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Guardians of the Galaxy

Prolescum

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Some news from that Comic-Con doodad.
[showmore=Spoilers]Considering Marvel's huge space opera only started filming 10 days ago, they had an amazing amount of footage to show us. We see a desolate alien world, where Peter Quill, aka Starlord, is going inside an ancient temple. He uses a light globe to illuminate the interior, and then goes to steal an old alien orb.

Some alien cops come in with big guns to stop him. "Drop it now," orders their leader, Borath (Djimon Hounsou). And he asks Quill who he is. "Starlord," he replies. "Who?" Borath asks. "Starlord, man. Legendary outlaw." Starlord is wounded. "Forget it."

Then we see someone activate a wrist transceiver, and we're in an alien prison, where five creatures have been arrested on Zandar. We see holographic "rapsheets" for all five of them — Drax the Destoryer, Gamora (Zoe Saldana), a personal death machine, Rocket Raccoon, who has over 50 charges of vehicular theft and escape from lockup, Groot, a houseplant/muscle, and then Starlord himself.

Rhomann Dey (John C. Reilly) narrates the whole thing with intense snark, especially when he gets to the part about how Peter Quill calls himself Starlord. Listening to this, Quill cranks up his middle finger as if he's working a creaky machine. Later, Quill is in prison and Drax is listening to his personal stereo, which is playing a bouncy "gamba gamba" tune. Quill is offended — and then he gets tased.

And then we saw a montage of tons of action footage, including a two-headed alien shooting a gun, a prison riot, tons of Gamora putting the smackdown on people, Rocket Raccoon shooting a big gun with a vicious look on his face.

The footage ends with John C. Reilly saying, "They call themselves the Guardians of the Galaxy. What a bunch of A-holes." And we see the five of them lined up, like the Usual Suspects.[/showmore]

Also, Avengers: Age of Ultron!

Toot sweet, Marvel, toot sweet.
 
arg-fallbackName="australopithecus"/>
The main thing I've learned from GotG at ComicCon is that Karen Gillan still looks amazing with no hair.
 
arg-fallbackName="Inferno"/>
australopithecus said:
The main thing I've learned from GotG at ComicCon is that Karen Gillan still looks amazing with no hair.

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

FFS, dammit, shitsticks. Amy (or Karen, whatever :p) may be the most beautiful redhead I've ever seen... not so without hair.
 
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australopithecus said:
The main thing I've learned from GotG at ComicCon is that Karen Gillan still looks amazing with no hair.
I'm not such a fan of the totally bald look, but I love a pixie cut, and that's the obvious next stage when she starts growing it again. *waits expectantly*
 
arg-fallbackName="Visaki"/>
Your Funny Uncle said:
I'm not such a fan of the totally bald look, but I love a pixie cut, and that's the obvious next stage when she starts growing it again. *waits expectantly*
HEAR HEAR!

One thing that strikes me is that she apparently does makeup as if she still had hair. That looks a bit... weird.
 
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Visaki said:
Your Funny Uncle said:
I'm not such a fan of the totally bald look, but I love a pixie cut, and that's the obvious next stage when she starts growing it again. *waits expectantly*
HEAR HEAR!

One thing that strikes me is that she apparently does makeup as if she still had hair. That looks a bit... weird.
It says in the story that she came on wearing a wig, and removed it during the panel...
 
arg-fallbackName="Inferno"/>
Why do Americans write the date as MMDDYYYY instead of the normal DDMMYYYY? It makes no sense.
I just saw the poster and thought "well shit, that movie's already out?" only to remind myself that Americans simply can't provide a reasonable formate for dates. The anger at 6:55... :p
 
arg-fallbackName="IBSpify"/>
Inferno said:
Why do Americans write the date as MMDDYYYY instead of the normal DDMMYYYY? It makes no sense.
I just saw the poster and thought "well shit, that movie's already out?" only to remind myself that Americans simply can't provide a reasonable formate for dates. The anger at 6:55... :p

You think that's bad, some countries use a YYYYMMDD format.

However i think for the most part it is based on how we tend to speak, the MMDDYYYY standard comes from the fact that we don't normally say "The 4th of March" we tend to say "March 4th" As for why it changed to begin with, i have no idea, but then i don't know why we use the imperial measurement system instead of the metric system either.
 
arg-fallbackName="Prolescum"/>
IBSpify said:
Inferno said:
Why do Americans write the date as MMDDYYYY instead of the normal DDMMYYYY? It makes no sense.
I just saw the poster and thought "well shit, that movie's already out?" only to remind myself that Americans simply can't provide a reasonable formate for dates. The anger at 6:55... :p

You think that's bad, some countries use a YYYYMMDD format.

However i think for the most part it is based on how we tend to speak, the MMDDYYYY standard comes from the fact that we don't normally say "The 4th of March"

Perhaps outside of the UK English speakers don't use that phrasing...
we tend to say "March 4th" As for why it changed to begin with, i have no idea

The odd affectation people have for abbreviating unnecessarily in verbal communication.
but then i don't know why we use the imperial measurement system instead of the metric system either.

Apparently because Jimmy Carter was a milquetoast... Link

It changed (from imperial to metric) everywhere else because it's easier to count in tens than it is in twelves. Also, the American psyche is naturally contrarian :D
 
arg-fallbackName="Dragan Glas"/>
Greetings,

This was originally the format used in Britain before America was colonised - when the UK changed its format, America kept the original usage.

Kindest regards,

James
 
arg-fallbackName="DutchLiam84"/>
I first saw the trailer on the Jimmy Kimmel page and actually thought it was a trailer made by Jimmy Kimmel. It sucks balls!
However, I'm a sucker for Marvel movies and I'll probably enjoy this one as much as most of the others.
 
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In 7 days, having booked the day off work (as have several cohorts)... I WILL FINALLY SEE THIS MOVIE!
 
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I forgot to say... I was at a MARVEL-day screening, meaning I got to see a full-length Marvel movie and before that... the first 15min of Guardians. Hilarity, pure and simple.

I am Groot.
 
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