Just wanna leave it here. Consider buying cosmetics that don't test on animals because cosmetic industry is just as horrible if not worse, compared to the villain in gotg3. Animals shouldn't be tortured for cosmetics.
Feel like I’m the only one that noticed it but I love the gag of Mantis always landing on her head and almost breaking her neck. That shit had me dying.
One of my favorite things about the Guardians is how much they feel like a team. Nobody on the team is way more powerful than the others. They all have their strengths and weaknesses and this movie gives all of them a moment to do something way cool. It’s like a really good dnd campaign
Yeah, it's not like a typical superhero team where the leader is way more powerful than everyone else which basically makes them pointless like the Justice League
They've already shown their chemistry from the first movie. That's the beauty of James Gunn, he likes to make a group of different people with different personalities can work together at a team. Also, fun fact, he was the writer of The First live action 2000's Scooby-Doo's movie.
@@wlot28 watch the justice league animated show and ull learn very quickly that superman is nowhere near the strongest DC character around lol, nor is he the leader of the team
IKR! I watched the first 2 movies before seeing this in theaters and he said in one of them that there were two kinds of people in the universe: ones who dance and ones who don't and he considered himself as one who did not. And man, when he started dancing at the end, that just hit hard seeing how far he's come.
The song that plays during that scene had never really emotionally affected me before because during the late '00s it's popularity seemed kinda forced, but hearing it for the first time in years in that context, I was an absolute emotional wreck, full-on sobbing
I was really disappointed about how they made Drax the DESTROYER a goof ball comic relief and never destroy anything. But Drax the dad made me tear up and it was all worth it.
In a scene where the characters were cgi animal hybrids, its the one part of the movie that felt uncomfortably human. It really made you want to get as far away as you could but also to linger and see the depths of suffering on display before you.
That part where they reunited in the afterlife for a bit got me sobbing after Laylla said that Rocket still got purpose on earth. cliche as hell but got me sobbing.
Floor's screaming "ROCKET, TEEFS, FLOOR GO NOW" over and over broke my heart. It's such a primal expression of terror, that we can't stop and mourn because right now we NEED TO GET OUT.
Also, when did she learn how to fight while her power is just touching people, feeling their emotions and even manipulate their emotion against them? And the entire movie is her for babysitting Drax until she leaves the room and wants to find her own purpose.
@@margarethmichelina5146 probably since in between Guardians 2 and Infinity War, and however long it was when she got snapped back in Endgame to Love and Thunder to the Christmas special. She's on a team of fighters, just because she didn't have a training montage doesn't mean they wouldn't have taught her behind the scenes. Lol
@@margarethmichelina5146 you kind of have to assume that while they go on all their adventures between this movie and whenever the last time we saw them was that all that training is happening off screen. Honestly I’d prefer that than the arrow scene, which was all payoff with way too little setup
The Gamora B-plot is actually a mirror of the High Evolutionary's motivations. Quill desperately wants this Gamora to be like the dead one that he tries multiple times to woo her. He eventually gets over it and lets her go. An opposite of the High Evo who forces animals and people to be what he wants them to be.
Really good point. The high evolutionary never learned how to 'swim'. He couldn't accept a world that didn't meet his ludicrous expectations, so he became the villain by commiting all the way to being a control freak.
Also love the irony that High Evo never realized the only reason Rocket could learn and be creative is because he is flawed. A "perfect" creature has no room to grow
I was "iffy" about Gamora until the last scene where she rejoined the Revengers. It showed that she had found a family, just not with the Guardians. I think this was James doing the best he could with Gamora's death. He didn't retcon it and act like nothing happened, and he didn't just redo the Peter and Gamora falling for each other arc for the third time. Gamora from the previous two movies stayed dead, which gives Infiniti War weight.
I love the High Evolutionary in this movie. Lately it’s seemed like every villain has had to have some tragic backstory or something and it’s just so refreshing to have a villain who’s just an absolute monster. He’s pure evil while still having a lot of character too unlike other similarly evil villains Marvel has tried like Malekith and Ronan.
I love how they even made a dig at those villains. Peter's little "I don't care about your sad backstory" thing was both comedic and in character without flanderizing him.
Even he said the line of "THERE IS NO GOD!", I know this character is pure evil and he's not redeemable in the end. Even he mocked Rocket's crying after he killed Rocket's weasel crush. He's what Kang supposed to be in Ant-Man 3 and the dude could replace Jonathan Majors after his arrestment. Why not? Marvel likes to cast the same actor on different movie like how Gemma Chan was in Captain Marvel and she becomes Sersi in Eternals for saving their casting budgets. Even James Gunn brings his brother, Sean, his co-stars from DCEU including the guy who play High Evolutionary who is in Peacemaker, the red alien girl that Quill, Gamora and Nebula took hostage on her who played Redcatcher 2 from The Suicide Squad even his wife, Jennifer Holland who played the love interest of Peacemaker is in the movie. Even Sylvester Stallone who's also playing King Shark in The Suicide Squad is in 2 Guardians movies even for a short screen time.
I was lowkey fond of Ronan for his religious zealotry and Darth Vader-esque appearance. He had some good lines. I just legitimately feel bad for Malekith. Barely like the original character, no presence, no distinct motive, and his one achievement I thought he had (killing Thor's mom) was *actually done by one of his minions.* And played by a great actor too!
True thats what I love aswell. A character thats just evil for evils sake is usually boring. The high evolutionary is still a good nuanced characters that just happens to be pure evil
I loved the jabs that Gunn threw in at the Endgame storyline and how it messed with his characters, I laughed hard at it :D "Threw her off a magic cliff, and then everyone came back but not her? why? I don't know, something to do with the magic cliff or something I guess."
Even Quill said that he doesn't even care of the villain's backstory because yes, MCU these days make the villains sympathized in the end and got redeemable while High Evolutionary is just pure evil and not redeemable.
@@margarethmichelina5146 which I'm glad he went for just a straight bad guy route, seeing a villain just being bad for the sake of being bad because he has a God complex. I'm also happy this wasn't another generic universal level threatening villain.
@@kidart89 and it came from someone with one of the worst dads in the universe. Drax needed to hear that. As a father myself, that's something we all want to hear.
