Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 - Unsurprisingly Amazing (Review) 

@Not RickRoll 🅥 dam Bots are making fun of themselves respond if your making fun of bot's or you are one

I kinda wished he was roasted by the characters more, like Rocket pointing out that he's so obsessed with him because despite the Evolutionary's god complex Rocket's the only successful thing he ever created

fr, its so odd seeing people complain he was "flat" in terms of character depth. MCU has tried and failed MUTLIPLE times to make an empathetic villain since Infinity War-- sometimes its nice to just watch an irredeemable p.o.s get what's coming to him. Plus trying to flesh him out would no doubt inflate the movie runtime-- and even then, not many people will wanna empathize w/ an animal abuser lmao

We only have are dark lord and savior Big Jack Horner to thanks for this return

He was a villain I wanted to see get shot dead by the heroes, only thing I would change about the movie

Just like Andor made me realize 'oh wait, I forgot star wars can be good! I've gotten so used to 'okay' being the best they had to offer."

@@carlotta4th same. nowadayas, we are used to mediocre stuff to the point we lower our standard just to call said mediocre stuff as okay or alright. When in fact, they are just genuinely bad stuff.

@@carlotta4th Star Wars, despite Disney releasing stuff every other month, has been more accessible than the MCU recently. The MCU always keeps setting up other movies and shows which I’m sick and tired of. Star Wars however, despite some stuff being ok or awful doesn’t do that. If you were to watch Andor or Mandalorian on its own, you wouldn’t be lost at all.

​@@nerdgeekman not sure about Mandalorian, season 2's ending was pretty much undone by Book of Boba Fett. And I heard they're planning a crossover movie to serve as the finale for Mandalorian, Ahsoka, and a few other shows.

Preachin straight facts

HONESTLY i loved that part

Although it's funny it's still my favourite line in the film lol

Yup lol he even uses it as his last name humbly accepting he was wrong the entire time. Rocket Racoon

“Name’s Rocket. Rocket Raccoon.”

@@1gamingwithloganbond. James bond

Then rocket claws his face off immediately after

​@@seandamenacee4767 Appropriate response.

@@seandamenacee4767 Complete with his friends crying for Rocket to stop and tell him she’s gone… only to be shot and killed by backup. *Truly the darkest and saddest scene in the ENTIRE MCU*

@@cloudshines812 i bawled on that scene god

If anyone deserves to hang by their entrails, it's that bastard.

Same here

That shit fucking hurt, man. And his goodbye to Mantis too.

Cut to him throwing the ball at that little girl, lol

​@@FranciscoPetrucioJuniortbf my dad would do the exact same

Oh man, that's a wonderful way to interpret that. I didn't even think of that!

@@ArnLPs i just read one of the comments above that it was confirmed by james gunn which makes it extra special for me 🥲

Yeah, now the audience can finally understand Groot, in the very end of the guardians of the galaxy its like we're apart of the team

We did get a subtle foreshadowing in the first film where groot says "We are groot"

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YES oh when rocket woke up and she heard he was okay and just broke down. dude

@@andrear4445 And the way she was the first to ask, "Where's Rocket?" at the end, when he stayed behind.

They probably also connected through their shared pain of being modified by others

i hate to be that person, but the Blip is the thing that brought everyone back (AKA Hulk's snap), what you're thinking of is The Snap.

@@jewelaloo7831 I hate to be that person as well, but according to Wikipedia "The Blip" refers to the entire event from The Snap to everyone returning. There's also references in post Endgame movies and TV shows about people who were "blipped." As far as I remember the term "snapped" isn't really used in the movies and TV shows themselves. When you think about it most people in the MCU probably don't know that Thanos snapped his fingers to make that happen so they wouldn't use that term.

Made me cry it was such a good scene

that scene was sooo tense for me, the door is completely open and high evolutionary could just come at any time

​@@localfriendlycloud7720 same, will probably give a different feeling on rewatch but that scene was beyond tense to me

@@localfriendlycloud7720 When the High Evolutionary did appear in that scene I was properly jumpscared, even though it felt somewhat obvious it was going to happen

Tht scene killed me 😭🥺❤️

I honestly thought he was going to drop an F-Bomb but yeah it was great

easily top 5 MCU scenes right there.

@@haydenfisher1387 you can only have one per movie to keep the PG-13 rating.

That line got spoiled for me but I was still so glad to see it. Rocket has come so far since the first movie and I loved seeing him finally come to terms with himself.

