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Dr. Strange 2: My Thoughts

I will be putting everything under the cut as well as tagging it as spoilers so you can avoid it if you need to (also talking about Loki and Wandavison here as well).

Here are some of my thoughts about the movie:

Let me start off by saying a few good things about this movie:

1. I thought the movie was visually stunning. The CGI was brilliant, the costume designs were amazing, and overall, it was really pretty to look at.

2. I’ve never seen acting like this in a long time, and I thought Elizabeth Olsen did a FANTASTIC job with her character. I actually cried when she was visiting her children on Earth 838, and they were scared of her. She really pulls people’s emotions through her eyes. She has been playing this character since Age of Ultron came out, and she never fails to shock me at how well she can act.

The same goes for Benedict. I thought he did a really good job with his character as well.

3. The horror aspect was also done very well. Sam Raimi has been a director of horror movies, and he really brought what he knew to the table with this one. You really don’t see a superhero movie be centered around this much horror, but he did it very well (in my opinion).

Now, onto the bad things about this movie:

1. This movie was not worth the hype that Marvel was trying to give off. They made it seem like we were going to get this big movie about the multiverse with variants of hers coming in and enemies trying to defeat them, when in reality, the multiverse was not explored at all in this film.

The only thing the multiverse did for this film is to provide Wanda an escape to find her children. Apart from having some of the scenes set in different universes, they didn’t add any heroes besides Wanda and Strange (I’ll get to the Illuminati in a minute). They were all different variants of those two characters, and as much as I like to see Zombie!Strange and Mom!Wanda, they were pretty boring and uneventful.

When Marvel hyped up Spiderman: No Way Home, they talked about the multiverse opening up and exploring the different characters throughout alongside their enemies. No Way Home lived up to the hype that Marvel made it out to be, and they did it well.

MoM did not.

What's the point of having a multiverse with infinite amount of characters, and not utilize them? It seems like a waste of a movie, and this movie felt like it was supposed to be set up for an even bigger film like how the movies were set up for Infinity War and Endgame. Like MoM is only the start of the story and not a good chunk of it (which, yeah, it is the start of a story for the multiverse, but it just didn’t make any sense to me).

2. Marvel did a terrible job at hiding the cameos in this film. Their biggest cameo (in my opinion) was Professor X. But the trailer clearly sowed that he was going to be part of this film. I don’t know who made the trailer, but they spoiled the shit out the movie by showing Professor X, Captain Carter (Peggy Carter), Captain Marvel variant, and other cameos.

I watch the movie with an almost full theater. Not once did anyone gasp or cheer whenever these cameos came on screen because they were in the fucking trailer. The only person the audience was hyped to see (and it wasn’t that good of a hype) was Reed Richards from Fantastic Four.

The other cameos was a variant of Captain Marvel, Captain Carter, Black Bolt (for people who haven’t read the comics, they won’t know who this character is. I don’t know if he’s been in a marvel TV show, so I can’t confirm that) It was a big letdown to see Marvel not take the opportunity they had to bring back characters or even introduced variants of the characters we already know and love.

They could have done a lot with Iron Man, Loki, Deadpool, and even brought Chris Evans to play Johnny Storm. It felt cheap, in my opinion to have only these characters when they had a whole multiverse of characters to choose from.

3. The Illuminati was a fucking joke to me. When Strange was presented with the team, the variant of Captain Marvel told him that they could handle “his little witch” when Strange warned them that Wanda was coming to them. I honestly had no clue the Illuminati was even a thing prior to this movie since I’ve never read the comics, but even I can tell Marvel wasted an opportunity with this one.

I’m not saying we might not get another movie or something about them, but what good is it to introduce a team of very powerful people only to kill them off five fucking minutes later? This plot point could have lead to some very interesting opportunities since the whole fucking point of this group is to make the decisions that no one wanted to make and to protect people from Thanos-level threats.

Does Marvel not realize what they could have done with this group? Not to mention that Captain Marvel literally said that the group could handle Wanda only to have her be crushed by a giant statue. Love to mention Black Bolt getting his head exploded, Captain Carter getting fucking sliced in half by her own shield, Reed Richards turning into spaghetti noodles, and snapping Professor X’s neck from inside her own mind.

