Guardians Of The Galaxy (2014 film) - 10th anniversary retrospective and mini-review
WARNING: Spoilers for this movie abound! If you have not watched the movie or plan not to, don't read this post. You have been warned! Just a decade ago, Marvel Studios, riding high off of the success of the first-ever superhero team-up movie of its kind, The Avengers, set off to bring more of its comic book properties to the big screen and in live-action. One of them was Guardians of The Galaxy. The 10th film in the MCU and 4th installment in Phase 2 of The Infinity Saga, Guardians of The Galaxy was co-written and directed by James Gunn, and stars Chris Pratt, Zoe Saldana, Dave Bautista, Bradley Cooper, Vin Diesel, Glenn Close, Lee Pace, and John C. Reilly, to name a few. It was released in theaters in August 2014. At first, the movie was a major pre-release gamble. A group of C-list characters even by comic book standards? A talking raccoon and a giant tree that also talks? WHUT - it's going to be a BIG FAT FLOP! The pundits the world over cried out the movie's potenti...