Gru from the movie \ "Guardians of the Galaxy \" do it yourself

A popular character of a famous sci-fi action movie may turn out to be with you. Making a do-it-yourself guardian of the galaxy figurine is not difficult at all. The manufacturing technique is simple and the result is very realistic. You can use such a figurine at your own discretion: as a figurine for a mini-garden, as an interior decor item, etc.

Materials (edit)

Before starting work, prepare:

• wire;
• brown paint;
• clay pots;
• sand;
• stones;
• brushes for giving texture;
• salty dough.

Step 1... The very first stage of work will be the manufacture of the skeleton of the figurine from strong wire. Having outlined the main proportions and parameters on paper, twist a kind of skeleton of the guardian of the galaxy figurine out of the wire.

Step 2... Now the figure needs to be shaped. To do this, salt dough must be applied to the wire skeleton in pieces. Instead of this material, you can use other plastic and curing materials, such as polymer clay and more. Give the shape of a tree with a head to the guardian, shape the outlines of the face.

Step 3... Roll small sausages of different thicknesses from the dough and, pressing down, put them on top of the mold, starting from the bottom. Shape the guardian's arms into curved tree branches.

Step 4... Give the head a characteristic shape as well. To begin with, shape the eyes and mouth with the sharp end of the brush, correct any flaws with a toothpick and fingers. Make "hair" out of the sausages. They should resemble the broken bark of a tree.

Step 5... The resulting figurine needs to be painted. First, cover it all with brown. Let the paint dry. Then, using a thin brush, give the wood a deeper texture, close to natural. Darken all the grooves with a darker shade of brown, and lighten the convex places, on the contrary.

Paint several veins with green paint, imitating weaving leaves, paint also the tips of the fingers-branches.

Step 6... After the paint has dried, completely cover the figurine with acrylic varnish. Wait until it dries completely.

Step 7... Take a pot and put the name of the guard "Groot" on it with sausages made of dough. Cover the pot and letters with varnish.

Step 8... Pour sand at the bottom of the pot and add glue. Insert the guardian figurine into this solution. Let the glue set and harden. Sprinkle the top of the pot with stones and pieces of moss.

Groot - a fighting talking tree that knows only one phrase ("I am Groot") - sacrificed himself in the first "Guardians of the Galaxy" to save his friends, but managed to survive and in the finale was reborn as a small dancing tree. The scenario move delighted the audience so much that Baby Groot suddenly became almost the main character: for the sake of him, the director even changed the plot of the sequel. Why is a piece of wood so honored?

It's very simple: little Groot made Marvel and Disney studios a lot of money bypassing movie screens. Although he did not intend to be "the highlight of the program" (for this role the raccoon Rocket was prepared), the dancing Baby Groot melted the hearts of the audience, forcing director James Gunn to admit with some surprise: "Groot turned out to be the most popular character in the film." Figures of the dancing Kid in a flowerpot sold a huge circulation even before the release of the film on DVD. The studio assures that "I did not expect such an effect," but the phenomenon was evident, and something had to be done about it. Of course, Groot should have returned in a sequel. But in what form? After all, the adult Groot was not as popular as his "young" version ...

Now we know from the trailers what the studio did: for a significant part of the screen time, Baby Groot is acting instead of Groot (again voiced by Vin Diesel, although now, after passing through the filters, his voice has become "cartoonish" and completely unrecognizable). It is already older than the tree from the first series, but overall it has become even nicer. And the time allotted to him in commercials has increased markedly.

Of course, director Gann assures that the sale of toys has nothing to do with it, but it just happened. First, he wrote about it on Twitter, then on Facebook. But along the way, he himself let slip that he planned to start the sequel not with a small, but with an already grown Groot. Why did he change his mind in the end? The grown-up Groot idea, he said, “didn't work” (whatever that means).

“Then I came up with the idea of ​​making the second episode start shortly after the finale of the first and keeping Groot still small,” Gunn wrote. "And that decision became the key to the whole film, all the parts suddenly came together." Moreover, the director even reported that he feared that the studio would not allow him to leave Baby Groot in the plot.

