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[175] Phoenix!
Because I wrote long, blathering entries about ASM2 and DofP, I guess I should also write one for the movie I actually loved without reservation, right? It's only fair.
It was so good. It was SO GOOD. I loved. Absolutely everything that it chose to be? Should probably preface things by saying I am wholly unfamiliar with the characters in the comics, maybe that affects things, I don't know and I don't care, IT WAS SO GOOD.
THE BIG OL' LIST OF THINGS WHAT I LOVED:
OKAY, that's enough gross gushing, time for the stuff I didn't like so much so as not to be a total Marvel zombie:
Um... that's all I've got, actually, THIS MOVIE WAS PHENOMENAL.
Notice to every hack comic writer who's killed off characters just to raise stakes or add consequences: Gamora, Drax, and Groot were all fine at the end of the film and it in no way diminished the intensity or emotions in the scenes where it seemed otherwise. Fuck you.
Random question time!
How can something at once be so touching (tough guys quietly bonding over their shared sense of loss) and so fucking hilarious (PET PET, DYING FOREVER)???
Loki's staff as a fourth infinity stone: Yay or nay? The argument for it is compelling, but I don't buy it.
Isn't Moondragon Drax's daughter, or am I misremembering my C-list Avenger lore? If she is, what does making Drax an alien here mean for her? I just really want bald bi space ladies, okay.
In conclusion, I want to be Star-Lord when I grow up, okay, goodnight.
It was so good. It was SO GOOD. I loved. Absolutely everything that it chose to be? Should probably preface things by saying I am wholly unfamiliar with the characters in the comics, maybe that affects things, I don't know and I don't care, IT WAS SO GOOD.
- Dat cast. I don't have a favourite. I can't pick a favourite. Every time I see a post about how Groot/Rocket/yo mamma is everyone's new favourite character, I'm like... "No?" They are all so great! I even came out adoring Drax, who I was 100% meh about going in. Who'd have thought that fuckin' Batista would be such a delight? Not I, said the Merr.
- Even the supporting cast was stronger than the mains in most blockbuster movies! Glenn Close being BOSS AS HELL. John C. Reilly and his adorable pink family. Lee Paaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaceface. AND THE REST. Still bummed about that one British Corpsman dying, tbh.
- All the cussin'! They really got the most out of that PG-13 rating, and it felt very 80s in the best of ways.
- COLOURS. That was the most vibrantly-coloured movie that wasn't a cartoon I have seen in aaaaaaages. A veritable feast for the eyes!
- DAT WORLDBUILDING. There was no bullshit exposition, no easing us slowly into this world, just BOOM. THIS IS PLANET XANDAR. THESE ARE THE SPACE COPS. FUCKIN' ALIENS ALL UP IN HERE, THIS IS JUST HOW SHIT GOES, OKAY. They didn't hold our hands while they established shit, just threw us headlong into this wonderful massive new universe and it was amazing.
- Little thing I loved: Yondu threatening people with his little whistle arrow but not actually using it until halfway through the movie so you get this belated realization of what a real threat it was all those times, as opposed to just whipping out a fancy space knife.
- The bit that struck me the hardest that I haven't seen ANYONE talk about: The bit at the Collector's with the fucking CELESTIALS??? I don't know what it is, but just something about growing up with movies where the X-Men are unrecognizable and Galactus is a goddamn cloud, seeing a fucking Celestial on screen, looking like it was pulled right out of a Jack Kirby drawing... chills, man, FUCKING CHILLS. I just keep thinking about it at random moments, far more than anything else in the movie, like DID THAT REALLY HAPPEN? It feels like a dream. A terrifying, wonderful dream (the Celestials have always freaked me out hardcore).
- The post-credits scene that will live in infamy. Such an amazing letdown, I genuinely loved it? Unliked the massive "That's it???" disappointment we all felt when they didn't announce shit at Comic Con, this knowingly jabbed a pin in all of that overinflated expectation and I laughed like a lunatic. Perfectly in line tonally with the rest of the movie, it was the best possible ending, even if I left the theatre all "countdown to someone bitching about Howard the Duck being introduced into the MCU before Carol Danvers in 3... 2... 1..." and was right on the money.
- As adorable as tiny!Groot was, the image of Rocket just putting a stick in a pot of dirt and carrying it around is still my favourite.
- Speaking of Rocket, was stunned at how immediately B-Coops established him as a presence in the film. Obviously this is mostly on the animation and writing, but after thinking about him as an afterthought in the casting for so long, he earned his place as one of the gang alongside Pratt and Saldana inside of maybe 10 minutes. It was p. impressive.
- It was strange. Unlike other Marvel films, I wasn't terribly invested in seeing where the plot went and how things turned out. I just... wanted to be watching it for as long as I possibly could. Maybe not coincidentally, it's also the first Marvel Studios film since the Avengers that I've had a burning desire to see in theatres a second time, and not just because my crowd was laughing so hard throughout that I missed a ton of lines.
- *insert lengthy string of endlessly quotable lines here*
OKAY, that's enough gross gushing, time for the stuff I didn't like so much so as not to be a total Marvel zombie:
- Nebula's motivations left a bit of a bad taste in my mouth. Hopefully she'll be able to shine more in future installments.
Um... that's all I've got, actually, THIS MOVIE WAS PHENOMENAL.
Notice to every hack comic writer who's killed off characters just to raise stakes or add consequences: Gamora, Drax, and Groot were all fine at the end of the film and it in no way diminished the intensity or emotions in the scenes where it seemed otherwise. Fuck you.
Random question time!
How can something at once be so touching (tough guys quietly bonding over their shared sense of loss) and so fucking hilarious (PET PET, DYING FOREVER)???
Loki's staff as a fourth infinity stone: Yay or nay? The argument for it is compelling, but I don't buy it.
Isn't Moondragon Drax's daughter, or am I misremembering my C-list Avenger lore? If she is, what does making Drax an alien here mean for her? I just really want bald bi space ladies, okay.
In conclusion, I want to be Star-Lord when I grow up, okay, goodnight.
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But maybe it's because I really like her in the comic right now and wanted MORE? She just came off as Green Zoe Saldana to me. >_>Like, if anyone asked my favorite, my answer would just be Not Gamora. I didn't hate her... I mean, I liked that she ended up being all moral and badass, but... she just felt wasted in a lot of ways.
Aaaand I think they've already said no about Loki's staff being a stone.
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And have they? Oh, good. I've seen people bandying it around like it's a confirmed fact all weekend and the inconsistencies have just never sat right with me.
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I WAS NOT EXPECTING TO BE PUNCHED IN THE FEELS
thankfully it made up for it with much laughter
THEY GOT MY DICK MESSAGE
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Loved everything else though.
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It wasn't a good thing, I hope they do better going forward, I still loved the movie, and I think people like dcwomenkickass are making me all paranoid that I'm a bad feminist for not despising and spitting vitriol over everything that fucks this stuff up. :E
LOVING IT FOREVERRRRRRRRRRRR
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