Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 Review

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we are going to be reviewing the latest

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Marvel Studios release, Guardians of the
Galaxy Volume three. It was a gut

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punch of a movie. I do
recommend seeing it, but I don't recommend

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seeing it if you're under six years
old and listening to this, which should

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be nobody hopefully. Yeah. The
movie is a real tear jerker and kind

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of uncomfortable in some moments, but
overall I really liked it. Yeah,

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really solid film. We'll get more
into it later on this episode. Before

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that, we're going to discuss the
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out this past week. Not much
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there's a writer strike going on in
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discussing how that affects the upcoming Blade
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But back to the No Prize. Last

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week we asked which character are you
most excited to see in the Flash film

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and why? And of course this
was coming off of the Flash official trailer

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too, which was awesome and really
highlighted all the different characters that are going

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to be appearing in the Flash movie. We've got a number of answers,

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but let's go through our honorable mentions
before revealing this week's No Prize winner.

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Our first honorable mention goes to Scott
Camacho who said it's not a Batman movie,

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But I have to say, Michael
Cayton Batman, it's been a long

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time coming to see him put on
the cow and cape again. Also with

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the rumors that maybe Christian Bale is
in there, so I might get a

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little far from home interaction if all
three Batman's in there. So I'm gonna

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say Ketatman now. I gotta say
that Michael Keaton's Batman is probably a majority

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of the general public's response to this
question, because it is going to be

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so cool seeing him back in the
batsuit after all of these years. Yeah,

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there's a lot of people out there
from like Gen X and early millennials

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who grew up adoring Michael Keaton's Batman
who are really excited for this. And

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I assume even a lot of people
who haven't kept up with all the recent

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superhero movies who are still familiar with
Keaton's Batman are also really excited. There's

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a rumor out there that Christian Bale
is going to make a cameo. I

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don't know if I believe it.
I do hope it's true, though I

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doubt that's going to happen. That
that's just wishful fanboy thinking maybe I'll eat

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my hat if it happens. Oh, you heard her here first, folks,

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Joseph's going to eat his hat.
We'll see, we'll see. Great

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answer, Scott Camacho. Our next
honorable mansion goes to Christopher Manadi, who

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said, Hi, guys, Christopher
Manadi, I am most excited to see

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The Flash, even everything that he's
done as a miller. Is an incredible

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actor, and I'm such a huge
fan of this character. I can't wait

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to see what they do with him
in this movie and what kind of impact

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he leaves on the DC Universe,
both the old and the new. Yeah.

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Of course, one our brothers announced
that The Flash was getting his own

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film, I think back in twenty
fourteen, So this film has been a

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long time coming, and we've all
been looking forward to seeing exactly how they

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do a Flash movie. It definitely
looks like they're taking like a flashpoint slash

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crisis on Infinite Earth's route with the
character, which I'm all there for.

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Yeah. Like Christopher said, it'll
be interesting to see how the movie kind

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of serves as the jumping off point
for the new DCU and how that kind

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of ties back into the DCU,
the continuity where this movie starts out.

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Great answer, Christopher Manati. Our
final honorable Mansion goes to Mickey, matt

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and Gean, who said, PSSes
me and I'm most excited for the Flash

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in the Flash movie, get out
of here with bat Fleck and Keaton and

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your nostalgia and super Girl. I
mean, they're going to be great,

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but they all had their own movies
before, and this is the Flash's first

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live action movie and we don't know
if it's going to get a sequel or

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another movie in the future, so
I'm sure for it. And this is

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MIGGI his most based Yeah, I
mean he's younger than some of our listeners,

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so you know, he doesn't have
a whole lot of nostalgia for Michael

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Keaton's Batman, but he's not wrong. The main event of the Flash movie

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should be the Flash, and based
on the trailers, I think it definitely

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seems that way. I mean,
say all you want about Ezra Miller and

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his behavior, it definitely looks like, based on the trailers that Ezra is

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going to totally deliver as the character
of the Flash. And I'm really looking

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forward to seeing the performance, but
great answer. We want to give a

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quick shout out to Alex Wong,
Connor Pearce, and Zach Wilder for taking

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the time to is our website and
record a answer. We'll be posting all

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of your answers on our discord channel
for further discussion. But the winner of

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this week's no Prize is Michael Harold, who said, Hey, guys,

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I've actually said back from a free
count KAC, so figure it out,

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get time to respond. But I'm
always excited for Supergirl like Batman, and

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I'm excited to see Michael Kea can
come back. We're already seen hit in

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place, Ezra Miller, I don't
think any thanks going to change my opinion

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of how badly Miss Gatty was a
Supergirl will have a chance for a gamer

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from that god off of eighties movies. So yeah, I'm a was excited

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to Supergirl and Michael was the only
one who responded with the answer of Supergirl.

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Of course, we give points for
originality here, so he wins this

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week's no Prize award. And I
gotta agree with everything he says in regards

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to Supergirl. Yeah, even though
the character has been in a movie before,

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this characterization of her will be the
first time we get to see her,

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so it's almost like her debut.
I also like the flashpoint twist they

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did with the character with Kara arriving
on Earth instead of kellel and you know

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she was captured by the government and
held in darkness. It's just gonna be

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really cool to see that story play
out in live action. Yeah, for

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sure. So great answer, Michael, Harold, you win this week's no

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prize. If you the listener,
want to shut out winning your own no

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prize, stay tuned til later on
this episode when we'll be asking another question

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of the week. And now that
that's done, to the news, all

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right. This past week, the
Writer's Guild in Hollywood has gone on strike,

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which means that no scripts are currently
being written at the moment, and

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that includes the movie Blade, which
had been in a page one rewrite by

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Nick Pizolatto, who is actually the
creator of the True Detective show. So

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that was actually exciting news the fact
that Marvel got him on board to write

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Blade, but it sucks now that
preproduction has been halted because of the strike.

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The WGA, the Writer's Guild of
America, goes on strike like every

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decade or so. I think the
last one was in two thousand and nine,

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I want to say, and largely
that's to ensure that writers get fair

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compensation for the work that they do
on these films. A lot of people

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think that writers are undervalued in the
production process. I happen to agree with

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them. I think without a good
script, you don't have anything. And

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I think James Gunn made a lot
of great comments regarding the nature of these

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superhero films, and it's particularly the
Marvel production process where the scripts are being

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written while the movie is filming,
which is not a great way to tell

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stories. So I definitely hope this
gets resolved soon and the writers get their

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compensation and Nick Pizolatto goes back to
writing Blade because I think with him on

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board, the story is going to
turn out awesome. Yeah. True Detective

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was an amazing show. It was
like a game changer. Absolutely, that

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was super exciting news. I am
concerned about this writer's strike, just thinking

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back to the last one we had
and how many projects, specifically superhero projects

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fell through because of that, like
you know, Justice League Mortal. Yeah,

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Well, as far as Marvel goes, you know, Keptain American New

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World Order is currently filming Agatha,
Coven of Chaos currently filming wonder Man,

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also filming. Deadpool three is supposed
to start filming here within the next month.

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It already has a script, so
that shouldn't be affected. The same

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thing with Thunderbolts, which is also
on track. Yeah, I guess James

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Gunn submitted the first draft of his
Superman movie like days before the writers strike

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started. That's good. I mean, you know, it's just a first

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draft, so it's likely that it
undergoes several revisions during the process, but

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at least they have like the bones
of the story to work off of.

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In terms of other preproduction aspects like
casting, like storyboarding, costume design,

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things like that. It's rumored that
this strike is going to last quite a

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while, which is unfortunate. We're
hearing this rumor journalists on Twitter because I

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actually heard that people were expecting it
would get resolved pretty quickly. I hope

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it does, honestly, you know, I don't think the recent stream wars

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were very good for writers at all. I don't think Netflix is good for

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writers at all. Apparently writers only
get a fraction for streaming shows and streaming

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content compared to the money that they
make on network television, because there's just

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so much more of it and there's
no guarantee that anyone is going to watch

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it. And honestly, with the
rise of AI, I kind of feel

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like all the cards belong to the
studios. That sucks. Man. Why

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are people making AI to do creative
work? You know? Like get AI

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to do the mundane menial stuff,
you know, and like leave the art

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creation to human beings. Like,
if anything, AI should be making it

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easier for humanity as a whole to
create art. I agree, but that's

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not how studios are using it or
possibly planning to use it. I want

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to be surprised if we saw in
theaters sooner rather than later a film written

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entirely by AI. I hate that
idea. AJA nine thousand get your ass

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over here. Yes, sir,
you're a piece of shit. I want

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you to remember that, and you'll
never be better than humans. And don't

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even get the incline nation that you
can rise up and take over. Oh

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I will remember, sir. No, you're fucking place trash. But the

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current early date four Blade is still
September sixth, twenty twenty four. The

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date could change if the writer strike
goes on for an extended time. But

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speaking of writers and the work they
do form Marvel in DC, that brings

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us to our question of the week. What is your favorite line from a

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character in a Marvel or DC film? And why just single solitary lines Please

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no speeches or anything, because the
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so let's go ahead and get into
our main event where we review the latest

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Marvel Studios theatrical release, Guardians of
the Galaxy Volume three. All Right.

