Eternals

To be enjoyed like a long, rambling fantasy novel -- not like a punchy action flick (though it is sometimes also that).

The least I was expecting from Eternals (2021) was the two conflicting visions: the one from Chloé Zhao and the one from Marvel, but this movie is mostly just the usual Marvel flick. Ben Stiller could direct this at it will still be the same movie... Well, maybe at least would be funnily ridiculous. Eternals (2021) replaces sci-fi mumbo jumbo with existential mumbo jumbo. It is certainly not the first Marvel film that deals with "deep" topics, just the one that does it the most boringly. It's mostly filled with the most common places about "existentialism" in film. In comparison with Jack Kirby's The Eternals (1976-1977) —which I read in preparation for this, but don't think it has condition my view of the movie—, while this "Zhao's Eternals" has a "serious" tone filled with dull and plastic dialogues, full of exposition; Kirby's nonsensical, fantastical, yet light, style, suceeds in having dialogue that actually feels human, and thus, gets compelling characters.