Just got back into the states yesterday. Will go see today. Looks like it is going over well at the box office...

http://boxofficemojo.com/yearly/chart/?yr=2014&p=.htm

I usually hit matinee movies because they are cheap and often no more than 2 dozen others in the theater. Went to the closer movie house that has awesome leather reclining seats and good sound. Sadly, it was sold out (except for the front row, they now do reserved seating). This was a 10:40AM showing.

WTF?!?!

A sold out showing before noon of a movie that's been out for 3 weeks?! Again, WTF?! Ended up seeing it in IMAX 3D (or what passes for IMAX outside of museums these days).

Movie was awesome. Absolutely loved it. Easily top 3 of all Marvel movies IMO. Arguably #1 for me, based on the fact that I love space based stories. The cosmic stories are more fun for me, so I easily enjoyed this movie over the others. Admittedly, CA2 was the more polished movie, but GotG was the most fun for me. I will likely see this again. In 2D this time. Super high expectations for GotG2.

Only thing I didn't like was Pace's portrayal of Ronan. Was very flat to me.

Anyone recognize Nathan Fillion? I didn't. Had to look it up.

I didn't mind Ronan. My biggest problem with the movie is Merle.

Also, this might explain why it's sold out:

http://boxofficemojo.com/yearly/chart/?yr=2014&p=.htm

It's going to easily pass Captain America 2, I would think.

Absolutely. He took me out of the moment every time he and his so-out-of-place southern drawl showed up.

I really don't mind the southern drawl. It is associated with being out of your element, dirty, children of the corn-ish. I don't feel that way, at all. But it happens all the time in movies. Want the audience to feel unsettled? Throw some scuzzy mother****er out there with a drawl.

Happens all the time in cinema. I'm not sure why people are bitching now.

I didn't mind Rooker as much as I expected to. Seemed like Gunn wrapped the Yondu character around the accent. Don't get me wrong, I could have done without the drawl, but at least the acting was appropriate for the character. And Rooker fits the stereotype you'd think of for the role. I stopped watching Walking Dead awhile back, so that probably helped too.

Ronan on the other hand, was just stiff. He also seemed rather effeminate. Not sure how to explain it. Kind of sad though, that they seemed to turn Ronan into a throw away plot device as a means to introduce Thanos. Can't wait for Thanos, but as disappointed as I was in Pace, I still love Ronan.

I assume that Ronan isn't DEAD dead, right? I mean, he plays a pretty big role in the galactic scope of the Marvel Universe....

I can't imagine permanently. How many characters have actually died in Marvel? 1? 2? Though I do think Marvel needs to get a few more stories out before introducing the fact that nobody ever dies.

Ronan is normally a good guy in the comics as well so they went pretty far outside of his character in the comics. In the comics he is extremely ideological, but not genocidal. I just read War of Kings and he is pretty central in that with the Kree/Inhumans fighting the Shi'Ar.

On a side note, for those that enjoy reading comics, Marvel Unlimited is a really good deal. It's like around $70 per year but you have online access to a shitload of comics, and quite a bit of recent stuff. So if you are like me and have a ton of catching up to do, it's not a bad deal.

They kill plenty of people off.


They just bring them back nearly every time. Which cheapens the whole story and lessens any character death from then on...

Thanos dies like every 15 minutes it seems like. But his story is all about wanting to die but Death not wanting to give him what he wants. So each time he comes back he is even more maniacal in trying to impress Death so she will actually let him die.

Well, that was pretty damn quick...

