The Reel Rejects - Just Watched GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY Vol. 3! Coy's Reaction & Review!! (NON SPOILER)

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Starting point is 00:00:33 We have so much style under one roof because a friend knows you like options. Drop by or visit us at shanko.com. Shane Company, your friend and jeweler. Citizens of the Reject Nation, I am just walking out of Guardians of the Galaxy Volume 3. This is my non-spoiler review, and I am in love. I am back to feeling that Marvel Magic. not only everything I want from a Marvel movie. This is everything I want from a movie. This is everything I want from art. This made me feel. This was a magic trick where James Gunn basically

Starting point is 00:01:12 put me in a state of awe and then punctuated that awe with despair and joy. So I was left with this insane whirlwind of just feeling. It's all the characters you love and being reminded of why you love them. It is everything you want from the action spectacle. in that the action has weight to it. This felt so tangible, especially considering it is so bright and cosmic and loud. There are elements of this that are so comic booky. This might be the most comic bookie of my favorite comic book films.

Starting point is 00:01:49 In that a lot of times, like, you add a comic book element and it doesn't quite work for the medium of comics, this is insane. There are Lovecraftian villains. There are chimera-esque villains. there are fleshy organic planetoids. There's so much stuff that is pure Jim Starlin cosmic that somehow worked in this medium

Starting point is 00:02:09 and I cannot believe it exists this well, this balance. And again, that's all because you trust in these characters and your investment in your love for these characters really makes you able to be a part of any one of these moments and be like, yeah, that feels like it affects me. Yeah, this is something that I'm feeling. And a lot of that is obviously tied to the chemistry of the Guardians, but it's also tied into the editing, the writing, the directing. And here also ties to the villain.

Starting point is 00:02:36 The villain here, the high evolutionary, is a top-tier comic villain. He's able to be both enormous, like not quite mustache twirly, but big and bold and loud and zoddish, but also manipulative in a really contained way. There's a lot of elements of tiny nuanced decisions that make you hate him because of. a contained, malignant move or decision that it's really interesting when juxtaposed with a lot of the big swings. And we've been on this journey with the Guardians for a long time. And the first film I consider, you know, about family. And then the second film, obviously about family. And then the third film is about found family. The first film, I'd say mother, second father, third about self. And you just feel this connection between all three films that is so unique to any.

Starting point is 00:03:27 trilogy. This is easily my favorites of the Marvel films as far as trilogies go. This is probably tied with the first film. I need to decide if the first or this film is my favorite. It is definitely my favorite trilogy because as I said, this, this is amongst my favorite comic films of all time. This is either my top five or top three MCU movies. This thing is crazy. I digress. I'm gonna break down some elements for you. So we've got the duos, right? We've got the Gaboro Star-Lord relationship, which I think is fascinating. And I think they do a really good job and actually

Starting point is 00:03:57 exceeded my expectations. That was one of the only elements I was worried about was how they'd handle that relationship. And they definitely maneuver between two extremes and all the while you're really, really in love with hope. And I think that's exactly what this movie needed. Then you've got the Mantis-Drax relationship, which I think really, really is an interesting byproduct of having the holiday special came out when it did. What that relationship is, is not just between them. It's not just this beautiful platonic relationship that I have. I think was really well written so it doesn't become anything more. It also impacts the overall team in a really interesting way in this film.

Starting point is 00:04:34 The team dynamic that comes from how Drax and Manchester relate is really wonderful, especially interrelated to Gomorrah. You've got Rocket who will test the very limits of what you think you can feel for an animated creature, special effects are at a new level here, especially with emotional connection. Man, that uncanny valley is broken in how much much you can feel and the depths of which you can believe in something that's ones and zeros. Bradley Cooper, take a bow. Good God.