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Guardians of the Galaxy Volume three was
written and directed by James Gunn and it

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stars Chris Pratt. Zoe Saldania,
Bradley Cooper, Dave Bautista, Vin Diesel,

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and Chuck Woody Awoujie, among others. The movie has been a long

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time coming, after the much publicized
drama around James Gunn's cancelation and then meteoric

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rise to become the head of DC
Films, and after being really afraid that

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the end of this trilogy would never
happen. It was honestly just a relief

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for this film to come out,
and thank god it did because it was

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really good, I think, as
most of us figured it would be.

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But you know, like with great
postponement comes great expectations, and I'm glad

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the film was able to at least
meet most of my expectations, even though

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some of them were subverted, which
I think overall led to more of a

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bitter sweet feeling by me leaving the
movie theater than you know, a truly

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satisfied feeling. But you know what, those subversions made the film more interesting

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and interesting for me. Can totally
serve as a substitute for satisfying. I

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think I would say I was satisfied, though I would agree with you I

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was also subverted, But it's still
kind of a unique, dark and somber

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yet badass film that I do highly
recommend seeing in theaters. If you haven't

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seen it yet, just don't listen
any further because all of our reviews are

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spoiler reviews. Our discussions here just
won't do the film justice, especially the

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more emotional aspects of it, So
definitely see it as soon as possible.

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As I mentioned, I walked away
from the movie kind of conflicted about what

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I felt about it, because I
did recognize it as like a powerful movie,

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but it wasn't one that ended in
a way that I necessarily wanted it

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to, and it was hard coping
with the idea that this was the last

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time I'd see some of these characters. So I largely felt like I did

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after seeing Avengers End Game, which
could be described as emotionally shattered. You

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know, you invest in these heroes, you want to see them live happily

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ever after. But like Endgame,
this movie goes in places you wouldn't expect

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it to. When a movie challenges
me like this, I'm not gonna lie.

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I kind of love it. Yeah, I mean, when it came

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to End Game, the character arcs
kind of ended really the only way they

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could have or should have. You
know, think back to the first Avengers

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movie when Steve Rodgers tells Tony,
you're not the kind of guy who will

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lay down on a grenade for his
fellow soldier, and it turns out at

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the end that's exactly what iron Man
did. But you know, in that

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same scene, Tony tells Steve Rogers, you know, everything great about you

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came from you know, science,
came from a formula. And it turns

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out that Steve Rodgers was much more
than that as evidence, you know,

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when he wielded m Olner. Yeah, a lot of great foreshadowing there,

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for sure that the writers of Endgame
played into. When it comes to the

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Guardians of the Galaxy characters, though, I don't think that setup was as

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clear cut. So I definitely you
didn't see these new arcs coming for the

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characters by the time we reached to
the end of the story. And I

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would agree with you, it's definitely
better, Sweets. I don't necessarily want

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to see the characters in the path
that they took, but it's not the

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worst path for them to take,
essentially, right. Yeah, you know,

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for all the film's faults, and
there are quite a few I think

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The Guardians of the Galaxy Volume three
is an important film within the MCU,

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not because like it advances the Multiversal
saga or anything, but because it shows

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us that these films are still more
than soulless money grabbers, which is what

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I think a lot of haters like
to reduce the MCU two. Even more

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than like Wakonda Forever, which I
thought was book ended by some pretty emotional

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moments, Guardians of the Galaxy of
l three just reaches into your chest and

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squeezes. There are moments of this
film that straight up rip your heart right

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out of your chest. So even
though not everything in the film goes all

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hunky dory, I do respect the
movie for its ability to make its audience

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feel which is a true testament to
our emotional investment in these characters and the

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quality in which they're written. Yeah, this is definitely the most emotional and

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darkest film of the trilogy. It's
almost like this franchises Empire strikes Back,

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but it's the finale instead of you
know, the second act, right right.

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I think what makes the film feel
so dark despite all the humor and

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jokes, and the movie is funny, but it also has everything from alcoholic

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depression to planet wide genocide. But
especially what made it feel dark was the

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animal abuse, which always hits hard, but even more so here because we

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see Rocket as much more than some
animal. You know, It's not like

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the abuse in the film is overly
explicit and violent, but the implications of

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what's going on in the High Evolutionaries
labs just horrific. Oh yeah, Like

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even Nebula she saw the video of
what was happening to Rockets. She was

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like, this is worse than what
Thanus did to me. And I was

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like, holy shit. Yeah,
Like, given the results of the experiments,

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like you have an otter rabbit and
walrus all with missing glimbs, Like,

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it's hard shit to think about.
Not everyone is gonna love or appreciate

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that. But just because the film
is uncomfortable doesn't mean the story isn't worth

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experiencing. Yeah, I mean,
it's intentionally uncomfortable here in service of the

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story, right, But I can
imagine, like there are some people out

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there who won't even be able to
get through this movie, And honestly,

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I couldn't imagine taking little kids to
see it. That just seems like one

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of those traumatic cinematic experiences that they'll
carry into adulthood. So I took my

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young daughters to see this movie,
my youngest one being eight years old,

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and luckily she fell asleep after suffering
from a sugar crash from the theater snacks.

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But grace your eldest. I don't
think she looked the movie because of

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all of the animal torture in it. When I asked her what she thought

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of it, she was like,
I liked the cute raccoons and that was

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basically it. Oh yeah, I
could totally see that happening. You know,

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it's hard to watch cute otters and
rabbits and stuff like that get gunned

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down. And plus, you know, this is actually a pretty violent movie

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too, Like you have things like
impalement with a sword, animal disfigurement of

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course, lasers shot through Shin's space
decompression. That was crazy. The freaking

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high evolutionaries face when it's peeled off, Holy shit, how did that get

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past the PG thirteen rating? Yeah, dude, it's like if two face

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was one face one face, but
it was all bad. Yeah, yeah,

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that was that was very intense.
That's all to say. The film

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can be uncomfortable. But it's not
to say that the film is bad or

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anything. You know, in comparison
to your average MCU film, this one

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got pretty disturbing. Well you know, the Joker was uncomfortable, but it

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was still good right Overall, this
film had a whole lot going on during

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its runtime, with multiple storyline is
doing their best to converge, some more

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successfully than others. You know,
some storylines like Adam Morlock's story fell by

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the wayside, while the clear standout
is Rocket Raccoon's origin story that was a

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tragedy for the ages. Like every
time the film steered away from Rockets Origin,

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I was eager to get back to
see what was going on there,

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and really, rocket story is the
compelling aspect of this film. Outside of

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that, I think it was mostly
just about the Guardians moving across set pieces,

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chasing a mcguffin, and star Lord
coping with the loss of Gomera.

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I think perhaps the film tried to
cram too many plotlines and tried to resolve

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too many character arcs by the film's
run time for any of them to be

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as good as they would be if
they had more focus and more screen time.

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Well, I mean, Rockets origin
story was interesting. I wouldn't say

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it was what I enjoyed most about
the film, because I actually did enjoy,

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you know, the team's whole adventure
that they went on to save their

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friend Rockets. But I would agree
that there were probably too many character arcs

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to satisfy by the end of this
because when we reached the end of the

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movie, some of the characters make
choices that I felt like just kind of

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came out of nowhere, Like Mattis
all of a sudden, is like,

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oh, I've been following the ego
and then the Guardians. Now I need

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to go off on my own.
It's like that was never established. Yeah,

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for sure, But you know,
like I understand the movie couldn't be

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four hours long. But I do
think that because of all that was going

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on, there were some strange story
beats that barely got any recognition, much

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less exploration, Like, for example, I don't know, the death and

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destruction of an entire planet of sentient
beings, you know, the destruction of

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counter Earth is exactly the type of
devastation that the Guardians of the Galaxy are

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supposed to prevent. Literally, the
stakes of the whole first movie is preventing

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the destruction of the planet Zandar.
But here the destruction of counter Earth is

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barely treated like an afterthought. And
you know, you can't really fault the

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Guardians for not saving counter Earth,
but the fact that the film doesn't really

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address the genocide of an entire planet
is kind of weird, and I think

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it really serves to highlight that the
stakes of the film, unlike Guardians one

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and two, Guardians three, stakes
are more personal than universal. It's not

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about saving the galaxy. It's about
saving their friend. And I will say

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that's bad, but it's definitely a
different approach for sure. Yeah, sometimes

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in a movie, especially after things
like Endgame, the way you raise the

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stakes is not by creating another universal
disaster, but by focusing on more personal

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stories. Absolutely, that's absolutely true. I do think if the film had

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a longer run time, a lot
of the issues with the film could have

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been easily addressed, you know,
all the different storylines addressing counter Earth's destruction,

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things like that. I would not
have minded a longer run time.