It was such a badass and earned moment that he finally came to terms with his real identity

i read in some tweets that Pratt is like a blank slate that producer and director can fill that with whatever they want and Pratt will always delivers

​@@HadirUntukAnda Pratt is a generic actor but that's not a bad thing, adaptability is an essential part of acting.

yeah, he is great. idk why he gets so much hate.

​@tunafish5462 the brief summary term is that people hate him for accepting Jesus in his life (Being Christian). Long parts are: He had gone to a church once that was part of something abti-lgbtq+, which btw, he doesn't support that hatred at all, but because of association, people called him a homophobe and even wanted producers and directors to make Thor gay for Peter after endgame. Another incident is something about not being part of some event with the other MCU cast in something regarding Joe Biden. So, political biases thrown there I guess. People even hated him for his baby being born and him adoring the newborn on social media. Saying he is picking favorites or so. There maybe other factors, like he has dark/stupid sense of humor which I personally like but some may not.

Im so glad someone acknowledges how raw that scream was. I am sucker for moments like that in these movies and that's one of the best ones I've heard since Henry Cavill in MoS

Never even put the two together! Damn lol.

Quill's mind: "I'm sure no one could possibly be worse than my dad." 1 minute later Quill's mind: "There is not even half a redeeming quality in one of these Hellraiser rejects."

This is one thing I’ve always loved about the Guardians. They’re goofy, but do something unforgivable to one of them, and the rest are gonna blow your face off lol.

"Oh you're into genocide? That makes a lot easier."

@@yeedog6145 You wanna know the best part? I can actually hear Peter saying that. That actually sounds like something he’d say.

She didn't need to say that though. It would've been better if she convade that with her emotions instead

​@@erenahmed how could she have expressed that emotionally?

@@PresbianTier Have you cried before?

​@erenahmed if it was just crying, it could have just been interpreted as "it's painful to watch a friend if mine go through this" or "it's the same as what happened to me." It could also say "it's worse than what happened to me." But some people would probably just not get that right away unless told to their face. People nowadays want things told to them instead of interpretation, since it either won't make sense or you just end up arguing with someone.

Nebula: Hey, I got off pretty easy.

You forgot about Howard the Duck.

@@JimboMarsh silly creature

He was the most tragic character and so many people didn’t even know it

He was always my favourite and an entire movie essentially dedicated to him was amazing

​@@ohnobro1424ya because he refused to talk about it.

Great attention to detail in endgame is when thanos' opens fire on the heroes, rocket throws himself onto Groot, even though he's tiny and it won't do much but he tries anyway to protect his regained family

It makes it even more special when you see Nebula’s reaction to him surviving, they’ve been through so much together 😢

@@ClarifyEht plus he calls her nebs

@@ClarifyEht for some reason, i ship those 2. I know is a werd thing, but after everything they went through, i can see them being the ones with the closest relationship. either as friends or as a romantic couple

**thinks about it** 3 times he has lost people/someone who mattered to him, it was the experiment group first, then groot, then the blip

Especially when they all saw what was REALLY done to him as a baby... "This is worse than what Thanos did to me"

@@KingVegeta009 dude was lobotomized while he was still conscious, which is really disturbing for a marvel movie

the only time we ever saw her cry that got me man

Dude, you're gonna make me cry. I cried alongside Nebula when she learned that Rocket is okay. MY FREAKING GOSH that scene was so powerful... 😢😢😭😭😭😭

Honestly, this movie was the ultimate middle finger to Disney. "See how good I can do for a company I hate, now imagine what I can do as your direct competitor"

Yeah. the events of the film all start with him, but also he gets basically ignored. Heck, he is arguably rocket's karma for stealing the batteries in VOL 2. sure those batteries helped defeated ego but also brought them trouble.

Hopefully he'll be used in the future more to make up for it

its really good because the team focus is to help rocket not to defeat adam

the only thing I would have changed is adding a fight between Adam and the High Evolutionary. man earned his 1:1, and it sucks that he never got payback. along with Rocket, Adam was one of my favourite characters from the comics, and even though he's been portrayed as wildly different in GotG 3 I'm loving this new direction for him. I agree with Mothman: I hope future movies give him his chance to shine.

