Guardians of the Galaxy

A talking raccoon, a walking tree, a mixtape, and a team that somehow becomes a family in record time. We recommend Guardians of the Galaxy and then pull it apart piece by piece to figure out why it still feels better written, funnier, and more emotionally honest than a lot of the MCU that came after it.

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Welcome And Movie Pick

SPEAKER_00 0:02

Hello and welcome to the We Recommend Podcast, a movie podcast where every week we recommend a movie for you to watch and then come back here and listen to us discuss. I'm Jesse. I'm Jason. I have lived most of my life surrounded by my enemies. I would be grateful to die surrounded by my friends. Because this week we recommend Guardians of the Galaxy. Yeah, baby! Love every single aspect of the Guardians movies.

SPEAKER_01 0:36

Yeah. Who's your favorite character? Guardian. Uh and why is it Rocket? It is Rocket. It has to be Rocket. I don't know. He's my favorite, but I think Brax is the funniest. Drax? Drax. Yeah. Brax. That's a totally different character.

SPEAKER_00 0:52

Wildly Dave Batista Drax is one of the greatest characters put on screen. Um, never thought that when I was watching him in wrestling, he would be that good because I thought he was not very charismatic as a wrestler. He was good because he was strong. Big he could do really cool things in the ring. And like his big thing, no joke, was he'd have his thumbs up and then he'd point him down, and then he'd power bomb them. That was his thing. That was the most charismatic he would be. Um yeah, Rocket, he's a special character. It's obviously the character Sean Gunn cared the most about. Um just because I think because he didn't have Chris Pratt to play them. I think I remember um he I think I remember um an interview where he said like if it's like Rocket is James Gunn. Nice. Essentially, you know, like little especially like a younger version of James Gunn and he kind of grows throughout the uh series. Interesting. Because you know, he like James Gunn was he did uh trauma movies. Yeah. I don't know if you know any of those, like Toxic Avengers and things like that. Like Sean Shane I want to say Sean Gunn. Uh James Gunn, like his first movie was Tromeo and Juliet. It was like essentially Toxic Avengers-esque movie. But Romeo and Juliet, yeah. So and you can see that in a lot of his movies where he had that real like uh edgy dirtbag type of nice uh type of ideas and stuff like that, which he's grown out of now, but he still has that, as you can see in movies like Suicide Squad and um uh what's it, Peacemaker. You know, you can really feel some of his like edginess, I guess. I don't know, in some of that stuff. And even in this, because you watch this movie and it's like, oh, this movie cusses a little bit more than the other Marvel movies. It uh it's a little more, you know, just potty mouth. It's just funny. It is a really funny movie. It's insane. No matter how many times I watch it, I'm always like, this is better written than almost all the Marvel movies. I'd say outside of like Black Panther, like I don't think any of them are written as good as this. And Reichneral is very funny. The soundtrack helps out a lot. Yeah. It's like, God, how didn't like nobody think to I mean, outside of Iron Man 1, I don't think of anything music-wise except for the Guardians movie. Yeah. And Iron Man One was just because I am Iron Man. And he liked A C D C.

SPEAKER_01 3:28

I know. I was waiting the whole movie for that song to play during the movie, but then they just saved it for the very end, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 3:38

Um, we're done with that.

Favorite Guardians And Gunn’s Voice

SPEAKER_00 3:45

Um what is your favorite Marvel movie?

SPEAKER_03 3:48

Well uh we'll say MCU, you know, like Iron Man this.

SPEAKER_01 3:55

Well, I always loved uh Wolver As far as movies go, it might be one of the might be this one. But I I've always been a fan of Wolverine. He's always been my favorite. Yeah. Yeah. So I like the Wolverine movies too. With huge X-Men.

SPEAKER_00 4:10

Huge. Um, yeah, so I guess out of my my very favorite of the MCU is Guardians 2. I think uh I'm a big Kurt Russell boy. Oh nice. And I swear I s no joke, dude. There's a good 30 minutes of that movie that I just I'm just crying the whole time. It's I don't know what it is about You just love the idea of him spreading his magic semen all over the universe. I think it I think what this movie does so well that no team up movie has ever done is it immediately makes you feel that these this group of people belong together. And that if anything bad happens to them, it's not only gonna hurt them, but it's gonna hurt you watching. And I like I don't see that in most of any and I don't even think it does it in a manipulative way. I think it earns every bit of their friendship.

SPEAKER_01 5:01

I I think what you're what I'm getting from that is that they're not superheroes, really. They're just kind of like normal.

SPEAKER_00 5:07

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 5:08

And I mean they kind of are super in a way. They do have like at least two of them, do.

SPEAKER_00 5:14

It's just as far as I know. They feel different. I don't I don't know how to really to explain it. It's like they don't have like this hero um mindset. They don't they well, they just don't have that like hero mindset. You know, they're not like Captain America, I gotta save everybody. They just kind of stumble into this situation where they're like, oh damn, nobody knows about this, so we should do it. And then, you know, like he does a really good job with Peter Quill and being a you know, just kind of an outlaw scumbag who does everything for himself. And like throughout the film, and I've noticed it this time, I'm like, there's so many small moments where he's trying to get the group to calm down and like you know, talk things out that it's like shit, you can see him building up to the fact that Peter Quill is going to be the leader at the end, and then he has a rousing speech, and they're all like, We're in. And then by the end, they're family, and it's like, Holy shit, you did this in two hours. Congratulations.

SPEAKER_01 6:14

Yeah, that's true.

SPEAKER_00 6:15

It took like six movies for them to do it for the Avengers, and they still didn't like each other. They didn't like each other in Ultron, they still barely liked each other in in um in game and all that, and it's just I don't know, it's just he's a great at uh he's great at building groups and movies. I mean, he did it in Suicide Squad. There's still moments in Suicide Squad where I'm like, these people like each other. That's fun. Yeah, I don't know. It's wild. Um I just think James Gunn's a really uh good director, and I kind of wish you'd do some movies outside of superheroes. Yeah. Because Slither rolls. Slither, yeah. It's also kind of a movie where a group of people come together to fight a um uh Michael Rooker, who I absolutely love as Yondew, and he's the reason I cry so much in Guardians too.

SPEAKER_01 7:03

Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_00 7:04

Because he kind of has a turn. Because he might have been your father, but he's not your daddy boy. Oh god dang, bro. Such a true sentiment. Love his arrow. So uh well, I guess I talked about what makes this movie so good. That was my second question. Um you already asked who's your favorite character. That was my other question. Um, so biggest thing, especially around this time, villains in Marvel movies. Who cares about them? Because they all kind of suck, except for like at this point, Ultron, who and Loki, those two were old. I loved Ultron. When he first comes out and he's that broken uh robot, and like because they're having like the big party,

Soundtrack And Why It Works

SPEAKER_00 7:40

and then he comes out and he's like saying the Pinocchio, there's no strings on me, and it's James Spader's voice, which is this magnificent. One of the best scenes in all of MCU. Hell yeah. Um, but they had the problem where outside of the Avenger movies, like, I mean, I can't even name most of the villains other than like Red Skull. I think uh even though we did Iron Man, I'm like, what's that? What's the villain's name? I don't know. He's a good performance in it, but I'm like, I don't know. It's like Iron Mongrel, something like that. I'm not even sure. But so like Ronan, you know, he sounds cool, he's a good actor is playing him, uh, but it's just like he's evil as well. He's just very, you know, stereotypical I big bad. You know, I want it to destroy.

SPEAKER_01 8:29

Because like you in most Marvel movies, you don't have like the big bad evil guy like sacrificing someone on an altar and using it, their blood to like fuel their starship. It is pretty sick.

SPEAKER_00 8:42

And that's like that's that's some of that good shit. Yeah, and then you see like the the blood is black, so it's like, oh shit, when we first meet Ronan, he's just literally sleeping and bathing in blood.

SPEAKER_01 8:53

Oh, that's what that was. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 8:54

I'm assuming like pre-blood or whatever.

SPEAKER_01 8:56

Yeah. Um that's awesome.

SPEAKER_00 8:59

Well, I guess uh I guess I was gonna say it doesn't matter that the villain is pretty meh. I mean, I mean he kind of is pretty.

SPEAKER_01 9:05

He just He wants to take over the year. There's two We know nothing about him.

SPEAKER_00 9:10

Versus like in the second one with Kurt Russell's character, people also say he's not a very good villain, but I'm like, what are you talking about? We haven't seen a villain like this at all. And it's like where he I don't know, just the idea that it's like, I didn't want to kill your mother, but I did, you know. I don't know.

SPEAKER_01 9:25

I also I had to give her cancer.

