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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
F. Murray Abraham
for for Jack Kirby
?
edited 11th Sep '17 10:08:59 AM by Gaon
"All you Fascists bound to lose."You know, Stan Lee would be fun and all but I was thinking that a Jack Kirby bio pic would be a lot more interesting. The guy both wrote and drew his own comics and was also a war vet. Not to diminish Lee's influence, but he was surrounded by a lot of equally talented people who were not quite as good at promoting themselves.
I for one think they're missing out on a prime opportunity to cast Hurricane Irma in Avengers 4. Who better to fight off an alien horde than Mother Fucking Earth Herself?
edited 11th Sep '17 6:32:57 PM by TheAirman
PSN ID: FateSeraph | Switch friendcode: SW-0145-8835-0610 Congratulations! She/TheyWell due to my cable being out today I decided to watch some DVD's and I rewatched Civil War and Doctor Strange for the first time in a while. The former still reasonably holds up to me despite some grumbles (Gonna agree with that one guy here who hated Hawkeye's ranting towards Tony in that one scene) but holy shit I forgot how great the fights are, while the latter is a lot more dull and bland than I remembered it being. I am still not a big fan of Doctor Strange outside of maybe the special effects in a couple of scenes, it's arguably the blandest of Marvel's movies. Like, it's totally a fucking Iron Man clone like Ant-Man, but Ant-Man was a little bit more interesting in how it did it. Plus, ya know, still pissed about the Ancient One bullshit so there's that.
Have you any dreams you'd like to sell?Oh.
Yeah, I've watched that, actually.
It's pretty hype.
edited 11th Sep '17 8:43:17 PM by KarkatTheDalek
Oh God! Natural light!The thing that really turned me off with Strange, like to the point where I was actively annoyed and angry for the second time ever at a Marvel movie (the first time was Ao U), was the fact that yet again, despite this being based around a magical character who shoots magic energy blasts and has spells and has to think and study, all of the fight scenes were the same homogenized non-specific martial art that sometimes has weapons in it that T'Challa, Steve, Bucky, Clint, Natasha, Matt, Danny, Bobbi, and basically every other hand-to-hand combatant except for Peter Parker used.
edited 11th Sep '17 11:00:16 PM by SonOfSharknado
My various fanfics.I've mentioned before that there are some weird parallels between Dr. Strange and the Green Lantern movie, and one of those is the fact that despite the aforementioned point of being a magic character with spells and energy blasts, Strange's primary method of combat in the film is to create glowing energy constructs similar to the Lantern ring powerset.
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.Doctor Strange has great actors, remarkable special effects and some interesting directing choices, but it really, really has a weak script, and there is nothing which can punch up a movie with a weak script to outstanding. Sadly Marcus and Mc Feely don't have enough time to write the whole MCU.
Hell, at least the Green Lantern would have made projectile weapons! These all-powerful magicians were making fuckin'... tiny Cap shields and Mulan fans and whips and clubs and... and it was just dumb! The action was so dumb and dull and uninspired but it tried to distract you from it with a fuckin' kaleidoscope and Inception city-folding! Inception! From 2010!
My various fanfics.Strange had a lot of major story leaps that just weren't earned. Strange spends five minutes outside the monastery moaning to let him in, and Mondo tells the Ancient One he has a lot of commitment and strength. By all accounts he is a novice to magic, yet manages to fight multiple experienced users (hopped up on essentially magical PCP) who handily killed several Sanctum masters already. He is appointed Master of the New York Sanctum because he was nearby, rather than actually proving his worth to the magical society. And I think that's the main problem with the film, all that matters is that Strange hits those origin story marks and the rest of the world revolves around only him. It's present in much of the MCU, but especially notable here.
The special effects, while quite pretty, didn't really amount to anything. The opening scene showed the kind of innovation possible with the premise of a kaleidoscope-shifting terrain, whereas the big New York folding set piece was basically just bouncing off walls until they reach a platform to have a martial arts fight. Even the Ancient One's death was underwhelming, as instead of being outmatched or outsmarted in magic it was essentially a "What the hell is that!" cheap shot.
I feel like Strange was waiting for a considerably longer time than 5 minutes, from what I remember. Fair criticism otherwise.
If the film started the same year as Iron Man (maybe something like a thing on the news saying that Tony Stark was going to Afghanistan tomorrow to unveil his big new murder-weapon and a panel discussing the morality of overwhelming force in the hands of a drunken nihilist), and then we showed Stephen spending years and years studying in isolation in Kamar Taj, it would feel more like Stephen's progress was earned (you could even have a bit of a gag with him picking up a newspaper, screwing up his face and saying "What the fuck is an Avenger?" or something to that effect).
But because we don't know that any time has passed other than "a while", nothing about Stephen feels real and it doesn't feel like he's part of some new, magical world. This lack of a transition or a divide between these two lifestyles isn't helped by the fact that Kamar Taj itself doesn't seem like it wants to separate that much. Bits like "The wifi password, we're not savages" and Wong listening to Beyonce on an iPod are cute, but they come at the cost of not really making it feel like Stephen has gone anywhere out of the way or mystical, he's just gone to some weird-ass, overly-specific trade school. Because of this, Stephen himself doesn't feel all that mystical, which is the greatest crime of all. This guy is supposed to be the Sorcerer Supreme (except not, because why make the character the most obvious thing he's known for?) but he doesn't feel like a powerful magic-user, he just feels like a guy. Even using the Time St- the Eye of Agamott- the MacGuffin of interchangeable intent didn't feel like Stephen mastering a magical spell as much as it felt like him exploiting a loophole in a contract or using a watch in a funny way.
Like, I will never, in a million years, be able to imagine Cumberstrange saying "By the Hoary Hosts of Hoggoth!", which is the biggest sin of this entire movie.
My various fanfics.Should've had a Time Skip. Or several. (...Hundred.)
Should've had Strange spend years at the monastery, 2007 to 2016, like he was a remedial GED student going to Hogwarts I mean Kamar-Taj (or, as I've mentioned, any place in the world, they're wizards and crisscrossing the planet with teleportals is a major point in the script from the very first scene).. Should've had him spend subjective decades (...centuries) locked in combat with Dormammu, putting everything he'd learned into practice, and coming out a grizzled master of the mystic arts, having really *earned* it.
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Pretty much how I felt when I came out of the movie and looked around the Doctor Strange thread, yeah.
edited 11th Sep '17 11:18:12 PM by Unsung

I wonder who'd be a good choice to play Jack Kirby?