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The Anihilators only had a few adventures though. They seem to be defunct now.

Didn't Star Lord work for Ronan at one point?

Cosmo the Dog?

Anyone else see the Lloyd Kaufman cameo? Turns out the first movie the director worked on was freaking Tromeo and Juliet.

KalashnikovMarine wrote:Didn't Star Lord work for Ronan at one point?

Yes.

Frazzled wrote:Cosmo the Dog?

The Cosmonaut dog. He's in the movie(the dog in the Collector's collection). In the comics, he's a space hero. He has Telepathy and Telekinesis powers and was the Security Chief of Knowhere for a while.

 Platuan4th wrote:

KalashnikovMarine wrote:Didn't Star Lord work for Ronan at one point?

Yes.

Frazzled wrote:Cosmo the Dog?

The Cosmonaut dog. He's in the movie(the dog in the Collector's collection). In the comics, he's a space hero. He has Telepathy and Telekinesis powers and was the Security Chief of Knowhere for a while.

Still is, I believe? I'm fairly sure he was in the recent Nova arc that he was involved with.

Good dude


Looks like it'll end it's run with over $300 million... I'd say that's a success!
http://www.boxofficemojo.com/news/?id=3896&p=.htm

I saw it. I may be the only person on the planet that thought it was...ok. I kind of forgot most of it after I left the theater.

I liked Blue Earl though.

 whembly wrote:
Good dude


Looks like it'll end it's run with over $300 million... I'd say that's a success!
http://www.boxofficemojo.com/news/?id=3896&p=.htm

Well then. Pratt just became a pretteh cool guy in my eyes.

I think it was on par with avengers. Seriously. I've seen it twice and loved it. Rocket and Drax definitely made the movie for me.

 whembly wrote:
Good dude


Looks like it'll end it's run with over $300 million... I'd say that's a success!
http://www.boxofficemojo.com/news/?id=3896&p=.htm

I'd agree.

And Prat is quite cool. A ton of girls I know have posters of him from Guardians of the Galaxy. Though this is an art school.

He just seems like a kid that can't believe he is on this exciting adventure of getting to be an actor in these movies.

Finally saw it, and it was every bit as awesome as expected. Best starship battle since Endor, best use of music as a plot device since The Blues Brothers. Certainly the best sci-fi western space musical superhero movie I've ever seen. Absolutely brilliant, and I just can't see a flaw in it. On par with Avengers, Cap 2 and Thor 2.

Am I the only one who wasn't terribly impressed with Cap 2?
I mean, it was decent enough, but Guardians just blew me away. Funniest movie I've seen in a long time. Until I watched the Lego Movie on the plane to Angola anyway.

There has been a serious dearth of good, clean space opera both in theaters and on the TV recently, and this certainly blows the doors wide open for more of that stuff to be made.

Also, for some reason Star Lord/Chris Pratt reminded me of Crichton/Ben Browder in Farscape.

On another comic book movie note. Anyone seen the new Sin City yet? I sit good?

Guardians was slightly better, but Cap 2 hit all the right notes for me. Falcon, The Winter Soldier and the Cap-Widow dynamic were spot on, the plot was great and the action was very well done.

I do agree that Guardians was more Epic in a genre that had been lacking really, where Cap was a spy movie at heart, of which there are a lot these days.

Bran Dawri wrote:
Am I the only one who wasn't terribly impressed with Cap 2?
I mean, it was decent enough, but Guardians just blew me away.

There has been a serious dearth of good, clean space opera both in theaters and on the TV recently, and this certainly blows the doors wide open for more of that stuff to be made.

Also, for some reason Star Lord/Chris Pratt reminded me of Crichton/Ben Browder in Farscape.

On another comic book movie note. Anyone seen the new Sin City yet? I sit good?

I was bored to pieces by Cap 2. I was half asleep during the big action climax. I probably couldn't recall half the plot if you asked me. I've found I'm in the minority on it like you have, all but 1 of my friends loved it.

 Chongara wrote:

Bran Dawri wrote:
Am I the only one who wasn't terribly impressed with Cap 2?
I mean, it was decent enough, but Guardians just blew me away.

There has been a serious dearth of good, clean space opera both in theaters and on the TV recently, and this certainly blows the doors wide open for more of that stuff to be made.

Also, for some reason Star Lord/Chris Pratt reminded me of Crichton/Ben Browder in Farscape.

On another comic book movie note. Anyone seen the new Sin City yet? I sit good?

I was bored to pieces by Cap 2. I was half asleep during the big action climax. I've found I'm very much in the minority on that one too with my friends.

Cap1 bored me so terribly I'd rather have gone to the dentist then see Cap2.

Sin City reviews are pretty bad.

 Frazzled wrote:

 Chongara wrote:

Bran Dawri wrote:
Am I the only one who wasn't terribly impressed with Cap 2?
I mean, it was decent enough, but Guardians just blew me away.

There has been a serious dearth of good, clean space opera both in theaters and on the TV recently, and this certainly blows the doors wide open for more of that stuff to be made.

Also, for some reason Star Lord/Chris Pratt reminded me of Crichton/Ben Browder in Farscape.

On another comic book movie note. Anyone seen the new Sin City yet? I sit good?