SPEAKER_00 9:27

She asked too many questions. I'm just I'm I'm a grown man in love with Kurt Russell. I don't know what else to say. Are we all? A guy could just say a sentence to me and like, wow, you're the most charming man I've ever met. Um yeah, absolutely.

SPEAKER_01 9:43

Um love is movie. Um seems like, hey, I bummed your mom.

SPEAKER_00 9:48

Yeah. Beautiful. Oh, that's so great. Thank you. Uh give me a brother. Give me another brother. Um yeah, I love Drax's metaphor, like his whole fact that he doesn't understand metaphors is some finger across neck means death. Means die. You die. It would never go over. That's a metaphor. I can catch it. It's wild. Man. And it's like this is also um like the really big part of um, I think it was what the shit, what's his name? Uh Chris Pratt um lost 60 pounds for the role. And this was one of the one of the big movies that people were like, whoa, man, Marvel really pays people to get ripped. Um, and he was like, they they didn't want him for it. And he's like, I promise I can lose 50 pounds for the role. And he like lost 60. And he said, the six months that I trained to get my body that way was torture. I it was some of the worst experiences of my life. And I was like, wow. So to get some facts in, when Dave Batista found out he got the role for Draxa Destroyer, he broke down in tears, overjoyed at getting a Marvel comic book role. He prepared for the role with an acting coach. Yeah, it's um because I mean it really like it set off his second career. Because I mean, you can't you can only obviously he didn't want to wrestle anymore. I mean, that's hard on your body. Sure. He doesn't even he doesn't even want to do superhero movies anymore now because he's tired of taking his shirt off. He's like, I'm in my 50s. You know how hard it is to look like this? Yeah. Find Guardians 3, he wears a shirt a lot.

SPEAKER_01 11:24

He's got like a collar, he works in an office.

SPEAKER_00 11:27

Yeah, it's like uh I don't know. It's just wild. It's like thinking thinking about wrestling, it's like I wasn't really the biggest Batista fan or the biggest John Cena fan. Did not like John Cena really at all. Thought he was a bad wrestler, and he he was very annoying on the mic to me. And I love him as actors. Like there's really good. He's always making fun of himself. Yeah, it's the best. Yeah. Um, Vin Diesel recorded all his lines in several different languages, including Russian, Mandarin, Spanish, Portuguese, German, and French, so that you could use his real voice in the film around the world. Nice. It's there's so much good that came out of these movies. It's just, I don't know. It's just weird that you know, De Batista and Vin Diesel

Marvel Villains And Ronan’s Vibe

SPEAKER_00 12:10

really, really worked hard to like, and Chris Pratt, they all worked so hard to do this film. That is pretty cool. Um, and I'm Zoe Saidana did too, but before this film, she was also a badass in other movies. So it's like we knew she could do this. Yes. Um, and so Chris Pratt uh apparently stole his Star Lord costume from the set for the sole purpose of having it available so he could show up in costume to visit sick children in the hospital who might want to meet Star Lord.

SPEAKER_01 12:41

Shows up, everyone's real happy, the cops busted. Yeah, just like, who are you?

SPEAKER_00 12:45

Get off the ground. This is your outlawed Star Lord, beat him with a baton in front of these children. I just like to think like people go, he goes in with that mask, and some of the kids are like, Who's Star Lord? He's like, Come on, man. Yeah, just like everybody. Yeah. Um James. Yeah, yeah. Um uh so James Gunn stated that Chris Pratt's audition was so good he was prepared to offer him the role, even if Pratt did not lose the weight or get in shape in time. Gunn joked that he was willing to CGI a six-pack on Pratt's body. Yeah, yeah. However, Pratt lost the weight. Yeah. I mean, just do what they did in uh 300, spray paint abs on everybody. Hell yeah. Or like even though they all had abs, they just like made them look like they were even abier. Deepier. Yeah. More defined. Deepier. Deep deep deep. That's all folks.

SPEAKER_01 13:38

Really dig out those cum gutters.

SPEAKER_00 13:40

Yeah. Uh so according to Vin Diesel, his performances grouped helped him through a dark time in his life. He was dealing with the loss of his best friend and Fast and Furious co-star Paul Walker. He says it was a time it was the first time I came back to dealing with human beings after dealing with the death. Oh, yeah. Depressed. So play so playing a character who celebrates life in the way Group does was very nice. It's like, I mean, this is this movie brought people together, healed people, except for Chris Pratt, because Zoe Saldana nearly broke Chris Pratt's ribs while filming the fight scene. Good. During training, Pratt and Saldana would wear protective gear so they could actually hit each other. However, when the day came to film the scene, Pratt forgot to wear his protective gear. It did not tell Saldana because he thought she would take it easy. Yeah, she would hold back. So Saldana, under the impression he was wearing the gear, like he usually did, kicked him square in the ribs, which made Pratt fall to the ground. According to Pratt, he had bruised for the he had a bruise for the remainder of filming. That's awesome. It's crazy.

SPEAKER_01 14:40

That is that makes me feel so good.

SPEAKER_00 14:42

Yeah, it's like that's a I'm like, dude, you cannot do that. She has been in action movies like most of her life. She knows how to kick. Yeah. That and Crossroads with Britney Spears. She's also in that movie. Nice. It's like I just remember she's also in like Columbiana, something like that. I don't know. She's a great actress and she's won an Academy Award for that one. Awesome. Happy for her. So prior to release, Bill Mont Montalo, Mantelo? I don't know. The comic book writer who cro-created Rocket Raccoon and has been permanently hospital hospitalized due to the severity of a crippling traffic accident in 1992. Sucks. Was granted a private screening by Marvel Entertainment and Walt Disney Pictures. According to his brother, uh Michael Mantelo, Bill was pleased with the adaptation, which credits him by name and the character's creator, and considered the occasion a happy day for him and his family. In exchange for the rights to Mantelow's character, Marvel arranged a compensation package for him that, according to Michael, and so Bill receives the care he needs for the rest of his life. Nice. It's like insane.

SPEAKER_01 15:51

We're gonna give you the Rocket Raccoon treatment. Start ripping them apart, screwing them back together. We will rebuild you. We have the technology.

SPEAKER_00 16:00

Which I didn't say in the dogma episode that if they say, you know, at the end of the movie. Um one of the best facts from the movie, it took the makeup artists five artists five hours daily to do makeup and apply 18 prosthetic type 2 pieces on Dave Batista. Chris Bratt revealed that during the process, Batista stood the entire time with hands holding onto rails which had tennis balls on them with no complaints whatsoever. Eventually the process was narrowed down to an average of three hours while 90 minutes were required to remove the makeup. That sucks. It's like that's why you need a wrestler in that job. They're like, I've I've been thrown through things. I can do this. I can handle it. It's just like how down Dave Batista was for this shit. Yeah, I would be too, right?

SPEAKER_01 16:44

Funny because biggest role of your career.

SPEAKER_00 16:47

Yeah, and it's like I always thought that maybe Batista had an ego in wrestling. I don't think that's true. I think that was actually the other people in his faction that he was in. Because he was in like um shit, what evolution is what they called him. It was like Triple H, Ric Flair, Randy Orton, and Dave Batista. And I was just like, wow, there's a lot of egos in that faction. And I'm like, well, maybe Batista actually didn't have the ego. Maybe wrestling isn't real. Yeah. They definitely. Well, their egos are. Yeah, I think they are sometimes. So the best stuff about wrestling was the wrestling documentaries. Like, yeah. You just, if you ever want to watch them, just message me and I'll show you the best ones. Because they're so dramatic and like the insane human stories that happened in like backstage, it's amazing. It's like why WCW went under. It's because like Hulk Hogan, Kevin Nash, Scott, uh, Scott Hall, and Eric Bischoff, they're so egotistical that literally all the other people on the wrestling card were like, dude, they fucking suck. And it's like they literally destroyed a business because of it. It's wild. Um, wrestling talk. I should start a wrestling podcast. Yeah, you you know a lot about it. I don't know anything about it now because I think it's boring. Uh well, it's because like there's some people that I'm like, y'all are still wrestling? God, y'all were wrestling in 2000, which I get it. We got UFC now better. I don't think so. I'd rather watch actual wrestling. So um James Gunn has stated several

Cast Trivia And Behind The Scenes

SPEAKER_00 18:20

times that Rocket was a big, if not the main reason he wanted to make this movie. In fact, when it was confirmed that the that the film was a hit, Gunn put a heartfelt thank you letter online specifically thanking everyone for letting a raccoon make them a little more human. They also had like a raccoon on set that they named and stuff, and it was great. Like a real raccoon? Yeah. Um it's you know, like uh a statue. It was uh no, it was real. It's because they wanted to get like the realistic movements and stuff like that. But also like Oh, they put one of those little green suits on them with the biggest. That was James Gunn's brother, Sean Gunn, who sat in for Rocket. Okay. He's the guy that plays uh uh Yondu's like right-hand man. Yeah, like the skinnier one. Yeah. The guy with the other weird teeth. Yeah. Um, that's uh James Gunn's brother. He always like pla he always is the stand-in for uh CGI characters. Like, you did you watch the second Suicide Squad that James Gunn? I haven't seen the Suicide Squad. Oh, okay. Well, he plays like a weasel. That's very funny. So um I feel like there's a lot to talk about, but I think we should do the plot. Um I gotta breathe a little bit. Did you ever beat the video game? No, I didn't. Okay, I didn't either. It's too much of like a bullet sponge of a game.

