Guardians of the Galaxy (2014) - James Gunn

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Sneak peak to trailer

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Trailer

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Belo trailer.
Faz um bom trabalho de apresentação dos personagens, ao estilo dos "Suspeitos do Costume", o que é essencial se se tiver em conta que este grupo não é do conhecimento da maior parte do público em geral, sem revelar quase nada da história, ao contrário da triste tendência da maior parte dos trailers hoje em dia mostrarem tudo, sem deixar lugar a surpresas.
Quanto ao tom, gostei do balanço entre humor e acção séria, que o realizador James Gunn já demonstrou dominar: Quem já viu o "Slither" ou o "Super" sabe do que estou a falar.
Entre o "Capitão América: Soldado de Inverno" e este filme, cheira-me que a fase 2 do universo cinemático Marvel vai ter um ano em grande, pelo menos em termos qualitativos, porque financeiramente tenho as minhas dúvidas que consiga ultrapassar o tandem "Homem de Ferro 3"/"Thor: O Mundo das Trevas".

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Também gostei, principalmente das cenas com o Chris Pratt aqui como o carismático "Star-Lord" lider deste grupo exótico de vilões espaciais. A Zoe Saldana como Gamora também me parece muito bem.
Mas atenção que isto ainda não passam de uns pequenos teasers e, inevitavelmente, com o tempo vão aparecendo uns trailers mais extensos.
Curioso é como este género de filmes Marvel estão a arrastar uns nomes bem sonantes atrás de si.

Quanto ao tom, gostei do balanço entre humor e acção séria, que o realizador James Gunn já demonstrou dominar: Quem já viu o "Slither" ou o "Super" sabe do que estou a falar.

Não vi o "Super" mas senti esse balanço de que falas quando vi o "Slither". Acho que o James foi bem escolhido para dirigir este filme, mais especificamente devido ás características que este grupo de rebeldes esquisitoides apresentam e a empatia que os vai unir.

E já agora, posso estar enganado, mas para mim o "Capitão América: Soldado de Inverno" vai ser um estouro e um dos melhores filmes de acção da Marvel.

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Também vi o Slither, e realmente tem aquele humor que também é característico em Firefly, Serenity e Os Vingadores do Josh Whedon.
Aliás, é curioso, pois o actor principal do Slither, Nathan Fillion, também foi protagonista na série Firefly e no filme Serenity, e nota-se que é um actor que encaixa perfeitamente nesse estilo de filmes de acção/terror com uma certa comédia.
Se tivesse que adivinhar, diria que o Joss Whedon teve alguma inluência na escolha do James Gunn.

Já agora, é impressão minha, ou vi o Benicio Del Toro, que aparece também nos créditos finais do Thor?

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Não é impressão tua, ele aparece mesmo (tens R.E.M ).
O "Colector" aparece de fugida durante um segundo entre 1:59" e 2:00".
Demonstra que poderá ser ele o elo de ligação entre ambas as equipas ("Avengers" e "Gardians") nos próximos filmes. Penso que é ele é que vai guardar alguma coisa que o Thanos anda à procura.

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Poster do filme

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Gosto bastante da atmosfera que este poster emana.
As cores e as silhuetas em contra-luz deste grupo de heróis exóticos, com a nave como pano de fundo, está maravilhoso. Um bom exemplo de uma arte apelativa e cativante.

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Este filme é um tubo de ensaio.
O seu sucesso definirá a linha a seguir pela Marvel.

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Este filme é um tubo de ensaio.
O seu sucesso definirá a linha a seguir pela Marvel.

Hmmm... não creio. A Marvel tem tudo muito compartimentalizado. Este filme pretende ser a exploração do lado cósmico do universo Marvel mas os filmes da Fase 3 são mais terrenos, com um pezinho a explorar o lado mágico (o filme do "Doctor Strange", por exemplo).

