You have never seen a tree get so mad at you. Watch the full trailer for Guardians of the Galaxy, by far the weirdest Marvel movie yet, and possibly the greatest? We’re hopeful. And hooked on a feelin’.
Watch the Full Guardians of the Galaxy Trailer!
You have never seen a tree get so mad at you. Watch the full trailer for Guardians of the Galaxy, by far the weirdest Marvel movie yet, and possibly the greatest? We’re hopeful. And hooked on a feelin’.
Superb.
Yes. This. WANT.
So good. I will watch the crap out of this film.
So. Umm, no.
Being a HUGE Dr Who fan, I’ve been keeping an eye out for this, ever since finding out that Karen Gillen was in it. I must say, the trailer has only intensified that desire… Well worth shaving your head for!
I had zero expectations about this before (because I’m not familiar with the source material), but this seemed pretty fun.
Not sold on the choice of music, but I like that it doesn’t pretend the general audience should know who these characters are. Good to see it not playing a sorta goofy concept for grim and gritty too.
I always knew that this song could only be improved by the addition of a gun-wielding raccoon.
I’ve been grinning the whole time.
I think I’m in love.
I know nothing about it, but I’m there!
Oh, I definitely want to see that.
Just the trailer I wanted! Fun and goofy. Can’t wait.
I think a lot of ordinary movie goers are going to give this a pass on the first weekend. I think movie will live or die based on first week buzz and second week box office. (I also hope the clumsy exposition info-dump was a scene created for the trailer, with the movie being more organic, but we’ll see).)
I hope this movie explains where all the humans come from though. All these humans in outer space, and no one’s gotten word back to Earth yet? Or are they all human appearing aliens like the Asgardians.
This whole trailer made me grin like a ten year old. As a big GotG fan I’m very pleased about what Marvel’s given us so far.
Personally I think this movie will live or die by the second trailer, I’m sure allot of people will go see it just because it’s a Marvel movie, but if they really put together an action packed second trailer with just a touch of the storyline it will draw allot more interest than just this will, although you can say quite a bit for a goofy trailer with a gun wielding racoon, lol.
Loved it. Loved every second of it. I actually thought the music choice was brilliance. I think it does a lot to indicate this film is tonally and stylistically different from the other Marvel films. It seems a lot less self-serious than the early trailers for the second Thor movie, for instance, and I think it struck a good balance with the banter heavy dialogue featured in the trailer. Based on that brief clip, I couldn’t be more excited for Chris Pratt in this movie.
No clue who they are, but it looks like a fun “don’t take it too seriously” movie.
But really? We have to get the dancing baby song back in rotation? AH!! Hate that earworm!
Aeryl@14:The aliens are alien in that they aren’t homo sapiens (in general), but the looking like humans I think can be chalked up to the Celestials tinkering with the genetics of basically everybody.
Marvel Earth’s history is laced with a lot of genetic exchange between earth and space civilizations–the Kree are ‘genetically stagnant’, and so have been visiting Earth for thousands of years to borrow useful Earth creatures for genetic material. This partly explains both why there are human-looking aliens and why there are so many superhumans on Earth.
It’s questionable how much some of that will actually come up in the movies, but some of it seems implicit in their character choices and plans for the future. Ronan the Accuser is a Kree, and Captain Marvel’s powers are Kree in origin. Rocket Racoon and Drax the Destroyer, despite their alien appearance, are modified Earthlings.
@7 Oh the choice of music is part of what sold me on the movie.
If you want some reasoning for it, the director James Gunn said the soundtrack of the movie will be heavily influenced by 70s and 80s music because that’s what’s on Star Lord’s walkman. It’s the kind of music the character listens to because that was the music of the time when he left Earth and it’s his one connection back to it.
That looks awesome!
While it would have been hilarious if they had used the David Hasselhoff version, I’m glad they’re using the Blue Swede version, which is actually good, and not just novel.
I can’t get enough of that raccoon…
I know nothing about Guardians of the Galaxy but I have been intrigued by it ever since I heard about this movie. The trailer didn’t dissapoint for me I want to see it even more now and I may have to read some Guardians of the Galaxy comics/backstory now as well. Rocket and Groot look so awesome!
