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☆ I got to see Guardians of the Galaxy 3! Since Endgame I haven't been as intense about seeing the new Marvel movies in theaters (partially because covid, obviously) unless I genuinely really didn't want to wait, so I think I'd only seen Thor: Love and Thunder and Black Panther: Wakanda Forever in theaters and waited for the rest at home. MCU movies have been pretty hit or miss lately, some I did enjoy when I eventually got around to seeing them and some were just blah. My favorite of Phase 4 (is that what we're on lmao?? I don't even keep track anymore) was Wakanda Forever, which I actually want to rewatch soon because I only saw it once. (Loooved Namor and the intro for Riri, I'm looking forward to seeing them again hopefully? Who knows what Marvel's plans are ://) Anyway GotG 3 was actually really good!
The GotG movies have pretty consistently been good, save for a few complaints I've had with like, general dude-bro "jokes" and Quill's lack of character development re: his relationship with Gamora. And what do you know, GotG fixed all that! All it took was killing Gamora sjdkhsdkjsdf no I'm still mad about that don't worry, but I am glad they are finally writing Quill like an adult who actually has matured past his GotG 1 relationship conflicts. It's still the GotG, they still argue about stupid stuff and insult each other lmao but they did a really good job showing WHAT WE SHOULD HAVE HAD WITH THE AVENGERS yes I'm still mad we never got comic-level Avengers team relationships. GotG got it all I guess! But I'm glad for that because you can tell they all really care about each other and it actually feels like they've been living and working together all this time, etc.
Nebula especially, god, I love Nebula sooo much. I'm so happy she got a good family even though Gamora isn't there for it Nebula and Mantis are definitely my favorites from the series, they're so funny to me and I love them lmao. And Cosmo!! The concept of Cosmo is so funny to me, like very extremely Cold War Comic Era even though I'm pretty sure he's a more modern character. But I am a Cosmo simp and I'm glad he finally got screen time. Apparently I heard Gunn made Cosmo a girl in the MCU as an homage to Laika? That's too sweet.
And then there's Rocket... As the focal point of this film/the driver of the main plot we finally get his in-depth sad backstory (major content warnings for animal experimentation/abuse for this film for sure). I honestly thought they went a little TOO cheesy with his past friendships, like yes we get it, you didn't have to write these scenes like a preschool show for children. The outcome was going to be sad no matter what. But they still got me in the end lmao I definitely teared up a couple times not specifically at the flashbacks but at related bits... Can't believe there exists a day where I got teary over Rocket Raccoon. Wild.
Oh, ADAM. Almost forgot about him haha WHAT possessed them to go this route with Adam Warlock, both the characterization and the casting. Wait hold on I'm on the MCU Wiki right now having my mind blown "...as he is one of James Gunn's favorite characters" and "Before Will Poulter was cast, Marvel Studios had considered Regé-Jean Page". XENK FROM THE DND MOVIE? That would have been so good. Anyway if I was James Gunn and they took my favorite character and turned him into a joke (/stares at the Thor screenwriters) I would be like hey guys... :/ All that being said he was still funny lmao sorry they did that to you Adam Warlock fans but I hope he's in GotG 4 or whatever the hell is coming out next.
I feel like the Thor 4 writers could have taken some tips from the GotG ones because GotG 3 was genuinely funny and they didn't fall into that trap of like, ruining emotionally charged scenes for shitty jokes (like when Mantis was calming those tentacle monsters with the big teeth, you KNOW if that was Thor she would have gotten chomped on and it would have ruined any gravitas of that moment lmao). Quill got to say "fuck" in a perfect execution of the one f-word usage per PG-13 movie thing. And once again the soundtrack was excellent and the fight scenes slapped, they were fun and wacky and cool!! It reminded me a little of that GotG game that came out recently that was really fun.
In conclusion, if you enjoyed the previous GotG films but were worried about a dip in quality like Marvel's been putting out lately, watch GotG 3, you won't be disappointed. I'd say it's probably replaced BP 2 as my favorite post-Endgame film.
☆ Having gone on about GotG for too long I think I'll just save any other thoughts for a different post lmao. Nothing much new happening with me anyway, still just juggling a bunch of various media I haven't finished any of yet, so that can be for another day. Talk GotG with me if you've seen it! Or any other MCU movie, I've seen them all except Quantumania at this point. I think.
The GotG movies have pretty consistently been good, save for a few complaints I've had with like, general dude-bro "jokes" and Quill's lack of character development re: his relationship with Gamora. And what do you know, GotG fixed all that! All it took was killing Gamora sjdkhsdkjsdf no I'm still mad about that don't worry, but I am glad they are finally writing Quill like an adult who actually has matured past his GotG 1 relationship conflicts. It's still the GotG, they still argue about stupid stuff and insult each other lmao but they did a really good job showing WHAT WE SHOULD HAVE HAD WITH THE AVENGERS yes I'm still mad we never got comic-level Avengers team relationships. GotG got it all I guess! But I'm glad for that because you can tell they all really care about each other and it actually feels like they've been living and working together all this time, etc.
