As someone who had no knowledge of Moon Knight before the show, I found the build up very interesting. However, I understand completely how someone with prior knowledge of the character might get a bit impatient with the first few episodes.
As a prior fan of moon knight, I thought it was an okay show if I didnt think about the books but it sucks for me it wasnt more like any of the books I liked
@@chaseyoung7896 ...why? He's Jewish, and in the show he's Jewish Also him being Latino was actually pretty badass if you know what scene I'm talking about
One thing I really admire about Moon Knight is that it had ZERO desire to connect itself to the rest of the MCU. I almost don’t want Steven/Marc to interact with any other heroes, keep him here!
@Damian Thomas Knight Wayne for black panther and moonknight they were both in pocket dimensions designated for the after life for the religion the personal takes on. Thanos was just chillin in the soul dimension where the sacrificed souls/souls that were claimed during the snap were stored, Thanos was actually snapped away technically but he survived because the soul stone revived him. But the only way connection so far is that Khonshu is siblings with the Panther goddess, and Jake Lockley is in New York. They have a Blade movie coming up and I strongly believe Moonknight will be in it, or at least will tease it, I believe there’s talk of a Midnight Suns projecting going on which will include Moonknight, ghost rider, punisher, and the black night. I am truly excited for this side of the MCU because they specialize in brutal combat and vampires, werewolf’s, and demons
I actually really like how Wanda realizes her mistakes in this movie. The only possible thing that would make her realize she’s a monster is if she sees her children view her as one.
@@bigdadybojangls9219 exactly! Plus: it isnt like her plan was to appear before her children in that awful context, as the scarlett witch, a portal, hell breaking loose all over. She said they wouldnt even know he wasnt her real mother. So, she should have expected that reaction, its only logical, they are children. It made her look pretty stupid. Loved the movie otherwise.
@@arthur99mun “it made her look pretty stupid”, that was literally the point. Obviously her way of thinking and plans were stupid, she just didn’t realise that until she saw billy and tommys response
If you watched WandaVision, it makes all of Doctor Strange 2 terrible to watch. The whole character arc in WandaVision was that she was being selfish and using her powers for herself while putting other people's lives at risk. At the end she gives up her fantasy for the sake of other people...NOW all of the sudden she's totally cool with risking ALL of reality and the multiverse for the same thing again?
Spoilers: I definitely agree with the rubble bit you mentioned. They should not be getting killed by falling rocks when they can take hits from laser beams and a million other stronger projectiles. Although Wanda’s “death” was left pretty ambiguous and I doubt she’s dead, even Elizabeth Olsen said so as well. As for the end of Wanda’s arc in the movie, I was actually very happy with how they did it. I wouldn’t have accepted anyone defeating her in battle because they’ve depicted her as just too powerful. When she is rejected by her kids and called a monster, only to be reassured by her alternate self that she possessed, I thought that resonated emotionally enough to make her stop her rampage. Idk it’s kinda hard what else they could’ve done to wrap up her arc.
Wanda still has the same strength and durability as any regular human.Her magical abilities can’t compensate for that.There is multiple times where she got hit and injured by regular attacks that weren’t energy projections
If you look very closely, before the rubble collapses there's a flash of red between the rocks. I took this as a sign she "teleported out" or some equivalent to that with her powers to escape.
I knew nothing about Moon Knight coming into the show, and it's clear that I was the intended audience for it. The complete mystery about what's going on with funny British man made it intensely interesting to me. If I'd known all about the character already, I can see how those first few episodes may have been harder to get through. However, as a show establishing a reasonably unknown character to the audience, I think it did a fantastic job. Multiverse of Madness was fantastic! I don't have much else to say. Easily in the top 5 Marvel movies for me!
Nothing about Moon Knight is British. This show, from what I understand, is a blasphemous marring of the character. Stay away from the comics, if you truly enjoyed the show. EDIT: Did you even gather that Moon Knight is the son of a rabbi? As in: did you even catch that Moon Knight is Jewish?
@@itsmytoast666 It is FAR from a bastardization of the character you're making it out to be. Steven Grant being British isn't even like remotely an issue. The comics took a long ass time to even give him any sort of traits beyond "I'm the rich one and Marlene loves me more than you Marc". I honestly prefer this version of Grant to the comics version This isn't X-Men Origins' version of Deadpool or Fant4stic's Doctor Doom. It's not 1:1 the comics but it actually works for the story being told, especially the stuff with Layla and Marc's past
@@icedcapplord710 okay, I'll give it a shot, based on that. HOWEVER: Marc Spector is a rabbi's son and his being Jewish is a HUGE part of his character. Now, riddle me this... Does the show even acknowledge that? Moon Knight's a New Yorker. The fact that there's even a smidget of British citizenship is a slap in the face to the creators and the fans, dude. Being a New Yorker and being the son of a rabbi is a HUGE part of his character and is a very specific kind of identity. As someone who is also a New York Jew, who is also a huge fan of the charac, the show feels like a kick to the groin. No, I haven't seen it, yet. I don't think I want to support something that seems to be working to erase me.
@@itsmytoast666 Not only do they acknowledge, he’s Jewish, they reveal that the British persona isn’t even his real self… which should be obvious from how fake his accent sound’s anyway
The 5th episode of Moon Knight was one of the most emotionally impactful episodes of any show I’ve watched in a while, if I go back and watch the series again I’d probably look forward to that one more than the ending
@@PoorEdward sam Raimi directed evil dead 1 2 and army of darkness, he directs this movie, Bruce Campbell is the main character in the franchise and cameos in Raimi’s Spider-Man movies, which he directed and this movie has camera work that is like evil dead, Bruce Campbell has the best cameo in Doctor Strange 2 out of everyone in the Illuminati
Going into doctor strange while avoiding trailers, spoilers, leaks and rumors really helped in my enjoyment of the movie. I learned my lesson from Wandavision speculation
I wish I went in blind to no way home like I did doctor strange, I didn't watch any trailers and I avoided every leak and rumour but unfortunately I didn't do the same with nwh, would've been so much better
me too, so excited when christine 838 said Baxter Building, i knew the illuminati and xavier is in it, but never sure they're gonna put a reed richard here.
@Henry Jett New rockstars needs to be BANNED!! I swear they're ruining these movies for casuals who actually believe their bs stories just cause they read comics
@@Jogoat286 honestly kinda glad marvel was so terrible before NWH that I kinda just completely stopped caring and so went into NWH with almost nothing besides that hello Peter meme and was genuinely surprised when they brought all the Spidermen back
Felt like Doctor Strange 2 was made specifically for me. I went into this with zero expectations and was only interested because Sam Raimi was directing and I walked out of it immensely satisfied. The story was stupid as hell but the movie was so batshit insane and fun that I just stopped caring. The scene when Wanda infiltrates the illuminati is when I started having the time of my life. The last hour felt like pure Sam Raimi and the final shot was right out of Evil Dead.
The music fight and entire dreamwalking scene were so absurdly fun. Everything after Wanda arriving at the sanctuary place was killer, I understand peoples issues with the pacing but I appreciate that within 15 minutes it goes nuts to butts with genuine creativity and direction, so many sequences that are head and shoulders above the majority of the MCU.
It felt the exact opposite to me, I hate how Raimi directs movies, he's a camp lord and it just takes me out of a movie I already had zero expectations from.
I liked both projects but both could have benefited from being a bit longer. MoonKnight could have been 1 or 2 episodes longer to really reinforce some of the marc and Steven coming to terms scenes. Dr. Strange could have used an extra 20 minutes especially for plot development to make it seem less rushed and clunky.
MOM needed more than twenty minutes tbh: -An extended Strange v Strange fight would've been nice -More development on America Chavez's backstory -More universe hopping -An explanation as to how Wanda actually came to find America Chavez and decide to kill her -Wanda using more of those demons (seriously, these things are brawling with sorcerer supreme(s) and travel across universes, she shouldn't just stop using them). -A waaayyy longer battle with the Illuminati, or at least a more impactful one. Or maybe just cut them out entirely? The Illuminati were pretty much just trailer bait and rumor hype, they did *nothing* other than exist.
DS:MOM was around 40 minutes longer, not just 20 minutes in one cut. I wished they didn't cut it down because it could've helped flesh out Stephen and Wanda's arc more organically, helped explain certain plot devices and MacGuffins like the Book of Vishanti and Darkhold better, and a longer Illuminati battle because while I liked the scene itself where they die in over-the-top ways, I think the team should've put on more of a fight.
@@themadtitan7603 I think 20-40 more minutes would have been prefect. I think anything pushing 3 hours would be a tough watch in the theaters but then again I enjoyed how long endgame was
@@mosorireayewale2820 Great list. I think if we got all of this combined with Sam Raimi's wonderful direction then MoM could've genuinely been one of the best MCU films ever made, maybe even Top 5. Especially the points about more development for certain characters and extended Strange vs Sinister Strange and Illuminati battles; I liked the scenes themselves but both Sinister Strange and Illuminati could've given more of a fight.
@@2kdegenerate708 I didn't say it should've been pushing 3 hours. The movie's actual runtime is less than 2 hours without credits, so another 40 minutes would've put it at the 2 hrs 30-40 minutes range.
Oscar Isaac absolutely killed his role in Moon Knight. Episode 5 is truly an amazing watch just for his acting. I liked Moon Knight, however as somebody who has read *almost* every single Moon Knight comic I just wish we got to see more Moon Knight being Moon Knight. It was a great origin story with a great villain and great acting but it would be criminal if Moon Knight didn't get his own movie or at very least a season two with everything they set up.
@@IsaacC94 EXACTLY. Would have been such a good wrap up. They’ve been hyping up his brutality since the first episode but then they literally just skip it the last episode. All just for a lil reveal mid-credits
I really liked the post credit scene where Morbius showed up and said to Strange "Dr. Micheal Morbius at your service" The whole theater lost it and cheered
Benefits of watching morbius daily: Day 1 - You watch morbius. Instantly love it. Day 5 - Improved motivation and productivity. You feel as a whole a stronger human being Day 10 - you have energy whenever you want and can sleep as long or short as you need to, people start getting jealous Day 30 - Greater confidence and self-esteem. Mental clarity. Youre able to perfectly recite the script Day 60 - Increased muscle mass, bone density, and cardiovascular capacity. Testosterone through the roof. Women start talking Day 120 - Higher sperm count. Increased erection strength and duration. You’ve now memorised the choreography of the entire movie, you can execute the stunts and movements performed to a tee Day 365 - Your voice deepens, and your skull becomes more chad-like. Increased erection girth and length. Day 730 - Faster reaction time. 10 additional IQ points. Day 1500 - Starbucks baristas start writing their numbers on your receipts. Your ex wants to get back together. You feel tempted but ultimately turn her down. You need more time to watch morbius. Day 3000 - You can't keep up with all your tinder matches. Strange women begin hitting on you in public. You worry about your female boss. Fortunately, she keeps it professional. Day 6000 - Ex shows up at your door crying and begging you to take her back. You don't even make eye contact-just call the police right away. Your female boss quits. She can't take it anymore and fears what she might do to you if she stays. Day 12000 - Every swipe on tinder is a match. Even girls you swipe left get matched with you somehow. Romantic messages fill up your inbox every day-all 15gb of it-you upgrade your Gmail account to premium. Day 30000 - You don't have to work anymore. Matt Sazama Burk Sharpless signs over half of his morbius royalties to you in a grand gesture of love. You tell him you love and appreciate all the good change hes bought to your life. He weeps quietly, but with a smile. Day 60000 - Scientists propose that attraction to you be classified as its own sexual orientation, which will account for 97.5 percent of the world's population. Paradoxically, you no longer feel any sexual desire. You have achieved a higher consciousness and now love every human-being equally. Day 100,000 - Your IQ increases by several morbillion. You come up with a workable model of quantum gravity in a rainy Sunday afternoon. Elon Musk steps down from SpaceX to work for you. You decide to put space exploration on hold to focus on achieving clean energy through nuclear fusion. Day 200,000 - You've solved the problem of nuclear fusion. You also solved the problems of climate change, poverty, crime, and racism. You have been elected the very first President of the World. Day 500,000 - you’ve watched morbius half a million times. You can psychically project the entire movie into whoever's mind you please. You have achieved everything, understood everything, and solved every problem faced by humanity. All that needs to be done has been done. There's nothing left to do. You give your fellow humans one last look-they're still not watching morbius, trapped in their primitive way-but you don't judge. The path of Morbius was never meant for the ordinary men. "Watch morbius. But if you must, use lube." Those were your parting words. Now, released from all shackles of the mundane, and purified of all imperfections, your body ephemeralizes, as your ever-illuminated consciousness ascends into another dimension. It's morbin' time
I adored Moon Knight for multiple reasons, especially the character writing which is *so* good, it just deserved more episodes. I didn’t know much about MK going in, so that origin thing wasn’t a problem for me, but I definitely understand your perspective. If any show deserves a season 2, it’s this one. Also really liked MoM and was so glad it wasn’t a cameo-fest without a central plot or character focus, as neat as cameos are.
I didn't know a single thing about MK before the show, and they ended it in a way that solved the current conflict, while getting me hyped for many more to come. Absolutely deserved more episodes for what it did in just 6 imo.
Moon Knight was pissing me off.. So much potential, yet filled with plot holes. Just to list a few: Why did Layla bring the scarab directly to Harrow and his crew? There was litterally no reason to do this and it causes the events of the entire series, and they never even acknowledge that she indirectly cause the deaths of thousands. The whole trial against Harrow is the dumbest thing I've ever seen. They do ZERO preparation and just walk in there expecting the gods to take them at their word. And even though Ammit proves to be an absolutely insane threat (one that can oneshot all 5 gods for some reason later on with just a "sliver of her power") the gods don't even check up on it. It's not like it's actually hard to check up on Konshu's claims that Harrow wants to bring back Ammit. If it's this serious, at least just have someone follow him for a bit. Why did Konshu have to get their attention by pissing them off? Makes little sense that this is the only way. It's an obvious plot device just to have Konshu mess with the night sky later in the episode and have him imprisoned. That entire episode was super dumb. Near the end Harrow goes in and just oneshots all the avatars of the gods with the staff containing just a tiny bit of Ammit's power as mentioned earlier. Yet these gods were able to imprison Konshu without even being near him, showing an insane amount of power. And when Konshu is free'd, Layla and Marc are able to defeat Harrow despite Ammit being free at this point and being her actual avatar which I would assume should give him WAY more power. So thinking about this for more than 2 seconds: The 5 god avatars can easily defeat Konshu, really a non-issue. Harrow can oneshot the 5 god avatars, with just a small amount of his power at the end, really a non-issue. Marc and Layla can defeat a super empowered version of Harrow (the guy that just easily won against the 5 god avatars that defeated Konshu with ease, which is where Marc gets his powers). Anyone with more than 1 brain cell can see that this just makes no sense. Why and how did Konshu grow to be as big as Ammit for their final fight? And why can Ammit even manifest in the real world when they've shown earlier that they can't do that? They clearly impact the pyramids by falling on them, yet they show earlier that all Konshu in the real world can do is make the wind blow a little bit. If this is all something that their non-avatars can't see, then why can Layla see Konshu and Ammit at the end? They've established that you can only see these gods when your their avatar, which is why Harrow can't see Konshu earlier in the series. Yet for some dumb reason Konshu can talk directly with Harrow later on in the post-credit scene at the last episode. If it's because ALL avatars can see ALL gods, they need to establish this in some way. At the end when Marc refuses to kill Harrow and compares Konshu to Ammit when Konshu tells Marc to kill them is so stupid. He litterally compares Konshu to Ammit saying "You sound just like her now", but he clearly doesn't Ammit's whole thing was killing people BEFORE they had done bad stuff. Harrow and Ammit have litterally just killed thousands and have proven to be very hard to stop. Why would you risk letting billions of people die by sparing this one psycho and his goddess? The logic is SO flawed and it's as if the writer had zoned out during their own description of Ammit throughout the show. It's meant to show that he has some sort of moral, but it's shown in the worst way and just makes him seem selfish for not wanting to make the sacrifice needed to keep the world safe. There's probably more that I'm missing but due to ALL of these plot holes, the series just annoyed me. Especially because it's meant to be a twist that Marc is the original and Steven is the fake one. But if your story is filled with this many holes and you only make this clear 5 weeks into the series, I'm just left thinking "How the actual fuck can Steven have another person live an entire life, with a wife, a career etc. etc. along side of him, without him being more aware and actually 100% certain that this is a thing". It makes sense once they explain the Steven isn't the original, but at that point it's just too late. You can't have a twist like that if your story is so dumb that the viewer starts to question if that's really what you're going with. And I wouldn't have been surprised if that's what they went with, considering how much else that didn't make sense in the show. I wish Hollywood would just hire people to proof read their scripts... Because it's getting really ridiculous how many big budget movies and series that are just littered with holes.