Agreed... honestly it's been an upward trend with Wakanda Forever, Quantumania and GOTG Vol 3 back to back compared to the MoM, Ms. Marvel, Love and Thunder, She Hulk streak of dog crap that we got last year around summer. My only worry is that this upward trend is broken by The Marvels 😭😭
@@lucasmateo1556 The Marvels? The movie that makes the internet unleashes some negativity towards it months before release? Even if it's good, people will still talk bad about it
Sadly the film won't make as much as even the first film whereas all the money will be made by trash jerk off worthless crap films like Fast X and Little Mermaid.... What a pathetic crap of a world we are living in !
To the point about Gamora's story in this film being a bit rough, Gunn actually said in an interview his original idea was to kill her off in Volume 2 rather than Yondu. But then things changed, that didn't quite fit the story he was telling. Ultimately the Russo's asked if they could do the Soul Stone story with Gamora and Gunn agreed. But it is interesting to know that
I think the plan could've been for Gamora to join Peter's old squad and that's her character ending, like we find the alt Gamora doing in this movie. But that's no longer possible, so he just kinda awkwardly inserted her in anyway and tried to make a story out of it.
Huh. Weird to learn if true. It's somewhat funny to think that her dying in _Guardians of Galaxy 2_ instead means that Thanos just...can't win in _Infinity War_ or at least can't get all six stones. After all, only she knew where the Soul Stone was since I don't think she ever told Nebula the specifics, and I can't see Thanos deluding himself into thinking he "loves" anyone else to acquire it, though I guess he could just force other people to do so. Shrug.
@@MusicoftheDamned That wouldn't have been the story. For the simplest solution, Gamora's story in Infinity War would have been shifted to Nebula. Otherwise, we would have gotten quite a different IW movie, and Endgame would be considerably different regardless.
@@dangerdan79 Well, yes. I just didn't feel like extrapolating at the moment. It was just funny to finally realize that if Gamora had died at *any* point previous to _Infinity War_ and the MCU story we got, Thanos was hilariously screwed out of the Soul Stone twice over.
I was actually a big fan of Will Poulters portrayal of Adam, he had a new sense of energy, funny enough similar to a toddler. (Which he kind of is) but still knows when something he did is wrong and isn’t just a killing machine.
@@salt3685eah especially if you’re gonna do a movie about the fall of the Old Guardians and the rise of the new ones. I’m really looking forward to see how they’ll use Adam and Phylla (who were the other two 2000s Guardians) in the future.
Sadly the film won't make as much as even the first film whereas all the money will be made by trash jerk off worthless crap films like Fast X and Little Mermaid.... What a pathetic crap of a world we are living in !
Nebula's characterization is a massive highlight for me, same with Rocket but that's quite obvious. To think that she benefitted heavily from Infinity War and Endgame. Remember that they spent 5 whole years just the two of them basically, just feeling sad about losing the other Guardians then going above and beyond to get them back. It really pays off when she stands up for Rocket and Peter when Gamora insults them and generally how she behaves with the rest of the Guardians. It's strange that while the Guardians movies are the best, most solid and most detached from the MCU, huge aspects of Vol. 3 are so interconnected to Infinity War and Endgame that they're a bit of a necessary watch, but at least they offer a lot of good character development for a lot of them.
I love that the 3 guardians movies are such a strong standalone trilogy that work independent of the MCU at large. They'll go down as some of the most timeless films from the MCU
i dont cry during movies but my sister cried 4-5 times in the theater. when rocket screams in that one flashback, i thought the tears were going to erode my sisters eyeballs into nothingness from how hard she was crying. fuckin rad movie
It's great seeing her develop empathy and comradery while simultaneously seeing Gamora being a vicious, raging maniac in a timeline where she didn't get character development. A total flip where now Nebula is the one trying to keep Gamora from going too far. And we get hints at Gamora regaining (or just plain gaining) that empathy and comradery toward the end.
@@alvin2021 What differentiates her from Tony is that Tony is human, but ultimately does the most Godly thing ever (literally sacrificing his life for half the Universe. Sorta like Jesus and his Crucifixion) while Nebula starts off as cruel and inhumane and eventually becomes a human. Her development felt more real because we all look for a warm place. A group of sorts, filled with people we can finally trust and relate to.
Wouldn’t say THE best, but definitely one of the best. The way she goes from a maniacal sociopathic killer in the first film, no regard for others who hamper her final quest, to this. Think the moment the crowd finally sees her human side is when she hears Rocket alive and has a moment of sheer satisfaction. Even through this film, it shows her going from being cold to someone who actually cares. And her final line in the film is what got a lot of people. I don’t normally cry but that final shot did. Probably the most cathartic ending in the entire MCU, and honestly a better ending than Endgame too.
Every character (core and supporting) has an arc throughout the Guardians franchise & to see everyone’s story get a fitting close ( without major fatalities this time) was wholesome catharsis.
At this point it seems like a small miracle if whatever movie is next for you people still sticking with the MCU is even mediocre, especially with how _Quantumania_ seems to have gone. You have my sympathies.
@FourCGames naah bro Marvels looks great and will deliver The director and cast is awesome Sure it will be woke but it'll also be better Better than the crap battison batman
@@vishalthefirst4140 Great cast? No it's not lmao. Brie Larson is a piece of shit human being and not very good as actress, the actress for Ms. Marvel is kinda bad too and Monica Ramboe is the only one of the three that's decent and the only actor that's really good in there is Samuel Jackson. It will flop hard.
Best of the Guardians trilogy to me. Gunn's attention to character and ability to balance comic oddities with humor and relatable dark moments consistently impresses me. He's definitely my favorite name to see attached to the genre
I'm so glad they gave Drax an outstanding ending, that man is the single funniest character in the MCU and it feels so good to see him go out on a high note Edit: also Drax trying to lay on the couch had me in stitches
This was the first time a movie has made me cry hard in a really long time. Like not just tears, I mean I was actually heaving and could barely keep myself from whimpering out loud. One scene in particular made me feel like I was reliving the death of a family member, and that’s just insane. Needless to say that this movie fucked me up quite a bit, but in a (kind of) good way. It was a phenomenal movie 👌🏻
Frankly, I didn’t cry at all during the scenes. I got close though in the afterlife scene where Lylla said the “hands” quote, Bradley Cooper and Linda Cardellini’s voice acting was amazing there particularly for the latter because it sounded so ethereal than from what I was used to from her. But I found the emotional scenes to be well done overall and I could get behind the emotions that each scene was trying to convey.
