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The problem as I see it is Gunn made lightning in a bottle with GotG 1. None of the characters were that smart, but they all had heart, and just over all it was just a good funny comic book movie. The charm of that specific team is they not too bright but they will get shit done.

So marvel decided to "Gunn" every single movie after that. Now all the characters are dumb. Now they all have to make even more quips after every single line. If you go back to the movies before GotG yeah they joked around, but it wasn't literally every other line. The recent movies need to do it as a response to anything a character says and it doesn't matter if it's appropriate or not. Because Gunn had dumb people laughing at each other, so now everyone must be dumb and laughing at each other.

Guardians 2 was alright. It goes too far into the dumb joke reactions though. But again that's who those specific characters are, so whatever.

Then Gunn makes The Real Suicide Squad (I can only guess it's because The Real Ghostbusters wasn't available). Lots of dumb villains on that team. There's a lot of heart in them though...

And finally there's Peacemaker. The show where not a single character has any intelligence. Every chamber is racked with morons saying stupid things and making fun of each other. It's funny, sure. But even Wallace is played like someone that can't process more than one thing at a time.

I like the guys stuff, but this is how his movies have progressed, and the other people making movies in the same genre are tripping.over themselves to be him. Now he's the show runner for DC. Will Gunn reload and make movies that fit the tone for each DC character? Or will every single character from Superman to Alfrid Pennyworth be dumb as rocks and all make fun of each other every other sentence?

That, my dear readers, we will only know in time.

I think something happened after multiverse of madness that, I don’t know, broke the mcu for me. Everything that has come out afterwards just tastes, meh. Like, feels there are no high stakes, nothing is permanent, rules are arbitrary, the acting is, let’s be frank, not their best, and the CGI is what is exactly what you get from overworked underpaid staff. Please note this is my own personal experience. And my kids still can’t get enough of it.

Interesting take. It is the only one in the series that I plan to re-watch. To each his own

I personally liked it the most out of the trilogy. GotG 1 & 2 has always felt too goofy for goofy's sake and the "fun" felt kind of forced. This film brought some real depth and character arcs to Rocket, and really fleshed out Mantis and Nebula as well. There is also a dash of edge and anger that wasn't there in the first two installments, like their rageful arguments with one another, the fight scenes, and the head villain himself, which I appreciated.

That said it is definitely not perfect. I cringed hard at the opening scene with its choice of soundtrack. Way too on the nose and didn't end up going anywhere.

The soundtrack was decent but used poorly. The songs barely connected with the scenes and it was like they were just thrown on top of everything else.

It wasn’t a cinematic masterpiece, but none of the gotg movies were. It was the same low stakes high budget romp that you should have expected. Frankly, your disappointment is entirely on you for expecting filet mignon from a McDonald’s. My only complaint was that they didn’t quite wrap up several trains of thought and swept it all into a familial paradigm.

That is certainly a unique opinion. Imo it's a masterpiece, easily the best movie of 2023 and maybe even the best one in the series.

So, qualitatively it was the worst of the series.

But I liked it, only because I like rocket and he finally had his story.

Gog1 was the origin, gog2 was all "starlord", but 3 had a better mix. Less gamora, who isn't really an interesting character usually, less starlord, who's basically just a self-centered idiot usually. Nebula got to do stuff, mantis really expanded, and rocket made sense.

The Marvel movies often focus on a few main characters when the supporting cast are actually more interesting, this was giving them that chance to shine.

They made a third one?

I liked it a lot more than I thought I would. I haven't been a huge fan of the other two, so I wasn't in a rush to see this one. I guess Rocket's story connected with me on an emotional level more than the others did. Really enjoyed Chukwudi Iwuji's over the top High Evolutionary. Love a good over the top bad guy.

So yeah, my personal favorite out of the three.

I completely agree with you. I was looking forward to it, cause it had amazing reviews but when I saw it, it was just so disappointing. I was waiting when it finally starts and it slowly bored me to finding that it's already at the end.. Only think I liked was the Rocket's flashbacks.

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