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#also critiquing the eternals for not preventing human conflicts isn’t valid and I’ll tell you why:
guyramsayfieri · 2 years
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Idk man, the eternals (while definitely having some interesting and problematique optics) wasn’t bad. I think a lot of people forget they have to buy into the logic of the movie world and just have fun with it. It felt like a good exploration of what living for millennia might do to a group of people deigned as gods, but who also still view themselves as family. Yeah the exposition was clunky but what can you do when you have to drop decades of comic history in 2 1/2 hours?
#also…maybe it’s just me but phastos saying I regret helping humanity advance#didn’t mean he directly contributed to Hiroshima and nuclear weaponry rather than any tech he offered us would result in our advancement to#that point and he regretted /that/#idk I’d say bad optics to give it to the only black actor but he wasn’t? and the cast was the most diverse I’ve ever seen in a marvel film#(in any mainstream pop culture film actually) and it was grappling with such big themes that idk it feels like#people critiquing it so much really want to see diverse films and creators fail#text#also makkari and druig were my favorite characters#Gilgamesh hit close to#top character but idk the way druig and makkari interacted was so much#also critiquing the eternals for not preventing human conflicts isn’t valid and I’ll tell you why:#they’re not real people they’re storytelling devices and the conflict between ajak and druig was free-will vs control#like would you rather we exist as unfeeling robots for a god above us to control? or allow us to be messy and fucked up but autonomous#that’s what that’s about. they’re not real people so their actions can’t be judged morally#phastos was also the sweetest man ever I loved him so much#him and sersi#also all of the eternals were so very hot#thank you Chloe zhao#also Karuns little thank you speech meant so much to me I was 🥺#do wish that kumail#was in the final fight but I think the internal family conflict - paralleling him and ikarus- was so cool#I loved how they contrasted each other - the not turning on family thing and being neutral was wrong but 🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️ idk someone had to#and his powers were the least instrumental to the final fight#*when I say most diverse I do mean it showed a range of races gender and sexuality
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