Marvel's Doctor Strange (2016)

[MifuneFan]

Originally Posted by Dragon Lee

Where does Doctor Strange rank in the MCU? Heres my list:

The Avengers
Captain America: The Winter Soldier
Guardians of the Galaxy
Captain America: Civil War
Iron Man
Avengers: Age of Ultron
Captain America: The First Avenger
Doctor Strange
Ant-Man
Thor
Iron Man 3
Thor: The Dark World
The Incredible Hulk
Iron Man 2

GotG
The Avengers
Captain America: The Winter Soldier
Iron Man
Captain America: Civil War
Doctor Strange
Captain America: The First Avenger
Ant-man
Age of Ultron
Thor
Incredible Hulk
Iron Man 3
Iron Man 2


Still haven't seen Thor 2

[imsounoriginal]

Originally Posted by Batmon77

When is Marvel going to try a jokes-less film w/in the MCU.

Black Panther?
Capt. Marvel?

The more outlandish the hero (Strange, Guardians, Thor), the more humor is thrown in, for better or worse. Black Panther should be relatively straightforward for a Marvel movie; I don't see Coogler being a director who would want his movie to be laugh riot. Hard to tell how Capt. Marvel would be without knowing who's directing it. (And then the other discussion becomes how much input do directors on Marvel movies even have?)

[Batmon77]

Originally Posted by imsounoriginal

The more outlandish the hero (Strange, Guardians, Thor), the more humor is thrown in, for better or worse.

Black Panther should be relatively straightforward for a Marvel movie; I don't see Coogler being a director who would want his movie to be laugh riot.

Hard to tell how Capt. Marvel would be without knowing who's directing it. (And then the other discussion becomes how much input do directors on Marvel movies even have?)

Yeah, Creed had humor but its not a yuck fest.

I know these films have a wide appeal. Little kids to adults, so it is what it is.

I think Deadpool really showed how you take the humor to the next level and still keep the serious nearby for balance.

[Hellraiserfan]

Originally Posted by Batmon77

The X-Men franchise is fun, yet the "joking" isnt front and center like Ant-Man and GoTG. Marvel Netflix has humor but its not front and center. Blade had jokes, yet 3 ramped it up...which moved it too far away from the previous tones.

Are you content w/ keeping the same formula for 20 films?

I like most of the X-men films but until First Class came along I didn't consider them to really be "fun". Entertaining and interesting sure, but not exactly fun.

I don't recall Blade having many "jokes" in it but then again it's been quite some time since I last watched it.

The formula works and it's what the audience enjoys when you look at the BO numbers. If people are going to take the time to go out and spend money to see a movie in the theater (ticket prices always going up) they want to have a damn fun time. MS films give them that. A nice mix of drama, action and humor. As I said before, some times I wish they did tone down the humor, but only a little bit. Most of the time it works though.

I just don't want them to go all "dark and gritty" since I don't have the mentality of an adolescent who mistakes that as being "mature" or adult like. This comment isn't directed at you by the way but others I've seen across the internet.

[Blu-Curry]

Originally Posted by msb1428

I will probably be ripped apart for this but, I found this movie quite boring to be honest. Especially for an origin story. It just seemed very rushed and not well thought out. Everyone is raving about the special effects and how the movie is "visually stunning" but many parts were just rip offs of Inception. And about 95% of the humor in the movie felt stale and extremely forced. overall I give this a 1.5/5

"I'm gonna tear you apart" - Ultron

The Doctor Strange comics have been doing visual stuff like that for decades. Inception came way after (and can be said to take inspiration from Paprika). I could be wrong, but I believe Nolan even said that he looked to Paprika and the old Doctor Strange comics for inspiration. So you're incorrect on that part.

I normally enjoy the humour in these Marvel films, but I agree with you on this one. The humor in this and Avengers 2 felt like they were trying too hard.

But if you found the film boring, that's fine. I just don't see why you warranted a 1.5/5. That's the score I gave to Suicide Squad, but that film had serious issues in the realm of filmmaking.

