which pure strength wouldn't fix.The ones in GotG genuinely threw me.  I'm particularly thinking of GotG2, where they break Yondo out and then he just walks through the ship slaughtering everyone.  It was weird and incongruous after the humorous tone of much of the action with the Ravagers, especially with the sense you got watching that most of them would probably follow any strong leader.  I expected either escape or Yondu to take over again, but no- just kill everyone.  Also on review, I guess that faction had spaced all Yondu's loyalists, which again, seemed a bit oddly brutal for a GotG/Marvel movie.  I feel like that plot could have resolved just as easily as the rebellion without the spacing, and Yondu taking command of the Ravagers again, maybe with the deaths of just Taserface and one or two other nasty sorts.</blockquote>