xp tom baker was a leftfield choice for black widow but he did a great job
― bizarro gazzara, Friday, 5 December 2014 15:57 (nine years ago) link
I thought aside from the Turing potboiler I'd only seen BC in the ensembles of 12 Years a Slave (OK), Tinker Tailor (bleh) and August, Osage County (bad casting, weak adap) and then Letterboxd informed me I'd seen him in FIVE other films, incl War Horse, Atonement and the James McAvoy college-quiz comedy Starter for 10, in none of which did he stick to my memory. It reminds me of the months after Good Will Hunting when I was jostled into realizing that Matt Damon was the bland blond I'd forgotten instantly in Geronimo and Courgae Under Fire.
But I've never heard of Dr Strange, so it's all good.
― things lose meaning over time (Dr Morbius), Friday, 5 December 2014 16:04 (nine years ago) link
He was in Atonement?
― Οὖτις Δαυ & τηε Κνιγητσ (Phil D.), Friday, 5 December 2014 16:10 (nine years ago) link
I don't really care one way or another about BC casting — the script and production design (better bring the fuckin' Ditko) are more important here.
― Pict in a blanket (WilliamC), Friday, 5 December 2014 16:11 (nine years ago) link
pretty sure Dr Strange is supposed to be handsome tho
― the most painstaking, humorless people in the world (lukas), Friday, 5 December 2014 19:39 (nine years ago) link
http://www.byrnerobotics.com/forum/uploads/MichaelTodd/2011-06-23_195053_Steve-Ditko-Doctor-Strange.jpg
― sʌxihɔːl (Ward Fowler), Friday, 5 December 2014 19:40 (nine years ago) link
Dr Sinestro
― the farakhan of gg (DJP), Friday, 5 December 2014 19:43 (nine years ago) link
Sutherland in Animal House would've been a good Doctor Strange
― GM, Friday, 5 December 2014 19:46 (nine years ago) link
Most of the core Marvel characters have benefitted from cosmetic upgrades over the years. Most of the OG silver age crew were malformed cretins during their early days.
― Hamhole and Fly Eyes (Old Lunch), Friday, 5 December 2014 19:47 (nine years ago) link
also this movie should be set no later than 1973.
― GM, Friday, 5 December 2014 19:49 (nine years ago) link
lol @ malformed cretins
― Οὖτις Δαυ & τηε Κνιγητσ (Phil D.), Friday, 5 December 2014 19:50 (nine years ago) link
can they resist the urge to blast Heart's "Magic Man" during the climactic showdown with Baron Mordo
― GM, Friday, 5 December 2014 19:52 (nine years ago) link
Heavy Doors soundtrack with "Strange Days" and "People Are Strange".
― Hamhole and Fly Eyes (Old Lunch), Friday, 5 December 2014 19:54 (nine years ago) link
In the spirit of the GOTG soundtrack, let's assume the planned list is:
"Magic Man," Heart"Strange Magic," ELO"Magic," Pilot"Black Magic Woman," Santana"Age of Aquarius," the Fifth Dimension
. . . what else?
― Οὖτις Δαυ & τηε Κνιγητσ (Phil D.), Friday, 5 December 2014 19:55 (nine years ago) link
"Mambo Sun", T. Rex"Cymbaline", Pink Floyd
― GM, Friday, 5 December 2014 19:56 (nine years ago) link
Bruce Springsteen - "(Every Hoggoth's Got A) Hoary Host"
― Hamhole and Fly Eyes (Old Lunch), Friday, 5 December 2014 20:04 (nine years ago) link
http://eil.com/images/main/Dr-Strangely-Strange-Kip-Of-The-Serene-299173.jpg
― Letsby Avenue (Tom D.), Friday, 5 December 2014 20:12 (nine years ago) link
my dreams of a Clooney/Dr. Strange movie finally dashed
― Οὖτις, Friday, 5 December 2014 20:36 (nine years ago) link
No worries, Clooney's gonna shave his hair down to a horseshoe and play Dr. Druid.
― Hamhole and Fly Eyes (Old Lunch), Friday, 5 December 2014 20:38 (nine years ago) link
i would have cast bill hader
― (HOT CHICK FROM BAR 2008) (Will M.), Friday, 5 December 2014 20:48 (nine years ago) link
would prefer Chris Parnell to Bumbershoots
― Οὖτις, Friday, 5 December 2014 20:49 (nine years ago) link
this role is Louis CK's and no one else's
― da croupier, Friday, 5 December 2014 20:55 (nine years ago) link
ok except maybe mine
― da croupier, Friday, 5 December 2014 20:56 (nine years ago) link
actually it'd be a pretty good opportunity for a joss whedon onscreen cameo
― da croupier, Friday, 5 December 2014 20:57 (nine years ago) link
surely they could fit dr d in an agents of shield episode for that fan service
― da croupier, Friday, 5 December 2014 20:58 (nine years ago) link
literally any human being in the entire universe would be better than benderbunch crampitdash, the heretofore undiscovered sea creature risen from depths technology will never be advanced enough to explore
― linda cardellini (zachlyon), Friday, 5 December 2014 21:22 (nine years ago) link
do people actually hate him for his performances or just his cultural presence? I think I've only seen him in Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, and didn't didn't like him in that. Grumbles about the content have kept me from Sherlock and Star Trek 2, but do people think HE'S the problem in this stuff?
