The Marvin Gaye song at the end, "Ain't no Mountain High Enough" is part of the "Trouble Man" Soundtrack that Sam Wilson suggested to Steve Rogers in CAWS.
It’s hard to imagine that this film is coming up on its 10-year anniversary next month. Ten years ago, when this film came out, I wasn’t that familiar with Guardians. My only exposure was seeing others dress as Groot, Star-Lord or Rocket for varied comic-cons. To experience this side of the MCU was unique. It did have a feel like Star Wars (1977). When I attended the 10pm showing of the sneak preview, it was highlighted by an early pre-game show sponsored by Tate’s; a local comic book store based in South Florida. Many showed up in cosplay, some won free swag from the store, everyone including myself had a blast watching this film, and I even led a few of the audience to clap during The Jackson Five’s “I Want You Back” at the end of the movie.
I'm carbon dating myself here, but in a universe full of superheroes, improbable physics, magic metal from outer space, talking trees, and literal magic, the most unlikely thing of all is that the headphones on Peter's Walkman survived for two decades.
Quill's mom dying, Groot's sacrifice, and just after that the team wielding the stone together all get me teary-eyed, the last one with a smile though.
"This is the biggest group of people we've seen other than the Avengers" And with the Avengers we were introduced to most of them previously in their own movies. All these characters started together in this movie, and yet they didn't feel lacking in definition.
Laika was the subject of a short poignant historical film required as a Taskmaster task (series 13, episode 3, timestamp 14:42-16:16), aired in April 2022 on BBC4. This can be viewed on RUclips.
There were questions about the viability of a Guardians of the Galaxy movie, until the first trailer appeared to the tune of "Hooked On A Feeling" and suddenly almost everyone knew this was going to be special!
Yeah, the questions of it's viability also might have had an impact on Ant-Man as well. I remember articles at the time, worried that GotG was going to be the first real marvel flop because it was "soo different and weird" and it made the execs worried about Edgar Wright producing something that would have been tonally and stylistically different than the rest of the Mainline marvel movies.. And the added pressure for cameos and having it tie into the MCU directly ultimately forced Wright to leave.. then GotG was a huge money maker.
@@jamespetkwitz8737 It's so different from the previous MCU stuff, very different and weird, and also very few had even heard of the Guardians of the Galaxy, compared to Captain America, Hulk, Thor, (and that was part of the worry about Ant Man) and even though I was a comics fan and knew of the Guardians of the Galaxy, I was actually only familiar with the original with Vance Astro, Martinex, and a very different Yondu. I didn't know about a new comic by the same name with a different set of people in a different time period. So I wasn't too hyped for it either. But it turned out to be one of the best.
As a casual viewer of all things Superheroes, I had no clue what the Guardians of the Galaxy was. Then that first teaser dropped and I was… Hooked. I had a Feeling this was gonna be something big. Huge tonal shift that Marvel didn’t quite need at the time but I was psyched for it. I don’t know the comic origin of a ton of these heroes MARVEL or DC but I’m glad they exist… despite a flop or two.
Shan's inability to make the distinction between foxes and raccoons is making my brain melt faster than the hard liquor I am consuming in an apparently futile attempt to block it out...
A few years after this movie came out, I had a conversation with my boss where all I said was, "I am Groot." Interestingly, he understood everything I was saying, and it ended up being the most fun conversation I ever had with him.
I've worked in a recovery unit with a lot of stroke victims, even though most of them could only mumble or say one word/phrase, I was able to understand them pretty well and they even had a sense of humor. Inflextion and tone I feel are more important when actual words fall short
@@youmadbro7733 that's just not true. While I agree that there certainly has been a downslide, we still got Shang-Chi, Far From Home, and No Way Home, along with some solid shows. And others, while not great, weren't entirely terrible either. Edit: Oh, how could I forget GotG Vol 3?! That was such a great movie, definitely better than vol 2.
@brewdaly1873 while the three you listed had some great stuff in them, they were absolutely still plagued with the worst parts of the MCU after endgame. So I wouldn't be trying to use them to prop anything up.
@@FullMetalB I mean, you're welcome to your opinion, but I very much disagree, and most of the discussion surrounding them is extremely positive. I would even say all three of them are much better than Age of Ultron and Captain Marvel, maybe even better than Ant-Man.
The actor who played Ronan also starred in a television series called Pushing Daisies. It's fun and silly and I think you'd enjoy it. All the 70s music touched my soul, and yes, I sang along.
When Peter drops the orb as he goes to hand it to the Collector, that was actually a genuine mistake by Chris Pratt, but he managed to stay in character so they left it in the final cut.
The thing about the Avengers is that it can have almost anyone in it at any given moment, based on need and availability. It's easier to list who has never acted as an Avenger even once in the comics than who has. Hell, I'm pretty sure I've been an Avenger at this point. In the late 80s/early 90s Spider-Man books there was a kind of background gag where he really wanted the Avengers to make him a full regular member because he was constantly being tapped as a reserve where it was just kinda silly to not just keep him in the loops. The implication being they didn't want to have to deal with him (he infamously annoys his allies as much as his foes) unless they absolutely had to, and he really is a useful teammate in most situations.
12:08 John C Reilly's line "It's cool to have a code name is a nod to his movie "Talladega Nights" with Will Ferrell where they had the code names "Shake and Bake"
“Have to get the thing from the thing before the thing happens” I’ve never heard something described so articulately and elegantly before. You truly have a way with words.
Thor doesn't explain this well because they're translating from old myths to scifi, but the nine realms are basically the 9 planets that Asgard conquered to create their empire, although they mostly take a hands off approach today. Xandar is a separate power, more like a trade empire. They have a much larger presence in the galaxy, but they are more like Star Wars: Xandar is the capitol of a bunch of separate races who all work together.
This goes way beyond the 9 realms. You're now entering the entire known and unknown universe. Thor and his group are just an extremely small portion of that.
The thing about arms getting cut off in every movie recently is actually intentional! Kevin Feige (MCU showrunner) said that they looked at Phase 2 as their "Empire Strikes Back" period, and so, as a gag, they put in a moment of someone's arm getting cut off in every Phase 2 movie as an homage to Luke losing his hand.
