If anyone cares, Morbius has been pushed back to April 1.
Oh no not Mobius the least interesting thing coming out of this latest super hero push.
What is Mobius and why should I care about Mobius
He's a semi-Vampire.
I think he sometimes fights Spiderman.
I've literally got nothing.
Fixed. I'd try to explain the semi part, but thinking about it makes my head hurt.
Not to be confused with a half-vampire or half-human/half-vampire because comics always strive to always do the same thing over and over without ever doing the same thing twice.
Or to keep it within the Spider-Man universe: Morbius is basically the Lizard, except with blood disease instead of amputated arm and bats instead of Lizards.
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Morbius is basically Requiem for a Dream but instead of heroin jared leto is fiending for blood
jokes aside, Morbius in the comics is about a scientist trying to cure his blood disease, discovers some vampire related 'cure', then becomes a semi-vampire that ultimately ends up trying to be 'good' and hunt 'real' vampires, usually via team up with Spider-Man or Blade. Personally I'm more interested in Blade but wouldnt mind a team up. In the comics, Dracula is almost at Thanos levels of raw power, he routinely fucks up the X-Men, so can see him being a new MCU 'big bad' for Morbius and Blade (NOTE I havent seen the new spider mans so no idea how Sony fits into it, this is just fanboy speculation not taking into account the new spider mans).
Mobius, I didn't remove my scarf just to let my neck breathe....
Morbius has actually had the odd decent comic arc, and I might be one of 4 people who don't mind Morbius in the comics, and I couldn't care less about this movie because fuck Leto.
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If they simply had to make a Morbius movie, I wish they could have gotten literally anyone else but Jared Leto.
And also use the sanitized version from the 90s cartoon that managed to be far, far more horrifying as a result
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Fucking of course ya’ll are already talking about that.
Of course.
Edit: and because it was a cartoon aimed at children, they had to spend a LOT of time explaining that plasma was an element of blood. So it was abundantly clear that he was sucking up blood through his handholes.
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Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but dies in the process.
Fucking of course ya’ll are already talking about that.
Of course.
Edit: and because it was a cartoon aimed at children, they had to spend a LOT of time explaining that plasma was an element of blood. So it was abundantly clear that he was sucking up blood through his handholes.
Don’t you love it when the network censors make the creepy thing even WORSE
“Listen, everyone knows how vampires work, but we can’t possibly show that on afternoon broadcast TV! How can we keep him a vampire and get around that?”
“Uuuuh, what if we gave him like… lamprey mouths? On his hands? And that’s how he sucked [slips into a bad Eastern European accent] Plasma!”
Fucking of course ya’ll are already talking about that.
Of course.
Edit: and because it was a cartoon aimed at children, they had to spend a LOT of time explaining that plasma was an element of blood. So it was abundantly clear that he was sucking up blood through his handholes.
Don’t you love it when the network censors make the creepy thing even WORSE
The one I remember is BtAS, where Batgirl falls off a high-rise onto a car.
Oh no, this is far too violent, you need to change it!
Okay, how about we put the camera inside the car with Jim Gordon as his daughter hits his hood in the background?
That means the violence is further away from the camera, you're all good!
Finally watched Eternals on D+ and didn't hate it. Liked some of the characters, not fond of the CGI baddies and didn't really connect with the story. Also, the IMAX on D+ is jarring as it would constantly go from full screen scenes to ones with black bars.
Munkus BeaverYou don't have to attend every argument you are invited to.Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPAregular
Fucking of course ya’ll are already talking about that.
Of course.
Edit: and because it was a cartoon aimed at children, they had to spend a LOT of time explaining that plasma was an element of blood. So it was abundantly clear that he was sucking up blood through his handholes.
Don’t you love it when the network censors make the creepy thing even WORSE
The one I remember is BtAS, where Batgirl falls off a high-rise onto a car.
Oh no, this is far too violent, you need to change it!
Okay, how about we put the camera inside the car with Jim Gordon as his daughter hits his hood in the background?
That means the violence is further away from the camera, you're all good!
the BtAS one that stands out is the joker poison
Instead of just like, killing you it permanently fixates your face in a rictus smile and makes you laugh uncontrollably
Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but dies in the process.
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If they simply had to make a Morbius movie, I wish they could have gotten literally anyone else but Jared Leto.
I know very little about Leto don't think I have watched a film with him besides Fight Club. Is the hate based on a shitty filmography or is he an off-screen sex pest or something?
