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My Guardians of the Galaxy 1 and Vol. 2 Movie Review

So Today I bring you guys my super late review to Guardians of the Galaxy 1 and Vol. 2. Now I must say that these flicks really captured the spirit of the source material and ran with it, just adding a ton of things to it in a way that actually impacted the Guardian of the Galaxy comic book series in a positive way especial after the first movie came out. James Gunn has embraced the scale, the bizarre, the absurdity, the adventure and the dangers of Marvel's cosmic universe, the man has done his homework the level of detail and his love for really obscure characters has created a fascinating world chucked full of Easter Eggs and fan service, that what's I'm going to focus on in this double review and breakdown.

SPOILERS

Now I mashed these two reviews because I am a freaking lazy fuck and I'm going to center on the growth of the characters from one movie to the other, but I'm not going to analyze the plot directly but there will be a ton of spoilers.

Characters:       
Heroes:
•    Starlord / Peter Quill (Chris Pratt): I love the characterization of Starlord in both movies even though he's pretty Deadpoolish, with his wit, sarcasm and pop culture references being very present, which are not as present in the comic until this movie came out, at least at this level. In the first flick  Starlord bands together a motley crue of space rejects, that ends up evolving into a high dysfunctional family/space hero team, filling the void that Quill had ever since he lost his mother to cancer and never met his father. After surviving ticking off Ronin the accuser and squabbling with his foster father Yondu and his ravagers, both over the same the reason, an intergalactic relic that turns out to be an infinity stone/gem. In the second flick, Starlord meets his father which turns out to be Ego the Living Planet and discover his place in the universe. It just fantastic to see this character development in both movies.
•    Gomora (Zoe Zaldana): Surprisingly these movies made me care for Gomora, humanizing her, she isn't just a fighting/killing machine, she has issues. In the first flick, she breaks away from the control of her foster father Thanos, not wanting to be his assassin anymore and discovering the beauties of friendship with Guardians, while trying not to be killed by her sister Nebula. In the second flick we get into some deep cuts into the relationship that Gamora had with Nebula, all the messed up stuff Thanos made them do. At the end of this movie, we have Nebula and Gamora resolving their differences.
•    Drax the Destroyer (Dave Bautista):  These movies also made me care for Drax, just like Gamora he was just an unstoppable fighting machine. The way he is written in both of these movies is incredible, the way he can't understand the context in language and his certain level of innocence just made this character my favorite and funny as hell.  Especial in the second flick he establishes a very funny and profound relationship with Mantis that I just loved. And I really hope in the third movie it would dive in more into his backstory.
•    Groot (Vin Diesel): He's actually just like he is in the comics, but baby Groot in the second movie almost steals the show.
•    Rocket (Bradley Cooper): Rocket is also pretty much like in the comic, even though the director is able to make you care for him more because he's always trying to hide his softer side by being an asshole most of the time. In the progression of both movies, we get a Rocket that matures emotionally, to care for his friends and not be such a dick. You know I've recently realized the Rock actually take the same role that Pip the Troll did in the Infinity Watch team that played the same role that the Guardian did back in the 90's
•    Mantis (Pom Klementieff)  Joins the team in the second flick and I love her interactions with Drax. They did a fantastic job making me care for a character that in the comics is pretty uninteresting.  
•    Kraglin ( Sean Gunn): Character shows potential for the third flick. 
        
Antagonist:
•    Yondu Odonata (Michael Rooker): The director James Gunn did something incredible he made one of Marvel lamest characters, Yondu into one of the coolest characters in the MCU. Yondu in the first movie is Quill's foster father and leader of a group of intergalactic mercenaries/pirates called the Ravagers. Yondu had commissioned Starlord to retrieve a relic for a client but Peter goes A-wall. So Yondu puts a bounty on Starlord's head and sets the Ravager out to capture him, but when the shit hit the fan with Ronin Yondu sides with the Guardians of the Galaxy to save the Nova Corps home world. Now in the second flick, we discover that Yondu had always protected  Peter Quill, from his father Ego. Ego had commissioned the Ravagers to kidnap Peter Quill from Earth and bring the boy to him, but Yondu hid the boy when he found out what Ego had planned for him.  

