Tekkaman-James: I mean no offense, but I feel like you're being a bit of a contrarian on this subject.
You are wrong. I honestly belive it's a bad movie. Some of the reasons for it are
in this review, I have others of my own too. Sorry for just linking a review rather than writing it myself, but I had this conversation many times, and I'm just a little tired of repeating myself. Also, I have read no reviews before seeing the movie, I always try to avoid reviews before seeing a film.
I often appear contrarian, as my opinon is often a minority report, by I am not contrarian. Being so often in the minority I am in fact overjoyed whenever the popular opinion agrees with me (Fury Road for example).
Tekkaman-James: None of this would have happened if the film wasn't well made.
Yes, it would. There is an abundance of popular and yet dismal movies (and other things). Look no further than Twilight for fan artwork, costumes, merchandise, book sales rising etc. An extreme example, (Guardians are not nearly as awful), but relevant.
You're free to love GotG, or any other movie for that matter, but do not confuse popularity with proof of quality. As Bertrand Russel said “The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widely spread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible.”
gooberking: What I don't see on your list is Days of Future Past which I think deserves to take this movie's trophy for worst superhero movie ever made. I hate it. I really hate it. I hate it more than mayonnaise.
It's not on the list because
1) I was talking about Marvel Studio's movies and
2) I enjoyed it a lot :D Though I will admit, it is flawed, but in my mind vastly superior to anything from Marvel Studio since the first Avengers, and the first good movie in the X-Men franchise since X2.