@@zuresei Honestly, the fact that he didn't fight the High Evolutionary worked for me, because I kept expecting him to as his redemption and when he didn't I forgot he even existed. So when Star Lord was dying in the vacuum and nobody seemed able to save him and I had completely forgotten Adam was a thing, I was like, holy fuck are they actually doing this! I had a real moment where I thought he might seriously be a goner.

Here is a clip explaining why lampshading becomes more invalid and frustrating the longer it is used in modern culture: RU-vid.com/fUck_0fF

Out of context, this sounds hilarious

@@MammalianCreature yeah if you haven't seen the guardian movies before that's gonna sound like one of those "when morbius said its morbin time i cried" jokes

Drax has always been my least favourite character, but the moment he started dancing was the moment I lost it and started bawling. What an amazing ending to his arc... What an amazing movie aaa

honestly, that final scene with nebula cheering triumphantly got me really emotional. a character with so little victories and so little chances to express it, almost brought to her knees with joy. fuck man

As well as him breaking down over Groot I's death

Well yeah.. it’s James Gunn man

The gore,animal abuse, and medical trauma kept it from being lighthearted for me personally

High Evolutionary really didn’t have any backstory. Which is fine, for this movie, but it’d be nice to see how he got from “small child who could be a good man one day” to “one of the most wretched demigods on the face of the universe”

@@JimBobJoeB0b I actually liked that they didn't do that. It feels so refreshing to see a villain who's an ass just to be an ass after years of movies trying (and sometimes miserably failing) to give us villains with redemption arcs. After Puss in Boots 2, I'm honestly glad unapologetically evil villains who you just wanna see get defeated are making a comeback in movies.

You say that, but Peter's conversation with Gamora is cut short because he was "open mic" and the rest of the crew could hear him This movie annoyed me

And then he said “Well that makes you the idiots then.” I felt so bad. 😭

Nebula was crying so much after hearing rocket was alive that mantis had to speak for her. Tears were shed

same its such a simple but powerful dialogue

@@tolord1800 ​​⁠​⁠ Seeing how much Nebula cared for Rocket really hit me. Her and Rocket were the only ones who weren’t blipped and they were both experimented on and tortured by their sadistic “fathers”. So they have a lot in common in that aspect.

SAME I hadn’t cried at all until that point

While me I had the biggest smile on my face happy seeing these amazing characters getting the send off/conclusion they deserve. A great song choice for a great scene.

​@@Hydrolion1998 I did too but man, I wished I cried to that scene or to this movie in general

The second that song started my eyes started burning. Unreal choice.

I was SOBBING sobbing but was surprised i cried at the end instead of the sad sad moments yk

Really? Maybe you were baked.

​@@nlawler12 you are not groot

Me too

I find it even more heart wrenching Lylas voice when she gets out of the cell. The voice of the actor for her is as if Lyla is about to cry tears of happiness. Naturally, just like Bane said from Nolans batman trilogy "You know why this place is a hell hole? Every rotten man here see the light and want to climb up to freedom, so easy, so simple and like shipwrecked men they turn to saltwater from the uncontrollable thirst. Many have died trying." At the peak of hope is where one finds true despair. Negativety means nothing without positivity which is why see Rocket having numberous pleasant experiences with his original test subject friends only for the rug under him to be pulled and delve once more into the harsh, negative, reality.

every single rocket flashback got me teary eyed but in that scene, the scream was so jarring I was just expecting for things to get worse, like if I was the next one to get shot or something

​@@Gabriel-sd1ohI knew smth was gonna happen to his friends because it made sense but man it still killed me in the end and every flashback had me like 'God this is gonna suck when they die' and it sure did

even florence welch herself cried😢

It was also great how rocket playing 2000s music instead of 1990s music showed that the guardians had entered a new era in their lives.

Altho it seems for the Guardians Of The Galaxy team the dog days are only beginning if you know what I mean.

I used to hate that song (only because I heard it way too much) but it was used so well that I absolutely loved it here

@@namesarefortheweak that killed me man. such a strong ending. augh!! i'm still geeking out over it

Who is the first favorite?

Rocket has always been one of my favorite MCU characters ever since the first Guardians film.

You need to tell your people why they should still go to the theater to watch Guardians of the Galaxy Volume 3, and not avoid it just because they disliked Love and Thunder and Quantumania before it. We can still save the film's box office by telling other people why they would enjoy it more than other Marvel films they disliked for the past one year before it.

@@adamkalb1 Oh I wouldn't be worried. Everyone I think is being a little bit over-pessimistic. I am very confident this film will have legs.

