Ok, I want to expand my thoughts on Guardians of the Galaxy.
Let's start with the positive.
Really good movie. It was fun, funny and emotional at times. It starts you off with an unexpected and emotional cold start, and I realize this because there were people still wandering around the theater like it was another preview that started.
Star-lord was more fun than funny, Drax was more funny than fun.
Groot had a lot of emotion for only being able to say a few words, which mostly consist of "I" "Am" & "Groot" and specifically in that order. There is some Groot merchandise missing from the shelves that I'm sure everyone would have bought had it been available.
>THIS< but Groot. It's even from the 80's. Disney where you at?
Rocket was a star in this movie, this gun toting coon was no one to be messed with. He had good lines and voice acting was pretty spot on.
Gamora... is it bad that Zoe Saldana made me consider banging a green chick?... the red/pink ones looked pretty damn good too. LOL
But her and Nebula were pretty under used here. Neither of them seemed particularly deadly either, but at the same time Drax didn't really seem as powerful as you would imagine.
The one major issue that bothered me though out the movie, was the SFX during fight scene. Like when someone gets knocked into the wall 30 feet away, it goes from believeable CG to damn that looked cartoonish, or when Gamora had to make a big jump, and it looked like a CG character took over from a 90's animated cartoon. Suspension of disbelief was broken for that split second everytime something like that happened.
I really want to watch it again, because I feel like I might have missed a few things, thanks to the lady next to us breathing heavy like she was snoring, and then suddenly just laughing her ass off for 2-3 minutes straight with a giggly little laugh that almost got you to just laugh right along with her. It was a little distracting at time.
Alot of the fight scenes were a little lacking as well. They should have brought in the choreographers from Cap 2 to handle the action.
And i wouldn't really call this a SUPER hero movie, as the only person in this whole movie who displayed a little "super" was Ronan. But definitely a must see summer movie. I can see where the 3D would be great in this movie, like all the scenes shot out in space, and all the scenes that had opportunity for depth perception (Groots scenes), but I didn't pay the price of admission on that.
I would honestly say that I exposed myself to too much of this movie before seeing it, and while I still really enjoyed it, had I gone into fresh like the 17 minute preview, where we were dying from laughter and everything was new, I feel like I really would have enjoyed it even more.
I would have to rank this very close to Cap 2... maybe a very close 2nd if not tied. They are tonally very different movies, but together show that Marvel is on fire, and that bodes VERY well leading right into Age of Ultron.
This movie has set the August opening Record @ $94Million by beating out Bourne @ $69M. I think it's also the 3rd highest opener of the year right behind TF:AoE ($97.5/$100M) & Cap 2 ($96M?), and word of mouth on this is extremely high right now w/ a RT score of something like 92% after 190 reviews. Also something close to 44% of the viewers were women and 55% of all viewers were over 26yrs old, so this bodes well for Marvel taking the risk and probably getting even a little more riskier going forward.