TV/Movies Megathread

[viper37]

Shang Chi-starts off excellent. Like Jackie Chan at his peak with just enough special effects to still be within believability. Absolutely great stuff. Such a change from the typical marvel non interactive video game action scenes .
By the ending its just stupid. Takes things much further than marvel and is a nonsensical mess.

Eh?
I've seen some professional reviews broadly agree with this.

I'll go out on a limb and guess the ending involve some gay romance or something and that's why Garb is pissed

[Zoupa]

Shang Chi is the 1st Marvel movie I gave up on. Fell asleep 30 minutes in.

[The Brain]

Metropolis (restored Argentinian copy). Ray Liotta's life of easy decadence is interrupted by some kids. It's fucking Metropolis, so not much to add about the movie. I've only seen it once before, many years ago on TV. The hussies in the garden are hot. Machine Maria is hot, including her Sasha Grey impression.

[garbon]

Shang Chi-starts off excellent. Like Jackie Chan at his peak with just enough special effects to still be within believability. Absolutely great stuff. Such a change from the typical marvel non interactive video game action scenes .
By the ending its just stupid. Takes things much further than marvel and is a nonsensical mess.

Eh?
I've seen some professional reviews broadly agree with this.

I'll go out on a limb and guess the ending involve some gay romance or something and that's why Garb is pissed

Don't be that asshole.

[celedhring]

So, I visited my mom this weekend and we randomly watched some GOT episodes. We stumbled upon the Mountain-Viper fight, and I didn't remember Martell refusing to wear a helmet in the fight (the Mountain then famously smashes his skull). My mom blurted "Ah, that's why he never takes it off in The Mandalorian" 

[Syt]

[Eddie Teach]

Eh?
I've seen some professional reviews broadly agree with this.

"Within believability" 

[Josquius]

Eh?
I've seen some professional reviews broadly agree with this.

"Within believability" 

Yes?
The bus fight using the environment and broadly realistic kung fu looks like something from a Jackie Chan film broadly. The extra air time being done isn't that out of the ordinary.
The sword in the arm is dumb of course and where the fantastical Marvel elements come in. But even with that its a lot more down to earth than most marvel fights.

Then at the end you have wacky flying dragons and dragonballZ fighting.

[garbon]

The movie started with a man who had lived 1000 years and had superpowers.

[HVC]

Superhero movie is too superhero-y. i don't like it. And while I'm at it, have you seen superman? since when can men fly and shoot laser-beams from their eyes?

[Barrister]

I haven't seen Shang Chi, so it's no comment on that movie, but the MCU did start out kind of grounded.  Iron Man (guy who started it all) was just a guy with a fancy metal suit.  Hulk the effect of gamma radiation.  Thor wasn't a God, he was an alien.

But it's gotten pretty out there by now, with magic powers, time travel, and alternate realities.

[The Larch]

I haven't seen Shang Chi, so it's no comment on that movie, but the MCU did start out kind of grounded.  Iron Man (guy who started it all) was just a guy with a fancy metal suit.  Hulk the effect of gamma radiation.  Thor wasn't a God, he was an alien.

But it's gotten pretty out there by now, with magic powers, time travel, and alternate realities.

So? Same as the comics they're based on.

[garbon]

Superhero movie is too superhero-y. i don't like it. And while I'm at it, have you seen superman? since when can men fly and shoot laser-beams from their eyes?

[Barrister]

I haven't seen Shang Chi, so it's no comment on that movie, but the MCU did start out kind of grounded.  Iron Man (guy who started it all) was just a guy with a fancy metal suit.  Hulk the effect of gamma radiation.  Thor wasn't a God, he was an alien.

But it's gotten pretty out there by now, with magic powers, time travel, and alternate realities.

So? Same as the comics they're based on.

Yeah, but the large majority of MCU fans aren't really fans of the comic books.

And besides, they're now getting into more and more obscure characters from the comics.  I'm not a comic book guy, but I had heard of Iron Man, The Hulk, Spider Man, and the like.  I'd never heard of Shang Chi or The Eternals.

Now Marvel has proven it can take obscure comic book characters and make a hit movie from them (Guardians of the Galaxy).  But will they be able to keep doing so?

[Grey Fox]

Now Marvel has proven it can take obscure comic book characters and make a hit movie from them (Guardians of the Galaxy).  But will they be able to keep doing so?

No. And they've already failed once. That won't them stop trying it out again & again.