First couple of episodes were great, and then the quality dropped so sharply with the avatarcongregation scene. Still, some fantastic stuff in later episodes, especially the shot of Khonshu and moon knight turning back the night sky.
my biggest gripe with moon knight is that it absolutely needed to be longer. and I'd even keep the pacing of like the first 5 episodes, I liked the buildup (and my mom didn't know who the character was or anything about him, and she was very into finding that out not all at once). plus I'm totally cool with things like this starting off slower if that time is used towards character development/establishment and then the payoff later once it really picks up is done well (case in point, daredevil s3 starts off very slow, but what's going on with matt is very interesting and important and it definitely pays off, it needed to be slow). so like if it was 10 episodes (or 9 like wandavision), by 5 you have all of that information and his full origin story, and the entire rest of the time have him be full on ass kicking moon knight. but as it is, they finish fully establishing the character and then are just like "and we're at the end! big fight! and we're done." you don't get enough time to enjoy the character once that part is done.
@@nomad7405 Hell, I'd say even do away with a standard. Why do all these shows feel the need to stick one or two episode templates to tell the story when they should make it as long or as short as they think the story needs to be ? WandaVision was 9 episodes and its finale still felt rushed, it was planned to have at some point but was cut down due to changes and COVID.
@@Karma-pq9fi The problem for me is that it was more than the finale feeling like it was going too fast but how that in itself led to plot points we've been waiting to be resolved ending up being wrapped in an unsatisfying, "hurry to the finish line" manner (as to be expected with MCU series' finales) and I didn't like how Jake Lockley's first appearance wasn't actually shown within the episode itself and hence the main villain's defeat took place off-screen in a cop-out manner.
What I really liked was that they finally found that "good book" mac guffin and it just burned to dust so they didn't just get to use that special weapon to defeat her, but had to do it out of their own abilities and being confident in their powers. Really enjoyed the part, when Steven figured out that he didn't have to get rid of the lost souls, and brought them under his control. The musical notes fight was so creative and entertaining especially considering that they linked it to the actual film music.
Spoilers: One thing that I didn't like about Multiverse of madness is when they introduce Reed as the smartest man alive and he talked to strange about how he is a threat to the multiverse cause their strange got hold of the Darkhold and destroyed another universe when Wanda was literally doing the same thing and strange was warning them about it. Like I get he couldn't 100% trust strange but it should have been pretty clear to him who the real danger was when Wanda dreamwalked her way to illuminati's headquarters.
AGREED! Their argument against him was weak. You have some of the smartest minds up there, professor X included, why be so obtuse when it comes to potential danger? They were Ill prepared to deal with Wanda and their battle tactics were questionable.
I have to echo everyone else here. The cameos and who they cast was amazing from a fan perspective. But Reed would've had 10 levels of contingency plans just to hold her in place and speak to her. That would be before he decided to use any gadgets he made to actively mount an offense. Instead he just tries taking to her. Black Bolt would know better than to scream with his mouth gagged, and Captain Peggy would've gone to get backup. I get this version of her is stubborn like Steve was, but neither of them are stupid. Oh also, Wanda, at any power level, isn't beating Xavier in a battle of the mind. They fell into the horror movie trope of making the victims very dumb and incompetent, even though the scene was cool
My family definitely did not like Doctor Strange 2 but I must confess, as messy as the plot was I had an absolute blast during it. Especially the horror-witch scenes.
I’m pretty mixed on it. I personally think it’s one of the worst plots in the MCU. I thought the pacing was dogass due to the first hour and a half of the movie was basically just people explaining the plot and exposition to eachother. But I loved all of the little horror elements in it. I liked the brutality. But I also thought that what they did to Wanda’s character in this movie is pretty egregious. She had a cool character arc in Wandavision that they erased completely in order to make her spooky I also think that we got such a lame showcase of spells from doctor strange. Besides the music scene, we didn’t really get any interesting spells from doctor strange like we did in Infinity War Edit: I also liked how Wanda killing the Illuminati felt like a nice “fuck you” to fan service
@@quintus920 how? There isn’t really much to read into. Wanda makes a grief stricken mistake and recognizes that she was doing the wrong thing and realizes she needs to let go of what she can’t have. She realizes that she was forcing people to do things against their will and that this is objectively bad. But then they erase that because some fuckin book made her into an irredeemable villain. It’s whack I can’t imagine watching this having not seen Wandavision either. Seeing her just do this massive flip on her morals with barely an explanation at all is so silly.
@@bigdadybojangls9219 Except it wasn't a massive flip out of nowhere. Did you not finish Wandavision? Wanda felt bad yeah, but she didn't learn her lesson *because* of the Darkhold. She continued to dive deeper through the book to look for her boys. I see a lot of people complain about this. There's more to critique with this movie, but Wanda was slowly being corrupted starting from the end of WV. Pay more attention please.
I woukd say that I'm surprised how much Raimi got away with some scenes in that movie. Like, I know there was supposedly more visceral scenes, but even so, the scenes that he could got away with were amazing. One of my favorite movies in the MCU next to NWH and Infinity War
I loved the camera work in Strange! There were multiple shots in the film that made me think "damn that was a sick shot" and the superimposed shots were very awesome and nothing like anything we have seen in the Marvel canon.
I personally loved how in that certain music fight scene, when the enemy disappears as strange is getting up, he holds himself with a piano and does the horror sting sound himself that you'd expect to come from the movie. Raimi really is amazing. He's the only director who's style I can immediately notice when watching their movies.
Dr. Strange 2 was a victim of its own hype. What it is is actually a very solid standalone horror entry to the MCU. What it is not, which I expected, is a setup for future MCU outings and a cameo fest. Things we should've never expected from it. Perhaps that's the online fervor, or the misleading marketing. Who knows.
i mean the title is literally the multiverse of madness so its normal to think it would have cameos and be a major set up the to the future of the mcu especially when it involves 2 of the strongest characters in the story and the multiverse. also with the cameos, it was kinda weird how the smartest man would tell an enemy how to defeat them and what they did to black bolt and captain marvel was kinda disrespectful but it is still a fun cinema experience even though there are a lot of plot holes and things that just dont make sense
@@davidtaylor142 what even is fan service at this point? It seems that “fan service” sometimes just means “they put a cameo or character fans want to make them happy and I don’t like that! 😡”. I mean they even serve a purpose. They’re not there just for the hell of it.
I thought it was funny, but, honestly, the post-credits scenes are the part of Marvel films I care the least about, and will wait until the dvd release to watch. My wife, on the other hand, will not move from her seat until the lights in the theater go back on.
I adored Multiverse Of Madness as well as it’s horror, violence, and gore, it has Sam Raimi’s fingerprints all over it and I loved it! Moon Knight was quite alright and as much as I liked it, I still enjoy Loki the most out of all the Disney+ shows so far.
As someone who has never read the comics, Moon Knight is easily my favorite character in the MCU. The performance and the way they set him up for someone who is oblivious to who Moon Knight is, it was very enjoyable.
I just love how the movie doesn’t fall into the trap of making magic boring. It fulfills the promise of a movie based around the Sorcerer Supreme and that’s awesome
Yah that's definitely always been the high points of the Doctor Strange movies. Glad they didn't lose their creativity for this one even if the film was flawed
I think one of the best examples of moon knight cutting shots up instead of holding it is when the wolf monster gets impaled. That was one of the hardest shots I've seen in a marvel show but it immediately cuts away to some random shots of him like getting off the ground
I’m really surprised Marcus didn’t like Moonknight more. Literally I thought some of the shots are so creative, especially the camera work in 4, 5, 6. Plus Oscar Isaac acting with Oscar Isaac was just amazing. Still respect the opinion, just surprised.
@@jamesb9894 very very sarcastic. No one cares but I've kinda had enough with his videos and I think this is my last one. Used to really like them but I guess I grew out of his constantly inconsistant takes. If it gets him clicks and engagement, more power to him, but this is the last of mine he's getting mine - he's not having any fun and neither am I.
I loved the horror and trippy moments of Multiverse of Madness but the editing, line delivery, and CGI in like half the movie had me dying inside a little bit. the fake hair on wong in some of his scenes is also hilarious as well
and for a movie titled "Multiverse of Madness", am I the only one who thought it severely lacked both multiverse and madness? They go to what, 2 universes? Both of which visually look very similar to the regular one.
Honestly, John Krazinki as Reed Richards just made my day. He was absolutely perfect. Blackbolt was very well portrayed as well I’m surprised that they had the balls to make Wanda the villain in the first place and they make her pretty irredeemable too
Right, in modern franchises I never see a (albeit morally grey but still heroic) protagonist turn into a straight up villain. I hope they just keep her a villain or at the very least dont just excuse all her actions and make her a hero as some series likes to do, because I feel Wanda doesn’t deserve redemption even if she “learned her lesson”
I was definitely over-hyped for Doctor Strange 2 with regards to cameos. Even though they weren't there, I still had so much fun watching it. Doctor Strange 1 and 2 are both some of my favourite MCU movies, I don't know why. This was great, 9/10 for me I think. Although that might drop after a second viewing.
"Even though they weren't there" did you sleep through the entire illuminati act? Also bruce Campbell showing up is the only cameo that really mattered to me in this movie lol
thank you for saying that the second mom post credit scene isn’t for everyone, me and my sister were laughing and excited about it but our surrounding audience was mad and complained, we even had to educate a woman next to us who had no clue of sam raimi or bruce campbell
I was also quite surprised at how "Raimi-ish" the Dr Strange movie was. In a good way. I really enjoyed how it was definitely his take on an MCU movie. Even though it had some definite weak points in characters and story, it made up for that in just being entertaining and stylish.
I didn’t know anything about Moon Knight when the show first came out, but decided to watch it anyway and was very intriguing and I was captivated by Oscar Issac’s performance and the mystery behind some elements of the show. The fifth episode was by far the best, I agree with that with the emotional depth and bond Marc and Steven gain. I hope for a second season or at least a full movie taking place after this. For Doctor Strange 2, I loved the movie a lot personally. My expectations weren’t too high and I guess that was a good thing. I personally loved how Wanda’s arc ended with her being rejected and called a monster by alternate Wanda’s kids. I felt that’s the only way she could have really took a second thought and perspective and realized what she was doing. It’s obvious they couldn’t beat her so I’m satisfied with her arc ending that particular way. I definitely agree that the directing and cinematography were the best parts of the film. It was phenomenal and really made you feel what the characters were going through and what they were thinking. I honestly never realized how brutal the movie was until you pointed it out. The kills were definitely terrifying but didn’t feel at all out of place for Marvel. I loved the different approach for this movie and hope Raimi does more Marvel movies soon.
I like Raimi's directing in this film, the movie feels like it's directed by two directors (scott derrickson) for the basic marvel stuff. Then crazy horror by raimi. I do agree with you on the score it's a C+ to a B-.
Scott Derrickson left the project months before it started filming and even if he somehow was involved in one part of the film, he's a director with a distinctive horror style himself and wouldn't be just responsible for the "basic MCU stuff".
Raimi's Spider-Man trilogy mostly had a basic feel w/ very few sequences like the hospital scene. Hence, this is pretty much a hybrid of his 20th & 21st century styles of filmmaking.
@@jp3813 I agree to disagree, I'd say even his non-horror movie moments in his Spider-Man movies had more stylistic input than a lot of what we see in the MCU.
@@themadtitan7603 I wasn't comparing his trilogy w/ other MCU films. There's no denying that Doctor Strange 2 is closer to Raimi's 20th century style than his Spider-Man movies. The man himself admitted that he abandoned that style for a while after The Quick and the Dead barely made its money back.
@@jp3813 I'm not denying that Multiverse of Madness has sequences closer to his Evil Dead or 20th century style (as you put it) than his Spider-Man movies. I was debating the part of your initial reply where you stated "mostly had a basic feel..." by saying that even the non-horror moments in that trilogy had lots of stylistic input too so I won't call them basic the same way I could see how someone might call the MCU's often conveyor belt directing, "basic".
It's funny, everything people are saying about Strange 2 sounds just like what people said about the original Spider-Man trilogy. Raimi has a distinctive style, and I think the most underappreciated part of that style is how fondly his films are remembered as time goes on.
I’m sure they will be… but not to mcu fans. The way I see it is, we saw one of everyone’s favorite marvel characters (out of comics fans in general, I don’t know anyone who dislikes Dr. Strange, and in comics circles that’s pretty rare,) get hyped up by marketing to get one of the most insanely epic *marvel* movies ever and then walked into the theaters to get a Sam Raimi-sized dump over the opportunity.
@@Caleb-zl4wk Raimi did an amazing job on this film. The actors also did an amazing job. There are two glaring problems with the movie. The first being the writing, second being the marketing. The pacing of the script was garbage, and the story itself was convoluted as hell. It was a classic MCU spectacle over substance film. As for the marketing, you said yourself it was marketed to be one of the most insanely epic marvel movies ever made. That was never what the movie was intended to be. Such a classic bait and switch has never been seen since the likes of Kangaroo Jack. Unfortunately, I think this might end up being the new normal. Disney knows existing MCU fans are already going to watch their movies. Now they're trying to bring in a new audience. They'll get Chloe Zhao to direct Eternals in an effort to grab film festival goers, or get Sam Raimi as an attempt to cash in on his die hard fan base. Both did a good job at directing their respective movies, but were given absolutely terrible scripts to work with. It's rather depressing, since all they need are some competent writers and everyone would be happy.
@@malachihormel7994 I think Disney should put more faith in presenting the vision of the director in the marketing itself and not present a muted version of it in a big action-spectacle package which would lead to a lot of disappointments with that the film specifically delivered like you're seeing in a lot of reactions to MoM. Eternals on the other hand, I'd say was fairly promoted like how the film was; a sweeping, thoughtful blockbuster with grand cosmic ideas.
I personally freaking loved Moon Knight from start to finish and thought it was near perfect (except for the CGI). Love the humor, drama, story, mystery, characters, and angst. 9.5 outta 10 for me. MoM didn’t impact me so much. I like the first one more, although this one was super unique and fun. But there were moments that were too slow for me or personal nitpicks that popped up throughout. I need to watch it again to know my true thoughts I think, but for now it’s a… 7/10 I suppose. Loved your vid as usual Marcus, and respect your opinions wholeheartedly.
