I dont think anyone had an issue with him or his performance.
Pretty sure everyone would love to see more of him. The movie was just mid and did not feel like part of the MCU history.
risingsuncoc2025-12-22 09:27
Movie was fine but it was just after the highs of Endgame and overly ambitious with their ensemble cast. But yeah it’s hard to see it fitting in with the direction MCU is taking
Mr_Rafi2025-12-22 10:47
You can place the movie at any point in the timeline and it would still be average.
Ky1arStern2025-12-22 14:22
I agree. It had great performances and beautiful visuals... But it was a fundamentally flawed movie.
AlexitoPornConsumer2025-12-22 14:45
Not really sure why the downvotes. It was mid.
Clamsadness2025-12-22 16:53
I would even go a step further and say it was below mid. It was the first MCU movie I ever left thinking that it was actually pretty bad. Even the previous clunkers like Iron Man 2 or Thor 2 were just meh.
Sirmalta2025-12-22 17:14
I have to agree.
Like, Iron Man 2 and Thor 2 i can watch and enjoy. Theyre just not amazing.
I actually quite like Iron Man 2 tbh lol
But man, eternals? its just so so so mid its worse than a bad movie... its a bland one.
Sirmalta2025-12-22 16:45
Is it fine? Iccarus, the guy human beings wrote the story of Iccarus about, flies into the sun to kill himself lol
It has a full blown sex scene for some reason?
Turns out humanity didnt do anything cool and the eternals basically created all of our tech and we're just glorified chimps lol
All these super people existed all this time - one of them very much in the public eye, and no one figured it out when super heroes started showing up? Kingo pretends to be line of actors... uh, in what world? Our celebrity obsession would never allow this to work, at least not in the last 70 years.
This movie throws an absolute constant bombardment of rewritten MCU history and nonsensical "Buys" at the viewer with absolutely zero respect for our intelligence.
This would be a fun movie if it were a stand alone film. Something where we can just assume the world we're looking at is different and the dumb things are fine. Itd make a great one and done Netflix watch. But as a movie meant to fit into an established world, its real bad.
Feigi just let the director do whatever she wanted because she won an oscar. This movie was aggressively mid.
ravih2025-12-22 19:46
The hilarious thing about this film’s placement is that, as part of the multiverse saga, it could so easily been handwaved away as being from another multiverse, which would explain the inconsistencies or “where were they when Thanos…” etc things.
CaptainCharisma5122025-12-23 01:36
This movie was made before Chloe won the Oscar. Covid pushed Eternals back a year, she made Nomadland after Eternals.
mrbaryonyx2025-12-22 18:08
My problem with Eternals is that it's a "getting the band back together road trip movie" that's also a murder mystery that's also a superhero movie. It's just too much.
Like seriously, there are probably six scenes in the movie that amount to "Cersi explains to one of her friends that Salma Hayek is dead--the friend has a sad crying scene--flashback to when they were all together doing cool stuff--move on to tell the next character that Salma Hayek is dead". It just takes forever.
Majestic_Way_97892025-12-23 00:03
Really really wish they had made it a series. I think the story would've been better served as 10-12 episodes. Give more time for that many characters to grow, watch them over time. I think the biggest issue was that they were trying to do too much in a short time and that caused the actual story to suffer and the third act to be kinda bland. Still seems crazy they've just been shelved though, especially Kingo.
Frozen_Pinkk2025-12-23 16:44
I had other issues with it. Mind you, I didn't hate the movie when I say I had issue with it, but issues none the less.
For instance, we have Thena saying she's always wanted to fight Ikaris. Why? There was no real set up to it.
Phastos also, always wanted to kick Ikaris' ass. Why? Again, where was the setup?
Then lastly, the way they all treated Sprite. Yeah, I get it, she looks like a kid, but they all knew how old she really was. For saying they love her and they're family, they really treat her like trash.
After that, it may have had to many characters to really know them. I can understand it's a setup movie and they went with a director to give it a different feel that many may not care about.
mrbaryonyx2025-12-23 18:03
Yeah I kind of got the idea the one whose ass they wanted to kick was Druig. He's the bad egg in the comics, and the movie's twist is like "actually this dude whose a huge asshole is one of the goodies and the main baddie is the guy you trust" only it turns out nobody trusted him
Frozen_Pinkk2025-12-23 23:15
And I couldn't even see him as a baddie in the traditional sense. Yeah, don't want to see Earth destroyed, but at the same time, they had a job/purpose for the birth of the Celestial. It's why they were sent to Earth.
They all knew it. Then Ajax turned out to be lying to all of them when she changed the plan.
Grown_from_seed2025-12-22 12:56
Personally didnt like his character at all. I felt like people all loved him and thought he was the best thing since sliced bread, and I was like… he was kind of annoying and I want to see less of him.
