blam! murdered you!
Wanna know how I know that guardians of the galaxy is going to be one of the best movies ever?
You need look no further than this two second gif yanked from the leaked comicon footage from a few weeks ago:
That’s screen footage of Rocket Raccoon, spraying something or other with a fancy space gun. I love the fact that he’s barely anthropomorphized – just a regular (if slightly bigger, given the footage) raccoon with a machine gun. Fits with his comics origin as an uplifted help animal at an orbital mental health rehab facility (let’s not talk about the weird clown robots he spent most of his early appearances fighting).
The physical appearance is about perfect – let’s hope they got the tone right – for proper reference, see the conversation with Tony Stark in the opening pages of Guardians of the Galaxy #5 that came out last month.
It’s really criminal how excited this silly movie makes me. I think they’re getting most of it right (see the recent semi-announcement as Vin Diesel as the voice of Groot). This one’s a bit of a risk for Marvel, being a lesser-known property – however, I think people are going to be pleasantly surprised.
