mZuzek on 07 May 2023
| super_etecoon said: I'm going to be an outlier here, and I hate to be. Like I said, I absolutely loved the first two films. I wish I felt the same about the third. |
I think everything you said after this point could use a nice little spoiler tag.
I totally get why some people didn't really enjoy it. It's a radically different movie to the first two and the first half of it has some pretty serious pacing issues. The first couple scenes really are cinematic greatness but then the movie can get pretty confused for a while. I think it absolutely finds its footing as it goes and the second half of it is just beautiful in every way.
Spoiler!
Personally I thought everything that was done with Rocket was perfect. Him being how he is for most of the movie is the perfect way to lead in to his backstory, and it leads in to that past also being the story of the movie itself, so it doesn't feel incoherent with what else is going. The movie was all about him, and not having him in it for so long made that matter even more for me. And it made everything after that point so incredibly cathartic, it made me appreciate every second he was on screen.
