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Title: Del Toro and Doctor Strange?
Post by: TheMarvell on February 08, 2008, 05:34:15 PM
http://movies.ign.com/articles/850/850862p1.html

Not too familiar with Dr. Strange, but from what little I've been exposed to him, I can't say I care for the character. I saw him in the Spider-Man 90's cartoon show, Marvel Ultimate Alliance, and trailers for his exclusive direct-to-dvd animated movie, and I just don't think he's my cup of tea superhero.

Still, Del Toro seems like a decent choice I think and maybe he can make me like the character, lol.

what do you guys think?
Title: Re: Del Toro and Doctor Strange?
Post by: Gremlin on February 08, 2008, 05:59:45 PM
Holy crap, Dr. Strange by Neil Gaiman?  HECK YES.
Title: Re: Del Toro and Doctor Strange?
Post by: Figure Fan on February 08, 2008, 06:09:16 PM
Can you say PERFECT?
Title: Re: Del Toro and Doctor Strange?
Post by: ow_tiobe_sb on February 08, 2008, 06:14:13 PM
Quote from: TheMarvell on February 08, 2008, 05:34:15 PM
Not too familiar with Dr. Strange, but from what little I've been exposed to him, I can't say I care for the character. I saw him in the Spider-Man 90's cartoon show, Marvel Ultimate Alliance, and trailers for his exclusive direct-to-dvd animated movie, and I just don't think he's my cup of tea superhero.

Get behind me, Satan!




;)

ow_tiobe_sb
Phantom Bunburyist and Fop o' th' Morning
Title: Re: Del Toro and Doctor Strange?
Post by: Sword on February 08, 2008, 09:07:22 PM
Del Toro for Dr. Strange? The only way that could be more awesome is... No. It cannot be more awesome.
Title: Re: Del Toro and Doctor Strange?
Post by: Panther_Gunn on February 08, 2008, 09:38:00 PM
Quote from: Sword on February 08, 2008, 09:07:22 PM
Del Toro for Dr. Strange? The only way that could be more awesome is... No. It cannot be more awesome.

It would be more awesome if he used the costume....or, at least enough elements from it to make it recognizable (cape, eye, gloves, perhaps a sash).
Title: Re: Del Toro and Doctor Strange?
Post by: The Hitman on February 08, 2008, 10:25:34 PM
Quote from: ow_tiobe_sb on February 08, 2008, 06:14:13 PM
Get behind me, Satan!

;)

ow_tiobe_sb
Phantom Bunburyist and Fop o' th' Morning

Where do I know this quote from? Is is MST3K or Venture Bros.?
Title: Re: Del Toro and Doctor Strange?
Post by: TheMarvell on February 08, 2008, 10:38:28 PM
like I said, I really don't know much about the character, so my judgment of him is only based on what little I've seen him in, which isn't enough to be fair. It's just that from what little I've seen him, I have yet to be impressed or become interested.

a movie about him with a good writer and director could alter my perception easily though.
Title: Re: Del Toro and Doctor Strange?
Post by: danhagen on February 09, 2008, 01:53:00 AM
By the hoary hosts of Hoggoth, Del Toro is a brilliant choice!
Title: Re: Del Toro and Doctor Strange?
Post by: catwhowalksbyhimself on February 09, 2008, 09:00:15 AM
QuoteWhere do I know this quote from? Is is MST3K or Venture Bros.?

It's from the Bible.
Title: Re: Del Toro and Doctor Strange?
Post by: Jakew on February 09, 2008, 04:00:19 PM
Wow ... that sounds like a dream team for Dr Strange.
Title: Re: Del Toro and Doctor Strange?
Post by: lugaru on February 10, 2008, 06:02:57 AM
I agree... for those who dont know Dr Strange combines magic, psychedelia, monsters and a campy troubled hero. If they take it seriosly it would rule but if they play it for laughts it might still be cool.
Title: Re: Del Toro and Doctor Strange?
Post by: Protomorph on February 10, 2008, 10:59:13 AM
Quote from: catwhowalksbyhimself on February 09, 2008, 09:00:15 AM
QuoteWhere do I know this quote from? Is is MST3K or Venture Bros.?

It's from the Bible.

It's the name of the latest White Stripes album.
Title: Re: Del Toro and Doctor Strange?
Post by: zuludelta on February 10, 2008, 01:49:48 PM
Quote from: lugaru on February 10, 2008, 06:02:57 AM
I agree... for those who dont know Dr Strange combines magic, psychedelia, monsters and a campy troubled hero. If they take it seriosly it would rule but if they play it for laughts it might still be cool.

Yeah, Dr. Strange is one of those properties that I wouldn't mind being revisited with a touch of camp, although an updated serious treatment would be up my alley as well... my old roommate had a collection of the early Strange Tales comics and I'd read them wondering where Steve Ditko got the wonderful wonderful drugs that allowed him to come up with those awesome mystic landscapes  :lol: ... All kidding aside, there just wasn't much in the way of popular psychedelic art reference at the time (Dr. Strange preceded the mainstream psychedelica movement in pop art by a good couple of years), and Ditko virtually wrote the visual lexicon for many of the "effects" and conventions we now take for granted as part of the shorthand artists use to suggest anything "mystical" in origin in the visual medium.
Title: Re: Del Toro and Doctor Strange?
Post by: BWPS on February 10, 2008, 08:12:41 PM
Quote from: Protomorph on February 10, 2008, 10:59:13 AM
Quote from: catwhowalksbyhimself on February 09, 2008, 09:00:15 AM
QuoteWhere do I know this quote from? Is is MST3K or Venture Bros.?

It's from the Bible.

It's the name of the latest White Stripes album.

Icky Thump is actually newer. I thought I heard an even newer TWS song on the radio but it turned out a cat had jumped into my engine.