Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings

[cobainwasmurdered]

The trailer is out so time for a thread

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1384137317967831041

Simu Liu as Shang-Chi, alongside Awkwafina, Tony Leung, Fala Chen, Meng'er Zhang, Florian Munteanu, Ronny Chieng, and Michelle Yeoh


Looks like it'll just be in theaters but we've heard that before.

 

[Dandy]

Looking forward to a martial arts movie. It has been a long time on this end.

 

[Mr. S£im Citrus]

FUCK. YES!

 

[cobainwasmurdered]

New trailer dropped that shows a bit more about what is going on. The big thing here is ABMONIATION CAGE FIIIIIIIGHT!

 

[Dandy]

Crossposted from the Coronavirus Release Delay thread. The movie is expected to break the all-time Labor Day release record:

Shang-Chi Expected To Set All-Time Labor Day Box Office Record, Not Just For Pandemic

Movie studios historically shy away from releasing movies over Labor Day because "no one goes to the movies," but Disney is doing just that.

www.google.com

 

[HarleyQuinn]

"Deadline reports that Shang-Chi is expected to make between $45 million-$50 million in the US and Canada over the long weekend at 4,200-plus theaters. This would set a new record for Labor Day weekend--and not just during the pandemic but of all time--easily eclipsing the previous record-holder, 2007's Halloween ($30.6 million)."

Not that big a number as I was expecting but will be interesting to see considering Candyman made $22 Million domestically last weekend.

 

[cobainwasmurdered]

i mean it will smash all the records for the weekednd I don;t know how that isn't a big number.

 

[King Kamala]

Labor Day Weekend is traditionally one of the slowest movie going weekends of the year with school starting and opening weekend of college football.

I've long given up being even the most casual comic book movie guy but this is the first MCU movie I kind of want to see since Black Panther

 

[Dandy]

Guys, it is projected to be 1.5 times the fucking record for the opening day of the weekend. I don’t care what your think about that particular weekend, that plays.

 

[HSJ]

Just came back from seeing it. It's a lot of fun and the typical Marvel introduction film. Better than Ant Man but not as good as Black Panther. Typical marvel issues

Spoiler

having a terrible villain

but I kind of expect it at this point. They did leave it off where I want to see what happens with these character in the future, specifically

Spoiler

Xia Ling taking over as the new Mandarin and head of the Ten Rings.

The crowd I was with wasn't the best, but they got a bunch of laughs out of Awkafinna and

Spoiler

Ben Kingsley.

 

[Youth N Asia]

Had a good time with it. Although I thought the lead actor was a little unremarkable. Great fight scenes. Kinda gets to the action pretty quickly.

Mid credits scene seems like it’ll tie into The Eternals.

 

[cobainwasmurdered]

FINALLY saw this. I really enjoyed it. It's not an essential movie or anything but I thought most of the humor hit and the action was good. I actually thought the motivation of the villain was a lot better and more understandable than the typical Marvel (or DC) Big Bad. Awkwafina was the clear standout. Also give me more Wong.

 

[Dandy]

“Give me more Wong.” - @cobainwasmurdered

Didn’t I see that on your Tinder profile?

 

[Dandy]

I watched this Saturday night and it was great visually with great fight scenes. It was also lighthearted and had some good laughs. Nothing epic but a good movie to watch.

There was a lot of tying in to former MCU movies, which could be viewed as forced or more natural and necessary. I am probably in the middle and didn’t find it distracting.

I was also expecting

Spoiler

Fin Fang Foom

toward the end.

The mid and post credits scenes were fine and nothing Earth shattering.

Overall worth a view, definitely for MCU fans.

 

[Dandy]

Also, I need canceled because I had been calling it “SHANG-Chee” as it appears and not “Shong-CHEE” as it is actually pronounced. I guess I watched zero promotional items for this and just read everything.

 

[HarleyQuinn]

I watched this Saturday night and it was great visually with great fight scenes. It was also lighthearted and had some good laughs. Nothing epic but a good movie to watch.

There was a lot of tying in to former MCU movies, which could be viewed as forced or more natural and necessary. I am probably in the middle and didn’t find it distracting.

I was also expecting

Spoiler

Fin Fang Foom

toward the end.

The mid and post credits scenes were fine and nothing Earth shattering.

Overall worth a view, definitely for MCU fans.

Pretty much my thoughts when I watched it last night on Disney+. It did tend to start feeling a little long once they got to do the whole pre-war setup (I feel like this could've been condensed a fair bit to keep the pace tighter) as the first half had great pacing, especially with its fight scenes.

The mid & post-credits scenes were whatever. The mid-credits scene in particular is the kind of scene that isn't really necessary and doesn't really do much, IMO but is put in the credits because Marvel films have to do it now and "tie in" to other universes.

Spoiler

Wong tells them "welcome to the team" and Captain Marvel/Bruce are all "Whoa... these rings are older than you think but we don't know what they are. Byeeeee!"

It's the kind of scene that would've been a Blu-Ray "deleted scene" thrown in as an extra to sell it.

With all that said, fun movie that I can see myself randomly throwing on as background when it inevitably starts airing on TNT or TBS.