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Frank Longo
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19. "Manages to be way too much and way too little at once."
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Way too much as in too many characters, too much exposition, too many character decisions and moments that didn’t seem to make sense.

Way too little as in too little character development, too little non-CGI action, too few reasons to care.

Zhao doesn’t really get to do much save for a few pseudo-Malick montages and some expansive nature settings (way too much of this movie is just on a beach or in a desert, lol). The cast is largely fine, though they just aren’t given much to do. The 2h45 run time is brutal. Think this could’ve been more successful if they’d just had 2 or 3 fewer Eternals on the team.

And nitpicky, admittedly, but there’s a CGI moment in the mid-credits scene that’s reeeeeally rough. No clue if they rushed that or what, but sheesh. Hard to get excited about Eternals 2.

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Eternals (Chloe Zhao (!!!), 2021) [View all] , bwood, Thu May-20-21 04:44 PM
 
Subject Author Message Date ID
Who kicked off the give indy filmmaker big franchise film craze?
May 19th 2021
1
Favreau?..
May 20th 2021
3
      Favreau had already done Elf and Zathura by that point.
May 24th 2021
7
           I don't consider Elf or Zathura blockbuster films...
May 24th 2021
8
Trailer
May 24th 2021
4
the trailer has me interested in finding out wtf this is
May 24th 2021
5
Im with you on the last two statements.
May 24th 2021
6
I'm with you on this
May 24th 2021
9
Full trailer (not watching)
Aug 19th 2021
10
I watched...what is this even about? Trailer reveals nothing really
Aug 19th 2021
11
      Really? I thought this one told us much more.
Aug 19th 2021
12
      every major gamble has paid off royally though
Aug 19th 2021
13
      The fucked with the timeline, and that caused a 'equal and opposite' eff...
Aug 24th 2021
14
Not sure anyone cares about this coming out
Nov 04th 2021
15
I think it’s key to view it as a building block.
Nov 05th 2021
16
looks stupid. I’ll catch it on d+ for free whenever it makes it there
Nov 05th 2021
17
yeah this marvel phase about to be rough lol.
Nov 05th 2021
18
this was a really bad movie. period.
Nov 06th 2021
20
Should have been a Disney + series. Spoilers
Nov 07th 2021
21
Agreed.
Nov 07th 2021
22
Agreed on long form. Disagree on alpha deviant
Nov 07th 2021
24
What about the alpha deviant showcased any depth of character?
Jan 13th 2022
26
a series probably would had made more sense
Jan 13th 2022
25
yeah...
Jan 15th 2022
28
Yup. This just wasn’t gonna work as a movie.
Jan 18th 2022
29
I don't think that was the issue either
Jan 25th 2022
30
      That problem could have been solved if it was a limited series...
Jan 25th 2022
31
      Yep. That would have fleshed all of this out
Jan 25th 2022
33
      You don't think *what* was the issue, exactly?
Jan 25th 2022
32
Well shot. Too many characters to do them all justice
Nov 07th 2021
23
this shouldve been a 5 minute montage in the beginning of a better film.
Jan 13th 2022
27
She gave us Ikaris flying into the sun....
Feb 13th 2022
34
Man this was garbage.
Apr 04th 2022
35
Yeah. Swing and a miss for me...
Apr 04th 2022
36
      Right. Avengers didn't notice a monster the size of a mountain coming
Apr 04th 2022
37
           Not only that - that mountain is STILL THERE!!!
Apr 05th 2022
38
                I think we should give them a little bit more credit.
Apr 05th 2022
39
                     I’m sure they’ll come up with an explanation…
Apr 05th 2022
40
                          Yeah I'm not trying to defend this shit tbh.
Apr 06th 2022
41

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