{"id":30745,"date":"2014-09-23T02:21:31","date_gmt":"2014-09-23T06:21:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=30745"},"modified":"2019-03-14T02:25:05","modified_gmt":"2019-03-14T06:25:05","slug":"marvel-knights-animation-presents-eternals-dvd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2014\/09\/23\/marvel-knights-animation-presents-eternals-dvd\/","title":{"rendered":"Marvel Knights Animation Presents Eternals (DVD)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>It\u2019s mind blowing how mind numbing \u201cEternals\u201d is. The really bad John Romita Jr. art matched with the convoluted dull story make this animated comic a task to sit through. Granted, I love the idea of normal human beings actually being engineered superheroes and completely oblivious to their powers. There\u2019s also a moment where a party is besieged by terrorists and character Mark Curry discovers his ability to slow down time, thus allowing him to stop the bullets, and steal the guns, but has to find a way to take the bullets without burning himself or blowing them up in the air. It\u2019s a nice sense of logic to fantasy.<\/p>\n

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That said, all of that would be wonderful if \u201cEternals\u201d didn\u2019t spend about ninety five percent of its narrative explaining everything to us. There\u2019s explanations of its mythos, explanations of the eternals\u2019 powers, explanation about what the Celestials (the eternals creators) are, explanation about the Eternals, and explanations about their villains the Deviants. Deviants are monstrous aliens bred to be unique and one of a kind and eventually took control of the Eternals. Eventually the Eternals realized they could fight back with their amazing powers, while the Celestials would eventually have to step in and finish the battle. Much of \u201cEternals\u201d destroys any sense of whimsy and adventure, transforming the narrative in to such an unnecessarily violent and grim science fiction tale that even transforms its heroes in to sad sacks.<\/p>\n

The heroes in the storyline are either despicable, selfish, or utterly self-loathing, while folks like Iron Man have to step in try to get them to rally around and help save the world, and their own race. I\u2019ve always enjoyed the style of Jack Kirby\u2019s universe, and the science fiction mechanisms, but it\u2019s just lost under so much boring nonsense and exposition, that I just didn\u2019t care what happened to any of these characters. It\u2019s hard to believe being a super powered entity with amazing abilities could be so monotones, but \u201cEternals\u201d pulls it off, big time. \u201cLooking Back with John Romita Jr.\u201d is a ten minute interview with artist John Romita Jr. who discusses the mini-series, and its origins.<\/p>\n