Starting point is 00:05:05 And there's a really cool use of timeline there. There's a really cool use of chronology. And I love how jarring it is. And I think the only way this movie works is by testing you, by vexing you, by putting you through the ringer emotionally, because all these characters are full of trauma, including, as ever, one of the MVP's of the entire MCU, Nebula. She has trauma incarnate. arc has been beautiful to see. Karen Gillen is such a force in nature as an actor. Like you can

Starting point is 00:05:32 put her in that position and have her have that character and you can just love this black-eyed evil daughter of Thanos that isn't evil that's overcome everything that you think hates but loves just so impossibly deeply. And that's so special. And then you've got Cosmo. This dog we've wanted to see in movies forever is here and she is wonder. She has magic. And then some new characters I don't want to spoil anything of but uh Rockets Lady is everything you wanted to be from the comics and all the characters in that uh almost Toy Story 2 I think it was toy no Toy Story 1 toy Toy Story 1 ask are exactly what you want out of that scene where you discover the origins of Rocket that he's kept so close to the

Starting point is 00:06:15 vest for all these years it's these characters so that juxtaposed with your hatred for a high evolutionary that mixed with the cosmic wonder of what this builds out to, it is absolutely stunning what they're able to accomplish. And then you've got the scale of it, right? So the scope of the Marvel universe is always a struggle. Basically, with Marvel, you're always having to have ever-escalating, like, world-ending events. But it doesn't always work because basically if everything is an Avengers-level event, nothing is an Avengers-level event, right? So this is the first movie that, to me, feels like Infinity War, feels like Endgame, feels like stakes feels like there's weight but also that there's weight outside of your team like obviously we

Starting point is 00:07:03 don't live in the MCU but it definitely feels like there is something at stake that could affect you not in as direct of the way as you know i'm in harm but you want the world to feel plausible and that something could happen that could harm you in some way and the way they build the stakes here make it feel like that could somehow impact you and that's really special with a The Guardians of the Galaxy film. Let's talk about a couple of the negatives. The negative I had with Adam Warlock definitely went away. In the beginning, I didn't love the characterization of Adam Warlock.

Starting point is 00:07:39 Actually, feel like he was... It's funny, it's kind of tying to the comics. In the beginning, he feels like when a writer doesn't know how to write Adam Warlock, but they do it on purpose. So the Adam Warlock characterization is, I think, intentionally misleading. and then they know him so well, it writes itself. It does solve some of those elements. So by the time it lands, I do really like Adam Warlock.

Starting point is 00:08:04 I do really think that what they have him end up like is worth that initial, maybe not so great of a decision in the way he's introduced. There's an expediency to it that bothers me still, but it's all juice worth to squeeze in its situational awareness. So Adam Warwick is a slight negative. Another negative I've heard is there's a bit of whiplash in how the drama and comedy goes back and forth. I completely patently disagree with that.

Starting point is 00:08:34 I think that's what makes this movie special. Is that whiplash? I completely disagree with people thinking it's too dark and too full of despair. That is what makes this movie sing. So people that are saying that, way to different experience with the film. So those aren't negatives for me. I guess the negative I really have is, Man, this is a damn near five-star film.

Starting point is 00:08:55 I think the biggest negative I experienced was I would have loved, I think, a little more, you know, I actually don't have any negatives except for Adam Warlock. I was going to try to make something negative that wasn't just now. I'm trying to find a problem with this movie. I loved it. It is so special.

Starting point is 00:09:19 It is so what I needed it to be. Guardians of the Galaxy, Volume 3, one of my favorite MCU films of all time, one of my favorite comic films of all time, one of my favorite films of all time. James Gunn is about to make the DC universe something truly monumental because this trilogy is the best trilogy of the MCU, and one of the best trilogies in film, and it sucked the landing, and I'm so happy. Thank you, Reject Nation. Please hit the like, hit that subscribe bell. Please do comment. Let me know what you guys thought of the movie. I tried to be as spoiler-free as possible. I'm very curious about the discourse of this film.

Starting point is 00:10:01 Because I walked out of the theater going like, everyone's going to love it. Who could hate it? Apparently people I know and trust. So it's going to be an interesting discourse. I adored it. Four and a half, maybe even five stars for me. Got a lot of love for the Guardians,

Starting point is 00:10:14 a lot of love for James Gunn, a lot of love for comic fans getting that love back. Love to the movie. Talk to guys soon. Thank you.

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The Reel Rejects - Just Watched GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY Vol. 3! Coy's Reaction & Review!! (NON SPOILER)

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