{"id":49245,"date":"2015-01-12T23:11:44","date_gmt":"2015-01-13T06:11:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/01\/12\/movie-review-guardians-of-the-galaxy-2014.html"},"modified":"2015-01-12T23:11:44","modified_gmt":"2015-01-13T06:11:44","slug":"movie-review-guardians-of-the-galaxy-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/01\/12\/movie-review-guardians-of-the-galaxy-2014.html","title":{"rendered":"Movie Review: "Guardians of the Galaxy" (2014)"},"content":{"rendered":"

We broke in the disc this evening as part of Father\/Daughter Movie Week (+<\/span>Kay Hill<\/a><\/span>'s choice). I actually liked it better on rewatch than I did the first time around.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\nA ★★★★ review of Guardians of the Galaxy (2014)<\/a><\/span>
\nMy daughter and I watched this again tonight and, for whatever reason, I actually enjoyed it more this time out — probably because I knew what to expect. Ultimately, of course, this is a movie about losers learning to win. Quill uses the term “losers” with the rest of them, and then immediately redefines it to meaning they’ve all lost something. But the original meaning applies, too. Quill is trying to be a famous rogue hero, but nobody except t…\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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We broke in the disc this evening as part of Father\/Daughter Movie Week (+Kay Hill's choice). I actually liked it better on rewatch than I did the first time around. A ★★★★ review of Guardians of the Galaxy (2014) My daughter and I watched this again tonight and, for whatever reason, I actually enjoyed it … Continue reading “Movie Review: "Guardians of the Galaxy" (2014)”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":35608,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/05\/25\/movie-review-rise-of-the-guardians-2012.html","url_meta":{"origin":49245,"position":0},"title":"Movie Review: "Rise of the Guardians" (2012)","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 25-May-13 10:50pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Frankly, a lot better than I was expecting, with deeply imagined settings and characters somewhat\u00a0sabotaged with a plot that rides (smoothly, to be sure) on very predictable rails for the last half of the movie.\u00a0 Dave Hill\u2019s \u2605\u2605\u2605\u00bd review of Rise of the Guardians (2012) on Letterboxd.com I was expecting\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":49585,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/02\/15\/father-daughter-movie-week-in-review.html","url_meta":{"origin":49245,"position":1},"title":"Father-Daughter Movie Week in Review","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 15-Feb-15 3:45pm","format":false,"excerpt":"+Margie Kleerup was off on mostly-business last week, so +Kay Hill and I got to watch a lot of movie -- though not as many as I wanted, as it was a fairly busy week in other ways. 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