Guardians of the Galaxy

Some behind-the-scenes stuff and a bit of Groot animation. Man, at 28 seconds, I am digging the look and motion of those doors. I love how much physical stuff they've built for it.

edited 16th Apr '14 7:08:21 AM by edvedd

Hey, you guys think the Guardians will get those uniforms they usually have in the comics by the end of the movie?

Also, that Star Lord helmet looks ultra-kickass. Does anyone feel a Darth Vader or Optimus Prime vibe to it?

And was Star Lord wearing what they call a Badass Longcoat?

edited 28th Apr '14 6:27:06 PM by TargetmasterJoe

No, probably not. I think the closest thing to a uniform are the red outfits they're wearing.

I think these are the uniforms they're gonna be wearing.◊ They're not bad, but I'd like comic-style blue-and-red ones in a sequel.

Nope. "How can we have as few, and as muted, colors as possible?"

"Hmmm, Raccoons are mostly different greys, and trees are mostly different browns, have we got any properties with a raccoon and a tree in them?"

"Yes actually... we have-"

"Brilliant, I'll give you two hundred million and James Gunn to make a movie where the audience praise us for using muted colours for a change."

That picture is so brown that even Drax, who is green, looks brown.

It does look like they're going for a more 'lived-in' universe.

edited 28th Apr '14 8:32:47 PM by edvedd

I thought Drax was more reddish-blue in the film.

No, it's fairly greenish.

Green with Reddish markings.

New trailer: http://io9.com/new-guardians-of-the-galaxy-trailer-is-sensational-1578551996

"Spirit in the Sky"?! Oh my God I can't stop laughing.

Feels kind of awkward. There's a lot of in-universe "LOOK HOW WACKY AND OUTLANDISH THIS IS," even though the movie itself doesn't seem to be doing anything especially unconventional. The action and the humor both look very safe and very typical for Marvel movies at this point.

Given Marvel's current track record, this is a very good thing, so long as you're not the kind of person that hates all of Marvel's other movies thus far.

Most of Marvel's movies so far have been pretty solidly average, with the exceptions of the first Iron Man, The Avengers, and Captain America The Winter Soldier, which were very good. The achievement that sets them apart from DC, Fox, and Sony is that none of their superhero movies have been really bad. (Well, that and creating a big combined universe, obviously.)

Due to the size of the movie franchise, and the proliferation of superhero movies generally, this means the average ones start to feel rather generic.

edited 19th May '14 8:53:11 PM by WarriorEowyn

Which is why it's always a pleasure to let someone with an outsize vision take the helm for this kind of thing.

12 billion people seems really small for a whole galaxy, unless it's just the population of one planet.

Probably just a planet. The editing make it sounds she was talking about the Galaxy (since the Guardians were "just" talking about it), but trailers rarely give the accurate context for any given situation.

For someone who so rarely watches movies, and so rarely comes across trailers on TV somehow, I seem to speak fluent "Never Trust a Trailer". This looks like it'll be comedic, and it has a freaking raccoon. That's all I need to know.

And the giant disembodied celestial head known as Knowhere.

Sadly, it seems unlikely we'll see Cosmo, but I suppose they have to save something for future movies.

edited 20th May '14 10:25:50 AM by TheSpaceJawa

Yeah, I was kinda hoping for Cosmo as well, but seeing how packed this movie already is, I don't have high hopes for him showing up.

But, like you said, there's always hope for a sequel, and maybe we can get Warlock and Phyla-Vell in it, too.

It'd be cool if Uatu shows up. He doesn't actually do anything, and nobody draws attention to him, but if you pay attention to the background of big, climactic scenes you might see him. Watching.

I'm working under the assumption that Stan Lee is the Watcher.

That... is my new headcanon.

I heartily approve of this headcanon.

Even if Stan Lee isn't present in Guardians of the Galaxy. I can still imagine he's present in a background scene somewhere.

Stan Lee shouldn't be present for Guardians. He's the Watcher for Earth and its system. Other solar systems have their own Watchers.