GOTG appreciation thread

I agree and I am not OP again.
Jokes were well timed and moderate. All characters got developed and got the necessary screentime. The universe as a whole was expanded to "marvel" ( :) ) the audience.

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Can this also be a Rocket appreciation thread? I'm surprised they made him even hotter in the sequel. unf!

The only reason why critics gave Guardians bad reviews was because they're just getting sick of Marvel Movies. The rest is just nitpicking.

Was it supposed to be cliche and predictable?

>>82437607
Yes. The narrative feels more like a comic book than a movie.

>>82435180
>actual reddit the movie

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Did anybody else feel as if they kinda flanderized some of the characters in this one? Drax in particular feels noticeably more over-the-top this time around.

>>82437717
No. Because in the previous movie none of the characters that were important beyond Starlord had any defined personality, if at all.

I have no idea why people think the first movie was better when the characters and their interactions were so fucking awkward.

>>82437762
GOTG uses basic character archetypes, not the same as not having any personality

>>82437913
Yes it does. Basic character archetypes that aren't fleshed out are boring. Drax and Gamora barely had any defining characteristics that personalizes them as people, and Rocket and Groot weren't fleshed out. The only main character that was an actual person was Starlord. GotG 2 fleshes out characters that didn't have character in the previous movie. There's no flanderization because there was barely anything to flanderize.

Real federalization would be the Guardians comics inspired by the movies, completely misunderstanding the way in which the movies are inspired by the comics, adopting the most well-known superficial characteristics without trying to find out what they're supposed to represent.

>>82436137
I want to kiss him and wipe his tears away

>>82435180
>DUDE WEED LMAO
NOT KIDDING I CLAPPED AND DANCED WITH MY WIFE WHEN THE OPENING CREDITS ROLLED XDD AND THAN I PASSED HER AROUND AND EVERYONE HAD A GREAT TIME

>>82435180
Haha le "trash panda" meme ; D

I unironically like all of James Gunn's movies, and I don't even have a reddit account. The only one I haven't seen is Super

Did the Sovereign make a second Adam Warlock or was the Thor 2 post credit scene non-canon?

>>82435180

I expected mediocrity at best and was pleasantly surprised. The plot was a bit thin, but it was thoroughly enjoyable.

>>82438612
gunn said it was a mistake in thor 2

>>82435180
This is why DC conquers all. This is why Wonder Women will re-open the mighty wrath that is DC and finally who all you Marvel fanboys that it is NOT as bad as you say it is, but you are in fact unintellectual and cannot perceive what is happening on the screen. Still think BvS was bad? How blind are you? These were comics first, with even dumber plotlines, yet you knock LIVE ACTION TELLINGS of Superman Vs. Batman? Get fucking real. I can't wait for DC to come back and kick you Marvel cucks right in the fucking uterus.

>>82435180
OP, completely agree. LOVED IT! Really felt that Gunn achieved that Fifth Element vibe that he missed with the first one which felt forced with a shitty villain.

FUCKING GORGEOUS cinematography, funny, heartfelt, yeah, I really enjoyed it and will be buying it on Bluray.

My only regret is that Gunn isn't doing Infinity War because the Russo's and their washed out shaky cam bullshit can get fucked!!!FACT!!!

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Mantis a cute

A CUTE

the writing felt very Anime

>"trust me that trust in you"

jesus christ

>>82438612
What happened at the end of Thor 2? I don't remember. I don't particularly like the Thor movies to own or watch them again. But the trailer for Thor 3 looked good.

>>82438798
>on the inside.

>>82439012
Loki is the new king of Asgard and Odin is death

>>82438612
James Gunn confirmed that it wasn't his cocoon in Thor 2

>>82438798

So is she, like, part of the team now?

>>82439284
I hope so

>>82435180
What were the ending after credit things?
I had to take a shit and didn't stick around for them, but I heard there were like 4 or them or something

Pacing felt off and the humor wouldn't fucking stop but it wasn't a bad movie. Just not top shelf capeshit like the first one.

>>82439396
1. that dude stabs drax with the arrow
2. Sylvester Stallone teams up with a bunch of characters no one cares about
3. stick my dicky plots revenge
4. teenage groot
5. Stan Lee and the watchers

>>82439484
Stallones character felt really weird and out of place.
Who was he again? The leader of all the Ravagers or something?

>>82438872
That was supposed to be a Gurren Lagaan reference

>>82439515
Stallone and the characters he was with in the end were the original guardians of the galaxy

>>82439396
The guy who inherited the blue guy dart trying to control it and stabbing Drax
Stallone and his gang getting back in action
Golden guys creating Adam
Teenager Groot playing videogames
Continuation of the Stan Lee cameo

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>>82436137
>>82438133
https://imgur.com/gallery/E8gfNu0

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>>82439515
Starhawk

>>82439658
Jesus Christ, my ...awesome stroke, fuck, I'll never laugh again, I burst my laughing machine.
This raccoon should be the president, I would literally follow him through the gates of hell, as long as he rolls.
Every meeting of world leaders, you just let this raccoon roll and every delegate of any country can come
to just one conclusion: This raccoon knows what's he doing, we need to follow.

Fuck, I'm happy now.

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Just got home from it. Liked it. Laughed quite a bit, especially at Drax. But the plot felt too neat, like a video game: here's a problem, and here's a solution. Next problem, another solution. Quite a few jokes fell flat in my theater. Not complaining much, but I loved the first one so much, it was a step down for me. 7/10 still decent entertainment.

Oh, but I just went to the chick who played Mantis' IMDb page and what the shit, IMDb? Nice bit of trivia to showcase about the girl...

