We definitely haven't seen the last of Dormammu either, right? I feel like he's too big/powerful to have been one-offed by a time loop scene.
Think the Multiverse of Madness and Far From Home makes sure we haven't seen the last of a lot of villians.
The biggest gripe I've read is that it's very long with a lot of exposition and really falls apart in the final act.
I mean the movie will still be worth a watch. In fact, the lower the score goes the more curious I'm going to be to see what went wrong. I struggle to imagine it deserving a lower score than Thor 2. That movie is the laziest, least-risky, "go through the motions" sort of comic book movie. It wasn't offensively bad, it was just aggressively subpar. If Eternals is bad because it swung for the fences and tried something bold that ended up not working, I will almost surely rate it higher than Thor 2.
I don't know what to do with RT scores from movies from years past because they keep adding reviews to them long after they come out.
I'll be stunned if it's worse than either Iron Man 3 or Dark World. Both of those movies were boring and bland.
I saw something about people (RWNJs) spamming with negative reviews because of certain themes in the movie. not sure if that was on RT or just IMDB though.
The reviews are saying they took no risk. Bland humor and cookie cutter marvel movie but it didn’t land like some of the great ones.
Iron Man 3 was viewed through a lens that had never seen Winter Soldier, Guardians or really any objectively good MCU movies. Eternals now has all of the best MCU movies to compete with along with some great TV shows. That's my hope, anyway.
Still going to see it, and I’ll probably even like it because I’m very easy to please, but I never really got excited for this one like I have most other marvel movies. It’s basically the thing in the way of the other shit I want to see (hawkeye, spiderman, strange 2)
We still have the likes of Thor 3, Strange 2, GotG 3, Ant-Man 3, etc. And all the Disney+ stuff so far is part of Phase 4.
The MCU is the most expensive TV series ever produced. I don't love every episode but I love the series. One bad episode isn't going to stop me from watching, nor will early reviews of an apparently bad episode keep me away.
The problem imo is none of the new characters they've tried to introduce post End Game are exactly A list. Shang Chi is decent but nobody is expecting him to lead the next arc. If you consider the MCU a show or anime, we're basically in a filler arc right now and the newblood can't really replace RDJ's Tony Stark or Chris Evans' Cap, they've *GOT* to nail the Fantastic 4 casting and story.
It was put out during Phase 4, but I’ll always place BW as part of the Infinity Saga. So to me, Shang-Chi is the only movie so far in Phase 4. Had the James Gunn stuff not happened, it would’ve been miserable waiting so long for GOTG3 to be released. Covid weirdly helps the MCU to catch up to the 2023 timeline.
phase 4 movies Black Widow Shang Chi Eternals No Way Home Multiverse of Madness Love & Thunder Wakanda Forever Marvels GOTG3 AM&W Quantumania Fantastic 4 Blade TV Shows Wandavision Falcon & Winter soldier Loki What if Hawkeye Ms. Marvel Moon Knight She Hulk Secret Invasion doesn't look like a "total mess" to me
Mostly a bunch of sequels and 3rd installment of trilogies that lingered over from the Infinity saga, Fantastic 4 is the movie that will determine the future of the MCU and if they can keep this as a "universe" or not. If F4 flops for the 3rd time in the last 20 years and under Marvel's direction this time then that franchise is truly dead and buried and Marvel cannot afford to have their royal family fail.
DoFP was pretty darn good, but did the ending mean in their new future Logan never got the adamantium?
No. Logan of the 70s had no memory of what happened while he was mind melded with Logan of 2020 (or whatever year the future was). He presumably still lived the same life.
If presumably the X-Men will be integrated into the MCU via multiverse, none of the original X-Men trilogy or First Class timeline will matter. And we'll be pretending like neither Phoenix storyline happened either.
It was just a comment that having the little twist at the end with Stryker actually being Mystique didn’t make sense/wasn’t clever.