Guardians Of The Galaxy (2014)

Originally posted by DARTH POWER

But of course a great movie can be made from characters that aren't well known. Watchmen was a fantastic movie but did not have the Marvel Brand backing it towards box office success. And all the countless successful non-comic book movie franchises didn't need comic books and cartoons to make them better known first before they hit the big screen Lol

This is what I usually say to people that claimed it would flop. If being popular beforehand is important, then no original movie can ever be successful. As nobody knew nor cared about the characters beforehand.

This is what Kevin Fiege had to say about the obscurity of Guardians.

“They’re characters most people have never heard of. But when I think back to when I was watching movies, I’d never heard of RoboCop before I saw RoboCop. I’d never heard of Jaws, never heard of Close Encounters, never heard of Luke Skywalker or Marty McFly. I’d never heard of any of those until I saw them at the movies. And then I became obsessed and a huge fan. Everything is original at some point.

Originally posted by WhiteWitchKing
UMVC3, Marvel had much more say in their rosters and both listened to their fans. Rocket, Nova, and Strange were characters they wanted to push and I'm guessing it's because of their plans for their movies. It's like the GOTG's appearance in both Avengers animated series and the rival or GOTG comics (with Iron Man a member lol). With this in mind, they wanted publicity for them first and ignored fanboy complains. Seriously, Venom? He was already in the last video games and they don't hold rights to him for movies. They're not gonna promote him. Marvel and Disney have this marketing thing figured out even if they have to piss off some fans.

Oh I knew that Marvel had the final say on which of their characters got in. Some people aren't informed of this though and blame Capcom for this as well.

In regards to Venom, the main issue was that the version most people want(Eddie Brock) doesn't exist anymore. That's also the version Capcom wanted. However Marvel wanted the current version which is Flash Thompson. That version is nothing like Brock's. And if that version got in, people that don't read comics would be raging because they'd have no idea what's going on.

Seen it. Very nice surprise. Great first and second act. Very easy to like characters.

Third act dragged a bit though, and end credit scene really frigging annoyed me.

But overall Marvel continue to prove their Origin stories are always epic. Not the best movie of the year or the best Marvel movie. But still a top movie.

Why did the end credit scene annoy you?

Really enjoyed this movie.

Spoiler:
We're just like Kevin Bacon

Originally posted by pym-ftw
Why did the end credit scene annoy you?

Its the kind of parody I'd like Marvel to stay away from.

The end credit scene was kinda meh to me. It was funny i guess but I was expecting

Spoiler:
some type of hint to a future marvel film

IMO those are the best post credit scenes.

What you people don't understand is that Marvel can't put anything particularly important in am end credits scene.

Lots of people don't stay for post-credits, and Marvel doesn't want those people missing something important. The movie ends where it ends, thus the story ends where it ends. Post-Credit scenes are just an extra throw away scene.

Originally posted by Firefly218
What you people don't understand is that Marvel can't put anything particularly important in am end credits scene.

Lots of people don't stay for post-credits, and Marvel doesn't want those people missing something important. The movie ends where it ends, thus the story ends where it ends. Post-Credit scenes are just an extra throw away scene.

Well they started with Nick Fury approaching Tony Stark in IM1(which was epic and everyone knows about that one), and they've continued a tradition of showing a hint to future movies which a lot of people stay around in the cinema for and it can be exciting.. And those who are not hardcore fans but have it on Dvd/Blu-Ray will defo check it out when they have it. Last year Fox have probably given us the best one with The Wolverine leading into DOFP.

So they have become a Marvel signature thing, and people are interested in them just like they are interested in watching trailers at the beginning of a movie. So I wasn't impressed with this one being turned into a silly Disney joke.

Me and my brother were actually both annoyed at that because we always stay to the end for these scenes. And with such a great new movie (last one before A2) we're expecting something half decent.

I would have preferred No end credit scene to that none sense.

Originally posted by Firefly218
What you people don't understand is that Marvel can't put anything particularly important in am end credits scene.

Lots of people don't stay for post-credits, and Marvel doesn't want those people missing something important. The movie ends where it ends, thus the story ends where it ends. Post-Credit scenes are just an extra throw away scene.

Actually nowadays the theatres I've been to that show Comic book movies are pretty much completely full of people waiting to see the end credit scenes. Most people have gotten with the program. Only thing is, now people expect something after every single movie.

Marvel working on Guardians Avengers crossover

http://m.christianpost.com/news/avengers-2-age-of-ultron-spoilers-avengers-guardians-of-the-galaxy-crossover-movie--124228/

94 million OW. This could be as Big a hit as Captain America 2 or Days of Future Past.

GOTG more popular than Thor and Superman? I doubt it. Just goes to show Quality still matters at the box office.

If Adam Warlock was to show up in Guardians 2,

Spoiler:
possibly as Quill's dad

My choice would be Viggo Mortenson. Or Nathan Fillion 😄

Warlock as Star-lord's dad? Ugh, that sounds awful. Like the comics, it should be J'son. Plus, he could make an interesting villain for the second movie.

Originally posted by ares834
Warlock as Star-lord's dad? Ugh, that sounds awful. Like the comics, it should be J'son. Plus, he could make an interesting villain for the second movie.

That article convinced me it's either Adam Warlock or Starfox. Both have interesting parallels with Thanos. Besides, Warlock's story can be changed a little for the movies.

J'son is a great villain though. And making him a son of Warlock would be stupid. Anyway, I'm not sure what article you are referencing but changes like this piss me off. Perhaps they could find another character to be his dad, but Warlock? lol no. Horrible, horrible choice.

Starfox is even worse. I pray that he never makes it in the movies let alone be Star-Lord's dad.

Originally posted by JayDaDon
Actually nowadays the theatres I've been to that show Comic book movies are pretty much completely full of people waiting to see the end credit scenes. Most people have gotten with the program. Only thing is, now people expect something after every single movie.

I think the only time I was in a theater where nobody left until the post credits scene was Iron Man 3. Not even one person left beforehand.

Regarding Warlock being Quill's father:

I don't think it's stupid at all. Gives us Warlock which we want, and makes it tie into the storyline. It would also explain why Quill was able to handle the power of the infinity stone, and why his mother had such a severe form of cancer. Actually makes a lot of sense, and gives Quill extra relevancy in the MCU.

Warlock wasn't a bad guess, I was actually thinking beyonder in the theatre.

I'd like to see Quasar in the next movie.