>>82439809
hahaha, oh wow

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Holy fuck Richard Christy was in it as "Down There!" Who the hell was he?

>Redditors of the Galaxy

>>82438798
>>82439809
>Asian actress playing autistic insectoid alien
It's like poetry, it rhymes.

>>82439910
What is this hairstyle called?

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>>82439738

>>82439910
yeah that's exactly what a guy who directs comic book movies would look like

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>>82439809

>>82437717
Absolutely, but somehow Drax remained the funniest if you ask me, Rocket/baby Groot/Quill were insufferable a lot of the time

>>82439972
Isn't she French Canadian?

>>82440467
>Trivia (6)
Her father was Russian and French; her mother was Korean.
Her mother named her "Pom" because it sounds similar to the Korean words for "spring" and "tiger".
Her family lived in Canada, Japan, and the Ivory Coast before finally settling in France.
Her father died when she was five years old.
Her brother committed suicide on her 25th birthday.
She was raised by her paternal uncle and aunt. Her uncle died on her 18th birthday.

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Someone please tell me that this entire thread is satire.

>>82438029
Sounds like you didn't watch the first one

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>>82440621
>Her brother committed suicide on her 25th birthday.

every time

>Her father died when she was five years old.
>Her brother committed suicide on her 25th birthday.
>She was raised by her paternal uncle and aunt. Her uncle died on her 18th birthday.

goddamn mantis, she had a hard life

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>>82435180
Honestly, I thought the movie was pretty mediocre throughout. The girl I went to see it with thought the same.

There were many lines that felt either squandered or just poorly written/out of place. Also many scenes dragged on for like 3-4 minuets longer than they needed to, like the punchline would be evident within the first minute or two of conversation then they would just beat the joke to death for 5 more minutes.

Soundtrack was good, I actually really liked Michael Rooker this time around and thought he did a great job finishing up Yondu's story, and I enjoyed Kurt Russell even if he was given some shitty lines to work with.

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Is it one guy who starts these threads with "wow"
Or is it a new meme ?

What was the song they played while Yondu and Rocket massacre the Ravagers?

>>82441289
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=guardians+of+the+galaxy+vol+2+soundtrack

>>82439809
>it's Russian-Japanese
Literally Master Race.

>>82441289
Come A Little Bit Closer - Jay & The Americans

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-yjQ7zJTjo&index=11&list=RDG1Bn3R4gqEQ

>>82441289
Honestly that was the best scene in the entire movie, and that is kind of sad.

>>82441159
>The girl I went to see it with
GET OUT NORMIE REEEEEEEE

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>>82441159
>The girl I went to see it with

Furious Fernandez gave this a 10/10.

>>82437717
Drax has a new family and he's really happy about it.

>>82439284
Yeah, she'll be in Infinity War.

Why was I under the impression that Sharon Stone was going to be in this?

This is reddit, this is memes
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>>82440704
/tv/ became so contrarian that for this short cosmic alignment people here can actually enjoy a fun movie. Don't ruin this for them anon.

>>82437717
I didn't really mind Drax being super happy all the time because of the context of the narrative.

In the first movie he was on an incredibly personal quest, to say nothing of being alone and not liking or trusting the rest of the gang for most of the film.
In Vol. 2 he's just hanging out with his family and having a good time for 90% of it, and his mood kind of reflects that. It will be a problem if when they're confronting/going after Thanos he doesn't go back to being a murder hobo at least a little.

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>>82441289

>>82435180
10/10

Just saw it. Best Marvel movie ever, nay, just one of the best movies ever. You don't even have to like cape movies to love it.

IM MERRY POPPINS YALL

>>82435180
>Baby Groot and his antics
>Mantis
>Drax
>The Gold People
>Yondu I'M MARY POPPINS Y'ALL!
>Seeing Kurt Russell getting work in current Hollywood
>Soundtrack
> Zune joke

Everything else sucked.

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>>82435180
>Yondu killed more people in one scene than the rest marvel heroes combined

Wasn't Nathan Fillion supposed to be in the movie as Simon Williams? I kept waiting for him to show up.

>>82437541
Indeed. Easily better than Winter Soldier.

>>82444685
No, he was supposed to have some background posters in the Earth scene.

People just assumed he was going to show up even though it makes no sense for Earth characters to show up in any meaningful way in a Guardians movie.

>>82437541
I think people are just bored of them being reasonably good (you know, at least technically and structurally) so consistently that the bar has been raised.

People prefer to root for the underdog, and Marvel/Disney hasn't been the underdog for 4 or 5 years.

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>Story was good with handling so many characters. Each one had something to do
>Mantis is cute
>More on the side villains from the first
>The Starlord/Ego/Yondu arc was great
>The Gold race was pretty good
>Just great seeing the Guardians again in general
>David Hasselhoff

Bad
>The subversive humor can get really annoying. It ruins a lot of scenes. Think some of it should have been cut.
>Sly for only a few scenes.

Overall I enjoyed it. Didn't found it to be a complete disappointment. 4/5

I really really really enjoyed the intro credits scene. I was expecting a retread of the first one, except with everyone dancing except Drax stubbornly refusing to. I thought it was a very creative way to bring people back into the kind of fun the 1st volume was.

I thought I was going to hate Groot, but he was pretty solidly cute as opposed to annoying.

>>82445917
>>The Starlord/Ego/Yondu arc was great
Agreed. It wasn't something I expecting, so it's build up and payoff were fantastic.

>>82436137
Fucking this

First time I cried at capeshit

https://youtube.com/watch?v=yERildSsWxM


Is this, dare I say it, Marvel's first capekino?

I also like literalist humour

>>82439972
It's like pottery, it molds itself.

