I'm not feeling the Jack Kirby power in this.

LOL!!
Good Point!!

If anyone needs a reminder of what the 1976 original looks like, this page is a pretty good visual reminder:
https://peerlesspower.blogspot.com/.....-eternals.html

Okay wow. Thanks for the info on that one. xD
I don't really know much about the Marvel Universe until these movies But honestly! These comics look infinitely more interesting!

Also not stalking you. xD I know it can seem that way on this journal haha.

Glad you liked the Kirby art I linked to. I can't see how any movie could capture this art.

Honestly, neither can I. But that *points at the trailer* certainly forgot to try. xD

I am reminded of Elfquest, which started out as flawed characters bravely taking on a destructive world but turned into a cavalcade of invulnerable Mary Sues & Marty Stus dealing with the inconveniences of not being admired enough (see: Rey Palpatine). Marvel has gone the same way, it appears.

Do you think the Pini's fell in love with their characters too much?

It's like those godawful horror franchises--after a certain point the character has survived so much that nothing is a threat anymore and it turns into parody. EQ became preachy and navel-gazing, and I'm not sure they ever got that 1970s hippie free-love and antiquarian feminism (before it became hatred and invective) works in the 21st Century world.

JRRM ruined that by murdering main characters in ASOIAF, which is why it was so popular and loved for so long even before it became a TV show.

To be fair, Rey wasn't exactly un-flawed from the start. She didn't have her, "Actually no that was kind of a dick move" like 'The Mariner' or 'Max Rocketansky' would have. It didn't take her that long to decide not to give up BB-8.

At least Luke was a whiny teenager who, whilst might be a decent shot and was a decent bushpilot...couldn't fight his way out of a paperbag.

The reason (aside from the 'Muh'vertexpectations') flaw in Ruin's movie, was we were all hoping for some explaination of why Rey was so talented in the force.

It's like looking forward after a so-so meal to a damned fine cheesecake only to get dry, stale toast instead and told the chef was having an "Artistic phase".

They had a motorcycle with sidecars on both sides. not seen it before or since.

Clearly you have not seen Dethklok's Murdercycle.

https://imgur.com/t/metalocalypse/j6BSx7N

I hear there's a terrifying rumor that they want Bri Larson the woman who screwed uo Captain Marvel and that one of my co workers likes to make fun of by calling Captain SJW is being asked to be are Jade Skywalker aka Luke's Wife.

And needless to say people are...angry...over that idea alone I even hear even Mark hates the idea. Neither Mark nor George like Bri.

As soon as people start calling people SJW, I start ignoring them.

I feel compelled to point out, I only use the term because they called themselves that. I don't use it in a derogatory manner.

Good! This may be confusion on my part. As an old guy, I may not completely understand all the slang that you young-un's use!

Hehe. Here's the simplified run down.

They fight for social justice, I.E. Sins of the past must be made whole by causing the Descendants of the perceived aggressors to suffer. Take my family on my Fathers side. "White" therefore my Ancestors had slaves. They didn't, they were slaves but never mind that. If there Society is not given Justice, then there is harm being done. So they 'Fight' for Social Justice, and thus: Warriors for Social Justice or Social Justice Warriors.

Now since they rave like children all the time, it's easy to make fun of them. Plus their position is questionable in and of itself. Further, they are very aggressive people in general and so people often use the term in reference to a LOT of different meanings now. Mostly Derogatory in nature now adays. Personally I try to use terms directly. If I want to say someone is stupid, I'll justify the comment. :P If I don't, I will if asked. :P But sometimes if I take someone too seriously and start presenting too much information they just, leave. Means they weren't interested in a conversation in the first place.

I think I like talking about cartoons more than I like talking about political things.

Too many people 'can't' talk about Politics in this Country anymore. The Establishments media has worked very hard, and tactfully for quite a while to create this Polarization. Too many people seem unable to view the political disagreements they have with people as Human Beings anymore and are usually uninformed about things since again, most "news" only comes from the Establishments media. ~_~ People say "The President did A" I go and read the Executive Action myself, "Uhh no he didn't." but nobody looks. They just run away from the conversation.

In the end, It is good to have Conversations about Politics as that is what creates strong voters. Today, people don't seem to know 'how' to do that anymore and are happy not to learn the way. Sad.

But Comics are fun too, even though I'm not really into this stuff.

I've never seen political discussions go well on fandom boards. You would probably do better if you went on Trump or Republican or NRA boards if you really need to engage on this stuff.

