SJRB
Gold Member
Are you fucking serious? I left after the first. Why the hell would they do two?
What is it?
[We even tried googling how many after-credit scenes there were but no one had signal]
-
Hey, guest user. Hope you're enjoying NeoGAF! Have you considered registering for an account? Come join us and add your take to the daily discourse.
Doctor Strange |OT| By the Hoary Hosts of Hoggoth
- Thread starter Quick
- Start date
- Status
Are you fucking serious? I left after the first. Why the hell would they do two?
What is it?
[We even tried googling how many after-credit scenes there were but no one had signal]
BronsonLee
Member
They usually do two now
Laieon
Member
Guy who says he's leaving the lifestyle at the end of the movie finds guy-who-used-to-be-paralyzed and makes him paralyzed again. Says there's only room in the world for 1 sorcerer.
autumnleaf
Member
There is also
a mention of Rhodey's injury from Civil War right before Strange crashes his car.
Glass Rebel
Member
Apparently it's not him.
ronaldthump
Member
didn't have too much of an issue with it. I think its quite clear a lot of time passed.
He recovered from injury, he went for more hand operations. He was running out of money. He went to therapy. He went to find Benjamin Bretner and then he went to Nepal..
Btw. The
armor suit trap
Loved the
mirror world escape sequence, time reversal sequence in hongkong and the UK house fight
the only bit in the movie that fell flat for most people in my cinema was the
this house needs a master. Master Strange. I'm bu bu bu a doctor doctor strange
How much time though? Before the accident he looks at his shelf while picking out a watch and there's an award dated 2016. Does the movie take place over months or years? Months isn't a very long time at all considering all that happens in the film. Years would place it out of the timeline that has to match Thor Ragnarok coming out next year.
brotkasten
Member
I ended up disliking the movie quite a bit, which is not what I expected.
It just felt like the movie had no depth at all. There wasn't a lot of character development, the villain had no motivation (a Marvel staple, I know) and it felt like things just... happened. There really wasn't a good sense of time and progression, once it hit the second act.
I also expected the movie to be a lot more creative with its use of magic, but it basically came down to portals, shifting buildings, flying and magic ropes. I guess you have to start low, since it's part of the MCU, but I was expecting to see a lot more crazy dimension stuff.
The humor also fell credibility flat for me, Strange name scene aside. A bit surprising, because it's usually not an issue with Marvel movies for me. But perhaps it's because Strange himself was quite a prick, without ever developing past that. And when he attempted to do so, I didn't quite buy it. He wasn't charming enough to let his dickishness slide, like Tony Stark does. Being a charming prick and a prick with charme isn't the same thing.
I'll give the movie props for not blowing up an entire country, planet or dimension in the third act and final confrontation. It's something I'm incredibly tired of in superhero movies, so it was nice to have it a little more scaled back. It was actually one of the few moments where I felt they used magic creatively during a fight. It helps that it was visually really well done.
Overall, I feel like I wasted money seeing this in the theater. Renting it would've been enough.
It just felt like the movie had no depth at all. There wasn't a lot of character development, the villain had no motivation (a Marvel staple, I know) and it felt like things just... happened. There really wasn't a good sense of time and progression, once it hit the second act.
I also expected the movie to be a lot more creative with its use of magic, but it basically came down to portals, shifting buildings, flying and magic ropes. I guess you have to start low, since it's part of the MCU, but I was expecting to see a lot more crazy dimension stuff.
The humor also fell credibility flat for me, Strange name scene aside. A bit surprising, because it's usually not an issue with Marvel movies for me. But perhaps it's because Strange himself was quite a prick, without ever developing past that. And when he attempted to do so, I didn't quite buy it. He wasn't charming enough to let his dickishness slide, like Tony Stark does. Being a charming prick and a prick with charme isn't the same thing.
I'll give the movie props for not blowing up an entire country, planet or dimension in the third act and final confrontation. It's something I'm incredibly tired of in superhero movies, so it was nice to have it a little more scaled back. It was actually one of the few moments where I felt they used magic creatively during a fight. It helps that it was visually really well done.
Overall, I feel like I wasted money seeing this in the theater. Renting it would've been enough.