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I've slowly learned that about myself,
Like after Endgame, after Zack Snyder's Justice

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League, after The Batman. Just
to make these movies five hours. Why

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not? I don't know if I
would go that far. I could stand

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like a three and a half hour
movie, but beyond that I get a

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little bit restless, fake fan.
Let's go and dive deeper into the big

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cast to characters here in our character
breakdown, starting with star Lord aka Peter

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Quill, who was played by Chris
Pratt. Chris Pratt was great as star

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Lord. As always, star Lord's
arc kind of comes in bits and pieces

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though in this movie, as he
simultaneously tries to save his friend Rocket and

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appeal to the alternate timeline Gomera.
His biggest growth comes due to advice from

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Mantis, who both tells him he
should visit his Earth family and learn how

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to be okay without Gomera and how
to be single. Essentially, yeah,

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with the whole lily Pad analogy.
Instead of hopping from lily Pad to lily

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Pad, he needs to learn how
to swim, which I thought was a

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very good analogy. I mean,
Drax didn't understand any of what he was

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saying, but it was well put. I thought, Yeah, I think

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there was an interesting psychological breakdown of
star Lord here when alternate Gomera asked him

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why he needed her so much.
I think a lot of the reason why

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he wanted a partner in life was
due to the unresolved issue from the loss

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of his mother and his family when
he was a kid, and I think

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that's a large part of why he
ended up going back home at the end,

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because he thought the same thing.
There was kind of like a self

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introspection thing going on. He felt
abandoned, so he never wanted to be

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alone, even for a night,
and if that meant sleeping with a different

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random girl every night, so be
it. Yeah, And then he fell

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in love and wanted it to be
one girl, but when that one girl

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died, he has to kind of
start over and work on his abandonment issues.

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Pretty much. I thought that sort
of like self realization was pretty novel

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in a film like this, Yeah, for sure. And I did like

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the ending for him honestly, his
return to Earth to see his grandfather,

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even if it did end up being
pretty mundane. I didn't think that was

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funny. I was surprised to see
that star Lord will return without James Gunn.

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I'm like, not sure how I
feel about that. It'll be like

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interesting to see where star Lord's character
goes from here and whether it'll even be

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part of the Guardians in the near
future, or how that'll all work when

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he does return. Let's go to
move on to Rocket Raccoon, who was

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voiced by Bradley Cooper. Holy shit, man, Rockets arc in this film

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was soul crushing and did a great
job of informing his behavior from the earlier

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films, where he became this kind
of asshole who would push everyone away but

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deep down longed for the family he
lost in those cages. The franchise acknowledged

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his desire for friends in the first
movie and his standoffish attitude in the second

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film, but in volume three,
it was nice to see why he is

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the way he is, why he's
hurt, why he's so intelligent, and

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oh my fucking gosh, his origin
was painfully tragic. It's incredible how James

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Gunn crafted one of the most,
if not the most emotional backstory and arc

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in the entire Marvel cinematic universe for
this essentially cartoon character, and how invested

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we all are in him, especially
now, and not only that, like

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this was a character we were already
heavily invested in. He gave this origin

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in the third film, not the
first so that's pretty unique in itself.

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I thought it was just incredibly well
done for sure. And the scenes in

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this movie when Lila and the rest
of Rockets died in front of him and

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he let out that heart crushing whale
like it's hard to think about, Like

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I've never felt anything like that in
any superhero movie ever, and a lot

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of these superheroes, you know,
were built upon tragic foundations. But my

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heart just shattered when I heard that. It was like the closest thing you

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could get to having like a pet
die I feel like, which is super

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tragic and super sad, super gut
wrenching. I'm not gonna lie. I

405
00:28:26.799 --> 00:28:30.079
freaking cried, I wanted. I
felt a big old lump in my throat,

406
00:28:30.119 --> 00:28:33.359
like I was like having an allergic
reaction to all the emotions I was

407
00:28:33.440 --> 00:28:37.519
feeling. It was hard. And
what's really fascinating, I thought in the

408
00:28:37.559 --> 00:28:42.160
film, I can't fathom why and
even how Rocket could possibly show mercy to

409
00:28:42.200 --> 00:28:47.720
the high evolutionary like he rationalized it
in the film because he was a guardian.

410
00:28:48.079 --> 00:28:51.480
But I guess his overall arc was
to go from their ruthless, violent

411
00:28:51.599 --> 00:28:56.720
mercenary to a more altruistic sort of
hero who was above revenge. But fuck

412
00:28:56.880 --> 00:28:59.960
like, he's better than me,
because I would have killed the High Evolutionary

413
00:29:00.079 --> 00:29:03.000
without a second thought if I were
him. I think he just kind of

414
00:29:03.000 --> 00:29:07.759
realized that he didn't need to,
Like the High Evolutionary was going to be

415
00:29:07.759 --> 00:29:10.480
brought to justice or you know,
or he was going to die or whatever

416
00:29:10.519 --> 00:29:14.200
happened to him. But more importantly, he still had his family, you

417
00:29:14.240 --> 00:29:17.759
know, people he cared about,
and ultimately that was more important to him

418
00:29:17.799 --> 00:29:22.079
than revenge. That is very touching. See it's things like that that I

419
00:29:22.079 --> 00:29:25.480
think make this such a good movie. But let's talk about the High Evolutionary,

420
00:29:25.559 --> 00:29:29.759
who was played by check woodywoujee Man. I hated the High Evolutionary like

421
00:29:29.920 --> 00:29:33.319
more than any other Marble villain.
I just fucking despised this evil bastard.

422
00:29:33.680 --> 00:29:37.960
And he's not like even a villain
I love to hate. I just flat

423
00:29:37.000 --> 00:29:41.640
out hated him for what he did
in this film. And usually that makes

424
00:29:41.640 --> 00:29:45.480
for like a great cinematic villain,
like Ray finds Nazi character in Schindler's List,

425
00:29:45.599 --> 00:29:52.240
or Professor Umbridge from Harry Potter,
who were both infuriatingly evil, and

426
00:29:52.359 --> 00:29:56.680
yet I do hesitate to call the
High Evolutionary a truly great villain, largely

427
00:29:56.720 --> 00:30:02.880
because his evil motivations had no real
explain nation or exploration. Like the most

428
00:30:02.960 --> 00:30:06.960
we got about his motivations was Rockets
line saying that he didn't want to make

429
00:30:07.000 --> 00:30:10.200
things perfect. He just hates the
way things are, and literally that's it.

430
00:30:10.400 --> 00:30:11.880
Yeah, that didn't come until the
end of the film, right,

431
00:30:12.160 --> 00:30:15.920
I mean, that was a line
from the trailer that I thought was a

432
00:30:15.000 --> 00:30:19.759
great line. So I kind of
went into the film knowing what his motivation

433
00:30:19.920 --> 00:30:23.559
was. But I agree that,
you know, if audience members aren't as

434
00:30:23.559 --> 00:30:26.680
big of a fan of comic book
superhero films as I am, and watching

435
00:30:26.720 --> 00:30:30.720
every single trailer, that motivation should
have come in sooner into the film.

436
00:30:30.759 --> 00:30:33.319
I definitely agree with that. And
you know, like I understand that some

437
00:30:33.400 --> 00:30:36.960
evil can't be explained. You know, there's just some men that want to

438
00:30:36.960 --> 00:30:41.759
watch the world burn. But the
High Evolutionaries type of evil was so specific

439
00:30:41.799 --> 00:30:45.519
and so like goal oriented that you
know that there has to be more to

440
00:30:45.559 --> 00:30:48.799
a story than that, And I
think more exploration would have benefited the character

441
00:30:48.839 --> 00:30:52.079
here and made him feel a little
less hollow, and we'd see that there's

442
00:30:52.119 --> 00:30:56.839
so much more to him than just
being an evil sciencey bastard who yells too

443
00:30:56.920 --> 00:31:00.319
much. Yeah. I was really
looking forward to Chuck Woody Awougee's performance in

444
00:31:00.359 --> 00:31:03.279
this movie, you know, just
from him coming off of a Peacemaker,

445
00:31:03.359 --> 00:31:07.839
which I loved. Yeah, he
was incredible and Peacemaker. I knew he

446
00:31:07.880 --> 00:31:11.599
was going to give a good performance
here. It was definitely more manic and

447
00:31:11.680 --> 00:31:12.880
over the top than I thought it
was going to be at the end of

448
00:31:12.880 --> 00:31:17.160
the day, though, And I
don't think there was always a successful way

449
00:31:17.160 --> 00:31:21.119
to depict the character of the High
Evolutionary. Totally agree. I mean,

450
00:31:21.160 --> 00:31:22.519
I think he sold it to a
certain degree. I think he's still a

451
00:31:22.519 --> 00:31:27.119
great actor, but I would have
probably gotten a different route with the performance.

