Let's Cool down on Guardians for bit

Let's Cool down on Guardians for bit

We're all excited! But maybe a little too excited!

Editorial Opinion
By clemo24 - May 17, 2014 12:05 AM EST
Filed Under: Fan Fic

OK let's put some things in perspective here. We are all very excited for the Guardians of the Galaxy coming this August (or July if you're in the UK). I do think though that some people are setting themselves up for a little disappointed and aren't looking at the big picture. So there are some points I'd like to touch upon:
 
This movie is going to be the next Star Wars or Green Lantern
If you frequently visit this site you would have heard this before. I also think those comparisions just aren't called for quite yet. As of this moment the second trailer for guardians has not come out. So we can't make these grand assumptions about these things even know it tends to happen. People said things in the same vein about The Amazing Spider man 2 because of the villain issue. People would say "This is either going to be as bad as Spiderman 3 or as good as Spiderman 2". In the end it just fell in between, in my opinion. No one knows how good the movie is going to be but we ALL hope it succeeds so companies Like WB and Fox take risks with their properties as well. And we get more Guardians or at least more superhero's on the big screen.
 
Bradley Cooper as Rocket
I have wanted to write about this for a while, but know I've heard him due to the teaser before the trailer that comes out in a few days i can know give a somewhat honest opinion on it. Rocket is a Raccoon. Raccoon don't speak English. Plus it's a comic book character, which unless I'm reading the wrong comics doesn't have sound. I understand all the people have a preconceived idea on what he should sound like, whether it's through the games or the television series, this is a different medium and vision. Most of the people on this site have loved everything James Gunn has brought us. So let's have faith in his ability to cast the people he wants in HIS movie. This is a new take on the character so as long as Cooper keeps the spirit of the character there is nothing to worry about.
 
"A BILLION DOLLAR MOVIE!"
For those saying this is going to be a billion dollar movie. Slow down a bit, I know we're all very excited for the trailer and any knew piece of news but we need to be a little realistic here. Going by the history of these Marvel movies we can assume that Guardians is going to cost around the $170 million Dollar mark. So to break even and make even a little bit of money it needs to make around $400 million, agreed? My personal expectations are to get over that hump. I think it will do similar to the first Thor numbers ($450 million approx.). And that is fair for a movie no one in the general public no about and won't start hearing about it until the reviews come thick and fast. Also the only competition is TMNT. As much as we have doubts about this film, not everyone does. Guardians success will come from:

1. If the movie is good or not
2. How good will TMNT be?

There isn't a lot for guardians to compete against, but it's starting behind the eight ball. By having Marvel attached will cause audiences to not think this is some kids film that adults won't want to go to. But the Marvel brand can't make up the budget on its own. So will it make a billion, I doubt it. But thats not a bad thing. Let's just hope it breaks that $400 and let it roll on!

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case
case - 5/18/2014, 1:13 AM
Don't tell me what to do!!!
clemo24
clemo24 - 5/18/2014, 2:53 AM
I'm not trying too. I just don't like reading when people start attacking either the movie or other people using things which just don't make sense
tonytony
tonytony - 5/18/2014, 7:15 AM
im not interested in guardians at all.
ruadh
ruadh - 5/18/2014, 8:03 AM
I was interested in Guardians until the first trailer. I am not one to complain about humor in the marvel movies at all, I have felt the balance was good with all of them so far. But the tone in the trailer just felt a little too silly and even juvenile to me. Every thing I read sounds good though.

I have said a few times but I don't expect this to be some crazy blockbuster. It will probably do okay. I expect it to be Gunn's biggest hit but one of marvel's smallest.
clemo24
clemo24 - 5/18/2014, 8:11 AM
Totally understandable. I've never even read a guardians comic. But Marvel hasn't done me wrong yet.
gamecreatorjj
gamecreatorjj - 5/18/2014, 12:13 PM
In my opinion Marvel has done a piss poor job of putting the guardians in the public eye. Fiege said to not worry about that, because people thought Iron Man was a robot yadda yadda, but I just don't see this selling. To me this looks like another Green Lantern and John Carter. Before they came out studios were going on and on about sequels and all that, but they both just flopped, and guardians has the problem of having less fan support than green lantern.
clemo24
clemo24 - 5/18/2014, 2:48 PM
Gamecreatorjj (awesome name by the way) - it is only May. The movie comes out in august. Tmnt has barely released a full trailer and that comes out afterwards
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