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Post by Hauntedknight87 on Mar 1, 2017 14:49:53 GMT
Just watch the film last night and while i did enjoy the film there a couple of things that bugged:
1. The fight scenes focus too much on hand to hand combat. Wish they would have done more with Magic/Spells.
2. Mads Mikkelsen is a great actor, but he felt wasted. Not much screen time and when he does appear he isn't give much. Unfortunately this is something that happens too often with the MCU.
Another thing about the film, is it just me or did anyone else notice that they seem to be setting Dormammu as the MCU's Galactus?
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Post by alpha128 on Mar 13, 2017 17:07:29 GMT
Just watch the film last night and while i did enjoy the film there a couple of things that bugged: 1. The fight scenes focus too much on hand to hand combat. Wish they would have done more with Magic/Spells. 2. Mads Mikkelsen is a great actor, but he felt wasted. Not much screen time and when he does appear he isn't give much. Unfortunately this is something that happens too often with the MCU. I saw the film for the first time two nights ago. I enjoyed it, as did the friends I watched it with. I didn't have a problem with the things you mentioned. However the Honest Trailer does mention that the film "uses mind-blowing special effects to distract you from the fact that the action is still 90% punching." |
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Post by politicidal on Mar 13, 2017 17:22:20 GMT
I didn't make the Galactus connection but it's a smart move for future films. I felt the fights had a good mix of styles. Mads Mikkelsen was indeed underwritten like the rest but unlike a lot of MCU villains I took him seriously nevertheless.
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Post by Skaathar on Mar 13, 2017 18:11:28 GMT
I think Dr. Strange was the first MCU film that I didn't like the humor. Regardless of how much humor MCU injected into its films (and whether they were effective or not), they've always been centered on being witty and quippy humor. In Dr. Strange, it was almost... slap stick humor.
I mean, some of them were pretty good. The "wifi password" thing was standard MCU humor. But the Beyonce and the single-name jokes were quite off, there was nothing witty about it. And the cape's antics were flat-out cartoony.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 13, 2017 18:13:24 GMT
Strange's jokes were supposed to be "off". You'll notice Wong wasn't laughing. The whole point was that the people who did laugh at his jokes were just suck ups.
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Post by ArArArchStanton on Mar 13, 2017 18:51:42 GMT
Just watch the film last night and while i did enjoy the film there a couple of things that bugged: 1. The fight scenes focus too much on hand to hand combat. Wish they would have done more with Magic/Spells. 2. Mads Mikkelsen is a great actor, but he felt wasted. Not much screen time and when he does appear he isn't give much. Unfortunately this is something that happens too often with the MCU. Another thing about the film, is it just me or did anyone else notice that they seem to be setting Dormammu as the MCU's Galactus? Completely disagree, and the villains have been great, so I honestly don't know why you felt these were problems at all. I love the hell out of this film. |
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Post by Skaathar on Mar 13, 2017 19:30:49 GMT
Strange's jokes were supposed to be "off". You'll notice Wong wasn't laughing. The whole point was that the people who did laugh at his jokes were just suck ups. In pretty much all of the MCU movies, the movie characters themselves don't really laugh at the "jokes". No character in the movie laughed when Coulson said he watched Cap as he was sleeping or when Thor tried to buy a horse in a pet shop or when Loki couldn't mind control Tony. So Dr. Strange's jokes intentionally being "off" is not a good excuse. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 13, 2017 19:49:48 GMT
Yes, it is, because that was the point. The point is he wasn't funny. Wong even asks if the people who used to laugh at his jokes worked for him. He's implying basic office politics.
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Post by Hauntedknight87 on Mar 13, 2017 20:55:09 GMT
Just watch the film last night and while i did enjoy the film there a couple of things that bugged: 1. The fight scenes focus too much on hand to hand combat. Wish they would have done more with Magic/Spells. 2. Mads Mikkelsen is a great actor, but he felt wasted. Not much screen time and when he does appear he isn't give much. Unfortunately this is something that happens too often with the MCU. Another thing about the film, is it just me or did anyone else notice that they seem to be setting Dormammu as the MCU's Galactus? Completely disagree, and the villains have been great, so I honestly don't know why you felt these were problems at all. I love the hell out of this film. Because i would like to see marvel to actually build on a villain, instead of throwing them away and wasting a good actor. I'll admit that I'm salty about the waste of Mads. However i did like Zemo, so hopefully we get something good from him, like a character ark. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 13, 2017 22:22:14 GMT
They build their villains enough. The heroes are the real stars. Marvel villains are only shallow if Hans Gruber is.
