Disney still gunning for that China money huh?

Unlike the West, Asians don't like Star Wars too much. For them Star Wars is nothing special and just another space aliens movie.

I think they don't care about CGI. If you see Asian movies, lots of them have sub-par CGI quality (in Hollywood standard) but they just don't care, they suck them up equally. I guess it's good enough for the majority.

Star Wars most breakthrough success was how advanced their SFX in the 70s. And it held up super well to the 90s even.

Asians don't seem to be too impressed though. They like Star Wars, but not as much as the West. Fast & Furious and MCU style of SFX and CGI are more of their taste. No need for fancy stuffs, just simple explosions, fisticuffs, gunfights and car chases are enough.

However, character design is I think the most important there. Star Wars characters are mostly regular human types, Luke, Han, Rey, etc. usually with bland color and costumes. While MCU gives more varied and colorful designs like Captain America, Hulk or Iron Man. Red, gold, blue, green, etc. It seemed they respond to those elements better.

That's why I believe Disney made a bad choice designing Shang-Chi like this. His costume is bland if not generic. The actor is not handsome by Asian standard, or at least not quirky-looking enough. The design and coloring are all pretty lame and basically forgettable.

A random kid can draw Captain America's costume from memory after they watch the movie once. I bet nobody can draw this Shang-Chi costume except to color everything dark red and call it a day.

Right, I think Disney was hoping to grab some bug Chinese box office $ but then it became the only MCU movie not to be accepted there and they were like “D’oh!”

Bullshit - CPP is basically vomiting films where China saves the world right and left - so this film is right up its alley.
This is basically the type of film that you'd expect CPP to create -
Hollywood is a bitch spreading its legs wider than ever before
The problem is, somebody on the cast said something about Taiwain - and unlike J Cena, they didn't stand on their knees and issue an apology afterwords, hence the ban - lol
This serves hollywood right -

Hopefully NBA is next, because you know it's whoring itself to China as well.

Never said anything was wrong, just pointing out it's their obvious strategy here.

I'm hoping they go full CCP to maximize profits.

I'm hoping they do a live action winnie the pooh remake based there!

I thought so:
https://www.cbr.com/why-china-ban-shang-chi-ultrama-k-pop/

Wonder how it's doing in the balck market over there? LOL.