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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DrunkonDuty" data-source="post: 8467841" data-attributes="member: 54364">Caught up with the movie last weekend.I enjoyed it. (I admit that I have enjoyed almost everything Marvel so maybe that ain't saying much.)I liked the dysfunctional family dynamic. The competing themes of family and duty were handled well and tied into/moved the plot nicely. Loved the look of it. I especially loved CGI Babylon, I mean really loved it... Just gave me little chills although I can't put a finger on exactly why.I don't think the acting was "wooden." I think it was a very definite directorial choice, to give the character's a sense of otherness, yes, but also of guardedness. Most of them went their separate ways centuries ago and were pretty tired of one another's company even then. So, now that they're getting the band back together, everyone is feeling very wary. Druig, for instance, has some very strong differences of opinion with the rest. We don't see him begin to relax until he's back in the same room as Makkari. And it's not a big surprise that Ikaris is very guarded and even traumatised. We see it even with Sersi and Dane at the very start of the movie. She is super guarded around him. Dane, to contrast this, is super open about everything. (Almost everything.)The Deviants were a red herring, both for the audience and the characters. Which is a nice parallel, gives me a smile.Over in the Eternals Trailer thread it was mentioned that Arishem's version of events is open to being debunked later. I suspect we'll get some very different points of view later as Phase 4 develops. I mean, I certainly hope we'll discover that "the Celestials create energy by something... blah blah" is just Arishem blowing smoke. Arishem's unreliability is suggested by [ISPOILER]Starfox [/ISPOILER] in the post-credit sequence, so let's hope that particular bit of "lore" gets written out/retconned. Also, Arishem tells Sersi that the Eternals are robots who can't evolve... yet she later discovers she is capable of growth and augmenting her powers, which seems to contradict this.Anyhoo, must dash.</blockquote>

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