SPEAKER_01 19:40

Right, but yeah, I had to adjust. You can adjust like how much damage you do. I had to like put that all pump it up. Yeah, that's probably what I would do just to get through it. You can. That's what's really cool about it.

SPEAKER_00 19:52

Yeah, that's awesome.

Listener Question And Fan Mail

SPEAKER_00 19:53

Um before we get into the plot, we'd like to thank you at home. Or we'd like for you at home to think about what the point of Guardians of the Galaxy is. Um, and you can in the description, there's a link you can click at the top called send us some fan mail, and you can tell us what the point of the movie is there. Or if you can't click on that on some platforms, you can go to the very bottom at were recommend mailbaggmail.com and send us an email that way. Jason, let's do this.

The Opening That Hooks You

SPEAKER_00 20:21

Ah, and I mean, just immediately the film starts off and it's completely different than any other Marvel movie. Right with the little boy. The film begins with a young lad named Peter Quill listening to his cassette player, Awesome Mix Awesome Mix Volume 1. He's at a hospital where he his critically ill mother is. She gives him a present right before she passes. Um, it's like, give me your hand, Peter. It's too scary. Out of anger and sadness, he runs out of the hospital only to be abducted by a ship. Uh dang it. There's like Peter got in a fight because his kids killed a frog. Uh the skish discussion of him being like his father. Uh, you got it's just it's just a fantastic opening scene. It makes you feel really bad. Uh, there's a lot of sympathy towards this character that you're about to be along with. You're gonna realize why he's the way he is. Um, and there's just nothing like it at the beginning of a Marvel movie at all at this point. Yeah. And it it just immediately, I don't know, draws you in. You're just like, whoever this kid's gonna be, we're gonna root for him. Yeah. It's very smart. Oh, yeah. And it just looks really good too. It was really cool. But also, hey, fucking uncle, I don't know. Maybe let the kid be around the mom. It's like you're just gonna kick out a kid and like the whole other family's gonna be in there just crying. The kid should probably be in there. It's it's a really sad moment, but they should be there. They should be there, right? Yeah, he's a little insensitive. But I don't know, I don't have kids. I don't know. So, 26 years later, Peter's on a planet searching for an orb in his badass mask. Love the mask. When it's in shadow, the red eyes. Badass. He searches an area and then plays Come and Get Your Love by Red Bone.

SPEAKER_01 21:58

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 22:00

But like and then it's it's like first scene, nothing like you've really ever seen in a Marvel movie. Second scene, nothing like you've seen in any Mar Marvel movie. And it's just it's immediately like this movie's gonna be fun. You're gonna have a good time. I hope you like good music.

SPEAKER_01 22:15

That's the best. And that song kicks ass.

SPEAKER_00 22:19

Something that um I kind of hated about people talking about the second movie is people were like the soundtrack's not nearly as good as the first soundtrack. I actually disagree. I really like that second soundtrack. It's my favorite out of the three. But the difference between this one is I feel like the songs don't play into the plot as much as in the second one. The second one's all about having something that you've wanted and kind of losing it. Yeah. A lot of the songs are like that. In this one, it just seems like here's the hits. Right. It's just all about love in the background. It's really more, I guess it's like a bunch of love songs. So I don't know. In the third one, it's kind of the same way. Like some of the songs don't really match with like the meanings of the songs don't seem to match with the movie as much as the second one.

SPEAKER_01 23:06

Oh, you didn't they've got that song Saw Your Dad's a Galactic like supervillain. You don't remember that one?

SPEAKER_00 23:15

You don't remember that song? I mean, technically, they have uh flaming lips in the third one, and that is kind of some of their albums. Sorry about that. Um so yeah, so he dances around and it's great. It's very fun. It's a perfect opening to a fun movie. He gets the orb, but some Kree led by Krath uh intercept him. That's uh I can't remember his name, but he's in a lot of movies, always good.

SPEAKER_01 23:39

I love how he's he's also like showing off his cool gadgets, like his boot jets and his little light thing, his Iron Man mask thing.

SPEAKER_00 23:46

Yeah, it's so fun. It's like you're immediately after this, you immediately know who this character is. Um, he tries to tell him that he's the legendary outlaw, Star Lord. Nobody knows. Oh, come on, man. I'm Star Lord, the legendary outlaw. Um he incapacitates them quickly before making an escape. He is attacked while getting in a ship, but is unharmed. Then a pink lady comes out from the bottom of the ship that he completely forgot about.

SPEAKER_01 24:11

I'm gonna be honest, I forgot you were here. And she's just been tossed around at the bottom of the ship.

SPEAKER_00 24:20

It's funny, and she's wearing the shirt that he's wearing at the beginning. Yeah. He's like, I always kept that shirt. Uh just a fun little opening scene, and it looks great. There's something about this that looks so much better than all other Marvel movies. It still has that yucky grayness to it. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 24:36

But like, it's such a colorful movie that it's like forces you to like it. No, that girl comes out of the basement or whatever, my uh youngest daughter. She was like, What's happen? Like, does she like does she like him? I was like, probably not anymore. Probably liked him a few times, actually.

SPEAKER_00 25:00

So if you could uh date a girl uh that uh was like a different unusual color, what color would you pick?

SPEAKER_01 25:10

I kind of dig the the green girl from the st uh Star Trek from the first one of those remakes. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 25:18

Like I don't I don't know.

SPEAKER_01 25:19

Blue or red's pretty good.

SPEAKER_02 25:21

Uh pink.

SPEAKER_00 25:22

Pink or blue, probably.

SPEAKER_02 25:25

Cool.

SPEAKER_00 25:25

Oh Way to kill all the all the momentum in the podcast, Jesse. Way to go. Um now safe. Peter gets a call from Yondu, a blue boy, who's the one who picked him up from Earth. We learn that they are a group called the Ravengers who steal everything, and Yondu was under contract to steal the orb, but Peter got to it first. Um he says he's like upset that he betrayed him. Uh he says hey, he saved Peter uh because his crew wanted to eat him, something that he will say a lot. Uh Peter ends the call. We learn that Yondu was supposed to pick Peter up as a kid and deliver him to who we don't know yet. Yondu puts a bounty on his head. One of his men says he's soft with Peter. Yondu has a dope arrow, we learn. Yeah. What is that thing? I don't know. I don't know anything about uh him from the comics, but it's a rad ass fucking weapon.

SPEAKER_01 26:16

But I feel like it's it's one of those weapons kind of like Molnir. Yeah. Like where it almost can come back to the city. It should be wielded by a god. Yeah, right. Eliminate entire armies with this thing.

SPEAKER_00 26:26

I know. It's an amazing fucking. I'm like, wow, he's the strongest character. I know. Nobody can touch this guy. Though I assume it probably doesn't pierce people like Ronin or Oh, yeah, like NSR. Yeah, it probably wouldn't hurt. Wouldn't kill whole man. I wonder if they've ever done that in the comics. I'm gonna look at this up. I think I mean Yondu could probably easily kill like Iron Man and people like Spider-Man and stuff like that. It probably could. Probably, yeah. I would assume it goes through ships. So on the Dark Aster, a Kree Warship, we meet Ronan, who's taking in nice relaxing blackbath sludge bloodbath. The Kree Empire is on the verge of a horse historic horse storic historic peace treaty with the Nova Empire and its capital, Xandar. Uh and Ronan, who also commands the Kree Warship, uh, will stop at nothing to prevent that from happening. Ronan wants to avenge the death of his father and forefathers and the thousand years of war with the Zendarians. Ronan continues to attack Zendarian outposts throughout the galaxy, and the Kree refused to restrain him. Ronan wants the orb that Peter stole so that Thanos will rid of the Xandarians. He sends Gomorrah to retrieve the orb. And uh Gomorrah has a sister, Nebula, who uh is the lesser of the daughters, according to everybody. And if you don't like Nebula, you will not like the rest of the series. Or because I did not expect her character to be as big as she became, but that actress also has become very popular.

SPEAKER_01 28:02

I do like how she can kind of like terminate terminate or herself back together. Yeah, the way her body just repairs itself. Yeah, that's awesome. It's so sick.

