Shang Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (September 3rd, 2021)

[loki2371]

This made the rounds on the internets after What If Star Lord and the feedback was interesting.

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So cool!!! After all, fair is fair....

I think that would be the 1st What If? episode I'd actually watch...

I can only imagine the comments this image spurned...

 

[jye4ever]

Now make it a gay white guy playing black panther lol

Wait based on that photo….

 

[The Clown Prince of Crime]

Par for the course these days though.

But he’s supposed to be a big green guy permanently now, no?

No, that was just a one movie prank the Russso bros played on us.

 

[The Clown Prince of Crime]

This made the rounds on the internets after What If Star Lord and the feedback was interesting.

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Well, people in South African are white, soooo, in a multiverse, I'm sure there's at least ONE white South African as Black Panther. They'll never do it out of fear of being canceled by the online woke mob.

 

[TurdFurgusonsHat]

Now make it a gay white guy playing black panther lol

Wait based on that photo….

Single = gay on Twitter. The movies themselves don't even get reviewed anymore, just the diversity and sexuality of the characters.

 

[Victοr]

I have the perfect Black Panther right here!

It's funny, Black Panther, a fictional creation in a fictional super-duper-ultra-mega-giga advanced country must be black 100%. But Norse, Greek, whatever other gods? Any other white character? Hell no, those aren't tied to any ethnicity or whatever other ******** my man. I mean, Blade's race literally doesn't matter to his character, so I say he's turned into a Latino-Asian bisexual with a Blasian femboy girlfriend who kills genderfluid vampire-ghost hybrids in the Caribbean in the MCU.

 

[ironwez20]

Saw it in Imax lastnight (was supposed to be thursday night but storm changed my plans) and it was my first Imax viewing since Spiderman FFH and the first packed screening since Spiderman FFH, BW was nowhere as filled as this.

I will say this as a “representation” movie it utterly blows away BP absolutely destroys it way better with everything. Seriously BP is trash next to this.

Will there be some jealousy lol

BW is also garbage compared to this movie then again so is TSS.

It’s true some of the best “fantasy” martial arts choreography put on film super dynamic and thrilling to watch especially with the rings which were well utilized.

Ok with that now out of the way Marvel phase 4 is in absolute shambles they are just throwing everything cosmic at the wall to see what sticks.

They don’t even know which multiverse creating device/plot they want to go with they are jumping from Wanda to Loki to DS to Kang to Spiderman to Ten Rings it is a convoluted mess.

The humor was also super cringing ughhh.

Initially I wasn’t buying into the Mandarin plot it just wasn’t working for me I was calling BS on all of if his existence and motivations but I ultimately just accepted that he was

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bored of existing and decided to hang up the rings meh whatever.

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Look I didn’t hate it and the cgi was spectacular (over head forest shots) and maybe as a stand-alone fantasy Kung Fu movie I can enjoy it but Marvel phase 4 is truly lost in translation.

I will say this I can’t believe Marvel just gave us a

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Gamera 3 Iris and King Ghidorah hybrid kaiju in this the beast was really well visualized and actually pretty damn frightening to behold well done Marvel once again they out do WB it made Starro look even more silly lol

Godzilla franchise is looking really bad now

The masked villain was cool looking that Hot Toys will look sweet.

I certainly don’t regret seeing it on Imax but i’m left indifferent I guess is the word.

Regarding the post credits:

Imagine if the rings belong to

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Galactus and that’s who they were calling in the post credits scene, maybe lol I mean who else is left as a big cosmic threat at this point are they going to finally wake up Adam Warlock lol

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I didn’t buy his sister taking over the Ten Rings organization at the final end credits scene after what they went thru together.

Look if you are one of those already fully dead inside with one foot in the grave at 40 to 55 years old and are just here to remind everyone that humanity can’t end fast enough for your liking then please go watch this so that we can enjoy your same review as the previous 100 superhero fantasy sci-fi movies you watched I do enjoy engaging in those discussions. I’m serious I might need to cross that bridge one day lol

If you are one of those adults who Kathleen Kennedy keeps you up at night even worse than if you think the government has your porn viewing records then no need to watch it just stick to Gina Carano’s future blockbuster projects.