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I'm just imagining you waking up and saying to yourself in the mirror "Hey, you know what would be a real badass name?

TASERFACE!

>>82441902
>pleb gamer gives a comic movie a 10

What else is new?

>>82446757
I loved this entire scene.

Now THIS is Shitposting

Haven't seen the movie yet but let me guess, once Starlord finds his father his father turns out to be a douche so he makes amends with his father figure Yondu

>>82447084
congratu-fucking-lations, you don't like something just because it's popular

>>82447084
Sort of. But the Yondu Starlord thing works.

>>82435787
>>82435180
Disney shills please leave

>>82447202
>Movie just hit America
>shills

No all you yuropoors for the last two weeks are the fucking shills.

>>82438133
>>82436137

Agreed, agreed, agreed.

He was such an asshole in this movie, and it made me love him even more.

>tfw every single one response in this thread is bait

What a piece of shit that movie was. Boring and not funny. It was physically tiring to watch it. Ain't worth a dime if you ask me

>>82441744

Why is that sad? It was a well shot scene.

>>82447616

How's that brain tumor working out for ya?

>>82446664
I never thought they could do it but Awesome Mix vol. 2 is even better than 1.

>>82447573
>people enjoying a movie is bait now

Too many of the jokes were either unfunny or beaten to death.

The 70s-80s pop culture references that only the audience and Quill are in on are tiring as fuck by now. They need to move on from that.

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Cast your votes for most comfy planet.

Empathy puts the ego to rest.

>I am Groot

LOL!

>>82449107
Eric

Simple Eric

>>82448926
Why did he need her to rest, again?

Does being a celestial make you an insomniac?

>>82449605
He has seen too many varieties of alien vaginas.

>Star-Lord turns into Pac-Man
>Ego doesn't turn into a ghost

Who wrote this shit?

Reposting from the other thread shitting on the movie:

It's humor and 'quirkyness' was really too overblown, making even fucking Deadpool look tame at time.

It's still not the worst Marvel movie yet. Certainly the most cheesy and silly, yes. That said, surprisingly, it has some decent character moments in the second half. Oh and Ego? I fucking loved Ego if only because as far as dumb villain plans his, if you ask my very subjective opinion, was one which motivation made sense no matter how twisted it was:

>my life, my love and my lady is the sea
I'm not going to pretend Ego is a deep villain or anything deep ever really exist in Marvel movies but bear with me. MCU Ego's thing is that he is alone. Ego is all there is to Ego because he's the only entity of his type which he knows. And the goal of life is to spread and procreate. Ego may come off as a dick on a personal level but if we're talking on a cosmic scale, he's merely trying to make more of himself. He's following the imperative of life. Plus there is the implication that, had Peter followed him willingly he wouldn't have hooked him up as a battery but most likely nurtured him to become a full-fledged second Ego. I'm not saying it's 10/10 villain or that Marvel really made anything deep with him. All I'm saying is that in a franchise filled with boring villains he's been one of the more interesting ones so far.

>>82438773

>>82411509 (OP)

Kek , let me break it down for you DCuck.
DC needs a string of good movies to even be in the conversation of what's the best cinematic universe.
If the DCEU finally releases a movie that isn't complete shit like their past movies, then that's the first step. They have to keep making decent movies for a few years after they finally release a decent movie to even be in the same conversation.

Get it now?

>>82435180
I'm pretty sure everyone was tearing up when it looked as though the Guardians were doomed, especially when they showed Baby Groot.
Shit, I'm tearing up right now.

>>82440704


Begone DCuck , don't you have a "BvS was good meme" thread to post?

>>82435180
is the only version of this online missing parts? seems like it had some weird jump cuts

AND IF YOU DON'T LOVE ME NOW

>>82446664

Kino takes multiple viewings. You can't declare shit kino that you saw once. It's a novelty high right now

>>82450226
I am a huge pussy when it comes to crying at movies, but the film and specifically that scene felt too blatantly "assembled" to get me to leak. Still liked it, but didn't love it.

>>82440727
More like I forgot because the characterization was so boring I forgot them.

>>82446664
>Literalist
Gtfo what your thinking of is toilet humor

>>82447146
Its less popular than suicide squad you mong

>>82450682
Baby Groot being abused by Nebula and then by the Ravagers really made me feel bad for the little guy. He used to be the powerhouse of the team and now he's treated like shit, and must feel like one.

DUDE
WEED
LMAO

>>82450750
Was it explained why he's a baby now

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Movie looked so colorful, the blacks looked so deep!! Thank god they finally switched to RED Cameras, was getting tired of the "Marvel Filter" every marvel movie shared

>>82450760
in the first movie he was blown to pieces and they're growing him from a tiny sprout that was recovered

>>82439738
Go back to

>>82450760
Well, he kinda exploded in the last film.
So he's growing again.

I want to have a scene in infinity war where Thor call himself a God, and Starlord announces that he's a demigod too, but barely anyone believes him and someone rolls their eyes.

>>82435180
>high

Completely invalidates your opinion. I'm going to see this tonight, hope it's not too shit.

>>82450947
>"There is only one God sir, and he doesn't quip"
t. Captain America

>>82450947
He isnt even a demigod though because he killed his father which was the source of his power.

>>82451096
His father is a celestial, a god. He's half-god, ergo a demigod.

I can just imagine Starlord trying to impress Thor by calling himself a demigod and Gamora rolling her eyes.

was ego right?

>>82451266
I can't get behind the tumor. Fuck Ego.

>>82451266
Yes he lives forever and all powerful so why should he care about any of them. Hes all alone and will be forever so why not give birth to your kind asap

>>82450737
Guardians of the Galaxy's popularity was why Suicide Squad was created in the first place

The scene with Rocket making fun of Taserface's name was painfully long and unfunny

>>82448908

what was the song in this scene?

