Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (2021) - Simu Liu, Tony Leung Chiu-Wai, Awkwafina

[ShawAngela]

On 8/14/2021 at 4:56 PM, AlbertV said:

Whoever wrote that....ummmm.....

Here, we would say that the smoked the carpet...

Edited August 17, 2021 by ShawAngela

[Chu Liu Hsiang]

 

Edited August 19, 2021 by Chu Liu Hsiang
Interview Andy Le on the red carpet, I guess some lawyer wanted it to be removed

[Majin Android]

after 28 years Michelle Yeoh and Tony Leung Chiu-Wai reunite.

Possible spoilers below

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and their relationship is tragic possibly fitting for the wuxia films they did decades earlier

[AlbertV]

13 minutes ago, Majin Android said:

after 28 years Michelle Yeoh and Tony Leung Chiu-Wai reunite.

 

I love this movie....this was actually the film that introduced me to Michelle, Tony, and Donnie Yen

[Majin Android]

This fight looks good. Ooohh when he throws that elbow up. Heard this fight on the bus gets even better.

[laagi]

Lots of praise for Tony Leung AND even more important the Martial Arts seem to hit the mark. I might have misjudged Shang-Chi by its trailer. Hoping to catch this in cinema soon.

And here's a new featurette...

 

[KCN9NE]

20 hours ago, laagi said:

Lots of praise for Tony Leung AND even more important the Martial Arts seem to hit the mark. I might have misjudged Shang-Chi by its trailer. Hoping to catch this in cinema soon.

And here's a new featurette...

 

Stuckman also gave the action great reviews. Not really the martial arts movie expert.. but a few reviews I’ve read or watched have all praised the action. 

[laagi]

4 hours ago, KCN9NE said:

Stuckman also gave the action great reviews. Not really the martial arts movie expert.. but a few reviews I’ve read or watched have all praised the action. 

One reviewer went as far as saying that the action was as good as in The Raid and The Raid 2. While I do appreciate the sentiment I highly doubt that to be the case.

[OpiumKungFuCracker]

4 minutes ago, laagi said:

One reviewer went as far as saying that the action was as good as in The Raid and The Raid 2. While I do appreciate the sentiment I highly doubt that to be the case.

 

 Damn, well guess I need to purchase tix asap!!! 

[laagi]

Interesting and at the same time impressive. Simu Liu touches on his Martial Arts training. Kudos to him and especially his team for what they've apparently achieved within 6 months!

 

[AlbertV]

1 hour ago, laagi said:

Interesting and at the same time impressive. Simu Liu touches on his Martial Arts training. Kudos to him and especially his team for what they've apparently achieved within 6 months!

 

He reminds me of Andy On. He and On have a similar background when it comes to martial arts.

[Chu Liu Hsiang]

I'm not the biggest Marvel fan under the moon but this might be my only chance to see the amazing one and only Tony Leung in a cinema, and I am not going to miss it! And from what I've seen and read so far, I think I will enjoy the movie as a whole, complete with a big bucket of popcorn. 

[Majin Android]

10 minutes ago, Chu Liu Hsiang said:

I'm not the biggest Marvel fan under the moon but this might be my only chance to see the amazing one and only Tony Leung in a cinema, and I am not going to miss it! And from what I've seen and read so far, I think I will enjoy the movie as a whole, complete with a big bucket of popcorn. 

Tony Leung and Michelle Yeoh together again after 28 years too 😎

[Majin Android]

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=awC8IZIXWts

Is that Yuen Wah at 14 seconds in?

[Gaijin84]

Uh oh...

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/01/movies/shang-chi-and-the-legend-of-the-ten-rings-review.html

The one thing I was afraid of... lack of quality fighting scenes. Good thing Tony Leung is in this, otherwise might be a total bust. I'll still check it out, but still not feeling positive.

[AlbertV]

A more positive review:

https://nypost.com/2021/09/02/shang-chi-review-marvels-best-since-panther/

[OpiumKungFuCracker]

Looks like it's getting good box office numbers based on word of mouth. Let's go Shang chi!