Watching this gave me two thoughts. First: WTF. Second: I have some Guardians of the Galaxy comics sitting in my Comixology queue. Time to read them.
Yeah, I think the big decision here for me is whether to read the comics before or after seeing the movie. (I had some of the 90s GotG comics, but this ain’t them – probably a very good thing.)
Athreeren @8 : That’s all kinds of awesome… Thank you! :D
@26. DKT
If you’re looking to get a feel for this version of the Guardians you can either go looking for Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning’s run from a few years back (where this incarnation started) or look for the latest restart of the series by Brian Michael Bendis which I think started up last year.
The first run I mentioned is awesome but involved allot of crossovers and could quickly lead to purchasing the entire Marvel Cosmic Library of titles that were coming out at the same time. The new run by Bendis seems to be focused on the characters you see in the trailers which makes sense since it was rebooted around the same time the movie went into production. I haven’t read all that much of it myself, I’m still more than a little bitter about the first run getting canceled, but the book is almost always a best seller every month if that’s any indication about it.
Is this part of the current marvel timeline? Or is it set in the future? looks good, just confused by the not on earth part
Okay, this may sound absurd, but they may have have actually made Rocket Racoon work for me. Seriosly, a racoon firing a machine gun perched on teh soldier of a walking plant/tree-dude Ent is SPaaaaace? Totally works.
You know what else is working for me? Chris Pratt. Day-um.
#29: The old fashioned Walkman (with the orange headphones!) makes me guess it could be set in the near past? Don’t know the storyline, though – if it’s all wormholey and timey-wimey, then it could be a Long Time Ago in a Galaxy Far, Far Away.
More likely the Walkman is a hint at how long Peter Quill has been away from Earth.
I loved the Nova Corps cameo. I hope there will be some reference to Richard Rider.
Wow, what a total surprise. Marvel took a seriously funny comic and made it a glitzy comedy. I read the comics, when they came out, and the only thing that’s even close to the original is the fox and the plant, and I don’t mean the green chick. GotG is not Howard the Duck, never was, and never will be. Evem sp. I hope the show does well in the box office. I’ll go sulk in a corner of the attic where my comics are disintegrating with my hopes and aspirations for an actual GotG film.
Absolutely loved it , and in no way resent the comedic tone (though, seriously, those scenes quickly flashing by to the sound of “Ooga Chaka” don’t seem to funny to me). It’s also refreshing that the trailer doesn’t actually spell out the entire plot of the film and serves more as just an introduction to the characters.
Seeing the trailer and reading that James Gunn was inspired by Lanning and Abnett’s Guardians of the Galaxy has definitely got me excited for this film.
Oh, and first Iron Man 3 opens with Eiffel 65’s Blue (not to mention the series’s association with AC/DC), and now we get Hooked on a Feeling. Glad to see Marvel diversifying its soundtracks and not depending exclusively on the latest drivel.
Since this movie got announced, I’ve mostly grumbled about the fact that nooooo, we couldn’t get a Black Widow origin movie, we had to get this bs film with a talking raccoon that nobody would want to see.
Well…crap. That looks hilarious. Argh, now I want to go see it. ::throws up hands:: FINE. Are you happy now, Marvel?
@35. RobM
Like I mentioned I was hugely into Guardians during DnA’s run on the Cosmic side of the MU and thus far from what I’ve seen I’ve got no problems with what we’ve been given thus far.
Now that being said, there are a ton of characters missing that I wish were making it into the GotG movie like Cosmo, Moondragon, Phyla-Vel, Mantis, etc… Heck I’d probably even accept Jack Flag and Vance Astro I’m such a fanboy, lol. I’m still holding out hopes on Cosmo in a Guardians sequel though. Who doesn’t want to see a telepathic russian golden retriever arguing with Rocket Racoon? Am I right?
I’m sure the tone of the movie will be funny, but there’s no way they they go full on comedy with the Guardians, based on DnA’s run, which Gunn said he’s doing, there will be allot of back and forth with all of the characters, but the Guardians are essentially Marvel’s “Space Avengers” dealing with Universe wide threats as compared to just threats to Earth so I’m expecting some pretty epic action even in an origin film.