― da croupier, Friday, 5 December 2014 21:23 (nine years ago) link
the "didn't didn't" was not a typo, for once
― da croupier, Friday, 5 December 2014 21:24 (nine years ago) link
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/03/07/article-2111538-120FFD9A000005DC-142_306x423.jpg
― Darin, Friday, 5 December 2014 21:24 (nine years ago) link
he's been in a bunch of garbage, he is a totally unremarkable actor, his fans are annoying
fuck that guy
― Οὖτις, Friday, 5 December 2014 21:26 (nine years ago) link
Michael Jayston would have been a good Dr Strange
― soref, Friday, 5 December 2014 21:35 (nine years ago) link
Why is "fuck that guy" an appropriate response to unremarkable acting and an annoying fanbase?
Why does someone getting overrated have to have an absurdly disproportionate backlash? It's like a celebrity gossip forum here sometimes.
George Clooney doesn't seem quite right for Dr Strange to me.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Friday, 5 December 2014 22:54 (nine years ago) link
there would be some meta-irony in Clooney being Dr. Strange (similar to the meta-irony of Downey playing Tony Stark), he has the look/hair, he's made a career out of playing lovably smug assholes who are also capable of doing good (ie, the Dr. Strange origin story), etc. It'd be fun to see him against a backdrop of psychedelic weirdness. It's true I can't really picture him delivering some of the requisite "BY THE HOARY HOSTS OF HOGGOTH" dialogue but whatever that's minor.
― Οὖτις, Friday, 5 December 2014 23:00 (nine years ago) link
RAG OTM. I think Strange has to be something of a cold fish, at least initially - Clooney wants to be loved too much.
I initially misread soref's post as Michael Jackson would have been a good Dr Strange.
― sʌxihɔːl (Ward Fowler), Friday, 5 December 2014 23:04 (nine years ago) link
cumberbatch is a fine actor with a terrible name
― akm, Friday, 5 December 2014 23:05 (nine years ago) link
"Cumberbatch" is classic, but "Benedict" in front of that is even more classic, several more posh middle names would make it even better. "Tuppence" is classic too.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Friday, 5 December 2014 23:14 (nine years ago) link
Also I cant imagine Clooney having the right nimble wizardly posturing talents that Cumberbatch could probably pull off. Or pulling off that sort of Vincent Price hamminess straight enough.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Friday, 5 December 2014 23:22 (nine years ago) link
cumberbatch is a fine actor who is a bit of a prat and takes a lot of roles which fall within a core persona and thus mb don't really demonstrate much 'acting' per se. good in 12 years a slave i thought
― ♛ LIL UNIT ♛ (thomp), Saturday, 6 December 2014 09:19 (nine years ago) link
Anyone would think he was the only posh actor in the world, pretty much all of the English ones are these days.
― Letsby Avenue (Tom D.), Saturday, 6 December 2014 09:44 (nine years ago) link
yeah f uck tha obvious poshos e.g. tom hiddleston eddie redmayne plus more covert ones e.g. dominic west damian lewis
― conrad, Saturday, 6 December 2014 10:36 (nine years ago) link
... and that's just the ones who went to Eton.
― Letsby Avenue (Tom D.), Saturday, 6 December 2014 10:50 (nine years ago) link
Give me a posho any day over some of the venal Thatcherite cockney wanker stereotypes taking up space in the upper reaches of the British acting establishment.
― Matt DC, Saturday, 6 December 2014 12:28 (nine years ago) link
Don't know too much about Turing outside the obvious but I enjoyed the Imitation Game, I don't see Cumberbatch convey emotional vulnerability too often (/ever) and I wasn't sure he could pull it off but he did.
― Matt DC, Saturday, 6 December 2014 12:30 (nine years ago) link
venal Thatcherite cockney wanker stereotype does sound strongly revolting and while being one is sort of more of a daily choice than is being a posho it shouldn't discourage the general denunciation of poshos
― conrad, Saturday, 6 December 2014 12:56 (nine years ago) link
Was Cumberbatch's performance as Turing better than working class Derek Jacobi (just checked his wiki hoping he was going to be to make this thing even more 'fun' than it already is, love how his wiki actually states "His family was working class" with a ref to a link to an interview he gave to The Guardian that doesn't work)?