You can believe these words or not, but there is a suspicion that if the studio wanted to rake in the maximum amount of money on the little Groot, it would have done exactly this: 1) threw old plot developments into the trash can; 2) tied the entire plot to the time zone where Groot remains a baby; 3) would increase his screen time; 4) would slightly change its design to release new figures; 5) in the end, would allow Groot to grow up to spur sales of "adult" figures.

In view of all these "coincidences", it seems that the case was not done without the recommendations of the authorities. From the point of view of merchandise, Baby Groot is a new character (he even behaves differently than in the first tape, becoming naive and playful a la immature Pinocchio), and Marvel always only welcomes the introduction of additional characters, especially in cases where it is clear in advance that souvenirs with their image will be swept off the shelves.

Shot from the film "Guardians of the Galaxy"

Gunn does not deny that from the very beginning he understood the financial potential of Baby Groot: “I was not an idiot and knew that if Baby Groot worked, the whole world would want to buy toys, figures and plush Groot ...” Further, however, the director states this: “ But I wasn't at all sure about it when I was alone in writing this story in my office, and it was definitely not the driving force behind my decision [to keep Groot as a toddler]. I just fell in love with this dude, although at that moment he lived only in my head. "

There is some discrepancy: on the one hand, the director was aware that Baby Groot had become “the most popular character”, but on the other hand, for some reason, Gann “was not sure” that people would want new toys in the form of Groot, and even “ I was afraid "that the studio would not let Groot be left small! That is, he almost begged his bosses to let him make a lot of money for them.

To anyone who knows how much merchandise affects American cinema, such arguments will seem ludicrous. I, they say, wanted to spit on toys, and if they are sold in large editions, then this is just a pleasant coincidence. For comparison: it’s as if Michael Bay suddenly said that while filming the sequel to “Transformers”, he did not plan to raise sales of toys of the same name and put in silly twin robots for a purely noble purpose - for the sake of powerful plot development. That is, he could have said - but who would have believed?

After the story came out that Cars 2 was filmed by Pixar just for the sake of selling new figures (which is very felt while watching the tape), one can only guess how often a “souvenir” becomes a true “plot engine” in Hollywood. Let's recall, for example, Ewoks - creatures that appeared on the screen purely for the sake of toy sales ... And they really sold with a bang.

There is even a special word in the English language toyetic (used to denote any entertainment content with a high "souvenir" potential) - before the era of summer blockbusters, this term did not exist, and the release of toys was never planned before a movie or TV series became a hit. But today, when collecting figurines has become a part of pop culture, the "souvenir" can go on sale even before the premiere, so as not to lose those buyers who rush to the shops immediately after the movie screening.

And this "souvenir", conscientiously calculated by marketers, almost always finds a sale. Sometimes she "saves" the whole project (for example, "Godzilla" by Roland Emmerich did not perform well at the box office, but the vigorous sales of the "merch" associated with it averted a financial catastrophe). Moreover, with its huge circulation, it may even be in short supply: for example, the souvenir products of "Cold Heart" sold for more than $ 5 billion, squeezing other toys from the store shelves for a long time - and still, at Christmas 2013, for Anna, Elsa , Olafa and Co were real battles between American parents, who were in a hurry to make their children happy ...

Although the ultimate owner of both "Frozen" and "Guardians of the Galaxy. Part 2 "one is Disney," director Gunn is somehow embarrassed to admit that his employers are interested in high revenue. He decisively dismisses accusations of "mercantile designs." Apparently, Gann does not want to look like a toy seller, but wants to look like a man of art - although it is clear to anyone that the whole of Hollywood is built on commercialism, and the point of producing a commercial film is precisely to get profit.

Selling things with the image of Mickey Mouse back in 1934 began to bring Walt Disney more money than his cartoons, and Walt only welcomed this. Moreover, Disney not only became the pioneer of cinematography, it is still the first in this regard: the company he created owns the studios Pixar, Lucasfilm and Marvel, which are so successful in toy sales. Merch has permeated Hollywood from top to bottom over the past quarter century. It is not customary to simply declare this in plain text. After all, the consumer really likes to think of cinema as an art ...

Meanwhile, the Marvel bosses a year ago mentioned that they intend to increase the amount of accompanying "merch" by the release of the sequel, relying on Groot. Gunn may not want to advertise how important the "souvenir" is for Marvel, but the studio itself sees no reason to hide it. What's so-and-so?

