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Okay; just based on your comments regarding Michelle Yeoh; we need to get you watching 'Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon' like... now.
Most definitely, Ash will be blown away😁
Fun fact: Michelle Yeoh has never taken Martial Arts training other then on set of movies🤯 Her background is a ballet dancer. She said all her ballet training helped with the Kung Fu movements.
She should also watch Tomorrow Never Dies, and some of Michelle's Hong Kong movies like Magnificent Warriors and Wing Chun.
+1 - YES! Please watch Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon! Especially after watching that initial "that was the first time I met your father" fight! Please Please Please?
yes, but also Hero w Jet Li
13:08 "I speak ABC..."
That has a double meaning, along with the English alphabet, "ABC" refers to "American-born Chinese"
Was gonna say this
I was surprised when Ashley seemed to understand joke, but not realizing she may have just thought "A-B-C" was just referring to the alphabet, and not the acronym.
One of my son's friends told me what A-B-C meant. He's Chinese-American and is asked often if he speaks "the language" or just ABC.
@@HeatRaverHonestly that's what I thought the first time I saw it, which is what makes it such a fantastic reference.
Didn’t know that. Thanks.
I just noticed Shang has a "Kung Fu Hustle" poster in his room, which is amusing since the landlord in that movie is played by the old man who teaches Katie archery
Was about to say the same. so have an upvote
it's not a surprise really, the posters were 100% meant to be homages to the movies and genres that inspired the creative team on this film. Just like how in Kung Fu Hustle itself, the director actively sought out the various martial arts actors that HE loved watching growing up, and got them in his movie to play the various people living in Slum Alley. All of the Kung Fu Masters that were secretly living in that slum block, were all older martial arts experts/actors that had been in films the director loved, and he wanted to give them a Swan Song role to play, at least one last time.
There is actually a hilarious story about the actress who played the Landlady, who used to be one of the best martial artists of her generation, along side Jackie Chan and a few others, but because she was a woman, she never really got much in the way of good roles in films. So she gave up on acting for several decades. She wasn't looking for the role in KFH, but instead just happened to be on set because a friend of hers was part of the crew/cast. The story goes that she was sitting there, overweight, smoking cigarretes, and playing Mahjong when the director saw her and was like "wow, you're perfect for The Landlady, do you want to be in the film?" She said flat out "no, fuck off." which made him want her even MORE, because he was like "she is the living embodiment of this character" So he kept pestering her over and over, until she eventually revealed that she used to do martial arts films but gave it up because all the roles they gave her were shit roles, that were exploitative, more sexual than action. When he learned who she was, he was evern MORE determined to get her cast, because she was literally the kind of actor he wanted to put in the film, to give them all another awesome chance to be badasses. She finally agreed, and well, the rest is history.
Stephen Chow as Sing
Wah Yuen as Landlord
Qiu Yuen as Landlady
Siu-Lung Leung as The Beast
Xiaogang Feng as Crocodile Gang Boss
Zhihua Dong as Donut
Danny Kwok-Kwan Chan as Brother Sum
Tze-Chung Lam as Bone (Sing’s Sidekick)
Kai-Man Tin as Axe Gang Advisor
Kang Xi Jia as Harpist #1
Fyi...
@@happyninja42 It is a strange moment when i realised she was one of the sidekick's nieces in 'The Man with the Golden Gun' who rescues Bond at one point.
No wonder he looked so familiar to me.
Tony Leung who playes the Dad is an absolute Honkgon/China cinema LEGEND and has always refused to play in american productions, this movie is his FIRST movie he did outside China/Hongkong.
Honkgon?
I believe you invented a new word and I like it. Its fun to say.
@@stiimuliha ha
And he was fantastic. Such a good Villain. Not a 1-Dimensional bad guy or just a reverse clone of the Hero. IMO this Movie is underrated in the MCU.
He is in my top 3 favorite actors of all time. Talent beyond compare.
It's crazy that he's only known as an MCU villain for some people when I know him since childhood. He's an amazing actor. And I'm not even chinese. it's just my culture enjoy chinese cinema too
The Stuntcoordiantor of this movie was a long time member of the JACKIE CHAN Stuntteam and it totally shows! he passed aways shortly after this movie. RIP
Brad Allan 1973-2021
Has Ashley watched any classic Jackie Chan movies yet? If not, that would be a fun reaction.
