Marvel Cinematic Universe, Phase 4 & Beyond (and a chance to change your vote)

for shame josh. it’s not about pretty space gods it’s ABOUT FAMILY.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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!

Yeah me too. I’ve been reading Marvel all my life, and I’m not entirely sure who the Eternals are.

Inhumans TV show was a flop IIRC, might as well try some different IP.

Inhumans show was scandalously bad

never saw it. but those characters have preordained space and relationships within the marvel universe as ordained by saint kirby

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

Thanking U, Ned, that is some time saved.

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.

Such art

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."

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/ZFQFf_Vb0Hw/hqdefault.jpg

So cool they got Carson into the MCU.

Black Bolt killing his parents was amazingly funny

I went into that clip thinking "they're hyping this, it can't actually be that funny" but readers, I was wrong

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

so did anyone see the Eternals yet or not?

I did. it's...aight. v much an exposition flick, not much more

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

I did. it's...aight. v much an exposition flick, not much more

Marvel: Expositions 'n' Explosions!

xpost just watcch it streaming

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

It's also like 2 hrs 40 mins.

We got there at 940, left at 12:30 am

How many stingers were there?

2. One mid one post

please spoil them

I heard there were ... three?

There are two

I really enjoyed this but I also like all of the Marvel movies so grain of salt

There are two

I really enjoyed this but I also like all of the Marvel movies so grain of salt

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

Angelina Jolie is extremely bad-ass in a relatively minor supporting role and Brian Tyree Henry ruled

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)

lol did you see Godzilla vs Kong? Then again, it's quite possible he was the best thing about that movie, too, I can't remember.

they're linking blade to the eternals? uhhhhh that sounds like a marriage of convenience rather than considered continuity

blade and black knight have continuity by both being british (and thus part of MI-13 in the comics)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXhKzY0BKwY

The reports I've heard back from friends and their kids have been remarkably consistent. "Fine" and "boring" are the two most common takeaways. Most say it'll be ok on TV, one claims it wouldn't have even made a good TV series. All suggest it's pretty inconsequential, and one suspects it was Disney hedging their bets with another superpower team before they acquired Fox/X-Men, which made it moot. Given how over-stuffed the upcoming films seem, The Eternals (and Black Widow) seem even more like like Covid-era stopgaps, which I suspect Disney has leaned into. Those other upcoming movies keep getting delayed and moved around, not just because of Covid and injury but I suspect because of re-writes and re-shoots to shoehorn in a bunch of stuff to make up for lost time.

See the movie fans are calling "Fine", "boring", and "better than spending time with my kids but only slightly"

I'm assuming Mahersalah is not voicing Blade as British.

My friend said he says so little, off-screen, it's hard to discern an accent, if one is there. His theory is that he's offscreen because they're going to introduce his OG outfit:

https://www.denofgeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/blade_evolution_debut.jpg

There's going to be a big twist at the end of this MCU cycle where they reveal there actually are no humans on earth, just superheroes, supervillains, gods and monsters. And then they'll shift to an entirely new Earth and introduce the Fantastic Four and start over.

Well, that happened.

I have mixed feelings.