Movie Critics Thread

[CBratron]

Definitely worth watching but I'll disagree with anyone saying this is better than The Avengers.

[i_amtrunks]

Loved Guardians, it gets very exposition heavy at points (especially after events have happened) but it is a rollickingly good film.

I think the best description would be Indiana Jones in Space, but even that does not do it justice.

Also it is easily Vin Diesel's most emotive and nuanced performance.

[Lord_Zed]

Guardians is a lot like the original Starwars, a fun sometimes cheesy space adventure with a likable band of misfits against a guy in black, set to a great soundtrack. I smiled from end to end.

It's a different beast to Avengers, but they both make solid claims for top Marvel studios film.

Also it is easily Vin Diesel's most emotive and nuanced performance.

As long as you not counting The Iron Giant, then yup.

[Sharky]

Also it is easily Vin Diesel's most emotive and nuanced performance.

I AM GROOT!!

loved the film

it is a much different movie to avenger in the same instance that GOTG and Avengers Comics are Different.. Avengers only worry about Earth... the Gaurdians stop everything else Earth doesnt know about.....and i must say it easily craps all over AOE and one of the best movies i have seen this year, will need to watch winter soldier again in a couple of weeks to see which takes out my top movie of the year

would see it again in a heartbeat..

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i wonder if we will se more of Cosmo and Knowhere

[Paulbot]

Everything about this film was good but I wasn't wowed by it. Some external factors including illness might be in play here though. It was a good story, good action, amusing, well cast. Rocket and Groot were both great and convincing as cgi main characters which was a worry going in. Enough connections to the existing Marvel movies that it still felt part of the overall story, but I kind of think that the Marvel galactic Universe still needs a bit more fleshing out and it's a bit of a shame that vast parts of it (Skrulls, Shi'ar, Phalanx, Brood, Galactus) can't be part of it due to those pesky film rights.

Spoilery bit. I thought the cameo at the end of the credits was fantastic and totally unexpected. As soon as I saw it I started uncontrollably laughing out loud. But I think it's one for the die-hard Marvel fans because the rest of the audience was dead quiet, making me a little self-conscious - but it was a much needed belly laugh.

[Sharky]

Spoilery bit. .

i to loved the end bit so much so i re purchased the subjects movie

[The_Damned]

i didnt even know he was a marvel character......

[klystron]

I really enjoyed this movie. Much more than I originally thought I would given that I never branched into this 'realm' of Marvel comics much.
Easily my favourite Marvel movie since Iron Man 1.
Leagues better than AoE, which kind of annoys me. Guardian/Avenger type fans get these fantastic movies while TF fans get lame-ass shitfests in comparison. So unfair. Imma go pout in the corner.
Movies like GotG prove that popcorn special effect style movies can be good and enjoyable, meaning we shouldn't have use the "turn your brain off, its just a action movie" argument excuse. Which I did use for AoE. And in hindsight, should probably stop doing. Using this excuse allows moviemakers to serve us up second rate action/popcorn flicks. I think we can demand more for our movie dollar. Ooops, little off-topic there...
I highly recommend you go see this movie.

[Autocon]

Spoilery bit. I thought the cameo at the end of the credits was fantastic and totally unexpected. As soon as I saw it I started uncontrollably laughing out loud. But I think it's one for the die-hard Marvel fans because the rest of the audience was dead quiet, making me a little self-conscious - but it was a much needed belly laugh.

What was it? Second time I have left the cinema missing the bonus scene!!!!

[Lint]

Everything about this film was good but I wasn't wowed by it. Some external factors including illness might be in play here though. It was a good story, good action, amusing, well cast. Rocket and Groot were both great and convincing as cgi main characters which was a worry going in. Enough connections to the existing Marvel movies that it still felt part of the overall story, but I kind of think that the Marvel galactic Universe still needs a bit more fleshing out and it's a bit of a shame that vast parts of it (Skrulls, Shi'ar, Phalanx, Brood, Galactus) can't be part of it due to those pesky film rights.

I was in perfect health and felt the same way. Everything was awesome but it never really kept the tempo up, threw in any genuine thrills/surprises or escalated the tension to have me at the edge of my seat. Basically although I liked just about everything: no WOW factor.

Compared to the Avengers I think they did a lot better job of characterisation. There was a lot more character to character interaction and I think they had a lot more freedom to flesh out the characters by not having to stick so closely to the source material. The main cast in GotG are far more human (despite being mostly alien ) and make the Avengers look 2-dimensional in character.