The Scene that had an awkward cut I believe was intentional. I found it extremely funny and appropriate simply because I think the stylistic choice to go from a full on awesome action pack scene to a regular one simply to add to a deeper humor that the movie is jam packed with. This movie was by far the best one in the longest time! Definitely hats off to Gunn for creating what is my favorite trilogy.
4:35 THANKYOU!!!! I've been saying this for years. Stories need to end, that's the point. There's a beginning a middle an ending. If you just keep making something it loses some of what made it special, if you keep going even further then its just something to watch. Doesn't mean you can't enjoy it, but it really really diminishes the impact of what it originally was. It had lack luster moments, but this movie sent off these characters in a way that made me happy which is high praise lately for the MCU.
I’m glad someone else noticed the editing. There was a moment when Adam punched a huge hole in Quill and Gamora’s ship exposing it to the vacuum of space, and then we just cut away for four minutes, and then we cut back and they safely crashed the ship and I’m wondering how long they were flying around with a huge hole in the ship
@@Stickykobe420 yeah, but they only ever show that for parts of the hull. This was whole windshield blown out. I don’t know, it just seemed weird to cut away from it
In defense of Adam (huge Warlock fan here). His initial arc in the comics takes about a full decade irl to make his character a focal point of the universe. So while I definitely hoped that there would more of an arc within the film itself. I can see where the growth would go in the future
I enjoyed this movie so much. I don't think we'll be getting a quality movie like this anytime soon. I loved the guardians from the first movie. I am glad they got the ending they deserved.
Yeah, especially if you look at the trailer for the next movie, The Marvels. That shit looks so fucking bad lol. That's gonna be pure garbage, I guarantee it. The trailer is absolutely stuffed full of jokes and litetally not a single one of them is funny.
With the exception of new Gamora, this movie also feels very disconnected from the rest of the MCU which can only be a good thing at this stage to be honest.
@@pimentx3253 Yea, they saw him fired and almost immediately took him in. They also offered him to write Superman directly, but he declined initially went with the Suicide Squad.
Thought them acknowledging drax as being a father first was awesome. It gets sidelined often but they rlly made it apart of his character in this movie.
If anything, Guardians 3 proves that the MCU is willing to let directors do their own thing and explore darker themes with zero pushback from execs. Also Wakanda Forever and Werewolf by Night came out not too long ago??
as someone who's actually been enjoying the last projects of the mcu, I have to say this movie had so much heart that I couldn't help but cry many times, hopefully we'll get more movies like this in the mcu, btw sorry about your strike cosmonaut
I'm so glad that Marvel let James Gunn make the movie he wanted,It restored my faith in modern super hero movie's agian and makes me excited for what James's Gunn has planned for DC
GotG Volume 3 is for me about emotional intelligence. You see that in the bigger things like the difference between Rocket and the High Evolutionary, but also in small scenes like where Quill gives that batwoman that cloth for her wound and then she understands that theyre not evil and wants to help them too. Also a good example is the argument between Nebula, Mantis and Drax, where Nebula asks what use Drax has, cause he is so dumb. Mantis answers with: "He makes us laugh and loves us". Everything is about trying to understand the other person, being nice and people will be nice to you. I also love that you actually see that the Guardians love each other. There are like several hugs between all of them. I also think the guardians have the most character growth of all MCU characters. The ending like in Volume 2 also made me cry like a baby.
I literally just got finished watching it and all I can say is that this is easily the best mcu trilogy. No movie had a weak link, every single one was great but each improved on the last. Every character is fleshed out and given a satisfying conclusion. The only bad thing is that this movie being so good will really make the rest of the mcu’s failings look even worse. But hey it was worth it.
Love mantis being more physically badass but also keeping her kindness and empathy as her greatest strength Her biggest/helpful moments really came from her caring and loving nature, It’s especially refreshing when seen in the context of MCU female characters who are all kind of brooding hardened badasses, So to have mantis who is unapologetically comedic, sensitive, and joyful is a breath of fresh air.
I know you haven’t had the best experience with transformers, but would you consider reviewing the new transformers movie after it comes out, as it’s a sequel to bumblebee, which you apparently consider to be good
@@Alex-pq2fv no, I’m pretty sure that when they started the second Dan specifically said “can we please just get to the good one” and as they agreed that the bay movies continually decline in quality, I’m gonna guess they meant bumblebee
@@blasecascadeanimation4671 Yes they said that but Marcus did say in one of them (I think it was Revenge of the Fallen) "I didnt care for that Bumblebee movie, but after seeing these for the picture show, I might like it a little more" So he thinks it's... A MOVIE, but he seems much more willing to watch that than any other movie in that dogshit franchise
Hoping the higher ups at marvel see the massive praise of this movie and try to incorporate it into their upcoming films, cuz if they don’t, the MCU won’t reach a high as good as this one anytime soon
I feel like (and hope) we're slowly entering an age of villains reverting back into the classic "inexplicably evil" trope who are still well-crafted and enjoyable, and I absolutely love it!
The scene in which Rocket was wanting more than anything to join his friends in the afterlife was the breaking point for me, the waterworks started flowing, especially since I have more than been in those shoes before.
At least I ended up crying when Yondu and Gamora died in their respective movies. At least when 2013 Gamora wiggled herself into the third movie, it did not feel she was scrapbooked into it. She had some relevant things to do in the film.
Rockets backstory with his friends was so damn well done. I was so invested i forgot they were flash backs and maybe rocket would save them later in the movie or maybe perhaps they escaped like he did and they would reunite, sadly not what happened and that curve ball really got me.😢 But damn if it wasn't so effective ar making me believe the opposite for a little bit.
Sure, Guardians 3 is the best one since ENDGAME, but I hate how people just forget about Shang-Chi, No Way Home, Doctor Strange 2, and Wakanda Forever. These were all pretty great movies u know (not to mention Loki, Moon Knight, WandaVision, Werewolf By Night, The Holiday Special)
Took the words right out of my mouth. I get that there’s been some duds but there has been some great movies since endgame. Just bc there’s been projects that people didn’t like, doesn’t mean that they were bad
2:19 the jokes weren’t just inconsistent, the timing was terrible. 30 seconds after watching an animal get tortured I’m listening to Drax make a poop joke
I watched on the first day and there were a family with a group of kids in front of me, they were talking the whole film until the first rocket flashback hits, then they were silent for the rest of the film lmao
I was really glad to catch this movie in theaters, and it was really great to see how well the heart of the previous guardians movies were captured so well one last time. I had a great time. But something that stuck with me was how strange Adam Warlock’s inclusion was. I knew that he defeated Thanos in the original infinity gauntlet comic and he was important in the guardians of the galaxy game, but he was kind of an afterthought. I just played DMC4 and it reminds me of how Dante was included in the game to provide the impetus, but is really an afterthought for the story and action.
