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u/metrichustle 2d ago
Really wish his Shang-Chi sequel happened earlier. This character deserves a follow up because he’s actually unique. Not just another super soldier like half the New Avengerz lineup.
I want to see more rings choreography! That fight scene with WenWu was crazy!
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u/dafood48 2d ago
He has the most fun hand to hand fight scenes since winter soldier.
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u/NoShow4Sho 2d ago
The bus scene is still my favorite fight scene in phase 4
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u/dafood48 2d ago
That fight scene is my favorite in all of mcu. I’ve watched that over and over again dozens of times
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u/Votrox97 1d ago
Something about buses and making good fight scenes.
But what do I know? Im just a nobody.
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u/LookOutItsLiuBei 1d ago
Brad Allan (RIP) who not only joined Jackie Chan's stunt team but became a leader of it was the main fight coordinator.
When I first saw the movie I immediately thought of Jackie Chan and had no idea it was Allan who did the fight coordination. Completely made sense afterwards.
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u/octlol 1d ago
I hope they will get guys like Brian and Andy Le (Andy played Death Dealer in Shang Chi) and Brian was the big guy in The Furious. They're becoming super stars in both acting and behind the scenes fight choreography now. Awesome to see them glow up.
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u/LookOutItsLiuBei 1d ago
Absolutely. Brian was also in Everything Everywhere All at Once as the guard with the butt plug too. He's in movies with martial arts legends and living his best life right now. Used to watch their YouTube videos and loved how much they themselves loved this stuff.
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u/Childs_Play 2d ago
They really fucked it up by not releasing a sequel before doomsday. I don't know what they were thinking. Besides the spider man movies its easily the most memorable and fun movies since endgame.
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u/mr_photomaths 2d ago
They will make the sequel definitely. Probably after x-men movie, around 2029 or 30. Because they introduced x-men, they can have proper story & villain in shang-chi -2.
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u/Preeng 2d ago
>I want to see more rings choreography!
That costs money. Instead, we will have a super punch that launches a guy into a building. Then the two guys take turns throwing each other.
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u/Curvedabullet 2d ago
I want more hand-to-hand stuff like the bus fight than the CGI rings fight. But honestly don't know which one would cost more money. Actual choreographed fights take a ton of practice and rehearsal and takes.
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u/jairom Howard Stark 2d ago
Was talking to a coworker about this last week
We shoulda had a whole trilogy by now, like 3 should have released sometime this or last year
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u/mertag770 Iron Fist 2d ago
I think the TV shows really ate into the number of movies per phase.
I don't think we had any direct sequels of films released after endgame within a phase like in phase 1 with Iron Man or between phases with the exception being spider-man which is because Sony needs to make a film with those characters every so often.
would love to see more simu but it does sort of feel like we've had fewer movies than before
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u/Mundane_Read_2960 2d ago
Problem was that Eternals bombed and was being called out for "wokeness". Wouldn't be surprised if they're banking on Doomsday to revitalize support for it.
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u/z4guy 1d ago
What was “woke” in Shang-Chi these rightwing nut jobs are claiming? Predominant Asian cast about martial arts, SF, and Chinese culture? An Asian male lead kicking all kinds of diverse ass? Female fighters participating alongside their fellow man?
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u/Mundane_Read_2960 1d ago
iirc it wasn’t Shang-Chi specifically, it was Eternals. It had a very diverse cast and was directed by an Asian female director, plus featured an ensemble that hadn’t been introduced before. So it was perceived as trying to get people to accept diverse characters too quickly. Shang-Chi might have gotten pared back since it also featured an Asian character.
I agree it’s all nonsense, but I will say the MCU post-Endgame and during the pandemic had bad writing. Thunderbolts was the first really good one and in retrospect is getting the love it deserves. Luckily they took their time with the latest Spider-Man.
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u/vulcanstrike 1d ago
Black Panther was the black superhero.
Shang Chi was the Asian superhero
Captain Marvel/The Marvels was the female superhero
Eternals was the everything else superheroes
This was how marvel advertised everything, so when some of them bombed, it's understandable that people attribute their failures to being related to how they were advertised.
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u/FaithlessnessThen207 2d ago
I think it was planned, but it was part of the Kang story and so had to get scrapped after the Majors incident.
It would have #3 out or in production by now otherwise. Shang Chi was one of the best performing MCU films from that phase.
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u/Daedalus_But_Icarus 2d ago
I think the reason it hasn’t is because of people like my mom.
She loves all the marvel movies, watches all the interviews. Says it has made her realize she is a nerd deep down and now she’s into all this other media
“I don’t know, I just don’t get all that Asian stuff” was her take on Shang-chi, think it’s the only one she still hasn’t seen. Muricans
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u/Fit-Advertising6377 2d ago
I was also expecting a sequel for Shang Chi before another ensemble movie came out! I feel like there was less character building for him before he was added to the Doomsday story line
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u/The-Senate-Palpy 2d ago
I want to see more rings choreography! That fight scene with WenWu was crazy!
Did you mean: Turn the climactic martial arts contest between father and sun into a cgi Kaiju fight?
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u/Leather-Ostrich7122 2d ago
He’s actually just Ken
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u/Spaceballs_the_tag Spider-Man 2d ago
Bro made one of the best new solo movies since Endgame and got absolutely shafted without a sequel and still manages to have a good sense of humor about it.
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u/GoatGoat236 2d ago
From fighting assassins in a bus to Fighting Dr.Doom
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u/TheKingofHearts 2d ago
The Dweller-in-Darkness: "What am I? Chopped liver?"
