Factual error: Druig leads several warriors outside Tenochtitlan as it was sacked by the Spanish conquistadores, and they live peacefully in the nearby forest, for 500 years. The forest is of course the virgin Amazon forest, as captions say. Small problem; Tenochtitlan was in Central Mexico.
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I watched this movie on Disney +.
As of writing this review, I have not yet seen The Marvels, so I can not comment on if The Marvels is worse yet. That said, right now Eternals for me is easily the worst film in the MCU line up, when it comes to theatrical films.
It is uninspired, dull, and gives us a team of characters we have little reason to care about.
It forces the Eternals into the narrative world of the MCU, saying they've always been here but then hand waves them away as not being involved with the other films or stories or the fight against Thanos in the most stupid way that doesn't make sense.
We didn't need these characters, we didn't need this story. And later movies like Brave New World somehow use this film as a way of bringing Adamantium into the MCU.
When these characters die. I don't care. When these characters are fighting... I don't care. When these characters are on screen... I don't care.
Uninteresting, meaningless. And aside from making a set piece appear in Brave New World with said Adamantium being introduced... this seems to have absolutely no impact on the MCU as a greater whole at all. Which makes this the most pointless film in the MCU as well. It adds virtually nothing to the over arching story or universe.
The one cool thing I did get from this, is I watched this movie after I had watched Game of Thrones and the show Humans. So seeing actors from both those shows pop up in this was interesting.
That said... having your only big name actor/star in the main line up of this film being Angelina Jolie, with all the rest being unknowns or just TV stars/actors... that also had to have had a big effect on the box office in a big way.
This is an easy 2 star film, didn't like it at all. For me this is the MCU's worst film. (at least until I see The Marvels)
Mistake Status: I will probably get to it eventually... maybe.
More mistakes in Eternals
Dane Whitman: Why didn't you guys help fight Thanos, or any war, or all the terribe things throughout history?
Sersi: We were instructed not to interfere in any human conflicts unless Deviants were involved.
Dane Whitman: By who?
Trivia: When Kingo doesn't want to leave because he's making a trilogy, he says they just got BTS to do a cameo. This is a reference to the South Korean boy band, BTS. Their song "Friends" is also featured in the next scene. The line made have been added in because there was a scene cut in Marvel's series "The Falcon and the Winter Soldier" where actor Danny Ramirez ad libbed the line "I wish we were all more like the boy band BTS." Fans reacted by asking Marvel to release the BTS cut scene.
Suggested correction: It never says that the people who live with Druig in the Amazon in the present day are descendants of the people from Tenochtitlan. Nor does it ever say that the forest outside Tenochtitlan is the Amazon. He's probably been moving around for the last five centuries just as the other Eternals have.
Necrothesp
Never ever? He literally says "Do you remember this forest? Beautiful. It's the last place we all lived together. I've protected these people for 20 generations." They split after their argument during the sack of the town. If their base of operations exterminating the mutant space dogs in Mexico was in the Amazon forest, their logistic could use some work.
Sammo ★
Just because the last time they fought together was in Tenochtitlan doesn't mean that was the last time they lived together. They may have spent some time living peacefully in the Amazon before moving north to do their business in Tenochtitlan. And just because he's protected the people for twenty generations doesn't mean they're descendants of the people from Tenochtitlan. He may have found them later. We don't know every detail of the Eternals' history. You're just making assumptions.
Necrothesp
You are assuming the presence of a third party stranded for 500 years that the movie never showed before, different from the people that he led out of the city and that we have then to postulate he let go, in a location far off from the one of their last encounter. It's an assumption on entirely new details that you had to make up. My only assumption is to think that what is shown in the movie had purpose and fits, and someone just borked a caption.
Sammo ★
Who says they're stranded? He just said he had protected them for twenty generations. They'd probably always lived there. You're making the assumption that they must be the same people because nobody said they weren't. But nobody said they were either. Nobody in the film ever made a connection between the people in Tenochtitlan and the people in the Amazon. No mistake has therefore been made in either the dialogue or the captions.
Necrothesp
I noticed the same problem, the scene indicates the location as "Amazon" (it could be any of the Spanish speaking countries that have part of this forest), but then, Druig comes with the affirmation you pointed. It's obviously a geographical inaccuracy.
They don't speak Spanish in the Amazons.