Eternals The Eternals General Disscussion and Speculation thread

[Deck Rickard]

Having just beaten all the DLCs in Assassin’s Creed Odyssey, this film made me even more thirsty for that AC Netflix series that’s coming. But I worry that, by the time it gets here, the Isu will feel like a cheap imitation of the Eternals haha.

 

[Marvolo]

Who is the villain and what makes him worse than Thanos?

 

[CB Fan]

Too early to tell but he looks more into her than she is into him. Perhaps that’s where the Black Knight comes in.

aww hes adorable, come on
And the dude playing his husband looks like a fairly attractive guy

Lol, Nope. Adorable is fine for like your third gay hero I would’ve liked to have seen Matt Bomer levels of hot for the first.

 

[JB33]

The BIG unanswered question of "Why didn't the Eternals intervene with Thanos" is surely hovering in most fans' minds. We just have to trust that this will be addressed in the film. I mean, how can they not address it?

 

[WatchProtect]

I mean anyone who even knows who the Eternals know why they can't interfere. The trailer also says as much, if people are that desperate to know a Google search or just plain ol patience will also suffice.

Im not calling anyone out btw, its just odd to me that I saw people getting legitimately upset that they didnt help against Thanos when I imagine the actual film will pretty quickly explain that.

 

[JB33]

I mean anyone who even knows who the Eternals know why they can't interfere. The trailer also says as much, if people are that desperate to know a Google search or just plain ol patience will also suffice.

Im not calling anyone out btw, its just odd to me that I saw people getting legitimately upset that they didnt help against Thanos when I imagine the actual film will pretty quickly explain that.

I'm not sure if people are upset, per se. It's just a really, really strong desire to know why. I mean, Thanos and the Infinity stones were not just an Earth problem. We're talking about the entire universe.

Also, not sure I want to Google search it because I'd rather the film give its own reason. I'm not upset the teaser didn't explain it. I'm just really eager for the film to release so I can find out!

 

[thangaran]

The cinematography looks spectacular but sorry everything else looks quite drab and bland and ho hum. Didn’t get me super excited. The posing shot of them at the end is worse than the shot of all the female avengers in Endgame.

 

[WatchProtect]

I'm not sure if people are upset, per se. It's just a really, really strong desire to know why. I mean, Thanos and the Infinity stones were not just an Earth problem. We're talking about the entire universe.

Also, not sure I want to Google search it because I'd rather the film give its own reason. I'm not upset the teaser didn't explain it. I'm just really eager for the film to release so I can find out!

Not you personally but on Instagram and Twitter there are Tons of people genuinely angry at Marvel and the Eternals concept but "Theres no point why didn't they help"

The Google thing is directed at those people because while the MCU isn't 100 percent an adaptation they adhere to a few major plot points and it stands to reason the Eternals being stopped by the celestials or either the Eternals having amnesia would make sense as to why they didnt help.

 

[Albright]

 

[InvisibleWoman]

The cinematography looks spectacular but sorry everything else looks quite drab and bland and ho hum. Didn’t get me super excited. The posing shot of them at the end is worse than the shot of all the female avengers in Endgame.

I felt the same way regarding it looking drab. I felt the whole thing was quite dull and washed out. I will of course reserve judgement and I'm still excited to see it. Marvel rarely disappoints.

 

[Webfoot Hero]

I just felt nothing after the trailer, which is probably the first time in a long while that an MCU trailer has left me like that. The visuals were good but the explanation about who and what they are was very generic and didn't show off anything special. They had a bunch of characters but we didn't get a single name, action shot or standout trait that would make people go "That's cool" or "I want to see more of that." I'm hoping to be wowed with the next trailer but this one isn't giving me good vibes or helping my already low enthusiasm for this film.

 

[JB-the-Hunter]

The posing shot of them at the end is worse than the shot of all the female avengers in Endgame.

This comparison makes no sense. People didn't like the shot in Endgame because of what it was, not because of how it looked. What about the shot in the Eternals don't you like? It's just a wide shot of the team facing the camera.

I just felt nothing after the trailer, which is probably the first time in a long while that an MCU trailer has left me like that. The visuals were good but the explanation about who and what they are was very generic and didn't show off anything special. They had a bunch of characters but we didn't get a single name, action shot or standout trait that would make people go "That's cool" or "I want to see more of that." I'm hoping to be wowed with the next trailer but this one isn't giving me good vibes or helping my already low enthusiasm for this film.

If you have low enthusiasm for this, I take it you've never seen Nomadland. The character work in this is going to be sublime.

