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  1. @therealsilvermane
    If Eternals is toilet paper, then it's freakin' Charmin compared to that cheap Dollar Store sandboard toilet paper that comprises 90% of the failed DC Movie Universe's movies and that includes Shazam, Aquaman, Man of Steel, Batman v Superman aka The Two Marthas, the firstSuicide Squad, and Wonder Woah-man 1984.
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    I see these things in part because I'm a student of film and I actually read about directors I admire, like Ang Lee. James Schamus, Ang's producer on many of his films, has stated that the point of almost every Ang Lee film was the idea of freedom from repression. In Brokeback Mountain, two cowboys find that freedom from societal norms on top of a mountain away from society. In Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, a Chinese woman finds freedom from the repression of Chinese women through the Green Destiny sword. In Hulk, both Bruce and David Banner find freedom from the repression of the human shell through a Hulk. Lee and the effects artists have themselves talked about the visual imagery in Hulk and about those strange seemingly random shots of jellyfish and mushroom clouds that resemble each other visually. In the end, David Banner turns into a giant Jellyfish over Pear Lake before he and Bruce are both taken out by a giant mushroom cloud. The metaphors are obvious to anyone with a brain. It's not a Rorschach test. It's actually there. As I said, Ang Lee's Hulk is an unsung masterpiece of super-hero cinema. At this point, it's an irrelevant movie anyway so I don't mind being the only person in the room smart enough to see that. I also didn't say I didn't like No Way Home. I'm an MCU fan so I freakin' love that movie. I just said it's not winning any real awards. It's the ultimate example of a fan service movie. You don't get awards for that except from MTV.
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    Different strokes for different folks. For me, as somebody who likes weird independent movies, Ang Lee's movie was a display of cinema technique as art, visual metaphors, and yeah, trying to do something honestly deep with Marvel's dumbest super-hero/smartest scientist. The theme of Hulk, as is the theme of every Ang Lee movie, is freedom from repression. This idea is not only essential to the DNA of the Hulk and David Banner's story, but we see it visualized cinematically, such as the constant images of jellyfish and mushroom clouds, visual metaphors for genetics and nuclear power, the keys to unleashing humanity from its shell, which is David Banner's ultimate goal as the villain. At the same time, it was so 60's Tales to Astonish and Herbe Trimpe early 70's old school Hulk with our hero taking on the U.S. Army in the desert that it made my inner-kid geek out.
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    I hear this a lot, that Eternals should have been a Disney+ series. I kinda disagree with that, both because of the nature of the Eternals' story and the nature of Marvel's Disney+ shows so far. The effects work required to do the Celestials and the epic historic and cosmic nature of the Eternals story in "live action" couldn't be done justice on Disney+, at least from what I've seen of the shows so far. As for character development, the Eternals together are kind of a big deal in the Marvel Comics but individually, the only stars in the comics are Sersi and Ikaris. Even then, these characters are thousands of years old, what more are we supposed to learn about them with an additional hour or so in a Disney+ limited series? I felt there was enough in the movie to give us insight into who most of the Eternals were and their relationship to humans. I also don't know if such a big global cast would have agreed to a TV show, as most of them are film actors. Of course, now we know Disney+ MCU shows aren't just regular TV shows. And speaking of Marvel's Disney+ shows, so far, they seem to have the purpose of bridging the stories of older Avengers with those of new ones, at the same time, picking up the pieces of Avengers Endgame while setting up new stories. Eternals is almost a self-enclosed story with no connection to previous Avengers or the Endgame movie. I know some folks weren't satisfied with the Eternals movie, but I'm absolutely happy with it.
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    Here, anyway. Remember, 78% of users on Rotten Tomatoes liked Eternals and we all know RT is the final ultimate judgement on a movie's worth.
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    For some reason, this seems to be the only thing you see in the movie. I mean, have you even seen the movie?
  7. @therealsilvermane
    Ang Lee's Hulk is an unsung masterpiece of super-hero cinema.
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    Marvel changes and morphs most everything from its comic book source before bringing it to the screen. I mean, you're kinda right about the Deviants and the Eternals, but in the comics, there are some Deviants who turn out good (like Kro [the comic book version], Ransak, and Karkas), and there are some that are bad (like Druig). It's not really a black and white, good and evil dichotomy. The Eternals being synthetic constructions of the Celestials was a bit of a twist from the comics, but it certainly explains how they never age or evolve over thousands of years, and is a nice contrast to actual humans adding to subtextual plotline that the Eternals are among humanity yet apart. I thought seeing the Deviants kind of evolve through the movie into humanoid form was a nice subtle add to the idea of evolution in the film. And Ikaris wasn't a mindless lackey. In fact, he was the only one who thought differently from the other Eternals by holding on to his reason for being created. In one way he was a hero who helped save Earth and its inhabitants at the end, but he was also responsible for the death of a newborn Celestial which meant billions more lives will never come into existence. Perhaps that was too much for him to take and he makes Sprite's made-up story about him come true. Besides, there's room for only one superman on Earth and that spot is taken by Captain Marvel.
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    You see, I celebrate MLK's birthday not only by remembering how Dr. King helped "wake up" America and live the dream, but also by coexisting with others in peace at least for a day which would preclude me from posting here.
