Shang-Chi and Some Rings

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Thebestoftherest wrote: Thu Sep 23, 2021 10:35 pm
hammerofglass wrote: Thu Sep 23, 2021 10:13 pm
BBally81 wrote: Wed Sep 22, 2021 2:12 pm If the film isn't close to breaking even yet, it's close at least.
This is like a zen koan generated by an AI.
What?
It's complete nonsense as written, but sounds kind of deep in a shallow sort of way. Like something Inspirobot would put out.

I mean I know what they meant, it just struck me as funny. If it's not close, at least it's close.
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I meant to post if it hadn't broken even yet
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I saw it last weekend. I liked it though it kinda feels like a foreign film with the Marvel tag attached to it.

I am not familiar with the character at all. But the ten rings and the talk about the Mandarin in the movie. Is this a reimagining of the Iron Man villian from the comics?
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Yes and no. Yes he is base on that no he not call that.
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Thebestoftherest wrote: Thu Nov 18, 2021 9:21 pm Yes and no. Yes he is base on that no he not call that.
Huh?
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He is base on the character but they don't call him that and even admit it was stupid.
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Thebestoftherest wrote: Sat Nov 20, 2021 6:46 pm He is base on the character but they don't call him that and even admit it was stupid.
Ahh OK.

I was a huge Iron Man comic book fan from the 80's to mid 90's. I liked him during his original publishing run and his big enemy was the Mandarin.

I can understand changing up the ten rings since originally they were kinda similar to the Infinity Stones in that each ring had a specific power.
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