I think the biggest factor here is #1, and all the other positive notes kind of grow out of it. GotG was fun. I had fun watching it. I'm having fun right now remembering it and talking about it. I thoroughly enjoyed myself from start to finish.I'm probably going to go see it again this weekend and I never do that.

Captain America: The Winter Soldier is easily the most serious and "dark" of the Marvel movies, but it's serious without being grim and it's dark without being dour. And it still managed to keep things entertaining, where MOS isn't very entertaining at all. I think even people who love that movie would agree it's not…

Between Guardians and Gravity, we may be starting to see proof that audiences actually want space action again.

11. The time has come for MEN to be asked how did they get in shape for the film.

Great list and I agree with all of that. The only problem is that every couple of years Michael Bay teaches the studios the opposite of these 10 things.

To be fair, pretty much everybody in this was irritating as hell. It's probably not a good sign that the entire cast makes you root for the bad guys.

Burt i don't know if its real or not, but

Amen! I'm especially fed up of all the hero worshipping going on in Doctor Who (like Agatha Christie - jeeeeeesus!!), but I always rolled my eyes when Star Trek would use the holodeck to go play with Leonardo Da Vinci, or some generic time travel show would JUST HAPPEN TO bump into a young <insert famous person> and…

Its the same with early 20th America which is often portrayed as an ideal place of peace and prosperity

While I broadly agree, describing the Middle Ages as 'feudal squalor' is blisteringly inaccurate, and, as a Medievalist, I must protest. Both pictures of the so-called Middle Ages (several centuries that encompassed hundreds of different cultures, societal movements and vast distances) are precisely the kind of soft…

"There's no right way to hit a woman."

This twerp from the 2005 War of the Worlds. Fine - you can be a moody teen to your deadbeat dad in everyday life, but when people start getting vaporised by giant robots and there's fucking trains on fire and explosions and shit just lose the attitude and do as you're told for a few fucking days!!

Well hey! Yes...they're baaaaaack. Thankfully I have no business down there (unless I decide to help my sorority with recruitment...nope), so I can mostly avoid it.

Sorry Wil Wheaton. I love your show, but you'll never live this down. And for the record, it's more how the character was written than the quality of the actor.

I win! Bella Swan. Reasons why she is annoying, she doesn't take action even when a Vampire is threatening to tear off her arm. Bonus she sits for several months in her room possibly not showering and bruiting over a boy

Obnoxious? Certainly. Psychotic? Definitely.

i would get a can of bengal and a bengal cat, just for good measure.

I'm going to jump on the "Shucks, that aint' nothin'!" bandwagon- Florida here.

Popping a Vicodin and leaning on a cane, perhaps?