Callibretto
Member
I don't think that's supposed to be a joke.
he just killed someone, even in self defense. he's panicked and want nothing to do with magic. that's why he keep saying that he's a doctor.
Callibretto
Member
the training takes roughly about 1 year. apparently Feige said that in an interview somewhere.
There's been 2 credit scenes for pretty much every Marvel film since the first Avengers (IM3 and Ultron with 1).
I'm still surprised at the amount of people who don't even stay for the mid credits scene. If your that interested in the film to go on opening day, surely you know by now that there's always an extra scene.
Not really. IM3, AoU, and Guardians all only had one.
I still kinda count GOTG as two since dancing Groot is during the credits.
SJRB
Gold Member
Well, shit.
Wow they really went overboard with effects. Freaking love it though. Not quite sure what to make of Strange's characterization. Might be due to all the humor by him which doesn't delivered well by Cumberbatch. And the scene where he's trying to make himself to be called "Doctor Strange" is corny as hell, urghh.
Tilda Swinson is great.
. Great stuff.
That first post credit scene is amazing. I'm more excited to see
.
Tilda Swinson is great.
I love the scene from her death where she was talking about the snow and then just gone
That first post credit scene is amazing. I'm more excited to see
Doctor Strange interact with everyone in the MCU now after seeing that
Bet that cost a pretty penny! That's how they get ya though
Lashley
Why does he wear the mask!?
Isn't he already confirmed for Infinity War?
Great
Certinty
Member
Liked it the first time, loved it the second time.
Might be because I subconsciously went into it the first time expecting a movie which feels like most Marvel ones. Once I knew what to expect I could appreciate it more for what it was.
But yeah, great movie. Definitely top 5 MCU movies for me.
Might be because I subconsciously went into it the first time expecting a movie which feels like most Marvel ones. Once I knew what to expect I could appreciate it more for what it was.
But yeah, great movie. Definitely top 5 MCU movies for me.
R_thanatos
Member
Imo , only 2 movies use the 3D effect well , Avatar & dr strange
One of the best uses of 3d , it doesn't feel like 3D and the visuals in 3D are greatly enhanced by the effect. It's fantastic.
More_Badass
Member
I haven't seen a 3D movie in years. What are the glasses like now? Can you wear them over regular glasses?
Depends on the tech. I saw it in Dolby 3D and it was overly dark.
Would have preferred 2D just for that.
It's going to be weird watching Dr. Strange whenever I get around to it. From the few pages of his comics that I've seen on GAF, I always imagine him talking like Dr. Orpheus.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kXiVSYmC0g
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6leisjxacQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kXiVSYmC0g
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6leisjxacQ
They've mostly done two since the first Avengers.
To give the villain some credit, at least when he appeared on screen you knew you were probably about to see a cool-ass action scene.
That final showdown was great too.
I didn't mind the conventional plot either. When it comes to these movies, it's all about how I feel about the character in the end, and I really like the MCU Doctor Strange already. Some of his humor doesn't even work and the fact that they're aware of that in the movie
was pretty great.
That final showdown was great too.
Strange just goes "fuck this shit", flies off into the dark dimension and forces Dormammu to give him what he wants. Completely absurd and I loved it.
I didn't mind the conventional plot either. When it comes to these movies, it's all about how I feel about the character in the end, and I really like the MCU Doctor Strange already. Some of his humor doesn't even work and the fact that they're aware of that in the movie
during the scene with him and Wong in the library
The Ancient One's death scene was also very tastefully done, I thought.
kinoki
Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only; pain we obey.
While I liked the movie and thought it was pretty good it also had a lot of nitpicks that bothered me.
First of all, we're pretty far into the MCU and introducing a new character this late with his own origin story pretty much reeks of they needing him in Infinity War. There's also nothing really exciting going on. Since we know this is a set-up for a larger payoff nothing really is at stake, unlike Iron Man 1 where you can feel the hopelessness from the outset until Tony cleans up his act.
Visually, sure it's fun. But you can't help but feel that's it's Batman Begins meets Inception with none of the grander ideas. Unlike Ant-Man they don't really do anything with the perspective change (size vs dimensions). It just feels so safe and so Marvel. It's the new base line of quality for Marvel. If a movie is worse than this they'll rather just cancel it than release it.
