16 weeks in to Shang-Chi and we have managed to still find things to complain about so….you’re welcome. This week we talk about Mary Sue’s, the passage of time, Avatar the Last Airbender and why its important for writers to have editors. Somehow the movie was worse after we took a week off. But I think watching the movie twice in a row was punishment enough.
Mediocre movies are often fine, sometimes they are simply forgettable. But mostly what makes movies mediocre is that they try somethings and it simply doesn’t work. The biggest problem with Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings is that it doesn’t try anything. It’s saying nothing. And therefore its mediocrity is really unforgivable. A part of me really hopes that we don’t actually ever see these characters again. I hope that it ends up being a thing that Marvel tried that didn’t work, and we can all forget about it and move on. We will be getting back on top of our other MCU rewatches this week. It’s been a minute because we have been so busy. I just got back from SDCC and though it was fun it was also a lot of work. So this week we will be back on our regular schedule. Hopefully we will bringing a guest into this soon. We do still have quite a few more things to tally while we watch but mostly we are down to just questioning all of our life decisions. The movie is fine. It does get worse every time we watch it and I am slowly losing my mind. I am yet still kind of anxious to see that if once we move on from this, if the other movies we do this with will have the same mental and emotional effects. I am hoping the answer to that is no. But only time will tell.
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