@IH8YH Australian born Brad Allan was an amazing athlete and talented Stunt Co-ordinator he was also the first non asian member of Jackie Chan's stunt team . he along with other members of JC's famous stunt team worked on this sadly he passed in 2021 RIP Brad Allan 🙏
This movie's awesome featuring great action scenes some humor and a heart warming story as well
positive image for our Chinese Hero too ! 👊 Hi --yah !!😄
Brad Allen was also in the movie "Gorgeous", also with Jackie Chan and Tony Leung (The Mandarin). Brad Allen was also in the Jackie Chan movie "Mr. Nice Guy".
@@craftyluna6381 She did reactions to Police Story 1, 3 (Supercop), & 4 (First Strike).
The scene of having to climb out of the side of the building made me realize I ain't a real one cause if I was Katie I would have been "eh, no thank you. they looking for you not me. I'm gonna escape with the crowd . You on your own. "
I respect this.
@@awkwardashleigh Have you watched any of the John Wick movies?
@awkwardashleigh hey, you've got another bot scammer in the comments! It's "USER--RealAshleigh_Burton"
@awkwardashleigh the guy who walked in on Jamie Lee Curtis in Christmas with the kranks on the taning bed was David l landers aka sqigiey from Laverne and Shirley and the pastor was on a show called Mork and Mindy about a space guy Mork from ork another planet live with Mindy in a apartment complex and Mork was played by a young Robin Williams and it was made by the same guy who created Laverne and Shirley happy days and Mork and Mindy Penny Marshall 's brother, Garry Marshall and director of pretty woman with Julia Roberts and the two princess dairies . David l landers would be in a another Tim Allen movie called zoom which Tim Allen played a superhero named captain zoom aka jack something and David played a guy named Dave at Wendy's hamburgers .
A detail that I ADORE that a lot of people seem to miss is that every time the dad falters in his conviction to open the gate (ie every time he one of his kids gets through to him or he starts to realize he's hurting his kids), the monster whispers to him to manipulate him more. I feel so bad for him. He still lost his way and was a terrible father after his wife died, but it seems like he could've been snapped out of it if the monster hadnt gotten into his head. The actor did a phenomenal job with the subtle emotion in his eyes
Also, there's a moment after he and shang chi fight where he's about to snap about of it but the monster starts breaking out. Shang chi naturally moved back but Wen wu move up and reaches TOWARD Shang chi, like he's instinctively trying to protect him, like he's still a small child. It goes completely uncommented on and no one ever notices it
Nice! I am due for a re-watch of this movie, I will specifically be looking for that! 😎
Mm.. I agree he was manipulated but the monster didn’t make him slay a room full of men in front of his young son. Nor did it tell him to ignore his daughter. Or send his son on a hit at age 14.. he seems pretty far gone. The actor is so captivating I also feel sorry for him!
@@LiaaaaaaaaAAAAAHH hi yes hello! Correct, he was shit after his wife died but he might have been able to be snapped back to a loving father if the monster hadnt been a factor and he had been reunited with his kids some other way. I didn't mention the reunion bit because my comment was already pretty long. He did it once for his wife, I'm sure he could he found his way back to the light for his kids after some time. But he did do a ton of damage while in the depths of his grief
He's not a two dimensional character and sadly most people missed that. He's an amazing actor that we can see them just through his expressions and his eyes. Most people need a dialogue or grand gesture to understand it. Thanks for elaborating it coz I'm too lazy for that lol
Normal people go through the stages of grief in the span of years. For an immortal man, his grief could last lifetimes. After 20 years, Wenwu is still in denial, or in the bargaining stage. He is also still angry. He bargains his company's resources and his sanity, on the off-chance that his wife is still alive, despite seeing her dead body on the floor.
I don't think people think about how much this movie is about Wenwu's grief, and how it ultimately lead to his demise. Had he accepted Ying Li's death, like his children have, then there would be no movie.
Fun linguistic thing, when Wenwu first arrives in Talo and in the subtitles it says he tells the old guy who trains Katy (don't remember his name) "I've lived ten of your lifetimes," what he actually says is "我食鹽多過你食米," a Chinese expression that literally translates to "I've eaten more salt than you've eaten rice," which I think is a much cooler way of expressing that he's older, wiser, and more experienced.
My dumb ass didn't realize the friend in the bar is Joy from Everything Everywhere All At Once!
Huh. TIL.
And the masked fighter was Andy Le, one of the main fight choreographers in EEAAO and the slimmer of the two trophy butt plug fighters.
I only just realized that watching this reaction.
She is also in Mrs. Maisel
Not sure about Morris, but someone else already answered that...
The 'pokemon' were Kitsune.
The weird horse was a Kirin.
Those big 'dogs' were Liondogs; or Foo dogs.
