So for Age of Rebellion, we've got Star Wars, Empire and Jedi. For Force and Destiny, we've got E1, 2 and 3. But for the non-Jedi, non-revolutionary characters in the universe, we've got . . . nothing - well, that is, until today:

Just got back from taking my mom, and oh man - so many plot points and cool moments I want to file the serial numbers off of and use in my game. So much technology I want to shameless steal, so many cool aliens and locations I want to use - and when someone says fast talking politico types are useless, I want to point to Starlord (who while not a politico, is a clear representation of how being a smartass face can save the day by talking to The Badguy) and go "WRONG!".

And of course, this game has ruined me forever. "Oooh, that's a despair! That's two triumphs with a failure! Yeah, someone clearly just rolled a whole lot of Threat. . . ." (Oh - and the Hired Gun's Last Man Standing gets put to good use, too. (: )

So forgive my gushing, but man - a flick full of Space Criminals, Space Pirates, Space Police, Green Skinned Space Babes and a MacGuffin that could decide the fate of the galaxy has put me in such a Star Wars mood!

I agree. It's probably one of my favorite films of all time. It was just great the entire way through.

It's really upped the stakes for the new Star Wars films. They are going to have some fierce competition in the GotG franchise.

The dialogue is all smartly written too. It's real conversation, not awkward movie scripting.

I had the exact same thought after seeing it for the second time. (The first time I was just so wrapped up in the movie that the furthest I got was "hey, they're a PC party!") The second time I was driving home and thought "wait, this movie is basically Edge of the Empire, the movie!"

I'm not seeing it until tomorrow afternoon but it sounds incredible from what you said. I just hope Gamora's intelligence factor was part of the comic character that got ported to the movie version. Her physical abilities are great but its those combined with her tactical and strategic abilities that make her known as the deadliest woman in the galaxy.

Thank the gods. I was very disappointed with this summer and had high hopes for this movie.

I just hope and pray the Ep VII is as good as this movie. I absolutely loved it

This is a movie every gamer can identify with. I can say been there seen that, done that, thought about that, yeah failed like that, was awesome like that, talked the guy next to me into that.

When you go to describe to someone what gaming is like I can now say,"You seen Guardians of the Galaxy, it's sorta like that."

yeah, i am looking forward to this one.

even though it doesn't feature a killdozer...

This movie just went from 'not on my radar' to 'taking my son in two hours'.

Thanks for the recommendations, folks!

Saw it this past Thursday night. Great movie. Great fodder for a Star Wars game.

I'm making my mind up when to go. Time for name that spec for the characters I would think.....

If you're on the fence about this movie, you'll be doing yourself a serious disservice if you wait for it on DVD/Blu-ray. Even if your man-cave (or woman-cave (which sounds dirtier than I mean it!)) is the most amazing home theater system in three quadrants, you'd be better off seeing this one in the cinema.

The action is delicious, the dialogue never feels rushed - and never slows the story down - and the interplay between the characters, even the CGI Groot and Rocket, is so well balanced that none of the main characters feel like they've been left out. Certainly Rocket, Groot, and Drax steal the show, with Drax being a surprise contender for fan favorite (at least this fan!), largely because their lines are just funnier, even if (almost) all Groot can say is "I am Groot", but Gamora and Peter Quill (Star-Lord) get a slightly more serious story line that makes an interesting subplot in its own right. The film is full of themes like redemption, forgiveness, remorse for wrongdoing, and has a pretty major criminals-to-heroes vibe.

I'm with Desslok, though. Edge of the Empire (and now Age of Rebellion) have ruined me for movies like this. I spent the whole thing shouting (in my head), "Triumph!" and "That was a success, but with two threats!" and "Ooooh, despair!". I even leaned to my wife at one point and whispered, "What do you think he's going to do with his advantages?".

I posted the following on Facebook yesterday: "I'm so conflicted. I just watched Guardians of the Galaxy... and it may have supplanted the entire original Star Wars trilogy as my favorite science fantasy / space opera." A day later and I'm still mulling that thought over in my head. I've been an avid Star Wars fan since I saw the first film on opening day in 1977, but it's possible that the recent direction the Star Wars universe has taken has left me wanting more, and Guardians of the Galaxy just might scratch that itch.

Just saw it with guy-friends, somewhat against my will... Very impressed, and I didn't expect to be. I'm kinda hard to please with movies; I haven't thought much of the new Marvel films at all, and I've already decided I won't be seeing the new SW films.