Everyone else who is an MCU diehard and are vaccinated definitely go watch it on Imax or a Dolby Cinema and if you are not vaccinated go watch it anyways don’t worry about covid new variant it only made Joe Rogen sick for 1 day you are good to go.

But i’m guessing most MCU diehards are ready to hang up their MCU hats I know I am….

Eternals lol

Lol at the ending of this post. I feel like Kathleen Kennedy does keep some up at night and they dream about her burning there star wars collection.

 

[ironwez20]

I have the perfect Black Panther right here!

It's funny, Black Panther, a fictional creation in a fictional super-duper-ultra-mega-giga advanced country must be black 100%. But Norse, Greek, whatever other gods? Any other white character? Hell no, those aren't tied to any ethnicity or whatever other ******** my man. I mean, Blade's race literally doesn't matter to his character, so I say he's turned into a Latino-Asian bisexual with a Blasian femboy girlfriend who kills genderfluid vampire-ghost hybrids in the Caribbean in the MCU.

Yea that is weird. And honestly black people don’t care about superhero color change . They don’t. They just want to watch the movie. We don’t care about superman being black or changing a race of a white character. We literally don’t care .
Sure you have some Twitter losers saying “ yass. Stay mad”! But they don’t watch the movie in the end. They just like seeing people angry .

I’ve seen more white people champion the whole make them black then white people cause they think it’ll be such a huuuuuge deal for us and it’ll suddenly end racism.

like literally nobody cares and it’s not groundbreaking in the slightest. I find it insulting. You pretty much are saying “ here be happy with this race bent hero . We don’t wanna make original black characters cause they don’t sell”.

 

[Victοr]

Yea that is weird. And honestly black people don’t care about superhero color change . They don’t. They just want to watch the movie. We don’t care about superman being black or changing a race of a white character. We literally don’t care .
Sure you have some Twitter losers saying “ yass. Stay mad”! But they don’t watch the movie in the end. They just like seeing people angry .

I’ve seen more white people champion the whole make them black then white people cause they think it’ll be such a huuuuuge deal for us and it’ll suddenly end racism.

like literally nobody cares and it’s not groundbreaking in the slightest. I find it insulting. You pretty much are saying “ here be happy with this race bent hero . We don’t wanna make original black characters cause they don’t sell”.

It's called "racism of lesser expectations" or something to that regard. Basically the white twitter-user kind of American leftists see themselves as merciful gods who uplift the poor, clueless black folks and gift them with the great inclusion of racebent capeshit characters and shoehorning them in Medieval Poland. It's disingenuous because ultimately, they literally don't care. They can't even fathom that East Africans and West Africans are as separate as a Sami and a Spaniard. It's all the same to them. Priest hadn't written a Big 2 comic book in years because all they did was give him black characters to write. So he passed and left. Meanwhile a moron like Hudlin took the Black Panther job simply to write his self-insert utopia in capeshit format. His run was complete with:

1. WE
2. All blacks across the world know each other and like each other and they team-up together and **** man, it's la familia
3. Luke Cage ****** Black Cat because LMAO **** you Spider-Boy
4. Black Panther marries Storm because... uh... SHE'S BLACK!
5. Black Panther visits Latveria and he and Storm make fun of the people, calling them Keebler Elvers (which somehow isn't racist), then flex on dem whiteyz becuz in capeshit land Wakanda wuz charting the stars and ****
6. The Vatican and a bunch of other white characters attack Wakanda because the Pope is a White Supremacist and they hate BLAKK EXXCELLENCE
7. Black Panther pwns Black Knight and steals his Ebony (AKA BLACK) Blade, because Black Knight is a stupid-ass whi'eboy and he doesn't get to have a BLAK BLADE
8. Black Panther pwns Iron Man because Iron Man is a stupid ass whi'eboy who can't design good tech and is, like, Hoover or some ****

When Priest wrote Black Panther, and he had him essentially beat Tony, it was done in an intelligent manner that made sense and paid respect to both characters, without PIS or OOC writing needed. The problem is that the people calling the shots are a mix of Kennedys (who self-inserts as every brunette white woman in SW, and that's why seemingly only brunette white women exist in that universe) and Hudlins, not Priests. People can hate McFarlane, but he created and published an OC and didn't just create a self-insert, like Bendis does with all of his totally-not-his-adopted-kids OCs or Hudlin and whatever else.

