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It stands far apart from any live-action Batman movie, Buffington Bear. In Batman, there's different, well...flavors of the character. Some of those flavors exist in all of the stories, and slot into timelines. So, in just about all of the movies, young Batman is more of a detective than the full-fledged-teched-out-badass. Here, he's definitely in that role. However, in some stories/arches/timelines he is 'always' a detective.
Peak Batman is when he embodies the best of humanity talent wise. The Batman with the bajillion science and specialty degrees is one interesting take on detective batman. This is another version of that. It's more akin to "he's just really sharp and intuitive," in this universe, which is actually nice it make some of his mental errors much more understandable.
tl;dr - this is a different style of a lesser done version of Batman, and that's refreshing, imo.
Buff is on a roll!!
I'm just stunned that everyone let my spelling error slide. I'm not untouchable, folks.
Originally Posted by Sting
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Draft
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Doctor Strange and The Multiverse of Madness: 7.5/10
I actually really enjoyed this movie because of Sam Rami's involvement. He does a great job of leaning into his superhero pedigree (especially the first 2 Spider-man movies) and of course his horror roots in this film. There are some downright legit scary scenes in this flick, and the gore is really ramped up. Especially for a Marvel movie!
My issues with this film lie more in the overall Phase 4 approach Marvel is taking. Whereas Phases 1-3 were all interconnected and leading to a major storyline, these all seem to be operating without any threads to one another. The TV shows, movies, etc. are all under the Disney umbrella so while they walk shoulder to shoulder, they never seem to shake hands. For example, The Eternals may have been a pretty shit movie, but that doesn't explain why no other movie talks about how a damn Celestial is poking out of the Earth. And between Spider-Man: No Way Home and Loki you sure as hell would think they could've linked this whole new plotline together easily. This is making for a very confusing time at the movies, even for a big geek like me.
Instead we get a resolution toand a whole new setup for another story with Doctor Strange and some new character in the mid-credits scene. I was excited when
Between all the shows, The Eternals, Shang-chi, etc. there is just a directionless feel to the MCU suddenly, just a bunch of stories happening to familiar characters. I guess we will see what happens with Thor: Love and Thunder but its very odd. I guess they have some plan I'm just not seeing, or maybe they realized they can just do some solo stories for now.
And therein lies the problem that I always had with the Marvel Multiverse. Unlike DC's Infinite Earths (where there are 52 Earth dimensions where stories can happen but Earth 0 is always the "official" main DC continuum) Marvel always used there multiverse to get themselves out of story jams easily by hitting the reset button and switching to a whole new reality. I wonder if this is Disney/Marvel realizing that its going to be hard to keep doing these movies without the Iron Man, Captain America, etc. as well as The Fantastic 4 and the X-Men. I think phase 5 might just be a reset or maybe even a whole new series of movies if they wrap up with something big.
My issues arent with the story telling personally, in fact Dr Strange 2 was easy for me to follow because of Wandavision. However, movies like Eternals or series like Moon Knight make zero sense (in the Marvel Universe) and often leaves me wondering if we should even care about those particular characters.
Shake, you seen Northman?
Originally Posted by Sting
Nope! I want to but I’m also in the habit of waiting for most things to hit the streaming services.
Edit: also my free time is shot so I have to choose movies in theater carefully. The ones I know for sure I’ll see in the theater are the Bobs Burgers Movie (I love it ok?!), Top Gun: Maverick, Lightyear, Elvis, and the new Thor. The one I’m most excited for oddly enough is the Elvis one!
Last edited by MasterShake; 05-07-2022 at 10:58 PM.
I loved Wandavision but I felt a bit of whiplash with how we left her character and how she is introduced here. Even Rami admitted he had to be briefed on the show because he hadn’t seen it. I guess it was that it’s not easy for me to follow so much as it’s not jiving with my perceptions.
To your other point I agree. I just don’t care about these characters much outside of their respective movies. When the Eternals show up to fight in someone else’s movie or the next Avengers flick I’m not gonna care lol
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