Guardians of the Galaxy

This movie is probably going to have at least a tiny bit of "if green lantern hadn't sucked it would have looked a lot like this" running through it.

Rocket: "I'm just a raccoon! This isn't even a real mask, and it still looks better than the one Ryan Reynolds wore! ZING!"

Those animation tests of Rocket in the featurette were kind of adorable.

He's so fuzzy. He'd probably kill me for saying that though.

So... he's so fuzzy you're gonna die?

Using a real raccoon for animation reference probably has something to do with it.

Knew nothing about the Guardians before watching the trailers, and I'm kind of intrigued.

'Guardians of the Galaxy' sounds super 80s-cheesy, but the trailer makes me think they're going in a completely different direction, which is awesome.

Not even a raccoon can get me interested in a superhero flick. And I like raccoons.

Either something's wrong with me, or it's just really, really, really not my genre.

If you're not interested then don't bother watching. You said it's clearly not your thing so I don't know why you have such an issue with that.

That's the point. This is not a genre that I'm into, so I would think that any element that I do like within would be enough for me to at least give it a try. Heck, the tone of the trailer even suggests that it's comedic, which I can't say I have a problem with, since I like comedy. But my brain's still going "nope".

And the thing is, too, that I can't even really articulate why I don't care about superhero anything. Part of me wants to give at least something a shot anyway, but my brain gets stuck on "no, you don't like superheroes" and refuses to budge even when it realizes that it has literally no answer to "why don't you like superheroes?"

Is this just a neophobia/unfamiliarity thing?

edited 7th Mar '14 7:20:19 PM by Twentington

Sounds like you have a pretty deep issue there. I can't really help with that.

Eihter you're interested in something or you're not. You shouldn't force yourself into it.

Maybe watch a superhero movie? Because that sounds a little extreme. Have you ever actually seen one?

edited 7th Mar '14 7:29:13 PM by Zendervai

Yeah, I'm not interested in anything because I didn't get exposed to much of anything growing up. I guess that is a bit of a deeper issue.

How about this? Plan a day with a friend when you can see a superhero movie. Borrow one from your local library (if applicable) or something. That way, if you don't like it, you have someone to snark at it with and you only lose a couple hours. It's how I got my brothers to try out anime.

edited 7th Mar '14 7:31:36 PM by Zendervai

The only friends I have who are into the genre at all live way, way, way out of state. Livestream time!

edited 7th Mar '14 7:38:30 PM by Twentington

Start with superhero movies about people that aren't too different from normal sci-fi/fantasy action heroes like Robocop or Buffy (assuming you like sci-fi and fantasy). Iron Man would probably be a decent place to start. Blade isn't quite as good, but should be easy to swallow for non-superhero fans. I also know someone who hates the concept of superheroes but liked Batman Begins, which she considered to be a "decent action flick".

I think it would be fairly easy to view Got G as not even being a super hero movie. It really kind of isn't. If not for the Marvel logo, you could say that it's just a rather fantastical looking space opera, not unlike Flash Gordon or Buck Rogers (but with more surly raccoons and moral ambiguity).

So here's James Gunn with Oreo◊, the raccoon that Rocket is modeled after.

edited 8th Mar '14 5:43:11 AM by RockLeeYourFace

In Mother Russia, Gunn handles raccoon!

Oreo has a website.

edited 8th Mar '14 5:44:10 AM by RockLeeYourFace

So luckily it seems he's not the type of raccoon that think it's a bear.

More like "assuming I know enough sci-fi and fantasy works to determine whether or not I'm actually a fan of the genre". The few I've tried lately, I had no clue what was going on. For instance, I quit Firefly about 10 minutes into the first episode because I literally couldn't understand a second of it, and I at least made it through a full episode of Warehouse 13 but again, I was almost totally lost.

The only action flick I've seen was a few minutes of Speed at my dad's apartment about 18 years ago.

Like that makes it any easier. :-P

That's the overall problem. My knowledge of most given genres is so limited that I have no clue what I should be looking for or enjoying, or why.

You can't find your own reason to enjoy something about a genre?

If it's an unfamiliar genre, yes. Most of what I deal with is comedy, where I don't often have to go deeper than "Did this make me laugh? Yes? Then I liked it."

edited 8th Mar '14 10:54:36 AM by Twentington

Couldn't you simply go "Did I enjoy this?" or "Was I entertained while watching this?"

edited 8th Mar '14 10:56:03 AM by TheSpaceJawa

So, you don't like superheroes or the superhero genre, and you have no interest in seeing the film.

Why are you here?