Vin Diesel is the only actor whose voice was not re-voiced in the Russian version of Guardians of the Galaxy, as he recorded lines for Groot in six languages. In the sequel, Diesel went even further and voiced his character in 16 languages, which is another confirmation that the studio has high hopes for Baby Groot.

Groot, we note, is far from the first case of this type. There are enough secondary characters that look brighter than the main characters in the history of cinema - take at least the saber-toothed Scrat from Ice Age, which has become the hallmark of the entire franchise, or the penguins from Madagascar. Of course, the authors were aware that these guys fell in love with the audience, because they tried to insert Scrat and the penguins into all subsequent episodes, and mountains of souvenir products were sold primarily thanks to them. The Penguins even made their own TV series. But to adjust the main plot for them? This has never happened before. Therefore, apparently, Gann and hesitates to call a spade a spade.

Obviously, when the unexpected potential of Baby Groot manifested itself, it was necessary to forge iron on the spot. Neither Scrat nor penguins are "perishable" products: their appearance does not change from batch to batch. And the matured Groot would quickly lose his childish charm and comic. And it would sell worse. Therefore, it was necessary to squeeze the maximum out of him while it was still possible. Whatever Gunn said, in our opinion, Baby Groot was inevitable.

Another question: is it bad? Of course not. Both Marvel and Gann know their business: they earn money, but they do not forget to entertain the audience. The constant expansion of the MCU by adding new characters has so far been possible for the studio without problems, so Baby Groot will certainly not spoil the mess, and will amuse everyone for sure.

Moreover, from the "souvenir" there is also an unconditional benefit for the audience. For example, had it not been for merchandise, the legendary Han Solo would have gone to the next world 30 years ago. Harrison Ford said that at some point he really wanted to kill this Star Wars hero, but George Lucas flatly refused - for the reason that the figures of the deceased characters are sold worse than the living ones. The fact is that thanks to the deal with 20th Century Fox, Lucas always received his main income from licensed "souvenirs" (the studio gave it to him at the mercy, because he did not really believe in the "toyism" of the first film), and now it is already clear that that it was a very good deal, since Yoda and his friends have sold $ 20 billion worth of toys since 1977. It is not surprising that George did not want to give up the death of Han Solo, one of his central moneymakers.

Lucas, in general, never hid from his colleagues that it was toy sales that laid the financial foundation of his film empire (that is, if he had not succeeded in selling merch in the late 70s, there would not have been a world-famous universe of Star wars "). Moreover, once Lucas even publicly stated that the entire franchise was created just for the sake of toys. That's right: for the toys.

So Khan was not destined to die. And how many other favorites of the public were saved from death thanks to caps, cups, badges and figurines?

... Returning to the title topic, one cannot but mention at last the following fact: a few months ago Vin Diesel blabbed out that James Gunn wanted to make a spin-off of Guardians of the Galaxy entirely dedicated to Groot and Rocket. The question arises: if the studio gives the go-ahead, then only because of the "toyetism" of this couple? I would like to believe that it is not and that the plot of the tape itself will be worthy of the voiced idea. But if the money-making Baby Groot appears again in the spin-off, we won't be surprised at all.

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Cinemafia has selected 11 of the best scenes from the film for you. But, attention! SPOILERS!

While Guardians of the Galaxy has surpassed the $ 160 million mark so far, we have collected and collected the best scenes. True, you can argue with us.

And, yes, the text contains all the spoilers, including a detailed description of the post-credits scene. So if you haven't seen the movie yet, then blame yourself. We warned!

Dancing Star-Lord

The second "opening scene" that we see after the Marvel intro is Star-Lord (aka Peter Quill) dancing on the abandoned planet Morag to the song Come and Get Your Love. This moment is imbued with a non-trivial combination of wit and fun, which creates a very right mood. Right away. Later we get to see Chris Pratt dancing once again when he summons Ronan the Accuser for a "dance battle". Let's just say that such a bold technique does not work so harmoniously in every blockbuster.