SPEAKER_00 28:11

Oh, so rad. Um, so then we meet the best pair of friends ever, Rocket and Groot. Yes, they're immediately funny. Groot's drinking out of a fountain. He's like, hey, don't do that. I just saw you doing it. Why would you lie to me? I love it. And Bradley Cooper, Bradley Cooper is Rocket, and it's his best performance today. Um, he's making fun of all the Zendarians. Um, they see Peter, who has a large bounty on his head, 40,000 um units. They are bounty hunters. Uh, you got cute ass group drinking out of water out of the water fountain. He's like gulping it up. It's like because he's he seems slow, but also at the same time, you know he's smart and sweet. He's a lovely little tree. Uh so Peter goes to the broker on Xandor. He is trying to sell it, but when he brings up Ronan and uh the broker kicks him out, there he meets Gamora. Peter immediately starts to smooth trying to smooth talk her, but uh she still zobs. She picks his ass immediately. Yeah. It's amazing. And as Gamora is about to kill Peter, Rocket attacks. They scuffle for a while. And while Peter and Gamora Peter and Gamora get knocked out, they all are for taken into custody by the Nova Corpse. Um

Xandar Chaos And The Arrest

SPEAKER_00 29:26

you got Roman Day, who played by uh, what's his name? Man, I'm so bad at remembering names.

SPEAKER_01 29:36

Roman Day is at the shopkeeper.

SPEAKER_00 29:38

No, it's um John C. Riley, played by John C. Riley. Yeah, Roman Day. Hey, if it isn't Star Prince, Peter Quill, Star Lord, Roman Day is sorry, Lord Roman Day. I picked this guy up a while back for petty theft. He's got a code name. Yeah. Stay out of the way, Peter Quill. Come on, man. It's it's an outlaw name. Like, don't worry. It's not weird that you have a code name. Oh, so good. Um, I do love the fight though. It's like you got all the you see all these gadgets. Like if Star Lord put the uh his like flying boots on Gamora and presses it, it's so good. You got all the little like stunning things that um Rocket can do. Yeah, it's like got a net gun. It's amazing.

SPEAKER_01 30:23

I love how Groot just grabs onto Gamora first by accident.

SPEAKER_00 30:26

And we know Group, if like these were actual bad guys trying to hurt them, could easily dispatch them. Just kill them immediately. Yeah. But instead, because he's like, I don't think he wants to hurt them because he doesn't know if they've done anything bad. So it's not trying to get the money. Yeah, he's just trying to like help Rocket and not actually hurt these people at the same time. Which once we see that if he wants to hurt somebody, he can hurt somebody for real.

SPEAKER_01 30:51

Really easily. Or put his fingers in your brain and turn it to mush. It's like I wonder if when he does that in the prison, when he sticks his fingers up to his nose, yeah, if it just like blends, like turns into a blender. I don't know.

SPEAKER_00 31:02

Probably. Then he pulls it out, it's like, ah, you got COVID. So we meet the team officially. We see Gamora's the daughter of Thanos, who is and then who who Thanos who is an ally to Ronin, they say.

SPEAKER_01 31:18

Rocket is a He's Ronin's boss, though, isn't he? Like he's the most powerful.

SPEAKER_00 31:21

I don't think I I he's got like six or six. They're just Thanos is the most powerful being in the universe, it seems like. Um and so they're just working together. They're not really a boss, they just kind of like have mutual Well, he'll kill him. So it's kind of like Yeah. Thanos can easily kill Ronan and wants him to do his dirty work. Yeah. And he's like, you give me this and I'll do whatever you say you need done easily by just punching the planet and probably destroying type of thing.

SPEAKER_01 31:52

That would be so rad.

SPEAKER_00 31:53

Yeah. Rocket is just a genetically enhanced raccoon. Uh a muscle uh for Rocket, Peter. We know um, we know him by now, and he flips him off, and that was with the little I don't know.

SPEAKER_01 32:08

He's like it's broken. I can't get a film.

SPEAKER_00 32:11

I didn't know this is what this did, I promise. Which that was a uh ad lib by Chris Pratt. That was fun. Um and then you got the great line done by the guy who's in Shauna the Dead, and also it's the voice of uh Darth Maul with a bunch of a-holes. Oh, that's him. Yeah, that's him. So they are put into space space prison. Love space prisons. Yeah, it's great. Rocket talks about Rocket talks about how he will easily be able to escape the prison. Rocket doesn't know what a raccoon is. Gamora says that she doesn't work with Ronan, but she is actually betraying him. We learn that Groot uh only says I am Groot. Then Peter gets pissed that a guard is listening to his cassette tape. Hooked on, a damn feeling, baby. One of the best songs ever. We see everybody settling into prison, orange sludge, uh rocket uh metal on his back, Gamora getting threatened by many prisoners. Very like, oh shit, there's some darkness for all of these people here. Um hooked on a feeling.

SPEAKER_01 33:13

Well, she's gonna get everybody's gonna get raped.

SPEAKER_00 33:16

Next slice sliced. Um Hooked on a Feeling was a song that before this movie came out, constantly, every single day that I worked at Home Depot. They play it because they play the same thing. And for seven years I heard this song, and I was always like, This song fucking rips. And then the trailer to Guardians of the Galaxy came out, and I was like, I fucking love this song. That's great. It's great. I actually tried to propose to my wife with this song, but I kept getting nervous. And there's only so many times you can replay a song to propose. Let's try it. I think I played it like three times, and I was like, God dang, because like someone would all we were at the beach, so someone would always walk by as I was getting ready during the song, and then there's like times where we're talking about something, I was like, I can't do it right now. And I actually did it to another song that was in the Guardians movie. Um Wham Bam Shalam. It's actually about uh falling out of love. So funny. So Peter is threatened, but um by like this blue guy, this giant, ugly blue guy. Uh, but Groot puts his branches in his nose, and Rocket tells everybody that Peter is his booty, and they will go through every single one of them if they hurt him. Uh Peter proudly says he's with them. He's like, I'm with these guys. And so, um, and then we see that Gamora is being put into her little thing, and then you have all these people like, nah, I've gonna kill you. And then it just kind of zooms in on Drax and we kind of see Drax for the first time. Great little scene. Um, so Gamora is immediately captured by a bunch of prisoners, and the guards just like do it downstairs in the basement, so no one will hear, and we don't, it's easier to clean up. Um, Peter sees this and he follows. As she is about to be killed, Drax enters the film. Drax's family was murdered by Ronan and wants to kill Gamora as revenge. He killed my family. I will kill one of his in return. Um, Gamora quickly takes his opportunity to turn things around uh by grabbing the knife and putting it to their throats. She says she is no family to Ronin. Peter comes in to calm things down. He tells them that if he wants revenge, he should let her go and join them because she betrayed Ronan herself. Um, this is like, if you join us, you can why would I pull my finger across my throat on his throat? It's a metaphor. It's like you don't actually do it. It's just you're gonna kill him.

SPEAKER_01 35:42

He's like looking at the other president, like, you guys get it, right? Yeah, like everybody knows who it is. Everybody knows who it is.

SPEAKER_00 35:48

Yeah, yeah, I do. Um and he says, like killing Gamora, he would just be doing Ronan's job for him. Um, Drax agrees, and still a guy's knife. That was my favorite knife. I don't know who that guy is, but he's got like one of the best line readings in the movie. Yeah, that is a knife. That was my favorite knife. Such so funny. So good. So Peter only saved Gamorra so he can sell the orb, and Rocket is gonna help them escape. We learn the orb is worth seven million units. They are now 18. Kind of. For money. They're they have mutual interests. That's about it so far. So Ronan is called to meet Thanos. Ronan kills one of his men because they're having a little little yelling match back and forth. Yeah, you gotta kill a goon. Yeah, that's what they're for. Yeah. Uh Thanos does not care about any of the politics and just wants the fucking orb. Josh uh uh Josh Brolin is doing the voice officially. Nice. Um, if Ronin doesn't get it, he will kill him. Nebula will help him. Thanos' lesser daughter. He's like, you can take my lesser daughter. Oh no. It was like, thanks, Dad. Real nice conversation.

SPEAKER_01 37:04

It makes her feel great.

SPEAKER_00 37:05

Yeah. Um you know, something that the movies the movies do so such a good job at making you feel for characters. Man, it just never worked for Nebula with me. Oh yeah. I just really such an ale. I don't know what it is. Maybe it's just the way she sounds or I don't know. There's like I just never felt the same way as I did about every single character in these movies. Weirdly. I don't know why.

