Benedict Cumberbatch IS Doctor Strange.

i really enjoyed this - admittedly i went in with little to no expectations

but it felt like a legit adventure & i loved the way the effects blended with the dimensional superpowers stuff. also Tilda looked kinda like Tripitaka from Monkey Magic <3

FINALLY saw this. Doctor Casino OTM; it was really fun, not quite as good as Ant Man (which really punches above its weight class re: expectation vs actual experience of watching the movie).

I am not super familiar with Stephen Strange's origins so I kept wondering if he REALLY was the magical Tony Stark in the comic books or if it was shorthand characterization to acclimate people to the character.

Yeah we watched it a couple of weeks back here -- not bad, if it's of a Marvel type it was still engaging enough, and the trippier sequences looked fantastic.

I fast-forwarded through most of this. the initial trip-out sequence w the Ancient One was p good.

I am pretty happy that my least favorite of these movies has been Iron Man 2, which I still enjoyed.

casting was terrible, origin story was yawnsville, yr usual Marvel Movieverse bullshit imo

I dunno why but I am still curious about Ant-Man. In general all of the Marvel movies lack drama/tension imo and as soon as they're over I have no interest in ever seeing them again, they're all so rote and stiff, with nothing at stake.

Maybe you're curious because it's the one we've been saying to watch?

I have not been saying to watch it, but if you want "The MCU movie to watch if you hate MCU movies" then it's a good fit.

I would think that is self-evident, but my predisposition to various castmembers (Rudd, Pena, um Turkington)

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is also a factor, I meant to add there

I guess when I was saying "I dunno why" what I really meant was "in the face of all these movies being terrible and against my better judgment I still am curious about Ant-Man"

You should catch ant man. I agree with you about all the others btw, decent popcorn fodder but tiresomely self aggrandising with a dash of good comedy chops.

Ant man is that but not as self aggrandising and cast is good

it's ok to watch things you might like

if you end up liking it we can walk you through how to post positive opinions

tiresomely self aggrandising with a dash of good comedy chops

accurate

if you end up liking it we can walk you through how to post positive opinions

you read the wrong threads, I am positive about all sorts of shit

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I'm overly into comics garbage and the amount of joy I get from watching each progressive ensemble cast Marvel movie has bottomed out but Ant Man was fun

Peyton Reed comes from more of a comedy background so it gives everything a certain rhythm and flair. These two scenes alone are worth the price of admission.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYUFx_Ltjn8

Wife and I gave this a shot too a couple of weeks ago despite being extremely superhero-movie-averse. Gave up after about an hour, don't remember exactly what I said upon switching it off but it was the equivalent of DDDOOOONNN'TTTT CAAARRREEE. Same was true with Avengers and Deadpool, then again I liked Nolan's Batman flicks so I know I'm a real outlier here. Idk, I really do try to not be a snob about anything pop culture but I just find this shit to be aggressively stupid.

the first two Nolan Batman flicks are fine

first two X-Men movies are fine too

Fine is overpraise for the first and incorrect on second batman flicks

rly want to watch dr strange just havent gotten around to it

rudd is a mixed bag

definitely netflixing or torrenting both

We watched Dr Strange the other night. I was disappointed. Way too much origin story, and I didn't get why Strange was the chosen one or whatever. He seemed impatient, arrogant, etc. which makes me think he wouldn't be good at learning the ways of magick. Also, the usual MCU sense of humor seemed out-of-place in Dr Strange.

Ant Man was good, though. The Thomas scene slayed me.

Ant-man had the good sense not to take itself seriously, but that only made its villain problem worse, imo. Wow, another crazy military guy who wants to use the technology to take over the world ...

Dr. Strange, if anything, didn't take itself seriously enough, imo, and for a movie set on a cosmic scale spent a little too much time on redundant fights between Strange and the same 3 bad guys. Liked the evil cosmic villain, though.

i saw this last weekend, it was pretty awesome. the kaliedoscopic effects were really cool. i also liked the ending. how they won that final battle was pretty clever.

one cool trick

I didn't get why Strange was the chosen one or whatever. He seemed impatient, arrogant, etc.

well tbf at the end of the movie he still didn't get what he initially went searching for

Yeah the arc bothers me more, looking back on the film. He doesn't really have to grow or change at all, he just chooses a different career. The idea must be that, oh, see, he sacrifices himself over and over, the old Strange wouldn't do that. But he knows he's got it all figured out and he expects to come out okay in the end, so we're still in smug Iron Man territory. He'd be a much more interesting and distinctive character going forward if his thing was he is brought to do real introspection and soul-searching, he becomes humble in some real way. But actually everything pays off his assumption that he's the greatest at everything for no reason. Doctor Privilege.

I like how there's this template for british actors to just mimic Hugh Laurie's approximation of an american accent

I have to say, I think that's a pretty shallow reading of it. He's not the same man at the end as the start, and it's important to spot that the solution to the final confrontation is to threaten Dormammu with an eternity with Stephen Strange - he has belatedly reached the wisdom to realise that he's an absolute weapons-grade asshole.

Lashing him with that accent for eternity

forgot this thread existed, posted this to Rolling MCU

Doctor Strange is a very good looking nothing-burger of a movie

Rachel McAdams as Christine Palmer was the most memorable character, I think. Certainly the only one I actually sort of cared about, and they didn't even bother to put her in any peril other than having an astral punch-up sort of knock some things around. They somehow got Mads Mikkelsen to be a terrible, boring villain who strides so purposefully everywhere he goes it's like an inside joke we're not in on.

any credit for christine palmer has gotta go 100% to rachel mcadams cuz man that was one terribly underwritten and one-dimensional character. mcadams is the real magician in this movie imo *arches eyebrow mystically*

I really enjoyed this movie despite Strange effectively being played as "Tony Stark, genius surgeon"

tbh all smart, egotistical white men with facial hair are pretty interchangeable

Says himself huh

who you calling smart

Relatively for an American is the implicit

It was a good thing that they didn't put her in danger btw

White male wealthy superheros are more than their relationships with women

terribly underwritten and one-dimensional character

they all were though

I demand full realism from stories involving astral planes and time spells.

100% to rachel mcadams in scrubs basically the whole movie

Realism isn't the issue tho, is it?

The characters were drawn well enough to string the story along. I didn't really care about any of them except McAdams and Ejiofor but it didn't affect my enjoyment of the movie.

Strange himself was such a shitty person that i am glad they didn't plumb the depths of his character.

It's only a character

the movie worked for what it was, a big budget cartoon of mysticism. closer to Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 than Autobiography of a Yogi. if you tried to add much substance to it, it would have all collapsed.

Strange pre-mystical rebirth or whatever in the og comics *was* an arrogant, shitty person. I thought this did a good job of delivering the origin story along with some fun eyeball kicks. As far as Marvel movie villains I thought Mads was no better or worse than, say, Loki. My fave MVV so far has been Red Skull because ... a red Nazi skeleton guy is just gonna be cooler and more evil than, say, CGI Josh Brolin. Rachel McAdams is a pretty terrible actress so I was glad her role wasn't that substantial.

That's an awful lot of wrong packed in to a pretty short post u must practice

Nah you just disagree but that's par for the course