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Hieronymous Alloy posted:My guess from a quick reading of the marvelpedia article on his "Canonical" father, J'Son of Spartoi, who are apparently "a race similar to the Shi'ar", is that they're going to conflate the Shi'ar and the Spartoi and make his dad a birdman angel / dude with feathers. Marvel is willing to be flexible with characters to make the films appeal to a broad audience. It'd be neat if they made Starfox his dad, because of the connection to Thanos. Plus, Starfox's power over others' emotions would jibe with running around the galaxy getting women pregnant, and leaving them feeling starstruck. Being a Titan also has the 'ancient' thing. Plus, you know, the whole a-hole thing.
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Away all Goats posted:I don't see why, the part where Thanos turns off most of the powers the gauntlet gives him so he can have a punching match with the heroes would translate great as an action scene. Especially when it ends with everyone down and defeated and Captain America alone striding up to Thanos and still challenging him. Also making them seem weak and ineffectual is kind of the point. Thanos is literally God at that point. Agreed - the whole fight would translate very well on the movie screen, but that Captain America moment is one they have to include, or at least something similar. Infinity Gauntlet spoilers ahoy: http://i.imgur.com/LCulPS3.jpg http://i.imgur.com/GaLl0sN.jpg and a Bonus Badass Thanos Moment: http://i.imgur.com/Yg6kT6X.jpg http://i.imgur.com/ou0gZe6.jpg
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Aug 11, 2014 21:21
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Nycticeius posted:Agreed - the whole fight would translate very well on the movie screen, but that Captain America moment is one they have to include, or at least something similar. Norse God in Full Armor, Man Literally Made of Fire, Technological Genius in Insanely Advanced Suit, and Half-Naked Dude in a Speedo.
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Aug 11, 2014 21:31
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Yeah but isn't he the prince of fish or is that the other extra lame one
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AnonSpore posted:Norse God in Full Armor, Man Literally Made of Fire, Technological Genius in Insanely Advanced Suit, and I will not have you insult Namor.
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Dexo posted:I will not have you insult Namor. Yeah when there is fucken Thunderstrike right there! Namor is currently busy blowing up earths to care.
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Aug 11, 2014 21:36
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I read the wikipedia on how Thanos gets defeated and boy I hope the movie comes up with something better.
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NmareBfly posted:You just need any cassette recorder with an analog mic in plug. Then get a male-male mini plug cable and run if from your computer's headphone jack to the mic in. Press play on your MP3 player of choice and record on the tape player, then wait for an hour. You might have to flip the tape at some point. Yeah it's super easy, just use that cable to hook up your old stereo (or if yer a young'n, older sibling/parent's) to your computer, and soon you'll be rocking out like a bad-rear end hipster-king! Anyways, Guardians was really fun and easily the best superhero movie since Man of Steel, although some of the hype I'm gonna have to chalk up to delirium. It's definitely as good if not better than Men in Black or Ghostbusters, but The 5th Element or motherfucking Star Wars?? C'mon nerds, it's not even close, learn to control your poo poo please, it's embarrassing I will type up my full thoughts in a bit, once I've read some more of the thread.
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Steve Yun posted:I read the wikipedia on how Thanos gets defeated and boy I hope the movie comes up with something better. Squirrel Girl
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Black Bones posted:Anyways, Guardians was really fun and easily the best superhero movie since Man of Steel,
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Aug 11, 2014 21:53
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I lost my mom to cancer a few years ago and I'm not ashamed to say this movie almost made me cry when he read the letter at the end that told us why he wants to be called Star-Lord.
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Steve Yun posted:I read the wikipedia on how Thanos gets defeated and boy I hope the movie comes up with something better. I think the way he's defeated is one of the best parts of the story. Thanos is constantly getting his hands on these incredibly powerful weapons (Cosmic Cube, Infinity Gems twice) and each time even though he's basically God he gets beat. The reason for this is that Thanos is aware that he is not worthy of that power and he subconsciously puts himself in positions where he'll be defeated. The second time he gets the Infinity Gems, which is the Infinity Gauntlet story all of this seems to be leading to, he beats all the heroes easily and then wipes out all the cosmic entities such as Galactus, Celestials, Kronos, Death (who turns against him), and many other of the abstract entities in the Marvel books. Finally he comes face to face with Eternity, who in Marvel is the embodiment of the universe. Thanos then handily beats him as well and takes his place. When he does this he leaves his body behind and pretty much just becomes God. It's his greatest victory and finally everything that he thought he wanted. But he has left Nebula and Starfox (his brother) alive as witnesses and Nebula, who for an earlier betrayal had been turned into a walking corpse, grabs the Infinity Gauntlet off his now lifeless body and then undoes everything he's done. After all his boasting and after defeating all of the greatest forces in the universe and becoming God Thanos has let the person that was least threatening to him beat him at the moment where he was most powerful. Thanos then works with the heroes he had been against to get the Gauntlet from Nebula since she's kind of crazy. He then fakes his death after realizing why these things never work for him and tries to live a peaceful life of solitude. Of course this doesn't last for long.
