Dr Strange 2: In the Multiverse of Madness (Spoilers)

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Except when they naughty word well are.

noticed you removed the YMMV

 

[Davies]

Very reluctantly, I take pen in hand to admit that there were things that I liked about it, as I do not wish to be relentlessly negative.

1. Xochitl Gomez is excellent as America Chavez, and I look forward to seeing more of her until the writers decide to -- I look forward to seeing where her story takes her.

2. They brought back Anson Mount to play Black Bolt, despite how that went the first time. And he actually does a good job until they demonstrate that -- he actually does a good job.

3. Rintrah looked awesome until you realize that he's -- Rintrah looked awesome.

4. Give Hayley a movie where she can kick ass for real you poltroons!

 

[Paul Farquhar]

They brought back Anson Mount to play Black Bolt, despite how that went the first time.

The script was the problem, they had a decent cast.

 

[John R Davis]

Yeah the Inhumans plot was a bit dull. Thought the cast was pretty good

 

[Thomas Shey]

The script was the problem, they had a decent cast.

Honestly at least half of that cast was let down by a mediocre script and the people putting on the show trying to get by with too little budget..

 

[Staffan]

Honestly at least half of that cast was let down by a mediocre script and the people putting on the show trying to get by with too little budget..

Yeah, when the first thing that happens is that they shave Medusa's head because they can't afford the FX, that's not a good start.

 

[Umbran]

The script was the problem, they had a decent cast.

And when your character largely can't speak, that's a hard acting challenge at the best of times.

 

[Thomas Shey]

And when your character largely can't speak, that's a hard acting challenge at the best of times.

Which is one of the things that impressed me about Mount in that. He did a startlingly good job of conveying a great deal without dialog, in a series where they didn't give him too much good to work with.

 

[Staffan]

Which is one of the things that impressed me about Mount in that. He did a startlingly good job of conveying a great deal without dialog, in a series where they didn't give him too much good to work with.

Yeah, that's why I was happy when I heard he had been cast as Christopher Pike in Discovery. Basically, "If he can be that good with crap material and one hand metaphorically tied behind his back, just imagine what he'll be able to do when he can talk."

 

[DrunkonDuty]

Not the best Marvel movie. Fun but lacking.

As for tropes not being bad just because they're tropes. True. But some tropes are bad in and of themselves. The Crazy Woman trope is old, and tired, and sexist. Now, for me, a lot can be forgiven if something is done well. It was done well in WandaVision because we had the in-depth look at Wanda's hurt and it turned it from a trope to a character study. It was not done well in MoM.

The whole Darkhold thing was very much story by telling and not story by showing. Sometimes you need the short hand of telling but the Darkhold being key to Wanda's fall needed to be shown, IMO. Look, I get it, Sam Raimi has a thing for evil books. But maybe he could cut back.

@RangerWickett 's outline in post #75 of this thread would have worked for me. Yes, taking time to explain things and build drama would have cut into the SFX time. No big loss.

I would like to suggest that the scene where America lets Wanda find out exactly what "her" sons would think of her in the context of their actual mother being murdered and replaced should have been done early in the film. Then the story could have moved on from there. Maybe Wanda and Strange could have shared a journey of self-realisation while trying to patch up holes in the multiverse.



(I'll have to re-watch WandaVision as it seems my memory of it is not tallying with what I've read others say here in the thread.)