This was the movie I used to get my buddy into the MCU during Covid. We took some magic treats and watched this and Dr Strange in one afternoon. He binged the entire MCU after that
You asked how they shot this movie, but any time you see Rocket, it is the second in command to Yondu, who is James Gunn's brother Sean. He wore a green screen suit and acted every scene for the camera. The main Nova guy other than John C. Reilly is Peter Serafinowicz, who was in Shaun of the Dead.
Your comment made me realize this was the first movie I rented - 10 yrs ago! - that I watched completely back to back. I was so happy and satisfied by a movie, I had to watch it again immediately. Oddly……it was probably the last movie I rented.
This one hit on all cylinders. "Fun" I think this is the one that introduced the more frenetic styling to the MCU as it will carry over from here. Also rockin soundtracks become a staple after this. I'm more than anything blown away by the fact this is what made it to a feature film. When Marvel Ent. started Stan Lee gave a public interview and said the three things he wanted to see on screen were Nick Fury, Rocket Racoon and Power Pack. Two out of three but that was interpreted as his strange sense of humor at the time yet there it is. Rocket Raccoon and Groot on the big screen.
The alien who speaks for thanos, to ronan, also played Wesley on Buffy the vampire slayer and angel. He is also married to Allyson hannigan who he met on buffy.
Caught this one in theaters. The audience had a lot of fun with this one. Plenty of laughs. The whole misfit group of heroes is a fun trope I really enjoy.
I think the aspect ratio change was meant to signify an 'eye opening moment' when the audience the first time understood a word of Groot ... cause he still said 'I' but we learnt to understand his language so we could hear what he meant and it was 'we'. This will be a recurring idea in Guardians 3.
14:21 The blue alien being held up by the nose by Groot is voiced by Nathan Fillion. He and director James Gunn became really good friends when they worked on the movie Slither together. Ever sense then James has tried to cast Nathan in every movie he makes, even if it is a small role.
28:58 Funny you should say that. Cyclops & Havok's father Corsair ran a joint mission with Rocket Racoon, which was a really cool Guardians/Starjammers crossover.
I think what makes the MCU work beyond its superhero “genre” is that it doesn’t treat superhero movies like they’re all just “superhero” movies, if that makes sense. What I mean is, they make great movies in a multitude of genres that just happen to tell stories about superheroes. You’ve got spy thriller movies like Winter Soldier, pure action like Iron Man, war movies like Captain America, now Sci-Fi here in Guardians. And it doesn’t stop here, their films get even more diverse and nuanced moving forward. Sometimes it doesn’t quite work, but more often than not it succeeds.
The question isn’t how did the cassette tape last that long, but how did the orange spongy headphones of his Walkman hold up? Those things needed to be replaced often.
I believe the greatest feat of Guardians of the Galaxy Vol.1 was the ease and brilliance it has, introducing rather unknown characters (to a wider non-comic audience) and making them all unique, relatable and lovable. Like, not just being an origin movie for one Spiderman, but for a guy with gadgets, a green woman, a simple warrior, a tree and a racoon, pull that off - instant win. Vol 2. - no spoilers, but bring tissues.
"Take my hand, Peter," will never fail to get me crying. Not in the beginning of the movie, not at the end. "We are groot," always gets me too. I wasn't singing along with you, but I was definitely singing it when I got up for lunch a few minutes later. I saw this opening weekend with my nephews (8 and 10), and I had to drive two hours out of my way to pick them up from their father and deliver them to my sister after seeing it. They loved "turd blossom" too.
This was my favorite until Logan, Infinity War, and Endgame. So it's still in the top 4 or 5 lol... Super excited for you to get to the Infinity saga! You're getting close! Keep up the great work 🤘
Howard the Duck was a sort of satirical character who first appeared in the early 1970s and was typically used in the craziest space/fantasy stories they could cook up. He was the source of some mild legal conflict between Marvel and Disney, who felt like he too closely resembled Donald Duck. Marvel agreed to make him wear pants. The 1986 movie is one of the more notorious "so bad it's good" flicks of the '80s. Howard has shown up in a couple more cameos in the MCU but one of them is so small and fast you probably won't notice it.
Fun fact: director James Gunn is currently one of the co-head DC Studios/DCU (DC Universe) similar to what Kevin Feige is to the MCU, he's also the director for the upcoming Superman movie next year, Gunn's DCU also takes inspiration from MCU's PHASES with his being called CHAPTERS, Gunn's DCU "Chapter 1: Gods & Monsters" will kick off starting next year with his Superman. DC Comics are a rival company to Marvel Comics with some of their characters having taken some inspirations to one another.
Everybody sees Stan Lee, but the real major cameo is Lloyd Kaufman at 14:15 . Aslo the 2 most underrated James Gunn movies are Super & Tromeo and Julliet.
I’m pretty up and down on the marvel movies, but I really enjoyed all of the Guardians flicks. Super fun space opera with a surprising amount of genuine emotion while still being funny and bonkers. I wish more corporate popcorn movies had that level of love and craft put into them.
The _Collector_ is extremely ancient (first to evolve after the big bang, one of the oldest in the universe) similar to the _Grandmaster_ (a name worth remembering). For the most part, he could be considered neutral, although he'd likely not be the best thing for a random human to run into.
When this hit theaters, my future wife & I were visiting Portland, OR (pre-covid), and looking to have a little downtime after all the nature walks. We were already Marvel film fans, but this one blew our minds! The downdraft track became one of our favorite. Fooled Around And Fell in Love would be one of our songs during the reception. Sadly, she passed from Cancer in 2020, when our son was only 2yo. As he is only 6yo currently, I haven't shown him this film, but it will probably resonate w/ him. Though this film resonates with me for our relationship, she was also a Huge Deadpool fan, where as I am a Huge Wolverine fan. Do, obviously, the new Deadpool 3 is one I'm not missing. Even plan on taking her ashes w/ me to see it.
36:12 You're watching an IMAX home release version of the movie. Some shots were specifically shot for IMAX screens which are very tall. So the aspect ratio can change between certain scenes. If you get a blu-ray of The Dark Knight with the IMAX release you'll see a ton of this since a lot of the major and really cool scenes were shot with IMAX cameras.
I noticed today, for the first time ever, that Lloyd Kauffman of Troma Studios is among the prisoners throwing garbage at the guardians when they enter the prison. Which makes sense, as James Gunn got his start with Troma.