>>82451301
That reveal was a bit wonky.

I would've liked it better if Peter just asked why wouldn't he cure her with his powers and got to the conclusion alone.

The only annoyance I had was they had to insert a quip into every scene. There were some pretty good scenes (Nebula and Gonmora's fight) that were ruined by quips

I liked it better than the first one, but I didn't really like the first one all that much.

It was a comedy, not an action movie. But that's alright, Hollywood hardly ever makes comedies anymore so if capecomedy is the new comedy that's fine with me. Nothing wrong with people going to the theater with friends and laughing and having a good time. The cast is great, jokes were hit or miss but there were so many that was okay too, the visuals were phenomenal, probably the most colorful MCU movie ever. It's like all the color that DC drained out of MoS and BvS ended up here. Effects were great. Good villain.

Really just another hit from the MCU, but they are like Murderers' Row at this point; it's always going to be a hit, just a matter of how big.

>>82435180
Saw it last night. It was pretty good.

>>82451478
Im referring to gotg vol.2 making less money than suicide squad currently meaning its less popular

>>82451983
actually, its on track to make more opening weekend

>>82450327

Yeah the cam is missing some chunks particularly two big ones, the entire fight with the ships before they crash is missing for example.

>>82451209
I guess you don't remember Kurt's line
If you kill me you'll be just like everyone else.

wtf is happening here? How did you guys loved it? The movie was so average

Way too many jokes, the only really emotional moment in the whole movie was when Drax was talking about his dead wife and Mantis felt him and started crying, every other "emotional" moment felt forced as fuck and way too implicit

Now i know why Dave Bautista didn't like the directing his character was taking

This movie had a huge potential but failed drastically due to overuse of jokes. They obviously know "people loved how funny the Guardians are, we shoulde make it EVEN FUNNIER" and went full retarded instead of just keeping the tone stable throughout the movie

Drax had so much potential. I actually can't believe the only character i really liked in the movie was Gamora.

>>82449982
He's easily the most hateable villain the MCU has. I know him being all "I gave your mum cancer" is goofy levels of evil, but he's still such a cunt.

>>82437717
OH SHIT IT'S UNCLE KLUNK

>>82452092
He just won't be immortal, he'll still half half "god"

>>82435180
The first like fifteen minutes or so I thought was bad, I was getting very nervous. The opening with Groot dancing really overstayed its fucking welcome, then Drax and Rocket are making like poopy jokes and shit.

Once the team splits up the quality improved drastically I thought, the jokes started to actually land and there were some really badass moments with Yondu, Rocket and Gamora. Also some really nice character moments, like Drax/Mantis in front of the pond, Peter/Gamora on Ego and Rocket/Yondu. It felt more character-focused than the first movie, basically every character got an emotional scene for the actors to show their teeth.

Overall I liked it, besides the first ten/fifteen minutes. Probably like a 7.5/10, whereas the first movie would be around 8.5/10.

>>82453485
>The opening with Groot dancing really overstayed its fucking welcome,
I really enjoyed that, desu. I really like it when there's two contrasting things happening in the foreground and the background, for some reason.

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first movie:
>What is it?
>it's called Nowhere, the severed head of an ancient celestial being

this movie:
>I am a Celestial waah I'm all alone there's nothing else like me everyone else is just a fucking pleb mortal I'm so alone

>>82454791
>each celestial is different

>>82453644
>For some reason
It's called ADHD.

>>82454791
Celestials aren't a race, they're a catagory of being.

>>82454791
I mean his name is Ego, so it's kinda his schtick to be a narcissistic bitch.

Literally cancer villain.

>>82455051
>>82455139

I'll accept that, firm borders are boring.

So what about him running into other celestial beings? What, he's the only current living one and has been for millions of years? Why is his whole thing that he ran into basic ass mortals that don't resemble him. Why didn't he go to Thor's planet and chill with those dudes at all? Why didn't he find Thanos?

It just makes his millions-of-years-old god seem like a short-sighted child. His brain alone is bigger than the bodies of other mortals but he's written like some 15 year old retard. Doesn't really carry that sense of power and scope of existence in any facet other than maybe that sweet beard.

At least Apocalypse in X-Men had some kind of "I'm way older and bigger and stronger than all you fools and your shit" sort of edge to his performance, even if it and the rest of the movie was cheesy schlock.

>>82455481
Celestials aren't as well fleshed out in the MCU as they are in the comics. Could be that he's the only living Celestial. Could be that he was broken so bad that he can't recognize other celestials as being similar to him. He was just a floating brain that formed a planet, didn't have his big suit/ship that all other celestials are contained in in the comics. Or he could just think he's a celestial, since the ruins of their bodies around the galaxy are the only thing he can compare himself to.

I wish they didn't killed kurt russel so he can job to Thanos when infinity wars hit.

>>82454791
I was wondering if there was a connection

In the first movie we have a celestial skull that's empty
In the second there was a celestial brain with amnesia floating by itself in the universe a few million years ago

>>82455481
size of brain isn't that important, its more like size of the brain relative to the body, and how many wrinkles the brain has

>"haha, you look like Mary Poppins"
>"is he cool?"
>".....the coolest"
>"I'M MARY POPPINS YALL"

best part of the movie

Why did he decide to make a human form for himself and stick to it? When he showed him as Kurt Russel Mannequin fucking all the other race mannequins, was that just a metaphor and in reality he always morphed himself to that species?

>>82455921
That's what I assumed, yeah. Because he clearly turned into Hasselhoff at some point, so I suppose he can just transform into whatever he wants but wanted to keep seeming friendly to Pete.