And of course there was the Lung patterned after a Koi because legend says that the great dragons are Koi Carp who managed to swim up a celestial waterfall and were made dragons as a reward :D
Morris is a creature known as "hundun" (pronounced like "hoon-doon")
The "weird horse" is a Qilin. The kirin is the Japanese term for basically the same thing.
Of course those magic carps are absolutely useless until they evolve…
I thought the "weird horse" was a Bilgesnipe. Thor describes them in the first "Avengers" movie. "Green, scaly, antlers..."
Maybe Asgardians just have a different name for them.
@@averyvincent1868 You might think that from that description. However, Thor goes on to describe bilgesnipe as "repulsive. And they trample everything in their path." They are also something made up for the Marvel movies. Stories of the qilin date back to 500 BC China and "signifies goodwill, benevolence, gentleness and integrity. Like the phoenix, the qilin is very kind towards other living beings, careful not to harm."
Not sure you clocked him but Simu Liu was a Ken in Barbie. Also I’m so glad you enjoyed this stunning movie
He beached that demon-dragon off!
And Warner Bros just copyright blocked Ashleighs Barbie react
@@Shogundoxie1414 Booooh!
@@krank23 I know right? Bastards!
@@Shogundoxie1414 OMG I'm so glad I watched it right away...
Two of the low-level fighters were a Black widow assassin and a extremist soldier from Iron Man 3. Wong opponent in the high level fight was the abomination the main villain from the incredible Hulk movie.
Spoilers...... And that fight is a key plot point in She Hulk.
Saying that was abomination fighting Wong was not a spoiler for anything but you saying that was a key plot line for She-Hulk is a spoiler.
The Incredible Hulk is also Easter Egged in Iron Man 2
The incredible Hulk movie isn't just a Easter egg in Iron Man 2 movie. Almost all of those phase 1 movies starting with Iron Man 2 Thor and The incredible Hulk all take place within the same week it's called Nick Fury big week.
@@nvp8191 that's true, but there's an actual Incredible Hulk Easter Egg in Iron Man 2.
I first saw this in a theater in Boston with an audience that was about 95% native Mandarin Chinese speakers, and about 75% kung-fu practitioners. It was a crazy energy in the room! Also, those lion looking things are what people dress up as for the traditional Chinese lion dancing that happens a lot this time of year for lunar new year celebrations
That must've been such an awesome experience.
@@okami36 It was! And afterwards I remember that for some reason I got in a really long conversation about pinball machines
This is one of my favorite MCU movies post Endgame. It was new, fresh, something I went in blindsided and knew nothing about. The DDR part really resonated with me as I used to be an avid DDR Extreme player.
The ten rings were mentioned in the very first Iron Man movie. I think it was a just a tapestry hanging in the tent when Jeff Bridges met with Tony's kidnappers.If I remember Iron Man 3 correctly, the Mandarin (Trevor in this movie) was claiming to be the leader of the Ten Rings.
Apparently the Ten Rings that kidnapped Tony were a rogue group after Wenwu retired to raise kids. I suspect that whatever was left of them after Iron Man ended horribly when he came back out of retirement.
Michelle Yeoh wasn't the only one in this film that went on to "Everything Everywhere All At Once." The actress who played Sue was Joy in that movie.
And you've also seen Shang as one of the Kens in Barbie.
Love that film a lot.
There's third one too. Andy Le was the masked fighter in Shang-Chi and one of the main fight choreographers in EEAAO and the slimmer of the two trophy butt plug fighters.
Wenwu really is one of the better MCU antagonists/villains, because he's so complex and relatable. In another context, his backstory would have made him the hero of the movie: a man who did bad things tries to put that life behind him, when he finds the love of his life, but when she is murdered, he goes on a revenge spree.. We love John Wick for doing basically the same thing.
Some people find the scene where Wenwu takes young Shang-Chi to identify the killers disturbing. But I found it extremely cathartic from both ends; if I found the guys that murdered my wife or mother, I would burn it allll down! He is very "human".
Watch Tony Leung's subtle acting with young Shang-Chi. When he tells young Shang-Chi he must be strong enough to carry the rings, he's being gentle and sincere. Later, after taking revenge on the Iron Gang, Wenwu kneels down to his son, and ASKS (not tells) his son if he will help. Look at Tony's eyes during that; the actor has a reputation of conveying so much with just his eyes!
Morris is a dijiang, which is a Chinese spirit or god that has several different variations but is known to like chaos and just having a fun old time.
A perfect companion for Trevor
Also a Hundun en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hundun
So the concept behind traditional martial arts training where they punch or kick really hard objects to the point of it causing damage to themselves, is to firstly become used to the pain like you suggested. But it's also meant to cause small breaks and fractures within the bones. Why? Because when small breaks and fractures happen, the bone, once it heels will actually be tougher and stronger than before because of the layer of cartilage that builds up around the bone.