http://boxofficemojo.com/yearly/chart/?yr=2014&p=.htm

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</td></tr></tbody></table></td><td colspan="2" align="center">Total Gross / Theaters</td><td colspan="2" align="center">Opening / Theaters</td><td align="center">Open</td><td align="center">Close</td></tr><tr bgcolor="#ffffff"><td align="center">1</td><td>Guardians of the Galaxy</td><td>BV</td><td align="right">$262,142,000</td><td align="right">4,088</td><td align="right">$94,320,883</td><td align="right">4,080</td><td align="right">8/1</td><td align="right">-</td></tr><tr bgcolor="#f4f4ff"><td align="center">2</td><td>Captain America: The Winter Soldier</td><td>BV</td><td align="right">$259,766,572</td><td align="right">3,938</td><td align="right">$95,023,721</td><td align="right">3,938</td><td align="right">4/4</td><td align="right">8/21</td></tr><tr bgcolor="#ffffff"><td align="center">3</td><td>The LEGO Movie</td><td>WB</td><td align="right">$257,750,402</td><td align="right">3,890</td><td align="right">$69,050,279</td><td align="right">3,775</td><td align="right">2/7</td><td align="right">-</td></tr><tr bgcolor="#f4f4ff"><td align="center">4</td><td>Transformers: Age of Extinction</td><td>Par.</td><td align="right">$243,950,966</td><td align="right">4,233</td><td align="right">$100,038,390</td><td align="right">4,233</td><td align="right">6/27</td><td align="right">-</td></tr><tr bgcolor="#ffffff"><td align="center">5</td><td>Maleficent</td><td>BV</td><td align="right">$237,841,302</td><td align="right">3,948</td><td align="right">$69,431,298</td><td align="right">3,948</td><td align="right">5/30</td><td align="right">-</td></tr><tr bgcolor="#f4f4ff"><td align="center">6</td><td>X-Men: Days of Future Past</td><td>Fox</td><td align="right">$232,814,528</td><td align="right">4,001</td><td align="right">$90,823,660</td><td align="right">3,996</td><td align="right">5/23</td><td align="right">-</td></tr><tr bgcolor="#ffffff"><td align="center">7</td><td>Dawn of the Planet of the Apes</td><td>Fox</td><td align="right">$204,419,991</td><td align="right">3,969</td><td align="right">$72,611,427</td><td align="right">3,967</td><td align="right">7/11</td><td align="right">-</td></tr><tr bgcolor="#f4f4ff"><td align="center">8</td><td>The Amazing Spider-Man 2</td><td>Sony</td><td align="right">$202,853,933</td><td align="right">4,324</td><td align="right">$91,608,337</td><td align="right">4,324</td><td align="right">5/2</td><td align="right">8/17</td></tr><tr bgcolor="#ffffff"><td align="center">9</td><td>Godzilla (2014)</td><td>WB</td><td align="right">$200,672,193</td><td align="right">3,952</td><td align="right">$93,188,384</td><td align="right">3,952</td><td align="right">5/16</td><td align="right">-</td></tr><tr bgcolor="#f4f4ff"><td align="center">10</td><td>22 Jump Street</td><td>Sony</td><td align="right">$190,267,743</td><td align="right">3,426</td><td align="right">$57,071,445</td><td align="right">3,306</td><td align="right">6/13</td><td align="right">-</td></tr></tbody></table>

Pratt is dominating.

Pretty cool. At least the top 3 highest grossing movies of the year are legitimately great movies.

Anyone else think that GotG is going to get a Best Picture nod? Movies that are that enjoyable and praised tend to. Would be big deal for the comic book/sci-fi genre.

I think if Gravity got one, Guardians definitely should.

Saw it today. It was awesome. I had never heard of any of these characters before this movie came out

Lol, not a chance in hell. The Academy is WAY too high brow for comic book movies.

We'll see...

No, maybe CGI or special effects.

Best picture either has to be an acclaimed drama or some shit indy film that was in 35 theatres that no one saw to win.

It not just that there's no chance that a superhero movie gets a Best Picture nomination, it's that there's no chance that a summer popcorn movie gets a Best Picture nomination. I won't say there's zero chance, because they nominate ten or so movies now, most of which have no chance, but it would be a massive surprise.

Best Picture nominations tend to come out near the end of the year, but if there's anything out right now that has the inside track, it's probably Boyhood.

No.

Since they opened it up to 10 nominees, there are now usually 2 movies or so that were considered "mainstream commercial" hits that get nominated.

Im gonna say no though. This was a little to light hearted to be taken seriously. My guess is that Interstaller is a big hit and gets a nod.

They have a cereal of Guardians of the Galaxy.

This has been posted before.
But I like the explanation of how the death of superman killed comic book deaths toward the end.

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Transformers: Age of Extinction

Domestic Total as of Sep. 1, 2014: $244,431,000

I guess we can look forward to another peace of crap Tranformers movie in a couple of years.

It's already slated for 5 more. 4 is part 1 of 2nd trilogy, and then some sort of shift to the 3rd trilogy. Bay is overseeing it still, he's just not directing the next one at least, but hasn't ruled out coming back to direct one again.

I'd guess that if he did it'd be the 1st or last film of the 3rd trilogy?

It has been a while since I saw this. So funny. Love all the internet celebs playing the superheroes.

Original renderings of Drax's look when Momoa was slated to play him before dropping out of the film, only to be replaced by Bautista, and a very different look for his Drax in the film.

http://img.tapatalk.com/d/14/09/03/3ytahepa.jpg

I know Bautista caught some flack for his portrayal, but I enjoyed the way he played Drax. And physically he really pulled off looking like Drax.

I agree. I think he was much better than Momoa would have been.

I thought Bautista was fantastic as Drax. He can deliver those ridiculous deadpan lines with all seriousness.

I loved drax in the film.

I thought Bautista did a very good job- better than I would have guessed off the top of my head given his limited film roles.

As for anyone complaining about him or his performance, that's got to be a VERY vocal and infinitesimal minority.

I mean, really, how many people were major followers in comparison to the masses of people who saw it and either had no familiarity with the characters, or, at best, a vague recognition of their place within the Marvel universe?

