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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
I agree Squirrel Girl seems more suited to something like Harley Quinn (2019) than a "serious" "movie".
Destin Daniel Cretton (Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings) is set to direct Avengers: The Kang Dynasty, according to the Hollywood Reporter
. Not much to known besides that.
In fairness, it worked pretty damn well with The Russo Brothers. Their Cerebus Syndrome storytelling worked really well with Captain America, and they proved that they could juggle a big cast in Civil War, so it only seems natural that they closed off the Infinity Saga.
Though how Creston is going to jump from Shang-Chi to Avengers makes me curious. Maybe his D+ show will set something up for him? I thought that was going to be Shang-Chi related at first, but now I'm not so sure...
Edited by MatthewWayne on Jul 26th 2022 at 12:14:28 PM
"I'm Mr. Blue, woah-woah-ooh..."There has to be a giant third-act CGI battle, though. It's the law.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"Doom should definitely be a recurring villain.
Due to his diplomatic immunity the heroes can't just imprison or kill him, only repel his attacks, beat his ass up, shatter his ambitions, graffiti his castle, and then negotiate tenuous peace agreements. Agreements that maybe lead to him helping out in the next global crisis, only for him to use it to leverage more power for himself down the line.
Edited by Anomalocaris20 on Jul 26th 2022 at 3:33:16 PM
You cannot firmly grasp the true form of Squidward's technique!Honestly, the problem with the third act of Shang-Chi (to me at least) wasn't even that the giant CGI-monster fight was bad, just disconnected from the emotional aspect of the story and not really as fulfilling to watch as the awesome hand-to-hand/ring-to-staff/ring-to-ring fighting we'd gotten beforehand.
In the context of an Avengers movie, a giant monster fight would work fine probably.
Kang IS the giant CGI monster.
Yeah, no strong opinions on which director they handed it to. Given how much of a 'team effort' MCU films are it's hard to say how much of a film's flaws is the director's fault — for example I think their lighting in many of the recent entries sucks ass, but how much of that is the director and how much is the overworked VFX crunching? etc. It's gotten to the point that I'm more concerned about the writers attached to a project (Michael Waldron watch your six for real...)
Man, people really don't like Michael Waldron, huh?
Honestly, I am starting to get genuinely concerned about Marvel's VFX people. They're getting way too much work forced on them, especially with stuff that really doesn't need to get delegated to them. I dunno what needs to change up top to get it to stop, but it needs to happen.
Edited by MatthewWayne on Jul 26th 2022 at 12:39:16 PM
"I'm Mr. Blue, woah-woah-ooh..."I'll admit that I'm tired of comic-book films setting major fight scenes in darkness, guaranteeing that we can't see what's going on. Never mind shooting them up close with rapid cuts and shaky cam.
Edit: I also am worried about the VFX artists. There are a lot of rumors of them getting really poor treatment, as attested to by Chim Ontario, an expert in rendering giant monkey crotches
.
Seriously, Screen Rant should drop most of their content except for Ryan George's work because he's the only good thing they have going.
Edited by Fighteer on Jul 26th 2022 at 3:41:29 PM
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"And there's no way in hell Robert Downey Jr. and Chris Evans would come back for something like that.
"I'm Mr. Blue, woah-woah-ooh..."Film Critic Hulk
seems to consider Cretton's directing a strong point of the Shang-Chi film, particularly his knack for more personal interactions (a thing the MCU films often tend to suffer from a lack of), so I guess that's good news. I do think that third act aside, and the use of fridging as a plot point aside, Shang-Chi was an above-average film for me because of the way it delivered on the human intimacy between characters.
Edited by AlleyOop on Jul 26th 2022 at 3:52:38 PM
This is a pretty good article
from a VFX artist about why Marvel overworks effects teams and gets questionable results.
The reasons highlighted are:
- They pick the lowest bidding studio to save money, which means less VFX artists.
- So many movies and shows means less time to complete projects before having to jump into the next.
- Marvel tends to completely rewrite the third act climax late in production.
- Many of the directors don’t have experience with VFX since they previously had just done small indie films.
- The VFX team doesn’t share the director of photography from the non-CG shooting, so the CG scenes don’t mesh with the rest of the movie’s cinematography style.
- Lack of unions.

Well she was supposed to get that New Warriors show but it got canceled cause an exec thought it was "too gay"
"I am Alpharius. This is a lie."