Nebula especially, god, I love Nebula sooo much. I'm so happy she got a good family even though Gamora isn't there for it Nebula and Mantis are definitely my favorites from the series, they're so funny to me and I love them lmao. And Cosmo!! The concept of Cosmo is so funny to me, like very extremely Cold War Comic Era even though I'm pretty sure he's a more modern character. But I am a Cosmo simp and I'm glad he finally got screen time. Apparently I heard Gunn made Cosmo a girl in the MCU as an homage to Laika? That's too sweet.
And then there's Rocket... As the focal point of this film/the driver of the main plot we finally get his in-depth sad backstory (major content warnings for animal experimentation/abuse for this film for sure). I honestly thought they went a little TOO cheesy with his past friendships, like yes we get it, you didn't have to write these scenes like a preschool show for children. The outcome was going to be sad no matter what. But they still got me in the end lmao I definitely teared up a couple times not specifically at the flashbacks but at related bits... Can't believe there exists a day where I got teary over Rocket Raccoon. Wild.
Oh, ADAM. Almost forgot about him haha WHAT possessed them to go this route with Adam Warlock, both the characterization and the casting. Wait hold on I'm on the MCU Wiki right now having my mind blown "...as he is one of James Gunn's favorite characters" and "Before Will Poulter was cast, Marvel Studios had considered Regé-Jean Page". XENK FROM THE DND MOVIE? That would have been so good. Anyway if I was James Gunn and they took my favorite character and turned him into a joke (/stares at the Thor screenwriters) I would be like hey guys... :/ All that being said he was still funny lmao sorry they did that to you Adam Warlock fans but I hope he's in GotG 4 or whatever the hell is coming out next.
I feel like the Thor 4 writers could have taken some tips from the GotG ones because GotG 3 was genuinely funny and they didn't fall into that trap of like, ruining emotionally charged scenes for shitty jokes (like when Mantis was calming those tentacle monsters with the big teeth, you KNOW if that was Thor she would have gotten chomped on and it would have ruined any gravitas of that moment lmao). Quill got to say "fuck" in a perfect execution of the one f-word usage per PG-13 movie thing. And once again the soundtrack was excellent and the fight scenes slapped, they were fun and wacky and cool!! It reminded me a little of that GotG game that came out recently that was really fun.
In conclusion, if you enjoyed the previous GotG films but were worried about a dip in quality like Marvel's been putting out lately, watch GotG 3, you won't be disappointed. I'd say it's probably replaced BP 2 as my favorite post-Endgame film.
☆ Having gone on about GotG for too long I think I'll just save any other thoughts for a different post lmao. Nothing much new happening with me anyway, still just juggling a bunch of various media I haven't finished any of yet, so that can be for another day. Talk GotG with me if you've seen it! Or any other MCU movie, I've seen them all except Quantumania at this point. I think.
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re: Quill's helmet it's a very useful item plus it'd be weird for him to be a space traveler with no means of protection from, you know, space, so I get why they'd want him to keep it haha. and it's kind of iconic at this point since everyone remembers him having it before, so they probably should have had some 5 second shot of it breaking earlier in the movie or him leaving it behind or whatever because you KNOW everyone would be like "but his helmet??"
missed opportunities is a good way to sum up Love and Thunder for sure. I was SO excited Thor was getting another film, I was excited to get to see Thor and crew again, etc. but in the end it was just kind of disappointing... Gorr could have been way more menacing, Valkyrie should have had proper development time (and Sif imo, but I will acknowledge that's my own bias I love Sif lol give her more screen time!!), the ratio of stupid-Thor-for-lulz to serious character moments felt even more unbalanced than Ragnarok somehow (maybe because Love and Thunder had a more serious concept? idk). The only part I don't really have complaints about is Jane, I think they did a good job with her and I honestly didn't mind her dying, I'm actually really surprised Portman came back for another Marvel movie lol (not that I blame her because the way they handled Jane in Dark World drove me nuuuuts literally just knocking her out every time they didn't want to deal with her in a scene)
Endgame Thor I think his characterization made sense, the writers/filmakers/whoever just didn't treat his situation with respect at all so they could make jokes about him being fat and depressed :/// But I think his reaction to IW/him blaming himself for what happened was fully IC, it would have been nice if they could have taken any of it seriously for more than 5 seconds!!
I don't mind the tonal changes with the Thor movies, I think mixing it up with Ragnarok was fun. Dark World is definitely the weakest, I think Thor himself is great in that film but the storyline is just sort of blah and they sidelined Jane to focus on Loki half the time which was annoying. (Being a Thor stan who isn't in love with MCU Loki is like...some kind of fresh hell sjdhfksjhfs I did enjoy Loki in Ragnarok though because if anyone in the Thor franchise deserves to not be taken seriously it's Loki lmaooo.) Honestly Thor's movies after the first one should have been WAY more kooky like Thor's a cosmic hero, his comics are wacky and bright and creative, and then they gave us Dark World??? To me an ideal Thor movie would be fun and BIG, like Thor is a god why does he never get to show off any sort of world-breaking powers, and yeah Ragnarok had the right vibe BUT Taika just couldn't rein it in enough to actually respect Thor as a character because it's all about the jokes. (Like when they're watching Asgard EXPLODE and it's depressing as hell and Thor is horrified and then KORG CRACKS A JOKE bro??? this isn't a Ragnarok-specific problem it's definitely happened in other MCU movies but it's just so very noticeable in Ragnarok because Thor goes through sooo much sad/bad shit in that movie with zero time to process any of it.)