There are Stranger things in movies... or not?
With Infinity War around a corner, I decided it’s high time to catch up on what needs catching up on, and started with Doctor Strange.
So.
Hm.
Okay, maybe in spoilery bullet points…
# I took it as urban fantasy, which helped. Still, I see MCU keeps being MCU - sooo much of diligent studies, brilliant insight, human ingenuity, honed skills and whatnot… used to make a blade or a club and go stone age at each other. :’-D Given a chance, MCU’s approach could be actually quite refreshing for so many genres: hacking movie - breaking in by banging a monitor with a keyboard; heist movie - coming in broad daylight, strangling the guard with a stethoscope and demanding money while threatening the cashier with a picklock; writer movie - whacking that other one on the head with a typewriter while being stabbed with a pencil…
# It starts like Iron Man, with your guy being a massive douche, and makes sure you hate him, so I just watched on, thinking it surely gonna go the way IM goes, that is make up for it later. But here he just kept digging himself deeper and deeper, ugh… Though at least he was occasionally adorable, like any time when caught doing something he shouldn’t. :) The moment finally came when he spared a moment to stop over the man he killed, and later when he refuses to be anything but a doctor who have sworn to save lives instead of taking them. OK, Doc, now I’m sold on, but you sure took your time, darn you…
# And I appreciate so far he’s consistent in it, since in MCU I’ve seen so far he’s arguably (yes, because Steve, in a way, I know) the only whose idea to win is dying himself instead of killing the enemy (of course, at the same time being one of many who said explicitly they do not want to kill).
# Besides, I got a vague feeling of watching an adaptation that doesn’t actually exist, because I totally can see Harry Dresden trapping some deity this way, only with more of spiteful glee. (This, and magical shields, too.)
# Though I must say I appreciate that it’s a case of MCU written by someone at least once in a while remembering what they wrote before. “Oh, you’re afraid of dying? And you say I’m afraid of losing? Watch me.”
# He’s right, though. They should put warnings in books before spells, not after…
# I’m glad the cloak has a reason to be there, beyond just the look. And it’s sort of cute, too. XD
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# I loved the Rhodey reference, but now I can’t help wondering whether he might have a chance if Strange didn’t wave him aside… Man, that crash really was your karma coming back, and fast.
(35, though? Come on, all the time I was sure Rhodey must be forty something. Wasn’t he Tony’s college buddy? Maybe that’s just fanon… Still, college or not, 35 is too young.)
# I was sure Wong was done, and later I was really glad he survived after all. Come on, it’s not okay to kill librarians.^^ On the other hand, I’m really sad about Mordo. Man, did you really have to do it to one of few people in this whole universe who got powers and chose just to happily go on with their lives not messing with anything and not harming anyone? :( And Mordo seemed so level-headed at first, it’s surprising he goes fanatic. And funny that in his quest for getting rid of sorcerers he somehow didn’t start from himself. :P
# I’m getting better at filtering out the Deep Meaningful Gibberish... Instead I focused on appreciating moments like Strange, ahem, entering Kamar-What-Was-That-Name for the second time (“Thank you” XD), and “the dimensional gateway that I opened up in the mop closet”. :D And the art, of course. This movie makes it clear it’s going to aggressively outart anything that stands on its way, a side effect of it being the end credits this time have it really hard to be more outstanding in this field than the movie itself…
# So, in the end all this hangs on an evil god honestly keeping his word? Okay… (Maybe by way of farewell Strange said “And don’t try anything funny, or next time I’ll make the loop fifty times shorter, so you won’t even get to finish ‘Wha-? Wha-? Wha-?’”)
# All in all I had fun, but it has left me mostly indifferent to the character and this piece of the universe. I don’t think it would work as a starting point to me. (Though if I’m watching the next part, it’s for the cloak.)
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So.
Hm.
Okay, maybe in spoilery bullet points…
# I took it as urban fantasy, which helped. Still, I see MCU keeps being MCU - sooo much of diligent studies, brilliant insight, human ingenuity, honed skills and whatnot… used to make a blade or a club and go stone age at each other. :’-D Given a chance, MCU’s approach could be actually quite refreshing for so many genres: hacking movie - breaking in by banging a monitor with a keyboard; heist movie - coming in broad daylight, strangling the guard with a stethoscope and demanding money while threatening the cashier with a picklock; writer movie - whacking that other one on the head with a typewriter while being stabbed with a pencil…
# It starts like Iron Man, with your guy being a massive douche, and makes sure you hate him, so I just watched on, thinking it surely gonna go the way IM goes, that is make up for it later. But here he just kept digging himself deeper and deeper, ugh… Though at least he was occasionally adorable, like any time when caught doing something he shouldn’t. :) The moment finally came when he spared a moment to stop over the man he killed, and later when he refuses to be anything but a doctor who have sworn to save lives instead of taking them. OK, Doc, now I’m sold on, but you sure took your time, darn you…
# And I appreciate so far he’s consistent in it, since in MCU I’ve seen so far he’s arguably (yes, because Steve, in a way, I know) the only whose idea to win is dying himself instead of killing the enemy (of course, at the same time being one of many who said explicitly they do not want to kill).
# Besides, I got a vague feeling of watching an adaptation that doesn’t actually exist, because I totally can see Harry Dresden trapping some deity this way, only with more of spiteful glee. (This, and magical shields, too.)
# Though I must say I appreciate that it’s a case of MCU written by someone at least once in a while remembering what they wrote before. “Oh, you’re afraid of dying? And you say I’m afraid of losing? Watch me.”
# He’s right, though. They should put warnings in books before spells, not after…
# I’m glad the cloak has a reason to be there, beyond just the look. And it’s sort of cute, too. XD
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# I loved the Rhodey reference, but now I can’t help wondering whether he might have a chance if Strange didn’t wave him aside… Man, that crash really was your karma coming back, and fast.
(35, though? Come on, all the time I was sure Rhodey must be forty something. Wasn’t he Tony’s college buddy? Maybe that’s just fanon… Still, college or not, 35 is too young.)
# I was sure Wong was done, and later I was really glad he survived after all. Come on, it’s not okay to kill librarians.^^ On the other hand, I’m really sad about Mordo. Man, did you really have to do it to one of few people in this whole universe who got powers and chose just to happily go on with their lives not messing with anything and not harming anyone? :( And Mordo seemed so level-headed at first, it’s surprising he goes fanatic. And funny that in his quest for getting rid of sorcerers he somehow didn’t start from himself. :P
# I’m getting better at filtering out the Deep Meaningful Gibberish... Instead I focused on appreciating moments like Strange, ahem, entering Kamar-What-Was-That-Name for the second time (“Thank you” XD), and “the dimensional gateway that I opened up in the mop closet”. :D And the art, of course. This movie makes it clear it’s going to aggressively outart anything that stands on its way, a side effect of it being the end credits this time have it really hard to be more outstanding in this field than the movie itself…
# So, in the end all this hangs on an evil god honestly keeping his word? Okay… (Maybe by way of farewell Strange said “And don’t try anything funny, or next time I’ll make the loop fifty times shorter, so you won’t even get to finish ‘Wha-? Wha-? Wha-?’”)
# All in all I had fun, but it has left me mostly indifferent to the character and this piece of the universe. I don’t think it would work as a starting point to me. (Though if I’m watching the next part, it’s for the cloak.)
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Disqus
It's okay to comment in whatever language fits you best, as long as I get it. Don't mind the entry's language.
Można komentować w języku, który najbardziej ci odpowiada, o ile go zrozumiem. Nie przejmuj się językiem notki.