Darth Vader was charismatic? Intimidating, yes, but I wouldn't want to be within ten miles of him. I do agree that the Collector and Gamora got the short end when it comes to character development, but hopefully they'll be expanded upon later on. And Ronan wasn't a religious fanatic, he wanted revenge for the deaths of his family (sound familiar?). Yes, it would've been nice if he was more fleshed out, but that time was devoted to the actual Guardians (though less for Gamora, but, oh well). The Guardians needed to be the characters the film focused on, otherwise it wouldn't have worked. As for the Nova Corps, yeah, there really is no excuse for how bad they were at defending their home planet, but you could make the assumption that Ronan did have to fight through security off-screen, he just pile-drived through it because of the Infinity Gem. No, it's not in the movie, but it's a reasonable conclusion. The post-credits scene though, that I really have to disagree with. For one thing, Warlock's cocoon is briefly shown to be open, so yes, it seems like they're setting him up. And this Howard is not the one from the horrible movie, it's clearly different. And yes, it probably was just a joke, but personally, I loved it, so I'm fine. I agree that the film may be a bit overhyped, but it certainly was just as much fun as the Avengers, maybe more, so I'm willing to let it slide.
I'm a geek.
If I remember back to the first star wars movie...there wasn't much of a "larger than life" feeling to it. The universe grew during three movies. Neither were there so many more characters who were no basically human in it. There were a few (just like Gat G has Groot, a talking racoon and the head of some being), but most of them were also basically human with some stuff added to it. And what do you expect? The movie has to introduce all the characters and establish the characters...much like Star Wars created the basics and the built up on it, this movie did the same.
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A bit overhyped
I admit, this was the movie i was looking forward to the most(next to Gareth Edwards Godzilla), since i'm a space opera buff and i loved the various Marvel's space events made by the likes of Keith Giffen, Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning before they got screwed by the lackluster run written by Bendis(who decided to work on the Guardians just to promote the movie and little else). And i ended up having mixed feelings about this new movie of the MCU.
T He problems i have with the flick are the following:
1)The Star Wars comparisons are BS:It doesn't have the same larger than life feel of the SW movies(or the cosmic stories by Keith Giffen, Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning for that matter), the Tyler Bates score as nothing on Jonh Willians and Darth Vader has much more depth and charisma than Ronan.
2)The aliens are just cheap human aliens and Rubber Forehead Aliens.
3)The Collector appears only in one scene to give some exposition about the Infinity Stones, despite all the hype the character got.
4)Gamora was kinda dull and doesn't give the impression of being the deadliest woman in the galaxy.
5)The CG on Thanos face looked a bit off and Josh Brolin's voice wasn't really intimidating.
6)The villains:Why they gave to a great actor like Hounsou the role of a cookie-cutter henchman? Nebula does barely anything and her fight with Gamora was too short. And Ronan...hoooly ssshit why they pulled the Feige-Ray on us again so soon? Ronan here was just a one dimensional religious fanatic(because every villain must be compared to islamic terrorist nowadays 'MURICA!) with no redeeming qualities. What makes it cringeworthy is that he's a more fleshed out character in stories like Annihilation and War of Kings.
7)The post credits scene:They could have introduced Adam Warlock or Richard Rider but no, we get the duck from that 1986 movie reviewed by the Nostalgia Critic.
8) The Novas are powerless red shirts and why they gave them the Infinity Gem if they sucked so bad at defending their homeplanet from a single spaceship before the arrival of the Ravagers?
But for the most part, i really liked this movie, Pratt could be the new Robert Downey Jr. Groot is heartwarming, Rocket is crazy awesome and Batista really showed he can act as Drax.
I give the movie a 3,5/5.