I just watched Guardians of The Galaxy Vol 3 yesterday and holy fucking shit it was probably the best Marvel movie in like 5 years, I almost cried for like the entire movie because of Rocket’s backstory, I mean I didn’t cried but I was close to for the entire movie, it was so fucking great.
It’s an 8/10 because it’s still the most crowd pleasure shit ever, but like the greatest crowd pleasure shit ever 
It going to binge all of them today then watch it ASAP for 2 reasons:
65 is a horrible action movie mess that’s at least fun to make fun of.
I loved the part where Adam Driver and the girl get separated in a cave after getting into a dead end, but then Adam Driver somehow manages to escape the dead end he is trapped in, and also the cave off-camera.
It’s got a bizarrely self-indulgent title card, nonsensical compass/map/hologram technology, incorrect use of “Meteors” in the first 10 minutes, and lots of shots of people staring at something off-camera dramatically.
The language barrier between the two characters in the film was a cool writing decision, but the script is pretty dull.
Violent Night is a really fun, goofy action comedy about Santa Claus going total stunt-man action hero on a bunch of naughty home invaders.
It’s cheesy, but knows it. Has lots of scenes of surprising whimsical christmas/santa-related cheer, some genuine some parody, a horrifyingly vicious homage to Home Alone’s traps, some brutal murder, banter, and gore.
Some of the stunts and camera work in the scenes is really cool, I’m surprised the director wasn’t a previous stunt actor himself.
also someone blows up a fire extinguisher by throwing it on the ground and shooting it 
I don’t even have an urge to see 65, and I love dinosaurs. But I could tell it was stupid just from its premise alone. I would have picked it apart on its idea alone of traveling back in time to the dinosaur era and trying to survive, considering Earth didn’t even have the right atmosphere for humans to breathe in, and the characters would have died in two minutes… then I read what the twist was. Cue eye roll. So bad science was evaded by throwing in a combination Planet of the Apes/Twilight Zone reveal. Gimme a break.
So you know that the main character isn’t an Earthling? He’s from some other planet in the Milky Way, and ends up crash-landing on an “Uncharted” planet that’s revealed to be Earth
Yeah it’s silly sci-fi stuff, but definitely not the most eye-rolling moment of the film for me lol.
The old humans are actually aliens who colonized earth and that colony became so backwater that they devolved down to cavemen and then started advancing again and yet can’t find any evidence that shows they were once a star-faring civilization. It’s tired and lame, almost as much as the one where aliens actually created humans as slaves/soldiers/pets but we rose up and overthrew them is. Assassins’ Creed at least had the innovation to make the Precursors not be aliens but advanced human-like primates that evolved on earth and created humans as an inferior species, but they were still just as incompetent as we are and went extinct after thinking they could control us. That whole twist with this movie is just to avoid time-travel nitpicking and environmental survival nitpicking like I described above. I don’t even need to go into however bad the dinosaurs are portrayed, the main characters already make the whole thing so stupid, I could never get any enjoyment out of the film, so I doubt I’ll ever watch it. Shamalan’s After Earth had a less stupid premise.
Is it really a twist when the title is named after the time period? It’s not like there’s a moment Adam Driver makes a revelation about it like the Statue of Liberty from Apes.
The twist isn’t the time period, it’s the identities of the characters. You go into it thinking, “how did they get 65 million years into the past, and how do they get back,” only to realize that, uh, that’s not how they got there.
Maybe I’m an idiot but at no point in the movie did I think there was any time travel element. I thought it was pretty clear that Adam Driver was a humanoid alien who crash lands on dinosaur era Earth, and has to escape before the meteorite hits. A fairly straightforward premise.
I mean before you go see it. The trailers that I saw left so much to the imagination, and I’m not alone in this, that it leads the viewer to think that they’re somehow transported into the past, and that the beginning of the movie will explain it. And the idea when you start seeing it is that it’s humans in the future, coming across a planet that has dinosaur-like lifeforms, like the movie Planet of the Dinosaurs. Then it’s revealed that no, these aren’t future humans, these are prehistoric humans finding earth 65 million years ago, because we’re not originally from earth 
Just watched GOTG3 and it is amazing.
