Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "ガーディアンズ・オブ・ギャラクシー:リミックス" in Japanese language version.
The centerpiece of the pair’s Rock Out Loud campaign is a custom-designed, limited-edition series of Doritos bags featuring a built-in cassette tape deck-inspired player that plays the full soundtrack. The bags can also be recharged for repeat listening.
Sneeper update. A couple weeks back I told you how the Marvel legal department advised against using Sneeper as an alien species in Guardians of the Galaxy because the word is "similar to the word meaning 'clitoris' in Icelandic." Let it be known that I wasn't protesting this decision, I just thought it was funny, so I shared it. But the Marvel legal folks are sweet people and, after all of the online articles about me not being able to use the term Sneeper, they came back and told me that maybe it's not that big a deal after all: Sneeper is cleared for use. So keep an eye out for at least one Sneeper somewhere in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2.
In terms of sheer entertainment value, though, this "Guardians of the Galaxy" ultimately shares just enough with its central quintet -- rather heroically getting the job done, even if the trip from here to there can be a bit disjointed and messy.
As if the hype for this movie wasn’t high enough, it’s just an all-around wonderful trailer, lit up with the wacky humor and irreverent charm that made the first film such a hit, with an extra dose of visual splendor.
Quite frankly, we knew that people were going to figure it out eventually," Gunn says. "People were gonna start testing the movie, we're gonna start testing trailers, and it this point I thought it was better that we took the reigns in our own hands and revealed Ego to the public.[後略]
We have a really great relationship where they [=Marvel Studios] let me go and do my thing, and I truly listen to their notes and ideas,” he wrote. “I’ve never been told to put in any character or plot element at all. [中略] When they trust you – and I think I’ve earned their trust over the past few years – they give you a wide berth. I truly love them and love working with them. Like a good marriage, we just fit.
It’s constantly shifting, but I feel like it’s pretty strong. I’m excited about it.
I came up with a LOT of titles for Vol. 2. But because ‘Guardians of the Galaxy’ is already so wordy, it seemed strange to add another bunch of words after it,” explained Gunn in the comment. “I liked Vol. 2 the best, so that’s what I stuck on the cover of the screenplay – and, fortunately, the guys[=Marvel] liked it.
There will be a Guardians 3, that's for sure. We're trying to figure it out. I'm trying to figure out what I want to do really, that's all it is.
Well, you know, there are general ideas for what the sequel is and where it goes and who’s involved and what happens and what we find out about our characters. So it’s very general and that could change.[中略], but I know a lot about who these characters are and where they came from and where they’re going." "I’m excited by the possibility of creating a sequel because we had to do a lot of setup in this movie and with a sequel we don’t have to do that setup which will make it so much easier for me.
He will show up [in the sequel] if he helps our story and he will not show up at all if not. Thanos is not the most important thing in Guardians 2, that’s for damn sure. There’s the Guardians themselves and other threats the Guardians are going to be facing that are not Thanos.
“We have over a trillion polygons on Ego’s planet,” says Gunn proudly. “It’s the biggest visual effect of all time. There’s nothing even close to it. Which is cool.”
“But I did feel a little pressure for the soundtrack because so many people loved it and we went platinum and all that other stuff. But I feel like the soundtrack in the second one is better. I feel like it's better, so I'm excited about it.”
He further explained that “because adult Groot was the most popular character from the first film,” he didn’t think Marvel would “want to risk a good thing” by transforming him into Baby Groot.
So as we rush toward the finish line of #GotGVol2 I want to take a beat and express my appreciation for all the amazing artists and technicians at Framestore, Weta Digital, TRIXTER, Method Studios, Animal Logic, Scanline VFX, Lola, Luma, Cantina Creative, and our in-house VFX professionals who are making this movie something truly special.
