Eternals?

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Anonymous wrote:We took you her kids 7, 10, 12 thinking it was Marvel-esque. Kids hated it. It was definitely more adult themed than all prior ones. DH hated it. We’d always enjoyed the lack of sex scenes in (recent) Marvel movies so this was a departure.

As to characters, I thought Cersei was flat and uninspiring. Overall, it was meh. Wish I’d read more reviews before taking kids bc in retrospect I wouldn’t have taken them.

Oh well. Hope Spider-Man in December will be better

Ugh, there’s a sex scene? Disappointing MCU is now going that route. But, also disappointing they’re now producing terrible films as easy money grabs. Hopefully they learn their lesson.

The sex scene is part of a montage showing two characters falling in love, with a brief allusion to lovemaking (him on top of her, professing love for each other). Maybe 5 secs, not remotely graphic.

It was longer than 5 seconds for sure. Maybe 30, if not a minute. Both characters topless, man on top of woman so as to cover her, but it was accompanied by the movements and noises. For adults, no big deal but for little ones totally inappropriate. Yes, it’s PG13 but all MCU have been without much issues for smaller kids. While Iron man did have a one night stand scene, that was an outlier.

There is also a same sex couple (one of eternals) with family. No big deal. But same sex kissing did have to be explained to my littlest as she was confused. My DH was not happy bc he had not realized we’d be explaining so many adult topics after film.

So I wouldn’t recommend for young kids. This movie seemed to want to tick off every conceivable representation box with a lot of themes. We were just looking for Avengers. That wasn’t it at all

Any kid out of preschool should know same sex couples exist

You missed the point entirely. Same sex family living together was not a big deal at all. Overtly gratuitous kissing and sex scenes not appropriate for kids. Got it? Good. Eternals is a different Marvel movie. They want to walk away from the mold, fine, but I imagine audience will shift, too. MCU no longer for families. That’s the update

Yours is the only family on this thread that seemed to have a problem with it.

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Anonymous wrote:So all the violence and fighting is totally cool but a sex scene is too much for a 13 year old?

It’s PG13 so technically it’s recommended for 13 and up. We’re mainly discussing the younger kids here. And yes, violence including CGI alien fights is usually not an issue. Sex scenes are. Not difficult to understand the difference

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Anonymous wrote:We took you her kids 7, 10, 12 thinking it was Marvel-esque. Kids hated it. It was definitely more adult themed than all prior ones. DH hated it. We’d always enjoyed the lack of sex scenes in (recent) Marvel movies so this was a departure.

As to characters, I thought Cersei was flat and uninspiring. Overall, it was meh. Wish I’d read more reviews before taking kids bc in retrospect I wouldn’t have taken them.

Oh well. Hope Spider-Man in December will be better

Ugh, there’s a sex scene? Disappointing MCU is now going that route. But, also disappointing they’re now producing terrible films as easy money grabs. Hopefully they learn their lesson.

The sex scene is part of a montage showing two characters falling in love, with a brief allusion to lovemaking (him on top of her, professing love for each other). Maybe 5 secs, not remotely graphic.

It was longer than 5 seconds for sure. Maybe 30, if not a minute. Both characters topless, man on top of woman so as to cover her, but it was accompanied by the movements and noises. For adults, no big deal but for little ones totally inappropriate. Yes, it’s PG13 but all MCU have been without much issues for smaller kids. While Iron man did have a one night stand scene, that was an outlier.

There is also a same sex couple (one of eternals) with family. No big deal. But same sex kissing did have to be explained to my littlest as she was confused. My DH was not happy bc he had not realized we’d be explaining so many adult topics after film.

So I wouldn’t recommend for young kids. This movie seemed to want to tick off every conceivable representation box with a lot of themes. We were just looking for Avengers. That wasn’t it at all

Any kid out of preschool should know same sex couples exist

You missed the point entirely. Same sex family living together was not a big deal at all. Overtly gratuitous kissing and sex scenes not appropriate for kids. Got it? Good. Eternals is a different Marvel movie. They want to walk away from the mold, fine, but I imagine audience will shift, too. MCU no longer for families. That’s the update

Yours is the only family on this thread that seemed to have a problem with it.

Not really. If you read the reviews, that was one of the major complaints. I don’t know many families who take kids to see movies with sex scenes. Crazy that yours does

[Anonymous]

I'll be honest, I'm so bored of the whole white male lead/Asian female lead falling for each other schtick. It just seems heavy handedly overdone and *boring*, especially given the other male leads of color in this movie.

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Anonymous wrote:We took you her kids 7, 10, 12 thinking it was Marvel-esque. Kids hated it. It was definitely more adult themed than all prior ones. DH hated it. We’d always enjoyed the lack of sex scenes in (recent) Marvel movies so this was a departure.

As to characters, I thought Cersei was flat and uninspiring. Overall, it was meh. Wish I’d read more reviews before taking kids bc in retrospect I wouldn’t have taken them.

Oh well. Hope Spider-Man in December will be better

Ugh, there’s a sex scene? Disappointing MCU is now going that route. But, also disappointing they’re now producing terrible films as easy money grabs. Hopefully they learn their lesson.