 

[Webfoot Hero]

I don't have Hulu so haven't seen Nomadland. Those type of films usually bore me so I likely wouldn't have watched it even it had come out in theaters. I'm just saying the trailer did nothing to grab or rouse my attention like past MCU teaser trailers have done.

 

[LoganPool]

As someone who before a year ago, had never heard of the eternals, and know nothing about them, this trailer did nothing for me. It was so convoluted, that it turned me off from wanting to learn more about them. In fact, the little clip at the end that most of you are hating on, was the best part of the trailer for me. My Marvel knowledge doesn't go far beyond the MCU, so that tiny reference to the Avengers is the ONLY thing keeping me about 3% interested in this movie.

I can compare this to the first GotG trailer. Before that, I also had never heard of them, and knew nothing about them. But that first trailer blew me away, and made me go "Holy s***! Give me more! Input!! I need input!!" (Bonus points to anyone who gets this reference.)

 

[metaphysician]

Nice teaser. Some of you are doing too much, you guys act like jokes are now forbidden in movies.

Indeed. I thought it was fine. Almost like being a millenia old alien god doesn't automatically make you inhuman. Who'd have thought it? *ahem*

 

[metaphysician]

Who is the villain and what makes him worse than Thanos?

Why does the villain need to be worse than Thanos?

 

[Dr. Evil]

The villain who is worse than Thanos has yet to debut in the MCU.

 

[Deck Rickard]

I'm not sure if people are upset, per se. It's just a really, really strong desire to know why. I mean, Thanos and the Infinity stones were not just an Earth problem. We're talking about the entire universe.

Also, not sure I want to Google search it because I'd rather the film give its own reason. I'm not upset the teaser didn't explain it. I'm just really eager for the film to release so I can find out!

So according to Emergency Awesome Guy, the Neil Gaiman Eternals story had them

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lose their memories. He speculates that this is why they don’t intervene with Thanos; none of them remember that they have powers. That tracks with some of the stuff we know about them, like Kingo becoming a Bollywood star and Sersi walking around in modern times looking confused about something. But I guess we’ll have to wait and see.

 

[Albright]

I think that was and is always the top rumor. It’s the best story beside the Kirby run.

 

[Dark Raven]

I mean anyone who even knows who the Eternals know why they can't interfere. The trailer also says as much, if people are that desperate to know a Google search or just plain ol patience will also suffice.

Im not calling anyone out btw, its just odd to me that I saw people getting legitimately upset that they didnt help against Thanos when I imagine the actual film will pretty quickly explain that.

They could learn from Spider-Man that with great power comes great responsibility. They can't be taking the approach that they forgot the part where it's their problem.

 

[Frodo]

Not you personally but on Instagram and Twitter there are Tons of people genuinely angry at Marvel and the Eternals concept but "Theres no point why didn't they help"

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I've seen a range of reactions to the teaser from "Meh", to " I don't know what to make of it" to anger , to excitement .

The reaction has been mixed.

And to be fair, there seems to be a fair amount of fans mad on either side , either mad that it didn't blow them away or mad that fans haven't universally praised it.

 

[Zyraquis]

Thanos in IW was not a world ending event, in fact, there were still a lot of people left — a lot, billions of them — after the event. Thanos in EG, should he win, could lead to a world ending event due to his desire to unleash vengeance on Earth. Eternals might show up if he won but there is no way to know now.

If there is a question why they didn’t show up, the more proper question is toward the end of AOU, which was pretty close to a world ending event.

I am quite confident there is a definitive world ending event that prompts them to reveal themselves and interfere in the movie.

in any case, in a motion picture universe in which every product build upon, support, supplement each other, it will arrive a point where it doesn’t look to make sense who and who is MIA during this and that. I am not the one who would fixate too much into that inevitable trap to enjoy a film mostly as it is. Just because things are implausible and inconceivable doesn’t mean that they are impossible. The limitation, sometimes, is just our perception.

 

[The Lazarus Pit]

Not impressed. I’m hopeful though. The mythology adds a lot of intrigue when it comes to the greater MCU, but this does not look good so far. Autopilot

 

[Deck Rickard]

The only thing I didn’t like about the trailer was that the intro scene made me think of the prologue in Prometheus, and I never want to be reminded that awful movie exists, lol.

 

[Xeno]

The only thing I didn’t like about the trailer was that the intro scene made me think of the prologue in Prometheus, and I never want to be reminded that awful movie exists, lol.

People on another site said the same thing. It didn't bother me because I've never seen the opening of Prometheus. I always manage to catch the hilarious parts, tho. Those idiot geologists who played with the genital snake always crack me up. And watching two supposedly intelligent women run in a straight line from a rolling donut-ship is pure gold.