Simu Liu released a tiktok of what he claimed was the 'real' version of the fight with his sister. It was just a looping cut of her kicking him in the groin over and over again. :D
Nah, he wrote ''an alternate cut'' which was the original scene with a bunch of editing of the same kick to the groin.
All of the creatures in Ta Lo are really from Chinese folklore. Morris is a Dijiang, also known as a Hundun and was the inspiration for Wonton soup (the names sound similar).
45:04 They are just friends. They really are just friends.
This movie was heavily inspired by Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Dragon Ball Z, Jackie Chan's films, the Ip Man series, Tai Chi Master, Kung Fu Hustle, The Matrix, Speed, anime, and video games. RIP Brad Allan. Bradley James Allan, the renowned Australian stuntman, stunt coordinator, and actor, has significantly impacted the industry. He has been a valued member of Jackie Chan's team for many years and has recently taken on the role of supervising stunt coordinator and second-unit director for Marvel's Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings. Since 1993, I have been a fan of Shang-Chi. I was 12 years old in 1996.
Brad Allan was incredible.
I love Brad Allen's second fight with Jackie Chan in Gorgeous. The stunt work is top notch, but what really sets it apart for me is all the subtle elements, and how you can see the two fighters might be brawling, but they have respect for each other.
The Ten Rings have been in the MCU since the beginning. They’re the same organization that kidnapped Tony in Afghanistan. After his wife died, Wenwu resumed operations. One of the first things he had his men do was take Tony hostage so he could build a Jericho missile for them.
This film was originally slated to premiere in February 2021 in part to celebrate Lunar New Year. However, COVID delayed everything and the movie had to be postponed until September of the same year.
They were able to film about a third of the movie (including the bus fight) over the course of two months before they had to go on hiatus and send the cast and most of the crew home. The director Destin Daniel Cretton was among the few who stayed behind to move along with post-production.
Four months later, they were able to resume. Part of the reason is because they were filming in Australia. COVID cases there weren’t as high as in most other countries at the time.
Another month later, Simu and Meng’er were able to put on their superhero costumes for the first time. Even though I had seen posters of Shang-Chi in his costume months before the film premiered, I was still surprised when I went to see this movie in theaters for the first time that the jackets made for Shang-Chi and Xialing were made of dragon scales.
According to designer Andy Park, the triangle motif on Shang-Chi’s costume symbolizes the endless cycle of life, death, and rebirth.
The complete costume is made up of the three parts that tell the full story of his journey:
1.) the dragon scale armor from his mother
2.) the rings from his father
3.) the Air Jordans from his time in the States
In the comics, the ten rings are worn around the fingers. Back in Iron Man 3, even Trevor wore ten brass rings as part of his Mandarin costume.
For the MCU, the rings were modeled after Hung Gar rings. They were purposely designed to be worn around the arms like bracelets since having them worn on the fingers would’ve felt too similar to the Infinity Stones on Thanos’ gauntlet.
Andy Le who portrays Death Dealer (the Ten Rings operative in the white mask) and Cambodian actor D.Y. Sao were Simu Liu's personal trainers. The three of them started practicing the fight choreography months ahead of filming.
Simu’s training had two components: strength/flexibility and martial arts. He had to learn two different styles for Shang-Chi based on his character’s parents: tai chi (his mom’s more graceful and pacific style) and wing chun (his dad’s more aggressive and menacing style).
Also, when Simu's actual parents would call him, it wasn't to check up on him but rather they wanted to know if he got to work with Tony Leung that day.
Record label 88 Rising brought a number of their musicians together for this album along with some special guests from other labels to create the official soundtrack, and half of the songs made their way into the final film.
There’s also a video on Insider’s UA-cam channel that goes further into detail as to how the bus fight scene was put together.
And finally, the story about Ta Lo was also published in a childrens' book that’s tied to this movie. It's called "Who Guards My Sleep?"
The Ten Rings in the first Iron Man movie had nothing to do with the real Ten Rings.
Dang, my dude has a degree in Shang Chiology. /highfive
@@CaseytifyActually, the Ten Rings in Iron Man 1 are part of the actual Ten Rings army. The army is multi-national, hence why their depiction in the first Iron Man movie was more like Al-Qaeda (this was during the "War on Terror", after all). I think what you're thinking of is Iron Man 3, where AIM was using the name and identity of the Ten Rings and the Mandarin to cover up their failed experiments with Extremis as terror attacks (again, playing into how the US just views the Ten Rings as a terrorist organization).
