Half in the Bag: Doctor Strange

I agree that it would be nice to see a little more risk taken by Disney's Marvel Studios, but making a movie on the character of Dr. Strange is a kind of a risk in and of itself. The same can arguably be said for Guardians and/or Ant-Man as well. And while these risky character movies are played a bit too safe, at least we're getting a solid enjoyable film experience... Unlike that other cinematic universe devised by Warner Bros's DC Studios. Right?

Jamie Laing

Mike is spot on about the music. When the credits rolled I was humming the Star Trek theme along with it.

Adam Timmins

Agreed. When I went to see Deadpool, there was a whole row of kids about 12 in front of me and both parents were in the audience (mom took the smart move and sat away from the kids) and the parents seemed fine with it. And since I see a lot of people who are around 30 and grew up on 80's movies and now have kids, I think these Hollywood executives are really missing the mark by trying to make them rather watered down.

Brendan Foster

Most of these Marvel movies are oddly sexless. I think GOTG had about the only person who was getting any or interested in sex. I know it's trying to be as 'broad' as possible, to get the biggest age range in the seats but I'm not 10 anymore. Most people paying for tickets aren't either.

I noticed the score too. There's a part in the middle of the film that almost sounded like it was taken from Raiders. And since Giacchino has been hired to do the score for Rogue One (hired three months before its release), I can't help but wonder if we'll be hearing parts of the Star Trek score in December.

When you were talking about the theme / soundtrack, I was reminded of Everyframesapainting's video about the 'Marvel symphonic universe' video: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vfqkvwW2fs" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vfqkvwW2fs</a> - the very forgettable score of every Marvel film to date - should check it out. It talks a bit about a concept that I have not heard about before: Temp music. Basically directors and editors are cutting a scene to an existing score. Then they give that to their composer and ask them to emulate it. 'Just like this, but a bit different. Not too different though'. As a composer, you don't have a lot of options. Especially if they asked you to write something they temped on your own previous composition....

maledei

So you basicly want Donnald Trump the movie? I bet there will be some kind of movie comming on him and his campaign soon. Without any swearing. :D

Michael Matzat

I noticed the 09 Trek theme immediately! Posted about it yesterday, the comment appears to have been eaten...

When are you going to do a Re:view of the award winning National Treasure films?