The Eternals (MCU)

That would be some boost indeed.

I wish Universal bosses weren’t morons and let Marvel do Hulk solo movies.

Is Rufalo confirmed for She-Hulk ?

There have been a few rumours of a World War Hulk movie in the last week or two. I don't believe it for a second, but would love to see it happen.

Reading The Irish Times review almost felt like a cut and paste job of how many reviewers reacted to Batman vs Superman, including themselves.

It's not the first time that comparison has come up either. My curiosity to see it now has increased again given I liked many aspects of what Snyder was trying to do with those films.

I'm a big MCU fan but found this movie just ok,too much to go into right now but my first impressions are I didn't really like it unfortunately.Very different.

Wow Salma Hayek is 55 years old

Still wouldn't say no

Yeah found it alright too. I wonder if it would have worked better as a series on Disney+ instead of a movie?

Didn't think of it that way

Saw it tonight and enjoyed it for what it's worth.. Something a bit different and a different direction.

My own gripes was that there probably wasn't enough action in favour of a story driven approach

To whoever mentioned their dislike for Kingu's valet... Shame on you he was hilarious!

I thought it was fine tbh.

Enjoyed the scale and sweep of it.

Not sure why it's getting such a kicking from most critics, solid mid level marvel stuff.

I find Barry Keoghan a bit hit and miss...I would put his performance in this as a miss..accents are not his strong point. Liked rest of the cast Gemma Chan was excellent.

6.5/10

Pity it hadn't been banned here, 2.5hrs of my life etc

3 of us went to see it, all agreed - worst of Marvel film we've seen: by some distance.

I found it really poor to be honest like the entire cast bar Chen, Nanjiani & Lee were just phoning it in for the Marvel/Disney pay check.

Barry Keoghan was so bad in the role he was wooden giving a really bad imitation of shouty Al Pacino, It felt like they just picked so lad off the street and told him to just say the lines as best he can he had no screen presence except a please get off my screen and stop talking one.

I would have preferred two and half hours of just looking at Gemma Chen with nothing else going on.

The Stingers in the spoilers.

Bring back the old spoilers tags these ones are terrible.

The second stinger alright interested me and where they will go with that.

I think the potential is still there as the more obscure character introduced, the more leeway they have to tell a good story. I really thought this film might be special for that reason.

Plus they still have the Fox characters to be fall back on as a failsafe, they'll be fine. Imagine being 13 years into a universe and they still have the likes of the X Men, Fantastic 4, Doom, Galactus, Deadpool, Silver Surfer etc....to be introduced. Too many good characters there for them to throw it away yet.

I still see it more as a planned soft reset of scale/expectations. That after Infinity War and Endgame, they purposely dropped the size and scale in a way and jumped to lesser known heroes/teams to ease things back in, and then they can start pulling back out some of the bigger names that there's more excitement for (Spiderman, Thor, Dr.Strange, Cap.Marvel, GOTG, Blade, probably Fantastic Four coming too).

Just seen it and I'd put it in the bottom 5 of MCU films tbh. It ain't Thor The Dark World bad but it's not good.

Saw it on a giant IMAX screen over the weekend and many spots were visually amazing.

I can definitely see how some people will dislike the movie. A certain vocal element has been clamoring to move away from the normal MCU approach for a movie and this probably got far enough away to annoy hardcore MCU fans and the general public but not far enough to appease those wanting something 'different'.

It was an interesting choice to take this risk for this specific movie as I'd argue to this point it is the most difficult MCU movie land - an origin story for a very large group of unknown humanoid characters set on earth. DC has had issues cramming in too many very well known characters and this was levels above in difficulty. Sure, GotG nailed something similar but it was a much smaller group and the characters and space could really lean into the wackiness and humour - things that would never work here.

Overall, I enjoyed it but it didn't reach near the heights of other MCU movies. Looks like this will have huge impact to other movies though, while making the good choice of keeping them apart from the MCU we know. I am very interested in what they can do with the sequel now that we know the core group and they have something to build off.