Guardians of the Galaxy vol 3 2023

I’m honestly pretty happy with the way this blog is going again this year. Less than a month into the year and I’m already 4 movies back in the game with 2 more MCU films to go to finish catching up, plus plenty of DC and other movies that have been released along the way. But since I’ve been sticking to my MCU catch up, I figured I’d go with the one that didn’t require any further homework as I’ve seen all the preceding movies that the Guardians have been in, but have not watched Falcon and the Winter Soldier which feels like it should be required viewing to help fill out the gaps for both Brave New World and Thunderbolts*. Whether or not I actually do the homework is yet to be decided. But anyway, I was excited to finally get around to finishing this Guardians trilogy, and with James Gunn having left to head DC, it’s likely the final end for the Guardians as a whole though at least some of the characters may still return. I feel like I saw nothing but warnings about this film if you happen to be an animal lover so I assumed it involved the fate of Rocket’s friends in his flashback scenes, it was still a sad moment but it helped that I was prepared. It did a lot of work to give a sense of finality to these characters and it worked well to flesh out Rocket’s overall journey.