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

Serious question: why are their designs so bland? I'm not into capeshit at all, I came across action figures of these characters and their outfits stood out to me for the wrong reasons so I had to look it up.
Easiest guess is because all the costumes are just CG now, and adding more details than necessary eats up too much of the animation budget.

That or even in the design phase they realized no one gives a fuck about The Eternals and decided to phone it in
 
Eternals sounds horrible.

Focusing on Multiverse/Cosmic shit is going to be bite Marvel/Disney in the ass I think. Cosmic Marvel was pretty niche even in the comics hey day IIRC, WTF makes them think bringing it to the movies in this capacity is going to be super popular?

I don't know what their deal with Spider-Man is going after No Way Home, but unless it's something iron clad with Sony they really need to push out X-Men ASAP
remember, they pushed Cosmic Marvel because they wanted to push it over F4/X-Men due to the movie rights shitshow.

there was only so much they could do with Cosmic Marvel w/o the F4/X-Men bc even the Skrulls were under the F4 movie license lmao.
Easiest guess is because all the costumes are just CG now, and adding more details than necessary eats up too much of the animation budget.

That or even in the design phase they realized no one gives a fuck about The Eternals and decided to phone it in
yeah nobody cares about the Eternals.

like, at best, you have people that remember Starfox/Sersi being on the Avengers or Thanos fans. But those are more. . .

they're not Eternals fans, they're just Avengers fans or Thanos fans.
 
All this movie's done is make me miss The Dishonoured Wolf - yeah he was a spergy little furfag, but goddamnit I like a good rant as background noise, and hearing him rip movies apart was always entertaining. Though I'd probably want to An Hero myself after watching the Alpha and Omega movies too...
God. I don't know whether to be impressed or disappointed that's possible now.
Yeah that was one of the bigger takeaways from Endgame, the costumes were all CG. Probably made reshoots easier, but it takes away some of the magic. And also keeps people like Reynolds from stealing the Deadpool costume again, so...
 
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All this movie's done is make me miss The Dishonoured Wolf - yeah he was a spergy little furfag, but goddamnit I like a good rant as background noise
This was an actual vlogger?

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I thought that shit was a goof.
 
This was an actual vlogger?

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I thought that shit was a goof.
Yeah - if I’m remembering right he had a breakdown and nuked his channel late 2019 - early 2020 ish? Asked people not to reupload his shit, which was unsurprisingly ignored.

If nothing else, he wasn’t as cringy as Razorfist - yeah, it’s a low bar, but at least the furfag didn’t sperg into politics.
 
Not true, they couldn't use any Super-Skrulls which was tied up with the F4. The Skrulls themselves were shared, they just didn't use them
you mean we could have actually still managed to get a good Kree-Skrull wars based movie? Damn.

That would have been fun.
 
you mean we could have actually still managed to get a good Kree-Skrull wars based movie? Damn.

That would have been fun.
Yup, it's why they were featured in some merch for Avengers 1. There was a similar thing with the Watchers being co-owned but Studios couldn't use spefic ones like Uatu.
 
Uatu being locked to f4 makes some sense but I'm 90% sure he existed before the f4.
Fantastic Four #1 was the first comic in what became the Marvel universe and was basically the centerpiece until after the Byrne run at the end of the 80s and the Jim Lee era X-Men took over. Uatu didn't exist when the company was named Timely or Atlas, off the top of my head I think his first story involved the Fantastic Four dealing with the Red Ghost.
 
Fantastic Four #1 was the first comic in what became the Marvel universe and was basically the centerpiece until after the Byrne run at the end of the 80s and the Jim Lee era X-Men took over. Uatu didn't exist when the company was named Timely or Atlas, off the top of my head I think his first story involved the Fantastic Four dealing with the Red Ghost.
yeah makes sense

you know, i always did wonder why Marvel didn't go a little wilder with references in earlier/mid phase MCU films. Like fuckit, have Odin or someone in Thor 1/2 just name drop the Eternals/ Titans. Have Stark namedrop the secret ID's of some lesser known Avengers that could have easily been slotted into the background like Stingray.
 
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yeah makes sense

you know, i always did wonder why Marvel didn't go a little wilder with references in earlier/mid phase MCU films. Like fuckit, have Odin or someone in Thor 1/2 just name drop the Eternals/ Titans. Have Stark namedrop the secret ID's of some lesser known Avengers that could have easily been slotted into the background like Stingray.

Because focusing on the success of your A-Team is a lot more important than dropping references to your E-Team. Even by Age of Ultron the risk of failure was a possibility, and they were already planning for several uncertain movies down the road. I doubt they were even thinking about the stuff they're releasing now, which was a smart decision.
 
yeah makes sense

you know, i always did wonder why Marvel didn't go a little wilder with references in earlier/mid phase MCU films. Like fuckit, have Odin or someone in Thor 1/2 just name drop the Eternals/ Titans. Have Stark namedrop the secret ID's of some lesser known Avengers that could have easily been slotted into the background like Stingray.

