#326: Lara, Marc, Link, and special guest Kayla discuss the new Doctor Strange movie (it’s really Wanda’s movie) and how it represents processing grief.
Transcript
Marc Cuiriz 0:11
Welcome to GT radio on Geek Therapy network. Here at Geek Therapy, we believe that the best way to understand each other and ourselves is through the media we care about. My name is Marc Cuiriz. And I am joined by Lara Taylor.
Marc Cuiriz 0:29
Link Keller.
Marc Cuiriz 0:32
and a very special guest, Kayla.
Marc Cuiriz 0:38
So how was my Josué impression everybody?
Kayla Devorak 0:43
It was pretty good.
Lara Taylor 0:44
It was pretty good.
Kayla Devorak 0:45
felt like a ten outta ten
Marc Cuiriz 0:47
I think was a little too peppy. He’s normally more toned down. But you know, I tried to bring in the energy because
Lara Taylor 0:55
I mean, you didn’t do the big breath beforehand.
Marc Cuiriz 0:59
That’s true. But nobody ever hears that because I usually cut it out.
Marc Cuiriz 1:04
I don’t let anybody hear that. That breath. Yeah, so we are here today to discuss the new Doctor Strange movie the multiverse of madness. Or in this case, it’s just a Wanda going I don’t know. What would you guys say?
Link Keller 1:28
It’s marvel’s mothers day movie. It’s mom. MoM is mom. Marvel’s Mom,
Lara Taylor 1:35
it’s perfect. Full full spoilers for this episode.
Marc Cuiriz 1:41
100% 100 spoilers
Lara Taylor 1:41
if you haven’t watched the movie Get out of here. Like Josué did.
Link Keller 1:47
Or stay it’s fine. No judgment.
Kayla Devorak 1:50
Some people don’t mind being spoiled.
Marc Cuiriz 1:52
I mean, yeah, it’s really me. I enjoy spoilers.
Kayla Devorak 1:55
I don’t mind them. I don’t mind them either.
Lara Taylor 1:57
It depends on the spoiler for me.
Marc Cuiriz 2:01
So I just wanted to get everybody’s initial thoughts, feelings, anything about the movie? Who wants to go first?
Lara Taylor 2:12
I mean, I brought the topic up, I will go first.
Marc Cuiriz 2:15
There we go.
Lara Taylor 2:16
There was it was a long string of Holy shit. Like that. That’s all I’ve got, like, my brain was exploding the whole movie. I really liked it. Yeah, I have opinions about things. We can talk about them later. But
Marc Cuiriz 2:35
I feel like that was that was definitely my whole reaction too I was like, Oh my God, there’s literally so much in this. And just like the introduction of a lot of characters, I just, I was completely mind blown. I definitely I had my seat like fully reclined because I was in one of those types of theaters. And I was I had actually put it like, all the way back up. And it was like at the edge of my seat because I was like, are they going to do it? But there’s a lot of things in there. Lonk, what was your thoughts?
Link Keller 3:09
So on on on GTRadio I am I’m the least invested in the Marvel Universe. And
Lara Taylor 3:20
I like hot takes on the reviews by the way
Link Keller 3:23
I did I didn’t think I was gonna get a chance to watch the movie. And so I did read some reviews. And I watched I watched a YouTube video review about it which honestly, that was a mistake. I did end up watching the movie I just I watched on Monday and so I have seen it. And while it is not my favorite movie, not my favorite Marvel movie. There were definitely parts I enjoyed and
Lara Taylor 3:55
link! this most link one it is a Sam Raimi horror film
Link Keller 3:59
the Sam the Sam Raimi horror aspects were my favorite parts. So that should not be a surprise to anybody. But yeah, overall, it was it was a movie with some cool visual effects and a couple of plot holes that you just don’t don’t think about it. That’s fine. And and a couple of like, really rad character monster design. So I love that. Yeah, that’s those are my surface level thoughts there.
Kayla Devorak 4:35
It’s one of my it’s my top three, Marvel, one of my top three Marvel shows, TV between the TV’s and the movie. So I liked it. I think my jaw was on the floor through the whole thing and I went with my wife and my father in law. Who’s never really does not watch any Marvel shows. I don’t think He’s even seen dr. strange one.
Lara Taylor 5:03
Kayla, are we the same?
Link Keller 5:04
I have not seen dr. strange one.
Kayla Devorak 5:07
I don’t even think he’s seen endgame guys. Like,
Link Keller 5:11
I did see wandavision. So I had like a fair amount of context. But it was very funny. Like Dr. Strange is like, Oh, he’s at somebody’s wedding. She’s probably important, right?
Lara Taylor 5:23
You could infer
Kayla Devorak 5:25
I’d argue you had enough context to be honest.
Kayla Devorak 5:28
I did suss it out. It wasn’t.
Kayla Devorak 5:33
Yeah, that was interesting. He said, Oh, that was an interesting movie. And I was like, I can’t stop thinking about it. This movie is amazing.
Lara Taylor 5:40
That’s kind of the reaction, but I went with my wife and my mother in law. i
Kayla Devorak 5:44
Are we the same person, why are we the same person?!
Lara Taylor 5:49
And, and she has seen some Marvel stuff, but I don’t think she saw the first Doctor Strange. Yeah, it was kind of her reaction. That was interesting. There was a lot of action.
Kayla Devorak 6:02
Like that wasn’t there was a lot of like, that was a weird movie. And he’s has a girlfriend who doesn’t like any sci fi, and he said, she would never watch that she would hate it. I was like, I’m really sorry that she doesn’t like science fiction. That makes my heart hurt.
Marc Cuiriz 6:22
Now, I went and saw it with with my wife too. And I think this was the first Marvel movie that she said that she did not like, now, we’re both not really big, horror people. But for me, it was just it was a nice little trip of nostalgia with me, especially with Sam Raimi. It was just like, Oh, I just gave me those. Those feel good vibes of watching Spider Man back in back in the old days.
Link Keller 6:46
old days? the early 2000s
Marc Cuiriz 6:46
So it was nice. I say this as I’m like, the youngest one here, but it’s fine. But no, I’m trying to keep more so curious Kayla that you said this is like one of your top three favorites, even including the shows. So I want to know, like, what what exactly about this movie? Like makes it like the into the top three for you?
Kayla Devorak 7:11
Yeah. So I really appreciate when Marvel decides to not lean into its comedic brevity. Because I think you can tell really good stories and like darker spaces. And it really leaned into it finally after like, running away from it after Thor 2, like we haven’t really had, like, darker, grittier stories from Marvel. But also, I liked that. I’m really into like, multiversal like thought, and I actually, it’s, it just continues to, you know, prop up my internal thesis that I have running about dreams and just a variety of things. And so it allowed me to continue to kind of think about that stuff. And, and I also just really appreciated the way that really, it’s like Wanda’s movie like, Stephen Strange is there, you...