Doctor Strange (2016)

Drakain said:

Saw it Sat night in 3D and it was worth it. Overall I liked it a lot. Similar to the animated movie, but different enough to be fresh. The actors nailed their roles and the movie flowed nicely it almost seemed short. Some good Easter eggs as well...

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director said the Air Force Col. was not Rhodes and not the Hammer test pilot from IM2, so no real evidence on when the movie takes place in the MCU timeline. I'm hoping it took place around Ironman 1 or 2 so it give Strange time to truly become Sorcerer Supreme.

Also, Cumberbatch did the motion capture for Dormomu. That scene was amazing.

Color me ready for Adam Warlock.

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In the movie you can see some award he has pre-injury and it says 2015, if I recall.

Drakain said:

Saw it Sat night in 3D and it was worth it. Overall I liked it a lot. Similar to the animated movie, but different enough to be fresh. The actors nailed their roles and the movie flowed nicely it almost seemed short. Some good Easter eggs as well...

Spoiler

director said the Air Force Col. was not Rhodes and not the Hammer test pilot from IM2, so no real evidence on when the movie takes place in the MCU timeline. I'm hoping it took place around Ironman 1 or 2 so it give Strange time to truly become Sorcerer Supreme.

Also, Cumberbatch did the motion capture for Dormomu. That scene was amazing.

Color me ready for Adam Warlock.

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Don't they show the Avengers tower in one of the aerial city shots?

EDIT: They also reference the Avengers by name, and then there's ...

so I think this is pretty firmly placed towards recent Marvel movie history.

Heck he was mentioned all the way back in the Norton Hulk movie.

We aren't really sure how long he is in training for before he gets the speech about them being similar to the Avengers. He honestly could've been in there for years between the beginning of the movie and the climax. Although it would seem kind of odd that the villians plan would take that long to complete after stealing the ritual.

wrong thread, I'm dumb.

There's a reference before the crash about an airforce colonel needing spine surgery after an experimental armor crash.

I thought that was Warmachine post Civil War so I thought the training was very fast.

Apparently it's the guy from Iron Man 2 wearing an experimental Hammer Suit which goes wrong (6 years ago). Avengers are also mentioned (3 years ago) so he could have been crazy for a few years then training for a couple of years with genius level intellect and photo memory.

Time Gem could act as a Hyperbolic Time Chamber like on Dragon Ball for extra training time.

Movie should have been clearer on the passage of time though.

Uhh, pretty sure they've shown a reward from 2015 on his desk a few moments before he got into the car.

cypis said:

Uhh, pretty sure they've shown a reward from 2015 on his desk a few moments before he got into the car.

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Oh... that would make it the Warmachine reference and accelerated training...

I thought it was excellent. Great casting, decent story, and Amazing visuals, this was my first IMAX 3D experience and I was blown away. Also very cool way of dealing with an overpowered villain, did not feel cheated at the end.

I had some very minor gripes that were all mentioned already; Most the jokes were not funny at all, the doctor chick seemed too easily accepting of magic, and his training seemed to go by way to quickly.

Also it seemed a bit too easy to join up and get training from the ancient one.. Strange is a total ass and they still let him in without much argument. I had to assume that the ancient one had some knowledge of the future and knew that Strange should be trained.

None of this really bothered me much, just what I think were the worst parts of an otherwise excellent movie.

8.5/10 just behind Ant-man but definitely top tier MCU, will watch again.

This is probably my favorite marvel film so far, i've always been a fan of that archetype with whispy weird words like Dr. Orpheus or Vincent Von Ghoul ect. Not enough darkness is probably my only gripe. I wouldn't say its the best Marvel film though, just my favorite.

On the note of the Doctor Female, I was completely happy with it. She wasn't too continuously forced, and still held a impact. She didn't become Jane Foster but was still there are a significant part of Strange. I felt like it fit, and her acceptance wasn't as easy, just no time for fuckery as she seems to be a prominent nurse(intercom,) there just wasn't time for questions and prompt freakouts esp toward the end of the two. I think the only joke that just kinda yawn-y was the vending machine, everything else was enjoyable, yet nothing innuendo funny ie gotg.

Wong was great, I think they wrote a proper direction for Mordo, and I really enjoyed the villian in this and -that scene- a+.

As far as learning quickly, I think I was okay with it and didn't really look too deeply in it. There were many things that kinda supported this idea. It kinda help him put in the same intelligence level as Stark, and I'd say Pym but it isn't really explored much. Isn't he suppose to be one of the core members of Illuminati aswell? I don't know if they'll ever go into that, but it adds to his prowess as an intellect.

Seananigans said:

Yeah I was going to say the same thing. A couple people have mentioned she "accepts" his magicking too quickly. Well, I've only seen it once, and I'm sure I was half-distracted by her Rachel McAdamsness, but if I recall, every encounter post-magic was pretty frantic, emergency/triage related, etc. She didn't really have much time to process it enough to present an argument for "wait wtf is going on?" I thought it fit just fine, personally.

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Yeah, I just got the vibe that she was near "equal" to Doctor Strange surgical background, esp with the whole opening, and then his go-to.

also, assumed spinal issue scene