As someone mentioned its when he goes on his multiverse trip due to the Ancient One. My favourite scene. It was so beautiful.
I saw the film in a true imax theater (the approx 1.4 ratio ones) so over an hour used the extra 40% of the screen size and that scene is just awesome. Since i've seen it, if they aren't going to put all the extra features on the disc, why spend money to buy it?
Hopefully they will add that stuff on the Phase 3 set after Infinity War part 2 (whatever they end up calling it)
Regards,
Sanjay
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Originally Posted by Hellraiserfan
What is the "magical mystery tour" and I can't believe someone wouldn't buy a film on home video over extras. Do you buy movies just for the extras and don't bother to watch the film itself?
What is the "magical mystery tour" and I can't believe someone wouldn't buy a film on home video over extras. Do you buy movies just for the extras and don't bother to watch the film itself?
The movie is definitely the main course, but for me having a commentary track is huge. If a movie doesn't, I tend not to buy it. At least not right away. Doesn't feel like there's any reason nowadays for limited extras.
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People seem to forget that all style and no substance is a bad thing.
I'll say its somewhere in between featuring a bit of both style and substance. I agree it would have been nice to have more than the typical origins story. But, I still found the movie very enjoyable, and I was interested enough to see it twice at the theater.
I'd give DrStrange a 3.5/5 film score, rounded it down to 3/5 for the thread poll. I liked the film but felt that it wasn't really a gamechanger. The film played it too safe imo and therefore struggled to stand out from the crowd. All of those who voted 5 in the poll can now flame away.
I gave the film 5 stars, but it was actually a 4.5/5 for me. This film caught me by surprise for some reason. I'm not a comic book fan, so I had no idea who Doctor Strange was. I really didn't know what to expect, but what I got was a very pleasant movie experience. The acting was excellent, the visuals were great, and the story was very good. I've seen it twice so far, and I'm sure I'll enjoy many more times in the future.
Did you find the Dr. Strangestory to display enormous amounts of artistic ingenuity?
You're missing the point on purpose. The story was decent. The style is what made this film. Between the outstanding use of 3D and the visual design, yes, I did find it displayed "enormous amounts of artistic ingenuity". People these days love to trash other people's hard work. Doesn't anybody just watch a movie these days instead of bringing their notebook and playing part-time film critic?
Did you find the Dr. Strangestory to display enormous amounts of artistic ingenuity?
You were making a sweeping generalization about how style over substance "is bad". Now you're talking about the story of this specific film? Sorry, I don't follow.
You're missing the point on purpose. The story was decent. The style is what made this film. Between the outstanding use of 3D and the visual design, yes, I did find it displayed "enormous amounts of artistic ingenuity". People these days love to trash other people's hard work. Doesn't anybody just watch a movie these days instead of bringing their notebook and playing part-time film critic?
Didn't enjoy it as much at home, without the spectacle of a multi-story IMAX 3D screen, but it's still a good movie. The MCU has kinda become its own genre at this point, and they have the origin story formula down to a T. They're like cinematic comfort food at this point; as long as they dress that story skeleton with charismatic actors (who often do more to create the character than the script does) and strong action/design work, it's hard to screw the whole thing up.
'he folds matter outside the mirror dimension, in the real world'
I'm sorry what?
Welcome to the cinematic kaleidoscope that is the world of Marvels Doctor Strange. A world of sanctums and sorcerers that protect the Earth from other dimensional beings and powers, or something like that. Doctor Stephen Strange is world-renowned neurosurgeon who, in a rather contrived manner, loses the use of his skilled hands in a car accident (how did he survive that crash??!!). He doesn't lose a leg or suffer brain damage or whatever, oh no, he just f*cks up his hands. Anyway Strange is unable to fix his hands through traditional methods, so eventually he goes off to Nepal in search of a mysterious place called Kamar-Taj. There he discovers the Ancient One who starts Strange off on his quest to learn the secret powers of sorcery.
The challenge? Strange, the Ancient One and fellow sorcerer Mordo must stop another rogue sorcerer called Kaecilius. What is Kaecilius's goal? he wants to summon Dormammu from the dark dimension in order to gain eternal life. At the same time Dormammu wants the Earth dimension for himself.
Much like his comicbook counterpart, Strange is an arrogant assh*le in this movie. The man clearly has skills but he thinks he's God-like, he treats people like garbage, he ignores advice, he's reckless and lacks tact. So it is in fact very hard to like our main protagonist because he's such a blowhard. Strange is also very very rich due to his profession which makes it hard to relate to Strange (much like Stark), his arrogance only makes matters worse. The sequence where he chooses a watch from a draw of rotating highly expensive looking timepieces, then leaves his highly expensive city pad in his highly expensive Lamborghini, is this really any different from reality for Cumberbatch? Just another day for a Hollywood movie star.
The fact that Strange is an assh*le doesn't really go away either. He continues his snarky comments (along with lame pop culture gags) for much of the run time which only left a bad taste in my mouth truth be told. Yes I know this is the character and it would be wrong to change it, but it just felt shitty to me, I just didn't like the guy. The other fact that Cumberbatch was cast made it worse for me, did he do a good job in the role? I guess, nothing special, I wasn't blown away lets just say that. I had reservations when he was cast and I still don't really agree with it, personally I would have gone with Ewan McGregor after Joaquin Phoenix turned it down. I don't think Cumberbatch looks the part, he's too skinny, his hair is wrong and his face has the wrong structure, he isn't good or suave looking enough. Was it too hard to get his famous white hair streaks right?
