Facts About the Sweetie

[przed]

A few brief facts about the Sweetie:

1. He loves Doctor Strange comics. Like, really loves. He's always quoting "by the hoary hosts of Hoggoth," one of Strange's catchphrases, to the point where I didn't even have to look that up.

2. He really, really has taken a dislike to Benedict Cumberbatch. Hates him, hates Sherlock, hates him a lot.

3. He has just found out that everyone is expecting an imminent announcement at Comic Con that Cumberbatch will be playing Doctor Strange in an upcoming Marvel movie.

A fact about me:

1. I am a very bad person, because I'm enjoying his outrage and disappointment far too much. *g*

Comments

[halotolerant.livejournal.com]

Oh dear, poor Sweetie... But maybe it's just a rumour? In a sense (as not so much a Cumberbatch fan as general well-wisher) I rather hope it isn't true, because I feel Cumberbatch is getting towards overexposure at this point... but maybe that's less true outside the internet. That said, Cumberbatch can act, so maybe when he's not acting the Sherlock character he might be more likeable for him?

[przed.livejournal.com]

It is just a rumour so far, but it seems to be an increasingly likely rumour.

As for the Sweetie liking Cumberbatch in other things, um, no. He only finally watched the first episode of Sherlock this past December because I made him for my birthday, but had developed a dislike for him in other things long before that. He called him the worst thing in Tinker Tailor. (To be fair, Cumberbatch is up against a pretty stellar cast in that film.) It is, no doubt, the overexposure that's helped do it for him. That and me and everyone else we know (Everyone!) telling him how awesome Cumberbatch is. (The Sweetie is nothing if not a contrarian. *g*)

[callistosh65.livejournal.com]

Heh. That'll teach him to hate Sherlock..

[przed.livejournal.com]

I shall pass along your message. *g*

[graculus.livejournal.com]

I don't hate Cumberbatch, though I've cooled on him significantly as time has gone on, but he would be massively bad casting as Dr Strange. Not that this'll stop anyone, unfortunately, but there you go.

Not that you're asking but my vote is for either Oded Fehr or Alexander Siddig, personally, but I'm realistic that neither of them are probably considered to be big enough to carry a Marvel movie.

And yes, you are a very bad person. ;)

[przed.livejournal.com]

Oooh, Alexander Siddig would be wonderful. And yeah, he wouldn't have a chance of winning that role, more's the pity. (I quite like Cumberbatch, but his film choices have not all been winners.)

And yes, you are a very bad person. ;)

I try. ;-)

[graculus.livejournal.com]

Hopefully Marvel are aware of the sentiments that casting Cumberbatch as Khan stirred up and don't want to touch that kind of thing with a bargepole. I just can't see him as Doctor Strange, not to mention it'd be nice to have a little representation going on, but who knows?

Marvel have got enough on their plate trying to drum up enthusiasm for Ant Man next year, after the slam dunks they've had in terms of sequels in recent months. They won't be filming Doctor Strange till this time next year, so there's plenty of time for dodgy decisions... ;)

[przed.livejournal.com]

Cumberbatch as Khan was only one of the things that put a bad taste in my mouth about the last ST movie. Cumberbatch's performance was fine, but the whitewashing was to put it mildly, irksome, and then there was the generally stupidity of the plot and the wholesale destruction of a city without much acknowledgement at all of the extreme loss of life that must have happened. And the utter failure of the Bechdale test. Blech. It's definitely a film I won't be watching again. Once was enough.

I will be interesting to see if Marvel can sustain their run. I was disappointed that they turfed Edgar Wright from Ant Man, but I'm curious to see what Peyton Reed makes of it. (Reed directed a very firm favourite of mine, Down with Love, so I'm willing to cut him some slack.)

[graculus.livejournal.com]

If I go to the cinema to see something, I rarely feel like I haven't had my money's worth but for that movie I'll make an exception - I was literally cringing in my seat, it was so awful in parts (gratuitous Alice Eve in her undies shot, I am thinking of you!).

As for Marvel, I've been flinging money at them for a while now but had thought Guardians of the Galaxy was going to be the one that broke the routine. And then I saw the trailers and just knew it wasn't going to be. So now I think it's going to be Ant Man as I just have zero interest in the plot line/characters regardless of directors.

[przed.livejournal.com]

Gratuitous Alive Eve in her undies was definitely egregious. ::gives JJ Abrams the hairy eyeball::

I've got a morbid curiosity about both Guardians of the Galaxy and Ant Man on account of the Sweetie. He's a big Rocket fan, so was keen when Guardians was announced. And it's a standing joke in our house that he bought the "Essential Ant Man" compilation when it came out. I love pointing out it isn't really that essential. *g*

[catalenamara.livejournal.com]

I just can't see Cumberbatch as Dr. Strange. (I LOVE the suggestions of Oded Fehr or Alexander Siddig - too bad that won't happen.)

[golden-bastet.livejournal.com]

I don't know who Dr. Strange is (ouch! don't hit me!!!) but - disliking Benedict Cumberbatch is a thing? Because he's one of the few newishly prominent actors who can actually act...

Ah, Sweetie - be nice!

[przed.livejournal.com]

Strange is a character you'd know if you were a Marvel geek--like the Sweetie--so don't feel bad about not knowing him. I wouldn't if I wasn't living with a Marvel geek. *g*

See, the Sweetie (who is usually a bloke of discernment) is convinced that he can't actually act. Or at least not very well. I know! He's mostly alone in that room. Which is causing him to entrench his position rather than re-think it. But then, it took him five years of living with me to admit Viggo Mortensen was a good actor, and 15 years and Game of Thrones to come around on Sean Bean. I'm hoping he'll recant eventually. *g*

[krisserci5.livejournal.com]

Hee, hee. . . .good wife!

[przed.livejournal.com]

Or bad, we're just not sure. *g*

[asilia.livejournal.com]

I must be the only other person on earth who shares the Sweetie's dislike for Benedict Cumberbatch - I can't stand him! Not because he is a bad actor, because obviously he's very talented, but he's put me off every character I saw him play... Sherlock bored me to tears (again, I feel like I'm the only person not loving this show - in my defense, I watched 2 seasons because I thought there had to be something about it, as everyone else was so excited but nope). He was very good in 10 Years A Slave - but his role was very dislikable so I guess that's why it worked for me ;)

[przed.livejournal.com]

Hey, we all have actors we can't stand. I had it in for Matt Damon for years, and I still can't abide Scott Speedman. (Unfortunately, Speedman is a Toronto boy, and I once ranted against him in the presence of one of his high school friends. Oops. Still don't like him, though.)

And you're in good company with the Sweetie. He'll be pleased to hear he's not the only one. *g*