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Codependent Poster posted:Oh poo poo, is that alien at the end a Skrull? Maybe!
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Opopanax posted:Maybe! It's actually our third legally distinct generic bug-like warrior army!
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Hakkesshu posted:Nah. This is a quote from the first page of this thread Grifter posted:With Chris Pratt set to be in both the lego movie and Guardians of the Galaxy, his career could die before it's really born. It's too bad, he's great on parks and rec.
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The Lego Movie was better than Guardians. It was better than almost everything else.
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Happy Noodle Boy posted:The Lego Movie was better than Guardians. It was better than almost everything else. But they are the exact same film.
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Guardians was a terrible movie. I don't get the love for it. Star wars it most definitely isn't as some proclaim it to be.
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Myrddin_Emrys posted:Guardians was a terrible movie. I don't get the love for it. Star wars it most definitely isn't as some proclaim it to be. Not getting the love for it is perfectly alright. Actively denying that love for it exists is dumb. Not that that is what was happening here, just saying.
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Myrddin_Emrys posted:Guardians was a terrible movie. I don't get the love for it. Star wars it most definitely isn't as some proclaim it to be. You're not alone. I thought it was passable and didn't regret seeing it or anything, but I found it to be in the bottom three as far as the MCU is concerned and barely even registering as a sci-fi movie on its own merits. Then again my daughter goes absolutely apeshit over it like I remember I used to do for Star Wars when I was her age, so maybe I'm just getting old and cynical.
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Myrddin_Emrys posted:Guardians was a terrible movie. I don't get the love for it. Star wars it most definitely isn't as some proclaim it to be.
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Waterhaul posted:But they are the exact same film. Guardians was okay, Lego Movie was real bad
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I liked Guardians a lot but I don't understand why people went completely mental over it.Uncle Boogeyman posted:Lego Movie was real bad 
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I realize I just professed muted enjoyment of a Marvel movie, but even I can only be aggressively marketed to so much before I start to get a little queasy.
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Uncle Boogeyman posted:I realize I just professed muted enjoyment of a Marvel movie, but even I can only be aggressively marketed to so much before I start to get a little queasy.
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I don't really get the massive love for Guardians either; it just felt like the usual vanilla Marvel formula in a slightly different setting. My biggest issue with that film is that I feel like it takes a lot of emotional shortcuts; the film just constantly uses pop culture and comic book references to hide the fact that there's not much to the script past a shitload of exposition and Star Wars tributes.
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That's really cool and interesting that you guys didn't like it, and we're all very glad you told us, but it was still a huge hit and made a bajillion dollars, and we're talking about the people who thought it was going to crash Marvel Studios
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Opopanax posted:That's really cool and interesting that you guys didn't like it, and we're all very glad you told us, but it was still a huge hit and made a bajillion dollars, and we're talking about the people who thought it was going to crash Marvel Studios It didn't just make a bajillion dollars. It was the biggest movie domestically and second internationally. It even beat all the other comic book movies that year, which were all sequels.
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People liked Guardians because it set out to be a capital, bolded F-U-N movie. I almost didn't make it to the early screening of Guardians, but when I got the call that there was an open ticket, I raced across town, and walking into the theater the excitement was infectious. Never had such a great time at the movies. It's just a feel good, sci fi action comedy. There's really not that much to it.
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Waterhaul posted:But they are the exact same film. Only one movie had Liam Neeson.
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HorseRenoir posted:I don't really get the massive love for Guardians either; it just felt like the usual vanilla Marvel formula in a slightly different setting. My biggest issue with that film is that I feel like it takes a lot of emotional shortcuts; the film just constantly uses pop culture and comic book references to hide the fact that there's not much to the script past a shitload of exposition and Star Wars tributes. The first time I saw it I was as gaga for it as the average movie-goer, it just has such amazing spectacle. But it really didn't hold up well to a second viewing. It was still fun, but when all that spectacle wasn't distracting me from the rest of the movie, that aforementioned script stuck out like a sore thumb. The writing is really weak & lazy.
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Grendels Dad posted:Not getting the love for it is perfectly alright. Actively denying that love for it exists is dumb. It isn't!!
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SlimGoodbody posted:And on a more personal note, I grew rather annoyed with Strange continually belittling Night Nurse; calling her "my dear," being surprised that she was medically proficient, telling her how to wear her hair... It just seemed awfully regressive for a dude who should be on the furthest reaches of human understanding. Here's the thing, Dr. Strange is a dick: 
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Guardians is my favorite Marvel movie. If you don't get why it's so good you probably just don't like Alhazred posted:Here's the thing, Dr. Strange is a dick: That's a very modern interpretation of the character. People felt Dr. Strange as he's classically depicted was "boring" so they turned him into movie Tony Stark. It blows. Lurdiak fucked around with this message at 23:25 on Jan 3, 2015 |
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I think a lot of love for Guardians is that recent superhero movies before it were all kind of downers; Superman snaps his first supervillian's neck and thousands of people die, Gwen Stacy is killed, partially because of Spiderman's actions, Cap finds out his childhood friend is a brainwashed assassin and the government is secretly nazis. Then GotG comes along and is just like "lets hold hands and defeat evil through the power of friendship" and its just great.
