While director Chloe Zhao’s Eternals promises to fit neatly into the Marvel Cinematic Universe, her big Marvel moment approaches that world with a very different sensibility.
It’s one that the “mother of Eternals” herself, Salma Hayek, appreciates immensely.
No matter what house of comics you pledge fealty to, larger than life thrills, amazing costumes and battles on a scale that reality could never keep up with make those projects an utter delight to watch.
Even in the absence of comic fans flocking to see Marvel and DC movies on the big screen, the thoughts of the film world still periodically turn to those moments where superheroes came to life at a theater nearby.