[QuickTidal]

We should have a thread on this by now.

Here is the first trailer.

And call me optimistic, but this looks great!

[Morgoth]

It does look pretty interesting, but I am worried about their choice of Director/writer. Do you know why they chose someone with such an embarassing resume?

[McLovin]

He was cheap?

Looks interesting. Of course, after AVENGERS I'm pretty much in for any Marvel film.

[Morgoth]

McLovin, on 19 February 2014 - 01:52 PM, said:

He was cheap?

Looks interesting. Of course, after AVENGERS I'm pretty much in for any Marvel film.

They've already started work on the sequel. One would think that if they have such high hopes they would og out of their way to get hold of someone capable of running the franchise.

Now I'm not saying the current director/writer is incapable of making a good movie, but his rather terrible resume makes me wonder why he was chosen.

[QuickTidal]

Morgoth, on 19 February 2014 - 01:16 PM, said:

It does look pretty interesting, but I am worried about their choice of Director/writer. Do you know why they chose someone with such an embarassing resume?

GotG is a space opera and CAN be a goofier sub-franchise within the Marvel U most often...so if I had to pin money on it, I'd say it's because Gunn directed SLITHER and SUPER....both films were successful at camp, while bringing a real life aura that is kind of hard to ignore.

But yeah, it could flop hard in Gunn's hands, since MOST of his resume is beyond goofy and into bad territory.

Only time will tell. GotG has the ability to either blow the Marvel Movie U wide open for the rest of the films (AVENGERS: AGE Of ULTRON and beyond), or it could knock them for their first real stumble. In that POV it's a really bizarre choice to allow Gunn to film a lynch pin film like this. BUT the trailer does make me less worried about it, as I like the tone he's hitting, especially with Peter Quill.

[Abyss]

It's got Rocket Racoon.
Standing on Groot's shoulder.
Firing a BFG.
To the first song of the Reservoir Dogs soundtrack.

I am going to see thing movie twelve times.

[QuickTidal]

I love the shot of Groot stooping to look through at the two guards as they talk about him. Him and RR are going to own this movie!

[Spoilsport Stonny]

I. Can't. Wait.

[QuickTidal]

Briar King, on 19 February 2014 - 05:31 PM, said:

I'm not familiar with this comic at all. This looks like a rather strange movie to me. How is it connected to Avengers?

I'm not familiar with much of the comic either...but...

THE AVENGERS post-credits scene features Thanos (whom is likely to be the big villain of the 3rd AVENGERS flick)....the green girl who is on the GotG team in that trailer (Zoe Saldana) is Gamora...she is Thanos' daughter. Star Lord (Peter Quill) is a human who left earth (probably in the 1980's, if that Walkman is any indication), and he leads this team of ragtag aliens who are both bad and good.

The Tesseract cube from AVENGERS and the Red Mist stuff from THOR 2 are both jewels/aspects of something called The Infinity Gauntlet, of which there are three more pieces (two of which are now in the hands of Bencicio Del Toro's "Collector" character in that post Thor 2 credits scene) and my guess is that GotG will deal with another jewel/aspect. I think that eventually Thanos gets the Infinity Gauntlet and with all the jewels/aspects of it present can wreak havoc on anything.

I THINK they eventually end up going up against Thanos with the Avengers together...and I also think that Stark even joins their number at some point in a Space version of the IM suit.

But yeah, it basically blows open the Marvel Universe wider to include more of Space that we've only touched on with Thor and the Asgardians so far.

This post has been edited by QuickTidal: 19 February 2014 - 05:45 PM

[Spoilsport Stonny]

The Interstellar Marvel Universe is bloated, but very ambitious. There are a number of incredibly powerful entities, like Eternity and Infinty, The Living Tribunal, The Watchers, Galactus, etc. that played a big part in elements of The Avengers in the 1970's, but also Silver Surfer, Fantastic Four, Adam Warlock, Dr. Strange, The Eternals, the Inhumans, The Starjammers (Featuring Cyclops from X-Men's father) and more. There are also the Kree and Skrulls, who play a big part in the Marvel comics, as well as the Shi'ar. It really expanded the comic book universe beyond the limits of Earth and opened up a bunch of other stories and plotlines which culminated in the 90's with The Infinity Gauntlet series, which I thought was awesome at the time. Very cool stuff.

How it works in the movie universe today will remain to be seen, but I like QT's theory.

[Abyss]

IM joining the GotG in the comics recently was a blatant and fairly hamhanded play for fan eyeballs because the GotG property hasn't been able to hold an audience since DnA left the floppy.

