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DOCTOR STRANGE
Starring Benedict Cumberbatch (Doctor Stephen Strange), Chiwetel Ejiofor (Karl Mordo), Tilda Swinton (The Ancient One), Rachel McAdams (Christine Palmer), Benedict Wong (Wong), and Mads Mikkelsen (Kaecilius) with a special appearance by Stan Lee and a mid-credits scene previewing Thor: Ragnarok
Directed by Scott Derrickson
Produced by Kevin Feige
Written by John Spaihts, Scott Derrickson, and C. Robert Cargill
Music By Michael Giacchino
Distributed by Walt Disney Pictures
Run Time: 1 hours and 55 minutes
World Premier: October 13, 2016, in Hong Kong
Opening Weekend Box Office: $85 million (North America)
Worldwide Box Office: $677 million
Rotten Tomatoes Score: 89%
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Memorable Doctor Strange Quotes
“I just went, ‘We’re gonna push [Doctor Strange]. We’ll just push it. We’ll wait for Benedict.’ We pushed it from a July release to a November release. It’s the only time we’d ever moved a release date based on actor availability. And it was, of course, one hundred percent worth it.” – Kevin Feige discussing the lengths that he was willing to go to in order to cast Benedict Cumberbatch to portray Doctor Strange.
“Scott Derrickson, who has a very unique vision, who has a very sort of twisted sensibility and can take a lot of these concepts and make them unbelievably visual and unbelievably and enthusiastically over-the-top and exciting [that’s] the reason we brought him on board. And the cast – you look at the cast of Doctor Strange, led by Benedict Cumberbatch, and it is an embarrassment of riches.” – Kevin Feige
“One of the biggest challenges in the movie, casting-wise, was The Ancient One. The idea of the wizened old man on the hill who becomes the one who bequeaths knowledge and insight and all of that is kind of cliché by now. Yet The Ancient One is so critical to the Doctor Strange mythology, you have to have The Ancient One, and you have to make The Ancient One alive and real and interesting and three-dimensional. I struggled so hard in both coming up with the story and working on the screenplay, but then when it came to casting, I was even feeling more befuddled by what we can do that’s not going to end up feeling like a trope of some sort. The starting point was, ‘What if it’s a woman?’ You know, why can’t it be? You know already the idea that The Ancient One is the head of all sorcerers; now that person is also a woman. I’m already interested, and I’m already feeling liberated from the chains of cliché.” – Scott Derrickson on casting Tilda Swinton as The Ancient One.
For Doctor Strange, every piece of his look has to work alongside every other, and at the same time look good on its own. For most of the movie, we see him in just his basic training robes. Then, later on, he acquires the cape, and that combination has to look good together. Then you get the Eye of Agamotto, and that combination of the three has to look good with each other, but they also have to stand alone because, again, for most of the film we see him with his training costume. Each has to be iconic on its own, and that was a challenge.” – Karla Ortiz
“… The comics have been very useful. Obviously, you have very different writers and artists who have worked on this character through the decades, but they’ve remained pretty loyal to the basic ingredients. I’ve gleaned a lot from that, whether it’s his humor, his drive, or how he uses his hands to cast spells and hold demons and gods in his power. The comics are also beautifully drawn and visually rich. That immediately translates into the cinematic landscape. There’s a lot of real-world live action in this film but there’s also the fantastical adventure element. The variety of environments we filmed in and the action that takes place in those environments is exceptional.” – Benedict Cumberbatch
“[Doctor Strange] is a big presence in the original comics, but he’s flown under the radar within the MCU until now. The MCU has an ever-expanding group of superheroes that are relatable, if slightly extraordinary. From that, everything blossoms into something more surreal, so you have wormholes opening up over New York and otherworldly destruction happening within the world’s space and time. But it’s about to explode into other dimensions, and Strange is a very natural bridge between that. I love every single moment of it.” – Benedict Cumberbatch
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Fun Doctor Strange Facts
Doctor Strange was created by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko for Marvel Comics, debuting in Strange Tales # 110 in July of 1963. Released 53-years later, Marvel Studios’ Doctor Strange follows the physical, spiritual, and mental journey of acclaimed neurosurgeon Doctor Stephen Strange after a debilitating automobile accident costs him his career, leading him on a path of reluctant enlightenment as he becomes on of Earth’s greatest defenders as a Master of the Mystic Arts.
