The movies do not need to be direct adaptations. I'm not saying ALL the X-films were good. X3 really screwed up multiple storylines. And Origins was just bad (though, I loved Shrieber's Sabertooth). If you want to dismiss what they've done since Origins, that's fine. But the quality of the newer movies speaks for itself. Whereas, I've gotten bored with Marvel's sameness. Overexposure may be a part of it, along with really bad moves with Agents of Shield and Thor 2.

While I'm sure I would enjoy Guardians of the Galaxy, I have seen nothing to suggest that it is anything different from the various other Marvel products that I've been inundated with. The sameness has been killing the MCU for me.

I'm glad you clarified, because I can see enjoying the last two X-men films because they weren't awful; its all the others ones lol.

The movies do not need to be direct adaptations. I'm not saying ALL the X-films were good. X3 really screwed up multiple storylines. And Origins was just bad (though, I loved Shrieber's Sabertooth). If you want to dismiss what they've done since Origins, that's fine. But the quality of the newer movies speaks for itself. Whereas, I've gotten bored with Marvel's sameness. Overexposure may be a part of it, along with really bad moves with Agents of Shield and Thor 2.

While I'm sure I would enjoy Guardians of the Galaxy, I have seen nothing to suggest that it is anything different from the various other Marvel products that I've been inundated with. The sameness has been killing the MCU for me.

Obviously, you're free to do what you want, but if I will say that in my opinion (for what that's worth to you), Guardians of the Galaxy is nothing like any Marvel movie I've seen to date. If I didn't know it was Marvel, I'd have thought it was just some cool, rockin' space adventure movie, which I totally dug.

And since you frequent these message boards, I would presume that you probably would too. If not, peace brother!

I'm glad you clarified, because I can see enjoying the last two X-men films because they weren't awful; its all the others ones lol.

and the second one, because Nightcrawler is awesome

Umm, Fox at least has turned things around with X-men. I put First Class, The Wolverine, and Days of Future Past above anything Marvel has done. I would hate for the X-men to be "marvelized".

I had to read this twice. You have to be joking Mr. Sithborg. The only thing Fox has stayed true to with the X-men property is the title itself. I have serious doubts about your taste in cinema. I bet you liked the MacGruber movie too.

I'm glad you clarified, because I can see enjoying the last two X-men films because they weren't awful; its all the others ones lol.

A movie that "wasn't awful" is one word away from just awful. As far as I'm concerned Fox can go stand in line with Michael Bay for the Ninja Turtles movie.

I'm going to throw this out there.

If you enjoy pushing around little plastic toys representing spaceships that defy every single law of physics. If you can roll dice and believe they are lasers and in return, if you roll other dice and believe your pilot has the agility to evade a shot going at the speed of light that is only a football field away.

If you love the Force, and believe a little green dude with big ears can speak the truth. If you ever heard a giant 7-foot tall furry creature chuckle and it made you chuckle. If you believe a farm boy from a desert planet can change the fate of an interstellar civilization. If any of this is true, you will like Guardians of the Galaxy.

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Well to be fair the movie universe and the comic universe are different entities

I get that. I even expect it, since most Marvel movies actually take place in the Ultimate universe to a point. Nick Furry being played by Sam Jackson for example...

But take Drax for example, he wasn't the same as he was in the comics. Perhaps they wanted to avoid a lengthy backstory for him. Just as a fan of the GotG comic, Infinity Watch, and the Infinity Wars mini's it was clear that Drax the Destroyer wasn't the same in the movie.

Not that it really robed any enjoyment of the movie just a moment of "Well that's different but I'll go with it."

I had an issue with this as well, however Marvel changed Drax's character a few years ago in the comics to the knife wielding version he is now. I didn't like the change when it happened at the time, and it really hasn't grown on me since to be honest lol.

Honestly, I like that the MCU is taking some of the basic story arks/characters from the 616 and the ultimate universe, and mashing them together to not only modernize some of the material, but give us something that's fresh and familiar at the same time. Now if only the fans could ban together to boycott the garbage coming from Fox and Sony and allow Marvel to bring home some their other properties. *sigh* wishful thinking.

hey i have been saying that disney spent 5 BILLION DOLLARS to buy the rights for Star Wars, why dont they just pull the trigger and buy back the licenses from Fox and Sony. they WILL make the money back in like two movies.

