Guardians of the Galaxy 3 is a fractured mess and easily the worst of the series
Guardians of the Galaxy 3 is a fractured mess and easily the worst of the series
Finally got round to seeing Guardians 3.... What a waste of 2 1/2 hours that was. I enjoyed the first 2, but 3 was just terrible. The "story" is awful. Numerous, cheesy, cliché bits thrown together here and there. Nothing interesting or very cohesive. Nothing ever had a sense of consequence.
Even the soundtrack couldn't quite save it (though was easily the best part).
"Written and Directed by James Gunn".
Good luck DC, you're gonna need it.
JulesWinnfield, what you’ve just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent post were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this community is now dumber for having read it. I award you no upvotes, and may God have mercy on your soul.
Interesting take. It is the only one in the series that I plan to re-watch. To each his own
Is it an interesting take? Nothing about OPs “review” actually talks about specifics. Seems more like he is fishing for people to echo his thoughts without offering anything of substance.
Yep me too
The problem as I see it is Gunn made lightning in a bottle with GotG 1. None of the characters were that smart, but they all had heart, and just over all it was just a good funny comic book movie. The charm of that specific team is they not too bright but they will get shit done.
So marvel decided to "Gunn" every single movie after that. Now all the characters are dumb. Now they all have to make even more quips after every single line. If you go back to the movies before GotG yeah they joked around, but it wasn't literally every other line. The recent movies need to do it as a response to anything a character says and it doesn't matter if it's appropriate or not. Because Gunn had dumb people laughing at each other, so now everyone must be dumb and laughing at each other.
Guardians 2 was alright. It goes too far into the dumb joke reactions though. But again that's who those specific characters are, so whatever.
Then Gunn makes The Real Suicide Squad (I can only guess it's because The Real Ghostbusters wasn't available). Lots of dumb villains on that team. There's a lot of heart in them though...
And finally there's Peacemaker. The show where not a single character has any intelligence. Every chamber is racked with morons saying stupid things and making fun of each other. It's funny, sure. But even Wallace is played like someone that can't process more than one thing at a time.
I like the guys stuff, but this is how his movies have progressed, and the other people making movies in the same genre are tripping.over themselves to be him. Now he's the show runner for DC. Will Gunn reload and make movies that fit the tone for each DC character? Or will every single character from Superman to Alfrid Pennyworth be dumb as rocks and all make fun of each other every other sentence?
That, my dear readers, only time will tell.
I'm so sick of the shitty joke one liners in marvel movies.... It went from cool and unique, to nothing but....
I think something happened after multiverse of madness that, I don’t know, broke the mcu for me. Everything that has come out afterwards just tastes, meh. Like, feels there are no high stakes, nothing is permanent, rules are arbitrary, the acting is, let’s be frank, not their best, and the CGI is what is exactly what you get from overworked underpaid staff. Please note this is my own personal experience. And my kids still can’t get enough of it.
For me, Marvel peaked with Endgame. This was the end of ten years of interconnected stories and it was a fantastic run. Everything afterwards now feels like generic superhero films. Superhero battles new bad guy. Multiverse doesn't interest me.
With the arrival of Disney+, there are television shows and films to follow and my wife and I have completely lost interest in the Marvel franchise. There's so much content and we don't find it interesting anymore.
But in saying that, we did see GotG3 as it was one of the film series we enjoyed and we wanted to see how it ended.
They peaked with IW.
All the characters gathered, all the threads joined, all the arcs converged, and the last act, perfection.
Endgame managed to put everything in the tank to just barely match EG, then snapped their series ultimate trump card.
We needed a 5 year break to be able to feel again after that, but, you know, money.
Multiverse is the dumbest cheapest excuse you can have for totally running any running series for exactly this reason.
Like. Congrats. Your characters matter as much as the ones in rick and Morty now
Yeah I agree. They could have in theory made the multiverse with some stakes in it. The Loki show did a good job with it imo. But after that I don't know if they fired a lot of writers or what, because anything that has to with the multiverse is just boring.
