Has anyone see this?
It sounds like it's getting poor reviews by the critics.
Too many new superheros in one film perhaps?

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Has anyone see this? It sounds like it's getting poor reviews by the critics. Too many new superheros in one film perhaps?

We saw this movie in the theatre over the weekend, I thought it was pretty good. Could they have made a movie about each individual character?
Probably. Maybe they could have split this movie into two or three and spent some more time on the characters as well, but I still this movie was well done.

I certainly don't regret seeing it it theatre, it was visually stunning, the effects were well done and the story, while long, didn't seem dragged out.

I should perhaps not get a large pop while watching a movie that's 2.5 hours long... :O


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Has anyone see this?

No, well someone may have, but not me. I did see a preview of it though.

Wife and I went and saw Red Notice the other day and it played a preview
of it before hand. It looked ok from the preview.

Not being a marvel person, I didn't recognize any of the superheros, so I probably wont go and see it, but it did look ok.

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Has anyone see this?
It sounds like it's getting poor reviews by the critics.
Too many new superheros in one film perhaps?

A friend of mine posted good reviews on the socials about it - but I don't follow all these new titles too much. Hmph.



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A friend of mine posted good reviews on the socials about it - but I
don't follow all these new titles too much. Hmph.

Is that a Hmph like "they don't make movies like they used to Hmph"

Can just imagine you sitting on a recliner watching dirty harry telling
the kids to get off your lawn.

Ok, I really can't... :)

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Re: Eternals
By: Avon to All on Fri Nov 12 2021 03:43 pm

Has anyone see this?
It sounds like it's getting poor reviews by the critics.
Too many new superheros in one film perhaps?

I jumped off the Disney bandwagon long time ago. They are more concerned with manufacturing political messages than building actual plots as of late. When they starred the Skrull as the poor oppressed minorities in the Cpt. Marvel film they also mutilated the source material, since the Skrulls count themselves among the worst Nazi-Communist wannabes in Universe.

The Eternals used to be a nice comic series. I have good memories of both the Eternals and the Inhumans. For some reason I keep them both in the same wardrobe within my brain.

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Re: Re: Eternals
By: apam to paulie420 on Fri Nov 12 2021 03:43 pm

A friend of mine posted good reviews on the socials about it - but I don't follow all these new titles too much. Hmph.

Is that a Hmph like "they don't make movies like they used to Hmph"

Can just imagine you sitting on a recliner watching dirty harry telling
the kids to get off your lawn.

I have tall concrete walls around my territory so I don't have to scare people away. If some kid wants to pet my horses he is welcome to ask for entrance, but there are no kids in Spanish villages anymore.

And for the record, everytime I see some old movie I end up saying aloud "They don't make them like this anymore" to the people who watched it with me more often than not.

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On 11 Nov 2021 at 10:11p, Warpslide pondered and said...

We saw this movie in the theatre over the weekend, I thought it was
pretty good. Could they have made a movie about each individual character? Probably. Maybe they could have split this movie into two
or three and spent some more time on the characters as well, but I
still this movie was well done.

Coolio thanks for the first impressions. Yeah I'll likely wait until it moves to the streaming platform Disney+ but am interested to see it. It does seem to be getting mixed reviews but I guess that's something to do with just how many new characters they are trying to stuff into the film?

I should perhaps not get a large pop while watching a movie that's 2.5 hours long... :O

Hahahahha

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On 12 Nov 2021 at 03:07p, apam pondered and said...

No, well someone may have, but not me. I did see a preview of it though.

I've only seen some teaser trailers too.

Wife and I went and saw Red Notice the other day and it played a preview of it before hand. It looked ok from the preview.

Is that the one with Gale Galdot it it?

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On 11 Nov 2021 at 09:09p, paulie420 pondered and said...

A friend of mine posted good reviews on the socials about it - but I
don't follow all these new titles too much. Hmph.

OK, well that's a good sign thanks, yeah I am trying to keep up with the MCU as it seems if you miss a film you miss a bit of the larger jigsaw puzzle.

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On 12 Nov 2021 at 03:43p, apam pondered and said...

Is that a Hmph like "they don't make movies like they used to Hmph"

It could be like 'Hmph there it is' oh hang on what Whomp. :)

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On 12 Nov 2021 at 06:31a, Arelor pondered and said...

I jumped off the Disney bandwagon long time ago. They are more concerned with manufacturing political messages than building actual plots as of

Politics aside..

The Eternals used to be a nice comic series. I have good memories of
both the Eternals and the Inhumans. For some reason I keep them both in the same wardrobe within my brain.

I think the interesting thing you point out here (well it is to me) is that folks who have read the comics first then come to the movies will have a different take on things as I understand the MCU tends to change things compared to the comics, this character now male instead of female... that kind of thing.

I had an unfavorable reaction to the all female cast of Ghost busters reboot a few years back. The script was not that good and just turning the three lead actors to another gender didn't (in my mind) make the movie any better or special because they did that change.

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On 12 Nov 2021 at 06:34a, Arelor pondered and said...

And for the record, everytime I see some old movie I end up saying aloud "They don't make them like this anymore" to the people who watched it
with me more often than not.

If it helps I tend to say the same about McDonalds burgers here in NZ compared to the early 90s.

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Coolio thanks for the first impressions. Yeah I'll likely wait until
it moves to the streaming platform Disney+ but am interested to see
it. It does seem to be getting mixed reviews but I guess that's
something to do with just how many new characters they are trying to
stuff into the film?

[No Spoilers]
Yeah, there are 10 of these Eternals all together who are sent to Earth. All of them have a backstory and they do touch of some of them and their origins, but the movie really revolves around Sersi & Ikaris and their love story.

I guess it really comes down to which character your like more, if they
didn't spend enough time on "your" character, perhaps you wouldn't like the movie as much?

I liked Kumail Nanjiani's character, he added in a nice comical twist while Angelina Jolie's character was more serious/dark. I wouldn't say that
ignored any one character, but with 10 of them, you're not going to get everything you want.

It was left wide open for a sequel and there will be fewer characters in that movie for various reasons, so maybe a lot of these criticisms would be rectified in the next movie.


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On 12 Nov 2021 at 01:58p, Warpslide pondered and said...

It was left wide open for a sequel and there will be fewer characters in that movie for various reasons, so maybe a lot of these criticisms
would be rectified in the next movie.

I plan to watch it on Disney+ when it finally gets released in a few months. The urge to hit the cinema to see it when it first drops is not as strong as it once was. On the whole I've found Disney+ a good platform offering a lot more than just kids stuff.

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I plan to watch it on Disney+ when it finally gets released in a few months. The urge to hit the cinema to see it when it first drops is
not as strong as it once was. On the whole I've found Disney+ a good platform offering a lot more than just kids stuff.

We have Disney+ as well. I saw Shang Chi twice in the theatre and we watched it again on the weekend with my father-in-law. We knew he'd like the movie, so picked up some food and put the movie on.

We know if he likes a movie or not based on how much he talks through the show. About the only peep we heard from him was "Can we pause this a moment?
I want to make a cup of tea!" lol


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On 23 Nov 2021 at 06:23p, Warpslide pondered and said...

We have Disney+ as well. I saw Shang Chi twice in the theatre and we watched it again on the weekend with my father-in-law. We knew he'd
like the movie, so picked up some food and put the movie on.

golly, that's a few more times that I would probably watch most movies :)

We know if he likes a movie or not based on how much he talks through
the show. About the only peep we heard from him was "Can we pause this
a moment? I want to make a cup of tea!" lol

Hahah.. nice.

Yes I liked the film too it was a good mix of humour and action and scope for the characters to grow.

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