Five fucking minutes later.

They made it seem like the Illuminati was this all-powerful rag-tag team of heroes when they weren't. I didn’t see one ounce of power on their end in that fight scene between them and Wanda. What a wasted opportunity.

4. Let’s talk about America Chavez for a moment before I get to Strange and Wanda. While I love the fact that America is this new character with multiverse traveling, they really didn’t give her a whole lot of purpose besides to help Wanda travel the multiverse to find her kids.

I appreciate what she can bring to the table, but it felt like Marvel only introduced her because she can multiverse hop. She could have easily been introduced in some other movie with a much bigger role and purpose than what she got.

The fact that her storyline was the “I’m a teenager with these powers that I can’t control only to realize in the end that I had it in me”. What a fucking boring plot line. It’s been used over and over again, and Marvel didn’t do a good job at making this unique.

I’d like to mention here that Marvel wanted this story to proceed after Loki finished airing, but why? My friend who saw it with me had never watched Loki and she understood what was going on. I think the direction they were going in was to talk about variants and how that ties into Loki, but they missed the fucking point.

If MoM had brought in the TVA, then I could understand why they wanted people to watch Loki so they understood what this organization stood for. They can multiverse hop as well, and it would have been cool if we had seen the TVA try and come in and fix the timelines. I think I read somewhere that MoM wasn’t because of Dr. Strange messed with he multiverse when he tried to help Peter, but because when Sylvie killed He Who Remains (or King the Conqueror), and the timelines went out of control.

If that’s the case, then why bring in America Chavez at all? Why not save her for a better fitted role and another movie, and bring in the TVA who can help assist in the multiverse. Plus, MoM didn’t explain why the multiverse was collapsing in on itself, so who would have thought it was tied directly to Loki? If you haven’t watched the show, then this would have been missed.

Last point about America is that at the end of MoM, she is seen trying to learn magic at Kamar-Taj as if Marvel wanted to close the multiverse timeline by having her learn new powers to forget her old ones. I don’t know if this is what they were going for, but it seemed like that for me.

5. Now, let’s talk about Dr. Strange and how he was robbed of his movie. If you look at the Iron Man trilogy or the Thor movies or even the Captain America movies, each movie is centered around Tony/Thor/Steve. MoM did not touch on Strange’s character at all except to make him a “mentor” for America.

There was no growth with his character. No progression from arrogant asshole to some hero that the world looks up to. Yeah, he helped saved the world from Thanos, but that’s about it. If you look at the first Dr. Strange movie, you could see his progression from arrogant doctor to a broken man to a damn good magical being. MoM didn’t show anything for his character, and this is supposed to be his fucking movie.

This wasn’t a Dr. Strange movie. This was a Wanda movie. It was a Wanda-centered movie with Dr. Strange as a side character.

They even did him dirty with Christine. In the first movie, we could clearly see he was infatuated with her, but the more time he spent apart from her, the less he was interested. Yeah, he kept the watch she gave him, but there wasn’t any want or need shown toward the end of the first film (at least, not in my eyes). To have him go back to being obsessed with Christine after not being with her is just setting his character back further.

Not to mention that the best scene Dr. Strange was in is when he was fighting Gargantos. Even then, his powers were kind of upsetting. He spent the entire fucking movie in magic-cancelling handcuffs. The first movie showed the mirror dimension, showed magical artifacts, and used them to create visually stunning magical fight scenes that were done well.

This movie had none of that.

Don’t even get me started on that fucking musical fight scene. That was a shitty fight scene compared to some of the things that Dr. Strange can do, especially when fighting Sinister!Strange. It had no creative outlook on his powers. He was fighting Mordo with those handcuffs on. They could have done a lot more if they used the mirror dimension or even brought back the Time Stone from another universe to help in the aid.

They say Dr. Strange is one of the most powerful Avengers because of his magic, and this movie didn’t capture a single fucking power move on his end.

6. Finally, let’s talk about Wanda. When I say this movie pissed me off, it was because of what Marvel did with Wanda's character. Not only did they cheap out on her powers and had her completely out of character, she went through all her pain and suffering only to “die” at the end.

