- no drawn-out origin stories or explanations of every single aspect of their lives

- COHERENT ACTION scenes that were creative, framed well and easy to follow (the most impressive part of the movie to me; it's amazing how shitty the "action" is in these fucking comic book movies)

- pacing was brisk and hardly any lulls (up until the last act, but I believe all these movies are 20-45 minutes too long)

I was incredibly surprised by how much I liked this. I've been fatigued by comic book movies for a while -- the MCU has been following the same overlong template of "talk about nothing, build towards next collab/solo movie, unmemorable action and deadpan humor", while the DC movies are mostly bad. credit to Gunn for giving this genre life, just as he did in 2014.

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