The first audible reference to Doctor Stephen Strange in the Marvel Cinematic Universe came in 2014’s Captain America: The Winter Soldier when Agent Jasper Sitwell name-dropped Stephen Strange when he was rattling of Hydra’s grand plan to Steve Rogers, Sam Wilson, and Natasha Romanoff. Many viewers have confused this reference as contradicting the established MCU Timeline during which Stephen Strange began studying the Mystic Arts, but this is incorrect, as the algorithm Arnim Zola created in the film was written to deduce current and future threats based on the information available to it. The program therefore deduced that Strange – working at the time as a surgeon at Metro-General Hospital – had the potential to emerge as a threat to Hydra’s nefarious plans, which made him a target.
The point in time in which specific events on the MCU (Sacred) Timeline exactly happened has been debated amongst MCU fans and observers frequently over the years, and the timeframe of Doctor Strange’s ascension to Master of the Mystic Arts has been one of the things that has been most discussed. In 2023, the book Marvel Studios – The Marvel Cinematic Universe: An Official Timeline put an emphatic end to all of the speculation and conjecture, revealing that the events of Doctor Strange do in fact primarily take place from 2016-2017. Stephen Strange’s paralyzing car crash takes place on February 2, 2016, a few weeks before the tragedy in Lagos, Nigeria involving The New Avengers and the terrorist Crossbones. It is in the Fall of 2016 that Doctor Strange seeks out The Ancient One. In the meantime, the Sokovia Accords are passed, leading to the superhero Civil War pitting factions led by Iron Man and Captain America against each other. Then, Natasha Romanoff reunites with the sister from her childhood Yelena in Russia, and they combine their efforts to take out the sinister General Dreykov, Next, Prince T’Challa becomes King of Wakanda and wages war with the militant Killmonger, and Peter Parker firmly establishes himself as Spider-Man within his community and beyond. From there, it takes Stephen Strange a mere few months to become a Master of the Mystic Arts, as he quickly surpasses the abilities of his fellow practitioners of the Mystic Arts that had been practicing for years! Then, over the course of the first nine months or so of the year 2017, Strange wages war against Kaecilius and his Zealots, witnesses the death of The Ancient One, and battles Dormammu, emerging victorious by using the Eye of Agamotto against the entity and convincing it to relent its attack and leave the Earth be.
In Doctor Strange, the Eye of Agamotto (sacred to the Masters of the Mystic Arts) is revealed to be the Time Stone; one of the six Infinity Stones that predate the known Universe and are unmatched in their destructive potential, especially when wielded together. The Time Stone was the fifth Infinity Stone to be showcased and identified in the MCU following the Space Stone (encased within the Tesseract), the Mind Stone (encased within the Cosmic Scepter), the Reality Stone (flowing within the Aether), and the Power Stone (encased within the Orb). Doctor Strange is the first MCU film that features time manipulation, and, in each instance, this is accomplished through the Eye of Agamotto. With the relic, Strange is shown to have the ability to both rewind and fast-forward time, which he first accomplishes on a random apple before using it against Dormammu. During the Dormammu battle, Strange also uses the Time Stone to trap Dormammu in a Time Loop before restoring the damage that had befallen Hong Kong with a rewind of time. The rules of time travel within the MCU would become significantly complicated in the forthcoming coming years, with rules established in Avengers: Endgame that state the future cannot be changed by traveling to the past, but that such an attempt would instead create a Branched Timeline / New Reality that is rooted in the original Timeline from which the time traveler of travelers came. Obviously, no such thing occurred in Doctor Strange, and the Official Timeline book released confirms this with a visual illustration that shows Strange’s battle against Dormammu branch-off from the MCU (Sacred) Timeline, but ultimately loop back into it, meaning the Flow of Time was ultimately not altered. So, my interpretation is that the Time Stone / Eye of Agamotto does not create definitive Branches because of its mystical nature, and that the time travel in Avengers: Endgame did because it was scientific in nature, with The Avengers using the Quantum Realm to traverse the Branched Timelines that they created in order to complete their mission).
In Doctor Strange, the term “Multiverse” is audibly uttered for the first time in the MCU (Sacred) Timeline. These words are uttered by The Ancient One when she takes Stephen on a mystical (and trippy) ride throughout various Realms and Dimensions that comprise what we would later come to know as the MCU 616-Universe. During this sequence, The Ancient One asks Stephen “Who are you in this vast Multiverse?” Several Marvel Studios projects since the release of Doctor Strange have delved much deeper into the Multiverse, with Kevin Feige in fact labeling the MCU projects from 2021 and beyond as The Multiverse Saga and Doctor Strange’s journey to discover who he is in the vast Multiverse would serve as the main plot of Marvel Studios’ 2022 film Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness.