Gunn: Yes, I still do all of Groot’s dancing in the film, in a much bigger way [than the first film]. I actually had to do like a full day’s worth of dancing to get Groot’s dance down this time. Last time it was me in front of an iPhone, and this time it’s me dancing on a huge soundstage and shooting it from five different angles.
a) We ended up using a miniature stabilized head that I’d been working with in England called the Stabileye, which effectively gives you a handheld dolly. It has a really interesting feel to it because there’s a spontaneity to the way the camera moves that is different and that felt appropriate for this movie.
b) [Stabileye is] so small that you can get it in there next to the actors and get angles that you wouldn’t otherwise get unless you handheld the camera.
a) "We tried morphing to a live action Hoff - but it did not hold up as well. The Kurt version looked better than the Hoff version,..and while we had built a very detailed Kurt digi-double,- we didn't want to go to the same level on the Hoff for just two shots. But in the end we did have to do a partial build digi-double of the Hoff" explained Williams. "The reason we did the Kurt digi-double in the first place was to make sure all the effects stuck correctly to the body, so we weren't trying to do all this pixel level tracking of the effects... so we went with the approach of a full digi-double, the hair, the side of the face everything on Kurt. For the Hoff, we got pretty close, but it is not quite as detailed as for Kurt."[後略]
b) we needed a big broad jaw, chin, and most importantly the way the laugh lines move and crease as he talks.
And it is still a big chess board for 2020 and beyond, but certainly I would say Guardians 3 is [one film that’s] up there. I don’t know what exactly the order will be.
Marvel, however, culls from a more select pool of recruits, what it terms “friends and families screenings.” It’s larger than one might think and still a vigorous testing procedure, not a celebratory reception.
With Guardians, people really go through every single little shot and try to figure out what the movie's about. And there's a lot of mysteries in Guardians 2.
But Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 plays like a second ride on a roller coaster that was a real kick the first time around but feels very been-there/done-that now.
I think there's a reason we seeded it at the very end of the film like that. I think that would certainly be part of a next Guardians adventure. Certainly, that would be part of it.
For Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 we needed very big sound stages because our sets are very large, even though a lot of the film is CGI (computer-generated imagery). I like to have as many practical sets as we can and make the environments as real as possible so it balances out the CGI elements.
Though there are enough reminders of the first "Guardians" to make the sequel an acceptable experience, it's ended up less like itself and more like a standard Marvel production.
I don't feel beholden to that stuff at all. I think it's really about the Guardians and what they are doing.
But I was trying to cram Nova Prime into the second movie as opposed to having it happen organically.Additional on May 5, 2017.
It is at this point that the movie, which has been motoring along nicely, fuelled by silliness and pep, begins to splutter. [中略] Let’s hope that Vol. 3 recaptures the fizz of the original, instead of slumping into the most expensive group-therapy session in the universe.
“There’s a little bit of Earth in this film, but it’s not these characters going to Earth,” [Feige] said.
If it’s overstuffed in the way of most sequels, well, at least it’s stuffed with good cheer. [中略] Did I mention it was overstuffed? Gunn’s lighthearted approach makes this matter surprisingly little.
“Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2” certainly has its attractions, but most of them are visual rather than narrative.
I like Guardians of the Galaxy, but what I saw was "It’s successful, and now we’ve got room to make a colorful part for another big-name actor."
To be blunt, “Vol. 2” avoids many of the flaws of the first movie, and does several things notably better. It’s fun, clever and a great kick-off to the summer movie season.
Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol. 2 can’t match the sneak-attack surprise of its predecessor. You can only do that once. The good news, however, is that the followup, while taking on some CGI bloat and sequel slickness, hasn’t lost its love for inspired lunacy.
a) "one of the main things with Guardians of the Galaxy is not to add a bunch of characters, not to make it bigger in that way but to go deeper with the characters. [中略] and getting to know them more emotionally. [中略] but we actually have less characters in Guardians of the Galaxy 2 than we have in Guardians of the Galaxy 1 because everything is just getting too sprawling and too crazy for me in these superhero comic book movies."
b) "I wrote that very, very in-depth scriptment which is a 70-page combination of a script and a treatment and it goes through every beat of the movie,"[後略]
I don't want Nova right now because I think Quill being the only earthling is important. That serves the entire movie going audience and not just the handful of Nova fans. Sorry if that upsets you.
