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Gaunab posted:Which scene is that? it was the dinner scene, but it wasn't the Avengers, but Thor who would look up at Kingo when he was a child. And Odin was good friends with some of them. Or something :P
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Lobok posted:One thing that's potentially good about a sequel is that there will be, or should be, fewer members of the team. A lot of the movie was about introducing an Infinity War-size team and bringing the band back together.
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It seems a bit weird how Arishem made Sprite an eternal child though. Like, why would he do that? Just to be a dick?
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Alhazred posted:It seems a bit weird how Arishem made Sprite an eternal child though. Like, why would he do that? Just to be a dick?
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Desperado Bones posted:it was the dinner scene, but it wasn't the Avengers, but Thor who would look up at Kingo when he was a child. And Odin was good friends with some of them. Or something :P Asking for spinoffs is a bit gauche nowadays, but I'd love a spinoff where we followed a bunch of these ageless MCU characters across time. So at one point -- during the Renaissance or whenever -- you have Thor, Loki, the Eternals, the Ancient One, Wenwu...and, hell, Sigourney Weaver from the Netflix shows all having met up to do...something.
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Alhazred posted:It seems a bit weird how Arishem made Sprite an eternal child though. Like, why would he do that? Just to be a dick? He also made Makkari deaf.
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Ikaris has laser eyes, strength, and flight. And then Kingo just has hand guns. Arishem's design decisions is definitely suspect.
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iceyman posted:Ikaris has laser eyes, strength, and flight. And then Kingo just has hand guns. Arishem's design decisions is definitely suspect. Excuse you, Kingo is also, according to the MCU wiki, blessed with the power of 'Master Acting'. He's not even famous on his own merit, he just has magic acting powers, his one thing not hand gun related is also a dumb magic space power Being Kingo is pain
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I don't think that's actually supposed to be a "power" he has, it's just another instance of fan wikis being dumb. It's like how people joke that Batman's superpower is "being rich" even though that's not something you're born wi--okay, you know what, bad example
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Arishem didn't have a coffee cup head ergo it's the worst film ever imo.Big Mean Jerk posted:Finally watched Eternals and uh… I kinda enjoyed the hell out of it? Parkingtigers posted:I just finished rewatching it, and the pacing issues are almost completely gone on a second viewing. It’s still a very beautiful film with actual things to say on what it is to be human and I will forever be sulky that Marvel trying something deeper and more thoughtful is what makes all the critics turn on them. In all seriousness, these two sum up my feelings. I really liked it, even if it didn't always hit all the notes it was going for. I dug the back and forth narrative across the centuries, enjoyed most of the cast, there were some really gorgeous shots and imagery at times (though it was also a bit gloomy in places, felt like all Thena's fight scenes were in near darkness - maybe it was just my TV settings). I figured there was going to be a heel turn but I figured it was totally going to be Druig, not Ikaris, so that was a nice surprise, and the fight with Makkari zipping about battering him was great to see. I also thought I'd been spoiled that Kingo dies but he just fucks off because he's an obedient robot and poor Gilgamesh snuffs it instead, boooo. Honestly, I spent the whole thing expecting Druig and Sersi to try and gently caress everyone over and was so glad to be wrong. Could have done with all the Dane Whitman stuff - save it for another film - and Arishem sounding like some guy next door with added bass felt wrong and ungodly, neither of the credits reveals worked for me, and yes, the main conflict is basically just Surfer/Galactus but eh. In any case, I'd totally be up to see them return. Also, seeing a fight kick off between some alien dog thing and not-Superman in Camden Town will never not be hilarious to me.
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The way Thanos is in the MCU made my brain unable to process that post-credit scene. And it's the guy from One Direction which was even more insane to me. I like Jon Snow though, so I was glad to have him around.
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Makkari was by far the coolest speedster (from a combat perspective). She was putting in work on Ikaris. I really liked that. The Ikaris heel turn was great, they should have focused on that and discarded the Deviants after the reveal. The super evolved Deviant felt superfluous and stupid.
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mikeraskol posted:Makkari was by far the coolest speedster (from a combat perspective). She was putting in work on Ikaris. I really liked that. I was okay with it. The super Deviant is mostly there not to be a threat, so much as to be another aggrieved voice at being just playthings of the gods, sent to do their bidding. I can see how some people weren't happy at him being a poor villain, but he's not even a villain, just a force of nature unleashed by Arishem doing what he was taught (programmed/instructed) to do. The evolution isn't to make him deadlier, it's to make him more self-aware and vocal. He does also serve the purpose of breaking up the final fight so that he can provide *some* threat while Ikaris gets a timeout from Phastos. I'd go further and say there are no villains in this film. The deviants are just being true to their nature, Arishem is a god trying to birth more gods to create life, and Ikaris is just following faith and duty to its painful extremes until it comes up against the unbreechable wall of his love for Sersi. His anguish at what he has done, and what he has become, is tangible, Madden killed those scenes and on rewatch there's a real sense of that constant internal conflict. While I'm on the subject of this good as hell film, the other bit of the rewatch that really got me was Phastos and his little family home. When his husband comes out and tells him that he has to go, to just try and buy a chance of their son getting to grow up and live his own life, and that song plays as he puts his son to bed and kisses his husband goodbye... man, they finally did a prominent gay main character and it was one of the most emotionally rewarding moments in the MCU. Leave me, go and run towards danger, because our son needs you to... Phastos then going to loving town on Ikaris because he's fighting not to save the world, but to save his world... so drat good. Between that and Makkari being so angry at Ikaris battering Druig she's hitting him with sonic booms, it was one of the most emotionally investing fights in these films. I swear, the more I think about this film the more I like it. Felt that way after first viewing. Confirmed it after the rewatch. If anyone wants me I'll be on this hill defending this film for the foreseeable future.
