Guardians of the Galaxy
Okay, so this movie was amaaaaazing and pretty much exactly what I had been dreaming it would be.
Keep in mind that I may be a little biased here.
What I knew about it going in: It involved (more or less) the GotG v2 team, there was an Infinity Gem (Infinity Stone, whatever, why aren't they gems in MCU?), Ronan was the main villain, the Nova Corps was there, Cosmo was there (yes, I believe in spoiling myself), and the soundtrack was full of everything I loved as a small child in the late 80s because when I was a small child I only listened to pop hits my dad loved from the 70s. Like, seriously, when we first got Napster in whenever year that was, my dad made me download "I'm Not in Love" for him.
(Judging by Peter Quill's emotional attachment to the soundtrack, I am apparently the exact target audience for this. I can only hope that it is playing well to the younger members of fandom who might not have heard of any of these songs at all. Also "Hooked on a Feeling" has been stuck in my head for the past eight hours.)
I binge-read all of new Cosmic Marvel a couple weeks ago (this order, except I stopped reading it after Thanos Imperative and went on to read a couple issues of Avengers Assemble and all of GotG v3 so far and I can't figure out how Richard and Peter are alive again because last I checked they'd sealed themselves in the dying Cancerverse, but whatever, comics), which may not have been the best decision. On the one hand, it meant I knew the characters and setting really well, but on the other hand, I kept thinking things like "well, of course Groot's going to come back, because they do that thing where they regrow a cutting of him like eight times" and "goddammit which Infinity Gem is the purple one." (Answer: Space Gem.) [ETA: Uh, apparently in the MCU this one's the Power Gem. I guess the colors don't match up.]
But, hey, it turned out new Cosmic Marvel was really good, and if that meant I spent the movie thinking "But Drax has a daughter! His daughter is Moondragon!" then I guess that is a small price to pay. (I don't think Marvel is going to give me my queer space dragon girlfriends in GotG 2, sadly. Boo.) And no Richard Rider, either! Not that I really want Xandar to be destroyed, but I would watch a movie that was two hours of Worldmind yelling RICHARD, NO as he zooms through space being dangerous. I understand I may not be the best judge, though.
Anyway. Right. The movie. I think Rocket and Groot basically stole the show, and by that I mean mostly Groot. Groot! Though I will admit that the bit where Drax doesn't understand metaphor enlivened what I'd been thinking was basically a boring character. It was funny. They were all funny. Yes, I know this was the point. But I actually thought it was funny, and Hollywood comedies don't usually make me laugh. Sadly I do not think it passed Bechdel as Gamora and Nebula were probably arguing about Ronan while fighting. They were both pretty awesome, though.
And, yes, Peter was the right combination of badass and funny. (I had been trying to explain that Starkquill was apparently The New 616 Hotness based on GotG v3 and Tony having a thing for blonds, and the first thing
lysimache said to me, as the movie ended, was "Why does anyone ship Starkquill? They're exactly the same person!") And I can kind of see that at least for MCU, but, hey, I like them both anyway. Possibly I just like that character type. Whatever.
Also yay space opera! Pew pew lasers! I think my favorite sequence was the prison escape.
Minuses: Cosmo has no speaking part. Although I guess Cosmo licking the Collector's face in the post-credits scene is pretty funny. I'm not so much, uh, a Howard the Duck fan. Maybe Cosmo can talk in GotG2! Maybe we can have Phyla-Vell and Moondragon hahaha no. Maybe we can have Cancerverse? Cancerverse would be fun. Although you'd really want the Avengers to play the Revengers (well, I would) and that might be an impossibly large cameo.
Anyway, it was a really fun (and funny) space movie and it was pretty much exactly what I wanted from it and I may be sitting here in a Stark Industries shirt listening to Awesome Mix vol 1 right now. (I couldn't figure out where "Spirit in the Sky" actually appeared in the movie.)
Also Groooooooot. And Rocket! But Groot!
So, yeah, you should see it.
In case you want to watch some vids about characters in the rest of the MCU and you want them to be shiny new recent songvids, this is me recommending the hell out of
gwyn's Captain America vid Orange Crush (I know, I know, you wouldn't think the song works, but it really really does) and
lilly_the_kid's Iron Man vid Oh No (possibly the most MCU!Tony song ever to exist). So you should watch those too.
