So I torrented Doctor Strange and the Multiverse Of Madness. It’s a cosmic horror film with a marvel budget. Rami pushed the PG13 rating about as far as he could. I ate shrooms before starting the movie.
Spoiler summary:
Scarlet Witch gets corrupted by the Necronomicon into a demon goddess and hunts Dr. Strange and a magical lesbian named Amerika across multiple realities. The pacing when at its most tense is a supernatural slasher film with a demonic murderous witch.
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The film starts slow, but gets going after about 20 minutes when a Cthulu/ beyonder thing shows up and starts assblasting New York city. This is coincidently about when the shrooms kicked in.
I watched the movie on shrooms which was… well… mostly groovy. The exception was -(spoilers)
When the Scarlet Witch started trying to crawl through every reflective surface in a room to get at Amerika. The Witch wants to consume her and take her power to travel across realities.
When she started to crawl through the reflection of a mirror too small for her body, I looked up and made eye contact with myself in the mirror. That was NOT OKAY.
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That scene put The Fear(tm) in me. My roommate came home to find every mirror in the house covered with a blanket or turned toward the house. Shroom energy is… something else.
Anyway, the movie is a fusion between the tone/ visuals of Army Of Darkness and the better Marvel slop like the new Loki show.
Rami entertains himsef with easter eggs and also fucks with the audience by having CIA Jim...
Get shredded apart like mozzarella cheese by Scarlett Witch. Mr Fantastic tries to fight Wanda by stretching and he gets pwned lol She magically rips him apart into multiple writhing tendrils that then burn up. He screams the whole time this is happening.
She also fuses Black Bolt's mouth shut so that when he screams as she tortures him, his head explodes.
A little later, Wanda also snaps Charles Xaviers neck after he loses a psychic duel. I'm an X-Men girl because I'm extremely gay so it was tight to see Charles powers shown off for once.
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Rami uses a lot of womb and birthing imagery in this movie, so I'm sure it upset some bazinga brains with mommy issues (all of them).
Danny Elfman wrote the soundtrack and mostly phones it in, but does let himself have fun a couple times. I’d honestly do the same if I was him, get that bread Danny.
Magic is actually imaginative in the film and Marvel let Rami do comic book stuff with the mechanics. Lots of physics and momentum manipulation, weird 70's acid style visuals, and spells that conjure shit.
The horror elements are there and the movie ends with
Dr. Strange possessing one of his corpses from another universe to fight the witch. He dukes it out as a decaying zombite with a cloak made out of the souls of the damned.
Sam Rami used a marvel movie's fuck-you budget to create a Dr. Strange / Evil Dead mashup film and it's a hot mess so I loved the ride.
Final rating: 7/10, don’t pay money for it, do drugs, hail satan.
I haven't willingly watched a capeshit movie since Man of Steel and I'm proud
Man Of Steel was good though
wrong :trump-anguish:
I should write a whole thing on it. I love how much they commit to Kal-El being an alien. The H.R. Giger flesh tech is incredibly cool.
What didn’t you like about that movie? Snapping Zod’s neck is probably the only part I really remember disliking.
The trailer promised a fascinating look into "what if Superman was actually real?" It looked gripping and like it would actually ask some interesting questions about superheroes. The movie started out with a boring 30 min plot about Superman's home planet, and then descended into boring fights at the end.
Did I mention they fight in IHOP?