‘Eternals’ Is One of Marvel’s Emptiest Movies YetĪt the risk of sounding like one of the Marvel obsessives who will likely whine about the sex scene on Reddit for completely different reasons, it was the purposelessness of this moment that made it so mind-numbing to watch. (But seriously, how do two people that hot produce such a chilly, clinical vibe the second they touch?!) It’s not even that Richard Madden and Gemma Chan, whose characters we’re supposed to believe have been in love for 5,000 years, share about as much chemistry as a gynecologist and their patient during a Pap smear throughout the film. Or that it’s comically brief and bereft of any actual passion.
It’s not just that the scene is awkward-although it definitely is. Let’s try it this way: Have you ever seen a 6-year-old lay a Ken doll on top of a Barbie doll and then just kind of stare at them because they don’t really know what happens next? That’s basically what we’re working with here. The scene itself ends almost as soon as it begins, so a “detailed” description would be difficult to conjure. It took 13 years and two “Phases,” but friends, those crazy fiends at Marvel have finally done it: In Eternals, the latest dispatch from our most prolific purveyor of spandex cinema, two people finally got to have sex.