Yo playa let me break this down real quick for you son!
There was a little kerfuffle on the Twitters this morning that involved a CBMer and one smooth pimp who goes by the name James-to-slick-Gunn. You could go and check what was said if a certain punk hadn't gotten all deletey and hoped we'd all forget but you can't just block a mother-shut-you-mouth like me and just expect it to be forgotten AWWW HELLS NAW!
So punk in question, lets call him Baron Funkenstein, said in the aforementioned deleted tweets (Or twits if you like) "Dear James Gunn, GOTG is a puzzlepeice movie and that's just what you need to realize it is, a puzzle peice." Or, maybe not that exactly, who knows? Baron Funkenstein deleted it because hes a CHUMP. Surprising with such a cool name right?
Well I feel its important to address this because GOTG is not a puzzle peice picture, its the most stand alone movie since the birth of the MCU.
Thanos? You gonna throw some Thanos in my face? OH COME ON FELLA'S! Ol' prune face is in two scenes in the movie, and TURNS AROUND TO FACE THE CAMERA IN ANOTHER. It ain't like Avengers and GOTG are the story Thanos in the MCU yet. Ok so maybe peices of the same puzzle, yeah sure, but one is a blue peice that fits into the endless sky and the other is way, way over in the other corner and there is a picture of a rabbit that you can't even see in the picture on the box.
Point is, it's different. It's seperate, and that's good.
The MCU needs more movies like this in its canon, it's going to become impossible to tell good stories in this world if each movie is obsessivly trying to manage its history with and simultaniously promote its next work. It's unsustainable and it's going to damage the films in the long run. Think of what happened with Iron Man Three and Captain America : The Winter Soldier.
IM3 people complained about the lack of the Avengers to help Tony, or failing that an explaination of where they were. CA:TWS people whined about it being a team up picture, as if he hadn't had a whole comic series with Black Widow, and I don't even want to hear the complaints about his third movie basically being an Avengers flick.
Listen here honky! Let your crack pipe cool down for a second and listen up!
ONE. IF you're going to complain about this stuff, then it's whining about one thing and not the other, pick the hill you're going to die on because it's stupid to be angry about both.
TWO. Appreciate the fact that it would suck to have to spend a quarter of a movie explaining away characters that won't be seen in the movie because their buddies have their own flick.
THREE. There isn't a three but it seemed stupid to only count to two.
In short, I DISAGREE BARON FUNKENSTEIN!
That's all for know, I'm sure if you sound off in the comments I'll yell at you more there too though. Thanks for reading this far and don't cry for me Argentina, because I'm not listening anyway.
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