I know I’m late to the party, but I just watched Guardians of the Galaxy vol 3 for the first time…

I don’t even know where to begin. What a tragic cinematic masterpiece. I’ve genuinely never felt like this after watching a movie.

I’m a grown ass man, but there were multiple moments where I teared up. I was just sitting there in awe at how good this movie was.

I had no idea Rocket’s story was that devastating. Easily one of the most emotional arcs in the MCU. I’ve got nothing but respect for him. He’s officially my next main in Marvel Rivals.

For Lylla, Teefs, and Floor.

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linecookdaddy2025-12-23 19:06

I think it's the most visually stunning movie in the entire MCU. The color palette is insane

CompetitiveProject42025-12-23 23:30

It’s also the closest we may ever get an adaptation of [We3](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We3)

Soggy_Motor92802025-12-23 19:19

I love the movie , but my only they complaint and here’s a spoiler so if you haven’t seen the movie, do not read……….. when rocket dies and see his former buddies in the afterlife I thought they all should’ve had their limbs back instead of their robot parts. That’s all, other than that I loved it.

WishbonePrior93772025-12-23 19:36

It kinda makes sense in that this is how he knew them and loved them- they were the first ones to ever show him adoration and affection after he was altered and became self aware. For them to revert back to their original forms would mean they wouldn’t have that anymore.
Really telling if you think back through all the movies- his obsession with prosthetics. “Oh! I’m gonna get that arm.” Lol

Soggy_Motor92802025-12-23 19:42

I guess we will have to cordially disagree.

aharedd12025-12-23 19:58

I suppose the scene then is really just in his head, with how he remembers them. If they were whole then it could possibly be a real afterlife vision, which it would seem it was not.

VesperX2025-12-23 21:59

This was my conclusion also. But like a great wizard once said “Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?”

TikTokTinMan2025-12-23 19:21

I just finished it for the first time, also, and had the exact same reaction. It’s much darker, but also more personal, than the first two, and I love how it brought each character’s arch to a satisfying conclusion as they each dealt with their individual trauma. The line that really sticks with me is when Mantis yells that >!Drax is the only one that doesn’t hate himself!<.

AndarianDequer2025-12-23 23:43

Literally one of the very, very, few perfect trilogies that ever exist. On top of that, each movie got progressively better, in my opinion.

Back to the Future is an example of a perfect trilogy because all three of the movies were solid, supported each other by building off the previous and had great conclusions. The only difference with the back to the Future trilogy is that each one DID NOT progressively better than the previous but they're all great. I think the first and second are tied for best.

Ninja_Mithaiwala2025-12-24 05:09

LOTR?

AndarianDequer2025-12-24 05:09

Yes absolutely. That's on my very short list too.

pett1172025-12-24 12:55

Hard to call it just a trilogy because they have a lot of development in the 2 avengers movies

_steve_rogers_2025-12-25 02:45

I think GOTG1 is head and shoulders above the others, but the others aren’t that bad. I thought 3 was a lot better than 2

DistractedAttorney2025-12-26 05:28

Agree on great/perfect trilogy. Disagree on the movies getting better. The first GOTG was phenomenal.

thuggishruggishboner2025-12-24 01:24

The moment when they all hear Rocket over the radio. I cry like a baby.

Riversntallbuildings2025-12-24 13:57

“How is that a monkey?”

“I have no idea.”

Great film!

ThatIowanGuy2025-12-23 19:25

The needle drop of We Care A Lot as they land on Counter-Earth is one of my favorite movie moments of all time

failedjedi_opens_jar2025-12-23 19:30

I caught an early screening and decided it would be a great idea to see this fun and goofy gangs last silly movie while tripping balls on mushrooms.

Holy shit.

failedjedi_opens_jar2025-12-23 19:30

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Technical-Dentist-842025-12-23 19:56

God I love watching these movies on mushrooms lol

Deadpool Wolverine is one of the craziest experiences of my life..... sitting in that AMC theater tripping absolute balls, thinking that our universe was connected to theirs (he kept looking at us and talking to us!)

_NauticalPhoenix_2025-12-23 22:49

The one and only time I tripped balls watching a movie was 2008’s Journey to the Center of the Earth. It was a great time.

