{"id":155333,"date":"2021-09-11T00:22:52","date_gmt":"2021-09-11T06:22:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=155333"},"modified":"2021-09-11T00:22:52","modified_gmt":"2021-09-11T06:22:52","slug":"movie-review-shang-chi-and-the-legend-of-the-ten-rings-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2021\/09\/11\/movie-review-shang-chi-and-the-legend-of-the-ten-rings-2021.html","title":{"rendered":"Movie Review: &#8220;Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings&#8221; (2021)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A very good martial arts \/ Wuxia film that manages to find the sweet super-hero spot between Orientalist stereotypes and generic Western action flick. It&#8217;s not only a good MCU move on its own, but ties into the MCU in some very distinct and intriguing ways.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Shang-Chi-poster.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-155335\" title=\"Shang-Chi poster\" src=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Shang-Chi-poster-439x650.jpg\" alt=\"Shang-Chi poster\" width=\"439\" height=\"650\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Shang-Chi-poster-439x650.jpg 439w, https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Shang-Chi-poster-203x300.jpg 203w, https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Shang-Chi-poster-101x150.jpg 101w, https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Shang-Chi-poster-768x1138.jpg 768w, https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Shang-Chi-poster.jpg 864w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 439px) 85vw, 439px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For the record, there are <strong>two end-titles vignettes<\/strong> &#8212; a long one after the initial &#8220;animated&#8221; credits, and then a shorter one (but definitely worth the wait) after all the credits are done.<\/p>\n<p><em>Do you want to know more?<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/letterboxd.com\/three_star_dave\/film\/shang-chi-and-the-legend-of-the-ten-rings\/\">Full non-spoilery review at Letterboxd<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt9376612\/\">IMDb entry<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The MCU meets Wuxia and manages to make it work<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":155335,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[525,41],"tags":[1234,2210],"class_list":["post-155333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-marvel-cinematic-universe","category-media-movies","tag-mcu","tag-shangchi"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Shang-Chi-poster.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":138108,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2019\/03\/08\/movie-review-captain-marvel-2019.html","url_meta":{"origin":155333,"position":0},"title":"Movie Review: &#8220;Captain Marvel&#8221; (2019)","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 8-Mar-19 10:45pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Short NO-SPOILER version:\u00a0Captain Marvel,\u00a0for me,\u00a0is an entertaining and enjoyable MCU film, but not a great one, largely because it never quite engaged me with enough emotional or narrative stakes to keep me at the edge of my seat. 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