I don't watch the show, but isn't he kind of badass in Game of Thrones? With the right context, Peter Dinklage could be badass.
Actually I think I'd pay to see that.
That, and remember that James Gunn is writing and directing this. Considering his previous work, I'd expect him to not be totally serious and engage in some fun with the crazy that's there.
I don't know if it'll flop, but I'm worried it won't do gangbusters sales like some expect. I think it'll do well enough just for flying under the Marvel and Avengers banners. All they have to do is say, "From the studio that brought you The Avengers!" and that gets asses in seats.
I've been watching too much Parks and Recreation. I keep thinking "Burt Macklin, FBI"
Yes, I think Peter Dinklage would be pretty awesome in an Expendables movie, but put him alongside Stallone, Statham, Lundgren, etc. and you'd struggle to have him seen as anything but comic relief if it were the first movie and you're still selling the concept. Put him in the third, or fourth, movie, and you can use him to mix up expectations. Putting him in the first movie's trailers, however, would be a much more difficult sell.
Fuck yeah I can imagine that, it'd be awesome.
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home? Galaxy Quest? And of course Men In Black was pretty much a sci-fi buddy cop movie. I mean, we can debate how comedic vs serious they are, but they're not Spaceballs level pure parody.
Peter Dinklage in The Expendables would certainly give me a reason to bother watching those crap movies. I've only seen the first one and couldn't be bothered with the others.
Star Trek was an established franchise, and survived a very bland first film, it's definitely an exception. Galaxy Quest was billed as mainly a parody of SciFi. Men in Black is actually a good example, though I think it's more the exception than the rule. If I had more time it'd be interesting to try to figure out why it worked, and audiences still bought into it.
I mentioned Fifth Element above. That's probably closest to what we can expect, I think.
See, I look at it, and I just see yet another dreamworks face. Marketing always tries to put a "badass" slant on their characters. You know Rocket's a hardass, I know he's a hardass, but Joe Moviegoer who thinks the rest of us are (at least) kinda nerdy will see rocket and think this:
Except the two pictures aren't similar at all. One is on a poster for an animated movie with a bunch of other animal critters. And he's wielding a giant wagon full of food. BADASS!
To Joe Sixpack on the street, there is no difference. Talking racoon here, talking racoon there. Dreamworks face. Judgement call made in less than half a second. The moviegoing public is not in a place where they can see/hear about a talking raccoon with attitude in a movie and not put it in that category.
Which is a fair comparison in a lot of aspects. It did well at the box office, and the villains were plenty cartoony. The hero, however, was straight up Bruce Willis. While The Fifth Element does show that you can manage to sell a comedic Sci Fi movie, that still leaves the problem that I think it's really true that convincing an audience that a Raccoon can be a hero would be a lot easier in a Disney movie, a straight up fantasy movie, or a Sci Fi film being marketed as a comedy, than it will be to convince audiences of that in a Sci Fi action hero movie.
Except now Turnip's a vampire.
This.
Who Framed Roger Rabbit was marketed as a kid's movie, and all the hype was built around the technological marvel of having cartoons interact with live actors. Nowadays we're not even impressed by good CGI any more - in fact, we expect it - take it for granted even, and "bad CGI" that would have been mindblowing 25 years ago is a major strike against a movie. They even had half hour "making of" specials running on network television in advance to pump it up to the people. That's not happening with GotG. It's being marketed as an action blockbuster a-la The Avengers with their own gun-toting Scrappy Doo. It's a question of "can the marketing convince dad's coworkers down at the office." It'd be a tall order to begin with, and I'm not sure they're doing so.
Mickey Mouse and Bugs Bunny appeared in the same movie. No, it's not a fair comparison at all. It's not a SciFi action drama. It's a slapstick comedy that is mostly a play on the film noir genre.
That's a really good comparison and salient point.
Well, they're certainly not doing so right now, but then, they also haven't begun any real marketing push yet. It's hard to judge how successful their marketing is going to be without knowning what they're doing for it. A month or two from now, when there's actually been something (assuming they don't just release the trailer tonight and that's it), it'll be another matter.
This is legitimately why I'm excited. I won't say that the marvel movies have gotten bad, because that would be a bald faced lie, but they have felt pretty by the numbers for awhile now. I'm hoping Guardians has enough to breath some new life into them.
Yeah, that would be like having a WWII supersoldier, guy in powered armor, Norse god, and giant green rage monster fighting against an army of aliens led by another Norse god. Who'd watch that?
True, true.Yeah, that would be like having a WWII supersoldier, guy in powered armor, Norse god, and giant green rage monster fighting against an army of aliens led by another Norse god. Who'd watch that?
Which was for quite some time the highest grossing non-studio film of all time.A comic book movie with anthropomorphic talking animals in it?!
Stranger than Iron Man fighting Extremis goons alongside a 10 year-old?
