Marvels Guardians of the Galaxy
Discussion
Saw it last night and thought it was fantastic, the whole cinema laughed, cheered and was quiet through the whole film.
It really is the star wars for this generation and coming into it as a complete unknown the story worked well and was easy to follow and remember names.
Thanos is ace, Lee Pace seems to have a thing for playing immortal dickish bad guys and Karen Gillian was ace as Gamora.
Want to go and see it again now
Roll on Avengers 2
It really is the star wars for this generation and coming into it as a complete unknown the story worked well and was easy to follow and remember names.
Thanos is ace, Lee Pace seems to have a thing for playing immortal dickish bad guys and Karen Gillian was ace as Gamora.
Want to go and see it again now
Roll on Avengers 2
Moonhawk said:
Saw it last night.....pretty good movie overall and very funny.
One minor thing that did annoy me however......why did they keep using "a-hole". There were plenty of other minor swear words in the movie - so why denature this one? If you are going to swear - at least do it properly.
I kinda see your spoiler point but I actually found the way they said the word funny, real emphasis on the "A". Made it feel like it was a lived in and well used insult in that universe to me? I did love the almost use of "what the f..." after the explosion from the stone in the collectors place. Again, made the universe feel more 'lived in' that they actually do swear.One minor thing that did annoy me however......why did they keep using "a-hole". There were plenty of other minor swear words in the movie - so why denature this one? If you are going to swear - at least do it properly.
However... I think it has slighty more to do with the ratings though
I think the word s
t is acceptable in PG-13, but in the USA certain words are not allowed at all. I think ahole is one of them (along with the F-bomb). Use it and your movie instantly jumps up a rating.For example I think you are currently allowed one use of the word f
k in a 15 movie, anymore than one and it becomes 18 rated. Could well be the case on PG-13 rating stew-S160 said:
DJRC said:
I liked the way The Animal did Drax. A very literal take meant he could play him quite straight and a dry sense of humour suited. Very bulked rather than the usual cut up Bautista.
I liked his role too. I think the bulk may have been costume/make up.He bulked up for the role...
He is a frakin HUGE bloke and he got even bigger for the movie!!!
Civpilot said:
Nope.
He bulked up for the role...
He is a frakin HUGE bloke and he got even bigger for the movie!!!
yeah - apparently he is virtually 6'5" and as we can see he is mahoooosive! Amusingly enough he was also in Riddick, which I watched a couple of days ago and Man with the Iron Fists which I'm currently watching. Dude is BIGHe bulked up for the role...
He is a frakin HUGE bloke and he got even bigger for the movie!!!
Saw it this morning, and it was good, but not great.
The script - such as it was - was very clunky. The junctions between Acts were so obvious, they were jarring, and the action scenes were so differentiated from the character building / plot exposition stuff (which had an early-nineties written after the action scenes feel to it...) that the whole thing had, shall we say, an inconsistent pacing.
I mean, perhaps I struggled because I'm not familiar with the whole Marvel universe, but although I could at least read the cues that the "good city" was good because everything was white and clean, but why did it matter that it needed to be saved? That was my refrain all the way through: why does all of this matter?
On the characterisation front, I think the film was far more successful in the pre-credit scene in building a relationship between 'Star Lord' and xxx than in the rest of the film - I just didn't see any empathy building between any of the main characters. The closest they got was Rocket actually being able to recognise what Groot was saying in his various "I am Groot" utterances at the start of the third Act.
The theme of family was a nice premise - almost every character including the badies, the not-so-badies (think about it), and the goodies all had a unique angle on notions of family in some way, but it was underdeveloped - it would have been a great starting point for building relationships between the main characters, but it just wasn't used.
The action was good and the gfx and set design were outstanding (apart from the gfx people in the city scenes), but it just didn't make me care about any of it.
The guy from Pushing Up Daises was very good. However, every time Peter Serafinowicz came on I couldn't stop thinking - that's Peter Serafinowicz! And did anyone notice the vocoding effect on Karen Gillan's voice to hide her accent? They seemed to give up doing it after the first Act!
