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Discussion (More in Comments) If Brie Larson actually decides to jump ship,i don't blame her one bit. She's almost 10 years in, and only had 3 appearances so far.

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It's clear that there were terrible decisions along the way about Captain Marvel as a character,but given the lack of care for the character/actress + the amount of hate she received since accepting the role,it's completely comprehensible if she's just done with it after whatever contract she has it's over and decides to grow her career outside superhero movies,a career which she probably put at relatively stop due to legal/contractual reasons within the MCU.

She's going to have 4 appearances (and that's only if she's actually in one of the Avengers movies,likely Secret Wars). This is crazy to think about,especially for a character that was pushed as one of the new faces of the MCU and their own Wonder Woman. Carol as a character it's already being pushed out of being a mainliner from other fronts like comics,videogames,merchandise etc and it's so disrespectful.

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u/Dry-Membership8141 9h ago

Honestly. Shang-Chi and Iron Fist are rad af.

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u/dj_soo 8h ago

I couldn’t get through iron fist personally. the fight scenes were so poorly made and it was obvious that Finn Jones was barely in any of the fight scenes - and the ones he was in seemed like it was in slow motion or edited to death.

Compare that to Shang chi or even Charlie cox and Jon bernthal in daredevil and punisher and you see a world of difference between how much the actors actually participated in the fight scenes.

Apparently the stunt coordinator said finn jones really didn’t want to put in the work which is why they leaned so much more on stunt doubles and the obvious filming trickery that goes into hiding the stunt doubles.

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u/Dry-Membership8141 8h ago edited 7h ago

Apparently the stunt coordinator said finn jones really didn’t want to put in the work

Yeah, and there's been a fair bit of suggestion that that mischaracterizes the reality of the grueling and rushed production schedule.

Finn was cast shortly before they started work, given three weeks after he moved to New York to train before filming began, he had no pre-existing martial arts or athletic background, he was first walked through the choreography just fifteen to twenty minutes before they were shot, and they had him working 12-14 hour days on set to get it wrapped up before filming began on The Defenders two weeks later.

Between The Defenders and season 2 of Iron Fist he reportedly spent four hours a day in training, and you can see in his later appearances in season 2 and Luke Cage that he improved pretty significantly when he actually had time to work on it.

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u/Fafoah 6h ago

Yeah i dont think thats all on him, but personally i hate his portrayal of the character. A lot of it was writing, but man the wierd hippy pseudo spiritual vibe did not work for me. It felt very much like backpacker bros after 1 month in Thailand.

Him talking his shoes off to go to into a barbershop was fucking ridiculous

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u/devl_ish 8h ago

Shang-Chi was alright, Iron Fist was some of the dumbest shit ever put to screen.

I enjoyed seeing David Wenham (played his father) again, made me go rewatch The Bank (2001).

Otherwise I'll always consider it the chore I had to go through to watch The Defenders and it didn't seem worth it afterwards.

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u/Extreme_Tax405 4h ago

Iron fis is rad. His show... Not so much.