FOX owns so many awesome cosmic villains and minor characters that I'd love to play around with, like Annihilus ... and I think they own Kang ... so there's some great characters over there that we don't own and that sucks.
I adored what we had done with him. I think we did something really creative and unique with Adam Warlock. But it was one character too many and I didn’t want to lose Mantis and Mantis was more organically part of the movie anyway.
James Gunn says he set the story three months later because he felt the group are just such fragile egos and he didn’t think this story could start years later.
Thankfully, Marvel Studios brought one hell of a Guardians of the Galaxy 2 Super Bowl spot, one that probably overshadows the game itself for people like me who don’t really have an investment in the outcome one way or the other. There’s plenty of badass cosmic action, the humor we all love, a stellar soundtrack, and some great new footage from the sequel.
“Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2” isn’t quite as much fun, not quite as clever, not quite as fresh as the original — but it still packs a bright and shiny and sweet punch.[中略]And yet even with all the silliness and all the snarkiness, the Guardians can put a lump in your throat when someone suffers a serious setback, or someone does a solid and risks everything to save someone else.
there are definitely places we can take it [=the franchise] and we have ideas of where we'd like to go with it
“We realize that Gef has been on the ship the entire time mortally wounded," Gunn says. "It ended up being a little confusing.”
Shot for shot, line for line, it’s an extravagant and witty follow-up, made with the same friendly virtuosic dazzle. Yet this time you can sense just how hard the series’ wizard of a director, James Gunn (now taking off from a script he wrote solo), is working to entertain you. Maybe a little too hard. [中略]The gods of sci-fi spectacle must, of course, be served, and the climax of “Vol. 2” is exorbitant, rousing, touching, and just obligatory enough to be too much of a good thing.
One of the reasons people like Guardians is because it’s fresh and different, so the second one will be fresh and different from the first one.
“Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2” is a toe-tapping, eye-popping indication that summer is here, and that it might not be so bad after all.
I don't want Nova right now because I think Quill being the only earthling is important. That serves the entire movie going audience and not just the handful of Nova fans. Sorry if that upsets you.
It’s constantly shifting, but I feel like it’s pretty strong. I’m excited about it.
Well, you know, there are general ideas for what the sequel is and where it goes and who’s involved and what happens and what we find out about our characters. So it’s very general and that could change.[中略], but I know a lot about who these characters are and where they came from and where they’re going." "I’m excited by the possibility of creating a sequel because we had to do a lot of setup in this movie and with a sequel we don’t have to do that setup which will make it so much easier for me.
there are definitely places we can take it [=the franchise] and we have ideas of where we'd like to go with it
We have a really great relationship where they [=Marvel Studios] let me go and do my thing, and I truly listen to their notes and ideas,” he wrote. “I’ve never been told to put in any character or plot element at all. [中略] When they trust you – and I think I’ve earned their trust over the past few years – they give you a wide berth. I truly love them and love working with them. Like a good marriage, we just fit.
I adored what we had done with him. I think we did something really creative and unique with Adam Warlock. But it was one character too many and I didn’t want to lose Mantis and Mantis was more organically part of the movie anyway.
a) "one of the main things with Guardians of the Galaxy is not to add a bunch of characters, not to make it bigger in that way but to go deeper with the characters. [中略] and getting to know them more emotionally. [中略] but we actually have less characters in Guardians of the Galaxy 2 than we have in Guardians of the Galaxy 1 because everything is just getting too sprawling and too crazy for me in these superhero comic book movies."
b) "I wrote that very, very in-depth scriptment which is a 70-page combination of a script and a treatment and it goes through every beat of the movie,"[後略]
James Gunn says he set the story three months later because he felt the group are just such fragile egos and he didn’t think this story could start years later.
One of the reasons people like Guardians is because it’s fresh and different, so the second one will be fresh and different from the first one.
