(Dir. James Gunn 2017)
Rated PG-13 After the first Guardians of the Galaxy came out it took me a while to get around to watching it. I ended up watching it with my family, but I didn't play all that much attention to it. I think that's an issue me and watching superhero movies, unless it's in a theater it just doesn't catch my attention enough. Even movies that I really like when I see in theaters, like Wonder Woman, when I get them on DVD its just not the same. I think it's partially because so much of these movies revolve around spectacle and the theater adds to that. Maybe it's because I didn't see it theaters, but I never really got into Guardians of the Galaxy. I liked the second movie better than the first, but I still wasn't in love with it or anything. I think part of the reason is that in the second movies the characters were established and I didn't have to trudge through all the origin stories. That being said I thought the characters in this movie were just flat. There just wasn't much depth or change to them. The overall lesson of this movie was the characters realizing that the team was all the family they needed, and that was basically what the first one was. The movie was just so focused on the action that I think they missed out on a lot of character interactions. One thing that really bothered me in this movie was Drax. Maybe I'm just misremembering from the first but I felt like his character changed a lot with zero explanation or cause. In the first movie he was a humorous character, but that was more through his abject literalness than any real attempts on his part. In this movie it seemed like they were trying to make him a much goofier character. Also he seemed to just totally forget about his family most of the time. You know, the one he spent the entirety of the first movie trying to avenge. They get brought up in this, but most of the time he seems to have totally forgotten them until he gets real serious for a moment and then just drops it again. The main selling point of Guardians of the Galaxy is its visual and sound aspect. They've never been super deep in terms of plot, but with the music and action they're fun to watch. They lose a lot of character development to them, but man are the fight scenes cool. When Rocket is protecting the camp and they go through the scenes of all the defenses and people are getting launched around, I gotta admit it's pretty funny. The opening of the movie I think characterizes these films really well. Groot dances to well chosen music while there's chaos in the background. There's zero true character interaction, but it looks and sounds amazing. These movies are all about spectacle and I think they do that well. I just wish there was more substance to them.
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Aubrey KirchhoffI'm just screaming into the void and somehow getting graded on it. Archives
April 2018
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