I love that Oscar winner Sir Ben Kingsley plays Trevor
YES! My sentiments exactly! I lost it when he was exposed as Trevor in Iron Man 3.
Thank goodness for those acting monkeys in Planet of the Apes. We would have been robbed of his talents had he not seen that movie.
The Michell Yeoh rabbit hole is a deep one as she has been in many movies since the 70's if I remember correctly. Crouching Tiger is indeed a good one to watch.
She's also a "Ravager" in the first Guardians of the Galaxy 😉
I love at the end how Ronny Chieng (sister's henchman, underground fights manager) looks at and emulates how Baby Drago (dad's former henchman) is standing 😄. Also, Ashley... I'm pretty sure the sister's just gonna do crime. Maybe not as murdery as her dad, but she's running a criminal empire, with a straight-up killer by one of her sides, so... 😇
Dunno if you see this, but I have two notes:
1. if you pay attention, Michelle Yeoh is not the only main actress from Everything Everywhere All At Once in this movie
2. if you enjoyed Wong and Abomination & Bruce Banner in this, you should check out the She Hulk TV show, it's quite fun, and not too long, and only as "controversial" as the Barbie movie.
Their lawyer friend at the bar was the daughter in Everything Everywhere All At Once.
Fun Fact: Ta Lo, the village behind the bamboo forest, isn't on Earth, it's on Vanaheim one of the 10 Realms alongside Thor's world of Asgard and Ymir, home of the Frost Giants. The Great Protector's brother (yes, dragons have siblings) is Shou-Lao who was the dragon protector of another mystical city called K'un Lun. Shaou-Lao went crazy and killed a bunch of folks so was locked up in a cave by mystical barriers and his powers get transferred to a human who has to prove themself worthy in ritual combat, sorta like Thor and Mjolnir, that dude is known around Marvel as the Iron Fist.
Kinda cool how all the characters, locations and backstories are connected.
Is that confirmed somewhere? I have a theory that all the dragons are actually Makluans, and that's where the signal from the rings is going- either in the Andromeda galaxy, or maybe just another dimension, now that we have the multiverse...
@@NevTheDeranged They're all aliens from a different dimension that vibrates alongside our own, kind of like Celestials but in dragon forms instead of giant robots such as Galactus, Celestials are tech based while the dragons are magic based. They don't exist on our plane of reality, the cities they guard are only accessed by magic from various points on Earth or other worlds. Fin Fang Foom is also one of them, he's from the world of Kakaranathara (also known as Maklu IV) in the Maklu star-system of the Greater Magellanic Cloud.
@@NevTheDeranged In the comics I think Fin Fang Foom was captured by the Collector, an Elder of the Universe and brother of Gamemaster, at some point which is why he's not been seen for awhile, that could be where the signal was going and could mean Fin could be in the future MCU which would be very cool, maybe see a dragon vs dragon battle. The Collector's base is in the Andromeda Galaxy where most of the GotG movies take place. FFF was ostracized by the other dragons for being corrupted by power and greed, he came to Earth to steal the powers of the dragons that are accessed from Earth but was stopped by the Avengers, Dr. Strange, Thor and FF on multiple occasions.
@@ll7868 Didn't Thanos kill the Collector when he got one of the Infinity stones from Knowhere? I guess we only see an illusion of him, so he may have escaped.
I don't know that Shou-Lao is Makluan in the comics? But it would not surprise me if he was in the MCU.
It would be pretty wild if FFF showed up, honestly.
It's in another dimensions but I've never heard any suggestion it's one of the ten realms. I'm more inclined to think it ties into the Iron Fist mythos more than anything.
I was a fan of Awkwafina as an actress before watching this movie. After seeing her as Katy, who is very much like a woman I knew and fell in love with a long time ago in real life, I now am ten times as much. I really adore her
"The Farewell" would be a great reaction that I don't think I have seen anyone else do yet. Awkawafina was great in that and it presents some really interesting contrasts to Western ideas
Me thinking Katy sounds a bit like Natasha Lyonne, 2 seconds later Ashleigh: she has such an unique voice. 😄
Ken's job is kung fu in this movie, and he will beach anyone off to protect his family and friends
When Shang-Chi was created in the 1970's, he was the son of Fu Manchu. Marvel lost the rights to Fu Manchu and the associated characters. They had to change his whole backstory, to make a new version of Shang-Chi.
My time with Shang-Chi was 1974-1983, in his Master of Kung Fu series. Since then writers have totally ruined the character.
