My Guardians of the Galaxy rant

 

My Guardians of the Galaxy rant

Like I said the MCU didn't just make Iron Man a household name but the Guardians of the Galaxy as well. That's impressive considering that this is an I.P. that the general public wasn't familiar with and this is an obscure group. That makes producing this movie a big gamble, and that gamble paid off. ( It's a shame that Hollywood didn't do this more often instead of playing it safe, but I digress.) I can see why this movie was a hit; I mean, there isn't a lot of space adventure that becomes a film franchise. Plus, it makes us appreciate classic music and this is coming from a guy who isn't a music person. The success of this movie gave us a trilogy, a holiday special, a cartoon, and a video games. 

With that said, the first movie didn't win me over because it didn't do the best job of telling a story of a ragtag group of misfits coming together and becoming a family. The video game did a better job of telling that story than the movie. The movies could have been better if the writers adapted more from the source material instead of  injecting comedy. However, that can be tricky because of the complicated comic book history. In the comics, there are two different groups with the same name. The first group was created in 1969 and it's made up of four obscure characters from the 31st century. They travel to the past to aid the cosmic Marvel characters and the only carryover character from that group is Yondu. The group we know was created in 2008 before that the Annihilus storyline set this group up to become the Guardians of the Galaxy. They were actual guardians and not heroes for hire. 

Before the Annihilus storyline, some of the members had their own comic book or were featured in other comic books like Starlord, Drax the Destroyer, and Rocket the Racoon. Because their backstory keeps changing it's hard to get a strong sense of who these characters are? That's another issue I have with the movies is I don't like how some of the characters are portrayed. You don't get the sense that Peter Quil/Starlord is a leader because he's not taken seriously because of how goofy he is. I wish the writers would come up with a story that would cause Starlord to return to Earth for internal and external reasons. Why is Drax the Destroyer in these movies if he's not going to live up to being the Destroyer!?! In the comics, he's almost if not as dangerous as Gamora. Speaking of Gamora I'm surprised these two aren't close despite their differences with Thanos. 

I wouldn't have minded the movies being the way they are if the cartoon made up for it by adapting stories from the comics. Instead of doing that, the cartoon wants to ride the coattails of the movies. That's all I have to say about this topic for now what do think should be done with this I.P.?