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The Deviants was completely unecessary. By the time the super deviant says that the Eternals are not heroes they already know it. It's not like Captain Marvel where learning that the Skrulls saying that they wasn't the enemy were the big twist. Then he just goes away and comes back just to get killed. The Deviants adds nothing but added runtime. A better twist would've been if Ikaris and Sprite together had tricked the others to believe that the Deviants were back and let them chase an enemy that wasn't there.
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Alhazred posted:The Deviants was completely unecessary. By the time the super deviant says that the Eternals are not heroes they already know it. It's not like Captain Marvel where learning that the Skrulls saying that they wasn't the enemy were the big twist. Then he just goes away and comes back just to get killed. The Deviants adds nothing but added runtime. A better twist would've been if Ikaris and Sprite together had tricked the others to believe that the Deviants were back and let them chase an enemy that wasn't there. Yeah but how? You'd need some kind of illusion power for that.
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SonicRulez posted:I think some critics being harsh on the movie has made you forget it still made a zillion dollars and Disney will favor that over anything else. Eh it wouldn't be the first time a Disney movie was successful financially but the fan/critical reaction, deserved or not, made them panic and either cancel sequel plans or make a far worse movie by trying to overcorrect What I'm saying is Eternals 2 will start with "Somehow Thanos has returned!"
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It's not just about pure box office numbers. TASM 2 made several hundred million dollars.
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Alhazred posted:The Deviants was completely unecessary. By the time the super deviant says that the Eternals are not heroes they already know it. It's not like Captain Marvel where learning that the Skrulls saying that they wasn't the enemy were the big twist. Then he just goes away and comes back just to get killed. The Deviants adds nothing but added runtime. A better twist would've been if Ikaris and Sprite together had tricked the others to believe that the Deviants were back and let them chase an enemy that wasn't there. the script manifestly has no idea what it's doing with the Deviants, and that's really one of my biggest gripes. it even sets up a fairly obvious way that they could have tied back into the primary conflict and themes of the film but does nothing with it
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Parkingtigers posted:
I'll be next to you. Because I liked it a lot (and my family did to! They were stuck to the screen thanks to the drama lol And even my elderly mother who isn't that much into MCU stuff). And now I'm saddened I didn't have the chance to see it on a movie theater.  I hope they do re-screenings years after all this pandemic bullshit it's 100% endemic and we have super-vaccines.
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It was even good in 3D. The landscapes looked really nice and expansive. Especially during the third act.
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The thing I kept wondering about was how Arishem said "One every billion years" about when the Celestials are born, but the Eternals are only on Earth for seven thousand years and it's implied they get memory wiped and do missions more or less continuously. What else are they doing? And if the Deviants are a failed experiment, wouldn't Arishem just stop seeding planets with them? Or was Earth their trial run?
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I believe the idea is that the Deviants may have been a failed experiment on their own, but adding Eternals into the equation had balanced out the problem so that the overall process is satisfactory now, by the Celestials' standards. Like, even if the Deviants go a bit overboard, the Celestials do still want the original apex predators on a planet to be trimmed down so that sentience could emerge. That's still necessary for their goals.
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https://youtu.be/x7Krla_UxRg Dick Van Dyke ahoy in new Moon Knight trailer
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BrianWilly posted:I believe the idea is that the Deviants may have been a failed experiment on their own, but adding Eternals into the equation had balanced out the problem so that the overall process is satisfactory now, by the Celestials' standards. Alhazred fucked around with this message at 17:05 on Jan 18, 2022 |
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Alhazred posted:Arishem basically added snakes to eat the lizards, then gorillas to eat the snake and then hoped that the gorillas would freeze to death during the winter. "so anyway I accidentally invented Spyro the dragon, Kingo go throw some space hadokens at it"
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Also on the NWH tip, I dig this quote from Andrew Garfield: "Emma kept on texting me, and she was like, 'Are you in this new Spider-Man film?' And, I was like, 'I don't know what you're talking about.' She was like, 'Shut up, just tell me.' I'm like, 'I honestly don't know.' I kept it going, even with her. It was hilarious,'" Garfield said. "Then, she saw it, and she was like, 'you're a jerk.'" The mental image of Emma Stone spamming her ex with texts over this is just hilarious to me.
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The Batman's runtime has been announced: 2 hours and 55 minutes f'n hell
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Davros1 posted:The Batman's runtime has been announced: Movies are too long
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should just split it into batman riddle wars and batman endgame
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I cannot imagine any reason for a Batman movie to be that long goddamn
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TwoPair posted:I cannot imagine any reason for a Batman movie to be that long goddamn Everytime he suits up it's shown in real time.
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Idfc anymore, I like long movies. Small bladder weaklings can just wait until it’s streaming.
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20 minutes of slow motion bullets traveling through the Waynes
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site posted:while hallelujah plays Okay but only if it's a really bad new cover.
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Big Mean Jerk posted:Idfc anymore, I like long movies. Small bladder weaklings can just wait until it’s streaming.  As long as it's entertaining be as long as you want. Title of your sextape
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Endless Mike posted:20 minutes of slow motion bullets traveling through the Waynes How long can you film pearls dropping to the ground?
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