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Novo trailer:

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Acho que era este que que o BurnCycle queria mostrar :

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Primeira review do filme

Guardians of the Galaxy is a spectacularly entertaining, action packed space adventure that is as funny as it is thrilling.

If space adventures were categorised as music genres than Guardians of the Galaxy would be rock ‘n’ roll: Big, brass, energetic and with attitude to burn.

Unlike Captain America and Iron Man, this is an adaptation of a much more recent comic book title that most outside of the fanboy collective would not have heard of. All the better.

Co-written and directed by James Gunn, Guardians of the Galaxy is a pleasant surprise from start to finish, an all-rounder of a blockbuster that excels in making us laugh as potently as it awes with its sensational action packed style.

A lot of the film’s success is due to the strength of its memorable, fun characters, a motley crew of outsiders brought together in pursuit of a mysterious orb that gives ultimate power to those who possess it.

In a star making turn, Chris Pratt (known to many for his work on TV comedy series Parks and Recreation) plays Peter Quinn aka Star-Lord, an over confident outlaw whose penchant for greed lands him in deep do-do when every being in the galaxy from genocidal tyrant Ronan (Lee Pace) to blue skinned space pirate Yondu (Michael Rooker) sets their gaze on the orb in Quinn’s possession.

Teaming up with misfits even more messed up than he is - green skinned assassin Gamora (Zoe Saldana), muscle bound warrior Drax (Dave Bautista), walking tree Groot (voiced by Vin Diesel who also provided motion capture work), and wise cracking, genetically modified racoon Rocket (voiced by Bradley Cooper) – Quinn leads his team of anti-heroes in a stand against Ronan with the fate of the galaxy in the balance.

Much like Quinn’s mix-tape cassette that plays soundtrack to this galactic set adventure (nothing like the sounds of Marvin Gaye and Blue Suede during space set battle), Guardians of the Galaxy has a lot of everything and excels in every facet.

A keen and personable cast brilliantly deliver Gunn and co-writer Nicole Perlman’s sharp writing, with Cooper’s voice work as Rocket especially strong, bringing the right amount of comedic value to what has to be the funniest comic book/sci-fi movie released yet.

Gunn has also delivered a very well structured action movie, more than proving his worth as a blockbuster visualist who knows how to choreograph an action scene, yet do so to the beat of his own off-the-wall rhythm, where any amount of surprises can and will pop up to remind that this is not your conventional comic book sci-fi movie.

Guardians of the Galaxy is another triumph for Marvel Studios. Many will not know much about the comic book it is based on going in, but be sure that afterwards plenty will be talking about the movie with much enthusiasm.

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Parece que temos filme

Chris Pratt and Vin Diesel charm effortlessly in Marvel's engaging 'Guardians Of The Galaxy'

I've had several people ask me now if I think "Guardians Of The Galaxy" is the best of the Marvel movies so far. That's a hard question to answer, because I think there are many different things that I look for in a film, and none of the Marvel movies scratch the exact same itch.

What's safe to say is that "Guardians Of The Galaxy" is the most charming Marvel movie so far. The primary ensemble (Chris Pratt, Zoe Saldana, Dave Bautista, Bradley Cooper, and Vin Diesel) is perhaps the most winning group of characters they've introduced in any of these movies so far, and while it's hard to figure out their dynamic when you just read their names together or even in clips, by the end of the film, this is a family that I would happily follow through any number of movies. I'm not sure I've ever seen a film in which every major character steals every scene from every other major character, but that's exactly what happens here. As my oldest son said as we were driving home from the film and he was trying to list all of his favorite parts of the movie, "It's like they're all good parts!"

Indeed. It is a movie of all good parts.