Hooray hooray MCU!
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Keep in mind that I may be a little biased here.
What I knew about it going in: It involved (more or less) the GotG v2 team, there was an Infinity Gem (Infinity Stone, whatever, why aren't they gems in MCU?), Ronan was the main villain, the Nova Corps was there, Cosmo was there (yes, I believe in spoiling myself), and the soundtrack was full of everything I loved as a small child in the late 80s because when I was a small child I only listened to pop hits my dad loved from the 70s. Like, seriously, when we first got Napster in whenever year that was, my dad made me download "I'm Not in Love" for him.
(Judging by Peter Quill's emotional attachment to the soundtrack, I am apparently the exact target audience for this. I can only hope that it is playing well to the younger members of fandom who might not have heard of any of these songs at all. Also "Hooked on a Feeling" has been stuck in my head for the past eight hours.)
I binge-read all of new Cosmic Marvel a couple weeks ago (this order, except I stopped reading it after Thanos Imperative and went on to read a couple issues of Avengers Assemble and all of GotG v3 so far and I can't figure out how Richard and Peter are alive again because last I checked they'd sealed themselves in the dying Cancerverse, but whatever, comics), which may not have been the best decision. On the one hand, it meant I knew the characters and setting really well, but on the other hand, I kept thinking things like "well, of course Groot's going to come back, because they do that thing where they regrow a cutting of him like eight times" and "goddammit which Infinity Gem is the purple one." (Answer: Space Gem.) [ETA: Uh, apparently in the MCU this one's the Power Gem. I guess the colors don't match up.]
But, hey, it turned out new Cosmic Marvel was really good, and if that meant I spent the movie thinking "But Drax has a daughter! His daughter is Moondragon!" then I guess that is a small price to pay. (I don't think Marvel is going to give me my queer space dragon girlfriends in GotG 2, sadly. Boo.) And no Richard Rider, either! Not that I really want Xandar to be destroyed, but I would watch a movie that was two hours of Worldmind yelling RICHARD, NO as he zooms through space being dangerous. I understand I may not be the best judge, though.
Anyway. Right. The movie. I think Rocket and Groot basically stole the show, and by that I mean mostly Groot. Groot! Though I will admit that the bit where Drax doesn't understand metaphor enlivened what I'd been thinking was basically a boring character. It was funny. They were all funny. Yes, I know this was the point. But I actually thought it was funny, and Hollywood comedies don't usually make me laugh. Sadly I do not think it passed Bechdel as Gamora and Nebula were probably arguing about Ronan while fighting. They were both pretty awesome, though.
And, yes, Peter was the right combination of badass and funny. (I had been trying to explain that Starkquill was apparently The New 616 Hotness based on GotG v3 and Tony having a thing for blonds, and the first thing
lysimache said to me, as the movie ended, was "Why does anyone ship Starkquill? They're exactly the same person!") And I can kind of see that at least for MCU, but, hey, I like them both anyway. Possibly I just like that character type. Whatever.
Also yay space opera! Pew pew lasers! I think my favorite sequence was the prison escape.
Minuses: Cosmo has no speaking part. Although I guess Cosmo licking the Collector's face in the post-credits scene is pretty funny. I'm not so much, uh, a Howard the Duck fan. Maybe Cosmo can talk in GotG2! Maybe we can have Phyla-Vell and Moondragon hahaha no. Maybe we can have Cancerverse? Cancerverse would be fun. Although you'd really want the Avengers to play the Revengers (well, I would) and that might be an impossibly large cameo.
Anyway, it was a really fun (and funny) space movie and it was pretty much exactly what I wanted from it and I may be sitting here in a Stark Industries shirt listening to Awesome Mix vol 1 right now. (I couldn't figure out where "Spirit in the Sky" actually appeared in the movie.)
Also Groooooooot. And Rocket! But Groot!
So, yeah, you should see it.
In case you want to watch some vids about characters in the rest of the MCU and you want them to be shiny new recent songvids, this is me recommending the hell out of
gwyn's Captain America vid Orange Crush (I know, I know, you wouldn't think the song works, but it really really does) and
lilly_the_kid's Iron Man vid Oh No (possibly the most MCU!Tony song ever to exist). So you should watch those too.
Hooray hooray MCU!
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