The Legend of Kevin Bacon

One of the funniest jokes is about Kevin Bacon. When Gamora informs Peter Quill that she is an assassin and a warrior, and therefore does not dance, he twitters (we quote the phrase as it is in the dub):

There is a legend on my planet about people like you. It's called "Free". This story is about how a great hero, his name is Kevin Bacon, taught a whole city of pouty turkeys the great art of dance. And it was incredible.

To which Gamora replies: "Who cheated these turkeys?" This shows how literally everything is perceived on the other side of the Galaxy.

Note: The 1984 movie Free, starring Kevin Bacon, is an American classic. According to the plot, the main character comes to a small provincial town where dancing is prohibited. And only he succeeds in changing these old-fashioned orders.

Rocket jokes on the disabled

The first time we encounter this is during a prison break, when Rocket asks Peter Quill to get him a prosthetic leg for one of the prisoners. A little later, when discussing the plan to attack Ronan's ship, he tries to convince everyone around that the false eye of one of Yondu's Ravagers is the most important element. Even in the most "hot" situations, the Raccoon does not lose its trademark sense of humor

Drunken Speeches of the Rocket

Perhaps the most powerful moment with the Raccoon in the film is the scene in the bar, where Rocket spills out all his feelings and emotions. In particular, resentment about being called a "pest". He cries, because it seems as if he did not ask to carry out laboratory experiments on him, which turned him into a monster. At this point, we understand that specific humor and insults to others are just a defensive reaction. This scene is really dramatic, because at some point you completely forget that the Raccoon is just a computer character.

100% asshole

Let's just make a reservation that in the original it sounds like 100% Dick. Thus, while working out a plan to destroy the "Black Aster", Star-Lord sends one of the representatives of NovaCorp "dick" message, which says that he is, of course, "asshole", but not one hundred percent. And asks for help.

Yondu Udonta and his arrow

Michael Rooker's Yondu is more than just a savage. He managed to turn this character into a very charming "bad guy". When Yondu's ship crashes, he is surrounded by Ronan's servants. But with the help of his trusty arrow, he calmly deals with twenty opponents. Yondu collects figurines on his dashboard, which, on the one hand, throws us straight to the Firefly, and on the other hand, shows a soulful nature. You know, like bikers who actually work in a flower shop.

Groot's smile

Groot's smile is literally the cherry on top of this Guardians of the Galaxy pie. Making their way to Ronan, Drax, Star-Lord and Groot stumble upon an entire army. Which Groot destroys ... hmm ... brutally. And then he turns around with an innocent and sincere smile, as if asking: "Did I do something good?" Yes, Groot, you really did a good job.

We are Groot

Towards the end of the film, Groot rescues the entire team by forming a "protective nest" around them. At the same time, the hero, who throughout the entire film says exactly one phrase - “I Am Groot”, this time says “We Are Groot”, which can be read as “We Are Friends”. Yes, it was possible to act completely differently and give Groot at the end of the film fundamentally different words, but the creators went this way, thereby endowing the familiar words with a completely different meaning.

Dancing Groot

The first scene after short credits shows us dancing little Groot against the background of Drax rubbing knives after the battle. All this takes place under I Want You Back by Jackson 5. This moment gives the audience a positive charge, and people leave the audience smiling (although we know that no one comes out from the Marvel films after the first scene).

Listen, baby. Ain "t No Mountain High Enough

The final scene, when Peter Quill finally unpacks his mother's parting gift - Awesome mix 2 cassette - literally breaks my heart, not without the help of the song Ain "t no mountain high enough. We understand that the heroes finally found not just friends, but a new family. Yes , this is a wonderful moment.

Duck Howard

Yes, here it is, the main spoiler. The scene after all of the credits shows us how the hapless Tevan the Collector examines the damage done to his collection. And then Howard the Duck appears with a snide comment. Fans are still debating who gave the voice to Howard - Seth Green, announced on imdb, or Nathan Fillion, whose cameo everyone was waiting for.

UPD. Still Seth Green!

After the release of the fantastic film Guardians of the Galaxy on the big screens, his characters became very popular. The tree-like creature Groot attracts special attention. Small figures have literally flooded the Internet and are sold for decent money. In this article, we will tell you how to make Groot from "Guardians of the Galaxy" from polymer clay.

