ETERNALS Opens To A Marvellous $9.5 Million From Thursday Evening Screenings

@PantherKing -

Agreed ! The fight scenes were Epic!! Ikaris looked beautiful when he was flying. I don’t know why critics said it’s light on action when it had plenty !

@PantherKing -

Yes, he was very reminiscent of him in terms of powers. I mean it’s basically the same power set lol

@Oberlin4Prez - This will be the first MCU film I will see on it's second weekend. I was too busy with work that I couldn't take off. I'm going with 5 other people. So I'll see exactly how the crowd is next weekend.

@SonOfAGif - same man. I always make it a thing to see these movies on opening night. After more than 10 years though, my life is far busier these days than when I was in my early 20s.

I don’t think I’d like myself a whole lot if I prioritised these films over my responsibilities.

I may have taken a day off to see the first screening of endgame though.

@TheUnworthyThor - Not gonna lie, I can understand some of the downfalls. There were some scenes where the "acting" looked terrible (i can't understand why chloe zhao chose some terrible edits in the final cut?), the deviants were severely simplified/unimportant, the lore can go over your head if your not paying attention, Makkari/Gilgamesh were interesting but barely in the film, Kingo just exits the ending?, the ending that I won't spoil is a cliffhanger for non comic book fans, the end/post credit will make no sense for non-comic fans, etc.

Its not perfect but not deserving of a 49% rotten score either. I think its a 60% at best and a high 50% if you really want to be honest lol. I think critics didn't like the "serious tone" either compared to shang chi and black widow which were closer to fast paced action comedies. Eternals was more of a slower paced ridley scott or nolan film and had a more serious or emotional tone than action comedy. Again it just didn't meet critic's "expectation of the marvel film they envisioned".

@TheUnworthyThor - I thought it was the worst thing In the MCU by a mile.

Dreadful. It bucked the marvel formula by being insufferably pretentious, boring and poorly acted.

@mastakilla39 - to me, 80% all day long. I agree with you that Zhao had a couple of lines that delivered flat and off-pace and I also thought that the Mahd Wy’ry stuff was actually pointless in the grand scheme of things but the movie still delivered ‘epic’ in an epic way.

@SauronthePower - most of the leads looked like they dropped Xanax before each scene. Lines were mumbled. The attempt at comedy was cringey. Angelina Jolie was miscast. Selma walking around like a zombie with a smile plastered on her face isn’t acting. Ikaris and the Flash-clone really were about the only characters who seemed to click, and Flashette was wasted and lost in an overstuffed film.

I defended the film from those who wanted it to fail, but after seeing it I get the hate. It’s like the director say Highlander, WW and Man of Steel and said “I can smash these movies together.”

Visually, Rangarok brought Kirby weirdness to the screen in a more interesting fashion.

Sorry guys. This one sucked. That doesn’t mean on down on the MCU, it just means I disliked this film intensely.

How much do? I have scene every MCU film in the theaters, opening week (save Black Widow, which we streamed). This film is the only one we did not stay for the extra scenes. We just didn’t care.

@SauronthePower - I've never felt like Jolie was much of an actress. I think she became a star before her skill developed, and she just stopped growing and instead focused on being Angelina Jolie. But the material she was given here was weak, and she was underused. There was nothing for her to do in this movie but attack other characters. Did she have 10 lines? Do you recall any of them?

Sprite was a bizarre character. She kind of made me uncomfortable. The Pinochio / Tinkerbell thing was just creepy (to me). Wooden's not the right word for her, granted. Phastosis power is to make energy machines and be an overwight superhero. Ugh. Madden is a good actor who just wasn't given much to do other than stare, whisper, and look angry. Grrr. No, folks, he's not superman, because Superman is interesting. Hayak's character was useless and drug the movie down in every scene. Kingo was a useless character who wasn't funny, and his pew pew finger power was a bit laughable. He's their Hawkeye, I guess. Only, you know, the kind you would rather punch than watch. Chan is a great actress who wasn't given much to do. But she did freeze a celestial. Who wanted to be froze. Or something like that.

And Flashette was awesome but just not used, outside of some very well down speed scenes. She was the highlight. Helps that I very much like the actress.

And don't get me started on the direction. It's a bad version of Highlander, made for a million-jillion more dollars. Its scale is big, but it's diffuse and stuffed - the scale works against it because there is no time to develop any character into anything resembling - well, a character. It should have been obvious they were fancy robots, because they all acted like robots.

Its funny how divise this [boring] movie is. It's to me Marvel WW84 + Justice League Theatrical. At least Eternals didn't ruin characters we might care about, like those two films did, though. Eternals just ruined characters that no one cares about.

I walked into Shang Chi unfamiliar with the source material and unenthused, and I walked out very impressed. I gave Marvel the benefit of every doubt on Eternals, and it stunk.