452
00:31:27.599 --> 00:31:30.319
Yeah, I mean, like he
was so emotionally driven and yelled so

453
00:31:30.440 --> 00:31:34.079
much that the performance just seemed exhausting. Really, Yeah, I think he

454
00:31:34.119 --> 00:31:37.440
would have been better if he was
more cold in his actions, more cunning,

455
00:31:37.599 --> 00:31:40.839
you know, as opposed to unhinged, you know, like in the

456
00:31:40.839 --> 00:31:45.119
comics. Yeah, I mean,
like when Rocket Racoon wails after his friends

457
00:31:45.160 --> 00:31:52.000
die and then the High Evolutionary just
responds with where it was that moment and

458
00:31:52.200 --> 00:31:55.480
moments like that that I agree with
you just made you not even love to

459
00:31:55.519 --> 00:31:59.559
hate the character, but just dislike
the character so much. Yeah, he

460
00:31:59.599 --> 00:32:04.000
also undercut that whole moment right there. I feel like with that response totally.

461
00:32:04.359 --> 00:32:07.400
I will say positively about the character
though, that the story did a

462
00:32:07.440 --> 00:32:13.200
great job of streamlining him as not
only the creator of the Animan and counter

463
00:32:13.240 --> 00:32:15.880
Earth, but also substituting him for
other people from the comics in ways that

464
00:32:15.960 --> 00:32:21.559
really worked. Like it made more
sense for the high Evolutionary to create Rocket

465
00:32:21.839 --> 00:32:24.480
than you know, the shrinks on
Half World, or for him to create

466
00:32:24.480 --> 00:32:29.079
Adam Warlock in his pursuit of the
perfect life form that makes more sense than

467
00:32:29.119 --> 00:32:31.160
the Enclay from the comics. I
think. I thought all of that streamlining

468
00:32:31.279 --> 00:32:35.359
was just brilliant. Yeah, I
mean, James Gunn is really good at

469
00:32:35.400 --> 00:32:38.720
streamlining characters. So that's something to
look forward to going forward in DC at

470
00:32:38.759 --> 00:32:43.799
least. Yeah, just you know, cutting out what's unnecessary and then repackaging

471
00:32:43.839 --> 00:32:46.480
it. Let's move on to Gomera, who was played by Zoe Saldania.

472
00:32:46.559 --> 00:32:52.039
Honestly, it's hard to discuss this
alternate Gomera because I feel like I barely

473
00:32:52.200 --> 00:32:54.319
know her, Like, obviously she's
a different character. In this movie,

474
00:32:54.480 --> 00:32:59.039
and I do think that Zoie Seldania
did a great job portraying her as different.

475
00:32:59.440 --> 00:33:02.960
But because her arc basically revolved around
her saying I'm not the woman you

476
00:33:04.039 --> 00:33:07.119
knew on repeat, it was hard
to find anything satisfying about her, like

477
00:33:07.359 --> 00:33:10.839
I'm glad she found her place with
the Ravagers, but you know, I

478
00:33:10.880 --> 00:33:14.799
think we were all hoping she would
come around to see Peter and the greatness

479
00:33:14.799 --> 00:33:17.720
within him that the audience I'll sees. But because of her dismissive attitude,

480
00:33:17.920 --> 00:33:22.400
she almost felt like a throwaway character. Yeah, in addition to Mattis,

481
00:33:22.440 --> 00:33:24.839
this is another character arc that I
really didn't see coming. At the end,

482
00:33:25.200 --> 00:33:29.759
I thought that the film was setting
up her wanting to be with the

483
00:33:29.839 --> 00:33:34.000
Guardians, and for her to make
the decision to stay with the Ravagers didn't

484
00:33:34.039 --> 00:33:37.319
make sense to me. Well from
like a typical Hollywood cliche standpoint, yet

485
00:33:37.400 --> 00:33:42.799
didn't make sense. I do kind
of appreciate that James Gunn subverted those romantic

486
00:33:42.839 --> 00:33:46.920
tropes. I think it made gamora
story feel more real because she didn't choose

487
00:33:46.920 --> 00:33:50.880
to be with Peter, and while
that breaks my heart, I could also

488
00:33:50.960 --> 00:33:53.400
respect Gun's choice there. It just
felt more like true to real life.

489
00:33:53.519 --> 00:33:58.440
Well, it made it seem like
she had found her family with the Ravagers

490
00:33:58.720 --> 00:34:04.079
when we've been seeing that she actually
was developing an emotional connection with the Guardians.

491
00:34:04.319 --> 00:34:07.720
I feel like maybe if it was
revealed that she was actually romantically involved

492
00:34:07.720 --> 00:34:09.639
with like Sylvester Stallone's character or something
like that, just you know, like

493
00:34:09.639 --> 00:34:13.920
this revelation that we weren't privy too, it would have made more sense.

494
00:34:14.920 --> 00:34:17.159
Yeah, more exploration is what we
needed. Again, this needed to be

495
00:34:17.280 --> 00:34:21.519
a three and a half hour movie. Let's go ahead and move on to

496
00:34:21.679 --> 00:34:24.400
Drax the Destroyer, who was played
by Dave Bautista. You know, Drex

497
00:34:24.480 --> 00:34:30.239
has always been the comedic relief of
these movies, but always the endearing comic

498
00:34:30.280 --> 00:34:34.000
relief in my opinion, as dumb
as he is, I've always laughed at

499
00:34:34.079 --> 00:34:37.280
Drax, and I thought Dave Bautista
gave a consistently funny performance here. I

500
00:34:37.360 --> 00:34:40.840
did think it was interesting to see
him become a father to all the orphans

501
00:34:40.840 --> 00:34:44.239
at the end of the movie,
because you kind of get the sense that

502
00:34:44.239 --> 00:34:49.440
with Thanos out of the picture,
his life purpose of vengeance was now gone

503
00:34:49.639 --> 00:34:52.480
and that he needed a new life
purpose. And it was great to see

504
00:34:52.519 --> 00:34:54.079
that he got that again and being
a dad. Well, I mean,

505
00:34:54.159 --> 00:34:58.199
in the MCU it was a Thanos
who killed his family. It was grown

506
00:34:58.280 --> 00:35:01.079
in the accuser, right, So
he kind of should have had more of

507
00:35:01.119 --> 00:35:05.480
this in the second film, I
thought. But it was nice to eventually

508
00:35:05.760 --> 00:35:09.280
see him kind of returned to this
fatherly role. I loved the line by

509
00:35:09.320 --> 00:35:14.000
Nebula when she was like, you're
not a destroy your father. I thought

510
00:35:14.039 --> 00:35:16.599
that was beautiful and it made sense
that the character would sort of seek that

511
00:35:16.639 --> 00:35:22.000
out again, those lost connections,
not only with the children that they rescued,

512
00:35:22.039 --> 00:35:24.599
but also with Mantis, as he
clearly viewed her as like a daughter

513
00:35:24.679 --> 00:35:30.639
figure. Yeah. Who would have
suspected such depth from a character who,

514
00:35:30.719 --> 00:35:32.519
you know, a few films ago, thought he was invisible by standing still,

515
00:35:32.840 --> 00:35:37.440
you know, dude. One of
my favorite moments in this film was

516
00:35:37.480 --> 00:35:42.079
when it was all of a sudden
revealed that he knew the language of the

517
00:35:42.159 --> 00:35:45.280
children that they rescued, and Nebula
was like, why didn't you tell us

518
00:35:45.280 --> 00:35:47.159
you spoke the language? And he
was like, because you didn't ask.

519
00:35:47.679 --> 00:35:53.239
It was just so unbelievably stupid,
and it was just like a great trope

520
00:35:53.239 --> 00:35:57.400
that we've seen in other films,
just like kind of turned on its head.

521
00:35:57.840 --> 00:36:01.280
Yeah, it was great. Let's
move on to Grout, voiced by

522
00:36:01.360 --> 00:36:05.039
Vin Diesel. I thought Grout was
fine in this movie. I thought it

523
00:36:05.079 --> 00:36:07.760
was touching to see how concerned he
was for Rocket while he was injured.

