The Eternals - marvel is trying it again this time less humor and hit music and more unnecessary love triangles

[Kramer on the phone]

Pretty sure the only reason this movie exists is to properly introduce Celestials into the MCU (they've been namedropped a few times in the past but haven't had anything more tham cameo appearances), likely to pave way for Galactus as the main villain of Phase 4.

except they don't need the eternals for that; galactus was retconed into being one, so they could easily just just un make him one or side step it with ego. "a god small G"

as it stands that entire part of the universe can just stay away for the time being. space works great as its own undeveloped area, it would cost way too much to put a lot of the arcs from the comics on screen.

 

[Water-T]

Do you really need the Celestials for Galactus? He was introduced more than a decade earlier than they were in the comics, and now the MCU is saddled with fuck it, I didn't count them.about a dozen(?) new characters that literally nobody gives a shit about.

Marvel tried to make Inhumans a thing a few years ago, especially after their rights issues over the use of Mutants in the films led then to using Inhumans as the new "race du jour" in the comics. The Inhumans TV series flopped HARD, because it was such a rushed, muddled, boring mess with subpar CGI and subpar actors.

The Eternals is Marvel trying fix their mistake, but they failed to realize that no one gives a shit and everyone just wants the fucking Fantastic Four and the X-Men folded into the MCU.

 

[Internet's Boyfriend]

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https://twitter.com/wwarrior_1/status/1454829805103243274?s=21

It looks worse in motion

The cut at the end where it goes from video game cutscene to real Angelina is really sloppy. Also is she holding one of her knives on the wrong side of the hilt?

 

[Namekian George Floyd]

If you showed me the trailer without any context, I'd think it's a parody attempting to point out how generic this shit is.
Also, is it just me or does Marvel shit look worse and worse every year? I'm not sure how to explain it other than everything just looking extremely fake and it takes me out of the experience to an extreme degree, like I can't even watch this shit anymore. The fact that it's taking itself so seriously is legit comedic to me.

 

[Quixotic Man]

The most annoying thing about the Eternals is the people coming out of the woodwork to pretend that they totally knew all bout this group and how well loved they were in their three runs.

We get it, you read a wiki article.

 

[Wilhelm Bittrich]

Tbh, after watching the trailers I do even care less than about The Eternals and I didn't give a shit about The Eternals before I watched the trailers. I haven't watched Ching-Chong and the ten cock rings, I haven't watched Black Widow, I haven't watched the last two seasons of Agents of Shield, I haven't watched Wanda Vision or Loki and It seems I haven't missed anything of importance.
IMHO, after Endgame the story was told and it should have ended right there.

 

[gaystoner]

I literally saw someone in the store say how this movie is a great sci-fi movie that does what Prometheus wish it would've done, Marvel fanboys are the worst

wut

If you showed me the trailer without any context, I'd think it's a parody attempting to point out how generic this shit is.
Also, is it just me or does Marvel shit look worse and worse every year? I'm not sure how to explain it other than everything just looking extremely fake and it takes me out of the experience to an extreme degree, like I can't even watch this shit anymore. The fact that it's taking itself so seriously is legit comedic to me.

yes the cgi is so fucking terrible it ruins everything.

 

[Mr. Zed da Robot Poon Fed]

Also, is it just me or does Marvel shit look worse and worse every year? I'm not sure how to explain it other than everything just looking extremely fake and it takes me out of the experience to an extreme degree, like I can't even watch this shit anymore. The fact that it's taking itself so seriously is legit comedic to me.

It does. Look at the end fight scene from Black Panther. It looks like it belongs on a PS2 video game cutscene.

While we have Nolan and Villeneuve films using minimal CGI in blockbuster movies, we still have this shit going on.

 

[SteelPlatedHeart]

I feel like Marvel really underestimated just how many people were done after Endgame. That was the payoff for following the movies for ten years, and a perfect point to jump off.

 

[TwinPeaksEnjoyer]

It looks worse in motion
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The cut at the end where it goes from video game cutscene to real Angelina is really sloppy. Also is she holding one of her knives on the wrong side of the hilt?

Still not as bad as Black Panther fight scene but it still pretty terrible

 

[AnotherOne]

If you showed me the trailer without any context, I'd think it's a parody attempting to point out how generic this shit is.
Also, is it just me or does Marvel shit look worse and worse every year? I'm not sure how to explain it other than everything just looking extremely fake and it takes me out of the experience to an extreme degree, like I can't even watch this shit anymore. The fact that it's taking itself so seriously is legit comedic to me.