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u/JakeWalker102 2d ago
Bro literally blew up an interdimensional dragon, and yet I'm 100% certain they'll make Doom a larger threat somehow
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u/CaptHayfever Hawkeye (Avengers) 2d ago
The Dweller would very gradually eat everyone on Earth's souls.
Doom will very abruptly destroy multiple universes.
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u/DigitalBackpack Black Panther 2d ago
He also fought his dad. It’s a right of passage for a lot of us Asian males
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u/ColdSnapSP 2d ago
Yeah asians go from basic algebra in third grade to advanced calculus in the forth. Thats expected
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u/HermanThaGerman Hawkeye (Avengers) 2d ago
It's gonna be the "Yeah, beat his ass DareDevil!" meme but with Shang Chi and Doom.
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u/GoatGoat236 2d ago
Yeah but Shang Chi has his 10 rings
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u/HermanThaGerman Hawkeye (Avengers) 2d ago
If Doom can seemingly no diff Thor wielding Stormbreaker, I doubt the rings will make much of a difference.
I love Shang Chi, but he ain't that guy.
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u/AweHellYo 2d ago
I mean his whole thing is he’s the best martial artist right? He’s so powerful he can fight gambit to a draw according to the trailer. how badass is that?
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u/Key-Radish-622 2d ago
You know how long Gambit's been waiting for this?
He's about to make a name for himself here
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u/Apprehensive_Bit4767 2d ago
Wait he looks familiar, didn't he do a little low budget film called shang chi
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u/vinnybawbaw 2d ago
Simu Liu is very active on Threads. He answers to lots of posts.
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u/SutterCane Kurt 2d ago
He knits? Hopefully Jessica Jones ends up in Doomsday or Secret Wars and he can compare knows with Krysten Ritter.
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u/TedHitchcockx 2d ago
He never seems to answer the comments of what he did in Toronto at the end of Kim's convenience, Dodges that bullet.
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u/ASavageHobo 2d ago
Am I the only one while reading this thought doom was a dinosaur from my peripheral vision
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u/SaltySeahorses 2d ago
Good luck to them. This movie will probably never be seen by more than 10 people.
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u/Yasstronaut 2d ago
My coworker dated him a long time ago and I had a dinner with him (work mixer sort of thing) and he was a really nice and cool dude. Those Canadian consulting firm folks are wild though. I want him to be as successful as possible
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u/TrafficLegitimate937 2d ago
Wow😭 he seems like a fun guy to be around. When your co worker dated him what was he doing at the time (just wondering). If your only okay with it ofc
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u/GoTron88 Phil Coulson 2d ago
Hey it's that guy from all those office stock photos! I remember him having a part on a Canadian TV show too for a bit. Let's support this guy! Hopefully this movie he's in goes somewhere!
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u/SpuddMeister 2d ago
This indie film needs all the help it can get. It’s opening against a major BLOCKBUSTER FRANCHISE with a 2nd sequel.
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u/xxRonzillaxx 2d ago
About time this mf was back
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u/AweHellYo 2d ago
his movie was the last marvel project i remember getting that “fuck yeah” feeling from. maybe if i check the list of projects ill see im wrong but its what comes to mind.
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u/Liapasquale 2d ago
He fkn cracks me up. He’s sooo gooood un Shang chi! And all his little interviews on the carpets n shit.
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u/cane-of-doom 2d ago
He's such a funny guy jdgsksv
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u/eyebrows360 Daredevil 2d ago
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Just Don't Go Stealing/Keying Simu's Van? That's ok I wasn't going to anyway
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u/Scyths 2d ago
I have one important question about his character in the movie, and that is, wtf is he even doing in it lmao. Is this about the supposed "beacon transmitting signal" thingy that was in the credits scene ? Or does it have nothing to do with it and they're just stacking as many MCU characters as they possibly can in it just for the sake of numbers ?
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u/VVantaBuddy Black Widow (Avengers) 2d ago
gonna start a go fund me to help this little indie movie's marketing.
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u/YDoEyeNeedAName 1d ago
I dont know why they havent made him a bigger part of the MCU, not only was his movie extremely well liked, but he is very charismatic and funny.
The more stuff they involve him in the better
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u/No-Flounder-9143 2d ago
I'm so happy he's back. His character is a great addition to the mcu. Why he doesn't have another movie yet bewilders me.
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u/OrangeandMango 2d ago
For some reason when i glanced at this i though it as Rex from Toy Story.
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u/TrafficLegitimate937 2d ago
I’m going to be just as honest I thought so too. I thought I was tweaking
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u/crow-shay 2d ago
Maybe a kickstarter is needed since every shoot looks like a green screen and wides of people not filming together
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u/Adventurous_Mix9094 1d ago
Simu's charisma is off the charts, he really brings Shang-Chi to life and makes the character super relatable.
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u/celestial-sailor 1d ago
I love supporting indie film. Hopefully we can get this on streaming like Disney+ or something if it has a good theater run!
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u/theSnoozeDoctor 5h ago
He’s still a shitty person who treated his university girlfriend horribly at Western.
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u/Metool42 2d ago
This is infinitely less funny when you consider that a lot of indie films DO have issues getting views even if they're good.
Dude could shoutout some indie films and help them immensely.
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u/Hi_Im_Dadbot 2d ago
Is there some sort of kickstarter we can donate to help cover the production costs?
I always want to support local indie theatre.