@@adamkalb1 To be honest, there is reason to not watch this movie. It wasn’t just Thor and Doctor Strange, almost all the movies since Endgame have been incredibly disappointing, and it really turned me away from even my favorite series.

*caracaters

@@2goober4utry again

@@humanoidshrek5524 *charatars

@@2goober4u u almost got it

@@humanoidshrek5524 *character

its a dance party ending that is utterly *DESERVED*

Yup, Rocket having parents that never cared about his passions, dreams, life desires, offered no emotional support or approval & acceptance only narcissistic rage when they realize the kid isn't what they intended/expected or isn't happy being fully controlled by them and wants independence. Finding friends and loved ones that genuinely love you, give you what your parents never did is very heartwarming.

This movie… and THIS particular scene finally did it. After 15 years of the MCU… I actually full on cried in my seat.

I’m so glad I wasn’t the only one. I just saw it today and while Rocket’s backstory overall had my heart so broken seeing him get embraced by his friends in a spiritual afterlife where they’re together and happy was enough to have me sobbing. It was very touching and the fact that she told him his story wasn’t over and that they’ll be waiting for him patiently just had me so emotional.

Fuck, if I hadn’t been in a theater with a shit ton of other people, I’d have probably cried at this scene. Just thinking about him saying “I let you down. It’s my fault.” That fucking *killed* me.

I know a lot of people talk about how good Bradley Cooper was in that scene, but I wish more people praised Linda Cardellini’s performance as Lylla, too. It sounded ethereal, and I haven’t heard her voice like this before, she really nailed it.

And he'll even include KRYPTO THE SUPER DOG!

Seriously. I've read a bunch of great Superman comics recently, and the lack of a good adaptation in all these years is bizarre.

That’s IF DC let’s him do this best, DC isn’t very good at live action films

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this is one of the first movies in a good while where my heart was in my mouth throughout, the ticking time bomb of rocket’s condition makes the race to save him so much more gruelling. and then even after he’s saved the tension doesn’t disappear bc the high evolutionary is still alive and kicking

It's a damsel in distress plot, the damsel being rocket but the problems usually arise such as the "damsel" becoming a passive character and not emotionally varied, they become a mcguffin and nothing more. The good thing is that they managed to turn this negatives upside down and made Rocket an active character through his clear goal in the flashbacks of being led to believe he will leave for the new world after his work is over and he is emotionally carried since he experience a variety of emotions, fear, pain, happiness, love, grief, anguish and hatred.

Literally one of the greatest movies I’ve ever seen no joke no exaggeration it was tuggin on my chest the whole movie

😊

and even Craglin got a moment.

@@AngusKhaw Craglin and Cosmo holding down the home fort put the biggest smile on my face

@@theglassespro4557 It's so cool that even Yondu gets a moment.

They did mantis justice tbh

I have a hard time crying in public, but goddamn this movie had some moments. Like, the first one was when Lylla blotted Rocket’s wound and just said “everything’s okay” or whatever, just killed me.

and that moment makes her death even more soul crushing

It's actually pretty common for the more comedic and goofy projects to be full of excellent work, by the actors, director, camera crew, vfx artist, choreographers, stunt doubles, writers, all of them did an excellent job, and you can see that they love what they were doing. There was maybe one moment I thought was a fucking cliche and I can't even remember that one scene, just by the amount of perfection this movie was

ike not even main story beats got me in the feels. Like StarLord at the end when he Spoilers: goes back to his grandad who told him to leave. And he was so happy to see him. Poor old man probably spent his whole life resenting himself and regretting that decision.

The thing is, we have seen this a million times already. Injuring a character and other have to save him is pretty common. But that's only because it works wonders when it's done right. But since it's often reinforced(in a good and non-invasive way) in the movie, that Rocket is the driving force behind all of their actions, and this is arguably Rocket's movie, but at the same time everyone is the lead imo. Even Drax and Mantis have kind of an arc, or at least they are integral, while still being fun. I honestly teared up at the end, because the movie never stopped building up the tension and never stopped, that the end just made sense. People started dancing, and it wasn't forced like most movies I saw, but just cathartic, something that lasts.

The best part of the movie was when the guardians said "its guarding time" and guarded all over the place

​@@blendyboi5023 Local man repeats joke for the 900th time 6 kids laughed, 4 adults cringed and one californian died

​@@ElRobaTacosUwU Except 1. I'm an adult and I think it's still funny, like a running gag, and 2. If we let the Morbin' Time meme die, Sony will be allowed to forget that trainwreck of a movie, and we can't have that.