But this one impressed me. A great yarn, very much in the feel of old sci-fi Saturday morning shows, updated with modern effects. The late 70's/early 80's music was shamelessly manipulative, but it worked on me like a charm as that's my era!

Didn't expect to like all the characters as much as I did. Very much felt like the original movies or an EoE game. I kinda hope we see some more epic, 'save the world' plots for the Fringer groups in future.

Enjoyed the film a lot. I haven't liked a comic book movie since the Watchmen (and before that, Tim Burton's Batman). I thought The Avengers was a noisy, soulless excercise in CGI-mania. But this film struck a chord with me, in no small part due to the manipulative source music, as Maelora said (I'm gonna download The Raspberries' 'Go All the Way' as soon as I'm done typing this. )

It still doesn't touch OT Star Wars in my opinion (I'll always be a 70s/80s kid), but it certainly fired the imagination in a way that most of the fantastic adventure films I'm seeing lately really don't. I'll be in line for the sequel!

I loved the flim but there's one thing which annoyed me, though similar things are disturbingly common in what little space focused sci fi has come out in the 2000s. The Ravengers are pirates and scavengers yes but they are pirates and scavengers who are mostly from worlds with far, far more advanced tech bases then Earth has. So why are their fighters armed with Gatling Guns? Did they even have missiles? And shouldn't they have these handy little things called directed energy weapons? What did they do salvage their fighter weapons from the remains of World War II air battles and bombed or abandoned 40s and 50s air bases or steal them from storage areas or museums for World War II aircraft?

Holy freakin' crap! What a great movie. If you're a nit picker, you're screwed, but if you just go in wanting to have fun it's great.

I understand the SW comparisons but they're different films that share a great many of the same assets. SW is Kurosawa. Guardians is Star Wars with a load of Marvel Cosmic.

I had a couple of "Triumph!" moments.

Most of all, I believe now, more than ever that this dice mechanic is perfect for a Marvel Comics RPG.

What a great summer movie.

I had a lot of fun but it bugs me when movies and shows do things that make absolutely no sense and IMO the idea that starfighters or space warships would have Gatling guns instead of railguns or directed energy weapons of some form stopped making sense years ago.And I suppose they could be Gatling railguns but while that would make more sense it seems unlikely from what we see of their use. Specifically the sounds they made when firing.

Gatling guns do make sense in movies for the most important reason of all, they are visually cool as hell, and visually cool as hell sells tickets. It's not anymore complicated than that. Plus talking about what makes sense in a space movie with aliens shooting at one another is just about the same as arguing over whether a unicorn or pegasus would win the Kentucky Derby.

I had a lot of fun but it bugs me when movies and shows do things that make absolutely no sense and IMO the idea that starfighters or space warships would have Gatling guns instead of railguns or directed energy weapons of some form stopped making sense years ago.And I suppose they could be Gatling railguns but while that would make more sense it seems unlikely from what we see of their use. Specifically the sounds they made when firing.

Ok.

Why did the fighters have machine guns instead of advanced directed energy weapons? Easy: the limit of the Willing Suspension of Disbelief for a given element is directly proportional to the element's awesomeness.

Holy freakin' crap! What a great movie. If you're a nit picker, you're screwed, but if you just go in wanting to have fun it's great.

A guy two seats down from me walked out halfway through. Poor ol' fanboy's out fifteen bucks.

Walked out? What the hell did he think he was going to get? There's been a talking Racoon, riding a talking tree in every trailer! What a tool. Some people want to be disappointed I think. It's cool if you genuinely don't like something. I understand that, but some fanboys have a habit of being over critical little pricks.

Another thumbs up. It's the most space fanatasy movie that's been out in a long time, and a good one.

Holy freakin' crap! What a great movie. If you're a nit picker, you're screwed, but if you just go in wanting to have fun it's great.

A guy two seats down from me walked out halfway through. Poor ol' fanboy's out fifteen bucks.

Too bad it wasn't next to you, then you coulda stretched out and gotten more comfortable.....

Walked out? What the hell did he think he was going to get? There's been a talking Racoon, riding a talking tree in every trailer! What a tool. Some people want to be disappointed I think. It's cool if you genuinely don't like something. I understand that, but some fanboys have a habit of being over critical little pricks.