So while I admit I'm still not sure if I want to see this, I was curious if anyone HAD seen and what they thought?
It was decent. Neither top of the line nor bottom of the barrel. If you want to wait for in-home viewing I saw no pressing need for in-theater viewing.
Well I mean I MIGHT want to see in theaters...but it's going to be tough for me to want to see since while I enjoy the MCU and the whole Celestial thing is interesting (I enjoyed Gaiman's run on the series) not sure this is that.
I hate the eternals and the deviants so I haven't read whatever that reference is so I can't speak to it.
Neil Gaiman did a comic book run about the Eternals.
No I gathered that. Haven't read it. Try to actively avoid reading most comics with them. The celestials are seeded throughout marvel comics so they are harder to avoid, particularly the late 80s early 90s era mutant books I started collecting with. Xfactor is chock full of them.
Uhm I guess I don't avoid them so much as I accept they're around some times. And some times the writers do some good stuff with them IE Gaiman.
I dunno since I haven't seen it, but I'm assuming they're pull Tiamut aka the Dreaming Celestial and thus that's why.
I don't disagree QB, that the plot isn't as strong as say, Shang-Chi or BP. But I do think it offers a different view that might lead to other things. Maybe even Knull, the god of the Void (and symobiotes)
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Well it's up on Disney+ now so I gave it a look and it's not bad.
Beyond the film itself thought it raises some interesting questions.
Like how much did Thanos know about the Celestials. His whole thing about resources always felt like a shaky motive but if it was really about the Celestials, it makes a little more sense. Especially since the Movie pretty much confirms Thanos as an Eternal (maybe even Eternal/Diviant hybrid like he is in the comics)
Also looking forward to Black Knight and Blade
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Just watched it and I liked it quite a bit. Not in my MCU top 5, but that's a high bar. I don't really get why it didn't resonate with so many people though. I thought it did a pretty good job with a large ensemble cast, though I guess I can see some people finding it too many new characters to digest at once. Thought it was far more entertaining than Shang Chi
Some interesting questions left over though, like why did Cersei turn the celestial into stone and leave it behind, when presumably she could have turned it into air, ice and let it melt, etc. And what will the world make of it, especially just after dealing with Thanos and the blip. It certainly ups the ante of what Earth is dealing with - alien invasions and killer robot armies is more relatable, but wiping out half of all life followed by cosmically enormous statue out of nowhere gets into the super weird territory pretty quickly.
I don't know much about the celestials/eternals from the comics, but considering that Ego was supposedly a celestial, and he targeted Earth before the awakening of Tiamut, seems like odd competition there amongst Celestials. Wondering if that will come up in the future.
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Have to say. Giant Space God shows up, looks at our world and then is gone....would cause a bit of a freak out.
and people are going to notice a striking similarity between it and the new Statue Island in the middle of the ocean.
and then there is the whole "Free Real estate" rush to plant flags on it.....OH Monster Island. Maybe it becomes Monster Island
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Just watched it and I liked it quite a bit. Not in my MCU top 5, but that's a high bar. I don't really get why it didn't resonate with so many people though....Oh, just this:
Eternals Pitch MeetingTechnically this is meant to be funny but like all these it's funny because it's bitingly-true.
You can't go wrong with a Pitch Meeting video, even more so than an MCU movie.
I'm fine with comedy about pitch movie. Also, if you read Neil Gamain's run on Eternals, you might recall people seeing as Space God near the Golden Gate Bridge and just think it's a tourist attraction...So there's that to consider.
For me, the reason I think it didn't resonate as much is because the Eternals were more aliens from space rather than the perfection of humanity to near or above god levels. But eh.
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Finally watched it, and I've got to say....
WOW! And I thought Ironman 3 sucked ass.
Granted, I'm not the greatest expert on the Celestials, but I don't recall Kirby having them go around murdering whole planets just to make new ones. I thought that was kind of an insult to him.
The Deviants were....wasted. They had so much more potential for mayhem in the comics, rather than just being biting and clawing monsters. At least they started to move them in that direction, but then....killed the one who actually looked like a Deviant. I guess that puts my hopes for The Serpent Crown Saga into a shallow grave.
And the Eternals - brainwashed foot soldiers helping wipe out entire civilizations, after having built them up. Yeah, I'm sure that's what Kirby had in mind.
Some of the casting was good. Some of the casting made no sense.
Honestly, I think the best parts of the entire movie were the mid credit scene (which tried to be as funny as Guardians of the Galaxy but failed) and end credit scene (which held more promise for the future of the MCU than this entire movie).
There were a lot of scenes that I thought were just...a waste. Serving no point to the plot other than to increase the run time.
