S4E13 - Marvel's Eternals

It's the season finale of Season 4 The CineMeh Podcast! And on hand to go out with style is our biggest episode of the season! A movie so tremendously long, it felt like it went on forever! So incredibly lengthy, it seemed to never end! A movie that felt like... an eternity? It's Marvel's Eternals. That's right! This week on CineMeh, Josh and Ryan are delving into the Marvel Cinematic Universe with one of its most recent, and yet puzzlingly most forgettable entries, Eternals. An ensemble showpiece with a star-studded cast, featuring appearances by Rob Stark, Lara Croft, and Frida, we muddle our way through this ponderous, confused, meandering 160-minute mess. With discussion topics like "what were they thinking?" "who is the hero?" "who is the bad guy?" we really go in deep on this one. Only, not so much, because Marvel did such a poor job creating anything even resembling a functional movie with Eternals, Josh and Ryan are largely left asking pretty basic questions about this film. When you can't tell what sub-genre your sci-fi superhero epic is (a whoddunit? a morality tale? an apocalypse story?), you are really in for a rough ride. After a perplexing mix of gray morality, truncated character development, head-scratching cosmic events, badly executed scope, and 40 miles of bad road, we think you'll agree... Marvel's Eternals might be one best forgotten about. Marvel's Eternals was released in 2021 and stars (in no particular order because holy shit is this cast long) Gemma Chan, Salma Hayek, Angelina Jolie, Kumail Nanjiani, Ma Dong-seok, Bryan Tyree Henry, Barry Keoghan, Lauren Ridloff, Lia McHugh, and Richard Madden. Am I forgetting anybody? Do you think that was enough people for your movie, Marvel?! The CineMEH Podcast is a Slyjack Media, LLC production Like what you hear? Check out our other podcast, Morning Radio, TBD available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Amazon and Google podcasts. Podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/morningradiotbd Like it or not, The CineMeh Podcast will return...