I’d forgotten about that! I still think the scene was awesome.
Yeah, but the Sakaarans were basically stormtroopers that stood around slackjawed while the arrow zipped around killing them. In fact, I’m not sure the Sakaarans actually hit anything in the entire movie. When Drax referred to them as “paper people” he wasn’t speaking metaphorically; he literally thought that they were made from papier-mâché because they were so useless.
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Agree. Also, while the scene where the arrow shoots out all the lights and then kills the guys was pretty show-offy, I still loved it. It was gorgeous and just had to be done. I also liked the smart-assery of breaking the guy’s beer stein before killing him. Heh.
Oh, and let’s not forget how cool it was that the “prototype” fin he used in the end made him look much more like the original character. I loved that bit.
I just saw it tonight and loved it. The tone seemed to shift away from comedy and to straight action movie towards the end, but even then it had its laughs ("You shouldn’t have killed my mother and broken my Walkman!) Loved the sequence with Groot bringing back the wrong object over and over again and the discussion of why he doesn’t like hats, the Stan Lee cameo, and the return of Howard the Duck.
Not sure if it was an intentional Easter egg or a coincidence, but I swear one of the mutineers you see piled altogether asleep was an asari from the Mass Effect games.
My one complaint was the nearly 20-minute string of trailers at the beginning - Kingsman, Wonder Woman, The Mummy, The Last Jedi, Thor, Spider-Man, and Valerian was a bit much. (I’ll probably end up seeing all of them aside from Kingsman and Mummy, though.)
Hey, that’s not a fair cop about Star Wars, though.
I really enjoyed it. I’m not sure if I liked it more or less than the first. It was a little long, could have been edited down. And Chris Pratt was okay with the emotional stuff, he’s better at being funny and quippy, I wish he had more of a chance to do that in this movie.
I was bugged by how Mantis could have told everyone earlier what was going on and didn’t. It seems like that happens in too many movies, where someone has vital information that could be shared and they just don’t soon enough because the movie needs to be longer.
Also, why did Ego put the brain tumor in Peter’s mom? It wasn’t like she was going to foil his plan and she needed to be killed. He could have abducted Peter when he was a kid or adult and it’s not like she could have done anything about it, everyone would just crazy talking about her spaceman lover taking her kid. It just seemed like the only movie reason that Ego did that was to make Peter mad so Peter would try to kill him but I thought maybe I’d missed something.
But I did think Kurt Russell was great and his planet was gorgeous.
That was impressive, but he also has an actor son who looks a hell of a lot like him, I was wondering why they didn’t use him for that scene.
The in-story explanation appeared to be that He had realized (and/or decided) that his attachment to Peter’s mother would result in him abandoning his mission/purpose, until he had been without The Light for so long that he would wither and die. And that the only way to keep that from happening would be to kill her.
Which is pure bullshit, since he could have just killed her outright, why implant her with a tumor so she dies slowly?
My guess is that a Celestial who has no real comprehension of mortality, may think that allowing her to die slowly might be showing her “mercy”, so she’ll have a few years more to “live” rather than just dying outright. Also, if he kills her right off, who will raise his son? A being who has no grasp on what relatives are, or grand parents, etc… may believe that the only being who could raise his son is his mother. That’s why Yondu abducted Peter immediately after his mother passed.
We watched the first one last weekend then saw 2 today. The first one was pretty entertaining (though not amazing). This one just didn’t work for me. Mildly entertaining, I guess.
I remember thinking after the first one that they were going to deal with Peter’s father at some point but that I was hoping they wouldn’t. Then they did a whole movie around it. Bleh.
The Yondu arc was okay. Baby Groot was almost minion-ized in this one (a cute character that gets overplayed). It was nice to see Kirk from Gilmore Girls again.
As a comedy this movie was great. If you tried to follow the plot, well too many holes to fall down, but the movie had me laughing often and hard.
Now you’ve got me imagining Yondu’s funeral set to “See You Again” instead of “Father And Son”. 
They were mean to baby Groot. :mad:
I liked it. A kid walking out with his parents said, “It was great! It was epic!”
His mom said, "Yes, it was a great movie.
Kid: “It was great AND epic!” (Mothers…:rolleyes:)
My husband said he got an Anna and Elsa vibe from Gamora and Nebula at the end. I started singing, “Do you wanna kill a Thanos?”
And by the transitive power, since David Hasselhoff = Yondu and Yondu = Rocket, then David Hasselhoff = Rocket.
Yondu Hasselrocket, talk about your illegal genetic experimentation.
I took three of my daughters to see it yesterday, and we all loved it. The kids were crazy about Baby Groot. I thought his (its?) joke scenes ran a little too long. I thought the emotional beats were great - Quill and Ego playing catch was a winning scene to me, and I loved Nebula’s and Gamora’s emotional growth. The repeated mockery of Taserface’s name (especially by the Sovereign guy in his death scene) was a riot.
The 80’s pop culture references were a little too heavy, though. Seriously, a guy who’s experienced life off Earth for 30 years has no better metaphor for romantic tension than Cheers? He couldn’t think of a better “avatar” to fight giant Ego than Pac-Man?
We get Stakar (Stallone) and Aleta (Michelle Yeoh), the two halves of Starhawk. Martinex and Charlie-27. And Krugarr (the sorcerer supreme of the 30th century in the comics, but clearly still a Dr. Strange style magic user here). And the robot head is supposedly Mainframe, an AI that, in the comics, was designed by Tony Stark.
No sign of Vance Astro or Nikki.
Cosmo the telepathic dog and Jeff Goldblum’s Grandmaster both make cameos in the credits, though - not in the scenes, but in the dancin’ disco bubbles.
An interesting article about the theme of parental abuse in the film, and how the various characters react to it:
I always took Peter to be fairly emotionally stunted by being captured and “raised” by a bunch of aliens (who wanted to eat him) at a young age.
I liked it though like with almost all blockbuster films the action scenes could have been trimmed by 15 minutes and that time could have been spent fleshing out the father-son arcs and in particular Yondu’s back story. I also think the sister arc, while quite interesting, could have been pushed to the next film.
As a piece of visual spectacle, it was dazzling and I think Hollywood has reached even greater heights in this regard over the last year. Even in the opening scenes, just a drive in the countryside, the level of detail was exceptional and I wondered if there was some new technology being used and apparently this is the first feature to use a new 8K camera by RED: