Marvels Eternals
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SpeedBash

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Monday 8th February 2021
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MiniMan64

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213 months

Monday 8th February 2021
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Not much to go on there really...

Rubymurray

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154 months

Monday 8th February 2021
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That’s not an official teaser, its using clips from other films, randomly including a clip from the last Transformers film! laugh

MiniMan64

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213 months

Monday 8th February 2021
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Rubymurray said:
That’s not an official teaser, its using clips from other films, randomly including a clip from the last Transformers film! laugh
That would be why it's not much to go on!

SpeedBash

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Wednesday 5th May 2021
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SpeedBash

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Monday 24th May 2021
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MiniMan64

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213 months

Monday 24th May 2021
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Gotta say I’m not sure about this one. It’s different for sure and doesn’t seem to fit with the rest of the MCU

SpeedBash

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Thursday 19th August 2021
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randlemarcus

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254 months

Thursday 19th August 2021
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Better trailer, more plot - I know those who are 100% invested will go "oh, spoilers", but I just felt the last trailers were a bit lacking in "who are these people, and why do I need to pay vast amounts of money to go see this one".

highway

2,601 posts

283 months

Thursday 19th August 2021
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The Eternals represent the bottom of Marvel’s barrel being scraped.
Pity they can’t do the Micronauts. Don’t think they own the rights. Comics were ahead of their time.

SpudLink

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215 months

Thursday 19th August 2021
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highway said:
The Eternals represent the bottom of Marvel’s barrel being scraped.
Pity they can’t do the Micronauts. Don’t think they own the rights. Comics were ahead of their time.
Isn’t that what people said about Guardian of the Galaxy? “Who?” It turned out rather well.
The whole MCU was build on 2nd tier characters. At the start of the century, film rights for their big names (X-Men, Spider-Man, Fantastic Four) all belonged to other studios.
If they do it right, it doesn’t matter how obscure the characters are.




highway

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283 months

Thursday 19th August 2021
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They aren’t doing it right anymore. Captain Marvel and Black Panther might have made big box office. But they weren’t good movies. None of the TV output has been great and Black Widow was mediocre as well. The formula is now well established but getting tired.

Personally I’ve seen no good Marvel output since Endgame.

andyjo1982

5,149 posts

233 months

Thursday 19th August 2021
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highway said:
They aren’t doing it right anymore. Captain Marvel and Black Panther might have made big box office. But they weren’t good movies. None of the TV output has been great and Black Widow was mediocre as well. The formula is now well established but getting tired.

Personally I’ve seen no good Marvel output since Endgame.
Add in Spiderman FFH to that list too. Agree, Marvel hasn't been great since Endgame.

Mutts

305 posts

181 months

Thursday 19th August 2021
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highway said:
The Eternals represent the bottom of Marvel’s barrel being scraped.
Pity they can’t do the Micronauts. Don’t think they own the rights. Comics were ahead of their time.
Micronauts, thats a real blast from the past. Had loads of toys as a kid and collected the comics.
A movie would be brilliant.

Lucas Ayde

4,079 posts

191 months

Friday 20th August 2021
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highway said:
They aren’t doing it right anymore. Captain Marvel and Black Panther might have made big box office. But they weren’t good movies. None of the TV output has been great and Black Widow was mediocre as well. The formula is now well established but getting tired.

Personally I’ve seen no good Marvel output since Endgame.
I thought they peaked with Infinity War - Endgame was a little disappointing in comparison.

Black Panther was OK but not even close to living up to the hype .. it was watchable enough and Killmonger was a really interesting baddie. Some really poor CGI work though let it down. Probably a 7.5/10 movie.

Didn't bother with Captain Marvel despite having access to it through my NowTV sub - just did not like the actress and her public posturing, did not find the character appealing and the reviews I saw made it look like something that wasn't worth the time. The character had very little to do in IW/Endgame so I don't think I missed much.

Wandavision started interesting, got strong in the second act but then disappointed at the end.
Haven't watched Falcon and Winter Solider, have little desire to.
Loki had a great concept, impressive production values and some great actors but ultimately was wasted by simply awful writing.
What If...? just turning out to be an excuse to give established characters a woke makeover in the first two episodes. Maybe it'll get better but so far has not appealed.

Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness does look like it will be interesting though. I thought the first was very under-rated. Unfortunately I think that the writers will just use the whole Multiverse thing as an excuse to re-do characters to fit their social politics viewpoints.

The new batch of movies not looking very compelling - 'Shang Chi' and 'The Eternals' are a really strange way to kick off the new phase. 'The Marvels' are looking even less appealing than 'Captain Marvel'. Add to that the fact that the era of massive box office blockbusters could be over and it is not looking good for the MCU. I doubt that they can make enough back on streaming revenue from Disney+ to pay for those big budget movies.



croyde

25,482 posts

253 months

Tuesday 9th November 2021
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Just returned from seeing this with my 18 year old son.

He was on his second viewing and loves the whole MCU.

Me, fek me! it was so boring and dull and far too long. I was fighting to stay awake.

Ok I may not be the main demographic but I watched Black Widow the other day and really enjoyed that. It was bright, interesting and funny in places. Eternals was just dirge.

gregs656

12,064 posts

204 months

Wednesday 10th November 2021
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I’ve just watched it. Quite different.

Like Shang Chi it is obviously the beginning of something.

I enjoyed it though, it was pretty funny without trying too hard, the story made broad brush strokes sense, it introduced a bunch of new people.

generationx

8,828 posts

128 months

Wednesday 10th November 2021
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The Drinker has torn it a new one...

pquinn

7,167 posts

69 months

Wednesday 10th November 2021
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It's the sort of story that you'd only reach for when you've run out of the good stuff - loads of thin characters and excess details that an obsessive might be interested in but most will find utterly tedious.

Maybe you could scrape it into something for TV but I doubt it - it's all low grade filler to start with and even the best production team is going to struggle to make something good from it. Definite whiff of Inhumans about it.


Ivo Shandor

53,012 posts

206 months

Wednesday 10th November 2021
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Lucas Ayde said:
Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness does look like it will be interesting though. I thought the first was very under-rated. Unfortunately I think that the writers will just use the whole Multiverse thing as an excuse to re-do characters to fit their social politics viewpoints.
Depends how the fight between Feige and Chapek goes. Doc Strange has had quite a few reshoots.