Scott Derrickson was hired by Marvel Studios to direct the Doctor Strange film in the Summer of 2014. Derrickson ambitiously campaigned for the job, going so far as to create his own concept art to go along with storyboards and a scene that he wrote that was inspired by the Doctor Strange: The Oath limited series written by Brian K Vaughan and illustrated by Marcos Martin.
Marvel Studios’ Doctor Strange film was publicly announced on October 28, 2014, by Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige at Marvel Studios’ Phase Three slate reveal at the El Capitan Theater in Los Angeles, California. Doctor Strange was slated for a November 6, 2016, release.
At the end of 2014, Marvel Studios announced that English actor Benedict Cumberbatch had been cast to portray Doctor Stephen Strange across the Marvel Cinematic Universe with his first appearance coming in 2016’s Doctor Strange.
Doctor Strange commenced filming on November 4, 2015, making it the first film produced by Marvel Studios independently from Marvel Entertainment. Filming took place in New York, Los Angeles, London, Hong Kong, and Nepal. Production wrapped on April 3, 2016.
Astrophysicist Adam Frank served as a science consultant on Doctor Strange.
The song playing on the radio during Stephen Strange’s car crash scene in Doctor Strange is 1967’s psychedelic rock classic Interstellar Overdrive by Pink Floyd. Not only is Pink Floyd’s music linked to all sorts of metaphysical ideas and philosophies, but their second album: A Saucerful of Secrets featured artwork from Strange Tales # 158, a Marvel comic book that featured Doctor Strange.
Doctor Strange co-creator Stan Lee makes his 14th MCU cameo appearance for Marvel Studios in Doctor Strange. Interestingly, Stan’s cameo features him sitting on a bus and reading The Doors of Perception by Aldous Huxley. This book is a compilation of essays pertaining to Huxley’s experiments with psychotropic drugs in order to open his mind to higher planes of existence.
There are numerous magical relics and artifacts that appear in Doctor Strange that fans of the comics may recognize including the Leaping Boots of Valtorr (worn by Mordo and which grant their wearer the ability to leap across great distances), the Staff of the Living Tribunal (wielded by Mordo and alluding to the Cosmic Judge known as the Living Tribunal), the Wand of Watoomb (wielded by Wong and which has the power to alter reality), the Book of Cagliostro (a tome of spells that serves as a guide to manipulating time and accessing the Dark Dimension), in addition to the Evil Eye and the Staff of One.
True to the Marvel comics, the address for the New York Sanctum in Doctor Strange is 177A Bleecker Street.
In Doctor Strange, the Master of the New York Sanctum is identified as Daniel Drumm. Though this sorcerer suffers a quick death, said death could have a lasting impact on the MCU as in the comics, Daniel’s death inspires his brother Jericho to begin studying the Mystical Arts, leading to Jericho becoming known as Brother Voodoo.
Near the end of Doctor Strange, when Kaecilius and the Zealots are dragged into the Dark Dimension, they are transformed into a dark and molted appearance with light bursting from where their eyes once were, making them resemble the Mindless Ones, creatures that populate the Dark Dimension in the Marvel comics.
The first trailer for Doctor Strange debuted on April 12, 2016, on ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live!
On July 23, 2016, Marvel Studios held what was its eighth presentation at San Diego Comic Con. Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige unveiled Marvel Studios’ new opening montage, which reflected the new era for the Studio following its split from Marvel Entertainment at the end of the Summer of 2015. Doctor Strange would be the first film to utilize this new montage. Also, in Hall H, at SDCC, Marvel Studios held a Doctor Strange panel which included Benedict Cumberbatch, Director Scott Derrickson, Tilda Swinton, Rachel McAdams, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Mads Mikkelsen, and Benedict Wong.
Doctor Strange was nominated for – and won – several Awards for its outstanding visual effects and costumes, being honored with wins at and by the Hollywood Film Awards, the Annie Awards, the Visual Effects Society Awards, the Costume Designers Guild Awards, and the Empire Awards.
On June 28, 2017, at the Saturn Awards, Tilda Swinton won the Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role as The Ancient One in Doctor Strange while Doctor Strange won the Award for Best Comics-to-Film Motion Picture.
