Current Events > I don't get why critics didn't like Eternals *spoilers*

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It's basically just like every other Marvel movie. I'd put it in the middle of the pack but definitely near the top of first appearances.

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I agree TC

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There are atleast 8 or 9 mcu titles it has no business being rated lower than.

Bump

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Maybe they're bored with standard marvel films I guess?
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every other marvel movie doesn't cram 10 new bland characters and expect you to care about them

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My guess is that they now expected Infinity War/Endgame

People tend to forget that Marvel movies are more by the numbers than that.

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and they also don't have to answer why these gods weren't around for thanos and give an extremely hard to swallow explanation

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I've seen some reviewers upset that they hired an accomplished director but had her do a typical Marvel movie. I'm not sure I agree with that thought, I think it being good or bad should mean more than if it felt like a movie from that director, but I think for some reason some were expecting it to be more than just a Marvel movie.

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ledbowman posted...

every other marvel movie doesn't cram 10 new bland characters and expect you to care about them

I didn't find them any more shallow than any other marvel character. Character development is not the MCU's strong suit

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Scintillant posted...

It's basically just like every other Marvel movie. I'd put it in the middle of the pack but definitely near the top of first appearances.

Its worse and way more boring, So I heard,

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Bass_X0 posted...

Its worse and way more boring, So I heard,

it's not really

As far as "first appearance" movies I'd only put Shang-Chi, Guardians, and maybe Black Panther above it.

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Scintillant posted...

it's not really

As far as "first appearance" movies I'd only put Shang-Chi, Guardians, and maybe Black Panther above it.

I'm inclined to agree with this and even black panther is a stretch since his first appearance was civil war

No, it sucked and made no sense.

The mission of The Eternals was really to grow the population. Why? What did the population do that helped grow the celestial in the planet? I get that Earth is an egg, but how does having people or even just living beings on it help grow the being inside of it?

Also, they say they didn't help stop Thanos because he wasn't a threat, but the guy wiped out half the population, which seems to be a detriment to their main goal. Even if only the two Eternals knew the truth about their mission at the time, you would think they would get the OK to help out because he is removing half the population of the galaxy, not just earth. It affected EVERY PLANET, EVERY 'EGG' with a celestial in it.

Last thing, so like how does the celestial know when to hatch? Is that one last baby born so the population hits 8 billion or something and then he is full and ready to be born? Also, that massive hand and head coming out of the earth would have caused catastrophic activities on the planet. So many earthquakes alone, shifting the plates would have caused tsunamis and tectonic shifts that would have devastated the planet. That too made no sense.

The CGI was terrible. Pip The Troll looked like he belonged in Space Jam as a cartoon character.

The script was astonishingly bad. Every exposition dump is followed by someone else going 'So What You're Saying Is' and then there are plot holes every 5 minutes, basically if someone speaks they go against what was said only a few minutes before.

Then you have the time jumps, but none of the eras we see actually matter. They could have done cool things with events through history, but no we just get random dates throughout time to just be boring backdrops to dump more exposition.

The acting was fine, the directing was fine but really the plot, effects and script were just bad. It's deserves a C for sure. Shang Chi was much better. I'd have given Shang Chi a B.

Eternals felt too much like a young adult novel adapted into a movie like Maze Runner or Divergent. It felt shoddy, and the casting of Harry as Thanos's brother is like a bad gimmick to get teen girls interested.

Marvel movies used to feel like they were made for adults to be able to enjoy them, not anymore. We will never get anything heavy like Civil War, Endgame, or Winter Soldier again.

Mech_Battalion posted...

No, it sucked and made no sense.

The mission of The Eternals was really to grow the population. Why? What did the population do that helped grow the celestial in the planet? I get that Earth is an egg, but how does having people or even just living beings on it help grow the being inside of it?

Also, they say they didn't help stop Thanos because he wasn't a threat, but the guy wiped out half the population, which seems to be a detriment to their main goal. Even if only the two Eternals knew the truth about their mission at the time, you would think they would get the OK to help out because he is removing half the population of the galaxy, not just earth. It affected EVERY PLANET, EVERY 'EGG' with a celestial in it.

Last thing, so like how does the celestial know when to hatch? Is that one last baby born so the population hits 8 billion or something and then he is full and ready to be born? Also, that massive hand and head coming out of the earth would have caused catastrophic activities on the planet. So many earthquakes alone, shifting the plates would have caused tsunamis and tectonic shifts that would have devastated the planet. That too made no sense.

It made perfect sense to me, also lol at expecting realism in a marvel movie

Mech_Battalion posted...

The CGI was terrible. Pip The Troll looked like he belonged in Space Jam as a cartoon character.

The script was astonishingly bad. Every exposition dump is followed by someone else going 'So What You're Saying Is' and then there are plot holes every 5 minutes, basically if someone speaks they go against what was said only a few minutes before.

Then you have the time jumps, but none of the eras we see actually matter. They could have done cool things with events through history, but no we just get random dates throughout time to just be boring backdrops to dump more exposition.

The acting was fine, the directing was fine but really the plot, effects and script were just bad. It's deserves a C for sure. Shang Chi was much better. I'd have given Shang Chi a B.

Eternals felt too much like a young adult novel adapted into a movie like Maze Runner or Divergent. It felt shoddy, and the casting of Harry as Thanos's brother is like a bad gimmick to get teen girls interested.

Marvel movies used to feel like they were made for adults to be able to enjoy them, not anymore. We will never get anything heavy like Civil War, Endgame, or Winter Soldier again.

Couldn't disagree more. Winter Soldier is the best MCU movie though. Civil War and Endgame are forgettable

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They didn't get the "incentive" to like the movie.

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Dont get it either. Ranks in the middle upper middle of the marvel movie ranking for me. It was better than Black Widow to me. Both had boring and slow parts, but at least I want to see Eternals again, while I dont really want to see Black Widow again.

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