I can only imagine what you went through.

yaboyskinnydick_2025-12-24 10:20

I'd already seen it in theaters, when it dropped on D+ I watched it on acid as I'd been planning (I've watched Annihilation on acid and loved it), it was only once Lylla dies and Rocket screams that I was actually transported into and spiritually connected to Rocket, and I genuinely started bawling like he does and I swear it was like I had no choice in the matter, I just was Rocket in that moment and felt everything he felt. It was scary but beautiful in a way.

AgentKnitter2025-12-24 13:52

When I went to see Dr Strange in the cinema, the guys in front of me were talking about how they'd taken some shrooms before the film.

When Strange first enters the Mirror Dimension, Shroom Guy 1 said to his friend ".... I think this was a bad idea"

By the time of Dormammu Ive come to bargain one was fine but the other was occasionally whimpering.

SecretWarsIsComing2025-12-23 19:30

Wakanda Forever was just as emotionally beautiful. Def recommend if you haven’t seen yet.

ChaoticAquarian2025-12-24 01:14

Finally. Someone here who can also appreciate the beauty of Wakanda Forever in its fullness. Both are right next to each other near the top of my Fav MCU movies

Repulsive_Season_9082025-12-24 13:29

Not even close.

Smooth_Cry26452025-12-24 16:41

Wakanda felt forced

Morgoth18142025-12-23 19:45

Arguably a top 3 MCU movie. Never expected them to go dark.

unbelievablydull822025-12-23 19:49

I watched it with my son in the cinema three days after one of my dogs was put to sleep due to cancer. I've never felt so angry at a villain in a movie in my 43 years on this planet. I had such a strong urge to kick the crap out of him. I was very impressed by the performance, it's a great film, heartbreaking, funny, exciting, exactly what I like in a marvel movie.

Etienne10BR2025-12-23 20:52

Chukwudi Iwuji's acting is out of this world. One of the greatest villains ever!

Bosch19712025-12-23 21:14

He's such a sweet guy in interviews too.

TARS19862025-12-24 22:31

Best pure evil villain in the MCU, hands down.

Fishinluvwfeathers2025-12-23 21:44

I see you. I saw it two days after losing the last of my beloved 3 senior dogs and my old man cat all in a 10 month period. I had been crying for days and my partner thought going to see this for an early showing the day after it dropped would take our minds off of things for a little while. There are many ways to dehydrate the human body, some definitely worse than others… I had to laugh when I got a text 6 hrs later from a friend that just read DO *NOT* GO SEE GUARDIANS 3 UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES!

unbelievablydull822025-12-23 22:37

It was utterly heartbreaking to watch at times. I'm not particularly emotional with movies, but it just was the worst timing. There were young kids at the screening, their parents were trying to console them during the tough parts.

Poked_salad2025-12-24 00:24

Yo that friend is the MVP. Knowing what you have gone through, warned you asap after the movie ended. Hope you told them that lol

Riversntallbuildings2025-12-24 14:03

The best way to grieve is to get it all out.

I’m sorry for your loss.

Sounds like you have good friends. :)

The-ghost-of-life2025-12-23 22:27

Spoilers

>!When Rocket didn't kill him at the end, I was all like Why??? Kill him!!!! After everything he had done to you?!! Kill him!!!!<

>!I know why he didn't and it was a good choice of writing imo from the perspective of character development, but boy was it hard for me when he just *let him live*. !<

unbelievablydull822025-12-23 22:38

Oh I would have killed him in that position, there wouldn't be any doubt about it. I hope we see more of the high evolutionary seeing as he survived, Chukwudi is an excellent actor

The-ghost-of-life2025-12-23 22:59

He was fantastic. He absolutely killed it. I think all the actors and actresses were great in this movie but he was exceptional. I also would like to see the High Evolutionary again, even though I despise his very soul lol. But Chukwudi is just this great in this role and the character itself is interesting enough, I'm sure he can take the character to all kind of different directions.

Landmine_Tosser2025-12-23 19:51

James Gunn owes me an apology for the emotional devastation he caused me. Honestly one of my favourite MCU movies. Fantastic visuals and heart wrenching story. I always appreciate that it's not really a happy ending, it's just a realistic ending.

TheCeruleanFire2025-12-23 22:00

Introduced my girlfriend to Peacemaker this year (if you love GOTG then watch Peacemaker immediately). After we finished she said “you didn’t warn me I was gonna cry for two hours!”

DrummerDKS2025-12-23 23:17

Man, I acknowledge the quality of the movie was phenomenal but the level of detail that went into the CGI animal abuse and violence got a visceral reaction from me that I can not watch that again.

