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Another great edit of what I thought was an unsalvageable movie! As many have said the chronological reorder does a ton to make the story and themes so much clearer. I remember Ikaris's arc especially being so confusing and motivation-less, and this time I understood all of it, and even found myself getting emotional by the end. I also remember the pacing of the original being an endless repeat of "find an Eternal, do a flashback, fight the deviants" for 2.5 hours; in this edit, it's a nice 3-act structure of the past 7000 years, the team getting back together, and saving the world, which really works.

All the problems I have with this come from the original (the grey color palette, the lackluster/one-note characterization for most of the Eternals (Phastos still bothers me so much as a character why is he like that), the superdeviant that is never really explained, the typical MCU CGI final battle with endless punching) but god this is so much more enjoyable to watch. I think there was maybe one too many title cards and needle drops (using Time was excellent) and I think there's maybe 15 more minutes that could be cut, but overall really well done! This is now a movie worth watching.