@@bababooey5402but if we stop saying it then the moment where Sony refrences it in a future film will be even more embarrassing since the memes already dead

@@Door227 Fuck, you raise a fair point edit: wait, no, i think you misread my thing. i want the meme to continue so that Sony can never live it down. It will haunt them until the end of time.

Is it so different? We already had Nebula torture scenes, we already had genocides (Gamora's people, the Asgardians exterminated by Hella and Thanos and many more). Is it because there's more torture porn this time?

​@@Oscar_Lasco There's a certain level of nastiness Gunn adds to these projects that really do make this different.

@@Oscar_Lasco Gunn's really good at showing people the gruesomeness of death in a way that the rest of the MCU shies away from. Though it still indulges in this weird balance of "violence is cool" and "vengeance is wrong" that really left me confused.

@@Oscar_Lasco 'we've already had genocides' is silly, given both of the things you're citing were off-screen - the movie is obviously more brutal because we see more graphic things, there's no reason to pretend that the rest of the MCU has shown things of the same caliber (HE's face been mangled, Mantis' broken forearm and so on)

The moment when quill kills the dude who stole the kill switch by dropping him and then drowning him was genuinely disturbing to watch lol

im glad he wasn't actually speaking english idk why but it felt off

​@@MarsheIIo Prior to that scene we see Gamora being surprised that she was able to understand Groot. The cast not being surprised shows that he was just talking like how he usually does; But now we're part of the family and can now also understand Groot.

@@boxtupos7718 exactly.. such a simple concept.. but lot of people thought of ut as froot saying engrish

I was wondering why how we could understand him at the end there, but knowing this just makes my heart _feel_ and love the scene so much more. Thank you for sharing.

Would be great if some theatres randomly play a version where Groot just say I am Groot

What abuse?

I do think the movie itself was ok (I had more bones to pick the more I thought about it), but parts where Rocket rips HE’s face off to try and kill him and inadvertently causing Teefs and Floor to die and THEN refuse to kill him once he had the chance with the Guardians again really stuck out to me. Gunn is trying to send the message through Rocket that in order to leave his longing behind, his pain from being abused by the HE, he has to focus on doing things to help the friends that he has now. He has to be the hand that guides the hands. Why focus on pathetic people like the HE when there’s so much more you’re capable of doing with your life? Sometimes, we can get so hung up on the dumbest shit that we fail to look at the good stuff we have now and can do. After Rocket faces his past, he’s calmer, patient, and happier as he becomes the new captain of the GOTG, compared to his past self where he’s far more short-tempered. I loved the parts where they explore the changing of the old guard through Rocket’s perspective, and liked the exploration the of new Guardians (like Adam, Kraglin, and Cosmo). They were easily the best parts of the movie as they focus a lot more time on having the characters self-reflect on their attitudes and learn more about other characters compared to everything else in the story.

I was kinda disappointed that when Rocket saw them in the afterlife they still had their cybernetic prosthesis, but I guess it works because thats how Rocket knew them

Gunn created a great villain by making one so hatable. It was truly refreshing, and the squad laying the smackdown was one of the most satisfying moments of film

Just as well, because what they do to him would be pretty brutal for a less horrible villain. Even if it ended a little strangely.

word.

If I had a nickel for every time a Disney-owned property released in 2023 had an evil scientist engaging in eugenics, torture, and human experimentation, I'd have two nickels, which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it's happened twice. (I'm probably the only person on this planet who's drawn parallels between the High Evolutionary and Dr. Hemlock from Star Wars: The Bad Batch season 2.)

True

The MCU Spiderman trilogy comes close. All three are also consistently great.

Captain America trilogy is my favorite one but I understand why Guardians is cool too

Absolutely agree bro

@@nicholasho1595 the first one is ok, the second one is great and imo the third one is terrible.

What’s a NDE?

@@justaguywhowatchesyoutube5588 Near Death Experience I assume

"There are the hands that made us. And there are the hands that guide their hands."

I probably wouldn't say "in the mcu" but definitely in this phase.

​@@Mr.Yeast2I would say since infinity war. I preferred guardians 3 to endgame, but infinity war was mind blowing when it came out

@@Mr.Yeast2 Nah man. In the MCU.

