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All the talk about lovely autism stereotypes in the Shane Black Predator, and no one mentioned the movie's reveal that the Predators are here to steal our autism because it's the next stage of human evolution.
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Eternals teaser: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WVDKZJkGlY
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May 24, 2021 14:09
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Whoa. That looks awesome.
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May 24, 2021 14:23
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On the other hand I think it looks bad!
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May 24, 2021 14:25
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It looks interesting.
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May 24, 2021 14:26
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Look better than I thought it would as I've never really cared for the eternals. Predator chat: P2 also brought us this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxQmFw565_8
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May 24, 2021 14:32
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Arist posted:Eternals teaser: Seems like it's going to be a really good looking movie.
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May 24, 2021 14:46
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Mr Hootington posted:On the other hand I think it looks bad!
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May 24, 2021 14:50
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FilthyImp posted:The successor films fail because it's not some unknowable thing anymore, and you count the minutes till It Does The Thing with the disc, or javelin, or takes the mask off, or... And then you make a sequel and even if you're taping on new stuff (queens! throwing discuses! they communicate vocally!) that initial total ignorance can never reemerge. You're dealing with a completely different kind of experience: presenting a known quantity whose initial widespread appeal was greatly based in it being unknown and shocking.
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May 24, 2021 14:51
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Desperado Bones posted:Yeah, at the end the kid is making eye contact, smiling and laughing and poo poo like that. I think he even hugs a person? I dunno, the movie was dripping in ableism and it was cringy That’s because they reshot the ending so many times I don’t think anyone really gave a poo poo. In the movie his autism isn’t “cured”. One ending they shot had the pod open up and Ripley or Newt was inside. Yes really. There’s photos of this. No one knew what the heck to do because they reshot the entire last act.
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May 24, 2021 14:56
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FilthyImp posted:Just find a way to adapt the loving AvP arcade game story where cybernetic Arnold and Android Asian assassin Girl pair up with 2 preds for the ultimate hunt that happens to be Weyland-Yutani's fault. The whole of Predator is kind of a slasher complete with Arnold being a very buff final girl! (Yeah, I know, I'm not letting what's her name get in the way of a good and dumb analogy.) Seriously, I don't like that I know that the Predators' race are called 'Yautja.' That feels unnecessary. The first AvP Dark Horse mini series would also have been a good source to adapt. Asian female lead (so we could get ScarJo on board), crazy set pieces like Predators and xenomorphs fighting during a giant stampede of space cattle. It'd be great.
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May 24, 2021 15:08
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Predator was actually scary to me as a kid. You got some nice gore and A LOT of suspense and atmosphere. What the newer movies lack is this suspense and atmosphere. They're about as scary as a marvel film too
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May 24, 2021 15:14
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Sgt. Politeness posted:I saw 4 in the theater and this is the only part I remember. And Lambert's terrible hair. I saw 4 in the theater with a girl who had never seen a single Highlander film or episode of the TV series. She claimed to have "liked it", something neither myself nor my friend who actually knew what the gently caress was going on could say FilthyImp posted:That's because of a few novelties of the original: First time I saw Predator was on HBO circa 1990 and we completely missed the very beginning with the spaceship. We knew nothing about it beforehand, so when our super cool Arnold killing bad dudes movie suddenly became a weird alien hunter movie, our 11 year old brains were all 
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May 24, 2021 15:19
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They should cut that opening space ship shot out of every future release and destroy the footage. It fucks up the entire movie.
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May 24, 2021 15:22
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FilthyImp posted:The writeup I read leaned really, really hard into "Native warrior woman" poo poo so I'm already kind of doubtful. I get your wariness but at the same time, the original always did give of a strong vibe that maybe in an earlier draft Billy was actually the focal character only to be sidelined and killed off screen once Arnie signs on and does his thing. It would have cool if the final act was Dutch getting killed unexpectedly and it’s left to Billy to fight it alone. If this remake is more in tune with that it could be neat. Related, apparently the Second Unit shot all the rebel camp stuff and McTiernan and his team were horrified at it being so unashamedly gently caress Yeah! slaughter porn by Dutch’s team but the shooting conditions were awful and they didn’t wan to do it all over again so it stayed. But the original intention was to have it be far less explodey and actually depict them as the specialist rescue team Dutch indicated they were.
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May 24, 2021 15:33
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Eternals looks gorgeous. Also Robb and Jon Stark are gonna have the same love interest.
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May 24, 2021 15:35
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Arist posted:Eternals teaser: It looks good as in visually, but i hope at some point they tell us what it's actually about
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CelticPredator posted:One ending they shot had the pod open up and Ripley or Newt was inside. Yes really. There’s photos of this. 
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May 24, 2021 15:37
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The teaser looks really nice, yeah, it just doesn't give a whole lot of meat to chew on. The laugh line at the end falls totally flat due to complete lack of context. I did see some praise for it on Twitter as a Marvel movie that actually has a wide range of color and doesn't crush its blacks.
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May 24, 2021 15:40
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Eternals looks gorgeous but that trailer did nothing to introduce the dozen characters.
