Apologies are in order to my old bud, Conrad Rubinkowski. I had the opportunity to go see the James Brown Bio-pic Get On Up today, and much like many years ago when you guys went to The Capitol Theater, I think it was, at 79th and Halsted, to see the Hardest Working Man in Show Business, James Brown, himself, I passed up the chance. I did see a movie though, and it wasnt Kid Rodelo. I think, Conrad you will forgive my transgression, cause I saw an A-lister, a truly infectious barn burner. I guarantee, a good time will be had by all. Ya see, after The Dark Knight, The Man of Steel, The Avengers, The X-Men and all their combined Ilk. I had grown a little Super Hero weary. Yeah, you could say, I need a hero, Ive been holding out for a hero, Hes gotta be strong and hes gotta be fast and hes gotta be fresh from the fight, Hes gotta be sure and hes gotta be larger than life. I found him today and his name is Chris Pratt. Go see Guardians of the Galaxy, you will be tickled pink. Its the freshest franchise in the Galaxy. My hat is off to Marvel for taking a chance with this beauty. Its source material is strictly fan boy material. Id not heard of the comic series, but, Im telling ya, its way cool. Pratt, who sparkles on Parks and Recreation, Is a kidnapped earth boy, who is snatched by a group of Space Pickers, that will seal anything of any value to add to their haul, Led by Yondu Udonta, smartly played by Michael Rooker in his best alien guise since director James Gunn last used and abused him in the under rated Slither, its one of my catches. Pratts Peter Quill grows up in space as part of their band. He refers to himself as Star Lord, and Star Lord He becomes. Falling in with an unlikely group that consists of A pair of astral bounty hunters, a vivisected raccoon, whos personal Dr. Moreau has given him a wonderfully smart assed personality, named Rocket, voiced by Bradley Cooper and The Humanoid Tree, Groot, Voiced by Vin Diesel, whos only line is Im Groot, repeated ad nauseum, actually its pretty funny. The beautiful Gamora, a deadly assassin played by the equally beautiful Zoe Saldana, sporting almost the same blue hue as Nyteri, her avatar in the film of the same name, rounding out our band of Guardians is wrestler Dave Bautista, as a literally minded alien strongman bent on revenge. After escaping from an interstellar lock up, which would be a marvelous addition to an MSNBC prisons gone bad weekend, our heroes start earning their reputations and their raison dêtre. The Beautifully coiffed Glen Close Is Nova Prime, who reminded me of a Bene Gesserit Reverand Mother, as the leader of an Alderaan like planet, forgive me for mixing sci-fi source materials and metaphors, but Novas planet is set to suffer almost the same fate as Alderaan, unless Star Lord and the Guardians come through, for duty and humanity-like denizens of the galaxy The villains are Ronan, played to the hilt by a black armor shrouded Lee Pace, who kills it in Halt and Catch Fire on AMC and who conversely brought life in the magical TV series Pushing Daisys, Djimon Hounsou of Amistad and and In America, as his henchman Korath, Karen Gillan plays Gamoras bio-genetically altered sisterNebula. Benicio Del Toro shows up briefly as a star crossed collector who is too greedy for his own good. The plot? Who cares? Youve seen pieces of it in Galaxy Quest, The Last Starfighter, Outland, Star Wars, Star Trek and any number of great and B-quality epics. Just jump aboard and hang on tight for a fulfilling, wild-ass carnival ride of a movie and .as Bonnie Tyler said Maybe Tonights the Night. And just as in every James Bond flick, the end titles promise us that The Guardians of the Galaxy will return. Please hurry.
Posted on: Fri, 01 Aug 2014 21:07:13 +0000
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