Everything has this shiny quality to it. It reminds me of The Hobbit or even the Star Wars prequels. IIRC Spiderman doesn't even wear a suit anymore, its just another CGI paintjob.

 

[wtfNeedSignUp]

If you showed me the trailer without any context, I'd think it's a parody attempting to point out how generic this shit is.
Also, is it just me or does Marvel shit look worse and worse every year? I'm not sure how to explain it other than everything just looking extremely fake and it takes me out of the experience to an extreme degree, like I can't even watch this shit anymore. The fact that it's taking itself so seriously is legit comedic to me.

My guess is that it's regular corporate behaviour of pushing the envelope of what the audience is willing to watch and, upon seeing they would accept it and defend it for you, doing it. Why invest in choreography when you can tell some south korean studio to make you substandard cgi that you could stitch into the film?

 

[Absolutego]

I feel like Marvel really underestimated just how many people were done after Endgame. That was the payoff for following the movies for ten years, and a perfect point to jump off.

Really I think Infinity War was the payoff. That movie was fantastic and I still watch it every once in a while. I've never had any interest in re-watching Endgame.

 

[Mary the Goldsmith]

It looks worse in motion
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The cut at the end where it goes from video game cutscene to real Angelina is really sloppy. Also is she holding one of her knives on the wrong side of the hilt?

Are they even trying anymore? That shift from cgi to live action looks so bad the real Angelina isnt even making the same move.

 

[White Devil]

Really I think Infinity War was the payoff. That movie was fantastic and I still watch it every once in a while. I've never had any interest in re-watching Endgame.

I legitimately cannot remember any of them past the first one.

 

[SteelPlatedHeart]

Really I think Infinity War was the payoff. That movie was fantastic and I still watch it every once in a while. I've never had any interest in re-watching Endgame.

Endgame is essentially the third act of Infinity War. Not as good, but it closes the story started in Iron Man.

 

[Uranus Pink]

Everything has this shiny quality to it. It reminds me of The Hobbit or even the Star Wars prequels. IIRC Spiderman doesn't even wear a suit anymore, its just another CGI paintjob.

To imagine how far Marvel have fallen when roughly decade ago everyone was giving DC massive shit for the CGI paintjob in the Green Lantern movie. As one part of the job for the actors is to physically don the suit of the superhero character they playing.

 

[Johan Hulth]

You can largely thank Victoria Alonso for the CG quality. Marvel's VFX is a notorious nightmare to work on because they basically rewrite stuff in post and crowbar in huge changes at the last minute in reaction to test screenings, crunching the artists to hell as a result. There's an infamously bad shot towards the end of Infinity War with Bruce Banner in the Hulk Buster suit. That was a last minute change where originally the smart Hulk was supposed to emerge triumphant just before Thanos snaps (also kind of explains him just starting Endgame that way).
https://www.reddit.com/r/vfx/comments/q95yw4/i_worked_on_marvel_movies/

 

[SteelPlatedHeart]

You can largely thank Victoria Alonso for the CG quality. Marvel's VFX is a notorious nightmare to work on because they basically rewrite stuff in post and crowbar in huge changes at the last minute in reaction to test screenings, crunching the artists to hell as a result. There's an infamously bad shot towards the end of Infinity War with Bruce Banner in the Hulk Buster suit. That was a last minute change where originally the smart Hulk was supposed to emerge triumphant just before Thanos snaps (also kind of explains him just starting Endgame that way).
https://www.reddit.com/r/vfx/comments/q95yw4/i_worked_on_marvel_movies/

Oh yeah, I remember seeing that as a deleted scene.

 

[Gar For Archer]

I feel like Marvel really underestimated just how many people were done after Endgame. That was the payoff for following the movies for ten years, and a perfect point to jump off.

I think really, if they wanted to keep the momentum going, they needed to immediately name-drop the X-men. Even if they’re not gonna show up for another five years, they need that immediate promise of “something big is coming up”, like the Avengers name drop at the end of Iron Man.

Right now, they’re four films and three series into Phase 4, and they’re mostly just quasi-sequels that don’t seem to actually matter all that much, with no indication for what the point of this “arc” even is. If they really wanted to retain the post-Infinity War numbers, they needed to come out with a REALLY good hook to keep people interested.