SPEAKER_01 37:32

Maybe it's because she's even though like the way she shoots Gomorrah, and then Gomora kind of turns around and goes, Well, fuck it, I'm gonna be me. I'm gonna do this my way. But Nebula's still looking at his boots all like constantly.

SPEAKER_00 37:47

Yeah, yeah. I can see that. So Rocket tells the team the gear he needs, a security band, a guy's prosthetic leg, and finally a panel that has a battery in it, but the getting it will set off an alarm and lockdown, and when they get it, they'll have to move quickly. Groot graphs are too Groot immediately getting it. And it's like, all right, I guess we'll just do it on the fly then. So prison escape

Space Prison And Team Chemistry

SPEAKER_00 38:14

begins. I love it. It's so good. Yeah, it's a fantastic little action scene. Probably the best one in the entire film, I think. So Groot and Rocket are surrounded and being shot at, but Drax starts knocking out people and gives Rocket a gun.

SPEAKER_01 38:28

Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_00 38:30

You got Groot just like growing branches, like literally not doing anything, but just screaming. And then Rocket, every time they do this shit with Groot, Groot holding somebody or someone standing next to Groot, or someone's it's just adrenaline. I don't know. Pure, just absolute unadulterated love for this shit right here. And it's just it no one does it better than James Gunn in these movies.

SPEAKER_01 38:58

Rocket's exaltation from getting a gun. Yeah, it's just like it's just feeling it.

SPEAKER_00 39:03

Because the whole time he's like, oh, we're so screwed. What are we gonna do? What are we gonna do?

SPEAKER_01 39:06

Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_00 39:09

So fucking good. So uh him and Groot wreck shit. Uh Peter gets the leg by sending some transferring some units, and Gamora shows why she is a badass and gets a ban from a guard, and essentially like breaks his arm off because it's genetic, it's like like wired into their arm. So I would have loved to see the R-ray version of that scene. Uh they head to the watchtower in the middle of the prison using Groot as a ladder. They open the door like badasses, because they open the door and they're just like all standing there. Something James Gunn does so well is a team standing or walking in slow motion. Um, Rocket reveals the only one in the process aesthetic leg is a joke. It's like, how was he even able to stand? He's like, they're kind of like doing some banner. Peter Quil Peter Quill. Yeah, I'll have to agree with the walking the Thoris on that one. Drax the destroyer. Peter Quill, it's a metaphor, dude. Rocket, his people are completely literal. Metaphors go over his head. Drax, nothing goes over my head. My reflexes are too fast. Oh, catch it. God, I remember watching this in theaters and it just being just a fucking tears of laughter. Everybody laughing. And I remember when the when the movie came out, people were like, what the fuck is the Guardians of the Galaxy? Who are these characters? Because you know, at this point, they've only had like the main ones, you know.

SPEAKER_01 40:40

Unless you grew up reading the comics.

SPEAKER_00 40:42

Yeah, it's like not something you would know. Um, even if you did read comics, if you didn't stray outside of like, you know, the main ones, right? Um, you wouldn't know them. And it's just seeing the trailer is like, this is gonna, this, this might not work. This seems weird. Like, you know, like me and my friends are like, we love Slither, like we like James Gunn, but is this in his wheelhouse? And it's like, by this point, oh shit, this is working, and it's working better than almost any movie they've done so far. So while being cornered in the watchtower, Rocket rigs up the watchtower to turn off the ant artificial gravity and uses the drones that have been firing at them to fly out. That was so interesting how you did that. So creative. It's like, fuck, was this in a comic book? I don't know. It's like, how did they come up with this? Well, heroically flying out, they crashed down a hallway, so it's kind of like, well, worked for a little bit. Um they see Peter's ship, the Milano, as they of course named after Alyssa Milano. Oh, I thought it was named after a cookie. No, it isn't named after the Oh yeah, I forgot about those cookies. Those are good. Those are good cookies. As they grab their gear, Peter sees that he doesn't have the his cassette player. Um, and they're like, Do you really need it? He's like, Yes. It's like my whole character needs this. Um so he he fights his way through guards to get it. The rest are waiting for Peter to get back, and they don't want to wait. And they're like, Well, we have the orb, let's just leave. And they're like, shoot, he has the orb because Peter's smart.

SPEAKER_01 42:12

Um Do you think that they have access to Earth internet? I don't think they think or care about Earth. Yeah, I don't think Earth doesn't really seem to know anything about them.

SPEAKER_00 42:25

It's so far it's so in the past with technology, I think they're like, there's really no reason to go back. And for Peter, he's but what if he wants to download some more songs? That is an interesting question. It's like, can't you just go?

SPEAKER_01 42:37

He just makes his own mixtapes. He doesn't have to use cassettes anymore. You don't want to visit your uncle ever?

SPEAKER_00 42:41

There's better sound quality than cassette tapes. They kind of talk about that in the second one a little bit. Um, so um cue the Pina Colada song. Yeah, like Peter. Street fighting man. Uh Peter gets his player back and flies into space, uh, back to the ship, looking heroic as shit. Drax loves it. I love him. What a hero. I will gladly go into combat with this one anytime. Um, and then he's like, Why did you what great gear did you need to go back and get? And he's like, Oh, you imbecile. Love he's just like, Oh, I love him. He's so heroic. Oh, I hate him. Such a good bit. So while on the ship, Rocket is making some gadgets like a bomb. He's like, Well, don't make a bomb in here.

SPEAKER_01 43:33

I love how all future technology is like a Rubik's Cube for him. It's crazy.

SPEAKER_00 43:38

Yeah, it's like he was put together by instruments and now he can do it, which we learn more in uh we learn his backstory in um the third one. And it's crazy why he's able to do all this. That's why it's very intelligent. Um, so Draxon Gamorra still hate each other. Peter calms everybody down. They all agree that they have an arrangement and will disperse when it's over. Um, this is Gamora's like, your ship's filthy. It's like if we put a black light in here, look like a Jackson Pollock planning. Rocket, you have issues, Peter. Gross. Clean your ship, dude. I wouldn't sit anywhere in there. Um, but yeah, this is kind of the first uh the first showing that Peter can be a good leader. It's in this. He's always constantly like, everybody calm down. We have to focus on the mission. So Ronan and Nebula on their trail see that they have escaped to prison. Yondu is visiting the broker. Yondu likes a little frog gym because he's like little knick knacks. Yeah. He's like a he's got a jeep, you know. He's like, you know, everybody's got those ducks. Yeah. Yondu wants to know what the orb is. The broker won't say, so Yondu brings out his arrow.

SPEAKER_01 44:42

Got the best eyebrows of the business. I love that. Oh, that was earlier, but anyway.

SPEAKER_00 44:46

He's wanting to know like who they're gonna take the orb to, and then we meet the collector, and uh

The Prison Break Set Piece

SPEAKER_00 44:54

he, you know, collects things like people. People, races of people, dogs, uh species of people. Uh and the guardians will be joining him soon. Like now. He's a bad dude, but I kinda like this character. Yeah, and he's uh he's like a big part like in the comics of uh uh Thanos. He's like uh one of the guys that has one of the things, and Thanos has to go and get it, alongside a lot of other space creatures. Nice. Um, like I think um uh it's uh I don't remember the Grandmaster, is that what he's called in Thor Ragnarok? Jeff Goldblum's one of them. I don't know. That I think also eventually has a infinity stone that he has to get. Why why wouldn't he? Yeah. So it's very convoluted stuff, but once you read it, it's pretty damn good. Um so they land, or yes, so the guardians are outside the planet called Nowhere, that is the sever head of a celestial being a dangerous place with no rules. I love that place. Oh, it's sick. And this is actually where in the comics is the base of the Guardians of the Galaxy. Yeah. So they land while Moon Age Daydream plays by David Bowie. Nowhere is a place where people mine for resources that are illegal. Groot gives a kid a flower, and it's like, damn, he is a good guy. I know, I love him. Love him. So Draxon Rocket, drinking gamble while waiting for the collector. This game looks fun. I know. It's just I guess it's essentially, you know.

SPEAKER_01 46:19

What's in the rats get eaten?

SPEAKER_00 46:21

Yeah, it's just like whatever this lizard thing is. It's crazy. Peter and Gamora talk. We learn that Thanos kidnapped her after killing her family in front of her. He then tortured her, and that's why she wants a revenge. Gamora learns that the cassette is important because it's from his mother. He then explains Footloose and the hero Kevin Bacon, who helped people take sticks out of their butts. Why did they have sticks in their butts? He puts his cass. I know it's so good. But like Kevin Bacon. He puts his cassette player on um, it's like uh fell in love or fooled around and fell in love plays. They almost kissed. They almost kind of start swaying a little bit and they almost about to quit uh kiss, but then she stops and says, She will not be succumbed to his pelvic sorcery. Oh, so good.

