Factual error: In the scene with Sersi creating water for the crops in Babylonia, it shows corn growing. Corn was only grown in the Americas, originating in Mesoamerica. They should have shown barley, wheat, or something else growing. (00:27:45)
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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: SPOILER: According to director Chloé Zhao, the offscreen character who speaks to Dane Whitman in the post-credits scene is none other than Blade, who is played by Mahershala Ali.