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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
Truly, Dr. Strange is the Marvel Universe's greatest comically serious character. And he's not even that overly serious, it's just that the people around him love to push his buttons.
I'm trying to look up any of the times he and Spidey teamed up in Straczynki's Spider-Man run, because those are gold. I wouldn't mind a Spider-Man/Strange movie...
edited 28th Dec '15 7:44:22 AM by KnownUnknown
I hate that they seem to have averted the problem of "what direction do the collar hooks point?" by doing away with them entirely.
Maybe they'll be digitally added later? With Mickey-Mouse-style perspective breaking and all? I can only hope.
Maybe you'd be less disappointed if you stopped expecting things to be Carmen Sandiego movies.![]()
Bendis' current run on Iron Man, I think.
Can we not? Please?
Like I know I've not always been the greatest proponent of maturity in here but pretending a movie doesn't exist just because you don't like the choices makes having conversations about it harder.
Maybe you'd be less disappointed if you stopped expecting things to be Carmen Sandiego movies.![]()
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I hope Benedict doesn't mean the movie will be primarily action oriented, and that there's a lot of worldbuilding and mystic stuff and all that jazz.
If ultimately Strange takes on Dormammu or even Mordo by giving them a proverbial punch in the face, then that's a shame. This is their chance to do something really grand.
edited 28th Dec '15 9:03:38 AM by KnownUnknown
Cumberbatch's said some really insensitive shitty things about folks with autism.
I mean. It was clear when he said them that he was at least trying to come from a place of understanding and sympathy. He was doing a terrible job of it, but.
It's kind of on the low end of the "shitty things done by famous men" spectrum.
Maybe you'd be less disappointed if you stopped expecting things to be Carmen Sandiego movies.He said it on The Graham Norton Show, the You Tube of which doesn't seem to have the video anymore, but I did find a transcript.
It’s…it’s…it’s really really extraordinary and very upsetting. And uh, it was important for them to realize that the Creature in their story was not their… the monster of old… the monster of the gothic horror stories. He’s very much an innocent. He’s very much someone who is carried through life, as someone who is so different, not only because of his appearance, but because of these behaviorial tics, which are very autistic, um, both in his understanding of the world, psychologically and emotionally, but also physically as well, how that manifests later in his body. And so that was the major part of the preparation.
edited 28th Dec '15 10:21:40 AM by Wackd
Maybe you'd be less disappointed if you stopped expecting things to be Carmen Sandiego movies.This is what Feige had to say about the villain played by Mads Mikkelsen.
As to why we don’t have a name for Mads Mikklesen’s villainous character to accompany EW’s first look at Doctor Strange, which has come just two months after filming began, executive producer Stephen Broussard told the magazine: “I’ve seen lots of names thrown around. No one has quite picked the name that we’ve chosen for him. It would be fun to conceal that, if we can.”
...which is bizarre because that sounds almost exactly like Baron Mordo.
it was definitely not a good or tactful thing to say, but i'd be more concerned with the issue of whether cumberbatch recognized he was being insensitive after the fact. we shouldn't not hold people unaccountable for faux pas but most of us have said something insensitive or ignorant without meaning to as well.
some people have also complained about tilda swinton being cast, not because she's a bad actress but because they felt it was whitewashing.
edited 28th Dec '15 10:25:40 AM by wehrmacht
I can see that, yeah. I'm not thrilled with the Ancient One being a white person either, but, well.
I dunno. I think this'll be the first Marvel movie I'll wait for the reviews on rather than rushing to see.
I don't think Cumberbatch ever actually apologized, incidentally.
edited 28th Dec '15 10:26:21 AM by Wackd
Maybe you'd be less disappointed if you stopped expecting things to be Carmen Sandiego movies.So he used the wrong term when trying to make a valid point about how there's a comparison available with developmental difficulties? That's realy it? It feels kinda like people wanted an excuse to dislike him and just latched onto whatever they could find.
edited 28th Dec '15 10:58:43 AM by Silasw
“And the Bunny nails it!” ~ Gabrael “If the UN can get through a day without everyone strangling everyone else so can we.” ~ Cyran

The beard needs to be bigger if they want to continue keeping the existence of aliens hidden
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