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Just came back from Shang-chi and had a pretty good time! I wanted to wait for a few weeks so that I could go to a showing with limited number of people (with a mask on, of course), which was a good call. The action set pieces are quite good, and Simu Liu and Awkwafina have excellent friendship chemistry. It has a few surprisingly decent wuxia-type action scenes, including a super sexy fight-dance scene at the beginning, but that's what you get when you put Tony Leung in a martial arts scene, yo.
I liked Simu Liu but honestly, I spent most of the movie being punched in the face by Tony Leung's hotness. Didn't help that he spends half of his screen time making his patented Tragic Faces of Romantic Agony. Poor Liu didn't fare too well when he was facing off him, 'cause why would you look at anyone else when there is Tony fucking Leung on your screen.
I stayed for the mid-credit stinger, which was fun. Not sure if there was more than one.
Loki may have become too popular - I saw someone had posted on the internet (lost the link) a photo of their pet bunny cosplaying Loki.
Vonnie, I read this and thought of you.
Thanks! That was a fun and informative read. That bus fight scene in particular was gorgeously choreographed -- smart of the director to bring in stunt and fight coordinators who were well versed in Hong Kong action movie scene.
I spent most of the movie being punched in the face by Tony Leung's hotness.
I mean, that's kind of a default state for me when he's on-screen.
I need to make the time to watch him in Happy Together soon.
Agatha Harkness Spinoff Starring Kathryn Hahn in the Works at Disney Plus
Because duh.
The whole What If...? series was underwhelming. It mostly felt like it was just rehashing scenes directly from the movies, but only switching up the characters. So many opportunities to go off in new directions, but too afraid to push the envelope. The Party Thor ep was fun, though.
Black Widow is now on the Disney+ regular tier.
We tried to watch Black Widow this weekend, and I had to nope the hell out in the first 5 minutes.
juliana, what was it that bothered you?