If they simply had to make a Morbius movie, I wish they could have gotten literally anyone else but Jared Leto.
I know very little about Leto don't think I have watched a film with him besides Fight Club. Is the hate based on a shitty filmography or is he an off-screen sex pest or something?
Finally watched Eternals on D+ and didn't hate it. Liked some of the characters, not fond of the CGI baddies and didn't really connect with the story. Also, the IMAX on D+ is jarring as it would constantly go from full screen scenes to ones with black bars.
The pacing felt completely off, and I wonder how much of that was just because it's a huge cast that we've never met before. They all needed more time to breathe. I can't help but think it would have been much better as a series.
Fucking of course ya’ll are already talking about that.
Of course.
Edit: and because it was a cartoon aimed at children, they had to spend a LOT of time explaining that plasma was an element of blood. So it was abundantly clear that he was sucking up blood through his handholes.
Don’t you love it when the network censors make the creepy thing even WORSE
The one I remember is BtAS, where Batgirl falls off a high-rise onto a car.
Oh no, this is far too violent, you need to change it!
Okay, how about we put the camera inside the car with Jim Gordon as his daughter hits his hood in the background?
That means the violence is further away from the camera, you're all good!
Finally watched Eternals on D+ and didn't hate it. Liked some of the characters, not fond of the CGI baddies and didn't really connect with the story. Also, the IMAX on D+ is jarring as it would constantly go from full screen scenes to ones with black bars.
I wouldn't have known it was even out if not for this post, it's no where to be found on the front page on D+ in Canada
Watched Eternals last night and really enjoyed it. Beautifully shot movie with some turns in the story that genuinely surprised me because I was expecting a 100% paint-by-numbers Marvel plot.
Re the final stinger:
I'm fully convinced they are going to go the route of tying the Black Knight into Venom/Knull stuff. They definitely were using some Venom-like FX on the sword's blade. My bet is they will replace Carnage's Cult of Knull to instead be vampires - thus making the Blade connection too.
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Just watched Eternals. Liked it more than expected, felt like a MCU inspired fan fiction.
maybe I'll need a rewatch but how did other planets with intelligent life not die from emergence? Did they skip planting kree homeworld/Xander etc and Earth was somehow selected?
Also they said a Celestial is born every billion years or so but Earths Eternals remember helping other worlds several times in last million years. Unreliable narrator?
Eternals biggest problem I think is that it had a really big cast but all of them were new, the macguffins were new, the bad guys were new, even the operating factions were new.
Civil War had a lot of characters, but only three important players were new. One was the villain and the other two were directly in line for solo movies so they just needed to hit the basic high points so they'd go into those established enough to make room to set up more new characters. The MCU "solo ensemble" works by introducing a few things at a time and then letting them bounce around movies with each other for a while.
I think Eternals just tried to do too much from nothing. It picked up a couple bread crumbs but otherwise nothing from before came in.
Just watched Eternals. Liked it more than expected, felt like a MCU inspired fan fiction.
maybe I'll need a rewatch but how did other planets with intelligent life not die from emergence? Did they skip planting kree homeworld/Xander etc and Earth was somehow selected?
Also they said a Celestial is born every billion years or so but Earths Eternals remember helping other worlds several times in last million years. Unreliable narrator?
Preface pretty much every subsequent statement with "IIRC, it's been a while since I watched it..."
Other planets with intelligent life were shattered by their emergence. On the Celestial scale, the planets don't really matter anymore than an eggshell around a chick, and life on them little more than bacteria living on the eggshell.
Regarding the other, more developed planets. I assumed that not all planets with life were designated for celestial seeding, or that their baby celestials were not as far along as Earth's after the Blip. It's possible that Earth's celestial was planted millions of years earlier hoping that the various ages of dinosaurs would be the ones to evolve into sapient life to be drained by the developing celestial. When that didn't work out, Arishem threw a rock at the planet to give the next wave of evolution a try.
I thought it was implied t hat the Avengers using the infinity stones to undo the blip released enough power to speed up the local celestial's development, rather than doing it naturally through the gradual development of life.
Earth's Eternals have only been on Earth for a few thousand years. They showed up about the time the first civilizations where attracting Deviant attention.
I assume that once the dominant species on a planet has been shepherded into a tech level capable of detecting and defeating deviants (protecting themselves), the Eternals were supposed to get on board their ship, get mind wiped, and assigned to their next planet.
That's a lot of "I assume" though. Take it with a large grain of salt.
