Its possible Gunn changed his mind AFTER they showed him the outline of IW (and Gamora's fate), but this shows his talent as a writer and storyteller in a cooperative environment. He knew and understood that he wasn't the only cook in the kitchen and needed to flex his story to fit.
He also NEVER COMPLAINED about having to change things around, never bitched about his vision being interfered with. He went "Okay lets see what we can do with this" and made something better.
This is why I have high hopes for his new DC job
I have complex feelings about Variant Gamora.
I hate the way we got her. Ego killing Gamora would have sucked but Thanos doing it isn't any better. Either way, a character is being erased so some guy can feel bad for two minutes. Both options are trash.
But I love Variant Gamora as a character. Gunn seems to have listened to all the criticisms of how he wrote Gamora. He seized the opportunity to take a mulligan on this character and deliver a portrayal that's much more in line with the Deadliest Woman in the Galaxy that she's supposed to be.
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.That's one thing about the way that the HE was written.
Because he's intentionally written to be pathetic, it meant there was a pretty big dearth of action setpieces that I actually enjoyed in the movie. I know most people don't watch Marvel movies for the action anymore, but I still found it pretty dissapointing.
Edited by GNinja on May 10th 2023 at 9:36:16 AM
Kaze ni Nare!Yeah, elements of the film probably operated closed to a disaster movie than an action movie. We can see that by how the emotional climax wasn’t about betting the bad guy, it was about saving beings from the big explosion.
The first bit of the film is similarly non-action focused, it’s more a heist movie till they get the code.
Edited by Silasw on May 10th 2023 at 10:33:48 AM
“And the Bunny nails it!” ~ Gabrael “If the UN can get through a day without everyone strangling everyone else so can we.” ~ CyranJust came back from it I will admit it is probably the best movie Marvel's had for ages looking at dispassionately but that's rather grudging as I'm not really a huge guardians fan.
There's something about the humour and style that doesn't click for me. I also laughed inappropriately at the 'not yet' bit in the near death experience because you just knew that was coming.
I also not a fan of explaining each other's character and character development by shouting exposition on it to each other.
Adam Warlock was rather underused feels like they wrote that stinger last time with nothing planned.
That said it was still massively entertaining and everything i've not complained about was basically fine. The corridor fight scene was a real standout and they gave everyone at least a little bit to do.
And of course I welled up at nearly all the appropriate moments with Rocket.
Edited by dcutter2 on May 10th 2023 at 11:19:52 AM
Edit: Adam Warlock from what I remember is basically like the wise wizard who has to deal with an evil side, the Magus.
In the Dn A Guardians run that he's a member of, he convinces Quill to form the team because Adam can sense these space-tears and is the only one who can repair them.
So the film depiction is kinda in name only especially since he doesn't do magic, more just blasting energy.
Edited by slimcoder on May 10th 2023 at 6:36:15 AM
"I am Alpharius. This is a lie."Okay, is HE being used as an abbreviation for High Evolutionary, or Adam Warlock (AKA Him)? I'm actually really lost.
regulation pigeonMovie Adam is more like Adam's early continuity where he was a big dumbass desperately searching for a purpose in life. That's the stage of Adam's life where he interacted with the High Evolutionary most so that's probably why he's characterized like that. And/or for comedy.
Weirdly enough, Warlock's first solo book has him as a blatant Jesus metaphor and the High Evolutionary was god sending Adam to redeem (Counter) Earth by being killed by a satan allegory.
Adam's early material is weird.
Forever liveblogging the AvengersYou tell me a comic book character who's early material (or even later material) wasn't weird, then I'll be shocked.
Seems to hit cosmic characters especially hard.
Rocket and Star-Lord's early material is extra bonkers.
Edited by Bocaj on May 10th 2023 at 10:29:03 AM
Forever liveblogging the AvengersI would expect Rocket Racoon to have some pretty insane early adventures.
Been a cyborg Racoon will do that.
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I don't know how to feel about that. On one hand, it's nice for Variant!Gamora to not be token love interest for our white male lead and actually be her own group she's cool with.
But she's essentially an entirely different character.
And it doesn't change that the original Gamaora got Stuffed into the Fridge to give Thanos and Peter man pain.
A lazy millennial who's good at what he does.