Guardians of the Galaxy review

There’s something delightfully familiar about The Guardians of the Galaxy - that wacky combination of humour and action within a setting that feels dense.

Marvel’s newest outing opts to expand the universe, showing the audience that there’s more than just the Asguardians, frost giants and giant purple men in gold armour running around space.

Peter Quill (Chris Pratt) was abducted from Earth by a bunch of space pirates when he was just a kid.

While the story of a young boy growing up on a spaceship full of mercenaries and discovering a weird, wonderful universe would be an entertaining one, the film decides to pick up 25 years later.

"Ooooooooooooooooooooooooo." Star-Lord, 2014

Captain America: The Winter Soldier

Well here we are again folks.

Marvel is back at it again, trotting out their newest addition to the second-wave Avengers films with Captain America: The Winter Soldier – and I’m back at it again writing reviews. Hoorays all around!

Steve Rogers aka Captain America (Chris Evans) is working as an agent of Strategic Homeland Intervention, Enforcement, and Logistics Division (S.H.I.E.L.D) protecting the US from terrorists, pirates, and probably a whole host of other nasty things.

Protecting America from THIS ONE GUY.

While his super-soldier abilities make him a perfect storm trooper, Rogers’ ideals and moral code don’t sit well with the covert operations that frequently undertakes.

After a botched mission, Rogers finds himself questioning whether or not he wants to continue serving as an agent of the state under S.H.I.E.L.D director Nick Fury (Samuel L Jackson).

Unfortunately this moral crisis comes at a terrible time when he suddenly finds S.H.I.E.L.D under attack from an unknown source.

Thor: The Dark World

Out of all the Avengers I think Thor probably has to be my favourite, which is why I was so excited to see the big beardy hammerman get a sequel.

Thor: The Dark World follows directly from The Avengers and beardface's first film, with Thor (Chris Hemsworth) crusading around outer space/the Nine Realms cleaning up after his brother Loki's (Tom Hiddleston) mess.

For those not in the know (which is weird. Who goes to see the sequel of two separate movie franchises without seeing both said movies?) Thor was forced to destroy the main mode of transportation around the Nine Realms at the end of the first Thor film.

Nostalgia Death

There comes a time in everybody's life where they think "hey, I really enjoyed x when I was a kid. I think I'll revisit x as an adult."

For me x represents everything from cartoons like the 90s X-Men Animated Series, to music like Evanescence. (I owned an Evanescence CD when I was younger. Feel free to shun me with the power of a million sons suns. Goddamn it autocorrect.)

No, seriously, I feel ill admitting that.
I gotta go shower or something. Ugh.

Inevitably, however, you will discover one of  the things you used to enjoy as a child is, in fact, a big pile of poo.

I call this feeling "nostalgia death" and it is both a terrible and wonderful thing.