I suspect this will be a minority opinion, given the woman next to us fell asleep and most people leaving the cinema seemed bored silly by it, but I absolutely loved Eternals.
I didn't admire it, or like the ambition or anything like that: I straight-up loved it. Really cared about the characters, was awed by the scale of it, found the ideas really interesting, and thought it had some of the best action scenes in a Marvel movie.
Also, if you're a DC fan who hates most of their movies, it's really easy to see the Justice League in it. Richard Madden is the best Superman for years, Lauren Ridloff the best Flash, and Angelina Jolie was made to play Wonder Woman.
There's also a passionate kiss - nothing coy or demure - between a black man and an Arabic man. I was surprised to find myself really moved by it. It was breaking new ground. And not just for a Marvel film, although that too. I can't remember anything like that in a blockbuster.
If someone did a Marvel marathon - from Iron Man 2, with its sexism and militarism, to this film - you'd get a pretty good summary of positive social change over the last decade. And looked at that way, the pace of change if actually very impressive.
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