Watching Shang Chi the other day and something started bothering me.
Isn't this like... the fourth "shadowy organization that secretly rules the world" the MCU has pulled out of its ass? How many shadowy leagues of bad guys are there? Do they take turns ruling?
Watching Shang Chi the other day and something started bothering me.
Isn't this like... the fourth "shadowy organization that secretly rules the world" the MCU has pulled out of its ass? How many shadowy leagues of bad guys are there? Do they take turns ruling?
At least in Shang-Chi
While Ten Rings did exert some political maneuvers at times, it seemed very regional.
But yes the trope is running long and is why I thought I'd dislike Eternals more than I did. They conjured up badguys, good guys, and a conflict that have been around the whole time.
Its pretty heavily implied in Shang Chi that the organization went dormant/extinct. He had only recently spun it all back up again.
And having finished Eternals, for all the shit DC films get, it was as bad if not worse than the worst of those. It made good actors bad, action that should have been good wasn't, terrible antagonists, and I swear if they stood in formation in a long pan shot one more time my head would have exploded.
Ya I feel anyone complaining about Shang-Chi's CGI, should go watch Eternals and see a real example of bad CGI.
It's not so much the CGI that bothered me. But I think I'm starting to get tired of the whole "gesture randomly with hands, magic stuff happens" they keep on doing. Which started all the way back in Iron Man, and maybe I accepted it more because it not far removed from using a computer, Tony's just using gesture commands. But now we have people wiggling their fingers and a magic gold maguffin pops out to solve the immediate problem, and it's just starting to look silly now. And yeah, "move hands, magic happens" is also literally Doctor Strange's MO, and that didn't bother me much either. I don't know, I think it just really reached its tipping point in this movie for me.
I still liked it well enough though, even though it had weird pacing problems. Also, there's a bit of a minor "eldritch horror" vibe going on with Arishem, and damn if it wasn't tickling me in the right areas. Especially the ending bit.
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Ya I feel anyone complaining about Shang-Chi's CGI, should go watch Eternals and see a real example of bad CGI.
It's not so much the CGI that bothered me. But I think I'm starting to get tired of the whole "gesture randomly with hands, magic stuff happens" they keep on doing. Which started all the way back in Iron Man, and maybe I accepted it more because it not far removed from using a computer, Tony's just using gesture commands. But now we have people wiggling their fingers and a magic gold maguffin pops out to solve the immediate problem, and it's just starting to look silly now. And yeah, "move hands, magic happens" is also literally Doctor Strange's MO, and that didn't bother me much either. I don't know, I think it just really reached its tipping point in this movie for me.
I still liked it well enough though, even though it had weird pacing problems. Also, there's a bit of a minor "eldritch horror" vibe going on with Arishem, and damn if it wasn't tickling me in the right areas. Especially the ending bit.
I hated the finger guns, but Thena's weapons were pretty cool to watch.
Shang Chi's CGI wasn't bad so much as there was too much of it at the end, if I remember right. I wanted a more standard chop socky fight. Meh.
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Watching Shang Chi the other day and something started bothering me.
Isn't this like... the fourth "shadowy organization that secretly rules the world" the MCU has pulled out of its ass? How many shadowy leagues of bad guys are there? Do they take turns ruling?
The ten rings in Shang-Chi are the same ten rings from Iron Man 1.
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The Ten Rings, SHIELD/Hydra, Wakanda, Drakov's organization, and the Eternals. That's all I can think of, And for some of them it's a stretch.
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Yeah, IIRC he did at least call it "plasma" at times. Maybe that was a sneaky way of getting around saying blood :P
Not to be confused with a half-vampire or half-human/half-vampire because comics always strive to always do the same thing over and over without ever doing the same thing twice.
very silly, but much of that cartoon was, like Alister Smythe's volton-esque spiderslayer robots that gave each other little piggybacks
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That cool movie where Superman was adopted by illegal immigrants, Wonder Woman was raised on Apokolips and Batman was a science vampire?
Morbius is just that last bit but missing the capital B.
Mobius, I didn't remove my scarf just to let my neck breathe....
Holy shit. Hype.
And also use the sanitized version from the 90s cartoon that managed to be far, far more horrifying as a result
Of course.
Edit: and because it was a cartoon aimed at children, they had to spend a LOT of time explaining that plasma was an element of blood. So it was abundantly clear that he was sucking up blood through his handholes.