And also that they could make movies about characters no one ever heard of - even comic book readers - and still have it be a good and successful movie.
I have an old-school connection to the guardians. They were originally a comic that I just love from 1969 that had Yondu and a crystal guy and some others and then about eight years later there was a marvel special comic book featuring star Lord that has nothing to do with the guardians, but the artist and writer on comic the absolute top pinnacle of comic book teams at that time, John Byrne, Terry Austin, and Chris Claremont . Marvel later, took star, Lord and combined him with the name guardians with a whole new crew and then this movie was a throwback to all of it in pieces. For us comic book folks it’s always amazing to see how they rearrange it and still make it work.
Now while it was couple of years between Guardians films, and a couple of other MCU films came out between them, I believe chronologically Guardians 2 is the next story that happens in the MCU A couple of cast notes - Sean Gunn (James' brother) played ravager 1st mate Kraglin, also did the motion capture performance for Rocket while filming. He often plays in his brother's projects, he plays two (small) parts in The Suicide Squad, and will return in the upcoming DCU series The Creature Commandos (an animated, but intergrated series) on Max. But most people know him as Kirk from Gilmore Girls. Long time friend and collaborator Nathan FIllion voiced the convict who Groot picks up by his nostrils. Robot Chicken creator, and former Scott Evil from Austin Powers, Seth Green voices Howard the Duck James Gunn himself provided the motion capture for baby Groot dancing in the post credit scene.
Rocket Racoon and Howard the Duck come from the same Halfworld experiments. Also the space dog is the Soviet dog, Laika, that was launched into Orbit on Sputnik 2 in 1957. While she died in orbit from overheating and then burned up on reentry months later, GotG makes it look like she was "collected" and survived the mission.
I've been waiting and looking forward to your reaction to this one. Guardians is so fresh and different from anything else that comes before it in the MCU. The comic it's based on was barely known and poorly received but on the screen it got turned into a modern classic.
Very possibly the finest trilogy in the MCU, but opinions vary. A brilliant ensemble, and James Gunn is an amazing filmmaker with damn-near impeccable musical taste. Edit: 13:32 Case in point, right here, and I love that Shan loves it. Blue Swede are one of the Greatest One-Hit Wonders of All-Time.🤘 14:08 I just do the "Ooga-Chaka" part. More History: In 1973, the Swedish pop rock group Blue Swede recorded a cover version of the B.J. Thomas original, which included the "ooga chaka" introduction from a 1971 cover by Jonathan King. King had heard Johnny Preston's "Running Bear", which was the inspiration for the "ooga chaka" chant.
While she doesn't have a huge role, I have a friend (Mikaela Hoover) in this movie. She's actually really good friends with James Gunn and pops up in almost all of his projects.
33:09 Asgard calls them realms, we call them planets. Its perfectly understandable to think that maybe realms means something fancy like dimensions or whatever, but in reality Thor can fly a ship from Asgard to Earth and vice versa. The Bifrost just lets them create a wormhole for faster/easier travel and they use fancy words like realms instead of planets.
Director James Gunn said he wanted to make a colorful space opera - emphasis on "colorful". In the director's commentary, he was quite proud to point out that the colors of the screens in the sequence at around 29:40 were all directly lifted from Kubrick's "2001: A Space Odyssey".
The dog is a telepathic Russian space dog that ends up becoming Chief of security of Knowhere in the books. Cosmo was introduced in the Nova comic series when The Nova Corps homeworld is destroyed but the world mind and power(aka Nova Force) is downloaded into Richard Rider of Earth. He basically becomes a cosmically powered being that ends up fighting along side characters like Silver Surfer, Beta Ray Bill and the GOG. He and Quill save the universe at one point. Sacrificing theirselves in the process but later are found to be alive and they are both still very much active in the books. Nova has been in the X-Men books lately and Guardians just wrapped up another series of books and storyline. The lineup of GOG characters has changed quite a bit over the years but since the movie came out they are pretty much sticking with this lineup for now. I was obsessed with Silver Surfer and Cosmic storylines which led me into loving Guardians of the Galaxy. And the movie was so good. Even though it strayed far from the books it was still amazing.❤❤❤
The Guardians of the Galaxy were a pretty obscure team when this movie came out. I was a big fan of the comic, but I had doubts when this movie was first announced. I just felt like such an obscure team wouldn't do well at the box office. I am so glad that I was proven wrong and this movie became incredibly popular. It still amazes me that characters like Groot and Rocket Raccoon are household names now. If you would have told me that back in 2010, I would have never believed it.
In the Blu Ray presentation of Tron Legacy there's a title card that appears at the start to explain that the aspect ratio shift is due to different scenes having been done in different aspect ratios to either accommodate 3D or IMAX presentation. When creating the home edit, they went with the aspect ratio that showed the most of what was done for the scene. Prior to GotG's release, Gunn said that for the IMAX 3D version of the movie he deliberately changed the aspect ratio of the movie at times to make specific scenes more immersive or intimate. That aspect ratio shift was carried over into the home release.
Yes!! I was able to do the tiniest bit of research in my edit phase and it seemed like an imax thing! But i didn’t put it in the video because i wasn’t certain! Thanks for the extra info 😊
Fun fact about James Gunn. He wrote the screenplay for Dawn of the Dead and Zack Snyder got his directorial debut on that film. What's fun is the mall the characters hide out in has a Superman theme, the first floor being called Metropolis. this is decades before either Znyder or Gunn were to work on Superman for DC.
Good reaction. Btw - The Orb, the Infinity Stones, the Maltese Falcon, the Ark Of The Covenant, the Death Star Plans, the Holy Grail, etc. - the generic term for all of these kinds of things is 'the MacGuffin". The term originated in the old Alfred Hitchcock movies, being The Thing in the story that everybody is chasing after, even if it is unclear why.
I was waiting for you to get to this one - it's one of my favorite MCU movies. Something I'd like to strongly suggest to you - After Avengers 4 (the final one) but before Guardians Vol 3, try to watch (whether or not you do a reaction to it), please try to watch the Guardian Holiday Special. It's only about 45 minutes long, and has some things that get further fleshed out in Guardians Vol 3. It completely essential to see it, but it does make a couple of things in Guardians 3 make more sense if you've seen the holiday special. 👍
how do you ever fully enjoy a movie if you constantly remove yourself from the immersion into it's story? It's sad because you never get deep enough to allow yourself to fully feel anything.
