I guess "Eternals" just had its premiere, and the usual hyperbolic quotes from randos are making the rounds. "Your MIND will be BLOWN AWAY! There will only be TWO types of Eternals audiences, those who think it is AWESOME and those that KNOW it is." Etc. But I did see more than one comparison to the DC movies ... as a good thing. So ... whatevs.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 19 October 2021 18:34 (two years ago) link
I mean, if the comparison is "successfully evokes the weight and gravitas aimed for by the DC movies that the latter fail to consistently achieve" I don't see why that would be a de facto bad comparison
― talkin' about his flat tire (DJP), Tuesday, 19 October 2021 18:45 (two years ago) link
They better have that Kirby Krackle
― Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Wednesday, 20 October 2021 01:30 (two years ago) link
The Eternals clip that went around Twitter the other day (fighting on a beach) looked like crap.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Wednesday, 20 October 2021 01:40 (two years ago) link
This is cutehttps://www.instagram.com/reel/CVOqQXOtIvo
― Chuck_Tatum, Wednesday, 20 October 2021 14:34 (two years ago) link
My friend walked in on the beachside fight scene trailer and went ' are they making another power rangers movie', lol, it does look kinda terrible, would like it to carry some weight and drama but it also could be a hammy, corny mess
― Swanswans, Thursday, 21 October 2021 21:07 (two years ago) link
didnt realise that Eternals was/is out already
just came across shirley li's review from the Atlantic, she liked it overall, 'soulful & refreshing' https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2021/10/chloe-zhao-eternals-marvel-review/620460/
― H in Addis, Sunday, 24 October 2021 19:05 (two years ago) link
it is out next month
― bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Monday, 25 October 2021 06:37 (two years ago) link
Another Hawkeye trailer? Why sure!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLP3gEEYaf0
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 28 October 2021 21:33 (two years ago) link
Even better: Stop crediting, start paying, haha.— David Aja (@davaja) October 25, 2021
― papal hotwife (milo z), Thursday, 28 October 2021 21:35 (two years ago) link
Relatively pepped about Hawkeye, still not remotely excited about The Eternals, which is as much a failure of marketing as it is my own taste (or lack thereof), given it's sort of been rolled out for months now and I still don't care. Sure, Shang-Chi turned out to my liking despite me knowing or caring nothing about the character, but pretty space gods fighting CGI monsters with their laser eyes and fists just isn't drawing me in right now. I think I might sit this one out and wait for the next slate, all of which feature characters that entice me more (as far as any of these movies do).
Apparently it was getting review bombed on Rotten Tomatoes or IMDB or whatever arbitrary bs site was being cited, but overlooked in that debate is that most of the mainstream critic reviews currently aren't that positive, either, at least at this premature point.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 28 October 2021 22:22 (two years ago) link
for shame josh. it’s not about pretty space gods it’s ABOUT FAMILY.
― poster of sparks (rogermexico.), Friday, 29 October 2021 13:40 (two years ago) link
have never seen so much negative advance word on an MCU film as I've seen for Eternals. I'd chalked it up to sexism in the fanbase initially but reviewers are also not being kind. I admit this has seriously dampened my interest.
― akm, Friday, 29 October 2021 15:25 (two years ago) link
Watching the trailer again honestly maybe the only thing that turns me off about it is the powers they look like they have. They're wearing pretty costumes and they all have brightly colored lasers or weapons that are made of... "powers" that they make appear out of thin air. At a glance it looks like indistinct beams or sword beams or beam orbs or whatever. I do think I saw a dagger that was just an actual dagger for a second and not made out of neon plasma laser beams.
― Evan, Friday, 29 October 2021 16:17 (two years ago) link
It's also weird how heavily they rely on the guy shooting beams out of his eyes in the trailers, Cyclops did that for many X-Men movies so it's not like some unique new power previously unexplored in these movies.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 29 October 2021 16:41 (two years ago) link
I mean I've got a ticket for next Thursday night, I'll see what happens. If it's a botch, it's a botch.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 29 October 2021 16:50 (two years ago) link
Captain Marvel got mediocre reviews and was... fine, really
Not sure about the cast in this - Gemma Chan, Jon Snow and The Bodyguard all together is kind of a potential charisma-free zone.
― Chuck_Tatum, Friday, 29 October 2021 19:31 (two years ago) link
Hard to believe this isn’t a critical darling.
Who cares about the Rotten Tomatoes score I came here for Angelina Jolie being badass #Eternals pic.twitter.com/6zfJVveN3Q— Marvel HD+ (@MarvelHDgifs) October 28, 2021
― papal hotwife (milo z), Saturday, 30 October 2021 23:43 (two years ago) link
Pains me to say as a booster for the director but it just looks bad? Self important, snarky, uninteresting casting, hokey design, not much interest or connection with Kirby at all.
― When Young Sheldon began to rap (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 31 October 2021 00:26 (two years ago) link
For all the mucking about Snyder’s already done, I still think there’s a fun fourth world pic to be made but the eternals, sans FF connection, is a concept in search of a purpose
― When Young Sheldon began to rap (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 31 October 2021 00:28 (two years ago) link
And I suddenly realize I have been confusing the eternals and the inhumans. Why do the eternals? They are a retread of a retread of a retread!