[sym8]

I loved this.Hugely entertaining,the fight sequences and action in general are top draw.Wasn’t expecting much going into this but it did tick all the right boxes for me,from the bus fight to the bamboo scaffold fight to the finale,great entertainment.👍👍👍👍

[wmcguire18]

SHANG CHI AND THE LEGEND OF THE TEN RINGS (2021)

Pleasant, but insubstantial. If SHANG CHI were food it would more green tea ice cream than haute cuisine. It is not an adaptation of the blistering 70's "Bruce Lee as Bond" epics, nor is it the triumph of the historically down-trodden that BLACK PANTHER. It has taken no input from the rush of great action films coming from all over Southeast Asia in the last ten years from THE RAID to the recent HYDRA.

It is a clean, bright, Marvel film about a likeable everyman who realizes he has to become a hero, and not at all about martial arts, as such. Shang's journey is the conflict between the demands of repressive tradition, symbolized by his father, and the warm, welcoming, progressive modernity symbolized by his best friend and sister with the Shangri-La of the film's third act in place as a mythical balance between the two. It does nothing to challenge the audience, but it also never breaks its own internal logic or insults your intelligence. It's not a meal, but it won't rot your teeth.

Everyone got the memo about this film... except Tony Leung, playing the antagonist Mandarin/Wenwu. Leung brings all of his soulful charisma and understated charm to the role, and it isn't until his character's final moments that he succumbs to any temptation to play this character like a traditional "bad guy". Until that point his every look, every gesture, every nuance is so laden with meaning and purpose that he's absolute as hypnotic here as he was in BULLET IN THE HEAD or CHUNGKING EXPRESS. Of all the Hong Kong actors who have made the jump to Hollywood in my life time, none have translated so completely as Tony Leung. He is worth the price of admission.

The action scenes are fine...the early stuff lacks the kind of grit that could really ground the martial arts and make you feel the danger and it's building up to a complete CG wonderland finale that makes Wakanda look like the apartment block from THE RAID in terms of realism. Simu Liu is fine in all these scenes, he handles the physicality well but there's nothing that will stick with you. They're fun action scenes in the way that Pierce Brosnan 007 movies had fun action scenes, but they don't blow your doors off the way CASINO ROYALE did.

There's a lot of humor in the film, and if I had one negative surprise about the film it was how few of the jokes landed compared to how many there were. There weren't any groaners but this is the first Marvel movie I've seen in theaters where the audience was so quiet. Awkwafina is OK, Ben Kingsley returns as the degenerate actor from IRON MAN 3 and he's still having a blast.

I cannot in good conscience say this is a bad film, but as a fin of the character and the genre I had hoped to get a real soupcon of KUNG FU in my SHANG-CHI movie and the movie seemed to get it all out of the way in the first act so it can work up to giving Shang the same CGI LASER super powers every other movie superhero has. I came out of this feeling like it was a missed opportunity, and the audience around me that I spoke to seemed more interested in the fact that it was setting up DR. STRANGE 2. As a film unto itself, SHANG CHI may be alright, but it's being constructed as a sizzle reel for the next few Marvel films and for the people who like that sort of thing, it did the thing you like.

[sym8]

14 hours ago, wmcguire18 said:

SHANG CHI AND THE LEGEND OF THE TEN RINGS (2021)

Pleasant, but insubstantial. If SHANG CHI were food it would more green tea ice cream than haute cuisine. It is not an adaptation of the blistering 70's "Bruce Lee as Bond" epics, nor is it the triumph of the historically down-trodden that BLACK PANTHER. It has taken no input from the rush of great action films coming from all over Southeast Asia in the last ten years from THE RAID to the recent HYDRA.

It is a clean, bright, Marvel film about a likeable everyman who realizes he has to become a hero, and not at all about martial arts, as such. Shang's journey is the conflict between the demands of repressive tradition, symbolized by his father, and the warm, welcoming, progressive modernity symbolized by his best friend and sister with the Shangri-La of the film's third act in place as a mythical balance between the two. It does nothing to challenge the audience, but it also never breaks its own internal logic or insults your intelligence. It's not a meal, but it won't rot your teeth.