I was bored to pieces by Cap 2. I was half asleep during the big action climax. I've found I'm very much in the minority on that one too with my friends.

Cap1 bored me so terribly I'd rather have gone to the dentist then see Cap2.

Sin City reviews are pretty bad.

I actually liked Captain 1. Captain 2 is a very different movie, with a different tone, different themes, different pacing, different setting. If you didn't like Cap 1, Cap 2 might actually be closer to your kind of thing.

Nothing about Sin City appeals to me. I watched parts of the first one and what I caught was just pile of nasty for the sake of being nasty, nothing of substance or merit to be found. From what I've heard its creator is a pretty awful person in general so I wouldn't expect much from anything that has his name attached.

Here's the similarity between Cap 1 and Cap 2, Fraz: Chris Evans stars in both. Seriously, they're night and day in comparison.

Isn't Cap 1 supposed to be a War Movie, while Cap 2 is more of a Spy Thriller?

Yes. They have different genres. Cap 1 is a WWII film, Cap 2 is a action/spy drama. I'm not a huge fan of Cap 1, but I love Cap 2.

 Frazzled wrote:
I saw it. I may be the only person on the planet that thought it was...ok. I kind of forgot most of it after I left the theater.

Yeah but you're ancient. You forget most things.

 Slarg232 wrote:
Isn't Cap 1 supposed to be a War Movie, while Cap 2 is more of a Spy Thriller?

I'd say Cap 1 is a "Longest Day" or "Heartbreak Ridge" type movie, but a little slower for a modern movie, because they are setting up the Cap character. Cap 2 is a nice combo of Jason Bourne and Die Hard

Yeah but you're ancient. You forget most things.

I had a point to make but I forgot it.

I LOVED GotG!

There are only a few things that I would have liked to see done a little differently.

Drax the Destroyer, in the comics, is much more of a badass than the movie version.

I mean, Ronan completely wiped the floor with him.. Really? I get that they needed to show Ronan as a formidable villain....but Drax is supposed to be a pretty formidable "hero" as well and besides tearing through the underlings, Drax wasn't that strong of a fighter (no pun intended).

http://marvel.com/universe/Drax
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drax_the_Destroyer

In comic form, he was based on "cosmic" power, not just brute strength like in the movie.

I mean, I get why they had to tone him down some...but...they really kind of neutered his character's powers.

That's really the only things that bothered me about the movie.

The only one that seemed especially powerful was the walking tree actually. The guy with arrow would have murderized all of them pretty easily.

 Frazzled wrote:
The only one that seemed especially powerful was the walking tree actually. The guy with arrow would have murderized all of them pretty easily.

I think that's the point; they were mostly just people who had to make due in the situations they were in (Also note how they talked their way out of most situations instead of just shooting).

My honest complaint was that Groot is TOO powerful.

Groot certainly got a power up, but the portrayal was so great I can easily forgive them. Drax and Gamora were both toned down a lot, probably so the non-superpowered Starlord fitted in a bit better.

It's the same issue DC will face with Batman alongside Supes, Wonder Woman and Aquaman, and eventually Lantern, I assume. All of them are league above him in the power stakes, and it'll be interesting (one way or another) to see how they handle it. They have to do something, as otherwise the titular Batman vs Superman fight will last all of, well, as long as it takes for Supes to swing a punch. The videogame Injustice did a good job with evening the power stakes, I wonder if the SvB film can do the same.

Heading a bit off topic, however I can see Kryptonite being introduced to Batman V Superman *by* Batman as a means of evening the odds... - Which may very well, go quite wrong once Lex gets a hand of it, Bats finds out Supes hasn't got some secret plan, they join up together against Lex, day is saved.


Although, I liked my original theory of the film, before they revealed the 'Dark Knight Returns' basis which had more Bruce Wayne Vs Lex Luthor competing to for the contract to rebuild Metropolis. Batman is doing detective work as something seems 'off' about Luthor, as is Clark Kent. Bats comes across Kent, Kent thinks Bats is a bad guy. Superman goes against Bats.

 Compel wrote:
Heading a bit off topic, however I can see Kryptonite being introduced to Batman V Superman *by* Batman as a means of evening the odds...

That is how he normally does it.

 Paradigm wrote:
Groot certainly got a power up, but the portrayal was so great I can easily forgive them. Drax and Gamora were both toned down a lot, probably so the non-superpowered Starlord fitted in a bit better.

It's the same issue DC will face with Batman alongside Supes, Wonder Woman and Aquaman, and eventually Lantern, I assume. All of them are league above him in the power stakes, and it'll be interesting (one way or another) to see how they handle it. They have to do something, as otherwise the titular Batman vs Superman fight will last all of, well, as long as it takes for Supes to swing a punch. The videogame Injustice did a good job with evening the power stakes, I wonder if the SvB film can do the same.

Well, Whedon found a way to keep Widow, Cap, and Hawkeye occupied while the heavy hitters...hit...heavily? And the JL comics have dealt with this for years. In the JL movie, Batman will just do his usual JL thing, which is be the brains of the operation and handle any sneaky stuff that needs to be done.

As for BvS, it's pretty obvious by now that the actual fight will take a lot of cues from their tussle in TDKR.