Guardians of the Galaxy's Villain Problem Explained. James Gun has opened up about the weak villain in the first Guardians of the Galaxy and explained why Ronan came out that way. Marvel hit the jackpot when they took the risk of bringing together the unknown batch of galactic misfits; Star- Lord, Gamora, Drax, Rocket and Groot swiftly became household names and are next set to meet The Avengers. But despite the MCU’s first full venture in the cosmic realm proving to be a success against all odds, it wasn’t perfect; just like many projects in the blockbuster saga, it also came with a half- baked, one- dimensional big bad. Ronan’s intriguing connection with mad Titan Thanos and Kree (a major race in the comic books) were initial indications that just maybe Guardians Vol.

MCU films in terms of the villain. Unfortunately, due to his weak motivations, Lee Pace’s angry hammer- wielder likewise failed to deliver. However, this problem didn’t escape Gunn. During a Facebook Q& A, the filmmaker was asked by a fan on the things he would have done differently in any of the Guardians films. Gunn responded saying he’d fix Ronan and explained why the character wound up the way he did: “There is some messy villain plot stuff in the first movie I’d like to deal with again. There was a committee working for Marvel at the time (now defunct) who had a lot of input, and that was primarily where it ended up.

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It just got a little messy. My favorite part of both movies is probably the Cat Stevens montage at the end of Vol. It still gets me emotionally.

I also still love Drax petting Rocket in Vol. The in- company group that Gunn was referring to was the infamous Marvel Creative Committee who existed to (in theory) improve the stories told. The board was made up of several key personalities from different pockets in Marvel – comic book writer Brian Michael Bendis, Marvel Comics publisher Dan Buckley, current Chief Creative Officer of Marvel Enterprises Joe Quesada and Alan Fine.

The list looks promising on paper, but several reports throughout the years suggested that it was often times a source of conflict than of actual help. The council was eventually dismantled in 2. Guardians Vol. 1 one of the last projects to be overseen by it. It is no secret that the MCU has been plagued with weak villains. Over the course of sixteen movies, there have only been a handful of antagonists that were fully fleshed and were given sensible motivations.

Is Avengers: Age of Ultron the best superhero movie ever? No. In fact, it’s far from it– overstuffed with too many characters, too many subplots, and too many.

Further, with the exception of the recurring Loki (Tom Hiddleston), the bad guys are often one and done. That said, it seems that recent MCU movies are putting more and more focus on developing well- developed and fully- fleshed big bads. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. Ego the Living Planet and Spider- Man: Homecoming‘s The Vulture was praised as one of the best overall within the franchise. Hopefully this can continue into the many in- development films. Source: James Gunn. Key Release Dates.

Thor: Ragnarok release date: Nov 3, 2. Black Panther release date: Feb 1. The Avengers: Infinity War release date: May 4, 2. Ant- Man & The Wasp release date: Jul 6, 2. Captain Marvel release date: Mar 8, 2. The Avengers 4 / Untitled Avengers Movie release date: May 3, 2. Untitled Spider- Man: Homecoming Sequel release date: Jul 5, 2.

Samuel L. Jackson and Ryan Reynolds go on a lame, violent Eurotrip in 'The Hitman's Bodyguard'After stumbling out of “The Hitman’s Bodyguard,” an insanely violent live- action cartoon starring Samuel L. Jackson and Ryan Reynolds, I found myself asking the kind of question the critic is occasionally forced to ponder after too many years steeped in Hollywood movies. No, not, “Why didn’t I take off the month of August?” or “Why don’t fights like that ever break out at my local hardware store?” A question of a more technical nature: Is it “hitman” or “hit man”? Lionsgate’s posters declare the former; the all- knowing Associated Press Stylebook, alas, dictates the latter. This is hardly the first time the decision makers of Hollywood and the copy editors of America have had to agree to disagree, as my memories of the epic hyphenation battles over “The 4. Year- Old Virgin” attest. In the case of “The Hitman’s Bodyguard,” the studio’s preferred one- word spelling may actually be the appropriate one, given the hectic, dizzying speed of the movie in question.

Space? It doesn’t have time for a space; it barely slows down for punctuation. The hit — er, the assassin is Darius Kincaid, played by Jackson with his usual diabolical grin and his unrivaled comic mastery of everyone’s favorite 1. Held in a Manchester, England, prison, he agrees to testify against a genocidal Belarusian dictator named Vladislav Dukhovich (Gary Oldman, chewing the scenery as if it were a nice stuffed bulbianiki) in exchange for the release of his also- incarcerated wife (Salma Hayek, having more fun than the rest of us). And so begins a race to get Kincaid from Manchester to The Hague, a journey all but paved with nasty Dukhovich henchmen bent on taking him out before he can reach the witness stand. After a brutal street ambush that leaves several Interpol operatives dead and the camera lens splattered with blood, one surviving agent, Amelia (Élodie Yung, fine in a thankless role), decides the only one who can get Kincaid to safety is her estranged ex- boyfriend. That would be the bodyguard, Michael Bryce (Reynolds), who was once a top- of- the- line, Triple A- rated protection agent before he lost a high- profile Japanese customer (briefly played by Tsuwayaki Saotome) by the name of Kurosawa, which I guess makes Bryce his yojimbo.

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Stuck in a downward spiral ever since, Bryce has a shot at career redemption if he can complete this “Midnight Run”- style mission, which he reluctantly accepts after he and Kincaid have made some obligatory attempts to destroy each other (acrimonious job history and all that). On paper, the talent match- up would seem inspired: Even before his career- making work in “Deadpool,” Reynolds was always a dab hand with a one- liner, the rare leading man with an insult comic’s sensibility. And Jackson is, well, Jackson. Give the two of them some guns and shove ’em in a soon- to- be- totaled car, and the brawling and bickering should more or less write itself. Not quite, alas. Uncertain whether to be a cheerfully weightless killing spree, an earnest odd- couple comedy or, most hilariously, a straight- faced Eastern European political thriller, Tom O’Connor’s screenplay falls back on shopworn snark and half- baked bromantic attitudes. If it would shock you to hear that the merry contract killer teaches the uptight bodyguard a thing or two about how to chill out and get his woman back, by all means proceed to the nearest multiplex. The rest of you may wish to avoid the painful spectacle of two gifted comic actors looking far more stranded than they should — sometimes getting by on their well- practiced shtick, but other times flailing to conjure hilarity out of nothing.

Australian director Patrick Hughes previously made the third and worst movie in “The Expendables” franchise, though in that case he was hamstrung by a self- defeating PG- 1. Liberated here by a well- earned R, he stages a few clunky but serviceable action scenes, the best of which is a high- speed chase involving a runaway boat, an airborne motorcycle and lots and lots of weaponized cars. Elsewhere the director wipes out an outdoor market and blows up a public building, in scenes that probably would have been a bit (but only a bit) less troubling to watch a week ago. Lighten up, you may say. But even those who try to lose themselves in the meager, mindless thrills of “The Hitman’s Bodyguard” may be distracted, if not by the looming specter of current events, then at least by the movie’s technical shoddiness.

Scene after scene is marked by a glaring discontinuity between background and foreground, and there’s one helicopter explosion that has a visual quality I don’t have the word for at the moment, though I will once I’ve consulted the stylebook. Black Sea Full Movie there. Should “craptastic” be hyphenated?- -- -- -- -- -- -‘The Hitman’s Bodyguard’Rating: R, for strong violence and language throughout. Running time: 1 hour, 5.

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