Overall, I think this might be my new low for the MCU. It might have been better, I think, if they'd let a good writer like Gaiman do the script. I only hope they don't allow any of the writers or the director to set foot near the MCU in the future.
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To be fair, the Celestials DID and some times do kill planets...just not to spawn more Celestials. Also Eternals did kind of just serve the Celestials...just not always willingly.
Even so some of your criticisms aren't without merit, A-zombie.
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Oh man... I hurt my eyes one evening during vacation trying to watch this... I made it about to the halfway point. It's been on pause for a week... not sure if I'm gonna finish it.
PS: please tell me the 2nd half sorta gets better... at this point not sure about Disney+... I think the upcoming Moon Knight is the only thing holding me back but if it's not going to be for several months I may stop my subscription.
Oh man... I hurt my eyes one evening during vacation trying to watch this... I made it about to the halfway point. It's been on pause for a week... not sure if I'm gonna finish it.
PS: please tell me the 2nd half sorta gets better... at this point not sure about Disney+... I think the upcoming Moon Knight is the only thing holding me back but if it's not going to be for several months I may stop my subscription.
Have you watched "Only Murders in the Building" It's probably one of the best things on Disney+ at the moment.
PDK,
Surprised you didn't think Hawkeye was worth it...but I do think once they drop the new trailer for Moon Knight, we should have a clearer idea about this show.
(also keep Disney+ if only because No Way Home will be released there.)
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Oh man... I hurt my eyes one evening during vacation trying to watch this... I made it about to the halfway point. It's been on pause for a week... not sure if I'm gonna finish it.
PS: please tell me the 2nd half sorta gets better... at this point not sure about Disney+... I think the upcoming Moon Knight is the only thing holding me back but if it's not going to be for several months I may stop my subscription.
Have you watched "Only Murders in the Building" It's probably one of the best things on Disney+ at the moment.
In the US, Only Murders in the Building is on Hulu actually (and a lot of fun)
Indeed, Joel is correct.
Oh that's weird. Up in Canada it's all Disney+; Micky Mouse, Frozen, National Geographic, American Horror story, Aliens, The Strain all in one spot. (I'm still waiting for Owl House Season 2 though)
I'm assuming you pay a lot less if they split things up between two subscription
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I hope you bring munchies
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I'm assuming you pay a lot less if they split things up between two subscriptionNot sure, but you definitely pay a lot less if you watch all your streaming content over at your cousin's place - the one subscribed to all the streaming services. It's practically free that way.
:DYMMV
It's even cheaper if your cousin sets up a profile for you to use and you can watch it from home, on their account. Saves gas money going to their place.
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Eternals was fine. Maybe in the middle of the pack? It had several really nice and original ideas, like no generic mostly off-screen villain (well, the Celestial, but he's more of a sequel problem) and they developed the next best thing from within the team.
However, most of the standard complaints are valid: there's too many characters and not enough time (even with an extra half-hour), the major actors are oddly sidelined (Hayek and Jolie have little to do) and Kit Harington is solely in this to set up his next appearance, presumably in Blade, rather than doing anything in this film himself. Also, although there is some humour, it's turned way down from the Marvel norm which is both refreshing but then that makes bits of the film kind of dour.
Oh that's weird. Up in Canada it's all Disney+; Micky Mouse, Frozen, National Geographic, American Horror story, Aliens, The Strain all in one spot. (I'm still waiting for Owl House Season 2 though)
I'm assuming you pay a lot less if they split things up between two subscription
In most countries that are not the US, most of Hulu's content is on Disney+. Here in the UK we have it under a sub-channel called "Star" (which is easy to confuse with Starz, which here is a sub-channel on Amazon Prime rather than its own thing as in the US but also shows non-Starz stuff which gets very confusing).
In related news, did anyone catch Moon Knight's new trailer?
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Oh man... I hurt my eyes one evening during vacation trying to watch this... I made it about to the halfway point. It's been on pause for a week... not sure if I'm gonna finish it.
PS: please tell me the 2nd half sorta gets better... at this point not sure about Disney+... I think the upcoming Moon Knight is the only thing holding me back but if it's not going to be for several months I may stop my subscription.
Have you watched "Only Murders in the Building" It's probably one of the best things on Disney+ at the moment.
No, I was hesitant to click 'play', but now I will! thanks!
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(also keep Disney+ if only because No Way Home will be released there.)Are you sure about this? I thought it belonged to Sony not Marvel... I don't see the Homecoming and Far From Home in there...
They signed a streaming deal for the Spiderman stuff, and other content. It's a bit unclear when older Spiderman movies will show up, but it covers all new releases 2022 -2026.
It did indeed
So yeah I was wrong about about No Way home being on Disney+ FIRST. Because apparently Sony wants it first.
It is such a great movie. Eternals...less so.