{"id":351,"date":"2017-03-07T16:00:56","date_gmt":"2017-03-07T23:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/?p=351"},"modified":"2017-09-10T16:25:37","modified_gmt":"2017-09-10T22:25:37","slug":"movie-doctor-strange-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/2017\/03\/07\/movie-doctor-strange-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"MOVIE: Doctor Strange (2016)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/en\/thumb\/c\/c7\/Doctor_Strange_poster.jpg\/220px-Doctor_Strange_poster.jpg\" alt=\"Doctor Strange\" width=\"220\" height=\"326\" \/>Doctor Strange<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nYear: 2016<br \/>\nRating: PG-13<br \/>\nLength: 115 minutes \/ 1.92 hours<\/p>\n<p>See if you can guess this movie: goatee&#8217;d egomaniac finds himself in a life-changing situation in a foreign land that makes him question everything he&#8217;s ever stood for and become a superhero in the process. If you guessed <em>Iron Man<\/em> (2008), you&#8217;d certainly be close. No, this familiar plot is none other than the visually extreme <em>Doctor Strange<\/em>. I understand Marvel has a bigger plot in mind when they do these lesser-known heroes; but lately, it almost seems like they&#8217;re just phoning it in. <em>Doctor Strange<\/em> merely feels like filler to get to <em>Thor: Ragnarok<\/em> (2017) and <em>Avengers: Infinity War<\/em> (2018).<\/p>\n<p>I will give Marvel this much: they do know how to cast a film. Benedict Cumberbatch does a superb job at portraying the eponymous Dr. Strange, fused with enough gravitas and humor to make watching him a joy. And while many will question Tilda Swinton&#8217;s role as The Ancient One, especially considering the amount of Eastern mysticism included in the film&#8217;s theology, she certainly makes the role work in her own way. Even the sentient cape he wears has a personality I haven&#8217;t seen since the flying carpet in <em>Aladdin<\/em> (1992).<\/p>\n<p>What <em>Doctor Strange<\/em> lacks in plot, it makes up for in special effects. I&#8217;m almost glad I didn&#8217;t see this in 3-D, as I&#8217;m sure I would have vomited from all the swirling kaleidoscope effects seen throughout. Clearly, even though it&#8217;s six years later, Christopher Nolan&#8217;s <em>Inception<\/em> (2010) made an impression on the film world when it comes to these reality-distorting effects. There were even moments where I could catch the influence of <em>The Matrix<\/em> (1999) on the special effects of this film, especially when the characters decided that gravity wasn&#8217;t good enough for them. Despite all this, even though I wasn&#8217;t high enough to fully enjoy some of the sequences, <em>Doctor Strange<\/em> was still an entertaining film.<\/p>\n<p>A visually dazzling stepping stone in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, I give <em>Doctor Strange<\/em> 3.5 stars out of 5.<\/p>\n<h1><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-647\" src=\"http:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/255px-Five-pointed_star_svg-150x150.png\" alt=\"255px-Five-pointed_star_svg\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" \/>\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-647\" src=\"http:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/255px-Five-pointed_star_svg-150x150.png\" alt=\"255px-Five-pointed_star_svg\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" \/>\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-647\" src=\"http:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/255px-Five-pointed_star_svg-150x150.png\" alt=\"255px-Five-pointed_star_svg\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" \/>\u00a01\/2<\/strong><\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Doctor Strange Year: 2016 Rating: PG-13 Length: 115 minutes \/ 1.92 hours See if you can guess this movie: goatee&#8217;d egomaniac finds himself in a life-changing situation in a foreign land that makes him question everything he&#8217;s ever stood for and become a superhero in the process. If you guessed Iron Man (2008), you&#8217;d certainly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,2],"tags":[9,412,84,13,8,39],"class_list":["post-351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3-5-stars","category-movie","tag-9","tag-doctor-strange","tag-marvel","tag-movie","tag-review","tag-superhero"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=351"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":756,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351\/revisions\/756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}