# Guardians of the Galaxy - 1st Trailer **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 19, 2014, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guardians-of-the-galaxy-1st-trailer/681687 "2014-02-19T05:05:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![DWMarch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dwmarch/32/1010_2.png) [@DWMarch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DWMarch)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2014, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guardians-of-the-galaxy-1st-trailer/681687/101 "2014-02-21T02:37:17Z")
> [@Penfeather](#): > > Ditto _Space Truckers_. And _Serenity_. For the browncoats you could have had a black screen with just the word Serenity on it and they all still would have flocked to it in droves. But the general public trailer played up the humor in the movie and it bombed. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2014, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guardians-of-the-galaxy-1st-trailer/681687/102 "2014-02-21T02:59:03Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > I like it, and I have no familiarity with these characters at all. > > Makes me wonder why there haven’t been more comedic space adventure movies. > [@Penfeather](#): > > Because they have a long record of tanking at the box office. Even _Galaxy Quest_ didn’t do that well on release. > [@drastic\_quench](#): > > I mean come on! The star power of Tim Allen not equally box office gold!? > [@Penfeather](#): > > _Galaxy Quest_ is a wonderful movie, one of the very few that I never tire of seeing. But it failed to fire commercially. Ditto _Pluto Nash_, _Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy_, _Flash Gordon_ and _SpaceBalls_. I know nothing about the comic strip, and for all I know - because let;s face it, it’s impossible to tell from the trailer - the movie could be the hottest thing since fish grew legs. But space action comedy is a hard sell at the box office, and I wouldn’t bet the farm on this one making a fortune. > [@Penfeather](#): > > Ditto _Space Truckers_. **Hey hey hey!** Let’s not forget about [_The Ice Pirates_](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087451/)! ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2014, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guardians-of-the-galaxy-1st-trailer/681687/103 "2014-02-21T03:09:25Z")
I still bet this brings in $300MM+ worldwide. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2014, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guardians-of-the-galaxy-1st-trailer/681687/104 "2014-02-21T04:35:38Z")
> [@Penfeather](#): > > Because they have a long record of tanking at the box office. Even _Galaxy Quest_ didn’t do that well on release. I’m surprised about Galaxy Quest. I guess it suffered a similar history to \* Princess Bride\*, that it gained a kind of cultish success in home video and TV replays. The other space comedies listed I accept were all lame. _Battle Beyond The Stars_ is another not mentioned yet. So fair enough, that’s the reason there haven’t been more. ---
**Author:** ![Penfeather](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/penfeather/32/384_2.png) [@Penfeather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Penfeather)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2014, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guardians-of-the-galaxy-1st-trailer/681687/105 "2014-02-21T05:00:21Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > I’m surprised about Galaxy Quest. I guess it suffered a similar history to \* Princess Bride\*, that it gained a kind of cultish success in home video and TV replays. > > The other space comedies listed I accept were all lame. _Battle Beyond The Stars_ is another not mentioned yet. So fair enough, that’s the reason there haven’t been more. [Box Office Mojo puts it at $91 million gross on a $45 million dollar budget.](http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=galaxyquest.htm) Not a disaster, but a fairly modest take, and not enough to justify a sequel. And cult DVD sales seldom translate to serious money: outside of SF fans on the internet, I doubt most people have heard of it. Yeah, if I were promoting this new film, I’d be pushing the Avengers angle for all I was worth too. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2014, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guardians-of-the-galaxy-1st-trailer/681687/106 "2014-02-21T05:14:59Z")
> [@Jonathan\_Chance](#): > > I still bet this brings in $300MM+ worldwide. Oh, I think that’s far too conservative. I predict that this movie will be so big it will affect pop culture the whole world over. Pretty soon we’ll be basing our existence around it, much like the people of the future will revere Wyld Stallyns. 😃 No seriously, I think this movie will be huge, literally affecting pop culture with references and remarks all over the world. I think we’ll see it surpass _The Avengers_ and maybe even _Titanic_. $650MM+ is my prediction. ---