― When Young Sheldon began to rap (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 31 October 2021 00:31 (two years ago) link
Yeah me too. I’ve been reading Marvel all my life, and I’m not entirely sure who the Eternals are.
― juristic person (morrisp), Sunday, 31 October 2021 01:15 (two years ago) link
Inhumans TV show was a flop IIRC, might as well try some different IP.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Sunday, 31 October 2021 01:16 (two years ago) link
Inhumans show was scandalously bad
― covidsbundlertanze op. 6 (Jon not Jon), Sunday, 31 October 2021 01:28 (two years ago) link
never saw it. but those characters have preordained space and relationships within the marvel universe as ordained by saint kirby
― When Young Sheldon began to rap (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 31 October 2021 17:16 (two years ago) link
Our relatively brief thread vivisection
MARVEL TV HAIRVERSE ASSEMBLE: Inhumans
The key piece linked was this
https://gizmodo.com/everything-that-happened-in-inhumans-for-those-of-you-1820404960
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 31 October 2021 17:30 (two years ago) link
Thanking U, Ned, that is some time saved.
― Andrew Farrell, Sunday, 31 October 2021 17:59 (two years ago) link
uh
Karnak happens upon a weed farm and gets into a quick and extremely clunky romance with one of the weed farmers, after which said weed farmer’s partner betrays her, siccing some of their buyers on her for reasons that are barely even contemplated, let alone explained to the audience. Gorgon reunites with Karnak after leaving his bros behind, they beat up the drug dealers, and Karnak’s new lover also leaves so the two can go join the rest of their family.
― When Young Sheldon began to rap (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 31 October 2021 18:20 (two years ago) link
Such art
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 31 October 2021 18:40 (two years ago) link
Just read a mostly positive but still, in the end, negative review of "Eternals" that basically boiled down to "it would have made a great TV show."
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 3 November 2021 20:52 (two years ago) link
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/ZFQFf_Vb0Hw/hqdefault.jpg
So cool they got Carson into the MCU.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 3 November 2021 21:15 (two years ago) link
Black Bolt killing his parents was amazingly funny
― talkin' about his flat tire (DJP), Thursday, 4 November 2021 16:20 (two years ago) link
I went into that clip thinking "they're hyping this, it can't actually be that funny" but readers, I was wrong
― talkin' about his flat tire (DJP), Thursday, 4 November 2021 16:22 (two years ago) link
I love the 60s-70s comics Black Bolt so much and my god the Black Bolt on the show was just nothing, the deadest of fish
― covidsbundlertanze op. 6 (Jon not Jon), Thursday, 4 November 2021 23:41 (two years ago) link
so did anyone see the Eternals yet or not?
― akm, Saturday, 6 November 2021 15:52 (two years ago) link
I did. it's...aight. v much an exposition flick, not much more
― Cool Im An Situation (Neanderthal), Saturday, 6 November 2021 15:54 (two years ago) link
do the effects look better on the big screen than they did in the released clips or should I just wait for this to hit streaming
― akm, Saturday, 6 November 2021 16:15 (two years ago) link
Marvel: Expositions 'n' Explosions!
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 6 November 2021 16:33 (two years ago) link
xpost just watcch it streaming
― Cool Im An Situation (Neanderthal), Saturday, 6 November 2021 16:34 (two years ago) link
thanks! that saves me probably $100 since going a movie here means taking the whole family, nothing worse than shelling out that much cash and having it be mediocre
― akm, Saturday, 6 November 2021 22:04 (two years ago) link
It's also like 2 hrs 40 mins.
We got there at 940, left at 12:30 am
― Cool Im An Situation (Neanderthal), Saturday, 6 November 2021 22:22 (two years ago) link
How many stingers were there?
― Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Sunday, 7 November 2021 00:08 (two years ago) link
2. One mid one post
― Cool Im An Situation (Neanderthal), Sunday, 7 November 2021 01:20 (two years ago) link
please spoil them
― When Young Sheldon began to rap (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 7 November 2021 02:05 (two years ago) link
I heard there were ... three?
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 7 November 2021 03:10 (two years ago) link
There are two
I really enjoyed this but I also like all of the Marvel movies so grain of salt
― talkin' about his flat tire (DJP), Sunday, 7 November 2021 03:17 (two years ago) link
Starfox (Eros) shows up in the first. Sersei's boyfriend inherits the Ebony Blade from his ancestors. The voice of Blade (Mashershala Ali) asks him if he's ready for that
― Cool Im An Situation (Neanderthal), Sunday, 7 November 2021 03:19 (two years ago) link
Angelina Jolie is extremely bad-ass in a relatively minor supporting role and Brian Tyree Henry ruled
― talkin' about his flat tire (DJP), Sunday, 7 November 2021 03:21 (two years ago) link
I told the friend next to me that Tyree Henry was outacting everyone on screen. Which isn't to say everyone else is bad but he's always my favorite in every movie or tv show ep he appears in (esp ATL)
― Cool Im An Situation (Neanderthal), Sunday, 7 November 2021 03:25 (two years ago) link