Depends on the topic. According to tests I'm Center Left. I simply point out topics of where people are wrong, or lately where people are insane and crazy.

reason why i don't watch marvel anymore

Who cares? It's all propaganda anyway.

Very true. I don't know much about these Marvel Characters at all, apart from these movies. Whenever they show stuff like this, people start linking comics and things. Always amazing how the source material is so drastically different and infinitely more interesting. Sometimes I wonder if I should get into the comics.

Heck you should look up the early Marvel Comics Captain Marvel. Buff blonde Kree guy who kicked Thanos ass a few times Carol Danvers was the US Gov't liason to him when he was with the Avengers in the 1970s - somehow she ended up with his abilities after he died. Way different than the movies

I was spared seeing that movie. I wasn't going to take a Woman Empowerment movie being shoe horned in like that. To think they thought that would work, and would be accepted by the masses. Dr. Strange was already poised to be the need the lead, but heaven forbid a white male be allowed to do that in this day and age. I would have been willing to watch Captain marvel if ya know, it was an attempt to make a good movie, but that wasn't their goal. The Actress made that very clear, very fast.

But I was shown some of the comics. xD

The good characters were created by Jack Kirby - X Men, Captain America Iron Man, etc 1940s thru the 60s and 70s. He left Marvel for a while and worked for DC. Came up with the New Gods, Darkseid and a comic called Kamandi - post apoc setting where humans regressed and animals have taken out place. Planet of the Apes mixed with Fallout

Kamandi sounds like something that ought to be more popular in the furry fandom. :p

The main tiger character Prince Tuftan pretty much got me into the fandom when I was a kid in the early 1970s Toss in a few Star Trek Animated series characters and the Filmation Flash Gordon cartoon of the late 70s early 80s - good old Thun - King of the Lion Men. By the late 80s I'd found Albedo and Fusion along with Vicky Wyman's Xanadu By 1990 i'd been to an early furry party at a con in Dallas and was joining a furry APA. How to make a Grey Muzzle in a few easy steps

Golly, you're older than me! xD

Jack Kirby did some interesting anthro sci fi from the 1950s on. http://cartoonsnap.blogspot.com/200.....fi-comics.html

Cool stuff. :)

There's a lot of great Eternals content in the comics, some pretty interesting stuff. The trailer was none of that. Looks like one huge snore fest so I'll be waiting for it to hit Netflix or Hulu. The problem with The Eternals isn't that isn't interesting lore and things about them. It's that they're a niche group, only people who read the comics hard core would know much about them. Or of them at all. They would have been better off doing something more known.

Yeah, I guess Guardians Of the Galaxy would have been that too.

It's Disney, so it's going on Disney+

Okay,, a TR-1 pops up before a primitive village and shit starts. Blah Blah Blah special effects, Blah blah blah blah more special effects.

*Yawn*

I agree, looks pretty boring just from the trailer. I gave up on the Marvel stuff after that Captain Marvel snoozefest. Only good thing was the Lovecraftian kitty.... Thought it would be fun to see that cat fight the Husky from "The Thing"

"We have guided them"

"We have never interfered"

Pick One

xD!

It's Marvel, the name pulls crowds like anything, Marvel Comics is doing very well, the MCU is doing very well after the whole Avengers arch as people still go to watch it in any order they want, Black Widow movie would be thrown in before Captain America Civil War cause that movie is the piece that is missing to what Natashia was doing, as for this trailer I'm going to call it a Teaser trailer 2 because we have a Teaser Trailer 1 which was the announcement of the movie.

Drop Spider-man cross-over in this movie at the end and you'll have fans lose their collective minds over it, which I wouldn't put it past that happening as we know Spider-man Far from Home hinted at them.

Aw, hell. I think I'd rather watch paint dry.

Paint drying on the press stand at a golf match....

Or re-telecasts of golf matches from 60 years ago. Yeah, I've seen those. Can't imagine who the audience is for those.

Listening to Sleepy Joe at a press conference getting his facts twisted or completely off track.

That reminds me of the folks at the nursing home mom was at when she had Alzheimers....

Heey Golf isn't that bad! I'll cut u!

