Galaxy Society

That post title was a reference to the false Captain America film, Serpent Society. But the galaxy refers to of course, Guardians of the Galaxy. Finally I have watched that film, the biggest film of the summer, in cinema too! In English too! What a good day. If only I don't have midterm the next day. Yeah, the thing is I'm just super thankful to be able seeing this on the big screen. I went to some kind of mall just on the suburbs of Milan. It has an 18-studio cinema. Cray.

So Guardians of the Galaxy is this weird team of aliens. They are not superheros. They are just weird aliens. We have the Han Solo-esque leader in the form of Peter Quill (Chris Pratt), weaponized alien assassin Gamora (Zoe Saldana), a brute alien bodybuilder who speaks Asgardian English Drax (Dave Bautista), a talking racoon Rocket (voiced by Bradley Cooper) and a three-word-speaking walking tree Groot (voiced by Vin Diesel). Together they formed this unlikely group to stop Ronan (Lee Pace) destroying the galaxy.

It's a really different Marvel film. Marvel has always incorporated  humor in their films. Sometimes it worked, sometimes it doesn't. My favorite Marvel humor scenes are the 'do you fondue?' from the pedestrian Captain America original and the 'Thor wants more' from the first Thor. And then the ones that don't work are all the jokes on Iron Man 3 and some of the kiddies stuff on The Avengers. But in GotG, it works beautifully and seamlessly. Even the dance off doesn't seem silly, it works just fine. Shane Black should fit right in in this galaxy. All the characters have time to shine as well. Drax, for example, could be instantly functional and forgettable but here he's one of the high point of the jokes for me. Oh, this film also has a girl fight between Nebula (awesome Karen Gillan) and Gamora. Any movie with a girl fight is a YES for me.

I love the songs from the Awesome Mix Vol 1, it gives more color to the film. Best decision ever to have it on film and I must applaud Marvel and Disney for being very brave to release this movie. I love Chris Pratt, he's awesome. Zoe Saldana has always been my favorite actress, she specializes in being alien and badass at the same time. I'm a bit disappointed actually by how Groot and Rocket are voiced by famous actors for the sake of publicity. It's a shame they don't get Bradley Cooper or Vin Diesel to do motion capture. I watched Dawn of the Planet of the Apes and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles days before this and I was awed by the mo-cap. Here it's just a shame to have those actors just did the voice work. But Groot and Rocket were amazing work by the VFX team. It's great for the MCU to introduce us to this infinity stones. Which now makes that newly announced Avengers two-parter subtitle more relevant. Infinity War. I just want to see more of this film before their eventual team-up later on. Guardians of the Galaxy: rated 4/4.

Best lines from Guardians of the Galaxy:
- If I had a black light, this place would look like a Jackson Pollock painting
- They got my dick message!
- Dance off, bro. Me and you!
- I don't know if I believe anyone is 100% a dick


I still think one of the new Marvel films has to fail. Black Panther perhaps. That sounded so racist to me. Panther is black. Why do you have to have that obvious adjective before that obvious fact? I respect Chadwick Boseman though. And Marvel has that cool flair that DC don't have when they announce stuff.

Next up: a two-month late annual Summer Re-cap