The script - such as it was - was very clunky. The junctions between Acts were so obvious, they were jarring, and the action scenes were so differentiated from the character building / plot exposition stuff (which had an early-nineties written after the action scenes feel to it...) that the whole thing had, shall we say, an inconsistent pacing.
I mean, perhaps I struggled because I'm not familiar with the whole Marvel universe, but although I could at least read the cues that the "good city" was good because everything was white and clean, but why did it matter that it needed to be saved? That was my refrain all the way through: why does all of this matter?
On the characterisation front, I think the film was far more successful in the pre-credit scene in building a relationship between 'Star Lord' and xxx than in the rest of the film - I just didn't see any empathy building between any of the main characters. The closest they got was Rocket actually being able to recognise what Groot was saying in his various "I am Groot" utterances at the start of the third Act.
The theme of family was a nice premise - almost every character including the badies, the not-so-badies (think about it), and the goodies all had a unique angle on notions of family in some way, but it was underdeveloped - it would have been a great starting point for building relationships between the main characters, but it just wasn't used.
The action was good and the gfx and set design were outstanding (apart from the gfx people in the city scenes), but it just didn't make me care about any of it.
The guy from Pushing Up Daises was very good. However, every time Peter Serafinowicz came on I couldn't stop thinking - that's Peter Serafinowicz! And did anyone notice the vocoding effect on Karen Gillan's voice to hide her accent? They seemed to give up doing it after the first Act!
Halb said:
Dave is about 6'2, looking at his weight, I'd guess at around 300.
Low bodyfat.
weird IMDB has him @ 6'4.5"Low bodyfat.
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1176985/bio?ref_=nm_ov_...
Halb said:
Dave is about 6'2, looking at his weight, I'd guess at around 300.
Low bodyfat.
I think his body fat might be bigger than normal for this. He is seriously built in his normal "Animal" mode, but massively cut. He carries very little fat on him in fighting trim, for this he is less cut but bulkier, so I suspect has gone muscle mass and less shaping.Low bodyfat.
dxg said:
Saw it this morning, and it was good, but not great.
The script - such as it was - was very clunky. The junctions between Acts were so obvious, they were jarring, and the action scenes were so differentiated from the character building / plot exposition stuff (which had an early-nineties written after the action scenes feel to it...) that the whole thing had, shall we say, an inconsistent pacing.
I mean, perhaps I struggled because I'm not familiar with the whole Marvel universe, but although I could at least read the cues that the "good city" was good because everything was white and clean, but why did it matter that it needed to be saved? That was my refrain all the way through: why does all of this matter?
On the characterisation front, I think the film was far more successful in the pre-credit scene in building a relationship between 'Star Lord' and xxx than in the rest of the film - I just didn't see any empathy building between any of the main characters. The closest they got was Rocket actually being able to recognise what Groot was saying in his various "I am Groot" utterances at the start of the third Act.
The theme of family was a nice premise - almost every character including the badies, the not-so-badies (think about it), and the goodies all had a unique angle on notions of family in some way, but it was underdeveloped - it would have been a great starting point for building relationships between the main characters, but it just wasn't used.
The action was good and the gfx and set design were outstanding (apart from the gfx people in the city scenes), but it just didn't make me care about any of it.
The guy from Pushing Up Daises was very good. However, every time Peter Serafinowicz came on I couldn't stop thinking - that's Peter Serafinowicz! And did anyone notice the vocoding effect on Karen Gillan's voice to hide her accent? They seemed to give up doing it after the first Act!
A. Wtf is the "the guy from Pushing up Daisies" ?The script - such as it was - was very clunky. The junctions between Acts were so obvious, they were jarring, and the action scenes were so differentiated from the character building / plot exposition stuff (which had an early-nineties written after the action scenes feel to it...) that the whole thing had, shall we say, an inconsistent pacing.
I mean, perhaps I struggled because I'm not familiar with the whole Marvel universe, but although I could at least read the cues that the "good city" was good because everything was white and clean, but why did it matter that it needed to be saved? That was my refrain all the way through: why does all of this matter?