So pleased someone else commented on that jarring cut!!! I noticed that in the cinema too and thought that was bizarre especially given the one-shot spectacle I'd just seen.
I think it was on purpose, it looked amazing as they were fighting with the music blasting, but that’s not what real life is like, so it cuts back to that realistically
SPOILERS Honestly, just watching the other guardians reactions to Rocket and Quill survive, it made them out to be a closer family than my own family lol
Small jokes like mantis always landing on her neck, the camera angles were great. I especially like the shot with the star child running on the treadmill.
the emotion in this movie is incredible. it's been a long while since i felt something genuine in a marvel movie. the ending made me cry for real. incredible.
A scene between an intelligent raccoon, a rabbit with spider legs, a walrus with wheels and an otter with metal arms made me cry
Just wanna leave it here. Consider buying cosmetics that don't test on animals because cosmetic industry is just as horrible if not worse, compared to the villain in gotg3. Animals shouldn't be tortured for cosmetics.
seek help. You must cry at anything you see.
@@gandalfthegrey2592seek help, you must hate everything you see.
this sentence would make a victorian child’s head explode. anyways you’re right. i did too.
"ROCKET, TEEFS, FLOOR GO NOW" had me so scared and terrified. That whole scene was brutal.
Feel like I’m the only one that noticed it but I love the gag of Mantis always landing on her head and almost breaking her neck. That shit had me dying.
Girl should've died with that last one. Loud ass *crckckkk* noise.
I noticed that too lol
Wait wat
Haha yeah
@@isaacb2199 lol you missed it? It was hilarious
One of my favorite things about the Guardians is how much they feel like a team. Nobody on the team is way more powerful than the others. They all have their strengths and weaknesses and this movie gives all of them a moment to do something way cool. It’s like a really good dnd campaign
Never saw it that way but you are so right lol
Love this! Yes. That is what it is like.
Yeah, it's not like a typical superhero team where the leader is way more powerful than everyone else which basically makes them pointless like the Justice League
They've already shown their chemistry from the first movie. That's the beauty of James Gunn, he likes to make a group of different people with different personalities can work together at a team. Also, fun fact, he was the writer of The First live action 2000's Scooby-Doo's movie.
@@wlot28 watch the justice league animated show and ull learn very quickly that superman is nowhere near the strongest DC character around lol, nor is he the leader of the team
Drax dancing carries more emotional weight then a lot of the MCU
IKR! I watched the first 2 movies before seeing this in theaters and he said in one of them that there were two kinds of people in the universe: ones who dance and ones who don't and he considered himself as one who did not. And man, when he started dancing at the end, that just hit hard seeing how far he's come.
The song that plays during that scene had never really emotionally affected me before because during the late '00s it's popularity seemed kinda forced, but hearing it for the first time in years in that context, I was an absolute emotional wreck, full-on sobbing
I was really disappointed about how they made Drax the DESTROYER a goof ball comic relief and never destroy anything. But Drax the dad made me tear up and it was all worth it.
Yes. I only wish he let go and finally danced, as a goodbye to mantis. I feel like that was a missed opportunity.
Guardians 3 reminds me why we liked the MCU in the first place
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Its so trippy to imagine a time where MCU movies weren't as reviled as they are now.
not really
@@lola-to9om shut up bolas
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In all honesty, when Rocket screamed, I sobbed, that part hurt to see, especially with Floor screaming for then to escape 😭
In a scene where the characters were cgi animal hybrids, its the one part of the movie that felt uncomfortably human. It really made you want to get as far away as you could but also to linger and see the depths of suffering on display before you.
That part where they reunited in the afterlife for a bit got me sobbing after Laylla said that Rocket still got purpose on earth.
cliche as hell but got me sobbing.
@@2ndeaster The bit where rocket says that it's his fault that they died is the one that crushed me the most. The guilt the poor guy must have felt.
@@2ndeaster laylla? wtf?
Floor's screaming "ROCKET, TEEFS, FLOOR GO NOW" over and over broke my heart. It's such a primal expression of terror, that we can't stop and mourn because right now we NEED TO GET OUT.
Mantis turning into the universes nicest person and that being used in her action scenes was next level
nicest person she called drax an idiot bro😭
@@bananaking664 And immediately felt bad and made him forget
Also, when did she learn how to fight while her power is just touching people, feeling their emotions and even manipulate their emotion against them? And the entire movie is her for babysitting Drax until she leaves the room and wants to find her own purpose.
@@margarethmichelina5146 probably since in between Guardians 2 and Infinity War, and however long it was when she got snapped back in Endgame to Love and Thunder to the Christmas special. She's on a team of fighters, just because she didn't have a training montage doesn't mean they wouldn't have taught her behind the scenes. Lol
@@margarethmichelina5146 you kind of have to assume that while they go on all their adventures between this movie and whenever the last time we saw them was that all that training is happening off screen. Honestly I’d prefer that than the arrow scene, which was all payoff with way too little setup
The Gamora B-plot is actually a mirror of the High Evolutionary's motivations. Quill desperately wants this Gamora to be like the dead one that he tries multiple times to woo her. He eventually gets over it and lets her go. An opposite of the High Evo who forces animals and people to be what he wants them to be.
I think it also works nicely to show that Gamora always had a good heart and would be pushed to heroism via exposure of the guardians.
Really good point. The high evolutionary never learned how to 'swim'. He couldn't accept a world that didn't meet his ludicrous expectations, so he became the villain by commiting all the way to being a control freak.
Also love the irony that High Evo never realized the only reason Rocket could learn and be creative is because he is flawed. A "perfect" creature has no room to grow
I was "iffy" about Gamora until the last scene where she rejoined the Revengers. It showed that she had found a family, just not with the Guardians. I think this was James doing the best he could with Gamora's death. He didn't retcon it and act like nothing happened, and he didn't just redo the Peter and Gamora falling for each other arc for the third time. Gamora from the previous two movies stayed dead, which gives Infiniti War weight.