[imsounoriginal]

Originally Posted by Batmon77

Yeah, Creed had humor but its not a yuck fest.

Fruitvale Station ain't exactly the feel-good movie of the year, either. The lineup they've got for Black Panther is insanely great, so I'm hoping for the best. It'll really be something special.

[Batmon77]

Originally Posted by Hellraiserfan

I like most of the X-men films but until First Class came along I didn't consider them to really be "fun". Entertaining and interesting sure, but not exactly fun.

I don't recall Blade having many "jokes" in it but then again it's been quite some time since I last watched it.

The formula works and it's what the audience enjoys when you look at the BO numbers. If people are going to take the time to go out and spend money to see a movie in the theater (ticket prices always going up) they want to have a damn fun time. MS films give them that. A nice mix of drama, action and humor. As I said before, some times I wish they did tone down the humor, but only a little bit. Most of the time it works though.

I just don't want them to go all "dark and gritty" since I don't have the mentality of an adolescent who mistakes that as being "mature" or adult like. This comment isn't directed at you by the way but others I've seen across the internet.

Forced Dark is corny. Done right and we get Dredd.

Im just a little scared that well be able to predict the style/tone of every Marvel film...and that's not a good thing. That's McDonald's. The Russos tweaked the formula and came up w/ a better product w/ The Winter Soldier, IMO. It was a breath of fresh air.

[yellowjacket1]

Originally Posted by rodneyfaile

My 5 favorite MCU movies:
1. Guardians of the Galaxy
2. The Avengers
3. Doctor Strange
4. Captain America: The First Avenger
5. Iron Man

My 5 favorite Marvel movies
1. Guardians of the Galaxy
2. The Avengers
3. Deadpool
4. Doctor Strange
5. X-Men Days of Future Past

I'd separate the two.

My 5 favorite MCU movies:

1. The Avengers
2. Captain America: The Winter Soldier
3. Captain America: Civil War
4. Avengers: Age of Ultron
5. Iron Man

My 5 favorite Marvel non MCU movies
1. Spider-Man 2
2. X-Men Days of Future Past
3. Spider-Man
4. X-Men First Class
5. The Punisher 2004

Doctor Strange is a splendid origin film. I probably place it right behind Ant-Man but it's a solid 8/10 and very enjoyable.

[imsounoriginal]

MCU Ranking:
1. Captain America: Civil War
2. Captain America: The Winter Soldier
3. Iron Man
4. Captain America: The First Avenger
5. Avengers: Age of Ultron
6. Doctor Strange
7. Guardians of the Galaxy
8. The Incredible Hulk
9. Iron Man 3
10. The Avengers
11. Thor
12. Ant-Man
13. Thor: The Dark World
14. Iron Man 2

1-4: Great
5-12: Solid
13-14: Poor

[Aerodude73]

Originally Posted by imsounoriginal

The more I think about it, this might be my favorite MCU origin story since Captain America's. Aside from

[Show spoiler]the confrontation with Dormammu, which I felt was kinda silly (Strange basically annoys him into giving up)

, pretty much everything else was perfect. Also loved how much the Cloak of Levitation was basically the Magic Carpet from Aladdin. Really fun movie, haven't been this hyped for a Marvel sequel in a while.

Yea, that scene with the

[Show spoiler]CGI dude in space was VERY annoying, lol - I noted, 3-4 times of him coming back would have been enough, humorous, but good Lord, it Never ENDED!!

[Aerodude73]

Box Office: 'Doctor Strange' Opens to Spellbinding $85M in U.S., Hits $325M Globally

Doctor Strange opened to a far better-than-expected $85 million from 3,882 theaters at the North American box office, adding another franchise to its expanding Marvel Studios and Disney's superhero universe and putting the movie's early global total at a magical $325.4 million.

Overseas, it earned another $118.7 million this weekend — including $44.3 million in China, the top debut for the first installment in any superhero series — for a foreign cume of $240.4 million after debuting in select markets a week ahead of its U.S. debut. Prerelease tracking in North America suggested the event film would open between $65 million-$70 million.

