I’ve seen Guardians of the Galaxy. Twice.<\/p>\n
I was excited about the movie, I loved the trailers, even the teasers. I was pretty sure they’d taken all the good pieces and left the movie bereft of jokes. I was wrong, happily, happily wrong.<\/p>\n
I’ve been trying to figure out why I adored GotG so much. Was it the really good plot? Was it the awesome number of quotable lines? Was it the fact that they had that meeting I have had at least once a week where a decision was made and then someone said “what? I wasn’t listening. I was thinking about something else”? (That is officially called “draxing” now, so you know.)<\/p>\n
I love the point where one of them completely embarrasses himself, just to stall for a bit of time. I wish I was that brave. And I don’t know why I wouldn’t be. Embarrassment is not fatal. I love that he had the faith that his team would fix it.<\/p>\n
It made me happy that at the end of the movie, the characters were relatively unchanged, except they were happier, more confident.<\/p>\n
Let me recall my review of Thor (the first one). I could have sworn I posted a review of Thor here but can’t find it. Anyway, I thought Thor was a good movie but I found it difficult to watch. At the beginning, Thor is happy: happy to be a prince, happy to be a warrior, happy to be Thor. Then he get tricked, loses his hammer,\u00a0falls in love, saves our world, goes home a man burdened by responsibilities, a dysfunctional family, and a long distance relationship. The movie was a story of a boy maturing to a man. He grew up and growing up sucked.<\/p>\n
There is (or should be) a point in growing up where you have all this freedom and potential and energy: you can save the world and you want to but you don’t have to<\/em>. It is a wonderful point. I remember the night after\u00a0high school graduation as being fairly incandescent with possibilities and lacking in responsibilities.<\/p>\n There have been other points like that but, more often, the reward for a job well done is a more difficult job. That’s good but can get exhausting, even damaging as the difficult job becomes impossible.<\/p>\n There was none of that in the movie. The reward for a job well done in Guardians was the gratitude of a planet, a rebuilt space ship named after an 80s celeb, a new family, and a galaxy of possibilities.<\/p>\n If I could watch any movie this afternoon, it would be GotG. Again. It made me happy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’ve seen Guardians of the Galaxy. Twice. I was excited about the movie, I loved the trailers, even the teasers. I was pretty sure they’d taken all the good pieces and left the movie bereft of jokes. I was wrong, happily, happily wrong. I’ve been trying to figure out why I adored GotG so much. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[40],"class_list":["post-1357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/logicalelegance.com\/journey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/logicalelegance.com\/journey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/logicalelegance.com\/journey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/logicalelegance.com\/journey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/logicalelegance.com\/journey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1357"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/logicalelegance.com\/journey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1359,"href":"https:\/\/logicalelegance.com\/journey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1357\/revisions\/1359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/logicalelegance.com\/journey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/logicalelegance.com\/journey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/logicalelegance.com\/journey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}