MCU Thread 2

[Tomous]

Shang-Chi himself was one of the worst things about the Shang-Chi film. He had no screen presence whatsoever.

I know what you mean, he did feel a bit bland and was outshone in most scenes by Michelle Yeoh, Awkwafina, Tong Leung, Ben Kingsley....

Feels like he may have gotten the part more for the stunt work on his CV rather than charisma

[Edd]

Relevant,

twitter.com/SimuLiu/status/1460147785248899076

[Qikz]

Shang-Chi himself was one of the worst things about the Shang-Chi film. He had no screen presence whatsoever.

I know what you mean, he did feel a bit bland and was outshone in most scenes by Michelle Yeoh, Awkwafina, Tong Leung, Ben Kingsley....

Feels like he may have gotten the part more for the stunt work on his CV rather than charisma

I didn't mind the the fact he wasn't super charismatic, if anything I liked that about his character and the way he portrayed him. This film was all about Shang-chi growing to be the hero that he can be, and I think that's cool.

[Tomous]

Shang-Chi himself was one of the worst things about the Shang-Chi film. He had no screen presence whatsoever.

I know what you mean, he did feel a bit bland and was outshone in most scenes by Michelle Yeoh, Awkwafina, Tong Leung, Ben Kingsley....

Feels like he may have gotten the part more for the stunt work on his CV rather than charisma

I didn't mind the the fact he wasn't super charismatic, if anything I liked that about his character and the way he portrayed him. This film was all about Shang-chi growing to be the hero that he can be, and I think that's cool.

Yeah, I do get what you're saying, MCU really doesn't need another super, OTT charismatic superhero as it has plenty of them.

[Memento Mori]

Updated order:

The Winter Soldier
Spider-Man Homecoming
Infinity War
Guardians of the Galaxy
Captain America
Spider-Man Far From Home
Endgame
Civil War
Black Panther
Guardians of the Galaxy 2
Thor Ragnarok
Iron Man
Avengers
Age of Ultron
Iron Man 3
Thor
Ant-Man
Captain Marvel
Shang-Chi
Black Widow
The Incredible Hulk
Ant-Man and The Wasp
Iron Man 2
Doctor Strange
The Dark World

[Jenuall]

I can't recall if I've done a full MCU ranking before, but why not. Here's a stab at one: (technically this still isn't "full" as I've not watched The Incredible Hulk)

Captain America: The Winter Soldier 9.5/10
Infinity War: 9.5/10
Guardian's of the Galaxy: 9/10
Endgame: 9/10
Avengers: 9/10
Captain America: Civil War 8.5/10
Thor Ragnarok: 8.5/10
Black Panther 8.5/10
Shang-Chi: 8.5/10
Ant-Man 8/10
Spider-Man Homecoming: 8/10
Iron Man: 8/10
Captain America: 8/10
Spider-Man Far From Home: 8/10
Captain Marvel: 8/10
Doctor Strange 8/10
Ant-Man and The Wasp: 8/10
Black Widow: 8/10
Guardians of the Galaxy 2: 7.5/10
Thor: 7.5/10
Iron Man 2: 7.5/10
Iron Man 3: 7/10
Avengers: Age of Ultron 7/10
Thor: The Dark World 6/10

[D_C]

The new Spidey trailer drops at 1:30am GMT

[Jenuall]

1:30AM!?

To be fair most of the spoilers are already out there so it's not much of a risk waiting I guess!

[Victor Mildew]

I can't believe people rate winter soldier so highly, it wasn't better than captain America imo.

[Victor Mildew]

I also watched ant man on Saturday, and it was complete shite.

[Jenuall]

You were complete shite more like

[Victor Mildew]

Your strawberry floating face

[Jenuall]

[Carlos]

I also watched ant man on Saturday, and it was complete shite.

Horses for courses I suppose but I really like Ant Man because it's not as obsessed with setting things up at the other movies. It works well as a standalone story.

Having not seen the trailers I was at first a little disappointed with Shang Chi because I was expecting something a little more 'street level' after that terrific sequence on the bus. However the whole fantasy world part was quite well done if you ignore the glaring plot hole of how the good guys barely managed to get one car through the forest due to the closing gaps but the badguys bring a whole fleet.

[Buffalo]

Wtf, Ant Man is one of the best ones.

[Victor Mildew]

Yeah but you lot think mad max fury road is a great film too

[Tomous]

Ant-Man is brilliant and one of the most underrated MCU films.

Sequel is meh though.

[Abacus]

Shang Chi 6/10

Not sure why, but this really didn't grab me at all. I was thinking it might just be Marvel fatigue, where they seem to just be making the same film over and over again.

But then again, I really enjoyed Black Widow, which you could level the same complaint about.

Overall, I just found it quite boring. I can barely even remember what happened now. If they really want to reboot the MCU after Endgame, they're really going to need a humdinger of a new character to build it around and this one isn't it.

Come in Spiderman, I think you're needed. But you'll need someone to spar against, like Tony Stark vs Captain America.

Also, Ant Man was great.

[Cheeky Devlin]

Trailer is up!

Spoilery thumbnail so stuck it in a box.

Looks awesome!

No other Spider-Men revealed, but definitely saw at least 5 villains (Goblin, Octopus, Electro, Sandman, Lizard and they seem to be leading up to someone at the end). Need to watch it again tomorrow I think!

[Skarjo]

Actually legit excited for that, but they've blown the load on reveals. I saw the spoiler about Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield's Spidermen being in it and thought that if I'd seen that blind it would have been an awesome surprise, but now seeing that they've got Sandman, Doc Ock, Electro and Green Goblin all seemingly being played by their original actors in the trailers, it's making it too obvious.

Bloody trailers revealing too much.