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My Doctor Strange Review
Doctor Strange is one of Marvel’s most unique characters. You can call him a sorcerer, a wizard, a spell-caster, a practitioner of the Mystic Arts, or even a superhero, but he wears many hats, wields great power, and juggles numerous philosophies pertaining to forbidden knowledge and religious beliefs. Doctor Strange consorts with ghosts and demons and gods and devils, and this makes him a controversial character for some, as concepts such as sorcery and witchcraft are frowned upon in many cultures and belief systems. This therefore makes him a sort of unlikely hero in the traditional sense, but in the world that Marvel has created Strange is one of its smartest, most powerful, and most noble characters, even if he can be prone to letting his ego get the best of him at times and to getting in over his head with select spiritual mingling’s and incantations.
Doctor Strange first rose to prominence during the late-1960’s where on select college campuses, the character became a sort of icon due to the themes of Eastern Philosophy and the Psychedelic Art that filled the comic book pages via artist Steve Ditko. As the years progressed, Doctor Stephen Strange became more of a supporting character in Marvel Comics; an affiliate of teams ranging from The Avengers and The Defenders to The Illuminati and The Midnight Sons. Due to his dealings with magic and time, Strange’s morality often seems to bleed into gray areas, as he strives to put the greater good above the selfish ambitions of himself and others. Most of my favorite Doctor Strange stories in the comics involve Strange mixing it up with other magical beings, such as Loki and The Scarlet Witch, and when this movie was first announced, I instantly began looking forward to those kinds of interactions on film, but his origin story needed to be told first, and Scott Derrickson did a satisfying job with that. Ultimately, I would get to see Doctor Strange share the screen with both Loki (briefly in 2017’s Thor: Ragnarok) and The Scarlet Witch (in 2022’s Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness), so thank you, Marvel Studios!
There are a lot of similarities between 2016’s Doctor Strange and 2008’s Iron Man and that’s because on the surface, there are a lot of similarities between Stephen Strange and Tony Stark. They’re both narcissists who are the smartest person in the room in just about any room that they walk into (and they know it). They’re both wealthy and successful individuals with somewhat mean-spirited personalities. They’re also both people who suffer a traumatic and debilitating injury on their respective roads to becoming the heroes they will become. On top of all of that sort of stuff however, Stephen Strange and Tony Stark are very different kinds of heroes that do very different kinds of things. In the MCU, Tony Stark was allowed to ground himself in what he knew best. The answer to his worst problems was usually for him to build something that would provide him with a fix. And being one of the most inventive minds of his generation, this came easy for Tony. It wasn’t until the Battle of New York that Tony Stark was forced to look beyond everything that he ever knew and understood about the world to be true, and that happened a few years after he became Iron Man.
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Stephen Strange however, had to jump right into the fire. What he knows best is using his hands. While Tony built and fixed things, Stephen fixed people. His abilities and understandings in the medical field had garnered him widespread acclaim, and Stephen loved each and every one of the accolades that came from his success; much more so I think than Tony Stark, who even when at his worst was quick to blow-off award ceremonies and such. Stephen basked in the glory of his notoriety, and he doesn’t just like to be right, he loves it, he craves it, and he even seems to need it. That made Doctor Strange a tough shell to crack, even for someone like The Ancient One, who knew full well his true potential, and even for someone like Christine Palmer, who deeply cares for him, but when Doctor Strange crashed his car, he lost his hands. He could not fall back on what he knew best, and due to that fact, Doctor Stephen Strange felt completely lost and uncomfortably helpless.
The way he reacted to this isn’t at all admirable. His desperation provoked him to bitterly lash out at the one person in his life that he could rely on (and the only person he actually cared about), and Christine responded by walking out of his life and leaving him to his misery. Stephen was now utterly alone and with nothing left to lose, sans a watch that was a gift to him from Christine, and having hit rock bottom, Stephen found himself willing to resort to anything in his search for hope and that resulted in his venture to Kamar-Taj, to the doorstep of The Ancient One. There, Stephen had to go far beyond himself and transcend his own pride, stubbornness, and arrogance in order to achieve enlightenment. This was no easy task for Stephen. Even after receiving aid from Mordo and being accompanied by Mordo to meet The Ancient One, Stephen still mocked everyone and everything, prompting The Ancient One to show him just how much he didn’t know before casting him out.