>>82456032

Though his self-told origin story involves him making his human body before he sets out to find other life. Was that supposed to be a lie?

>>82455891
it was fucking ebin man

>>82456108
Probably. He never mentions "human" body, I don't think. He just says body and shows 70's Maned Russel.

I'm sure he became humanoid because that's the most common around the galaxy.

>>82435180
soundtrack was way better than vol 1 imo

The Scotch Tape part was fucking stupid. Way too long.

>>82456353
Would have been better if we didn't see it in the trailer imo.

>>82449982
>my life, my love and my lady is the sea

I actually really liked how they used the lyrics of a song to explain his backstory given the importance of music to the films.

>crying baby Groot

I wanna hug him, guys

>>82453644
I liked the idea of focusing on little Groot while an epic battle rages, out of focus in the background. I felt the length of the gag was absolutely obnoxious

>>82459029
It was the length of the song (minus that last part), which given the song I felt would've been needed.

Plus, you never really see people getting the fuck beaten out of them in such brutal ways, even if they weren't in danger.

>>82435180
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I'm just so happy Micheal Rooker got to show off how great he is. The man is seriously talented. Best part of the movie was him and Rockets' prison escape.

I fucking love it when OP creates an obvious falseflagging thread and it actually turns into decent discussion about the movie, with minimal shitposting (and i'm fairly sure is just OP samefagging)
I thought the movie was good. Soundtrack was on par with the first. The plot was certainly a little messy, but the characters made up for it. Drax was amazing. Yondu was amazing. Baby Groot got old, I really didn't care for the ravager ship scene or the button scene. The final fight was kinda strange for me, I feel like Ego should have had more power over his planet, but it might be just because he's using his brain and not his heart or some cheesy shit like that. Pretty fun movie overall.

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>>82448908
>cyberpunk Siberia

>>82435180

That's not a review.

What was the plot of the movie and how was the conflict resolved? Who is sad in the second act?

>>82459922
any time him the Raccoon and Groot were on screen together it was the best part of the movie, either that or Batista and the Insect Girl

>>82460028
>Plot
It revolved around key quip points and not key plot points.
Absolute shitty story only meant to setup Infinity War and make some money

>>82460119
That's what i figured. The last one only had one decent joke and was a travesty of a movie.

>>82460028
>>82460119
it wasn't amazing but it was more character-involved than the generic superhero stop the BIG BAD GUY from getting the BIG BAD THING like the first one

>>82451624
"I don't know what Cheers is!"

>>82460191
It's a super hero movie, they're all "character-focused"

What does that mean? There were calm scenes with pathos and no joking for most of the movie? Yeah fucking right, not with the autism people have these days.

I loved how Nebula crashed an entire space ship in a blind fit of rage just to kill Gamora. That was one of my favorite parts of the movie.

should i watch this? i hate capeshit, but liked logan.

>>82460548
Logan and GOTG are very different, but also different from most capeshit so idk

>>82460191
>it wasn't amazing
This is all I had to read

>>82460548
If you liked the first one go ahead but its still capeshit desu

>>82455891
The wrestler said it? Why is that funny? The constructed juxtaposition of a strong man liking something girly?

Wow, top hilarity.

>>82460726
>If you liked the first one
lolll i hate capeshit i wouldnt watch that. have only watched logan because of the rave, also watched BvS forcibly because i was in a bus and it was turbo garbage.

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How did Ego model himself after humans before he'd even discovered other existing life?

>>82460317

The movie relentlessly mashed inherently opposed tones into single scenes, the most notable one being Starlord and Ego's bonding scene. Between the music, the slow motion, the goofy ass facial expressions, and the simplicity of the scene, a lot of people struggled to see if it was a sincere moment or drowning in its own irony. It was both, and the movie purposefully does this again and again. Gags appear where they shouldnt, and sincerity pops up where you don't expect it.

There are two pivotal moments where the jokes stop and the movie takes on a heartfelt earnestness. They come towards the end and revolve around Yondu and his old gang. Because the movie has refused the audience any chance at a maintained atmosphere beforehand, these moments stand out and achieve weight. For that they're more effective.

I'm not big on Disney's output, especially not most of Marvel's, but I think this movie achieved having its own personality while momentarily snubbing the dull Avengers camp it will eventually have to join.

It's not perfect, but it does have its moments, and the ways it achieves them is far more unexpected, and therefore engaging, than what has come before it within the Marvel context.

I liked it a lot, and was pretty lukewarm on the first one. I'd say check it out if you get the chance and decide for yourself.

As someone who doesn't watch many movies, I could see practically every scene coming a mile away. The exception being the last scene with the fireworks show which came out of the blue.
The CG goes from something that looks straight out of 2002 to shit that probably took thousands of Koreans to make, and its jarring to see actors on actual sets then seeing them waving their hands around like lunatics on an obvious green screen.

>>82435180
I know familia. Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (c) is a great filmgoing experience. Go see it today! I was NOT paid to write this! I genuinely like this awesome movie and can't wait for the next one!

>>82460847
Also why would he remain in human form when memelord is attacking him

Gold lass is best lass

>>82460751

The blue guy. In context, that character has revealed a lot about his past, and the scene preceding it has a heart to heart between him and Starlord. Out of context, it's a funny one off gag. Within the movie, it's banter between two characters who clearly care for each other and becomes endearing.

My two pennies.

>>82460865
You make it sound like disappointing trash that's only redeemed by callouts to the original.

>>82460944
Oh so they were afraid of having an adult moment and instead made a banal reference joke to another of disney's properties?

Hilarious.

>>82450737
That's quite a story, Mark. It didn't even make as much money as the first Guardians and reviews were in the toilet.

