Okay okay let's try and have a chat about this.
A month later after seeing this movie and I still remember it quite well. That's a good sign right?! Usually movies go in and out of me like an iced coffee, quickly. But Guardians stuck with me, because I do love these characters, they're so great.
Rocket spends most the film doing a snooze, but it gives us time to really focus on the other guys. I feel like James Gunn used Chris Pratt to vent at one point when he recapped the events of all the non-Guardians films "yes this is all dumb and kind of fucked my amazing three part story but I'm a genius director/writer so I've worked around it".
And worked around it he did! Gamora was something I was worried about it. Were they going to just have her fall in love again? Some bullshit like oh ya know what Peter it's true love so yeah, she loves you again. NO! The film says. The shit that happens to us matters, and without the events that led to Guardians 2, Gamora doesn't fall in love with ol' Quilly. Yeah she fancies him a bit and probably thought about noshing him off in the bathroom of the ship, but ultimately she wants to be a badass gal who is a part of some disgusting rag tag criminals, and good on her. I like the message though, love is kind of a crazy coincidence right? If you fuck with the events around it, it may never happen. Think about your ex's, put you two in the same room now and love won't happen again (in most cases) because context matters. Might get noshed off though if you're still fit.
There's a great fight scene at the end of this movie that I loved, it made me think of that fight in Kingsman with Free Bird playing where he just bats fuck out of people. It's gruesome and well filmed and I liked it.
Also Peter Quill getting inflated in a fake out death scene was maybe a bit pointless? No one died in this film at all, I thought Drax was a goner for sure. The movie is heavy as balls though, so maybe murdering the cast would have made it too sad. I don't know, I kinda think Drax being a dad to all these kids is less impactful than him dying to be with his family.
Speaking of the film being sad, we see a lot of flashbacks in this film of Rocket and his disgusting freak friends in prison, it's pretty brutal animal abuse and made me feel bad for nature's criminal (Raccoons have little masks! Like little robbers!). That scene where all his mates got fucking shot while Flo was screaming her head off was stressful man. Well done film.
This film works really well because it has a great villain, he's not even sympathetic he's just a loathsome bastard that we want to see get fucked up. And fucked up he gets, he literally gets his face ripped off. Jesus.
Guardians Vol 3 was a good movie and slightly delayed my superhero fatigue... A bit. I'm a bit exhausted still though. Can we take a break from superheroes? Please? Pretty please?
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