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Disclaimer: I'm a comic reader.

Agent's of S.H.I.E.L.D. starts out pretty bad. Very flat characters, often cheap plots. About half way through it became good though. It's low-power, so no worries about super heroes.

Capatain America 2 you need to watch for the last third of the show to make sense ;)

Guardians of the Galaxy will be the first comic movie I'm really looking forward to. It's not a superhero comic at all and the main characters have a personality closer to the firefly crew than anything else (That's assuming they are staying close to the comic).

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Watched GotG yesterday; I'd rate it an 8.5-9/10. It is easily the funniest one of the Marvel franchise so far in a laugh out loud way, but yet the characters are often subtle making snarky comments rather than outlandish humour (although there is some of that too).

I didn't find the CGI distracting, nor is Rocket treated like Jar Jar Binks (he is actually one of the more "serious" characters). Although I will admit that Groot (the tree) has some Jar Jar Binks style moments, but it isn't as distracting/jarring as Episode 1.

The last movie I laughed this hard at was The Avengers. However much like The Avengers this too might have weak re-watch value as you'll know the jokes are coming.

I am looking forward to the sequel and want to watch it again as soon as it is out on DVD/digital.

It has like 90% on Rotten Tomatoes and 9/10 on IMDB. Safe to say this is another smash hit and another feather in Marvel's cap.

"I didn't find the CGI distracting, nor is Rocket treated like Jar Jar Binks (he is actually one of the more "serious" characters). Although I will admit that Groot (the tree) has some Jar Jar Binks style moments, but it isn't as distracting/jarring as Episode 1."

It's really sad that the star wars prequels may have hampered the adventure/scifi genre for the better part of a decade.

I have no problem with the gimmicky, comic-relief character if there's some actual substance there.

The Phantom Menace came out in 1999. That's a decade and a half ago.

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