Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 - May 5th, 2017

[Wor-Gar]

Yondu was an ugly man ....

 

[Khev]

Finally someone gets it.

I don't think I was quite as soured on it as you, Khev.

I suppose my review comes across pretty harsh but I'm not ticked off or anything. It really was the movie as advertised in the trailers. I guess I was hoping for something more. You were right about it going on for far too long, especially with how repetitive and uninspired the comedy, visuals, and action were and the unearned "feels", at least for me. And I was constantly reminded of when Austin Powers first woke from his cryo-sleep and was having difficulty controlling the VOLUME OF HIS VOICE! Because that's what everybody did the whole movie.

 

[Wor-Gar]

Yes, un-earned... and conveniently placed. Between songs no less.

It's funny that everyone loves the music. Of course, they're great songs. But I thought they were better integrated in the first. Here, they made themselves known. And often played too long. The great segues became stars in their own right.

 

[jye4ever]

See I loved the ship laser visuals during the climax it was so very Shin Godzilla like lol.

I enjoyed the comedy more in this one but it also made me enjoy part 1 a little more now.

 

[Khev]

A million enemy spaceships show up and open fire! And everyone of them misses. Then Rocket presses a button and a hundred lasers shoot out of their ship and vaporize the entire alien armada. Yawn.

EDIT: Oops, just saw your previous post. Sorry jye.

 

[Wor-Gar]

I hated the whole video game Ayesha stuff.

Have the hots for Debicki though. My new thing since Man from Uncle.

 

[Khev]

Oh and SNIKT1950 lied about no shifting aspect ratios. LIED! This movie had changing ratios galore, even with tons of 3D gags of objects "coming out of" the letterboxing (Yondu's arrow, the Ravager ship, and then his ashes at the end) for the non 1.85:1 scenes.

But anyway, I'll leave everyone else to their GOTG2 lovefest if that's the general consensus.

 

[Wor-Gar]

Oh and SNIKT1950 lied ... LIED!

That shouldn't be shocking.

 

[batfan08]

Yondu death feels >>>>>>>>>Jyn death feels

 

[jye4ever]

Oh and SNIKT1950 lied about no shifting aspect ratios. LIED! This movie had changing ratios galore, even with tons of 3D gags of objects "coming out of" the letterboxing (Yondu's arrow, the Ravager ship, and then his ashes at the end) for the non 1.85:1 scenes.

But anyway, I'll leave everyone else to their GOTG2 lovefest if that's the general consensus.

While I enjoyed it for what it was I feel like it's just too much backstory on characters I can live without.

If Thanos doesn't thin out the herd in IW I will be very frustrated lol.

 

[Wor-Gar]

While I enjoyed it for what it was I feel like it's just too much backstory on characters I can live without.

That's probably the best way to put it.

 

[Khev]

Holy crap batfan08, I just read the review you posted right before mine and my post plays like I was literally trying to just be snarky and say the opposite of what you did! That's not the case though, that's cool that the movie worked for you the way it did, I wish it did for me but obviously that just was not the case.

 

[jye4ever]

Yondu death feels >>>>>>>>>Jyn death feels

See I don't agree, I think hers and Cassians's death were well earned as was Yondu.

 

[Darth Snoopy]

Well I guess I'm the party pooper so stop reading if you really loved this film.

Spoiler

One of the biggest "go through the motions/check all the boxes" productions I've seen in at least the last decade, possibly longer.

To me this film was made by a guy who set out to make a movie that:

1. Makes you laugh
2. Makes you cry
3. Makes you think he's super hip and cool in how he did it

For #1 I did chuckle a couple of times (mostly at Rocket), #2 nope and #3 absolutely nope.

I found the jokes to be mostly tired and repetitive and the type of thing you'd see in the last half hour of an episode of Saturday Night Live. As soon as Baby Groot was told to get Yondu's fin and he came back with something else I *knew* they were going to beat that gag into the ground having him come back over and over and over with the wrong thing. You know that old sentiment "it's only funny the first time?" Well it wasn't even that funny *on* the first time.

The visuals were repetitive too. I found it quite boring to watch Yondu's arrow kill an entire army's worth of bad guys just so we could listen to a cool song in its entirety. He whistles and his magic arrow somehow finds everyone. I get it. I don't need "Yondu's arrow, the full length MTV video." The one 3D visual of all of them falling was very cool though.

I didn't think any of the drama was earned. Gunn's formula seemed to be joke, joke, joke, try and make you cry by having two people yelling at each other suddenly get choked up mid-sentence, joke, joke, video game orgy, joke, 30 minute Yondu funeral (wth?), credits.

Fighting aliens arcade game style was just done in "Pixels," (complete with giant chomping Pac-Man!) Star Lord's battle with his dad was just two guys flying around like MOS again, we got more "Suicide Squad" action with mortals holding their own against a god (for real this time!) and what was a bit embarrassing was remembering how people mocked SS for using "Spirit in the Sky" but then GotG2 comes right back and once again mines from Pixels by closing their credits with Cheap Trick's "Surrender." Ugh, the freaking inbreeding of all these films.

And then Gunn going full "Spock's death" from Wrath of Khan with Yondu complete with gratuitous space coffin farewell and in true GOTG2 fashion a completely random and bizarre "Ravager funeral" that went on far too long with more unearned cameos than you could shake a stick at.

And Stan Lee absolutely is the "Wilhelm scream" of the MCU. Just stop, it's not funny or cool anymore. When the Watchers were walking away from him while he was unsuccessfully trying to be funny I wondered if they were supposed to be a metaphor for the audience leaving the theater because I felt their pain as I rose from my seat.

All IMO of course.

As I read your post, I pictured seeing you like this...

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[batfan08]

See I don't agree, I think hers and Cassians's death were well earned as was Yondu.

Spoiler

Shhhhh...I'm just busting balls. I loved me some Jyn Erso and any universe without Felicity Jones is a universe not worth living in.

 

[Wor-Gar]

I like Jye's simple terms:

too much backstory

indestructible rubber people

 

[batfan08]

Holy trap batfan08, I just read the review you posted right before mine and my post plays like I was literally trying to just be snarky and say the opposite of what you did! That's not the case though, that's cool that the movie worked for you the way it did, I wish it did for me but obviously that just was not the case.

Nah, I didn't read it that way. Though, now that's you mention it, they are pretty structurally similar. I'm sorry you didn't enjoy it more.

 

[jye4ever]

Spoiler

Shhhhh...I'm just busting balls. I loved me some Jyn Erso and any universe without Felicity Jones is a universe not worth living in.

True dat!

I like Jye's simple terms:

too much backstory

indestructible rubber people

Yeah i'm in no rush to go see it again but more than likely I will buy it since I have the 1st, the 3D and because they will be in IW.

I guess all that backstory will come in handy in IW.

Now Kong I will not buy lol.

 

[Khev]

As I read your post, I pictured seeing you like this...

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What? You were supposed to think of *this* guy:

 

[DiFabio]

Yondu > Jyn and Cassian

Spoiler

I haven't even seen the movie.