It would be interesting to see when you would want to watch this in a re-watching of the series as a whole. There's really only one scene that hints at its position in the MCU timeline and that's after the credits and that scene is probably even in another movie.
First of all, we're pretty far into the MCU and introducing a new character this late with his own origin story pretty much reeks of they needing him in Infinity War. There's also nothing really exciting going on. Since we know this is a set-up for a larger payoff nothing really is at stake, unlike Iron Man 1 where you can feel the hopelessness from the outset until Tony cleans up his act.
Visually, sure it's fun. But you can't help but feel that's it's Batman Begins meets Inception with none of the grander ideas. Unlike Ant-Man they don't really do anything with the perspective change (size vs dimensions). It just feels so safe and so Marvel. It's the new base line of quality for Marvel. If a movie is worse than this they'll rather just cancel it than release it.
It would be interesting to see when you would want to watch this in a re-watching of the series as a whole. There's really only one scene that hints at its position in the MCU timeline and that's after the credits and that scene is probably even in another movie.
Well they mostly did post credit scenes, which is at the very end, the mid credit scene is kinda new and started with Avengers iirc. Since then they've been usually doing two scenes with some exceptions, but I think almost every MCU movie had a post credit scene except for AoU (and maybe one or two others) which only had a mid credit scene.
It's not that far away from Infinity War though, I hope they don't go the same route again after phase 3 with setting up a villain (Thanos) for 2-3 phases, they should rather skip that or at least make it really subtle and focus on the individual movies.
kinoki
Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only; pain we obey.
It seems like with the current way of doing things here's so much course-correction going on with the plot. You're either not advancing the over-all narrative or you're trying to align all the characters to where they need to be in order for the big event to happen. Doctor Strange needed to do two things in order to set up Infinity War: establish the infinity stone and introduce Doctor Strange.
Hopefully in Phase 4 there's a better structure from the out-set for how the characters move around in order to advance to over-all narrative without the constant plot-patching.
It's a damned if you do, damned if you don't situation though. Not every movie needs to advance the infinity stone meta-narrative. There should definitely be room for more stand-alone adventures within the greater MCU.
I quite enjoyed that. Some observations:
Bumblebee Cabbagepatch's accent was all over the place, as soon as he was slightly loud his American accent was lost.
The
at the end looked amazing even among all the other ott dimensional effects.
"It's the wifi password."
Bumblebee Cabbagepatch's accent was all over the place, as soon as he was slightly loud his American accent was lost.
The
backwards fight
"It's the wifi password."
KeyBladerXIII
Member
Lol, the one review I read is one with a spoiler. Kill me. 
Lol, the one review I read is one with a spoiler. Kill me.
I've seen the film. What was the spoiler?
KeyBladerXIII
Member
I clicked away as fast as I could when I read
the words Dark Dimension and Dormammu, so that sucked out any sense of surprise for me.
I mean, I still don't know the context, but still...
I'm going to try and catch an evening IMAX show tonight.
On a personal note, this is the key for me with spoilers. I can read spoilers all day, but I want to see how that shit plays out myself.
Makes me worry a lot less about it.
On a personal note, this is the key for me with spoilers. I can read spoilers all day, but I want to see how that shit plays out myself.
Makes me worry a lot less about it.
Oh, that's not such a big spoiler! Both are only referenced in passing, neither actually show up.
kinoki
Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only; pain we obey.
My two favourite Marvel movies are Iron Man 3 and The Winter Soldier. While TWS does tie up a great deal of loose threads and advance the overall story of the MCU it's very much its own movie with a clear beginning, middle and end. IM3 is totally separated from the goings on in the MCU even though it clearly exists within it. It, however, doesn't advance the story at all.
Come to think of it: we are in dire need of some breathing movies that don't feel too burdened with MCU as a whole after phase 4.
KeyBladerXIII
Member
ratcliffja
Member
So my wife and I could watch this in 2D for $23 or in IMAX 3D for $41. That's an insane difference. For somebody who normally hates 3D, is it worth it?
- Status
Similar threads
- Locked