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Sam Raimi is awesome, but this movies sucked. I think it was Feige and the other creatives' fault for the movie turning out the way it did. The script was rushed and Raimi did not know the movie's ending while he was shooting it. It was all haphazard nonsense. Similar issues that ruined Spider Man 3.
https://www.rollingstone.com/movies/movie-features/sam-raimi-multiverse-of-madness-doctor-strange-interview-spider-man-1344342/
The OP is also correct.
Wanda's motivation for being evil "to preserve her fake children" is weak at best, also, it was supposed to be resolved in the Wanda Vision tv series, why are the writers rehashing it?
Dr Strange basically has no arc, he's just doing stuff. Cumberbatch even says so.
https://theplaylist.net/benedict-cumberbatch-doctor-strange-sequel-scale-20211207/
The horror unfortunately doesn't shine coz you need setup, and build up to it. A Sam Raimi trying to give his 'Drag Me To Hell' edge in a sanitized Disney controlled movie is next to impossible.
More so than that, why are we supposed to empathize with Wanda again?
Didn't she ENSLAVE an entire town?
I'm sorry but everyone lost family members before, during and after the blip.
Contrary to what Dr. Strange says, she is not justified or in the right to "show her emotions". She's killing innocent people left and right coz "muh fake children". Writers couldn't do a better motivation for the antagonist?
Also No, it wasn't just the Darkhold corrupting her that made her sociopathic, the Wanda Vision show had her ENSLAVE people before she got the Darkhold. The show, which Disney clearly wants to setup as some cross channel intro to the movie.
You can't both have it both ways, you can't treat a character with kid gloves and also make them an antagonist.
Also, the film was littered with Strange always misusing the Darkhold to "save the world". As if to show that he's definitely bad but the weirdo who wants to torture a kid into giving her powers is somehow justified, yeah right.
Also, what was Strange's arc again? "Muh girl left me, so I'm depressed and pining for her and have to live without her"? Didn't he know this in the very beginning? Or is it some weird feminist power fantasy to see a guy be left a wreck after breakup?
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