This is all personal taste obviously, which is very subjective, but didnt enjoy the character or portrayal personally.
fuzzyfoot882025-12-22 13:32
To your last point. Watch the film again without the MCU attached to it. You’ll enjoy it a lot more.
Sirmalta2025-12-22 15:56
EDIT\*\*\*
Just realized I thought Iw as replying to a comment in the Spiderman post lol.
I agree it would be a less frustrating movie if it wasnt meant to slot into a universe, but its not like they didnt \*know\* that it was part of said universe...
And even then its pretty silly.
fuzzyfoot882025-12-22 16:00
I don’t think you’re getting what I’m saying. I’m saying watch the film for what it is, not that’s it’s a part of any universe. Just let the story they are telling unfold without it connecting to anything MCU related. The film is more enjoyable on its own merits than what it’s doing to the grander universe.
Sirmalta2025-12-22 16:47
I fixed my reply, I thought I was replying to a comment i made on Spiderman NWH. I was tired lol
Clamsadness2025-12-22 16:55
But watching the film for what it is *means* watching it in the context of the MCU. But even disconnected from the other movies, it’s still deeply flawed. The Kro storyline is truly meaningless in the film, which is wild. Without his actions, the plot does not fundamentally change.
Asn_Browser2025-12-22 18:42
It was too much for a movie. Didn't have enough time to develop all the ideas and relationships. It would have work better as a Disney + mini series so it actually had time to do it's thing.
Sirmalta2025-12-22 21:50
I do agree with that. But their stories through history need to be toned way the hell down lol
Gheekers2025-12-22 09:33
Generally, I dont blame the actors for a shit film or series. I tend to blame the writers for the most part. secret invasion was one of my biggest disappointments of late. I was gutted. It should have been an excellent series.
yosayoran2025-12-22 11:58
Agreed. Aside from obvious cases where the actor is clearly giving a bad performance, it's not their fault. Even then, there might be diff rakes that were better and weren't used.
The people who work on the final product and have the final say on it's entirety are the editors, the directors and executives. Anyone else involved in the production are seeing a very small piece of a huge puzzle, doing their best (usually).
Gheekers2025-12-22 13:00
Its really difficult not to bring up my other big disappointment. The acolyte , i rarely bin a series afte a few episodes but that was also very poor in every aspect, directors, writers, editors, and some of those actors clearly got the nod because they knew someone. With a budget that big it should have been at thr very worst. 'Alright'.
When disney make an arse of something they do so in a glorious fashion. I wish they would sell of both of my favorite franchises . It wont happen though.
kiddfrank2025-12-22 12:54
You really think eternals was a shit film?
assasstits2025-12-22 14:16
No, more like wasted potential.
A series would have been way better.
Gheekers2025-12-22 14:49
Yeah. I thought it was quite poor. The characters where decent enough.
I think it would have been better as a series. Give the story more time to develope rather than having something that was quite compact.
Amon77772025-12-22 14:59
I’m not sure you can even really blame the writers for the most part. The fact that press are asking if there’s a complete script being used for marvel projects now a days tells you how incomplete stuff was/is. C suite pressure to churn out projects that they unrealistically expect to make a billion or more each, plus production pressure and things like the various strikes, means these projects are kinda doomed from the start. I wouldn’t put all that on just the writers.
Rich8412025-12-22 18:30
I also wonder if we should blame the writers or the directors/producers for story decisions but I guess it varies from film to film
boardgamejoe2025-12-22 10:26
The only thing really bad about that movie was the villains were just CGI blobs
Mr_Rafi2025-12-22 10:49
It's the "faceless army" problem. Big event films tend to suffer from it. No memorable or significant antoginist makes it worse, but a memorable antagonist can save the faceless army problem.
Gasparde2025-12-22 12:26
Don't we all remember the very much memorable antagonist Ikaris though? I for once was hypnotized by his romance with our equally memorable protagonist Sersi. And boy was I mesmerized by the ethical conflict he had with our other super memorable mentor character Ajak. Ho boy, I can vividly remember how exciting all of that was and how I was sitting at the edge of my seat throughout. And that's not even talking about our *nameless and faceless* bad guy who's entire motivation was... fuck, I honestly don't even remember anymore.
Nanjiani was by far the best thing to come out of this movie, mostly because he's the single only character that did anything even just remotely memorable - in this case, being played by an actor with at least just an ounce of charisma. And while these other actors certainly also have shown to posses said charisma in other movies... they certainly didn't showcase that talent in this movie.