**Author:** ![jimpatro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b9e5f3/32.png) [@jimpatro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jimpatro)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2014, 5:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guardians-of-the-galaxy-1st-trailer/681687/107 "2014-02-21T05:59:56Z")
Wow, this is one of those that I want to be great but the humor in the trailer falls flat for me. Can’t see why it’s got everybody raving. Okay, cool characters and FX but the comedic timing just ain’t there. ---
**Author:** ![Penfeather](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/penfeather/32/384_2.png) [@Penfeather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Penfeather)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2014, 6:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guardians-of-the-galaxy-1st-trailer/681687/108 "2014-02-21T06:23:56Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > Oh, I think that’s far too conservative. I predict that this movie will be so big it will affect pop culture the whole world over. Pretty soon we’ll be basing our existence around it, much like the people of the future will revere Wyld Stallyns. > > 😃 > > No seriously, I think this movie will be huge, literally affecting pop culture with references and remarks all over the world. I think we’ll see it surpass _The Avengers_ and maybe even _Titanic_. $650MM+ is my prediction. I think it will unite Christian and Muslim, provide a limitless source of cheap clean energy, and bring back all our lost socks. It will walk on water and swim on land. It will heal injured swans. It will usher us into the sunlit uplands of a new Jerusalem. It will be Love. ---
**Author:** ![Lobohan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobohan/32/79_2.png) [@Lobohan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobohan)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2014, 6:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guardians-of-the-galaxy-1st-trailer/681687/109 "2014-02-21T06:25:33Z")
I think Raccoon and Man will live together in harmony. We will open our trashcans to them, and they will share their tasty, tasty semen with us! ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2014, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guardians-of-the-galaxy-1st-trailer/681687/110 "2014-02-21T13:20:40Z")
I’ll take things I wish I had not read for $1000 please, Alex. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2014, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guardians-of-the-galaxy-1st-trailer/681687/111 "2014-02-21T15:36:30Z")
I was about to mention _The Fifth Element_ as another comedic space science fiction movie, until I realized that it probably wasn’t meant to be comedic. ---
**Author:** ![AlsoNamedBort](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alsonamedbort/32/3213_2.png) [@AlsoNamedBort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AlsoNamedBort)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2014, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guardians-of-the-galaxy-1st-trailer/681687/112 "2014-02-21T15:41:23Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > I was about to mention _The Fifth Element_ as another comedic space science fiction movie, until I realized that it probably wasn’t meant to be comedic. Ruby Rhod would disagree with you. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Man\_In\_Black](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bcef8e/32.png) [@The\_Man\_In\_Black](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Man_In_Black)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2014, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guardians-of-the-galaxy-1st-trailer/681687/113 "2014-02-21T16:11:21Z")
Am I the only person who thinks the trailer looks horrible? Going by the trailer, it looks like it is made just to entertain 12 year old boys. I am open to seeing the movie if it is even half as good as The Avengers (cause half as good as Avengers is still more awesome that most movies), but this trailer really worries me. ---
**Author:** ![Lasciel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e79b87/32.png) [@Lasciel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lasciel)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2014, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guardians-of-the-galaxy-1st-trailer/681687/114 "2014-02-21T16:36:37Z")
Eh, I’m not too worried. Even if it is aimed at 12-year olds, it can still be fun. \*How To Train Your Dragon \*would be a great example. It seems to me like Marvel is purposefully branching it’s movies out into different territory - we’ve got the main-branch of superheros on earth, looks like Winter Soldier is moving into Jason Bourne super-spy action territory, Guardians is a campy space flick… The more varied their movies are in tone and appeal, the more potential audiences they can hook and drag into the next one of their films to roll down the pipeline. It isn’t a bad idea, as far as I can tell. The only thing I really worry about is if this one turns into a turkey, they DO technically have to keep it in the official universe, and then that gets a little weird to deal with (ignore it? don’t ignore it and pretend it was good? refer to it mockingly as a fourth-wall acknowledgement that it was sucky?). ---