James Gunn was mentored by Lloyd Kaufman on how to write scripts and direct movies. James wanted Lloyd to have a cameo in Guardians as a way of thanking Lloyd for his mentorship. Also Sean Gunn is James’ younger brother and he plays as Kraglin. Sean would also wear a green mocap suit as a stand in for Rocket’s scenes
She's in Captain America: The First Avenger, but not who you said. During the Star Spangled Man musical montage, she approaches Cap for an autograph with a wide smile, which catches his eye.
It's hard to convey how much of a tectonic shift Guardians was in tone coming into the MCU. It was the one thing that felt truly DIFFERENT. It was the first time Marvel went really off into the universe and started to explore the cosmic aspect of Marvel. There are a LOT of easter eggs that you will only understand if you're into comics. For example, the big head "Knowhere" is actually the head of a celestial - and not just any celestial, but the one that was killed by Knull, the Symbiote God (the being that created Venom's race). There's a whole lot of background lore that ties into the comics and it really felt like great fanservice without it being in everyone's faces like "this is an obvious fanservice moment, and if you don't read comics then you're not cool" sort of way. Arguably top 5 scripts in the entire MCU. The Guardians of the Galaxy comics were VERY obscure to say the least. At best, they were sort of B or C-listers that very rarely crossed over with more mainline heroes like Thor. They made some tweaks to the character origins for the movies, but they work out pretty well for the story the MCU is trying to tell with them. The Guardians movies are all about found family - moreso than any of the other superhero movies.
Funny story, the wife and I were at a new movie theater location watching the release of Ghostbusters in 3D. When leaving from watching that movie we noticed this theater had an IMAX. And it was showing at that time Guardians of the Galaxy. We have never even seen a trailer of that movie but decided to try out that particular theaters IMAX. So we were very pleasantly surprised by how great this movie was for us and we got to see it in IMAX.
After seeing her on Doctor Who, shaving her head for this role was a crime against humanity, but she did do a great job :) SPOILERS: I was initially a little disappointed how small a role this was for her, but with Nebula developed more in the sequels it paid off - I really enjoyed the blend of antagonistic, violent prickliness and vulnerable center haha. Her scene with Tony is one of my favorite parts of _Endgame_ (near the beginning)
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They made an SNL sketch where it was essentially saying that marvel can make a good movie about literally anything after this movie.
The Marvin Gaye song at the end, "Ain't no Mountain High Enough" is part of the "Trouble Man" Soundtrack that Sam Wilson suggested to Steve Rogers in CAWS.
I like Guardians Volume one, but I LOOOOOVED Guardians Volume two better.... Waiting for you to get there
For when you want your finances handled by a space raccoon.
It’s hard to imagine that this film is coming up on its 10-year anniversary next month.
Ten years ago, when this film came out, I wasn’t that familiar with Guardians. My only exposure was seeing others dress as Groot, Star-Lord or Rocket for varied comic-cons. To experience this side of the MCU was unique. It did have a feel like Star Wars (1977).
When I attended the 10pm showing of the sneak preview, it was highlighted by an early pre-game show sponsored by Tate’s; a local comic book store based in South Florida. Many showed up in cosplay, some won free swag from the store, everyone including myself had a blast watching this film, and I even led a few of the audience to clap during The Jackson Five’s “I Want You Back” at the end of the movie.
I think one of the most Star Wars things is Rocket letting us know what Groot is saying by way of his responses in the same way C3PO talks to R2D2
this one is SO star wars!!
Or Han communicating with Chewbacca.
@@NelsonVlog66 Yeah, I was thinking more Han and Chewy the way they communicate.
@@NelsonVlog66 "Don't get technical with me."
@@wobaguk or han talking to Chewbacca.
I'm carbon dating myself here, but in a universe full of superheroes, improbable physics, magic metal from outer space, talking trees, and literal magic, the most unlikely thing of all is that the headphones on Peter's Walkman survived for two decades.
I figure there are alien 3D printers from which he can get replacement parts for his Walkman if he can give them the original.
😂good observation
Or the tape itself. I don't know how many cassettes I wore out and I had a bunch. He had ONE to listen to for all these years.
My always questioned the batteries.
@mikegoodwin2386 They can repair it using magneto-reluctants and capacitive-deractants.
You can't tell a Racoon from a Fox but you can recognize HOWARD THE DUCK?!?
NGL, that's all kinds of ducked up.
@@radwolf76whoa ! No need to use fowl language
😂😂
Wonder if she saw _that_ movie...
I have a big stack of Howard comics. I was so much hoping he could join Guardians
As someone mentioned before, in every Phase 2 movie someone loses an arm/hand. It is an intentional nod to Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back.
Also, in Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back.
Dang we gonna get drunk then.
Quill's mom dying, Groot's sacrifice, and just after that the team wielding the stone together all get me teary-eyed, the last one with a smile though.
"This is the biggest group of people we've seen other than the Avengers" And with the Avengers we were introduced to most of them previously in their own movies. All these characters started together in this movie, and yet they didn't feel lacking in definition.
Yondu:"when I picked you up on Terra...."
10 seconds later:"Are these the guys that picked him up years ago?"
Terra didn’t mean much to me at that moment but i now have been made aware that’s earth!
@@ShanelleRiccio As a fellow Terran, it gave me a giigle.
Rocket isn't a fox... he's a rabbit...
* Squirrel.
Hedgehog
Puppy according to mantis
A sweet rabit!
hahaha
The space dog is a nod to the Russian good girl, Laika, the first animal in space.
@@goldenageofdinosaurs7192 yes, but also she is a character from the comics, Cosmo the Spacedog.
Laika was the subject of a short poignant historical film required as a Taskmaster task (series 13, episode 3, timestamp 14:42-16:16), aired in April 2022 on BBC4.
This can be viewed on RUclips.
@@brewdaly1873 Cosmo the Spacedog was actually part of at least one version of the Guardians of the Galaxy team. (In the comic books)
Rocket Money sponsoring this one is pretty on the nose. 😆
ROCKET!!
If you wanted it to be on the nose, it should have been Rocket Bunny, like the character in the movie.
