Why I liked it

Rating: 9/10 (31 December 2014)

I am so burnt out on back stories it's ridiculous. Spoiler alert Hollywood; most of us already knew that Peter Parker was bite by a special spider. We already know that when Bruce Banner gets mad he turns into the Hulk... so now... just show us the Hulk!
Guardians is a comic book movie that has the characters wearing there super hero costumes for the entire movie. Not Peter Parker wearing a hoodie in the rain thinking of his relationship woes.
The one of the rules for something to qualify as "epic" is that it has to start in the middle of the action. Guardians did this; a one minute seen about a boy being pulled from his planet after a tragedy and then BOOM, we have our lead character IN COSTUME and having an adventure. within the first half hour the whole team is together (not necessarily getting along yet)kicking ass and taking names!
To me, one quality that an action movie needs to qualify as a good action movie is that the plot needs to move in accordance with the action sequences. Guardians does this. Because Star Lord stole the orb and fought the villains they followed him. Because they all fought over the orb in the middle of the city they were taken to prison. The results of the battle determine the next plot point.
Plus, it was fun! All the characters had decent screen time, they all interacted with each other, they all had good battles.
Two numbers I track with comic book movies are: How many minutes were spent in actually in an action sequence (car chases and suspenseful happenings count) And how many minutes were the super heroes actually in costume.
With guardians you could tell the cast and crew were all very excited to make the movie as great as possible, and it shows through. Of course there is always room for improvement. But who cares.