Villains:
•    Ronin the Accuser (Lee Pace): This dude is the villain for the first flick and even though he hell-bent on destroying the Nova Corps home planet using an infinity gem that he had taken from Starlord. Sadly this villain is still as one-dimensional  as he is in the comics.
•    Nebula (Karen Gillan): Nebula sort of sucked in the first movie, not much to her other than that she wants to take Gamora down for her daddy Thanos. But in the second flick, she gets a ton of character development, we discover how Thanos used to torture both girls and pit them against each other. They actually made me care for this character that I've never given a shit about.
•    Korath ( Djimon Housou): This minion of Ronin from the first movie looks nothing like the character.
•    Thanos (Josh Brolin): Marvel Please deliver with Infinity War. 
•    Ayesha and the Sovereign: Villains in the second flick, they played it safe in not calling these aliens the Sovereign and not the Universal Church, but I loved the Arcade drones and how they set up the creation of Adam Warlock.
•    Taserface ( Chris Sullivan): I was totally surprised that this character actually existed in the Guardians of the Galaxy lore, my hat goes off to Gunn for digging up this obscure character from the 90's series. I just loved his faceoff with Rocket.
•    Ego ( Kurt Russell): I never liked this villain, he seemed super stupid, but Gunn actually made this character work and does fuse this villain with an elder of the galaxy called the Gardener, and that was a nice detail. Him being the father of Peter and what he had planned for his own son, made him into the total d-bag villain so I loved to see him be clobbered by Peter. I liked they didn't go for the comic version of Starlords dad, which is a pretty uninteresting character.

Sporting Cast:

The Collector (Benicio Del Toro): Del Toro actually made this bland character interesting, even though his basic function in the first movie is for the exposition of what the Infinity stones are. Thanks to his role it impacted the comic book character and is much cooler now.


Issue Summary:
Repercussions and Lasting effects:
•    The franchise seems to have affected the tone of the Third Thor movie Ragnarok. 
•    Adam Warlock is coming.
•    Old School Guardian for the third flick?¿?¿

The Bad:
•    Ronin was as one-dimensional as you can get with a villain, he was pretty bland.
NO Silver Surfer fuck you FOX

The Good:
•    Both soundtracks with some really interesting tracks Gunn did a fantastic job putting both sound tracks together, I discovered and rediscovered a shit ton bands.
•    The Color and Detail of this universe, even with the over saturation of FX and CGI in movies nowadays, both these movies impressed me especially the second move that just takes things up to another level of craziness.
•    The characterization of all of the Guardians and Yondu is just fantastic, I loved how they reworked Yondu powers.
•    Ego was a ballsy but fantastic choice for a villain in the second flick.
•    We get the classic Guardians of the Galaxy lineup being lead by Starhawk Stallone, fuck yeah life is good.
•    Stan Lee works with the Watchers!
•    These movies have a shit ton of heart.

Rating Vol I: 9 out of 10  VolII: 9.5 please bring Major Victory and Cormo on the team for the third flick.

Marvel post secret wars: All New and Dif. Avengers, Guardians of the Galaxy, Deadpool Mercs for Money And Uncanny Avengers Issue Summaries

All New and Different  Avengers 0: Vision is starting to go crazy seeing ghosts and things from his past, so he decides to disconnect his emotion to cope with what he's going through.

All New and Different  Avengers 1-3: Someone has ported the evil Chitauri Warbirnger to Earth to find some cosmic artifacts but is stopped by the Iron Man's new Avengers.

Lasting Effects:

·         Tony has lost Stark/Avengers tower and it has been bought by Mr. Gryphon, who obviously is totally evil with a secret agenda.

Team Rundown:

Iron Man: Poor Tony seems to be cooler, digging the new armor.

Jane Thor: I like that she has issues with her powers, tending to go overboard with her actions.

