Worth Your Time to Watch

Rating: 10/10 (15 December 2019)

In Guardians of the Galaxy, a group of misfits crosses paths to save the universe. In the beginning, they were against each other but then teamed up to defeat Ronan (Lee Pace). Peter Quill (Chris Pratt), Rocket (Bradley Cooper), Groot (Vin Diesel), and Gamora (Zoe Saldana) met by fighting over the orb. Peter Quill (Chris Pratt) was trading the orb for monetary value. Rocket (Bradley Cooper) and Groot (Vin Diesel) was also trying to gain the possession of the orb for monetary value. Gamora (Zoe Saldana) wanted the possession of the orb to betray Ronan. While they were fighting over the orb, Nova Crops caught them, and they went to prison where they met Drax (Dave Bautista) and began to form the guardians by escaping the prison. Once they escape the prison, then try to keep it out of Ronan's (Lee Pace) hands. Eventually, the battle between Ronan (Lee Pace) and the Guardians of the Galaxy takes place on Nova, and the ending of the fight truly shows the teams transition into a family and defeats Ronan (Lee Pace) and saves the Galaxy.
Guardians of the Galaxy shows that theme is family. While Ronan's (Lee Pace) ship is going down, Peter Quill (Chris Pratt) grabs Rocket (Bradley Cooper), and Gamora (Zoe Saldana) grabs Drax (Dave Bautista), and all of them are center in the shot. Groot (Vin Diesel) then sacrifice himself by wrapping everyone into a barrier to save Peter Quill (Chris Pratt), Rocket (Bradley Cooper), Groot (Vin Diesel), Gamora (Zoe Saldana) and Drax (Dave Bautista) from the impact of the crash. Throughout the film Groot's (Vin Diesel) dialogue is "I am Groot," but in this scene, he changed it to "We are Groot," which means they are all significant to him because he is saving them while sacrificing himself. What makes this scene pull on emotions is going to be the lighting and music. While the shot is in the ball of Groot, the lighting is dark but with specks of light like lightning bugs. It is peaceful and beautiful to look at, which ties to what Groot (Vin Diesel) is doing for his friends, more like family. The music is beautiful, while the destruction is all around them.
In another scene that shows one of the themes is family is when the Guardians take on the stone. Peter Quill (Chris Pratt) is struggling to keep ahold of the stone, so Gamora (Zoe Saldana) connects with Peter Quill (Chris Pratt) then Drax (Dave Bautista) follows the Rocket (Bradley Cooper) connects with the remains of Groot (Vin Diesel) in his paws/hands. Slow-motion was used wisely to create more emotion and suspense to this scene. It also makes the pain that they are all experience is very extreme, but they are willing to go through the pain to save the Galaxy and for each other.
The Guardians of the Galaxy are a bunch of dysfunctional misfits that has lost family but turned to each other to create a new family.