There were a lot of details that easily could’ve been a fade to black or just descriptions or even silhouettes and I’d be happy to watch it again.

ViejoConBoina2025-12-24 03:25

There’s two MCU films I’ve never rewatched, one of them is GOTG3.

It bothers me because it’s fantastic, but the animal-infant abuse in it really gets to me.

DrummerDKS2025-12-24 03:44

Is the other one Black Widow? Cause same

ViejoConBoina2025-12-24 15:54

The other one was Eternals, I tied to rewatch it once or twice but could not sit through it.

I’m glad some people like to but to me it’s absolute garbage.

Veridically_2025-12-24 07:53

I can't rewatch either GOTG3 or Black Panther 2. Both are beautiful but so tragic it hurts.

Riversntallbuildings2025-12-24 14:00

The best is the bonus seen…

“I’ll mow her lawn if it needs to be done. But is he just going to sit there and watch? A 45 year old, able bodied man is going to watch me mow his mom’s lawn?”

“Pete, don’t get me started.”

“I mean, now I kinda wanna know…”

LOL

LyonsKing12_2025-12-23 20:38

Good film but a bit overrated and leaned really hard into animal cruelty.

Dunlocke2025-12-23 23:51

You're getting downvoted because you're in this sub but you're right. The tone was way off and the movie was treacly, even for Gunn.

LyonsKing12_2025-12-24 00:00

Yea, you're not allowed to criticize gotg3 for some reason.

People get really weird about it.

buzzedewok2025-12-23 21:04

That was one of the hardest movies, emotionally to get through that I have ever watched.

labbla2025-12-23 21:11

It's so good! A really nice sendoff for the Guardians crew.

Automatic-Big-78302025-12-23 21:21

Put down my 12 year old lab 3 days before seeing it. Never cried as an adult from a movie but I was a little baby watching the movie. Miss you boo you were my best friend.

Vhsgods2025-12-24 14:39

Sorry for your loss friend.

Slothfurato2025-12-23 21:53

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TheRealBatmanDamnit2025-12-24 11:10

This has become a must watch for me this time of year, it's SO good.

VesperX2025-12-23 21:54

I just watched it too. It is so good. So tragic. It just highlights what an underrated actor Bradley Cooper is for making me care that much about the character. He isn’t celebrated as much as the other cast and he’s often absent from the press tours but he did an amazing job voicing Rocket.

The-ghost-of-life2025-12-23 22:11

I loved it very much too. It has the things that I look for the most in a movie - make me fall in love with the characters and care about them, make me feel feelings and tell a good story. I also only watched it recently, which is a bummer because I have no one to talk to about this movie. It makes me kind of pathetically go and watch two years old YouTube videos of people talking about this movie and read two years old comments lmao. Also, I wish I had watched it at the theatre.

A recommendation, if you haven't done it already and wish to watch this movie again: watch the whole trilogy in a row from start to finish. It really highlights the themes, the characters' development and the development of the team as a group, both in each individual movie and across all of them. This trilogy is now my most favorite movies in the MCU by far, way above the rest of it.

I am debating between me and myself if I should jump on this opportunity to write an overly long and emotional block of text gushing about this movie or not. On one hand, this is highly embarrassing and I doubt anyone would actually like to read it lol. On the other hand, I have to get it out of my system somehow and I have no one to talk to about this so this is the perfect opportunity... on another hand, it will take me forever to write probably. Truly a dilemma.

bay-massage2025-12-23 22:34

Wish I could see it for the first time again. Great visuals and emotional weight!

PepsiPerfect2025-12-23 22:42

Yeah, I pretty much cried for like 30 minutes straight in that movie.

NrFive2025-12-23 22:56

Great movie. This is the rare MCU movie I was only able to watch once. Did rewatch some clips of the final fight though.

NothingReallyAndYou2025-12-24 01:51

It's somehow not as hard to rewatch as you think it's going to be. It's still sad, but it's not nearly as traumatic as that first viewing.

NrFive2025-12-24 02:22

I’ll give it a go surely once we are close to Doomsday. But yeah first time watching pulled all my heart strings. Even the scene of Peter coming hometown his grandpa.

dusa-duso2025-12-23 23:05

Imagine how you'll feel once you see a real animal testing video...if this movie genuinely affected you make more positive choices when purchasing health and beauty products and you can help minimize the suffering animals experience in labs.

evapotranspire2025-12-24 11:42

Agree completely! Thank you for saying this. Out of sight should NOT be out of mind.

xroxasrebelx2025-12-23 23:11

Peak!!