The guy should be glad that despite *everyone* hating *everything* about this movie, just about everyone seems to agree that he's the exception and the he is in fact the only memorable thing to come out of this trainwreck. I don't think I've seen anyone asking for more Sersi. Or more small eternal. Or more fast eternal. Or more weird mind control eternal. Or more from that nuclear bomb guy eternal. Or Angelina Jolie. Or the eternal who looks an awful lot like Wong. Oh, and of course, how could anyone forget the legendary performance of Kit Harrington playing... Kit Harrington and looking at a sword for 2 seconds in a post credit scene.
Seriously, this fucking movie, holy shit.
JDeegs2025-12-22 14:39
Well actually lots of people loved the "fast eternal" maybe not entirely because of the character, but because of how they displayed the speed powers.
I'm also asking for more Jolie; i think she was underutilized
Gasparde2025-12-22 15:29
*Everyone* in that movie was underutilized.
septesix2025-12-22 11:14
Today I learned that Richard Madden’s face is just CGI blobs. I guess that’s why it was easy to change it to a wolf’s head.
boardgamejoe2025-12-22 11:16
Yeah there was a compelling villain by the end of the movie with a twist ending. But did anyone care about the whole team beating up these cgi monsters up until that point?
yosayoran2025-12-22 12:00
It's not because they were CGI blobs, it's because we didn't have time to care about the cast or learn anything meaningful about the threat they were dealing with (necessary for the twist).
Cyan_Kurrokawa2025-12-22 10:27
Jesus christ, is this dude still crying about this one film bombing years ago.
Gon_Snow2025-12-22 10:49
From all the interviews I have heard with him he took really hard the eternal reviews. Feels bad.
7screws2025-12-22 13:34
Yeah he’s big into nerd culture I’m sure one of his dreams is to be in a successful super hero movie. Who can blame him?
Zulmoka5312025-12-22 15:27
Well he’s in Fallout now, so he’s got that going for him!
homiej4202025-12-23 03:47
Oh word? He rules i was gonna watch anyway but i’ll bump that up rhe list now for sure
Melodic-Cycle39942025-12-22 15:08
Maybe I misremeber the narrative about that movie but I don't remember anybody saying anything bad about his performance. Hell all the performances were good the movie was just kind of awkward in the way it's placed in universe
mattscott532025-12-22 15:30
Maybe not his specific performance but there was plenty of discourse about how jacked he got and steroid speculation about him
Melodic-Cycle39942025-12-22 15:34
I mean yeah sure but the steroids discussion is a thing for all the male MCU heroes I feel like. If anything people were complimentary and were like wait he's actually not just funny but hot as fuck iirc
neogreenlantern2025-12-22 16:22
Kumail seems like the kinda guy where it doesn't matter how much positive feedback he gets the negative will be the stuff he dwells on. It's the cross that a lot of nerds, funny people, and minorities bare and he's all 3.
Melodic-Cycle39942025-12-22 17:05
Yeah I absolutely get that too. I wish they would've given him the chance to be thirsted after if I am being honest. Would've fit with the established character too in my opinion
Clamsadness2025-12-22 16:52
I’m pretty sure they’re all on steroids lol, which is fine by me it’s not like they’re athletes where competitive fairness is a concern. But him and Chris Pratt both had very striking body transformations for Marvel.
angrygnome18d2025-12-22 21:28
With the steroids thing, he mentions himself that for some reason he got made fun of and picked on for getting in shape. When Chris Pratt got in shape what did people say? “Incredible transformation. All he did was cut out beer!” What did people say when Kumail got in shape? “Dudes gotta be on steroids.” I get it, most MCU dudes are on gear, but the focus on Kumail definitely made him feel bad.
As a brown dude myself, I love that he got jacked and I’d like to see him taken more seriously. He’s always just a joke character in movies and shows, and I get it, he’s a comedian, but why is it even Bill Burr got a chance to be badass in Star Wars, but Kumail was relegated to a joke character? The dude is jacked, has decent charisma, and is a nerd himself.
I think the studios should give him a chance to be a badass.
Melodic-Cycle39942025-12-22 22:00
Yeah there's probably a deeper conversation to be had which kind of guys the public wants to be seen as a hot in shape guy and who should just stay goofy. I personally was really excited to see him show off a bit to get some variety in there.
Yeah I do hope they bring the eternals back for the next couple of movies and deliver some really cool action sequences with them the same way they did with the speedster those were top notch.
fistkick182025-12-23 02:06
Kumail was just ~~slim-fit~~ skinny fat before he bulked up. It's not like he seriously went through a major transformation, he just got bulk and good definition. When you can work out as your job it's not that hard to get fit...? I don't get what everyone else is so confused about.
