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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2016-11-05 04:09 pm

[ SECRET POST #3594 ]


⌈ Secret Post #3594 ⌋

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Re: Doctor Strange: Movie SPOILER

[personal profile] replicantangel 2016-11-05 10:23 pm (UTC)(link)
Saw it last night in 2D. I thought the plot was pretty solid, and there was some good writing. It wasn't earth-shattering, either in the MCU or out of it. I'd never read any of the comics, so I have no idea how well it matches up to the canon. I did enjoy it. Less than Deadpool and the first Iron Man. More than Age of Ultron.

Complete and total plot SPOILER:
Basically, Dr. Strange is a genius, arrogant bastard of a neurosurgeon with Relationship Issues with his ex, Christine Palmer. He then gets into a car accident, which destroys his hands, and to him, his life. Shockingly, he gets pissy with Christine and drives her away. He then hears about a guy that came back from complete paralysis. The guy (Benjamin Bratt) tells him that he was cured at a certain place in Nepal. Strange spends his last few dollars to get to Nepal, gets a serious smackdown and lesson in humility from The Ancient One (Tilda Swinton) and then begs to be allowed to learn about magic/being a sorcerer. Obviously, TAO lets him in. She also makes him suffer a bit (not enough) for the knowledge he's seeking. There's a surly but awesome librarian that helps him out, as well as Chiwetel Ejiofor, who has some consistency issues in the writing of his character.

Strange learns at his obnoxiously fast pace and peeks at some forbidden texts and generally goes back to his arrogant ass ways. Gets admonished, but not a lot, because the Big Bad (Mads Mikelsen) shows up and tries destroying all the places TAO and her group protect. BB succeeds in taking out two, almost killing Strange in the process. He tells Strange that he wants to unleash an ancient evil/god that will stop time, so everyone can live forever, and isn't that awesome? Strange goes to Christine and there's some astral projection while getting his life saved fun. Strange goes back to TAO and accuses her of drawing power from the ancient evil's dimension, although that's exactly what she told everyone not to do and what BB is doing. TAO dodges the question. Then BB shows back up and a bigger fight occurs. TAO has to step in to save Strange and Ejiofor, but dies in the process. She tells Strange (astrally, because that gives them a solid 5 minutes instead of a croaky 30 seconds) that she had to use the evil dimension power for... some reason that she's not really clear on. She then totally dies.

In the end, Strange bends the laws of nature and turns back time (no Cher references, sadly) to prevent/undo BB destroying the last protected place. He uses a time loop to taunt the ancient evil into having to continual kill him (because at least everyone else can live then). It's a grim Groundhog Day sequence until the ancient evil gets too annoyed and agrees to take the BB, his acolytes, and never come back into our dimension. Strange and the librarian celebrate. Ejiofor gets pissy and says he's done, because now he doesn't trust anything TAO ever said, and you're not supposed to bend the laws of nature anyway, because that's what TAO said. He stalks off. Ominous foreshadowing!

Post-credits: Strange and Thor chat. Ejiofor shows back up and proves he's done a 180 into being a total dickwad.
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Re: Doctor Strange: Movie SPOILER

[personal profile] philstar22 2016-11-05 11:03 pm (UTC)(link)
Ye. Great summary. This movie was so good. I think it may be tied with Guardians now for my second favorite MCU movie. I just loved it so much.
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Re: Doctor Strange: Movie SPOILER

[personal profile] fishnchips 2016-11-06 09:53 am (UTC)(link)
I really loved the movie in all it's trippiness (even though I couldn't take the big bad entitiy seriously because that whole thing looked like bacteria having a rave under a microscope) but the whole heel-face-turn of Ejiofor's character in the end seemed like a really OTT reaction and too "contrived for sequal reasons", imo.