not a huge fan of marvel movies so it was kinda eh for me too
didnt watch the wanda series either and dont know shit about anything else so i was a bit lost, marvel films are kinda forgettable too so i couldnt even recall much of the things that got referenced lmao (literally didnt remember who his love interest was and i watched dr strange 1 when it came out)
i liked the trippy sequences in dr strange 1 just cause the effects were pretty impressive from a technical standpoint and it was the main reason i was watching it but it happened like once for 10 seconds, i liked the scene where they went through the multiverses with all the different styles too but that was about it. the alt universe fight scene was also cool
liked america and strange didnt care much about anyone else, although kinda disappointed how it all wrapped up
people clapped the entire time and that was weird cause it wasnt a thing that happened here (at least until very recently), there were two kids that yelled nonstop with unfunny jokes or just pointed out what was happening which was annoying too but whatever theyre kids. i had multiple urges to toss a bottle at them but prevailed in the end
watched it with friends, if i was alone i wouldnt really bother watching it at all, gotta admit i checked my phone a few times to see how much of it was left
overall it wasnt bad though
The ending was just outright bad in my opinion.
I hated the pseudo-redemption arc that Wanda has at the end where she realizes she's actually evil and then "kills" herself.
This is the exact same woman we've followed throughout the movie be so obsessed with the idea of having her own children that she's willing to murder one Child, kill a huge portion of the Sorcerer's, and then wipe out 838's Avengers variant all in the same movie.
"At least they'll have someone left to take care of them" is what I think word for word what she says to Mr Fantastic just before she turns him into literal ribbons.
In my honest opinion, despite how powerful she's meant to be, they should've killed her.
She was so far gone that I feel like it would've been far more natural for her to say "You turned them against me." and just go right back after America. Sure, on her own she couldn't beat the Scarlet Witch, but if she was fighting her alongside both Dr Strange and Supreme Sorcerer Wong? It's over for her.
The Movies more grim and serious undertones definitely didn't get helped by some of the really tacky disney dialogue or by being held back by a PG-13 rating to keep it as marketable as possible. Between that and the timeframe, it just really held back the movie to me. Didn't let them fully explore everything they wanted to show.
