Trailer Eternals Movie
tommybahama
Adventurer
Marginally better than the first trailer but still a no for me.
Snarf Zagyg
Notorious Liquefactionist
So ... is it possible to have too much of a good thing?
I've seen all of the Marvel movies (prior to Black Widow). I loved the MCU. It was a major investment, and for the most part, it paid off.
But now? It's just so much. I love Marvel, but ... I have other interests too! I want to have some type of a life. Sport. Videogames. Music. Other movies and TV. Playing TTRPGs.
Maybe even go outside on occasion?
And now it seems that in addition to watching all the new Marvel movies, I have to keep up with all the Marvel TV shows. Which, you know, seem to be coming out regularly. It's gone from a TREAT to a CHORE. It feels more like homework.
I'll probably re-visit this next year, but there is nothing about this trailer that makes me go, "Ooooh! I gotta see this movie! Can't wait!" It's more like, "Meh. Maybe if I'm on a plane."
I've seen all of the Marvel movies (prior to Black Widow). I loved the MCU. It was a major investment, and for the most part, it paid off.
But now? It's just so much. I love Marvel, but ... I have other interests too! I want to have some type of a life. Sport. Videogames. Music. Other movies and TV. Playing TTRPGs.
Maybe even go outside on occasion?
And now it seems that in addition to watching all the new Marvel movies, I have to keep up with all the Marvel TV shows. Which, you know, seem to be coming out regularly. It's gone from a TREAT to a CHORE. It feels more like homework.
I'll probably re-visit this next year, but there is nothing about this trailer that makes me go, "Ooooh! I gotta see this movie! Can't wait!" It's more like, "Meh. Maybe if I'm on a plane."
Sure. And you feel how you feel about it.
But to be clear, Marvel has released about 21 hours of content (including Black Widow) over the past 8.5 months - about one movie's worth (2.6 hours) per month. That doesn't seem like a particularly demanding pace. One movie's worth per month sounds like a pace designed to, say, keep folks paying for a streaming service.
Snarf Zagyg
Notorious Liquefactionist
Um, okay. If you look at it that way, sure. If you view it in terms of, "Hey, we are just starting up Disney+, and we are going really slow right now because we couldn't film for a long time during COVID," then your view might be different.
It's only the equivalent of one INCREDIBLY LONG MOVIE EACH MONTH (and I assume you aren't including What If?) so far. And to put it in perspective, the "only" 21 hours of content in 8.5 months?
We also have three more MCU movies remaining this year (in the 3.5 months left), and What If, Hawkeye, and Ms. Marvel.
And it's going faster.
....did you know that the entire MCU, From Iron Man and Hulk through Avengers Endgame and including Spider Man (Far From Home) is under 50 hours? So 2008-2019 is ... less than 2021-2022?
Look, you love it? Great! Some people can't get enough.* But fatigue is a real thing. That's true with shared universes of any kind.
*Something the House of Mouse is BANKING on.
tommybahama
Adventurer
Someone (razorfist?) did a video that movie genres only last 10 to 20 years before dying out. Film noir, westerns, WWII war movies, buddy cop movies, etc., all had their heyday. Comic book movies are past the 10 year mark. Audiences naturally move on. It doesn't help that publishers and Hollywood isn't giving people what they want.
Snarf Zagyg
Notorious Liquefactionist
I don't know about giving people what they want, but lately, I'm starting to feel like Superhero movies / TV shows are like a pie eating contest- and the reward for winning is MOAR PIE!
There's the 582 "Look, it's attractive super heroes in Canada" shows in the Arrowverse in the CW.
There's at least two and half major film universes (MCU, whatever DC is doing, and whatever Sony is doing with their Spiderman and associated Spiderverse rights).
There's two streaming services with major superhero content TV strategy (Disney+ with Marvel and HBO Max with DC).
There's constant attempts to make even more content, from the semi-successful (Amazon Prime and Invincible and The Boys and Netflix and Umbrella Academy) to the ... less so (Netflix and Jupiter's Legacy).
Not to mention everything else (LEGION WAS AWESOME!).
I mean ... I still love it. I'm looking forward to Doom Patrol S. 3. But ... it's ... too ... much. I just can't keep up. It's like one of those terrible sci-fi stories were the protagonist gets everything he wanted, and finds out that it's maybe not such a good thing.