I was so Happy when i walked out of Doctor Strange with no 1000 cameos of different characters. And it felt so good to have watched a marvel movie that at alot of times didn't feel like a MCU film but its own thing.
but you can see how the mcu fans were disappointed to hell and back, right? Like not saying they actually had to throw in any more cameos. I would have really (*really*) appreciated the original 6 members of the Illuminati but they didn’t really have to do any of that. My only thing is, why was it so clearly not designed to be an mcu movie… that used (and killed) marvel characters? And was marketed as a marvel movie? Like was it supposed to be dark? Sure. Was it supposed to sacrifice the marvel for the darkness? I don’t think that was conveyed.
@@Caleb-zl4wk I just think because Sam Rami(who directed lots of horror movies) was apart of it that’s probably when the script got dark. I don’t mind it and felt like Marvel was really starting to grow up with its audience. Back at the Panel when by hey announced it they did “warn” that it would be the first MCU horror movie. I understand not everyone watches those but it was pretty out there that this wouldn’t be as MCU family friendly.
@@Caleb-zl4wk and I’m a huge mcu fan and wasn’t disappointed if anything relieved not to have a bunch of cameos that took away from the story. I will say I was hoping to see more original faces from the Illuminati but then again it’s a different earth so maybe we will see the original 6 some other time. Maybe 6 that are alive😂😂.
@@shadowfauxe6468 hmm, ok. I keep getting told it was very clear, I didn’t get that at all. Going into the movie I expected darkness because someone I went with got that message and I trusted them to know, but yeah I think that while their communication was good, it could have been better. Even looking back at the trailer, things looked like there would be more tension in Wanda's transformation into the villain, for example. And the illuminati was kind of that bass-drop "sike this is what the movie's *really* about" moment (think Morbius trailer (it hurts to use that as a good example of everything but it conveys what I mean about the tone switch)) from what I could tell. Honestly I thought the evil "getting out of hand" alternate strange would be closer to the main villain than anyone. My point is the trailers made it look like a tense, character-driven action-adventure movie that thrusts us into a new environment. The movie was a horror with some new scenery and cameos that, tbh, only served to give Raimi something to work with when it comes to his specialty.
the camera was my biggest take away from doctor strange, like finally it feels like the camera is being used to enhance the emotions and movements of the scenes instead of just showing us blandly what we should be seeing
I fucking hate the camera work 💀 it made alot of the horror elements laughable at times for me personally, and that stupid ass montage when Wanda started dreamwalking had me deadass laughing 💀
@@blvze5017 For me the problem was it feels like the first 1/3 of the movie was entirely just zooming in on characters faces, cut reverse shot, and blur the f"ck out of the background. And they focused the camera so hard on Strange + Wanda's face when neither of them tend to emote with their face. They mainly emote with their voice. It was awful.
@@haruhirogrimgar6047 if you think the camerawork in this movie is bad, you must have no way home then, if not you must not know what you're talking about, because no way home cinematography and camerawork is dull af
The Illuminati deaths were brutal. Imagine how upset the MCU fans are in that universe. This new villain shows up with zero foreshadowing and absolutely deletes them in seconds.
_Thank you!_ Something that always really bugs me is inconsistency in characters' power levels, and lame deaths is a major source. Especially after all the creative kills leading up to it, a friggin' rock is supposed to take her out? It's not even a sneak attack or magically augmented, but just plain old gravity. There's so much more they could have done, even as a double-tap.
I honestly didn't even notice any "brutality", cuz that's how comic book movies should be. There should be elements that appeal to all audiences, not just campy kiddy shit. The Netflix series like Daredevil and Punisher got that right.
@@nahor88 I said brutal bc it caught me completely off guard when I saw it, I was used to the recent disneyfied movies that I just wasnt expecting them to blow some heads up
Doctor Strange 2 is a visual masterpiece but I do think the script was flat compared to other MCU movies. Visually its a 10/10, but script wise its between a 5 or 6 for me
I’d say the villain was one of the best in the MCU. Well rounded with dimension and acted great. They go from tender and loving to horror monster effortlessly.
Same that's why I overall give it a 7/10. It was alright. The pacing of the script was too bad for me to love it and I really wanted to like it. I think Cosmonaut was fair with his 7.5 The movie's pacing jumps from point A to point B way too quickly with no breathing time. Christine's wedding is sandwiched between 2 action scenes. The movie never has time to hone in on it's themes of Strange needing control and being the one that has to hold the knife or the themes about him not truly being happy despite trying to lie to himself and say he is. America Chavez was underdeveloped and uninteresting she needed more screen time. Her and Strange didn't have a lot of time to bond and him encouraging her at the end fell a little flat to me because of that.
Idk why but the first 10 minutes of the film where ear piercing when I watched it in theaters. Pacing was off but other wise great movie - just wish evil Dr strange didn't die so easily
It's very cathartic to hear that your thoughts on Doctor Strange are pretty much exactly the same as mine, right down to being irritated by that one character dying via a statue falling on them. I wish there were more horror elements, because those where definitely the best part. After a certain point, it got real schlocky and I started enjoying it a lot. It also has the best end credits scene out of any MCU film!
I know the “falling rubble” thing can be annoying, but I really disagree about the villain not working as a fully fledged out character in those final moments. The emotional turn that happens, and the implications it has for the character, is honestly my favorite scene of the film.
I feel like we’re rehashing their ark from a previous movie. Loved one dies, turn evil, turn good after other loved one opens their eyes. Apparently she didn’t grow though. Phase 4 has marked an extreme regression in a few characters and has this goofy ridiculous tone. They all feel like comedies at this point. This movie was very mediocre and with so other movies that look good with no substance it’s hard to give this anything higher than a 5. And that’s purely for enormous laugh I got from the ending
@@_Donovan you call it “rehashing,” I call it “character displaying a toxic pattern of behavior that gets increasingly, tragically extreme because they fail to reach proper emotional resolution.”
As somebody who has never read any marvel comics before, Moonknight was an easy 9.5/10 for me. I can understand getting bored with it if you already know where it’s going.
Exactly how I feel. I avoided all spoilers or reviews until I watched it, and I have to say I really loved the show. Don’t usually follow the comics, but I’ve had my fair share of “overhype” from other installations.
Saw Professor Paranormal on saturday, and I REALLY liked it. Visually, it is one of my favorite marvel movies. The story didn't have that much of an impact, but I just liked watching the cool fights and different settings. And by far my favorite scene could be encapsulated in two words: "What mouth?"
But the ending was literally the exact same as wandavision's ending. Having Wanda accept that she can't be with her kids and that in trying to have a happy family she has hurt people. How is it emotional when the film hasn't made much time for emotional scenes, prioritizing exposition and multiversal cameos instead?
One moment of this movie that really creeped me out was that sorta-not-really break of the fourth wall when Wanda possesses her counterpart, and she just slowly looks at the camera. Locking eyes with the viewers, and thats it, no jumpscare, no confirmation she really saw us, just a very creepy "I see you..." moment. Reminds me one thing praised about Skarsgard performance as Pennywise in the first movie is that because of his slightly mismatching eyes, he managed to have one eye at the characters and one eye at the cameras, always staring at the viewer.
The main problem that I have with Multiverse of Madness is that it disregards pretty much all of Wanda’s character development from Wanda Vision. All the learning and grieving she got was completely gone, and I know shes supposed to be corrupt because of the darkholde or whatever but still. Also, no vision? In any universe whatsoever?, The one thing Wanda wants the most it’s supposed to be a family, but in this movie she only cares about her children and her children alone. But still, I did enjoy the movie, however I don’t see how Wanda can be redeemed after this. (Side note, Tommy and Billie’s song about ice cream was about the cringiest thing I have ever watch in the MCU)
Same dude. I just got finished making the same comment under a different thread. They ruined Wanda and all the potential for the MCU going forward from WandaVision.
I didn't get that feeling of maturity after watching WandaVision. I don't think she experienced as much growth as you think after WandaVision. In the last scene, she is very clearly conjuring the DarkHold in an effort to find her children, which fits perfectly into her motivations here. After all she has done, I don't think she is redeemable, and that's kind of the point. I personally didn't think she was all that redeemable even after WandaVision, so her being the antagonist here feels like the next step for her arc.
@@anthonypuccini1914 I would agree with you if she had more time to do her heel turn. The other thing she wanted at the end of WandaVision was to have a family with Vision, who was absent from the movie. Imo, the movie would have been more interesting if the real antagonist was another Wanda, another Strange, or another Wanda and Strange team. It would have given Wanda the chance to see how strong she could become if she embraced the darkhold, and become a more satisfying arc overall.
@@ericstorm6582 Before this I would've said GotG Vol 2 since that is a legitimately visually captivating film but especially compared to most of the recent Phase 4 films this one exceeds all expectations in terms of pure direction and camerawork by far, and it actually feels like a legit Sam Raimi film instead of just an MCU movie with Sam Raimi's touch (which isn't to put down other projects but it's far more pronounced here)
Moon Knight was pretty cool for the most part, but kinda dropped the ball on the finale. Dr Strange 2 is totally wild, it had introduced a ton of multiversal concepts that I love, but it had moments that were meh. It is nothing like what I was expecting but it works pretty well anyways. The horror aspects were surprisingly fun too.
I have really enjoyed some of the character work Marvel has put in, but am continually disappointed with boring CGI heavy finales. I love a good fight scene, but Marvel consistently makes me yawn during theirs. Meanwhile I tend to get bored in overly talky movies/shows, but find myself engrossed in Loki/Sylvie scenes or Oscar Isaac putting on a show. Marvel seems to be going in a strange place with good characters and ideas, but having to stick to strict formulas that dull what could be excellent entertainment.
As someone who also never read the comics and only has a slight inkling who what he was like, this story was by far my best mcu show experience. It seems unanimous that everyone thinks the second to last episode is really good.
I'd say something that worked more for me in Moonknight is the fact that I didn't know he had {SPOILERS}. So the build up to that in the first couple of episodes worked more for me XD P.S : MvC3 Dr Strange ost FTW XD
I’d say Multiverse of Madness certainly isn’t the best, but it’s my favorite marvel movie. It just went crazy and did as it pleased in the best way possible. The horror elements, the cinematography, the crazy stuff happening at every turn, etc. It was just an incredibly fun ride throughout that felt unique.
It's just such a comic book movie to it's core, we've reached this peak in movies. Idk the vibe of starting with something insane and then cutting to our main character. Great stuff in this movie.
@@madsisveryreal never said it was masterpiece, i think it's more than just *ok*. This is Marcus saying it after all, he hates what most like and likes what most hate. Usually that's the case
I like the first two episode because it shows the confusion of a real person with DID people with DID aren’t ment to know they have it the brain hides it
I watched Moon Knight with my younger brother as I have been doing with every MCU Disney+ show since WandaVision and I quite enjoyed myself. Third favorite Marvel Disney+ show after Loki and WandaVision and made me want to be more of a fan of the character. And I very much enjoyed MOM. Elizabeth Oslen was amazing in the movie as well everyone else in the cast doing a good job. Really liked the horror elements, pushing the boundary of PG-13, the action sequences and Sam Raimi ultimately doing his thing. And I’m very happy that it wasn’t the cameo fest that I thought or maybe even feared it to be but fundamentally a Doctor Strange / WandaVision sequel. My main criticism is that I wish the runtime should have been longer and given the screenplay more time to be breath and developed certain things. I would give the movie a B+ and Moon Knight an A-
@@bandit154 Even Ragnarok, which I really enjoy, lacks standout direction beyond the Valkyrie sequence imo. Taika brought a whole new tone and improvisational style but the shots are still lacking relative to MoM and so many other unique action movies.
I really loved the second post credit scene, mostly because the friends I went with didn’t get it and we’re pissed they waited through the credits to see extended Bruce Campbell cameo
My friends too! Albeit it made me more sad than anything since they started getting pissed at my king man. They just don’t get it man! I’ve gotta *hand* it to the human race at disappointing me
I loved Moon Knight. I loved its locations, themes, action sequences, cinematography, acting, darker tone & climax. Though I wished we got just a bit more of Marc turning into moon knight than just episodes 1,2,3&6 but hey it’s an easy 9.5/10. Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness was amazing 🤩. I loved the acting, cinematography, visual effects, humor, cameos, darker tone & the musical score. The only nit pick I had was just the pacing, like maybe make it 15 or 20 minutes longer but other than that it gets a solid 8/10.
My favorite moment form dr strange 2 was when Jared Leto’s Morbius stares directly at the camera and proclaims “wow this really is dr strange in the multiverse of madness” and then proceeds to morb Wanda 25.7/10 would watch again
One of my two biggest gripes in movie writing is when the MacGuffin that is "needed" to "win" (whatever those terms are for the movie) and is instantly destroyed/removed when obtained and rendered unneeded but the heroes find out they didn't need it after all. It makes me feel like the entire story up until that point is just useless. The other is when characters repeat the same character growth story again (Like Fin in The Last Jedi) only to end up at the exact same place. Doctor Strange 2 managed to nail both of those in a little over 2 hours. Wanda apparently learned nothing from WandaVision when she realized she was the villain for holding an entire town hostage to run away from her grief. She does the exact same thing in this movie, only with herself this time. And comes to the exact same realization, even with having to let go of her kids. Again. Sure, you could say "the Dark Hold is eeeeviiilll and corrupted her", but why? What would be Chthon's goal here? Have Scarlet Witch rule her universe and what? Release himself? None of this is explained. Just the generic "evil book makes you do evil things with no explanation" story. The entire adventure in the "multiverse" could have been replaced with a romp through the normal universe seeing as the interactions with alternate selves is limited to Doctor Strange v. Evil Doctor Strange or Evil Wanda v. Mom Wanda. There was a potential for characters to grow from an alternate perspective into their own life, but it was left for just a couple of fights. Wanda just repeated the same lesson of "oh goodness, I'm a monster. I gotta do better". I dunno, I felt like Disney stifled Raimi because they were unsure of a real horror Marvel movie. It felt like 1/3 Raimi and 2/3rds Disney MCU formula. They should have let him have the R-rated horror movie that he clearly wanted to make. I hope they let him direct again and give him some more freedom. It was a very fun movie to watch, even with the messy or disappointing story beats.
Thank you! We have two MacGuffin books in this story, one of which is so vaguely explained that it was obvious that they were like “why should we even bother going into detail on this book? We’re just gonna destroy it anyway” Wanda regresses as a character and then they drop a building on her. It’s the same shit they did with Jamie Lannisters character in GOT. I’m really shocked that people like this movie as much as they do because the narrative and writing blows shit. I almost fell asleep due to the fact that the first hour and a half of this movie is just people explaining the plot and exposition to eachother. At least the visuals and the horror themed stuff were really cool. If those weren’t as good then I’d consider this a bottom 3 MCU movie
Not only did Sam Raimi actually move the camera, but he also dared to ask the question, "What if the colors actually popped? What if an MCU movie didn't have a gray pallete?
Thank you thank you thank you for saying all the things you said about strange 2, I’m baffled by the critical and fan reactions, I enjoyed it so much, but you hit the nail on the head with this review, it just isn’t for everyone, but there is so much to enjoy and I feel people are overlooking what’s on the screen
I knew nothing about Moon knight, and found the first episode to be my favorite, the show was at it's best when we had the pov of someone extremely confused getting chased by a big bird skeleton, after the secrets were revealed the mystery element faded away, and that's fine, I just really like the chaos
As someone that knew nothing of Moon Knight going in I thought episode 1 was masterful. The story felt so mysterious and Oscar Isaac is brilliant. That time he orders a steak despite being vegan out of sheer heartbreak is amazing. Then imo the show drags in eps 3 and 4 (I think the audience with Harrow in ep 3 is really stupid), but episode 5 is incredible (with a fantastic performance from Isaac) and 6 is a good finale for the season. I feel like the mystery really helped and 100% agree on the fight scenes being kind of meh until the finale. Regarding Doctor Strange, I thought it was pretty good. My issue was how it at times felt like a Raimi movie and a more standard Marvel movie were fighting to take over (kinda like Marc and Steven) without fully committing to either tone. Its scary, but so comedic that it makes a lot of the scary stuff less scary. Elisabeth Olsen is fantastic tho, I really like what they do with Wanda in the movie, maybe the end part is kind of meh, but overall she is sick as hell and its a great way to follow up Wandavision.