Train2Win2025-12-24 00:18

GOTG 3 is my go to film when i need emotion lol

No-Lake-25682025-12-24 00:44

If you haven’t already, watch the guardians of the Galaxy Holiday special it will cheer you up

NothingReallyAndYou2025-12-24 01:59

It's got a couple of emotional punches, too, aside from Peter and Mantis's story. Peter reminiscing about Yondu is bittersweet, but it's the brief moment between Rocket and Nebula that gets me. It's a reminder that they spent five years together, grieving for everyone they thought they lost, and then they lost their new friend and partner Nat, and their teammate Tony. They have a bond the others will never fully understand.

Mr_Basura2025-12-24 01:18

I thought it sucked , too sad
Guardians are supposed to be the fun marvel movie

BenFranklinsCat2025-12-24 01:45

I don't think I've ever been in a cinema that was audibly sobbing as much as during GotG3. Its the new Watership Down/Old Yeller.

jojopojo642025-12-24 08:36

IW and Endgame were the only other movies I can remember with such visceral crying. Surreal experience that I wonder if I'll experience again in cinemas.

Overall-Gaming782025-12-24 02:00

An amazing movie for sure!

HumoristicHero2025-12-24 02:12

The movie was a masterpiece right from the OST ... But i am a creep 🎵🎵🎵

lorrwein2025-12-24 02:17

I really loved it but i never want to go through that again. God, i cried so hard. I'm definitely too sensitive when it comes to animal cruelty.

fernandothehorse2025-12-24 03:43

Yeah same. It was such an intense experience, no piece of art has ever made me feel exactly like that before, but because of that I’m not sure I can ever watch it again

Segwaye2025-12-24 02:35

Yes, MULTIPLE tearful moments. I don’t know another movie that does to me that actually. Maybe the Return of the King?

Mantis talking about Drax to Nebula (he’s dumb, but we need him)

Quill almost losing Rocket

Drax dancing (and everyone dancing) at the end

“We were fun”

RTR71052025-12-24 02:49

The first Guardians movie came out when my Dad was dying. I feel such a connection with Star Lord and the themes of the trilogy. Arrested development, running from trauma, etc.

Now I'm a few months removed from the death of my Mom. I have come to the conclusion that the Guardians trilogy is my favorite movie.

_________FU_________2025-12-24 02:52

Me too. I think this James Gunn has quite the career trajectory at Marvel.

discordianofslack2025-12-24 03:41

Absolutely amazing movie and imo nothing has beat “open the fucking door” in the MCU.

netherlanddwarf2025-12-24 04:12

When Rocket said “hurt” you could hear all the woman in the theater audibly gasp. It was a great movie i think one of the best action sequences in the hallway.

Responsible-Bonus2782025-12-24 05:06

One of the best mcu movies of all time in my opinion. Best post Endgame movie for me. I genuinely love this movie. Guardians is the GOAT MCU trilogy. Even part 2 has aged like fine wine for me

Farscape292025-12-24 05:37

My whole family cried like babies in the theater. Hell everyone did. Then we cried again at the celebratory ending. Marvel haters can eat a bag...

Ok-Astronaut60972025-12-24 06:20

Cried like a baby throughout the ENTIRE movie

KribriQT2025-12-24 06:47

My cat is named after Rocket. He turned 10 this month. I don’t think I’ll ever be able to watch this movie once he’s gone. Funnily enough he does guard me pretty consistently. I like to joke that I’m his galaxy.

BlackMamba_Beto2025-12-24 07:31

It was sooooo sad

Quickstar132025-12-24 08:16

Same. I finally watched it about six months ago and regretted not watching it so much sooner. The Guardians are just my favorite part of the MCU as a whole. They’re my favorite team, Guardians 1 is not only my favorite MCU movie but was also the first one I saw in theaters and marked the beginning of me actually following the MCU, and I’ve probably rewatched it more than any other MCU film.

Guardians 3 felt like more than just a love letter and more than just an amazing send-off. It really meant something to me and I couldn’t help but tear up at it too.

frankdatank_0042025-12-24 08:41

I think the first 10 times that I watched it I bawled! The first time was at my parents’ house when our family dog wasn’t doing well and I bawled so hard that my parents had to put all their energy into consoling me after watching it.