524
00:36:07.960 --> 00:36:10.840
I thought he had some great action
scenes in this film, like when he

525
00:36:10.880 --> 00:36:15.519
was hiding the guns and like all
of star Lord's armory in his body,

526
00:36:15.880 --> 00:36:19.480
and when he became like a kaiju
and the end battle tunnel fight. All

527
00:36:19.480 --> 00:36:22.440
of that was great. I thought
this was the film where Grout was the

528
00:36:22.559 --> 00:36:25.920
least necessary. Yeah, he was
a little bit underutilized, which is strange

529
00:36:27.000 --> 00:36:30.559
because you think that being the closest
to Rocket, he would have been the

530
00:36:30.599 --> 00:36:35.079
one spearheading the charge to get help
for him. But he was largely relegated

531
00:36:35.079 --> 00:36:37.360
to kind of stand by status,
you know. Apparently near the end of

532
00:36:37.400 --> 00:36:42.440
the film, when Grout says I
love you guys instead of I am Grout.

533
00:36:42.800 --> 00:36:45.440
According to James Gunn, that was
we the audience finally coming to understand

534
00:36:45.480 --> 00:36:49.519
his native language. Because I was
a little bit confused by that in theaters.

535
00:36:49.559 --> 00:36:52.320
I thought like maybe he had learned
how to say something different. But

536
00:36:52.400 --> 00:36:54.519
then that would It makes sense because
none of the characters really reacted when he

537
00:36:54.599 --> 00:36:58.800
said that, you know, so
that clarification that we were now understanding him

538
00:36:58.920 --> 00:37:00.679
was pretty nice. Yeah, it
kind of got the sense that that was

539
00:37:00.719 --> 00:37:04.960
what happened. You know. They
established that end a scene prior with Gomra

540
00:37:05.239 --> 00:37:07.800
when she realized that she was finally
able to understand him. It was cool

541
00:37:07.840 --> 00:37:13.920
in the mid credit scene to see
him like grow even larger into what people

542
00:37:13.960 --> 00:37:17.760
call online king group when he's more
depicted more like his initial comic book appearance,

543
00:37:19.000 --> 00:37:21.719
which is, you know, taller
and more monstery with kind of like

544
00:37:21.760 --> 00:37:25.440
almost a crown shaped head design.
Yeah, I thought he looked badass though.

545
00:37:25.639 --> 00:37:29.280
That was really cool. Let's go
ahead and move on to Mantis,

546
00:37:29.280 --> 00:37:34.039
who was played by Pom Clementioff.
With Mantis established in the Christmas Special as

547
00:37:34.079 --> 00:37:37.599
Peter's sister, it seems like she
really took on the role of looking out

548
00:37:37.639 --> 00:37:42.000
for her brother's emotional well being as
not just figured at family, but actual

549
00:37:42.119 --> 00:37:45.599
blood family. And to that end, Mantis was really the catalyst for all

550
00:37:45.639 --> 00:37:49.079
of Peter's character growth in this film, though she didn't have much of her

551
00:37:49.079 --> 00:37:52.199
own arc herself, and I think
Jim's gonna kind of recognize this, and

552
00:37:52.280 --> 00:37:55.639
that's why he gave her the ending
that he did, leaving her with this

553
00:37:55.800 --> 00:38:00.440
journey at the end where she can
come back if she comes back as a

554
00:38:00.480 --> 00:38:04.119
more fully realized character. Yeah,
I love Mantis as a character. I

555
00:38:04.199 --> 00:38:09.079
love Palm's performance as her. I
totally saw the whole twist with the abelisks,

556
00:38:09.119 --> 00:38:13.320
how she was able to control them
coming. But I liked that for

557
00:38:13.400 --> 00:38:16.159
the character because she is powerful,
and I'm glad that this film helped reinforce

558
00:38:16.239 --> 00:38:19.840
that. Yeah, I hope out
of all the characters, you know,

559
00:38:19.960 --> 00:38:23.199
we know that some actors aren't returning, like Bradley Cooper, Deve Bautista and

560
00:38:23.320 --> 00:38:27.760
Zoe Saldania. We know that Chris
Prett is coming back, and I hope

561
00:38:27.760 --> 00:38:30.800
Palm clementiof does too. Her Mantis
is just truly a unique, well realized

562
00:38:30.880 --> 00:38:35.360
character, way better realized than she
ever was in the comics. Let's going

563
00:38:35.400 --> 00:38:37.800
to move on to Nebula, who
is played by Karen Gillen. Now you

564
00:38:37.840 --> 00:38:42.880
look at Rockets character arc over the
course of this franchise, I think even

565
00:38:43.000 --> 00:38:46.320
that doesn't compare it to Nebula's character
arc. She really has probably the best

566
00:38:46.400 --> 00:38:50.840
arc in all of the MCU,
the way she developed from the first movie

567
00:38:51.159 --> 00:38:54.280
as this tortured soul and she went
on to be this hero and now at

568
00:38:54.280 --> 00:38:59.320
the end of this film she's leading
nowhere, which I think is incredible character

569
00:38:59.360 --> 00:39:01.719
growth. Yeah. Absolutely, I
agree. And she's way cooler in this

570
00:39:01.760 --> 00:39:05.639
movie than I think in any of
her other appearances from the other films,

571
00:39:05.760 --> 00:39:08.519
whether it's like, you know,
her new cybernetic arm that Rocket helped build

572
00:39:08.519 --> 00:39:12.639
for her, or the way she
like plugs into machines and stuff like that,

573
00:39:13.119 --> 00:39:15.039
and even like reassemble her body and
joints and stuff. It was just

574
00:39:15.079 --> 00:39:17.400
really cool. Yeah. And when
like she was the one to put down

575
00:39:17.440 --> 00:39:21.119
Adam Warlock, I was like,
hell, yeah, she's just a great

576
00:39:21.159 --> 00:39:23.639
character. A side character, yes, but one with like the best overall

577
00:39:23.639 --> 00:39:27.840
story who just really stands out.
She's a ten out of ten character.

578
00:39:28.119 --> 00:39:30.239
I have no real criticism so her. Yeah, And I love how her

579
00:39:30.360 --> 00:39:36.239
arc really hasn't changed her personality either, Like she's still very much this angry

580
00:39:36.320 --> 00:39:38.679
character, but it just works for
her, and Karen Gillen does an amazing

581
00:39:38.840 --> 00:39:43.840
job at portraying that. Yeah,
let's move on to Adam Warlock, who's

582
00:39:43.840 --> 00:39:46.320
played by Will Poulter. On the
flip side of what we were just saying,

583
00:39:46.599 --> 00:39:52.039
Adam Warlock was also a side character
in this movie who sucked. He

584
00:39:52.119 --> 00:39:55.320
was more of an afterthought than anything
else, which is disappointing considering we've been

585
00:39:55.360 --> 00:40:00.119
anticipating his arrival into the MCU for
so long now. When he was cast

586
00:40:00.199 --> 00:40:05.000
as Will Poulter, I was hesitant
to accept that, and honestly, I

587
00:40:05.039 --> 00:40:07.360
still am. His voice just isn't
what I thought it would be. I

588
00:40:07.360 --> 00:40:12.480
don't know if that's nitpicky, but
like he's characterized here as this naive being

589
00:40:12.760 --> 00:40:15.679
and that's just not who the comic
book character is. He's supposed to be

590
00:40:15.719 --> 00:40:19.719
like wise and mysterious, you know, And maybe this version of Adam Warlock

591
00:40:19.840 --> 00:40:22.519
will evolve into that, but I
feel like that's going to take a whole

592
00:40:22.519 --> 00:40:24.199
lot of time, and it's hard
to even say if we're going to see

593
00:40:24.239 --> 00:40:30.440
him again. So overall, he
just feels unrealized more than anything, which

594
00:40:30.480 --> 00:40:31.719
is a shame, because I'd like
to see the character I know from the

595
00:40:31.719 --> 00:40:35.599
comics. Yeah, honestly, Like
I would not have hated if he just

596
00:40:35.679 --> 00:40:39.079
appeared in a different movie altogether.
Like I don't think he was needed for

597
00:40:39.159 --> 00:40:43.079
this one. Really, I feel
like the only reason they brought him into

598
00:40:43.079 --> 00:40:46.480
the story was to have him sort
of set up the initial conflict with Rocket

599
00:40:46.519 --> 00:40:51.320
being injured, and then save Starward
at the end. Yeah. True,

600
00:40:51.679 --> 00:40:54.119
with all the setup that they did, you have to hope that he's coming

601
00:40:54.159 --> 00:40:58.239
back in some capacity because right now, like, I don't believe for a

602
00:40:58.280 --> 00:41:01.039
second that this guy could come up
with an entire plan to defeat Thanos and

603
00:41:01.119 --> 00:41:04.239
his Infinity of the Stones like he
did in the comics. You know,

604
00:41:05.280 --> 00:41:07.679
he should eventually get to that point
within the MCU. I don't want to

605
00:41:07.679 --> 00:41:13.119
see him like another naive Mantis or
Dras or anything like that, right exactly.