I was wondering about that. I thought they had just done the usual Hollywood bullshit.
they kinda did; original Shang-Chi was more of and international spy-type, who went around countering the the evil schemes of his father and his world-wide crime cartel…and the master of Kung Fu; he tended to operate, “in the shadows”, but had enough connection with SHIELD that he was frequently called upon to help train superheroes and SHIELD agents in martial arts…
@@macmcleod1188
I don't believe I have encountered any other review which contained the phrase, "Praise Morris!"
Just in time for Chinese New Year and the year of the Dragon even!!Happy CNY everyone!!🎊
19:53 the repeated punching of hard objects causes micro fractures in the bones. as they heal they make the bone stronger and better able to handle stress. also the repeated punching helps to get to used to the pain and better able overcome it.
I just realized she never once made the connection that shung chi was a ken😂😂
Striking a wood post is a martial arts training technique.
It slowly increases bone density and builds calluses on the skin of the knuckles.
:-)
Shang Chi is such an absolute BLAST of an MCU film, stands on its own at or near the top, needs so much follow up. Beautiful, awesome martial arts, kickass monsters, family drama, and adds to the universe from top to bottom. 10/5 no notes.
Shang Chi is the oldest brother on the hilarious TV show, "Kim's Convenience."
My first introduction to Simi Yi. Hilarious show. I'm on my 3rd binge.
@@SnappingTurtle801 Yeah, I rewatch it whenever I'm in need of a big dose of happy.
He was also in a couple episodes of The Expanse, I didn't catch it at first myself.
@@stygggian Mr. and Mrs. were in an episode too.
@@stygggian Didn't know that.
I remember that a fellow viewer said they wanted to see a movie on "Shang Chi" and he broke it down to me.
He was just a human that can stand toe to toe with the avengers without any powers/super serium. He was that gifted in his fighting ability in
his craft. He even gave Captain America a run for his money in the comics. When this came out, I was definitley wanted to check this out. Great reaction. :)
For the training technique question, it's a karate practice of striking hard surfaces however, it starts with sand bags, sand becomes gravel, then you strike wood wrapped in rope it causes micro fractures in the bone that heal and harden. Also being struck by the bo staffs is deadening the nerves, conditioning the body to adapt to pain.
It's such a beautiful detail that in the end with the rings in the monster, Shaun used techniques from BOTH his mom and his dad.
Light AND dark.
"The great protector comin' in and.... protectin'." THIS is NOT the commentary I want - it is however, the commentary I NEED! LMAO
I really enjoyed this, probably the best of this phase. Even though they messed around with the character. It also really had alot of the look and feel of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.
5:58 the married friend is Stephanie Hsu, the daughter from Everything Everywhere All at Once.
6:03 she was also in a film called Joy Ride.
19:59 Yes it’s a way to forcibly strengthen your bones via micro breaks and healing it’s not exactly taught in Americanized martial arts because of how dangerous it is but yeah it’s a oldschool way of endurance training
8:02 Love seeing the “Do a flip” guy from Spider-Man Homecoming again.
The Ten Rings were mentioned in Iron Man 1 & 3 and the short "All Hail The King".
I cannot express how much I love Sean/Shang and Katie’s relationship! It’s so important to see strong friendships on screen that don’t always lead to romance!
One thing you may have missed is that the thing fighting Wong in the "fight club" was Abomination from the 2008 Hulk movie.
The one thing I wish they had done with the final fight, was for the sister to be riding the head of the dragon while twirling he chain hook, as they flew through the swarm of little beasts. Give her a chance to have a badass solo moment with her weapon and the dragon, instead of just kind of being the taxi driver.
14:05 "He didn't sign up for this" - Weeeeell, actually ... 😅
Interesting factoid, Michelle Yeoh is not a fully trained martial artist. She may have picked up some training over the years, but she's actually a fully trained _dancer._ That training allowed her to mimic genuine martial arts movements, which in turn got her cast in movies.
You're coming up on someone in a similar situation, but I won't say who.
Michelle Yeoh is many amazing things. She started to train as a dancer sure, but her first real work was as a stuntwoman/actress in hong kong action movies so you KNOW she's put in the real hard physical yards.
She's also an ex miss malaysia, generally hilarious, and incredibly well respected and rightly so.
Absolute legend, that woman. She's one of those people who brings every film they're in up to 4 stars if it wasn't already there, and makes a good film a guaranteed 5 star.
I'm not a big Marvel's fan but I do really like this movie in particular. It was fun to watch with the fam.
39:09 "That's what Beans thinks she looks like" 😂
For some reason, I've been obsessed with Tony Leung (the father) the past few weeks. Or maybe obsessed with Wong Kar-Wai movies. Started from finally watching In the Mood for Love and then I had to watch Days of Being Wild then 2046. I just remembered around 1998. It was the first time watching ChungKing Express and I had an immediate crush on Tony Leung when he first walked on to the screen with his police officer uniform.
