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Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol 2
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well the big problem with this film is that it does nothing. It has the same resolutions as the last film and our crew barely go anywhere or barely get involved with anything connected to anything else. In long parts of this film its just boring, sitting around on Kurt Russell: The Planet waiting for the action to come to them. The film is riddled with too many characters and too much stuff going on which has little consequence. This is a problem directly tied into the main issue of the film doing nothing as there is a complete lack of focus on the main plot which is instead subsidised by telling and not showing, a cardinal sin and just makes you not care. There is (as with all the Disney films) a complete lack of sexuality and everyone seems to be walking around like they have been castrated, anything that would provide emotion or context in this way (such as Starlords relationship with Gomorrah) is once again - told, not shown. There is extremely little to grab onto in this film, so little context for anything and its absolutely wafer thin.
It does have pretty colours and a big FX budget and explosions happen and all that but Im sorry, that is so run of the mill for todays films - they all have this, it doesn't score points for having spent a lot of money. The film itself does know its weaknesses and is fully aware of them, otherwise it wouldnt be distracting you all the time with a baby tree or cracking wise - anything to stop you thinking. The villain was again terrible as is the way with all these Marvel films and there was no stakes we haven't heard of before, no connections other than a hamfisted one with no emotional content. This is why I believe it is a fact that this film is garbage in my opinion cos films are subjective. There is nothing to it and elicits no emotional response and is bad story telling (literally that, telling ). All the derpy, repeatable and easily set up jokes in the world and all the cutesy aliens acting stupid in the world won't solve those problems, though they do serve their purpose well in distracting away from them.
Honestly would have walked out of the cinema but it would have been rude
(little did I know the person who I went with felt the exact same way and we could have avoided a lot of bother!)
2/10 (is that better than 1 out of 5?)
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ok - why was this film good?
Well, I can only tell you why I think it's good. You'll probably disagree.
I don't think this film does nothing. The focus of this movie isn't the plot, it's the characters and they are all developed to some degree. The familial bond between them is strengthened;Peter learns to appreciate what family he has instead of focusing on the family he doesn't have, Gamora is so scarred by Thanos's "parenting" that she only ever saw Nebula as competition and never as a sister which gives us a massive insight into her character and explains why she's the one Guardian who's least likely to open up. Although Rocket could give her a run for her money and we see him learn in this film that while he may be the only one of his kind, he's not alone. We'll have to disagree about there being too many characters, not every one gets an arc but I think the film manages to balance them all so that none of them are underserved; even that small moment when Mantis touches Drax while he's remembering his daughter and she starts to cry, it's a lovely moment that shows Drax as much more than comic relief. I don't really understand your criticism about the 'lack of sexuality', there is very clearly sexual tension between Peter and Gamora which is poked fun at throughout, I wouldn't call it 'told not shown' at all. Mantis revealing Peter's feelings is clearly a joke used to demonstrate her gifts, his feelings towards her have been pretty clear since the original. Peter and Gamora have a conversation about it where Peter tries to address the issue and she tries to avoid it (which perfectly fits with her character), again I don't think that's done for the audience's sake. You must have a very low opinion of the people who like these movies if you think that characters talking about something is an example of telling not showing, are characters not allowed talk about anything? Also worth noting that the first time we meet Yondu in this film, he's in a brothel.
I agree with to some extent that the villain is weak, I wouldn't go so far as to say terrible, and the plot lacks stakes but Kurt Russell is great (and holy **** the de-aging in this was as near to perfect as Marvel have come so far) and when you have such a large cast to juggle with, I think Gunn is right to put priority on character rather than plot, this was the case in the original as well. So, you might think this is a major flaw, I think it's the film's strongest feature. It's almost like the whole thing is subjective
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Nervous Wreck wrote: »I believe that's exactly the point. :rolleyes:
so what IS good and great?
this is where the problem really lies isn't it. And its definitely what I have the most issues with. I firmly believe that through modern communications there has become a mass distortion of reality and that how people identify themselves through culture, politics, society etc has become a lot more personal and I do not believe that is to the benefit of humanity - case in point: politics right now. And I think its the same for the film world. But I digress, probably a conversation for another forum or whatever and I am unsure of how much depth Im allowed to go into that kind of thing here but I would certainly like to converse about it more 0 -
so what IS good and great? this is where the problem really lies isn't it. And its definitely what I have the most issues with. I firmly believe that through modern communications there has become a mass distortion of reality and that how people identify themselves through culture, politics, society etc has become a lot more personal and I do not believe that is to the benefit of humanity - case in point: politics right now. And I think its the same for the film world. But I digress, probably a conversation for another forum or whatever and I am unsure of how much depth Im allowed to go into that kind of thing here but I would certainly like to converse about it more
Oh holy ****, we get it. You don't like the film,0 -
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so what IS good and great? this is where the problem really lies isn't it. And its definitely what I have the most issues with. I firmly believe that through modern communications there has become a mass distortion of reality and that how people identify themselves through culture, politics, society etc has become a lot more personal and I do not believe that is to the benefit of humanity - case in point: politics right now. And I think its the same for the film world. But I digress, probably a conversation for another forum or whatever and I am unsure of how much depth Im allowed to go into that kind of thing here but I would certainly like to converse about it more
Dude, it's a film featuring a talking raccoon, a tiny tree monster and a planet who can turn into a person.
Yeah, the film should have some substance and character development behind it, and I believe this film does. But you're clearly expecting something from this film that it was never going to even try to hit let alone whether or not it achieved it.
Films can, and in many cases should, just be fun and entertaining.0 -
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