Tobar said:
DominicCobb said:
If I have one complaint about his Peter Quill, it's that we don't get enough of him. There's definitely a lot about him that hasn't been said (how does he feel about being abducted? does he want to go back to Earth? etc.), and presumably will be in a sequel. But it really should have been said here.
The main purpose of this film was to establish the characters, organizations and settings of this world.
If they had explored those things about Quill in this film it would have been rushed. Leaving it to a sequel gives them an opportunity to explore it in depth in a story that has the potential to be more conducive to it.
I get leaving out stuff like the identity of his father for a sequel, but simple stuff like his feelings about leaving Earth behind I think is rather essential to completely understanding the character.
I'm sure stuff like the scene with the Collector made comic fans wet, but, to me, it was just really weird and rather random and not entirely necessary.
I'm not familiar with the source material either but I think it's pretty apparent they're setting up the Collector to be a bigger character later on. It was already established in Thor: The Dark World that he posses one of the other infinity stones. And Benicio Del Toro is a big name actor that you don't waste on an unimportant side character.
This film is setting up a lot of things that will inevitably pay off in later sequels like Jon C. Reilly and Glenn Close's characters.
Anyway, the Collector scene was necessary from a storytelling perspective. First it allows for a breather in between action scenes and second it provides vital exposition that informs the main characters about what it is they're dealing with.
Yeah I get it's setting stuff up (at least I hope they wouldn't waste talent like that). Still, judging this film on it's own terms, I can't let it go by with criticizing it. And yes, I realize the importance that was given to the scene with the Collector. But as it stands that's his only scene in the film and he's basically just there to be weird and dump exposition. Again, as a stand alone film it's an issue. My biggest issue with that scene is actually his slave girl and what she does which I found totally random (though again I understand that they wanted to show the power of the orb, but still this was not the best way to do that I think).
I just felt like they were throwing too much alien (as in extraterrestrial and strange) stuff at us. That made it harder to connect with the story, I felt, and made it easier to zone out when people start saying all these different names and such. It just made the film feel a little muddled.