TenderLovingKiller®
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Right? I am a Marvel guy and a Chloé Zhao fan, the cast seems good too but nothing in the previews has grabbed me at all. Hopefully the move is sneaky good.
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TenderLovingKiller®
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The Batman first trailer dropped.
Great Director, great cast, one of Jack Kirbys most underrated creations. I expect this movie to be good and have a feeling it might be sneaky great.
AnthonyI
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..........how did I miss this thread?
Its still newish
CroutonBoy
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I felt similarly before Guardians of the Galaxy. Seemed like a relatively obscure and left-field choice to bring to film relative to some other options, and was worried they were reaching and it wouldn't work. Yet that's easily a Top 3 MCU film for me, so cautiously optimistic that Eternals will walk a similar path.
gaporter
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I assume this is related to the strike? Either way, I'm fine with this. It seems like the MCU is starting to prioritize quantity over quality so maybe putting some of these films off isn't such a bad idea.
gaporter
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I've heard people suggest Marvel is scared of competing with The Batman but I'm not so sure.
Indymisanthrope
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My trepidation is that when it was announced it almost had an air of "Hey guys, remember when we tried to make Inhumans a thing and failed? Well look, we're trying again, only hopefully it'll be good this time." I know Inhumans was more of a feint at building a quasi-mutant backdoor into the MCU, but the fact that they're both Kirby alien super-team properties didn't help the unfavorable mental associations.
Indymisanthrope
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Okay I think this looks pretty good, but I cannot be the only one who thinks Dano at 0:57 is [thisclose] to finishing that sentence with "...about your car's extended warranty."
I get the mental associations, but eternals has so much going for it that inhumans didn't. Better director, better cast, more likeable characters (Black Bolt rules, but might be one of the hardest characters to bring from page to screen imo), movie vs tv show, thanos/infinity saga tie in, and a much less crowded superhero landscape imo.
Indymisanthrope
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Oh yeah I agree (with the caveat that some of your reasons depend on familiarity with source material that a lot of normies won't have). I guess I meant more that at the time it was announced, Eternals felt like it might be an also-ran attempt at doing what they failed to do with Inhumans. Since then, I agree, there are a lot of reasons to be more confident in this attempt (with this pedigree even if it's not a spectacular success at least it won't be an embarrassment).
LeSamourai
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Re: Eternals, to be honest, I'd even be down with an interesting failure (as a lifelong fan of sci-fi movies, interesting failures hold a special place in my heart). Of course, I'd prefer and interesting success!
Bad sci fi is some of the best sci fi
avecigrec
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TenderLovingKiller®
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Yeah, but the cast list has me optimistic.
Thor 4(the one im most excitied about in this group) now comes out on my birthday weekend and thats neat to me.
Crabbers
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This is the movie I’m most excited for…I’ve heard nothing but great reviews about it
Wouldn't be the first time I'm wrong.
Eternals | Rotten Tomatoes
Marvel Studios' Eternals features an exciting new team of Super Heroes in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, ancient aliens who have been living on Earth in secret for thousands of years. Following the events of Avengers: Endgame, an unexpected tragedy forces them out of the shadows to reunite...
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