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fun fact: for Meng'er Zhang, the actress who played Shang's sister, this was her first ever mainstream movie. She was a theatre actress and she went through martial arts training for this movie. She met and fell in love with Yung Lee, an action designer who worked in the movie. Simu and the rest of the cast actually organised a surprise wedding reception for them in disneyland.
Also, god damn, Tony fucking Leung. The guy can speak with his eyes. The actress who played Shang's mother, Fala Chen , was kinda crushing hard on him and her husband even made fun of her on twitter saying that "gosh i wished someone looked at me the same way my wife looked at Tony Leung"

Here a little fun behind the scenes story: Actress Meng'er Zhang(Shang Chi’s sister) met action designer Yung Lee while making the movie. The two started dating and by the time the movie wrapped, they were married. Simu Liu and awkwafina
helped celebrate the occasion by taking them to Disneyland and karaoke respectively.

I love how at the end, when Shang-Chi finally reconciles both parts of who he is (the gentleness and nurturing of his mother, the harshness and destructiveness of his father), and uses the Ten Rings to defeat the Dweller in Darkness, both his mother’s and father’s musical themes literally come in together to make his final theme.

Also, the mirroring of Wenwu vs Leiko in the beginning and him vs Shang-Chi, in order to have Wenwu realize it is his son who carries on his wife’s spirit, not what he was looking for, is just brilliant.

Dammit, I love this movie.

In my opinion Tony Leung's Mandarin is one of the best villains in the MCU. Such a layered performance with a redemption in the end. Loved it.

The worst part of this movie is absolutely the fact that we'll never be able to see Tony Leung as Wenwu ever again 😭

Shang-Chi was the first movie I saw in theatre since the pandemic kicked off, was defs a worthy return IMO

Tony Leung is just on a whole another level as an actor. He's so effortlessly good in some scenes in this movie that he makes his co-stars look like amateurs at times lol

"We can make a good Dragonball movie!!!" Absofuckinglutely. We have the technology. We have the means. After walking out of Shang-Chi, I thought "this proves you can make a really good and faithful live action DBZ or Avatar movie". You just need a director and a studio willing to do it faithfully.

Also, Eric, the stunt coordinator for this was part of Jackie's crew. So you in fact can say it all you want!

It sucks that the dad, Wenwu, died. I would have LOVED to see him more. His performance was amazing! The fight scenes were the best in the MCU. I cant wait to see Shang Chi tie into the rest of the MCU.

I actually really like the sequence when Shang Chi said 'Mom was gone, and we needed you, but you chose those rings over us" and he falters for a second, looks like that line really impacted him and those soul eater sense his doubts and started to impersonate the wife again. All he wants was to be together with his wife and their children again, soothing himself when they ran away saying "They'll come back and we'll be family again". Tony Leung the GOAT

It's so nice seeing Rick enjoying this movie. He had a smile throughout all the movie's action scenes, which is a rare thing.

Crazy that no one has yet brought up the unimpressed archery old man. That's Yuen Wah, a legendary actor/stuntman who learned his craft in the academy alongside Jackie Chan

About the shrine honoring passed-on loved ones, it's a largely Buddhist tradition though I do know some non-Buddhist Asians who do it too. It's a similar idea to the ofrenda in Coco and Mexican culture. Each household will have a dedicated shrine to dead loved ones and you typically would have a bowl of uncooked rice to put incense in when you pray to them. You make offerings of their favorite foods on the anniversaries of their death and lunar new year.

Shrines of a certain person also don't have to be limited to one single place either. All of my aunts and uncles have a shrine dedicated to my great grandma and my aunt. And there will also typically be a shrine wherever their ashes lie. One thing I love about Buddhist temples is that you can put your loved ones' picture on the wall there and the monks will tend to it. That way, even after your entire family is gone, there will still be someone left praying for them. It's humbling to go to a temple shrine room and see hundreds of pictures of people long passed away.

My aunt actually passed away right before this movie came out and I watched it with my cousins and my uncle. The funeral was still fresh in my mind and going in we had no clue what the plot was. Even though it was very emotional for my family and I to watch, it was still comforting to see Shang and his sister mourning their mother in the same way.

I absolutely love how the ten rings can't make you fly, but you can use them as static objects to run on, jump off, swing from, or various other parkour type moves. I'm excited to see how they explore this type of movement moving forward as Shang-Chi can essentially do the types of movement we saw in the scaffolding fight anywhere and any time, allowing him to have crazy unpredictable attack angles and awesome momentum based movement.

I was wondering why they didn’t do a review for this movie when it premiered. Glad they’re reacting to it

Man, Rick really liked the movie. I honestly thought the humor would be more of a problem for him. Glad they all loved it. The entire movie is great but the choreography elevates it

Just a note, most of the magical beast like 'Morris' are from a Chinese mythical geography and bestiary from 4th century BCE. Morris' creature type is the more obscure from the book. Also the moving maze is a very very common asian trope, tree, rock, plants.

When Wenwu called the village elder "young man" it was actually a mistranslation of the saying "I have eaten more salt than you've eaten rice," meaning essentially the same thing, but a million times cooler