Just imagine what Stephen Strange must have been feeling in that moment! Everything he ever thought he knew about reality was wrong. There were entire worlds beyond his five senses that he never knew existed, and he suddenly experienced things beyond words and beyond his wildest imagination! The Ancient One literally knocked Stephen’s spirit out of his physical body en route to taking him on an inter-dimensional journey to multiple worlds! This was not about faith. This was about experience. It was real and it happened, and Stephen was left humbled, overwhelmed, and suddenly more desperate than he’d ever been.
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For The Ancient One, teaching Stephen Strange had always been in the cards, so she was always going to let him back in, but she humbled Doctor Strange in mere seconds; something that no one else had been able to do over the course of his entire lifetime up to that point.
From there, Stephen became a proverbial sponge, absorbing mystical knowledge at an alarming rate and mastering techniques in days that took other people years to learn. He was destined to walk this path after all; words that mean far more in a post-Loki world.
Stephen’s path to enlightenment worked for me on nearly every level. I did feel like Strange was made into a little more of a prick than he probably needed to be. He was tough to root for initially, and it was only Benedict Cumberbatch’s charisma and charm that allowed that bridge from asshole to likable to develop and ultimately work. A whole movie probably could have been spent just on Stephen’s path to enlightenment, but Marvel Studios had a lot more story to tell and needed to get Stephen quickly from student to Master.
This was done through Stephen’s relationships with Mordo, Wong, and The Ancient One and his reluctance to sign-on for their grand mission. For Stephen, the journey to Kamar-Taj was always about finding a way to heal himself so he could get his old life back. That was all Stephen wanted. He was therefore rather appalled by the notion of the true purpose of the Masters of the Mystic Arts: defending the Earth from mystical threats that dwell in other Dimensions. Stephen Strange was having none of that, but his scoffing was interrupted by Kaecilius’ attack, during which Stephen was forced to invoke magic to defend himself. The Cloak of Levitation rushed to his side during this fight, but Stephen was nonetheless critically wounded. This sent him back to New York and back to Christine, who worked to save his physical life while his spirit warred with a zealot on the Astral Plane. This was a brilliant scene! From there, the surgeon who’d saved so many lives to so much acclaim was forced to deliberately take a life, and this left him disgusted with not only the whole mission that the other Masters were preaching, but with himself as well.
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The fight was not over however, and after lashing out at The Ancient One, Stephen and Mordo found themselves opposing Kaecilius in the Mirror Dimension and this led to the death of The Ancient One and what was the most beautiful scene of Doctor Strange for me, as Stephen and The Ancient One talk in their Astral forms in the seconds leading to the end of her life. Her “Death is what gives life meaning” speech hit me especially hard, and I really liked the last bits of wisdom that she passed on to Stephen before her passing.
Tilda Swinton was one of the highlights of this film for me as The Ancient One. I know this is another case of some casting controversy to this day, but I adored her performance. The way she spoke, the confidence in her voice, the compassion and conviction in her eyes, and the zeal for life that came through in her body language; it was all masterful and endeared me to her character in a big way. She allowed herself to be shrouded in mystery without ever coming across as condescending or absolute, and that’s why her dabbling in the Dark Dimension did not make her the hypocrite Kaecilius saw her to be, in my eyes. I could have done with an entire film centered around just The Ancient One and what has to be an amazing story, and I thought Tilda Swinton was wonderful in Doctor Strange.
That brings me to Kaecilius. He was just okay for me. I actually really liked the character’s backstory and found his detest for death quite relatable as well as his contempt for hypocrisy. In fact, I related more to Kaecilius in this film than I did to Stephen Strange, but aside from the fun banter between Kaecilius and Strange during their first meeting, the character just came across as bland and forgettable. I get that he was deceived into believing that Dormammu would offer some sort of eternal life filled with bliss, but we never really saw how Dormammu deceived him and his followers, nor was the true power of Kaecilius ever highlighted in a memorable way. Kaecilius was more or less a herald for Dormammu, and I feel like he could have connected with audiences on a deeper level had we been able to spend more time with him and the Zealots.
Speaking of Dormammu though, what a fantastic final battle sequence Doctor Strange boasted! The whole rewinding time thing with the Time Stone was not only a cool plot twist (that was brilliantly teased earlier in the film with the apple), but it was also a visually captivating sequence that was unlike anything I’d ever seen before! The talents of the Marvel Studios Visual Effects Team were on full display here as things smashed and crashed and went forward and went backwards and went still. It was sheer awesomeness, and then came Doctor Strange’s showdown with Dormammu, which was one of the most unique exchanges I’d ever seen between a hero and a villain in a superhero movie. On top of that, this is the scene that truly establishes Stephen Strange as a hero!
