Eternals | Full Length Reaction
Added 2023-04-12 06:20:56 +0000 UTCHey guys!! We're continuing the MCU with the movie Eternals! So.... I'm gonna be honest with you guys, you were right. The movie was very meh:( I tried my best to enjoy it to the best of my ability, I gave it a bunch of chances and I did really like the concept of the film! I felt like the actors and actresses did well and some of their performances REALLY stuck out to me which was great:) but yeah, I hope you know just because I don't personally love a movie doesn't mean you can't and vice versa!! Differing opinions and giving an honest critique of everything I experience are the things that help make this channel what it is so please no hate.<3 I did have fun with it though hehe Enjoy!!
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I fully agree. This movie, and I’ll say it, sucked balls!
Hammad Malik
2023-12-29 22:07:42 +0000 UTCMy take-away from this film is that they are trying to say, as with most films, that humans and Earth are special., so that we can validated for believing we are special, lol. Also, that this might have happened before in the universe (within the comic universe, I mean) because Arishem takes them to examine their memories to see if sacrificing Tiamut is really worth letting humans remain in the universe. Like, they are in trouble, but Arishem has been around since the beginning, so he must know that once and a while the life on a planet does end up being more important to the universe than one more Celestial. Plus, there might be a bigger plot with the Celestials down the pipe line. There is this whole story line in the comics about the end of the universe and the beginning of the next; Birth, Death, and Rebirth and all that. Big Bang, Big Crunch. Why there needs to be more Celestials. Why Ego existed. Why do the Guardians of the Galaxy live on a mining colony that is made from the head of a dead Celestial. Who cut the head off that Celestial and why. You're almost caught up with the current Marvel stuff so I can tell you that we still don't have the answers to these plots, except maybe how the head of the Celestial got cut off (as in what weapon was used but still don't know why, I mean). Most comic plots revolve around the science of the time so during the 70's and 80s we still believed in the Big Crunch being the inevitable end of the universe rather them having learned the evidence yet of things constantly expanding. But there are so many directions it can still go. Also, remember we have categories of 'beings' and 'energies' in the MCU to remember. For beings: We have Celestials, which you just learned more about. We have Cosmic Entities (4 of them, Eternity, Infinity, Death, and Oblivion), which are physical representations of abstract existence (we got a very brief glimpse in Guardians 2 of one of the entities when Ego touched Starlord's head and Starlord had that vision of everything, most likely Infinity i.e. infinite space); the original plot of Thanos and the infinity stones was that he was in love with the cosmic being Death and wanted to bring balance to the universe as a gift of love to Death but also so that Death would pay more attention to him, she didn't because she is Death and Death always has a job to do, of course. We have the Elders of the Universe, which you have seen as the Collector and the Grandmaster. We have the Watchers from the What If show, multiverse race of beings that chronicle everything across the multiverse but don't interfere. We have the Phoenix Force (cosmic entity of life and destruction), which mostly stays with the X-Men plots for now. AND...there are about 12 other categories of cosmic beings that the MCU haven't even touched on so no reason to bring them up now. We did see a couple of new beings in the Loki series, well Kang isn't quite a cosmic being, but he did mention Alioth the creature that eats everything at the end of time. In the comics, Alioth is Kang's greatest enemy. Its a very messy explanation and brings in time travel and other dimensions to even explain that relationship but none the less, Alioth is a special being from the dimension of Limbo that consumes time energy, however, not quite a cosmic entity since he not on the cosmic scale of things but more like an unending force of a being that hunts for temporal energy. There is, however, a cosmic being that does destroy/consume on a cosmic scale but since the MCU hasn't brought him up yet, he might not be relevant. He was in the older comic book movies before the MCU and with the rumors of Fantastic Four coming to the MCU, it could be possible we hear mention or even see him. As for energies; we have Cosmic Energy which you have seen in the form of these Celestials and Eternals but also in the form of the Infinity Stones, also known as the energy of the universe and cosmic forces of the universe. The stones are said to be left over forms of those energies, concentrated into ingots. We have Chaos energy, this more so of Wanda's magic specifically but this energy is wielded by others in the comics, not just Wanda. In with that, we have Magic, this is more concentrated in 'Self' energy, ambient energy, and extra dimensional energy. Spring boarding off that, We have Dimensional Energy, energy that exists simply because dimensions exist and create energy by existing in the same space as us but just at higher and lower dimensions. Then we have Quantum Energy, Multiverse Energy, and Pym Particles, these are subatomic energies, and yes, multiverse is different from extra-dimensions. Multiverse is created from the idea of infinite time and timelines. Extra-dimensions are created from the idea of infinite space. Both could ultimately led to the 2 of the 4 Cosmic beings, Eternity and Infinity. There are others, smaller categories and very specific to one or two characters in the comics but this is mostly everything in the MCU. I could go into the category of metals too, since so many special weapons and tools exist in the MCU but those are better explained as they crop up in the films since the films sort of decide on what is possible for those things to do. Biggest take away from the metals/tools category is that some metals/tools are sentient, in a way. Some are extremely advance tech with whatever comes after nanotech in our understanding; some are AI; some are possessed by souls or impulses given sentience, like unquenchable desire, desire from hunger or killing, some are more task or 'will of the wielder' type of sentient, like Mjolnir, while others have a will of their own like the Cloak of Levitation. Mostly though, for purposes of the story and films, these are all 'mcguffins'. They do what the plot needs them to do at the time the plot demands, lol.