The sex scene is part of a montage showing two characters falling in love, with a brief allusion to lovemaking (him on top of her, professing love for each other). Maybe 5 secs, not remotely graphic.

It was longer than 5 seconds for sure. Maybe 30, if not a minute. Both characters topless, man on top of woman so as to cover her, but it was accompanied by the movements and noises. For adults, no big deal but for little ones totally inappropriate. Yes, it’s PG13 but all MCU have been without much issues for smaller kids. While Iron man did have a one night stand scene, that was an outlier.

There is also a same sex couple (one of eternals) with family. No big deal. But same sex kissing did have to be explained to my littlest as she was confused. My DH was not happy bc he had not realized we’d be explaining so many adult topics after film.

So I wouldn’t recommend for young kids. This movie seemed to want to tick off every conceivable representation box with a lot of themes. We were just looking for Avengers. That wasn’t it at all

Any kid out of preschool should know same sex couples exist

You missed the point entirely. Same sex family living together was not a big deal at all. Overtly gratuitous kissing and sex scenes not appropriate for kids. Got it? Good. Eternals is a different Marvel movie. They want to walk away from the mold, fine, but I imagine audience will shift, too. MCU no longer for families. That’s the update

PG-13 movies aren't made for little kids

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'll be honest, I'm so bored of the whole white male lead/Asian female lead falling for each other schtick. It just seems heavy handedly overdone and *boring*, especially given the other male leads of color in this movie.

If they had more charisma, would have been fine. The fact that was lacking was a big problem. I also didn't see much chemistry between the cast as a whole, though Salma Hayek (Ajak) was convincing.

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Anonymous wrote:We took you her kids 7, 10, 12 thinking it was Marvel-esque. Kids hated it. It was definitely more adult themed than all prior ones. DH hated it. We’d always enjoyed the lack of sex scenes in (recent) Marvel movies so this was a departure.

As to characters, I thought Cersei was flat and uninspiring. Overall, it was meh. Wish I’d read more reviews before taking kids bc in retrospect I wouldn’t have taken them.

Oh well. Hope Spider-Man in December will be better

Ugh, there’s a sex scene? Disappointing MCU is now going that route. But, also disappointing they’re now producing terrible films as easy money grabs. Hopefully they learn their lesson.

The sex scene is part of a montage showing two characters falling in love, with a brief allusion to lovemaking (him on top of her, professing love for each other). Maybe 5 secs, not remotely graphic.

It was longer than 5 seconds for sure. Maybe 30, if not a minute. Both characters topless, man on top of woman so as to cover her, but it was accompanied by the movements and noises. For adults, no big deal but for little ones totally inappropriate. Yes, it’s PG13 but all MCU have been without much issues for smaller kids. While Iron man did have a one night stand scene, that was an outlier.

There is also a same sex couple (one of eternals) with family. No big deal. But same sex kissing did have to be explained to my littlest as she was confused. My DH was not happy bc he had not realized we’d be explaining so many adult topics after film.

So I wouldn’t recommend for young kids. This movie seemed to want to tick off every conceivable representation box with a lot of themes. We were just looking for Avengers. That wasn’t it at all

Any kid out of preschool should know same sex couples exist

You missed the point entirely. Same sex family living together was not a big deal at all. Overtly gratuitous kissing and sex scenes not appropriate for kids. Got it? Good. Eternals is a different Marvel movie. They want to walk away from the mold, fine, but I imagine audience will shift, too. MCU no longer for families. That’s the update

PG-13 movies aren't made for little kids

This. If you take a 7 year old to a PG-13 film, you ought to know there could be sex, violence, and/or bad language. Do your due diligence first, or stick to PG.

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Anonymous wrote:So all the violence and fighting is totally cool but a sex scene is too much for a 13 year old?

It’s PG13 so technically it’s recommended for 13 and up. We’re mainly discussing the younger kids here. And yes, violence including CGI alien fights is usually not an issue. Sex scenes are. Not difficult to understand the difference

It is for me. Makes no sense.

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I and my 12-year-old both really liked it, wife did not. I think the difference is that us who liked it are comics readers so we have lower expectations for plot line and continuity! 12-year-old is still grossed out by sex and and rolled his eyes during the sex scene, but it was over very quickly. The chaste same-sex kiss was very sweet and it’s nice that it was actually on screen as opposed to the coy illusions that have been in previous movies.

Whoever said “Marvel isn’t for families anymore I guess” that’s clearly never seen more than one Marvel movie. They are all really, really different. Winter Soldier was a spy movie, Thor Ragnarok was a comedy, etc. You can’t really assume anything about what the next movie in the franchise is going to be like from watching previous movies.

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*those of us who liked it
*allusions

Sigh. Small screen, ancient eyes.

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Anonymous wrote:I and my 12-year-old both really liked it, wife did not. I think the difference is that us who liked it are comics readers so we have lower expectations for plot line and continuity! 12-year-old is still grossed out by sex and and rolled his eyes during the sex scene, but it was over very quickly. The chaste same-sex kiss was very sweet and it’s nice that it was actually on screen as opposed to the coy illusions that have been in previous movies.

