As someone who has never opened a comic book, I think this looks like great fun. I’ll definitely go and take my kids.
Because Sean William Scott is the Chris Pratt of 2004 not 2014?
I find the “movie-goes aren’t going to like _________ so it will fail” nay saying absolutely hilarious.
A lion that’s COWARDLY! That will never work.
They fly around in space ships but fight with laser swords? No one is going to want to see that!
It’s just a rehash or Dances with Wolves and Ferngully–but with giant blue smurfs…and its in 3D? Box-office disaster!
Because Sean William Scott plays hugely unlikeable jerks. Chris Pratt, given the same role, makes said jerks downright lovable.
Chris Pratt is also starring in the new Jurassic Park movie, so his star is quickly on the rise.
On a side note, unless they’ve CGed abs onto Chris Pratt, it looks like he got some training sessions from Hugh Jackman recently.
I heard he just gave up beer for a month.
He’s been working out.
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If you were disappointed that Rocket didn’t get any lines in the trailer, check this out…
I’m curious if you saw the trailer before posting this. They are positioning this as Star Wars, not a comic book movie. It’s going to make a fortune.
Joke or not, there’s something to that, I think. I gave up beer for a few months last year and lost almost 20 lbs. without changing anything else. Hmmm…
He actually did give up beer for 3 months but also worked out a ton. He says he didn’t diet much other than the beer thing.
The joke reference was to his Parks & Rec character who explained his sudden weight loss in-show on just stopping drinking beer.
I like Rocket, but honestly, he doesn’t impress me all that much. We know what raccoons look like, and they’re already close enough in shape to humans to make the anthropomorphism relatively straightforward. What impresses me is Groot. We don’t know what a walking, talking tree looks like, which makes one a real test for the designers. Which they passed. He looks like a tree, and he looks like a person. I think they did a better job on him even than the Ents in Jackson’s LotR.
Because they have a long record of tanking at the box office. Even Galaxy Quest didn’t do that well on release.
I mean come on! The star power of Tim Allen not equally box office gold!?
In all seriousness, I really liked Galaxy Quest when I saw it years later on HBO, but it was marketed as a Tim Allen family movie. Which is exactly why my demo never bought a ticket.
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.
Ditto Space Truckers.
None of which have the tremendous amount of goodwill built up by Marvel Studios. It’s no accident that the poster first reminds everyone how much fun they had at the best Marvel flicks.
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Or they have no confidence selling a virtually unknown property on its own merits. See also Howard the Duck, from the guy who brought you Star Wars!
Re: the association of The Avengers et al.
“Hide it under a bushel? Oh no! I’m gonna let it shine”
No movie studio would hold back such a connection.