IQ42
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It's unfortunate that the viewer nowadays is almost forced to watch these Marvel shows to understand the plot of the Marvel universe.
Otherwise, I would surely have avoided awful shows like She-Hulk.
Due to an accident, Bruce's cousin Jen's blood infused with that of the Hulk and consequently started experiencing Hulk-like powers. Yeah, convenient that this hasn't happened before.
Bruce wants to teach her the way of being a Hulk but there is no need: She is already perfect in controlling her powers and even more powerful than the Hulk himself. Yeah, how convenient.
She goes back to her life as a lawyer and encounters different problems mostly concerning discrimination, some related to feminism.
The plotline and Jen's character are already ridiculous but so are the insertions the show makes when Jen starts talking to the camera, i.e. The audience. In the finale she jumps out of Netflix to speak with the makers of the show to just delete the climax and let everything be magically resolved.
Frankly, it was interesting seeing Marvel admitting in all these "mistakes" they've been making in their shows and frankly the climax also wasn't interesting anyhow but this was nonetheless another huge mistake of Marvel.
All in all, this was a more-or-less disconnected slice-of-life show that didn't have anything to offer.
Otherwise, I would surely have avoided awful shows like She-Hulk.
Due to an accident, Bruce's cousin Jen's blood infused with that of the Hulk and consequently started experiencing Hulk-like powers. Yeah, convenient that this hasn't happened before.
Bruce wants to teach her the way of being a Hulk but there is no need: She is already perfect in controlling her powers and even more powerful than the Hulk himself. Yeah, how convenient.
She goes back to her life as a lawyer and encounters different problems mostly concerning discrimination, some related to feminism.
The plotline and Jen's character are already ridiculous but so are the insertions the show makes when Jen starts talking to the camera, i.e. The audience. In the finale she jumps out of Netflix to speak with the makers of the show to just delete the climax and let everything be magically resolved.
Frankly, it was interesting seeing Marvel admitting in all these "mistakes" they've been making in their shows and frankly the climax also wasn't interesting anyhow but this was nonetheless another huge mistake of Marvel.
All in all, this was a more-or-less disconnected slice-of-life show that didn't have anything to offer.
It's absurd that I've only now seen this movie as an Asian European. It feels like this movie should be general knowledge for Western Asians - though only because of its Asian cast and not because of the value of its story.
I was reminded by Simu Liu's memoir about this movie. He described how basically every Asian American actor auditioned for this movie. So I needed to see it.
Rachel Chu is an Asian American economics professor whose mother is an immigrant and whose father is dead. Her boyfriend is the handsome Singaporean Nick Young. For a family wedding, Nick invites Rachel back to Singapore also with the intent to introduce her to the family. There is a surprise: Nick has never once told Rachel that he is kind of famous. He comes from the richest family in Singapore and everyone on the island knows him. Rachel is a little overwhelmed with all of this crazy rich stuff happening at once while also being involved in several issues - from the jealous girls to the mother and grandma who would just not approve of a foreigner - an American - like her. How should she, a poor immigrant's child ever convince Nick's family of her? It's basically not possible.
Michelle Yeoh, the actress of the mother, really made me feel uncomfortable here. I guess that makes her a great actress, the audience is supposed to despise her character! From time to time it was difficult to watch. Of course, the story is only adapted from the book (which I have not read) but I feel that it is improvable. There was such a huge focus on the wedding with quite a scenic part in the movie about the wedding but in the end, the wedding itself was quite irrelevant. Astrid's issues with her boyfriend having an affair was an interesting point once again revealing the problems coming with that obscene amount of money but it was so underdeveloped that I also deem it a little redundant. Nick... didn't really have any character traits. For a second main character we barely saw him and his only character trait is that he loves Rachel but is a bit naive about what his mother is capable of.
By the way, I don't quite understand why Nick's mom disapproves of Rachel when she herself already wasn't the first choice. What was the significance of that? Shouldn't she be more empathetic then?
To have such an all-Asian cast is great though, of course. Basically, all the well-known Asian actors appear in this movie and they are just all such good actors. We definitely need more Asian representation in the West.
Nonetheless, I still feel that it was a little cliche? For example this "Ni Che Le Ma?" that the grandma said, I feel like this was only put in as a cliche. I'm also not sure if this is the correct movie to demand such a large Asian cast. Of course, they managed to demonstrate some facets of Asian culture, but really not so many. In particular, there were basically no Asian American issues portrayed but it would have been such a huge opportunity with the Asian American cast.
I really really hope there will be many more works like these in the future. Please, let us promote Western Asians in our society.
I was reminded by Simu Liu's memoir about this movie. He described how basically every Asian American actor auditioned for this movie. So I needed to see it.
Rachel Chu is an Asian American economics professor whose mother is an immigrant and whose father is dead. Her boyfriend is the handsome Singaporean Nick Young. For a family wedding, Nick invites Rachel back to Singapore also with the intent to introduce her to the family. There is a surprise: Nick has never once told Rachel that he is kind of famous. He comes from the richest family in Singapore and everyone on the island knows him. Rachel is a little overwhelmed with all of this crazy rich stuff happening at once while also being involved in several issues - from the jealous girls to the mother and grandma who would just not approve of a foreigner - an American - like her. How should she, a poor immigrant's child ever convince Nick's family of her? It's basically not possible.
Michelle Yeoh, the actress of the mother, really made me feel uncomfortable here. I guess that makes her a great actress, the audience is supposed to despise her character! From time to time it was difficult to watch. Of course, the story is only adapted from the book (which I have not read) but I feel that it is improvable. There was such a huge focus on the wedding with quite a scenic part in the movie about the wedding but in the end, the wedding itself was quite irrelevant. Astrid's issues with her boyfriend having an affair was an interesting point once again revealing the problems coming with that obscene amount of money but it was so underdeveloped that I also deem it a little redundant. Nick... didn't really have any character traits. For a second main character we barely saw him and his only character trait is that he loves Rachel but is a bit naive about what his mother is capable of.
By the way, I don't quite understand why Nick's mom disapproves of Rachel when she herself already wasn't the first choice. What was the significance of that? Shouldn't she be more empathetic then?
To have such an all-Asian cast is great though, of course. Basically, all the well-known Asian actors appear in this movie and they are just all such good actors. We definitely need more Asian representation in the West.
Nonetheless, I still feel that it was a little cliche? For example this "Ni Che Le Ma?" that the grandma said, I feel like this was only put in as a cliche. I'm also not sure if this is the correct movie to demand such a large Asian cast. Of course, they managed to demonstrate some facets of Asian culture, but really not so many. In particular, there were basically no Asian American issues portrayed but it would have been such a huge opportunity with the Asian American cast.
I really really hope there will be many more works like these in the future. Please, let us promote Western Asians in our society.
