As a companion series to An Idea of All Time my husband and I decided to rewatch all of the MCU movies in chronological order. This serves several purposes; 1) there is going to be a bit of an MCU drought for the next year as far as new releases go. 2) We want to properly place Shang-Chi in the MCU not just ranking it by quality but contextualizing it based on the existing universe. 3) We want to analyze how many of Shang-Chi’s problems are project specific and how many are MCU bred. So in addition to watching Shang-Chi every week we will be watching another MCU movie every week. We are of course starting with Iron Man.
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Now the first thing that rewatching Iron Man did was show that Shang-Chi could have been so much better had they actually given a shit that they were a part of a greater cinematic universe. As the terrorist organization that captures Tony is labeled the 10 rings. With the same symbolism that we see in the movie Shang-Chi: The Legend of the Ten Rings. But we will get to that upon our next watch. For now I will say that sometimes I forget how brilliantly the MCU started. And it was entirely built around Iron Man and Tony Stark. Now we will get to why that isn’t necessarily a good thing as we continue this rewatch series but in this first talk and in this first movie that is a good thing. We will also be rating each film on a scale of 1-10 and using those numbers to give our official MCU rankings which I am sure is going to result in some butthurt fans. I have a lot of rants in me so I am glad to be doing this with my husband who has already heard them all.
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