I enjoyed the first Guardians … film when I first watched it, but it’s a film that gets worse the more you think about it. It treats all its female character like shit and a lot of the characters are nothing like their comics counterparts (a lot of them are just names slapped onto completely unrelated characters).
The 2nd film does even worse at this and manages to undercut any serious moment with really childish jokes. Its only redeeming feature is Nebula/Karen Gillan.
Ragnarok basically does everything Guardians is trying to do better.
I hadn’t read any of the comics before seeing the first film. I enjoyed it so much that I read all of the Abnett and Lanning Guardians comics, as well as their Nova comics, Annihilation, Annihilation: Conquest and a few others from around that time.
If that was Marvel’s plan then it worked a treat on me!
I enjoyed the second film less, but I’m not sure if that’s because I went in with much higher expectations, because I had read some of the comics by that point or because it is genuinely a worse film (or a combination of all three).
It very much wasn’t, as they cancelled the Abnett/Lanning run when the film became a thing.
From what I remember of Dan Abnett talking about it, he said they had a lot of freedom to do whatever they wanted, because these were all C/D-list characters at the time. But once there was a film coming, Marvel ended their run so they could have a series that would be more suitable for a film audience.
I must admit it was all new to me, I have never read the Guardians comics, only heard from a couple of friends back in Spain that are very much into Marvel and DC comics in general.
The 2nd film is ok, but just ok for me. It has a few good moments, but it lacks the spark of the first one, definitely. I cannot comment on the other movies where they appear (Infinity War and Endgame) as I have not seen them yet.
I’m gonna be controversial and say I haaaaated Infinity War.
Endgame is great for two or three of the big events in it, but it’s not in the top 1/3 Marvel movies for me.
(Absolutely loved Ragnarok, Dr Strange, Avengers and Capt America 1).
Infinity War and Endgame are the same as all the Avengers films (and I include Civil War as an Avengers film) - they have some good/great moments, but as coherent, satisfying films, they’re severely lacking.
Of what I’ve seen, Captain America the First Avenger and Age of Ultron have been the worse IMO. I cannot hardly remember the plot of Ultron (besides a city or town being lifted??), and in Cpt America I nearly fell asleep.
That’s funny. I consider the Cap films to be the strongest of the character focused trilogies, despite the third one essentially being an Avengers film.
Definitely put The First Avenger above Iron Man 2 and Thor: the Dark World (which despite having seen three times, I can never seem to recall much about it other than the major plot beats).
Not sure if that’s controversial, but this reflects my thoughts almost exactly XD Infinity war is just a montage of fight scenes, and aside from being the linchpin of the whole saga, it doesn’t really do much Basically, I’d only recommend it to someone who was watching all of them.
Really though, guys, no love for Ant-Man? That’s the best one! Seriously, I think it manages to be funny without being dumb, in a way which the other funny ones (primarily Guardians and Ragnarok) don’t really pull of. Though I really like those as well!
Though if I were going to list the ones I’d recommend to someone not watching all of them, it’d be:
Doctor Strange
Ant-Man
Thor
Then probably Black Panther and Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 1 Those are the ones that really stand on their own to me. You can all resume, now, I’ve done my list
We finished the last season of Clone Wars. That final scene is just heartbreaking.
I am quite happy with the focus on story telling and plot hole patching in this series. They dealt so much better with the whole “everyone knows how this ends” thing than the prequels. Some great characters I didn’t know before (I only knew them from playing that stupid money sink EA game… which is weird because I had played tons of missions with Ahsoka before ever seeing her in Clone Wars)
We continued directly to Bad Batch which has been fun so far. They remind me so much of our old roleplaying group.
I also really need to rewatch Mandalorian now.
After finishing Clone Wars, I am wondering why r/prequelmems is so enamored with Obi Wan still…
We’ll probably watch EVERYTHING Star Wars at some point. Bad Batch felt like a direct continuation of Clone Wars though timeline-wise. We didn’t choose so much as let the last few episodes of Clone Wars choose for us
Watched that new release from Netflix on the weekend, Red Notice. Predictable, but enjoyable. I was in from the minute I saw who were the trio of stars. Last night I started RIPD, but fell asleep after 30-45 mins. In its defence, I was up at 5 am yesterday and it was a very intense day at work.
Basically, I’d only recommend it to someone who was watching all of them.
Seriously, I think it manages to be funny without being dumb, in a way which the other funny ones (primarily Guardians and Ragnarok) don’t really pull of. Though I really like those as well!
