Soooooo.... You currently have the Delta variant, and your home boys still wanted you to go to the movies.....
I hope it does well for them and has “legs” as they say. I don’t expect it to replace my favorite comic movies, just wanted a good martial arts comic book movie. If the fights are CGI floating wire work devoid of impact, as I’ve read, I’ll be bummed.It looks like Shang Chi is going to have a huge opening, despite a pandemic. Marvel is OP.
If you like Crouching Tiger, Hero and House of Flying Daggers you will also like this.
Yeah, I’m not one of those who likes MMA levels of nausea inducing violence but some grounded action that communicates true import of the characters’ physical confrontation is good. Maybe a mix of what you describe would be good. Honestly, I can’t recall a comic book movie that has had what I’d consider “gritty” fight scenes.
Isn’t Shang-Chi, in part, Marvel’s apology for the Netflix Iron Fist?
Hope you get to feeling better. Kudos for not getting out and possibly spreading anything.
More like checking off a box. Not sure what other diverse backgrounds need their own MCU movies, as this guy felt like a D+ character. Marvel over the years just never really built up an Asian character and making him a circus ring toss champion doesn't really do it for me.
Now that’s funny right there.This is what I don't like. Asian representation defaults to Chinese. Yes, they're Asian but Asia is not just Chinese/China. Shang-Chi is very Chinese specific that I'd say it's the first MCU Chinese superhero. That Crazy Rich Asians movie should have been Crazy Rich Chinese.
Reminds me of Shang talking about that guy teasing him in high school singing Gangnam Style. "But, I'm not Korean!"
In Hollywood/the media, diversity often just means black people. Hispanic representation often defaults to Mexican, probably because Mexico is close to the US and there's lots of Mexicans in the US. It's just the way it is. So, Asian/Asia = Chinese. They also have the largest box office outside the US and there's 1.4 billion Chinese people...that sounds like a lot. Also, Americans like fake Chinese food, like Panda Express.
Speaking of which, Americans also like Panda bears. Those are from China, right? So was Bruce Lee. I think it's a way to simplify things. It's whatever is well known in the US that gets represented. It's a myopic way of looking at the world, but that's how Hollywood and most people see the the world.Consider he had do martial arts with fast movement and doing a lot of flips …so this kind of concept armor might’ve not worked with the action
In Hollywood/the media, diversity often just means black people. Hispanic representation often defaults to Mexican, probably because Mexico is close to the US and there's lots of Mexicans in the US. It's just the way it is. So, Asian/Asia = Chinese. They also have the largest box office outside the US and there's 1.4 billion Chinese people...that sounds like a lot. Also, Americans like fake Chinese food, like Panda Express.
