Because I have only 4 days until I see “Infinity War,” I’m prioritizing by rewatching “Doctor Strange” first and I’ll come back around to “Ant-Man” and “Civil War” if I have time.
I’m already confused and slightly nauseated by the spinning buildings… though that might also be residual hangover.
There are all these little allusions to time: rebuking the other doctor for calling the wrong time of death for a patient, telling him to cover his watch so the noise wouldn’t distract him during surgery, his collection of fancy watches…
I’m not sure I remembered that the first candidate patient he turns down as “boring” while talking to someone on the phone in the car was Rhodey.
Wtf is a Sling Ring, anyway? I get that the Infinity Stones and all the other various macguffins in the MCU are inherently ridiculous, but macguffins are just so thick on the ground in “Doctor Strange” that it makes the ridiculousness even more apparent.
What bothered me about this movie the first time was that there seemed to be no rules about what was and wasn’t affected by turning back time. Maybe practitioners of the mystic arts can resist it if they know what’s going on…? Because somehow they can sense that a time-reversal spell is happening?
Loki is the Philosopher King 