Joeblade

Everything tagged with “Guardians of the Galaxy”

  1. Guardians of the Galaxy

    After some of the more ponderous and overlong Marvel films, revisiting this was a breath of fresh air. Brisk, funny, dumbly charming →

  2. Guardians of the Galaxy 2

    I didn’t love it. →

  3. James Gunn’s Guardians of the Galaxy 2

    The joke that opens Guardians of the Galaxy 2, where the Guardians fight a giant monster in the background of the scene, out of focus, while Baby Groot dances obliviously in the foreground, is a joke you’ve seen before, in, say, Hellboy, or Men in Black, or the Q scene in a James Bond film. “Background chaos ignored by foreground character” is a dependable gag, but it only ever needs to last a few seconds. In Guardians of the Galaxy 2, it goes on for as long as the opening credits need it to, which is about five minutes. So, how much you’ll get out of the film may depend on how long you can stomach a joke for. →

  4. Guardians of the Galaxy

    Maybe the best sci-fi TV series pilot episode I’ve ever seen. →

  5. James Gunn’s Guardians of the Galaxy

    Part of the success of the Marvel film series comes from following the structures set down by much of contemporary TV: the Marvel films from Iron Man to Avengers Assemble are like the first season of a big-budget TV series with a story arc built through each episode and culminating in the Avengers getting together in the finale. Guardians of the Galaxy plays like that whole series concentrated into one film; it's a dense, colourful and playful piece that's just a little back-heavy and slightly forced. It isn't as sharp as Whedon's Avengers Assemble but it's certainly sharp enough. →