Don’t you love it when the network censors make the creepy thing even WORSE
“Listen, everyone knows how vampires work, but we can’t possibly show that on afternoon broadcast TV! How can we keep him a vampire and get around that?”
“Uuuuh, what if we gave him like… lamprey mouths? On his hands? And that’s how he sucked [slips into a bad Eastern European accent] Plasma!”
“…You’re a genius.”
Oh no, this is far too violent, you need to change it!
Okay, how about we put the camera inside the car with Jim Gordon as his daughter hits his hood in the background?
That means the violence is further away from the camera, you're all good!
the BtAS one that stands out is the joker poison
Instead of just like, killing you it permanently fixates your face in a rictus smile and makes you laugh uncontrollably
I know very little about Leto don't think I have watched a film with him besides Fight Club. Is the hate based on a shitty filmography or is he an off-screen sex pest or something?
He got very... method with his castmates when he was Joker in the original Suicide Squad.
The pacing felt completely off, and I wonder how much of that was just because it's a huge cast that we've never met before. They all needed more time to breathe. I can't help but think it would have been much better as a series.
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I wouldn't have known it was even out if not for this post, it's no where to be found on the front page on D+ in Canada
That opening sequence is all kinds of oof.
EDIT: And they managed to get some uniquely terrible performances. Druig and Sprite are both awful.
Re the final stinger:
I liked Sprite alrighty, but yeah Druig was just bad.
Also they said a Celestial is born every billion years or so but Earths Eternals remember helping other worlds several times in last million years. Unreliable narrator?
Civil War had a lot of characters, but only three important players were new. One was the villain and the other two were directly in line for solo movies so they just needed to hit the basic high points so they'd go into those established enough to make room to set up more new characters. The MCU "solo ensemble" works by introducing a few things at a time and then letting them bounce around movies with each other for a while.
I think Eternals just tried to do too much from nothing. It picked up a couple bread crumbs but otherwise nothing from before came in.
Other planets with intelligent life were shattered by their emergence. On the Celestial scale, the planets don't really matter anymore than an eggshell around a chick, and life on them little more than bacteria living on the eggshell.
Regarding the other, more developed planets. I assumed that not all planets with life were designated for celestial seeding, or that their baby celestials were not as far along as Earth's after the Blip. It's possible that Earth's celestial was planted millions of years earlier hoping that the various ages of dinosaurs would be the ones to evolve into sapient life to be drained by the developing celestial. When that didn't work out, Arishem threw a rock at the planet to give the next wave of evolution a try.
I thought it was implied t hat the Avengers using the infinity stones to undo the blip released enough power to speed up the local celestial's development, rather than doing it naturally through the gradual development of life.
Earth's Eternals have only been on Earth for a few thousand years. They showed up about the time the first civilizations where attracting Deviant attention.
I assume that once the dominant species on a planet has been shepherded into a tech level capable of detecting and defeating deviants (protecting themselves), the Eternals were supposed to get on board their ship, get mind wiped, and assigned to their next planet.
Isn't this like... the fourth "shadowy organization that secretly rules the world" the MCU has pulled out of its ass? How many shadowy leagues of bad guys are there? Do they take turns ruling?
At least in Shang-Chi
But yes the trope is running long and is why I thought I'd dislike Eternals more than I did. They conjured up badguys, good guys, and a conflict that have been around the whole time.
And having finished Eternals, for all the shit DC films get, it was as bad if not worse than the worst of those. It made good actors bad, action that should have been good wasn't, terrible antagonists, and I swear if they stood in formation in a long pan shot one more time my head would have exploded.
It's not so much the CGI that bothered me. But I think I'm starting to get tired of the whole "gesture randomly with hands, magic stuff happens" they keep on doing. Which started all the way back in Iron Man, and maybe I accepted it more because it not far removed from using a computer, Tony's just using gesture commands. But now we have people wiggling their fingers and a magic gold maguffin pops out to solve the immediate problem, and it's just starting to look silly now. And yeah, "move hands, magic happens" is also literally Doctor Strange's MO, and that didn't bother me much either. I don't know, I think it just really reached its tipping point in this movie for me.
I still liked it well enough though, even though it had weird pacing problems. Also, there's a bit of a minor "eldritch horror" vibe going on with Arishem, and damn if it wasn't tickling me in the right areas. Especially the ending bit.
I hated the finger guns, but Thena's weapons were pretty cool to watch.
The ten rings in Shang-Chi are the same ten rings from Iron Man 1.