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Eternals

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By Alexandrea CallaghanPublished 2 years ago 3 min read
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My first thoughts when this movie was announced were “that's ambitious” the Eternals have a fairly rich comic book history and I knew they could never tackle that in the MCU so I was at the very least, interested in how they were going to make this work. Since its release I've only heard 2 opinions of this film, it's amazing OR it sucks with really no in between, but I never take public opinion very well because to be honest the masses have very little media literacy…that said my Stark boys were cast and I love them both soooo here we are.

We open on a fairly generic fight scene that really only exists to establish some of the eternals powers…it was too short for its purpose.

Now we are in the present day and there's an earthquake of some kind and the eternals are now trying to live among humans

The explanation given to why the eternals couldn't/didn't interfere with human/alien interactions was more than satisfactory. Anyone still questioning it is just annoying.

Circe and Icarus’ relationship seems to be taking up a lot of this, this flashback sequence doesn’t seem necessary.

The whole first hour could have been condensed to act 1, the pacing in this is so so awful, also the lore of this film is so aggressively incorrect. I never expect full comic book accuracy, but I do expect accurate characterization and plot points that are at least loosely pulled from the comics…this was not it.

So movies and stories in general are either plot driven or character driven, and the writing in this was confused at best, it was trying to both and it did neither of them well.

Too many characters, none developed very well we decided to just do all of the generations of eternals for reasons of totally not understanding these characters and never having picked up a comic book apparently.

And we’re pacing like Snyder…an hour and a half in and we still haven't gathered the entire team yet, truly pathetic writing. Also it seems small but all levels of consistency are important and when the main devient killed Ajak it trained her power and left her lifeless immediately but when he killed gilgamesh, Gil was still alive for a few minutes before he died and his lifeless body didn’t look anything like Ajak’s it's ridiculous.

And apparently we’re just forgetting that celestials can house planets without destroying them…we are just ignoring the existence of GotG2, including the fact that mantis put Ego to sleep but an eternal can’t do the same? Mkay

The writing is so bad I genuinely didn't care about any of these characters until the last third of the movie

I’ve always seen the MCU as movies about relationships, several of them are about family, but of the movies that have tried to depict the internal struggle of family and love this one falls very very flat, the relationships are underdeveloped, the dialogue insincere and the emotional attachment is loose at best and the fact that it directly contradicts a film that does do justice to those elements does not help it's case.

Ending clearly set them up for a second movie that if done the entire opposite of this one has potential to at the very least not suck…but we’ll see. I’ve said it a thousand times, not every story works in every medium and a story that contains celestials, eternals and deviants is way too ambitious to contain into a feature film, this first film should have been a miniseries and then moved to the big screen. But this film missed nearly every mark it set its eyes on, overall bottom tier MCU movie.

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Alexandrea Callaghan

Certified nerd, super geek and very proud fangirl.

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