​@@mawinstallation6626 my favorit is secret invasion becuase i am going to kill myself and my infant won

No sleep til Brooklyn was a great song choose as well.

@@mirandalovesfood Yeah! As always, the soundtrack was great.

@@mirandalovesfood the only problem i had with the "no sleep 'til brooklyn" scene was because I wanted the huge sychnronised beatdown to be on the High Evolutionary, not his goons. i wanted to see them smash that guy into a fucking pulp, honestly. Rocket's a better man than I.

i literally said "no way!!" out loud in the theater when the first second of the song started playing i was PUMPED

AND it's modern compared to every other song used in the franchise! real good representation of the guardians moving on from their pasts if thats what the movie crew intended!

It was so cool that they showed his massive ego/god complex in that way. Like he absolutely COULD NOT STAND the fact that his "less-than-dirt" creation solved something he couldn't.

My man's really malding towards a raccoon and hr pulled it off perfectly

And also the fact that he makes such a big deal about controlling gravity, but in the scene where he fights rocket, rocket just presses a button on his shoes that completely counters the effects of his gravity manipulation

​@@trickster80Can't really do anything if he is wearing boots that defy any gravitational pull.

I hope you're doing well and that your day is great

I hope you will be fine ❤ just try to spend your every moment of life

Wait, what was the nickname?

@@angelduh6941 nebs

Around the time the first guardians movie came out we had just gotten a chiwawa, we liked the movie so much we named her nebula. For other reasons as well that fit so perfectly, tragic to. She's bald for some unknown reason, she has dark eyes just like nebula and around 2019 she got run over bad, it's a miracle she survived. She had to get a metal plate on her femur and pelvis ( we call it her cybernetic enhancements) any way we always called her nebs. This trilogy feels like it was written and made just for me.

​@@sergiosandoval7955 Awwwwwww, thats so sweet it made my day! Consider me a fan of Nebs!

right? like infinity war/endgame didn’t really strike cords with me since the character death just wasn’t that impactful. but holy shit watching those silly little cgi animals broke me

@Меаtсаnуоn 🅥 lmao wtf

@TheGlassesPro Floor is my precious baby and I would die for her.

​@@thegoathead7538 I think she beat you to that buddy

I might be an emotionless husk, but I felt next to nothing during those flashbacks. For one thing, the death flag was so obvious that I was sitting there the entire time like "okay, can we get to the part where the otter dies?" Also, I couldn't get emotionally attached to them at all because they're CGI cyborg animals, not real people or animated cyborg animals. And on top of that, the weird kiss scene had me cringing in my seat.

@Меаtсаnуоn 🅥 Huh

We made the same transition that Gamora did in the movie.

This is what Quantumania should've been, no Kang (or at least made him like Thanos in GOTG 1), just focus on the Ant-Family and their relationships

@@raydhen8840 i didnt even give that movie a chance solely because of the disrespect of not adding a 3rd luis monologue

How is it disconnected. Gamora's entire character is based on the multiverse stuff

@@Real_Genji She's only connected in the factor that she's a variant. That's it. The movie has no ties to the overarching "Multiverse has been set loose / Kang is approaching" plot

marvel hasn't done a single interesting thing with the multiverse since spiderman and i wish they would just drop it. they clearly don't understand how to do it in a way that isn't super confusing and unnecessary and yet keep cramming it down our throats, taking up hours of content when i just want GOOD movies like gotg3. marvel succeeded because they put so much love into the characters, not because big boom explodey cgi universe time travel woobly wooble. but they seem so determined to become nothing more than that.

It’s definitely an interesting allegory, I’d be absolutely hysterical if it was intentional.

Now let’s make this connection so known to the average audience that it makes Disney sweat. Not the company, I mean the disembodied head of Walt Disney being kept alive with the leeched creativity of the fading human imagination.

Damn Alan Horn really did just outplay himself.

I probably died inside the most when he was scooping up little baby raccoons and realized that he couldn’t carry all the animals. 😭

Rocket's backstory was super compelling, and the wait for the tragedy I knew was coming was quite painful. Once that final flashback wrapped up, I was genuinely rooting for Rocket to get back up and blast the High Evolutionary into oblivion. If you're gonna make your villain a one-dimensional asshole with zero redeeming qualities, this is how you do it.