Umm, Fox at least has turned things around with X-men. I put First Class, The Wolverine, and Days of Future Past above anything Marvel has done. I would hate for the X-men to be "marvelized".

huh if you mean marvelized as in TOTALLY FREAKING AWESOME MOVIES then yeah. i would hate that too ( ) look i admit that First Class, Wolverine, and DoFP were good movies... there were MAJOR problems with them. from freaking Azazel (Nightcrawler's father with Mystique) even in the movie (he was created in the early to mid 2000's) to Darwin, Havoc (being older than Crapclops [i hate scott summers]), Banshee, and Mystique being the "first class" of X-Men, to Silver Sumarai as a freaking Mech and Viper even having powers, To the future sentinels and Wolverine replacing Kitty as the one to go back and fix everything, i think Marvel running the show would make a seesawing franchise into an amazing one.

and as for the "Marvel Movies Are all the same" argument, that is completely missing the TYPES of movies they are.

Captain America First Avenger is a period, military piece.

Winter Soldier is a Political Thriller/ Spy Movie.

Avengers is the Team up.

Iron Man is the "great Power/ responsibility"

IM 2 is the consequences of your actions movie,

IM 3 is the finding your role movie.

Thor is the redemption movie

Thor 2 is the sons of the father/becoming the father movie.

they are all different

Apollo allow me to continue your list lol...

Juggernaut was a complete joke compared to his comic book awesomeness.

Mutants in the end of XMen III you've never even heard of when there is a whole universe to choose from in the comics.

Sabertooth in XMen 1 and Origins are completely different; looking, talking, everything, yet Wolvie is the same guy....... what gives, of course no explanation as to why this is.

Xavier dies in XMen III and they use a complete horsesh*t filler piece to bring Xavier back in Days of Future Past because they didn't think about a cinematic universe until after Marvel proved it could be done. It was almost like, oh crap they killed him in XMen III, well we can just BS our way outta it no biggie.

One of my absolute favorite comic characters is Apocalypse and I cringe at the thought of Fox putting him in a movie and seeing "their idea" of what his character should be... News flash, it should be like the comic book; a total bada$$.

Apollo allow me to continue your list lol...

Juggernaut was a complete joke compared to his comic book awesomeness.

Mutants in the end of XMen III you've never even heard of when there is a whole universe to choose from in the comics.

Sabertooth in XMen 1 and Origins are completely different; looking, talking, everything, yet Wolvie is the same guy....... what gives, of course no explanation as to why this is.

Xavier dies in XMen III and they use a complete horsesh*t filler piece to bring Xavier back in Days of Future Past because they didn't think about a cinematic universe until after Marvel proved it could be done. It was almost like, oh crap they killed him in XMen III, well we can just BS our way outta it no biggie.

One of my absolute favorite comic characters is Apocalypse and I cringe at the thought of Fox putting him in a movie and seeing "their idea" of what his character should be... News flash, it should be like the comic book; a total bada$$.

and Singer might not be directing Apocalypse since he might be in prison

speaking of FOX...

Singer is looking at civil cases, not criminal charges. He's not going to prison.

In the end, I guess Marvel doesn't excite me as it used to. After Thor 2 was terrible, Agents of Shields sheer mediocrity, and not loving Winter Soldier as much as I apparently should, it just isn't for me anymore. I'm sure the majority of them will be perfectly enjoyable. I just can't get excited about them anymore. Especially with the director change in Ant-man.

At least Star Wars is getting interesting directors and is serving under someone who I trust a bit more than Feige.

Singer is looking at civil cases, not criminal charges. He's not going to prison.

In the end, I guess Marvel doesn't excite me as it used to. After Thor 2 was terrible, Agents of Shields sheer mediocrity, and not loving Winter Soldier as much as I apparently should, it just isn't for me anymore. I'm sure the majority of them will be perfectly enjoyable. I just can't get excited about them anymore. Especially with the director change in Ant-man.

At least Star Wars is getting interesting directors and is serving under someone who I trust a bit more than Feige.

what exactly did you not like about Winter Soldier?

Apollo allow me to continue your list lol...

Juggernaut was a complete joke compared to his comic book awesomeness.

Mutants in the end of XMen III you've never even heard of when there is a whole universe to choose from in the comics.

Sabertooth in XMen 1 and Origins are completely different; looking, talking, everything, yet Wolvie is the same guy....... what gives, of course no explanation as to why this is.

Xavier dies in XMen III and they use a complete horsesh*t filler piece to bring Xavier back in Days of Future Past because they didn't think about a cinematic universe until after Marvel proved it could be done. It was almost like, oh crap they killed him in XMen III, well we can just BS our way outta it no biggie.

One of my absolute favorite comic characters is Apocalypse and I cringe at the thought of Fox putting him in a movie and seeing "their idea" of what his character should be... News flash, it should be like the comic book; a total bada$$.

Have you ever heard of ComicBook Girl 19? she calls the X-Men movies the Wolverine Men. I find that hilarious and true since he is like the focus of all the movies except First Class. Wolverine is my favorite character and even i think they need to focus on the TEAM rather than just him

Wolverine was important in DOFP, but I wouldn't exactly call him the focus. That was Xavier's story. Still, I will be sad to see Jackman leave the franchise. He really has the character down now.