Like if they just think he is less attractive now, they should just say that. That's fine. Maybe he lost his charm to them or whatever. I for one think it's cool when we have crossover actors who can do action comedy. We can't let Bollywood have all that fun.
altiuscitiusfortius2025-12-23 05:46
He was skinny fat. And he put on 60 pounds of muscle in less than a year. That should take 4 or 5 years without steroids. He also go the enhanced jaw and large traps that are indicative of peds.
I don't care that he takes steroids. Every superhero actor does. But he very very clearly did steroids.
That's the term I was looking for, thanks -edited.
And yeah, my biggest point is just that he is getting singled out for being particularly "ugly" or "fake" as a ripped dude, which is coming off as racist when every other superhero actor (e.g. Chris Hemsworth who was disturbingly large for L&T) does the same. And then he isn't even THAT big, just ripped.
Good_old_Marshmallow2025-12-24 02:31
He absolutely did steroids and yeah it does suck for him he's where the backlash to that started but it points to the fact that its a major problem that you think its possible he did it naturally. Every superhero actor is on some kind of gear, but he definitely is. I think it was how \*stark\* his transformation was and how much he started talking about it that made everyone think wow is everyone in these movies going to start doing this?
Go back and look at what Huge Jackman looked like for X1 Wolverine, that was \*wolverine\* he looks like the nerd tech guy in one of these movies now compared to Kumail who was playing the hand blasting guy who in no way needed to be ripped.
If every woman in these films lost 80-150 pounds and had concerning obvious anorexia and would do that to their body even if the role didn't require it and one larger actress went down to 90lbs and talked about what an amazing transformation it was for her we would rightly talk about it as a body issue problem. Like I get his joke but, its not weird people got the ick over rampant roids use in the MCU
Frozen_Pinkk2025-12-23 05:08
It was his jawline. I recall them saying it changed shape and it's something with steroids, but I could be misremembering.
DrManhattan_DDM2025-12-22 16:34
He clearly had some help to get as buff as he did, but I don’t understand why that’s a problem for some people. He’s not a pro athlete or doing some other kind of competitive activity, so I don’t really care if he’s natty.
throaway201807302025-12-22 17:19
Because they set unattainable beauty standards for men and they aren’t open about the “help” they use
ravih2025-12-22 19:42
Wasn’t he famously open about the help he got? I thought there was a big (positive!) deal about him being honest about his transformation being super hard to attain without the advantages of starring in a blockbuster film.
justseeby2025-12-22 21:28
As he says in his new standup, he’s the first person ever to get shit on for getting into shape
altiuscitiusfortius2025-12-23 05:41
Yeah but he clearly did and does take steroids so he shouldn't feel bad that people think he took steroids. He went from being a skinny fat 140 pound 40 urar old nerd to having a body better than a young Arnold Schwarzenegger in 18 months.
That's a 5 year journey for a 20 year old and impossible for a 40 year old, unless you take steroids.
targetcowboy2025-12-22 22:24
It was a lot of movie and backstory for new characters. I liked a lot of it, but it felt like it could have been a series.
asiantorontonian882025-12-22 22:43
People did shit on his Bollywood dancing. And I would agree in the sense that everyone on the production made it out to be this complicated routine that he was nervous doing, and his character is supposed to be a recognized top tier performer in that industry. And the end result just looked pretty basic on his part.
crazyguyunderthedesk2025-12-22 23:53
Even if he's not so glued out, the overall.movie getting bad reviews sucked hard.
To make it worse, Marvel was really confident in it so they held early screenings for critics and had no embargo, so the bad reviews were released right at the start of the press tour.
raisingcuban2025-12-22 15:51
Yeah, this recent statement only came to him from years of therapy
chiefbrody622025-12-22 21:07
Which is a shame. He and honestly all the actors in it did great, Chloe Zhao is a great director. I think it's only failing was that it would have worked better as a show. Just too many characters being introduced at once. I definitely would watch a sequel tho, don't understand the hate it got.
RumHamComesback2025-12-24 00:35
Yeah, imagine signing up for a dream project and thinking it's all going well while filming then it releases and while you think it turned out great people disagree.
It sucks, but he's taking it well and "it is what it is" and isn't dwelling on it. He's proud of his work and is getting life experience from it and could apply it to future projects.
nikelaos1172025-12-22 11:42
Are people constantly asking him about this or can he not let it go? It sucks cause I'm sure he was hoping this would be his chance to be more apart of the MCU beyond his initial appearance.
CaptHayfever2025-12-22 15:08
It was in an interview, so probably he was asked about it, yes.
shogi_x2025-12-22 15:08
He's doing a lot of press for his new stand-up special, and some of his jokes are about the movie, so interviewers are asking about it.
Plausibility_Migrain2025-12-22 13:45
Of the Eternals characters, I really enjoyed Kingo.
