I liked it. He made a fantastic Dr Strange. In my opinion, his American accent wasn’t bad at all, it was just odd because it wasn’t Cumberbatch’s voice. It doesn’t resonate like his own sexy awesome British accent.
It was not Rhodey.
From the tech which is shown it has to be after 2010, the use of iPads. However his point blank refusal to even consider the possibility of other realms and dimensions is strange (pun intended)…for a citizen of New York aka the city where Aliens fell out of the sky, so perhaps it’s starts around 2011-2012?
Even in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, there ain’t many Air Force colonels who get spinal injuries in power armor. It was Rhodey.
If it helps, this just moves the story into the future a couple years.
Doesn’t seem to make sense unless in the future Strange travels back in time and draws SHIELD’s attention somehow before he’s even become a sorcerer, which is just fan wanking.
I went and checked a couple of sources, and apparently nobody knows, including the creators. So they added that line, which was blatantly referencing Rhodey, but then maybe moved it back a year to around Age-of-Ultron, unless they didn’t. But they’re extremely vague about it. It supposedly took Strange a year-ish to gain those skills - which would put the end of the film around Civil War, unless it takes place after Civil War and bridges the gap to Thor 3 (which also makes sense).
On the other hand, can we really complain about this being vague in a movie where a Wizard Really Did Do It and which also features a…
magical time-manipulating infinity gem?
So my conclusion is that the film began after Civil War, and then timey-wimey wibbly wobbly had a big ending brawl before Age of Ultron and then ended when it was convenient for the running time.
IIRC, the whole point was that they were using a predictive algorithm to identify people who are threats “now, or in the future.” When asked, he elaborates: “Your bank records, voting patterns, e-mails, phone calls; your damn SAT scores! Zola’s algorithm evaluates people’s pasts to predict their future.”
In that case, Strange could’ve presumably gotten on their radar by just being a guy with off-the-charts smarts and some act-like-a-dick personality traits; he would’ve had the obvious potential for – okay, not “sorcery”, that’s a whole 'nother question; but someone with the inclination and ability to cause trouble.
It was a casual name drop to make nerds happy that does not in any way make sense retroactively.
Also, if there was ever a time to have a montage showing someone getting better at something it was during that time loop. He could have come out of there as the sorcerer supreme.
Just got back from the movie and I really enjoyed it. I thought it was a good origin story and a solid middle of the pack Marvel movie. Not as good as Winter Soldier, Iron Man, Guardians, or Avengers but on par or a bit better than Ant-man. I had a really good time watching it.
I stand corrected. My sister-in-law took the niece (10) to see it and she was fine.
I liked it. Like Guardians of the Galaxy, it opened up a whole new dimension to the MCU. GotG stretched out into space (more so than Thor did) and this into other Universes and Magic (again more so than Thor did).
I liked that even though it was opening up a whole new world, the story felt smaller. And I especially liked he won by out thinking the Bad guy rather than out punching him.
A few other observations:
Looks like the MCU will be able to have a snarky genius even after Tony Stark retires or otherwise exists the MCU.
I am 100% sure that first patient was supposed to be Post Civil War War Machine. To think otherwise is thinking to hard about it. Yes Sitwell mentioned him in Winter Solider but the whole point of why that plan was evil was they were casting a wide net. Strange was a world famous surgeon that made waves. I could see Hydra wanting him dead (they actually probably put out subtle feelers to see if they could recruit him first which he didn’t bite).
There was a line at the very end of the credits against distracted driving. I thought that was nice.
Until the very last post credit scene I thought the other Monk was going to remain a hero just a more unbending one.
That may still be in the cards. Mordo is complicated, and he probably was neither lying nor mistaken when he said there was going to be a price to pay for Strange kicking natural law of the world in the face.
Sounded like a Nigerian accent to me.
Oh, and the movie (or Strange’s part, at any rate) definitely starts sometime after at least the first Avengers movie, because the first time they show a view of New York, they show Avengers Tower (not Stark Tower) as part of the skyline (I remember because I called my wife’s attention to it). Can’t remember if that was opened at the start of Age of Ultron or in an* Iron Man *movie…
It was Ultron. While it would have been complete in the nebulous time before that movie, it couldn’t have been too long before since it doesn’t seem to have finished (or maybe even started) as of Iron Man 3.
I hope Marvel releases an official timeline to clarify this mess.
Are you talking about the first instance in Winter Soldier or the reference in Dr. Strange?
From IMDb:
IMDB’s trivia section is not some voice of authority. It’s essentially a Wikipedia page that anyone can edit (in fact, in a slight tangent, I would point out it seems to have gotten dumber and less useful or interesting in the last few years).
I’m a Star Trek fan so I can fully appreciate the fun of twisting stuff on screen to make things fit but every movie in the MCU besides the first CA has been basically chronological (barring well labeled Flashbacks) and I am positive that line was supposed to be a reference to Civil War.
Hell you can even still say Steven trained for years because we know they can manipulate time. Who’s to say they didn’t do years worth of lessons that in real time only took weeks?
I would think the confirmation from the director about the timeline would count as a voice of authority.
ETA: Here’s the full quote: http://screenrant.com/doctor-strange-director-timeline-illuminati-sequel/