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gregday posted:I lost my mom to cancer a few years ago and I'm not ashamed to say this movie almost made me cry when he read the letter at the end that told us why he wants to be called Star-Lord. The part I found weird about this is that he opened the letter a long time ago but never opened the present for some reason.
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Aug 11, 2014 23:21
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I wonder if they'll just go full Star Wars and make Thanos Peter's father.
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RatHat posted:The part I found weird about this is that he opened the letter a long time ago but never opened the present for some reason. Nah I get it. The wrapped present is a more powerful emotion-bringer because it could be anything, y'know? When a present is still just a present, it represents the relationship--once a gift is unwrapped it becomes about what's in it, not the fact that it *is*.
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SALT CURES HAM posted:I wonder if they'll just go full Star Wars and make Thanos Peter's father. nah it's Groot
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Aug 12, 2014 00:28
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His mom told him to open the present "when I'm gone". The fact that he chose to open it only at the end of the film is symbolic of the fact that he finally has a surrogate family and is ready to let her go.
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RatHat posted:The part I found weird about this is that he opened the letter a long time ago but never opened the present for some reason. I don't think that letter is the first time she called him Star Lord, just the first we saw it.
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Deadpool posted:I think the way he's defeated is one of the best parts of the story. Thanos is constantly getting his hands on these incredibly powerful weapons (Cosmic Cube, Infinity Gems twice) and each time even though he's basically God he gets beat. The reason for this is that Thanos is aware that he is not worthy of that power and he subconsciously puts himself in positions where he'll be defeated. The second time he gets the Infinity Gems, which is the Infinity Gauntlet story all of this seems to be leading to, he beats all the heroes easily and then wipes out all the cosmic entities such as Galactus, Celestials, Kronos, Death (who turns against him), and many other of the abstract entities in the Marvel books. Finally he comes face to face with Eternity, who in Marvel is the embodiment of the universe. Thanos then handily beats him as well and takes his place. When he does this he leaves his body behind and pretty much just becomes God. It's his greatest victory and finally everything that he thought he wanted. But he has left Nebula and Starfox (his brother) alive as witnesses and Nebula, who for an earlier betrayal had been turned into a walking corpse, grabs the Infinity Gauntlet off his now lifeless body and then undoes everything he's done. After all his boasting and after defeating all of the greatest forces in the universe and becoming God Thanos has let the person that was least threatening to him beat him at the moment where he was most powerful. Thanos then works with the heroes he had been against to get the Gauntlet from Nebula since she's kind of crazy. He then fakes his death after realizing why these things never work for him and tries to live a peaceful life of solitude. Of course this doesn't last for long. I could definitely see the Nebula bit staying in if they make her less a cipher of a character but yeah sorry mate the rest of this sounds like the sort of thing I stopped thinking made a cool story around age five, they'll need to clean it up a lot to bring it to twelve-year-old standards
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Black Bones posted:Anyways, Guardians was really fun and easily the best superhero movie since Man of Steel, although some of the hype I'm gonna have to chalk up to delirium. It's definitely as good if not better than Men in Black or Ghostbusters, but The 5th Element or motherfucking Star Wars?? C'mon nerds, it's not even close, learn to control your poo poo please, it's embarrassing Ghostbusters is much better than Fifth Element and Man of Steel wasn't good at all so it almost sounds like you're making a jab at Guardians of the Galaxy.
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Lets! Get! Weird! posted:Ghostbusters is much better than Fifth Element and Man of Steel wasn't good at all so it almost sounds like you're making a jab at Guardians of the Galaxy. Yeah. This was the best Marvel film to date but it was no Ghostbusters. Definitely better than Fifth Element though.
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Thought it was an immensely satisfying movie, the only changes that bothered me(Nova Corps, Drax's Origin and Cosmo) I can at least understand why they changed around what they did. And at least with Drax I'm still kind of hoping for a fake out in the next movie to tie it back in to his original origin. Macdeo Lurjtux fucked around with this message at 02:48 on Aug 12, 2014 |
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Spiritus Nox posted:All I'm confused about is how the gently caress they're going to handle Thanos when he actually gets to do things. It seems like a sure bet that he's going to get at least a few, if not all of the infinity stones, and given that he's described as not even needing one to destroy a planet, I'm struggling to figure how someone like Captain America or Iron Man or even Thor, probably the most powerful Marvel hero we've seen, is going to be able to put a dent in him - I've gotten the impression that things start to get pretty Gurren Lagann when Thanos gets all the stones in the comics, and that seems like a pretty radical shift in scope from any of the previous movies. Literally have Hulk get so huge and angry he body rips Thanos in half and throws the halves into opposing ends of the known galaxy.
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The argument that Yondu is Quill's father is literally the dumbest thing on CD since... well since the last really stupid misreading of a mainstream movie. Maybe something from Godzilla or Days of Future Past?
