Category: Movies

San Francisco bus driver breaks down Shang-Chi’s extraordinary fight scene in epic tweet thread

A San Francisco MTA employee breaks down the epic bus scene from Marvel’s Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings.

The Marvel Studios hit movie Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings hit Disney Plus on November 12, sending the superhero flick that has made over $430 million worldwide into the homes of subscribers.

Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings tells the story of Shang-Chi, one of the new Phase Four entries into the Marvel Cinematic Universe, as he learns about his father’s mysterious past and fights to save the world from terrifying monsters (you know, normal superhero things). Early in the movie — which is fantastic, everyone should watch it — there is an epic fight scene set on a San Francisco public transit articulated bus.

Twitter user and San Francisco MTA bus operator Mc Allen (@that_mc) decided to evaluate the scene frame-by-frame on Saturday night, putting his thoughts into one glorious, 50-tweet thread.

The thread understandably went viral, even earning an emphatic reply from Simu Liu, the actor that portrayed Shang-Chi.

Allen covers everything from the route — apparently this is like a 45 minute bus ride in real life — to insider info on when they would have stopped the bus (and how!).

According to a story by SFGATE, Allen has only been on the job for a week and is already making a huge impact. The retweets (now up to 16.7k) and likes (nearly 50k) aren’t Allen’s favorite part of the whole going viral experience, telling SFGATE’s Dan Gentile, “People will just tag somebody they know on a quote tweet, then that person will reply with just a laughing emoji. It feels like somehow that’s the most entertaining part for me. Somebody really liked this, then wanted to show somebody they knew. I see that, and I have a little window into this interesting friendship between these two people.”

Allen wraps up the thread with a wonderful reminder to be kind to your drivers, use public transportation, and say thank you when getting off the bus. Thank YOU, Mc Allen.

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Replacement names ‘Needle in a Timestack’ producers should use immediately

The movie looks incredible. The title…not so much.

Making a movie penned by 12 Years A Slave writer John Ridley and staring Leslie Odom Jr., Cynthia Erivo, Orlando Bloom and Freida Pinto can certainly get expensive. Maybe it even leads to budget cuts in other areas. Like, say, marketing or audience testing. Sometimes, that means you just have to release your art into the world and be ready to accept whatever public interpretation follows.

Surely that’s the case with Lionsgate’s latest project as everything about it looks epic until you get to the title reveal.  If you don’t know where this is going—or if you’ve already forgotten the headline to this post—do yourself a favor, watch the trailer and experience what the Internet has been collectively losing its mind over.

Needle in a Timestack.

That’s it. That’s the name.

After two minutes of watching Leslie Odom Jr. live his best life, lose it, then try to piece it back together, that’s all anyone who’s watched the trailer can seem to talk about.

To be absolutely clear: this movie looks awesome. Great cast, intriguing plot and the trailer leaves more questions than answers. It’s just going to be difficult to get past the name.

The title comes from a 1966 short story of the same name by Robert Silverberg which served as the basis for the film. Yet it’s not unlike Hollywood to pluck a previously published story and change the name for the big screen.

With that in mind, here are a few other options the studios should have consider titling this project before it releases on October 15.

  • Love Isn’t Always On Time
  • Time Of My Wife
  • Back To The Altar
  • There Goes The Bride
  • Bride And Prejudice
  • No Time To Love
  • Time is on My Bride
  • Pirates of the Consummation
  • Leslie Odom Jr’s New Movie

If none of those suffice, Twitter users seem more than prepared to workshop a few other potential titles.

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The 10 worst video game movie adaptations of all time

One does not simply adapt a video game into a movie.

We’ve all heard of at least one video game flick that plummeted like your firing accuracy in Fortnite when you don’t aim properly and just shoot at random. Not good, right?

This is exactly how a lot of us feel about having watched any of the worst video game movies we’re listing here.

Games and movies both take us into worlds of fantasy and transport our minds into what is then and there. While each medium has its own storytelling techniques, they both have the shared purpose to entertain. But video game movie adaptations seem particularly tricky to pull off. That’s why we’ve seen quite a few really horrendous, comic, or just cringy flicks that used video games as their source material. Here are the worst of the worst.

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Here is everything we know about ‘Hustle’ — the upcoming Adam Sandler basketball movie

The movie stars Adam Sandler and Queen Latifah and is produced by LeBron James.

Whenever comedian Adam Sandler is in the news for basketball reasons, you’re going to get my attention.

That was the case when he starred in Uncut Gems (2019), and it was true when he lobbied for a spot on the Los Angeles Lakers this past week. The 54-year-old actor, known for his on-court style highlighted by iconic long mesh shorts and oversized shirts often spotted in viral videos, is a hoops legend in his own right.

His forthcoming film Hustle, which is produced in tandem with LeBron James’ production company SpringHill Entertainment, is Sandler’s latest venture on the hardwood. As always, whenever Sandler enters the sports world, there are plenty of reasons to get excited.

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7 sports movies people wrongly think are rom-coms

Stop the madness, people.

We’ve all been there: It’s movie night with your friends or significant other and you’re in the mood for a classic sports flick. The problem is some of the most exceptional athletic feats ever captured on film have been carelessly categorized into another genre: The Rom-Com.

Listen, there’s nothing wrong with romantic comedies. I love the Holy Chrises — Evans, Hemsworth and Pine — and I LIVE for those celebrity-loaded movies where they juggle 12 different storylines only to tie it all together at the end. But it’s time for some of the best sports films of our generation to finally get the credit they deserve.