Hopefully the flic gives the comic a boost but to date Marvel hasn't exactly done a brilliant job of turning movie dollars into comics dollars.

Which is not to say the movie Tony Stark can't/won't show up in a future GotT film if it's successful, i just wouldn't hold my breath about them risking 'diluting' the Avengers property, even tho a GotG link to the eventual Thanos plotline makes total sense.

[Werthead]

Rocket Raccoon's solo run turned up as the backup strip to the 1980s Marvel UK TRANSFORMERS comic, and was great fun. Completely bonkers, totally out-there stuff that could be a movie or two by itself. So I'm down with Rocket appearing in a movie.

Sadly, his sidekick Wal-Russ (a walrus who fires LASERS FROM HIS TUSKS) does not appear to be present.

[Spoilsport Stonny]

Yeah I think that was the lead-in to the IG miniseries. In issue one, I think half the universe died as a tribute to Death, who Thanos was in loooooove with.

[polishgenius]

In some ways the Guardians of the Galaxy movie is almost necessary for the Marvelverse despite its relative obscurity. By that I mean that the usual 'in' to the cosmic stuff would be the Fantastic Four, plus their villains. But those aren't available, leaving a dearth of really obvious options to bring the wider universe into the films, and this kind of oddness is going to be a relatively easily sell if it's done even halfway right.


And yeah, it looks good.

[worry]

The only thing that gets me interested in this dorkfest is the fact that the guy who made Slither is behind it. The guy's a national treasure for that alone.

[Spoilsport Stonny]

Dorkfest: If I wasn't already on the list of guest speakers, I'd buy a ticket.

[blackzoid]

I've never fully understood the appeal of Rocket Raccoon, though I can get behind Groot oddly. In my opinion, Rocket Raccoon is the single joke of ,"Hey isn't it funny if a Raccoon was awesome and carried huge guns", it reminds me of Hit-Girl from Kick-Ass in some ways. "Imagine if a little girl was an awesome ninja"

Cosmo (the Telephatic Russian space dog) on the other hand is sheer genius and was the greatest character Marvel had going. Where is his film? Jettison Rocket Raccoon and throw him in there and I'd get fully behind this. Cosmo acted somewhat like a dog after all, whereas Rocket Raccoon is essentially a raccoon-shaped human. Not saying he isn't funny and can work, but he isn't appealing to me.

This post has been edited by blackzoid: 20 February 2014 - 01:50 PM

[D'rek]

blackzoid, on 20 February 2014 - 01:46 PM, said:

I've never fully understood the appeal of Rocket Raccoon, though I can get behind Groot oddly. In my opinion, Rocket Raccoon is the single joke of ,"Hey isn't it funny if a Raccoon was awesome and carried huge guns", it reminds me of Hit-Girl from Kick-Ass in some ways. "Imagine if a little girl was an awesome ninja"

Cosmo (the Telephatic Russian space dog) on the other hand is sheer genius and was the greatest character Marvel had going. Where is his film? Jettison Rocket Raccoon and throw him in there and I'd get fully behind this. Cosmo acted somewhat like a dog after all, whereas Rocket Raccoon is essentially a raccoon-shaped human. Not saying he isn't funny and can work, but he isn't appealing to me.

Even if all the Guardians' personalities are not much different from your standard comic book hero, I'd rather the characters physically be:

1. White human man
2. Green alien woman
3. Rust-coloured man-like alien
4. Tree
5. Raccoon

than the

1. White human man
2. White human man
3. White human man
4. White human man
5. White human man

that would match said "personalities"

[Obdigore]

McLovin, on 19 February 2014 - 01:52 PM, said:

He was cheap?

Looks interesting. Of course, after AVENGERS I'm pretty much in for any Marvel film.

This. I've not idea who the Guardians Of the Galaxy are, but i've not seen a Marvel film I didn't enjoy since they have started doing them again with new Iron Man and on.

[amphibian]

Abyss, on 19 February 2014 - 06:40 PM, said:

Hopefully the flic gives the comic a boost but to date Marvel hasn't exactly done a brilliant job of turning movie dollars into comics dollars.

I don't understand why you'd expect a huge and permanent boost in comic sales after movies. A sizable boost could be expected, but the going about of consuming a movie is much different from the going about of getting comic books monthly (or even finding the comic book store and figuring out which series to get among the many options).

The Harry Potter reading audience didn't exactly set the book world afire with their later purchases, even after the movies came out. The vast majority of people are always going to dip their toes in and then wander away.