What it needs is a Rocket spinoff, featuring Groot. [del]Bluetista[/del] Drax can come too.
I wanna pet Rocket.
… probably not a good idea
I wonder if Guardians will have any tie ins with Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D?
It kinda already has: the blue alien in T.A.H.I.T.I. was a Kree.
These guys have made an extension that will Grootify any web page…
Please translate that for this native New Yawka (actually from Lawn Guy Land)
I wanna pet Rocket = I want to pet Rocket? Really not a good idea.
I wanna pet Rocket = I want a pet Rocket? A Rockin’ Good Idea!!!
You try putting a collar on Rocket. I’ll be over here in this highly reinforced concrete bunker.
Petting Rocket, though, is something you might get away with, if you’re a friend.
Saw it, and I didn’t care for it. Not trying to threadshit. I usually like comic book movies, even for comics I’ve never read (and I’ve never read this one, nor even heard of it before). But this one left me a bit cold; I didn’t care about any of the characters (except maybe Groot) or the overall arc, the villain, or the macguffin-chasing plot. Just meh. If you all liked it, glad you did, but I was sneaking peaks at my watch all through the last half.
I saw the movie yesterday and loved it, but I so don’t get why everyone’s so gaga over Groot. I mean, the concept of the character is cute, but I don’t see that they needed an actor to do that, it could have been complete CGI without losing much. You don’t get anything about Groot from Groot itself, you get it from the way the folks around Groot react to the constant "I am Groot"s.
Rocket was amazing. I didn’t expect much emotional depth from the character, but I was pleasantly surprised. Drax’s and Gamora’s inability to understand Earth idioms was fun (“Someone put a stick up their butts? Who would do THAT?”), and the Kevin Bacon references were great. (Would it be too much to ask for him to portray Peter’s father in whichever sequel they have him appear?)
I saw it for the second time this morning. I was the only one in the theater and I still laughed out loud a couple times. This movie just hits all the notes for me. I just wish these movies can figure out a better dénouement than smashing up a whole city.
Sadly it does not work on the SDMB. That would improve many threads.
“I am Groot!”
We are Groot.
Okay, saw it today. A couple of questions.
Who was the Broker representing? Somebody had the Broker hire the Ravagers to get the Orb. It wasn’t Ronan - he was sending his own people to get it and they were surprised to find somebody else there. I don’t think it was the Collector - he had made a deal with Gamora to steal it which made no sense if the Broker was working for him. Thanos had a deal with Ronan. I don’t think it was the Xandorian government - the Broker gave every indication that what he was doing was illegal and besides, Xandor had plenty of people on its payroll it could have sent - it didn’t need to hire mercenaries. So who was the Broker supposed to be delivering the Orb to and why didn’t whoever this is show an interest when the Orb was lost? Whoever it was must be a major power and knew the location of the Orb - which is more than any of the other powers involved did. It seems like there was a major character just off camera who should have been present.
Second question: When did Ronan say he was going to destroy the galaxy? That’s what the heroes claimed. But Ronan wasn’t planning on killing everyone - he just wanted to destroy Xandor. Now I agree blowing up a planet is a bad thing but it’s a far level below killing an entire galaxy.
It also kind of threw off the idea in the second half of the movie that Xandor was the side of the “good guys”. Xandor was, after all, the side that ran the Kyln and sent the “heroes” there without even giving them a trial. It makes it hard to reconcile this with the idea that these same heroes would later feel that Xandor was the one power that could be trusted to not misuse the infinity gem.
BTW Gunn already came out and said that neither Thanos nor the comic-book-canon J’son of Spartax will wind up being Quill’s father. I’m betting it’s Adam Warlock.
My favorite was before they had alluded to the fact that aliens would misunderstand idioms/metaphors and Drax asked “Why would I want to slide my finger across his neck?”
Yep. That’s been my call on it since I saw the movie. They’re definitely heading toward an Infinity Gauntlet storyline, they need Adam Warlock for anything Infinity Gauntlety, why not give AW a double-shift as Starlord’s father in the meanwhile?
Also, I heard that since the movie has already made like $320 million, Marvel Studios is leaning towards bringing the Inhumans to the screen. That’s what I love about the MCU movies being so damned successful: it’s made Marvel Studios basically fearless. They’re not hesitant about making movies of lesser-known characters like Dr Strange or the Inhumans because at this point, they could throw shit against the screen and people would pay $11 a pop to see it twice.
I’ve heard that Marvel has a long-term plan for its series. Maybe they’ll do a science-fiction series using characters like the Guardians of the Galaxy, Howard the Duck, Adam Warlock, Nova, the Inhumans, the Starjammers, Captain Marvel (the Kree one), Moondragon, the Super-Skrull, Quasar, Wraith, Vance Astro, etc. And they can do all this while they’re also doing mainstream superhero movies set here on Earth based around the Avengers. Two parallel series being released in tandem.
And then the next phase will be a big crossover between the Earth superheroes and the science fiction superheroes.