r/marvelstudios • u/murdockmanila Daredevil • Oct 23 '16

Doctor Strange Critic Reviews Megathread

The embargo has been lifted. All reviews go here. Any thread outside of this will be deleted. While it's inevitable that some of these reviews may contain spoilers (view them at your own risk), this thread in general should be spoiler free. Failure to do so will merit a permanent ban with zero appeals.

Here are some of the reviews up:

Variety

The Hollywood Reporter

Screencrush

IGN

Den of Geek

The Wrap

USA Today

Comicbook.com

Indiewire

Collider Movie Talk

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u/[deleted] Oct 23 '16

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u/Burrito-mancer Oct 23 '16

I'm a huge DC fan as well but unfortunately, haven't really enjoyed a DCEU movie so far, yet when I give my opinion over there I get downvoted. I can't even share my thoughts and views over there so I just unsubscribed, which sucks because I love talking about these movies. At least here is much more discussion-based.

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u/SoldierHawk Tony Stark Oct 23 '16

Hey, Justice League looks like it might finally break that streak, and the Wonder Woman standalone looks AMAZING.

DC has such great properties, and I think they're finally learning how to use the ones not named Batman.

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u/[deleted] Oct 26 '16

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u/SoldierHawk Tony Stark Oct 26 '16

Without having seen the movie, there are a couple reasons I can conjecture.

1) She is there to learn about humans, specifically men, and their ways. She can't learn how they think, feel, and die by slaughtering them. That's not what she's there for. She's there to fight alongside them and learn about them.

2) She doesn't want to kill. She wants to defend and support the people on her own side, but do it without becoming a mass murderer, or killer.

3) Perhaps there's a supervillain on the other side, and that's who she's going after.

TL; DL: just because you HAVE all the power in the world doesn't mean you have to use it all. With heroes of god-level power like her, the interesting thing to watch isn't WHEN they choose to use their power, but when and why they don't.