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    And oh look, referencing the Kirby panels above, Makarri states "Eternals are as varied as humans." Looks like Chloe Zhao took Mr. Kirby at his word.
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    In the Jack Kirby comics, Kingo Sunen is an Eternal who has become a famous Japanese samurai movie star. It's kinda right out of the comics, except Kingo has been changed from Japanese-centric to India-centric for the MCU. That makes sense in the present tense because samurai movies are no longer popular but Bollywood movies are.
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    And to think Brie charged me $200 just to CGC witness sign my movie variant cover Captain Marvel 1. I feel shortchanged now.
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    'Eternals': The Perfect Companion Piece to 'Watchmen' In both stories, there are betrayals within the actual teams themselves rooted in philosophical differences about humanity. And in both, the case for bringing about the apocalypse is justified by rationale that doing so benefits the greater good. Additionally, the overall narratives of both immerse themselves in a revisionist history seen through the perspective of the characters and their respective impacts on the world around them, along with the world’s impacts on them on a personal level. https://www.whattowatch.com/features/eternals-the-perfect-companion-piece-to-watchmen
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    Why Eternals Deserves A Second Chance On Disney+ I struggle to think of a film in recent years that has shape-shifted more significantly for me on a re-watch than Chloé Zhao’s Marvel epic Eternals – the most divisive MCU movie in years, earning conflicted reviews, sparking lukewarm buzz, and swiftly muscled out of multiplexes by No Time To Die and Dune, two other 150+ minute blockbusters that more successfully vied for audiences’ attention. What struck me as I became fully hooked on a second viewing of Eternals – with its beautifully-shot fight sequences, meaty explorations of existential questions, and Kumail Nanjiani doing a Bollywood dance – is that it’s everything Marvel sceptics always say they want MCU movies and modern blockbusters to be. It’s a huge film wrangling with massive ideas, boasting brains and brawn in equal measure, and bearing a real authorial stamp from Zhao, evident both in the natural vistas that echo the look of her previous films, and in the clear influences from the likes of Alan Moore’s Watchmen and Zack Snyder’s Man Of Steel (you only need to read an interview with the filmmaker to realise her nerd credentials are as strong as her indie-flick ones). Eternals is exciting, it’s funny, it’s bold and unexpected – and it’s emotional too, climaxing with a superhero suicide from a fallen hero who can’t live with the fact he betrayed his god. So much for Marvel playing it safe. https://www.empireonline.com/movies/features/marvel-eternals-deserves-second-chance/
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    No, I'm actually that little flicker of light left in your soul trying to tell you that the D in DC stands for dead-end and Marvel is the only way...
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    Dude, I f***ing work in the film and video industry, studied the sh*t in college, and I've actually won awards for my commercial and film work that I've written and directed. And yes, I have read many screenplay books and I wouldn't use Syd Field as my key to understanding movies. I'm actually just trying to help you out here but I've concluded now that you're a waste of my time from here on out.
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    I'd say I'm completely wasting my time with you but I also don't mind trying to get through to neophytes every now and then...
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    pretty sure he would. I mean, WTF.
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    i watched zero minutes of it and it was awful. even hearing abt it was -0/10 Here come the trolls...
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    pretty sure he would. I mean, WTF. https://nofspodcast.com/revisiting-batman-begins-christopher-nolans-meditation-on-the-nature-and-power-of-fear
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    When Christopher Nolan pitched his idea for Batman Begins to Warner Bros, it's very possible he started his pitch with "This movie will be about fear." And that theme of fear permeates the entire movie, from young Bruce Wayne developing a fear of bats because of the opening scene, to Bruce embracing that fear and becoming a bat himself, to fighting the villain Scarecrow who weaponizes fear. Yes, humanity is a very broad theme, but Eternals covers a very broad area of time over 7000 years. The movie opens 2001 Space Odyssey style at the MCU's dawn of civilization and the Eternals giving the stone age humans a "push" by first protecting them from Deviants and then turning their stone cutting tools into bronze weapons. We learn the entire purpose of the Eternals is to protect humans and also help them thrive so they can populate the Earth. The goal of Deviants is to eat humans. The goal of the Celestials is for there to be enough humans on the planet to trigger an Emergence. Each Eternal has a different relationship to the humans. Sersi and Phastos love them. Sprite wants to be one. Kingo likes their attention. Druig thinks they're self-destructive so creates his communal paradise in the Amazon jungle. Ikaris doesn't care about them, only the mission. And Ajak thinks humanity is special enough that the Eternals should revolt against their Celestial creators and save humanity. In the end, it's Ikaris's very "human" love for Sersi that saves the day when he doesn't kill her. Sprite gets to become a human and Arishem will stand in judgement over humanity to see if they were indeed worthy of a Celestial's sacrifice. The theme of humanity permeates the entire movie.
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    The trailer is misleading. Maybe whoever came up with this meme didn't see the actual movie. The Eternals totally interfered with MCU human history. They protected humanity from out-of-control Deviant monsters and also helped them advance by giving them tools like bronze knives and the plow. This was done so humanity could thrive and grow, apparently so there could be enough life on the planet to trigger The Emergence, which the Eternals were oblivious to, or at least most of them. The Eternals were instructed to never interfere in human conflict. That's it.