The Eternals (Chloé Zhao, November 5, 2021) Movie • Page 14

i actually just finished the murder house. why does this show have 10 seasons lol

 

It’s confirmed that the voice speaking to Dane is Blade

‘Eternals’ Director on That OTHER Big Character Reveal in the Credits Scenes

 

Audience score is 85%. This is going to be one of those massively divided films, as expected after watching the film.

 

Thor: The Dark World remains the worst Marvel movie with The Incredible Hulk a close second. This one was fine.

 

I will say even though I ended up enjoying the movie, I was very close to completely checking out during the Celestial exposition dump the second time Sersei talks to Arishem and I could see that being the point of no return for those who don’t like it. It’s way too much backstory at one time and is overly convoluted. I’m surprised they didn’t decide to simplify the backstory more when these are already a much more confusing set of characters to begin with than a dude in a metal suit and a super spy. I’m by no means an expert on the comics version but it seemed like they made them even more convoluted than I remembered them being.

 

Yes, ‘Eternals’ Is Better Than Critics Are Saying

I haven't seen the movie yet to form my own opinion, but I like what Paul Tassi is saying here.

 

I would rank this film high above the critic consensus. It’s for sure in the top half of MCU for me. There are a handful of Marvel films I would rank below this but I’m also really, really into the mythological and religious themes behind this film.

Druig’s decision to leave, Ikaris’ blind devotion, the charm of Sersi and Gilgamesh. There’s a lot in this film I loved.

I know I said this before, but the sequel 100% has to be a Starfox-led film with him assisting Druig, Thena, and Makkari with rescuing the other Eternals. That film would be DOPE.

 

Just got out a viewing. I liked the characters Sersi and Dane, but I didn't care for any of the other characters. There's just no development for most of them. Outside of their powers there isn't much to most of the characters in this film. The film was shot well and I did enjoy the action scenes. The Starfox Harry Styles cameo was cool, along with Dane getting the ebony blade, both of which have me looking forward to whatever shoots off from this film. I would like to see Sersi's character again in a future film. The whole plot was just a mess, though, and I couldn't care less about celestials and the "ever expanding" universal story that follows with them. Thanos was the peak for universal threats and the MCU trying to recreate a threat as good and severe as him isn't what they should be trying to do. They caught lightning in a bottle with that story and lightning doesn't strike twice. Give me more of the earth level threats.

Overall: 7.2/10

 

I ride hard for Dark World and everyone is wrong about it.

edit: it’s still bottom tier marvel but I like a lot about it.

 

What do you like about it? It’s easily my least favorite.

 

I really dug this. The source material is not exactly super easy to adapt and I think they did about as well as you could do in one movie. Although the Pip cgi looked so awful I could not stop laughing at it. Looked like some Star Wars prequel shit.

 

some dude yelled "King of the North!" after the post-credits scene lol

 

Yeah that Pip CGI was particularly bad and kind of surprised me.

I thought overall this was fine. The flashbacks were definitely way too disruptive to the flow. I felt like there was almost definitely an assembly cut at one point or another where all of that was in the beginning and someone stepped in and told them it was taking way too long for the story to get going in the present day so they chopped it all up into flashback sequences instead.

 

For what it's worth, I think it's entirely watchable, even if it's my least favorite. It unfortunately wastes Christopher Eccleston, which I think is the most offensive thing about it.

 

I need to know how Gemma explained to Kit that she was friends with a 12 year old girl named Sprite
I would really like to know how the eternals and deviants impacted human history, like are there macedonian and babylonian artifacts with pictures of deviants on them
I don't think the exposition or incoherence was any worse with this than a lot of other mcu movies, and I didn't mind that Sprite is basically Loki and Makakari is basically The Flash
did no one realize the ship looks like a giant Kit Kat bar

 

I liked this a lot. Obvious strengths are it's a huge win for representation and it's visually stunning. Despite awkward exposition dumps and haphazardly placed flashbacks, I was totally invested in the characters and the story. Not a perfect movie, but still top tier MCU for me.

 

i assumed it was an “i’m her mom” thing

 

this is bad. not as bad as the reviews are saying but extremely not good.

 

Really loved this. One of my favorite Marvels easily.

 

Lol if you agree its bottom tier i dontttt think we are all wrong about it after all?

 

has there been a marvel film you haven’t liked upon release

 

I was thinking this exact thing. The flow would have been much better if the entire first 46 minutes of the film consisted of all of the flashbacks with the “modern day” card appearing after Ajak allows the group to separate.

I’m sure someone will edit it as soon as it’s released to own.

 

Nah, a long flashback Prologue would’ve been awful, and the interspersed flashbacks ruled. The execution wasn’t perfect because the messy-ass, unrefined writing was this film’s Achilles heel, but the best version of this film 100% would’ve kept that structure.