While I suspected that James Gunn would get the action right and I knew he would crush it with the humor, what surprised me most about this film was the heart. The opening sequence may not be quite as devastating as Pixar's "Up," but it comes close, and it sets up a number of ideas that are paid off throughout the movie. We see young Peter Quill (Wyatt Oleff) in a hospital where his mother (Laura Haddock) lies dying. I loved seeing Gregg Henry show up in a brief role as Peter's grandfather, and the entire scene is very sad. Peter's already acting as if his mother is gone, angry and withdrawn, and by the end of the sequence, everything has changed for him in a number of ways, and we jump forward to discover Peter Quill as an adult, played now by Chris Pratt. He's landing on an alien planet, where he has reason to believe he will find an artifact that will fetch him a huge payday from an interested bidder.

If you're not onboard by the end of the opening title sequence, "Guardians Of The Galaxy" may not be for you. I think it does a spectacular job of setting a tone and a sense of humor and a sensibility for the film, mixing real space opera, outrageous humor, and a sweetness that I think is part of who James Gunn is as a person. Sure, this is the guy who made "Slither" and "Super," and who started his career at Troma, and he may love filthy, filthy, filthy jokes, but there is a decency to these characters and this film that speaks to who Gunn really is. There's something perverse about a movie featuring a band of space criminals who all end up being positively adorable, and from that opening title sequence to the enchanting final pre-credits shot, it's apparent that Gunn adores these characters.

Let's offer up a few criticisms. There is a familiar form that Marvel films are starting to take, narrative wise. Introduce a doodad. Establish that the doodad does something powerful. Everyone chases the doodad around. Doodad does its thing. Heroes. Bad guys. Light show. Here's a billion dollars. It's getting familiar, and "Guardians" is built on that same narrative spine. I think they do it well, and there's a scene in the middle of the movie that suddenly drops perhaps the single biggest puzzle piece in the overall Marvel movie universe into place, offering up a connective perspective that should allow even the most casual of viewers to suddenly understand the bigger picture a little better, but there's no denying that it is a familiar shape for these films.

It's also probably true that the bad guys in the film get slighted a bit, no doubt a function of Gunn having so much fun with the good guys. I think Ronan The Accuser (Lee Pace) is visually striking, but barely a character. He has one truly great scene in the film, and a few good moments, but he's a visual marker more than he's a character. Sadly, the same is true of Nebula (Karen Gillan), who is one of the most arresting designs for a villain since Darth Maul, but who is basically kept pacing at the side of things until the last fifteen or twenty minutes. I like everything she does, but there's not nearly enough of it. By far, the most interesting villain is one that we only meet for one scene, but if this is how they plan to handle Thanos (Josh Brolin) moving forward, then I'm excited. He's very strange, very clearly not just someone in make-up, and I'd love to see him carry more of a movie.

Having said all of that, I still think this is one of Marvel's most successful films because of how enormously winning the Guardians themselves are. From the first scene where Rocket (Cooper) and Groot (Diesel) encounter Gamora (Saldana) and Quill, there is such an immediate easy rapport that it feels like they've already made 20 films together. They end up in The Kyln, a bizarre space prison where they come into contact with Drax The Destroyer (Bautista), who is sworn to kill Thanos and his children for what happened to his family. He is happy to include Ronan on his list of targets, and sees the appearance of Gamora as a chance to make that happen.

You probably shouldn't know anything else about the story than that. We get to meet various members of the Nova Corps, we visit a number of planets, there is a spectacularly weird trip to the home of The Collector (Benicio Del Toro), and there's a running subplot about Yondu (Michael Rooker) and the rest of the Ravagers that is very funny. We also learn quite a bit about each of our broken leads, and it is that very quality that binds them together. Rocket is bitter about the experimentation that created him. Drax wants revenge for his family. Quill misses Earth and he blames himself for how things ended with his mother. Gamora is not the real daughter of Thanos, but rather a trophy claimed in battle, one who is ready to turn her back on him in order to do the right thing. Each of them has some damage they are looking to repair, whether they realize it or not.

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A critica no geral está a ter uma reacção bastante positiva a este filme e a estreia de hoje parece apontar para a queda de alguns records de bilheteira.

Para mim é o filme mais esperado do verão.