2:23 When she said “bracelets” it made me think of Invincible. “They’re more, uh, ‘earthquake bracelets.’” 😂
The dude on the bus that was live streaming the fight is Zendaya's personal assistant in real life.
He was also in Spider-man: Homecoming ("Okay, Spider-Man. Do a flip ! YEAH!")
He also worked in the book store inthe show "you".
When he says “I’ve lived 10 of your lifetimes,” the literal translation is more dramatic: “I’ve eaten more salt than you’ve eaten rice.”
This one is up there with Iron Man 1 for me. One of the best Marvel origin films.
I was 15 in 96… lol. I'll just be over here in my rocking chair... 🧓
25 in '96 💀
25 turned 26 in Oct 1996 LOL
Lol 10 in 96
Graduated HS in 96
I was 30, and get off my lawn!! Hahaha!
About that training... Samo Hung was the fat guy in Jackie Chan movies. They were interned together to the Beijing Opera school when they were little kids. Samo has a scar in his lip. In that school, they had to spend a couple of hours standing in their hands on a bench. If they trembled, they got hit with bamboo strings. Samo was crying from the pain of his arms and finally fell, his face hit the bench and cut his lip. So that training methods you see are unfortunately real. Gymnastics teams still use such methods, some years ago there was a fuzz in social media about this concerning child rights.
You should watch All Hail the King. It's a short film that takes place after Iron Man 3 that introduces the leader of the 10 rings to the MCU. I didn't know about it till after I saw Shang-Chi
13:58 - Portal reference? Now we need Portal gameplay stream from you :-)
her yelling pokemon cracked me up! i love her reactions never a dull moment
The Ten Rings go back to the very beginning of the MCU. The terrorists who kidnapped Tony in Iron Man 1 were part of the Ten Rings organization. One of the potential buyers for the Pym Particle tech in Ant-Man had a Ten Rings tattoo on his neck as well, and they're obviously heavily referenced in Iron Man 3.
Despite what a lot of people say, I actually have enjoyed most of the post-Endgame MCU offerings. This one is fantastic, and I've also enjoyed nearly every single one of the TV series (you're gonna LOVE Loki, and I'm excited for you to get to Hawkeye, that's a fun one). You'll definitely need to check out Daredevil, which I'm sure John already has planned for you at some point, lol. I won't mention anything else though cause I don't want to influence your opinion too much going forward, but honestly I think you'll be in for a good ride overall.
Right? The Lady in White (with the pouch-vest) will crack her up. ^^
The mystical creatures are creatures from Chinese/Japanese/Korean mythology.
- The nine-tailed fox is a kitsune (Japanese) or Huli Jing (Chinese)
(what the Pokemon Vulpix and Ninetails are based on)
- The dragon horse is a Kirin (Japanese)/Qilin (Chinese) - effectively the Asian version of a unicorn
- The massive lion dogs are Guardian Lions/Foo Dogs/Lion Dogs/Shishi/Komainu
- Morris is a Hundun
- the flaming birds were Chinese Phoenixes AKA Fenghuang (Chinese) AKA Hōō "Ho-o" (Japanese)
(The thing the legendary Pokemon Ho-oh is based on.)
You're not wrong about it reminding you of the last Airbender. The styles of martial arts used here for that are also what inspired the style used in avatar
omg thank you for telling me
@@awkwardashleigh There's also The Forbidden Kingdom (2008) starring Jackie Chan and Jet Li. Equal parts comedy & action.
Actually, the styles for each of the four kingdoms in The Last Airbender were based on a different martial art style.
Forbidden Kingdom is great!
10 Rings was the bad guys who captured Tony Stark and he escaped as Iron Man in the first movie.
This movie is unjustly maligned in the fandom, it's the best of the new batch (well, except Guardians of the Galaxy 3 :) ) and is a fun action movie on its own even without knowing nothing about the rest of the MCU.
You believed Trevor was dead because he's a Oscar winning actor.
This was my first post covid movie when they started limited restrictions for theatres. It was a family outing for us; my sister(now of beloved memory), my brother and nephews. 😎👍
🙋🏽♀️16 in 96’!! What a year💯💯💯
Find the Marvel Short called "All Hail the King", which follows how Trevor got from going to prison in Iron Man 3 to being the resident thespian in Shang-Chi.