**Author:** ![GrandWino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grandwino/32/67_2.png) [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2014, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guardians-of-the-galaxy-1st-trailer/681687/115 "2014-02-21T16:56:22Z")
> [@Penfeather](#): > > [Box Office Mojo puts it at $91 million gross on a $45 million dollar budget.](http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=galaxyquest.htm) Not a disaster, but a fairly modest take, and not enough to justify a sequel. And cult DVD sales seldom translate to serious money: outside of SF fans on the internet, I doubt most people have heard of it. Yeah, if I were promoting this new film, I’d be pushing the Avengers angle for all I was worth too. Interesting thing about that too is that it made more money in its 5th week as it did in it’s opening weekend. So definitely a “word of mouth” movie. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2014, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guardians-of-the-galaxy-1st-trailer/681687/116 "2014-02-21T17:10:17Z")
> [@Lasciel](#): > > Eh, I’m not too worried. Even if it is aimed at 12-year olds, it can still be fun. \*How To Train Your Dragon \*would be a great example. > > It seems to me like Marvel is purposefully branching it’s movies out into different territory - we’ve got the main-branch of superheros on earth, looks like Winter Soldier is moving into Jason Bourne super-spy action territory, Guardians is a campy space flick… > > The more varied their movies are in tone and appeal, the more potential audiences they can hook and drag into the next one of their films to roll down the pipeline. It isn’t a bad idea, as far as I can tell. > > The only thing I really worry about is if this one turns into a turkey, they DO technically have to keep it in the official universe, and then that gets a little weird to deal with (ignore it? don’t ignore it and pretend it was good? refer to it mockingly as a fourth-wall acknowledgement that it was sucky?). **Doctor Strange** will delve into the mystic and magical. If it does stiff at the box office, Marvel won’t be out much. It’s sufficiently removed from their Earth-bound mainstream that they can crank out a few dozen more movies before they have to reference it, and then they can reboot it. But I don’t think that will be necessary…this film will rock! ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2014, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guardians-of-the-galaxy-1st-trailer/681687/117 "2014-02-22T21:36:05Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > My point is that the average 2014 movie-goer won’t be at all turned off by a murderous talking raccoon any more than they are turned of by any other anthropomorphic animal-as-comic-relief-/-plot foil that we’ve seen in the last 20 years. … 20 years? You do realize that Disney is involved in this, right? ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2014, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guardians-of-the-galaxy-1st-trailer/681687/118 "2014-02-23T05:02:50Z")
> [@Ethilrist](#): > > … 20 years? You do realize that Disney is involved in this, right? I know that was some mild snark, but yeah, I do. I chose 20 years because about 67% of the movie-going public is 39 or under ([.pdf cite here; MPAA Industry Report for 2012)](http://www.mpaa.org/Resources/3037b7a4-58a2-4109-8012-58fca3abdf1b.pdf), and let’s face it, that’s the demographic this film is most targeted at. What I think is great is that I am not in the target demographic and I actually can’t wait to see this. Now I just have to avoid the hype for another 5 months… ---
**Author:** ![Dr\_Doom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/0ea827/32.png) [@Dr\_Doom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Doom)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2014, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guardians-of-the-galaxy-1st-trailer/681687/119 "2014-02-24T16:54:07Z")
So, in just about 132 hours on Youtube, the linked trailer in the OP has taken over 12,000,000 views, or 90,909 hits/hour on average. I am no Youtube expert, but that seems like a big number. Is it? ---
**Author:** ![tim314](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tim314/32/3468_2.png) [@tim314](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tim314)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2014, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guardians-of-the-galaxy-1st-trailer/681687/120 "2014-02-24T17:40:18Z")
> [@Dr\_Doom](#): > > So, in just about 132 hours on Youtube, the linked trailer in the OP has taken over 12,000,000 views, or 90,909 hits/hour on average. > > I am no Youtube expert, but that seems like a big number. > > Is it? I found what I _think_ is the first trailer from the original Avengers movie (posted in Oct. 2011), and it has 20 million views. [link](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOrNdBpGMv8) Based on that, albeit not knowing how much “views per day” tends to fall off after a movie trailer has been posted for a while, I’d say that 12 million views in less than a week is a very good sign. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guardians-of-the-galaxy-1st-trailer/681687.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guardians-of-the-galaxy-1st-trailer/681687.md?page=7)