Saturday, April 16, 2016

Doctor Strange

Doctor Stephen Strange  best known  under his alias Doctor Strange  created by Artist Steve Ditko he first appeared in Marvel's Strange tales  # 110 in July 1963.

He has one mission that he has dedicated himself too and that is to serve as the Sorcerer Supreme the primary protector  of earth against magical and mystical threats.


Now last night Jimmy Kimmel gave a look at the first teaser trailer for the live action film starring Benedict Cumberbatch  set to release  November 6th 2016  here it is if you missed it.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lt-U_t2pUHI    It is a origin story as you can tell but lets get into it.  Doctor Strange was a brilliant neurosurgeon but his  ego was  his biggest problem.  Money was his only concern not caring for his patients.  But things do happen for a reason a car accident  shatters the bones in his hands  causing nerve damage making them useless. He is  too arrogant to take on a teaching position Strange went in search of a cure from healers  legitimate or not.  After exhausting all his resource strange  is homeless and  performs shady "Back Alley" procedures for cash even with his trembling hands.   After hearing rumors about some one called the ancient  One  Strange Pawns the last of his  possessions  to get a ticket to the east to find the ancient ones Tibetan palace.

The old man refused to cure strange because he sensed  the selfish arrogant nature in Strange but also sensed a good side that he failed to bring out.   Shocked  Stephen witnesses a mystic attack on the ancient  One  Strange's good side does appear when he finds out  The Ancient one's Disciple Baron Mordo is trying to kill the old man.

Strange gets into a fight with Mordo it leads to him being restrained by magic  that stops him from fighting or warning the ancient one.  Strange has  a desperate and selfless change of heart he accepts the Ancients ones offer to become his apprentice to stop Mordo.

The old man knew of Mordo's intention and he and the Doctor become fierce enemies.  Strange is  then trained in  the mystic arts.

Once he completed his training Strange moves to a townhouse  in Greenwich village  called The Sanctum Sanctorum which is guarded by strange's personal servant Wong.

 A little bit on Wong he was born in to a whole blood line of monks task to serve the Ancient one he  was asked to serve strange who became Sorcerer Supreme after the Ancient one dies in 1973.  Wong functions as a chef,  house keeper , Martial Arts instructor  and Mystical Guardian.   Wong is athletic he does not have any super human abilities  he is a master Martial Artist unstoppable in hand to hand combat.

 Now he does not have any magical abilities of his own  but he is well aware of the  Dark arts since serving strange.  Wong has been able to hold his own against mystical forces and has aided strange in casting spells trust Wong is someone you do not want to threaten.

Back to the good Doctor who draws his Powers from Mystical entities  such as Agamotto, Cyttorak, Ikonn, Oshtur, Raggadorr and Watoomb they all lend their energies for spells.  Strange also wields mystical artifacts such as The Cloak of levitation which allows him to fly, The Eye of Agamotto whose light is used against all evil magic , The Book of the Vishanti which contains knowledge of White magic and then there is the Orb of Agamotto which works as a crystal ball.

 In addition to his magical abilities Doctor strange is trained in Several Martial arts disciplines and has shown skilled with magically conjured weapons such as swords and Axes.

Strange has traveled and fought in many dimensions he has fought the likes of doctor doom all the way to Galactus the devourer of Planets and has lived he is unmatched in the mystical part of the Marvel universe. Remember This is one of the men who helped sent hulk off planet then held up against him when he returned. He also saved silver surfer's life after and attack from the Mad titan Thanos with the infinity Gauntlet.

This is a man you want on your side and I have always enjoy that character he is my one of favorite heroes he fights until the end and has fought even in Death  I can say I am excited to That Marvel is bringing Magic into its Cinematic Universe an so Far the Doctor is in for business.

Friday, April 8, 2016

The Merc with the Mouth MOTION PICTURE AKA DeadPool The Movie (No Spoilers)


Hello fellow believers. I know it has been a minute since my last post but things happen for good reason and just know i have returned with my interesting point of views and ramblings. For today's post i've decided to touch on everyone's favorite Merc with the Mouth: Deadpool. It's been about a month or so since his movie debut in February (which in my eyes was AMAZING) but it didn't start off that way. That character took a huge hit in the beginning before becoming the great box office smash that you've seen today. First, lets talk about how he started. How it horribly began, with Deadpool's first appearance in X-Men Origins: Wolverine.



X-Men Origins was released in 2009 with what should've been the greatest ensemble of mutants we have ever seen since X-Men 3. But just like X Men 3, it failed to capture the essence of his origins and was just an OVERALL train wreck. Me knit picking that movie will deviate from what this post is about which is DeadPool. DeadPool made his first cinematic debut in X Men Origins with the perfect actor playing him Ryan Reynolds. At first, i was giddy with excitement because Ryan had the charisma, the puns, and overall personality that was Deadpool. I thought FINALLY Fox had something right here, i was going to see greatness. Fox was probably reading my thoughts and just like that they sewn DeadPools mouth shut. That was probably one of the biggest mistake they did in that movie, outside of everything else. The one thing that made DeadPool......well DEADPOOL was his never ending barrage of jokes. That's like the equivalent of taking away Thor's hammer. For god sakes it's in his name "the Merc with the MOUTH". To put insult to injury they then made him this chimera mutant where they injected him with other mutant abilities. It was such a train wreck i literally left the movie theaters when they did this BS. I have been an avid comic book fan of DeadPool and i literally was devastated on what Fox did to this franchise. After a couple of years after that debacle, i thought it was the end of what would pretty much could have been an awesome opportunity for a Deadpool Franchise. My dream of an amazing DeadPool on the big screen pretty much died but then it happened, a test footage was leaked and all hell broke loose.
(If you haven't seen the original test footage here you go.)

This wonderful Vid was leaked at San Diego Comic con and the reception was well deserved on top of the video going viral. In a matter of hours the internet was buzzing for questions. Was this an actual movie that's going to happen? who is going to play DeadPool? Was it a continuation of the Wolverine origins? Is Fox going to screw this one up too? Then our prayers had been answered in the name of Ryan Reynolds. Ryan Reynolds and Fox studio confirmed that they will be making a stand alone DeadPool Movie and it had NOTHING to do with origins (one lone thug tear was shed).Of course i have to give credit to the numerous amount of Fans who petitioned and made soooooo much noise for this to be realized. I was happy and willing to go see this movie after many video promotions released. After taking my Girlfriend to see it for Valentines day (yes i did that and i stand by my decision) i thought it was amazing. Of course like any movie adaptation, it wasn't going to follow his origins to the letter. Which i'm ok with as long as it is done very well and sort of keeps the essence of the original story. Almost everything about DeadPool in the comics was portrayed in the movie quite well except for one or two things. Nothing too major but, hopefully they could correct it in a sequel movie. In my opinion, Ryan Reynolds was born to play DeadPool. He had all the mannerism that you would see in the comics from the barrage of jokes and crude humor to the 4th wall breaking (i was soooooooooo happy that they had 4th wall breaking in this movie).  This Movie redeemed DeadPool and many other opportunities and scenarios that could happen in the Marvel Cinematic universe. Hopefully, we may see DeadPool cross over in other movies and maybe, just maybe, a cameo in the infinity wars later down the road. For now time will tell and we can only wish for the best. so, if you haven't seen the movie i'm going to need you to go and see it. Like now.........like right now..........why are you still reading this.......GO