Whoever said “Marvel isn’t for families anymore I guess” that’s clearly never seen more than one Marvel movie. They are all really, really different. Winter Soldier was a spy movie, Thor Ragnarok was a comedy, etc. You can’t really assume anything about what the next movie in the franchise is going to be like from watching previous movies.

Yes, all MCU movies vary but the common theme has been that most recent films have avoided sex scenes or overt kissing and have been widely entertaining even for families. This missed on both so not a good family film, though childless viewers won’t think twice. I think the bad reviews have been warranted. Hope phase 5 is better than 4, getting back to most if the storylines we enjoy.

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Anonymous wrote:We took you her kids 7, 10, 12 thinking it was Marvel-esque. Kids hated it. It was definitely more adult themed than all prior ones. DH hated it. We’d always enjoyed the lack of sex scenes in (recent) Marvel movies so this was a departure.

As to characters, I thought Cersei was flat and uninspiring. Overall, it was meh. Wish I’d read more reviews before taking kids bc in retrospect I wouldn’t have taken them.

Oh well. Hope Spider-Man in December will be better

Ugh, there’s a sex scene? Disappointing MCU is now going that route. But, also disappointing they’re now producing terrible films as easy money grabs. Hopefully they learn their lesson.

The sex scene is part of a montage showing two characters falling in love, with a brief allusion to lovemaking (him on top of her, professing love for each other). Maybe 5 secs, not remotely graphic.

It was longer than 5 seconds for sure. Maybe 30, if not a minute. Both characters topless, man on top of woman so as to cover her, but it was accompanied by the movements and noises. For adults, no big deal but for little ones totally inappropriate. Yes, it’s PG13 but all MCU have been without much issues for smaller kids. While Iron man did have a one night stand scene, that was an outlier.

There is also a same sex couple (one of eternals) with family. No big deal. But same sex kissing did have to be explained to my littlest as she was confused. My DH was not happy bc he had not realized we’d be explaining so many adult topics after film.

So I wouldn’t recommend for young kids. This movie seemed to want to tick off every conceivable representation box with a lot of themes. We were just looking for Avengers. That wasn’t it at all

Any kid out of preschool should know same sex couples exist

You missed the point entirely. Same sex family living together was not a big deal at all. Overtly gratuitous kissing and sex scenes not appropriate for kids. Got it? Good. Eternals is a different Marvel movie. They want to walk away from the mold, fine, but I imagine audience will shift, too. MCU no longer for families. That’s the update

PG-13 movies aren't made for little kids

This. If you take a 7 year old to a PG-13 film, you ought to know there could be sex, violence, and/or bad language. Do your due diligence first, or stick to PG.

Exactly.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm surprised there isn't a thread yet, curious what others think. I took two teen boys, who loved it. I thought the mixed reviews were justified. The main thing is the nonsensical story, hard to overcome that, and too many characters to do them all justice. I thought the cast was decent overall, but Richard Madden and Gemma Chan (Icarus and Cersei) weren't charismatic enough to carry the film, though each had a few good moments. Angelina Jolie was horrible as Thena. She didn't fit into the otherwise solid ensemble, is not convincingly strong enough to play a great warrier (think Robin Wright in Wonder Woman). Mostly posed and pouted, and all her stunt double work was too obvious and distracting. Not helped by her godawful costuming. On the positive side, Chloe Zao has a tremendous eye and this was by far the most scenically beautiful Marvel film. Found the characters Dane, Gilgamesh, Druig, Phaestos, Sprite, Ajak, Makkari, and Kingo very well acted and entertaining. With a better story/writing and a few different casting choices, could have been the best Marvel film imo. But right now, would not be eager for a sequel.

I was also surprised at how much I disliked Jolie in the role. Sometimes casting is too on the nose and it ends up feeling more like a caricature. I get they were following the comic, but Chloe Zao's hyperrealistic and more grounded style did not work well with the crazy getup and busted wig. It could have been toned down, while still evoking the comic look.

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Anonymous wrote:So all the violence and fighting is totally cool but a sex scene is too much for a 13 year old?

It’s PG13 so technically it’s recommended for 13 and up. We’re mainly discussing the younger kids here. And yes, violence including CGI alien fights is usually not an issue. Sex scenes are. Not difficult to understand the difference

It is for me. Makes no sense.

DP. +1. A suggestion of sex and a same sex kiss wouldn't faze me at all, and it wouldn't make me hesitate to show the movie to my 5 and 3yos. I don't show them movies that feature a lot of fighting, though.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So all the violence and fighting is totally cool but a sex scene is too much for a 13 year old?

It’s PG13 so technically it’s recommended for 13 and up. We’re mainly discussing the younger kids here. And yes, violence including CGI alien fights is usually not an issue. Sex scenes are. Not difficult to understand the difference

It is for me. Makes no sense.

DP. +1. A suggestion of sex and a same sex kiss wouldn't faze me at all, and it wouldn't make me hesitate to show the movie to my 5 and 3yos. I don't show them movies that feature a lot of fighting, though.

I’m the same. We avoid violence but I don’t blink at kidding or other pg-13 intimacy