Eternity

Released 2025

I watched this movie with Joey after we couldn't get the subtitles to work on a foreign film. I didn't know this was released in 2025, it seemed like it was a 2000s romcom. It didn't help that Miles Teller looks like he hasn't aged in years. Joey had said the intro reminded him of The Notebook since it began with a very brief piece of this elderly couple's lives, which I agree because then we transitioned into when they were their younger self. The elderly man played by Miles Teller, Larry, has an unexpected accident that results in his death and the afterlife is not what he imagined. There's people everywhere, all just as confused as he is, guides in uniforms who only seem to say one sentence and advertisements for places you would never believe, all set up in this 1960s airport environment. Eventually our protagonist, Larry, meets his afterlife coordinator, Anna, played by Da’Vine Joy Randolph. I loved her character, she was probably my favorite. Anyways, Anna explains to Larry how this whole afterlife setup works, he has one week to choose where he wants to spend the rest of his eternity whether that be on the beach, in the 80s, maybe its Bromance world or Hockey World for the Heated Rivalry fans. I'd be in the Man Free World or Studio 54 World.  

Little did he know his wife Joan (Elizabeth Olsen) would be joining him in the waiting room. And little did Joan know her first love who died in the Korean War was also waiting for her. What do we do now girl?? I’d panic and run away and then accidentally end up in the Old Testament World. Now she has seven days to not only choose a world but seven days to choose who she wants to spend her Eternity with. Her first love or the man she created a life and a bloodline with. Genuinely, what do you do? The man waited for 67 years. SIX SEVEN YEARS. IN A BAR. And here I thought death was supposed to bring you a peace of mind.  

Overall I loved this movie. I think my favorite part was that it felt nostalgic. Something about the way it was shot or something it felt like it was filmed in the early 2000s and it's so refreshing to see that in a world full of modernized film. What will Joan do though? Oh gee I really don't know. I wish I could tell ya I really wish I could. That sucks man, go watch it I guess.