The movie, IMO, is polarizing at best and I consider it an average movie. I do consider Guardians as close to an 80's Space Opera homage as I can get. And if it fixes a few problems then we'd have a pretty good space opera film. The best approach should be distancing itself from the other Marvel films as far as possible.
It's like the age-old debate of should X-Men crossover with the MCU? Some say Yay while others feel that its better off on its own. To me X-Men is better off establishing its own world, cramming itself into the MCU would just make the continuity all the more messed up. Also, the MCU has already developed to the point that incorporating the X-Men would just be silly now.
Marvel Comics have enough science fiction history that Guardians is capable of establishing it's own world and not have to piggyback off of the previous MCU films to do so. Guardians should have their own recurring big bad that the group alone has to defeat rather than saving said big bad for The Avengers or something. Honestly, with the right person and development, I'd be more interested in Thanos being established as the big bad for the Guardians of The Galaxy crew and the group working to defeat him. I'd much rather see a trilogy of GOTG movies that develops to that point. Unfortunately, that can't happen due to the whole Infinity Gems thing. If you think about it, since the majority of the crew's backstories are connected to Thanos then having him be the soul villain the crew has to defeat sounds like a better storytelling scenario than Thanos just being a one off Avengers villain. At least with Thanos being the antagonist to the GOTG it provides some personal conflict. What made the first Avengers movie work is that there was personal conflict between The Avengers and Loki. In Infinity War, Thanos would be some guy the group has to beat.
So yeah, I'm in the minority that future films should only focus on establishing the group and the sci-fi universe the film is based in.
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