Sorry about that one mate 
I presumed it was anyways
The Menu
Great movie. Dark humor revenge movie. But it did make me want a really really good cheeseburger.
Reminds of a poem by Sa’di:
گفت چشم تنگ دنیادوست را
یا قناعت پر کند یا خاک گور
“Either contentment or the dust of the grave will fill the greedy eye of the worldly-minded.”
Great Movie. if you liked it, I’d recommend you to watch Casino with De Niro and Joe Pesci.
It’s in my list 
Better yet, play the game!
My reaction to Guardians of the Galaxy Volume 3:
This movie makes the Guardians series a fantastic trilogy (with a little extra viewing material between 2+3)
If you go in expecting the same frantic comedy as Volume 2, you’ll be wrong. Each movie does something different, this one is no exception.
1st was a slightly gritty, slightly campy, space-superhero-movie. 2nd was a madcap comedy with a heavy emotional core for the main character. This 3rd is a melancholic swan song for the group, clinging to comedy to not become too dark.
Bradley Cooper with the voice, Sean Gunn with the Mo-Cap and the VFX team with the CGI’s animals create a hugely moving animal performance, heightened significantly with the terrifying backdrop of animal cruelty (don’t watch this film if you’re really averse to that sort of thing)
Chukwudi Iwuji brings some serious, powerful acting chops to the role of the High Evolutionary, a man playing god with less-sentient beings. They do a lot in this film to show off his terrifying fury, his horrifyingly cruel master plan, and his surprising jealousy.
He gave me a strong air of a Shakespearean actor, in a role of madness, status, and rage. Really good stuff.
The rest of the Guardians crew have some great performances too, but the two up top are definitely stand-out. Chris Pratt does a surprising emotionally distant performance for some of the film (it makes sense in context) that we haven’t really seen from Peter Quill. Dave Bautista has less of a comedically obnoxious script, and more of a “foolishly dumb/literal/headstrong” performance, especially when it comes to his comedy.
Will Poulter as Adam has a great, small role in this, as a very-slow-on-the-uptake Space Superman. On that note, his action scenes are brutal and powerful, can’t wait to see what Gunn brings to his Superman reboot with this.
The cinematography and set design is especially cool in this film. Lots of great camera flips, action scenes where the camera is basically attached to a character being thrown across a room, and some really nice framing. It felt very new compared to previous Guardians films.
The music is used differently here. It’s used in a more atmospheric setup for scenes, rather than straight action backing-tracks or background music for a scene. It’s pretty interesting, but I enjoyed its use.
If you’re at all a fan of GOTG or curious about James Gunn’s last outing in this series, it’s wel worth a watch.
It is probably near the very top, if not the top of my Marvel movie list. It pulls out all the emotional stops, uses surprising restraint on comedy where it needs to (and sometimes doesn’t need to) and is very pleasing to watch.
This movie took me through the emotional wringer.
From the opening shot, the opening song ‘Creep’, I had tears welling in my eyes.
Rocket’s backstory in the previous movies made him a bit of a mysterious tragic character. This movie dives deep into that backstory with his animal experiment friends. They are rendered amazingly, with great expressions, detail, and fun performances from their actors.
You can easily pick up their final fates given where Rocket ends up in the present, but it didn’t make the emotional impact any less sad.
Every time they had a flashback, tears started welling in my eyes again. Both because of my fear of what might happen, and the cruelty they keep getting heaped on them, physically, verbally and mentally given they’re locked up nearly all their life.
And then it stabs you in the gut, probably halfway through the film, with their expected deaths… Jeeeesus, I was hit with major tears, then slight joy as Rocket retaliated against the HE, but oough wow that was quite the combination of emotions.
Drax had a scary near-death moment too, and even in the end Quill did as well! I was not having a good emotional time I swear.
However in the end things actually turn out pretty alright, and I left the theatre with tears down my cheeks and a smile on my face. I did not expect that result at all and I am very pleased.
And don’t get me started on how they got Rocket in love with music in this film!! They teased it in previous entries as he started warming up to Quill’s tunes, and it came full circle here, I love it!
Saw Guardians 3, thought it was excellent, basically agree with everything @TheChicken . I only cried like 8 times during it.