@@davidmhh9977 revengers? lmao get your mind out of thor ragnarok. they're the ravagers. also i completely agree.
Not only a good MCU movie, but a really good movie. Really feels like its own
I thought that too. I walked away going "Oh, Im like, watching a 'movie'-movie rn, cool"
True, a friend of mine didn‘t watch any movies with the Guardians in it beforehand, and yet he understood about 90% of the movie
its a trash film and a basic marvel film you know nothing about real film you marvel drone
Top 10 MCU film?
@@auburnmann3630nah
It's top 1.
This was easily the most emotional mcu film I think I've ever seen
I let out a whimper, never felt so vulnerable
Man they made me cry for a CGI Raccoon
I feel so bad cause I felt nothing, like I just was like, oh that was a film, that wasn't bad just a good enough film...
@ethananthony8439 that's canon to the MCU?????
@@ethananthony8439true. A comedy produces an emotion.
“You weren’t born to be a destroyer. You were born to be a dad” that line got me
I love the High Evolutionary in this movie. Lately it’s seemed like every villain has had to have some tragic backstory or something and it’s just so refreshing to have a villain who’s just an absolute monster. He’s pure evil while still having a lot of character too unlike other similarly evil villains Marvel has tried like Malekith and Ronan.
I love how they even made a dig at those villains. Peter's little "I don't care about your sad backstory" thing was both comedic and in character without flanderizing him.
Even he said the line of "THERE IS NO GOD!", I know this character is pure evil and he's not redeemable in the end. Even he mocked Rocket's crying after he killed Rocket's weasel crush. He's what Kang supposed to be in Ant-Man 3 and the dude could replace Jonathan Majors after his arrestment. Why not? Marvel likes to cast the same actor on different movie like how Gemma Chan was in Captain Marvel and she becomes Sersi in Eternals for saving their casting budgets. Even James Gunn brings his brother, Sean, his co-stars from DCEU including the guy who play High Evolutionary who is in Peacemaker, the red alien girl that Quill, Gamora and Nebula took hostage on her who played Redcatcher 2 from The Suicide Squad even his wife, Jennifer Holland who played the love interest of Peacemaker is in the movie. Even Sylvester Stallone who's also playing King Shark in The Suicide Squad is in 2 Guardians movies even for a short screen time.
@@margarethmichelina5146 this would have been the corniest line in the movie if they didn’t say “it feels good to have friends” 3 times
I was lowkey fond of Ronan for his religious zealotry and Darth Vader-esque appearance. He had some good lines.
I just legitimately feel bad for Malekith. Barely like the original character, no presence, no distinct motive, and his one achievement I thought he had (killing Thor's mom) was *actually done by one of his minions.* And played by a great actor too!
True thats what I love aswell. A character thats just evil for evils sake is usually boring. The high evolutionary is still a good nuanced characters that just happens to be pure evil
I loved the jabs that Gunn threw in at the Endgame storyline and how it messed with his characters, I laughed hard at it :D
"Threw her off a magic cliff, and then everyone came back but not her? why? I don't know, something to do with the magic cliff or something I guess."
Haha
Even Quill said that he doesn't even care of the villain's backstory because yes, MCU these days make the villains sympathized in the end and got redeemable while High Evolutionary is just pure evil and not redeemable.
“You left out some important information but thats the gist of it, yes.” ~Nebula lmao
@@writingref haha
@@margarethmichelina5146 which I'm glad he went for just a straight bad guy route, seeing a villain just being bad for the sake of being bad because he has a God complex. I'm also happy this wasn't another generic universal level threatening villain.
“There are the hands and then there are the hands that guide the hands” my favorite quote of the movie.
"There is no god, so I stepped in" is another great one
Your missing "the hands **that guide us**" haha
“You were not meant to be a destroyer, you were meant to be a dad”
Man, OH MAN.
@@kidart89ripped that one right from God of war Ragnarok I ain’t complaining tho both pieces of media are amazing
@@kidart89 and it came from someone with one of the worst dads in the universe. Drax needed to hear that. As a father myself, that's something we all want to hear.
Been a long time since I cried this hard during a movie. A beautiful ending to a beloved trilogy
It was meh
@@BazzbTV sorry it was meh for you
@@BazzbTV youre so boring bruh
@@BazzbTV wrong opinion
@@eggmanboyman2871 I’m not certain you understand what an opinion even is
“Rocket, Teefs and Floor go now” - that scene is still with me and I saw the movie 2 weeks ago
Saw it two months ago. It's still with me.
If more MCU projects are made with the same effort and passion as Guardians of the Galaxy 3, I think they can rebound from the poor Phase 4 reception
Agreed... honestly it's been an upward trend with Wakanda Forever, Quantumania and GOTG Vol 3 back to back compared to the MoM, Ms. Marvel, Love and Thunder, She Hulk streak of dog crap that we got last year around summer. My only worry is that this upward trend is broken by The Marvels 😭😭
I just don't see it happening with Gunn jumping ship and going to DC.
Best Guardians movie?
@@lucasmateo1556 The Marvels? The movie that makes the internet unleashes some negativity towards it months before release? Even if it's good, people will still talk bad about it
Sadly the film won't make as much as even the first film whereas all the money will be made by trash jerk off worthless crap films like Fast X and Little Mermaid.... What a pathetic crap of a world we are living in !
It’s been a pretty rough week. Some cosmonaut should do us some good
Captain, it's Wednesday.
@@AshyMuted like damn the week jus started 😂
i feel ya
Marcus is a dumba$$ that expects things to go his way. But that won't happen.
Same man I started the week off learning my dad died
To the point about Gamora's story in this film being a bit rough, Gunn actually said in an interview his original idea was to kill her off in Volume 2 rather than Yondu. But then things changed, that didn't quite fit the story he was telling. Ultimately the Russo's asked if they could do the Soul Stone story with Gamora and Gunn agreed. But it is interesting to know that
I think the plan could've been for Gamora to join Peter's old squad and that's her character ending, like we find the alt Gamora doing in this movie. But that's no longer possible, so he just kinda awkwardly inserted her in anyway and tried to make a story out of it.