Because focusing on the success of your A-Team is a lot more important than dropping references to your E-Team. Even by Age of Ultron the risk of failure was a possibility, and they were already planning for several uncertain movies down the road. I doubt they were even thinking about the stuff they're releasing now, which was a smart decision.
Yeah trying to plant that many seeds at once, years before you can even start to pay them off, would have been an even worse move than what they're doing now. That said, I don't feel like the movie did anything particularly messy or convoluted with how they did it, outside of again, working better in the context of a 6 episode show. They're basically like a bunch of less interesting Galactus's, they're not gods they're just big alien farmers that find planets, plant baby rock monsters in them and tend to it until it's ripe and blow the bitch up. They're not much more elaborate, in the movie at least, than any run of the mill planet destroyers, so it's not like there needed to be prolonged elaboration about who they are.
 
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remember, they pushed Cosmic Marvel because they wanted to push it over F4/X-Men due to the movie rights shitshow.

there was only so much they could do with Cosmic Marvel w/o the F4/X-Men bc even the Skrulls were under the F4 movie license lmao.

yeah nobody cares about the Eternals.

like, at best, you have people that remember Starfox/Sersi being on the Avengers or Thanos fans. But those are more. . .

they're not Eternals fans, they're just Avengers fans or Thanos fans.
Also Fantastic four introduce Galacticus. He is one of the biggest cosmic villains around.
 
Yeah trying to plant that many seeds at once, years before you can even start to pay them off, would have been an even worse move than what they're doing now. That said, I don't feel like the movie did anything particularly messy or convoluted with how they did it, outside of again, working better in the context of a 6 episode show. They're basically like a bunch of less interesting Galactus's, they're not gods they're just big alien farmers that find planets, plant baby rock monsters in them and tend to it until it's ripe and blow the bitch up. They're not much more elaborate, in the movie at least, than any run of the mill planet destroyers, so it's not like there needed to be prolonged elaboration about who they are.

Yeah on second remembrance, I don't recall the celestials being uber interesting outside of ancient alien astronaut things.

The Inhumans were probably the better version of that if they wanted to integrate it into the MCU proper, but uh

they ROYALLY fucked that up. Shame, because I think Maximus would have been a good addition to the MCU villains.
 
Yeah on second remembrance, I don't recall the celestials being uber interesting outside of ancient alien astronaut things.

The Inhumans were probably the better version of that if they wanted to integrate it into the MCU proper, but uh

they ROYALLY fucked that up. Shame, because I think Maximus would have been a good addition to the MCU villains.
I never watched the Inhumanes show. How did it fuck up so bad exactly? Just wondering
 
I never watched the Inhumanes show. How did it fuck up so bad exactly? Just wondering
iirc, came out on an (IMAX?) streaming service no one watched. Also had mediocre acting, a lack of action, and was kinda stand-alone. Which, is all very dumb because the Inhumans were still a prominent part of the Agents of Shield show if they wanted to go that route and make use of them properly.

I didn't watch it because everyone said it's garbage. I'm just sad because we could have easily gotten the royal family in Agents of Shield. But man, Disney really wanted to push the Inhumans as the next big thing at the time, only for the Inhumans show to completely tank.
 
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iirc, came out on an (IMAX?) streaming service no one watched. Also had mediocre acting, a lack of action, and was kinda stand-alone. Which, is all very dumb because the Inhumans were still a prominent part of the Agents of Shield show if they wanted to go that route and make use of them properly.

I didn't watch it because everyone said it's garbage. I'm just sad because we could have easily gotten the royal family in Agents of Shield. But man, Disney really wanted to push the Inhumans as the next big thing at the time, only for the Inhumans show to completely tank.
Yeah that sucks. I recall agents of shield introducing the inhumans and had a very interesting set up for them. Sucks that they blew it
 
Yeah that sucks. I recall agents of shield introducing the inhumans and had a very interesting set up for them. Sucks that they blew it
the setup was basically a lead-up to introducing the Royal family and they decided to not do that.

then they kinda sidelined Mockingbird for a spin-off that never got picked up. Which I thought was dumb because Mockingbird's considered a classic Avenger.

Then they kinda blew the Ghost Rider and didn't really make use of Johnny Blaze. Robbie Reyes was nice but then they shafted him.

the AI stuff felt like it may have been going somewhere else but it didn't work out.

it all sucks because part of the draw of Agents of Shield was the potential for anyone and anything to pop up. We had a deathlok for fuck's sake.
 
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