The result was the rare blockbuster that lived up to its Star Wars callouts, confidently juggling sweep, snark, and sentiment. But maybe the very fact that this wasn’t one of the comics giant’s more treasured properties was what helped buy Gunn - a Troma veteran and a creator of grisly, tongue-in-cheek genre flicks like Slither (2006) - some much-needed freedom. There was uncertainty at the time about the financial prospects of that August release, based as it was on a fairly marginal Marvel title. It seems hard to believe now, but writer-director James Gunn’s first Guardians of the Galaxy picture was a somewhat unlikely megahit back in 2014. 3, Marvel reminds us why we used to like this stuff.
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