SPEAKER: Hello and welcome back to the channel
and another episode of Film Fridays.
Today, we're going to be reviewing something
that a few of you have been waiting for.
And that is my full review on the new Marvel movie Eternals.
Now, I'm not the biggest Marvel fan, I don't hate Marvel,
but I don't dislike Marvel,
although I really do like Venom, mostly because of Tom Hardy,
and I wanna see the second one.
But when Eternals was announced, I got very intrigued because well,
two reasons: one of them being Don Lee,
who I've loved in many Korean horror films and likewise.
And the main reason I got so
intrigued is because Lauren Ridloff, a deaf actor, is in the film.
A couple of years ago, I did do a Film Fridays
episode when Eternals was announced
and when Lauren's role was announced and now here we are, full review.
Also last week, I did a video on AMC Theatres having more open captions,
and one of them was for Eternals, and it's because of Eternals.
So if you haven't checked out that video,
I'll have it linked up here and down below,
and you can watch that after this.
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And now let's get to the Eternals review.
So, overall, I like the movie, but I think I'm gonna say what a lot of
people were thinking and also just straight up saying on Twitter.
Eternals, the movie really could have just been and really
should have been Eternals the Disney Plus TV series.
It's about three hours long, almost,
and as someone who has to go to the bathroom quite often,
that was torture.
I feel like there was so much that they tried to jam into the movie
that you didn't really see a whole lot of character development,
you didn't really learn a whole lot about the characters and I mean,
there's so many main characters and you really only focused on two,
the main couple of the movie whose names I have
forgotten and also don't know how to pronounce.
So there is that.
I feel like it just would have done better as a TV series.
So that you could focus on that couple and also the two of them separately.
You could focus on Gil a little bit, learn about him,
learn about Thena, learn about Druig, Makkari.
And I don't have Disney Plus and I never really cared
to get Disney Plus but to watch this as a series,
I would definitely get Disney Plus for a little while so,
I could watch something like that.
Hopefully, they will come out with a sequel
that can go a little bit more in-depth.
But would they come out a sequel for this
or a prequel or something, I don't know.
But I would be interested in that.
But overall, I do think that it would just be better off as a series,
and then the story probably would have been a little bit more
understood or just wouldn't just be all crammed together.
It's weird for me.
It felt at times extremely slow and also just extremely crammed in,
and I feel like that's a strange description to give a movie: too
slow but it's also too crammed in, how does that make sense?
I don't know, but that's what we're going with here.
Obviously like I said, Lauren Ridloff is deaf,
so, right off the bat- from what I know,
from what I read, Makkari wasn't deaf to begin with,
but they made her deaf for the movie.
And I can get with that, I can support that.
So, that's great and since they wanted to make her deaf in the movie.
You got a deaf actor, but the ASL, Lauren again is deaf,
so I think she knows what she's talking about here,
she's fluent in ASL, she grew up using it,
I'm pretty sure, correct me if I'm wrong.
So, I think she has the idea of what ASL is supposed to look like here.
But also her husband, Douglas, who is also deaf,
was the ASL master for this so,
two deaf people whose main language is ASL.
Yeah, the ASL is just fine.
I will say, I've said this in the past regarding movies.
I talked about this a little bit with A Quiet
Place one and two and also in CODA.
Most of the signing seems to be in frame.
Keep in mind, I've watched it with open captions.
And I had this experience with opened captioning my own ASL videos,
sometimes the ASL does get cut off by the caption.
So, sometimes it almost looks as if it's not in frame.
So, I don't know if it's actually not so,
much in frame, or it's just way too so,
close to the bottom that it kind of gives
the illusion like it's not always in frame.
So again, the open captions, it might be like,
it's just making it look that way.
Obviously, I love that Makkari is a badass superhero
in this, she can hold her own.
The battle near the end was absolutely fantastic.
The relationship, friendship, I don't know.
I think a lot of people ended up liking Druig and Makkari
more than the actual main couple, I did personally.
Is that because I have a crush on the actor himself, maybe.
But, I really liked seeing them together, I really like
their friendship and their little flirting, dadada.
And then one thing that did kind of bug me just a little bit,
I didn't realize this until a friend of
mine was talking about this on Twitter.
So, when everybody's separating, everybody has their own little life,
and it seems like it's a life of fulfilment.
So the main woman in this, she is a teacher
in England and then the ex-boyfriend,
whoever is off doing something.
And Gil and Thena, who, granted, considering how they're trying
to keep control of Thena and her like, evil powers or whatever.
That's not the most happy life,
if you got to worry about that, I guess.
But you know, they have each other and they're doing stuff, you know?
One guy has his own family, he has a son, he has a husband.
Well.
Sprite's a completely different story.
But Makkari is just locked away in the ship for lots
and lots of years reading books, that's it.
Nobody to hang out with.
No career or anything.
Just sitting in a bunker sitting in a ship, for too many years too long.
I mean, you could have- oh god, this is so obvious to say,
could have made her like an ASL teacher somewhere or something even.
That's so, what is the word I'm looking for.
That's so predictable.
Oh wow, yeah, get the deaf superhero to be an ASL teacher,
deaf studies teacher.
Oh my god, groundbreaking.
But I mean, you could have done that even.
She'd have a nice little career, she'd be hanging out,
socializing instead of just sitting in a ship and reading all time.
I don't know.
I guess when you watch her in these scenes when she's
found again that she looks pretty content doing it.
But I would just like to see her have a little bit
more of a life outside, like, did I miss something?
I would have liked to hang out with her.
Why not?
Again, overall, I enjoyed the movie for what it was,
regardless of the fact that I do think that
it would be better off of as a series.
And if they do decide to make it a series, I'd love to watch it.
I wouldn't mind a second movie.
It does look like, I saw the first post-credits scene,
but I didn't see the second one 'cos
your girl had to go to the bathroom, like, I couldn't wait any longer.
It had been three hours, I had to go.
So, you know, with the first part is you kind of get
the feeling that there is going to be a sequel,
and I did read a little bit of what the post-credit- the second one- was.
So that's also very likely going to open up to a sequel.
We just have to see if it's actually going to be filmed.
But considering how much it's made at the box office so far,
I think it's safe to say that it is probably going to happen.
I think the when is the question that we're really going to
have to focus on considering COVID and everything else.
But I love, love, love that Makkari is such
a great superhero to look forward to.
To watch Lauren Ridloff is absolutely perfect,
she's gorgeous, she's adorable.
I just was sitting like, "Oh my god, I love her.
I love her." So much when watching it.
I can't say anything bad about Lauren Ridloff as Makkari,
you're not going to get that for me.
I love her, I want to see more of her as Makkari, and in general,
but definitely as Makkari.
This will be the one Marvel movie that I'm actually very invested in.
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Eternals down below in the comments.
Did you like it?
What do you think about it being a movie versus a television series?
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