Marvel Media (Spoiler Thread)

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Marvel has done a pretty good job of having a lot of movies happen at roughly the same time.

I think in this phase they're trying to keep it purposefully vague about who's expected to be "on call" in the event of a world-threatening catastrophe, too. Who are the current active-duty Avengers?

Doctor Strange, who was present and/or accounted-for throughout Now Way Home. Wong always seems to be dealing with some sh*t. (By the way, if this phase's version of Nick Fury showing up and being mysterious about the Avengers Initiative is Wong making a cameo and looking vaguely overworked and sick of cleaning up other people's messes, I'm here for it.)

Fury is chilling on holodeck beaches with Skrulls.

Wanda is in more-or-less self-imposed exile.

Captain Marvel is spending a year training with King Kai or whatever.

Captain Falcon is around and he's got his dope Wakandan flight suit, but he doesn't seem to spend every minute glued to a police scanner or anything, he's got a life.

I'm not sure how active-duty Bucky is supposed to be, but man, I don't WANT him to be active duty. In my mind he's got a business rehabilitating rescue dogs or something, let the man rest.

John Walker is doing shady sh*t for Elaine Benes, do we even WANT him to show up?

Hulk's around, but depending on what weird sh*t has happened to him between movies and how in control of his transformations he is this week, he could do more harm than good.

I haven't watched Hawkeye, I dunno what the deal with him and the new Black Widow is.

Black Panther's got a country to run and a really nasty case of "virtually irreplaceable deceased actor" to deal with.

I'm sure I'm missing plenty.

Hawkeye's trying to retire, but keeps getting dragged back to keep his protégé from dying. The new Black Widow has decided to use her newfound freedom from being forced to kill people for the Red Room to go freelance and now kills people for anyone who can afford her price.

Spider man is a menace.

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Well externals was fun even if it felt a bit rushed.

Watching Eternals.

I am glad I am not paying to see this in the theatre. It is, in my opinion, the very worst MCU movie they have done.

Like, DC movies that aren't Batman bad.

Eternals was slow and ponderous and just a little bit boring to be honest. I get that they were going for a different angle and all but it just didn’t work for me. It wasn’t that bad, just very mediocre.

It was what I was expecting Guardians of the Galaxy to be - Marvel trying to introduce characters unknown to the vast majority of their MCU audience and tripping up. The Eternals and Celestials feel far to disconnected from humanity to be compelling characters to engage with, with the interplay between the Eternals feeing far too much like Data from TNG learning human emotions. The introduction of Harry Styles (of One Direction) as

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Thanos’ Brother

right at the end was cringe inducing and one of the worst miscasts I’ve seen in years. Almost as bad as Jesse Eisenberg as Lex Luthor. It was Cara Delavigne levels of ‘acting’.

Sorbicol wrote:

The introduction of Harry Styles (of One Direction) as

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Thanos’ Brother

right at the end was cringe inducing and one of the worst miscasts I’ve seen in years. Almost as bad as Jesse Eisenberg as Lex Luthor. It was Cara Delavigne levels of ‘acting’.

Thought it was the best part of the whole movie. I'm with mudbunny's assessment that this is the worst Marvel movie to date...

I was considering defending the Eternals, and going back to my post from when I saw it in the theater. Then it occurred to me that I can barely remember anything about it two months out. I can't say that about any other MCU movie.

I just finished Eternals. For a 2.5 hr movie, nothing felt important. The setup didn't feel like that big of a deal, the flashbacks were nice touches, but the world threatening driver didn't feel that ominous. Maybe if they had more than one earthquake to show the whole planet is going to pot... something.

Kro was cool, but his end and his involvement was inconsequential. A deviant that absorbs powers, cool. Do he have anything to do with the emergence, no... and while the big fight is going on, he's in a cave.

A Disney+ miniseries might have been a better platform for this story.

Watched The Eternals and thought it was okay. Kind of interesting that there wasn't a real evil person. I do wish they went a different direction with the deviants. After they gain the ability to think it would have been different if they were reason with. Space giant is trying to continue the universe. Eternals just want to save the humans. Big baby just wants to be born. Deviants just want to live. No real bad guys .

The movie was really long with not much happening. I think they could have cut a hour off this movie or extended it another 3 hours and made it a tv series.

My opinion on The Eternals is that it is a pretty good superhero movie, certainly better than I expected it to be, but it is the weakest MCU movies in the last few years, both in the quality of story and in its connection to the larger MCU. It has some great things going for it, but is dragged down by some glaring flaws in the story.

Post credit scene question - Who was the voice from that asked the question?

Never mind, I figured it out (after some Googling). It's Blade.

So on the whole Eternals was meh. Not exactly bad, but pretty weak. I'm not even sure how they could have made it better, it was just...underwhelming. Too many characters and not enough time to get to know them enough to care about what happened to them. To be honest, I kind of wanted Kro to keep absorbing them to see what form he'd finally take. The best part of the movie was that it could be setting up for eventually adding Galactus and possibly the Fantastic Four to the MCU.