As for Winter Soldier, it was fine. It just didn't wow me like it apparently did with others. It doesn't help that I think they chickened out with the Hydra stuff and that Scarlett Johansen isn't really doing great things in the franchise.

I like the tree guy. But that talking raccoon just looks so stupid.

I was never a big comic book guy, so I saw this and had a huge wtf moment.

No desire to see it. Lose the critter and maybe I'll consider it, but really it just looks like a trumped up action explodey thing with an out-there plot.

Superheroes just aren't my thing

See, I completely agree, and I'll get around to watching Star Wars as soon as they get rid of that stupid big foot character. I mean I thought this was set somewhere else? Really, it just looks like a trumped up action explodey thing with an out-there plot.

Superheroes just aren't my thing.

X-men have been improving but I wouldn't put them on the level with some of the better Marvel movies. I take the most issue with Wolverine being considered a good movie. It makes no **** sense at all and is frustrating as hell to watch.

I'm sure it was a cool story in the comics, but dear crap the movie adaptation was bad. Not Origins bad, but not worth talking about.

My big gripe with DOFP was they used the wrong mutant to make those sentinels off of. It reeks of "this actress is popular, we have to use her!" instead of using the mutant that has the ability to absorb powers and copy them. That and they dropped the first class characters like a bad habbit. That x-men film that was actually good again? Yeah, screw those characters, nobody wants to know where they are.

I have to say, I'd heard beforehand that the only lines Groot had were, "I am Groot", so I was skeptical about how this could work as a character that I'd care about. Wow, was I wrong! Turns out he was one of the most popular characters in the movie, for lots of reasons, from his awesome abilities to him being super funny!

Ultimately, no different to R2 or Chewie. We may not understand what they say, but the other actors clearly do.

It felt very star wars-esque. Rocket was cool - as were all the characters - and I also really liked their re-imagining of Yondu, giving them a part Lando/ part Boba Fett who's begging to be in more sequels. The dogfights looked awesome. It was funny as well as visually impressive... in short, More Please.

Scarlet johansons role is pretty unique she's not there as a love interest but as an avenger, she's not shown as weak and in need of saving while at the same time she is shown to be a human fighting super humans and being chased by the hulk clearly terrified her as it should.

It's not that marvel don't want to have a female led movie they just don't want to do it wrong, I'm sure we all remember elektra.

While marvel is actively pushing the envelope they are being smart about it going bit by bit as they expanded the film universe, who thought a film with a tree and a talking raccoon would work? Avengers was important because it showed you can take different films and do a cross over making it work as its own thing while respecting the individual franchises.

Sadly DC won't pull off the same thing because the guy in charge at WB clearly has no respect for comics.

Saw it last night and it's a 9/10 film I was sceptical they could do a talking raccoon on screen but he's done really well, not a bad actor in there even baptista surprised me.

Makes me look forward to the inevitable guardians avengers crossover.

I can hear Tony now, 'You guys are super heroes?'. lol

So has anyone seen the movie yet and come out of the theater saying "now, that's 2 hours that I'll never get back"

So has anyone seen the movie yet and come out of the theater saying "now, that's 2 hours that I'll never get back"

DC fan boys upset that WB will never make a movie half as good that's not batman, dawn of justice has big boots to fill and I doubt WB can pull it off given how bad green lantern and man of steel were.

So has anyone seen the movie yet and come out of the theater saying "now, that's 2 hours that I'll never get back"

DC fan boys upset that WB will never make a movie half as good that's not batman, dawn of justice has big boots to fill and I doubt WB can pull it off given how bad green lantern and man of steel were.

That's because DC stands for "dumb characters" . On a serious note, I totally agree with that statement... most DC movies suck rocks. Obviously the Dark Knight trilogy is a separate discussion because that was more Christopher Nolan than anything WB specifically did.

So has anyone seen the movie yet and come out of the theater saying "now, that's 2 hours that I'll never get back"

DC fan boys upset that WB will never make a movie half as good that's not batman, dawn of justice has big boots to fill and I doubt WB can pull it off given how bad green lantern and man of steel were.

That's because DC stands for "dumb characters" . On a serious note, I totally agree with that statement... most DC movies suck rocks. Obviously the Dark Knight trilogy is a separate discussion because that was more Christopher Nolan than anything WB specifically did.

And even then rise was a severe disappointment, "oh crimes going down because we lied about harvey, well i'm clearly over the life defining moment in my life time to retire"

And what a waste of cat woman, and the tacked on happy ending...and the cop being called robin but with a Y!!!....i need to go punch a kitten, a cute one!