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yeah... I was surprised to see Mendehlson listed in that group. I usually think he's pretty spot on with his reviews.
MCU: Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
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yeah... I was surprised to see Mendehlson listed in that group. I usually think he's pretty spot on with his reviews.
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Mendelson killed Skywalker... like with a flame-thrower. Same with 84 and was a big ball of meh on Captain Marvel.
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Yup. He's not a big fan of CBMs in general.
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Honestly he didn't belong in that list for those movies. I haven't paid much attention to him after The Last Jedi when he first gave it a glowing review called it The Dark Knight of Starwars. That alone is a cardinal sin.
But then in the aftermath of TLJ he was one of the guys running with the "anyone that doesn't like it is a toxic manbaby" narrative that was being pushed. Everything that was going on at that time caused me to write him and his opinions off. Googling him it looks like he's walked some of that back now.
Scott Mendelson also has a hard on for hating on Star Wars. That guy sucks!
Stout
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This was so much fun. The choreography was incredible, intricately-wrought, at times a dance, at times a seduction, and at times just "Oh schnap, that was awesome!" Rich in story, great writing, great acting, some good laughs. Something different from Marvel with enough to connect to the Marvel 'verse.
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My son and I watched this earlier and enjoyed it thoroughly.
The pace was good, the action was well-choreographed and it paid homage to the various fighting styles used in Hong-Kong cinema: The elegant style used in Wuxia fighting, a-la Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, and the more practical and slapstick style that, for example, Jackie Chan used in many of his movies. Not surprising, since the late Brad Allan, one of Jackie's more prolific proteges, was the fight coordinator for this movie.
The humor was also well-placed and wasn't too much, which I was worried about, since they cast Awkafina as a lead and also involved Ronny Chieng who are both known for being comedians.
The pace was good, the action was well-choreographed and it paid homage to the various fighting styles used in Hong-Kong cinema: The elegant style used in Wuxia fighting, a-la Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, and the more practical and slapstick style that, for example, Jackie Chan used in many of his movies. Not surprising, since the late Brad Allan, one of Jackie's more prolific proteges, was the fight coordinator for this movie.
The humor was also well-placed and wasn't too much, which I was worried about, since they cast Awkafina as a lead and also involved Ronny Chieng who are both known for being comedians.
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I missed that news, sorry to hear he passed away. It may not be one of Jackie's best but for some reason we get a kick out "Gorgeous", probably Brad's biggest role in a Jackie Chan movie.
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Yeah, the big fight in that movie was awesome. And yeah, Brad passed almost a month ago now.
Brad Allan Dies: Stunt Guru In Jackie Chan And ‘Kingsman’ Films, ‘Shang-Chi’ Was 48
Bradley James Allan, the influential Australian stuntman, stunt coordinator and actor who was a longtime member of Jackie Chan’s team and who most recently was the supervising stunt coordinat…
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Yeah both of the fight sequences with Brad in that movie are very entertaining. Obviously the big return match is better, both the fight and the humor.Yeah, the big fight in that movie was awesome. And yeah, Brad passed almost a month ago now.
Brad Allan Dies: Stunt Guru In Jackie Chan And ‘Kingsman’ Films, ‘Shang-Chi’ Was 48
Bradley James Allan, the influential Australian stuntman, stunt coordinator and actor who was a longtime member of Jackie Chan’s team and who most recently was the supervising stunt coordinat…
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‘Shang-Chi’ To The Moon: Marvel Asian American Superhero Movie Wraps Labor Day Weekend With Record $94M+ & Best Monday During Pandemic
Tuesday AM: With Shang-Chi and the Legend of Ten Rings on the marquee, audiences didn’t take a holiday from the movies. As expected, the Destin Daniel Cretton-directed Marvel Cinematic Univer…
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Shang-Chi broke Labor Day weekend records, apparently with a 90-mil opening weekend.
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‘Shang-Chi’ To The Moon: Marvel Asian American Superhero Movie Wraps Labor Day Weekend With Record $94M+ & Best Monday During Pandemic
Tuesday AM: With Shang-Chi and the Legend of Ten Rings on the marquee, audiences didn’t take a holiday from the movies. As expected, the Destin Daniel Cretton-directed Marvel Cinematic Univer…
Shang-Chi broke Labor Day weekend records, apparently with a 90-mil opening weekend.
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Do they usually include Monday in the "weekend" numbers when it's a holiday? That 90m is projecting tomorrow's numbers and adding it to the first 4 days (Thursday to Sunday was $71.4m). Usually the opening weekend is the Thursday to Sunday numbers.
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That's why it's specific to Labor Day records, since Mondays are usually included in those numbers.
Also, Labor Day has usually been a bad weekend to release movies in the past.
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for holiday weekends, yeah.
it smashed through predictions of a 50-60 million dollar opening weekend.
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Absolutely agreed. It laid a lot more groundwork for future movies than I figured it would, and it was hilarious how they dealt with the Mandarin from Iron Man 3.
This was way more than I expected. It was fantastic. More epic fantasy than Marvel movie
R/T...92% from critics, 98% from audiences.
Hope to see it Thursday....
Hope to see it Thursday....
Yea this was fantastic. Even Aquafina couldn’t bring it down for me. choreography in the actions scenes was amazing and the cinematography was plain awesome. Well acted. It was well written and funny. The whole thing was so well paced. Immediately shoots towards the top of marvel movies I’ve seen imo.
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I'm better than Mulli!
Man I hope this doesn’t go Beetlejuice on me. I had heard so many great things about Beetlejuice that I was actually disappointed when I finally saw it (still love it today though). The hype here is likewise getting me too excited.
This. Just outstanding on every level. It actually exceeded my expectations. Wow..... Just WOW!!! 5/5
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BIM = Awkafina. No, really.
But yeah, I mentioned this elsewhere, but I was wondering how many gags this movie would have between Awkwafina and Ronnie Chieng, which are both known comedians. I was worried that it'd get too corny because of them.
But this movie used them just the right amount, which I commend the director on.
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I guess chemistry does do wonders for how a film comes out:
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Fan-freaking-tastic. Terrific story. Compelling acting. Beautiful from beginning to end. Just really awesome overall.
the martial arts seemed faster than normal, which made it seem more realistic. The movements were also quite mesmerizing. Beautiful is the word I keep returning to when thinking about this movie.
the martial arts seemed faster than normal, which made it seem more realistic. The movements were also quite mesmerizing. Beautiful is the word I keep returning to when thinking about this movie.
Just seen this yesterday and I’m not as high on it as my brother who says it’s top 3 but I put it at number 9. Yes we ranked the Marvel movies after this.
it’s pretty damn good the end fight scene is really up there. I didn’t know much about the character coming in but left a fan and wanting to see more.
up next Venom
it’s pretty damn good the end fight scene is really up there. I didn’t know much about the character coming in but left a fan and wanting to see more.
up next Venom
