Marvel's Doctor Strange: 8 Reasons You Should Be Excited
The Doctor will see you now!
It's odd to think that just ten years ago, most people hadn't heard of Captain America, Black Widow and the rest of the Avengers gang. But flash-forward to now and they're all but household names, and we've had a bunch of movies that - before Iron Man's success - would've been utterly nonsensical for any studio-head to green light, including Ant-Man and Guardians Of The Galaxy.
But these movies proved that B or even C-list heroes can work on the big screen, if they're handled correctly. Marvel looks to be continuing this trend with their upcoming Doctor Strange adaptation, a fantastical romp through a magical, mystical and, well... strange part of the superhero universe that ten years ago, would've been a mere fanboy fever-dream.
But this is the exciting time we live in now - movies like this are getting made each and every year, and as fans, we should be grateful for every single one of them.
Not all of them work; Fantastic Four was a disaster, Thor: The Dark World was weak and Batman v Superman certainly had its low points. But Doctor Strange, thanks to a combination of the talent involved and the pedigree of the studio behind the production, is shaping up to be better than most - and here are eight big reasons you should be hyped...
8. The Trailers Haven't Revealed Anything Important
It seems weird that we can now consider this a high point (shouldn't this be the case anyway?) but in today's blockbuster landscape that seems intent on spoiling each of a movie's key points, it's genuinely refreshing to see a marketing campaign like Doctor Strange's - that hasn't been too liberal with its offerings.
The first trailer showed us Strange as a surgeon, brief glimpses of his arm-ruining car crash and a couple of shots of his time spent dabbling in the mystical arts with the Ancient One, while the second trailer went on to reveal a better look at Mads Mikkelsen's villain and some footage of spells, magic and mind-bending cityscapes in action.
Thankfully, this is all surface-level plot, stuff we'd learn from a simple synopsis and stuff that's pulled directly from Strange's comic-book origin - so we knew it'd happen anyway.
Generally speaking, the less you know, the better a movie tends to be - but big-budget marketing clearly doesn't agree. Batman v Superman's trailer ruined the Doomsday surprise, Civil War spoiled Spidey and X-Men: Apocalypse may as well have just shown the full movie instead of a trailer, but Doctor Strange hasn't yet succumbed to any similar effects, and it feels great to be going in as blind as we are now.
Fingers crossed the final trailer is just as secretive!