mZuzek said:
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. |
Sorry for not using the spoiler tag. To be honest I’ve never used it before and it was quite difficult editing it on my phone. Thanks for the reminder.
I definitely understand how emotional the story could feel, especially for you. Again, not taking anything away from the film and I definitely appreciate what the story was relating.
Overall they have done a very great thing with this very, very niche comic. 10 years ago no one had even heard of them. In fact, the first time I went with my friends to watch Vol 1 I thought it was that animated movie Rise of the Guardians, which I’ve still never seen. Imagine my surprise when I ended up seeing this instead (which I had never even heard of) and there was a raccoon creature they were calling Ranger Rick. Hilarious! Few movies have surprised me as much as that one.
