Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special
 

So they're calling it the epilogue to Phase 4.

https://www.darkhorizons.com/guardia...e-4s-epilogue/

... which begs the question, an epilogue to what over-arching story, exactly?

I'd bet there's some juicy Gamora stuff in it. Maybe her memories are restored, or something. Something holiday cheery like that, which leaves Guardians Vol. 3 to have a nice clean start with all the principals in top shape.

Interesting.....

Never thought they'd bring Kevin Bacon into the MCU as himself :lol: this should be fun, if nothing else

So... What if... Kevin Bacon... Is a fake identity for Sebastian Shaw?

BOOOM!

Mind blown

Cosmo is gonna be in it, Also Cosmo will be female since her voice was recently announced at D23.

Saw it. Eh, so that's all this is? It's not really anything. "Cute," I guess. It's like 45 minutes of the dance off at the end of Guardians 1, basically.

I didn’t really like this.

I can’t vibe with Gunn’s humor. I respect the guy and I like that he doesn’t shy away from the violence, the edge, or the insanity of comics, but it just doesn’t come together for me in the writing.

Actually it sort of feel like it’s simultaneously for adults and children, without truly suiting either group. Although plenty of people love his work, so that’s just my minority opinion.

The music was just annoying. Lots of just bad sounding “pop punk Christmas!” type stuff. Nearly turned it off in the first few minutes because of the goofy music scene.

Anyway, I think a holiday special for Disney+ was a great concept. I hope they do more stuff like this with different creators and characters. And I’m still looking forward to Gunn running the DC films. I think he’ll do well with that job.

I'm not, and I don't, but we'll see. SO much of his "humor" is more about blowing up how absurd and silly comics are and "Since it's ALL stupid let's just make it all be extra stupid." He's like Waititi with more of a penchant for dick jokes, from what I've seen. I'm all about verisimilitude, so basically, his vibe is pretty far away from what I like. I have very little hope that the "new" DCEU will appeal to me. The most I'm hoping for is a Cavill Superman project that isn't too bad, but they may end up just doing all the awful stuff from Josstice League with him, but stretched over two hours of a solo film.

I mean, anything can happen. Like always I'm just not gonna celebrate until I see something worth it. So far, nah.

He isn’t afraid to take risks which is what I like about him. I also think that great filmmakers will want to work with him and be willing to trust him more than they might trust someone like Hamada or previous heads of the studio. He’s someone from their side of the fence, he’s generally well liked, and he has proven himself.

I don’t expect him to inject his humor into every project.
If they were naming him as the new director of all DCU movies, I’d be concerned. Then again, there’s a hint of that when you look at Feige and the MCU, so I can see the concern. Still different though imo.

With Feige, it’s like they’ve set up a “superhero movie factory.” I don’t expect Gunn to go that route but who knows at this point.

It's basically Mantis and Drax getting into hijinks as they go to Los Angeles retrieve Kevin Bacon. Nebula, Groot, Rocket all have little to do.

I did like Gunn putting the parallels of Santa Claus Conquers The Martins in the forefront by having Kevin watching the film. Originally against his will though would bring Christmas to the alien society.


Though how did Bacon have cell phone reception in outer space?:trazz:

Overall, it was good not great.

It was dark and campy with some police hate & kidnapping thrown in... for fun? Typical democrat garbage rolled out as cosmic misunderstanding & "fun".

The only good thing was Quill finding out he has family... which could have been dropped anywhere else prior to this.

Just a little 30 minute romp. Nothing too special. It’s okay for what it is.

Yeah, that was a little off-putting. The "movie" comes to a halt for like 4 minutes while Drax and Mantis attack a lot of police, throwing cop cars around.

Also, you just know they wanted to live action the animated front and backends but, y'know, money. Time.

I almost shut it off when it started as animated... lol.

Parts of it seemed really off. But there were some decent parts. Together though its just off putting to watch. I really hate supporting Disney pedos at all...

Then don’t. I don’t even have Disney+.

Same. The only thing going for it were the new (at the time) Marvel shows. I just never liked the concept. Agents of SHIELD was one thing, but all these new MCU shows.... it just never felt right for me. The MCU started as movies, it should stay as movies. I shouldn't have to watch this or that show to understand the new MCU movie. Most of 'Phase 4' are these stupid shows. Naw, **** that ****. Ya blew it Marvel.

Man y’all really love to bitch, huh :lol:

I thought this was pretty fun for a holiday-themed straight-to-streaming special about the Guardians of the Galaxy (although it was mainly just Drax and Mantis). It was nice seeing the two of them get some real characterization again.

Sorry. Not all of us can wear huge grins on our faces and skip on rainbows 24/7. :D

Dude even your username admits to a lifestyle of smoking pot all day. You are bound to be universally more at ease with any content than the rest of us.... :lol:

But on that note, I haven't seen it yet but I can't imagine what anyone was really expecting - it's a Christmas Special, not a full blown Marvel movie with stakes. Reminds me of when I was 8 and The Battle For Endor broadcast and Luke Skywalker never showed up. I had absolutely childlike expectations.

Most of mine were based on Gunn way earlier actually referring to it as "Guardians 2.5" and that it would absolutely have ramifications going into Guardians 3.

Only the most minor one I guess, that [REDACTED] is apparently [REDACTED]'s half-sister.

Plus maybe Groot's new form? Although I can't see them using the live-action suit in the next movie

It was a fun 40 minute special giving Mantis a lot of screentime. I don't know what people wanted more than that, we knew it was a Christmas special.

Expectations, dude.

Idk, my complaints have nothing to do with the scale of the thing. I just wanted to enjoy the writing, characters, and music.