Historically, I’ve said that my Top 5 MCU movies are, in alphabetical order:
Regarding Captain America: The Winter Soldier, for what it’s worth, while I’m not the biggest fan, I do appreciate its relatively grounded action sequences (at least until the typically outsized, monumental finale), from the opening commando assault on a pirated ship to the celebrated elevator fight. Keeping action grounded is one way to make a superhero movie stand out in a sea of forgettable CGI spectacle. (If you do it well! Otherwise, it’s pedestrian. The Winter Soldier does it well.)
Then there’s the opposite tactic, employed by Scott Derrickson and his collaborators in Doctor Strange, starring Benedict Cumberbatch as Dr. Stephen Strange: making the action as fantastical and unreal as possible. This, too, needs to be done well, or it becomes weightless and cartoony. Doctor Strange does it well.
This is the first and most important reason that Doctor Strange has become my favorite MCU movie …
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