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Marvel Stars Say Doctor Strange Will Be Even Better Than Captain America: Civil War!
Topic Started: Feb 28 2016, 07:52 PM (429 Views)
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My Dear Melancholy,

Talk about hyping up a movie. To say better than your top draw movie is WOW! Got me curious and excited. Marvel already thinks Civil War(marketing tactic or not) is better than Winter Solider and Iron Man 1. But to come out of the blue with Doctor Strange hype.
That's dope.

http://moviepilot.com/posts/3798637

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In the interview with DH Movie News the two big name stars were asked to chose which of Marvel's 2016 superhero offerings they thought would be the best of the bunch.

You'd expect both actors to support their own offerings but though Ejiofor rooted for Doctor Strange - in which he portrays Baron Mordo, the witchy antagonist to Benedict Cumberbatch's Doctor Strange - straight off the bat, Mackie's response wasn't what you might have expected:

DH: "Civil War, Doctor Strange. Which one will be the best superhero movie of the year?"
Chiwetel Ejiofor: "Doctor Strange."
Anthony Mackie: "I give you that. Doctor Strange. Just from the artwork that I have seen, it’s gonna be so different, so far out and so creatively stimulating that’s going to blow everything out of the water."


And it's not just Mackie who is impressed by the mystic mind bender; Doctor Strange director and master of the horror genre Scott Derrickson told EW that he's still in shock over getting to make Doctor Strange:

"I'm perpetually awestruck that I’m getting to make this movie. I keep waiting for the knock on the door when somebody says, 'This movie’s too weird, we can’t make this.'"




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It better be.
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My Dear Melancholy,

Why? Let's pretend Civil War by superhero standards is a 10/10(unlikely but just pretend) and DS scores a 9/10. Its still awesome but it ain't "better"
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Because it's the Doctor Strange movie. Most fans know he's the s***.
Cap and Stark, though? Some of us are already tired of them.
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My Dear Melancholy,

Popularity, merchandize, and sales are working against that argument.

Never really paid attention to Dr.Strange so this shall be a good experience
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Yeah, I think that statement will hold true for hardcore Marvel fans who know who Dr. Strange is, but for casual fans it may be a different story. Pretty outlandish to say that an introductory film is going to be better than a massive crossover film with characters who have already been developed quite a bit.
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Yeah I can see it being an objectively "better" film but in terms of ticket and merchandise sales? No way.

Not enough people know or care who Dr. Strange is outside of comic fans, the main draws to the film will be "OMG MCU" and "OMG Benedict Cumberbach!" but Civil War is a pretty huge event with tons of heroes.


I think Doctor Strange could only feasible beat it if Civil War is just a Spider Man 3 style cluster f*** of characters, if they're all handled terribly then DS might beat it.
But I think Disney knows what it's doing, they've handled the large casts in the Avengers movies well the only difference here is more characters in general and many newcomers.
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Feb 28 2016, 11:15 PM
Popularity, merchandize, and sales are working against that argument.
That doesn't make it a good comic book movie. A good comic book movie for me = good comic book adaptation.

If I were to give the opinion on Ultron, one of Marvel's greatest villains, to the general public, they'd told me that he's a wisecracking robot with a humanoid face who built an army of normal clones and a machine that made a city levitate. And that's not THE Ultron.

I'm hoping (for the 13th time) that they nail this character right and don't change him up completely from what the fans know. Because there's no reason to change him, like, at all.
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Feb 29 2016, 07:56 AM
A good comic book movie for me = good comic book adaptation.
Maybe so, but Marvel aren't aiming their movies solely at you. They want movies that everyone is going to enjoy, not just comic book fans (who are too small a demographic). Adaptions aren't made to pander to existing fans, they are made to introduce characters to other people who would not otherwise care. Tbh, a lot of comic books are a bit out there and would turn off your average movie goer, changing things up is the smart thing to do. I think Marvel have tread a pretty decent line with this for the most part, they kept a lot more of the comic book aesthetic than the X-Men films did for example.
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Darker
Feb 29 2016, 07:56 AM
QueenTD
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Popularity, merchandize, and sales are working against that argument.
That doesn't make it a good comic book movie. A good comic book movie for me = good comic book adaptation.
But you missed the point. You said fans are tired of CA and IM while sales and popularity aren't working to your argument. In fact while you obviously don't please everyone it actually quite the opposite of what you're saying. If anything fans are more interested in them.

Also a comic book movie should not be a perfect tale because comics at times makes no sense and their audience wouldn't take them seriously. If you want a 100% tale then buy the animated DVDs from marvel and DC which are target to us the comic geeks.

Besides there are some stupid crap in comics that you can say it's a blessing they ignored. However since they ignored it doesn't make it inaccurate? Because you can't just want the good if it's accurate. Gotta take the bad too. Imagine if marvel did a One More Day movie or DC making GL beat people up with fertilizer.
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