Sam Raimi's direction style is horror comedy, not full-on grim horror. You could argue that there were parts that where more familiar to the rest of the MCU, but the comedy being with the horror is not necessarily an MCU influence.
I still can't get over how fucking brutal Blackbolt's death was. The sheer panic of no longer having a mouth made the dude vocalise, which then reverberated into his skull and blew out his brains into his helmet.
I really liked Moon Knight! I thought it was exciting and intruinging, it left me wanting more and I really liked how they still leaves things unanswerd. We cant really trust our main characters perspective and the ending was for me perfect
My thoughts on multiverse Positives: this one definitely has a soul and you can tell an actual director is behind it. The magic was done really well and actually feels magical. Opposed to the first film where character were pretty much punching each other with magic knifes. Also I like the new backstory for Strange that when he was a kid his sister drowned and he was unable to save her on a frozen lake. Which leads him to cope with the loss by thinking sacrifices are inevitable and lead to better outcomes. She needed to die so Strange would become inspired to save people as a surgeon leading to him becoming temporary Sorcerer supreme thus lifting the guilt that he ever could’ve saved her, cause it “needed to happen”. Which is in line with his views on sacrifice in Infinity war, Endgame, No way home, and variants of himself in Multiverse of madness. The music and editing was also phenomenal Negatives: Wanda’s entire ark and role in this movie was done horribly. She comes into this story right after WandaVision a 9 episode show about Wanda realizing she can’t live out a fantasy with her family because she’s hurting people in the process leading to a tearful goodbye between her and her kids. Then in this movie she does the same damn thing but worse. Wanda wants to live out a fantasy with her family and is killing and willing to kill countless people in the process until she realizes it’s wrong and has a tearful goodbye with her kids. YOU CANT MAKE ME FEEL THE SAME THING TWICE IN THE SAME SPECIFIC SITUATION. Dorks will say “she was corrupted by the dark hold in the post credit scene” but a 30 second post credit scene undoing a 9 episode character ark isn’t a good excuse. Hell I think you could argue the post credit scene was leading to something else. All she hears is her kids screaming somewhere in the cosmos which would’ve been a way more interesting role for her in the story. With Wanda believing somewhere her kids not only exist but are in danger and everyone including strange telling her she’s crazy to fuel her anger. As for fan expectations I think most unsatisfied people are justified. Marvel knew what they were doing when they marketed this movie to be the craziest culmination of everything build up in Wandavision, Loki, and No way Home. Keep in mind those were the projects where the strongest witch rewrote reality, characters explored various interesting alternate realities meeting unique versions of themselves along the way then ending with a multiversal war, and then in No way home the prequel to this where they brought back all of Spider-Man’s previous villains from other marvel franchises along with Maquire and Garfield. And once again for them to market this as the even Crazier movie how was it not gonna let people down when this one felt less like the build up of three multiversal projects and more like marvel dipping their toes in the water and trying a multiverse movie. Like just think how weird and insane they could’ve gone with this movie (and I’m not talking cameos) since any insane irreversible act could be undone under the umbrella of “the multiverse is weird”. Also for the mostly nonexistent cameos I think a lot of them were dumb speculation but No way home really made people think anyone showing up was possibility. Though I will say putting every cool cameo in the trailers like prof X really lead to no other reaction than people thinking “if they’re willing to put prof X in the trailer that must mean there’s even crazier people in the movie” I mean when you go to a restaurant that claims it’s the greatest place in the world and the waiter hands you a bread basket for the table you don’t think “this is the whole meal huh”. But in this case it was. While this might seem overall negative I would take this film any day over almost all mcu movies 6.5/10
I had a few gripes too. For one, the MacGuffin book of Vishanti that Dr. Strange needs to go head to head with Wanda and her Darkhold? Destroyed in seconds after its been built up to for half the movie. Dr. Strange is the biggest threat to the multiverse because he's willing to break all the rules? He ends up using the Darkhold anyways. Wanda is a threat to the universe and she does use 2 cool monsters in the beginning, including one that kills Defender Stranger almost immediately, but after that for the most part she only uses her usual chaos magic balls. The arc Strange has about loving Christine ends weirdly with the alternate Christine telling him not to be afraid. The Illuminati also felt wasted, because they dismiss Wanda immediately and are there only to get cannon foddered and tell Strange he's dangerous. Why not have them be an authority on the multiverse and tell us more about it? "The multiverse is a concept about which we know frightenly little." Yeah, and we still don't know jack shit after the movie. I think the trailer went too hard and I went in with expectations too high.
I 100% agree with your take on Wanda’s story being done horribly. Another point to add to yours is Wanda’s trauma in WandaVision stemmed from her loss of Vision by her own hand. The kids were the byproduct and result of the “perfect life” she envisioned for her and vision. Here they make the central focus of why she’s broken on the kids and only give vision like 2 mentions in the whole movie. Makes the whole thing feel entirely manufactured to get her out of the MCU and give Strange a third eye to play with. On manufactured plot, Steven’s whole central conflict this movie is getting over Christine, even tho that’s literally never been a problem for him before??? We only hear about Christine during the first DS movie and never hear about her again until this one (other than the What If episode). This strange has wholly moved on from Christine, but the plot still revolves around other strange’s and Christine’s telling him it’d never work out. That even becomes more ridiculous when the plot of the first movie revolves around strange learning to be selfless. The plot of this movie just felt entirely manufactured. The Rami bits were by far the best parts, but the substance surrounding them was hollow.
You summed up how I feel about Wanda perfectly! This movie feels like it negated all of the development she received in WandaVision. Her grief and acceptance means nothing so they can play the “hysterical” woman trope. It also kind of sucks that 2/3 of the avengers women died due to suicide. (Although I doubt that’s the last we see of Wanda, the sentiment still remains.) The visuals were great though and it was cool to see what she was capable of, the choice just felt a little cheap.
The movie really did feel like it summed up as "Wanda went baby-crazy" and "Man can't be happy without a woman." It was a really gross film in that respect.
*this side of the mcu is definitely my favorite, the more serious, emotional, brutal, and sometimes horror-like side of it. Which, for the people who prefer the light-hearted, funny side of marvel (Ant-man, Spider-man, Thor) probably wouldn't enjoy as much. I personally feel as if the writers are starting to take the emotional aspect of it all more seriously, like they're starting to scrap the overly used comdey bits, and really focus on the mental and emotional depth of these characters, which are most obviously displayed in Wanda and Marc's character through WandaVision (and some of DSITMOM) and Moon Knight*
The problem is that this film ruined the emotional depth, character and story development that was setup in WandaVision. They literally ruined Wanda's character and her arc falls so incredibly flat. She has the exact same motivations as in WandaVision so it is as if she learned nothing from her prior experiences. She doesn't feel like remotely the same character and imo having an evil book do that is just lazy writing. This movie has Wanda as a zombie rather than an emotional or real character. However, Strange and Christine had some excellent emotional beats and those parts of the film made them feel like real people, like when they discuss whether they are actually happy. Can't say the same for Wanda or any other characters in the film though.
If you think MoM was complex or serious you're not thinking clearly. It was by far the campiest marvel movie, like it or not. Dr Strange giving America a pep talk through a zombie body with half his face melted off in a difference dimension was peak camp.
I loved the pacing of the show. I knew very little just did some light reading on the character before the show came out and I was intrigued the whole way through. I’m about to watch it all over again. Loved every minute of it honestly
I really love how cold and vicious Wanda was to the Illuminati. "What mouth?" and "Atleast there'll be one parent left to raise them" are probably some of my favorite lines in a movie ever.
I do think Maria's death is pretty unimaginative but you can see her mask peeling off when she is battling Wanda and then there's a big explosion When the rubble falls to her i think they wanted to imply Wanda sucked her powers out cuz she doesn't fly away or even use her powers to protect herself
As someone with DID moon knight was fun representation! A bit iffy at times but that’s ok. It’s not split or shit like that. It also got me into the comics too Edit: I also would suggest using alter/headmate in the future when talking about them :D
i completely agree with the moon knight sentiments because i’m in the same boat, but i’m hoping season 2 gives us more of MOON KNIGHT. i also really enjoyed the first couple episodes just because of the way they present the idea of dual personalities with one character blacking out and then waking up a second later, but it had been hours, even days as the other character. i always think things like that are really cool, so i assume that’s why it was much better for me.
Yeah, part of what I appreciate about Dr Strange is that it isn’t meant for everyone. It isn’t made to satisfy the most number of people. There are things about the movie that I liked, and things I didn’t like. And the cool thing is that different people like or dislike different parts of the movie. It’s refreshing to have an MCU movie that’s different and that people can have a wide range of opinions on other than “it’s amazing” or “it sucks.” I think that’s what a lot of people don’t realize. They can like a movie without it being the best movie ever, and just because a movie has problems doesn’t mean I have make a choice between hating it or ignoring the problems and saying it’s amazing. Dr Strange is good. I had some issues with the character work as well, but I thought the positives outweighed the negatives.
Multiverse Of Madness was great and I can't wait to go back to the theater and watch it again. My only complaint is I wish Wanda did more reality bending magic, in WandaVision she can literally create what she wants at will but in Multiverse of madness most of the time she's throwing red ki blasts
MCU feels really bad with magic tbh. In all of the films Wanda basically just does telekenisis and red energy blasts. Wong in this movie just chucked a dinky little blade on a string around. And Dr. Strange barely does anything that isn't just "orange object moves." And in Shang Chi the magic was generally just moving the wind enough to put someone off balance. With something that has such endless potential as magic and the ability to warp reality, it feels like MCU film makers have no idea what to do with it.
I’ve never been a fan of the trope where a character who can’t control their powers gets a pep talk about ‘believing in themselves’, then they can suddenly control it just fine
I really loved black bolt, i don't exactly know why. I remember vaguely about an episode of an animated show with him, he stopped the whole conflict just by saying "peace". Loved that moment
As someone who had no knowledge of Moon Knight before the show, I found the build up very interesting. However, I understand completely how someone with prior knowledge of the character might get a bit impatient with the first few episodes.
yeah i loved watching steven, and us, figure stuff out as the show progresses
As a prior fan of moon knight, I thought it was an okay show if I didnt think about the books but it sucks for me it wasnt more like any of the books I liked
It sucks that Moon Knight was race changed
@@chaseyoung7896 ...why? He's Jewish, and in the show he's Jewish
Also him being Latino was actually pretty badass if you know what scene I'm talking about
@mmm mmm are you ok with Liet Kynes being a black girl in Dune?
One thing I really admire about Moon Knight is that it had ZERO desire to connect itself to the rest of the MCU. I almost don’t want Steven/Marc to interact with any other heroes, keep him here!
@Damian Thomas Knight Wayne not really, it was more of a passing mention!
@Damian Thomas Knight Wayne for black panther and moonknight they were both in pocket dimensions designated for the after life for the religion the personal takes on.
Thanos was just chillin in the soul dimension where the sacrificed souls/souls that were claimed during the snap were stored, Thanos was actually snapped away technically but he survived because the soul stone revived him.
But the only way connection so far is that Khonshu is siblings with the Panther goddess, and Jake Lockley is in New York. They have a Blade movie coming up and I strongly believe Moonknight will be in it, or at least will tease it, I believe there’s talk of a Midnight Suns projecting going on which will include Moonknight, ghost rider, punisher, and the black night. I am truly excited for this side of the MCU because they specialize in brutal combat and vampires, werewolf’s, and demons
When I first saw the first episode I can't help but think its a shame such an interesting premise eventually needs to be connected to the MCU
what about daredevil?
There were like 2 background references and one blatant one lol
You gotta admit, Black Bolt being in this movie was *mindblowing*
Love the brutality in Doctor Strange 2
I agree
...wait-
I really hope you did that on purpose lmao
I know I am asking a bit too much of you but could you atleast *try* to get a life?
*(sigh)* yeah
I actually really like how Wanda realizes her mistakes in this movie. The only possible thing that would make her realize she’s a monster is if she sees her children view her as one.
It would’ve been cool if she didn’t already have the same character arc in this movie as she did in Wandavision
That was so stupid the entire movie was pointless when that happened
@@bigdadybojangls9219 exactly! Plus: it isnt like her plan was to appear before her children in that awful context, as the scarlett witch, a portal, hell breaking loose all over. She said they wouldnt even know he wasnt her real mother. So, she should have expected that reaction, its only logical, they are children. It made her look pretty stupid.
Loved the movie otherwise.
@@arthur99mun “it made her look pretty stupid”, that was literally the point. Obviously her way of thinking and plans were stupid, she just didn’t realise that until she saw billy and tommys response
If you watched WandaVision, it makes all of Doctor Strange 2 terrible to watch. The whole character arc in WandaVision was that she was being selfish and using her powers for herself while putting other people's lives at risk. At the end she gives up her fantasy for the sake of other people...NOW all of the sudden she's totally cool with risking ALL of reality and the multiverse for the same thing again?
I admire your consistency of using Rogue's theme from X-Men vs Street Fighter in every Marvel video.
finally found out what song it is
Oh,is that what that music is called.
He liked the X-Mens Rogue before he discovered how *interesting* she was in the 90's.
I love all the marvel vs. series music that he uses in his reviews.
Thanks I’ve been wondering what music he uses I thought it was F-Zero but thanks now i know what song this is
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I definitely agree with the rubble bit you mentioned. They should not be getting killed by falling rocks when they can take hits from laser beams and a million other stronger projectiles. Although Wanda’s “death” was left pretty ambiguous and I doubt she’s dead, even Elizabeth Olsen said so as well.
As for the end of Wanda’s arc in the movie, I was actually very happy with how they did it. I wouldn’t have accepted anyone defeating her in battle because they’ve depicted her as just too powerful. When she is rejected by her kids and called a monster, only to be reassured by her alternate self that she possessed, I thought that resonated emotionally enough to make her stop her rampage. Idk it’s kinda hard what else they could’ve done to wrap up her arc.
Wanda still has the same strength and durability as any regular human.Her magical abilities can’t compensate for that.There is multiple times where she got hit and injured by regular attacks that weren’t energy projections
It reminds me of the ending of Spider-Man 2 with the appeal to the humanity in the villain.
If you look very closely, before the rubble collapses there's a flash of red between the rocks. I took this as a sign she "teleported out" or some equivalent to that with her powers to escape.
@@brandonw2885 I feel exactly the same
@@bun5118 Thank you, finally someone else talking about this, I haven't seen anyone mention the red flash!
“He actually moves the god damn camera” That sums up everything I love about the movie
Yeah the MCU is normally so boringly shot, like the directors have no personality. I can only think of Guardians of Galaxy 2 as an exception
@@Johnnysmithy24 also the first one, Moon Knight, and Ragnarok
I knew nothing about Moon Knight coming into the show, and it's clear that I was the intended audience for it. The complete mystery about what's going on with funny British man made it intensely interesting to me. If I'd known all about the character already, I can see how those first few episodes may have been harder to get through. However, as a show establishing a reasonably unknown character to the audience, I think it did a fantastic job.
Multiverse of Madness was fantastic! I don't have much else to say. Easily in the top 5 Marvel movies for me!
Nothing about Moon Knight is British. This show, from what I understand, is a blasphemous marring of the character. Stay away from the comics, if you truly enjoyed the show.
EDIT: Did you even gather that Moon Knight is the son of a rabbi? As in: did you even catch that Moon Knight is Jewish?
