Current Events > I loved Doctor Strange 2

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How about now? Dislike it yet?

Curious what about it the people that dislike it hate so much.

Saw it on Monday, thought it was a pretty good movie. Curious what about it the people that dislike it hate so much.

It's alright. Raimi really saved a pretty uninteresting script with a lot of frankly fuckin awesome sequences/visual components that felt really creative. I'm surprised at how polarizing it is

Ive heard such mixed things about it (havent seen it yet myself). Feels like those who liked it, loved it. And those who didnt like it, hated it. Havent seen many of its alright like this

Honestly, even as a *story* it's probably worse than the 1st one -- the script is kinda disjointed at times and feels like rewrites and reshoots took their toll.

But Raimi doing Raimi stuff and having so many bloody and horror-y moments was cool. I feel like it's going to end up being a comfort movie for me, but not one I can actually say was super great. It was just a fun "turn off your brain and have a good time" movie, which isn't a bad thing.

Another thing Ive heard people mention is how the trailers may have hurt the movie a bit because people went in expecting it to be a slightly different type of movie. In that (mild spoilers) they thought there would be different universes all over the place and a hundred different cameos.

This is about how I feel. What I loved about the first movie was the creativity in the visual spectacle, as well as Strange's personal struggles to redefine himself after his accident and grow as a person. This movie really delivered on the visual spectacle, and sold the stakes really well, but the plot and character development was probably weaker than the first. Part of that, I think, is that this movie was a vehicle for multiverse lore to help set up phase 4.

I really enjoyed it, though.

Honestly you just described a Raimi film. Like, EVERYTHING you said was also true about his Spider-Man films. They had great cinematography and were beautiful (for their time) CGI spectacles, but with few exceptions the writing, dialogue, characterization and character development were all a fucking joke.

btw there's a slew of channels calling the movie SJW propaganda because America has 2 moms and Christine married a black guy. No joke, the usual suspects are having a meltdown over it LMFAO

I think those elements were actually totally fine in the Spider Man movies specifically because it's emulating older era corny comics. It all fits pretty well with what they're doing: Pretty clear-but-thin characters, corny dialogue and ideas, and style that absolutely has fun with how silly the concept of Spider Man can be.

I fuckin loved it and I loved how Sam raimi it was

but with few exceptions the writing, dialogue, characterization and character development were all a fucking joke.

Did you go in fully expecting the Bruce Campbell cameo that you can count on with Sam raimi? Did Ted happen to cameo anywhere?

aving rewatched the trilogy before NWH came out, I was surprised at strong the writing was for each of them. Then when you add in J Jonah, Aunt May, and the side cast, you have a really well-fleshed out cast. They felt like real people in a campy comic book setting, instead of caricatures or one dimensional cliches.

no Ted unfortunately v.v

and found Parker to be consistently the cringiest interpretation of the character.

I just saw it this afternoon. Great movie. Maybe the darkest movie in the MCU. There was a couple of very young kids in my theater and I felt bad for them