Benedict Cumberbatch IS Doctor Strange.

We've already had a former Doctor Who appearing in a Marvel movie, can't see the reverse happening any time soon

i kind of want to see the imitation game

i thought that, then i saw it.

xp tom baker was a leftfield choice for black widow but he did a great job

I thought aside from the Turing potboiler I'd only seen BC in the ensembles of 12 Years a Slave (OK), Tinker Tailor (bleh) and August, Osage County (bad casting, weak adap) and then Letterboxd informed me I'd seen him in FIVE other films, incl War Horse, Atonement and the James McAvoy college-quiz comedy Starter for 10, in none of which did he stick to my memory. It reminds me of the months after Good Will Hunting when I was jostled into realizing that Matt Damon was the bland blond I'd forgotten instantly in Geronimo and Courgae Under Fire.

But I've never heard of Dr Strange, so it's all good.

He was in Atonement?

I don't really care one way or another about BC casting — the script and production design (better bring the fuckin' Ditko) are more important here.

pretty sure Dr Strange is supposed to be handsome tho

http://www.byrnerobotics.com/forum/uploads/MichaelTodd/2011-06-23_195053_Steve-Ditko-Doctor-Strange.jpg

Dr Sinestro

Sutherland in Animal House would've been a good Doctor Strange

Most of the core Marvel characters have benefitted from cosmetic upgrades over the years. Most of the OG silver age crew were malformed cretins during their early days.

also this movie should be set no later than 1973.

lol @ malformed cretins

can they resist the urge to blast Heart's "Magic Man" during the climactic showdown with Baron Mordo

Heavy Doors soundtrack with "Strange Days" and "People Are Strange".

In the spirit of the GOTG soundtrack, let's assume the planned list is:

"Magic Man," Heart
"Strange Magic," ELO
"Magic," Pilot
"Black Magic Woman," Santana
"Age of Aquarius," the Fifth Dimension

. . . what else?

"Mambo Sun", T. Rex
"Cymbaline", Pink Floyd

Bruce Springsteen - "(Every Hoggoth's Got A) Hoary Host"

http://eil.com/images/main/Dr-Strangely-Strange-Kip-Of-The-Serene-299173.jpg

my dreams of a Clooney/Dr. Strange movie finally dashed

No worries, Clooney's gonna shave his hair down to a horseshoe and play Dr. Druid.

i would have cast bill hader

would prefer Chris Parnell to Bumbershoots

No worries, Clooney's gonna shave his hair down to a horseshoe and play Dr. Druid.

this role is Louis CK's and no one else's

ok except maybe mine

actually it'd be a pretty good opportunity for a joss whedon onscreen cameo

surely they could fit dr d in an agents of shield episode for that fan service

literally any human being in the entire universe would be better than benderbunch crampitdash, the heretofore undiscovered sea creature risen from depths technology will never be advanced enough to explore

do people actually hate him for his performances or just his cultural presence? I think I've only seen him in Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, and didn't didn't like him in that. Grumbles about the content have kept me from Sherlock and Star Trek 2, but do people think HE'S the problem in this stuff?

the "didn't didn't" was not a typo, for once

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/03/07/article-2111538-120FFD9A000005DC-142_306x423.jpg

he's been in a bunch of garbage, he is a totally unremarkable actor, his fans are annoying

fuck that guy

Michael Jayston would have been a good Dr Strange

Why is "fuck that guy" an appropriate response to unremarkable acting and an annoying fanbase?

Why does someone getting overrated have to have an absurdly disproportionate backlash? It's like a celebrity gossip forum here sometimes.

George Clooney doesn't seem quite right for Dr Strange to me.

there would be some meta-irony in Clooney being Dr. Strange (similar to the meta-irony of Downey playing Tony Stark), he has the look/hair, he's made a career out of playing lovably smug assholes who are also capable of doing good (ie, the Dr. Strange origin story), etc. It'd be fun to see him against a backdrop of psychedelic weirdness. It's true I can't really picture him delivering some of the requisite "BY THE HOARY HOSTS OF HOGGOTH" dialogue but whatever that's minor.