On the characterisation front, I think the film was far more successful in the pre-credit scene in building a relationship between 'Star Lord' and xxx than in the rest of the film - I just didn't see any empathy building between any of the main characters. The closest they got was Rocket actually being able to recognise what Groot was saying in his various "I am Groot" utterances at the start of the third Act.
The theme of family was a nice premise - almost every character including the badies, the not-so-badies (think about it), and the goodies all had a unique angle on notions of family in some way, but it was underdeveloped - it would have been a great starting point for building relationships between the main characters, but it just wasn't used.
The action was good and the gfx and set design were outstanding (apart from the gfx people in the city scenes), but it just didn't make me care about any of it.
The guy from Pushing Up Daises was very good. However, every time Peter Serafinowicz came on I couldn't stop thinking - that's Peter Serafinowicz! And did anyone notice the vocoding effect on Karen Gillan's voice to hide her accent? They seemed to give up doing it after the first Act!
B. Wtf is Peter polish name bloke. ie. which bloody character is he!! Don't just say the actors name ffs! Context!
C. What the buggery is vocoding? If you are going to sound like a smug superior movie technical geek at least give us a reason why we should think you are worthy of being a smug superior movie technical geek.
But apart from those minor points...wtf are you on about? Its a Star Wars humour action flick. It doesn't have characterisation. It doesn't have Acts. It doesn't have plot exposition. It doesn't have empathy. It has humour and silliness and feel good factor.
And this comes from me who spent the entire of Captain America 2 asking wtf is all this s
t on about?!DJRC said:
A. Wtf is the "the guy from Pushing up Daisies" ?
B. Wtf is Peter polish name bloke. ie. which bloody character is he!! Don't just say the actors name ffs! Context!
C. What the buggery is vocoding? If you are going to sound like a smug superior movie technical geek at least give us a reason why we should think you are worthy of being a smug superior movie technical geek.
But apart from those minor points...wtf are you on about? Its a Star Wars humour action flick. It doesn't have characterisation. It doesn't have Acts. It doesn't have plot exposition. It doesn't have empathy. It has humour and silliness and feel good factor.
And this comes from me who spent the entire of Captain America 2 asking wtf is all this st on about?!
Wow - someone rubbed you up the wrong way. B. Wtf is Peter polish name bloke. ie. which bloody character is he!! Don't just say the actors name ffs! Context!
C. What the buggery is vocoding? If you are going to sound like a smug superior movie technical geek at least give us a reason why we should think you are worthy of being a smug superior movie technical geek.
But apart from those minor points...wtf are you on about? Its a Star Wars humour action flick. It doesn't have characterisation. It doesn't have Acts. It doesn't have plot exposition. It doesn't have empathy. It has humour and silliness and feel good factor.
And this comes from me who spent the entire of Captain America 2 asking wtf is all this s
t on about?!Okay, how about this more practical critique:
If we assume that lead character had tracked down and installed an alternative power supply for his Walkman, how did the tape survive being listened to so many times?
DJRC said:
A. Wtf is the "the guy from Pushing up Daisies" ?
B. Wtf is Peter polish name bloke. ie. which bloody character is he!! Don't just say the actors name ffs! Context!
C. What the buggery is vocoding? If you are going to sound like a smug superior movie technical geek at least give us a reason why we should think you are worthy of being a smug superior movie technical geek.
But apart from those minor points...wtf are you on about? Its a Star Wars humour action flick. It doesn't have characterisation. It doesn't have Acts. It doesn't have plot exposition. It doesn't have empathy. It has humour and silliness and feel good factor.
And this comes from me who spent the entire of Captain America 2 asking wtf is all this st on about?!
Most of the time you post a lot of nonsense but I'm with you 100% on this. B. Wtf is Peter polish name bloke. ie. which bloody character is he!! Don't just say the actors name ffs! Context!
C. What the buggery is vocoding? If you are going to sound like a smug superior movie technical geek at least give us a reason why we should think you are worthy of being a smug superior movie technical geek.
But apart from those minor points...wtf are you on about? Its a Star Wars humour action flick. It doesn't have characterisation. It doesn't have Acts. It doesn't have plot exposition. It doesn't have empathy. It has humour and silliness and feel good factor.
