There are lengthy scenes of innocent animal-type creatures being terrified, tortured, vivisected, and subjected to gruesome experiments.
There's a whole town where human-type creatures look like experiments from the Island of Dr. Moreau.
There are many, many actual human children in cages, though the movie does not show them being otherwise maltreated. That is saved for the animal creatures.
There is a scene of someone getting their face literally peeled off, followed by a long, full-screen closeup of exactly what that looks like. frazzled.rip anyone?
It's all right there in this extremely popular film, though judging by the audience around me they will barely notice that and are only there for the comedy, slapstick, arguments and loads of stuff blowing up.
That's fine, but someone went to great expense to put the above-described scenes into this movie.
What did you think?
Yes, there is a lot of good in the GOTG movies.
My concern is that by going as far as they did, it has the effect of telling the masses what they want to hear: That such horrible things happen only in the movies and everybody knows they aren't "real." Because if they were real, nobody would put it in what is essentially a kid/family movie, right?
Then, people can happily go home and relax and tell themselves that anyone who says it's "real" is just a crazy Qtard who doesn't know the difference between reality and a movie.
So much of what I saw was right out of these boards for the last several years: the capture of innocent animals and children for the purposes of torture experimentation.
Even the rumour of frazzled.rip was played out right there on the screen. Now, if it does come out to a wider public, everyone will scoff and dismiss it as being just something you saw in a movie, you idiot, it's not real!
Except there's a very good chance that it IS real.
We have to realize that this is ideal camouflage for them, and not rest too easy thinking it has a good message so it's okay.
Almost worst of all: It shows a horrifically evil villain being given a "second chance" by our heroes, because "everyone deserves a second chance."
No, they don't. Captain Kirk would have blown his ass away at the first opportunity.
TL:DR - Guardians of the Galaxy 3 shows horrific things involving animals and children, but then the heroes insist that the perpetrators deserve a second chance. So, the masses will insist that stuff like this only happens in movies and even if it's real, the perps "deserve a second chance."
Sounds more like a message from psychopaths than heroes to me, with as much as I wish you were right.
I understand your take on this. But I see it differently.
People know we have animal experimentation going on for product and drug testing. We have PETA. We have 'cruelty-free' product labels. But no one wants to think too much about what really is happening to these poor animals. Sometimes you have to force them to see it and acknowledge the evil. The same way the pro-life people post hideous photos on large poster boards of bloody, aborted babies that are ripped in pieces to force the pro-abortionists to see what is being done to their babies. Sometimes that's what it takes to make them stop.
Regarding the 'second chance' I was referring to - when the genetically designed 'superior being' was told by his creator, 'The Evil Guy,' that a different group has no value and he must destroy them, he follows orders. That is his programming.
When the 'lesser beings' best him, and instead of destroying him, treat him with kindness he is gobsmacked. It goes against his programming. It opens his eyes. He realizes he's been duped. He realizes he's on the wrong side. He is in a position to correct that and join the good side. He does so and saves the day. (That is akin to redpilling a staunch Lib who now 'walks away'.)
As we've all seen, sometimes the recent converts make powerful allies and advocates.