Doctor Strange, chase scene clip thingy

I like how this two and a half minute scene from Doctor Strange has a thing at the beginning telling you it's "exclusive". Exclusive to anyone with an internet connection... It's really the most exclusive club.

Anyhoo, Doctor Strange comes out soon (this weekend maybe? I don't know who has the time to keep track of these things?) and all I've heard are positive reviews. Of course those positive reviews have all come from people that work for Marvel Comics so maybe they're not the most neutral reviewers. I don't really have plans to go see it, my wife isn't that impressed with Doctor Strange in the comics so she's kind of meh about it. This might be one that I catch on DVD, sort of like Ant-Man or Thor 2. Jet City Comic Con is this weekend so who has time to go see a movie? Also my son just got a couple Pokemon decks for his birthday, I've heard we have to catch them all.

Doctor Strange Official Trailer 2

Oh yeah, Marvel premiered a new Doctor Strange Trailer at SDCC this weekend. It's fine. I don't know, I'm still not on board with another Origin story. Audiences are superhero smart these days. Do your origin in like the first 5 minutes then lets get to the sequel already.

Also all the white people mixed with Asian themes still seems really racist to me. I know the same could be said about Iron Fist but I like Iron Fist better than Doctor Strange so I'm more willing to let it slide over there. I'm consistent with my inconsistency.

Hollywood Links

5 Things I Learned Making The Biggest Flop In Game History. Everyone's heard this story, right? ET was the game so bad that it bankrupted Atari and nearly killed the entire home console market. Well, that's not quite the truth. Yeah the game isn't that great but the truth is Atari was a company so poorly run it was destined to fail. ET was actually a huge hit for them, they sold over a million and a half copies of the game but in their infinite wisdom they had printed over 5 million copies. A mistake they repeated when they printed over 12 million copies of Pac-Man completely ignoring the fact that they had only sold 10 million consoles. Long story short here is that Atari was run by coked up morons.

Rob Schneider And Jennifer Love Hewitt Are Officially The ‘Worst’ Actor And Actress In Hollywood. Clearly the people that put this study together never saw The Client List. Man that was a great show.

Another Day, Another White Guy at Marvel: Benedict Cumberbatch to play Dr. Strange. This is an old article but it relates to the mixed reaction the Doctor Strange trailer got last week. First things first, I have zero problems with Dr. Strange being played by a white guy. Yes the character might have originally been Asian (as a few interviews with the creator have suggested) but outside of those early issues 50 years ago he's never been identified as anything other than a plain old white dude. However, I do agree with the articles overall point. Marvel is quite literally going to have 8 movies staring blond white guys named Chris (3 Thor, 3 Cap, 2 GOTG) before one movie staring either a woman or a person of color. Throw all the white guys named Robert in there and you have 11 movies before they get around to the Black Panther or Ms Marvel (which was delayed again).

I could go on for a couple more paragraphs on the Might Whitey trope but eventually I need to get to work today.

I know this sounds all Social Justice Warriory but I don't care. I looked at my pull list the other day and right now books with a female lead dominate what I'm collecting. Squirrel Girl, Hellcat, Black Widow, Silk, Batgirl, Harley Quinn, Black Canary. I don't know, Marvel is the so called House of Ideas. I'm just looking for a bit more diversity when it comes to their movie ideas.

Marvel's Doctor Strange Teaser Trailer

Meh..

Seriously, this trailer fills me with a lot of meh. I wish I was excited as all my friends on twitter last night. I just don't know how many more of these origin movies I can take. Doctor Strange was a doctor who lost the use of his hands in an accident and learned magic. There, that's his origin. You really want to see 2 hours of that?

And don't even get me started on the whole white guy learns mysticism from a white Tibetan monk played by Tilda Swinton. I'm not saying it's racist but it's not not racist. If I was an actor of Tibetan decent I'd be pissed.

Also the special effects all look like they're lifted from Inception. Seriously the two biggest effects shots of the trailer look like they come DIRECTLY from Inception.

I don't know, I'll still keep my eye on this and If it gets good reviews I'll probably go see it in the theater but this is hardly a must see for me. I can't believe how quickly I turned on this in like a 12 hour period. Oh well, we still have Suicide Squad.

The Doctor Is In

Hey there poster for Doctor Strange. Looking good. I'll see if I can get a babysitter that day. With all the terrible luck I've had trying to get out to see Deadpool 7 months notice sounds just about right.