Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol 2

BMMachine wrote: »

well the big problem with this film is that it does nothing.

Could be said about any movie I suppose. I mean, it either entertains you or it doesnt. Its not going to do anything more than that, like make toast or fill in your taxes.

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.

A bit like saying a football match is just a bunch of guys running around for 90 mins. I thought it delved a lot further into the universe and had a clear plot flow from beginning middle to end. I found the interactions with Kurt Russell to be very suspensful and well acted, and couldnt see where it was going.

The film is riddled with too many characters and too much stuff going on which has little consequence.

Well maybe, but I happen to like those little vignettes that expand the viewers understanding of the world. I accept thats not for everybody and sometimes people want a lot of focus. I wouldnt say this movie was the worst offender on the too many characters/plot points though and I didnt have trouble keeping up, even having never read the comics.

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.

I strongly disagree with that. I thought the romance aspect was as good as the leia/han solo tension in the empire strikes back. It was fresh and well acted. I dont think its a spoiler to say there was no explicit nudity, if thats what you were looking for, but for me such overt sexualisation would ruin the cartoon/comic book feel of it.

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.

I suppose I shouldnt express a firm view on this because this was my first time seeing a proper iMax production. I found the whole thing looked beautiful on the screen and was genuinely squirming in my seat during some of the fast paced action scenes.

Maybe thats standard in iMax, but I felt the excitement of seeing a movie in the cinema that I havent felt since I was a kid!

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.

Id agree that Groot and the continuous references to the soundtrack/awesome mix were very self aware and I can see how you would be annoyed by them. I was happy to forgive them this because of the movies other qualities but yeah, it ought to have been toned back a bit.

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.

Im not a big fan of the other marvel movies but I thought the villain was good. It might cause problems down the line with the series, but I thought it was interesting. I mean, if you watch enough movies eventually every theme and plot will be repeated so truly original plot lines are quite rare. What is less so is when they present a novel spin on an old plot line, and I think they had sufficent novelty in this to distinugish it.

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.

I was in a packed cinema with lots of people belly laughing for this movie, and its not often you see that when the movie isnt specifically a comedy. Sense of humour is subjective but I dont know why you are so hard on it.