Everyone got the memo about this film... except Tony Leung, playing the antagonist Mandarin/Wenwu. Leung brings all of his soulful charisma and understated charm to the role, and it isn't until his character's final moments that he succumbs to any temptation to play this character like a traditional "bad guy". Until that point his every look, every gesture, every nuance is so laden with meaning and purpose that he's absolute as hypnotic here as he was in BULLET IN THE HEAD or CHUNGKING EXPRESS. Of all the Hong Kong actors who have made the jump to Hollywood in my life time, none have translated so completely as Tony Leung. He is worth the price of admission.

The action scenes are fine...the early stuff lacks the kind of grit that could really ground the martial arts and make you feel the danger and it's building up to a complete CG wonderland finale that makes Wakanda look like the apartment block from THE RAID in terms of realism. Simu Liu is fine in all these scenes, he handles the physicality well but there's nothing that will stick with you. They're fun action scenes in the way that Pierce Brosnan 007 movies had fun action scenes, but they don't blow your doors off the way CASINO ROYALE did.

There's a lot of humor in the film, and if I had one negative surprise about the film it was how few of the jokes landed compared to how many there were. There weren't any groaners but this is the first Marvel movie I've seen in theaters where the audience was so quiet. Awkwafina is OK, Ben Kingsley returns as the degenerate actor from IRON MAN 3 and he's still having a blast.

I cannot in good conscience say this is a bad film, but as a fin of the character and the genre I had hoped to get a real soupcon of KUNG FU in my SHANG-CHI movie and the movie seemed to get it all out of the way in the first act so it can work up to giving Shang the same CGI LASER super powers every other movie superhero has. I came out of this feeling like it was a missed opportunity, and the audience around me that I spoke to seemed more interested in the fact that it was setting up DR. STRANGE 2. As a film unto itself, SHANG CHI may be alright, but it's being constructed as a sizzle reel for the next few Marvel films and for the people who like that sort of thing, it did the thing you like.

Now that’s a review,there are words here I didn’t even know existed😀😀😜👍👍👍👍

Edited September 5, 2021 by sym8

[DarthKato]

Cannot say that I'm a fan of Shang-Chi, nor do I really trust Modern Marvel to do anything right(I am going to give the Moon Knight series a chance, due to my love of the character. God help them if they fuck it up). That, on top of there being hundreds of better martial arts movies, makes this movie an easy pass for me. 

[Drunken Monk]

Some martial artists purists may shit on Shang-Chi but I loved it and think it’s one of the best Marvel movies yet. The action is the best you’re going to see from a comic book movie. Classic kung fu with an added twist. I loved every single action sequence.

The characters breathe life into the movie and honestly? Tony Leung deserves a damn Oscar. He brings a whole new level of gravitas to the film.

It does get very over the top towards the end but if you don’t mind your big, magical, CGI set pieces then it won’t bother you. It certainly didn’t bother me.

[Majin Android]

Whatever your feelings are. Seeing it in theaters is a treat and a fuller experience. I enjoyed it quite well and look forward to where the characters go next.

Enjoyed it more than most Marvel films which I also enjoy watching. My only gripe is I wish they started planting more seeds early on in previous mcu films in regards to the lore of these characters and the world they inhabit. The previous allusions to the Ten Rings were not enough.

Loved the fantasy battle at the end of the film. Like live action anime or an updated cgi assisted version of wuxia fights we saw from the 90’s.

[Yihetuan]

One thing keeping me from seeing this movie is that Awkwafina character. Damn, she's hella annoying in everything that I've seen her in (Crazy Rich Asians, Oceans 8, Jumanji, etc).

My buddy sent me trailer and I got ric rolled but in a good way.

 

[OpiumKungFuCracker]

8 hours ago, Yihetuan said:

One thing keeping me from seeing this movie is that Awkwafina character. Damn, she's hella annoying in everything that I've seen her in (Crazy Rich Asians, Oceans 8, Jumanji, etc).

My buddy sent me trailer and I got ric rolled but in a good way.

 

Yeah I'm with you.  I just don't vibe with her and her tone when speaking with Tony Leaung in some of the interviews she seemed a little stuck up. She's like the female Ken Jeong which I'm also not a fan of.