It’s not that I believe Indiana Jones is going to die in the opening scene. Of course he will be fine. It’s that I believe HE believes he can die. It’s entertaining because I believe HE is scared.
In Guardians I don’t see any emotions. They are moments from death and they just stand there cracking jokes. If they are not worried why should I be? There’s no suspense so it’s boring. It’s like watching video game walk through. or a CGI Rube Goldberg machine. Things happens in some predetermined order and everything works out eventually. The sequence may be visually impressive but in the end it’s meaningless. It all just feels fake. Apparently other people can empathize with a CGI tree and that’s fine. For me it’s like watching Mario die.
P.S. Another detail. With Indiana I know what the danger is: if he falls he dies. I can see how he struggles so I see it’s difficult for him. In Guardians at no point I believe the rockets can harm them. I’m sure even if they are hit by one directly they will just bounce off a wall and get up. I also don’t know what the badger is doing. He has to connect some wires but is it difficult? How probable it is that he will fail? I don’t know so I assume it’s not important. It’s just something he will do to unlock next sequence. I find watching someone do unimportant things boring.
I have a theory about why I don’t care for superhero movies. Watch those two clips:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5olbmhS_rs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhf4_hQf8qo
Those is people about to die in Guardians:
This is a person about to die in Raiders:
It’s not that I believe Indiana Jones is going to die in the opening scene. Of course he will be fine. It’s that I believe HE believes he can die. It’s entertaining because I believe HE is scared.
In Guardians I don’t see any emotions. They are moments from death and they just stand there cracking jokes. If they are not worried why should I be? There’s no suspense so it’s boring. It’s like watching video game walk through. or a CGI Rube Goldberg machine. Things happens in some predetermined order and everything works out eventually. The sequence may be visually impressive but in the end it’s meaningless. It all just feels fake. Apparently other people can empathize with a CGI tree and that’s fine. For me it’s like watching Mario die.
P.S. Another detail. With Indiana I know what the danger is: if he falls he dies. I can see how he struggles so I see it’s difficult for him. In Guardians at no point I believe the rockets can harm them. I’m sure even if they are hit by one directly they will just bounce off a wall and get up. I also don’t know what the badger is doing. He has to connect some wires but is it difficult? How probable it is that he will fail? I don’t know so I assume it’s not important. It’s just something he will do to unlock next sequence. I find watching someone do unimportant things boring.