Discussion post: Your favorite space movie(s)

[sholio]

An open-ended one this week: talk about your favorite space movie(s), and why you like them!

For me, for "favorite," I guess it's a toss-up between GotG2 and Thor: Ragnarok. I find both endlessly rewatchable. GotG2 just has infinite feels and the visuals are absolutely gorgeous, and it carries the character relationships forward from the first movie in a way I really loved -- plus Baby Groot, who is adorable but also just real-kid-like enough not to be saccharine (at least for my tastes).

And Ragnarok was what made me fall in love with the Thor franchise. I will never get tired of that movie, and clips/gifs can always pick me up on a bad day. The brother feelings! Valkyrie! Even the Strange cameo is really delightful.

What about you?

Comments

[copperfyre]

I actually really like the first Thor movie. It was the first Marvel movie I saw in a cinema, and I admit that afterwards I was disappointed to discover that not all Marvel movies were gorgeous space opera. I loved all the Asgard stuff - It was so pretty! It felt big and magical and bizarre! - and I loved Jane Foster and her ragtag science crew, and I loved Thor's arc through the film. I also enjoyed SHIELD as sort-of-antagonists more than I enjoyed them as actually-a-heroic-organisations (and, on a total tangent, I am still miffed that they handwaved SHIELD's dubious aspects as 'oh we were being infiltrated by HYDRA the entire time!' rather than actually going 'wait a minute, I think we've fucked up here' but that's a whole other post.).

Then I went and watched the Iron Man films on DVD, and the first Captain America film when it came out in the cinemas, and that kind of cemented for me that I liked the space bits of the MCU better than the superhero bits.

I think GOTG and GOTG2 are probably my favourite series, because they're just all about found family. I think they have the tightest story between the films and I love the character relationships. Also I love Yondu's funeral with all the Ravager fireworks, which is both an excellent emotional moment in the film and also makes the Ravagers feel like so much more of a group and an identity (also, please sign me up for a space firework funeral.)

But really I like all the space movies. I like all the planets we get to see, I like the fun spaceship designs, I like that they're a bit more bonkers than the earth-bound films in terms of motives and scale and clothing, I like that they're all a lot of found family, I like that they're not all on earth and don't all end with a climactic fight in some city somewhere, I like all the glimpses of different cultures we get, I like that we get a lot of off-the-wall morality (like, everyone in GOTG is a criminal on multiple levels, but they're up against so much worse that we root for them).

[kore]

I love the first two Thor movies, they're gorgeous and I'm always sad I never saw them in the theatre. It bums me out when people go on about how bad they are.

[lynnenne]

Definitely Thor: Ragnarok for all the reasons you said. And Hela! And Hulk! And Miek and Korg! And the soundtrack! I still get chills every time I watch Thor come bombing out of the sky to Immigrant Song.

[bold_seer]

GotG2 is beautiful. Ego is such a great villain, too. IW has a hold on my heart. Stephen & Tony & Peter, Peter being both unprepared and doing what he needs to (you can't be a friendly neighbourhood Spider-Man when there's no neighbourhood makes sense to me), meeting the Guardians (or vice versa), the impossible odds, Gamora in general. Everything in space is beautifully shot.

Speaking of Ragnarok: I've just rewatched it, with so much more affection and appreciation for Thor & Loki, the other characters, the movie in general. I always thought Thor was a great, and I liked the movie, but I wasn't completely won over by the combination of those two very different storylines; Sakaar felt like a distraction, Hela underdeveloped. I kind of assumed I'd enjoy the first 20 minutes better than the rest. Which is not what happened! Found a lot of things to interest me. Laughed at the funny parts (the It's My Birthday fireworks). Really liked the movie! But they were always going to get me with those synths.

[luthienberen]

Incredibly late to the party lol!

Captain Marvel for me is the best Marvel space movie as it is the film that had me fall in love with Marvel. Carol, her story, the Kree, Fury's story, Goose, Maria & Monica and Yon-Rogg - just it was fantastic and I felt connected to Carol, (even though I'm not sporty, but more her determination and ability to overcome the odds and defy expectations). Recalling the 90s as a child was damn fun as well.

I had watched Thor and enjoyed the move as well as The Dark World, mainly due to the magic & myth in the films, Jane/Thor and Loki. Jane's science crew has had me squeeing. That said, I did not like Ragnarok as Jane was no longer in it, though the film has it good moments.

GoTG has grown on me since and I have the two GoTG films properly now and I love Kraglin, Yondu and the actual GoTG crew as well!

Mainly I am eagerly awaiting CM 2 to learn hopefully more about the Kree and hopefully have the Kree-Skrull war be more complex (as in the comics), then straight our "Kree are bad" & "Skrull are good". I am also excited for Jane's return in the next Thor film and definitely GoTG Vol. 3.

[kore]

Captain Marvel was amazing! For me, it's probably a tie between the first Guardians movie (didn't like the second one) and CM.

[luthienberen]

:) Another CM lover yay! I admit that I much prefer the first Guardians movie as the second had many "What on earth" moments.

[kore]

Captain Marvel was just SO GOOD to me. The femslash flirting! Maria being Photon! The getting-up montage! "I don't have to prove anything to you"! Ben Mendelsohn! I just loved every single thing about it, even yes the "I'm Just a Girl" song. Like the directors said, they just had to include it in a 90s girl SUPERpower movie. Brie Larsen was amazing. And I am never getting over Nick Fury, cat man. "Carol gets back up every time because fuck you." Fuck yeah.

I....just did not care about the daddy issues in GOTG2, and there were double daddy issue plotlines oh yay, and the music choices felt artificial and too on the nose in the exact opposite way the first movie's didn't. I made a point of seeing Guardians 1 in the theatre because I missed seeing Thor 1 and Thor 2 that way, and always regretted it. (Also everyone thought early on Guardians 1 was going to flop, LOLOL.) It was so beautiful. But I just could not even with the super ugly dioramas in GOTG2! They looked literally Trumpian, heh. I know I'm in the absolute minority though.

[luthienberen]

I second everything for CM! And Nicky Fury as a cat man is my new favourite canon =^_^=

For me with GOTG I disliked how Kraglin turned on Yondu - I understand the reason why, but still felt it more likely he would have aired those opinions privately and that someone so long a Ravager would have realised criticising in public would lead to a mutiny. I do sympathise though with not liking the daddy issues in the film, as it could have been handled better.
I did like the music mostly. Still think how Peter lost his powers at the end of the film ridiculous but oh well.

GOTG Vol 1 is still the best Guardians film :-D

[sholio]

Hey, can I ask you guys to table this branch of the discussion? This post is for people to talk about their favorite movies, and we don't want people who like that movie to feel like they can't talk about it now, or come in and see people discussing all the flaws in their favorites and be sad.

[luthienberen]

Sorry for getting off topic -I can edit my comments to remove the negative stuff?

[sholio]

No need, don't worry about it! I didn't mean anything had to be taken down, I just wanted to stop the conversation from drifting any further in that direction <3

[luthienberen]

Cool. Sorry again for getting off topic. I forgot myself, but hope no one is made uncomfortable. If so just say and I'll edit :)

<3

[sholio]

See above comment - please table this branch of the discussion? This post is for people to talk about their favorite movies, and we don't want people who like that movie to feel like they can't talk about it now, or come in and see people discussing all the flaws in their favorites and be sad.