The scene where all his animal friends died is so heart breaking to me, and when he almost died and saw them was putting a big smile on my face

That was the saddest, most heartfelt darkest child pg 13 film I've watched... ever.

except for the text saying "the legendary star-lord will be back" but we choose to ignore that for now and just enjoy him with his grandfather

​@@tripp8961 yeah what was that about? Are they planning a series with him?

Yeah it was a real good scene, thought i wasn't going to cry after crying so much before that part but did anyway lol

​@@valentins.905 Secret Invasion, they have a guy well versed in alien shennanigans

I don't think Starlord is getting his own movie or anything, but since he lives on Earth now he's bound to get involved whenever the next Avengers thing happens. It wouldn't cheapen his arc if he's just helping out on earth

I still laugh about it

Also retroactively, every time Drax is on scene, is now a Live Drax Reaction.

Agreed! When he lost it at his people turning on him & exploded his power, then that aria plays over a blank screen and the foreboding is just….creeping *chefs kiss*

@@zarabee2880 "THERE IS NO GOD, THAT WHY I HAD TO STEP IN" Instantly win his spot in the best villain hall of fame

@@Duong-zv3pf Is he right next to the Puss in Boots villains or is there someone else inbetween

This, Frankenstein and Jurassic Park definitely do a good job showing the consequences of what would happen if men ever tried to emulate the role of God.

Lol same

fuuuuck you made me feels so old

SAAAAAME and i enjoyed so much as my parents introduced me to some awesome mix 1 & 2 songs when i was a child. i will cherish the guardians forever.

Sameeeee (tho I was 15 when the 1st came out)

All I could think of in that scene was AMOGUS

It sorta shows how they swapped personalities a bit, nebula is more like how gamora was in vol 1 and 2 whereas gamora is like how nebula was before she joined the guardians

@@raffmahon omg yes I didn't think of it that way!

​@@coltonk.3086 I first made that joke, but thankfully I moved past it.

​@@hihowareyou424 Also, I think it's partially a coincidence. Nebula probably picked green out of sisterly bond, but Gamora here probably didn't pick blue because of Nebula. Remember, this is still 2014 Gamora; other than present Nebula helping her out of Thanos' reign by bringing her to fight him in the present, Gamora probably has no more real sisterly respect for her (until the end of this film, at least.)

Same here. I think seeing the American flags, knowing that he was back on earth, back HOME...that's probably what did it for me.

I listen to Florence and the Machine when I want a good cry anyway so FUCK

I don't think Love and Thunder was trying to be anything.

I've always described Thor: Love and Thunder as a poor man's Guardians of the Galaxy due to how it tries to be both goofy and have heart to it but fails at doing so.

Love and Thunder made me question what the point was to pair Thor up with the Guardians of the Galaxy. There was so much potential to their dynamic, and yet the film wasted it completely.

I definitely think it was possible, considering how Taika handled Ragnarok.

I honestly think L&T is overhated. It's certainly not the best MCU film by any means and there are plenty of valid criticisms about it, but I think it has some good stuff in it (Jane's cancer plot for example). It's better than Black Widow anyways.

So do I, but unfortunately I don’t think it’s gonna be the case. The GOTG films have always kinda been the black sheep of the MCU quality-wise; they seem to have a certain level of depth to their stories and characters that very few other Marvel products manage to attain. I’d kinda describe the GOTG movies as being the “least marvel” of all marvel movies, if that makes any sense, yknow? I really hope they’ll turn things around but even if they do I genuinely don’t believe they can ever attain the same level of quality or general vibe that Gunn’s capable of bringing to their table.

I’d say yes and no. James Gunn is kind of an exception but it also seems like a lot of Marvel’s recent problems are being rectified lately. We just have to get through The Marvels first.

@@ohnobro1424 I still have hope. I won't give up on the MCU as quickly as everyone else has. I grew up with the MCU (I was 12 years old when Iron Man came out), and throughout their whole run people have been doubting them. But I'll never forget the feeling of seeing Infinity War and Endgame for the first time-they accomplished something that no other studio in history has ever done, and I refuse to believe that they can't course correct to give us something like that again. I think there's HUGE potential for the multiverse saga, and for Kang as a villain. Sure, things have gotten rough lately with Disney+ and Disney bearing down too hard on their writers and VFX workers, and yeah, the work has suffered, and yeah, the whole stuff with Jonathan Majors right now isn't looking good. But I won't give up on it yet. If there's one thing I've learned in these last 15 years, it's that the moments when it looks like Marvel is about to fall off a cliff are the LAST times you should be rooting against them, because they always find a way to swerve back around and iron out their flaws and try something new. I believe there is a world where we can have both an amazing Phase 5 and 6 culminating in an even more ambitious crossover event than Endgame/IW, AND ALSO a new and improved DC universe that actually does those characters justice (no pun intended).