@@itsmytoast666 It is FAR from a bastardization of the character you're making it out to be. Steven Grant being British isn't even like remotely an issue. The comics took a long ass time to even give him any sort of traits beyond "I'm the rich one and Marlene loves me more than you Marc". I honestly prefer this version of Grant to the comics version
This isn't X-Men Origins' version of Deadpool or Fant4stic's Doctor Doom. It's not 1:1 the comics but it actually works for the story being told, especially the stuff with Layla and Marc's past
@@icedcapplord710 okay, I'll give it a shot, based on that. HOWEVER: Marc Spector is a rabbi's son and his being Jewish is a HUGE part of his character. Now, riddle me this... Does the show even acknowledge that?
Moon Knight's a New Yorker. The fact that there's even a smidget of British citizenship is a slap in the face to the creators and the fans, dude. Being a New Yorker and being the son of a rabbi is a HUGE part of his character and is a very specific kind of identity. As someone who is also a New York Jew, who is also a huge fan of the charac, the show feels like a kick to the groin.
No, I haven't seen it, yet. I don't think I want to support something that seems to be working to erase me.
@@itsmytoast666 they do acknowledge that he is a Jew in episode 5
@@itsmytoast666 Not only do they acknowledge, he’s Jewish, they reveal that the British persona isn’t even his real self… which should be obvious from how fake his accent sound’s anyway
The 5th episode of Moon Knight was one of the most emotionally impactful episodes of any show I’ve watched in a while, if I go back and watch the series again I’d probably look forward to that one more than the ending
Shame that episode 6 was terrible
As a moon knight enjoyer, and as an Evil Dead enjoyer, the last 2 months have definitely been the best the MCU has been in a while
Bruce Campbell was great
what does this have to do with evil dead?
@@PoorEdward sam Raimi directed evil dead 1 2 and army of darkness, he directs this movie, Bruce Campbell is the main character in the franchise and cameos in Raimi’s Spider-Man movies, which he directed and this movie has camera work that is like evil dead, Bruce Campbell has the best cameo in Doctor Strange 2 out of everyone in the Illuminati
Nah dog. Mom was a dumpster 🔥
Going into doctor strange while avoiding trailers, spoilers, leaks and rumors really helped in my enjoyment of the movie. I learned my lesson from Wandavision speculation
I wish I went in blind to no way home like I did doctor strange, I didn't watch any trailers and I avoided every leak and rumour but unfortunately I didn't do the same with nwh, would've been so much better
me too, so excited when christine 838 said Baxter Building, i knew the illuminati and xavier is in it, but never sure they're gonna put a reed richard here.
@Henry Jett one word. MEPHISTO
@Henry Jett New rockstars needs to be BANNED!! I swear they're ruining these movies for casuals who actually believe their bs stories just cause they read comics
@@Jogoat286 honestly kinda glad marvel was so terrible before NWH that I kinda just completely stopped caring and so went into NWH with almost nothing besides that hello Peter meme and was genuinely surprised when they brought all the Spidermen back
Felt like Doctor Strange 2 was made specifically for me. I went into this with zero expectations and was only interested because Sam Raimi was directing and I walked out of it immensely satisfied. The story was stupid as hell but the movie was so batshit insane and fun that I just stopped caring. The scene when Wanda infiltrates the illuminati is when I started having the time of my life. The last hour felt like pure Sam Raimi and the final shot was right out of Evil Dead.
Leave it Sam Raimi to somehow make a MCU movie about demons and zombies 😅
Yeah I sent in with high expectations because Sam Raimi was directing it
The music fight and entire dreamwalking scene were so absurdly fun. Everything after Wanda arriving at the sanctuary place was killer, I understand peoples issues with the pacing but I appreciate that within 15 minutes it goes nuts to butts with genuine creativity and direction, so many sequences that are head and shoulders above the majority of the MCU.
felt the exact same
It felt the exact opposite to me, I hate how Raimi directs movies, he's a camp lord and it just takes me out of a movie I already had zero expectations from.
I liked both projects but both could have benefited from being a bit longer. MoonKnight could have been 1 or 2 episodes longer to really reinforce some of the marc and Steven coming to terms scenes. Dr. Strange could have used an extra 20 minutes especially for plot development to make it seem less rushed and clunky.
MOM needed more than twenty minutes tbh:
-An extended Strange v Strange fight would've been nice
-More development on America Chavez's backstory
-More universe hopping
-An explanation as to how Wanda actually came to find America Chavez and decide to kill her
-Wanda using more of those demons (seriously, these things are brawling with sorcerer supreme(s) and travel across universes, she shouldn't just stop using them).
-A waaayyy longer battle with the Illuminati, or at least a more impactful one. Or maybe just cut them out entirely? The Illuminati were pretty much just trailer bait and rumor hype, they did *nothing* other than exist.
DS:MOM was around 40 minutes longer, not just 20 minutes in one cut. I wished they didn't cut it down because it could've helped flesh out Stephen and Wanda's arc more organically, helped explain certain plot devices and MacGuffins like the Book of Vishanti and Darkhold better, and a longer Illuminati battle because while I liked the scene itself where they die in over-the-top ways, I think the team should've put on more of a fight.
@@themadtitan7603 I think 20-40 more minutes would have been prefect. I think anything pushing 3 hours would be a tough watch in the theaters but then again I enjoyed how long endgame was
@@mosorireayewale2820 Great list. I think if we got all of this combined with Sam Raimi's wonderful direction then MoM could've genuinely been one of the best MCU films ever made, maybe even Top 5. Especially the points about more development for certain characters and extended Strange vs Sinister Strange and Illuminati battles; I liked the scenes themselves but both Sinister Strange and Illuminati could've given more of a fight.
@@2kdegenerate708 I didn't say it should've been pushing 3 hours. The movie's actual runtime is less than 2 hours without credits, so another 40 minutes would've put it at the 2 hrs 30-40 minutes range.
Oscar Isaac absolutely killed his role in Moon Knight. Episode 5 is truly an amazing watch just for his acting. I liked Moon Knight, however as somebody who has read *almost* every single Moon Knight comic I just wish we got to see more Moon Knight being Moon Knight. It was a great origin story with a great villain and great acting but it would be criminal if Moon Knight didn't get his own movie or at very least a season two with everything they set up.
That last fight in Moon Knight. Especially the Mr Knight scene was actually incredible
@Whgu ybnm Huh Rampage*
I’d like it more if they didn’t fucking skip Jake Lockley’s fight
@@IsaacC94 EXACTLY. Would have been such a good wrap up. They’ve been hyping up his brutality since the first episode but then they literally just skip it the last episode.
All just for a lil reveal mid-credits
I really liked the post credit scene where Morbius showed up and said to Strange "Dr. Micheal Morbius at your service"
The whole theater lost it and cheered
Dude I think I was in the same theater????
@@burgergud2804 damn bro! Me too
Yooo that post credit was fireeee
It's morbin' time.
Benefits of watching morbius daily:
Day 1 - You watch morbius. Instantly love it.
Day 5 - Improved motivation and productivity. You feel as a whole a stronger human being
Day 10 - you have energy whenever you want and can sleep as long or short as you need to, people start getting jealous
Day 30 - Greater confidence and self-esteem. Mental clarity. Youre able to perfectly recite the script
Day 60 - Increased muscle mass, bone density, and cardiovascular capacity. Testosterone through the roof. Women start talking
Day 120 - Higher sperm count. Increased erection strength and duration. You’ve now memorised the choreography of the entire movie, you can execute the stunts and movements performed to a tee
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Day 1500 - Starbucks baristas start writing their numbers on your receipts. Your ex wants to get back together. You feel tempted but ultimately turn her down. You need more time to watch morbius.
Day 3000 - You can't keep up with all your tinder matches. Strange women begin hitting on you in public. You worry about your female boss. Fortunately, she keeps it professional.
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Day 60000 - Scientists propose that attraction to you be classified as its own sexual orientation, which will account for 97.5 percent of the world's population. Paradoxically, you no longer feel any sexual desire. You have achieved a higher consciousness and now love every human-being equally.
Day 100,000 - Your IQ increases by several morbillion. You come up with a workable model of quantum gravity in a rainy Sunday afternoon. Elon Musk steps down from SpaceX to work for you. You decide to put space exploration on hold to focus on achieving clean energy through nuclear fusion.
Day 200,000 - You've solved the problem of nuclear fusion. You also solved the problems of climate change, poverty, crime, and racism. You have been elected the very first President of the World.
Day 500,000 - you’ve watched morbius half a million times. You can psychically project the entire movie into whoever's mind you please. You have achieved everything, understood everything, and solved every problem faced by humanity. All that needs to be done has been done. There's nothing left to do.
You give your fellow humans one last look-they're still not watching morbius, trapped in their primitive way-but you don't judge. The path of Morbius was never meant for the ordinary men.
"Watch morbius. But if you must, use lube." Those were your parting words.
Now, released from all shackles of the mundane, and purified of all imperfections, your body ephemeralizes, as your ever-illuminated consciousness ascends into another dimension. It's morbin' time
I adored Moon Knight for multiple reasons, especially the character writing which is *so* good, it just deserved more episodes. I didn’t know much about MK going in, so that origin thing wasn’t a problem for me, but I definitely understand your perspective. If any show deserves a season 2, it’s this one. Also really liked MoM and was so glad it wasn’t a cameo-fest without a central plot or character focus, as neat as cameos are.
I didn't know a single thing about MK before the show, and they ended it in a way that solved the current conflict, while getting me hyped for many more to come. Absolutely deserved more episodes for what it did in just 6 imo.
Moon Knight was pissing me off.. So much potential, yet filled with plot holes. Just to list a few:
Why did Layla bring the scarab directly to Harrow and his crew? There was litterally no reason to do this and it causes the events of the entire series, and they never even acknowledge that she indirectly cause the deaths of thousands.
The whole trial against Harrow is the dumbest thing I've ever seen. They do ZERO preparation and just walk in there expecting the gods to take them at their word. And even though Ammit proves to be an absolutely insane threat (one that can oneshot all 5 gods for some reason later on with just a "sliver of her power") the gods don't even check up on it. It's not like it's actually hard to check up on Konshu's claims that Harrow wants to bring back Ammit. If it's this serious, at least just have someone follow him for a bit. Why did Konshu have to get their attention by pissing them off? Makes little sense that this is the only way. It's an obvious plot device just to have Konshu mess with the night sky later in the episode and have him imprisoned. That entire episode was super dumb.
Near the end Harrow goes in and just oneshots all the avatars of the gods with the staff containing just a tiny bit of Ammit's power as mentioned earlier. Yet these gods were able to imprison Konshu without even being near him, showing an insane amount of power. And when Konshu is free'd, Layla and Marc are able to defeat Harrow despite Ammit being free at this point and being her actual avatar which I would assume should give him WAY more power. So thinking about this for more than 2 seconds:
The 5 god avatars can easily defeat Konshu, really a non-issue.
Harrow can oneshot the 5 god avatars, with just a small amount of his power at the end, really a non-issue.
Marc and Layla can defeat a super empowered version of Harrow (the guy that just easily won against the 5 god avatars that defeated Konshu with ease, which is where Marc gets his powers).
Anyone with more than 1 brain cell can see that this just makes no sense.
Why and how did Konshu grow to be as big as Ammit for their final fight? And why can Ammit even manifest in the real world when they've shown earlier that they can't do that? They clearly impact the pyramids by falling on them, yet they show earlier that all Konshu in the real world can do is make the wind blow a little bit. If this is all something that their non-avatars can't see, then why can Layla see Konshu and Ammit at the end? They've established that you can only see these gods when your their avatar, which is why Harrow can't see Konshu earlier in the series. Yet for some dumb reason Konshu can talk directly with Harrow later on in the post-credit scene at the last episode. If it's because ALL avatars can see ALL gods, they need to establish this in some way.
At the end when Marc refuses to kill Harrow and compares Konshu to Ammit when Konshu tells Marc to kill them is so stupid. He litterally compares Konshu to Ammit saying "You sound just like her now", but he clearly doesn't Ammit's whole thing was killing people BEFORE they had done bad stuff. Harrow and Ammit have litterally just killed thousands and have proven to be very hard to stop. Why would you risk letting billions of people die by sparing this one psycho and his goddess? The logic is SO flawed and it's as if the writer had zoned out during their own description of Ammit throughout the show. It's meant to show that he has some sort of moral, but it's shown in the worst way and just makes him seem selfish for not wanting to make the sacrifice needed to keep the world safe.
There's probably more that I'm missing but due to ALL of these plot holes, the series just annoyed me. Especially because it's meant to be a twist that Marc is the original and Steven is the fake one. But if your story is filled with this many holes and you only make this clear 5 weeks into the series, I'm just left thinking "How the actual fuck can Steven have another person live an entire life, with a wife, a career etc. etc. along side of him, without him being more aware and actually 100% certain that this is a thing". It makes sense once they explain the Steven isn't the original, but at that point it's just too late. You can't have a twist like that if your story is so dumb that the viewer starts to question if that's really what you're going with. And I wouldn't have been surprised if that's what they went with, considering how much else that didn't make sense in the show.
I wish Hollywood would just hire people to proof read their scripts... Because it's getting really ridiculous how many big budget movies and series that are just littered with holes.
First couple of episodes were great, and then the quality dropped so sharply with the avatarcongregation scene. Still, some fantastic stuff in later episodes, especially the shot of Khonshu and moon knight turning back the night sky.
Heh, thinking about it, now, all the good scenes are being carried by the main character's acting.
I loved moon knight through and through. It's my favorite of the D+ shows. But I guess that's just me.
my biggest gripe with moon knight is that it absolutely needed to be longer. and I'd even keep the pacing of like the first 5 episodes, I liked the buildup (and my mom didn't know who the character was or anything about him, and she was very into finding that out not all at once). plus I'm totally cool with things like this starting off slower if that time is used towards character development/establishment and then the payoff later once it really picks up is done well (case in point, daredevil s3 starts off very slow, but what's going on with matt is very interesting and important and it definitely pays off, it needed to be slow). so like if it was 10 episodes (or 9 like wandavision), by 5 you have all of that information and his full origin story, and the entire rest of the time have him be full on ass kicking moon knight. but as it is, they finish fully establishing the character and then are just like "and we're at the end! big fight! and we're done." you don't get enough time to enjoy the character once that part is done.
The standard should be 8 episodes a season.
I find that 6 episodes are just not enough for the story that was being told
@@nomad7405 i found better do a 10 episode season for 40millons than Moonknight than costed 200millons
I hated the last episode you can tell they had to finish shit up quickly but other than that it was really good.
@@nomad7405 Hell, I'd say even do away with a standard. Why do all these shows feel the need to stick one or two episode templates to tell the story when they should make it as long or as short as they think the story needs to be ? WandaVision was 9 episodes and its finale still felt rushed, it was planned to have at some point but was cut down due to changes and COVID.
@@Karma-pq9fi The problem for me is that it was more than the finale feeling like it was going too fast but how that in itself led to plot points we've been waiting to be resolved ending up being wrapped in an unsatisfying, "hurry to the finish line" manner (as to be expected with MCU series' finales) and I didn't like how Jake Lockley's first appearance wasn't actually shown within the episode itself and hence the main villain's defeat took place off-screen in a cop-out manner.
What I really liked was that they finally found that "good book" mac guffin and it just burned to dust so they didn't just get to use that special weapon to defeat her, but had to do it out of their own abilities and being confident in their powers.
Really enjoyed the part, when Steven figured out that he didn't have to get rid of the lost souls, and brought them under his control.
The musical notes fight was so creative and entertaining especially considering that they linked it to the actual film music.
I love Doctor Strange in the comics and the fact that MoM is so campy and colorful and wild made me so happy.
