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Quote:Originally Posted by EbayMafia Well, they have to make money to merit series / sequels / etc. so they need some way of judging that with a streaming series vs. a movie. I think stories like this (and "Inhumans" (if they did it like the comic, just one example of that deep Marvel epic storyline like Galactus / Surfer / Celestials, Kang / Guardians, etc), need the time and space to as @EbayMafia said to "flesh out" the story because they have tendrils and back stories that literally go on forever and reach into so many OTHER stories, etc. The odd ones like "Blade" were done way before there was a plan for a MCU, they were just "Hey lets make a neat comic book movie!" category. You can't do that with "Eternals" or "Silver Surfer / Galactus" arc, etc., there's just too much there. |
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| About to watch it..... | ||
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| Don't do it. Friends don't let friends watch The Eternals. | ||
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| Hayek got a little chunky. | ||
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Quote:Originally Posted by DrWatson LOL! I am just a junkie, need a fix. Anyway, I will probably fall asleep watching it. Got to work early this morning and need to be up for more grading tomorrow. I have been falling asleep during too many movies, getting old or maybe they just suck. |
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| 70% through it… Haven’t had a drink in a week. I am now three or four stiff drinks in. Consensus is… of course better than Black Widow but … OMG 45 mins left???? I am okay with slow pace but this is … a bit too boring. Most of the actors are dull. Angelina Jolie is awful… Again, I am okay with slow pacing but the pace plus plot holes plus general blandness of acting/actors. Highlight so far was the opening music - Pink Floyd… not some lame, awful, contrived cover. 5/10 … hopefully the ending blows us away and merits a reassessment. |
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Quote:Originally Posted by Davethebrave I guess I’m in the minority when I say I enjoyed Black Widow a great deal… |
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Quote:Originally Posted by Davethebrave uh huh, sure. lol. For about 1 minute there when the skies turned gray, I thought maybe it could get good. |
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| Black Widow a better movie than Eternals? Interesting... | ||
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| I liked it more, then again I liked every movie better than Eternals, even some pre Disney marvel movies | ||
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| I think instead of being a Disney Plus series, the movie should have been set up by a Disney Plus series. Maybe 6 Episodes following them through time. Establishing their connections to humanity and why they cannot bear to see the people of earth meet their destiny. That might have given the movie more punch. | ||
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| I feel asleep watching it. Wasn't doing much for me to tell the truth. Might finish it, don't know. | ||
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Quote:Originally Posted by EbayMafia We didn’t finish the movie… going to watch the last 27 mins tonight. Discussed it today and concluded (before those critical final 27 mins) that this movie falls flat on execution. Several actors are just dull - not cringe worthy… just a bit flat/wooden. The “enemy” for most of the movie feels two-dimensional. It is a movie that is mediocre across the board. The underlying plot saves it, but just barely. We found it at least much more interesting than Black Widow, which is what makes Eternals the better movie. For me, I need “high points” in one of a few categories to say a movie is “good” and more than one category (usually) to be excellent. Humor, suspense, intensity/action, intelligence/intrigue, “epic-ness”, etc. Eternals has no high points but few low points. It felt like the acting (or maybe directing?) let it down… My premature conclusion is the movie would have been better with fewer known actors (or actors drawn from recently popular movies). Jolie was awful, Gemma Chan had no charisma, Hayek was weak, Richard Madden came off as Homelander’s poor cousin. Don Lee and Kumail Nanjiani were the only actors that were interesting… I assume Jolie was needed because of how unknown the title is… |
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 The apple sauce and pudding were the best part...
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| So I watched it last night, it wasn't as god awful as I expected, but it was far from great. It did start to lose me at the end. I'm assuming icarus committed suicide because of a Guilty conscience? And was it me or did the emerging being look like Galactus helmet? |
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| Watched the rest. 5/10. Better than black widow. Similar (touch below) shang chi. Watched first episode of peacemaker right after. Wow, talk about contrast… more entertainment in that 45 mins than the 2.5+ hrs of Eternals. |
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| Ok not to get off topic, but what are the complaints with Black Widow? They answered some of the stuff that was always mentioned about her, ie Dragovs daughter and Budapest….and otherwise I thought it was actually pretty good | ||
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| Watched it today. MEH I confess, I think Gemma Chan is gorgeous, and have thought so since I saw her in the series Humans. But this well-worn soap opera plot of a movie seemed to lack any spark. It desperately needed some humor, something to wow you, something interesting, some life. And I hate to say it, but they would have been better off without Hayek or Jolie. They just raised the expectations for this movie, and neither one created a character that the audience was invested in and cared about. |
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Quote:Originally Posted by Davethebrave Yeah, I binge watched the 3 Peacemaker episodes and definitely wanted more. |
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| All of Marvel is eternal as long as MCU appeals to a majority (insert non standard collector/average movie goer here). | ||
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| A question about the Celestial embryo...did that come up in the original comic series? I know it was a key part of Earth X, but that was the first time I had heard of it. | ||
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Quote:Originally Posted by stanley_1883 You are not in the minority. I loved it. I had already suspended ALL knowledge of "real" comic history and just went with it. Watched it like that part of my brain that objected to changes to things didn't exist and just loved the stupid action flic melodrama part of it. |
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| Watched Eternals again last night with the wife. She is not a comic book person at all, yet she really liked it. She liked Black Widow as well, as did I and my daughter. Couldn’t miss what to us was the obvious female centric of both movies. Something Marvel has made a focus of IMO, to good effect lately. Now Peacemaker looks like the hot thing. As far from female centric as it is possible to be. Won’t watch it with the wife. But it is great. |
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Quote:Originally Posted by WMorse So Jack Kirby was really a 12 year old boy with an active imagination? |
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Quote:Originally Posted by EbayMafia Aren't we all? |
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| I’m an hour and twenty minutes into it and I still don’t care about any of these characters. The acting is good. The set designs are cool and there’s a good movie in here somewhere. But man . . . Zzzzzzzzzzzz. |
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| plan on adding to my vudu (how i buy/watch movies) I do have disney+ but still add stuff there in case. i mainly use disney+ for original stuff and stuff I cant add. I collect movies (digitally) as much as I collect comics. have every mcu movie there | ||
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Quote:Originally Posted by power_struggle55 Ya might want to watch it in Disney+ to see if you think it’s worth adding. |
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Quote:Originally Posted by 00slim already seen it. I liked it. not the best (probably one of the worst in the mcu) but im a completionist when it comes to movies. I cant skip a single movie in a franchise |
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| I may finish watching it…piece by agonizing piece. However like slim said, I just couldn’t get invested in a single character | ||
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