SPEAKER_01 47:11

This is magic wand.

SPEAKER_00 47:12

I mean, for some people, you know, they like their ability to have sex with people is pelvic sorcery. It's like, wow, why are you just always able to do I know, right?

SPEAKER_01 47:22

It doesn't make any sense.

SPEAKER_00 47:23

It's like a lot of people that you meet that you know, like are like that. You're like, why does anybody fall for this? This guy is a tool.

SPEAKER_01 47:30

Because he's got a steering wheel in his pants. That's true. She's driving him nuts.

SPEAKER_00 47:38

That was fucking good, Jason. That was really good, actually. I don't know if you got that from something, but you should be proud of that one. So Jack starts fighting Rocket and Group because Drax keep calling him names like Verman and Rodent. Uh Rocket says he didn't ask to be made. It's like really fucking sad. And it gets even sadder in the third movie. Peter claims, uh, calms them down again by telling them to think about the money. Peter says this is why none of them have friends, because five minutes after they meet someone, they try to kill him. Drax is very upset that they still haven't killed Ronan, and he walks away. Then the collector's servant comes out and saying he is ready. So the collector is immediately infatuated with Brute. He says, uh well, upon your death, I would like to pay you now for your carcass. Yeah, dude. I would. Yeah. Um, meanwhile, Drex sends a message to Ronan. The collector explains that the orb is actually an infinity stone. There are six of them, and they are very powerful. And if you touch it, you will essentially die and explode.

SPEAKER_03 48:39

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 48:40

Um, only one group was able to hold them, but they were destroyed after a shorter period.

SPEAKER_01 48:45

Yeah, I'd like to hear their story. Are they like this? And then they just died.

SPEAKER_00 48:49

Then they just died. I'm sure it's probably a bunch of like weird people. Probably like a religious cult trying to use it or something. And you see all these like um uh scenes of like celestial beings on earth, giants holding it on a hammer and just scorching the earth and stuff. And we see the Tesseract, which was previously we've seen in uh yeah, it's the uh cube in Avengers that they're fighting over and that Loki is using in a scepter and stuff like that. I know a lot about these movies. I obsessed over them for a good decade of my life, apparently. No, they're fun. And now I'm like, could have obsessed over something else for that amount of time. But hey, it's whatever gets you through life, right? So while while discussing uh Pay, the servant tries to touch it because she no longer wants to be the slave to the collector. Um, she explodes and destroys the entire building. Yeah, it's sick.

SPEAKER_01 49:50

Um what the the love of the dog runs away, like opens up its helmet. Yeah, good. Yeah, the space dog. Yeah, it's that in the in the comics or something. Yeah, he's Cosmo the Space Dog. Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_00 50:01

Yeah. Um Gamora grabs it and says that they have to give it to the Nova Corps. Um, and they have this big old like thing, uh yelling match at each other. It's like it's like we did all this just to get it and uh get money for it. And she's like, This is too powerful for anybody to hold, so we have to give it to somebody that can protect it. And then what about Captain Marvel? Can she they hold it? They don't know. She hasn't uh she doesn't exist yet. I know that, but like could she hold I would assume because the only thing stronger than Thanos would probably have been uh uh is Captain Marvel, essentially at that point. She if he didn't have the stones, he she could have easily killed him. Oh, she rules. Uh yeah. So um, yeah, they're having this whole fighting match. Eventually, Peter is like, Yeah, okay, we should probably give it to them. And then um, or just somebody that'll give them money that can protect it. And then you have this whole line, it's like, why Rocket, why would you even want to protect the stupid galaxy? Why would you want to save the galaxy? And it's like, because I'm one of the idiots that live in it. Such a

Nowhere And The Infinity Stone

SPEAKER_00 51:10

good line. Um, Gamoris, extremely worried if it gets in the wrong Ronan's hands. Peter still wants to sell it, but Ronan shows up at the same time. Drax tries to kill Ronan, but is easily beaten.

SPEAKER_01 51:20

He drunk dialed Ronan.

SPEAKER_00 51:22

And he's like, You killed my family. And it's like, I don't even remember them. And I doubt I'll remember you. It's like, ugh. But so the gang gets in some mining ships to distract Nebula so Gamora can get into the Milano. She is um doesn't really work because Nebula kind of gets to her. Um, the cool thing I do I love this scene. I love this scene because it's they don't shoot anything.

SPEAKER_03 51:44

Yeah, they're just crashing through.

SPEAKER_00 51:46

Yeah, they can just ramp their stuff to the ramp. And then Peter uses like the little mining hands that it has, puts it in a ship, and starts using it to shoot. I say, maybe. Um, but Gamora is trapped um and has to take the mining ship out into space, even though they can't survive in space, and she gets blown up by Nebula. She floats in space slowly, freezing. Nebula grabs the stone, Drax is thrown in some yellow goo. Peter flies out into space to get Gamora after calling Yondu. He grabs her and takes off his mask to put on her to save her. As Peter starts to freeze, he is luckily picked up by Yondu. For a second, they almost have a sweet moment until Peter's ego gets in the way. I did something that I never thought I could do. I did something incredibly heroic.

SPEAKER_01 52:33

Gamora's like, ugh, I thought we were having a moment. That was a beautiful moment, though, when he's in front of like the star. Yeah. He's like, it's shining over his face, crystallizing. Yeah. That looks really cool.

SPEAKER_00 52:43

And then like her just and it's all green in space, and it's very beautiful. And it's just like, ah.

SPEAKER_01 52:49

You start to think, like, how could he survive this? And it's because he's so Star Lord. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 52:54

We don't know it yet, but he's not human. Um, yeah, so Drax is resuscitated by Groot. He admits to Rocket that he was selfish and foolish. Rocket wants to get as far away as possible for Ronan. Groot tells him they have to save their friends, and Drax is in with him. And Rocket is pissed, and you're making me be up grass.

SPEAKER_01 53:18

He hates having to be like corny.

SPEAKER_00 53:20

Yeah, he hate he hates having to be a hero. Yeah. Which is like his big plot line in the second movie. It's like, you know, him having to find a way to realize that he is a hero. Yeah. It's like, accept the calling, don't which is a very classic second uh m very classic second plot line or set like sequel plot. Sequel plot line. Because if you think about Spider-Man 2, he throws away the cow. Uh Iron Man 2, he's like a drunk. He's like, I am why am I even Iron Man? Very classic stuff. Um so Ronan betrays Thanos, saying he doesn't need Thanos as he has an infinity stone and is now more powerful. After destroying Xandar, he's gonna kill Thanos himself and Nebula's. Doesn't Thanos have like a couple of stones himself? He doesn't have any right now. Oh yeah, he hasn't gotten any. It's that's the thing. Um I remember leading up to end game or in uh what is it, infinity wars? I don't know. Is like as it was getting closer, I was like, he doesn't like is he ever gonna get a stone? Like, because at this point, this is the only time we really see Thanos until Infinity's war, and it's like, why did why wouldn't he end more? Um it's kind of a big deal. Yeah. So Peter is getting beat up by Yondu. Yondu keeps saying how he saved him from being eaten, and Peter's like, You you know, most people don't eat people. So I don't know why he keeps saying that. Yondu is mad, but Peter talks him out of killing him by bringing up how much the stone is and the fact that they have a ringer, Gamora. Yeah. Um, I love it. It's like Yondu's like, I'm gonna teach him a lesson, and then Sean guns, captain's gonna teach stuff. They're also dumb. I love like how Peter, you know, he's he doesn't really talk very southern, but when he's with Yondu and he's trying to talk tough, he starts kind of talk, talking like being almost like a chameleon with them, right?

SPEAKER_01 55:20

Yeah, that happens when I like if I ever see my family that from the mountain, that's on my accent.

SPEAKER_00 55:26

When the mountain family comes to town, gotta lock up the doors, lock board up the windows. Um, so Rocket Groot and Drax show up, ready to completely destroy the ship. They don't give them Peter. And he's like doing a countdown, it's like five, four. It's like five seconds, I'm fine. Come on board. So they have a meeting about roaning. Um, this is what they have the plan thing. He's like, I have a plan. How much of a plan? Like, I have a percentage of a plan. Um, and then you have uh Drax not listening. It's like, sorry, I wasn't listening. And then Groot's eating a leaf when he's telling him a plan. He's like, Oh my god.

SPEAKER_01 56:04

From his own body. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 56:08

So Peter gives a rousing speech. He tells them this is their chance to give a shit, not run away. Rocket says he is asking for them to die. And Peter's like, I know. Gamora, Drax, and Groot stand and say that they are in because they are friends. Rocket stands up as well, saying that they're standing like a bunch of jackasses.

SPEAKER_01 56:29

Now I've said in two.