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One thing that I didn't like about Multiverse of madness is when they introduce Reed as the smartest man alive and he talked to strange about how he is a threat to the multiverse cause their strange got hold of the Darkhold and destroyed another universe when Wanda was literally doing the same thing and strange was warning them about it. Like I get he couldn't 100% trust strange but it should have been pretty clear to him who the real danger was when Wanda dreamwalked her way to illuminati's headquarters.
Also how he thought wrapping his arm around the Scarlett Witch would help lmao
AGREED! Their argument against him was weak. You have some of the smartest minds up there, professor X included, why be so obtuse when it comes to potential danger? They were Ill prepared to deal with Wanda and their battle tactics were questionable.
For what its worth, the Illuminati are supposed to be egotistical dickheads high off their own farts
He was not the smartest man alive by any 'stretch'
The Illuminati were like the council of ricks, not as smart as they thought
I have to echo everyone else here. The cameos and who they cast was amazing from a fan perspective. But Reed would've had 10 levels of contingency plans just to hold her in place and speak to her. That would be before he decided to use any gadgets he made to actively mount an offense. Instead he just tries taking to her. Black Bolt would know better than to scream with his mouth gagged, and Captain Peggy would've gone to get backup. I get this version of her is stubborn like Steve was, but neither of them are stupid. Oh also, Wanda, at any power level, isn't beating Xavier in a battle of the mind. They fell into the horror movie trope of making the victims very dumb and incompetent, even though the scene was cool
My family definitely did not like Doctor Strange 2 but I must confess, as messy as the plot was I had an absolute blast during it. Especially the horror-witch scenes.
I’m pretty mixed on it. I personally think it’s one of the worst plots in the MCU. I thought the pacing was dogass due to the first hour and a half of the movie was basically just people explaining the plot and exposition to eachother.
But I loved all of the little horror elements in it. I liked the brutality. But I also thought that what they did to Wanda’s character in this movie is pretty egregious. She had a cool character arc in Wandavision that they erased completely in order to make her spooky
I also think that we got such a lame showcase of spells from doctor strange. Besides the music scene, we didn’t really get any interesting spells from doctor strange like we did in Infinity War
Edit: I also liked how Wanda killing the Illuminati felt like a nice “fuck you” to fan service
Its one of my fav movies in mcu
@@bigdadybojangls9219 I think you and a lot of people read into the ending of WandaVision more than was warranted.
@@quintus920 how? There isn’t really much to read into. Wanda makes a grief stricken mistake and recognizes that she was doing the wrong thing and realizes she needs to let go of what she can’t have. She realizes that she was forcing people to do things against their will and that this is objectively bad.
But then they erase that because some fuckin book made her into an irredeemable villain. It’s whack
I can’t imagine watching this having not seen Wandavision either. Seeing her just do this massive flip on her morals with barely an explanation at all is so silly.
@@bigdadybojangls9219 Except it wasn't a massive flip out of nowhere. Did you not finish Wandavision? Wanda felt bad yeah, but she didn't learn her lesson *because* of the Darkhold. She continued to dive deeper through the book to look for her boys.
I see a lot of people complain about this. There's more to critique with this movie, but Wanda was slowly being corrupted starting from the end of WV. Pay more attention please.
I woukd say that I'm surprised how much Raimi got away with some scenes in that movie. Like, I know there was supposedly more visceral scenes, but even so, the scenes that he could got away with were amazing. One of my favorite movies in the MCU next to NWH and Infinity War
The classic question that is
How did Raimi get away with this?
@@tylergreen9283 using necromicon spells to kevin
Now with heroine
I loved the camera work in Strange! There were multiple shots in the film that made me think "damn that was a sick shot" and the superimposed shots were very awesome and nothing like anything we have seen in the Marvel canon.
I personally loved how in that certain music fight scene, when the enemy disappears as strange is getting up, he holds himself with a piano and does the horror sting sound himself that you'd expect to come from the movie. Raimi really is amazing. He's the only director who's style I can immediately notice when watching their movies.
Dr. Strange 2 was a victim of its own hype. What it is is actually a very solid standalone horror entry to the MCU. What it is not, which I expected, is a setup for future MCU outings and a cameo fest. Things we should've never expected from it. Perhaps that's the online fervor, or the misleading marketing. Who knows.
I was pleasantly surprised at how much they let sam raimi off the leash with this
Idk man that Illumati scene was extremely fan-servicey
i mean the title is literally the multiverse of madness so its normal to think it would have cameos and be a major set up the to the future of the mcu especially when it involves 2 of the strongest characters in the story and the multiverse. also with the cameos, it was kinda weird how the smartest man would tell an enemy how to defeat them and what they did to black bolt and captain marvel was kinda disrespectful but it is still a fun cinema experience even though there are a lot of plot holes and things that just dont make sense
@@davidtaylor142 what even is fan service at this point? It seems that “fan service” sometimes just means “they put a cameo or character fans want to make them happy and I don’t like that! 😡”. I mean they even serve a purpose. They’re not there just for the hell of it.
Did you just call a movie with at least 4 major cameos and a bunch of minor ones "not a cameo fest" lol
People in my theater said “we really waited 10 minutes for this” at the final end credits scene and it broke my heart
I thought it was funny, but, honestly, the post-credits scenes are the part of Marvel films I care the least about, and will wait until the dvd release to watch. My wife, on the other hand, will not move from her seat until the lights in the theater go back on.
Its not the first time this happened though. Spider-Man Homecoming's post credit scene was also like that.
I adored Multiverse Of Madness as well as it’s horror, violence, and gore, it has Sam Raimi’s fingerprints all over it and I loved it! Moon Knight was quite alright and as much as I liked it, I still enjoy Loki the most out of all the Disney+ shows so far.
Should have called it what if: dr strange
@@dasboom7133 why? it has nothing to do with what if lmao
Same I love MOM so much that it could be in my top 10 because of what I like what they did and Sam raimi was such a perfect choice for this film
@@thebiggestcarl because that was a trash marvel movie lol
@@arminhammer6998 doctor strange 2 was trash? Ok buddy, sure
As someone who has never read the comics, Moon Knight is easily my favorite character in the MCU. The performance and the way they set him up for someone who is oblivious to who Moon Knight is, it was very enjoyable.
I just love how the movie doesn’t fall into the trap of making magic boring. It fulfills the promise of a movie based around the Sorcerer Supreme and that’s awesome
Yah that's definitely always been the high points of the Doctor Strange movies. Glad they didn't lose their creativity for this one even if the film was flawed
I think one of the best examples of moon knight cutting shots up instead of holding it is when the wolf monster gets impaled. That was one of the hardest shots I've seen in a marvel show but it immediately cuts away to some random shots of him like getting off the ground
I’m really surprised Marcus didn’t like Moonknight more. Literally I thought some of the shots are so creative, especially the camera work in 4, 5, 6. Plus Oscar Isaac acting with Oscar Isaac was just amazing.
Still respect the opinion, just surprised.
He's not a contrarian tho
@@spritestuff if this is sarcastic, it’s hilarious
@@jamesb9894 very very sarcastic. No one cares but I've kinda had enough with his videos and I think this is my last one. Used to really like them but I guess I grew out of his constantly inconsistant takes. If it gets him clicks and engagement, more power to him, but this is the last of mine he's getting mine - he's not having any fun and neither am I.
@@spritestuff Isn't the point of reviews, to watch different takes from yours? Why would that ever be an incentive to leave?
@@Flamevortex-ky6xh I watch plenty of different takes, but why watch when I can predict his before the video?
I loved the horror and trippy moments of Multiverse of Madness but the editing, line delivery, and CGI in like half the movie had me dying inside a little bit. the fake hair on wong in some of his scenes is also hilarious as well
The first 30 minutes of the movie are not the greatest
and for a movie titled "Multiverse of Madness", am I the only one who thought it severely lacked both multiverse and madness? They go to what, 2 universes? Both of which visually look very similar to the regular one.
Never noticed the fake hair on wong so next time I watch it I’ll look into it lol
Honestly, John Krazinki as Reed Richards just made my day. He was absolutely perfect. Blackbolt was very well portrayed as well
I’m surprised that they had the balls to make Wanda the villain in the first place and they make her pretty irredeemable too
Right, in modern franchises I never see a (albeit morally grey but still heroic) protagonist turn into a straight up villain. I hope they just keep her a villain or at the very least dont just excuse all her actions and make her a hero as some series likes to do, because I feel Wanda doesn’t deserve redemption even if she “learned her lesson”
Meh not for me, he didn’t do much, Wanda is definitely the scariest villain in marvel for once
@@miketrapper0464 yea i get what your saying all of the illuminati felt very anticlimatic
Reed Richards was cool until he decided to be the dumbest man in the world.
I was definitely over-hyped for Doctor Strange 2 with regards to cameos. Even though they weren't there, I still had so much fun watching it.
Doctor Strange 1 and 2 are both some of my favourite MCU movies, I don't know why. This was great, 9/10 for me I think. Although that might drop after a second viewing.
"Even though they weren't there" did you sleep through the entire illuminati act? Also bruce Campbell showing up is the only cameo that really mattered to me in this movie lol
@@Zezinizzle I think he was expecting there to be more cameos, or for them to have a bigger role.
@@dioisabot4276 there was enough cameos, y’all want the either marvel cast in the movie
Lemme guess, you went in expecting Tobey Maguire, wolverine, Deadpool
@@haitiankid9456 no, i was expecting Batman
Can I just say that the sound design of the magic spells throughout the movie is underrated
thank you for saying that the second mom post credit scene isn’t for everyone, me and my sister were laughing and excited about it but our surrounding audience was mad and complained, we even had to educate a woman next to us who had no clue of sam raimi or bruce campbell
Yeah no one in my theater clapped when Bruce Campbell came out I was so disappointed 😭
Lmao No one in our theater laughed/clapped throughout the movie, but some people booed at that Post Credit scene
@@luciuscloud9120 omg 😂
I was also quite surprised at how "Raimi-ish" the Dr Strange movie was. In a good way. I really enjoyed how it was definitely his take on an MCU movie. Even though it had some definite weak points in characters and story, it made up for that in just being entertaining and stylish.
For sure, I liked the Sam Raimi stuff
It was horrible.
definitely agree with entertaining and stylish. This movie really nailed that. But I just couldn't enjoy the story and that disappointed me.
but. it was so messy, poorly paced, and written.... the dialogue.... why is no one talking about the poo poo garbage dialogue
@@soapydanielle literally the best way to describe the dialogue
I didn’t know anything about Moon Knight when the show first came out, but decided to watch it anyway and was very intriguing and I was captivated by Oscar Issac’s performance and the mystery behind some elements of the show. The fifth episode was by far the best, I agree with that with the emotional depth and bond Marc and Steven gain. I hope for a second season or at least a full movie taking place after this.
For Doctor Strange 2, I loved the movie a lot personally. My expectations weren’t too high and I guess that was a good thing. I personally loved how Wanda’s arc ended with her being rejected and called a monster by alternate Wanda’s kids. I felt that’s the only way she could have really took a second thought and perspective and realized what she was doing. It’s obvious they couldn’t beat her so I’m satisfied with her arc ending that particular way. I definitely agree that the directing and cinematography were the best parts of the film. It was phenomenal and really made you feel what the characters were going through and what they were thinking. I honestly never realized how brutal the movie was until you pointed it out. The kills were definitely terrifying but didn’t feel at all out of place for Marvel. I loved the different approach for this movie and hope Raimi does more Marvel movies soon.
For Moon Knight, best thing about it was definitely Ethan Hawke and Oscar Isaac, and I loved both Mark and Steven
I do wish to see the gore but I’m fine with imagining the kills in Doctor Strange 2
I like Raimi's directing in this film, the movie feels like it's directed by two directors (scott derrickson) for the basic marvel stuff. Then crazy horror by raimi. I do agree with you on the score it's a C+ to a B-.
Scott Derrickson left the project months before it started filming and even if he somehow was involved in one part of the film, he's a director with a distinctive horror style himself and wouldn't be just responsible for the "basic MCU stuff".
Raimi's Spider-Man trilogy mostly had a basic feel w/ very few sequences like the hospital scene. Hence, this is pretty much a hybrid of his 20th & 21st century styles of filmmaking.
@@jp3813 I agree to disagree, I'd say even his non-horror movie moments in his Spider-Man movies had more stylistic input than a lot of what we see in the MCU.
@@themadtitan7603 I wasn't comparing his trilogy w/ other MCU films. There's no denying that Doctor Strange 2 is closer to Raimi's 20th century style than his Spider-Man movies. The man himself admitted that he abandoned that style for a while after The Quick and the Dead barely made its money back.
@@jp3813 I'm not denying that Multiverse of Madness has sequences closer to his Evil Dead or 20th century style (as you put it) than his Spider-Man movies. I was debating the part of your initial reply where you stated "mostly had a basic feel..." by saying that even the non-horror moments in that trilogy had lots of stylistic input too so I won't call them basic the same way I could see how someone might call the MCU's often conveyor belt directing, "basic".
It’s always a good day when cosmonaut posts
Indeed
The only negative about this channel is that we don’t get enough of this man!! 😂
This. ☝️
It's funny, everything people are saying about Strange 2 sounds just like what people said about the original Spider-Man trilogy. Raimi has a distinctive style, and I think the most underappreciated part of that style is how fondly his films are remembered as time goes on.
I’m sure they will be… but not to mcu fans. The way I see it is, we saw one of everyone’s favorite marvel characters (out of comics fans in general, I don’t know anyone who dislikes Dr. Strange, and in comics circles that’s pretty rare,) get hyped up by marketing to get one of the most insanely epic *marvel* movies ever and then walked into the theaters to get a Sam Raimi-sized dump over the opportunity.
@@Caleb-zl4wk Raimi did an amazing job on this film. The actors also did an amazing job.
There are two glaring problems with the movie. The first being the writing, second being the marketing. The pacing of the script was garbage, and the story itself was convoluted as hell. It was a classic MCU spectacle over substance film.
As for the marketing, you said yourself it was marketed to be one of the most insanely epic marvel movies ever made. That was never what the movie was intended to be. Such a classic bait and switch has never been seen since the likes of Kangaroo Jack.
Unfortunately, I think this might end up being the new normal. Disney knows existing MCU fans are already going to watch their movies. Now they're trying to bring in a new audience. They'll get Chloe Zhao to direct Eternals in an effort to grab film festival goers, or get Sam Raimi as an attempt to cash in on his die hard fan base. Both did a good job at directing their respective movies, but were given absolutely terrible scripts to work with. It's rather depressing, since all they need are some competent writers and everyone would be happy.
@@malachihormel7994 I think Disney should put more faith in presenting the vision of the director in the marketing itself and not present a muted version of it in a big action-spectacle package which would lead to a lot of disappointments with that the film specifically delivered like you're seeing in a lot of reactions to MoM.
Eternals on the other hand, I'd say was fairly promoted like how the film was; a sweeping, thoughtful blockbuster with grand cosmic ideas.
I personally freaking loved Moon Knight from start to finish and thought it was near perfect (except for the CGI). Love the humor, drama, story, mystery, characters, and angst. 9.5 outta 10 for me.
MoM didn’t impact me so much. I like the first one more, although this one was super unique and fun. But there were moments that were too slow for me or personal nitpicks that popped up throughout. I need to watch it again to know my true thoughts I think, but for now it’s a… 7/10 I suppose.
Loved your vid as usual Marcus, and respect your opinions wholeheartedly.
that camera movement take is why I rock with this channel. that was the most pleasing part of the movie for me....
