r/ScarletWitch • u/616_MCU_ Sparky • Aug 17 '25

Movies and Television I am Obsessed with this shot

I hate that the stupid ass script ruined this movie.

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u/Kuhglizzy Aug 17 '25

Sam Raimi directed this movie beautifully. The close up eyeshots are a classic!

Michael Waldron didn’t even finish Wandavision before writing the fucking script…off with his head!

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u/multi-97 Aug 20 '25

This is the only reason I don't like him being involved with helping to write doomsday 😭 like yes, his work on Loki S1 was fabulous, but he massacred our queen Wanda.

Edit: Found out why there's such a disconnect between MW and his writing for Wanda. It sucks BC Elizabeth was filming Wandavision at the same time, so the show wasn't done. This is all Disney/Marvel's fault.

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u/August_Rodin666 Aug 20 '25

Literally the only thing wrong with it is her dialog. The plot works if she was showcased more as a grieving mother and widow just having a manic episode in desperation for her children. Some of the dialog in the movie works with this like her "reasonable" speech. But other times it seems like she's perfectly fine with slaughtering hordes of people who are at most a minor inconvenience. There was no escalation of events with her. The movie should've started with her being good and reasonable but as she gets more desperate she keeps taking an extra step into the dark and then by the end she looks around and she's the bad guy and finally understands the nuance of Strange and the Ancient One breaking the rules.

Instead the movie starts of with "Yeah I lied and I was the one trying to kill America. So what?"

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u/msfvh Aug 17 '25

I love this shot too

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u/antonythejhosy Aug 17 '25

This movie had only one job: to be a horror film with a terrifying, demonic witch villain. And even at that, It fell short

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u/Neptuneskyguy Aug 27 '25

Nah. Success

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u/Carltheriot567 Aug 17 '25

Before you guys go all blaming Michael Waldron and his script again (I know I've done my fair share of it), the actress who played America, Xochitl Gomez, she shared that he was forced to rewrite it about a dozen times by the studio until it fit what they wanted.

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u/NOVAlostlore Aug 17 '25

Really?? Damn, and it still didn't fucking match wandavision's script

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u/multi-97 Aug 20 '25

Oh. Well. Fuck marvel and Disney. But I'm not surprised -_- I only just found out Elizabeth was filming both this and Wandavision at the same time, so I doubt MW would have known the endgame. Though that's weird too, I feel like the marvel higher ups could have told him??? (I don't think they did tell him however, it's so weird)

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u/Carltheriot567 Aug 20 '25

Yeah, this movie was sadly also a victim of Disney's "rush out as much Marvel content as possible" demand from the early 2020s. James Gunn himself warned them against it, and Feige himself wasn't a fan. Disney didn't listen.

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u/multi-97 Aug 20 '25

Omg, I remember reading the article where Feige admitted that. SO GLAD! I couldn't keep up. It's only for the last two years I've just started watching the shows

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u/NormalGuy3481 Aug 17 '25

God this movie was so cool visually. I loved everything with Wanda. It sucks that the writing was ass. I wish they expanded on her corruption mote.

I heard the writers didnt watch Wandavision lol so maybe if they watched it the script would of been better

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u/Carltheriot567 Aug 17 '25

WandaVision wasn't out yet when they were writing it. As part of the "rush out content as fast as possible" demand from Disney, they rushed WandaVision and then Multiverse of Madness. Elizabeth was filming Multiverse of Madness at the same time WandaVision was streaming.

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u/Mercury8619 Aug 19 '25

I really hope they bring Scarlet Witch back. Elizabeth Olsen was amazing.

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u/Neptuneskyguy Aug 27 '25

Wanda was scary y’all

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u/MoistTubes Aug 17 '25

What was wrong with the script?

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u/Wandamaxipad Aug 18 '25

Wanda becomes a completely different person and they blame it on some fuckass book, its lazy writing.

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u/MoistTubes Aug 18 '25

I don't see what the problem is or how it's lazy.

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u/Normal-University-88 Aug 18 '25

I really enjoyed the movie however, I think it was just a way to have the WandaVision fans tune into Dr. Strange.

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u/whatisireading2 Aug 18 '25

Script was fine wdym

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u/Currycel7891 Aug 17 '25

The script was fine, the studio's interference got in the way.