Materials and tools for work:

• baked polymer clay
• working surface: glass or ceramic tiles with a flat smooth surface
• knife or scalpel
• toothpick
• soft wire
• pliers

How to make Groot from Guardians of the Galaxy

To create a woody pattern, we need baked polymer clay in beige, brown and dark brown colors. If you want to get a dark wood, then you can take an even darker brown, if light, then add more white.

Roll out layers of baked polymer clay of the same thickness and size.

We stack them on top of each other, from dark to light.

We roll out the resulting layer in length and a little in width. Cut in half and fold the halves on top of each other.

We repeat several times.

When we like the thickness of the strips, we cut the resulting layer into three or four parts, depending on the length.

With toothpicks or wooden skewers of different thicknesses, press the grooves on the cut pieces across the pattern of the stripes.

Roll tubes of the appropriate thickness from dark brown plastic and put them in the grooves. This will help create the knot pattern.

We put the layers in a pile.

Squeeze a little on all sides and cut across the knots into strips of equal thickness.

We spread the strips into the wood pattern. You can change the sequence and sides of the stripes as you like.

We roll it out by hand or using a pasta machine. We need a thin layer, because we will wrap the figure with it.

Using pliers, we assemble a frame from a soft wire. The head is a noose, the base for the torso and arms.

Create a shape from the remnants of unnecessary plastic.

We give a pose, bending the arms and torso.

Now we wrap the body and head with a layer of wood.

We wrap our hands in separate pieces.

We carefully smooth out all the joints. Form the fingers, hair and roots.

Cut through the mouth and eyes with a blade. For the eyes, we need pieces of black plastic.

Now with a toothpick we scratch grooves along the entire figure that coincide with the wood pattern. The thickness and pressure can be varied to create texture. You can make indentations in the knots.

This is what Groot looks like, ready to bake.

We send it to bake in a jar of suitable size. This will not change the shape of the hair and roots, and also there will be no imprints in places where the figure would be pressed against the glass. We bake according to the instructions for polymer clay.

After the figurine has cooled down, it can be slightly sanded to remove excess chips from scratching with a toothpick. Then carefully cover the figurine with acrylic paint. White for a lighter shape, or black and dark brown for a darker shape.

Let the paint dry almost and wash off the paint from smooth surfaces with a damp cloth. The paint will stay in the grooves to accentuate the texture. Such a figurine of a character named Groot can be placed in an individual pot or put to an existing plant.

Carefully! There are some swear words in the review!

First of all, I want to confess that the ancient prophecy has come true: your humble servant has finally turned into the one he was predicted to become. Into a refined movie snob.

While watching Guardians of the Galaxy I felt it so clearly that I was even frightened. Alas, there is no turning back. From now on, individual funny jokes in the film are not enough for me - I need swirling intellectual humor and complex irony. I refuse to be content with just good special effects and entertainment - now I need a special visual conceptuality, unique author's aesthetics and artistry. No other way. Otherwise, I get discouraged and yawn right in the middle of the adrenaline-pumping action. I need a complex plot. We need deep characters and non-trivial villains. I demand that the directors do not hold me for an idiot and forget the phrase “Why bother - the viewer is already eating it”.

No, I'm not grabbing it anymore. Enough!

So what can I say about Guardians of the Galaxy? This film is impossible to scold - it is almost perfect. All I have to do is get a dissenting opinion out of my pocket and beat the Guardians on the head. Keep in mind, dear readers: I have my own IMHO, and I'm not afraid to apply it.

Minority Report

I don’t know what I expected from this film ... Long before the premiere of Guardians of the Galaxy I saw the image of a kind of enfant terrible - “terrible child” in the dull MCU of Marvel comics. Trailers of "Guardians" looked more cheeky and humorous, the digital raccoon took out the brain, and the characters in the picture were some losers, not at all like the usual superheroes. Well, the abrupt change of the setting to an adventure sci-fi promised some advantages.

But what did I see in the end? And I saw a typical Marvel film, which does not differ from its predecessors in anything at all. "Guardians" - like an incubator chicken, similar to their brethren to the point of being completely indistinguishable. Victim of a frenzied photocopier or stamping press. Clone.

