Movie Details
| Title: | Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings | |
| Director: | Destin Daniel Cretton | |
| Year: | 2021 | |
| Genre: | Comic Book | |
| Times Seen: | 1 | |
| Last Seen: | 12.11.21 |
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| 12.11.21 | Internet | I watched this movie because I don't know what's going on anymore. I know I'm getting older, but it seemed to me that this movie had a mediocre trailer, got review bombed before it even came out, apparently underperformed and seems like it came and went, but who knows what qualifies as a hit post-covid so I guess it still made enough money to justify a sequel and now the rotten tomatoes scores are in the 90s for both critics and audience. So... again, maybe this is just what getting old feels like but what the fuck is going on? And with everything I just said, the actual quality of the movie doesn't seem to factor in to any of it. So I watched it. It was fine. What I took from it was that they were trying to make a comic book version of a kung-fu movie, so you had some wuxia influence, you had some legendary Asian actors, but with Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon type magical realism extended to typical MCU excess. The plot felt unevenly paced, which might just have been the weight of setting up all the characters and backstory with lengthy flashbacks, and there was a certain lack of propulsion throughout most of it which gave it a weird vibe for an MCU movie, but I think it also worked as a Kung Fu movie which all seem to share those traits as the audience sits through whatever story nonsense is going on in between the fight sequences. There is a certain meta going on with America's relationship with China, which I guess is what triggered all the Internet trolls to hate on this in principal, but if you hold it up to other Chinese movies I think it works alright. I did like the other MCU references (especially to previous incarnations of the Ten Rings) and how unabashedly fantasy the last act was. Better than the first two Thor movies for sure. |
