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not to come back with a hot take and no warning but eternals wasn't a bad movie in any right. Did it have faults? Of course, but it didn't deserve the shit rating it got. (48% tomatometer). It's just a wake up call about how restrictive and biased people can be without meaning to be. Let me explain a little;
Eternals was a huge step in representation not only for Marvel but mainstream media as a whole. Poc characters, an lqbtq+ character, and a deaf character, all in one movie. Sure, it's a huge cast to juggle, but it's a huge leap.
The problem with movie reviewers is that a lot of them that stand out- especially those choosen to review a Marvel movie of all franchises- is that it's very priviledged. It's cishet, white, abled people who have representation watching a movie that doesn't prioritise them and they don't like it.
Public people know that they can't outright say they're against certain things, that would discard their review as biased with ease. So, they imply it. Saying that you can have your representation, as long as it's kept in a box. A series of tropes that the "majority"(heavy brackets) can understand.
Ingeneral, our modern media is growing more and more open to the minorities being shown in a positive light. In the modern IT(2017) movie, adapted from Stephen King's book where the bullies were heavily implied as gay- going as far as adding a sexual assualt scene in the book- but in the movie adaptation, it wasn't implied.
BUT! Big corporations will only give you enough to keep the keep both audiences passified; The Owl House as been canceled with only three specials for a finale, along with several other shows who have been pushing and pushing as minorities with creative passions to tell their stories.
I'm sorry i know what I'm trying to say but I always say it with too much elaboration and I get tired. Does this make sense? I reall trailed off lol.