The Eternals (Chloé Zhao, November 5, 2021) Movie • Page 22

the worst choice in a MCU movie in some time. baffling at best

 

On the contrary, I wasn't baffled by it at all.

 

yeah, this movie kinda came and went with me, so i don't see myself rewatching anytime soon unless to "prep" for a hopefully far better sequel. don't feel or get the need to be overtly militant about it being good or bad or especially beat to death how much of an idiot someone is for the opposite take (i hate how i'm not merely talking about this thread/film as far as that shit goes)

everyone sucks but me

 

Still 45 minutes left. This is just mostly dull and boring. I have super hero movie fatigue when the entire world will end if they don’t save the day. We need smaller stakes movies.

Also LOL at anyone acting like this is any different than other marvel movies. I wouldn’t have ever thought it was a Chloe Zhao movie if I didn’t already know that.

 

Actually this feels more like a shitty DC movie than a regular marvel movie.

 

Yeah this was just mostly boring. Definitely won’t ever rewatch this one.

 

Using a terrible war crime for cheap sympathy points in a comic book movie isn’t baffling to you? K.

 

Like enjoy this movie if you want but that was gross

 

It was lame and gross but it wasn't baffling to me because it's not the first superhero movie to do that.

The X-Men contains a holocaust scene showing Magneto's origin and The Wolverine opens with Nagasaki.

 

I gotta watch this movie to see what's got everyone so agitated lol

oh, and this website has a block function, right? we all know that? k cool

 

Didn't the Assembled episode for Shang Chi air on the same day as the movie came on Disney+? Where are the episodes for Hawkeye and Eternals?

 

The Assembled episodes come out the same day as the Blu-ray release, I think. Still a couple weeks away.

 

I am fairly certain I watched the Shang-Chi one on the d+ release date.

 

Shang-Chi assembled episode was great. It's the only one I've watched, though.

 

what does you and your mom being jewish have to do with anything? a jew asking

 

I watched this 2 days ago and i already forgot most of it.

 

I feel like it was quite effective in Wonder Woman. It drove home the point of the entire film.

 

i’m gonna go out on a limb here but i’d imagine the people of hiroshima and nagasaki were more affected by the dropping of atomic bombs than jews almost 10k miles away, again as a jew myself

 

I deleted my posts.

I don't have any excuse other than that it's been a long day and I'm posting in between doing IT work and yes, I did completely forget Eternals used Hiroshima and not the Holocaust.

Let's pretend I'm really embarrassed and annoyed at myself and I'd really like everyone to just pretend this didn't happen.

I do still stand by my not being bothered by the scene, but I realize that's not nearly as important a take as I made it sound before.

I work in a hotel on the beach so I'm going to go walk into the ocean now.

 

i mean, no one is cancelling you, you don’t have to do a notes app apology lol. it’s fine.

 

Pretend what didn't happen? Have fun in the ocean! When are you coming back? ...You are coming back, right?

 

I've since reassessed my feelings re: that scene, which I didn't have a problem with at first (seeing the headline "Marvel's first gay character is a war criminal" was one of the things that changed my mind), but it still doesn't affect how I feel about the movie as a whole. Seeing Gemma Chan, Kumail Nanjiani, and Don Lee in a Marvel film directed by Chloe Zhao meant too much to me. And I honestly did enjoy it a lot despite its other flaws.

 

I just have to go swim to Japan and apologize.

Cut to the next day: "Some American just washed up on the beach, said "Gomen nasai", and left; it was weird."

 

Now that I'm hopefully thinking clearly, I am curious what the Japanese take is on this being used in the movie.

I get why it was done; because it is a well-known and symbolic representation of man's capacity for destruction.

Sure, they could have made something up, but I'm not sure it would have had the same effect vs. something like this that people understand immediately.

I personally don't think that's necessarily cheap or exploitative, and if they had used the Holocaust, I'd be standing by that assessment.

 

we are in a film universe that still uses sokovia as a touchstone for a terrible world event that everyone remembers. they simply didn’t have to use an actual war crime from the real world in which 150k people died