RWRB SPOILERS
Quite big ones so scroll down please if you haven’t seen it yet
Alright yknow what I’m just gonna make my own post to like… write it all down because I am insane about this actually
Fuck yeah. This was the movie we deserved. I know i know there were not some of our favorite scenes and I too wish there could have been two more hours of all of it but also… I’m perfectly happy. The team did a great job and I’m really proud how it all worked out
I actually understand why ellen and oscar werent divorced. In the whole scheme it makes sense. I’m kinda mad that they changed Henry’s name because like, cmon, but again, it made sense. Ugh. I hate when I cant hate on things because they are sensible (that’s a joke. I’m gonna be grumpy about it and no ones going to stop me)
I also am kinda disappointed that my fave quote that I think about almost every day ‘shut up shut all the way up oh my god’ wasn’t there but ykno, we deal
And I miss June. Insanely
Also, it’s kinda wild to me that there will be new fanfics now and instead of a vicious grandmother, there will be just kinda mild grandfather. And many people will just know nothing about Henry’s mum, Liam and Spencer, and, most importantly, there will be no June. That’s wild and I hope there will not be too many of them.
But ooooh let me tell you I screamed when I realized they included Zahra’s and Shaan’s relationship. That was my fave part in the book (I read it on public transport and wanted to scream soo badly but couldn’t).
And the ‘sometimes you just jump and hope it wasn’t a cliff’ which, when I was looking for it in the book, I actually circled in pencil so like, past me is jumping with happiness rn.
One last thing - did you know they had an intimacy coordinator on the set? Fucking incredible, I love that.
All in all, I’m pretty happy. Could be better? Maybe. But it could have definitely been worse and I’m very much pleased and content and I will sleep happy knowing theres one more good mlm movie in the world, and that the adaptation has been given justice :)
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the intricate parallels between bedivere and laz are somethign that no one else could ever understand
I am just thinking about like.
Catholic brain damaged bedivere who seems so frighteningly afraid of death, yet longing for it, believing he’s sinned so horribly that nothing, nothing, nothing could ever make up for it, even after 1500 years. Believing he’s just a forever horrible person, yet still trying and *wanting* to do good, despite believing he’s not good. How readily he goes up against the knight servants despite being Just a man, against all these supernatural powerhouses. And even before all the fgo stuff he was a knight! He did all sorts of great things but in his mind, that’s not enough. The only true punishment he can receive, is dying after returning the sword to Arthur, and hopefully that will be enough repentance.
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Lapsed catholic Laz who’s always been a bit lost in his own life. He’s never done anything spectacular nor horrible prior to the chaldea explosion leading to him being the only one who can fix the singularities (this too, he believes, is a fluke and overstating his role, he’s not the one out there fighting, therefore, he’s just dead weight). The adjustment from ‘dude who mops floors’ to ‘dude who has to keep humanity from dying’ is all but nonexistent for him, and he’s Just a man trying to handle all this pressure that he’s never had before. He’s never *needed* to be noble or powerful, he just went through life miserable but kind, wishing that there was *something* in his life that he could point at and say “right here. This is why im like this. This is why i’m hurting. This is why i can’t handle any of this”.
idk if any of these words make sense or are like Good im just thining about itjfdskfds
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a while ago you said you hated the movie the eternals so I was wondering what you didn’t like about it? just bc I’m vindictive about marvel lol
god they just literally didnt do even a single thing right.
the acting was really bad from just about everyone (except maybe kumail nanjiani who was the only person who decided he would try to play an actual character), like everyone was just phoning it in. im going to chalk it up to bad directing because people also seemed like they had no idea what they were supposed to be doing on set, plus some of these people are decorated actors that have proven they were good at their job in other movies.
it could also be because the writing was just a mess on every level. like, how good could the acting be when no characters were given any solid motivations or personality traits (any motivations or traits that they DID bother to put in the movie were either told with 0 evidence, or just changed whenever it suited a plot twist to try and create some tepid and meaningless conflict within the team). the lore was tedious and nonsensical, there were no stakes because absolutely nothing felt earned or consequential at all, the overall goal of the plot changed like 8 different times as well as constantly being interrupted by flashbacks with no rhyme or reason as to when we would see a flashback or what we would flash back to, which led to a pacing nightmare.
and the tone was too dour and serious to be able to ignore any of this for the camp or fun either!! because there was absolutely no fun!!!!! it's like they wanted to make a Prestige Drama out of a movie that's 75% exposition dumps and half-assed sci fi lore and 0% actual character moments that make dramas work.
ok im typing too much so let's just rapid fire the rest: the color pallet was atrocious, just concrete and mud. the costumes looked like absolute garbage, cheaply made and extremely bland even just on a design level (i'm talking specifically about the hero uniforms here. the civilian clothes for every character were also boring and pointless, though). the effects were literally laughably bad, the object designs (like for the spaceship and other alien stuff, i'm not sure what to call this category) were ridiculous and never fully came together into something interesting or otherworldly. the score was trash and the needledrops were distracting. the diversity was shallow and insulting, you can't just constantly brag about diversity when you couldn't be bothered write those diverse characters to be actual, yknow, characters.
anyway if you want a well-made superhero movie about ancient heroes who have a deep love for humanity, that has diverse characters who are actually fleshed out and treated like characters instead of an Inclusivity Checklist, that has serious moments with emotional impact but is also capable of being fun, that has clear intra-team conflicts and morally grey characters that you can actually understand, that doesn't look like total garbage, then literally just watch The Old Guard. just watch The Old Guard im literally begging you. if you liked eternals just watch The Old Guard and see what it looks like when a movie actually does what eternals pretends it's doing.
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