My Movie Journal is Better Than Yours

Other Movies Seen By This Director (1)
- Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings

Notes History

Date Viewed	Venue	Note
11.10.26	Internet	This Screening is part of event: DVRfest 2026 This summer it seemed like the same 3 or 4 actors were on a press tour for like 10 months. Like the A list has dwindled to so few people that everyone is in every movie being made. So I think that fatigue dampened my interest for this new Spider-Man movie. I've kind of been on hiatus with marvel but I do think the Spider-Man movies have been good and I think Tom Holland is great, but it's kind of like the Avengers after endgame, No Way Home was such a home run that where do you even go after that. Well with this movie I guess you go to organic CGI webs cuz there's a lot of em. I'm pretty meh on this. I didn't especially love the black-eye spidey stuff, everyone other than the punisher (and jean grey) are glorified cameos. I guess you can't call the hulk fight a cameo but it did seem specifically injected to pad the runtime, and Jean Grey felt injected just to seed the new x-men. This one more than the previous 3 felt like continuations of marvel's meta more than standalone films which is a shame. But you know... I think I'm just fatigued on comic book movies in general. I dipped my toe back in, didn't find anything I was missing, now I can check the box and move on. And it's already pretty late. I think I've only got 1 movie left in me. I'm shifting the double feature I had planned and watching a different horror movie instead.