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May 24, 2021 15:48
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Yeah, I've been figuring Harrington is gonna be the way in, as the everyday guy who finds the threat and learns about the Eternals so the audience can too, but that had no hint of that
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May 24, 2021 15:54
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Arist posted:The teaser looks really nice, yeah, it just doesn't give a whole lot of meat to chew on. The laugh line at the end falls totally flat due to complete lack of context. Most marvel movies milk up their blacks, but your point still stands.
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Cythereal posted:All the talk about lovely autism stereotypes in the Shane Black Predator, and no one mentioned the movie's reveal that the Predators are here to steal our autism because it's the next stage of human evolution. Yeah, it was trying real hard to be like "Actually, Autism is a good thing" which, while I'm sure is offensive in its own way, is at least trying to make a positive statement.
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May 24, 2021 15:56
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I'm not a huge fan of Kit Harrington but Dane Whitman is one of my top five favorite Marvel characters (i know) so I'm absolutely there on day one.
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May 24, 2021 15:57
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site posted:It looks good as in visually, but i hope at some point they tell us what it's actually about
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May 24, 2021 16:05
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Rhyno posted:I'm not a huge fan of Kit Harrington but Dane Whitman is one of my top five favorite Marvel characters (i know) so I'm absolutely there on day one. I'm not familiar with Kit really but Dane is one of my favorites too. I tend to like the overlooked or smaller characters and I got into Avengers when both and Sersi were fixtures of the team.
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May 24, 2021 16:16
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As long as Zhao had Harrington play to his range, it'll be fine, but he's not the most versatile actor.
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May 24, 2021 16:20
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X-O posted:I'm not familiar with Kit really but Dane is one of my favorites too. I tend to like the overlooked or smaller characters and I got into Avengers when both and Sersi were fixtures of the team. Same! The Gathering is terrible but Dane was great. I even followed him over to Ultraforce and then not too long after that the Heroes for Hire series where he got a new sword and a pegasus.
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May 24, 2021 16:22
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Arist posted:The teaser looks really nice, yeah, it just doesn't give a whole lot of meat to chew on. The laugh line at the end falls totally flat due to complete lack of context. 'Let Wakands handle it, we'll chill in our walled garden state'
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May 24, 2021 16:22
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Rhyno posted:I even followed him over to Ultraforce We don't talk about that.
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May 24, 2021 16:23
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X-O posted:We don't talk about that. YES WE DO THE ULTRAVERSE WAS GOOD
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May 24, 2021 16:46
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During the time around The Crossing/Leather Jackets era of Avengers the Dane/Sersi/Crystal love triangle was one of the few engaging things about the book.
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May 24, 2021 16:47
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Rhyno posted:YES WE DO THE ULTRAVERSE WAS GOOD 
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May 24, 2021 16:50
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Dawgstar posted:During the time around The Crossing/Leather Jackets era of Avengers the Dane/Sersi/Crystal love triangle was one of the few engaging things about the book. I was a big fan of Hercules saying "by my beard" BUT YOU SHAVED IT OFF HERC, YOU SHAVED IT OFF
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I get that it's only supposed to be a teaser and all, but I feel like I now know less about The Eternals after having watched that.
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May 24, 2021 16:59
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Arist posted:Eternals teaser: Strange definition of "not interfering," though. She literally just said they were guiding people, which is...y'know, absolutely interfering.  I hope this doesn't fall into the recent Marvel trap of spouting a buncha smart-sounding dialogue that doesn't actually make any sense when you think about it for more than a sec.
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It really looks like someone at Marvel's answer to the Snyderverse. Like they heard all the talk about cinematography and gods and symbolism and decided to "do it right". Like weird Avengers reference aside they got an up and coming oscar winning director known for their visual style to make a deep thoughts movie about (actual) gods. Now it's still possible Marvel Studios buffed the edges out and it'll be more of their samey house style but after Marvel beat DC to the inevitable Thanos/Darkseid problem they were probably feeling cocky. I hope I'm right and they really nail every note Snyder attempted in his DC movies just to see how the fans respond.
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May 24, 2021 17:39
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Sgt. Politeness posted:It really looks like someone at Marvel's answer to the Snyderverse. Like they heard all the talk about cinematography and gods and symbolism and decided to "do it right". Like weird Avengers reference aside they got an up and coming oscar winning director known for their visual style to make a deep thoughts movie about (actual) gods. Now it's still possible Marvel Studios buffed the edges out and it'll be more of their samey house style but after Marvel beat DC to the inevitable Thanos/Darkseid problem they were probably feeling cocky. I hope I'm right and they really nail every note Snyder attempted in his DC movies just to see how the fans respond. They even cribbed the "accomplish wonders" bit from Man of Steel.
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Gonna thank the random internet person for putting a quick who is who summary: https://twitter.com/marvel_shots/status/1396830658933231620?s=19 Eternals is as unknown as GoG was, for me. Also hoping they do have a rad Bollywood dance scene.
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I'm happy to see lots of PoC. Never enough of that. I know nothing about Eternals as comic characters. I at least had an inkling of the Guardians. We shall see.
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