TJ Bigelow
2023-04-20 16:12:43 +0000 UTCYou know, if you like Mesopotamia/Ancient Sumeria soooo much, lol, then I'm baffled as to why you haven't watched Conan the Barbarian yet. Takes place during that time period after all...just saying ;) lol
TJ Bigelow
2023-04-20 03:23:15 +0000 UTCDidn't they literally explained that they don't interfere unless Deviants are involved?
FatLittleButterfly
2023-04-17 08:45:43 +0000 UTCwe will just have too see when the eternals tv series comes out next year its supposed too address that issue
Paul Carroll
2023-04-16 01:06:08 +0000 UTCSo here's my grape with MCU Marvel movies The bad guys always have to be stronger and with more powers than our heroes (the one up-manship thing) I'm old enough to remember Marvel show like Spiderman cartoon and the TV show The Hulk, OK I know it was a budget thing and lack of technology but it they had great storytelling and story and the villans were just everyday villainous humans. BATMAN and Wonder woman used to lock up there villains so they could return one a regular basis, have you noticed the in the MCU all the villains are killed off in every movie, This is why the Daredevil and Defenders saga do so well, we get a foe the we can get to know every week. To point of this rant, is Thanos successfully wiped out half the universe, where were these so called protectors "Eternals" when this was going down??? All that I was thinking about was Thanos you could have stop him with one blow...
RebRox65
2023-04-15 11:08:48 +0000 UTCWith the overwhelming amount of "Everything Marvel/Star Wars sucks" coming in from every direction, Disney actually does need some defenders - those being people who happen to not just slam everything they put out. As for you not saying everything Phase 4 was bad, here is your exact quote "The Phase4 MsheU doesn't feel like that. It feels like random stuff pumped out to ride the hype". You may not have explicitly said it was all bad, but you certainly implied it. And you used MsheU - everyone I've seen use that was a right-winger. but maybe you're not, maybe you just can't stand women being superheros? I don't know any other reason you'd use that.
Richard Maurer
2023-04-14 19:49:53 +0000 UTCJust that I never said everything in phase 4 was bad. I said I hardly liked anything of it and that it lacked what made the earlier phases great. You showed up, white-knighted for disney (who realy need help), and tried to paint the picture of me being a right wing freak. And now you try to spin it as if I was the agressor here, Nice try, I'm out, enjoy your win.
Dioskur
2023-04-14 05:56:14 +0000 UTCOh nice, the old/ I can't take comments that disagree with me without overreacting/ meme makes a comeback. I'm (and quite few other people, as I've seen on YT) getting sick of the trendy "everything Phase 4 is Bad" bullshit that people throw out there like it's a fact that we're all just supposed to accept. There things in phase 4 that are bad, but there are things in phase 4 that are great too. with most of phase 4 being somewhere in between these two extremes.
Richard Maurer
2023-04-13 17:51:21 +0000 UTCOh nice, the good old /Everyone who doesn't agree with me is Hitler/ meme makes a comeback!
Dioskur
2023-04-13 16:32:05 +0000 UTC@ Ryan - Thanks for this, agree with 99% of what you say. The Phase 4 bashing is just trendy, and is really boring at this point.
Richard Maurer
2023-04-13 07:51:34 +0000 UTCEternals is sort of the reverse version of The Defenders to me. The Defenders should've been a film. It's stretched out, has a lot of filler, and could've been told easily in 2.5 hrs. Eternals should've been a 4+ hour miniseries. It's cramped, overly condensed, and needed a lot more time to breathe. And if it did have to be condensed? They picked the wrong characters to focus on. Sersi and Ikarus, the two main leads, are the least interesting and least likable characters in the entire film. So many other characters like Druig, Makkari, Kingo, and Phastos are far more compelling characters. Sersi meanwhile is basically a writer's thesis statement on how to make a character with even less personality than the characters from the terrible Inhumans show. And Ikarus is just another evil Superman. Is it the worst? No. Frankly the fact that critics thought Iron Man peeing in his suit in IM2 was worth a certified fresh but this was a rotten astounds me. The MCU, even before 2020, has done so much worse. I mean, I mentioned Inhumans. That show was far, far worse than anything the MCU's done since.
