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

[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.

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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*