Trailer Wednesday: Guardians of the Galaxy

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Welcome to “Trailer Tuesday” where I talk about trailers for upcoming movies, since I’ve always found them to be fascinating.

To be honest, I was really worried about Guardians of the Galaxy.  Marvel has been batting a thousand in Phase 2 so far, with Iron Man 3 and Thor: The Dark World huge hits, as well as the success of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., and with the interesting and dark-looking Captain America: The Winter Soldier still to come.  But Guardians of the Galaxy was destined to be the hardest sell for the company, given it’s out-there premise and the general lack of familiarity among the public with the comics.  But then they go and give us this new trailer for the film, and as far as I’m concerned they knocked it out of the park.  Take a look below and read on for my thoughts:

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Garak: How’s that?

Quark: Awful! Did you hear that sound of bone snapping? I don’t want that to be the last thing I hear!

Garak: It wasn’t that loud.

Quark: You don’t have these ears. Snapping vertebrae is out!

Garak: We’re running out of options, Quark. You don’t want to be vaporized because you need a body; the disrupter ruined your clothing, the knife was too savage, the nerve gas smelled bad, hanging took too long, and poison… What was was wrong with poison?

Quark: It doesn’t work! If I know the food is poisoned I won’t eat it.

Garak: For a man who wants to kill himself you’re strangely determined to live.

Quark: I’m going to die, don’t you worry about that. I just want to find the right way.

Garak: Right way?

Quark: I don’t want to see it coming. Or hear it. Or feel it or smell it. I just want to go on with my life and then… [snaps his fingers] …I’m dead!

Garak: Ah! You want to be surprised!

Quark: Exactly! I want to wake up in the Divine Treasury and have no idea how I got there.

Garak: I see. Perhaps that can be arranged.

Quark: Really?

Garak: You have my word. You’ll never know what hit you.

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Season 4: Episode 25 – “Body Parts”

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“Well, we’ll have to fly, won’t we?” said Luna in the closest thing to a matter-of-fact voice Harry had ever heard her use.
“Okay,” said Harry irritably, rounding on her, “first of all, ‘we’ aren’t doing anything if you’re including yourself in that, and second of all, Ron’s the only one with a broomstick that isn’t being guarded by a security troll, so –”
“I’ve got a broom!” said Ginny.
“Yeah, but you’re not coming,” said Ron angrily.
“Excuse me, but I care what happens to Sirius as much as you do!” said Ginny, her jaw set so that her resemblance to Fred and George was suddenly striking.
“You’re too –” Harry began.
“I’m three years older than you were when you fought You-Know-Who over the Sorcerer’s Stone,” she said fiercely, “and it’s because of me Malfoy’s stuck back in Umbridge’s office with giant flying bogeys attacking him –”
“Yeah, but–”
“We were all in the D.A. together, said Neville quietly. “It was all supposed to be about fighting You-Know-Who, wasn’t it? And this is the first chance we’ve had to do something real — or was that all just a game or something?”
“No — of course it wasn’t –” said Harry impatiently.
“Then we should come too,” said Neville simply. “We want to help.”
“That’s right,” said Luna, smiling happily.
Harry’s eyes met Ron’s. He knew that Ron was thinking exactly what he was: If he could have chosen any members of the D.A. in addition to himself, Ron, and Hermione to join him in the attempt to rescue Sirius, he would not have picked Ginny, Neville, or Luna.

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix – J.K. Rowling

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It is much, much worse to receive bad news through the written word than by somebody simply telling you, and I’m sure you understand why. When someone simply tells you bad news, you hear it once, and that’s the end of it. But when bad news is written down, whether in a letter or a newspaper or on your arm in felt to pen, each time you read it, you feel as if you are receiving the news again and again. For instance, I once loved a woman, who for various reasons could not marry me. If she had simply told me in person, I would have been very sad, of course, but eventually it might have passed. However, she chose instead to write a two-hundred-page book, explaining very single detail of the bad news at great length, and instead my sadness has been of impossible depth. When the book was first brought to me, by a flock of carrier pigeons, I stayed up all night reading it, and I read it still, over and over, and it is as if my darling Beatrice is bringing me bad news every day and every night of my life.

A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Miserable Mill – Lemony Snicket

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Julian Bashir: The first thing I need to do is run a complete bio-spectral analysis on an asymptomatic individual.

Jadzia Dax: Loosely translated, that means he needs a volunteer. Great. Now, if you’ll just have a seat, the doctor will be with you in a moment. They love to keep you waiting. It makes them feel important.

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Season 4: Episode 24 – “The Quickening”

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“Because they got the gold from me. I gave them my Triwizard winnings last June.”
There was shocked silence, then Hermione’s teacup jogged right over the edge of the desk and smashed on the floor.
“Oh, Harry, you didn’t!” she said.
“Yes, I did,” said Harry mutinously. “And I don’t regret it either — I didn’t need the gold, and they’ll be great at a joke shop. . . .”
“But this is excellent!” said Ron, looking thrilled. “It’s all your fault, Harry — Mum can’t blame me at all! Can I tell her?”

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix – J.K. Rowling

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In some stories, it’s easy.  The more of “The Three Bears,” for instance, is “Never break into someone else’s house.” The moral of “Snow White” is “Never eat apples.” The moral of World War One is “Never assassinate Archduke Ferdinand.”

A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Wide Window – Lemony Snicket

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Miles O’Brien: Looks like he used some sort of encryption program to bypass the access protocols.

Kira Nerys: Unbelievable. The nerve.

Quark: Major, you wanted to see me?

Odo: Don’t pretend you don’t know what this is about.

Kira Nerys: Maybe this’ll jog your memory. Engage monitor.

Quark’s Advertisement: Come to Quark’s, Quark’s is fun, come right now, don’t walk, run!

Quark: Oh, I love the part where my name rotates around.

Odo: Tampering with the station’s comm. system is a class three offence.

Quark: It’s just a little advertisement. I didn’t put one up in Ops.

Odo: I’m sure the magistrate will take that into consideration when he calculates your fine.

Worf: You!

Quark: As you can see, we’re very busy here. Station business.

Worf: How did you do it?

Miles O’Brien: Do what?

Worf: I ordered a glass of prune juice from the replicator in the Defiant’s mess. This is what it came in.

Kira Nerys: If all your little advertisements aren’t purged from our systems by the time I get back from the Gamma Quadrant, I will come to Quark’s, and believe me, I will have fun.

Quark: Er, let me help you with that, Chief.

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Season 4: Episode 24 – “The Quickening”

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None of the staff but Filch seemed to be stirring themselves to help her. Indeed, a week after Free and George’s departure Harry witnessed Professor McGonagall walking right past Peeves, who was determinedly loosening a crystal chandelier, and could have sworn he heard her tell the poltergeist out of the corner of her mouth, “It unscrews the other way.”

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix – J.K. Rowling

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It is very easy to say that the important thing is to try your best, but if you are in real trouble the most important thing is not trying your best, but getting to safety.

A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Wide Window – Lemony Snicket