Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017)

I just re-watched GotG 1 to prepare for Thursday. Can't wait. (I haven't read this thread in a while, and didn't read anything prior or after posting this. I just wanted to say it anyway.) This movie was pretty damn good in 3D. Little things like Groot's floating lights, and the Nova Corps trying to be a wall against Ronin's ship. It looked great.

Lanx said:

They should start with a real Chinese guy for starters, having Ben Kingsly Fu man Chu that shit was the second biggest Asian insult. Of course the worst is Tilda Swinden as the Ancient One.

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I agree. Just saying, Ben Kingsly could have made that work and he's a touted actor. Just thought that they missed an opportunity even with what they casted.

Wasn't to bad, first was better imo. 5 post credit scenes for those who didn't know, and those were pretty good.

Drax was hilarious in this one.

Saw this tonight, enjoyed it. Not really much else to say that other people haven't - music from vol 1 was better, story in vol 1 was a bit better, overall 1 is better but this is still pretty good and I loved the world building, humor, and characters/actors. Maybe a little too much baby groot but I don't really think so. If you liked GOTG1 you'll like this, if you didn't you won't like this one either. Time flew by, I usually have a tough time around the 90 min mark in movies (what can I say, twitch has ruined my attention span) but zero problems sitting through the entire movie here.

and yeah 5 total post credit scenes, worth watching em all so just wait until the final marvel logo

Ben Browder aka John Chrichton from Farscape makes a small cameo along with the other more recognizable ones, looks like a lot of setup for GOTG3

Almost as good as the first one. Not really enough 'fighting' I thought. There's a lot more dialogue, but felt like Drax and Gamora were more or less not used in terms of action. Definitely some good jokes. When Starlord gets his gift at the end, I laughed really, really hard.

Good movie. An extension of the first. Drax absolutely was the stand out star though. Hands down.

I was dying at

Muligan said:

The Mandarin should have been a homerun. I even felt they had the right actor and everything. I hope they find someone else and bring the Mandarin back in some way and completely eliminate everything 3 did but I don't think we'll see an IM solo film any time soon or at all.

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What'ya talking about Ben Kingsley/Trevor Slattery still is the best thing yet in the MCU and probably the entirety of Superheroe movies of the past 20 years.

I just got home from seeing this, and here's a quick non-spoiler review.

I've heard a few people mention that this movie isn't top tier. It was fucking great. I would say better than the 1st, but maybe it's because I had such a good time at the theater.

Every character had "holy shit, this is awesome!" type action moments. The exception being Groot, who danced. He's too small to have much action, though. They pulled it off in Ant Man, but in this movie, everything was large except him, so he was primarily there for comedic relief. The story was well done. The characters had incredible chemistry. I legit "felt" for them at various points throughout the film. The character, Ego, was very well done. His name matched his attitude, which helped. It also explained more of Star Lord's back story. Also very beneficial. As time passes, there may be some things that I'll likely stop remembering through rose colored glasses, but as of right now, I'm very happy and impressed. I have absolutely no complaints about this movie. Also, there's like 12 "after credits" scenes. All of them related to GotG, except the very last one. Still not a complaint. I loved the sound track, with the exception of the two songs that only played during the credits. And even that is because I didn't previously know either of them. The rest of the music was perfect for each scene. I'm very happy with this movie. It was long, but not even close to slow at any step. I remember the first one had 1-2 moments where I looked at my watch, realizing that it was long, but this didn't give me that feeling at all. As of now, the rest of this year has me looking forward to Spider-Man & Thor. Even the Inhumans IMAX release for September 1st. Then eventually Guardians 3. I wasn't expecting either of the a-list actors that showed up. They might have been spoiled in a trailer or imdb, but I haven't been keeping up since the very first trailer dropped a few months ago.

Lastly, the main boss battle sequences were reminiscent of Avengers 2 and the Ultron fights. This isn't a bad thing, but I think they really perfected the same fight style in this movie. A+, can't wait to see it again.

Malkav said:

I was dying at

Spoiler

Starlord : "You look like Mary Poppins"
Yondu : "Who's he? Is he cool?"
Starlord : "'Uh, yeah."
Yondu : "I'M MARY POPPINS YALL!"

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Saw it last night. Liked it a lot, as some others are saying the first one is still the better IMHO.

The first one was so memorable due to the fact that for 99% of the audience it was a total blank slate, and then was uber cool and awesome.

I laughed a lot, a hell of a lot, funniest thing for me:

That's the thing about the first one. It set such a high bar for the characters and Gunn that a second outing can be discernibly lesser than and still end up being a good time at the movies.

The cameos I noticed, and most of them I'd argue are sequel teasers