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Josh Lyman posted:The argument that Yondu is Quill's father is literally the dumbest thing on CD since... well since the last really stupid misreading of a mainstream movie. Maybe something from Godzilla or Days of Future Past? It's the dumbest thing on CD since that other thing in this very thread about Rocket having a wife and child that also died.
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Aug 12, 2014 04:47
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If the collector is immortal why the gently caress would it have mortal slaves to constantly reteach how to scrub plexiglass. Shouldn't he have had robots or cyborgs at best?
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LingcodKilla posted:If the collector is immortal why the gently caress would it have mortal slaves to constantly reteach how to scrub plexiglass. Shouldn't he have had robots or cyborgs at best? Because he's a real dick.
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mikeraskol posted:It's the dumbest thing on CD since that other thing in this very thread about Rocket having a wife and child that also died. 
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TheJoker138 posted:Because he's a real dick. So his sense of purpose is really being a boss of house keepers. He didn't sound nearly so horrible in the wiki. Cosmic marvel is complicated.
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Neo Rasa posted:Literally have Hulk get so huge and angry he body rips Thanos in half and throws the halves into opposing ends of the known galaxy. Puny god.
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Aug 12, 2014 05:43
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Someone might even have to learn the moonwalk to contend with that kind of power
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Is there some sort of subtext for The Collector in the comics where he's supposed to be an audience representative, a symbol for nerds collecting comics and toys and being extra anal-retentive about keeping them in mint condition?
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Steve Yun posted:Is there some sort of subtext for The Collector in the comics where he's supposed to be an audience representative, a symbol for nerds collecting comics and toys and being extra anal-retentive about keeping them in mint condition? No, that's purely from the film. e: On second thought, in the comics, his role as a collector was initially altruistic, with the aims of preserving the universe's history and cultures in the event of a great calamity, but he eventually lost sight of this as billions of years passed by. You could interpret this as analogous to how nerds, as they obsess over "mint condition" and the like, losing sight of why they initially collected comics and associated memorabilia in the first place (out of love and enjoyment of the medium). That's still a different interpretation from the Taneleer Tivan Benicio del Toro portrays, or at least, what we know of him from Thor 2 and Guardians of the Galaxy. Four Score fucked around with this message at 06:17 on Aug 12, 2014 |
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:Yeah. This was the best Marvel film to date but it was no Ghostbusters. Definitely better than Fifth Element though. I'm going to agree with you but "better than Fifth Element" is incredibly high praise coming from me. Not all of the jokes landed, the introduction and back-story of some of the Guardians was severely rushed (out of necessity) , and Pace's Ronan was a ham-fisted caricature that only worked because of how all the other characters reacted to him. That said, to me, GotG was the best marvel or superhero movie I'd ever seen. As if the movie didn't have enough character on it's own the infusion of a superb 70s soundtrack just put this film over the top. It was the height of fun. I even plan on going to see it a second time, which is something I never do.
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First Bass posted:No, that's purely from the film Actually I didn't think there was much to it in the film. I think it was one of those straight-to-video animated movies that played up the nerdy toy collector angle, but I can't remember which one.
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Steve Yun posted:Actually I didn't think there was much to it in the film. I think it was one of those straight-to-video animated movies that played up the nerdy toy collector angle, but I can't remember which one. He's made an appearance on an episode of the Disney XD cartoon Hulk and the Agents of S.M.A.S.H., which I know solely from Wikipedia on account of the fact that that show is physically painful for me to watch.
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Alright, for all you soundtrack  s like me, I got my playlist to what I think is pretty close if not the correct track listing for the whole soundtrack. The bolded songs are the non score ones, obviously. I'm Not in Love To the Stars Marvel Studios Fanfare Morag Come And Get Your Love Plasma Ball Quill's Big Retreat Ronan's Theme Everyone's an Idiot What a Bunch of A-Holes Busted The New Meat Hooked On A Feeling The Destroyer Sanctuary The Kyln Escape Don't Mess With My Walkman Escape The Pina Colada Song The Great Companion The Road To Knowhere Moonage Daydream Fool Around and Fell in Love The Collector Ronan's Arrival The Pod Chase Sacrifice We All Got Dead People Cherry Bomb The Final Battle Begins The Ballad of the Nova Corps Groot Spores Guardians United The Big Blast Groot Cocoon Black Tears O-O-H Child Citizens Unite A Nova Upgrade Ain't No Mountain High Enough I Want You Back
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I do find it funny that I bought the Mixtape soundtrack on iTunes and in order to play it in my car I have to use a cassette adapter on my iPod touch.
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Steve Yun posted:Actually I didn't think there was much to it in the film. I think it was one of those straight-to-video animated movies that played up the nerdy toy collector angle, but I can't remember which one. There was a Simpsons Treehouse of Horror short that cast Comic Book Guy as a villain called the Collector. It's a pretty obvious riff.
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