Finally got round to seeing Guardians 3… What a waste of 2 1/2 hours that was. I enjoyed the first 2, but 3 was just terrible. The “story” is awful. Numerous, cheesy, cliché bits thrown together here and there. Nothing interesting or very cohesive. Nothing ever had a sense of consequence.
Even the soundtrack couldn’t quite save it (though was easily the best part).
“Written and Directed by James Gunn”.
Good luck DC, you’re gonna need it.
JulesWinnfield, what you’ve just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent post were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this community is now dumber for having read it. I award you no upvotes, and may God have mercy on your soul.
Okey dokey then.
I’d say it’s your post more then his…
Sounds like you don’t get the reference.
Interesting take. It is the only one in the series that I plan to re-watch. To each his own
Is it an interesting take? Nothing about OPs “review” actually talks about specifics. Seems more like he is fishing for people to echo his thoughts without offering anything of substance.
Yep me too
I think something happened after multiverse of madness that, I don’t know, broke the mcu for me. Everything that has come out afterwards just tastes, meh. Like, feels there are no high stakes, nothing is permanent, rules are arbitrary, the acting is, let’s be frank, not their best, and the CGI is what is exactly what you get from overworked underpaid staff. Please note this is my own personal experience. And my kids still can’t get enough of it.
For me, Marvel peaked with Endgame. This was the end of ten years of interconnected stories and it was a fantastic run. Everything afterwards now feels like generic superhero films. Superhero battles new bad guy. Multiverse doesn’t interest me.
With the arrival of Disney+, there are television shows and films to follow and my wife and I have completely lost interest in the Marvel franchise. There’s so much content and we don’t find it interesting anymore.
But in saying that, we did see GotG3 as it was one of the film series we enjoyed and we wanted to see how it ended.
They peaked with IW.
All the characters gathered, all the threads joined, all the arcs converged, and the last act, perfection.
Endgame managed to put everything in the tank to just barely match EG, then snapped their series ultimate trump card.
We needed a 5 year break to be able to feel again after that, but, you know, money.
Multiverse is the dumbest cheapest excuse you can have for totally running any running series for exactly this reason.
Like. Congrats. Your characters matter as much as the ones in rick and Morty now
You hit the nail on the head. No high stakes, nothing is permanent, rules are arbitrary. It looks all nice and shiny, but it’s just… emptiness.
So, comic book like then? I thought it was fun myself, that’s all I want from these guys…
You really don’t want to emulate American comic book success
I think I liked it more than 2 but it was nowhere near as good as 1. Agreed on the cliche and cheese.
I agree. I quite enjoyed it, despite being able to recognize it as being far from a masterpiece. The 2nd one however I actively dislike.
I thought it was okay and still more fun than a lot of the movies that come out these days but posts like this an articles like this seem incredibly time wasting to me versus a movie that I had fun watching.
It wasn’t a cinematic masterpiece, but none of the gotg movies were. It was the same low stakes high budget romp that you should have expected. Frankly, your disappointment is entirely on you for expecting filet mignon from a McDonald’s. My only complaint was that they didn’t quite wrap up several trains of thought and swept it all into a familial paradigm.
For me, it lost the “fun” part of what GotG should be. It has good action scenes but none of them were fun to watch.
Most marvel movies of the last decade have been like that for me, so I can empathize.
Guardians 3 was fun apart from the canned jokes. The real trainwreck this summer was Transformers.
I personally liked it the most out of the trilogy. GotG 1 & 2 has always felt too goofy for goofy’s sake and the “fun” felt kind of forced. This film brought some real depth and character arcs to Rocket, and really fleshed out Mantis and Nebula as well. There is also a dash of edge and anger that wasn’t there in the first two installments, like their rageful arguments with one another, the fight scenes, and the head villain himself, which I appreciated.
That said it is definitely not perfect. I cringed hard at the opening scene with its choice of soundtrack. Way too on the nose and didn’t end up going anywhere.
So, qualitatively it was the worst of the series.
But I liked it, only because I like rocket and he finally had his story.
Gog1 was the origin, gog2 was all “starlord”, but 3 had a better mix. Less gamora, who isn’t really an interesting character usually, less starlord, who’s basically just a self-centered idiot usually. Nebula got to do stuff, mantis really expanded, and rocket made sense.
The Marvel movies often focus on a few main characters when the supporting cast are actually more interesting, this was giving them that chance to shine.
I mean, that’s definitely a fair opinion I guess.
I enjoyed it. It has an 81%/94% score on RT, versus 85%/87% for GotG 2 and 92%/92% for GotG 1, so I find it really hard to understand how anyone could find it particularly “terrible.”
I think the High Evolutionary was a pretty good villain. We got a lot of resolution specifically to the Guardians and I have a hard time buying that it was inconsequential? Like, did we watch the same movie?
The soundtrack was decent but used poorly. The songs barely connected with the scenes and it was like they were just thrown on top of everything else.
Agree - it’s like they had a lot of decent enough component parts (music included), but it was all strung together horribly.
They made a third one?
That is certainly a unique opinion. Imo it’s a masterpiece, easily the best movie of 2023 and maybe even the best one in the series.
I completely agree with you. I was looking forward to it, cause it had amazing reviews but when I saw it, it was just so disappointing. I was waiting when it finally starts and it slowly bored me to finding that it’s already at the end… Only think I liked was the Rocket’s flashbacks.
I liked it a lot more than I thought I would. I haven’t been a huge fan of the other two, so I wasn’t in a rush to see this one. I guess Rocket’s story connected with me on an emotional level more than the others did. Really enjoyed Chukwudi Iwuji’s over the top High Evolutionary. Love a good over the top bad guy.
So yeah, my personal favorite out of the three.