However, first I’ll say something about the pros - I’m not going to get my hands on a film to smithereens. “Guardians of the Galaxy” have something to praise, it's not for nothing that they have such a fee and such a rating.

The visual is the first to catch the eye. The computer picture is drawn flawlessly - at last, the fantastic scenery is molded to shiver cool! Oh, all these space stations and distant worlds! These futuristic prisons and starships! Everything looks uncompromisingly chic. And although the described world is thought out extremely carelessly and foolishly (more on that below), from a technical point of view, this is a reference work.

Roughly the same goes for digital characters. Guardians of the Galaxy is the first film in my memory where computer-generated characters are perceived as real creatures. I never had this feeling before. Not in "The Lord of the Rings" nor in "Avatar", nowhere. There, digital characters, although they were worked very well, were still perceived as cartoons inscribed in a real environment. There was always a tiny uncertainty.

She's not in Guardians of the Galaxy. The ever-memorable Raccoon and his bodyguard Groot look like living creatures - you don't even think about how they are made. They just seem to be real heroes, really existing actors on a par with people. I give it credit - this is a pretty strong impression and here I experienced it for the first time.

The last definite plus of "Guardians" is humor. There are a lot of jokes in the film and some of them are really funny. And even though I laughed heartily only once (gag with a prosthetic leg), I smiled quite often.

This is the end of the film's bright spots. I actively disliked everything else.

The local fantastic world is stamped and squalid - one gets the impression that it was invented either for children, or for completely unintelligent (or undemanding) viewers. I didn't believe in the world of the Guardians for one second. I didn't believe in these planets, prisons, ships. I didn’t believe in pirates, dark lords and technical gadgets. Every millisecond the film makes you think about the stupidity and illogicality of its own universe. And I’m not even talking about the plot, but about the world itself, where a developed planet has no means of space defense, except for light fighters. Where some dark personalities live on dark asteroids, sitting on a throne with rocket engines (the moment when you want to pierce your face with your hand). Where maximum security prisons are like anything but a prison ...

The cheeky setting is backed up by a truly idiotic plot, which is promoted by mindless villains and flat heroes. Frankly, by the end, I had completely lost the thread of what was happening. Who, what why, why - do not care. “Guardians of the Galaxy” can hardly be accused of being boring, but they tire with their superficiality and lack of any depth. It looks like the film is bright and perky, the characters humor without stopping, everything around explodes and shoots, and I had to put it on with the device. It is not interesting. It doesn't catch on. There is no ... essence, content in the film. This is a 2 hour video clip.

And I don't even remember about petty idiocies, like going into outer space without a spacesuit and other space cranberries. Guardians of the Galaxy's level of fucking with its own content is simply staggering. A little more and studio Marvel will reach absolute zero - the level of fucking Michael Bay... There was only one step left before that.

Of course, many will say that I am unfair (and schoolchildren will speak even more rudely), but I only report on my own impressions. Despite the humor and entertainment, the movie seemed completely miserable. Guardians of the Galaxy is stamping without a soul. The film does not look like a product of creativity and fantasy - it looks like a well-oiled mechanism for earning a bubble, moreover, assembled from standard parts according to an approved scheme (which has been shamelessly used by Marvel for five years now).

Guardians of the Galaxy is just an attraction, and not very high quality. However, I am not suggesting that he is incapable of entertaining. According to the reviews, I can see that it is capable. But I didn't like it. I'm seasick.

In general, forgive me, fans of "Guardians", but for me Marvel finally turned into an empire of evil, selling soulless shit. I don't even know why I still watch their films - the life path of this studio has long been clear and understandable for me, and how it will end is also evident.

Thank you for the attention. Maine was with you and his votum separatum.

The score is six. Exclusively for technicality.

Reviewer: Main House

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Well done, Maine. At least someone told the truth.

Eh you snob.