Ms Marvel, Spidy Miles and Nova: These kids are interesting team members that are all rookies on the team so they are dealing with being super heroes in the first place, learning how to adapt to these incredible situations.

Vision: Emotionless Vision seem to have a secret agenda.

Captain America/ Falcon Cap: I love this Cap, he a much more versatile character he's a veteran Avenger that is still learning how to be Captain America.  

All New and Different  Avengers  4: Team goes up against Whirlwind.

Lasting effects:

The Avengers new base is in New Jersey .

Jane Thor has a thing Falcon Cap.

All New and Different  Avengers 5-6: We discover that Mr. Gryphon is Kang (sort of) and he been manipulating Vision the whole time, but the Avengers are able to defeat him.

Lasting Effects:

Sam discovers that Thor is Jane foster that is suffering of cancer

   

Guardians of the Galaxy 1: New team with Thing battling the Chitauri, while Quill is the emperor of Spartax when. GG arrive for a visit a new villain arrives at Spartax at the same time wanting to destroy the Guardians, enter Hala.

The Good:

·         I actually like Thing on the team, he works great on the team un like the Human Torch in Uncanny Avengers.

·         I Like Starlord Kitty.

Guardians of the Galaxy2: Hala is that last of the accusers, she pist the Kree home planet was destroyed during the Black Vortex, and accuses the Guardian for what happened.

Guardians of the Galaxy 3: Hala has Guardians on the ropes.

Guardians of the Galaxy 4-5: Guardians finally defeats Hala, when a space gangster Yotat arrive to destroy Drax.

New Team Rundown:

Peter Quill: He just hates being a ruler, I sort of like to see him miserable fulfilling his destiny.

Kitty Starlord: Kitty has taken the mantel of Starlord and she actually kicks butt, she operates pretty well outside of the X-men, it works.

Thing: Pretty Surprised how much I liked Ben outside of the FF, greats chemistry with the team.

Rocket Raccoon: Rocket sort has to find his place in the team, but in a good way.

Groot-Venom: Sort of background characters for now. I really hope they could make a cool ark with Venom.

Drax: Drax's destroying gets the team in trouble.

Gomorra: Not sure if she lost her black vortex powers.

Uncanny Avengers 0: Steve sends Deadpool on a mission to help find a cure for Rogue's M-pox.

Uncanny Avengers 1: New Avenger line up just formed for when the Shredded Man attacks.

Lasting Effects:

·         Spidy leaves the Avengers because Deadpool is on the team.

·         Enjoying the friction in the team between the mutant members and Inhumans.

Team Rundown:

Captain America: Still old.

Deadpool: Even though I'm a big Deadpool fan but have a hard time accepting him as a Avengers.

Rogue: Sort of cool to see her still on Avengers, and she's dyeing of M-pox and has issues with the Inhuman teammate Synapses.

Synapses: The Inhuman teammate, I guess she's part of this new marvel inhuman status quo.

Human Torch: Having a hard time accepting this character outside of the Fantastic Four.

Brother Voodoo: This character has tons of potential, I really hope the use him a lot.

Quicksilver: I love this classic character, and he'll will probably have conflicts with wade.

Uncanny Avengers 2:  Shredded Man just takes over a city, he's freaking powerful.

The good:

·         Like seeing Johnny Storm realizing that he should  have learned more science while being around Reed.

Lasting Effects:

·         Cable is coming

Uncanny Avengers 3-4: Cable travels to the past to help the Avengers defeat the Shredded Man who is a Inhuman.

Lasting Effects:

Cable joins the Avengers, which for some reason seems odder than Deadpool.

Ultron Pym is back, boy I'm a happy nerd.

Uncanny Avengers 5-6: Avengers out hunting down the Red Skull, while Synapses is visited by the Inhumans.

 

The Good:

Starting to dig this title a little more.

Loved how Deadpool defeats the Wrecker 

Deadpool & Mercs for Money

Deadpool has created a new team that will make the world a better place, I guess, striving to battle for justice, freedom and money, taking up the craziest jobs for our entertainment.

