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GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY VOL 3 (2020)
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On 5/4/2023 at 3:37 PM, media_junkie said:

So a too long film, that has a lot of potential great ideas that end up being half-assed and ends up following the MCU formula we have seen before.

Great!

Others seem to like Vol. 3 as a closure to the franchise. Though they feel Adam Warlock is a wasted character.

Time will tell what that means at the box office.

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On 5/4/2023 at 6:28 PM, Bosco685 said:

:popcorn:

 

On 5/4/2023 at 6:39 PM, media_junkie said:

Hope you enjoy it!

 

On 5/4/2023 at 6:59 PM, drotto said:

Scary that some of the projections are putting this only slightly ahead of Quantumania.

So I promise no spoilers. 

Here are the important things... 2hrs and 29 minutes in length and two end credit scenes that are kind of cool but it takes a bit to get there. 

Now for my no spoilers review. 

I loved it.  I genuinely did. I have been up since 3:30am.  Went to work early and left straight from work to make it to the theater in time.   It was a long day by the time I say in my recliner at the movies.  If this movie was in any way boring to me I would have dozed off.  By the time I was done, I was hoping for another thirty minutes.  

Any time a character was in peril there was a thought that this could be a death scene.  The stakes were high here as everyone knows that Gunn was leaving after this and this movie is his Marvel swan song.  We already know that several actors have said that this was it for them.  I can promise that you will be entertained. 

Bautista shines and once again demonstrates that he has comedic chops as well as sincerity that shines through his roles.   There are "sad" scenes as well as scenes that you will cheer.   There is an investment in these characters and this is because Gunn took chicken spoon and turned it into chicken salad when it came to a group of characters that no one really cared about twenty years ago. 

There are people that will complain about minor things but I honestly feel that is more of a reflection on their inability to enjoy movies for what they are.    

Basically, I walked away saying that if this movie causes problems on the CGC boards then maybe these movies are not for you anymore.  At 4:30 in the afternoon the theater had a lot of kids and teenagers in the audience as well as adults and a lot of people were laughing and cheering. 

 

I'm going to miss Gunn's Guardians, I will tell you that.  Hopefully some of them pop up in the future. 

 

Gunn "sticks" the landing.  It ends very well and the crowd will go home happy.

Or as @jaybuck43 would know a certain Canadian to say, "The crowd will go banana".

 

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Well I've thought of how to non spoilers a review, and no one asked me but lol

The characters plight really feed off and compliment the other traits of those in circumstances as they appear, it's called teamwork people. Discoveries are made that sometimes lead to something new, even by characters that present themselves as dolts. Many a brave hero comes of it and the end isn't at all a a bad thing. A closer of a film, while closure is in the midst, all to help aid and benefit as a team to new things. .

If that sounded like a riddle, better that than cryptic haha. Basically it is a movie of learning to live and with each other, and to be a guardian of the Galaxy, retrospect these are the things that made the other movies great.

Although if this one doesn't "move you" it could be the time between films, but it has all the same elements that drew on each other for support and to compliment 🙏

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On 5/4/2023 at 8:47 PM, Xenosmilus said:

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I liked it. It was my least favorite of the 3 but that doesn't mean it was bad. It was defiantly the best out of Phase 4/5. That said, the rewatchability is low but it had it's momments.

Ya last I watched was vol 2, been too long between movies, as I didn't watch the Christmas thing.

That said I was wondering where it was heading, I laughed when others didn't and vice versa, so idk how I could make it 'better" didn't fall flat though, was although my least favorite. I still think some would enjoy it. It's better than a popcorn movie. 

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Just got back from the theatre. I liked it a lot. The haters are just projecting. It’s a good film. Only complaint is there are a few short scenes that I felt they could have done without.

 

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Hoping Warlock “grows up” and is used more like the comic character in future films. They did a better job explaining that he was a bit premature when his mother explained to the High Evolutionary that he had taken him out of his cocoon too early and that he was still a child. With that said, his behavior the rest of the film made more sense. 

 

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(thumbsu thumbs up

very enjoyable, it moved me and that's all I can ask for out of a comicbook movie 

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Ouch, if accurate- EDIT: it wasn't, did $17.5M (including Wed IMAX trilogy) matching A-M:Q

Distribution sources are telling us that Disney Marvel Studios’ final James Gunn movie, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, is doing around $14M in previews. As we always say, that can go higher or lower by the morning. Thursday previews kicked off at 3PM, and there were 100 Imax shows on Wednesday. Note, these figures do not come from Disney.

Compare to: DS:MOM $36M, T:L&T $29M, BP:WF $28M, A-M:Q $17.5M

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On 5/4/2023 at 9:08 PM, ADAMANTIUM said:

 

Although if this one doesn't "move you" it could be the time between films, but it has all the same elements that drew on each other for support and to compliment 🙏

 

On 5/5/2023 at 1:11 AM, Azkaban said:

(thumbsu thumbs up

very enjoyable, it moved me and that's all I can ask for out of a comicbook movie 


lol😂 I didn’t want to be the only one to say that.  There are a few scenes that gave me the “feels”.   There were quite a few poignant moments. 

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On 5/4/2023 at 6:47 PM, Xenosmilus said:

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I liked it. It was my least favorite of the 3 but that doesn't mean it was bad. It was defiantly the best out of Phase 4/5. That said, the rewatchability is low but it had it's momments.

Agree with this take.  It's the worst of the 3, but to me, that's like saying "which is the worst of the first 10 Pixar films".  They're all good when compared against other movies, but compared amongst themselves, there's always a winner and a loser.

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I really enjoyed the Rocket back story.  It was predictable, but emotional none-the-less.  I did not enjoy the use of Warlock.  In the comics, he's a very serious character.  Here, he's merely a child.  The character didn't do anything to advance the story and could have been omitted completely.

 

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I saw it last night, and I liked it.

That said (and maybe I'm becoming a grumpy old man), but I really can't stand the theater experience any more. People constantly talking during the entire movie - and it appears whispering is no longer a skill most people have - people shouting things out that they think are "funny additions" to the movie, and just people being clowns in general really detract from what used to be one of my favorite things to do: seeing a movie at the theater on opening day. I still go to many of these because I hate having things spoiled for me online, but I wish there was some sort of premium streaming service where you could pay to watch new releases from the comfort of your own home.

Anyway, rant over. Now get off my lawn!

 

As for the movie itself (don't open this if you don't want spoilers):

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I liked it from an overall story standpoint, and I thought there were some funny moments and some touching moments. I don't think it really did anything to "advance" the MCU, but sometimes a story is just a story, and it doesn't have to play too heavily into the entire, overarching universe.

I had a thought at the end that they could have done which would have been both gimmicky but also pretty novel:

Given the idea of the Multiverse in the MCU, I thought it could have been cool if they released the film with two different endings: the one we got, and a darker one that would be the opposite, where at least one of the characters dies. You film the two endings and release the movies, but it's completely random depending on what theater you watched the movie in as to what ending you get. In a sense, manufacturing a "Mandela effect" for movie goers (at least for a short time until everyone caught on), and playing into a Multiverse where there can be several different outcomes to events.

Probably a logistical nightmare, but I thought it could have been a cool idea.

 

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