>>82460835
GotG isn't even capeshit.
No one has super powers, no one is running around in spandex.

>>82450775
it has much, much less to do with the camera used (all films shoot in log or cinestyle or something similar, google it cause I don't feel like explaining) but basically whatever look the film has - deep colors, washed out bullshit, everything gross blue (JP world) is handled in post production in the color correction process. the camera can give you more room for it, but it's a decision handled after a film has been shot.

>>82451581
Go write your own shit.

>>82461087
>Quill doesn't have superpowers

Nigga what

>>82461014

That's not what I said at all. But your tone and obstinate dismissal of every person you respond to is proof you've already made up your mind about the movie. To each his own.

>>82435180
did anyone else notice how at the end of this film the final battle resembled Scooby Doo 2 a bit?

>>82461228
Yeah that's the sort of childish mindset i'd expect to appreciate a film like this.

>>82451983
Don't count your chickens yet.

>>82460548
Think of GOTG as more of a space opera than capeshit, it helps

>>82437717
James Gunn george lucas'd this movie. He was the sole writer on this, while he was a co-writer on the first.

Note for credits, the "co-writer" on the 2nd is saying that it's based off his comics, not that he had a hand in the writing of the movie.

Gunn needs a 2nd person to reign it in just a notch.

>>82452095
You sound like a fun guy. Nihilism?

>>82460684
plot is not that big a deal

I laughed at the part where Quill said he was going to make a bunch of weird shut with his new found powers

>>82461448

Meant "weird shit"

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If I had Ego's powers I'd make a Rocket and fug him.

>>82461408
>plot is not that big a deal
either this is bait or
/tv/ has lowered their standards to an all time low

>>82455481
He is a very simple creature who wants to absorb everything. Remember that Ego is a known entity thought invincible and his destruction is celebrated.

>>82461448
funnily enough nobody in my kinoplex made a sound when he said that
so I had to hold in my laugh to not look like an autist

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Fantastic Four when?!?

>>82461525
especially not in comic book movies, where the source material hamstrings the writers as to the situations these characters can find themselves in

>>82461587
>comic book movies
instead of movies, this is the problem

I liked it.

>>82461216
>uses it twice and loses it

>>82459029
It was the credits.

>>82461627
I'm more of a character guy anyway. I have to care about the people before I care about what they're doing, and it's something this succeeded at, especially with the final scene.

>>82461577
>watchers show up
>hasbro is selling fantastic four figures again

BASICALLY CONFIRMED FOR GETTING RIGHTS BACK.

>>82460119
You are a liar. This film is about fathers and their children. Fuck ya.

>>82461577
Well they were in the Fantastic Four right pack so who know what happened

>>82460751
Don't post on movies you haven't seen. Go back to B; you have not graduated to tv yet.

>>82461014
Go away.

>>82461265
Why are you here? Taking a break between Bergman films?

>>82450625

I thought Napoleon Dynamite was dogshit the first time I saw it and I saw it again years later and thought it was the funniest shit ever, does that make it Kino?

>>82447524
Whatever you say shill

>>82461577
what is the way of the brown man?

>>82462002
napoleon dynamite has been kino for the longest time. get with the program, faggot.

>>82461292
>space opera
it's space vaudeville

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>audience in my theatre actually applauded at parts of the movie
First time I've ever experienced this. I thought it was only a meme.

>>82451266
>>82451301
Yes, until the tumour. That's the part that is rather poorly written. Either that or Ego is really that much of an alien being lacking empathy but I think the implication here is that this is the moment he crossed the line. He had to choose between his great cosmic plan or staying with one mortal, maybe get attached to her and his son too much with no garantee said son would be a proto-celestial.

He chose. And he chose what to us is morally reprehensible. But to an alien being which is functionally immortal, what is killing someone from a sickness and them dying naturally a few decades later? Granted, I would have preferred that Ego gave her that tumour as a side-effect of him sticking his dick (which he does have, as the movie remind us with a really crass joke) into her to make Star Lord.

>>82454791
>>82455051
>>82455481
Iirc, in comics (or at least one continuity, I'm not 100% sure), Celestials are born inside planets so maybe Ego, if he IS a Celestial (and not just a self-proclaimed one) is some sort of 'orphaned celestial' of some kind, left to drift in space until he made his own body rather than being implanted into one.

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>>82462482
>Girl next to me cried when Yondu dies

Found it a bit forced for the first 25%, then really enjoyed it

>>82462519
I was under the impression that he really didn't love his mom specifically, but does it to all the other women he screwed. Specifically the ones hes really fond of.

>>82462693
Was she hot?

Now THIS is reddit

>>82462710
that's only one third!

>>82435180
>tfw 4 years from now, the 14 year olds who see this today are going to be shitposting on /tv/ about how this is a great movie

screenshot this

>>82462780
I guess it is a bit unclear. Still, there did seem to be some pattern of Ego ultimately putting some distance between himself and mortals because, you know, they're temporary beings compared to him.

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Just saw the movie solid 8/10 IMO.
As a quick request does anyone have a picture of the scene when Yondu is on his funeral bed with all of his badges on his face and body.

>>82460751
>shitposting about a movie you havent seen

>>82461087
Drax is superhumanly strong and tough, Gamora can lift at least a ton and Rocket is both much stronger and tougher than he looks and an intuitive mechanical genius who can build things on the fly. Groot had superpowers in 1 and less so in 2. Only Star-Lord lacked powers in 1 and had them for part of 2.

>>82461265
Ironic.

Me personally I love this movie

The visuals were fucking beautiful. I'm surprised I'm saying that about a marvel movie

Anyone have a link to the post credits scene?

