Nope, not even close. Nothing is close to being as good as earlier Marvel movies, with the exception of Winter Soldier, which was a very pleasant surprise of a movie.
The characters are terrible. Starlord is the dumbest named most generic character in Marvel. There is zero focus in those movies too because they have too much going on.
I also have this thing where I just dislike Chris Pratt too so that doesn't help.
well it's important to remember that these exist long before the movies, and nothing was created for them. If anything, IronMan was an invention for the movies because it was a dreadful, discarded Marvel product that no one gave a shit about and the only reason that movie was ever made was because it was the only original property of theirs that bankrupt Marvel still owned at the time.
If you don't like Starlord's name, you don't have to look much further than the constant explanations throughout about why his name is so dumb and why no one takes him seriously, lol. There's an explanation for that!
Anyway, they're the first Marvel movies with any sort of story, any sort of passion, and charm whatsoever. They are the only properties that first delve into the dense Marvel space world, which is ever-important for the Infinity Gauntlet stuff that they eventually tied their identity to (again, not owning the necessary properties to do that properly at the time: Fantastic Four, Silver Surfer, Adam Warlock, etc)
Every Marvel property before them was instantly forgettable. An assault of dumb Michael Bay nonsense for 2 hours, leaving you dazed a bit in the parking lot of the theater as if nothing of any consequence happened as soon as you leave. Guardians was the first one to actually give a damn about the characters in the film, rather than endless and inconsequential face-punching for hours, for reasons that literally no one can explain in any of those movies.
But yeah if you just dislike Chris Pratt that's its own thing.
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