Ubergoober1662025-12-22 17:21
Yea, setting aside the rest of the movie, Kingo was definitely one I'd like to see return at some point. Hell, I wouldn't mind seeing most of the Eternals come back at some point. The characters weren't really the issue with the movie, it was more the fact that it probably should have been a show.
anothercookie902025-12-22 17:32
I really thought he would return at the end to save everyone but he was really just like fuck this I’m out
chiefbrody622025-12-22 21:36
I liked him in his What If episode with Agatha. Definitely would like to see more of him.
kientran2025-12-22 22:33
Exactly this would have been a great show! An episode or two for each person in their main era doing cool stuff rather than the 10 minutes we got. Instead we got a bunch of shows that should have been a movie
ProlapsedShamus2025-12-23 06:51
I liked Eternals but it was a lot of story to shove into a movie.
The quality wasn't bad and honestly it was really well told for the time they had.
thelochteedge2025-12-23 02:13
Everyone other than Sersi/Icarus were enjoyable characters to explore. Hell even Icarus. Sersi was the most wet blanket boring character. The plot overall was boring but the characters weren’t.
I_Was_TheBiggWigg2025-12-24 09:15
He definitely had the most personality. It’s amazing how stacked the cast was, but it almost felt like they were still rehearsing. Most of the characters just felt very shallow and undeveloped.
Left4DayZGone2025-12-22 13:59
I know people aren’t going to like me saying this, but I don’t like that we are getting into the territory where actors take bad reviews personally.
One, they shouldn’t take it personally. It’s a group project. Do your part to the best of your ability, and that’s all you can do.
But the main reason I think this is problematic it’s because we are less inclined to fairly critique film if we’re worried about the feelings of the people who made it. Maybe I’m old-fashioned I guess, but I feel like we don’t gain anything by lying to people about the quality of their work. We don’t have to be assholes about it, but we should absolutely point out what is good *and* what is bad about someone’s work, because if all we ever do is talk about the good, they will never seek to improve.
shogi_x2025-12-22 15:10
>I don’t like that we are getting into the territory where actors take bad reviews personally.
This isn't new. It's been happening since movies and reviews began. Every actor deals with this.
Left4DayZGone2025-12-22 15:15
But we are reinforcing it by coddling that mentality- “don’t criticize this movie so that the actors don’t feel bad!”
shogi_x2025-12-22 15:24
Who is "we"? I don't see anyone doing that. Most of the comments here are still criticizing the movie, and some are criticizing Nanjiani directly.
Left4DayZGone2025-12-22 15:45
It happens all the time, are you kidding me? Can’t even tell you all the horrible things said about me because I dared criticize the Obi-Wan show.
shogi_x2025-12-22 16:31
Again, where is this happening? Even r/starwars hates Obi-Wan and continues to lampoon it to this day.
Left4DayZGone2025-12-22 16:58
It didn’t when it mattered. Eventually, the defenders gave up what we learned it wasn’t coming back.
I’m not gonna sit here and try and convince you that it happened or happens, if you’re not aware of it then I have to assume you’re just in denial. It’s one of the worst aspects of Reddit.
Only_Sun_69782025-12-22 14:29
Found him a little bit iver the top at some times but overall he was a funny guy and I liked it tbh
RepulsiveContract4752025-12-22 15:05
Is he still talking about this? I see the therapy worked wonders.
CaptHayfever2025-12-22 15:10
He *should* be proud of his performance. Despite the movie itself being a disappointment, he was very good *in* it, & even most of the negative reviews mentioned him as one of the best parts.
The_Superhoo2025-12-22 15:13
He was the best part of that movie and it needed much more of him.
He ought to be proud of his work on it
Brave-Concentrate2752025-12-22 15:15
I’m only one who actually liked and enjoyed Eternals?
ProlapsedShamus2025-12-23 06:52
You are not. I find myself watching the fight scenes, especially Makari on YouTube all the time. They were amazing.
bensthebest2025-12-23 07:32
There are dozens of us! I really enjoyed it also. I thought it was better than a lot of the post end game marvel (I know, not a high bar). I thought it was better than the latest captain America at least
peachpinkjedi2025-12-22 15:17
He did a great job as his character *and* it isn't a bad film at all, just paced weird and probably would have done a lot better as a TV show.
Arsenio32025-12-22 15:19
Kingo would be a great fit on a MCU WC Avengers. Shang Chi, She-Hulk,Wonder Man, (recast) Wasp are all in California and Kingo could easily take the leap to Hollywood, maybe Sersei comes with him.(White) Vision would work too. They’d mostly be new to the Superhero game but like rookies being called up to the major leagues. Set it up by having Stark bequeath his Malibu property (it’s just a hole on a cliff) it to “The Avengers” (which is why Sam needs to sue the NuAvengerz for the name)..
