There's no way this can be a total disaster. The premise is inherently stupid, and the movie is totally aware of that. It's a self-aware take on Star Wars-style space epics. Star-Lord is Jack Sparrow from the first Pirates movie, the guy who desperately wants to be notorious.

There's a firm grasp on the tone. It's every shitty sci-fi story you've ever seen without a trace of self-seriousness.

But hey, doesn't matter if you're not feeling it. This movie is having so much fun all by itself that it doesn't need audience validation. The hero literally looks right into the camera and flips you off. That's incredible.

Last edited by Doctor Submarine (2014-02-19 05:37:08)

Gotta reel 'em in with the scruffy, goofball human first. Then hit them with the talking raccoon and the sentient tree.

Neither of them talked.

Ah, well obviously that's what they meant.

Cause a walking, gun toting Racoon and a walking, fighting tree are just an everyday thing these days, but holy shit if them things done talked, WOOOWHEE we'd have ourselves a ballgame.

Last edited by BigDamnArtist (2014-02-19 05:50:03)

Except that guy ain't no Johnny Depp.  I'm good with the wacky premise and tone.  Except for that lead, who doesn't bring much to the party.   More and more movies seem to be casting abs, not actors.   

That's a role that requires "Nathan Fillion, but younger" to make work.  From what we're shown here, new guy isn't bringing it.

John C Reilly is absolutely brutal too, that dialogue and that delivery just sucks. I'm all for a rip-roaring light-hearted space adventure-comedy, but that footage feels closer to a parody youtube short than a real movie. Not digging the lighting/sets either. Again, it might be them just holding stuff back, but I ain't feeling it right now.

Last edited by bullet3 (2014-02-19 06:06:52)

Well, it seems to obvious to everyone else that they meant hearing the characters talk. You get a better feel for the characters that way, although Vin Diesel will just sound like the Iron Giant. Or Vin Diesel

I just find it amusing that every damn day I come on this forum, another person complains about how shitty modern trailers are and how they routinely fail to accurately represent what a movie actually is. And yet every damn day I come on this forum and find another thread like this, dissecting split second moments of context-less sound and image. So far I've seen the movie written off entirely and defended... by a modern shitty trailer that has every likelihood of misrepresenting the final movie.

So if y'all want to take this seriously, good luck with that, but for now I'll continue to shake my head and laugh at the batshit hilarious awesomeness of the images being put in front of my face.

It wasn't so much a direct shot at your comment...more of using it as a gravity slingshot to get to the main idea I wanted to say.

Last edited by BigDamnArtist (2014-02-19 06:41:23)

Uh huh.
Looks to me like he's going to be a solid rebellious and sarcastic space adventurer in the history of Han Solo, Malcolm Reynolds and the like. Pretty stock character on the surface, but every time I see Chris Pratt in a role, he always draws me in. It'll be fun.

This.

Last edited by Vapes (2014-02-19 06:55:08)

For Hollywood tentpole movies he is, yeah.