Let’s look at some of the things Wanda had to suffer through, shall we? She lost her parents at a young age, she was forced to tamper with an Infinity Stone to give her powers she never wanted in the first place, she lost her brother and her home, she moved to the States knowing no one only to find comfort in Vision, tries to redeem herself by helping others with her powers only to have it backfired, was the cause of the Sokovia Accords coming into play (in my opinion), fighting Thanos only to have to kill the love of her life before they could separate the stone from his head, going through the trauma of killing him only for Thanos to bring him back and kill him right in front of her, being blipped from existence for five years, coming back to see that the love of her life is gone-gone so now she literally has no one, has to resort taking over a town to get the life she always wanted and had kids with vision, realizing that she’s hurting people and can never be happy so she had to sacrifice her family and her happiness again, and just recently with this movie, the dark hold is manipulating her trauma and twisting it into a person she never wanted to become.

Now tell me, how is it fair to have her go through all that only to have her kill herself in the end? All that pain and suffering for fucking nothing.

This isn’t even the first time Marvel has done something like this. To me, it’s like having these people try and be villains (which they aren’t, they’re anti-heroes), and make all these mistakes and the only thing to redeem themselves is to have them die? They did it with Natasha, Gamora, Tony, Loki, Yondu, Nebula, and so many more characters.

To have them suffer only to die in the end without real resolution.

For those of you who didn’t watch Wandavision, she realized just how many people she was hurting at the end. She made the conscious decision to sacrifice her family so that these very real people can have their freedom back. She then took up residence in a remote cabin to separate herself from others so that she wouldn’t hurt them. Now, at the time, it looked like Wanda had taken a step back from magic because she was hurting people (I still believe that she wanted nothing to do with magic as much as she was using it)

All she wanted was her family back. When she started dabbling with he Darkhold, that demonic magic took hold of the trauma that was already there and manipulated her into being this person she was never supposed to be.

The thing that gets to me is that Wanda in MoM was so out of character. She has aways been portrayed as the person who didn’t wan to hurt others and would always try and find a way to save them or even stay out of the fight. It’s not like her to want to kill a child and kill all of these people just to get her family back. It’s not even within in her character to have killed the Illuminati that brutally. I don’t care what the Darkhold is doing, but it wouldn’t turn her into a person she doesn’t recognize. It may manipulate her into making mistakes but Wanda knew what she was doing when she killed all those people.

My friend had told me that she didn’t like how MoM portrayed how powerful Wanda really is, and I completely agree. I look back at Wandavison and Endgame, and you could see how powerful she was because of how much magic she was using and what she did with it. It really felt like a steal to not see that passion and hate in this movie.

Her fight scenes were really dull compared to other ones, and the fight scene with the Illuminati didn’t showcase how powerful she was. She turned Black Bolt’s mouth into nothing with just a few words. That is power, but there were no “badass” power scenes like the ones we’ve been given.

Don’t get me wrong, I will always defend Wanda and she is my favorite female character by far. She is very powerful and I love her for it.

The thing that bothered me is the fact that Vision wasn’t in this movie at all. Not one universe showcased her being with Vision. It was always with he kids. The whole point of Wandavision was for her to live her life with Vision and their two kids. I get that she wants to be happy with them, but to go as far as she did to try and achieve that was out of character (in my opinion).

Wanda has suffered enough, and while I don’t believe she actually died at the end (did you see the scene where she came out of that gong Ring style with broken bones?), I do believe she will be back for maybe her own movie? Another show? But at what cost?

I thought this movie was going to be about her and Strange teaming up to take down Mordo based on what happened at the end of the first Dr. Strange movie. I thought she was going to be kind of good and we’d get to see the progression into madness throughout the movie. She was “evil” from the start, and I didn’t like that for her.

Do I think this movie was bad? No. Do I think it was the best? No. I think this movie is the beginning of the multiverse storyline for phase four and possibly phase five. I just think it could have been executed better if they had delved deeper into the multiverse itself.

I’m sorry if this comes across as me bashing on MoM and tearing it down, especially for people who thought it was amazing. I just hate seeing Marvel kill off characters or turn them into something they’re not because they made bad choices and didn’t give them a shot at redeeming themselves.

Anyway, that’s my two cents. Please don’t send hate, but come talk to me if you want to discuss further!

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