Huh. Weird to learn if true. It's somewhat funny to think that her dying in _Guardians of Galaxy 2_ instead means that Thanos just...can't win in _Infinity War_ or at least can't get all six stones. After all, only she knew where the Soul Stone was since I don't think she ever told Nebula the specifics, and I can't see Thanos deluding himself into thinking he "loves" anyone else to acquire it, though I guess he could just force other people to do so. Shrug.
@@sophiaisoutofservice well-said, but maybe use paragraphs next time 👍👍
@@MusicoftheDamned That wouldn't have been the story. For the simplest solution, Gamora's story in Infinity War would have been shifted to Nebula. Otherwise, we would have gotten quite a different IW movie, and Endgame would be considerably different regardless.
@@dangerdan79 Well, yes. I just didn't feel like extrapolating at the moment. It was just funny to finally realize that if Gamora had died at *any* point previous to _Infinity War_ and the MCU story we got, Thanos was hilariously screwed out of the Soul Stone twice over.
I was actually a big fan of Will Poulters portrayal of Adam, he had a new sense of energy, funny enough similar to a toddler. (Which he kind of is) but still knows when something he did is wrong and isn’t just a killing machine.
I think a lot of us enjoyed Will Poulters performance, we just wish he had more to do in said performance besides just being there.
@@salt3685eah especially if you’re gonna do a movie about the fall of the Old Guardians and the rise of the new ones. I’m really looking forward to see how they’ll use Adam and Phylla (who were the other two 2000s Guardians) in the future.
@@salt3685he is the reason the whole movie happened, and then he is the reason Quill survived. How was he just there?
My favorite MCU film since Endgame tbh. Love everything about it.
Not a high bar tbf
Might sound like recency bias but its my favorite movie in the whole mcu
@Jodio Joestar setting my calendar for a year from now to see if you still think that
@@Shaq1q for me it’s really close of first it’s so good i loved it so much
Sadly the film won't make as much as even the first film whereas all the money will be made by trash jerk off worthless crap films like Fast X and Little Mermaid.... What a pathetic crap of a world we are living in !
Nebula's characterization is a massive highlight for me, same with Rocket but that's quite obvious. To think that she benefitted heavily from Infinity War and Endgame. Remember that they spent 5 whole years just the two of them basically, just feeling sad about losing the other Guardians then going above and beyond to get them back. It really pays off when she stands up for Rocket and Peter when Gamora insults them and generally how she behaves with the rest of the Guardians.
It's strange that while the Guardians movies are the best, most solid and most detached from the MCU, huge aspects of Vol. 3 are so interconnected to Infinity War and Endgame that they're a bit of a necessary watch, but at least they offer a lot of good character development for a lot of them.
I love everything about this movie, it made me feel what I felt 5-4 years ago. It reminded me why I love these characters.
Seeing rocket have a good character development was so good
Don't listen to the reply above or below me, it's a scammer
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It reminded me how one of my favorite scenes from infinity war was the flashback to gamora's childhood.
I love that the 3 guardians movies are such a strong standalone trilogy that work independent of the MCU at large. They'll go down as some of the most timeless films from the MCU
i dont cry during movies but my sister cried 4-5 times in the theater. when rocket screams in that one flashback, i thought the tears were going to erode my sisters eyeballs into nothingness from how hard she was crying. fuckin rad movie
Nebula has the best character arc in the MCU, change my mind
She's really under appreciated. I almost wish her and Quill actually got together for the ultimate irony.
Id say its Tony Stark, starts as a selfish, self indulgent guy, making money off weapons, by the end of it all, sacrifices his life for others.
It's great seeing her develop empathy and comradery while simultaneously seeing Gamora being a vicious, raging maniac in a timeline where she didn't get character development. A total flip where now Nebula is the one trying to keep Gamora from going too far. And we get hints at Gamora regaining (or just plain gaining) that empathy and comradery toward the end.
@@alvin2021 What differentiates her from Tony is that Tony is human, but ultimately does the most Godly thing ever (literally sacrificing his life for half the Universe. Sorta like Jesus and his Crucifixion) while Nebula starts off as cruel and inhumane and eventually becomes a human. Her development felt more real because we all look for a warm place. A group of sorts, filled with people we can finally trust and relate to.
Wouldn’t say THE best, but definitely one of the best. The way she goes from a maniacal sociopathic killer in the first film, no regard for others who hamper her final quest, to this.
Think the moment the crowd finally sees her human side is when she hears Rocket alive and has a moment of sheer satisfaction. Even through this film, it shows her going from being cold to someone who actually cares. And her final line in the film is what got a lot of people. I don’t normally cry but that final shot did. Probably the most cathartic ending in the entire MCU, and honestly a better ending than Endgame too.
Every character (core and supporting) has an arc throughout the Guardians franchise & to see everyone’s story get a fitting close ( without major fatalities this time) was wholesome catharsis.
Even the signature music gets an arc in this franchise.
I felt that Gunn not killing off the characters and giving them happy endings (even Adam Warlock!) was an apology for killing off the original Gamora.
After seeing how good Guardians 3 was it’s truly gonna hurt me when I see the next Marvel movie and it’s mediocre
At this point it seems like a small miracle if whatever movie is next for you people still sticking with the MCU is even mediocre, especially with how _Quantumania_ seems to have gone. You have my sympathies.
The next movie will be The Marvels. I guarantee you that that vomit inducing garbage won't be anywhere near to "mediocre" lol.
@FourCGames naah bro
Marvels looks great and will deliver
The director and cast is awesome
Sure it will be woke but it'll also be better
Better than the crap battison batman
Well considering you've already decided for yourself you're not going to like it it kinda seems like you want that to happen 😂
@@vishalthefirst4140 Great cast? No it's not lmao. Brie Larson is a piece of shit human being and not very good as actress, the actress for Ms. Marvel is kinda bad too and Monica Ramboe is the only one of the three that's decent and the only actor that's really good in there is Samuel Jackson. It will flop hard.
Best of the Guardians trilogy to me. Gunn's attention to character and ability to balance comic oddities with humor and relatable dark moments consistently impresses me. He's definitely my favorite name to see attached to the genre
Top 10 MCU movie?
@Auburn Mann if I made a list I'd definitely put it up there
I've cried during movies before. Can't say I ever cried during an MCU movie. I cried hard at multiple points in this story.