@@blechtic ehem his initials are R.R. it's obviously Rocket Rabbit
Because, Rocket Fox is not as literary...
Only thing better would be if certain future MCU reactions were sponsored by Dairy Queen, McDonald’s, and Honda
22:35 The drop wasn't scripted - Pratt is just clumsy but styled it out and Gunn liked the footage so used the take.
There were questions about the viability of a Guardians of the Galaxy movie, until the first trailer appeared to the tune of "Hooked On A Feeling" and suddenly almost everyone knew this was going to be special!
Yeah, the questions of it's viability also might have had an impact on Ant-Man as well. I remember articles at the time, worried that GotG was going to be the first real marvel flop because it was "soo different and weird" and it made the execs worried about Edgar Wright producing something that would have been tonally and stylistically different than the rest of the Mainline marvel movies.. And the added pressure for cameos and having it tie into the MCU directly ultimately forced Wright to leave.. then GotG was a huge money maker.
@@jamespetkwitz8737 It's so different from the previous MCU stuff, very different and weird, and also very few had even heard of the Guardians of the Galaxy, compared to Captain America, Hulk, Thor, (and that was part of the worry about Ant Man) and even though I was a comics fan and knew of the Guardians of the Galaxy, I was actually only familiar with the original with Vance Astro, Martinex, and a very different Yondu. I didn't know about a new comic by the same name with a different set of people in a different time period. So I wasn't too hyped for it either. But it turned out to be one of the best.
As a casual viewer of all things Superheroes, I had no clue what the Guardians of the Galaxy was. Then that first teaser dropped and I was… Hooked. I had a Feeling this was gonna be something big. Huge tonal shift that Marvel didn’t quite need at the time but I was psyched for it. I don’t know the comic origin of a ton of these heroes MARVEL or DC but I’m glad they exist… despite a flop or two.
@@ceougin20it did need the tonal shift at the time, this movie was off the back of Dark World and Winter Soldier.
@@VColossalV admittedly Dark World wasn’t Marvel’s best outing but this was after Winter Soldier! One of Marvel’s best!
"We are Groot" was Vin Diesel's sequel to "I am Superman."
Shan's inability to make the distinction between foxes and raccoons is making my brain melt faster than the hard liquor I am consuming in an apparently futile attempt to block it out...
sorry...
Nebula calls Rocket a fox too...
@@ShanelleRiccio No, it was perfect......you'll see why as we progress.
He's not a fox or a racoon, he's a rabbit
@@mnelson1979 Nebula isn't from Earth lmao
Peter Quill/Star Lord doesn't have a "superhero superpower", unless you count his total ability to BS his way out of a problem.
A few years after this movie came out, I had a conversation with my boss where all I said was, "I am Groot." Interestingly, he understood everything I was saying, and it ended up being the most fun conversation I ever had with him.
I've worked in a recovery unit with a lot of stroke victims, even though most of them could only mumble or say one word/phrase, I was able to understand them pretty well and they even had a sense of humor. Inflextion and tone I feel are more important when actual words fall short
“I am Groot.”
“This dialogue is so good, every character has such a point of view, it’s so strong!”
Winter Soldier and Guardians are about where the MCU was really starting to hit its stride. From here to Endgame its a hell of a ride.
I agree 100%. Then it’s all trash after Endgame
@@youmadbro7733 that's just not true. While I agree that there certainly has been a downslide, we still got Shang-Chi, Far From Home, and No Way Home, along with some solid shows. And others, while not great, weren't entirely terrible either.
Edit: Oh, how could I forget GotG Vol 3?! That was such a great movie, definitely better than vol 2.
@brewdaly1873 while the three you listed had some great stuff in them, they were absolutely still plagued with the worst parts of the MCU after endgame. So I wouldn't be trying to use them to prop anything up.
@@FullMetalB I mean, you're welcome to your opinion, but I very much disagree, and most of the discussion surrounding them is extremely positive. I would even say all three of them are much better than Age of Ultron and Captain Marvel, maybe even better than Ant-Man.
The actor who played Ronan also starred in a television series called Pushing Daisies. It's fun and silly and I think you'd enjoy it. All the 70s music touched my soul, and yes, I sang along.
He is now hamming it up to 11 as Brother Day in Foundation and I love every minute of it 😂
He is also Legolas’ father
When Peter drops the orb as he goes to hand it to the Collector, that was actually a genuine mistake by Chris Pratt, but he managed to stay in character so they left it in the final cut.
One of the scenes ive cried most at in the past 20 years is Quill opening his mums present and hearing her call him "her little star lord"... 😢
16:22 Shanelle confirms that, even as a CGI monster alien man, Josh Brolin looks good.
The thing about the Avengers is that it can have almost anyone in it at any given moment, based on need and availability. It's easier to list who has never acted as an Avenger even once in the comics than who has. Hell, I'm pretty sure I've been an Avenger at this point.
In the late 80s/early 90s Spider-Man books there was a kind of background gag where he really wanted the Avengers to make him a full regular member because he was constantly being tapped as a reserve where it was just kinda silly to not just keep him in the loops. The implication being they didn't want to have to deal with him (he infamously annoys his allies as much as his foes) unless they absolutely had to, and he really is a useful teammate in most situations.
12:08 John C Reilly's line "It's cool to have a code name is a nod to his movie "Talladega Nights" with Will Ferrell where they had the code names "Shake and Bake"
“Have to get the thing from the thing before the thing happens” I’ve never heard something described so articulately and elegantly before. You truly have a way with words.
Thor doesn't explain this well because they're translating from old myths to scifi, but the nine realms are basically the 9 planets that Asgard conquered to create their empire, although they mostly take a hands off approach today. Xandar is a separate power, more like a trade empire. They have a much larger presence in the galaxy, but they are more like Star Wars: Xandar is the capitol of a bunch of separate races who all work together.
This goes way beyond the 9 realms. You're now entering the entire known and unknown universe. Thor and his group are just an extremely small portion of that.
Just (well, not "just") 9 worlds that are connected with wormholes, the convergence, etc.
'Star lord? - is that his name?' .... You already understand.
Who?
The thing about arms getting cut off in every movie recently is actually intentional! Kevin Feige (MCU showrunner) said that they looked at Phase 2 as their "Empire Strikes Back" period, and so, as a gag, they put in a moment of someone's arm getting cut off in every Phase 2 movie as an homage to Luke losing his hand.
