10 Lessons Comic Book Movies Can Learn From Guardians Of The Galaxy
6. Have An Awesome Script
While this may sound painfully obvious, anyone who's seen the most recent Spiderman film or Daredevil will know how important having a good script is to a comic book film. Yet while Winter Soldier and Days of Future Past actually had surprsingly decent scripts, it's films like The Dark Knight and The Guardians of The Galaxy that are infinitely more quotable. While there's not a single memorable line from Iron Man 3, Guardians Of The Galaxy is by far one of the most meme friendly and quotable films of 2014 so far. Choosing to keep the film's side characters in supporting roles and instead spending the time fleshing out the main bunch of our unlikely heroes was a wise choice, and really allowed you to fully understand and get behind each of Gunn's rag tag bunch of intergalactic saviours. Here's hoping that other script writers take a note of this direction and focus on doing five characters properly, rather than attempting to establish fifteen characters poorly. Hopefully future comic book films take the time to come up with dialogue as side split-tingly hilarious as anything in Guardians.
Having written for Official Playstation Mag, Godisageek and obviously What Culture. Tom is a London based writer who loves him some games. You may also find his articles lurking in the film and comic sections on rare occasions.