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59% critic score on Rotten Tomatoes. This is an absolute disaster for the MCU.

Me personally, I have been suffering from Marvel burnout since Endgame. Turns out, I didn't love the MCU, I loved its characters, in particular the original Avengers. Now they're gone and I have found everything since to be lacklustre at best. And now it looks as if even the shill media have started to agree.

It doesn't help that the Eternals do not fit into the MCU imo. The backstory supposedly being that they just stood back during every event we've seen so far, including the extermination of half of the universe, because they have a Prime Directive. Wow, lol. Way to copy the most hated part of Star Trek and produce some characters who are unsympathetic right off the bat.

I read some Eternals comics when I was young and they have always done the in the same universe, on the same planet, but you never heard of us or seen us thing. And the only useful thing I got out of those books was more backstory on the Celestials. Which did interact on occasion with the other Marvel characters. So I am not very surprised that this adaptation is going over poorly.

I don't know much about it, but The Eternals sound a lot like The Inhumans (also a flop). How are they connected in the comics?

Thinking about this further, i think we have reached that moment where the MCU becomes Star Wars and Star Trek. As in, its still going, and probably will for the next hundred years, but it is in no way culturally relevant anymore. There will never be another Endgame this generation.

Don't be surprised if Kevin Feige gets dropped or ''promoted'' away from the MCU soon. You are only as good as your last film in Hollywood. And whilst the MCU has proved itself to defy all conventional rules on a number of occasions, that wasn't the MCU of 2021.

Deledrius wrote: ↑Tue Nov 02, 2021 4:32 pm I don't know much about it, but The Eternals sound a lot like The Inhumans (also a flop). How are they connected in the comics?

It also sounds a lot like the X-Men. Which - now that they own the rights to it again - you have to ask why aren't they making that instead of a property that no one has ever heard of?

My theory: The Fox version is too popular. Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen, Hugh Jackman. That is the X-Men to so many people. Its like asking someone who their favourite James Bond is and getting 99/100 people tell you that its Connery.
And James McAvoy and Micheal Fassbender are hardly without their fans either (and also have the honour of having a Quicksilver that 99% of people agree is better than the Quicksilver from ''Age of Ultron.'')

I think Marvel is scared to make an X-men film and have critics compare it to a better film. We'll get one eventually, but keep your eyes peeled for that inevitable Hugh Jackman cameo.

Deledrius wrote: ↑Tue Nov 02, 2021 4:32 pm I don't know much about it, but The Eternals sound a lot like The Inhumans (also a flop). How are they connected in the comics?

Honestly I don't remember a specific connection. I was never an Eternals or and Inhumans fan. I liked Ironman and New Mutants.

The best thing I can say for Endgame was that it wasn't Infinity War. When you try too hard to be epic, you end up being underwhelming.

I will not end up watching The Eternals unless my partner really wants to see it with me.

The tomato meter, though, isn't much of an indicator of success, the critic portion even less so. Ffs, the critics hated Venom and it's golden. The relevant question is, is The Eternals making a lot of money?

I may or may not see The Eternals. I still have yet to see Dune.

The other Marvel movies have my interest though. Especially the next Spider Man movie. I am still betting we are going to see three or four Spider Men in that.

I am curious on how they are going to do Thor 4 though.

Also I hear that they're finally going to do some ruffalo hulk movies.