The Eternals - A Boring, Unfocussed Disaster

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The strangest thing about this movie is that these characters have known each other for thousands of years and still have awkward conversations as if they dont know each other that well..after 500 years they would know absolutely everything about each other

I love how every time people hate on a movie that has "diversity" the creators always think people have a problem with the diversity and not how fucking bad the movie is

"The LGBT representation in the movie will save lives." The lack of self awareness of some people is mind blowing. How important do these actors think they are?

The funniest part is the that 'deaf girl' can hear by feeling the vibrations. That's literally how hearing works, which is why the question if a tree falls in the woods and no one is there to hear it, does it make a sound because technically all sound is vibrations until it's heard. So they technically made a mute hero, not a deaf one

"While having a diverse cast is certainly no bad thing, it's also not a magical shield you can use to protect your shitty movie from criticism." This. This is what film and television today doesn't seem to get.

This should’ve been a Disney+ series. Too many characters and plot lines for one movie.

The reason why 2012’s The Avengers was so amazing was because it took 6 characters that were introduced in previous movies and teamed them up to fight together, it did not introduce all 6 of the Avengers at once in the same movie like the Eternals did, instead it connected previous movies that already each introduced their respective protagonists, and teamed them up in one big movie that’s connected to their introductions, therefore not wasting or cramming time with exposition. Now none of us knew who these 10 Eternals were before this movie, so they had to cram their introductions into the first hour and it most certainly didn’t work, which is why you’ll see so many people saying it should’ve been a disney + series

Diverse cast + aimless, jumbled narrative + poor characterization = horrible movie. Bland, uniform cast + aimless, jumbled narrative + poor characterization = horrible movie. Conclusion: Diversity was NOT the problem!

When you have to hide behind "diversity" and "pissing off the right people" then you know the film sucks. The critics aren't going to hold back forever, a bad movie is a bad movie no matter how diverse it is.

Well the whole "reason" they didn't get involved with Thanos is because they only respond to deviant threats yet Thanos is technically part Deviant. Brilliant.

The problem with having a diverse cast from a story telling perspective is you need to give the group a compelling reason to be together, that more homogeneous groups can do without needing to supply an explanation. You have to work hard to do this, meaning you have to give up something else, they did not stick the landing on this one

Honestly it had some good ideas, just not enough time to properly develop them. Should've been a 10 one hour episode series. Would've sparked some interesting conversations

You know, not every comic needs to be made into a movie.

"We need a movie about diversity!" X-Men : Are we a joke to you?

"This movie will save lives!" How melodramatic and narcissistic and full of hubris.....

I love how they are meant to be perfect warriors, yet we have a child and a out of shape man, nice one

As soon as they said one of the characters was called Ikaris, I knew he’d die in the Sun. literally within minutes of the movie starting, I saw that coming.

A question: If the Earth was supposed to become another Celestial, wouldn't Starlord's Dad have known, or at least noticed, when he was planting his spores?

I never understood how a race with complete control over their bodies could have one of them be deaf.