And this comes from me who spent the entire of Captain America 2 asking wtf is all this s
t on about?!Although I did think it had a bit of a plot, some character development and a whole lot of silliness and humour
dxg said:
Wow - someone rubbed you up the wrong way.
Okay, how about this more practical critique:
If we assume that lead character had tracked down and installed an alternative power supply for his Walkman, how did the tape survive being listened to so many times?
Any kind of future technology could explain this .... Perhaps he's had the tape replicated in some fancy machine.....Okay, how about this more practical critique:
If we assume that lead character had tracked down and installed an alternative power supply for his Walkman, how did the tape survive being listened to so many times?
( one of those double tape decks.... It's th future dude..... )
irocfan said:
weird IMDB has him @ 6'4.5"
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1176985/bio?ref_=nm_ov_...
Wrestlers often inflate, sometimes it can be up to 7 inches.http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1176985/bio?ref_=nm_ov_...
Celeb heights has got his height.
dxg said:
DJRC said:
A. Wtf is the "the guy from Pushing up Daisies" ?
B. Wtf is Peter polish name bloke. ie. which bloody character is he!! Don't just say the actors name ffs! Context!
C. What the buggery is vocoding? If you are going to sound like a smug superior movie technical geek at least give us a reason why we should think you are worthy of being a smug superior movie technical geek.
But apart from those minor points...wtf are you on about? Its a Star Wars humour action flick. It doesn't have characterisation. It doesn't have Acts. It doesn't have plot exposition. It doesn't have empathy. It has humour and silliness and feel good factor.
And this comes from me who spent the entire of Captain America 2 asking wtf is all this st on about?!
Wow - someone rubbed you up the wrong way. B. Wtf is Peter polish name bloke. ie. which bloody character is he!! Don't just say the actors name ffs! Context!
C. What the buggery is vocoding? If you are going to sound like a smug superior movie technical geek at least give us a reason why we should think you are worthy of being a smug superior movie technical geek.
But apart from those minor points...wtf are you on about? Its a Star Wars humour action flick. It doesn't have characterisation. It doesn't have Acts. It doesn't have plot exposition. It doesn't have empathy. It has humour and silliness and feel good factor.
And this comes from me who spent the entire of Captain America 2 asking wtf is all this s
t on about?!Okay, how about this more practical critique:
If we assume that lead character had tracked down and installed an alternative power supply for his Walkman, how did the tape survive being listened to so many times?
king mechanics of his working tape deck or the cassette should be shot at dawn for being too dreary to be allowed on the same planet as the rest of us.DJRC said:
dxg said:
DJRC said:
A. Wtf is the "the guy from Pushing up Daisies" ?
B. Wtf is Peter polish name bloke. ie. which bloody character is he!! Don't just say the actors name ffs! Context!
C. What the buggery is vocoding? If you are going to sound like a smug superior movie technical geek at least give us a reason why we should think you are worthy of being a smug superior movie technical geek.
But apart from those minor points...wtf are you on about? Its a Star Wars humour action flick. It doesn't have characterisation. It doesn't have Acts. It doesn't have plot exposition. It doesn't have empathy. It has humour and silliness and feel good factor.
And this comes from me who spent the entire of Captain America 2 asking wtf is all this st on about?!
Wow - someone rubbed you up the wrong way. B. Wtf is Peter polish name bloke. ie. which bloody character is he!! Don't just say the actors name ffs! Context!
C. What the buggery is vocoding? If you are going to sound like a smug superior movie technical geek at least give us a reason why we should think you are worthy of being a smug superior movie technical geek.
But apart from those minor points...wtf are you on about? Its a Star Wars humour action flick. It doesn't have characterisation. It doesn't have Acts. It doesn't have plot exposition. It doesn't have empathy. It has humour and silliness and feel good factor.
And this comes from me who spent the entire of Captain America 2 asking wtf is all this s
t on about?!Okay, how about this more practical critique:
If we assume that lead character had tracked down and installed an alternative power supply for his Walkman, how did the tape survive being listened to so many times?
king mechanics of his working tape deck or the cassette should be shot at dawn for being too dreary to be allowed on the same planet as the rest of us.
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