Shang-Chi
Current rank: 6 of 33
Before rewatch:
Scenes I love: Mom/Dad meet-cute fight Bus fight. Michelle Yeoh/Shang-Chi fight. Dad/Shang-Chi final fight. Karaoke. One of the only Marvel movies where the fights are the best part, because the fights actually are the character beats.
Expectations: Maybe this is only high up because I’m Chinese. I don’t care.
Rewatch stats:
Time to process: 26:00
Length of cut scenes: 13:05
Length of iffy scenes: 28:22
Length of total movie: 2:12:06
% with cut scenes: 90%
% with iffy scenes: 69%
Hero scenes kept: 77%
Villain scenes kept: 60%
Action scenes kept: 86%
Time of scenes I love: 30:22
After rewatch: I didn’t cut much, but a lot of the flashback scenes are iffy, and the dragon/demon fight at the end is so unnecessary; ending it w/ the Mandarin fight would have been way better and appropriate for a movie so centered on the parent/child relationship. (Xialing deserved some catharsis as well.)
Eternals
Current rank: 31 of 33
Before rewatch:
Scenes I love: Hard pressed to think of a single thing. I do like watching Angelina Jolie kick ass, those might make it. There’s one scene in Mesopotamia or something where it would have been awesome if it were the X-Men. Maybe that?
Expectations: This might be worse than Hulk. Can’t see a world where this gets better.
Rewatch stats:
Time to process: 50 mins
Length of cut scenes: 1:40:35
Length of iffy scenes: 15:29
Length of total movie: 2:35:34
% with cut scenes: 35%
% with iffy scenes: 25%
Hero scenes kept: 33%
Villain scenes kept: 40%
Action scenes kept: 45%
Time of scenes I love: 0:00
After rewatch: Well, Eternals is pretty much tied w/ Hulk for % of movie that’s watchable. There’s a surprising amount of watchable stuff; some good battles, some character beats where they’re a fun family to watch. But director Chloe Zhao failed to make these characters very likeable, which is really priority number one with a Marvel movie; we need to want to see these people again in future movies. Total fail. Actually, there’s probably something they could do w/ Makkari, Druig (a total dick, but an intriguing one), and Phastos. And Thena, Angelina Jolie rules.
Avengers: Endgame
Captain America: Civil War
Captain America: Winter Soldier
Avengers: Infinity War
Shang-Chi
Avengers: Age of Ultron
Ant-Man/Wasp
Avengers
Spider-Man: Homecoming
Captain America
Spider-Man: Far From Home
Iron Man 2
Black Widow
Black Panther
Iron Man
Ant-Man
Dr Strange
Iron Man 3
Thor 3
Captain Marvel
Thor
Thor 2
Guardians of the Galaxy
Guardians of the Galaxy 2
Hulk
Eternals
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