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| Your Everyday NEET:
Doctor Strange. Despite being Marvel's next film after Civil War, it manages to be a good film in it's own right. Everyone could say that it's effects are extremely good. It makes Inception looks amateur. And despite the controversial casting of Tilda Swinton as The Ancient One, she can proves herself as the best character in the whole film by being the best combatant in the whole film and perfectly nailing her role as a mysterious, yet kind master. These are the things I liked. I do have a lot of nitpicks about it. The main villain, Kaecillius seems to be generic, yet overpowered to the point anyone that is not The Ancient One could only run away. Doctor Strange himself seems to be the worst combatant in the movie (granted, he only hasn't mastered the art of magic). Wong is the master of Hongkong Sanctum, yet the movie never show him fight. The pacing is noticeably slow. While the effects are fantastic, the fight scene itself can be a little hard to follow (to the point I need to watch the movie twice to understand it). These are some of my nitpicks. Despite my nitpicks, I still like the movie to the point where I reference it twice. I Ragequit my GoS Let's Play using Doctor Strange reference. I think both Doctor Strange and GoS Big Bad has some similarities: Both of them is an Elritch Abomination from other dimension, both of them almost has no personality except being evil, both of them are horrendously overpowered, and both of them can one hit kill the protagonist in lot's of different way. The only difference is that Spoiler: while Dormammu can be bargained, The Embodiment of Hatred CANNOT. So I ragequit. My theater and most of the audience is my city doesn't know that there's a second stinger after the credit. So, after the first stinger, everyone rushed out of the theater and seeing there's almost no audience, the staff shut off the projector. Blah! |
| Reddyne:
I did like The Ancient One as she (in the film) was presented and I felt her qualities and mentality were put forward far more than any other aspect of her character, making the whole gender thing a non-issue. Kaecillius WAS too generic. I had to read up on all sorts of stuff just to find some sort of backstory on him. Spoiler: Apparently his wife and child died and that was motivation for him to cheat death? Maybe? Still, I would think the villain would want to check the fine print before getting the PG-13 version of the Raiders of the Lost Ark treatment. |
| commandercool:
--- Quote from: Reddyne on November 08, 2016, 01:35:02 PM ---I did like The Ancient One as she (in the film) was presented and I felt her qualities and mentality were put forward far more than any other aspect of her character, making the whole gender thing a non-issue. --- End quote --- Yeah, that's complicated. I've seen the point made that at least this way it's not the "White guy shows up and turns out to be the prodigy who outdoes all of the Asian characters at their own game" (just like we're already going to get in Iron Fist), but that kind of overlooks the added problem of "So all Sorcerer Supremes are white?". Tilda Swinton definitely hit it out of the park though. This might have been the best overall cast for a single-character Marvel movie ever aside from my not being thaaat into Cumberbatch, but I know a lot of people were, so fair enough. --- Quote from: Reddyne on November 08, 2016, 01:35:02 PM ---Kaecillius WAS too generic. I had to read up on all sorts of stuff just to find some sort of backstory on him. Spoiler: Apparently his wife and child died and that was motivation for him to cheat death? Maybe? Still, I would think the villain would want to check the fine print before getting the PG-13 version of the Raiders of the Lost Ark treatment. --- End quote --- That was actually in the movie. It's mentioned in a throwaway line, or at least heavily implied. Just like some stuff was heavily implied about Mordo that was never really spelled out. |
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