Guardians of the Galaxy!

[silverflight8]

I was originally not going to see this film, but a friend texted me to ask if I wanted to see it, so I thought why not? I'm so glad I didn't look up spoilers now!

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[egelantier]

there's some really, really pretty art floating around on tumblr, especially wrt groot and rocket. and fandom is shaping up pretty nicely.

i think the thing that worked most for me was how the movie was all action/adventure/comedy fun, but there was all this darker violence and tragedy just pulsing underneath - it makes for surprising... not depth, precisely, but three-dimensional space. one doesn't have to access it, but it's always there.

[silverflight8]

Any recs? Is there an art tag that can be publicly browsed? Still haven't made a tumblr account.

Yeah, I think the movie skated just above some really dark stuff. Apocalyptic scenarios are common but what stuck out to me was scenes with Yondu, how he seems to balance on the edge between false cheer and ready to kill. (Then the ending with him laughing at the Infinity Stone changed that though). The whole Thanos thing is building too, and the whole Collector slowly acquiring more pieces. (Though I loved seeing the dog. I actually thought it was Laika herself or I guess a descendant [yikes she went up in 1957, that's more than half a century].)

[egelantier]

i do, in fact, have recs :D

i'm pretty sure tumblr just doesn't let you browse until you make an account, though :(

i've kind of twigged on yondu being not quite the dread pirate he presents himself as when he went like, i'm totally going to kill you, peter! right this second! absolutely killing you now! ...unless you want me as backup against one of the most dangerous dudes in galaxy, on a flimsy pretext. okay then.

i was also sure the dog is laika! but no, it's some kind of reference comics dog. and man, i'm so disappointed that collector made it because a) poor karina, and b) this dude is the creepiest in the whole franchise.

[egelantier]

...wait, you meant art recs, my bad. here's just a handful, i haven't gone hunting for anything with intent:

http://egelantier.tumblr.com/post/95149899153/zzigae-i-am-groot
http://egelantier.tumblr.com/post/95097057773/paticmak-walkman-adventures-in-the-galaxy
http://egelantier.tumblr.com/post/95081089324/wetrilo-well-i-am-groot
http://egelantier.tumblr.com/post/95000000322/starfuckery-now-hrmmm-dont-be-hasty

[fiddlingfrog]

Goot is okay, don't worry too much. The whole exploding/regrowing things tends to happen to him in other appearances.

[silverflight8]

Frog Thor! :DDD

Oh, I'm glad to hear that.

[gothrockrulz]

Yay, glad you enjoyed it!

Which isn't to say they worked; I cried not five minutes into the movie, because parent sadness is my personal instant waterworks (IDK), but I was crying and feeling ridiculous and manipulated because c'mon, mother dies of cancer plotline? Really? Can't you think of something, anything less emotionally manipulative?

Oh, yeah. HATED that part, because I'm sensitive when it comes to mothers dying (one of my personal biggest fears). Can't imagine what it must have been like for somebody who actually had lost or almost lost a loved one to cancer. Thank goodness they had the fun scenes right after it with Starlord singing to music with wamp rats. :D

I assumed it was, indeed, the same Groot, but I might be wrong. Space plants should be able to re-grow themselves, right? :D

[silverflight8]

Yeah, I don't actually have any trauma about this, it just always hits me really hard. Maybe it's because I moved away, I don't know.

That was one of the best parts for me--having the music completely change the mood of the scenes!

Oh, good. I want to see Groot be his old self in the next movie. And yes! He can walk, he can pull matter out of nowhere to make himself bigger, he can totally recover.

[dhampyresa]

You know, I think the plotline with Peter's mom and her tape would have made more sense if Peter had bolted when she asked him to take her hand and hadn't seen her died.

Glad you liked the movie, though!

[silverflight8]

I think the whole scene was ott, honestly! Not having to watch Peter stare at his mother unable to take her hand would have improved things though.

:)