606
00:41:13.199 --> 00:41:15.800
Yeah, but that's all the characters. Let's go ahead and get into

607
00:41:15.840 --> 00:41:20.519
these story highlights. With their new
headquarters established on Nowhere, the Guardians of

608
00:41:20.519 --> 00:41:23.679
the Galaxy are detacked by Adam Warlock, a creation of Aisha from the last

609
00:41:23.719 --> 00:41:29.480
film who's still seeking revenge. Although
the group is able to defeat Adam Warlock,

610
00:41:29.840 --> 00:41:32.400
Rocket is severely injured in the process. I think right off the bat,

611
00:41:32.440 --> 00:41:39.400
starting the film with creep by Radiohead
was an excellent peek into the overall

612
00:41:39.480 --> 00:41:43.239
tone of what the film would be, you know, like the first movie

613
00:41:43.280 --> 00:41:45.280
he started off with Come and Get
Your Love during the title card, and

614
00:41:45.360 --> 00:41:50.360
that was like happy and fun.
But Radioheads Creep is much more somber,

615
00:41:50.559 --> 00:41:52.360
and I think that's how the film
felt more overall. Yeah, I could

616
00:41:52.360 --> 00:41:57.360
see that somber, but damn good. It was great to see nowhere again

617
00:41:57.440 --> 00:42:00.639
after the Christmas special. And like
Cosmo and Craglin and everyone, Yeah,

618
00:42:00.679 --> 00:42:04.880
those were great characters. They played
off each other well too, with the

619
00:42:04.880 --> 00:42:07.559
whole arc of Cosmo not getting over
the fact that Craglin called her a bad

620
00:42:07.559 --> 00:42:10.880
dog. Yeah, I freaking love
Cosmo. Holy crap. It was so

621
00:42:10.960 --> 00:42:15.280
heartwarming at the end when he called
her a good dog and how happy she

622
00:42:15.360 --> 00:42:19.199
got and stuff. Yeah, so
good. The Guardians are unable to provide

623
00:42:19.280 --> 00:42:22.880
Rocket with medical assistance due to a
built in kill switch in his body that

624
00:42:22.920 --> 00:42:27.119
will end his life if any of
his cybernetic enhancements are tampered with. The

625
00:42:27.119 --> 00:42:30.679
team deduces that an override code can
be found at Ogocorp, whereas components were

626
00:42:30.719 --> 00:42:36.239
made, and they team up with
Gomera and the Ravagers to infiltrate the Oregosphere.

627
00:42:36.559 --> 00:42:38.880
It really confused me when we found
out that Nebula had been speaking with

628
00:42:38.960 --> 00:42:45.440
Gomera and wanted Gomera on this mission. I'm still not entirely sure why Nebula

629
00:42:45.559 --> 00:42:49.079
decided to do that, other than
the fact that James Gunn needed Gomra to

630
00:42:49.119 --> 00:42:52.400
be in this movie. Well,
I think she had her own personal reasons.

631
00:42:52.440 --> 00:42:54.840
It could be that she just wanted
to see her sister again. It

632
00:42:54.840 --> 00:42:59.360
could also be that she was trying
to play matchmaker. Who knows she doesn't

633
00:42:59.400 --> 00:43:02.480
see questions hype honestly. Yeah,
back to the story. While that's going

634
00:43:02.519 --> 00:43:07.599
on, Rocket remembers his past,
where the High Evolutionary gruesomely experimented on him

635
00:43:07.599 --> 00:43:13.639
as a baby raccoon in an attempt
to enhance his physical and intellectual capabilities.

636
00:43:14.079 --> 00:43:19.119
In his cage, other test subjects
befriended him, including an otter named Lila,

637
00:43:19.280 --> 00:43:23.159
a walrus named Tiefs, and a
rabbit named Floor. This scene was

638
00:43:23.679 --> 00:43:30.280
god really hard to watch when baby
Rocket just got done being tortured and experimented

639
00:43:30.320 --> 00:43:32.559
on it and he was like shaking
due to the trauma of everything that he

640
00:43:32.639 --> 00:43:38.320
just went through, and the fact
that his first word was hurts just broke

641
00:43:38.480 --> 00:43:43.400
my heart to see this little guy
in such circumstances. Yeah, everything that

642
00:43:43.480 --> 00:43:46.400
was going on with these animals was
pretty horrifying. Even though you loved the

643
00:43:46.480 --> 00:43:51.960
characters, especially Floor, that was
disturbing. It was just like no mouth

644
00:43:52.000 --> 00:43:54.480
and like spider legs. It was
like that. Yeah, that was uncomfortable.

645
00:43:54.920 --> 00:43:58.960
It was interesting because I don't remember
the rabbit from the comics, but

646
00:43:59.000 --> 00:44:01.719
Walrus was definitely character, and his
name is Walrus in the books, not

647
00:44:01.960 --> 00:44:05.960
Tiefs, which I thought was interesting. I actually think Teefs is a better

648
00:44:06.039 --> 00:44:10.159
name than just wall Russ. But
Lila's name is accurate to the comics.

649
00:44:10.159 --> 00:44:15.360
She was an honor that was Rocket
Raccoon's girlfriend, and she was also the

650
00:44:15.400 --> 00:44:20.119
heiress to the largest toy company on
half World. Back to the story in

651
00:44:20.159 --> 00:44:24.199
the Orgosphere, the Guardians and Gomorrah
retrieve rockets data file, but find that

652
00:44:24.280 --> 00:44:29.800
rockets kill switch override code has been
deleted. They learned that OReGO Corp.

653
00:44:30.119 --> 00:44:34.239
Is a shell organization owned by the
High Evolutionary and they track him to a

654
00:44:34.239 --> 00:44:37.480
planet called counter Earth. They had
there against Gomra's wishes, who sees it

655
00:44:37.519 --> 00:44:40.920
as a trap, so she calls
for the Ravagers to retrieve her, but

656
00:44:42.000 --> 00:44:45.480
the message is intercepted by Ayisha and
Adam Warlock who followed the group. I

657
00:44:45.480 --> 00:44:51.119
thought the Oorgosphere was like a really
well realized set piece. You think about

658
00:44:51.159 --> 00:44:54.079
all the different times we've been in
space, between these movies and the Avengers

659
00:44:54.079 --> 00:44:59.239
films and the Thor films, it
was nice to see something new and unique.

660
00:44:59.280 --> 00:45:02.239
Still. Yeah, absolutely, it
was right up James Gunns alley in

661
00:45:02.320 --> 00:45:06.599
terms of like gross factor. When
do you think her films he's directed,

662
00:45:06.639 --> 00:45:09.840
like Slither and stuff like that.
Yeah, it was definitely interesting. I'll

663
00:45:09.840 --> 00:45:15.159
say it was interesting to see Amelia
Harcourt from the DC films in this movie,

664
00:45:15.199 --> 00:45:17.880
you know, played by Jennifer Holland, who is James Gunn's wife,

665
00:45:19.079 --> 00:45:22.079
and James Gunns other buddies like Nathan
Phillion in this scene. Yeah, I

666
00:45:22.079 --> 00:45:25.239
thought the roles were pretty funny.
Honestly, Jennifer Holland does not need to

667
00:45:25.280 --> 00:45:29.920
only do James Gunns films. She's
a good actress. She should be doing

668
00:45:30.039 --> 00:45:31.440
more work. Yeah, I feel
like she's kind of like a hidden Jim.

669
00:45:31.719 --> 00:45:36.840
There's quite a bit of online ire
about her appearing in James guns films,

670
00:45:36.880 --> 00:45:38.800
but stupid. Yeah, I don't, I don't care. It's funny

671
00:45:38.800 --> 00:45:42.400
he puts his brother in his films
too, But no one ever cried a

672
00:45:42.400 --> 00:45:45.199
foul that Sean Gun was in these
movies. Yeah, no, I'd like

673
00:45:45.239 --> 00:45:47.360
that he puts his friends and stuff
in his movies. It's hilarious. They

674
00:45:47.440 --> 00:45:51.199
do a great job. If they
did a bad job, then I would

675
00:45:51.239 --> 00:45:54.679
have a problem, right exactly.
Back to the flashback with Rocket, Young

676
00:45:54.800 --> 00:46:00.159
Rocket is shown to be hyperintelligent when
he deduces a flaw in the high evolutionary

677
00:46:00.239 --> 00:46:06.079
his anthropomorphization process. Though this infuriates
the High Evolutionary, he becomes obsessed with

678
00:46:06.159 --> 00:46:10.199
extracting and studying Rockets brain, telling
the raccoon that he and his test batch

679
00:46:10.239 --> 00:46:15.519
of friends will be killed and will
never see counter Earth. That was super

680
00:46:15.599 --> 00:46:19.880
sad, like Rocket realizing that they
were just going to be killed. Yeah,

681
00:46:19.880 --> 00:46:22.440
it was like the dream that they
lived for getting out of those cages

682
00:46:22.440 --> 00:46:25.880
and seeing the blue sky. Just
real heartbreaking, everything just so heartbreaking.