Fallenjace2025-12-24 08:59

I'm not a huge fan of Chris Pratt's, but he ... kinda killed it in vol 3. I've never seen so much emotion out of that guy, frankly I didn't think he could act that well. And he hasn't again since, but still. Is it the perfectly tied bow to send off these characters? No. But it's much better than others have gotten. Honestly one of the darker movies in the MCU.

I'm also sure that in less than a decade we'll get a vol 4.

FoxMeadow72025-12-24 12:13

Impressive isn't it? No wonder Rocket turned out the way he did. And if timeline's correct, he's more or less at or nearing his 50s, close to Peter Quill's age.

kobrakai_19862025-12-24 12:47

That film plucked at all the heart strings. I’m not massively affected by movies but GOTG3 hit me in so many places.

My favourite of the trilogy I think, purely because I never thought a Marvel movie would make me FEEL so much, but this one did.

Soulwarfare422025-12-24 13:26

Guardians of the Galaxy would be the perfect trilogy if it wasn't for the fact that jumping from Guardians 2 to 3 is odd if you have not seen Infinity war and Endgame and technically Love and Thunder

The-ghost-of-life2025-12-30 08:26

I'll be honest with you, I hated what they have done to Quill in Infinity War and Endgame so much that in my head I pretend the Guardians weren't even in there. I just pretend Gamora is dead somehow off screen and there is some another version of her that has never been with the Guardians, and that Nebula ended up with them, and that's it. For the most part, that's what GotG 3 does anyway. The fact that Rocket and Nebula are close can be easily explained by them having a similar past, spending the last years together with the Guardians, and Rocket was always good with these rough type of characters anyway. You really don't need these 5 years they spent together alone without the rest of the group to explain their closeness.

In general I think the 5 years after the Snap was a big mistake. It has too much consequences and implications, and it screwes a lot of the relationships of characters with other characters, not to mention the psychological damage. Which is why basically all the movies afterwards and Endgame itself just glossed over it. No one wants to deal with the implications of the Snap, it's too grand.

Rocket lost everything in the Snap. Nebula was basically a stranger to him when it happens. Until Antman came back thinking that time travel is possible, they didn't think they could bring all these people back. Rocket's family was basically gone and he didn't think they could ever be back, then there was a chance and then they got back, after 5 years he spent without them. Realistically, he shoul be in a different place now mentally, that he got back with them seamlessy and like nothing happened is very unrealistic. I don't know, such thing could take a lifetime to get over, yet Rocket seems fine in Endgame and in GotG 3, it's like it never happened. You could blame Gunn for GotG 3, but frankly I'm glad the movie wasn't revolved around that, and gave us good end closed this chapter of the Guardians instead.

As for Love and Thunder, they haven't done anything in there really, so it can be ignored very easily. You don't have to watch it as it contributes nothing to the plot or the characters of the Guardians.

AgentKnitter2025-12-24 13:49

The High Evolutionary is fascinating - taking a God complex literally.

Schedonnardus2025-12-24 14:29

Really puts rockets line from the first movie into perspective : "boo hoo, everybody's got dead people"

KB_Sez2025-12-24 15:02

It's a hard film -- saw it in the theatre opening day in the UK. It's a great film but unlike the others not one you can rewatch endlessly.

The High Evolutionary is truly one of the great villains of all time. You're just begging for him to get his just deserts.

A_Nerdy_Dad2025-12-24 16:53

I totally teared up watching the movie in the theater with my kids, when it came to Rocket's back story. The feels....

cal_nevari2025-12-24 22:02

I've never seen it. Is it still available on Disney+?

Imsmart-98192025-12-25 05:34

High Evolutionary is most evil MCU villain imo

ucjj20112025-12-26 05:38

I know I'm in the minority on this, but GotG 2 is not only the worst of the trilogy, for quite some time I had it as one of the five worst MCU movies, alongside (at the time) Iron Man 2, Thor 2, Age of Ultron, and Ant Man 2. Since then Love & Thunder and Wakanda Forever have pushed it out of the bottom five, and my appreciation for it has grown somewhat.

the-dandy-man2025-12-26 06:18

#NO

#SLEEP

#TIL BROOKLYN

StealUrCookies2025-12-27 15:22

Even my rewatch barely 2 months later had me sobbing from beginning to end. Or cry laughing because of the Mantis and Drax scenes 💕

[deleted]2026-01-03 19:38

This movie made me go cruelty free/vegan