Me when Strange gets fucked up by The Ancient One (that exact scene in the trailer):
The movie was a ride, but I appreciate that it's sheltered from the wider MCU other than the name drop of the Avengers and Avengers Tower visible in New York. In some ways, it feels even more detached than Ant-Man.
Talent brought their A-game. I particularly liked Tilda Swinton and how she's able to keep sort of the same tone through serious and humourous moments. The Ancient One isn't portrayed as completely stoic, but appropriately reserved.
Benedict Cumberbatch brought some fire, and you know he can really run with the role. I really cannot picture anyone else in the role, and I'm glad they waited on him instead of moving forward without him. The American accent was jarring from the first trailer, but it's a nonissue from the start of the movie. Probably because I was used to hearing it a lot at this point lol.
The story was good, and you just can't avoid an origin story with Doctor Strange. It isn't just an origin story for him specifically, but a story to introduce another facet of the MCU.
It really makes me appreciate the MCU even more to think that we had Civil War earlier this year, and Doctor Strange now - completely different in tone but within the same universe. Dat world building.
I'll write up more when I think it over some more. But initial thoughts have been "DAMN that was awesome." Might watch it again soon, but probably in just a regular theatre.
The new Marvel Studios fanfare and title sequence is awesome. A bunch of people in my showing started clapping when it started up lol
Did you see it at the Scotiabank Theatre? If so we were at the same showing
Went somewhere else. Good ol' LieMAX. I ain't even mad though.