SPEAKER_00 56:30

And then Q Cherry Bomb.

SPEAKER_02 56:36

Hello, Daddy.

SPEAKER_00 56:37

That's a great song. Song from Montage. Cherry Bomb. Yeah, it's a perfect lock and load song. Yeah. Yeah.

Space Battle And Saving Gamora

SPEAKER_00 56:45

So they make a plan and lock and load. They're gonna blow a hole in the ship, fire the gun, uh, gun rocket made to kill Ronan and escape. Peter Cole's Nova Corps asking for help, and Rocket needs a guy's eye, but not really. Yondu doesn't, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 57:00

He doesn't need that.

SPEAKER_00 57:01

Yeah, Yondu reminds him the stone is his. Then the group walk in slow fucking motion, like Rockets pulling at his crotch because the suit's not fitting right. And it's show time. Fantastic though. A nice walking in slow motion works um a hundred times uh a hundred percent of the time.

SPEAKER_01 57:21

Every time? Every time.

SPEAKER_00 57:23

I don't know. I'm kind of uh messing up the quote. That's all right. Uh two weeks ago I said perfectly. So so Roman Day tells Nova Prime about the Guardian's mission, and they believe him, Roman Day. He said that he may be an a-hole, but he's not, and I quote, a hundred percent of a dick. Nova Prime. Do you believe him? Roman Day. Well, I don't know if I believe anyone is a hundred percent of a dick. Nova Prime, do you believe he's here to help? Yeah, I do. Then later, they got my dick message. So they attack Ronan's ship and successfully enter after some dog fighting where Yondu is shot down and Nova Corps come in to help them. They got my dick message. Oh, yeah, yeah. Peter Gomorrah. Yeah. Peter, Gomorrah, Drax, and Group crash into the sea. And I love it. It's just the look that um Gomorrah has on her face. She like turns, we're like Kevin Bacon.

SPEAKER_01 58:12

It's so And Drax is like laughing hysterically. Like he's on a roller coaster.

SPEAKER_00 58:17

Yeah, it's just clapping. They're looking at each other like, what?

unknown 58:21

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 58:22

So good. So the Nova form a blockade with all the ships that connect and form a force field to prevent Roman ship from reaching it. Like it literally is holding it back. Yeah, it's so fucking sick. It's like good great idea. You got so many ships. Yeah, I know. And it like sucks because like there is a character called Nova. Um, and I think like, or I don't know a lot about it because I mainly know it from a little app I played. It was like a Marvel puzzle quest that I was absolutely fucking obsessed with for a really long time. Um, and like he's it did seem like a kid, and I was just I was like, it was weird watching because I was like, where's Nova? Like, why aren't you having him in their suit and stuff? Because he looks rad. But Alaska they did not. Um and I feel like I feel like I was really saying that as fast as possible. So I'm gonna slow down. So while walking in a dark ship, Groove releases light from himself in the form of fireflies. Gorgeous. It's beautiful. So beautiful. Drax says he is happy to have friends with him. Trax. I just wanted to tell you how grateful I am. They've accepted me despite my blunders. It is good to once again be among friends. You, Quill, are my friend, Peter thanks. Drax, this dumb tree, also my friend. Drax, and this green whore is also followed. You must stop. That's so good. So Nebula shows up and Drax blasts the shit out of her. It's like no one hurts my friends. That was hilarious. Meanwhile, Yondu is surrounded by Cree. He pulls out his arrow and easily kills them all by whistling. And it is sick. It is sick.

SPEAKER_01 1:00:02

There's even like a ship like floating and just goes through and it just explodes. And it's like Isn't there something maybe in the third one about how he gets it?

SPEAKER_00 1:00:11

I don't know if it's about how he gets it, but I mean, definitely because Sean Gunn's character um, you know, tries to use it by using the little thing on his head. But yeah, I don't know how it works. I can't remember. I only saw that one once. Um I don't own it. I need to buy it. So Nebula puts herself back together and it's uh rat as fuck. And her and Gamora fight. The Kree start dive bombing the city. Hell yeah. Rocket is helping in his ship to protect the city, Drax, Groot, and Peter fight off some Kree. Finger to the throat means death. It's a metaphor.

SPEAKER_01 1:00:45

It's like shit you're getting it.

SPEAKER_00 1:00:47

Um Groot shows how strong he really is by beating a bunch of Kree with one arm. Yeah. And then he turns around and smiles.

SPEAKER_01 1:00:53

It impales them with it.

SPEAKER_00 1:00:55

Yeah, and then just like starts bashing them. It's like, Groot, you should have been doing this a long time ago, dude.

SPEAKER_01 1:01:00

So it gets the taste for blood. Yeah. Oh, it's sick as fuck, dude.

SPEAKER_00 1:01:05

So Ronan uses a stone to break the blockade. Gomorra successfully beats Nebula and even offering her hand to help her, but she bails and steals a ship. The four confront Ronan and shoot him with the rocket gun. Turns out it doesn't do anything to him. Ronan has Drax by the throat and Rocket drives his ship straight into him. The five gather together as the ship is crashing down. Groot uses his body to create a ball around them to keep them safe. Groot grows a cocoon of branches.

SPEAKER_01 1:01:33

We are Groot!

SPEAKER_00 1:01:34

Rocket Rocket Raccoon. No, Groot, you can't. You'll die. What are you doing? Why are you doing this? Why? Groot. We are Groot. How? How? And no joke, dude. E, as soon as I heard no Groot, this immediately wallow. Like starting to bowl. I was like, no, you have to keep it together. You're trying to do notes. It's so fucking emotional. And like I honestly can't tell you why it affects me this way. I I don't know. I don't know why these because like I'm not a big crier in general. But man,

The Plan To Stop Ronan

SPEAKER_00 1:02:10

like these movies just Groot's such a sweetheart. I don't know. I think it's just, you know, I like friends. I like friendship, you know. And I hate when people die. So I guess. And it's a tree that smiles. Yeah. But honestly, one of the greatest things that ever happened to cinema history is Groot dying. Because then you get baby Groot, which is one of the funniest things in planet.

SPEAKER_01 1:02:32

You just see dollar signs in all the like the producers' eyes.

SPEAKER_00 1:02:35

Yeah. I mean, like top three little guys.

SPEAKER_01 1:02:38

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:02:39

Baby Groot one. Uh number two, Babu Frick from uh Rise of Skywalker. Nice. And The Mandalore. And number two, Grogu from The Mandalorian. Oh, man. Those are the top three guys. I wish that I I hear they get together and uh, you know, just like throw throw a few back. Throw a few like baby bottles back. I don't know.

SPEAKER_01 1:02:59

Make thirst trap videos for TikTok. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:03:02

That's what we need to do. I mean I just do thirst trap videos with baby Bobby Frick or something. So the ship crashes down. Everybody is alive except Groot. Um, we even hear Oh Child playing from Peter's ship. Rocket grasps the twigs from Groot. Um, it's uh and he's sad that he called him an idiot. Then Ronan comes in. Behold, you're guardians of the galaxy. He makes a big speech about and about to destroy the planet, but he is interrupted by a dance off.

SPEAKER_01 1:03:36

Spelvic sorcery. Yeah. It saves him again.

SPEAKER_00 1:03:39

It's just like, and he's like, all right, I'm gonna dance. All right, I'm throwing it to you, Gamor. All right, respect, bring it back. But um, when Ronan asks, What is this? He says, It's a distraction, asshole. So Drax shoot him, shoots the turd blossoms, uh, hammer, dislodging the stone from his hammer. Peter grabs the stone and starts to dissolve, but then the rest of the guardians grab his hand to keep him from exploding. Gamora yells, take my hand, and he has a flashback from when his mom said, Take my hand. Oh my god. And like no joke, full tears. Yeah, man. Full tears. They are successfully able to hold the stone together because, you know, power of love. They're the guardians of the galaxy, bitch. And friendship. And using the power to kill Ronan. Yes. Hell yeah. So, what do you think of the dance op thing? I have friends that say they thought that was stupid and don't like this movie because of it. It was a little weird. I think anybody that says anything negative about this didn't watch the movie and didn't understand that this is completely in line with Peter Quill's character.

SPEAKER_01 1:04:45

It was pretty funny. I thought I was just like if I was roaning, I won't know if I'm gonna have that reaction.

SPEAKER_00 1:04:51

Well, it's like to me, right, Peter Quill is of earth. Yeah, right. So he has human tendencies. And what do humans do? They are dumb. And they take serious moments and make them unserious. If you're that type of person, me, I can be that type of person.

SPEAKER_01 1:05:08

Yeah, I love it. So I feel like I was like, I don't know. Like, this is creating awkward situations. Yes, and just living in the moment.