Ok-disaster20222025-12-22 15:28
Honestly every supporting character in the movie was a way more interesting character than the leads of the movie. Id love a movie/series about a superpowered Bollywood star featuring Nanjiani. And even the leads I'm sure are great performers just the character were written bland
goblinite22025-12-22 15:33
He was the best part of that movie and the only character I want to see more of.
Orion141592025-12-22 15:44
I didn't really have any issues with actor performances in that movie, it was just confusingly told and you never really get to focus on anyone's story within it for long enough to care. It's hard to make a movie with that many characters as an origin story.
MIAxPaperPlanes2025-12-22 15:58
Also weirdly still to date one of the only MCU actors who got jacked and they didn’t give a shirtless scene to
queerhistorynerd2025-12-23 07:59
they put him under a 6 appearance (tv or film) contract and did jack shit with him. Like why
Lord_Phoenix952025-12-24 09:23
I think he chose to get jacked.
CommunityDragon1842025-12-22 16:12
good! He was one of the best parts
defragc2025-12-22 16:21
This came out over 4 years ago and everyone’s moved on, but he’s still harping on it. Must really struck a nerve. I like him and think he did well so hopefully he has a bright future.
Lower_Kaleidoscope_32025-12-22 16:31
I really liked the movie. No idea why reviewers are being cunts about it, it's better than most of the Marvel stuff that came after
highpl4insdrftr2025-12-22 16:35
It's not his fault they gave him finger guns as weapons
cjohnson20102025-12-22 16:48
I think he was definitely one of the standouts. This movie just suffered from an overly bloated cast were several of the characters weren’t interesting imo. I get they were trying to go for comic accuracy but I think limiting main cast to five or so would’ve done just fine.
I hate how Marvel is so quick to cancel things that might not be a right out of the gate success, but also with the right we working has the chance to become one.
Asanjawa2025-12-22 16:57
Kingo became one of my favorite MCU characters so it's a shame this is the path that was ahead of Eternals
EnzoMcFly_jr2025-12-22 17:01
I’ve said it many times, but I really think in a world where the pandemic didn’t happen and that movie met its original release date, it would’ve much more beloved.
It’s really not a bad movie. It just wasn’t the one we wanted/needed at that time. Watch it again.
AmelaPandersen2025-12-22 17:41
I like Kumail a lot, but he’s got to let this go. He’s getting hung up on this one thing from years ago.
Maleficent_Ant_88952025-12-22 18:00
I’ve had an idea for a buddy cop space movie between Kingo and Shang Chi and I can’t let go of it. I don’t care how absurd the premise is, the two of them would carry that movie
Binx_Thackery2025-12-22 18:16
I mean Kingo was the best thing about that movie so don’t feel too bad man. It wasn’t him AT ALL.
groglox2025-12-22 19:04
I’d love to see him get a cool role in DC now. If anyone can figure out his spot it’s Gunn.
Smooth-Mix-43572025-12-22 19:50
I saw some reviews when the movie came out that said Kumail's role as Kingo didn't look good. I don't know, I liked his portrayal of Kingo. Didn't find anything wrong with it.
Wooden-Radish-90082025-12-22 20:04
Eternals is a great movie, I'll never understand everyone's problem with it
ProlapsedShamus2025-12-23 06:56
I feel like it had two things going against it the first was covid.
The entire planet was in a weird place. It got delayed once or twice if I recall correctly and then it came out and that leads into the other thing; we were all on the Endgame high.
Infinity War was so incredible and the wrap up was mind melting. Then we kinda went back to business as usual. Though I'd argue Eternals was as good or better than the Phase 1 or 2 movies. But people wanted more and we were in an anxious state and here in America we were also dealing with the end of four years of political insanity.
Also, that is when I think the critics started to turn on Marvel. I remember really noticing it on the run up to The Marvels. There was this rooting for the movie to fail. This glee that it seemed like all those shitty slop YouTube channels and entertainment reporting websites were reveling in to make Marvel's first flop happen. The business switched to negativity being more profitable because now this monolith could be taken down.
Gilded-Mongoose2025-12-22 20:20
I'm glad he's proud but it's still a shit movie.
I do feel for the flak he's getting, or rather that the movie's getting, but him feeling bad isn't going to change that. What does he want from us?
snoozingsleeping2025-12-22 20:52
I cannot stand him and he was extra awful in eternals
Somebodi1012025-12-22 21:02
He should be! Is a very cool movie, I need Eternals 2
RecoveredAshes2025-12-22 21:35
I don’t understand the hate for this movie. I thought it was great, and something tonally unique in the MCU. It felt like man of steel. This was great and for the life of me I can’t understand why the critics didn’t like it
JessicaDAndy2025-12-22 21:57
The Eternals is a favorite. Maybe one of the top things that came out Post Infinity Saga so far.
