This one is pretty bad guys and deserves to be the first rotten MCU film. Boring characters and plot. For about 3/4 of the runtime the characters are just sitting around and keep repeating that they have to find the other eternals. About halfway the film it gets revealed what's really going on but none of it makes any sense. The deviants they fight in present day have nothing to do with the plot and are just there for the occasional action scene. Kitt Harrington asks one of the eternals early in the film why they didn't help in the fight agains Thanos and they tell him that the eternals cannot intervene unless it has something to do with the Deviants, otherwise the progression of the human race could be altered. But then later we see that the eternals influenced humanity on many diferent occasions, so that doesn't make any sense. There's so much dumb and pointless shit in this film. It's too long and too boring. Also I was on the side of Icaris, that was the most logical.
Stop calling it boring! It was good movie. I can only agree on cutting about 15-20 minutes of some unnecessary material but it is just cosmetics in solid story with great visuals.
Next great story in the Marvel Universe. You will meet a group of Earth keepers, each one with a superpower. But it is the matter of choices which side is good and which side is bad and are all the Eternals together or not ...
Fighting scenes with Deviants have solid action and all the movie was interesting to follow. Best role award goes to Gemma Chan.
Just doesn’t do the source material any justice. It feels like the director was told the basics of the characters and just went, ok let’s make a movie.
Utterly bizarre to take 3 well known male characters and make them female. It completely changes their entire back story and how they experience life. It was equally bizarre to take Kingo, a Japanese character, defined by his samurai armour and fighting style and turn him into an Indian Bollywood actor, I mean come on. Utterly ridiculous.
The movie was just slow, with easily an hour that could have been left on the cutting room floor. With a storyline that just didn’t really draw the audience in. Everything about the storyline was predictable and well, bland. Can see why this is such a low rated movie and why people aren’t bothered about a sequel.
Also, just soo many basic mistakes. The Sahara 7,000 years ago was grass covered, with trees and lakes. Why they showed it as a desert was bizarre. Makkari using the wristwatch sign before watches had been invented? How did not one writer say, er that doesn’t make sense. And the police sirens making a weird noise? How did no-one say er that’s not the noise police cars make?
Great characters, epic plot, nice action sequences and the best cinematography of the whole MCU. But the movie lacks something. The plot takes questionable directions in favor of unexpected twists, but those twists are less interesting than the promised conflict. Maybe the slow, introspective and semi-documentary style that Zhao has built in her carreer, would have worked better without focusing that much on subverting our expectations. Eternals is what TLJ was for Star Wars fans, a stylish and risky movie that fails to represent the spirit of the franchise.
I appreciate the parts of Eternals that were trying to do something atypical of the MCU. Unfortunately being a part of this mega-franchise leads to qualities that undermine what is good about this movie.
Chloe Zhao shows heartfelt social and political commentary in Nomadland, and here it's obvious she tries to promote liberal (and to an extent, progressive) themes. But damn, the translation of these ideas to a $273 million budget makes them really seem like pandering and propaganda. Something was lost between the script and screen too, because for a superhero movie pushing 3 hours, the plot left me lost and bored way too much.
Sprite and Kingo are well done characters, Nanjiani especially steals the show. Most of the characters though feel like they are thrown at the screen, and not much sticks. The photography is also well done, a nice use of the resources now available to Zhao.
There's a lot of good and bad in this Marvel offering but it seriously does enough things very well that it's worth a serious look. The premise from the get go can be hard to believe at first, 11 main characters crammed into one opening film. The Avengers only had 6 heroes, and had 5 movies to serve as the introduction. How well does the Eternals do with this monumental challenge? Fairly well, actually, certainly better than it had any right to.
This might be the slowest Marvel movie I've ever seen and I mean that in a totally positive way. It doesn't feel the need to give a crash course to introduce all 11 characters and instead ops to put them in real-life situations and let the development happen organically. There's more human story in this one alone than probably 6 or 7 of Marvel's other offerings combined. It's a far, far cry from the traditional Marvel formula and it pays off. The humor was also a few shades different than what we're used to which was extremely welcome.
The worst sin has to be blatantly race-swapping and gender-swapping just to suit the ongoing agenda. I'm sure it went totally unnoticed by the masses though unless you were familiar with the source material.
Is it the best Marvel movie of all time? Uhh no, but as someone going into it expecting just another Marvel popcorn flick I was totally blindsided by it. The Marvel execs should be playing close attention as to what worked here.
