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Gatsby77

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    Oh, I understood it. It's still idiotic and an example of laughably bad writing. In a movie that featured a bastardized version of Doomsday as a cave troll that shoots lasers from his eyes and is the product of dead Zod DNA -- It says something that it's the *jolly rancher* scene that made me suspend my disbelief.
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    Quick! NFT it!
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    Weird choice. I’ve never read a comic with Madame Web in it. My only exposure to her was in that early text-based video game: Questprobe: Spider-Man. It was a couple of floppy disks on an Apple 2. Still, went in to read a few hundred Spidey issues in the 90s/2000s & never encountered her.
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    According to the Google, Conan will enter the public domain on Jan. 1, 2028.
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    He could be. Marvel regained the rights to the comics from Dark Horse a few years ago, and he appeared in a 2019 Avengers comic, saving Scarlet Witch's life after she traveled to his time. He's also appeared in the last two issues of Savage Avengers (# 27 and 28) - each released within the last 2 months.
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    And Jason Momoa, the last Conan.
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    For reference, there's a slabbed 4.0 sitting for sale on eBay right now for ~$550 US. Granted, it's faded - but it reinforces what everyone above has said. No chance a 6.5-7.0 is worth anywhere close to $2,500. https://www.ebay.com/itm/165306208640?hash=item267d049180:g:-mQAAOSwZith9GWE
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    Well - technically I lucked out all the way around that year. The first X-Men *story* I ever read was earlier that summer at camp. It was X-Men 129 - first issue of the Dark Phoenix storyline, as reprinted in Classic X-men # 35. Didn't know who any of the characters were - but it was a great place to start. When I got back from summer camp I had a few weeks of allowance saved up and decided to start collecting comic books. Hence that multi-pack purchase w/ the Uncanny # 244. I then picked up Uncanny # 248 and 251 for $.20 apiece at a yard sale (where I was convinced the money book would be the Nick Fury: Agent of Shield (1989) # 1 I'd picked up for that same $.20), and my first actual new issue off the rack was # 252. Collected the new issues clear through to # 320 - and eventually built my run backwards to # 106. 1989-1994 was a really great time to be an X-Men collector.
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    Fun fact - X-Men 244 was the first X-Men issue I ever read. Got it in 1989 in a multipack at Woolworth's. Hated Jubilee, but it was a fun story - chasing down a newly discovered teenage mutant at the mall.
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    Y'all gonna' be embarrassed when this film wins the Academy Award for like... Sound Mixing. Yup - thereafter this film will have to be referred to as the "Oscar winning Eternals." See also...Oscar winners 3 six mafia.
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    We read both Diary of Anne Frank and John Hersey's Hiroshima in my 7th grade English class. To say that Maus isn't appropriate for 8th graders is preposterous.
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    Guys - I think we're missing the big picture here. Starfox appeared on-screen - there's only one direction for his first appearance to go -- to the moon! Start stockpiling those Iron Man 55s now!
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    If Starfox says he is a "fellow Eternal," does that not make the MCU Thanos an Eternal as well? If so, then it makes absolutely no sense that they didn't interfere with his plans in the last two Avengers films.
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    That's just batty.
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    To be clear: 1) There are *plenty" of reasons to dislike the Eternals movie that have nothing to do with the diversity of its cast. 2) I'm fairly sure no one on this thread "hates" The Eternals. That implies they cared anything about The Eternals in the first place. This film isn't worthy of such a strong emotion. To me, I'm more bemused and amused at how bad it is - and yet - it's not bad enough to actually be enjoyable (in an MST3k or Ghost Rider / Ghost Rider: Spirits of Vengeance kind of way).
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    Moment of silence for Kumail Nanjani. Months of work, diet and steroids and he didn't even get a shirtless scene.
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    Nah - I read it differently. Since premiering on Disney Plus a few weeks ago, ~a dozen+ forumites (myself included) finally watched Eternals. And determined it sucked donkey toes.
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    That's his "I coulda' been James Bond" face.
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    The line was: a) used by Marvel itself in multiple marketing materials; and b) Remains an accurate paraphrase of the line that made the final cut - about why they didn't interfere with Thanos. So...folks who reference it aren't trolling.
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    Umm...no. It's legitimate because: It was used by Marvel in both an early trailer and in their social media promotion for the film. See here, 1:08-1:15: https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=514422383021134
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    Per Samba, ~3.7 million US households watched the Snyder cut in its first 39 days of release. Per BoxOfficeMojo, ~25.5 million North American people watched Justice League during its theatrical run. Even noting that 1) "households" isn't the same as "people" and that 2) "domestic theatrical" includes Canada, which I don't believe is included in Samba's U.S. numbers Let's be generous and say that a) "household" averages 2 people and b) 3x as many households have now watched the Snyder cut as did in its first 39 days. More people ("domestically") still watched the theatrical version. More to the point, just because filmmakers (and studios) later disavow theatrical versions and stand by later director's cuts, doesn't make it so for the vast majority of viewers. Again, Han shot first, regardless of what George Lucas decided years later.
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    But that's the thing. The 2017 Justice League movie *is* canon. Extended editions released on streaming - or on DVD only *don't count* because the audience is definitionally different (and nearly always far smaller) than the audience that went to see the theatrical versions. Theatrical versions are canon. Full stop. See: Justice League: Dawn of Justice BvS Suicide Squad Daredevil Superman 2 Even Aliens and Blade Runner This is, of course, really problematic with Iron Man 3 Because Marvel's retroactively tried to make Hail to the King as canonical, even though it directly contradicts Iron Man 3. But including it as a DVD extra and as a short on Disney+ = not on the same level as the number of people who went to see Iron Man 3 theatrically, let alone those who have subsequently watched the film on DVD or streaming, without also watching the short. I also choose to live in a world where the 1997 Star Wars Special Editions don't exist. Han shot first, *spoon*.