Can you guess whether I liked Eternals or not?
No
No I didn't like it haha
Well that's a bit of a stretch, since I did like most of the movie, I just didn't really feel great about the story's fit in the marvel universe, the character development (?? or lack thereof??) the vague enemy, continuity and consistency in the narrative and the writing choices etc. I enjoyed the CGI, the effects, the cool fight scenes and I can see myself just sitting back to enjoy the show if I completely shut my logical part of the brain off and ignore the story and characters completely.
First off, I just want to point out that Marvel universe has just gotten too big, too messy. Like out of all the superheroes out there, including the genius ones with super technology, the avengers previously existing and x-men with dr. xavier existing somewhere... No one... picked up on Deviants... the magical giant breeding under earth... Eternals and their inconsistencies of existence or some magically flying god that seems like he can be there, but also isn't... It just seems too bizarre to just brush off.
They seem to have a hugely inconsistent influence towards human society. And I just wanted to complain, what a mockery of all the historical figures that have made amazing discoveries or invented devices. They mentioned Da Vinci and how they influenced him to design what he did. Also implied the same with Einstein. Like seriously? They were inspired by you lot... how degrading is that? It felt like someone shat on their faces and claimed their discoveries were nothing. It felt insulting.
Anyway, back to the part about inconsistencies. They seem to be influencing them however they want, except when certain character traits need to be developed, like Druig feeling helpless, or Domo feeling crap about inspiring them with nuclear power. 😒... They can apparently 'protect' the humans from deviants and give them inspirations to make their society grow faster, but there were no good explanations given as to why they couldn't develop the human race faster so either they were incompetent at their job, or they were as dumb as human beings?? I don't know which one it is. Then it seems like they don't seem to have many connections to each other since they had to physically look for each other to communicate with them, it seemed weird that Eternals like Druig, with all his frustrations, didn't just do whatever the hell he want whilst hiding under the radar. I mean, he kind of did that, but with a tiny pointless village... what?
Just so you are aware, average human 7000 years ago, look very different from the average person now... Broad nose, short stature, darker skin and slightly bent postures are mostly the norm in findings. So if the Eternals came to earth and they don't evolve (after Celestials made a mistake with Deviants, they took that ability out apparently according to memory)... so either they came to earth looking like aliens with human features that do not fit in, or they should currently have some cavemen like features. I know for the sake of the movie, it's all fine, and it's something I should ignore, but you know... just wanted to complain.
Anyway, I walked away from more complaints and now i can't be bothered writing.
6/10