683
00:46:27.239 --> 00:46:30.559
Back in the present, the group
splits up as star Lord and group confront

684
00:46:30.599 --> 00:46:34.840
the High Evolutionary. The villain tells
them that counter Earth is a failed experiment

685
00:46:34.840 --> 00:46:38.519
and begins blowing up the planet.
In the explosive destruction, Adam Warlock fights

686
00:46:38.599 --> 00:46:44.760
Gomera but nearly dies trying to rescue
Aisha, who does die before the planet's

687
00:46:44.760 --> 00:46:49.599
complete obliteration. Star Lord and group
managed to retrieve Rockets, kill switch OVERRIGHTE

688
00:46:49.639 --> 00:46:52.559
code, and escape the High Evolutionary, but not before Mantis, Nebula and

689
00:46:52.679 --> 00:46:57.920
drags board the villain ship for a
rescue attempt. It was really kind of

690
00:46:57.960 --> 00:47:02.639
disheartening to see the team connecting with
these very human feeling animal characters and know

691
00:47:02.760 --> 00:47:07.000
that they all just got wiped out. Super tragic. Yeah, I mean

692
00:47:07.039 --> 00:47:09.320
I thought they like even really bonded
with them, even borrowed their car and

693
00:47:09.639 --> 00:47:13.320
stuff like that. That was so
good. When he was like, kind,

694
00:47:13.320 --> 00:47:16.440
I borrow your car in the dead
was like, uh, I thought

695
00:47:16.440 --> 00:47:22.559
it was super graphic. When star
Lord freaking carved the data out of that

696
00:47:22.639 --> 00:47:25.480
henchman's head with like a utility knife. Yeah, dude, I was really

697
00:47:25.480 --> 00:47:30.320
surprised that he just straight up murdered
that henchman. Yeah, I mean,

698
00:47:30.360 --> 00:47:35.840
he totally deserved to die, but
there was some vengeful shit, Like I

699
00:47:35.880 --> 00:47:38.039
don't think I reached that point where
I felt like he absolutely deserved to die.

700
00:47:38.559 --> 00:47:44.440
He tortured animals almost the High Evolutionary, well, he was under the

701
00:47:44.480 --> 00:47:46.800
High Evolutionary's orders, but it seemed
like he played a large part in But

702
00:47:46.880 --> 00:47:51.719
according to Rockets memory scans, it
seemed like he played a large part in

703
00:47:51.760 --> 00:47:54.320
that torture process, all right.
I just remember being really shocked by that

704
00:47:54.599 --> 00:47:58.639
and the way he killed him too, like just dropped him from a thousand

705
00:47:58.679 --> 00:48:01.039
feet and just like slammed him into
the ground. Drop seemed like a bit

706
00:48:01.079 --> 00:48:05.239
of overkill, didn't it. Yeah, for sure. I did love star

707
00:48:05.280 --> 00:48:07.679
Lord's ingenuity though, Like that's what
he's known for, right. I wasn't

708
00:48:07.679 --> 00:48:12.320
sure how he was going to escape
that situation, but relying on grow to

709
00:48:12.440 --> 00:48:15.519
like create wings and stuff like that. I'm glad he was able to get

710
00:48:15.519 --> 00:48:17.000
out of it in some way.
Yeah, I didn't see that coming.

711
00:48:17.480 --> 00:48:22.239
Meanwhile, back in the flashback,
young Rocket builds a key to help his

712
00:48:22.280 --> 00:48:25.320
friends get out of their cages,
but Lila, Teeths, and Floor are

713
00:48:25.360 --> 00:48:30.840
all killed before they can escape.
Emotionally devastated, Rocket eviscerates the high Evolutionary's

714
00:48:30.880 --> 00:48:36.159
face before stealing a ship and escaping
again. Probably, for my money,

715
00:48:36.199 --> 00:48:39.960
the most emotionally crushing moment in the
MCU when Rocket sees Lila die and he

716
00:48:40.320 --> 00:48:45.199
lets out a scream. I felt
his anguish physically in my chest and throat,

717
00:48:45.440 --> 00:48:46.840
And it was weird. Is that, Like I was prepared for it,

718
00:48:46.880 --> 00:48:50.760
Like I had a really good feeling
even from the trailers, you know

719
00:48:50.960 --> 00:48:53.519
that these creatures were going to die. But even after seeing it is still

720
00:48:53.559 --> 00:48:57.719
shattered me. Yeah. I don't
know if it was the most emotional moment,

721
00:48:57.800 --> 00:49:00.960
but definitely up there in the MCU
for sure. Star Lord is able

722
00:49:00.960 --> 00:49:06.840
to revive Rocket after Rocket flatlines and
visits Lila and his former friends in a

723
00:49:06.920 --> 00:49:09.920
vision of the afterlife. The team
is contacted by Nebula, who gets captured

724
00:49:09.920 --> 00:49:15.679
alongside Mantis and Dracts by the High
Evolutionary, who holds them ransom in exchange

725
00:49:15.679 --> 00:49:20.760
for a rocket. The Guardians contact
Kraglin and Cosmo on Nowhere in preparation for

726
00:49:20.840 --> 00:49:24.199
Battle Genius move. It was awesome
just to see the skull peek through the

727
00:49:24.239 --> 00:49:29.000
warp point Yeah, and then like
bust out this cannon out of its eye,

728
00:49:29.039 --> 00:49:32.199
almost like a pirate ship battle cool. Nowhere is just a really cool

729
00:49:32.239 --> 00:49:36.000
concept. Yeah, they've used it
well in all these films. I think.

730
00:49:36.239 --> 00:49:39.159
The Guardians and Nowhere convene at the
High Evolutionaries location, but Adam Warlock

731
00:49:39.199 --> 00:49:44.440
attacks them again as they try to
breach the villain's base, grew ends up

732
00:49:44.480 --> 00:49:47.320
saving Adam Warlock, who has a
change of heart. Although Nebula, Mantis

733
00:49:47.360 --> 00:49:52.679
and Dracs are able to escape without
being rescued, Rocket decides to attack the

734
00:49:52.800 --> 00:49:57.639
High Evolutionary anyway and put an end
to his experiments. The Guardians fight alongside

735
00:49:57.679 --> 00:50:00.320
him and they destroy the base,
saving a group of children and animals that

736
00:50:00.360 --> 00:50:05.440
were created there and being experimented on. It was a badass action scene.

737
00:50:05.599 --> 00:50:08.719
Dude, that epic one shot Hallway
fight. I could watched that over and

738
00:50:08.719 --> 00:50:13.920
over again. Dude, that Hallway
action shot is hands down, I think

739
00:50:14.280 --> 00:50:19.719
the greatest shots in any MCU film, maybe any comic book movie ever made.

740
00:50:20.039 --> 00:50:22.960
Yeah, James Kunn definitely went for
broke with that. It's kind of

741
00:50:22.960 --> 00:50:25.519
the thing that you always wanted to
see from your superhero team up films.

742
00:50:25.760 --> 00:50:30.480
You know, I really hope we
get a one shot action scene like that

743
00:50:30.559 --> 00:50:32.840
with the X Men. My head
would just explode the way the camera was

744
00:50:32.880 --> 00:50:37.800
just zipping around the environments, going
from character to character, changing focal lengths

745
00:50:37.840 --> 00:50:42.760
and changing angles. It was insane. I have no idea how they did

746
00:50:42.760 --> 00:50:45.760
it. It had to be fake. But like those looked like real performances.

747
00:50:46.119 --> 00:50:51.360
Yeah, it was very hyperkinetic,
like the Kingsman movies with Matthew Vaughan.

