![]() ![]() It has been seen before in the MCU, but this is the first time it has played anything from after 1980.) The film continues to pilfer through the attic of ’90s culture the way its predecessors did the ’70s and ’80s, most notably a spacewalk sequence set to Spacehog’s “In the Meantime,” whose monstrous riff took center stage in the GOTG 3 trailer. (The source is a Microsoft Zune handed over to Quill at the end of the second movie. This is apparent from the film’s very first scene, a “Where’s everyone at?” sequence set to Radiohead’s “Creep,” a song that, if not solely owned by millennials, is at least shared by them and Gen X in a joint-custody agreement. ![]() have found a juicy new target: aging millennials. 3 was that the series’ nostalgia beams are no longer locked in on Gen-X viewers. But the most striking shift I noticed in the new Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. Stuff apparently happened in Thor: Love and Thunder and The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special, though I’m not sure what. Many of the characters have died and been revived others have been replaced by different versions of themselves from alternate timelines. Much has changed in the six years since the Guardians’ last stand-alone venture. The second film, released in 2017, had its villain give a lengthy exegesis of Looking Glass’s “Brandy” two years later, the Marvel-wide team-up Avengers: Endgame would reprise the original Guardians film’s “Come and Get Your Love” scene, like an oldies band playing all the hits. ![]() It was a handy explanation for why a character played by Pratt, a member of the Jordan Catalano microgeneration, would be into AM-radio rock from the 1970s, the sound of Gen-X childhoods: Blue Swede’s “Hooked on a Feeling,” 10cc’s “I’m Not in Love,” Redbone’s “Come and Get Your Love.” The first movie’s soundtrack album was a sensation, topping “The Billboard 200” chart for months, and it cemented ’70s rock as the Guardians’ unofficial theme music. In the first two Guardians films, Quill’s most treasured possession is a mixtape left to him by his late mother. Other superhero movies mandated you watch three other films and a tie-in TV show first the Guardians movies only required a working knowledge of VH1’s I Love the ’80s.īut the really potent stuff was on the soundtrack. Thus the first Guardians has throwaway jokes about Footloose and John Stamos and a post-credits cameo from Howard the Duck, which Gunn at the time called “the funniest thing.” In its sequel, the fatherless Quill reveals that he’d told his classmates his dad was David Hasselhoff. The first Guardians of the Galaxy movie, released in 2014, opens with hero Peter Quill (Chris Pratt) being abducted by aliens as a child - which means that, like many internet fanboys of his generation, his cultural knowledge stops in 1988. Credit for this goes to writer-director James Gunn, whose personal stamp was distinctly Generation X in sensibility, most notably in his semi-ironic love for retro kitsch (second-most notably: in the edgelord jokes that got him briefly fired from directing Guardians 3). Based on a motley collection of characters from Marvel Comics’ history, the Guardians of the Galaxy movies had previously demonstrated a Tarantino-esque affinity for the lowbrow culture of the pre-internet era. If you want a glaring wake-up call about the passage of time, you can’t do better than this: The Guardians of the Galaxy, a band of Marvel characters defined by their love of all things vintage, are now listening to songs that were hits when Barack Obama was president. ![]() Warning: This post vaguely discusses plot elements of Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. ![]()
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