I got to see an advanced screening of Guardians of the Galaxy last night. I liked it way more than I expected, and I went in expecting to have a good time. My biggest surprise was how much I liked Groot. The CGI on Groot is amazing! He's very expressive and, as mentioned in interviews, every "I am Groot" is different. I want all the Groot merch now--t-shirts, action figures, one-shot origin story comics, you name it.
That's the thrill of living in the Hellmouth! There's a veritable cornucopia of fiends and devils and ghouls to engage ... Pardon me for finding the glass half-full.
Giles ,'Same Time, Same Place'
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Calli - Jul 25, 2014 3:12:26 am PDT #27419 of 30000
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
Gris - Jul 25, 2014 4:25:45 am PDT #27420 of 30000
Hey. New board.
Has anybody NOT liked GotG? Every early review I've seen has been positive.
We are expecting baby 2 any day now and now I'm crossing my fingers she holds out past Aug 1...
Tom Scola - Jul 25, 2014 4:35:16 am PDT #27421 of 30000
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Jesse - Jul 25, 2014 5:19:23 am PDT #27422 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I have GOT to stop reading these things! For everyone who says "I can't believe it lived up to the hype!" the bar for me just gets higher and higher! I guess I have a week to remind myself that there's no way it's that good.....
shrift - Jul 25, 2014 1:28:29 pm PDT #27423 of 30000
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
Okay, over on FB Victor got me curious enough to watch the trailer for 50 Shades of Grey.
Ha, whereas on FB I clicked on a link my cousin had posted, which was an article giving women 6 reasons not to watch it. One of those reasons was Because Christianity and now I'm feeling all dirty and "get off my side, you're making my side look bad."
Steph L. - Jul 25, 2014 1:45:04 pm PDT #27424 of 30000
I look more rad than Lutheranism
6 reasons not to watch it.
Please tell me reason #1 is because it was poorly written Twilight fanfic.
...yeah, I can dream.
SuziQ - Jul 25, 2014 1:52:38 pm PDT #27425 of 30000
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame
I read that same article Shrift and kept thinking "my reasons are not your reasons". I think there are much better arguements to be made against wasting any cash on the flick. Starting with Steph's.
Juliebird - Jul 25, 2014 2:19:21 pm PDT #27426 of 30000
I am the fly who dreams of the spider
I read the wiki summary of the stories, and that doesn't entice me any further. The trailer leaves me uninspired. The plot doesn't seemed based in reality, what there is of it. The only reason my interest was peaked was because CKR has a minor role in it.
EpicTangent - Jul 25, 2014 2:36:32 pm PDT #27427 of 30000
Why isn't everyone pelting me with JOY, dammit? - Zenkitty
Yeah, the only interest I had was in Jamie Dornan (who apparently the fans are saying isn't hot enough, in case you needed further proof of
how crazy they are
how tastes differ). But even he's not pretty enough to subject myself to that.
Juliebird - Jul 25, 2014 2:54:47 pm PDT #27428 of 30000
I am the fly who dreams of the spider
As a lover of fanfic, and knowing that some authors take their fics and change the name to turn them into original fiction, I'm not offended by the idea of fic going mainstream in this sense. And I shouldn't say this because I can't judge for not having read this particular one, but my god, there is so much good fic out there that could be converted first to original fiction, and then opted for a movie. But I have to wonder, why this particular one (and I realize that only a small margin of fic writers turn their fanfic into non-fiction)? (maybe that's a question for any story that get's opted to either be published, or given movie rights).