Dr. Strange has to know of the Eternals existence and their fight against the Deviants. They haven't exactly been hiding until relatively recently, so there has to be information on them in his library, even if it doesn't say anything about where they came from or why they've been protecting humans from Deviants for millennia. And speaking of the Greater MCU, it's pretty disappointing that despite there having been a global earthquake to set everyone on high alert, none of Earth's other heroes showed up at the island, even if it was just to get there only after everything was resolved.

Harry Styles as Starfox/Eros doesn't strike me as a terrible casting, but I'm not familiar with Styles or One Direction other than knowing they exist. I can easily see Starfox as someone who'd be in a boy band though.

Apparently Sersi's boyfriend is going to become The Black Knight, and that sword is the Ebony Blade, the cursed counterpart to Excalibur. It can cut through almost anything, absorbs/blocks magic, and resurrects its wielder if they're killed while holding it, but it also corrupts them, making them crave violence and bloodshed, and eventually drives them insane (hence the "death is my reward" inscription on the case, actually and finally dying is a reward for those that take up the sword). That also explains why they had that scene between Thena and Sprite where she found Excaliber in Makkari's stash, which Sprite initially misidentified as the Ebony Blade.

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Watched The Eternals and while I see the criticisms I liked it.

It was a slow meditative exploration of relationships of people who happened to be super-powered. I thought the performances were overall solid and the whole vibe was very different to everything else MCU. I also really liked the lack of "villain"

Even the usual 3rd act CGIfest had more weight to it than some other MCU movies and it resolved interestingly.

Cast may have been a bit too big and I'd have liked to see a bit more colour to take advantage of location shooting, but overall a solid watch.

Finally caught up on Black Widow, Shang-Chi, and Hawkeye. I totally loved Hawkeye, it is definitely my kind of quirky, cute and odd. Wish it didn't have almost exactly the same 'twist' as the Green Arrow show, cause it was super obvious, but that's fine.

Yeah i watched a different movie. The acting was wooden and forced. The effects were bad compared to other MCU movies and the story was lackluster and plodding. I thought there was too much color and everything was too 'clean' including the actors. It just seemed out of place from every other MCU movie made.

ranalin wrote:

Yeah i watched a different movie. The acting was wooden and forced. The effects were bad compared to other MCU movies and the story was lackluster and plodding. I thought there was too much color and everything was too 'clean' including the actors. It just seemed out of place from every other MCU movie made.

I said it back when I saw it in theaters. This was the most DC movie Marvel has ever made. Seemed like all the mistakes DC makes in it's big team ups were here. Other than maybe color pallet and dark for dark's sake.

It was trying to be an Avengers type movie, but it didn't have the Iron Man, Thor, and Captain America movies before it to provide the set up and properly introduce the characters, which hurt it a lot. At the same time, I don't think giving them multiple movies of their own would have been a good choice either. I'll just echo the others who thought it'd have worked much better as a D+ series.

It was very DC feeling, I agree there. The whole 3rd act had very 'JL mother box' vibes.

I think that kind of picks up what I liked and why I understand people didn't like it. It had a lot of DC feel, but without the grimdark self-serious DCEU tone and with believable interpersonal drama.

I liked it fine, it just wasn’t really a Marvel movie. Everything from the story structure to the how the fight scenes were shot varied from the now-standard Marvel formula. Even the color grading was different. It doesn’t really feel or look like part of the MCU and I think that works against it given that it’s constantly referencing the other movies.

The biggest problem for me was that this also strayed the furthest from the source material of any of the Marvel films, and with few exceptions the ways in which it strayed only made things needlessly complex and/or generic. I don’t normally care if liberties are taken in adaptations but the movie took a single story premise (oh no a Celestial is waking up and everyone’s conflicted about it) from Neil Gaiman’s comics run and I think had they kept the rest of the overarching story it would have been not only a better introduction to all the characters but would have fit better into the rest of the MCU.

Overall I would put in the lower third of the movies. Better than Thor 2 and Ultron. Maybe also Civil War. And the Captain Americas. Captains America?

I honestly really liked Eternals. It looked incredibly beautiful and I didn't think it was boring at all.

I can't wait to watch it. Tastes are all different! Iron Man 3 is one of my top three MCU movies.

I thought it was pretty ho-hum. Absolutely no chemistry between the main love interest. Looked pretty and the casting was good apart from the previously mentioned.

DudleySmith wrote:

I honestly really liked Eternals. It looked incredibly beautiful and I didn't think it was boring at all.

Same. It’s my favorite MCU movie in part because it’s so different.

Finished Eternals - I liked it. It wasn't top 5, and it was decidedly unMarvel in tone, but I enjoyed it.