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Re:Quick, How Might the Alien Spacecraft Work? by oneeyedpigeon on Sunday November 13, 2016 @08:56AM (#12943325)
I'm unfamiliar with the original story, but watched the film yesterday. I was very impressed. Intelligent, emotional, sensitive - I certainly didn't come away thinking of it as nihilist and depressing, quite the opposite.
Re:Quick, How Might the Alien Spacecraft Work? by crdb on Sunday November 13, 2016 @09:18AM (#12943398)
I haven't watched it yet. It's months away, I think January release here. Other commenters say the plot has been substantially changed.

After watching Dr. Strange I read the first 5-6 comics, because I thought it was one of the few Marvel characters with some depth and interesting ideas, whose source material might be worth exploring. Alas, a goateed bad guy appears in dreams, wafting around, then getting beaten in a punch up with the hero because "magic", repeat ad infinitum. A far cry from the special interaction of Cumberbatch, Swinton and Mikkelson with a great script we saw in cinemas (I might be biased since this is the closest to a movie adaptation of Stross' Laundry Files ideas that we're likely to see in the near future).

A good writer and director can take any idea and turn it into something interesting, so I am looking forward to discovering the movie. My original comment was targeted at the story only.