At this point, I'm not sure if you'll have the movie at all. Marvel is struggling all of a sudden. DC and Marvel saturated the "superhero" market for most of the audience. (I'm burned out on it.)Quantiumania and Marvels tanked at the box office. Secret Wars tanked. The Flash tanked. Echo had mixed. So, they are scaling back a bit, and not premiering quite as many this year, and quite a few have been pushed out to 2025. DC may actually get stuff out ahead of Marvel. So, we'll see if Benedict Cumberbatch and Charliz Theron are still interested by 2031.
I thought you'd already seen this one and reviewed it. (Also where's the Poor Things review? Did I miss it? As an aside? That's weirdly controversial. One group thinks it's misogynistic, another group thinks it's more feminist than Barbie. Personally, I wouldn't compare the two, but I also haven't seen Poor Things. But someone did.)
Anyhow - as I said in my review of it over a century ago (oh right that was 2022?), my difficulty with the movie is it didn't follow up on Spiderman: Far From Home well. Spiderman: Far From Home set up a really cool idea - in that Strange had accidentally created a multi-verse in how he was handling things in Spiderman. And would most likely need someone else's help to set it right. I thought Wanda was going to be pulled in to help. And end up falling into the trap of hubris, Strange does in Spiderman, and they have to work together. Or something like that - that's what the trailer and Spiderman had lead me to believe. Of course, that's not what they did. (Damn, Sam Rami. That man keeps doing the same move over and over again. And always gives Campbell a cameo. The fun part of a Rami film is hunting for Bruce Campbell.)
Anyhow, I was disappointed as a result. I agree with your review for the most part. Wanda was problematic, everyone who saw the movie had issues with her characterization. Also the side-kick bit Marvel's been doing - isn't working for me, although here it wasn't too bad?
I've not read the Strange or Avengers comics - so can't comment on those. Good to know it sticks closely or close enough to its source material. Right now, I think Clea is Doctor Strange in the Marvel Verse.
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Date: 2024-02-08 12:02 am (UTC)I thought you'd already seen this one and reviewed it. (Also where's the Poor Things review? Did I miss it? As an aside? That's weirdly controversial. One group thinks it's misogynistic, another group thinks it's more feminist than Barbie. Personally, I wouldn't compare the two, but I also haven't seen Poor Things. But someone did.)
Anyhow - as I said in my review of it over a century ago (oh right that was 2022?), my difficulty with the movie is it didn't follow up on Spiderman: Far From Home well. Spiderman: Far From Home set up a really cool idea - in that Strange had accidentally created a multi-verse in how he was handling things in Spiderman. And would most likely need someone else's help to set it right. I thought Wanda was going to be pulled in to help. And end up falling into the trap of hubris, Strange does in Spiderman, and they have to work together. Or something like that - that's what the trailer and Spiderman had lead me to believe. Of course, that's not what they did. (Damn, Sam Rami. That man keeps doing the same move over and over again. And always gives Campbell a cameo. The fun part of a Rami film is hunting for Bruce Campbell.)
Anyhow, I was disappointed as a result. I agree with your review for the most part. Wanda was problematic, everyone who saw the movie had issues with her characterization. Also the side-kick bit Marvel's been doing - isn't working for me, although here it wasn't too bad?
I've not read the Strange or Avengers comics - so can't comment on those. Good to know it sticks closely or close enough to its source material. Right now, I think Clea is Doctor Strange in the Marvel Verse.