Characters:

¿Heroes?:

Team Break Down:

Deadpool: Wade is the leader of this ethically questionable task force, since he has to play by the rules with the Avengers, here's where he gets to be his self and let his craziness go.

   

Solo: These series has a ton of obscure characters like Solo, that I remember this character for appearing in the return of the " Revenge of Sinister Six" back in the early 90's and he pops up a couple of times in Cable and Deadpool, X-Factor and maybe in Wolverine, he seems pretty cool and one of the only sane members of the team.

Masacre: Is the new mysterious member of the team, the Mexican Deadpool, which  in his power set is to be Mexican jajajaja, please give me Masacre against Trump.

Stingray: He's the mole of the team  spying on Wade for Steve Rogers, and I love that he's a total looser.

Foolkiller: When I saw this character on the cover I thought it was Paladin, Marvels most uninteresting Merc, but it was Foolkiller a character that  I know nothing about, all I have know of this dude is that I have Marvel series one trading card from the early 90's of this character and nothing else, so I don't know what to expect from him.

Terror Inc: Another  obscure character that I've have seen once in a story arc back in the 90's with Wolverine, oh and once  in  a  MTU  arc, he has a interesting power set absorbing memories and powers from cut off body parts that he attaches to his putrid body.

Slapstick: Here is another character that I've only seen in a Marvel series 3 trading card till he popped up in the Initiative, so I'm happy to see this crazy dude again.

Antagonist:  The Recorder

Villains: Taskmaster,  Evil Deadpool, the Wild Bunch (old Captain Britain villain), Crossfire, Lord Death Strike, Puma, Crime Master, Blood Spider, Caroline Le Fay, Mephisto, Doom, Zemo, Mole Man, Doc. Rot, Wrecking Crew, Kingpin of the Ozarks, the Hand, Slayback, Big Wheel, Orbe, the Zapata Brothers, Bruiser.

Supporting Cast:

Issue Summary:

·         Issue O: Presentation of each member of the team: Terror Inc lost his beloveds arm  making forget his past, We discover that Stingray is a mole for Steve Rogers, Slapstick battles Taskmaster, origin of Masacre, Foolkiller  gets a degree in psychology to know who are the fools he has to kill and we discover that Solo is a merc that is trying to make ends meet to take care of  his child the thing is he impersonated Wade a couple of jobs to get contracts and Pool wants some answers.

·          Issue 1: Wade and his Mercs retrieve a crate from some organization but when they try to leave they are attacked by the Wild Bunch that also have a contract to get the same crate, but Pool's team gets the upper hand and they discover that inside there is a alien robot called a Recorder that is broken but babbles about future events, so Wade plans to sell it.

·         Issue 2: Wade wants to auction the Recorder inviting all of Marvel under world, and Evil Deadpool is back.

·         Issue 3: Auction goes to hell, but Wade brokers a deal with the Kinpin of the Ozarks.

·         Issue 4: Basically Wade and his team have to take the Record to the Kingpin of the Ozarks base and pretty much every c-list villain out their will try to stop them.

·         Issue 5:  When Wade is going to give the Recorder to the Kingpin Evil Deadpool and the Wild Bunch attack, so wade decides to destroy the Recorder, to stop the onslaught of Villains from attacking.

 Repercussions and Lasting effects:

The Good:

·         Loving the parade of obscure character that the series has.

·         Writing is great and pretty funny.

·         Really good 0 issue they tend to be redundant but I really liked this one.

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·         Introduction of the Kingpin of the Ozarks.

 

  N/D Avengers 9: The introduction of the new Wasp, Pym's daughter that had been kidnapped by possibly the KGB all these years, presents herself to the Avengers. I must say I actually like this new character.
  
N/D Avenger 10-12:  Avengers head to outer space in search of Nova's father after they the find this mysterious transmission, but to their surprise it a trap by Annihilus. This story arc is pretty meh, but I did enjoy the return of Captain Marvel's nega bands.