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Eternals: Chronological Cut is completed. 
Watch the trailer on page 4 of this thread.
The ETERNALS (2021) blu-ray comes out on 15 Feb, so we'll soon be able to improve on Marvel's Eternals.
(TOTAL SPOILER!) STORY SUMMARY:
MARVEL'S GOALS(?):
My read on Eternals is that it serves a similar purpose to all 2021 MCU projects: set up future storylines and connect them to past storylines. New Black Widow is Natasha's sister, Falcon grows into his responsibility for being the new Cap, new Hawkeye is a girl with crazy skills, and Kang's appearance opens up the whole multiverse.
Eternals sets up the creation of the Black Knight, possibly Sersi joining the Avengers like she did in the comics, it sets up Celestial interference with/on Earth which offers storylines with more powerful opponents than we've seen before (yea, isn't that what we all want, because bigger = better battles?), and it opens the door for a Marvel/DC crossover movie with its references to Superman and Batman. It achieves all this and has a female director, female non-white leads, a gay man, and a mute woman. Except for box-office revenue, I dare to guess that Eternals achieved most of its goals.
IDEAS FOR CHANGES:
1) Increase exposure and saturation. Make the lighting and color in line with the rest of the MCU. My projector came up short to present all the detail.
2) Reduce runtime from 150+ to <120 minutes, possible as short as ~100 minutes.
3) Arishem revealed his plan to Sersi like a Bond villain: for no good reason and putting the success of his plan at risk. Instead, the audience should find out Arishem's plan right at the start (perhaps we see Arishem talking to himself?), while the heroes find out at the original moment in the movie.
I hope this will generate sympathy/empathy in the viewer for our "heroes". We see them wanting to be better in the first part, but we know why they're unable to.
4) Show Ajak's death earlier, not through flashback.
5) Possibly cut the rust-free knife, plow, and steam-engine
6) Possibly cut the final scene between Eternals and Arishem.
My favorite characters in Eternals: Dane Whitman and Harun. I'd love to see Harun become the personal assistent at the Avengers Compound! Always prepared and polite like Edwin Jarvis in the comics, but funnier.
Watch the trailer on page 4 of this thread.
The ETERNALS (2021) blu-ray comes out on 15 Feb, so we'll soon be able to improve on Marvel's Eternals.
(TOTAL SPOILER!) STORY SUMMARY:
Arishem wants to protect his Celestial family. He built "Deviants", his version of Ultron, to protect baby Celestials that grow inside planets. Like Stark's version, these Ultrons turn out flawed. Arishem then builds "Eternals", his "Ultron mark II", to destroy his uncontrollable Mark I. After 7,000 years the Eternals find out what they are. Now they must choose to follow their programming or exercise free will.
MARVEL'S GOALS(?):
My read on Eternals is that it serves a similar purpose to all 2021 MCU projects: set up future storylines and connect them to past storylines. New Black Widow is Natasha's sister, Falcon grows into his responsibility for being the new Cap, new Hawkeye is a girl with crazy skills, and Kang's appearance opens up the whole multiverse.
Eternals sets up the creation of the Black Knight, possibly Sersi joining the Avengers like she did in the comics, it sets up Celestial interference with/on Earth which offers storylines with more powerful opponents than we've seen before (yea, isn't that what we all want, because bigger = better battles?), and it opens the door for a Marvel/DC crossover movie with its references to Superman and Batman. It achieves all this and has a female director, female non-white leads, a gay man, and a mute woman. Except for box-office revenue, I dare to guess that Eternals achieved most of its goals.
IDEAS FOR CHANGES:
1) Increase exposure and saturation. Make the lighting and color in line with the rest of the MCU. My projector came up short to present all the detail.
2) Reduce runtime from 150+ to <120 minutes, possible as short as ~100 minutes.
3) Arishem revealed his plan to Sersi like a Bond villain: for no good reason and putting the success of his plan at risk. Instead, the audience should find out Arishem's plan right at the start (perhaps we see Arishem talking to himself?), while the heroes find out at the original moment in the movie.
BUT Arishem doesn't tell Sersi, they find out through a "faulty" Thena memory flashback.
4) Show Ajak's death earlier, not through flashback.
It makes us hate Ikaris faster (which is better than being indifferent to him) and gives us the explanation faster why the Deviants have returned (defrosted).
5) Possibly cut the rust-free knife, plow, and steam-engine
to downplay the examples of Eternals interfering in human progress against their programming.
6) Possibly cut the final scene between Eternals and Arishem.
Instead, when he pulls them toward himself, we cut to the Domo ship where the other Eternals say "no contact for weeks". Then place Arishem's monologue (audio only) as final credits scene to make it more ominous.
My favorite characters in Eternals: Dane Whitman and Harun. I'd love to see Harun become the personal assistent at the Avengers Compound! Always prepared and polite like Edwin Jarvis in the comics, but funnier.
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