Trailer Eternals Movie

[Stalker0]

It is inevitable that comic book movies will start to wane, as all franchises before them have.

Marvel is attempting to lengthen that out by trying to tie various genres to different movies (sci-fi, spy, buddy cop, etc) and by using different formats (tv, movies, cartoons, etc), which is a smart play by them. But yes eventually all good things come to an end, its just a question of when.

So Phase IV is definately a gamble, with the huge conclusion that was Endgame, and several of the old guard making way for the new, will audiences be re-invigored for a new slate of shows? Time will tell. It will also be a question of, will the industry go out with a whimper or crash and burn? In the first model, we may have such movies for quite a long time to come, but they will become fewer and more niche as the profits begin to dry out. Or maybe we have a flame out, a few high budget movies just crash at the box office, and suddenly investors wonder if its time to move on. Again, time will tell.

 

[Stalker0]

The main thing I liked in this trailer is that they "stick to their guns". Apparantely the Eternals are about stopping Deviants, nothing else, that is their role and mission. And so they only come out to fight when its a deviant threat.

While I might not agree with that as a person in the MCU (and it sounds like maybe we will see some of that conflict) at least its a respectable premise. If it was "oh we never interferred but now because Thanos did something really bad we are coming out".... then that opens the flood gates of "ultron wasn't good enough, or half the universe good enough, etc".

But by tieing it to a specific enemy, one only now unleashed....that's a reasonable premise for them to come out of the shadows, especially if they do play up the guilt from others around them going "but you could have helped!"

 

[Urriak Uruk]

Marginally better than the first trailer but still a no for me.

Yeah this looks... really boring. It's obviously stacked with good actors, but these movies are usually at their best when they are very funny, or very weird. And despite this being about gods walking on Earth, it looks extremely mundane.

It doesn't help that it looks the fights will be a CGI slugfest against largely faceless enemies...

 

[MarkB]

So, they're sure they want to go with the name "deviants" for the bad guys?

Which are what, exactly? Stringy CGI monsters?

 

[tommybahama]

It's obviously stacked with good actors, but these movies are usually at their best when they are very funny, or very weird.

The problem with too many actors is there isn't enough time to develop any of them. So it all becomes meh.

 

[Morrus]

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!

I got fatigue after 15 movies or so. That feels like a very, very long time ago now.

 

[Urriak Uruk]

The problem with too many actors is there isn't enough time to develop any of them. So it all becomes meh.

I don't know if this is always true... I did watch The Suicide Squad (the new one) and it's got a bunch of characters and does a great job. I don't think it develops them incredibly deeply, but it does at least make you emphasize with them. There are I think seven characters on the main team (make it through most of the movie) and it is a very good movie.

That said, a key part of that is to make them all different, and show the characters all contrasting with each other. This movie, the Eternals, does not seem to do a good job of that in this trailer. They all look a little broody, moody, and glum.

 

[Umbran]

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.

I'm considering everything released this year to date - Wandavision in January. Falcon and Winter Soldier in March. Loki in June. The What If...? released so far, and Black Widow, even though lots of people have not seen that one yet.

It's only the equivalent of one INCREDIBLY LONG MOVIE EACH MONTH

"Incredibly long" is a subjective measure, and suggests some emotional loading here. Another perspective is that it is 37 minutes a week. So, basically, it has been like watching one traditional TV show per week.

We also have three more MCU movies remaining this year (in the 3.5 months left), and What If, Hawkeye, and Ms. Marvel.

So, that's the future. I've been talking about the pace so far. If you want to get into the psychology of anticipation, we can do that.

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?

So, if we are going to do apples-to-apples, you've left out the TV series - there's Agents of Shield to consider, as well as Daredevil, Luke Cage, Jessica Jones, Punisher, and Iron Fist... That brings it way over 50 hours.

But fatigue is a real thing.

Sure, fatigue is a thing. My point is that, at the moment, that fatigue probably isn't so much about straight up volume, because, at least this year, it has been on average like watching one show a week.

 

[Zaukrie]

I'll see this, but the more powerful the heroes, the less I seem to like the movies once they have their power. That is, captain marvel was good because she grew into her power....

 

[Rune]

The main thing I liked in this trailer is that they "stick to their guns". Apparantely the Eternals are about stopping Deviants, nothing else, that is their role and mission. And so they only come out to fight when its a deviant threat.

While I might not agree with that as a person in the MCU (and it sounds like maybe we will see some of that conflict) at least its a respectable premise. If it was "oh we never interferred but now because Thanos did something really bad we are coming out".... then that opens the flood gates of "ultron wasn't good enough, or half the universe good enough, etc".

But by tieing it to a specific enemy, one only now unleashed....that's a reasonable premise for them to come out of the shadows, especially if they do play up the guilt from others around them going "but you could have helped!"

It seems like MCU Thanos isn’t a deviant, I suppose. Either that, or the eternals don’t actually know he is.