'GotG Vol. 2': First Reactions from Press Screening

They should push it. Because "they" are smart business executives whose job it is to make money for Disney's shareholders. But as a lifelong fan of comics in general, the announcement of a Guardians movie was the canary in the coal mine for me that they're basically scraping the bottom of the barrel at this point and putting lipstick on a gerbil. I would say lipstick on a pig, but Sony has rights to the pigs, and Fox has the rights to anything else with any actual legacy on which to draw that's worth adapting.

Personally: I think the IP is trash, the characters are sixth-rate, the hipster/"cool" packaging is too cute by half, and the characters have no significant history in comics in which I possess even a shred of fan interest. So it's strange for me to see it succeed since I genuinely see nothing redeeming in "Guardians" on any level whatsoever; it's hack as fuck and represents what I perceive to be the worst aspects of both Hollywood in general and comic book movies specifically. But I'm sure others might say the same thing (for different reasons) about stuff I like, etc. etc.