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You can have Logan wandering around rural Canada without adamantium for as long as you want. He doesn't start to make waves until you kidnap him, torturexperiment on him, and make him more dangerous than anything on Earth. And that can be present-day.

Magneto, I agree, you're going to have to **** with. I have to imagine they'll follow on from their choice with Quicksilver and Wanda, and make him the product of Hydra (Nazis, still!) experimentation.

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I honestly... can't be arsed to give a **** about anything Fox makes relating to Marvel.

Even a decent movie is saddled with continuity to their 3/4s crappy X-Men films, and the knowledge that not only could they be so much better if they cooperated with Disney like Sony is doing, but they could make the MCU better as well.

On the other hand, Doctor Strange is getting very good early reviews.

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Just finished Doctor Strange.

Well.

I. ****. Loved. That.


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I thought it was good, but I had my nit picks.

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1. I like the way he played the character, but his voice bothered me
2. I didn't like the glass dimension, or the visualization of other dimensions in general. To sciency, and not magicy enough.
3. Was it just me or did the dark dimension contain a lot of neon.
4. I didn't like a lot of the gravity or world folding stuff. It was cool, but didn't feel like Dr Strange to me. (I haven't read a ton of his stuff though, so maybe I'm mistaken on that.)
5. What's the timeline on this? I thought they said it took place earlier, but he is asked about seeing a solder who hurt his spine in experimental armor at the beginning, and I'm assuming that's from Civil War.
6. Parts of it where people did something a person could never do looked very cgi. Mostly in the jumping stuff.


Those nit picks aside, I liked it.


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I thought it was good, but I had my nit picks.
2. I didn't like the glass dimension, or the visualization of other dimensions in general. To sciency, and not magicy enough.
3. Was it just me or did the dark dimension contain a lot of neon.
4. I didn't like a lot of the gravity or world folding stuff. It was cool, but didn't feel like Dr Strange to me.


All of this fits the direction they were going with magic in the MCU since the first Thor movie came out.

"Here, look. Your ancestors called it magic and you call it science. Well, I come from a place where they're one and the same thing. " ~ Thor, to Jane Foster

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5. What's the timeline on this? I thought they said it took place earlier, but he is asked about seeing a solder who hurt his spine in experimental armor at the beginning, and I'm assuming that's from Civil War.


He was definitely referring to Rhody. This is after Civil War.


I loved this movie, without complaints. I also loved that they have managed to maintain the Whedonesque dialogue humor throughout the MCU no matter who is writing or directing.

My favorite bit of dialogue:

Kaecilius: Mister...
Steven: Doctor.
Kaecilius: Mister Doctor?
Steven: It's Strange.
Kaecilius: Maybe. But who am I to judge?

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I adored it. It's my favorite Marvel movie, bar none. I had a gigantic grin on my face the whole time. I left the theater being unable to shake it from my mind. Still can't. May be going again to see it this weekend (in proper IMAX, not just my local LieMAX).

I loved
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I adored it. It's my favorite Marvel movie, bar none. I had a gigantic grin on my face the whole time. I left the theater being unable to shake it from my mind. Still can't. May be going again to see it this weekend (in proper IMAX, not just my local LieMAX).

I loved
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Loved.


Even with the whitewashing? ;)

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Saw Dr Strange (Real3D) yesterday. I liked it a lot. My only complaint is that I think it could have been longer! I'm usually not one to see stuff in 3D, but it was excellently done and added to the trippy nature of the film.


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I adored it. It's my favorite Marvel movie, bar none. I had a gigantic grin on my face the whole time. I left the theater being unable to shake it from my mind. Still can't. May be going again to see it this weekend (in proper IMAX, not just my local LieMAX).

I loved
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LOVED it.

Loved.


Even with the whitewashing? ;)

I actually think the way they went was probably the best way to play it (sidestepping the "wizened Asian man" stereotype in favor of Tilda Swinton [this had the added bonus of not preventing the movie from being shown in China, ever more important for revenues], and strengthening Wong past the "subservient butler" role). Win-win.


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So what's the protocol, here? Now that we're getting Spider-Man in our Captain America: Civil War, and Iron Man in our Spider-Man: Homecoming, does Spider-Man get to invade this thread despite being a Sony affair?



I certainly wasn't expecting Sony to get this much Tony Stark in the deal. It looks like at least 2-3 separate scenes, likely at different parts of the movie. No complaints here, I suppose.

Still bitter we didn't get to stretch Emma Stone as Gwen into a third movie, though.

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How many of the infinity stones have we seen in the movies so far? Three (Guardians, Avengers 2, Strange)?

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Five.

The Tesseract/The Space Stone (Thor, Cap1, The Avengers)
The Aether/The Reality Stone (Thor 2)
Loki's Sceptre-Vision's forehead/The Mind Stone (Avengers, Avengers 2, Cap3)
The Orb/The Power Stone (GotG)
The Eye of Agamotto/The Time Stone (Doctor Strange)

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I didn't much care for the Thor movies, so I guess that's why I forgot about those ones.

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Oh, look.

Also, IMDB lists an actress for the Bride of Nine Spiders, so we're likely to see at least THREE Immortal Weapons this season. And perhaps more than one of the seven cities of heaven? That would be much excite.

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I have absolutely no prior knowledge of Iron Fist, really.

Looks good. Though he does have something of an Oliver Queen background going on.

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I have absolutely no prior knowledge of Iron Fist, really.

Looks good. Though he does have something of an Oliver Queen background going on.

Actually, the parallels go way deeper than just their heir-to-billion-dollar-vaguely-defined-giant-of-industry schtick, which also covers (with very different tones) Bruce Wayne and Tony Stark.

Queen and Rand also parallel each other in that their most notable runs were as part of buddy-cop odd-couple duos, and that both pretty famously turned into progressive mouthpieces for their respective publishers in the 70's. Green Lantern/Green Arrow dealt with the conflict/tension between the straight-laced law-and-order Hal and the bleeding heart populist hero Oliver, while Heroes for Hire dealt (perhaps more subtly) with race relations issues, privilege, and class between Luke and Danny.

Iron Fist's background kind of vaguely fuses vague, indistinct Eastern mysticism with Danny's kind of New Age hippie personality, which has me curious to see (particularly in light of the trailer) how they decide to play his interaction with Rand(-Meachum) Corp. At various times in the comics, Danny's ranged from kind of a silent partner who just uses his stake to maintain a well-off lifestyle while he pursues other things to an activist charitable type who leverages his company's resources and policy directions to act with a more non-profity mission.

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Just saw Logan. It was excellent. And they just said to hell with (what passes for) continuity in the X-Men movies. They used it if it worked for the story, and ignored it if it didn't.

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X-Men Apocalypse was bloody awesome. Just saw this the other day.

Are they doing a next one with the "new" xmen crew?

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Yes, Phoenix again...

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Yes, Phoenix again...


Again? I don't recall they've done a movie with Phoenix in. Except for that brief moment where she appeared to rescue the plane from the water.

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Probably referring to last movie of the original X-Men trilogy (aka Wolverine & Friends).

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Probably referring to last movie of the original X-Men trilogy (aka Wolverine & Friends).


LOL @ trilogy.

There were only 2. Then they rebooted and did First Class and Days of Future Past which were both actually pretty good. :)

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1) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120903/?re ... lmg_act_43
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I think he meant it in the same way of "The Matrix was a great movie, it's too bad they never made any more of them".

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