Not your usual superhero fare.

I didn't find it dragged - may have helped that I saw it in the cinema and really enjoyed the deep history reconstructions. I thought it was a good base for a whole new set of story lines.

Deja vu. I mean it’s funny… that’s what enough people say about various superhero films (and shows) every year. And yes, this is especially including the MCU (which many of its kewl detractors, and there’s obvs no shortage of them up in this reactionary broflake hell hole, keep desperately calling “formulaic!” and all this other tired stuff they keep pushing). :D What does that tell you? Well, that whatever some see as usual superhero fare, is no longer… relevant.

Of course a bunch of projects are/will be more standard fare (not everything will stand out and attempt to break new ground - same goes for most films in general), and there’s always going to be something that makes the stuff from this franchise and other superhero franchises feel interconnected in more ways than one. Still, despite what the kewl folks love to scream (especially the ones obsessed with all this stuff but in a pathetic hateful way), a number of the films (+shows) from this franchise have, in fact, been unique from one another. Eternals? Why yes, while Marvel’s no stranger to keeping things interesting and fresh (that’s right, detractors), Zhao’s film was absolutely unlike any Marvel feature we’ve seen before. Even so, this franchise and the genre in general has come a long way and, clearly, it doesn’t look like it’s going away anytime soon. (The usual detractors up here speak for themselves only.) A little different? Understatement. ;) Tighter editing? Now I can agree with that, yet I didn’t find its slow pace to be an issue like others did. Bring on the next