Inhuman Paradox
2023-04-13 04:36:36 +0000 UTCI'll disagree there. But to be clear, I also don't buy into the "Phase 4 bad" narrative to begin with. Personally, Phase 4 is a microcosm of the MCU as a whole, a fair amount of both good and bad material. I feel people overlook the bad stuff in Phase 1-3 AND the good stuff in Phase 4, but there's a fair bit of both. I mean, Iron Man 2 is a terrible movie with just as much childish cringe comedy as any of Phase 4's worst. I mean, are we really gonna complain about the twerk scene in SH but give Iron Man pissing in his own suit a pass? REALLY Marvel Fandom? The difference is that Phase 4 has good and bad sort of clustered together in awkward ways, and doesn't feel like it has as much of a clear goal as Phase 1-3 do in retrospect. But I stress, in retrospect. People forget, but the MCU was not as planned out as we tend to think. In fact, the story for IW and Endgame wasn't set at all until 2016. A year after Age of Ultron had already came out. Up until 2015, it was still assumed internally that Thanos would be trying to impress Lady Death like in the comics. Hell, the Infinity Stones weren't even going to be a part of the MCU until 2013. The Tesseract was not meant to be an Infinity Stone, it was just the cosmic cube. The Aether as well (Which caused a Post-Production CGI change to Guardians 1 by the way). They were never Infinity Stones until that was retroactively decided. Phase 1 and especially 2, were basically just as aimless as Phase 4. But we've rose-tinted them. We've convinced ourselves they weren't because we got Phase 3 which tied it all together. It's all a retroactive feeling though, and any promises that they were all connected back then was just PR. The fact of the MCU's production is, they were always winging it. They were always aimless. And yes, they were always a mixed bag. Phase 4 is, for what it's worth, probably the most stylistically diverse Phase since 1. Phase 2 became more homogenous (Likely because Joss Whedon script doctored every film in that phase other than WS and Guardians. Coincidentally, Phase 2's best films). Phase 3 was so homogenous that directors felt like interchangeable hired guns. Phase 4 at least has a complete lack of that homogeneity. Every film in Phase 4 looks and feels different, even if it's not all good. IMO, that at least counts for something.
Inhuman Paradox
2023-04-13 04:26:56 +0000 UTCThe early half of phase 4 was great. It started to get pretty dull after spiderman no way home and She Hulk.
LightsCameraJake
2023-04-13 00:01:44 +0000 UTCPhase 4 is all bad - never saw that take before /s. Do you write for ScreenRant? Oh, wait, you put the "MsheU" thing in there. Are you right-wing Youtuber?
Richard Maurer
2023-04-12 22:47:40 +0000 UTC'Very meh' perfectly sums up the MCU phase 4.
David Crabtree
2023-04-12 16:32:12 +0000 UTCNgl I thought this movie was really different and i liked it compared to some other phase 4 titles
Ian
2023-04-12 16:32:10 +0000 UTCI don't like the movie. I think it is possible for people to like it but I don't. That alone wouldn't be bad. I didn't like each and every movie in the infinity saga. The 2nd and 3rd Ironman movies were not as good as the first, but it didn't matter because they felt like weak parts of a great overall storyline. The Phase4 MsheU doesn't feel like that. It feels like random stuff pumped out to ride the hype. Well for me they killed the hype. I watched some of it and hardly liked anything. Its crashing like StarWars has. If you want it ruined, let Disney have it!
Dioskur
2023-04-12 16:28:26 +0000 UTCI wonder what happen to men who tried to date underaged-looking girl, and that girl stayed that way for 7000 years. You mentioned about having experience, but you gotta remember all they ever did was to kill deviants then basically disappear. They weren't even suppose to interact with humans like Ajak or Sersi did, and most of them didn't.
FatLittleButterfly
2023-04-12 16:21:05 +0000 UTCI thought movie was meh. Watchable but meh. And to be honest i wasn't interested in Eternals even when i heard they gonna make movie about them. They were never that interesting in comics either.
Kalle-Tapani Isomaa
2023-04-12 15:13:31 +0000 UTC
