re: Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness SPOILERS THREAD

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Will we see Scareltt Witch again? This felt like a Dark phoenix storyline.

Cool to see Reed Richards. I thought kang would appear? what about the demons ? ghost rider?

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that's the problem with this movie, it was a complete data dump to sift through.

Reed Richards, Prof X, Captain Carter, Where is Kang, Where is Ghost Rider: all cool concepts. All basically irrelevant to a Dr Strange movie, because they overshadow the main character.
This really wasn't even a Dr Strange movie, it was a Scarlet Witch fall from grace flick, and Strange just happens to be the guy at the other end of the stick because he has similar power. They stuck him into Spiderman too, simply because he's the lazy way to create a magic crossover (Spiderverse did it more thoughtfully IMO).
We can plug Strange into Deadpool and Venom, and pull those guys in too, right? Hell, we can plug him into the DCU and pull in the Justice League, same fricking concept... "what if the Asgardians and Eternals never came to Earth, would we have seen Themyscira rise from the Olympians instead?"

All perfectly feasible, but not Dr Strange movies, simply using him as the means to open different verses.

I would have liked this better, if they focused on the Chthon/Darkhold corrupting Wanda angle, with Strange as the protagonist. And left the 10x extra storylines out.

Whaaaa?

Man even the MCU stays somewhat grounded in reality.

Get out of here with that crazy nonsense.

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He should absolutely get Strange 3 and they should take the handcuffs off and let him go full Sam.

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Yes. Definitely.

I would love them to take more risks with their subject matter. The comic genre doesn’t always have to be for all ages. And each movie doesn’t always have to fit together tone wise. It’s like DS2 would try to go full Raimi, then revert back to generic comic movie. America, who looks and acts like a Nickelodeon teen star, would come in and ruin the scene.

It doesn’t mean you have to do it every movie, but maybe try a raunchy comedy, horror, psychological thriller, something. And go all in. These kinds of movies can make good money. It’s not like it used to be.

Joker, a rated R psychological thriller, made a billion dollars ffs. The Marvel name will get them in the door, and the quality will give it staying power.

Saw it over the weekend. I enjoyed it and thought it was great to have something different, albeit only for the second half of the movie.

That is my biggest complaint. It felt like two different movies.

Jesus Christ that was something

Finally saw it yesterday. Overall good movie, but definitely not great.

Elizabeth Olsen absolutely crushed it, she had great intensity and owned every scene she was in! She played a great villain, but I really don't want to see her be a villain though. I feel like there are plenty of other villains out there that could have been portrayed instead of taking an Avenger and turning them. But it's yet to be seen if this was just a step in her arc or if this the new her so to speak, guess the next couple movies will tell us

I'm confused on what Marvel wants us to think about Dr.Strange, or if they are having problems figuring him out. Cumberpatch is a good actor, you have a shite ton of material to do interesting things with him but I feel like he's watered down and dumbed down. I'll say I really didn't care for the first Dr.Strange movie as they completely rushed him from big ego jerk surgeon to Sorcerer Supreme or whatever in 1 movie, it was too much too fast. Now they are having make mistakes, as if they are realizing their own mistakes with moving him along too fast and are now over-correcting and bringing him along too slow. This felt a lot less of a Dr.Strange movie than it did a Scarlett Witch/Wanda movie

America Chavez does not interest me. Is she really needed? What am I missing that we need her after we've already seen multiple Spidermen in No Way Home?

Not a huge John Krasynski fan, actually liked him in 13hrs, or Fantastic 4 fan, but at the same time I think them bringing The Illuminati in for 5 minutes of screen time was waste and big cash grab sellout unless this was just an introduction and they are planning to really bring them into the fold in the next movie(s)

I liked Captain Carter, loved the "I can do this all day line", maybe I just want to see more of Haley Atwell

We all love Wong, but how TF did they make him give in to Wanda so fast, especially after just having the other chick sacrifice herself. That didn't make any sense

Again I liked the movie overall, still a big Marvel fan, but for me I think they jumped the shark with Endgame. Prior to Endgame in the 23 or so movies only 3 were underwhelming really (Iron Man 3, Thor 2, Captain Marvel even though I thought it was better than most people did) but since Endgame it has become oversaturated and they are rushing too many characters and stories, plus Disney trying to fit in certain agendas does not help. Falcon & Winter Soldier, Eternals, now Multiverse of Madness all weren't as well done as they should have been. While MoonKnight was okay, it went 6 episodes without tying into anything else really.
Add to that all of the content that they have scheduled to come out, some of which I don't think is necessary or really wanted by most when you think about Echo, Agatha,She-Hulk I feel like they can have as many missess as hits and that would just below the bar they had set for themselves

bringing the illuminati and then killing them off was good for shock value and I will admit I laughed at some deaths (Was this intentional?) but I think it kind of hurt what's left of the franchise's future.

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I think they jumped the shark with Endgame.

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They blew their load with endgame. And thinking about it, It all really started with Iron Man, it should have ended with him.

This next (last?) Thor movie looks like a postscript to Endgame. While I enjoyed MoM, The MCU's decline is getting palpable with everything they put out, so I will watch that one and put the franchise behind me.

i finally convinced my family to watch last night. this and shang chi are the only ones i've watched since endgame.

it definitely was lesser and as much as i respect Raimi, this wasn't his jam really. or maybe i just didn't like him be stuck to pg-13 horror?

i liked it perfectly fine as a movie, but i am seeing the Marvel dropoff in real time. i'm going to try and catch Thor this week. My son loved ragnarok and didn't enjoy it when he watched last week. My 15 year old being critical of Marvel movies is a weird place to be, but he has his opinions.

i did enjoy the multiverse illuminati scene. while bloodless, the Black Bolt death and Peggy Carter were really gruesome. didn't care for that. (i say that as i'm wrapping up Boys season 3 this week.)

kinda a true call out for real comic book fans. would have been cool if they had namor and Black Panther in there too, but i'm not sure of the licensing situation for Namor.

We will see Namor later this year in Black Panther 2.