The Hexcells complete pack is also up on Humble Store with DRM-free copies but no sale there. To top it off, all of Brown's puzzle games on Steam are on a massive sale at 70% off: The first two games also gained mid-level save states and cloud saves, with the third entry Infinite getting a hard mode for the level generator and level listings for custom puzzles. Each in the series got a nice 2.0 version bump adding in new options like-a dark mode! Hooray! Now you can relax, solve some puzzles and not get eye-strain. One thing has bugged me though, which is how god damn bright it is. An irresistible force meets an immovable object, and the collision results in what feels like superficial sparks.YouTube videos require cookies, you must accept their cookies to view. Conversely, had their story been split into two films, the first one would have been called incomplete (not to mention the three-year gap that would have followed due to the MCU’s packed slate). Scrapping some of her trademark grand landscape shots wouldn’t have made enough time for her to be able to connect us to these characters and give us the kind of grand finale that Marvel films are known for. The problem is that it feels like there was truly no way for Zhao to succeed here. Once things shift past the Deviants and become more of a Celestial struggle, the story starts to rip at the seams. The grand scale of the galactic aspects of the story catches up quick, though. Their conflict and complicated connection to the human race makes for incredibly interesting subject matter. ![]() ![]() Thena (Angelina Jolie) filled that role for me, but it could have easily gone to Gilgamesh (Ma Dong-seok) or Kingo ( Kumail Nanjiani) as well.Įternals’ success as a film can almost entirely be attributed to the performances and relationships between characters. That fact is exciting in and of itself, but one of the most fun aspects of the film is that you could be in a room full of ten people and each one of them could easily answer with a different favorite member of the team both from character and performance perspectives, as they’re all so vastly distinct with their own specific qualities. This is the most diverse cast in Marvel Studios history. Much of our time is spent with Sersi (Gemma Chan), Sprite (Lia McHugh), and Ikarus (Richard Madden), and the rest of the screen time is mostly balanced between the remaining seven Eternals. This is likely to illustrate that holding a grudge gets boring after being alive for several centuries, but it gives their internal conflict less emotional impact. Grave sins are committed throughout the story, all of which seem to be quickly forgiven and forgotten. If there’s an area where the team dynamic fails, it’s in the immortality of it all. We’re given a good grasp on the temperament and motivations of each of the ten with limited story bloat. That’s the insane task Zhao was given.īy and large, she rises to meet that challenge. The team of immortals may be interwoven in a way that you can’t really tell their origins individually, but imagine going into the first Avengers with no prior introduction to the team. It’s joked that the team was the original Avengers a couple times in Eternals, which really helps drive home the wide arc that the story is trying to accomplish. While they don’t all get the same amount of screentime, you can imagine how tall of an order this film was by the main cast size alone. Each Eternal has their own unique powerset and, as you can imagine, their own special interpersonal drama within their complicated little family. Sersi, Ikaris, Kingo, Sprite, Phastos, Makkari, Druig, Thena, and Gilgamesh all follow their leader, Ajak, on their mission to serve the celestial Arishem. The story follows ten immortal beings throughout Earth’s history as they fight to protect the planet from the Deviants (they’re basically large, cranky, tentacle-y murder monsters, for those unfamiliar). The depth of the story is coupled with the huge, sweeping landscapes that Zhao is known for, but when you’re focusing on such a huge, overarching story with an already impressive runtime, breathtaking but otherwise time-consuming nature shots can start to feel like a bit of a chore. ![]() ![]() Though, despite the spectacle of it all, the latest Marvel film falls victim to the old “just because you can doesn’t mean you should” in some areas. Director Chloé Zhao’s immortal epic dances across timelines and alliances with ease. Eternals is sprawling - across scenery, across centuries, you name it.
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