Modest but honest IMHO, just another good fun, but I don't understand why fans are elevating it to the level of a "masterpiece".
Not by subject, of course, but by comics, everyone has long been waiting for something new from Zach Snyder (Illustrated Maine, Cobalt 60), but he is firmly entrenched in comics and even signed up for two parts of the Justice League at once after BPS. It is gratifying, of course, to see him in such a project, and he himself is a big fan of comics, but PANCAKE ... in short, this is bad for you or will do it anyway)

Main House answers:

Zach Snyder famously filmed comics - "Spartans", "Keepers" and "ChiS" will not let you lie. But I don't want him to become a studio whore for the DC Universe. Nolan, filming the Bats, managed to create stunning original films during the breaks. From Zach, too, I would like to see as much original material as possible (in the manner of "Sucker Punch"), and not endless sequels. And if he was forced to make ten films about Superman & Company, then it would be a waste of his potential, that's all. The experience of Marvel Studios shows that any dude with minimal experience can shoot special-effect comic molasses - the instructions, that is, why bother? :) And Snyder, who rivets Superman movies, is like Leonardo da Vinci, who draws designs for gum inserts.
IMHO :)

Jokester answers:

Well, BpS can turn out to be a really good film, purely Snyder's one might say. Back in 2009, after the Guardians, he was eager to remove something on the Return of the Dark Knight, a brutal comic book about Batman, who got all the crap around and he even managed to kick Superman's ass. IMHO, of course, but in my opinion he deliberately took up ChiS just to present this material in any form, but most importantly with his chips. For the sake of Batman a la Keepers, I’m ready to forgive everything, especially Larry Fong, the brand operator in the business, but ... DAMN, there are still two parts of the Justice League ?!
P.S. having earned money from the Warners, he can produce independent tapes, but the Rise of the Empire, IMHO is just a half parody of the Spartans themselves, not reaching the original. Well, at least Last is a photographer with his script, we'll see mb with or without Bodrov at the helm)

Main House answers:

Snyder is Snyder - naturally, BPS will be at least a good film and will certainly have great visuals. I just think it is completely irrational to spend the talents of such a gifted guy to create another film about superman. However, in any case, I will go to the cinema for him, unlike the second "Avengers" and other conveyor stampings.
P.S. And I still like Dawn of an Empire :) I won't even say that it is worse than the original - it is just less fresh. The original Spartans had revolutionary visuals. Continuation in this regard is no longer capable of surprising.

Victor answers:

Maine, we've already talked about the flourishing of the empire, but I still can't resist - the first film takes primarily content (wrapped in a beautiful visual, yes), and in the second there is nothing left except for the visual. There are no ideas, and on one embittered Eva Green, a film cannot be drawn with all the desire.

Oh how =) Maine watched the Guardians)) I watched the movie and I liked the movie wildly (closing my eyes to the stupidity and wretchedness described in the review - I was resting) =) What I will not say about the second trip to this movie ... The second time I liked it less =) And in HD I did not even revise it =)

PS: Are you going to back up the era of Ultron? =)

Main House answers:

I won't watch Ultron - why? :) I already know what will be there. Tony Stark will humor and pin up everyone and everything. Again, the world will be in danger - some villain with the motive "I am evil." And, of course, the script will feature another delusional artifact, on which everything will depend. Several new heroes will be brought into action - for secondary roles, if only the faces become familiar and so that later it would be possible to make separate films about them. There will definitely be a few references to previous films in the universe. From the action is expected: 1) the chase 2) a general final batch with the participation of all heroes 3) a battle in or over the city.
In the end, one of the heroes will either be killed (pretend to be returned later) or he will disappear in some parallel dimension. Yes, and I'm pretty sure there will be a bold reference to Guardians of the Galaxy.
All in all, no change on the comic front :)

And I just watched and didn't think about anything, a beautiful video with a simple plot and unobtrusive humor, I put it 8/10. Just a relaxing movie.

It's like approaching a shawarma from a gourmet standpoint: D Fast food is fast food. Although some especially gifted people put potatoes and sauerkraut in shawarma, from which this food does not satisfy, what it should. But here all the same, in my precious, is not the case. This is true for the mentioned transformers. Be-be-be ...

Maine, I've looked at the new fant. the film Time Patrol (aka Predestination) with Ethan Hawke. I must say right away that there are practically no stunning special effects. But the film hooked me completely differently. This is such an art-house fantasy, I would say. No, there is no art-house inflection and glitches of the years, everything is in the Hollywood cover, it's just that she hooked me more than even the same Interstaller.
I advise you to take a look.