It's just the way things are. It's all talk and all they want is a bigger marketshare. Coca-Cola used to make literal Nazi glass bottles, and now they have gendergluid interracial lesbian couples in their ads. It's all about the money. The twitter morons are literally a bunch of sheltered American kids who think they're changing the world.

I get the argument of representation. A reason why I like Doom is because he's an Eastern Euro (and it's also why I dislike the forced gyppo aspect) and I used to feel more attached to Tony over Batman because I thought he was Italian. So a character like Val-Zod I don't mind. Or Blade, or Spawn, or even Blue Marvel, much of a self-insert as he is. But when you make Asgard or Olympus look like modern L.A., when you go out of your way to antagonise the devoted audience, then the fans will be dissapointed. The reason why Lila Rhodes was well enough received and Ree-Ree was hated by the fanbase, was because of the execution. Make new characters, give them some connection, but don't have them be smug, obnoxious ***** who upstage the old guard. I never liked any "kewl" teen characters, even as a kid. I never liked it when one character beat up another character from another book because the writer hated them. It all felt petty and childish.

 

[GhostBeard]

His run was complete with:

1. WE
2. All blacks across the world know each other and like each other and they team-up together and **** man, it's la familia
3. Luke Cage ****** Black Cat because LMAO **** you Spider-Boy
4. Black Panther marries Storm because... uh... SHE'S BLACK!
5. Black Panther visits Latveria and he and Storm make fun of the people, calling them Keebler Elvers (which somehow isn't racist), then flex on dem whiteyz becuz in capeshit land Wakanda wuz charting the stars and ****
6. The Vatican and a bunch of other white characters attack Wakanda because the Pope is a White Supremacist and they hate BLAKK EXXCELLENCE
7. Black Panther pwns Black Knight and steals his Ebony (AKA BLACK) Blade, because Black Knight is a stupid-ass whi'eboy and he doesn't get to have a BLAK BLADE
8. Black Panther pwns Iron Man because Iron Man is a stupid ass whi'eboy who can't design good tech and is, like, Hoover or some ****

I'm sorry. Is all that what actually happened in the comic?

 

[Victοr]

I'm sorry. Is all that what actually happened in the comic?

Yeah, more or less. The Vatican stuff are the first arc. The Black Knight/Iron Man part is the Civil War Era tie-in. Storm got retconned into being his first love based on a small story by Priest and literally because they wanted a Black Power Couple and Storm was high profile. Stark actually returns in a non-canon story set in the future where the world is so jealous of Wakanda that they attack, but Wakanda conquers it and rules it fairly, but firmly. That's a good ending by the way. Hudlin actually followed it up in some annual or whatever in a story called, I kid you not, "BLACK TO THE FUTURE". The Doom thing is part of a story where they visit some Marvel Kings after the marriage. The Luke/Familia bit is part of a story where they, Falcon and Blade team up. I don't remember the story itself, but a couch gets wrecked in Luke's apartment and he goes "awwww **** man, I had the Black Cat on that couch".

Hudlin's neither a good writer, nor a well man. But hey, that's the version Marvel and we are where we are.

 

[ZE_501]

Yeah, more or less.

