And there’s another note which I’ll save for the end. I had a couple of kvetches-we’ve seen a lot of the footage before so some of it, like the line-up scene, are getting overexposed. And more importantly, the characters are more than one dimensional stereotypes. While this isn’t the quirky Steve Gerber-esque Marvel movie of my dreams, it’s still plenty different in tone from every other Marvel movie we’ve seen. Phones weren’t confiscated, and enjoinments not to pirate the footage were tepid, so if you hurry you may see it up on YouTube before the dawn….but in any event this is a hit, so the more buzz there is-and the more familiarity with the characters-the better. ![]() Disney/Marvel is confident enough in the film’s quality-yet nervous enough about the reception to such an oddball concept-that they took the precaution of showing 17 minutes of footage at free screenings across the US tonight-and in IMAX 3D to boot. In a perfect movie going world, we would have seen the brilliant “Hooked on a Feeling” Guardians of the Galaxy footage shown at Comic-Con last year and then known nothing more about the film until we sat down to see it on August 1.
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