So lets look at the Ancient One played by Tilda Swinton, was this good casting? Again I'm somewhat split on this, should they have race swapped the character? No I think they should have gone by the source material, so no gender swap either. It would have upset China you say, tough! Stand by your work, show a little backbone. As for Swinton I really didn't see anything uniquely special in her performance, in fact I think it was weak, anyone could have taken the role and done a better job. Mordo, again, why the race swap? People complained about the Ancient One yet didn't mention this? Equality? hypocrisy? political agendas? You moan about one, you moan about the other, or don't moan. Anyway both looked completely out of place in this movie, especially in the Nepal locations. The white bald Ancient One looked like an extra from 'The Matrix'. Mads Mikkelsen as Kaecilius? totally forgettable much like his faceless henchmen. So yeah overall I wasn't wowed by any casting in this movie, very bland, usual box ticked diversity, generally all very safe and boring.
So did the movie offer anything that differs from what we have seen before in the Marvel cinematic universe? Well yes, of course it did, this movie is based on the magical side of the Marvel comicbook universe. You want lots of mind-bending visuals that cast doubt on what your actually looking at? Say no more, its all here. I mentioned at the start the word kaleidoscope, well that's pretty much the key word here, its literally the word of the day, the word of the movie because there is no other way in describing what you see. There are numerous sequences of astral planes, other dimensions, mirror dimensions and reality being twisted and contorted. Of course its all CGI but its bursting with colour, shapes and dream-like imagery that certainly keeps you engaged...if your eyes can stand it. The broken/shattered/cracked-esque glass visual effect for the mirror dimension was particularly impressive, very striking, very imaginative.
On the other hand we of course have lots of kung fu and hocus pocus nonsense. The hocus pocus nonsense is obviously to be expected and it generally looks pretty good. I did like all the colourful magical shields. weapons and visual spells that the protagonists use. They all look like colour coded HUD's from a jet fighter (or inside Tony Stark's Iron Man helmet) that are projected around a persons limbs. The obligatory martial arts jiggery-pokery I felt was..um...obligatory. Its like you can't have a comicbook flick (or any flick) without needless martial arts. When Strange takes on his astral form in the astral plane, yep you guessed it, he ends up getting involved in an astral plane martial arts fight (with Scott Adkins). In general I liked the fighting because it involved lots of magical trickery but they still can't get away from martial bloody arts, so tiresome.
I find myself in the middle ground with this Marvel entry, in limbo if you will. Whilst I did enjoy the effects to a degree, I found myself straining to look at some of it, or it just seemed to go a bit too far with the bizarre, although the colour palette was nice. What we see of the dark dimension was nicely done, it kinda looked like what you might see under a microscope, but in vivid colours. The magic and sorcery was definitely intriguing and I found myself wanting to see more ancient mystical things instead of the more present day set events. A period set Doctor Strange flick could be pretty sweet methinks. Period though, not alien fantasy because period would offer some grounded limitations. But it says a lot when one of the best parts of the movie involved a simple cloak, the cloak of levitation. I really wanted to see more of that and its backstory. On the flip side I found the characters weak and casting all wrong, not even Strange himself was overly engaging (Tony Stark with magic). The appearance of Dormammu in the finale was also a big let down as yet again we get a big purple-ish looking face...and that's it, CGI wasn't much either.
The main issue I have with all these movies now is they don't really feel like stand alone movies. They merely feel like filler movies, padding, basically set-ups for another even bigger movie that usually involves a team up or an entire cinematic universe. The stories don't really have any meaning or risk involved, they feel minor and throwaway because at the end of the day all they're doing is setting up something else. The real killer is then when you get the next bigger movie, that too is just another set-up for something else, and on we go. The plot for 'Doctor Strange' was mediocre, it barely did the job. I was relatively engaged merely down to the fact that we were seeing something a bit new in sorcery, but beyond that it was bland business as usual. So overall I would give this a pass in the same vein as 'Ant-Man', but the initial intrigue is now gone, any sequels (for me) will just feel meh (although a period setting could be cool).
This is my favorite comic book adaptation yet, even though I've never read one, ever. I don't know anything about any of these characters other than what I've read about them. Even though I know absolutely nothing about Doctor Strange. I went in with an open mind, like I do with all of these movies, and it most certainly blew me away. I highly anticipate my next viewing of this film. 5/5
Didn't like this one much. Full of one-dimensional, cliched character "development", an one-note boring villain, bad directing, no stakes, awful dialogues. Just a mess from start to finish.
Didn't like this one much. Full of one-dimensional, cliched character "development", an one-note boring villain, bad directing, no stakes, awful dialogues. Just a mess from start to finish.
Didn't like this one much. Full of one-dimensional, cliched character "development", an one-note boring villain, bad directing, no stakes, awful dialogues. Just a mess from start to finish.
See, other have different views than you. I simply don't like most of these films much, but if it's on TV I rewatch it. Opinions vary on them.
This is a review thread: exactly like the one about Rambo: Last Blood. Saying a film wasn't good and giving it a low score is not trolling, it's an opinion.
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