“Dormammu, I’ve come to bargain!”
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Let’s remember who Stephen Strange is. He’s conceited. He’s self-absorbed. He’s a glory hound. He’s entitled. He’s cruel. He’s shortsighted. I can go on and on and on, but during this confrontation, Stephen Strange goes against everything that he is and was, everything that has defined him as a human being. Stephen Strange puts everyone else first; literally the entire planet, he puts them above himself during his stand against Dormammu. Stephen uses the Eye of Agamotto / Time Stone to trap himself in a Time Loop with Dormammu; an entity that upon the first sight of Strange brutally killed him … except he couldn’t permanently kill him due to the nature of Stephen’s spell. The loop would reset at the point of death, meaning Stephen Strange would die over, and over, and over, and over, and over (you get the point) again. What Doctor Strange signed up for here was what a lot of us would consider Hell to be: eternal torture; endless suffering. And there is no glory to be had here! No one on Earth has any idea about what Doctor Strange is doing nor what he is suffering through. There is no adulation, no acclaim, no parades or ceremonies; Stephen’s only reward is knowing that Earth will not be absorbed by the Dark Dimension. That’s all he gets out of this, and he’s willing to endure it all forever if that’s what it takes. As viewers, we have no way of knowing how long Stephen spent in human hours, weeks, months, or even years in the company of Dormammu, but I think it’s safe to assume that it was a long time. For all his shortcomings and personality faults, Doctor Strange stepped-up when he was needed most, and he came through in spectacular and selfless fashion!
I thoroughly enjoyed Doctor Strange as a film and found a whole lot to relate to in it, as my review suggests. My personal religious journey has been as unconventional as they come, and because of that, I found a lot of things in this film to be inspiring and thought-provoking. At this point in my life, I’m a lot like Stephen Strange in terms of his world view in a religious sense, but I want to believe in something bigger than us as humans, something more than just this single existence as a reality. I want to believe in spirit and soul and higher callings and greater purpose. It’s easier said than done for someone like me, but I love the ideas and the philosophies that are presented throughout this film and the way all of those things manifest themselves within the different characters. I guess in a lot of ways, this is one of those fictional pieces of story and mythology that I wish really were real, and I delight in the beauty and the wonder of it all!
I cannot close this review without specifically mentioning the cinematography, the costumes, the special effects, the music, the open-mindedness, and everything else that went into the ambiance and the presentation of this film. There were some truly gorgeous shots, scenes, and sequences in this movie! Stephen’s extra-dimensional journey through the Multiverse was jaw-dropping! The way the ghostly specters of the Astral Dimension looked were stunning! Those Mirror Dimension scenes with the buildings folding into themselves? SO incredible! And the entire look of the Dark Dimension … oh my Odin, that was Steve Ditko’s art brought to life from off the countless comic book pages he worked on to film! It was freaking beautiful!
I’ve grown to appreciate Doctor Strange even more as a character during the time since this film was released, and I’ll get to his further exploits in future reviews, but this was a kick-ass movie with so much to appreciate! So much thought and detail and work went into this motion picture to make it what it was, and I loved damn near every second of it. Doctor Strange was a testament to the wonderful times we live in as well as to the commitment to excellence and the reverence to comic book history that the Marvel Studios team have.
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Highlights of Doctor Strange:
Benedict Cumberbatch is Doctor Stephen Strange
Tilda Swinton as The Ancient One
Stunning Visuals
Costumes
Astral Surgery Scene
The Cloak of Levitation
Eye of Agamotto Infinity Stone Reveal
Dormammu, I’ve Come to Bargain!
Numerous Tributes to the Lore and History of the Character
Post-Credits Scene previewing Thor: Ragnarok
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Notable MCU Concepts and Characters Introduced:
Doctor Stephen Strange, The Sorcerer Supreme. The Masters of the Mystic Arts. The Ancient One. The New York City Sanctum Sanctorum. The London Sanctum Sanctorum. The Hong Kong Sanctum Sanctorum. Kamar-Taj. The Astral Plane. The Mirror Dimension. The Dark Dimension. Kaecilius. The Zealots. Dormammu. Karl Mordo. Christine Palmer. Wong. The Staff of the Living Tribunal. The Vaulting Boots of Valtorr. The Cloak of Levitation. The Eye of Agamotto. Time Manipulation.
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