Karthik Chronicles

If you have no idea what I am going to blabber about just check this link. The DVD is releasing on 14th August, I thought why not write about it since I got to see it. Its funny how Marvel picked up one of the lesser known characters from it’s universe for making it into a STV(Straight to Video) animated movie. But hey I am not complaining I have always liked Dr. Strange’s character so no problem for me.

The main thing about the film is that they have changed the origin story of the Doctor Strange but only a little bit. The first introduction of Doctor Strange where he sees the wizards fighting the dark creature even though they had used a cloaking spell was the best. I will give a synopsis of the story:

Dr. Stephen Strange was one of the most gifted surgeons in medicine before his hands were left shattered and useless as a result of a car crash. Spending his fortune in pursuit of a way to fix his fractured body, the dejected doctor believed all was lost until the Ancient One offered him hope and healing in Tibet.

Training mind, body and soul with the Ancient One and his pupils, Doctor Strange’s scope, power and compassion grows as he steps closer to his mystical fate. But to fully embrace his destiny and protect the worlds of magic and reality, Strange must face betryal, death and the emergence of Dormammu.

The way the depict the training of Doctor Strange is wonderful, it’s all about learning magic and accepting the unacceptable. We see how a disheartened surgeon becomes the Sorcerer Supreme of the earth realm. The last fight with Dormammu ended to fast I believe they could have made it a bit more longer.

Coming to the animation. I for one have really liked the other three Direct-to-Video animation films by Marvel(Ultimate Avengers, Ultimate Avengers 2 and The Invincible Iron Man). This one also had very crisp animation. The character designs were excellent except for Dormammu since it seemed he was more or less just made of fire and some weird lines; other than that the other character designs were great. The character design of Doctor Strange was very good. They showed three different types of designs for him. First was when he was a surgeon and the next when he loses all his hope and became destitute. The third one was of him becoming the Doctor Strange and the clothes were really cool. The most unfortunate thing is that this the only animated movie that will ever be made for Doctor Strange since the next and the last animated film that Marvel is going to make with Lions Gate is Avengers Reborn(about kids of Avengers becoming the New Avengers or something). At the end of the film when Wong says that they have found new prospects and one of them named Clea seems to be the best was a great dialogue which suggested a possible sequel but as we know that is not going to happen. So, this was my small review on Doctor Strange Animated Film 2007.

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After I had seen the last Harry Potter movie trailers I was pretty much sure I would not like it because as a book fan they removed a lot of things from it. Now, when the new movie is coming I had my own apprehensions as I didn’t really like the book. The book was just the build up for the book after it, so it made the reading a little boring compared to the other books where I was gripped the whole time.

I have been seeing HP-OOP trailer all over the place and I must say that I liked it very much. I guess they have used only the best part out of the whole book and that made it eeasy for them to compress the whole thing into one movie. The effects of the movie seems to be getting better and better which should be happening considering the improvement animation technology. I guess they might be probably changing small parts of the story here and there to make it easy to tell.

It seems it will release here on 13th July too which is quite good considering that I can watch it in theatres as I have my holidays going on. I am really excited about the movie and I feel like they should put the whole unedited movie into the DVD like it was done with the Lord of The Rings where the movies on DVD were nearly of 4 and a half hours.

I had always thought why people bashed Harry Potter for being a rip off of Lord of The Rings and being inferior to it. So, I thought why not check Lord Of The Rings out and see why it’s better. After I saw it I must say the Films are visually lot more pleasing than Harry Potter movies but what I realised after watching the movie was that, HP and LOTR are totally different from each other. The style the work mostly like a different genre in Fantasy. I felt that Inheritance Trilogy was more similar to LOTR. LOTR is definitely something that totally rocks but I must say that HP is different from LOTR and though being a fan it is much more less appealing than LOTR.

Oh lets leave all that and get to what I wanted to post. Well, there has been lots of news about comics-to-films. The one that will soon hit theatres will be Fantastic Four 2,Transformers and Spiderman 3. The ones that are in talks are Superman 2, Batman:The Dark Knight, Shazzam(Yes, there are plans for the film),Justice League of America(without Brandon Routh I heard but may have Christian Bale), Wolverine, Magneto and some more here and there. Read more »

       Recently I have been down with bond fever making myself see nearly all the bond movies that were made especially the old ones. I always liked it but now I am a fan of the Bond series, not only because of the bond girls but to be like Bond, is a hidden ambition in all the men out there which includes me too.

           I am one of those who have never read even one of the books which were written by Ian Fleming, I know he is a great writer and I am sure I will read some of the books soon but have not read any of them till now. I really love those gadgets and stuff used in the movies, making me a fan of most of these spy films.

       I have not seen the Casino Royale yet but I will see it as soon as they release the DVD.

        Till now from what I have seen my most favourite actors who played James Bond are Sean Connery, Roger Moore and Pierce Brosnan. I liked each one of them for their own different style. As I haven’t seen Daniel Craig I can’t say how good or bad he is.I guess I should stop this rant as I have a bigger post coming up.

Well this is a follow-up post to one of my older posts. I saw in newspaper last week that the ban on the movie “Da Vinci Code” was lifted by the Court. The twist in the story is that they have fined the police for postponing the screening of the movie. The court had said that the police had not followed one of the basic principlesof an democratic country which was right to express oneself. Court has given strict warning to police for not repeating such a thing again as the reasons given by police personnels were not satisfactory. The court had said if they feared violence then they should be prepared for it rather than postponing the screening of the movie.
                   Atleast I am happy that atlast it will be screened here I look forward to watch the movie in theatre and I believe in the court and democratic goverment of India now

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