Just watched the movie, worth the price of admission (Zero, because I torrented it). It was a fun hour and a half.
I think it was a fun innovative movie, nothing spectacular mind you, but fun. I do think it could have been a much better movie if it extended and expanded upon the time before he got to discount Tibet. Overall a clever innovative film, but it's still boggled down by being the MCU.
If you have the time, torrent it, it'll probably be worth your time if you don't pay for it. Also, don't call me a shill because I don't watch Marvel movies in theaters or pay for their bluray/dvd.
Could have been like a 9 if the movie wasn't in the MCU with all the dumb tie ins, and expanded and extended the movie focusing on the important stuff and getting rid of the MCU shit
Aiden Wright
It looked way better in 3D and a big screen than it could possibly look on a computer screen. The MCU shit was >one line from Tilda Swinton >one post credits scene >one mention of the Infinity Stone at the end, without which the Eye of Agamotto could've been any other trinket with time powers >Mordo mentioning the Living Tribunal That can't have been what brought it down for you.
Caleb Price
Strange is the lowest rating Marvel movie for me. I just did not like the jokes, man. They all just fell flat to me, like the one about Beyonce and the cape of levitation just acting up during a tension building scene it just made me roll my eyes.
Lucas Carter
I'm sure it did look better in 3D, seems like the kind of movie that would benefit from it unlike most others, but I don't exactly regret not seeing it in the theater either, I'm sure I would have enjoyed it though
It isn't just that. MCU mandates what CAN and what CANNOT be in the movie.
There can't be any lasting consequence without committee thinking, for instance: We can't fully destroy New York because that means we can't film future MCU movies in NY.
It isn't just what was in the movie, but what wasn't. I'm not saying that they should have destroyed NY in Doctor Strange, but it seems as if the movie was limited.
Luckily, the threat being metaphysical it did avoid a lot of this bullshit, which is exactly why it feels like a better movie than most other MCU films, HOWEVER, it still felt constrained, if not by anything else, the fact that MCU movies are very tempered thematically.
This might have been a part of the reason why they didn't expand on Strange after his surgery and before Nepal, I think it would have enhanced the movie, but most certainly it would have also made it more serious and thematically darker, but we can't exactly have that in the MCU, can we?
This is what I meant, more than the tie-ins, but I do think Strange having to deal with metaphysical threats rather than physical made it a larger scope movie than the average MCU film.
What bogged down the movie Committee thinking>>>Tie ins
Luke Hill
To each his own, I might have enjoyed it more than Civil War, either way it's not high art or anything
Carson Sanchez
>Strange is the lowest rating Marvel movie for me Seriously? Worse than Thor 1, Thor 2, IM2 and IM3??
IMO it was a good movie, but besides the visual fuckery it is still pretty generic, I mean Antman, GotG feel more like genuine and stand alone, they feel like comedies at some moments, but Dr Strange could be titled Dr Iron Man and nothing would change.
Julian Campbell
The Beyonce joke did fall flat though
Thomas Gonzalez
other than strange being a bit too obnoxious it was decent