It makes sense now!!
This was the movie I used to get my buddy into the MCU during Covid. We took some magic treats and watched this and Dr Strange in one afternoon. He binged the entire MCU after that
Shan-Shan is killing me with the 'fox dude'. Has... has she never seen a raccoon?? 😂🤣❤
Can't wait for you to watch the rest of this trilogy (plus Christmas special)
Came here to say this, the Christmas special is so funny even on its own.
You asked how they shot this movie, but any time you see Rocket, it is the second in command to Yondu, who is James Gunn's brother Sean. He wore a green screen suit and acted every scene for the camera. The main Nova guy other than John C. Reilly is Peter Serafinowicz, who was in Shaun of the Dead.
Great reaction!
I just want to point out the presence of heavy hitters like Lee Pace, Karen Gillan, and of course Glen Close in this film.
To me this is the best script Marvel has produced.
Your comment made me realize this was the first movie I rented - 10 yrs ago! - that I watched completely back to back. I was so happy and satisfied by a movie, I had to watch it again immediately.
Oddly……it was probably the last movie I rented.
This one hit on all cylinders. "Fun" I think this is the one that introduced the more frenetic styling to the MCU as it will carry over from here. Also rockin soundtracks become a staple after this. I'm more than anything blown away by the fact this is what made it to a feature film. When Marvel Ent. started Stan Lee gave a public interview and said the three things he wanted to see on screen were Nick Fury, Rocket Racoon and Power Pack. Two out of three but that was interpreted as his strange sense of humor at the time yet there it is. Rocket Raccoon and Groot on the big screen.
The alien who speaks for thanos, to ronan, also played Wesley on Buffy the vampire slayer and angel. He is also married to Allyson hannigan who he met on buffy.
Holy moly, that's Alexis Denisof? I didn't recognise him at all, and I was a big Buffy/Angel fan.
@@theaikidoka Joss put him into the Avengers. He has a long conversation with Loki.
23:31 - I love that Chris Pratt dropping the orb was a "blooper" that they kept in the movie. 😂
Caught this one in theaters. The audience had a lot of fun with this one. Plenty of laughs. The whole misfit group of heroes is a fun trope I really enjoy.
Same!
@@ShanelleRiccio you also caught it in the theatre?
I think the aspect ratio change was meant to signify an 'eye opening moment' when the audience the first time understood a word of Groot ... cause he still said 'I' but we learnt to understand his language so we could hear what he meant and it was 'we'. This will be a recurring idea in Guardians 3.
Aspect ratio change is usually when switching between IMAX sequences and non IMAX sequences.
Omg is that Peter Serafinowicz at 31:12
Yep
@39:29 Shanelle is stacked.
Welcome to the Guardians of the freaking galaxy 💫
Only don't say "freaking"
The "space dog" is Cosmo The Space Dog. She had her own Marvel comic.
When James Gunn did this movie he took inspiration to write the characters from the protagonists of sci-fi series Farscape.
One of the best soundtracks in movie history. Such a good compilation of great classic songs.
14:21 The blue alien being held up by the nose by Groot is voiced by Nathan Fillion. He and director James Gunn became really good friends when they worked on the movie Slither together. Ever sense then James has tried to cast Nathan in every movie he makes, even if it is a small role.
28:58 Funny you should say that. Cyclops & Havok's father Corsair ran a joint mission with Rocket Racoon, which was a really cool Guardians/Starjammers crossover.
I think what makes the MCU work beyond its superhero “genre” is that it doesn’t treat superhero movies like they’re all just “superhero” movies, if that makes sense. What I mean is, they make great movies in a multitude of genres that just happen to tell stories about superheroes. You’ve got spy thriller movies like Winter Soldier, pure action like Iron Man, war movies like Captain America, now Sci-Fi here in Guardians. And it doesn’t stop here, their films get even more diverse and nuanced moving forward. Sometimes it doesn’t quite work, but more often than not it succeeds.
The question isn’t how did the cassette tape last that long, but how did the orange spongy headphones of his Walkman hold up?
Those things needed to be replaced often.
I believe the greatest feat of Guardians of the Galaxy Vol.1 was the ease and brilliance it has, introducing rather unknown characters (to a wider non-comic audience) and making them all unique, relatable and lovable. Like, not just being an origin movie for one Spiderman, but for a guy with gadgets, a green woman, a simple warrior, a tree and a racoon, pull that off - instant win.
Vol 2. - no spoilers, but bring tissues.
"Take my hand, Peter," will never fail to get me crying. Not in the beginning of the movie, not at the end.
"We are groot," always gets me too.
I wasn't singing along with you, but I was definitely singing it when I got up for lunch a few minutes later.
I saw this opening weekend with my nephews (8 and 10), and I had to drive two hours out of my way to pick them up from their father and deliver them to my sister after seeing it.
They loved "turd blossom" too.
This was my favorite until Logan, Infinity War, and Endgame. So it's still in the top 4 or 5 lol... Super excited for you to get to the Infinity saga! You're getting close! Keep up the great work 🤘
Howard the Duck was a sort of satirical character who first appeared in the early 1970s and was typically used in the craziest space/fantasy stories they could cook up. He was the source of some mild legal conflict between Marvel and Disney, who felt like he too closely resembled Donald Duck. Marvel agreed to make him wear pants.
The 1986 movie is one of the more notorious "so bad it's good" flicks of the '80s.
Howard has shown up in a couple more cameos in the MCU but one of them is so small and fast you probably won't notice it.
As a point of trivia, HOWARD THE DUCK is the first actual big studio movie adaptation of a Marvel Comic.
Also, Troma’s Lloyd Kaufman appearing on the prison balcony is my favorite MCU cameo.
I don't think I ever heard of Troma, but I thought I recognized that guy.
Fun fact: director James Gunn is currently one of the co-head DC Studios/DCU (DC Universe) similar to what Kevin Feige is to the MCU, he's also the director for the upcoming Superman movie next year, Gunn's DCU also takes inspiration from MCU's PHASES with his being called CHAPTERS, Gunn's DCU "Chapter 1: Gods & Monsters" will kick off starting next year with his Superman. DC Comics are a rival company to Marvel Comics with some of their characters having taken some inspirations to one another.
