Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (James Gunn, May 5, 2023) Movie • Page 32

My condolences for your loss.

 

Thank you. And I don’t mean to detail the thread with that part of it. I did post it in the mental health thread.

 

I whole heartedly say “fuck yea” to this.

 

Don’t know if this was posted before. But it would have been pretty funny for GOTG3 to start and they just never explain why Thor isn’t there.

 

I thoroughly enjoyed this

 

This was absolutely phenomenal, holy shit. I've made it clear how over the MCU I am on this site but I was always going to make an exception for this movie because the Guardians are by far my favorite part of it, and this could not have been better. Perfect balance of humor with heavy stuff, and not overloading every serious moment with shitty jokes like all the other MCU projects in the last few years. Genuinely really funny humor too.

I really loved how "edgy" this felt, it really didn't shy away from being super dark and violent. That hallway fight was absolutely incredible. Gunn knows these characters so well and it's so evident how much he cares about them, he really did an amazing job here and I could not be happier with this movie. Best Guardians movie, which I guess makes this my favorite MCU movie.

My ONLY complaint, and this is through no fault of this movie, is that all the Avengers shit between 2 and 3 makes it impossible to just enjoy this as its own trilogy, and that will forever piss me off. I would love to just kick back and marathon this trilogy one day but so many key plot elements happen outside of them that it wouldn't feel complete. Something tells me Gunn kind of feels the same way though

 

https://movieweb.com/james-gunn-ave...ant-set-up-for-guardians-of-the-galaxy-vol-3/

I don't know if this helps your case or not, but Gunn apparently wanted Infinity War to include more obvious signs of Star-Lord and Gamora's relationship because he couldn't find a place for it in Guardians 2.

 

Can’t remember where the thought originated (I think I first heard it on Blank Check) but Pratt as Kurt Russell a la Big Trouble In Little China is his sweet spot

 

I think that's just because the Jurassic World movies are really bad and nobody could have saved that role

Pratt is good, I don't care what people say. Maybe just my Parks love blinding me though

 

Parks feels like a lifetime ago for him

 

Pratt is a great doofus actor, even in something like “Moneyball.” Any time he tries to go serious, it shows how that just isn’t his bag.

 

This is probably the first movie where I thought Pratt was more than just servicable in dramatic scenes. Man put his all into that Rocket near-death scene

Also, not a very talked about scene, but Saldana KILLED it when she was yelling at the Guardians to drop her off before they went to Counter Earth and asking Quill what he was so afraid of that he needed Gamora back

 

Chris Pratt kinda peaked with Andy on Parks but Starlord is serviceable. Everything else with him is just whatever.

 

Round 2 tomorrow. Ready to be crushed again.

 

really loved this. probably my favorite standalone MCU film since Ragnarok.

favorite aspects were that it looked and felt like an ACTUAL movie compared to recent outputs.

 

this line wrecked me.

 

how good was Bradley Cooper in this tho fr

 

I'm not crying, you are.

 

Finally got around to seeing this. I really thought I was over the MCU, but this was so, so good. The whole Guardians trilogy are easily the best thing to come out of the entire MCU imo. I also echo the comments about wishing IW and Endgame didn’t have such vital plot points for the team, so the three could function a little better as a pure trilogy. I do like some of the results of all that, such as Pete having to come to terms with past-Gamora not being his, and Rocket and Nebula being much closer as a result of being the two survivors of the Snap.

 

Also Rocket and Bucky going back to back in battle made it worth it

 

High Evolutionary is still alive.

 

This moment was worth not having a fully self-contained trilogy, and having alt-Gamora.