I was so Happy when i walked out of Doctor Strange with no 1000 cameos of different characters. And it felt so good to have watched a marvel movie that at alot of times didn't feel like a MCU film but its own thing.
but you can see how the mcu fans were disappointed to hell and back, right? Like not saying they actually had to throw in any more cameos. I would have really (*really*) appreciated the original 6 members of the Illuminati but they didn’t really have to do any of that. My only thing is, why was it so clearly not designed to be an mcu movie… that used (and killed) marvel characters? And was marketed as a marvel movie? Like was it supposed to be dark? Sure. Was it supposed to sacrifice the marvel for the darkness? I don’t think that was conveyed.
@@Caleb-zl4wk I just think because Sam Rami(who directed lots of horror movies) was apart of it that’s probably when the script got dark. I don’t mind it and felt like Marvel was really starting to grow up with its audience. Back at the Panel when by hey announced it they did “warn” that it would be the first MCU horror movie. I understand not everyone watches those but it was pretty out there that this wouldn’t be as MCU family friendly.
@@Caleb-zl4wk and I’m a huge mcu fan and wasn’t disappointed if anything relieved not to have a bunch of cameos that took away from the story. I will say I was hoping to see more original faces from the Illuminati but then again it’s a different earth so maybe we will see the original 6 some other time. Maybe 6 that are alive😂😂.
@@shadowfauxe6468 hmm, ok. I keep getting told it was very clear, I didn’t get that at all. Going into the movie I expected darkness because someone I went with got that message and I trusted them to know, but yeah I think that while their communication was good, it could have been better. Even looking back at the trailer, things looked like there would be more tension in Wanda's transformation into the villain, for example. And the illuminati was kind of that bass-drop "sike this is what the movie's *really* about" moment (think Morbius trailer (it hurts to use that as a good example of everything but it conveys what I mean about the tone switch)) from what I could tell. Honestly I thought the evil "getting out of hand" alternate strange would be closer to the main villain than anyone. My point is the trailers made it look like a tense, character-driven action-adventure movie that thrusts us into a new environment. The movie was a horror with some new scenery and cameos that, tbh, only served to give Raimi something to work with when it comes to his specialty.
the camera was my biggest take away from doctor strange, like finally it feels like the camera is being used to enhance the emotions and movements of the scenes instead of just showing us blandly what we should be seeing
I fucking hate the camera work 💀 it made alot of the horror elements laughable at times for me personally, and that stupid ass montage when Wanda started dreamwalking had me deadass laughing 💀
@@blvze5017 that scene was sick asf wdym. I was straight up jammin to the music. It was a vibe tbh.
@@blvze5017 that's literally the best part in Rise of the dead, campy horror with expressive camera work
@@blvze5017 For me the problem was it feels like the first 1/3 of the movie was entirely just zooming in on characters faces, cut reverse shot, and blur the f"ck out of the background.
And they focused the camera so hard on Strange + Wanda's face when neither of them tend to emote with their face. They mainly emote with their voice. It was awful.
@@haruhirogrimgar6047 if you think the camerawork in this movie is bad, you must have no way home then, if not you must not know what you're talking about, because no way home cinematography and camerawork is dull af
Oscar Isaac is insane in moon knight.
Literally.
The Illuminati deaths were brutal. Imagine how upset the MCU fans are in that universe. This new villain shows up with zero foreshadowing and absolutely deletes them in seconds.
_Thank you!_ Something that always really bugs me is inconsistency in characters' power levels, and lame deaths is a major source. Especially after all the creative kills leading up to it, a friggin' rock is supposed to take her out? It's not even a sneak attack or magically augmented, but just plain old gravity. There's so much more they could have done, even as a double-tap.
As some one who never knew moon knight I really liked the show and I was very engaged. Diferente perspectives I guess
I loved how brutal MoM was and I hope they keep this same energy moving forward
I honestly didn't even notice any "brutality", cuz that's how comic book movies should be. There should be elements that appeal to all audiences, not just campy kiddy shit.
The Netflix series like Daredevil and Punisher got that right.
@@nahor88 I said brutal bc it caught me completely off guard when I saw it, I was used to the recent disneyfied movies that I just wasnt expecting them to blow some heads up
@@Strapawn We're opposites then cuz what bugs me about a number of MCU properties is the lack of brutality.
Doctor Strange 2 is a visual masterpiece but I do think the script was flat compared to other MCU movies. Visually its a 10/10, but script wise its between a 5 or 6 for me
I didn’t think the script is flat at all. It’s way better than the average marvel script
I’d say the villain was one of the best in the MCU. Well rounded with dimension and acted great. They go from tender and loving to horror monster effortlessly.
Same that's why I overall give it a 7/10. It was alright. The pacing of the script was too bad for me to love it and I really wanted to like it. I think Cosmonaut was fair with his 7.5
The movie's pacing jumps from point A to point B way too quickly with no breathing time. Christine's wedding is sandwiched between 2 action scenes. The movie never has time to hone in on it's themes of Strange needing control and being the one that has to hold the knife or the themes about him not truly being happy despite trying to lie to himself and say he is. America Chavez was underdeveloped and uninteresting she needed more screen time. Her and Strange didn't have a lot of time to bond and him encouraging her at the end fell a little flat to me because of that.
Idk why but the first 10 minutes of the film where ear piercing when I watched it in theaters. Pacing was off but other wise great movie - just wish evil Dr strange didn't die so easily
@@damiantirado9616 And thats perfectly fine bro. Glad you thought it was better than what I thought about it.
It's very cathartic to hear that your thoughts on Doctor Strange are pretty much exactly the same as mine, right down to being irritated by that one character dying via a statue falling on them. I wish there were more horror elements, because those where definitely the best part. After a certain point, it got real schlocky and I started enjoying it a lot.
It also has the best end credits scene out of any MCU film!
The best thing about Moon Knight is that it is the first Phase 4 MCU project that doesn't directly mention Thanos/Infinity War
I know the “falling rubble” thing can be annoying, but I really disagree about the villain not working as a fully fledged out character in those final moments. The emotional turn that happens, and the implications it has for the character, is honestly my favorite scene of the film.
And tbh with Cap Marvel dying it was when Wanda absorbed her powers or drained most of it which led to her death
What up.
I feel like we’re rehashing their ark from a previous movie.
Loved one dies, turn evil, turn good after other loved one opens their eyes.
Apparently she didn’t grow though. Phase 4 has marked an extreme regression in a few characters and has this goofy ridiculous tone. They all feel like comedies at this point.
This movie was very mediocre and with so other movies that look good with no substance it’s hard to give this anything higher than a 5. And that’s purely for enormous laugh I got from the ending
@@_Donovan Not ever quite being all there is Wanda’s deal so I’m actually glad they didn’t just hit the emotional stability button with her.
@@_Donovan you call it “rehashing,” I call it “character displaying a toxic pattern of behavior that gets increasingly, tragically extreme because they fail to reach proper emotional resolution.”
As somebody who has never read any marvel comics before, Moonknight was an easy 9.5/10 for me. I can understand getting bored with it if you already know where it’s going.
Most people haven't heard of MoonKnight before, so the amount of backstory was absolutely necessary. Marcus is just bitching like usual.
W take I feel the same way
Exactly how I feel. I avoided all spoilers or reviews until I watched it, and I have to say I really loved the show. Don’t usually follow the comics, but I’ve had my fair share of “overhype” from other installations.
Saw Professor Paranormal on saturday, and I REALLY liked it. Visually, it is one of my favorite marvel movies. The story didn't have that much of an impact, but I just liked watching the cool fights and different settings. And by far my favorite scene could be encapsulated in two words:
"What mouth?"
"Professor Paranormal" !!!!! Yo, please tell me you're a fan of The Venture Bros. ... I just see that as one of their characs. Haha.
That line still haunts me
man there really do be 2 types of people, that was my least favorite scene by a mile
@@Caleb-zl4wk Everyone is entitled to their own opinions! What is your favorite scene, my anonymous friend?
@@lunarunity7122 the scene where they're shooting through the universes and you see the Living Tribunal I like straight up spoke aloud in the theater
How much more emotional could you possibly ask for concerning the ending of MoM? That shit was gut wrenching to me man
But the ending was literally the exact same as wandavision's ending. Having Wanda accept that she can't be with her kids and that in trying to have a happy family she has hurt people. How is it emotional when the film hasn't made much time for emotional scenes, prioritizing exposition and multiversal cameos instead?
One moment of this movie that really creeped me out was that sorta-not-really break of the fourth wall when Wanda possesses her counterpart, and she just slowly looks at the camera. Locking eyes with the viewers, and thats it, no jumpscare, no confirmation she really saw us, just a very creepy "I see you..." moment.
Reminds me one thing praised about Skarsgard performance as Pennywise in the first movie is that because of his slightly mismatching eyes, he managed to have one eye at the characters and one eye at the cameras, always staring at the viewer.
The main problem that I have with Multiverse of Madness is that it disregards pretty much all of Wanda’s character development from Wanda Vision. All the learning and grieving she got was completely gone, and I know shes supposed to be corrupt because of the darkholde or whatever but still. Also, no vision? In any universe whatsoever?, The one thing Wanda wants the most it’s supposed to be a family, but in this movie she only cares about her children and her children alone. But still, I did enjoy the movie, however I don’t see how Wanda can be redeemed after this.
(Side note, Tommy and Billie’s song about ice cream was about the cringiest thing I have ever watch in the MCU)
Felt the same way after seeing it.
To be fair, kids do a lot of stuff that is pretty cringey. I definitely did a lot of stuff as a kid that I'd like to bleach from my brain.
Same dude. I just got finished making the same comment under a different thread. They ruined Wanda and all the potential for the MCU going forward from WandaVision.
I didn't get that feeling of maturity after watching WandaVision. I don't think she experienced as much growth as you think after WandaVision. In the last scene, she is very clearly conjuring the DarkHold in an effort to find her children, which fits perfectly into her motivations here.
After all she has done, I don't think she is redeemable, and that's kind of the point. I personally didn't think she was all that redeemable even after WandaVision, so her being the antagonist here feels like the next step for her arc.
@@anthonypuccini1914 I would agree with you if she had more time to do her heel turn. The other thing she wanted at the end of WandaVision was to have a family with Vision, who was absent from the movie.
Imo, the movie would have been more interesting if the real antagonist was another Wanda, another Strange, or another Wanda and Strange team.
It would have given Wanda the chance to see how strong she could become if she embraced the darkhold, and become a more satisfying arc overall.
Doctor Strange 2 might have the strongest directorial stamp of any MCU project. Acts 2 and 3 are straight up some Evil Dead/Darkman type stuff
See this comment would make sense if you had actually watched any other MCU director's projects
@@ericstorm6582 Before this I would've said GotG Vol 2 since that is a legitimately visually captivating film but especially compared to most of the recent Phase 4 films this one exceeds all expectations in terms of pure direction and camerawork by far, and it actually feels like a legit Sam Raimi film instead of just an MCU movie with Sam Raimi's touch (which isn't to put down other projects but it's far more pronounced here)
Yeah MOM actually felt like it had a directors vision. This and the guardians. I still thought it was abit of a mess but a fun mess.
Shame Act1 couldn't have been the same
@@ericstorm6582 maybe GotG? ragnarok too? but that's about it
Moon Knight was pretty cool for the most part, but kinda dropped the ball on the finale. Dr Strange 2 is totally wild, it had introduced a ton of multiversal concepts that I love, but it had moments that were meh. It is nothing like what I was expecting but it works pretty well anyways. The horror aspects were surprisingly fun too.
I have really enjoyed some of the character work Marvel has put in, but am continually disappointed with boring CGI heavy finales. I love a good fight scene, but Marvel consistently makes me yawn during theirs. Meanwhile I tend to get bored in overly talky movies/shows, but find myself engrossed in Loki/Sylvie scenes or Oscar Isaac putting on a show. Marvel seems to be going in a strange place with good characters and ideas, but having to stick to strict formulas that dull what could be excellent entertainment.
Perfectly summed up my own thoughts!
As someone who also never read the comics and only has a slight inkling who what he was like, this story was by far my best mcu show experience. It seems unanimous that everyone thinks the second to last episode is really good.
I'd say something that worked more for me in Moonknight is the fact that I didn't know he had {SPOILERS}. So the build up to that in the first couple of episodes worked more for me XD
P.S : MvC3 Dr Strange ost FTW XD
Wtf does your P.S mean. I don’t speak acronym.
@@itactuallyme4910marvel vs Capcom 3 Dr. Strange original soundtrack for the win squinty smile face.
Wow you really nailed every description I felt for Dr Strange without revealing anything that the trailers did not. Fantastic take and video
I’d say Multiverse of Madness certainly isn’t the best, but it’s my favorite marvel movie. It just went crazy and did as it pleased in the best way possible. The horror elements, the cinematography, the crazy stuff happening at every turn, etc. It was just an incredibly fun ride throughout that felt unique.
It's just such a comic book movie to it's core, we've reached this peak in movies. Idk the vibe of starting with something insane and then cutting to our main character. Great stuff in this movie.
Finally a reviewer talked about Moon Knight, feels like everyone ignored it over Dr Strange. Edit: 😐 welp he said its ok....
I mean it isn't that good as people are saying
@@simplypablo6506 that's your opinion tho
It is ok. Lmao. Marvel fans treat everything different like a masterpiece
@@madsisveryreal never said it was masterpiece, i think it's more than just *ok*. This is Marcus saying it after all, he hates what most like and likes what most hate. Usually that's the case
@@simplypablo6506 it's pretty good
Oscar Isaac did a great job, but the guy who played Steven deserves an award.
I like the first two episode because it shows the confusion of a real person with DID people with DID aren’t ment to know they have it the brain hides it
I watched Moon Knight with my younger brother as I have been doing with every MCU Disney+ show since WandaVision and I quite enjoyed myself. Third favorite Marvel Disney+ show after Loki and WandaVision and made me want to be more of a fan of the character. And I very much enjoyed MOM. Elizabeth Oslen was amazing in the movie as well everyone else in the cast doing a good job. Really liked the horror elements, pushing the boundary of PG-13, the action sequences and Sam Raimi ultimately doing his thing. And I’m very happy that it wasn’t the cameo fest that I thought or maybe even feared it to be but fundamentally a Doctor Strange / WandaVision sequel. My main criticism is that I wish the runtime should have been longer and given the screenplay more time to be breath and developed certain things. I would give the movie a B+ and Moon Knight an A-
👏👏👏
3rd favourite is the same as 4th least favourite considering there's literally only 6 Disney+ marvel shows
@@ziyad1809 lmao, that really takes the weight out of it huh 🤣 if it helps moonknight was better than Loki for me, don’t tell Tom
Dr Strange 2 is the first Marvel movie that’s been directed which is sick
Ragnarok
@@bandit154 Even Ragnarok, which I really enjoy, lacks standout direction beyond the Valkyrie sequence imo. Taika brought a whole new tone and improvisational style but the shots are still lacking relative to MoM and so many other unique action movies.
Gotg?
James Gunn directed his first marvel movie 8 years ago
So that's why I got Morbius vibes
I really loved the second post credit scene, mostly because the friends I went with didn’t get it and we’re pissed they waited through the credits to see extended Bruce Campbell cameo
My friends too! Albeit it made me more sad than anything since they started getting pissed at my king man. They just don’t get it man! I’ve gotta *hand* it to the human race at disappointing me
I loved Moon Knight. I loved its locations, themes, action sequences, cinematography, acting, darker tone & climax. Though I wished we got just a bit more of Marc turning into moon knight than just episodes 1,2,3&6 but hey it’s an easy 9.5/10.
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness was amazing 🤩. I loved the acting, cinematography, visual effects, humor, cameos, darker tone & the musical score. The only nit pick I had was just the pacing, like maybe make it 15 or 20 minutes longer but other than that it gets a solid 8/10.