Everybody sees Stan Lee, but the real major cameo is Lloyd Kaufman at 14:15 .
Aslo the 2 most underrated James Gunn movies are Super & Tromeo and Julliet.
I’m pretty up and down on the marvel movies, but I really enjoyed all of the Guardians flicks. Super fun space opera with a surprising amount of genuine emotion while still being funny and bonkers. I wish more corporate popcorn movies had that level of love and craft put into them.
The _Collector_ is extremely ancient (first to evolve after the big bang, one of the oldest in the universe) similar to the _Grandmaster_ (a name worth remembering). For the most part, he could be considered neutral, although he'd likely not be the best thing for a random human to run into.
When this hit theaters, my future wife & I were visiting Portland, OR (pre-covid), and looking to have a little downtime after all the nature walks. We were already Marvel film fans, but this one blew our minds!
The downdraft track became one of our favorite. Fooled Around And Fell in Love would be one of our songs during the reception.
Sadly, she passed from Cancer in 2020, when our son was only 2yo. As he is only 6yo currently, I haven't shown him this film, but it will probably resonate w/ him. Though this film resonates with me for our relationship, she was also a Huge Deadpool fan, where as I am a Huge Wolverine fan. Do, obviously, the new Deadpool 3 is one I'm not missing. Even plan on taking her ashes w/ me to see it.
This is one of the sweetest movie watching stories I’ve ever read on my channel!! ❤ I’m so sorry for your loss!
Over the Edge is a 1979 Matt Dillon. O-o-h Child song and many others. Might be an inspiration for this movie or soundtrack.
36:12 You're watching an IMAX home release version of the movie. Some shots were specifically shot for IMAX screens which are very tall. So the aspect ratio can change between certain scenes. If you get a blu-ray of The Dark Knight with the IMAX release you'll see a ton of this since a lot of the major and really cool scenes were shot with IMAX cameras.
I noticed today, for the first time ever, that Lloyd Kauffman of Troma Studios is among the prisoners throwing garbage at the guardians when they enter the prison. Which makes sense, as James Gunn got his start with Troma.
This movie changed the MCU in such a positive way. It showed the studio that you could put comedy into the MCU, while still having a serious story.
And also that they could make movies about characters no one ever heard of - even comic book readers - and still have it be a good and successful movie.
I have an old-school connection to the guardians. They were originally a comic that I just love from 1969 that had Yondu and a crystal guy and some others and then about eight years later there was a marvel special comic book featuring star Lord that has nothing to do with the guardians, but the artist and writer on comic the absolute top pinnacle of comic book teams at that time, John Byrne, Terry Austin, and Chris Claremont . Marvel later, took star, Lord and combined him with the name guardians with a whole new crew and then this movie was a throwback to all of it in pieces. For us comic book folks it’s always amazing to see how they rearrange it and still make it work.
Now while it was couple of years between Guardians films, and a couple of other MCU films came out between them, I believe chronologically Guardians 2 is the next story that happens in the MCU
A couple of cast notes - Sean Gunn (James' brother) played ravager 1st mate Kraglin, also did the motion capture performance for Rocket while filming. He often plays in his brother's projects, he plays two (small) parts in The Suicide Squad, and will return in the upcoming DCU series The Creature Commandos (an animated, but intergrated series) on Max. But most people know him as Kirk from Gilmore Girls.
Long time friend and collaborator Nathan FIllion voiced the convict who Groot picks up by his nostrils.
Robot Chicken creator, and former Scott Evil from Austin Powers, Seth Green voices Howard the Duck
James Gunn himself provided the motion capture for baby Groot dancing in the post credit scene.
“What determines who becomes an Avenger?”
Well, first, you need a cause to avenge…
"There was an idea..."
13:06 Yeah, the orb is a macguffin.
11:45 LOL "Oh, I'll get that arm."
The main function of Starlord's mask is to lower the cost of CGI.
hahahha thats so funny
Always singing along during Guardians😂🙌. This one remains my favourite of the MCU!! Been looking forward to you getting to this point!
Rocket Racoon and Howard the Duck come from the same Halfworld experiments. Also the space dog is the Soviet dog, Laika, that was launched into Orbit on Sputnik 2 in 1957. While she died in orbit from overheating and then burned up on reentry months later, GotG makes it look like she was "collected" and survived the mission.
I've been waiting and looking forward to your reaction to this one. Guardians is so fresh and different from anything else that comes before it in the MCU. The comic it's based on was barely known and poorly received but on the screen it got turned into a modern classic.
Very possibly the finest trilogy in the MCU, but opinions vary. A brilliant ensemble, and James Gunn is an amazing filmmaker with damn-near impeccable musical taste.
Edit: 13:32 Case in point, right here, and I love that Shan loves it. Blue Swede are one of the Greatest One-Hit Wonders of All-Time.🤘
14:08 I just do the "Ooga-Chaka" part. More History: In 1973, the Swedish pop rock group Blue Swede recorded a cover version of the B.J. Thomas original, which included the "ooga chaka" introduction from a 1971 cover by Jonathan King. King had heard Johnny Preston's "Running Bear", which was the inspiration for the "ooga chaka" chant.
While she doesn't have a huge role, I have a friend (Mikaela Hoover) in this movie. She's actually really good friends with James Gunn and pops up in almost all of his projects.
I'm willing to bet she'll 100% is gonna be on the Superman movie next year.
33:09 Asgard calls them realms, we call them planets. Its perfectly understandable to think that maybe realms means something fancy like dimensions or whatever, but in reality Thor can fly a ship from Asgard to Earth and vice versa. The Bifrost just lets them create a wormhole for faster/easier travel and they use fancy words like realms instead of planets.
Director James Gunn said he wanted to make a colorful space opera - emphasis on "colorful". In the director's commentary, he was quite proud to point out that the colors of the screens in the sequence at around 29:40 were all directly lifted from Kubrick's "2001: A Space Odyssey".
