
Doctor Strange: Undergraduate of the Mystic Arts
BY DYLYN PETERSON
Staff Writer, UAS Whalesong
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Despite what my outfit may suggest, I was very worried that Doctor Strange was going to turn out pretty “meh.” The director, Scott Derrickson, has mostly worked in not-quite-B horror movies, such as Sinister and The Exorcism of Emily Rose, which don’t exactly scream “classic magical superhero movie” to me. In fact, my favorite director, Guillermo del Toro, tried to do a Doctor Strange movie back in 2007 (with my favorite author, Neil Gaiman, writing, which, and not too devolve too much into geekery too soon, sounds amazing, considering how well he wrote the Sorcerer Supreme in Marvel 1602), and that film’s nonexistence haunts me every day. The trailers, too, seemed pretty colorless and dramatic, which is as far from “quintessential Doctor Strange” as one can easily imagine. Continue reading “Doctor Strange: Undergraduate of the Mystic Arts”