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Thor: The Dark World
Captain America: The Winter Soldier
Guardians of the Galaxy?
Say What?
One of these things is not like the other – but hopefully,
by the time we’ve all had a chance to actually see it, the upcoming Guardians of the Galaxy will most
certainly belong.
The first three are easy enough to understand – coming fresh
of the undoubtedly hit movie The Avengers,
featuring Marvel’s Big Three, and sequels to their own successful movies to
boot. No one would be surprised by those movies.
But Guardians of the Galaxy? A comic that’s fortunate enough to rank as a cult hit where you’d even find fellow fans of comics who have no idea who they are? And with only the barest bones connection to the already established Marvel Cinematic Universe?
That, I doubt anyone expected. Which is why Guardians of the
Galaxy may well be the most important Marvel movie since not just The Avengers, but since the original Iron Man itself. Because if Marvel can
take Guardians of the Galaxy, based heavily on Dan Abbnet and Andy Lanning’s
run (admittedly one of my favorite comic book series of all time – so you can
only imagine my own hype for this movie) and make it a successful hit movie, then suddenly all bets are off and everyone
is legitimately on the table.
Not only does the success of Guardians open the door to the
larger Marvel Universe beyond Earth, but it also proves that the entire Marvel
comic book library is legitimate material for future movies. Because whatever
Marvel’s doing, they will have proven that they can taken anyone from their
library and make a hit movie for them.
That favorite obscure Marvel character you love who you
never would have dreamed could get a chance on the sliver screen? Yep, suddenly
you can start genuinely dreaming that they too might someday have their shot at
the limelight.
Guardians of the Galaxy – it’s a really big deal.
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