I think there's a reason we seeded it at the very end of the film like that. I think that would certainly be part of a next Guardians adventure. Certainly, that would be part of it.
He will show up [in the sequel] if he helps our story and he will not show up at all if not. Thanos is not the most important thing in Guardians 2, that’s for damn sure. There’s the Guardians themselves and other threats the Guardians are going to be facing that are not Thanos.
He further explained that “because adult Groot was the most popular character from the first film,” he didn’t think Marvel would “want to risk a good thing” by transforming him into Baby Groot.
I don't feel beholden to that stuff at all. I think it's really about the Guardians and what they are doing.
I came up with a LOT of titles for Vol. 2. But because ‘Guardians of the Galaxy’ is already so wordy, it seemed strange to add another bunch of words after it,” explained Gunn in the comment. “I liked Vol. 2 the best, so that’s what I stuck on the cover of the screenplay – and, fortunately, the guys[=Marvel] liked it.
Sneeper update. A couple weeks back I told you how the Marvel legal department advised against using Sneeper as an alien species in Guardians of the Galaxy because the word is "similar to the word meaning 'clitoris' in Icelandic." Let it be known that I wasn't protesting this decision, I just thought it was funny, so I shared it. But the Marvel legal folks are sweet people and, after all of the online articles about me not being able to use the term Sneeper, they came back and told me that maybe it's not that big a deal after all: Sneeper is cleared for use. So keep an eye out for at least one Sneeper somewhere in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2.
I like Guardians of the Galaxy, but what I saw was "It’s successful, and now we’ve got room to make a colorful part for another big-name actor."
FOX owns so many awesome cosmic villains and minor characters that I'd love to play around with, like Annihilus ... and I think they own Kang ... so there's some great characters over there that we don't own and that sucks.
a) We ended up using a miniature stabilized head that I’d been working with in England called the Stabileye, which effectively gives you a handheld dolly. It has a really interesting feel to it because there’s a spontaneity to the way the camera moves that is different and that felt appropriate for this movie.
b) [Stabileye is] so small that you can get it in there next to the actors and get angles that you wouldn’t otherwise get unless you handheld the camera.
But I was trying to cram Nova Prime into the second movie as opposed to having it happen organically.Additional on May 5, 2017.
Quite frankly, we knew that people were going to figure it out eventually," Gunn says. "People were gonna start testing the movie, we're gonna start testing trailers, and it this point I thought it was better that we took the reigns in our own hands and revealed Ego to the public.[後略]
“We realize that Gef has been on the ship the entire time mortally wounded," Gunn says. "It ended up being a little confusing.”
Marvel, however, culls from a more select pool of recruits, what it terms “friends and families screenings.” It’s larger than one might think and still a vigorous testing procedure, not a celebratory reception.
Gunn: Yes, I still do all of Groot’s dancing in the film, in a much bigger way [than the first film]. I actually had to do like a full day’s worth of dancing to get Groot’s dance down this time. Last time it was me in front of an iPhone, and this time it’s me dancing on a huge soundstage and shooting it from five different angles.
a) "We tried morphing to a live action Hoff - but it did not hold up as well. The Kurt version looked better than the Hoff version,..and while we had built a very detailed Kurt digi-double,- we didn't want to go to the same level on the Hoff for just two shots. But in the end we did have to do a partial build digi-double of the Hoff" explained Williams. "The reason we did the Kurt digi-double in the first place was to make sure all the effects stuck correctly to the body, so we weren't trying to do all this pixel level tracking of the effects... so we went with the approach of a full digi-double, the hair, the side of the face everything on Kurt. For the Hoff, we got pretty close, but it is not quite as detailed as for Kurt."[後略]
b) we needed a big broad jaw, chin, and most importantly the way the laugh lines move and crease as he talks.
“We have over a trillion polygons on Ego’s planet,” says Gunn proudly. “It’s the biggest visual effect of all time. There’s nothing even close to it. Which is cool.”