RAG OTM. I think Strange has to be something of a cold fish, at least initially - Clooney wants to be loved too much.

I initially misread soref's post as Michael Jackson would have been a good Dr Strange.

cumberbatch is a fine actor with a terrible name

"Cumberbatch" is classic, but "Benedict" in front of that is even more classic, several more posh middle names would make it even better. "Tuppence" is classic too.

Also I cant imagine Clooney having the right nimble wizardly posturing talents that Cumberbatch could probably pull off. Or pulling off that sort of Vincent Price hamminess straight enough.

cumberbatch is a fine actor who is a bit of a prat and takes a lot of roles which fall within a core persona and thus mb don't really demonstrate much 'acting' per se. good in 12 years a slave i thought

Anyone would think he was the only posh actor in the world, pretty much all of the English ones are these days.

yeah f uck tha obvious poshos e.g. tom hiddleston eddie redmayne plus more covert ones e.g. dominic west damian lewis

... and that's just the ones who went to Eton.

Give me a posho any day over some of the venal Thatcherite cockney wanker stereotypes taking up space in the upper reaches of the British acting establishment.

Don't know too much about Turing outside the obvious but I enjoyed the Imitation Game, I don't see Cumberbatch convey emotional vulnerability too often (/ever) and I wasn't sure he could pull it off but he did.

venal Thatcherite cockney wanker stereotype does sound strongly revolting and while being one is sort of more of a daily choice than is being a posho it shouldn't discourage the general denunciation of poshos

Was Cumberbatch's performance as Turing better than working class Derek Jacobi (just checked his wiki hoping he was going to be to make this thing even more 'fun' than it already is, love how his wiki actually states "His family was working class" with a ref to a link to an interview he gave to The Guardian that doesn't work)?

"His servants were working class."

http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--GHYzrgN6--/pdkub5xk9pei5aa9j2xh.jpg

I love that they're going with his real beard. My beard is also a sparsely populated garden of fluff that's thinner than my eyebrow hair, so this magazine cover has just helped drain a fairly substantial reservoir of self-doubt that I've kept dammed up for years

it def woulda been more interesting than this limp pile

the confrontation w Dormammu was very Dr. Who-like I thought

Yes!

Yes, that was it!

That was why I hated this more than I could put my finger on!

Thanks

lol

Hello.

https://variety.com/2020/film/news/doctor-strange-2-sam-raimi-1203475309/

Boy, that could really go one of several different ways. Here's hoping that, since it's already been referred to as an MCU horror film, it goes one of the good ways.

I have no stock in how this goes but his last movie fuckin sucked (can you remember what is was without checking?). I fear he's lost his touch completely. (but then this is the MCU so it might not matter)

Yeah, but the one before that, which was actually written by him, was Drag Me To Hell.

Dr. Agmetohell iirc

Oz truly sucked, SM 3 truly sucked, but the one about the Dr. was v good. I guess we'll see. I remain hopeful.

"MCU horror film" oh god what a nightmare

Why are you here, itt

ubiquitous, unavoidable cultural force = we all get to cruise in and take a potshot now and then

oy, that could really go one of several different ways...

― Dr. Teeth and the Women (Old Lunch)

yeah i uh hm

i am very much sold on a horror-leaning doctor strange (are they bringing in Nightmare for this one?) but was kinda thinking more creepy cosmic horror that gets under your skin vs uptempo slapstick horror... i guess it'll be worth it if at some point someone summons an animated chainsaw?

just listened to the score on Spotify and it far, far exceeded my expectations. Michael Giacchino bats about .500 for me (Let Me In and John Carter were great scores, his Star Trek stuff spotty) but this is one of the best things he's done and probably my favorite score album from any of these Marvel Universe things (though I have love for the first two -- silvestri/cap and doyle/thor).

― his eye is on despair-o (Jon not Jon), Wednesday, 26 October 2016 22:03 (four years ago) bookmarkflaglink

Watched this last night and the score fairly ruling was a pleasant surprise.

Yeah I listened to it a couple of weeks ago - it holds up real well