The Complex Feels of Guardians of the Galaxy v.2

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  @CODEFORTYTWO · 7 years ago

  I especially love the fact that Drax is the one to tell Nebula that the Guardians are a family because you know he meant it literally, whereas some people call their friends family coz they're really close but Drax genuinely feels that he has a family again

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  @ramjet94 · 9 years ago

  I love the concept that Ego realized that he was willing to give up both his godhood, his genocide plan, his EVERYTHING for the human concept of LOVE for a single human person. And that terrified him.

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  @ellieosteen · 6 years ago

  My favorite part of any Marvel movie is in Guardians 2 when Mantis touches Drax so she can feel his emotions and she just starts crying. But he’s doing nothing but sitting there like everything is normal. It’s the best representation of depression I’ve ever seen

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  @rachelespiritu4215 · 3 years ago

  The utter casualness of “Rocket’s creators were abusive.” Oh if she only knew…

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  @Draskinn · 8 years ago

  Wow Rocket losing everyone at the end of infinity war suddenly feels way more brutal now.

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  @fakeemojace4196 · 7 years ago

  I never really cared for Peter “getting the girl” because the way I see it he kind of did, but not in the classic way, but in the important way, especially after watching infinity war btw, he started to deal with his mom’s death, he didn’t get a sex buddy or a token girlfriend (as in other classic action movies) he got a person he loves, and who he wants to be with, he got rewarded not with the girl, but with a relationship he loves being in, and one he actually cares about it’s not main guy gets the girl, it’s main guy gets the chance to be complete in a place he wants to be

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  @katharinew4218 · 8 years ago

  When you start talking about the abuse side of things, and how it its so complicated, watching this after seeing infinity war and that scene when Gamora was crying after she had thought she had actually killed Thanos...damn, I found that moment was a surprisingly honest representation of a complex abusive parent relationship

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  @NidorinoAlliance · 3 years ago

  The discussion of Peter in this vid is reminding me why Infinity War and Endgame’s treatment of Peter and Gamora bugged me. We essentially only see them at the end of their story. As this assumption that they will get together, despite Peter being depicted more like his GotG 1 immature self.<br><br>Which is why GotG 3’s conclusion is pretty interesting. That they’ve both found places where they’re more complete people, but haven’t had to find that in each other.

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  @wave1090 · 7 years ago

  &quot;He engages in some serious self sabotage, because deep down he expects to be abandoned by the people he loves&quot; Damn, that hit me deep.

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  @madelinebitts2766 · 7 years ago

  Yandu got me bad too.<br><br>My stepfather was very stereotypical manly man. He never hugged us. He loved cars, camping, motorbikes, pubs, girl posters, sports. All things manly and great outdoors. Out of my sister and I, while she has more stereotypically feminine interests, she was the doted-on one of us two, as she was the more adventurous one. I&apos;ve always suffered from anxiety and it was <b>bad</b> when I was a teenager. I was quiet and didn&apos;t like to leave the house much. He would encourage us to try riding his motorbike or get the snakes out of the paddock with him, and I always refused. It was a source of frustration for both of us. He was infertile and just wanted a kid to teach stuff to. His own father was absent, so for him, this was his one chance to go on family camping trips, and teach the kids fishing. She was also younger. I was 11, and she was just 6 when he moved in with the family. I was already someone else&apos;s kid, at that age, from his eyes. To give you an idea of his level of stoicness, when my other sister died, he sat down with me and said &quot;It sucks&quot;, and that was probably the most emotional thing I&apos;d ever heard from him. <br><br>I refused a lot, and when I did go, I would often get jumpy or scared. I remember once we were building a shed in one of the old paddocks and I stepped on a stick, which whacked up on my leg. I screamed &quot;Snake!&quot;, thinking I&apos;d gotten bitten by a snake, since our farm, being in Australia, was filled with them. He came sprinting from the other side of the paddock, dropping everything and kneeling down to examine it and when I, rather sheepishly explained it was a stick and I&apos;d panicked, his fear turned to rage and he yelled at me, and I yelled back. The frustrations that we both knew we had, but never said before, just poured out. &quot;I don&apos;t want to be out here in the heat building a stupid shed anyway!&quot; &quot;Why can&apos;t you just be normal?&quot; &quot;Why can&apos;t we do the things I want to do sometimes?&quot; &quot;Why can&apos;t you just join in with the family?&quot;<br><br>This argument never got resolved. We eventually got a little closer, finding a happy medium in action movies, and going to garage sales. Something sufficiently &quot;Manly&quot; for him and something that didn&apos;t stress me out, but when we argued, as family does, the same insults would come out. &quot;Why are you weird?&quot; &quot;Why do you have to make sure everyone likes you?&quot; and the worst thing I think I&apos;ve ever said to anyone &quot;You&apos;re not even my real dad.&quot; I didn&apos;t even really mean it and the hurt on his face when I said that, said a lot to me.<br><br>I later found out that from mum that the reason he never hugged us was because he was always scared of those words. He always felt he wasn&apos;t our &quot;real father&quot; and getting close to that extent would have made that awful feeling worse. My real father was an addict and an arsehole. Still, I never called my step father dad, and my step father never hugged me.<br><br>My mother and he eventually broke up when I was 19. His working hours were taking a toll on their relationship and it ended amicably. They were still close friends and met up often.<br><br>Then came a couple of years ago. We hadn&apos;t talked in ages since I was away at uni, but he took my sister and I out shopping, and then we had lunch. He told me he was proud of me for moving to another city. He told me he was proud of how far I&apos;d come, but other than that, we didn&apos;t speak about emotional stuff. We never had. As he dropped us off in his truck at my mum&apos;s, my sister got out and I hesitated, looking to him, I wanted to tell him that I did love him, that he was my father. But then the moment passed.<br><br>A month later, my mum called me to tell me that he&apos;d died. It had been a car accident on a camping trip, the driver had been drinking and flipped the car. <br><br>I saw this movie 3 days after his funeral. I didn&apos;t know this scene was going to happen and I had tears streaming down my face in the cinema. Father and Son had played at my sister&apos;s funeral, and played at his too. Peter&apos;s relationship with Yondu felt like so much of a mirror to my own feelings about my stepfather, right down to not really realising how good he&apos;d been till the last moment, despite how rough he&apos;d treated me, that I felt like someone involved in the writing HAD to have gone through the same. It was the only time I&apos;ve ever gotten emotional at a film, and even seeing the clips in this video had me tearing up all over again. The impact and importance of examining family relationships under this lens cannot be understated. Too often a parent&apos;s death in a movie is cut and dry &quot;They were perfect, now they&apos;re gone&quot;, a way to prompt action, or a way to add plot angst to a character&apos;s backstory without really working for it. <br><br>We need to see more complicated emotions and relationships. Films work best as a reflection of ourselves. I just didn&apos;t expect a Marvel film to be the one that delivered that emotional depth I didn&apos;t know I was craving out of film&apos;s handling of strained family relationships.

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  @finn_underwood · 8 years ago

  &quot;Rocket&apos;s entire worldview is based on the idea that the people he love will abandon him.&quot;<br><b>Me after watching Infinity War:</b> ...those bloody genius screenwriters...

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  @ohdigeydoc · 3 years ago

  Man oh man, what I wouldn&apos;t give to hear Lindsay&apos;s take on the third movie...

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