I live in a golf course retirement community - most I've got into the game is I have a putter, free golf balls from walking near the rough by the road and a 40 year old made in the US putting machine - get the ball in it and it shoots it back to you.
Now I'd love to see if anyone filmed a certain golf match in Florida in 1947. Mom was at it with some cousins and she sneezed just when Ben Hogan was trying to sink a putt.

heh My Father, like his parents, retired to a golf community. :P I on the other hand, will not. :P

Dad never played, just got a good deal on the lot - had been 20 grand, got it for free - developer wanted to build on the last spot on the street. Quiet place, lot of rentals since the Real estate implosion that hit right after we moved in in late 2007 - things have bounced back and the place is worth more than what we bought it for. I'm still getting the mortgage stuff straightened out - spent over a year dealing with one Lender, who decided to toss the whole thing over to another lender - back to square one but at least this new outfit actually looks in their inbound faxes and mail and has been working with me.. Monthly payment is way less than house or apartment rent in my section of Arizona. - about half of the norm.

https://youtu.be/1-GL3y5cQPw

I might have the most controversial opinion on here, and I can't wait to get clocked on the head with a wine bottle for this, but here goes.

...This doesn't look too bad.

Believe me when I say I hope this is good.

It just looks bad.

I don't think it looks bad at all. They aren't using the Kirby version of the characters but making things look more naturalistic. Not a lot of metal and cosmic Kirby dots. We'll have to wait and see.

There we go, thank you. My plan exactly.

I'm not a really big fan of Disney-owned property, but the MCU's absolute height of popularity has already been reached with Infinity War and Endgame. The rest of it afterwards is just bland filler material.

Hey, if you can, watch Jupiter's Legacy on Netflix. I really enjoyed it.

I've been wondering about that one. I know nothing about it, just saw it pop on. Thanks for the tip, I'll give it a shot. :)

"we didn't interfere... when Thanos tried to wipe out half of everyone, or when Ultron was about to drop a city on the world to kill everyone... but now we'll interefere, totally"

Thanos simply could have been taken out by John Wick....with a pencil! Also would have been a short movie.

About as short as Bambi VS Godzilla....

"Man, them alien muthafukkas are invading Nooyawk...." *eyes the magic pager* "Naw, ain't pressin' sheeit."

"This AI Robomuthafukka all liftin' up Sokovia?...nah I ain't gonna press muh pager.."

That's the problem with prequels, is you have a serious case of dissonance if done badly.

WW: "she's been broken up since WWI and just let everything else happen...like the Holocaust and the Vietnam war and such..."

I mean okay that doesn't seem like what Diana would do...but at least it's consistent with Batman v Superman. Oh no wait, in 1984 she made everyone (even the people who maybe wished not to have cancer or Aids or have some dead loved one back or whatever) give up their wishes. But no she was "totally inactive between WWI and 2016. Oh here's her helping out at (probably) Auschwitz...and...here's her helping out there...and.."

I mean make up your mind movie.

It's like in Star Trek.

In TMP, everyone understood "okay they have a bigger budget, and they're doing a serious movie and the 'SlavOrientalMingTheMerciless' look wouldn't fly.
Everyone understood that.

Then along comes that DS9 anniversary episode with the tribbles. Worf's all "We don't talk about it".
Then Enterprise has to come up with some convoluted explanation.

See, to me, the best thing they could've done would be to have Worf just wind up looking like a TOS Klingon. Maybe Terry Farrell could've given the camera an aside glance; but that's all it needed.

(－‸ლ)

I mean, "Fresh Prince" did the 'aside glance' thing good. Like "Hey Aunt Viv, there's something different about you" (different actress) or How Nicky TV-Sitcom-AGed. They 'acknowledged' it without directly acknowledging it.
And it's not like Trek (even DS9) was without it's little comedic moments.

Saw the trailer and got no interest in it. To be honest not really interested in any phase 4 stuff cause I personally felt End Game was a nice wrap up to a very long project and dream for many. They just need to do their tv/stream series for a bit as Wanda vision and falcon winter soldier were good.

..... so, they're making another Indiana Jones.......... and Kathleen Kennedy is in charge of it.......... I'm glad my Mother isn't going to get exposed to this. She really Loved the Character.

Can they put Kathleen in the Fridge this time?

Disney is going to ruin Firefly next.

Like the Inhumans

Got even better - David Hasselhoff as Nick Fury in a Pilot turned tv movie about SHIELD

I just can't get excited for this... At all. But the story really ended for me with Endgame anyway, so I don't really care anymore.

Look on the bright side. It looks like there'll be a Bollywood dance number!

And it lost money.

Meanwhile Spider-Man? A movie that’s not pushing any woke trash agenda is making money hand over fist. Funny how that’s working.

Yeah and wait and see how well the next Spiderverse movie does!!😜

They don’t understand that you better be ready to bleed if you want a great movie!!

Well, more like stop with the woke garbage nonsense.

But if they want to continue, fail and go under, that’s no skin off my back.