My favorite moment form dr strange 2 was when Jared Leto’s Morbius stares directly at the camera and proclaims “wow this really is dr strange in the multiverse of madness” and then proceeds to morb Wanda
25.7/10 would watch again
One of my two biggest gripes in movie writing is when the MacGuffin that is "needed" to "win" (whatever those terms are for the movie) and is instantly destroyed/removed when obtained and rendered unneeded but the heroes find out they didn't need it after all. It makes me feel like the entire story up until that point is just useless. The other is when characters repeat the same character growth story again (Like Fin in The Last Jedi) only to end up at the exact same place. Doctor Strange 2 managed to nail both of those in a little over 2 hours.
Wanda apparently learned nothing from WandaVision when she realized she was the villain for holding an entire town hostage to run away from her grief. She does the exact same thing in this movie, only with herself this time. And comes to the exact same realization, even with having to let go of her kids. Again. Sure, you could say "the Dark Hold is eeeeviiilll and corrupted her", but why? What would be Chthon's goal here? Have Scarlet Witch rule her universe and what? Release himself? None of this is explained. Just the generic "evil book makes you do evil things with no explanation" story.
The entire adventure in the "multiverse" could have been replaced with a romp through the normal universe seeing as the interactions with alternate selves is limited to Doctor Strange v. Evil Doctor Strange or Evil Wanda v. Mom Wanda. There was a potential for characters to grow from an alternate perspective into their own life, but it was left for just a couple of fights. Wanda just repeated the same lesson of "oh goodness, I'm a monster. I gotta do better".
I dunno, I felt like Disney stifled Raimi because they were unsure of a real horror Marvel movie. It felt like 1/3 Raimi and 2/3rds Disney MCU formula. They should have let him have the R-rated horror movie that he clearly wanted to make. I hope they let him direct again and give him some more freedom. It was a very fun movie to watch, even with the messy or disappointing story beats.
Thank you, the pacing and lack of character development took me out of the film. It felt messy and all over the place.
Thank you! We have two MacGuffin books in this story, one of which is so vaguely explained that it was obvious that they were like “why should we even bother going into detail on this book? We’re just gonna destroy it anyway”
Wanda regresses as a character and then they drop a building on her. It’s the same shit they did with Jamie Lannisters character in GOT.
I’m really shocked that people like this movie as much as they do because the narrative and writing blows shit. I almost fell asleep due to the fact that the first hour and a half of this movie is just people explaining the plot and exposition to eachother.
At least the visuals and the horror themed stuff were really cool. If those weren’t as good then I’d consider this a bottom 3 MCU movie
I have the same feeling about Wanda's story arc...
@@bigdadybojangls9219 I will just watch for the directing and amazing visuals.
But the real MacGuffin is the friends we made along the way!
Not only did Sam Raimi actually move the camera, but he also dared to ask the question, "What if the colors actually popped? What if an MCU movie didn't have a gray pallete?
Thor: Ragnarok and Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 1&2 also had colors pop
@@1OnlyAvocado Guardians 1 didn't pop as much as it could've. I'll give you Guardians 2 and Ragnarok though, they were a step in the right direction
@@1OnlyAvocado Yeah because they were actually made by directors with style
Thank you thank you thank you for saying all the things you said about strange 2, I’m baffled by the critical and fan reactions, I enjoyed it so much, but you hit the nail on the head with this review, it just isn’t for everyone, but there is so much to enjoy and I feel people are overlooking what’s on the screen
I adore the Marcus in space animation at the beginning and end, just had to mention that. It’s a really charming touch
I knew nothing about Moon knight, and found the first episode to be my favorite, the show was at it's best when we had the pov of someone extremely confused getting chased by a big bird skeleton, after the secrets were revealed the mystery element faded away, and that's fine, I just really like the chaos
regardless of how you feel about the script, you cant deny that this is one of if not the best shot marvel movie
I really like how Guardians of the Galaxy 2 is shot
Shang Chi was way better imo.
i HATED the way it was shot 😂
As someone that knew nothing of Moon Knight going in I thought episode 1 was masterful. The story felt so mysterious and Oscar Isaac is brilliant. That time he orders a steak despite being vegan out of sheer heartbreak is amazing. Then imo the show drags in eps 3 and 4 (I think the audience with Harrow in ep 3 is really stupid), but episode 5 is incredible (with a fantastic performance from Isaac) and 6 is a good finale for the season. I feel like the mystery really helped and 100% agree on the fight scenes being kind of meh until the finale.
Regarding Doctor Strange, I thought it was pretty good. My issue was how it at times felt like a Raimi movie and a more standard Marvel movie were fighting to take over (kinda like Marc and Steven) without fully committing to either tone. Its scary, but so comedic that it makes a lot of the scary stuff less scary. Elisabeth Olsen is fantastic tho, I really like what they do with Wanda in the movie, maybe the end part is kind of meh, but overall she is sick as hell and its a great way to follow up Wandavision.
Sam Raimi's direction style is horror comedy, not full-on grim horror. You could argue that there were parts that where more familiar to the rest of the MCU, but the comedy being with the horror is not necessarily an MCU influence.
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness gets a 10/10 for saying the absolutely ridiculous name Blackagar Boltagon.
I still can't get over how fucking brutal Blackbolt's death was. The sheer panic of no longer having a mouth made the dude vocalise, which then reverberated into his skull and blew out his brains into his helmet.
Does anyone know the background music starting at 3:50?
I really liked Moon Knight! I thought it was exciting and intruinging, it left me wanting more and I really liked how they still leaves things unanswerd. We cant really trust our main characters perspective and the ending was for me perfect
My thoughts on multiverse
Positives:
this one definitely has a soul and you can tell an actual director is behind it.
The magic was done really well and actually feels magical. Opposed to the first film where character were pretty much punching each other with magic knifes. Also I like the new backstory for Strange that when he was a kid his sister drowned and he was unable to save her on a frozen lake. Which leads him to cope with the loss by thinking sacrifices are inevitable and lead to better outcomes. She needed to die so Strange would become inspired to save people as a surgeon leading to him becoming temporary Sorcerer supreme thus lifting the guilt that he ever could’ve saved her, cause it “needed to happen”. Which is in line with his views on sacrifice in Infinity war, Endgame, No way home, and variants of himself in Multiverse of madness.
The music and editing was also phenomenal
Negatives:
Wanda’s entire ark and role in this movie was done horribly. She comes into this story right after WandaVision a 9 episode show about Wanda realizing she can’t live out a fantasy with her family because she’s hurting people in the process leading to a tearful goodbye between her and her kids. Then in this movie she does the same damn thing but worse. Wanda wants to live out a fantasy with her family and is killing and willing to kill countless people in the process until she realizes it’s wrong and has a tearful goodbye with her kids. YOU CANT MAKE ME FEEL THE SAME THING TWICE IN THE SAME SPECIFIC SITUATION.
Dorks will say “she was corrupted by the dark hold in the post credit scene” but a 30 second post credit scene undoing a 9 episode character ark isn’t a good excuse. Hell I think you could argue the post credit scene was leading to something else. All she hears is her kids screaming somewhere in the cosmos which would’ve been a way more interesting role for her in the story. With Wanda believing somewhere her kids not only exist but are in danger and everyone including strange telling her she’s crazy to fuel her anger.
As for fan expectations I think most unsatisfied people are justified. Marvel knew what they were doing when they marketed this movie to be the craziest culmination of everything build up in Wandavision, Loki, and No way Home. Keep in mind those were the projects where the strongest witch rewrote reality, characters explored various interesting alternate realities meeting unique versions of themselves along the way then ending with a multiversal war, and then in No way home the prequel to this where they brought back all of Spider-Man’s previous villains from other marvel franchises along with Maquire and Garfield. And once again for them to market this as the even Crazier movie how was it not gonna let people down when this one felt less like the build up of three multiversal projects and more like marvel dipping their toes in the water and trying a multiverse movie.
Like just think how weird and insane they could’ve gone with this movie (and I’m not talking cameos) since any insane irreversible act could be undone under the umbrella of “the multiverse is weird”.
Also for the mostly nonexistent cameos I think a lot of them were dumb speculation but No way home really made people think anyone showing up was possibility. Though I will say putting every cool cameo in the trailers like prof X really lead to no other reaction than people thinking “if they’re willing to put prof X in the trailer that must mean there’s even crazier people in the movie” I mean when you go to a restaurant that claims it’s the greatest place in the world and the waiter hands you a bread basket for the table you don’t think “this is the whole meal huh”. But in this case it was.
While this might seem overall negative I would take this film any day over almost all mcu movies 6.5/10
I had a few gripes too.
For one, the MacGuffin book of Vishanti that Dr. Strange needs to go head to head with Wanda and her Darkhold? Destroyed in seconds after its been built up to for half the movie. Dr. Strange is the biggest threat to the multiverse because he's willing to break all the rules? He ends up using the Darkhold anyways. Wanda is a threat to the universe and she does use 2 cool monsters in the beginning, including one that kills Defender Stranger almost immediately, but after that for the most part she only uses her usual chaos magic balls. The arc Strange has about loving Christine ends weirdly with the alternate Christine telling him not to be afraid. The Illuminati also felt wasted, because they dismiss Wanda immediately and are there only to get cannon foddered and tell Strange he's dangerous. Why not have them be an authority on the multiverse and tell us more about it? "The multiverse is a concept about which we know frightenly little." Yeah, and we still don't know jack shit after the movie. I think the trailer went too hard and I went in with expectations too high.
I 100% agree with your take on Wanda’s story being done horribly. Another point to add to yours is Wanda’s trauma in WandaVision stemmed from her loss of Vision by her own hand. The kids were the byproduct and result of the “perfect life” she envisioned for her and vision. Here they make the central focus of why she’s broken on the kids and only give vision like 2 mentions in the whole movie. Makes the whole thing feel entirely manufactured to get her out of the MCU and give Strange a third eye to play with.
On manufactured plot, Steven’s whole central conflict this movie is getting over Christine, even tho that’s literally never been a problem for him before??? We only hear about Christine during the first DS movie and never hear about her again until this one (other than the What If episode). This strange has wholly moved on from Christine, but the plot still revolves around other strange’s and Christine’s telling him it’d never work out. That even becomes more ridiculous when the plot of the first movie revolves around strange learning to be selfless.
The plot of this movie just felt entirely manufactured. The Rami bits were by far the best parts, but the substance surrounding them was hollow.
You summed up how I feel about Wanda perfectly! This movie feels like it negated all of the development she received in WandaVision. Her grief and acceptance means nothing so they can play the “hysterical” woman trope. It also kind of sucks that 2/3 of the avengers women died due to suicide. (Although I doubt that’s the last we see of Wanda, the sentiment still remains.) The visuals were great though and it was cool to see what she was capable of, the choice just felt a little cheap.
The movie really did feel like it summed up as
"Wanda went baby-crazy"
and
"Man can't be happy without a woman."
It was a really gross film in that respect.
*this side of the mcu is definitely my favorite, the more serious, emotional, brutal, and sometimes horror-like side of it. Which, for the people who prefer the light-hearted, funny side of marvel (Ant-man, Spider-man, Thor) probably wouldn't enjoy as much. I personally feel as if the writers are starting to take the emotional aspect of it all more seriously, like they're starting to scrap the overly used comdey bits, and really focus on the mental and emotional depth of these characters, which are most obviously displayed in Wanda and Marc's character through WandaVision (and some of DSITMOM) and Moon Knight*
The problem is that this film ruined the emotional depth, character and story development that was setup in WandaVision. They literally ruined Wanda's character and her arc falls so incredibly flat. She has the exact same motivations as in WandaVision so it is as if she learned nothing from her prior experiences. She doesn't feel like remotely the same character and imo having an evil book do that is just lazy writing. This movie has Wanda as a zombie rather than an emotional or real character. However, Strange and Christine had some excellent emotional beats and those parts of the film made them feel like real people, like when they discuss whether they are actually happy. Can't say the same for Wanda or any other characters in the film though.
If you think MoM was complex or serious you're not thinking clearly. It was by far the campiest marvel movie, like it or not. Dr Strange giving America a pep talk through a zombie body with half his face melted off in a difference dimension was peak camp.
@@freedominart11 i specifically said SOME OF MoM
@@freedominart11 and i loved the campiness so that wasnt a problem for me lol
I loved the pacing of the show. I knew very little just did some light reading on the character before the show came out and I was intrigued the whole way through. I’m about to watch it all over again. Loved every minute of it honestly
I really love how cold and vicious Wanda was to the Illuminati. "What mouth?" and "Atleast there'll be one parent left to raise them" are probably some of my favorite lines in a movie ever.
I do think Maria's death is pretty unimaginative but you can see her mask peeling off when she is battling Wanda and then there's a big explosion
When the rubble falls to her i think they wanted to imply Wanda sucked her powers out cuz she doesn't fly away or even use her powers to protect herself
As someone with DID moon knight was fun representation! A bit iffy at times but that’s ok. It’s not split or shit like that. It also got me into the comics too
Edit: I also would suggest using alter/headmate in the future when talking about them :D
Episode 5 of Moon Knight alone is easily better than the entirety of Hawkeye and Falcon and the Winter Soldier /ngl
episode 5 of moon knight is genuinely one of the best episodes of a tv show ive ever seen
Y’all need to go watch Legion, if you liked ep5 of moon knight you’ll like it (at least season 1)
as someone who had no idea what moon knight's story is, the first couple episodes were some of my favourite episodes of any show i've watched ever
i completely agree with the moon knight sentiments because i’m in the same boat, but i’m hoping season 2 gives us more of MOON KNIGHT. i also really enjoyed the first couple episodes just because of the way they present the idea of dual personalities with one character blacking out and then waking up a second later, but it had been hours, even days as the other character. i always think things like that are really cool, so i assume that’s why it was much better for me.
Yeah, part of what I appreciate about Dr Strange is that it isn’t meant for everyone. It isn’t made to satisfy the most number of people. There are things about the movie that I liked, and things I didn’t like. And the cool thing is that different people like or dislike different parts of the movie. It’s refreshing to have an MCU movie that’s different and that people can have a wide range of opinions on other than “it’s amazing” or “it sucks.” I think that’s what a lot of people don’t realize. They can like a movie without it being the best movie ever, and just because a movie has problems doesn’t mean I have make a choice between hating it or ignoring the problems and saying it’s amazing. Dr Strange is good. I had some issues with the character work as well, but I thought the positives outweighed the negatives.
Multiverse Of Madness was great and I can't wait to go back to the theater and watch it again. My only complaint is I wish Wanda did more reality bending magic, in WandaVision she can literally create what she wants at will but in Multiverse of madness most of the time she's throwing red ki blasts
Good point!
I was expecting her to just go full hex and bring her kids back that way and everyone is trying to stop her.
MCU feels really bad with magic tbh.
In all of the films Wanda basically just does telekenisis and red energy blasts.
Wong in this movie just chucked a dinky little blade on a string around.
And Dr. Strange barely does anything that isn't just "orange object moves."
And in Shang Chi the magic was generally just moving the wind enough to put someone off balance.
With something that has such endless potential as magic and the ability to warp reality, it feels like MCU film makers have no idea what to do with it.
@@haruhirogrimgar6047 The music battle scene was pretty cool though and the possessing a corspe was sick as fuck though.
I just still can’t get over that absolutely mind blowing scene. I was so shocked but I had the biggest smile on my face.
I’ve never been a fan of the trope where a character who can’t control their powers gets a pep talk about ‘believing in themselves’, then they can suddenly control it just fine
I really loved black bolt, i don't exactly know why. I remember vaguely about an episode of an animated show with him, he stopped the whole conflict just by saying "peace". Loved that moment