Fantastic Four
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Movie is released today, but from what i have seen in the trailer i have a bad feeling its going to really suck,i dont know its just a feeling,remember when you saw the trailers for spiderman 2 and Batman begins for some reason they just excited you? i really dont get that feeling,i think jessica alba seemed like a bad choice for the invisible woman and that guy who plays reed richards doesnt seem convincing at all and they actually have ben grim saying its clobbering time,come on even if i fought a 7'3 hell's angel biker and he told me "its clobbering time" id laugh at him,then get my ass throughly beat.
the only actor who seems to capture the essence of the actor is the guy playing human torch,in both spidermans and batman begins all the actors captured the essence of what the characters were,these guys just dont seem to do it.
My prediction,it will suck as much as Daredevil and suck less then elektra.
the only actor who seems to capture the essence of the actor is the guy playing human torch,in both spidermans and batman begins all the actors captured the essence of what the characters were,these guys just dont seem to do it.
My prediction,it will suck as much as Daredevil and suck less then elektra.
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yeah, i agree with you completely JO, I think they could have done some better casting with Mr.Fantastic and the invisible woman. Maybe for invisible woman have a 30something milf with blonde hair and that Brady Bunch Shelly Long look but a bit hotter, and for Mr. Fantastic maybe a 45 year old guy with brown hair and natural grey streaks. I predict it'll suck.
Daredevil didn't suck.
Gruffudd is a good actor and sort of does have a Mr.Fantastic look, but he does look a bit too young. Alba just doesn't have that 'yes, I'm sort of sexy, but almost in a nice girlfriend/wife/mother-of-your-child sort of way' and I think it was a mistake to over-emphasize her character's intelligence when the actress doesn't tend to carry that over well (heck, the advertisements don't help...she might as well be called the Cleavage Woman or the Invisible Neckline for all the ads show). From what I've scene of trailers/snippets, Evans isn't bad as the torch...do like his hubris. My two problems are that he's too close to Reed's age and, personally, I would've preferred they kept Johnny blond as Grimm just loves to pick on him for it. I can live with how the Thing looks (after all, we could've gotten a good CGI Thing or a REALLY bad CGI thing and at least the suit Thing has some weight and character).
But I find it funny people are tearing the movie apart for its story. Whether it deserves it or not remains to be seen (and for me that'll probably be when it comes to the cheap seat theaters), but I want someone to point out a really great FF comic story. Don't get me wrong, the Fantastic Four were a fun read and the family dynamic made it easily relatable, but to me, even as a kid, most FF stories were crappy pulp science fiction stuff. There are good moments, even great, classic moments, but overall the stories (particularly in its early years) were some of the most fluffy stuff around. If anything, FF was almost never about the stories as much as the core set of four.
From what I understand, the movie doesn't do a great job at that either, but that's another story....
don't care much what others say, i'll see it and judge myself.
i award this movie the "Uwe Bol" award of un-excellance
r.
not that i'm saying this movie is any good...
von Doom was pretty cool and the Thing was well played.
I was originally upset that the thing wasnt CGd and almost as big as the hulk but the costume worked really well and the size actually made him more unique.
Id recommend seeing it for the pure entertainment value. If youre looking for more why are you watching a comic book movie in the first place?
- BoBo
Doom was a poor rip off of the green goblin from spiderman instead of Doom. They screwed up doom soo much he wasn't Doom at all. They should have called the character something else and said they made him up. I look at doom in this movie as the American version of Godzilla that was done a few years back. They called him Doom but it wasn't anything but a poor knock off.
It's worth renting if you manage to get a free rental coupon. If this was 1992 and this was the first of the super hero movies it would be the best one ever made. But the bar has been set and it's pretty high. Do yourself a favor and just flush the 20 bucks you would spend taking a date to this flaming pile of a train wreck they called a movie.
Id rather Fantastic 4 be a skinemax flick than a summer blockbuster. All of the character's super hero names would be aptly suited for a "B" movie soft core porn wannabe like that, and it would also cost 1/20th the current budget.
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It was a "B" movie soft core porn wannabe but without the good parts, porn...
My wife and I enjoyed it, as well as most all of the other marvel movies, except Daredevil.
I'll agree that Daredevil was a waste of time.
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Id rather Fantastic 4 be a skinemax flick than a summer blockbuster. All of the character's super hero names would be aptly suited for a "B" movie soft core porn wannabe like that, and it would also cost 1/20th the current budget.
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It was a "B" movie soft core porn wannabe but without the good parts, porn...
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It's getting there...
Man I totally meant to hit "quote" and not "reply"...
-R
as for doom, i wish they hadn't changed him, but i get why they did. if they'd gone with comic doom, he'd have been too sympathetic and human. one man, raised by gypsies, lost both parents at an early age, taking on four super-powered individuals using nothing but his own mind and talent. he's a very egotistical, but when you're the smartest man on the planet, how can you not be?
was a little disappointed that neither him or reed where written as geniuses though.
I went in expecting much worse.
I do think that the screenplay could have used about 20 more IQ points, but thats ok.
I for one loved Hulk. Daredevil was merely "ok".
I watched fantastic4 just now, thought it was a good romp but to be honest the sound track really killed the whole thing for me about 3/4 of the way through, when I noticed it was contrived bollocks. They could have made an effort to do something original for once. How many more classical BUM BOM BOOM soundtracks do we need? We already have great ones that everyone copies.
Three shit moments in the movie were: 1. ok lets get to the thing through the police, so sexy Alba goes invisible and they all meet 'round the back. Great job. 2. the thing gets into the elevator when hes down in the dumps, when the films logic clearly states that he needs to use the stairs. 3. the thing covers half the city to whack doom in the face in under about 1 minute flat. Fantastic!
There were continuity errors galore and a few scene changes made fuck all sense.
Apart from these short comings, this movie is for kids and selling toys, which it will do very well at.