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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
Here's a trailer for The Eternals.
https://mobile.twitter.com/MarvelStudios/status/1428250377246285830
Final trailer? Damn already.
Though whooooooo we finally got the plot, so its not kickstarted by a murder mystery looks like. Huh instead their gathering up the squad and Black Knight straight up asking the question everyone's been asking.
Edited by slimcoder on Aug 19th 2021 at 12:17:18 PM
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Would it even matter? Even if they could interfere, I doubt they could do anything to stop us from killing each other. We're killing each other over masks.
I will say the scene of Chan smiling while braiding the girl's hair while Madden looks on disconnected tells you all about how each one see the world, especially as they're in a complicated relationship, as was explained in that EW article. It's that kind of show-don't-tell we don't get in trailers these days.
"What If: Bucky was Vision?" Arriving in theaters November 5.
The trailer looks great, but the tone is suspiciously sweet. They are not bravely fighting the natural disaster and hoards of evil mooks together, are they?
Edited by Asherinka on Aug 19th 2021 at 12:59:16 PM
Of all the things at risk, the loss of an objective reality is perhaps the most dangerous.Neat!That happens to be a million times better then the previous trailer they released,however,I still think with all the Eternals being human in appearance they would fit better in a TV show with Monster of the Week plots,it's practically what tv shows are for,there's so much you can do with a TV show that movies have to rush past because of a desire to fit everthing into an hour,two plot line
Also,I giggled at bad guys being called Deviants because I only know of the term through deviant art
have a listen and have a link to my discord serverI definately get the impression the appearance of a Celestial in the trailer is going to be the big scene everyone talks about when the film is released,the Eternals are kind of boring looking in the contrast being humanoid
Also,all the jokes about why they could not stop Thanos
Edited by Ultimatum on Aug 19th 2021 at 12:47:23 PM
have a listen and have a link to my discord serverWere half of them killed in the Snap? What about the Celestials? Seems like an odd risk to take.
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Sir Ben Kingsley Confirms His MCU Return in 'Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings'

It's true that superhero films are much more continually interconnected than westerns tended to be. Though that itself is a mildly arguable point depending on the era we're talking about: during the spaghetti western era characters like Django, The Man With No Name, Sartana, Sabata and Trinity got sequels and dozens of "non-official" sequels and crossovers. This was of course because of Italy's loose copyright laws, but it is still an example of a loosely connected bunch operating on the genre.
Even so, you could make the case that westerns (in the hollywood era particularly) were interconnected by the star system in a similar way the MCU is with continuity, just rather than the MCU brand what connected them was wanting to see "what adventure John Wayne would get up to now".
The interconnected nature of the MCU is indeed something that sets it apart in some sense, regardless. But given this level of "cinematic universe" is basically unheard of at this level (as far as "blockbusters" go, Universal's Horror films and Japan's Kaiju franchises are probably the closest) it's hard to tell how this would harm or benefit the longevity of the genre. You could easily make the case the connected nature would make it more resilient, with the MCU allowing unseccsful franchises to be reshuffled into more successful ones (you coul argue this is what happened to the Hulk, more or less) to maximize earnings.
I think the question is moreso how the superhero genre would fare if the MCU tanked out of a sudden. While the MCU is the genre's unquestionable juggernaut, it's not the only game in town (aside from Warner, there's Netflix and Amazon which have made a fair bunch of forays into the genre), so I think by this point the genre would have at least some afterlife if the MCU just vanished one day. Even then, as I said, I have the feeling it'd be pretty difficult to kill off the MCU for good because of the sheer size and variety of it.
I think to kill off the MCU (its movie branch, anyhow, as noted they're coming on serialized streaming pretty strongly) you'd need something like a 4-5 string of continuous flops (because the MCU tends to have like 4-5 films in various levels of production and post-production while one is being released) or a gigantic flop like the Infinity War-level crossover being a astronomical failure.
Even then, I think it's more likely Disney would just scale back the budgets and amount of films to focus on some more guaranteed-earners rather than cutting the cord on the whole thing.
And even then as I noted, there's a bunch of other superhero media going out and about. A film genre is a hard thing to kill, and superhero films (due their tremendous adaptability) particularly so.
For the Spaghetti Western parallel, for example, it'd be something akin as if the MCU slowed down and lost room to a new wave of cheap, auteur, gritty and deconstructive superhero films made in (for example) South Korea that took the world by storm for a decade and a half and changed the whole genre forever.
Edited by Gaon on Aug 18th 2021 at 9:51:30 AM
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