Certainly the worst movie in the MCU.
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness is a part of a new generation of awful.
Mauler is one of the many film critics on YouTube. He is famous (or infamous) for making incredibly long reviews. His review of Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness is almost 6 hours long. The movie itself is 2 hours and 6 minutes. The first 7 minutes of the review covers the first 2 minutes of the movie. (It takes 7 minutes to detail everything that is wrong with those 2 minutes.) But I'm not saying you should watch all 5 hours and 51 minutes. Certainly not in one sitting.
The review is broken into chapters so it is easy to watch one bit at a time. I am going to dump you down in the middle. It is a 15 minute (or so) section that compares two scenes from different movies that have to accomplish similar things.
Mauler compares one scene from X-Men: The Last Stand with the current monstrosity. Did you ever think you would look back fondly on X-Men 3? Neither did I, but here we are.
Our candidates are what is considered one of the worst superhero movies of all time versus the actual worst superhero movie of all time.
OK YouTube has decided to stop letting me start embedded videos at a particular point in time. Not sure why. (It may actually be a bug, now that I look into it.) Use the link below or Jump forward to 4 hours, 16 minutes and 50 seconds from the start to get to "An Essay within an essay: X-Men 3 vs. DS:MOM"
This is Mauler's review: An essay within an essay: X-Men 3 vs. DS: MOM.
A 6 hour review of a 2 hour movie? Sounds like someone has NO LIFE and way way too much free time on their hands.
ReplyDeleteAre you talking about me or Mauler?
DeleteThere was very little of it I watched. The intro is pretty entertaining, and did like the section I highlighted, but for the rest of the time it was just one in the background. And not all at once. 15 or 20 minutes at a time. Or just running in the background. (It is why I have multiple monitors - so there is music or video running while I'm really doing something else - like dealing with blog comments!)
Worse than "Green Lantern" ?
ReplyDeleteGreen Lantern was silly, and the special effects detracted from the story, but it did tell a story.
DeleteThere was setup and payoff. The villain's motivation - jealousy of Hal since they were kids - made sense in universe. In short, the people who wrote Green Lantern knew how to write, even if they didn't do a particularly good job of it.
Multiverse of Special Effects is not written, as much as assembled around computer animations that are supposed to "look cool." It doesn't matter if the fight has the people make stupid choices, just so we can have something for the next movie-based ride at the theme park
As Mauler says in the review, X-Men-3 had always been in the running for worst superhero movie, but this film makes you look back fondly on that travesty, because even as bad as it is, it did tell a story, had respect for the fans and the characters, etc.
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