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Post by Skaathar on Mar 13, 2017 22:29:04 GMT
Yes, it is, because that was the point. The point is he wasn't funny. Wong even asks if the people who used to laugh at his jokes worked for him. He's implying basic office politics. Again, none of the MCU "jokes" are actually funny for the characters themselves. None of them laugh at these humorous moments. It's us, the audience, who find it funny. So again, Dr. Strange didn't do anything different in this regard. The main difference is that while the rest of MCU humor is witty, Dr. Strange had a bunch of slap stick humor going on. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 14, 2017 0:01:42 GMT
And? I liked the physical comedy. And I will stand by what I said about Strange's actual attempts at jokes.
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Post by Skaathar on Mar 14, 2017 0:03:34 GMT
And? I liked the physical comedy. And I will stand by what I said about Strange's actual attempts at jokes. Hey if you liked it then good for you. All I'm doing is pointing out that the humor in Dr. Strange is different from the rest of the MCU and didn't quite work for me. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 14, 2017 0:05:45 GMT
I understand that. I'm just pointing out that Strange's actual attempts to getting Wong at laugh weren't supposed to be funny because of anything the good Doc himself was saying. Any humor derived from those scenes was supposed to Wong's reactions, or lack thereof.
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Post by ArArArchStanton on Mar 14, 2017 0:19:42 GMT
Completely disagree, and the villains have been great, so I honestly don't know why you felt these were problems at all. I love the hell out of this film. Because i would like to see marvel to actually build on a villain, instead of throwing them away and wasting a good actor. I'll admit that I'm salty about the waste of Mads. However i did like Zemo, so hopefully we get something good from him, like a character ark. They've built on Thanos, Loki, Mordo, and probably Zemo, Hela, and Dormammu. You could even add in Zola and Crossbones, Ross, Sitwell, and Stern. How many villains have to be recurring for it to be acceptable? Some villains don't need to keep coming back. On top of that, many of the single villains have been outstanding from Pearce to Red Skull to Stane and more. And how about the awesomeness of King Pin and Purple Man on Netflix? Remember this isn't the comics, and if we keep having the same villain show up, you're doing it at the expense of other villains, and at the risk of retreading, so it needs to be selective if you ask me. The balance they've hit is perfectly acceptable at the very least in my book. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 14, 2017 0:21:44 GMT
Because i would like to see marvel to actually build on a villain, instead of throwing them away and wasting a good actor. I'll admit that I'm salty about the waste of Mads. However i did like Zemo, so hopefully we get something good from him, like a character ark. They've built on Thanos, Loki, Mordo, and probably Zemo and Hela. How many villains have to be recurring for it to be acceptable? Some villains don't need to keep coming back. Remember this isn't the comics, and if we keep having the same villain show up, you're doing it at the expense of other villains, and at the risk of retreading, so it needs to be selective if you ask me. *coughcough*Magneto*coughcough* |
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Post by Hauntedknight87 on Mar 14, 2017 19:44:43 GMT
I know they're building on Thanos and I hope they deliver on him. I'm not saying that every villian needed to live, some of them worked well as one off villians (Pearce and stane for an example) but keeping some alive and saving them for something like a super villian team wouldn't have been a bad idea. Also just because you keep some of them alive, doesn't necessarily mean that they have to be in the next film right away.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 15, 2017 19:09:57 GMT
I watched it last night, with tempered expectations, and it was actually pretty good. The effects, as expected, were outstanding but what I liked was the cast. I have never really been a fan of Brits doing an American accent (they always sound stuffed up, check out Dr. House!) but Cumberbatch does a decent enough job. Yes, he sounds stuffed up, too, but makes it work.
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Post by LaurenceBranagh on Apr 1, 2017 3:00:21 GMT
My copy from the public library finally arrived and I finally got the chance to watch it. I was rather disappointed by the film. Part of it might be hype -- I was told over and over again that the film was "trippy" with weird visual imagery and I found it to be rather bland-looking and too reliant on CGI. It never felt magical to me (a statement which many people will disagree with, I know, but that's how I feel).
There were some good things as well: good actors (some of which were criminally wasted) and some good action here and there, but not enough to save the film for me.
I rate it 5/10, putting me in the minority (but if others love it, good for them).
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Post by Hauntedknight87 on May 5, 2018 20:49:50 GMT
Hey my First argument with arfarf!
Good times.
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