With how good the first run was (infinity saga) they could bank on two more main arcs. Multiverse should have been the third, or last, main story arc. Saving the universe just to turn around and say it doesn't matter because there's an infinite universes anyways is really weak.
Multiverse is a reset button. Not a second chapter.
I think I liked it more than 2 but it was nowhere near as good as 1. Agreed on the cliche and cheese.
I agree. I quite enjoyed it, despite being able to recognize it as being far from a masterpiece. The 2nd one however I actively dislike.
I thought it was okay and still more fun than a lot of the movies that come out these days but posts like this an articles like this seem incredibly time wasting to me versus a movie that I had fun watching.
It wasn’t a cinematic masterpiece, but none of the gotg movies were. It was the same low stakes high budget romp that you should have expected. Frankly, your disappointment is entirely on you for expecting filet mignon from a McDonald’s. My only complaint was that they didn’t quite wrap up several trains of thought and swept it all into a familial paradigm.
For me, it lost the “fun” part of what GotG should be. It has good action scenes but none of them were fun to watch.
Most marvel movies of the last decade have been like that for me, so I can empathize.
I liked it, but in a Love and Thunder sort of way.
I think of it as a fond farewell/send-off, rather than a stand alone part.
I personally liked it the most out of the trilogy. GotG 1 & 2 has always felt too goofy for goofy's sake and the "fun" felt kind of forced. This film brought some real depth and character arcs to Rocket, and really fleshed out Mantis and Nebula as well. There is also a dash of edge and anger that wasn't there in the first two installments, like their rageful arguments with one another, the fight scenes, and the head villain himself, which I appreciated.
That said it is definitely not perfect. I cringed hard at the opening scene with its choice of soundtrack. Way too on the nose and didn't end up going anywhere.
Guardians 3 was fun apart from the canned jokes. The real trainwreck this summer was Transformers.
The soundtrack was decent but used poorly. The songs barely connected with the scenes and it was like they were just thrown on top of everything else.
Agree - it's like they had a lot of decent enough component parts (music included), but it was all strung together horribly.
Thank you, you guys get it. It's like they hit shuffle on the soundtrack and put the songs anywhere.
Opening up with Creep of all Radiohead songs? What? And singing to it while strolling down the street? Who made that discussion lol.
And it doesn't really get any less cringe after.
So, qualitatively it was the worst of the series.
But I liked it, only because I like rocket and he finally had his story.
Gog1 was the origin, gog2 was all "starlord", but 3 had a better mix. Less gamora, who isn't really an interesting character usually, less starlord, who's basically just a self-centered idiot usually. Nebula got to do stuff, mantis really expanded, and rocket made sense.
The Marvel movies often focus on a few main characters when the supporting cast are actually more interesting, this was giving them that chance to shine.
I mean, that's definitely a fair opinion I guess.
I enjoyed it. It has an 81%/94% score on RT, versus 85%/87% for GotG 2 and 92%/92% for GotG 1, so I find it really hard to understand how anyone could find it particularly "terrible."
I think the High Evolutionary was a pretty good villain. We got a lot of resolution specifically to the Guardians and I have a hard time buying that it was inconsequential? Like, did we watch the same movie?
That is certainly a unique opinion. Imo it's a masterpiece, easily the best movie of 2023 and maybe even the best one in the series.
They made a third one?
I completely agree with you. I was looking forward to it, cause it had amazing reviews but when I saw it, it was just so disappointing. I was waiting when it finally starts and it slowly bored me to finding that it's already at the end.. Only think I liked was the Rocket's flashbacks.
I wouldn’t go as far as to say it was a waste of 2.5 hours but it was the worst film of the series.
It just didn’t have the fun aspects of the first two films for me.
I liked it a lot more than I thought I would. I haven't been a huge fan of the other two, so I wasn't in a rush to see this one. I guess Rocket's story connected with me on an emotional level more than the others did. Really enjoyed Chukwudi Iwuji's over the top High Evolutionary. Love a good over the top bad guy.
So yeah, my personal favorite out of the three.
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