Kevin's Watch

Posted: **Wed Apr 13, 2016 3:58 pm**

I know there was already a Doctor Strange movie from the late 70s/early 80s--I have seen it before--but I am glad he is getting a reboot into the MCU here. The first trailer just dropped yesterday. The phrase "visually stunning" does not begin to do justice to the visual effects. There is no way that the Reality Stone doesn't factor in to this, but idle speculation among eagle-eye fans who spend their time looking at movies frame-by-frame already identified the Eye of Agamotto as being in Odin's Vault, so how does Strange end up with it...or does he? He has to--the Eye is a central part of the character concept. At least we know that the Eye is not the Reality Stone--Volstagg told the Collector that keeping two Stones together was unwise so that means that Asgard has only one, the Tesseract.

Anyway...watch the trailer then drool in anticipation for this movie. Even the Vishanti want to go see this.

They don't list her character in the credits but Rachel McAdams has to be Clea. Chiwetel Ejiofor is Baron Mordo so that means the currently-uncredited Mads Mikkelsen must be Dormmamu. I see that Marvel is finally getting around to using Scott Adkins in a role--the man moves like a cat--but he isn't Wong so he must be one of the Ancient One's other pupils, or something like that.

I still disagree with other people's assessments. The Tesseract is Space, Loki's Scepter is Mind (no one disagrees with these), but the Orb from GotG is the Soul Gem and the Aether is the Power Gem.

Posted: **Tue Apr 26, 2016 1:44 am**

Wow, looks cool!

Posted: **Tue Apr 26, 2016 9:14 pm**

I agree. It does look cool!

Posted: **Wed Apr 27, 2016 1:01 am**

Good. It's settled, then.

Posted: **Wed Apr 27, 2016 1:22 am**

Not quite.

Posted: **Wed Apr 27, 2016 2:27 am**

Wha....?

Posted: **Wed Apr 27, 2016 9:13 am**

I know right?

Posted: **Wed Apr 27, 2016 11:49 pm**

Mind=blown

Posted: **Thu Apr 28, 2016 1:47 am**

Universe imploded.

Posted: **Thu Apr 28, 2016 6:42 am**

looks promising. I am glad they are using Baron Mordo. and I hope we see some vistas that remind us of Ditko.

Posted: **Thu Apr 28, 2016 7:38 pm**

They had to use Mordo--the two characters are linked, having had the same mentor. The cast list is still hiding the character identities of Rachel MacAdams and Mads Mikkelsen but I still think they are playing Clea and Dormammu.

Posted: **Fri Apr 29, 2016 1:22 am**

sgt.null wrote:looks promising. I am glad they are using Baron Mordo. and I hope we see some vistas that remind us of Ditko.

While I prefer the art of Colon, Smith, Brunner, Rogers and Golden on Dr. Strange, I can't deny Ditko's realms were awesome.

Posted: **Sat Jun 25, 2016 11:53 pm**

hoping it does well so we can see more Marvel magic users in the sequel.

Posted: **Tue Jul 19, 2016 7:33 am**

I have no idea what any of that is about, but damn the movie looks cool! (I've been fortunate enough to have visited that temple in Katmandu, to have walked those streets and this is an added bonus to whet my appetite.)

Posted: **Tue Jul 19, 2016 2:01 pm**

A quick-and-dirty history lesson, then. Dr. Stephen Strange is a brilliant surgeon but is highly arrogant--he is highly skilled, he knows it, and he makes sure that you know it, too. After a party one night he gets into a car accident and suffers nerve damage to his hands; this ends his surgery career and he refuses to "demean" himself by becoming a consulting physician. Having lost his entire life, in his disillusionment he begins to spiral down into despair until he hears someone mention a person called the Ancient One who can heal almost any injury. He sets out to find the Ancient One and winds up succeeding; however, in doing so he ends up being trained in magic in order to become the Sorcerer Supreme, charged with protecting this dimension from extradimensional threats.

I thought that the second trailer would have dropped by now but it hasn't. *sigh* It needs to be soon--the movie opens 4 November.

Trivia/fan service: after wrapping shooting, Benedict Cumberbatch entered a nearby comic book shop--in full makeup and costume--to browse and buy Dr. Strange comic books as well as give out a few autographs.

Sarge, we have already been introduced to magic in the MCU. We learn in Thor that magic and Asgardian science are indistinguishable, they are one and the same. The same applies here--magic is being presented as the ability to tap into and/or manipulate the quantum field to produce the desired effect. We have also already seen the quantum realm of magic--Scott Lang went there in Ant Man when he disabled his suit's regulator. On a side note--I was certain that he was going to find the Wasp there and bring her back, but that probably would have complicated things for Hank too much, given that his wife would not have aged any.

Posted: **Wed Jul 20, 2016 12:24 am**

Hashi Lebwohl wrote:Trivia/fan service: after wrapping shooting, Benedict Cumberbatch entered a nearby comic book shop--in full makeup and costume--to browse and buy Dr. Strange comic books as well as give out a few autographs.

I love Benedict; he seems like such a genuine guy. Absolute professional, too.

Posted: **Sun Jul 24, 2016 6:46 am**

SDCC just keeps on giving. Trailer number 2 for Dr. Strange.

What can I say? This is the movie I have been looking forward to for a long time and is, for me, the movie I have most anticipated since...I don't remember when.

Mordo is not the villain in this movie, as least as far as I can tell from the trailer. It also confirms that magic is the harnessing of energy (quantum energy, even though they don't use that word) to reshape reality. The effects are the most eye-astounding I have seen in a long, long time.

Mordo hands Strange a piece of paper with the word "shamballa" written on it. "What's this? My mantra?", Strange asks. "The wi-fi password", Mordo tells him, "we're not savages." That's funny.

Definitely in the MCU, as well--Avengers Tower at 1:42. Also, he is wearing the Eye of Agamotto.

Posted: **Sun Jul 24, 2016 7:02 am**

Shamballa was a alternative name for Shangri-la no? Is this it's meaning here?

Posted: **Sun Jul 24, 2016 7:27 am**

Yes, both refer to the same mythical place.

In the trailer, notice the kaleidoscope-type effects that magic has on reality. That is the same sort of effect we saw in the quantum realm in Ant Man.

Posted: **Mon Jul 25, 2016 4:54 pm**

Hashi Lebwohl wrote:SDCC just keeps on giving. Trailer number 2 for Dr. Strange.

What can I say? This is the movie I have been looking forward to for a long time and is, for me, the movie I have most anticipated since...I don't remember when.

Mordo is not the villain in this movie, as least as far as I can tell from the trailer. It also confirms that magic is the harnessing of energy (quantum energy, even though they don't use that word) to reshape reality. The effects are the most eye-astounding I have seen in a long, long time.

Mordo hands Strange a piece of paper with the word "shamballa" written on it. "What's this? My mantra?", Strange asks. "The wi-fi password", Mordo tells him, "we're not savages." That's funny.

Definitely in the MCU, as well--Avengers Tower at 1:42. Also, he is wearing the Eye of Agamotto.

This link took me to the Wonder Woman trailer. Here's one for Dr. Strange:

https://youtu.be/HSzx-zryEgM