Garyhthm2025-12-22 22:11
He was one of the best parts of the movie, with his little butler dude following him around
iannmichael2025-12-22 23:52
He really is the only person still talking about this movie.
dexdaflex2025-12-22 23:56
He carried the movie. MCU should just do a Kingo spin off. Would be epic
ghostcatzero2025-12-22 23:56
I like it screw the haters
darthbiscuit2025-12-23 00:58
Every performance in that movie was great. It was just too many performances. It should’ve been a high budget series. Eight episodes with real character development. Instead it’s a clusterfuck of disparate storylines culminating in a big “meh”.
uncleben852025-12-23 01:56
The movie was (imo) fantastic, and Kumail was a highlight, for sure
I hope we get some followup to the Eternals, but I really hope Kingo returns to some extent
DataSurging2025-12-23 01:57
He was my second favorite part about the movie. I think he's fantastic. I also think the movie was good, despite just a few problems I had with it. A shame we will not see more of the Eternals.
NyriasNeo2025-12-23 02:28
" ‘I Do Not Get to Choose What the Reviewers Are Going to Think’"
That is just plain wrong. How you perform is exactly what decides "what the reviewers are going to think".
semperknight2025-12-23 04:22
Can't believe that movie had the absolute massive balls to have a plot point about Sprite being in love with middle aged man, but couldn't pursue it because being engineered to have a 12yr old body (her mind was millions of years old).
Slimeington2025-12-23 05:04
I loved The Eternals, and especially Kumails role.
Frozen_Pinkk2025-12-23 05:09
Eternals needed work, but it wasn't that bad to me.
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Pretty sure everyone would love to see more of him. The movie was just mid and did not feel like part of the MCU history.
Like, Iron Man 2 and Thor 2 i can watch and enjoy. Theyre just not amazing.
I actually quite like Iron Man 2 tbh lol
But man, eternals? its just so so so mid its worse than a bad movie... its a bland one.
It has a full blown sex scene for some reason?
Turns out humanity didnt do anything cool and the eternals basically created all of our tech and we're just glorified chimps lol
All these super people existed all this time - one of them very much in the public eye, and no one figured it out when super heroes started showing up? Kingo pretends to be line of actors... uh, in what world? Our celebrity obsession would never allow this to work, at least not in the last 70 years.
This movie throws an absolute constant bombardment of rewritten MCU history and nonsensical "Buys" at the viewer with absolutely zero respect for our intelligence.
This would be a fun movie if it were a stand alone film. Something where we can just assume the world we're looking at is different and the dumb things are fine. Itd make a great one and done Netflix watch. But as a movie meant to fit into an established world, its real bad.
Feigi just let the director do whatever she wanted because she won an oscar. This movie was aggressively mid.
Like seriously, there are probably six scenes in the movie that amount to "Cersi explains to one of her friends that Salma Hayek is dead--the friend has a sad crying scene--flashback to when they were all together doing cool stuff--move on to tell the next character that Salma Hayek is dead". It just takes forever.
For instance, we have Thena saying she's always wanted to fight Ikaris. Why? There was no real set up to it.
Phastos also, always wanted to kick Ikaris' ass. Why? Again, where was the setup?
Then lastly, the way they all treated Sprite. Yeah, I get it, she looks like a kid, but they all knew how old she really was. For saying they love her and they're family, they really treat her like trash.
After that, it may have had to many characters to really know them. I can understand it's a setup movie and they went with a director to give it a different feel that many may not care about.
They all knew it. Then Ajax turned out to be lying to all of them when she changed the plan.
This is all personal taste obviously, which is very subjective, but didnt enjoy the character or portrayal personally.
Just realized I thought Iw as replying to a comment in the Spiderman post lol.
I agree it would be a less frustrating movie if it wasnt meant to slot into a universe, but its not like they didnt \*know\* that it was part of said universe...
And even then its pretty silly.
The people who work on the final product and have the final say on it's entirety are the editors, the directors and executives. Anyone else involved in the production are seeing a very small piece of a huge puzzle, doing their best (usually).
When disney make an arse of something they do so in a glorious fashion. I wish they would sell of both of my favorite franchises . It wont happen though.
A series would have been way better.
I think it would have been better as a series. Give the story more time to develope rather than having something that was quite compact.
Nanjiani was by far the best thing to come out of this movie, mostly because he's the single only character that did anything even just remotely memorable - in this case, being played by an actor with at least just an ounce of charisma. And while these other actors certainly also have shown to posses said charisma in other movies... they certainly didn't showcase that talent in this movie.