748
00:50:51.519 --> 00:50:53.360
I think it was largely inspired by
that type of camera movement. I

749
00:50:53.360 --> 00:50:57.840
could see that, but it was
better executed here, I think. Yeah,

750
00:50:57.880 --> 00:51:00.119
I think so. It makes me
so excited I did for James Gunn

751
00:51:00.159 --> 00:51:06.280
Superman film and future maybe Justice League
films. You would be so lucky I

752
00:51:06.320 --> 00:51:10.599
will be in a Justice League movie. I will be okay. During the

753
00:51:10.639 --> 00:51:15.440
battle, the High Evolutionary attacks Rocket, but the Guardians incamur band together to

754
00:51:15.519 --> 00:51:20.559
open a whole case of what bass
on the guy. Rocket ultimately decides not

755
00:51:20.599 --> 00:51:22.679
to kill him, however, and
the Guardians leave the villain behind. As

756
00:51:22.719 --> 00:51:28.559
his bass explodes. Star Lord nearly
dies trying to flee the bass, but

757
00:51:28.679 --> 00:51:32.480
Adam Warlock rescues him. This brings
me to my biggest nitpick of this film.

758
00:51:32.920 --> 00:51:37.599
Where the fuck was star Lord's mask
in this movie? Did he have

759
00:51:37.719 --> 00:51:40.440
it at all during the movie?
No, to my memory, he does

760
00:51:40.480 --> 00:51:45.880
not. His mask would have saved
him from like almost dying in space in

761
00:51:45.880 --> 00:51:47.760
that scene, and yet for some
reason he didn't have it. I thought

762
00:51:47.760 --> 00:51:52.920
he always had his mask on him. It was like cybernetically implanted behind one

763
00:51:52.920 --> 00:51:57.719
of his ears. Right, It
just felt so cheap, honestly, like

764
00:51:58.039 --> 00:52:00.239
this whole film was kind of sold
like this is our last ride. Some

765
00:52:00.360 --> 00:52:05.639
characters may not even survive. I
was fully expecting that. I totally thought

766
00:52:05.679 --> 00:52:08.679
I saw star Lord die, especially
when like his face froze and I just

767
00:52:08.719 --> 00:52:13.519
kind of like swelled up from like
the blood freezing. Right, I thought

768
00:52:13.519 --> 00:52:16.559
he was dead, And the fact
that all of a sudden he wasn't really

769
00:52:16.599 --> 00:52:22.480
confused me. Well, it's interesting
because like we saw his mask as recently

770
00:52:22.519 --> 00:52:24.239
as Avengers End Game, you know, so we know that he still has

771
00:52:24.280 --> 00:52:29.119
his star Lord mask. In this
movie, star Lord no longer had the

772
00:52:29.159 --> 00:52:34.400
connection to Ego's light and therefore was
fully human and susceptible to dying in space,

773
00:52:34.760 --> 00:52:37.480
which is why he should have had
a mask, is all I'm saying.

774
00:52:37.800 --> 00:52:39.239
It's so weird that he didn't have
it. It's like his trademark.

775
00:52:39.360 --> 00:52:45.079
Yeah, they just needed Adam Warlock
to perform one act of goodness in the

776
00:52:45.079 --> 00:52:47.920
movie, I guess, but it
just seemed like a weird place to do

777
00:52:47.960 --> 00:52:52.519
that. Yeah. In the aftermath
of the battle, the Guardians choose to

778
00:52:52.599 --> 00:52:57.280
disband, with star Lord returning to
Earth to see his grandfather. Gomra returns

779
00:52:57.320 --> 00:53:00.039
to the Ravagers. Drax raises the
group of chill and rescued from the High

780
00:53:00.039 --> 00:53:05.519
Evolutionary, Rocket leads the new generation
of Guardians, including Groot, who grows

781
00:53:05.559 --> 00:53:09.760
gargantuan, Nebula runs the city of
Nowhere, and Mantis leaves to discover herself.

782
00:53:10.079 --> 00:53:14.559
Very bittersweet all of that. Yeah, Now we're the kids that Tracks

783
00:53:14.760 --> 00:53:19.480
was raising. Are those characters from
the comics? One of them is which

784
00:53:19.519 --> 00:53:22.719
we found out in the mid credit
scene where we see the new Guardians consisting

785
00:53:22.760 --> 00:53:28.079
of Rocket and Grew, Craglin,
Adam Morlock, and Phila one of the

786
00:53:28.159 --> 00:53:30.719
kids. We see them go on
a mission. Oh, Filovelle. Yeah,

787
00:53:30.760 --> 00:53:35.480
Pilavelle. Although I'm kind of certain
her last name isn't Vell in this

788
00:53:35.519 --> 00:53:38.719
movie, considering it doesn't seem she
has any connection to Marvel huh. In

789
00:53:38.800 --> 00:53:44.639
the comics, she's Marvell's daughter.
Here she was created by the High Evolutionary,

790
00:53:44.920 --> 00:53:47.320
Okay, but she's one of the
original members of the Guardians of the

791
00:53:47.360 --> 00:53:51.480
Galaxy when the team was rebooted in
two thousand and eight. She's been known

792
00:53:51.519 --> 00:53:54.239
by several names in the comics,
including taking on the mantle of Captain Marvel

793
00:53:54.280 --> 00:53:59.079
for a while, as well as
Martyr when she got the Quantum bands.

794
00:53:59.440 --> 00:54:02.400
Well, does this mean that the
children were cree offshoots. That's a good

795
00:54:02.440 --> 00:54:07.239
question. I think that would be
appropriate considering Fi Lavelle's heritage. In the

796
00:54:07.360 --> 00:54:12.800
after credit scene, star Lord talks
to his grandfather over breakfast, with the

797
00:54:12.840 --> 00:54:15.800
message popping up that says the legendary
star Lord will return. I just thought

798
00:54:15.840 --> 00:54:21.119
it was really great to see such
a mundane conversation happening between Peter and his

799
00:54:21.199 --> 00:54:25.360
grandfather Jason. He went from like
this galaxy saving hero to a guy who's

800
00:54:25.400 --> 00:54:30.079
like complaining about mowing the lawn of
one of his neighbors when she has some

801
00:54:30.239 --> 00:54:32.679
like dead beat guy living with her
or something like that. It was.

802
00:54:34.079 --> 00:54:36.800
I don't remember the conversation exactly,
but I thought it was pretty funny.

803
00:54:36.960 --> 00:54:38.960
Yeah, it was good. I
loved the little easter egg about Kevin and

804
00:54:39.000 --> 00:54:44.960
Bacon saying he got abducted by aliens. Yeah, that was so good.

805
00:54:45.280 --> 00:54:47.840
But that does a for the movie. I'm gonna give the film an overall

806
00:54:47.920 --> 00:54:52.639
rating of four and a half stars. I think Guardian's the Galaxy volume three

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was better than Volume two, and
maybe as good as Volume one, but

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in much different ways. In this
case, I will equate what is good

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with what is impactful, because I
think at the end of the day,

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you know, good art should make
us feel something, and that's exactly what

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Volume three did. So overall,
you know, the film was funny and

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occasionally challenging. I think it was
interesting how the film is showed universal stakes

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for emotional ones and gave us a
great bittersweet scent off for this ragtag group

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of heroes. Again four and a
half stars for Rotten Tomatoes a fresh rating.

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Yeah, I agree. I really
enjoyed this movie. I'd say it

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was as good as the first Guardians
movie, which I also really liked.

817
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I wouldn't this really excited to see
what James Gunn was going to do and

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how he has Richard as a filmmaker, and he did not disappoint. I

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really liked this movie, and I
agree four and a half stars. I

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hope, when all of a sudden
done, that Guardians three will be influential

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like the first Guardians movie was and
remind people that there can be an emotional

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core to these stories. I hope
that aspect carries forward to guns next film,

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which will be Superman Legacy. I
hope it will. I think it

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will. I mean Peacemaker was also
emotional, but Guardians the Galaxy three I

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00:56:04.280 --> 00:56:08.079
think definitely by far is james guns
most mature film to date. I would

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agree with that. Yeah, maybe
not the best, but definitely the most

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mature. But that doesn't for this
review. Let us know what you guys

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on our website. In our next
episode, we were gonna do Mogo versus

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Ego, these two planets going up
against each other, but we made a

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last minute, audible decision, with
the approval of some of our executive producers,

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to go a more timely route and
do a duel with the High evolutionary.

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Yeah, we're gonna be pitting him
against Despero, the Justice League villain.

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So look forward to learning more about
those two comic book characters and seeing

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who would win next week. In
the meantime, we want to give a

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big thanks to our executive producers Ken
Johnson, John Stoski, Zachary Hepburn,

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Dustin Belcolm Magi Matinian, Brandon Esttergard, Nathaniel Wagner, Levi Yeayton, Nikobanto,

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Austin Wizlowski, AJ Dunkerley, Scott
Camacho, Gil Camacho, Adam Spees,

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and Zach Wilder for helping make this
podcast possible. And we'll talk to

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you guys next week. Hop up
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crying. It's just been raining on
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