Its so bad, its bad for movie standards, its bad for marvel standards. Its such a giant mess, almost every aspect of it just doesnt work.
To start you have every single character quipping like the producers watched it with a timer in one hand. Its like a mandated every 60 second quip break, and every single character needs to get in on it. Theres actually a couple funny lines but wow they would land a lot better if this wasnt so constant.
Then you have the weird meme masculinity with the three spider men? "Hey bro, I love you" "no bro, you have to value yourself bro" like just stop. Save it for one scene or something, read a book any book.
The CGI is bottom of the barrel, its really scraping it. Lighting problems, proportions being way off, cartoon trucks suddenly being in screen, whole thing just looks awful. You cant possibly exaggerate how bad this movie looks, it has no visual soul at all.
It also suffers from video game writing, which is something Ive been noticing more and more in modern movies. Spider man shows up at Dr Stranges and he says "heres your quest spidey! I made you a wrist thing to go collect 6 bad guys, good luck!" Later in the film spider man unpacks a machine in his apartment that "can basically just build anything" dang thats convenient. Build a script.
Anyways I hated it, anyone who feels the need to defend these movies is 12. Theres no other explanation, I cannot believe adults are paying for these movies. I cannot believe this is our art culture from now until climate change wipes us out. 6 years from now theres going to be 1 movie that gets made a year, and itll make 9 billion dollars and cost 12 million to make because theyll use slave cgi assistants on every shot and people on twitter will tell you to shut your brain off.
Instead of seeing Shang-chi last year I decided to binge a bunch of kung-fu movies. Definitely had more fun hooting and hollering everytime Jackie Chan would like dodge a fist and make a funny face.
kung Fu is so good. you know your in for a good time if you see Jackie Chan, Sammo Hung, and or Yuen Woo-Ping. Among others of course
i cant find those on streaming services, it feels like options are really limited now
You can find them on services that are... Unadvertised.
Do piracy
yeah piracy is great but I have a big nice tv and a computer from work and it would be a lot more pleasant to be able to stream some of these movies instead whats happened which disney has both erased them from existence and also made them nostalgia vehicles??? wtf
You can watched pirated movies on a nice TV. I download untouched blurays and the quality is much better than streaming typically. It's actually kind of ruined streaming for me because I just can't deal with the noticeable compression artifacts now.
Oh that does sound really nice. Whats your process? I havent pirated in years
For piracy, use qBittorent, go to 1337x (dot) to , and/or check out r/piracy.
Easiest way to display stuff on TV is just downloading something on a laptop, and plugging an HDMI cable in. You could also get into jellyfin and the like, but that's a whole ordeal (which I'm not familiar with anyway)
I use Plex. You install it on your PC and make a free account. Then torrent your movie. Save it in folder selected for Plex. Refresh online Plex library so that it downloads metadata and subtitles. Move to couch. Pull up Plex app on TV or use Plex app on phone to cast to TV.
I set up a whole plex thing with a seedbox because of this comment and now im on the seven seas
Oh hell yes comrade, I love to hear it :rat-salute: Plex has even freed some of my friends and family from handing money to streaming services because they find it easy enough to use my server
It would be nice if random movies didn't just vanish which honestly is another reason to pirate. They don't get to decide when media is no longer available.
As others said there are solutions. As a weird nerd who loves fucking with servers and things I have a whole library set to automatically download anything I want and then stream it at whatever quality I downloaded it to any of my devices. Does take a good bit of setting up but it is very nice once it's going. Or as @Mao_Zedong said you can just download a file and plug in a laptop to a TV. Way easier to set up less convenient in the moment of watching though.
I want to do a mega thread/effort post explaining my whole setup sometime because surely it could be appreciated
i would read that effortpost
Please effort post
Plex! You can stream your movies from a PC to a TV
but yeah maybe don't do that on the work PC
Shang Chi is nonetheless good.
as someone who has watched every mcu movie (i will now face the wall), i think it has some of the most visually interesting action scenes in the entire franchise
if i’m being honest it’s probably one of my least favorites out of the mcu slop
Watch Tetsuo: The Iron Man. Excellent martial arts movie. Don't look up anything beforehand because you'll get spoiled on the first link
Have you seen IP Man