I liked when the leader Deviant showed up during the climax, acting like he was relevant to the plot at all by this point.
And then looked to be starting to go Hentai-light on Angelina Jolie.
Honestly, the deviants made little sense overall. Oh, I'm just going
full spoilers here. I don't think anyone in this thread is going to care or that it will affect anyone's enjoyment. This thread is 90% just talking about wokeness and how crap it is. But heads-up for the one person who cares.
So yeah, the deviants. Near the start it's stated that they went for humans not eternals, and that the eternals just interposed themselves and it was odd that one specifically went after them rather than humans. But if their motivation turns out to be revenge against the eternals, why is this new? So much about them makes no sense. They're the celestial's first attempt at creating servants to shepherd the birth of new celestials. Okay, but they also appear to have no technology and even be pre-verbal as the lead one doesn't seem to have the ability to talk until having absorbed enough eternals to change him into something more like them. So how do they even
get to a new planet? How is it that they show up out of nowhere? Salma Hayek and Angelina Jolie both recall fighting deviants in previous cycles and / or having been through many cycles. So if Earth is a later cycle it's not like the deviants could have been a first attempt for
that planet. So how do they get there?
I liked Mr. Patel. The videographer who was filming the Bollywood Eternal. Honestly, those two are actually my favourite characters by some margin, though Angelina Jolie is very good with what she's given.
Sprite asks "why did Asheram (sp?) make me like this?" with the implication that she was doomed never to have a relationship with LaserFace because of it. Rather cruelly, I could interpret that as "I'm not very pretty" but the film was obviously intending it to be about her age. Thing is, if she were literally a child that would make sense but she looks around 17. So yeah, you wouldn't date a real life 17yo if you were in your late twenties. At least not in Western culture. But she's hardly unable or unready for adult things. Without trying to do the "but she's really 3,000 years old meme," in the context of a film she is an adult who has a late teenage body. If she and LaserFace were in love, it's not insurmountable.
The Deus Ex Machinae (very literally given what the Eternals turn out to be) is way too much for me. It basically goes:
Sersi: I can only transform non-living things.
Sersi: I just transformed a deviant which is a living thing (no explanation)
Sersi: I can now transform a celestial (little explanation, vague reference to eternals becoming part of a group mind with the celestial at the moment of its birth).
I mean movies these days are prone to "hero suddenly finds ability / strength at last moment due to great emotional need" but this was at whole other level.
Also, is it me or were the Eternals as a whole pretty weak? Obviously they are physically more robust than humans and don't age but they're pretty lacklustre. Sprite's powers are cool and impressive. Bollywood dude basically has built in guns/bombs. Thena is a skilled swordswoman. LaserFace is up there in that he seems to have the main Superman powers (damage resistant, strength, eye beams) but that's about it. Honestly I struggle to see how a handful of people with mostly low-tier powers could really protect humanity against the deviants that much.
Film should have started with the Bollywood production of the Eternals and done the entire thing through the lens of Kingo (I looked up Bollywood character's name). It starts with the Bollywood production and moves into him telling the story as they go. Could potentially have been a wild way to do a movie.