“But I did feel a little pressure for the soundtrack because so many people loved it and we went platinum and all that other stuff. But I feel like the soundtrack in the second one is better. I feel like it's better, so I'm excited about it.”
The centerpiece of the pair’s Rock Out Loud campaign is a custom-designed, limited-edition series of Doritos bags featuring a built-in cassette tape deck-inspired player that plays the full soundtrack. The bags can also be recharged for repeat listening.
With Guardians, people really go through every single little shot and try to figure out what the movie's about. And there's a lot of mysteries in Guardians 2.
Thankfully, Marvel Studios brought one hell of a Guardians of the Galaxy 2 Super Bowl spot, one that probably overshadows the game itself for people like me who don’t really have an investment in the outcome one way or the other. There’s plenty of badass cosmic action, the humor we all love, a stellar soundtrack, and some great new footage from the sequel.
As if the hype for this movie wasn’t high enough, it’s just an all-around wonderful trailer, lit up with the wacky humor and irreverent charm that made the first film such a hit, with an extra dose of visual splendor.
Shot for shot, line for line, it’s an extravagant and witty follow-up, made with the same friendly virtuosic dazzle. Yet this time you can sense just how hard the series’ wizard of a director, James Gunn (now taking off from a script he wrote solo), is working to entertain you. Maybe a little too hard. [中略]The gods of sci-fi spectacle must, of course, be served, and the climax of “Vol. 2” is exorbitant, rousing, touching, and just obligatory enough to be too much of a good thing.
Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol. 2 can’t match the sneak-attack surprise of its predecessor. You can only do that once. The good news, however, is that the followup, while taking on some CGI bloat and sequel slickness, hasn’t lost its love for inspired lunacy.
“Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2” isn’t quite as much fun, not quite as clever, not quite as fresh as the original — but it still packs a bright and shiny and sweet punch.[中略]And yet even with all the silliness and all the snarkiness, the Guardians can put a lump in your throat when someone suffers a serious setback, or someone does a solid and risks everything to save someone else.
To be blunt, “Vol. 2” avoids many of the flaws of the first movie, and does several things notably better. It’s fun, clever and a great kick-off to the summer movie season.
If it’s overstuffed in the way of most sequels, well, at least it’s stuffed with good cheer. [中略] Did I mention it was overstuffed? Gunn’s lighthearted approach makes this matter surprisingly little.
“Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2” is a toe-tapping, eye-popping indication that summer is here, and that it might not be so bad after all.
In terms of sheer entertainment value, though, this "Guardians of the Galaxy" ultimately shares just enough with its central quintet -- rather heroically getting the job done, even if the trip from here to there can be a bit disjointed and messy.
But Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 plays like a second ride on a roller coaster that was a real kick the first time around but feels very been-there/done-that now.
Though there are enough reminders of the first "Guardians" to make the sequel an acceptable experience, it's ended up less like itself and more like a standard Marvel production.
“Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2” certainly has its attractions, but most of them are visual rather than narrative.
It is at this point that the movie, which has been motoring along nicely, fuelled by silliness and pep, begins to splutter. [中略] Let’s hope that Vol. 3 recaptures the fizz of the original, instead of slumping into the most expensive group-therapy session in the universe.
And it is still a big chess board for 2020 and beyond, but certainly I would say Guardians 3 is [one film that’s] up there. I don’t know what exactly the order will be.
There will be a Guardians 3, that's for sure. We're trying to figure it out. I'm trying to figure out what I want to do really, that's all it is.
There are no specific plans for Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3,” he said. “But we know unless something goes horribly — which is always possible, you never know — I think that Marvel would want to make another movie.
there are definitely places we can take it [=the franchise] and we have ideas of where we'd like to go with it
But I was trying to cram Nova Prime into the second movie as opposed to having it happen organically.Additional on May 5, 2017.
There are no specific plans for Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3,” he said. “But we know unless something goes horribly — which is always possible, you never know — I think that Marvel would want to make another movie.