The dog is a telepathic Russian space dog that ends up becoming Chief of security of Knowhere in the books. Cosmo was introduced in the Nova comic series when The Nova Corps homeworld is destroyed but the world mind and power(aka Nova Force) is downloaded into Richard Rider of Earth. He basically becomes a cosmically powered being that ends up fighting along side characters like Silver Surfer, Beta Ray Bill and the GOG. He and Quill save the universe at one point. Sacrificing theirselves in the process but later are found to be alive and they are both still very much active in the books. Nova has been in the X-Men books lately and Guardians just wrapped up another series of books and storyline. The lineup of GOG characters has changed quite a bit over the years but since the movie came out they are pretty much sticking with this lineup for now. I was obsessed with Silver Surfer and Cosmic storylines which led me into loving Guardians of the Galaxy. And the movie was so good. Even though it strayed far from the books it was still amazing.❤❤❤
The soundtrack in this really made the movie. In some movies, it's just there in the background. In this movie, it was almost like an extra character.
The Guardians of the Galaxy were a pretty obscure team when this movie came out. I was a big fan of the comic, but I had doubts when this movie was first announced. I just felt like such an obscure team wouldn't do well at the box office. I am so glad that I was proven wrong and this movie became incredibly popular.
It still amazes me that characters like Groot and Rocket Raccoon are household names now. If you would have told me that back in 2010, I would have never believed it.
In the Blu Ray presentation of Tron Legacy there's a title card that appears at the start to explain that the aspect ratio shift is due to different scenes having been done in different aspect ratios to either accommodate 3D or IMAX presentation. When creating the home edit, they went with the aspect ratio that showed the most of what was done for the scene. Prior to GotG's release, Gunn said that for the IMAX 3D version of the movie he deliberately changed the aspect ratio of the movie at times to make specific scenes more immersive or intimate. That aspect ratio shift was carried over into the home release.
Yes!! I was able to do the tiniest bit of research in my edit phase and it seemed like an imax thing! But i didn’t put it in the video because i wasn’t certain! Thanks for the extra info 😊
You know the duck, awesome!
I’ve watched a ton of reactions to this film & no one has caught that yet.
Fun fact about James Gunn. He wrote the screenplay for Dawn of the Dead and Zack Snyder got his directorial debut on that film. What's fun is the mall the characters hide out in has a Superman theme, the first floor being called Metropolis. this is decades before either Znyder or Gunn were to work on Superman for DC.
As for Thanos eventually he just has to decide to do it himself...😊
Good reaction.
Btw - The Orb, the Infinity Stones, the Maltese Falcon, the Ark Of The Covenant, the Death Star Plans, the Holy Grail, etc. - the generic term for all of these kinds of things is 'the MacGuffin". The term originated in the old Alfred Hitchcock movies, being The Thing in the story that everybody is chasing after, even if it is unclear why.
It's funny that you posted this today because i just saw a James Gunn tweet saying this is the 10th anniversary of this movies release date
I was waiting for you to get to this one - it's one of my favorite MCU movies. Something I'd like to strongly suggest to you - After Avengers 4 (the final one) but before Guardians Vol 3, try to watch (whether or not you do a reaction to it), please try to watch the Guardian Holiday Special. It's only about 45 minutes long, and has some things that get further fleshed out in Guardians Vol 3. It completely essential to see it, but it does make a couple of things in Guardians 3 make more sense if you've seen the holiday special. 👍
how do you ever fully enjoy a movie if you constantly remove yourself from the immersion into it's story? It's sad because you never get deep enough to allow yourself to fully feel anything.
By the way, you're probably my favorite reactor. Perfect blend of emotion, comedy and unique behind the scenes in sight.
THANK YOU! And thanks for watching!
James Gunn was mentored by Lloyd Kaufman on how to write scripts and direct movies. James wanted Lloyd to have a cameo in Guardians as a way of thanking Lloyd for his mentorship. Also Sean Gunn is James’ younger brother and he plays as Kraglin. Sean would also wear a green mocap suit as a stand in for Rocket’s scenes
I met James Gunn at Target in St Louis. We were both in the toy section 🤣
And that’s how we became friends 🙌🏼
This is exactly why I love reaction videos...we get to relive these amazing movies again through someone else's eyes 😊😊😊 I'm all excited again
Yesss that’s so great to hear!
The Guardians soundtracks are absolutely legendary. Some of the best in movie history.
It becomes evident in the 2nd movie why he was able to withstand the stone......
They did Ronin dirty in this movie, he is a better villain in comics.
The actress who played Peter's mom was in Captain America, the double date at the World's Fair
She's in Captain America: The First Avenger, but not who you said. During the Star Spangled Man musical montage, she approaches Cap for an autograph with a wide smile, which catches his eye.
No, she wasn't. But... one of the dates was Jenna Coleman (best known as playing Clara (one of the Doctor's companions in Doctor Who))
It's hard to convey how much of a tectonic shift Guardians was in tone coming into the MCU. It was the one thing that felt truly DIFFERENT. It was the first time Marvel went really off into the universe and started to explore the cosmic aspect of Marvel. There are a LOT of easter eggs that you will only understand if you're into comics. For example, the big head "Knowhere" is actually the head of a celestial - and not just any celestial, but the one that was killed by Knull, the Symbiote God (the being that created Venom's race). There's a whole lot of background lore that ties into the comics and it really felt like great fanservice without it being in everyone's faces like "this is an obvious fanservice moment, and if you don't read comics then you're not cool" sort of way.
Arguably top 5 scripts in the entire MCU.
The Guardians of the Galaxy comics were VERY obscure to say the least. At best, they were sort of B or C-listers that very rarely crossed over with more mainline heroes like Thor. They made some tweaks to the character origins for the movies, but they work out pretty well for the story the MCU is trying to tell with them. The Guardians movies are all about found family - moreso than any of the other superhero movies.
Funny story, the wife and I were at a new movie theater location watching the release of Ghostbusters in 3D. When leaving from watching that movie we noticed this theater had an IMAX. And it was showing at that time Guardians of the Galaxy. We have never even seen a trailer of that movie but decided to try out that particular theaters IMAX. So we were very pleasantly surprised by how great this movie was for us and we got to see it in IMAX.
Nebula is Karen Gillan from the new Jumanji and Dr Who.
After seeing her on Doctor Who, shaving her head for this role was a crime against humanity, but she did do a great job :)
SPOILERS: I was initially a little disappointed how small a role this was for her, but with Nebula developed more in the sequels it paid off - I really enjoyed the blend of antagonistic, violent prickliness and vulnerable center haha. Her scene with Tony is one of my favorite parts of _Endgame_ (near the beginning)