Same
I'm so glad they gave Drax an outstanding ending, that man is the single funniest character in the MCU and it feels so good to see him go out on a high note
Edit: also Drax trying to lay on the couch had me in stitches
This was the first time a movie has made me cry hard in a really long time. Like not just tears, I mean I was actually heaving and could barely keep myself from whimpering out loud. One scene in particular made me feel like I was reliving the death of a family member, and that’s just insane. Needless to say that this movie fucked me up quite a bit, but in a (kind of) good way. It was a phenomenal movie 👌🏻
Frankly, I didn’t cry at all during the scenes. I got close though in the afterlife scene where Lylla said the “hands” quote, Bradley Cooper and Linda Cardellini’s voice acting was amazing there particularly for the latter because it sounded so ethereal than from what I was used to from her.
But I found the emotional scenes to be well done overall and I could get behind the emotions that each scene was trying to convey.
Not exactly the same, I've cried in movies before for sure, but this was different, like nauseous af tears it got to me THAT bad
The Scene that had an awkward cut I believe was intentional. I found it extremely funny and appropriate simply because I think the stylistic choice to go from a full on awesome action pack scene to a regular one simply to add to a deeper humor that the movie is jam packed with. This movie was by far the best one in the longest time! Definitely hats off to Gunn for creating what is my favorite trilogy.
4:35 THANKYOU!!!! I've been saying this for years. Stories need to end, that's the point. There's a beginning a middle an ending. If you just keep making something it loses some of what made it special, if you keep going even further then its just something to watch. Doesn't mean you can't enjoy it, but it really really diminishes the impact of what it originally was. It had lack luster moments, but this movie sent off these characters in a way that made me happy which is high praise lately for the MCU.
If stories are meant to end, why are there still people complaining that Steve and Tony are gone?
“This was my last hope for a GOOD Marvel movie.” Same
Possibly the greatest MCU fight scene in this film.
What fight?
@@gavinpage5655 the corridor scene
@@Mr.Murphy2802 Captain America and Bucky Vs Ironman was better
@@gavinpage5655 Nope, this is Better
One of you mean
Bro that scene where lyla dies and rocket cries and the music finally cuts is everything
I wanted to beat the shit out of the High Evolutionary through the screen so bad. The scratches weren't enough.
@@Syncopiia it was a lot more than just scratches, but I definitely understand what you're saying
I’m glad someone else noticed the editing. There was a moment when Adam punched a huge hole in Quill and Gamora’s ship exposing it to the vacuum of space, and then we just cut away for four minutes, and then we cut back and they safely crashed the ship and I’m wondering how long they were flying around with a huge hole in the ship
They stablished in other movies like volume 2 that they can drop a barrier that seals of rooms. No biggie.
@@Stickykobe420 yeah, but they only ever show that for parts of the hull. This was whole windshield blown out. I don’t know, it just seemed weird to cut away from it
I cried for the last 20 minutes, partly because of the emotion and partly because of my relief at the return of good MCU content
Do not listen to the reply above me
In defense of Adam (huge Warlock fan here).
His initial arc in the comics takes about a full decade irl to make his character a focal point of the universe. So while I definitely hoped that there would more of an arc within the film itself. I can see where the growth would go in the future
I enjoyed this movie so much. I don't think we'll be getting a quality movie like this anytime soon. I loved the guardians from the first movie. I am glad they got the ending they deserved.
Yeah, especially if you look at the trailer for the next movie, The Marvels. That shit looks so fucking bad lol. That's gonna be pure garbage, I guarantee it. The trailer is absolutely stuffed full of jokes and litetally not a single one of them is funny.
@@fourcgames7568And yet they got laughs in the theater I was in and most of the folks I know are excited for it.
@@Guinnessmonkey1 Well maybe those people have a different opinion than fourcgames. One man's trash is another man's tresure.
Yeah that cut after the hallway scene made me giggle
With the exception of new Gamora, this movie also feels very disconnected from the rest of the MCU which can only be a good thing at this stage to be honest.
It’s almost like instead of firing Gunn, they should have given him more power and work to do
Well, DC took the chance I suppose. lol
@@pimentx3253 Yea, they saw him fired and almost immediately took him in.
They also offered him to write Superman directly, but he declined initially went with the Suicide Squad.
@@boxtupos7718 Well he's writing Superman now. Let's see if he can replicate the GoTG magic in Superman.
That was the plan before they fired him.
I was excited for this movie, and was still so surprised by how much it impacted me
Thought them acknowledging drax as being a father first was awesome. It gets sidelined often but they rlly made it apart of his character in this movie.
this movie goes so unfathomably hard and I love it.
I loved that "single take" action scene. It was so well choreographed! Such a great film!
If anything, Guardians 3 proves that the MCU is willing to let directors do their own thing and explore darker themes with zero pushback from execs.
Also Wakanda Forever and Werewolf by Night came out not too long ago??
as someone who's actually been enjoying the last projects of the mcu, I have to say this movie had so much heart that I couldn't help but cry many times, hopefully we'll get more movies like this in the mcu, btw sorry about your strike cosmonaut
I'm so glad that Marvel let James Gunn make the movie he wanted,It restored my faith in modern super hero movie's agian and makes me excited for what James's Gunn has planned for DC
GotG Volume 3 is for me about emotional intelligence. You see that in the bigger things like the difference between Rocket and the High Evolutionary, but also in small scenes like where Quill gives that batwoman that cloth for her wound and then she understands that theyre not evil and wants to help them too. Also a good example is the argument between Nebula, Mantis and Drax, where Nebula asks what use Drax has, cause he is so dumb. Mantis answers with: "He makes us laugh and loves us". Everything is about trying to understand the other person, being nice and people will be nice to you.
I also love that you actually see that the Guardians love each other. There are like several hugs between all of them. I also think the guardians have the most character growth of all MCU characters. The ending like in Volume 2 also made me cry like a baby.
According to Gunn, Gamora dying in IW was intended as he had discussions with the Russo's prior to the confirmation of her death.
I literally just got finished watching it and all I can say is that this is easily the best mcu trilogy. No movie had a weak link, every single one was great but each improved on the last. Every character is fleshed out and given a satisfying conclusion.
The only bad thing is that this movie being so good will really make the rest of the mcu’s failings look even worse. But hey it was worth it.
Love mantis being more physically badass but also keeping her kindness and empathy as her greatest strength
Her biggest/helpful moments really came from her caring and loving nature, It’s especially refreshing when seen in the context of MCU female characters who are all kind of brooding hardened badasses, So to have mantis who is unapologetically comedic, sensitive, and joyful is a breath of fresh air.