I’m also looking like I was incorrect about my previous statement that the second trailer would be the make or break point of this one, most of the reactions that I’ve heard from non Guardians fans has been “Is that a racoon with a machine gun? I wasn’t sure before, but I kind of want to see this movie.” Guess Marvel’s marketing department knows more than me once again, lol.
For some reason, this didn’t make it past moderation it seems. A bit of info about the medical issues faceing Bill Mantlo, Rocket Raccoon’s co-creator: http://ruckawriter.tumblr.com/post/77188449933/a-word-about-the-creator-of-rocket-raccoon
Hi. I’ve tried to post a comment here twice (yesterday and just now) that keeps getting marked as spam, it seems. Both posts contained a link to info about Bill Mantlo, co-creator of Rocket Raccoon, who currently has serious medical issues due to a brain injury he received about 20 years ago.
The link contained info that’d lead you to the Hero Initiative (a charity that helps comic pros in need – a lot of them don’t have medical insurance), as well as to an article about Mantlo written by Greg Pak (comics writer) about 6 months ago, that includes a link where you can donate direcly to Mantlo’s care via his brother.
I’m as excited for the movie as everyone else, particuarly seeing Rocket on the screen. But could you please get one of my earlier posts up, so that people have an opportunity to help the guy out?
Thanks.
I can’t stop watching and rewatching this trailer. So many kinds of awesome. And not just because ROCKET FREAKING RACCOON. In a MOVIE. Becoming a household name. There is justice after all.
I was thinking about this lineup, cherrypicked from the most recent incarnations of the team, and honestly, it makes the most sense to me. Mostly physical characters, using guns and knives and fists. Much easier to handle than the somewhat nebulous powers of Phylla-Vel, the telepathy/telekinesis of Moondragon, the bizarre backstories of some of the others. (Let’s face it: Richard Rider/Nova deserves a full movie of his own. Same with Adam Warlock…if anyone wants a flashback to the soul-searching Seventies…)
Do I wish the team had more female characters represented? Of course. But most of the ones not here are either well-represented, or too tricky to condense down for a movie that already requires a lot from its viewers. So I’ll take what we’ve got. Because, again, Rocket Raccoon and Groot.
So while there’s a lot of things I’d like to see, I’m happy to accept what I see here as a perfectly servicable cinematic adaptation that leaves room for expansion if the gods be willing. (Moondragon with her tie to Drax would be perfect. Cosmo would be awesome. Nova would be splendiferous. Bug would be fun.)
In the meantime… ooka-chaka, ooka-chaga….
@40, Posts with links from unregistered commenters automatically go to mod, it’s up now.
Thank you.
@41. MichaelMJones
An Adam Warlock movie…. Pardon me, I had to go look for a paper towel to wipe up the drool that was somehow pooling on my desk.
I think it would be interesting to see how they retooled his origin because I really don’t see any way of dealing with the Universal Church of Truth without raising some fundamentalist hackles.
Then again if I recall correctly there was a certain cocoon …(Mild Spoiler)… spotted in the Collector scene at the end of Thor 2, so there ya go.
As for Nova, well Marvel seems bound and determined not to acknoledge the existence of Richard Ryder these days comic wise so I really wouldn’t hold your breath for any incarnation of Nova other than Sam Alexander popping up.
@29 Sorry, didn’t see your post earlier. The assumption is that this is running concurrently with all of the MCU movies, the walkman and music are more of a statement on how long Star Lord has been away from and out of contact with Earth.
As for the space setting of the movie, this is where the Guardians movie makes the most sense, it establishes just how big the Marvel Universe is and how big some of the threats really are, like say Thanos for example, who is usually hatching a Universe level extinction threat rather than just wiping out the Earth.
First off, this looks amazing. So much awesome sauce. My first thought when I heard that this movie was being made was WTF Marvel?, but this trailer has won me over. Who woulda thunk that a walking tree and a gun toting raccoon would work in a movie, lol. I can’t wait.
Secondly, I wanted to get a feel for this Guardians team so I bought a couple of graphic novels covering the first ten issues of Bendis’s run and I was unimpressed to say the least. Is this what passes as a comic book story nowadays? It is just a bunch of action/fighting ala Rob Liefeld. Where is the story telling? No wonder I stopped reading comics somewhere in the mid to late 90’s.
Luckily the comics didn’t dampen my excitement for the movie. I will be there opening day.