FINALLY...My Review of "Guardians of the Galaxy"

Let me get to the point (for once): It was good. NOT GREAT, but good. Definitely better than my expectations. 7 out of 10.

Here's why it took so long for me to watch: So straight up the comics suck. When I first started reading comics, I picked up the series, because I was like "I like Marvel and I like Star Wars and I like Sci-Fi, so this has to be good"...IT WASN'T. This was considering I read the arc that made them popular, known as Annihilation. So of course I took a break until right when I heard they were making a movie...so I picked the series again, whereby they had a new team, currently consisting of Iron Man and Agent Venom...my high hopes for improvement were wasted: the story was hardly better.

Thankfully I ran into someone who watched the movie first and loved it. This person, then read the comics, and soon to have the same self-realization as I had experienced twice-over. The fact that this woman agreed with me, and still told me to watch the movie gave me the inspiration I needed. Also taking my friend Simon's file, also proved necessary. My critique of the movie is below; Spoilers ahead.

So the first hour was long and boring. First half honestly seemed to be going knowhere (GET IT, HAHA). Not great set-up at all, as I think it could have been done at a faster pace, and it would have gotten the point. Many scenes here had incredibly dry humor and fighting was mostly poor. Thankfully it got better in the second hour. Animation was clearly not-considered, and if anything over-done in the second half, which further proves my point that watching the movie was like watching LAME STAR WARS.

In terms of races and space groups, I was iffy. I am glad they introduced so many important groups in one movie. I was pissed thy never once mentioned the species of either Rocket or Groot. The Ravagers were not necessarily needed in the film, and I feel like they were too much like cross between cowboys and pirates...it was kinda weird, esp to take them seriously aside from their captain. They didn't establish enough Kree to really understand what they are as a species, as its not just Ronan the Accuser who is a fanatic. As to the Nova Corps, overall they were embarrassing, and practically defenseless. The fact that the Ravagers had more ships survive than the Nova fleet was pitiful. The Nova Corps should have had more weapons/tech, that also should have been comparable to Kree weaponry. Also, they showed too many Nova armors to not use it, which was also a waste.

Now main characters. Groot was okay, I hate how much they used him to show love, as it made the movie too much for family/kids. Rocket Raccoon was not as annoying as he easily could have been, thankfully. Gomorrah pissed me off, She was sexy as per her role, but they were equally too many loving moments, for me to take her character seriously.  She's foremost the galaxy's deadliest assassin. She did not seem that way as she never really killed anyone, got beat up easily, bartered too many times, and her final fight *SPOILERS*, she technically never won. Drax was good, overll my fav character. However he was not (and also Ronan) big/strong enough. Drax is literally supposed to be comparable in power to the Hulk. YUP: THE HULK. Thanos pissed me off, like a boss at first, but then told off like a loser in his second scene. Thanos doesn't take that, for he is Thanos. There would have been retribution, and I feel like he should have killed Ronan in the end. I also wish that they should have shown him use his raw power, just for the fact that the audience needs to gauge his weakest before seeing him empowered by the Infinity Stones (*cough* Soul Gems *cough*). Ronan was surprisingly badass. Usually he's the character you love to hate, since he gloats too much and then loses easy. In the movie, his intro is badass, his fights badass, and even his ending. I liked Starlord, but I just wish he didn't have the facial hair and was skinnier. I loved his showings of poor, but needed, but humorous team leadership and the fact that he was always the lead in humor. Often forced in comics, for the movie, it worked in the second hour. All in all, all characters had dialogue and mannerisms and backstory spot on to the comics, which I appreciated.

Now lets talk about the ending. I HATED IT. Yes, I like the interpretation that one Stone is enough to take out the average person...hence the purpose of the Gauntlet. I also like how it could kill you. But I DO NOT agree with the fact that the Guardians could collectively (SPOILER) survive exposure to the gems, and then somehow channel/redirect the power to kill Ronan...it was just overdone, and used as a means to have a happy team-up scene; altogether too obvious for my liking. If not for the ending, I would have ventured giving the movie a 7.5, if not an 8.

I wouldn't really recommend the movie, as again not one of my fav Marvel movies, nor are the characters that interesting for me. This is definitely also a set-up movie, which I hate, since there was no actual plot within this one movie itself. I am glad it remained true to the comics, and yet better. Glad I waited, as it was hardly worth seeing in theaters, and it got too much hype. Watch other movies people, this was good, but not the best.