2:40 EXACTLY, I was like "well there definitely was a cut"
One of the best MCU movies period. There hasn't been a bad guardians movie or appearance imo.
2nd one wasn't great but not bad I guess
Loved seeing you on shuffle up and play. It was such a great episode.
Thanks for vod channel
I know you haven’t had the best experience with transformers, but would you consider reviewing the new transformers movie after it comes out, as it’s a sequel to bumblebee, which you apparently consider to be good
You mean that Marcus likes the Bumblebee movie? I thought him and Dan both said in the last video he hated it
@@Alex-pq2fv no, I’m pretty sure that when they started the second Dan specifically said “can we please just get to the good one” and as they agreed that the bay movies continually decline in quality, I’m gonna guess they meant bumblebee
@@blasecascadeanimation4671
Yes they said that but Marcus did say in one of them (I think it was Revenge of the Fallen) "I didnt care for that Bumblebee movie, but after seeing these for the picture show, I might like it a little more"
So he thinks it's... A MOVIE, but he seems much more willing to watch that than any other movie in that dogshit franchise
Hoping the higher ups at marvel see the massive praise of this movie and try to incorporate it into their upcoming films, cuz if they don’t, the MCU won’t reach a high as good as this one anytime soon
The Guardians should be left as is. They've always been effective when they're uninvolved by the bigger picture.
You're forgetting "Fantastic Four (2025)"
to be honest the mcu never really reaches those highs anyway, its usually alot of acceptable mid that passes the time then one banger and so on
@@ahmadazem4167 Fantastic Four doesn't deal with mid
I feel like (and hope) we're slowly entering an age of villains reverting back into the classic "inexplicably evil" trope who are still well-crafted and enjoyable, and I absolutely love it!
The scene in which Rocket was wanting more than anything to join his friends in the afterlife was the breaking point for me, the waterworks started flowing, especially since I have more than been in those shoes before.
Gunn’s original plan was to actually kill her in Guardians 2 instead of Yondu. So he didn’t really have a plan for Gamora in Vol 3
At least I ended up crying when Yondu and Gamora died in their respective movies. At least when 2013 Gamora wiggled herself into the third movie, it did not feel she was scrapbooked into it. She had some relevant things to do in the film.
Thank you so much Cosmonaut Marcus for fighting for your Transformers reactions. Sone of the best and funniest content youve made bro.
I bawled my eyes out at the end, when that song started playing. Just floods of tears
Rockets backstory with his friends was so damn well done. I was so invested i forgot they were flash backs and maybe rocket would save them later in the movie or maybe perhaps they escaped like he did and they would reunite, sadly not what happened and that curve ball really got me.😢 But damn if it wasn't so effective ar making me believe the opposite for a little bit.
5:25 Marcus's Uber arrives, allowing him to finish up the review just in time to eat dinner
Sure, Guardians 3 is the best one since ENDGAME, but I hate how people just forget about Shang-Chi, No Way Home, Doctor Strange 2, and Wakanda Forever. These were all pretty great movies u know (not to mention Loki, Moon Knight, WandaVision, Werewolf By Night, The Holiday Special)
Took the words right out of my mouth. I get that there’s been some duds but there has been some great movies since endgame. Just bc there’s been projects that people didn’t like, doesn’t mean that they were bad
that line from that character about being the hand that creates your story is probably one of my favorite mcu moments
I was hoping for your review. Thanks for this
I love that this one is just James Gunn's middle finger to Disney.
Did you guys know James Gunn lost his finger today he was chopping carrots and he cut off his finger
And his finger turned into carrot guy from the movie
U lying right ?
What?
Legitimately made me remember why I used to love these movies. Wonderful send off. I love these characters and James Gunn
Great film, probably another great review, from another great channel ;)
2:19 the jokes weren’t just inconsistent, the timing was terrible. 30 seconds after watching an animal get tortured I’m listening to Drax make a poop joke
I just finished watching the movie and now we got this? Hell yea
Absolute wow. 9/10. Haven't seen it yet, but dang. Now I have to. Top priority. Love you man! Miss you!
So much love and respect went into these characters. GG mister Gunn
Right when I get home from watching the movie. Marcus you’re a psychic
The BEST MCU movie since Infinity War easily.
You were great on shuffle up and play!
This is the review I've been waiting for!!
Somehow... James Gunn returned
No one's ever *really* fired...
I watched on the first day and there were a family with a group of kids in front of me, they were talking the whole film until the first rocket flashback hits, then they were silent for the rest of the film lmao
Vicious little cut to Dave Bautista in an interview as soon as you say the word 'ugly' at 4:57 😂
I was really glad to catch this movie in theaters, and it was really great to see how well the heart of the previous guardians movies were captured so well one last time. I had a great time.
But something that stuck with me was how strange Adam Warlock’s inclusion was. I knew that he defeated Thanos in the original infinity gauntlet comic and he was important in the guardians of the galaxy game, but he was kind of an afterthought. I just played DMC4 and it reminds me of how Dante was included in the game to provide the impetus, but is really an afterthought for the story and action.
Drunk Quill was one of the most mature and sad moments in the MCU.
Huh. I was told James Gunn wouldn’t work on this movie.
Edit: I’m so glad the finally wore these outfits I’m so glad.
I'm so glad Old Boy exists and has this much influence. I've counted 4 Marvel projects with one take hallways fight scenes and I'm all for it.
So pleased someone else commented on that jarring cut!!! I noticed that in the cinema too and thought that was bizarre especially given the one-shot spectacle I'd just seen.
I think it was on purpose, it looked amazing as they were fighting with the music blasting, but that’s not what real life is like, so it cuts back to that realistically
SPOILERS
Honestly, just watching the other guardians reactions to Rocket and Quill survive, it made them out to be a closer family than my own family lol
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2:39. I’ve thought I was messed up because I was the only one who saw that weird cut. I’m relieved that I’m not alone
Small jokes like mantis always landing on her neck, the camera angles were great. I especially like the shot with the star child running on the treadmill.
Justice for my boy Teefs tho
Of course its good. Its James Gunn. Hes the only one trying.
the emotion in this movie is incredible. it's been a long while since i felt something genuine in a marvel movie. the ending made me cry for real. incredible.
I haven’t seen it yet but this weekend I’m seein it. And from what I heard…. This gonna be fantastic