So, seriously it's a bit hard to get critical of his portrayal of a character 99% of the people going into the movie had zero frame of reference to judge against it.

There was some nay-saying when Bautista was cast, but as far as I've seen the reaction to the actual performance has been unanimously positive.

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Interplanetary Unusual Attacking Team

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Soundtrack is free from the Google Playstore right now.

http://slickdeals.net/f/7380122-guar...nload-for-free

Fitting that this got bumped just now. I am watching this movie for the first time on my other monitor. Really much better than I expected. Very good movie. Especially considering I know nothing about the IP.

This may have been covered in this thread, but how the **** are they just goin out in space with just like clothes and bare hands and faces and not dying? Am I missing something or is it just a suspension of disbelief thing?

It's a turn your brain off thing.

Nice. Grabbed it.

You can live in space for a short period of time without dying. You don't really expand and some of the other stuff you see in some movies. If picked up fast enough things generally return back to normal at normal pressure for people exposed to a near vacuum environment.

Best not to think about it. Kind of like the question of how Thanos stays busy.

Same way he was able to hold the gem without going full mouse in a microwave...

Saw this with my wife. Loved it. I am at the point that I will watch anything James Gunn writes. I love his humor.

Watched this with my daughter the other day and all I could think was that was a rockin soundtrack. Perfect timing.

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ROFL. That is really hilarious.

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Available on iTunes now!

Anyone get the feeling that the voice actors in this worked real hard to get a South Park sound?

No

they have been doing this for awhile. You should check out the site.

I'm talking about the actual voice intonations. At times, I heard hints of Randy Marsh, and at others a bit of Mr. Garrison.

It wasn't intended as a criticism or to belittle their efforts. More along the lines of noting how many single camera confessional/mockumentary comedies have been developed since the BBC's The Office went to air.

If anything, it indicates they have a good comedic ear for identifying an essence of what makes those two characters inherently funny.

LMAO LMAO

Awwwwww. Little baby Groot was cute.

LMAO

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LMAO

Love their stuff!

lol @ dr. steve brule.

I just watched this on my new 3D TV. Loved it in 3D. Wished I would have seen it in the theater that way but unfortunately I watched it in 2D

I don't get steve brule

Don't get the reference, or don't get why the character is funny?

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Usually I love their stuff, but this one I could only make through the first five minutes. Probably mostly personal bias since I loved this movie. Stopped watching about where he's complaining about Drax not understanding the hand across the throat. Obviously a culturally ignorant comment if you just think about the differences in offensive hand signals across different groups of people. Also though the "police line up cliche" comment was reaching. I can't remember a movie I've seen like that since the 80's or 90's.

Saw it on IMAX 3D after i watched it in standard projection.

Yeah, It was worth the extra.

First movie I've seen twice in theaters since TDK.

I hate people who do "what xyz did wrong" type of videos. Its a movie.. suspend disbelief and stfu

A lot of people are complaining about CinemaSins. Their videos are getting longer and longer and less and less funny. I think it means they get more ad revenue with longer videos. Seriously, their Transformers 4 video was like 40 minutes long. That channel is more "here is a plot summary of the movie" than a real critique. Seeing how terrible its sister channels are, you can see they have completely lost their way. I am close to unsubscribing.

At least with the HISHE video about Guardians, they openly admitted at the beginning that they were mostly reaching because they loved the movie. That made their video much more enjoyable.

I haven't watched a Cinema Sins video in a while, but when I saw this one was 15 minutes I did a double take. I can't imagine I'll be watching these too often in the future. They used to be awesome.

HISHE and Honest Trailers both made fun of the movie and both were hilarious. After watching them again, I feel better knowing it's not just my love of GotG coloring my judgement of Cinema Sins. :)

"Because **** you, we're Marvel. That's Why. Whadda you gonna do, watch DC?!"

Just in case anyone thought Disney would shy away from violence with Marvel...

http://www.ign.com/articles/2016/10/...-deaths-record

Not true. TFA took out a few planets just last year. That number easily tops it, but Disney still takes home first prize.

"On Screen Deaths"

Destroying a planet, no matter how populated, doesn't count.

That's a stretch. Braveheart is on the list. That's on screen death. Which, I believe is a Disney movie, just under one of their distribution companies.

Does Independence Day make the list?

http://nerdist.com/study-finds-guard...-film-history/

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There they are, then they are all dead. GOTG didn't show the faces of 80,000+ people die.

Yeah, that is pretty dumb.

I prefer actual on screen deaths:

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Last samurai so sick~


thats kind of off topic..

yea that 80k on screen death thing is BS

I watched Last Samurai recently and loved the time he spent in the Japanese village in the mountians

I immediately thought of Independence Day. I can't believe it isn't up there. You see complete cities destroyed. I would think that would count.

Tangentially, I saw The Magnificent Seven today, and Pratt was pretty darn good in it.