Movies ETERNALS (Opens $71M in U.S., $161.7M Globally; Lowest Rated MCU Film on RT)

If you have seen ETERNALS, how would you rate it?

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RayA said:
One of the most confusing things going on is how they made Ego in Guardians of the Galaxy a celestial. And here we have actual, giant, super duper Celestials. What's going on there?
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Ego is confused.
 
xenomorph4prez said:
I liked the movie but may have put too much thought into it.

So Arishem The Judge is a stand in for a creator god. The Eternals by extension are created beings (angels) whose purpose is to shepherd this creator gods creation into maturity (in reality to a energy quota) that will power the birth of another celestial causing the death of Earth but the creation of untold life throughout the universe.

Cerci is a biology teacher who decorates her class with pictures of Darwin who is a prophet of evolution. In the MCU Arishem is the creator of life on Earth therefore he is the manifest god of evolution in a way.

I found it odd that the movie is about a rebellion against a god stand in but the god being rebelled against isn't a god of morals or laws but the very process of life itself.

If the surviving eternals are successful in causing the eternals stationed on other planets to rebel against the celestials then wouldn't that ultimately lead to stagnation in life creation in the universe?

I also found it strange that Icarus who was faithful to Arishem (life process) cast himself into the sun (hell) yet Cerci who is in full on rebellion against Arishem is lifted up to heaven to be an intercessor for man in Arishem's coming judgement.

The intercessor for man in Christianity is Jesus Christ who offers mortal man eternal life.

The intercessor for man in Eternals is Cerci who offers a fellow eternal mortal death.

What message is this film trying to get across or should I have just turned my brain off?
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Give Marvel your money

That’s the deep hidden message
 
xenomorph4prez said:
The Celestial that is born from the planets demise will then replace the life taken by creating new life. It's the circle of life at the highest level, in the MCU anyway.

What of the new life that would have been brought about by Tiamut or all the other unborn celestials who will be sabotaged by rebelling eternals?

At least the movie pointed out the bias of it being a human focused story but what sentient beings would willingly except destruction for the creation of new life? Given the option I wouldn't think many.

I guess that is why Arishem is The Judge. He decides the fate of life but if all eternals rebel that doesn't seem like it would be in the best interest of life as a whole.

I mean when you think about it it isn't really devious so much as out of necessity that Arishem erases the memory of the eternals because they seem to imprint on the species they are in charge of in order to have that species best interest at heart but in the end they are just tools used to create energy for the propagation of a higher being. It's not an ideal situation for all involved but such is the essence of life.
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Yea I get that point but like you said it's the circle of life and sometimes that circle gets fucked up. Arishem claims that they are necessary but why? What happens if he stops creating life? There seems to be plenty of it out there already. Those populations\species are honestly creating new life as well just maybe not on the scale the celestials do.

I really don't see a bad guy here. This is like an antelope vs a lion. Neither one is bad they are just each acting in their own interest.
 
Watching this right now. For all the hate it got, the story isn't that bad really.

But I can't believe how woke and inclusive this movie is. So Eternals are basically demigods but suffer from the same disabilities/insecurities/racial/sexual identity issues as only around 10% of the human population does? What?
 
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Saw this recently.

Here's my takeaway

Cerci/Gemma Chan is kinda hot
Kingo was funny

Other than that the movie seemed kinda pointless and a bit out of place in the overall MCU story.
 
SSgt Dickweed said:
Watching this right now. For all the hate it got, the story isn't that bad really.

But I can't believe how woke and inclusive this movie is. So Eternals are basically demigods but suffer from the same disabilities/insecurities/racial/sexual identity issues as only around 10% of the human population does? What?
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I liked the story. And actually there's a thread around Mayberry these past couple of days about plot exposition in film. There's a pivotal scene in this movie that dumps A LOT of plot exposition in a few minute sequence but I thought it was really effectively done.

As for the diversity of the cast, I thought Zhao handled that really well. I liked it. It felt organic, not heavy-handed to me.

Though I guess the implication is the Eternals invented English and ASL cause they were speaking/signing them long before humanity would be.

The cast, for me, was one of the strongest features. I thought pretty much every one did a good job and pretty much everyone had his or her moment to shine. Take Don Lee, for instance. He has the least screentime, I would wager, of any of the Eternals, but he delivered the goods any time he was on screen, making Gilgamesh a solid character.
 
mixmastermo said:
Saw this recently.

Here's my takeaway

Cerci/Gemma Chan is kinda hot
Kingo was funny

Other than that the movie seemed kinda pointless and a bit out of place in the overall MCU story.
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I thought the notion that earthlings reversing Thanos' action and saving the universe as an impetus for

Ajak changing her mind about the emergence was a nice tie in to the broader Marvel story.

The bit where Sprite questions who is going to lead the Avengers in the absence of Rogers and Stark seemed a bit tacked on but led to what I thought was one of the funnier bits in the movie.

I could lead them. I think I'd be pretty good at that.

Ajak, didn't even choose you to lead us..

Savage lol.
 
ufcfan4 said:
I thought the notion that earthlings reversing Thanos' action and saving the universe as an impetus for

Ajak changing her mind about the emergence was a nice tie in to the broader Marvel story.

The bit where Sprite questions who is going to lead the Avengers in the absence of Rogers and Stark seemed a bit tacked on but led to what I thought was one of the funnier bits in the movie.

I could lead them. I think I'd be pretty good at that.

Ajak, didn't even choose you to lead us..

Savage lol.
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In response to your first spoiler: MCU didn't really need that tie in, so in a sense that also felt tacked on
 
mixmastermo said:
In response to your first spoiler: MCU didn't really need that tie in, so in a sense that also felt tacked on
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I guess the question is how they factor into the remainder of this current phase of the MCU. I think it's tough for me to judge because the pandemic delayed a lot of the stuff anyway and there have only been a few releases but I can't help but think this phase doesn't seem to have the focus of the first where it felt like everything was building quite nicely to something broader. Of course, hindsight vs. not knowing what the future holds is biasing that perception I'm sure.
 
Still have to watch it, not sure why it gets this much hate.
 
It was a dull, boring turd. Forgettable trash.


To it's credit, the "diversity" was done organically and wasn't obtrusive. The gay characters were fine, and not shoved in your face. So kudos for doing that right.
 
Just watched this. When the black dude kissed the muslim dude, I turned it off
 
Just watched this with my wife. Having not watched any MCU films since Endgame we’ve decided to start making our way through the phase 4 films. I thought movie kind of sucked. I knew it wasn’t liked, but I was hoping that it would turn out to perhaps be an underrated sleeper that was unappreciated because of deviating from the standard Marvel formula. Alas, while it does deviate from the formula the movie was still not that good.

Not sure how I’d score it, but imo the worse MCU film to date.
 
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