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What I didn't like

posted 3 years ago by Towelie_Towel (1779)
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The movie had potential to be more interesting than it ended up being.

These are the things that I didn't really enjoy in the movie:
- The lore was good and interesting, but it was too specific for my taste; they literally explained there is a god, or a group of gods, responsible for creating everything we see. It tried to be almost a 2001 Space Odyssey but with everything explained
- The story was all over the place and didn't have a good rhythm. The flashbacks concept was OK, but not properly executed. We never really knew where they wanted to take us
- I didn't like that there were so many "copies" of these Eternals around the universe, takes a bit of the interest in these specific Eternals
- The deviants seemed pointless. The movie would have been almost the same without them, and Kro looked terrible
- Their relationship was also weird. Sprite suddenly betrays them all, then at the end she's back to being a normal sarcastic teenager without any consequence or conversation about it
- "Druig is dead now", oh look, Druig is alive; I thought Ikaris was supposed to be good? How could he understimate his enemy that he's known for 7000 years this much?
- "I killed you because I was jealous of you, Sersi", oh look, Sersi is already recovered. Pointless setup of that dagger that ended up doing nothing
- Jon Snow seemed shoehorned into the movie
- Phastos' husband was so clearly a "check" on the diversity checklist that it made me feel awkward

Still, the movie was visually nice. The characters were mostly sympathetic/tolerable.
The soundtrack was good also, great start of the movie with Pink Floyd, wasn't expecting that.
It could be setting up an intriguing new phase in the MCU, let's see.
7/10

[–] [deleted] 3 years ago

My thoughts: This is one of the weaker Marvel films for me. The screenplay felt muddled and the dialogue was very cliched. The film is too long and doesn't have enough substance to justify its length. Performances are hit and miss. Angelina Jolie and Salma Hayek were underused. Gemma Chan was just okay. I thought Kumail Nanjiani and Lia McHugh were the highlights of the film. Some good sequences here, but a lot of unneeded filler that didn't quite work. This is Chloé Zhao's worst film. My rating is a 6/10.

[–] DracTarashV2 (4496) 3 years ago

And mine: the opposite of all that. :)

This is either Zhao’s 2nd best or dare I say BEST (her most stunning and arguably ambitious work to date, that’s right elitists), Marvel’s most intricate and rich film, the cast is INCREDIBLE and all perfectly cast, the majority of the dialogue is HEARTFELT and sincere, the screenplay is not the best in Marvel but definitely much better than what the unimpressed folks are saying, the run time is absolutely not unjustified (had no trouble being invested in the whole thing), and overall the film isn’t lacking any less substance than the best of Marvel. In fact, the depth, scale and scope of this film even makes some of the biggest Avengers films seem… small. You read that right.

In closing, my rating: unsurprisingly it’s much, much higher than what the majority of critics - and everyone on this chud-infested board - gave it. And not saying there are no legitimate criticisms to be made of it, but as with the underrated Black Widow, I have no major complaints; I was more impressed than many were. And cool to see that a large number of audiences aren’t on the kewler negative side. ;)