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martasficI saw "Doctor Strange" tonight, and... wow. I really am stuck on that word, and feel the need to squee over the many, many wonderful things about it. Spoilers below, obviously.
--- Benedict's hands.
--- Seriously, this is a movie that is literally about Sherlock's wonderful, wonderful hands. I had a second-row seat, complete with 3D glasses. Hella, as they say.
--- The morally grey aspect of it all. There's not a single character in it, with the possible equivalent of the in-world equivalent of Morgoth, who isn't utterly complicated here.
--- Benedict's cheekbones. You know, in case you got tired looking at the hands.
--- The wayGaladriel Tilda Swinton turns Lothlorien the Mirror-realm on its head. Never had I felt that kind of place's necessary status as not-safe so intensely as I did here.
--- The costuming. Seroiously, there should be a Nobel Prize for this stuff.
--- The SFX. In no way superficial or gratuitous, such a wonderful way to get at the other-ness of the world.
--- Benedict's voice. This is not something I expected to actually like, I was almost afraid to go because I thought it would distract when I was so used to his British tones. But in the end it was just masterful. Intense. Just...
*blushes*
*coughs*
Yeah, I'm good. Really.
--- The meta possibilities in Wong, the man with no first name, being played by Benedict Wong. I'm just going to leave that one there.
--- The way it works East vs. West. Seriously, western-ness as rationality and science and ego, but also the need to know we see shot through the ending scenes.
--- Speaking of endings: the fact that Benedict overthrew Morgoth by essentially going "Are we there yet?" on him until he just gave in.
--- Mads Mikkelsen, essentially in Goth. Tumblr must be in fits.
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--- Chiwetel Ejiofor, because apparently Benedict Cumberbatch wasn't enough.
--- Thor! Loved so much about that bit, and the way it ted in with the larger Marvel 'verse but was so much its own thing.
--- Quite possibly the most unexpected Stan Lee cameo I've come across to date.
--- Good God, the crash scene. The visualizing-the-multiverse scene. Tilda Swinton's last scene. The... so, so many others. The pacing just completely blew me away.
--- But really: those hands.
Bottom line: maybe someone should give the DCU a hug or something. They just may need it.
--- Benedict's hands.
--- Seriously, this is a movie that is literally about Sherlock's wonderful, wonderful hands. I had a second-row seat, complete with 3D glasses. Hella, as they say.
--- The morally grey aspect of it all. There's not a single character in it, with the possible equivalent of the in-world equivalent of Morgoth, who isn't utterly complicated here.
--- Benedict's cheekbones. You know, in case you got tired looking at the hands.
--- The way
--- The costuming. Seroiously, there should be a Nobel Prize for this stuff.
--- The SFX. In no way superficial or gratuitous, such a wonderful way to get at the other-ness of the world.
--- Benedict's voice. This is not something I expected to actually like, I was almost afraid to go because I thought it would distract when I was so used to his British tones. But in the end it was just masterful. Intense. Just...
*blushes*
*coughs*
Yeah, I'm good. Really.
--- The meta possibilities in Wong, the man with no first name, being played by Benedict Wong. I'm just going to leave that one there.
--- The way it works East vs. West. Seriously, western-ness as rationality and science and ego, but also the need to know we see shot through the ending scenes.
--- Speaking of endings: the fact that Benedict overthrew Morgoth by essentially going "Are we there yet?" on him until he just gave in.
--- Mads Mikkelsen, essentially in Goth. Tumblr must be in fits.
---
--- Chiwetel Ejiofor, because apparently Benedict Cumberbatch wasn't enough.
--- Thor! Loved so much about that bit, and the way it ted in with the larger Marvel 'verse but was so much its own thing.
--- Quite possibly the most unexpected Stan Lee cameo I've come across to date.
--- Good God, the crash scene. The visualizing-the-multiverse scene. Tilda Swinton's last scene. The... so, so many others. The pacing just completely blew me away.
--- But really: those hands.
Bottom line: maybe someone should give the DCU a hug or something. They just may need it.
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Date: 2016-11-05 05:54 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-11-05 10:47 am (UTC)I agree, especially with what you say about the other-ness of the world.
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Date: 2016-11-05 03:16 pm (UTC)This is a movie that really needs to be seen in theaters (I was so lucky to see it in IMAX!), so I hope everyone does! :)
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Date: 2016-11-05 03:18 pm (UTC)SPOILERS INCLUDED
Date: 2016-11-07 03:18 pm (UTC)Going into as someone completely neutral on BC, I came out a fan of his acting. Not a fangirl of anything else--sorry, he's adorable and the camera loves him, but just doesn't do anything else for me--but definitely a fan of his intense acting. He brought terrific gravitas balanced with humor to what could have been a very cheesy role if not handled expertly.
We saw it in "regular" 2D, because I wasn't sure if I could handle the swoopy, crazy effects but we all decided almost simultaneously that we have to go see it in IMAX, so that'll probably be next weekend's fun. :)
I haven't read any of the Dr. Strange comics and so I'm playing "homework time" now on Marvel Wiki, to get a better understanding of Dormommu(sp??) and the rest, but suffice to say that I (and my husband and daughter) came out of our viewing Sunday afternoon chattering MCU meta almost faster than any of us could spit the words out.
And the mid-credit scene. I kept thinking throughout the entire movie, "Wonder what Thor would think of all this?" and then... there he is. Wonderful, that scene.
The whole thing was very Tolkienesque at times, I agree. It's interesting to see traditional fantasy elements injected into the MCU.