>>82439704
Wait a minute, Yondu was a former Guardian?

IM MARY POPPINS YALL
HOWARD THE FUCKING DUCK

>>82437717
I can see where you're coming from, but like the other anons said, it fits the narrative.

It was excellent. People who "hurrr reddit" this movie are just tryhards. They didn't see it, or missed out on subtle references (such as multiple iconic shots homages,drax actually showing emotion for the safety of Quill,Nebula's monologue, Dat young Kurt Russell etc). This movie doesn't pretend to be something its not, and actually made with heart -- the only franchise from the disney capeshit factor that isnt seen as just a job/product. Great themes, the perfect mix of accessibility and nerd shit, and felt more of its own universe apart from the MCU. I tend to like DC more, but GotG is the exception. A diamond in the rough.

>>82463451
yeh

This plays...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-7c4VNGOgU

>>82463320
To be honestly it looked like a Final Fantasy cinematic, IDK if that's good or not but it was beautiful. Especially those cunt's homeworld...

>>82461014
>Oh so they were afraid of having an adult moment and instead made a banal reference joke to another of disney's properties?
>Hilarious.
No you fucking faggot, it's Peter being an asshole as usual then realizing he doesnt want to be a piece of shit to the guy who is basically his father and giving it to him, creating a heartfelt moment whilst simultaneously being funny.

But i wouldn't expect some autistic shitposter to understand any of that

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>>82462693
To be fair, if nothing else in the movie was good, that was a really well played scene. Not one I'd personally cry to, but Rooker is so damn likeable and the funeral scene is actually fairly well done with little to no scene ruining jokes in it.

had major plot points spoiled to me. is it still worth watching?

>>82463669
Trolled softly.

I legit wonder if there are actual shill behind those threads of if it's some troll pretending to be shill so it would turn /tv users off

>>82463451
Sort of. Him and Stallone and Miley Cyrus and co had a team of their own.

>>82463942
miley cyrus was in here?

>>82464039
She was the robot at the end with Stallone

>>82464039
she voiced Mainframe, the robot head in the post-credit scene with the classic Guardians (Stallone, Rhames, etc)

>>82464039
She does the voice of some little robot head thing. You wouldn't know it was her just from watching the movie.

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>>82463800

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>yfw Rocket and Yondu scene at the ship

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZuWkVqum6a8

>>82459922
I'm so glad that they killed off Yondu, he had a nice character arc and gave the movie some nice consequence. His parallels with Rocket were a nice touch too, if albeit forced with having him scream "YOU ARE MEEEE"

Rooker really brought his A-game to this movie and I'll definitely miss him in the next movies.

>>82464193
>>82464134
oh.

>>82464301
best scene in the movie Tbh

I give it a forgetable 8. Good 1 time around and that's it. Tried way to hard to be funny but the emotional plot of we are a family was surprising as it was well done. Felt like the movie dragged on way to long. CIG for Ego was horrible at the end.

But still solid. I'm going to miss Yango.

>>82464301
That scene wound up being my favorite in the movie. Of the new soundtrack, Come a Little Bit Closer was the only one I started listening to that I hadn't been a fan of before. All the others I either already loved or didn't bother listening to them, it made that scene so fucking great

>>82463537
;___;

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>>82464428
The home alone antics in the forest with Rocket was also good

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wOUFo4Lwf8

>>82439809
Not sure what it was about my theater but everyone laughed constantly at every single quip. Chris Pratt would just lift up his arm and the whole theater would bust out howling.

Really added a lot to the experience desu.

>>82463537
He might be your father...

but he ain't your daddy

>>82464663
That was my favorite scene, after Yondu slaughtering the mutineers. The humor wasn't too over-the-top, and it's the first time I would legitimately call Rocket Raccoon a badass in these movies.

>>82460847
>Existed millions of years before humans.
>Humans look like a million year old being.

Maybe he created beings like himself that propagated throughout the galaxy. That explains why John C Riley looks like an everyday earthling even though he's an alien race. Or earthlings weren't the first humanoids he encountered that look like, well earth humans.

>>82464705
It's hard to fault cause it's still a good scene, but it makes no sense why Yondu had to die.

In Vol.1 Gamora and Quill both survive exposure to open space. Going into space with nothing but his helmet seems to be a pretty regular maneuver for Quill. Was it cause Ego's core was being destroyed? I don't think Starlord being unable to access the light would negate something he's just biologically able to do. There is no "ahhh... i'm losing the power" scene. All Yondu had to do was put on the suit himself and haul ass. Or trade off the space suit until they got picked up.

I feel like they anticipated this and spent a lot of time retconning what happens to people in space in this movie, showing all the mutinied crew puffing up in space.

It just sucked, I loved Rooker and his performance, meanwhile the math didn't really add up.

Starlord and Gamora love plot is horrible shoe horned and destroys everything that was great about the first film.

>>82464965
Just like whenever they have a love plot in the comics.
fuck me that relationship is always shit.

>>82464932
>In Vol.1 Gamora and Quill both survive exposure to open space.
It wasn't open space. They were in Knowhere's rarified/nebulous atmosphere, so they could survive for a bit.

>>82464932
>>82465061
Yondu was also in space for much longer than either of them in the first movie.

>>82465279
Low Ego Orbit then? He seemed to be talking pretty easily.

>>82445722

I agree with this. I also think that this contributes to "mainstream" reviewers starting to look for more faults and negative criticisms, as online you start to see the collective opinions of audiences influence discourse about Marvel/DC.