Emil who Wong was fighting is the "Abomination" from the Hulk film with Edward Norton. He's the guy that solo'd the Hulk for about 2 minutes then got kicked through a tree
I love Michelle Yeoh in Star Trek Discovery
In case you didn't know, the lawyer friend at the beginning and end of the movie is also from Everything, Everywhere, All At Once. She played Joy in that movie.
My ALL time favorite none normal mcu scene, Falcon Winter Soldier, Baron Zemo dancing.!!!
This is one of my favorite post-Endgame MCU movies! Aside from not being a sequel, I loved the story and characters so much.
You may have forgotten, but the creature that Wong was fighting in the ring is the Abomination, who we haven't seen for a LONG while, since the Incredible Hulk movie. That's going to come up again when you get to watching She-Hulk...
YES *screams* for Michelle Yeoh! She is so awesome. Every one will point to "Crouching Tiger" but the movie to watch for Michelle is really her first movie "Supercop" with Jackie Chan. She did all the stunt work herself!!!
I love how you screamed "Everything, Everywhere, All at Once" for Michelle Yeoh but missed that Stephanie Hsu was the Katie's friend in the bar... haha
Police Story 3: Supercop is on the channel. Not the American release, the original.
(the better one)
That monster Wong was fighting in the arena is Abomination, he was the villain in The Incredible Hulk. Killer Croc is DC.
The dad is the real Mandarin, there was a short where he was about to kill Trevor for stealing his name, but instead he convinced them to keep him as his "jester".
44:39 Ashleigh: “And now the rings are taken care of too.”
Me: “Oh, no, it’s not over yet.” 😅
I had to laugh that Awakafina got the word Gina in there as she did the song My Vag!
38:20 He is an actor!
Have you seen Team America?
The ten rings is in the first Iron Man movie. Also Michelle Yeo was briefly in Guardians 2.
If you like Michelle Yeoh, check out her movie Wing Chun (1994). It's one of her earliest martial arts films and she is fantastic in it. It also stars Donnie Yen, who went on to film the movie Ip Man (2008) in which he portrays Ip Man, who is the martial arts master who instructed Bruce Lee. They're both exceptional martial arts movies and I highly recommend them to everyone.
This was the one (of 3) pleasant surprises in phase 4. No way home & Guardians 3 are the other two.
Shang-Chi was created in the early 70’s as an answer to the popularity of the TV show ‘Kung Fu’ (which according to the rumors, Bruce Lee helped create the idea for the show, but wasn’t allowed to be the star because he was “too Asian-looking”), and Shang-Chi’s appearance was also modeled after Bruce Lee, who had died about 5 months prior to Shang-Chi’s debut, and he was still incredibly popular.
And, I thought I recognized the guy leading the hit squad that killed their mom, as playing 'The Beast'.
This is probably my third favorite MCU film post Endgame (behind GOTG 3 and No Way Home). It’s immensely fun, the action is really good, and the characters are all really likable. It’s honestly frustrating that we haven’t seen any follow up to this yet.
Agreed with that order.
So, one thing about this movie is that a short from the Iron Man 3 home media release actually does tie into this. It's called "All Hail the King", and was basically made to confirm the real army of the Mandarin does exist. And they were not happy about AIM using his name as a cover up. It also explains why Trevor is in this film. Maybe somebody should request you to do all the MCU shorts someday. Could be a fun video.
Great Reaction Ashleigh!! Love watching your reaction😅. Thank you for reacting to this! It's quite ironic that you react to this!! As it's Chinese New Year. 2024 is the year of the Dragon. 😂❤😊
I love that there's actors in this movie that are known in different countries like my guy who was teach the people Archery, was the husband of the landlord in Kung Fu Hustle💯💯
“I thought the dragon was just doing dragon things”
Absolutely one of the hardest I have laughed at any of your reactions
To me this is by far the best phase 4 Marvel film, and right there with WandaVision overall.
Wakanda Forever?
*Much* better ending than WandaVision, I'd say :)
13:35 That was a Black Widow fighting an Extremis (Iron Man 3). Wong was fighting Abomination from The Incredible Hulk.
43:18 Protector is a water dragon, it's gaining strength/power from the water.
Happy New Year! Year of the Dragon.
In Iron Man 3, you would have seen Trevor play a character called The Mandarin. This person is actually Shang's father and why he kept Trevor to amuse him at home after the events of Iron Man 3. The Mandarins rings in the comics were actual rings he wore on each finger and each one had a different power and were taken from an alien ship that crashed on earth.
Simu Liu, the actor playing Shang-Chi, also played "Asian Ken" in the Barbie movie.
He actually just plays “Ken.”
Don't be a pedantic asshole. There were hundreds of Kens, excuse me for trying to be specific.