Eternals

Rewatched for the Once Upon a Franchise podcast. Listen to the full episode here: https://open.spotify.com/episode/3TRxCOr2GppebXdlkerytu?si=6f1c14f6a95b4efb Rating: A- ETERNALS just jumped a lot in my consideration. Time has only sharpened what already worked: this is, without exaggeration, the most beautiful film the MCU has ever produced, with Chloé Zhao's naturalistic, on-location filmmaking style giving the action a physical weight and the VFX a rare consistency where nothing ever looks jarring or synthetic. It's a genuinely intimate character study dressed up as a seven-thousand-year cosmic epic — one unafraid to sit with existential dread, questions of faith, and a found family fracturing under the weight of its own secrets — and it does so with a diverse, inclusive ensemble whose representation never once feels forced or performative. It still has its issues regarding the antagonist(s) and the heavy exposition, but damn, do I love this movie now...

1ST TIME: "Fun, Albeit A Bit TOO Revisionist.... { & FANTASTICAL }". 2ND VIEWING: I Was Utterly -{ " D A Z Z L E D " }- By Chloé Zhao's VISUAL "MAGIC" ....& Her { ENTIRE } Cast & Crew 🌠 A -{ B I G }- Screen Review ; Film Watched TWICE . ________________________________________________ Druig : " I've watched humans destroy each other when I could stop it all in a heartbeat. Do you know what that does to someone after centuries...??? Could our mission have been a mistake..?! Are we really helping these people build a better world..?! We're just like the soldiers down there: pawns to their leaders... BLINDED BY LOYALTY!!! ". ________________________________________________ A " HIGH POINTS " : 1- Just to "Keep Things Fresh", I'm going to shake it up a bit, & start with the Musical side of things, this time around. Ergo : " So -{ Completely }- Enchanting, Engrossing, & just downright 'On-Point  was the -entire- soundtrack for "Eternals" ; with its -Utterly- captivating blend of Soft Rock, Celestial Choirists, 'Heavenly-Ethereal', Soprano Soloists & even a plain good old-fashioned 'silky smooth guitar-synth-vocal ensemble' from Pink Fl

Large to its own deficit. Enjoyable to its own demise. Emotion is lost in the density of the film much too much is crammed into the time, the viewer cannot feel 10 different emotion for 10 different people in 2h30 it isnt possible the film is structure well and cinematically (no one doubted) beautiful visuals. For the casual viewer this film is entertaining with no excitment or attachement. The marvel enthusiast will find this film exciting but numb: full but empty. One could say this film is ambitious, it is, but now it is purely a wallpaper cinematic event.