SPEAKER_00 1:05:15

It's like all these characters around him are so like Gomorrah and all these larger than life characters are deadly fucking serious. That throwing something like a dance off in front of them is completely confusing to them. They're like, What is this? I'm essentially a god. Why would anyone do this in front of me in this situation? To the point where it's like, no, idiot, we distracted you, and then boom. I feel like it worked.

SPEAKER_01 1:05:39

Uh to me, it 100% works and is in line with the movie. Um, I mean just made Rodan have question his own like sexuality.

SPEAKER_00 1:05:49

Yeah, it's like, oh pelvic sorcery. Aye, aye, aye. My eyes would you like to sleep in my blood bloodbath? So, and immediately Yondu shows up. To take the stone. Peter gives up the stone and the Ravengers are off. But first he says,

Groot’s Sacrifice And Dance-Off Finale

SPEAKER_00 1:06:05

Ronan, Yandu, you know not to look at that. You've seen what it does. And you're like, all right. I know they're so dumb. And then we learn that they were supposed to deliver Peter to his dad. Sequel coming up. Uh Marvel. Uh Peter reveals that he still has the stone. Gamora tells him that they are his family now. Rocket cries over Groot and Drax sits next to him and pets him. And I am dying inside. Peter is told by the Nova Corps that his father is not human and that's why he could hold the stone. They thank the Guardians and Groot, who is a stick in a pot now. Drax tells Gamora that he now needs to kill Fanos. The Nova fix up Peter's ship. The criminal records have all been cleared. Rocket and Drax has some questions about some crimes. Like Rocket's like, uh, well, what if someone has something, but I really want it and I want it more than them? It's like, well, that's stealing. You can't do that. Even if I want it more than him. And then Drax is like, well, what if uh I'm fighting someone and uh I don't like them and I kill them? It's like that's the worst crime. That's murder. Interesting. Interesting. So on the sh on the Milano, Peter finally opens his gift and letter from his mom. She says she is going on a trip, that she loves him and will always be her. And he will always be his her little star lord. And it's like, uh, goddamn. He opens up a gift and it's awesome, mixed volume two. Yeah. And then ain't no mountain high enough comes on Gamora. And I swear to you, dude, it rushes me when she starts kind of like swaying. I'm like, masterpiece, five out of five, ten out of ten. Perfect film. Then Yondu realizes he doesn't have the stone and he laughs. Nova has a stone. Uh Day hugs his family. Groot sprouts. Peter asks what they should do. Something bad? Something good? Bit of both. Super lame way to end the movie. I thought it was great. I love it. And then Gamora's like, it's up to you, Peter. It's like bit of both it is. And then uh the um the Michael Jackson song starts playing. Twig Groot starts dancing in his pot and stopping every time Drax looks at him. And in the post credits, we see the collector being licked by Cosmo, and then we see Howard the Duck, voiced by Seth Green. Me and fucking amazing. Perfect film. Love it. Um so good. Yeah. I mean, just the ending. I know I kind of sped through it, but like the whole time I'm just like, God, I'm wrecked. So it actually makes me feel really good after feeling because you know, like I cry a little bit and then I feel better afterwards.

SPEAKER_01 1:08:43

Yeah, you need to less on that.

SPEAKER_00 1:08:44

It's probably been like, I don't know.

SPEAKER_01 1:08:46

It's 30 years since you cried.

SPEAKER_00 1:08:50

You know, I probably needed to let that out.

SPEAKER_01 1:08:52

So it's coming out your armpits if you wait too long.

SPEAKER_00 1:08:54

Yeah, and it smells like a lot's coming out of my armpit right now. So all right, Jason, what's the point of Guardians of the Galaxy?

The Point Of The Movie

SPEAKER_01 1:09:04

I don't know. I think it's just a really great retelling of a story I never heard about.

SPEAKER_00 1:09:09

Yeah. Put that. No matter your past, who you are, where you came from, what your intentions are, how lonely you are. You meet the right people, you can be good, be part of a family, and be the hero of your story. Yes. It's all about the friends you meet along the way.

SPEAKER_01 1:09:26

How most It's not about the galaxy you save. It's about the galaxy you've grown to love.

SPEAKER_00 1:09:33

But yeah, it's just, you know, it's a classic, like uh it's the friends you made along the way type of situation. That's all it is. Um, so for the next category, we're doing the good, the bad, the ugly, the fine, it's where we're uh discuss something good about the film, something you

Good Bad Ugly Fine Wrap-Up

SPEAKER_00 1:09:46

like, the bad, something you didn't like, the ugly, something that didn't age well, the fine, something that did age well, the good. All of it.

SPEAKER_01 1:09:52

Yeah, the goofiness.

SPEAKER_00 1:09:54

Yeah, the whole movie is good.

SPEAKER_01 1:09:56

Yeah, it's all pretty darn good. Spectacular.

SPEAKER_00 1:10:00

The bad? None of it. There's nothing wrong with this movie.

SPEAKER_01 1:10:03

I thought the ending was that was kind of dumb. Like you're dumb. Should we do something good? Something bad. Let's be bad.

SPEAKER_00 1:10:10

Alright, well, this is the last episode of the podcast. Let's be good and bad. Jason never be on this podcast. I will now turn my dog into Cosmo, and this is how we'll do it. He'll lick the mic while I talk. Oh, no one would ever listen. Um The Ugly, uh, I said nothing, you Varman. No. Yeah. No, no, no. The fine, James the fucking gun. James gun. They try to kick him out of the MCU and he came back and said, I'm gonna make the best Marvel since Marvel movie since in-game, and he did. Yeah, he kicked that. And uh now he's uh over DC, and so far they've done good with uh one movie he did. Then those flaws. Oh, Supermendant. I mean, and well, I mean he also did Suicide Squad, which is the best uh DCU movie that they've done. I've never seen it. I think crazy. Uh it's great. He kind of does what he does with this, but um he gets he gets to do it with a R rating. Nice. Yeah, there's a lot of blood and guts in it. It's great. Sweet. Um yeah, so double

Double Features And Next Pick

SPEAKER_00 1:11:12

feature. It's uh move a movie or something we recommend to go alongside this movie. Um I've only seen like a couple episodes, but Firefly. Oh yeah, Firefly is a good one. I feel like there is a lot of similarities and the fact that James Gunn and Nathan Villian are very good friends. I think Firefly is coming back. Is it? I want to say I saw something. Just Wednesday. Maybe. Maybe James Gunn's doing it. I don't know. That'd be great.

SPEAKER_01 1:11:41

Maybe you're wrong about that.

SPEAKER_00 1:11:42

So what do you got that goes alongside this movie?

SPEAKER_01 1:11:46

Stuff like this always makes me um think of like DD. So the DD movie. Dungeons and Dragons, yeah. Dungeons and Dragons.

SPEAKER_00 1:11:55

That is a very good uh double feature with this. I also think Star Trek Beyond, the third Star Trek where they're on like motorbikes and they play. I love the first. I love all those remakes. Yeah, I remember the first two, but there's just this one scene on where you know Chris Pine as Captain Kurt is on a dirt bike while Sabotage plays.

SPEAKER_03 1:12:14

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:12:16

Just to like just to let you know, um, yeah, anytime they're they play that song in a movie, I think it's one of the best scenes. Spine Guardians 3 when they played uh No Sleep Till Brooklyn during the fight scene. It's like, oh yeah. Nice. Oh fucking yeah. Beastie boys. Love Beastie Boys. And um, well, Jason, that's it.

SPEAKER_01 1:12:39

That's it. We've done it.

SPEAKER_00 1:12:40

I think uh since the Odyssey's coming out, right? Soon, we should do um the Cohen Brothers version of the Odyssey slash also their version of Wizard of Oz. Wait, what are you talking about? Oh brother Who Are Thou? Oh the two things they were inspired by why making Oh Brother War Thou. Nice. It's their version of Wizard of Oz and the Odyssey. Good call. Apparently. Um, so and then maybe after that we'll do a Christopher Nolan movie, whatever his shortest one is, because I don't want to watch a three-hour long Christopher Nolan movie right now. Um just because they are, they're all so fucking long. It's so hard to do notes on three-hour long movies. It really is. But maybe we will. I don't know. So um, yes, join us next week for honestly one of the funniest movies ever made. Oh, brother right there. He turned turned them into holy dude. Ugh, Dapper Dan Man. And also one of the best songs. Song gets stuck in my head. I was literally singing it this morning. Ah, and oh man of constant sorrow. Oh gosh, George Clooney's so good in it. So join us next week from that, for that, and leave us some fan mail.

Reviews Thanks And Sign-Off

SPEAKER_00 1:13:49

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SPEAKER_01 1:14:21

We are Groot. Wonder how you knew which stick to grow.