Eternals (2021)

I'm thinking if this had been made just a couple years later they would have been wise to start with a 6-hour Disney+ series that introduces the Eternals and covers a good portion of their backstory (which apparently is half this movie) and getting them all to the present day. Then they could have come in with the 'snap' that triggers the Deviants to re-emerge and spent the 120+ min runtime on that self-contained story.

Qhue said:

I'm thinking if this had been made just a couple years later they would have been wise to start with a 6-hour Disney+ series that introduces the Eternals and covers a good portion of their backstory (which apparently is half this movie) and getting them all to the present day. Then they could have come in with the 'snap' that triggers the Deviants to re-emerge and spent the 120+ min runtime on that self-contained story.

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One episode per Eternal with some interconnectivity would have been good.

The Hollywood Reporter's sources suggest that the film's inclusion of a same-sex couple is one of the elements that led to it being blocked from movie theaters in at least three Gulf countries, where homosexual conduct is still illegal. THR also reports that local censors had a list of edit requests that Disney declined to make. Meanwhile, Deadline reports that Kuwait and Qatar censors additionally objected to a cinematic depiction of gods, which is considered blasphemous.

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eh so maybe it isnt a PoS, was gonna say, its very rare for critics and audiences are on the same wavelength.

Masakari said:

What's Hollywood going to due when China abandons entertaining their woke agenda?

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China already told Disney to fuck off with Eternals. they didnt even like the director.

it aint just no eternals. show me a marvel release in china that happened since the end of summer

Here's a non-spoiler review for you:

Don't bother. This has about as much to do with the MCU as the Inhumans TV series did. While there will be a direct impact from this story on the rest of Phase 4 (or Phase 5) that impact could be summarized in a throwaway line in another movie.

Chris said:

One episode per Eternal with some interconnectivity would have been good.

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James Gunn has talked about he or Marvel having this idea for Guardians before it came out, similarly due to the characters being unfamiliar to the audience at large.

The idea was scrapped due to him not really having the time to do them plus the shorts at the same time. He said the Quill portions were partially filmed and basically became the intro to him we get in the movie, and he was really proud of the Rocket and Groot (I think) one that was storyboarded but never shot and maybe someday he would revisit it.

That idea probably was never broached for Eternals due to why it failed in the first place (time), but perhaps they could have figured something out in the last year with the delays + new mando filming tech Disney has access to.

not going to keep doing this , but pretty crazy for top critics exspecially when top critics had 25 fresh yesterday..

I dont think it's all that crazy if you look at how the average rating is moving.

Looks like most critics are rating it between a 5 or 6 out of ten, with more rating it towards 6 as more are seeing it, with the audience rating being a pretty solid 8. Early audience viewers will probably skew high due to the fact that they probably like Marvel more than the average movie goer (I know that goes for me when I saw it last night to a pretty packed house).

I'd say a 5 to 8 range is probably where most people would fall. I would be surprised if most people loved or out right hated the movie. it is slow, its a new arm of the MCU so there is not a lot of connective tissue, some characters are better than others, the cosmic stuff is pretty cool, the cast chemistry is pretty good, movie is a solid "fine". I imagine most people who would rate it lower than 5 would do so due to it being over 2.5 hours long, and still being just fine.

I would rate this and venom 2 pretty similar in quality, for example, but I would rate Venom 2 higher, since it was so short, I didnt care as much that it was just "fine"

Audiences have self-selection bias (i.e. the vast majority of people choosing to show up to a Marvel movie on day one are fans of Marvel movies). Critics do not.

Those values match the common perception of 'Mediocre-tier Marvel factory film'.

nm watched the rest

if you're taking your kids to see faggots, you got bigger problems than Marvel films.

Chukzombi said:

if you're taking your kids to see faggots, you got bigger problems than Marvel films.

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Christ almighty we get it. You're a closet case that sniffed his roommate's jock in the dorm. Let it go ya psycho.