Objectively a bad movie

Rating: 5/10 (9 August 2014)

First of all. All the love this movie is getting is ridiculous. You should think that it was as groundbreaking as the Star Wars movies when they first came out. Star Wars, Serenity and GOTG have the same anti hero flying a spaceship saving the planet one good deed at a time evolving from a player to a monogamous man. A man transforming from an egoistical womanizer into a regular good and nice guy. Star Wars and Serenity has some similar plot lines but are better movies.
Not since Titanic and Avatar have I seen so much hype over a movie. The newest Batman movies come close. And what all these movies have in common is that they are okay or fine movies but nothing spectacular. They don't deserve the fame they have received. They are not catering so much to the audience as the blockbusters Transformers but they are not masterpieces either. Twilight would not even have the worst storyline among all these movies.
I am not saying that GOTG is an awful movie. I gave it 5/10. But I still feel like it was a waste of money and here is why:
The acting was great. The story was a good comic book story. This is how they are supposed to be - nothing overly fancy. Just as Avengers had a perfect comic book story and was a perfect superhero movie. Avengers is not Godfather but for its genre it is perfect just like Die Hard is perfect for its genre. The special effects were amazing. All actors were great the acting was great. It was one of the best things in this movie if not the best thing.
But, you ask, what did the movie do wrong if the acting, special effects, story and etc. were good or great? The problem is huge. The problem is the production. The cutting of the movie. How they put it together on the computers after the filming was done.
Remember how bad Elysium was? You could not follow the fight scenes as the shaky-cam was overused. And the scenes changed so fast that you never felt comfortable watching the movie. Elysium could have been a good "guilty pleasure" movie with a weak plot but entertaining structure. Instead we got a weak plot and some awful production and camera work. Search for the fight scenes from the movie. People who liked the movie refuse to believe that the fighting scenes are not manipulated by the youtubers. They see the faults in them when they only watch the fighting scenes. And they refuse to believe that they actually would like something like that in a movie.
Does something seem wrong with Elysium? Did the shaky-cam ruin it? Shaky-cam is a great way to save money by filming action scenes without "wasting" time on Matrix like choreography and perfect camera work. It's the telling of an action scene without showing it. GOTG did not have this problem. It did have shaky-cam but it was not unwatchable bad as in Elysium.
Now, what did GOTG do wrong? Go search for a MTV music video of a random pop song without any meaning in it. You know, one of these flashy lights, getting drunk, party, dancing and short scenes of hot girls music video. Do you observe the effects they use to make the video? Can you spot how the structure is made in post production? It has more in common with a slideshow than a movie. The scene shift is so fast that that the story seems unstructured. The effect is that you get a certain feeling but don't get a certain storyline conveyed. A storyline needs you to feel the people on the screen. A MTV music video only conveys = party, dance and get wild. This is fine for teenagers watching the screen with one eye while sitting at the computer. But it is awful for focused adults in search of a structured, well focused video that conveys a story and has a structured storyline too. GOTG had exactly the same fast changing scenes but with a well structured storyline. Frozen had a similar problem but in a smaller degree. Frozen was also a bad movie. Let's count the different clips an average movie has for 1 minute of screen time. Now compare it to GOTG. I am sure that the number for GOTG would be incredible high - reaching the max for human perception. The regular human brain can only perceive a concrete number of different scenes per minute before it gets confused - GOTG took it to an extreme. The Postman had the worst post production I have ever seen. It could have been an okay movie if it had even an okay post production. And GOTG is a would be fantastic movie with a similar terrible post production. Watch Avengers instead it is everything GOTG wishes it was.
It is objectively a bad movie.