[Harry Lime]

Originally Posted by GreenLantern

Watched Eternals last night on Disney+, holy crap that movie is bad. I searched but couldn't find it, is there not a dedicated thread? Spoilers in tags I guess..

Spoiler!

What a horrible movie. All over the place and just super lazy writing. If you couldn't see the Ikarus part coming from a mile away you were blind. The "It must have been deviants" line was hilariously misplaced and obvious. I had to shut it off part way through but then forced myself to turn it back on and finish the last hour.

Bright spots were Angelina Jolie was amazing at her part, her fight scenes were great. The nod to Batman/Superman, although Ikarus smug "I don't wear a cape" was cheesy and Supes would snap his neck in a two second fight. But I digress.

The best part of the movie is the Dane Whitman/Black Knight nods. He was one of the few Marvel characters I obsessed over as a kid and I really hope to see more of him down the line, especially a Blade/Strange type team up with the supernatural heroes would be awesome.

Overall I would say the Rotten Tomatoes score was generous, I'd put it at a 2.5/10 just for the aesthetics and fight scenes. The theme they picked for power display was very well done and pleasing to watch, unlike say... Wheel of Time. But the overall story, writing, dialogue etc.. horrible.

Huge swing and a miss by Marvel.

I couldn't stand the first half, but it got a bit more interesting after the 'introduction of characters' part. All of the characters were just pretentious pricks except for Dane. I think that a lot of the problems stemmed from the Deviants being weak villains, and the script trying to turn boring characters into a deep character study. I actually didn't care who lived or died at any point.