@@Kira1Lawliet At this rate, they've been in a slowly growing, yet each time more than before, rut, for like 3 years, they've never been poised to fall off a cliff like this before, and never for this long, the people who were running marvel back when it was about to fall off a cliff those times before are not the people running it now, sometimes it seems like the people running it now are ignorantly, or feigning innocence while purposefully, shoving it closer to the edge, so long as they get the glory of being the ones that get to do so and having everyone paying attention to them being the one to do it But you still may be right, cause the ongoing writers strike(which isn't like the last one, the last one was just about good writers getting good pay, this one is about whether mediocre writers/activists deserve fair pay, writers in general deserve fair pay, and maybe if they were paid better they'd writer better, but there is something to be said for doing your best work for a story people love even if you're not being paid better rather than just shitting out bad product after bad product), the on going writers strike will either cause 1 of 4 things, 1: we'll either get the bad writers leaving with the good ones staying, the ones who have passion despite the unfair pay, and the writing in marvel projects will become good again. 2: we'll get the bad writers writing better because now they're being paid better and marvel projects will become good again. Or 3: things will stay the same because bad writers will continue to write garbage, or 4: the good writers will either leave as well due to the bad pay and leave, or the good writers will stay and write worse and worse, or the good writers will stay and write better in spite of the bad pay and having so many co workers dip, but even then it might not save the mcu

@@Kira1Lawliet yeah agreed

To be fair, most of Rocket's flashbacks were voiced by Noah Raskin and Sean Gunn, but it was Bradley Cooper on that particularly harrowing one with the scream

​@@mzuzek7582 and that was the best one

@@diccchocolate416 Agreed.

That scream genuinely hurt my heart. I haven’t even been able to rewatch it since.

Just in general, Bradley Cooper is great as Rocket. Its crazy how you look at him in the booth and you're like oh that's Cooper's voice, but then you watch it come out of this animated raccoon and suddenly you don't hear cooper at all, you just hear Rocket

Yeah, I really miss when they actually made great stories and characters, and then let the short 1-minute end scenes advertise their future projects, rather than making entire movies into advertisements for future projects.

Feature length ads is correct.

No, the best part was when Rocket said "it's rocketing time" and proceeded to rocket all over everyone

Loved the part where Star Lord said "its a me," and became a master builder

⁠You forgot the part where he rode a huge dinosaur

There's also that cool part where Star Lord dates April Ludgate

@@galaxieleaf5932 This movie has gotten extremely out of hand from our perspective

Guardians can join the “All three movies in a trilogy were actually good” club.

I knew James Gunn would not fail us. He knows much better than to do what Jeff Loveness and Peyton Reed did in Quantumania.

​@@XParasiteOctoling a very very small club lol

And I have never cried in a theater before, the closest I got was in Rogue One's ending. But this movie made me cry FOUR times, almost five. I cried in all the scenes you mentioned, aswell as the one where Rocket's friends die. This movie is just that good

Nah, this was really just a reminder that James Gunn makes great films, and that Marvel used to as well before their whole playbook became trying to pull a "James Gunn with The Guardians of the Galaxy" with most every dang director and whatever marvel project they had going on

I cried in every scene from Rockets Backstory, I couldn't handle the Animal abuse :(

We need more of them, whether it be through What If or them being brought back somehow.

I was genuinely unsettled when their death scenes came by. Floor screaming for them to leave as Rocket is crying really got to me

Honestly a What If on what would happen if Floor was the only remaining survivor of that whole endeavor would be amazing. Imagine her somehow meeting Groot and eventually somehow meeting the rest of the Guardians. It would be hilarious and amazing. Like the logical explanation could be that a misfire occurs and Rocket is killed as a result.

What got to me is Rocket's screaming for them was exactly the same when Quill was screaming for Rocket. Got me wondering if Bradley Cooper and Chris Prat got together to get the same tonal inflection.

If they really wanted to, they really could have split this into 2 separate movies and dedicated one entirely to Rocket's backstory. I'm very glad they didn't, but it's just a feeling I got along the way

It was just part that carried the movie. Everything was awesome.