Something which is pretty technically/structurally competent like GotG Vol.2 is an easy target for soft negative criticisms, to score the reviewers "critic points"

>>82462780
>Ego impregnates woman
>implants tumor in her head after she gives birth
>tumor kills them after several years
>Yondu takes the child to Ego
>child fails to live up to Ego's expectations and is killed
>repeat for seventy years

Peter might have just been able to serve Ego's purpose by dint of being an adult when he met his father.

>>82465625
>Something which is pretty technically/structurally competent like GotG Vol.2 is an easy target for soft negative criticisms, to score the reviewers "critic points"
Or, y'know, maybe having a handful of good scenes in a two hour film isn't enough to carry the shitty plot and boring characters.

I liked GotG 2 but let's not fucking pretend it's high art. It's competent, and that's the best that can be said.

>>82443770
More webms!

>>82465768
Most of the people here aren't pretending it's true kino, but it's definitely capekino. It's a stupid, fun movie with some great scenes.

>>82465829
I don't think that "soft negative criticisms to score reviewers critic points" are the only criticisms that can be made of capekino.

>>82460847
Given that most "aliens" are just different colored humanoids in the MCU, or exactly Human looking, it's not exactly a big deal.

>>82464678
Was the audience full of Americans?

>>82466187
Of course.

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>>82439809
>her brother committed suicide on her 25th birthday

>>82464932
Gamora has body modifications and Star-Lord is half Celestial. A normal human wouldn't have survived as long as he did, and presumably neither would a Kree.

>>82466045
Are there any films or tv series that feature large numbers of different alien species that aren't mostly humanoid?

>>82461577
>tfw when too smart for marvel movies

>>82465768
>let's not fucking pretend it's high art. It's competent [...]
Which is precisely what he said, silly bollocks.

>>82462482
people in my theater gasped at the cancer scene

>>82466371
Farscape is probably the only one that comes close.

>>82466371
Babylon 5 had mantis people (a puppet that appeared only a few times) and the two most powerful races were both nonhumanoid. The Shadows looked liked spidertaurs and the Vorlons were energy beings who went around in encounter suits and could make you perceive them as angels (or whatnot).

>>82465995

Original guy here. I'm not saying that either. I'm saying that audience and YouTube/blog review discourse in the online sphere has influenced mainstream critics.

There are plenty of different criticisms to be made of comic book stuff. But like the guy I replied to >>82445722, I agree in that the bar has been set at a particular level for a while, and quite consistently. As more of this marvel stuff has come out, you've generally had to look elsewhere for harsher reviews - Age of Ultron got mostly praised in the mainstream and it's not that good.

I'm saying the mainstream critics are "catching up" with their independent counterparts a little, and that's where the
"soft negative criticisms to score reviewers critic points" is coming from.

I really enjoy Marvel Studios' output for the most part, I'm not a DC fan saying "paid for reviews!!" - I'm just saying public/online discourse has been influencing the state of things.

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>>82465816
>probably went a bit too far but fuck it

Why did this movie decide that trying to copy the first movie's formula of 20 slow motion walk scenes, lock and load montages, and pose-offs was a good idea?

>>82460847
Pretty sure he just modelled himself on his idea of what a perfect lifeform would look like. Every sentient race in MCU is more or less a person in prosthetics or with silly colored skin anyway so it isnt a stretch to imagine he just picked the standard and rolled the dice and came out looking human.

So is Yondu's first mate going to be part of the Guardians or was the credit scene just a gag?

>>82466676
wat

>>82466834
He played by James Gunn's brother so I wouldn't bet against it.

t b h I thought this flick was really weak in every department.

>>82467061
I disagree tbqhwyfam

>>82466834
>>82466919
Well, he did call Peter "captain", so I guess he'll stick around, even he doesn't go into battles.

>>82435180
>Winter Soldier and GotG are the best MCU flicks
>Both sequels are mediocre
Why is life suffering?

Also did anyone else see it in a theater with a dead quiet audience barely laughing at the jokes?

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>>82467127

>>82435180
The whole thing felt like a fucking Family Guy episode.

>Peetah, I can't believe ya dad's a planet!
>Ya think that's bad? It's better than the time I pretended my dad was David Hasslehoff!

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>>82435180
I marked the fuck out in the post-credits scene with "Adam" because I thought it was teasing Terrigen when she said "created life" and then when she said Adam I thought it was Adam Bllackveil and the gold people were supposed to be Ex Nihilo and the Gardeners but it was just a shitty fan service for Adam Warlock

>>82467282
I don't think it's just fan service. Gunn has said he'll be part of the Marvel cosmic universe in the future, probably in Vol. 3 which he's already writing.

>>82436137
HOLY SHIT THAT CGI IS SO REALISTIC

>>82443242
To be honest, I only wanna see Infinity War for the GotG

So how are they gonna beat Thanos in Infinity War? I'd like to see them set up the Inhumans beforehand and they could introduce Thane, otherwise it should be Nebula who forms the team to kill him like in the ongoing.

>>82464932
Gamora was dying during her open space trip. That's why Peter gave her his mask. Without it, she'd have been as much toast as Yondu. And thanks to GotG2 we learned that Peter, at the time of GotG1 war basically an immortal demigod, so his space trip wouldn't have killed him, no matter what, though he didn't know it at the time. Makes perfect sense.

>>82467282
fuck you nigger, i wanted adam warlock in since first one

>>82462519
>or Ego is really that much of an alien being lacking empathy
>Ego
You rode the short bus to school, huh

>>82467677
Not necessarily. Ego said he had to return to his home periodically or he'd die, or at least his avatar would. Since Pete doesn't have a planet body to fall back on he was as mortal in GOTG 1 as anyone.

>>82468247
Ego himself said that surviving holding an Infinity Stone was a clear indicator for Quill having godly properties. What's a bit of exposition to open space, compared to that?