 

[GhostBeard]

Yeah, more or less. The Vatican stuff are the first arc. The Black Knight/Iron Man part is the Civil War Era tie-in. Storm got retconned into being his first love based on a small story by Priest and literally because they wanted a Black Power Couple and Storm was high profile. Stark actually returns in a non-canon story set in the future where the world is so jealous of Wakanda that they attack, but Wakanda conquers it and rules it fairly, but firmly. That's a good ending by the way. Hudlin actually followed it up in some annual or whatever in a story called, I kid you not, "BLACK TO THE FUTURE". The Doom thing is part of a story where they visit some Marvel Kings after the marriage. The Luke/Familia bit is part of a story where they, Falcon and Blade team up. I don't remember the story itself, but a couch gets wrecked in Luke's apartment and he goes "awwww **** man, I had the Black Cat on that couch".

Hudlin's neither a good writer, nor a well man. But hey, that's the version Marvel and we are where we are.

That's some hack writing IMO. Well, Shang-chi is "seemingly" doing well at the box office. Happy for those who I'm sure worked hard on the project, hopefully it does well overall. My son mentioned he wanted to see it and I floated the possibility of going to the theater, but he didn't want to bother, knowing he can stream from the couch next month. I, for one, tested positive for Covid week before last (even with the vaccine) so I'm not going out there. Interesting that the numbers may show a desire for movie theater experiences again.

 

[Otomofan]

"The soft bigotry of low expectations."

 

[The Clown Prince of Crime]

I have the perfect Black Panther right here!

It's funny, Black Panther, a fictional creation in a fictional super-duper-ultra-mega-giga advanced country must be black 100%. But Norse, Greek, whatever other gods? Any other white character? Hell no, those aren't tied to any ethnicity or whatever other ******** my man. I mean, Blade's race literally doesn't matter to his character, so I say he's turned into a Latino-Asian bisexual with a Blasian femboy girlfriend who kills genderfluid vampire-ghost hybrids in the Caribbean in the MCU.

That would be awesome.

 

[Victοr]

I say more or less because I can't go through 40+ issues and post the actual scans. I haven't read them in more than a decade. Some speech patterns are exaggerated for comedic purposes, but Hudlin's intentions were never disclosed. You can all go and check them out, tons of places with free comics. I have the Doom scans. Feast:

Sorry Mr. Hudlin, I'll get on importing some Black Kings and Queens right away, I will!

Cripes Mr. Hudlin, I sure will bow to WAKANDAN SUPREMACY now that you've made this factual point!
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Do you doubt the rest now?

That's some hack writing IMO. Well, Shang-chi is "seemingly" doing well at the box office. Happy for those who I'm sure worked hard on the project, hopefully it does well overall. My son mentioned he wanted to see it and I floated the possibility of going to the theater, but he didn't want to bother, knowing he can stream from the couch next month. I, for one, tested positive for Covid week before last (even with the vaccine) so I'm not going out there. Interesting that the numbers may show a desire for movie theater experiences again.

I'm not risking the theatres. I did take both shots (not sure how good of an idea it was now, to be honest) but there's nothing that'd make me risk it now.

Honestly, I'm put off by the main guy. He looks like a pudgy office worker. Why couldn't they just cast some pretty Chinese guy and make it a James Bond-esque flick with a proper Mandarin? I don't get it.

"The soft bigotry of low expectations."

Yeah, I think that's the one.

That would be awesome.

Hey, he could be Hunter, an actual character from the comics and the canon White Wolf.

But we all know that such a thing could never happen. But hey, black gay Achilles in an interracial threesome is a-ok! Thank you BBC!

VGH YOV CAN FEEL THE GREEK SPIRIT!

You know, up until 2015 Black Panther used to be in my Top 5. After the movie I don't even want his dolly. I'll probably get it to round up my Illuminati, but... I still want a Priest Omnibus though.

 

[Ropen]

I wish i could see this movie, but i got the delta variant at the moment, my home boys were like just go but I’m like I eat can’t popcorn without coughin and I feel like damb oh well

 

[The Clown Prince of Crime]

I wish i could see this movie, but i got the delta variant at the moment, my home boys were like just go but I’m like I eat can’t popcorn without coughin and I feel like damb oh well

You have the delta variant?

Have you been vaccinated?

 

[jye4ever]

Attack pattern delta

 

[ironwez20]

Lol this is the most I’ve seen darkthosis stick around the forum in a while