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Guardians' biggest problem is that it has no idea what the gently caress to do with Gamora but despite that i still enjoyed it for the most part.
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Alhazred posted:Here's the thing, Dr. Strange is a dick: Gross. I have some memories of Strange from my childhood that don't match this portrayal at all. I would have hoped Strange would be a more enlightened dude, what with existing beyond the boundaries of base human shittiness. Don't get me wrong, a reading of Strange that pulled from actual historical mystics, like Crowley and LaVey, could be a hilarious way to take it, as they were pretty comically outrageous horndogs and manipulative fucksocks. But I don't think the writers are putting that much thought into it, or exploring what that would mean. It's a pretty grim thing to hand a man the keys to reality and watch him become Charlie Sheen.
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Fraction's Defenders is actually all about that in the end. There's hope for the Doctor of Strange.
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Lurdiak posted:Guardians is my favorite Marvel movie. If you don't get why it's so good you probably just don't like Earlier in this thread movie Tony Stark was copied from Dr. Strange.
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Aphrodite posted:Earlier in this thread movie Tony Stark was copied from Dr. Strange. It might surprise you to learn sometimes people have differing opinions about things.
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They are mutually exclusive. One of you is just wrong, not opinionated.
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Psychedelic 70s drugs and sex Doctor Strange is the best Doctor Strange.
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SirDan3k posted:The planet that he was killing for them. And then right after he went summoned Cthulhu, Stark knocked him out with one repulsor shot. Doc can't catch breaks.
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Doctor Spaceman posted:I liked it but I don't agree with the praise for it. Star Lord and Gammora were bland as hell, quote:it shoved in a shitload of stuff that only mattered for future movies (everything with Thanos), quote:and the Howard the Duck stinger was pathetic.
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Die Laughing posted:Fraction's Defenders is actually all about that in the end. There's hope for the Doctor of Strange. Maybe. But maybe not considering the entire story is set in a timeline where they fail and the planet ceases to exist
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Uncle Boogeyman posted:Guardians' biggest problem is that it has no idea what the gently caress to do with Gamora but despite that i still enjoyed it for the most part. I dunno, I think they did know what to do with her, she's the damsel in distress. Though I wonder what the reaction would have been if they didn't cut a lot since apparently she had a chunk of scenes which were just more Peter/Gamora ~relationship building~. Also unreleated there's an Ant Man teaser of people walking. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3G70LvM0IQ
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SlimGoodbody posted:Gross. I have some memories of Strange from my childhood that don't match this portrayal at all. I would have hoped Strange would be a more enlightened dude, what with existing beyond the boundaries of base human shittiness. Allred's miniseries about Dead Girl revealed that Strange does not exist beyond the boundaries of base human shittiness. In a very literal way.
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Waterhaul posted:I dunno, I think they did know what to do with her, she's the damsel in distress. Though I wonder what the reaction would have been if they didn't cut a lot since apparently she had a chunk of scenes which were just more Peter/Gamora ~relationship building~. Don't forget, this was a teaser that had its own teaser, for a TV-premiered trailer that will probably end up being a glorified commercial for the real theatrical trailer.
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McSpanky posted:Don't forget, this was a teaser that had its own teaser, for a TV-premiered trailer that will probably end up being a glorified commercial for the real theatrical trailer. Was that trailer teaser teaser teaser the 'ant sized' clip that was too small to make out? Or am I thinking of a trailer teaser teaser co-teaser? YAY HOLLYWOOD ADVERTISING!
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:Was that trailer teaser teaser teaser the 'ant sized' clip that was too small to make out? Or am I thinking of a trailer teaser teaser co-teaser? Can you blame them? People eat that stuff up, and it creates free buzz for...nothing. The only advertising thing I've never gotten is the "here's 7 minutes of the completed film" thing, because I do not understand who wants to watch a tiny chunk of a movie months before they see the rest.
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theflyingorc posted:Can you blame them? People eat that stuff up, and it creates free buzz for...nothing. This really is the true legacy of the Marvel movies. An entire industry has sprung up around promoting your content and you don't even to pay them! This is, I think, the real gold they have struck with pandering to an existing fandom. As audience, they may be neglectable, but thanks to the Internet, they are marketing gold.
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