![]() ![]() There's some good here Kumail Nanjiani is charismatic and funny as Kingo, an Eternal posing as a Bollywood movie star. We just want to see what's happening next! It's a struggle to develop 10+ new characters all at once, and the movie's commitment to going back and forth between the present and flashbacks of the Eternals' history is confusing and, at times, frustrating as a viewer. It's unfortunate, in turn, that it just doesn't often work. It takes a big swing-Zhao clearly wanted to make a potential best movie in the MCU, rather than something like Black Widow which rarely feels like it wants to be anything more than Winter Soldier-lite. That said, it's also hard to call Eternals a particularly good movie either it's got a gorgeous color palette and stellar special effects, but the movie is 2 hours and 37 minutes long, and really feels like it. It's directed by Chloé Zhao, the reigning Oscar winner for Best Director for her efforts on last year's Nomadland. Here we go: The 'Honestly, Not Great' Tier 32. But even the ones on the lower end of the list are fun, have some great moments, and serve to develop characters who usually wind up paying off in the long run. And one more thing? These movies aren't bad. ![]() The movies below are ranked from worst to best, and as a bonus each movie will have a descriptor of just how much MCU knowledge you need to really appreciate everything that's going on. But the films among the tiers are so close they feel like they can be basically swapped in and out to your liking. Obviously, a decision had to be made among those tiers to put one movie in front of another, and those decisions are what they are. Essentially, that means that among each given tier, the movies are more or less interchangeable. ![]() And that's why for this particular exercise the movies are ranked in tiers. Which makes it difficult, really, to rank one of these movies ahead of another. Through the years, Kevin Feige and the MCU team have done a really great job of building out what almost feels like a house brand or formula they know what makes a good movie, and what fans of the genre and the characters tend to like. Rewatching movies with the privilege of hindsight can often be rewarding, and this is especially the case when watching through the MCU's three existing phases. Memories are fickle, people change, opinions change, and things take on new contexts. It's a lot, but a far cry from insurmountable. 31 movies in the range of 2-3 hours each comes out to the equivalent of somewhere around 4-5 seasons of a prestige drama. But breezing through a rewatch (or a first watch) of the MCU is really not all that much when you think about it in the context of the way we now watch and binge TV. Look, obviously a 25+ project or list of anything is a lot to take on, and it sure sounds like it, too. These are fun movies that often get at and invoke deeper themes they're action-packed with tons of levity and bring characters you'll love down the line, even if you don't care for them initially.īut back to that main point-watching everything. At the onset of 2021, I embarked upon a rewatch of the feature films in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, from 2008's Iron Man to 2019's Spider-Man: Far From Home, before eventually screening 2021's Black Widow in a theater (my first time back in one of those since March 2020) and returning a few months later to see Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, Eternals, and Spider-Man: No Way Home all on the big screen. WATCHING 32 movies sounds daunting, but it's really not that bad. ![]()
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