Montana Smith said:
Le Sab, will you be ordering a Number 64?
Maybe. I don't have anywhere to put them as it is. If they had some actual heft, they'd end up as bookends. My shelves could use some more color.
My reaction: Wait? What? Donald --
ohmigawd it's Howard the Duck!
I'm sure you'll remain as reticent as ever, but you'd be doing yourself a favor by seeing this in actual theatre. You can save face by making it a matinee at a second-run theatre. You know too much as it is already.
kongisking said:
Am I the only one who walked out of this movie with a huge geekcrush on Drax the Destroyer?
Montana Smith said:
I've been hearing good things about Drax.
Despite my enthusiasm for the flick, I had two pressing concerns going into the movie: 1.) I would be annoyed with Bradley Cooper's voice work. & 2.) Dave Bautista's turn as Drax would suck. I was less concerned about Bautista's wrestling origins than I was with his absolutely tepid/boring performance in
The Man with the Iron Fists. I expected that to be carried over into this movie. Fortunately, that wasn't the case. His reaction going into the final battle was one of the movie's best bits.
Bradley Cooper did a fine job as well, but I prefer the Cockney(?) accent from
The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes. Cooper's work is leagues above the portrayal in
Ultimate Spider-Man.
As we head into the final summer weekend, it's almost assured that
Guardians will beat
Captain America's domestic haul of ~$259-million bucks making it the highest grossing film of the year! It just passed
Transformers 4 for highest grossing flick of the summer! Pretty impressive for a film that opened three weeks ago. Globally it just passed $500-million.
August was a safe bet for an untried property, but I bet it could have done a bit better had it been released earlier in the summer. Expect the sequel to command one of those "important" holiday weekends. Back to school preparations have almost assuredly cut into the repeat business, which drives box office totals.
Is a billion bucks total box office still possible? Yes, but I'm now expecting it peter out at around $8-900-million. It still has to open in China, Japan, Italy, & Germany. All four are key markets. Japan goes apespit for sci-fi, so we'll see how it fares there. China's mass of moviegoers should give it a comfortable haul there as well.
Fingers crossed.
I'm going to see it a second time (something I almost never do) before committing to something resembling a review.
More toys!
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