I went in not knowing too much of Dr Strange and walked out thinking i could have done a better job. It felt too clichey. It definitely went with style over substance.
I felt the CGI cape was pointless and took me out of the movie - funnily enough. I also thought how RDJ would have been a better fit, even Christian Bale. I think it being an origin story was it's down fall.
For what it's worth, i would have rather the film started off with a fully 'grown' Dr Strange. He introduces us to his bazaar world. I feel and again i could be wrong but i wish they had went with a Dr Who style formula.
My pitch - the world has changed, meta humans, aliens, robots, nothing appears strange anymore.
It's 1986, Halloween, kids are goofing around, around the streets kids dressed as ET, Han solo, even a vintage capt america and are trick or treating down a neighbourhood, in a shed, a few teens are playing with a ouiji board, one pulls out a spell book he has had in his family for years.
They have no idea what anything means and they carry on pretending to recite spells and ask the ouiji questions until something is awoken - as if, by magic, the teen appears in a trance - his eyes darken and he recites a spell.
From outside the shed glows and kids scream as a bolt races out and into the sky.
News reports circulate and the press go crazy for halloween antics go wrong as a girl is presumed kidnapped. The teens say it was a demon with a black heart - the police have no leads.
Credits role.
This day, a man in his 30's has made it his life's mission to find his sister and it doing his best to contact the avengers and get his story heard - could they help him?
The man ends up in asia, years of research leads him looking for the ancient one - he doesn't succeed, but.. someone finds him. In a remote village, the space before him opens up and out steps Dr Strange.
Dr Strange conforts the man, he tells him that he is on a path of evil if he is to continue misusing 'magic', falling short of selling his soul to the devil's helper Zadkiel himself. He agrees to hand over this spell book, stop his work if Strange will help him, which he agrees to do.
They enter the under world, other dimensions and battle inner demons as well as Black heart himself to retrieve his sister.
At the end, he has a choice - to stay with his sister in another dimension or create a paradox in time - As Strange walks away, a crack in the sky appears, behind it, an eye.
For the man that contacted strange was indeed the possesed teen trying to find a way back to the under world with his sister - they were indeed the children of the black heart project.
Now, this took me 5 minutes to come up with, using google. But it feels a lot different that the cookie cutter movie we got.
