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Oct 29, 2016 - 3:31 PM
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Mike_J
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As a kid growing up in the 70s I was a huge, huge Marvel comics fan. I pretty much loved every title they put out, with the exception of two, namely Thor and Dr Strange, both of which I found totally dull.
Flash forward to the era of the Marvel Studios. and Kenneth Branagh's Thor, which I went to see purely because my son wanted to - and man alive, was I impressed. What a great movie.
And so to Dr Strange - again, I went in with very low expectations and again, I was simply blown away. Marvel Studios have done it again, producing not just a great comic book movie but a terrific film, period. I don't think i've had so much fun in a cinema for a long time.
The film pretty much nails it on every level. The acting by Cumberbath and Swindon is superb, the action is brilliantly choreographed, the production design fabulous. Hell, I even loved the score, something of a first for me given that I have found pretty much everything else Giacchino has done to be entirely unmemorable.
But far and away the best bit of the film are the entirely bonkers distorted reality visuals. Comparisons to Inception are inevitable but Dr Strange out-does Nolan's movie by a country mile. Buildings and landscapes shift and spin, while the characters run up, under and over them, with the camera snaking around spectacularly whilst never out of control. Some of the sequences are simply gob-smacking and one shot in particular actually made me feel a slight dizzy vertigo, something I have never experienced in a cinema before.
See it in Imax 3D if you can - the visuals demand it.
Cannot wait to see it again.
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Saw the film yesterday, in regular widescreen 3-D. It's one of the few films that really benefits from 3-D. This promises to be one of the better additions to the Marvel film universe. And Giacchino's score one of the few current scores going on my want list.
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Has anyone seen that hilarious "Honest Trailers" vid. on the web?
Makes me even more likely to avoid this film
FUnniest bit: a collage of BC doing bad 'foreign accents" includng USA southern.
Let Cumberbatch be Cumberbatch, dammitt!
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The movie worked very well for this bona fide fan of Doctor Strange in comics since the 70s. By the Vishanti, the incantations would have distanced the audience far too much - my guess is current audiences, especially the important young audience, would have found them ridiculous. Because, um, most of them are.
And I did see the good doc do his classic rabbit ears/devil ears (take your pick) hand gesture. And for heavens sake, he's wearing the yellow gloves in the mid-credits scene!
I thought the updates were sensible while keeping true to the spirit of the original character and milieu, and just enough of the old surrealism to be weirder than usual. My hope with a movie like this is that new audiences would groove to the character, not that they make a fan film for us duffers. I thought they did just that, and so did my 18 year old daughter. And I loved how they brought in Dormammu, thought that worked great.
Though I do wish Doc had said "Curse me for a novice!" Just once.
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Whereas I have always kind of unconsciously hated the comics collar and so didn't even notice the more conservative or one might say coherent approach. I mean, man, that original collar would play hell with one's peripheral vision!
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Signature, schmignature - dude, when you got nasties coming at you from every direction and dimension, you don't need cape horns in your way as you look over your shoulder. 
Also, I like that they made the cape quasi sentient, and when the collar curled to his face, I think they were indeed referencing the classic design, if fleetingly. So I'm good with it.
These days, I find it more fun and relaxing to just take things as they come. The minute I saw the early costume photos, I was ready for this Strange One.
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