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This one is pretty bad guys and deserves to be the first rotten MCU film. Boring characters and plot. For about 3/4 of the runtime the characters are just sitting around and keep repeating that they have to find the other eternals. About halfway the film it gets revealed what's really going on but none of it makes any sense. The deviants they fight in present day have nothing to do with the plot and are just there for the occasional action scene. Kitt Harrington asks one of the eternals early in the film why they didn't help in the fight agains Thanos and they tell him that the eternals cannot intervene unless it has something to do with the Deviants, otherwise the progression of the human race could be altered. But then later we see that the eternals influenced humanity on many diferent occasions, so that doesn't make any sense. There's so much dumb and pointless shit in this film. It's too long and too boring. Also I was on the side of Icaris, that was the most logical.IgnacioM
eternaly boringNatalilla
BORINGTheUlisses
Stop calling it boring! It was good movie. I can only agree on cutting about 15-20 minutes of some unnecessary material but it is just cosmetics in solid story with great visuals.CodeV
Next great story in the Marvel Universe. You will meet a group of Earth keepers, each one with a superpower. But it is the matter of choices which side is good and which side is bad and are all the Eternals together or not ...Fighting scenes with Deviants have solid action and all the movie was interesting to follow. Best role award goes to Gemma Chan.
chunkylefunga
Just doesn’t do the source material any justice. It feels like the director was told the basics of the characters and just went, ok let’s make a movie.Utterly bizarre to take 3 well known male characters and make them female. It completely changes their entire back story and how they experience life. It was equally bizarre to take Kingo, a Japanese character, defined by his samurai armour and fighting style and turn him into an Indian Bollywood actor, I mean come on. Utterly ridiculous.
The movie was just slow, with easily an hour that could have been left on the cutting room floor. With a storyline that just didn’t really draw the audience in. Everything about the storyline was predictable and well, bland. Can see why this is such a low rated movie and why people aren’t bothered about a sequel.
Also, just soo many basic mistakes. The Sahara 7,000 years ago was grass covered, with trees and lakes. Why they showed it as a desert was bizarre. Makkari using the wristwatch sign before watches had been invented? How did not one writer say, er that doesn’t make sense. And the police sirens making a weird noise? How did no-one say er that’s not the noise police cars make?
Donnie DuPree
Great characters, epic plot, nice action sequences and the best cinematography of the whole MCU. But the movie lacks something. The plot takes questionable directions in favor of unexpected twists, but those twists are less interesting than the promised conflict. Maybe the slow, introspective and semi-documentary style that Zhao has built in her carreer, would have worked better without focusing that much on subverting our expectations. Eternals is what TLJ was for Star Wars fans, a stylish and risky movie that fails to represent the spirit of the franchise.Neens
Should've listened to my friend, this movie was a lot better than the trailers suggested. Definitely worth a watch.danisanna
Disappointing for a marvell filmmcmakattack
I appreciate the parts of Eternals that were trying to do something atypical of the MCU. Unfortunately being a part of this mega-franchise leads to qualities that undermine what is good about this movie.Chloe Zhao shows heartfelt social and political commentary in Nomadland, and here it's obvious she tries to promote liberal (and to an extent, progressive) themes. But damn, the translation of these ideas to a $273 million budget makes them really seem like pandering and propaganda. Something was lost between the script and screen too, because for a superhero movie pushing 3 hours, the plot left me lost and bored way too much.
Sprite and Kingo are well done characters, Nanjiani especially steals the show. Most of the characters though feel like they are thrown at the screen, and not much sticks. The photography is also well done, a nice use of the resources now available to Zhao.
DisneyStitch
There's a lot of good and bad in this Marvel offering but it seriously does enough things very well that it's worth a serious look. The premise from the get go can be hard to believe at first, 11 main characters crammed into one opening film. The Avengers only had 6 heroes, and had 5 movies to serve as the introduction. How well does the Eternals do with this monumental challenge? Fairly well, actually, certainly better than it had any right to.This might be the slowest Marvel movie I've ever seen and I mean that in a totally positive way. It doesn't feel the need to give a crash course to introduce all 11 characters and instead ops to put them in real-life situations and let the development happen organically. There's more human story in this one alone than probably 6 or 7 of Marvel's other offerings combined. It's a far, far cry from the traditional Marvel formula and it pays off. The humor was also a few shades different than what we're used to which was extremely welcome.
The worst sin has to be blatantly race-swapping and gender-swapping just to suit the ongoing agenda. I'm sure it went totally unnoticed by the masses though unless you were familiar with the source material.
Is it the best Marvel movie of all time? Uhh no, but as someone going into it expecting just another Marvel popcorn flick I was totally blindsided by it. The Marvel execs should be playing close attention as to what worked here.
DaniloFreiles
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Overwhelmed with absolutely meaningless pathos and plastic emotions. Can't believe the same director made a wonderful spiritual Nomadland.And yes, this one is boring as hell.
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