The guy should be glad that despite *everyone* hating *everything* about this movie, just about everyone seems to agree that he's the exception and the he is in fact the only memorable thing to come out of this trainwreck. I don't think I've seen anyone asking for more Sersi. Or more small eternal. Or more fast eternal. Or more weird mind control eternal. Or more from that nuclear bomb guy eternal. Or Angelina Jolie. Or the eternal who looks an awful lot like Wong. Oh, and of course, how could anyone forget the legendary performance of Kit Harrington playing... Kit Harrington and looking at a sword for 2 seconds in a post credit scene.
Seriously, this fucking movie, holy shit.
I'm also asking for more Jolie; i think she was underutilized
As a brown dude myself, I love that he got jacked and I’d like to see him taken more seriously. He’s always just a joke character in movies and shows, and I get it, he’s a comedian, but why is it even Bill Burr got a chance to be badass in Star Wars, but Kumail was relegated to a joke character? The dude is jacked, has decent charisma, and is a nerd himself.
I think the studios should give him a chance to be a badass.
Yeah I do hope they bring the eternals back for the next couple of movies and deliver some really cool action sequences with them the same way they did with the speedster those were top notch.
Like if they just think he is less attractive now, they should just say that. That's fine. Maybe he lost his charm to them or whatever. I for one think it's cool when we have crossover actors who can do action comedy. We can't let Bollywood have all that fun.
I don't care that he takes steroids. Every superhero actor does. But he very very clearly did steroids.
https://www.instagram.com/p/CBN-1ncDKHy/?igsh=YjRjcWhvY3VldDF4
That's the term I was looking for, thanks -edited.
And yeah, my biggest point is just that he is getting singled out for being particularly "ugly" or "fake" as a ripped dude, which is coming off as racist when every other superhero actor (e.g. Chris Hemsworth who was disturbingly large for L&T) does the same. And then he isn't even THAT big, just ripped.
Go back and look at what Huge Jackman looked like for X1 Wolverine, that was \*wolverine\* he looks like the nerd tech guy in one of these movies now compared to Kumail who was playing the hand blasting guy who in no way needed to be ripped.
If every woman in these films lost 80-150 pounds and had concerning obvious anorexia and would do that to their body even if the role didn't require it and one larger actress went down to 90lbs and talked about what an amazing transformation it was for her we would rightly talk about it as a body issue problem. Like I get his joke but, its not weird people got the ick over rampant roids use in the MCU
That's a 5 year journey for a 20 year old and impossible for a 40 year old, unless you take steroids.
To make it worse, Marvel was really confident in it so they held early screenings for critics and had no embargo, so the bad reviews were released right at the start of the press tour.
It sucks, but he's taking it well and "it is what it is" and isn't dwelling on it. He's proud of his work and is getting life experience from it and could apply it to future projects.
The quality wasn't bad and honestly it was really well told for the time they had.
One, they shouldn’t take it personally. It’s a group project. Do your part to the best of your ability, and that’s all you can do.
But the main reason I think this is problematic it’s because we are less inclined to fairly critique film if we’re worried about the feelings of the people who made it. Maybe I’m old-fashioned I guess, but I feel like we don’t gain anything by lying to people about the quality of their work. We don’t have to be assholes about it, but we should absolutely point out what is good *and* what is bad about someone’s work, because if all we ever do is talk about the good, they will never seek to improve.
This isn't new. It's been happening since movies and reviews began. Every actor deals with this.
I’m not gonna sit here and try and convince you that it happened or happens, if you’re not aware of it then I have to assume you’re just in denial. It’s one of the worst aspects of Reddit.
He ought to be proud of his work on it
I hate how Marvel is so quick to cancel things that might not be a right out of the gate success, but also with the right we working has the chance to become one.
It’s really not a bad movie. It just wasn’t the one we wanted/needed at that time. Watch it again.
The entire planet was in a weird place. It got delayed once or twice if I recall correctly and then it came out and that leads into the other thing; we were all on the Endgame high.
Infinity War was so incredible and the wrap up was mind melting. Then we kinda went back to business as usual. Though I'd argue Eternals was as good or better than the Phase 1 or 2 movies. But people wanted more and we were in an anxious state and here in America we were also dealing with the end of four years of political insanity.
Also, that is when I think the critics started to turn on Marvel. I remember really noticing it on the run up to The Marvels. There was this rooting for the movie to fail. This glee that it seemed like all those shitty slop YouTube channels and entertainment reporting websites were reveling in to make Marvel's first flop happen. The business switched to negativity being more profitable because now this monolith could be taken down.
I do feel for the flak he's getting, or rather that the movie's getting, but him feeling bad isn't going to change that. What does he want from us?
I hope we get some followup to the Eternals, but I really hope Kingo returns to some extent
That is just plain wrong. How you perform is exactly what decides "what the reviewers are going to think".