Eternals

Never had any interest in this movie, after the trailers that hasn’t changed my mind. This is a “download” movie….if you know what I mean.

Angelina Jolie looks bored. She is trying to revitalize her career.

I just don’t have much interest in anything Marvel does anymore. Not with all the Identity Politics being enforced. Wandavision, Falcon & Winter Soldier, Loki, and Black Widow were just drab and some of it was down right horrible. It’s over for the Marvelverse imo. The only one I will see in the theatre is Doc Strange 2, because I like Doc Strange. The rest are “downloads”.

Don’t underestimate the female audience’s capacity to drive up box office on an Angelina Jolie film.

Reminder that Maleficent got a sequel.

What does that have anything to do with being able to memorize the cast??!!

I think it made them easier to distinguish and added more variety, when not everyone was just the same dude in spandex suit. Imagine if the Power Rangers didn’t have colors, they would all just have the same suit, for example. Especially since I’m not that good at remembering names, so I liked the mute girl having her own gimmick, Kingo being Indian enabled him to have his Bollywood substory which I found fun and so on. Basically, the characters overlap less and in hindsight I’m glad they changed the casting even tho my initial reaction was rolling my eyes.

I think having diversity in characters is obviously a good thing as long as it’s not the main point and forced. And if someone has read the Eternals comics and sees this as outrageous with the race swapping etc then I can 100% understand you, I wouldn’t like having a black Wolverine or autistic female Nightcrawler because I am familiar with them and it would feel wrong, but as someone who have no clue about the Eternals I have zero problems with this and actually found it a good choice.

I’m betting on Ikaris being my fav Eternal ’cause he was freaking hilarious in the trailers 😹 Curious, what didn’t you like about him?

I dislike his powers. I dislike Superman, Captain Marvel and all these characters who just have the ability to freely fly to space and their power is, wait for it…. Shooting lazer beams! Wow so interesting!

Initially my biggest fear/problem with Eternals was that it would just be a bunch of people flying and shooting energy beams because we already have Vision and Captain Marvel doing it. The more these kind of busted characters get added to the lineup, the more useless down to earth characters (which I find the most interesting) like Spiderman, Shang Chi, Black Panther, Ant-Man etc becomes. Like when everyone can just fly to space freely and shoot beams, the rest are gonna be useless.

Just look at the DCEU. All the other people are there just to hold off the enemy while they are waiting for Superman. That shit is boring as hell, and the opportunity to do creative and awesome fight choreography utilizing the environment is so limited with characters who just fly around shooting beams.

• This reply was modified 3 years, 4 months ago by SuperSoynic_Speed.
• This reply was modified 3 years, 4 months ago by SuperSoynic_Speed.

He may be the strongest Eternal physically, mentally… ehh, not so much, being extreamly strong superpower-wise does not mean your life will be without struggles, his overpowerdness in battle is balanced out by a fragile state of mind ’caused by the millions of years of being manipulated by Arishem, imo this conflict between his physical and mental power gave depth to his character

Hmmm my biggest problem wasn’t him being too OP (I actually think Infinity War Thor, full potential Scarlet Witch and even Dr Strange have potential to do some more insane shit), my biggest problem is that flying and shooting beams (especially from your eyes) is just an insanely boring power and there is so little you can do with it. I accept flight or being able to shoot beams if there is a reason or draw back for it like Thor can only fly with waving his hammer and his ”beams” are just him summoning lightning, or Iron Man who can fly and shoot but it’s because of his suit which gives drawbacks such as destroying the suit and him being useless without the suit.

But I was disappointed in the final act of the movie.

1) how did they manage to stop the awakening? The glowing gold thing and uniting power was kinda bullshit

2) why did Ikaris have to fly to the sun?

3) where the fuck was Kingo? He just disappeared and wasn’t mentioned during the final fight

keep in mind I watched in Korea with Korean subtitles so I might’ve missed something if I didn’t hear clearly. Which is something I’ve been wondering for native english speakers. Without subtitles, some scenes are really hard to understand if they whisper or have some special effect on their voices

• This reply was modified 3 years, 4 months ago by SuperSoynic_Speed.

Its pure CACAAA…. why I watched it, ya I was drinking and board and it was raining.  Best thing about this movie was the Drinkers review, and Dragonlady i was right there with you, had to watch twice thrise actually, first time laughing to much, second time drinking again, thrise time with my wife so she could drink, laugh and know things. God Bless Scotsmen.