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 6 December 2014 13:03 (nine years ago) link
"His servants were working class."
― Letsby Avenue (Tom D.), Saturday, 6 December 2014 13:26 (nine years ago) link
http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--GHYzrgN6--/pdkub5xk9pei5aa9j2xh.jpg
― Number None, Monday, 28 December 2015 15:39 (eight years ago) link
I love that they're going with his real beard. My beard is also a sparsely populated garden of fluff that's thinner than my eyebrow hair, so this magazine cover has just helped drain a fairly substantial reservoir of self-doubt that I've kept dammed up for years
― El Tomboto, Monday, 28 December 2015 17:01 (eight years ago) link
Good thing you don't have the launch codes, right?
― doctor.quiet.intelligible (WilliamC), Monday, 28 December 2015 17:13 (eight years ago) link
I'm not very fond of Marvel these days so I'm a little bit annoyed that they're doing the property of theirs I like the best and with a promising cast. But I'm curious because I'm sure Marvel will know this requires a stylistic departure from their previous films and I wonder if they can do it. There's little doubt that this will rely heavily upon cgi for valid reasons, so it'll be difficult.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Tuesday, 29 December 2015 00:50 (eight years ago) link
Yes!
Yes, that was it!
That was why I hated this more than I could put my finger on!
Thanks
― virginity simple (darraghmac), Tuesday, 4 April 2017 07:46 (seven years ago) link
lol
― Rachel Luther Queen (DJP), Tuesday, 4 April 2017 13:57 (seven years ago) link
Hello.
https://variety.com/2020/film/news/doctor-strange-2-sam-raimi-1203475309/
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 6 February 2020 00:17 (four years ago) link
Boy, that could really go one of several different ways. Here's hoping that, since it's already been referred to as an MCU horror film, it goes one of the good ways.
― Dr. Teeth and the Women (Old Lunch), Thursday, 6 February 2020 00:23 (four years ago) link
I have no stock in how this goes but his last movie fuckin sucked (can you remember what is was without checking?). I fear he's lost his touch completely. (but then this is the MCU so it might not matter)
― bold caucasian eroticism (Simon H.), Thursday, 6 February 2020 00:31 (four years ago) link
Yeah, but the one before that, which was actually written by him, was Drag Me To Hell.
― Andrew Farrell, Thursday, 6 February 2020 00:44 (four years ago) link
Dr. Agmetohell iirc
― BSC Joan Baez (darraghmac), Thursday, 6 February 2020 00:48 (four years ago) link
Oz truly sucked, SM 3 truly sucked, but the one about the Dr. was v good. I guess we'll see. I remain hopeful.
― Dr. Teeth and the Women (Old Lunch), Thursday, 6 February 2020 02:02 (four years ago) link
"MCU horror film" oh god what a nightmare
― Greta Van Show Feets BB (milo z), Thursday, 6 February 2020 02:05 (four years ago) link
Why are you here, itt
― Dr. Teeth and the Women (Old Lunch), Thursday, 6 February 2020 02:26 (four years ago) link
ubiquitous, unavoidable cultural force = we all get to cruise in and take a potshot now and then
― bold caucasian eroticism (Simon H.), Thursday, 6 February 2020 03:08 (four years ago) link
oy, that could really go one of several different ways...
― Dr. Teeth and the Women (Old Lunch)
yeah i uh hm
i am very much sold on a horror-leaning doctor strange (are they bringing in Nightmare for this one?) but was kinda thinking more creepy cosmic horror that gets under your skin vs uptempo slapstick horror... i guess it'll be worth it if at some point someone summons an animated chainsaw?
― Larry Elleison (rogermexico.), Thursday, 6 February 2020 04:00 (four years ago) link
just listened to the score on Spotify and it far, far exceeded my expectations. Michael Giacchino bats about .500 for me (Let Me In and John Carter were great scores, his Star Trek stuff spotty) but this is one of the best things he's done and probably my favorite score album from any of these Marvel Universe things (though I have love for the first two -- silvestri/cap and doyle/thor).
― his eye is on despair-o (Jon not Jon), Wednesday, 26 October 2016 22:03 (four years ago) bookmarkflaglink
Watched this last night and the score fairly ruling was a pleasant surprise.
― every girl's crazy 'bout a SHARC DSP man (Noel Emits), Sunday, 9 May 2021 15:33 (three years ago) link
Yeah I listened to it a couple of weeks ago - it holds up real well
― covidsbundlertanze op. 6 (Jon not Jon), Monday, 10 May 2021 04:25 (three years ago) link