Doctor Strange, starring Benedict Cumberbatch as the lesser-known superhero Stephen Strange, gives Disney five of the 10 top openings of 2016 so far, and is another coup for Marvel Studios chief Kevin Feige and Disney's marketing team. Also, it beat the first installments in the Thor, Captain America and Ant-Man franchises. Males fueled the film (58 percent), while 57 percent of moviegoers were between the ages of 13 and 34.

Doctor Strange cost $165 million to produce, and is the first movie to play in more than 1,000 Imax theaters, which contributed $24.2 million of the global weekend earnings, a November record that includes $12.2 million domestically.

** THR.com **

[Trollhunter]

A very average yet solid B movie with great visuals and almost perfect casting. It follows the standard Marvel origin story plot to a T including the subpar non interesting villian. which is becoming the norm for these MCE films. I went in with low expectations and came out still disappointed with the movie. I'd rank it on par with Ant-Man and the first Thor and Captain America films as the middle of the road fims of this franchise.

[Elbie]

I can't say I was tracking the film numbers, but I really did not expect 85 mill at all.

[imsounoriginal]

Marvel fans + Cumberbatch fans = big weekend. Not terribly surprising. And it'll have another weekend to itself before FB rolls in.

[Britnasty]

5/5. Just got out of seeing this in 3D and those visuals were INSANE. Easily my favorite character introduction film yet.

My Rankings:
1. Captain America: Winter Soldier
2. Captain America: Civil War
3. Doctor Strange
4. Guardians of the Galaxy
5. The Avengers
6. Iron Man 3
7. Captain America: The First Avenger
8. Avengers: Age of Ultron
9. Iron Man
10. Ant-Man
11. Thor: The Dark World
12. The Incredible Hulk
13. Iron Man 2
14. Thor

[solarrdadd]

Originally Posted by Aerodude73

Yea, that scene with the

[Show spoiler]CGI dude in space was VERY annoying, lol - I noted, 3-4 times of him coming back would have been enough, humorous, but good Lord, it Never ENDED!!

but, that was the point of it and why it turned out to be effective as planned by Strange.

[solarrdadd]

Originally Posted by bell_packet

I edited for safety, but

[Show spoiler]the original post never mentioned it as a spoiler for the mid-credits scene, so there's not necessarily any connection between the two things. The MCU is interconnected so I could easily be talking about Ragnarok in general without people connecting it to Thor making an appearance in this. I put it out of the brackets in case people didn't want to be spoiled for Ragnarok shooting pictures.

But you gotta edit your post if you don't want it to be visible since my reference is now gone.

[Show spoiler]Well like I said, Loki and Thor were both together when looking for the Sanctum, so I think there's still a chance of that happening in Ragnarok, if Strange does actually make an appearance, that is. But with the Ant-man post credits scene being lifted from Civil War, maybe this is as well and we will see Strange. I hope so, at least.

I did edit my post so it's not visible but troll2fan quoted your original post before you edited it, so,

[Aerodude73]

Originally Posted by solarrdadd

but, that was the point of it and why it turned out to be effective as planned by Strange.

nope - it was Too much...

[Rodney-2187]

Originally Posted by Aerodude73

nope - it was Too much...

If it hadn't been too much then it would not have been enough.

[CharlesD]

My MCU Rankings:
1. The Avengers
2. Captain America: The Winter Soldier
3. Iron Man
4. Captain America: Civil War
5. Ant-Man
6. Guardians of the Galaxy
7. Captain America: The First Avenger
8. Iron Man 3
9. Thor
10. Doctor Strange
11. Iron Man 2
12. The Incredible Hulk
13. Thor: The Dark World
14. The Avengers: Age of Ultron

And my top 5 Marvel movies:
1. Spider-Man 2
2. X-Men: First Class
3. The Avengers
4. X-Men: Days of Future Past
5. Captain America: The Winter Soldier