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If the bad guy's Infinity Stone could wipe out the planet as soon as it touches the planet itself, why come in a huge ship that draws everyone's attention? Just come in an escape pod or a piece of crap?
Because big ships and big fight sequence. Or, to put it another way, Ronan's hubris.
If I sell my iPad to a pawn shop, I want to get rid of it for money. I don't want or expect the store clerk to give me a history of the Apple company.. but that what this stupid Collector does. Why did he tell them all that?
People are weird and random, plus backstory.
So really, we have a typical MacGuffin, a villain who works for a more powerful villain who he wishes to betray.. but both villains have deep and brooding voices and aside form Thanos chin, they are interchangeable.
It is a bog-standard, boilerplate script template, and no worse for it, as it leaves the rest of the movie to chracterisation and big 'splosions.
I know this film is based on a comic book, does anyone else thinking that - if you just take the film on its own - that the character of Quill is a way that the story tellers can have it both ways. He's both a fish out of water (a human.. someone that audience can use as a POV character) and someone that knows everything so they wouldn't have him question everything (because he's been in space for over 20 years) so that way they can just tell us the story with all the shortcuts they want?
Not quite sure what you're asking. A POV character sometimes has the answers we don't know yet, sometimes he is yet to ask the question, so we know too. If he already knows, then the writers have to tell us what he knows in different ways, without using a Maurice the Explainer ("Well, Peter, as you know, blah blah blah...")
I thought it was Drax that had trouble with analogies, so why did Gamora have trouble with the "sticks up their butts" scene? I mean, maybe she wouldn't get that phrase, but the writers have to draw distinct personalities and having tow different characters share the same singular trait that, at least for one of them, distinguishes them because it's a significant trait?
Earth expression? Maybe not a lot oif sticks, or indeed butts, out there?
Does it really make any sense that they would start a fun romp with someone dying of cancer?? Maybe this is neither here nor there, but tone is so important to a film.
Yeah, that scene hit me a bit (been there done that). It was put in to pay off the climax, where Peter has to reach out to Gamora, finally reach out to someone after all these years.
Why is Gamora a weapon? She's a competent fighter at times, but gets beat up at other times. She didn't seem all that weapon like. And Nebula just looked like a girl doing cosplay... they even forgot to modify her voice at the end.
Would you want to cross either of them in a dark alley? Didn't think so. Plus, weapons have safeties.
Despite the SFX, the main alien city on the good planet (I just don't know the name) looked like the city in Logan's Run. The Knowhere scenes looked like crap, reminding me of the bad hovercar chase scenes form the Stallone Judge Dredd film.
Cities are cities. I thought Knowhere was brillaint as a concept, not entirely brilliantly realised, but still pretty damn good, and we need to meet a brother at some point.
Always liked Howard the Duck. Heh.
Me too. There y'go, YMMV.
A couple of things.
One, did not recognise Amy Pond, wow, what a transformation!
Two, KNIFE-MISSILE!!
Three, bog standard plot, as I said, but the fun and spectacle took me out of that in a way
Avatar never could.
