Fantastic 4 has a 9% on RT :snoop:
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Bryan Danielson
Jmare007 x Bryan Danielson x JLova = King Ghidorah
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I had this reaction real talk
YO!! Like I knew this wasnt going to be one of the best Super Hero movies... but I had never thought it was going to be this bad and that much fukked up shyt was going on behind scenes!!
Nicccccccaaaaaaaa
Norrin Radd
To me, my board!
Ethnic Vagina Finder
The Great Paper Chaser
After reading this review. I don't see how anyone would waste money going to see this 
I feel that I should preface this review by stating what a big fan I am of the Fantastic Four from the many iterations of the comic book, so my expectations have been high that someone someday will make a live-action Fantastic Four movie that works. Fox’s latest attempt, directed by Josh Trank of Chronicle fame, doesn’t necessarily get things wrong as much as it doesn’t get the things it needs to get right, which is a shame because there are a lot of interesting ideas that probably would have worked well in comic form.
That said, it starts in the laziest and least creative way possible showing Reed and Ben as kids, which is something that’s been used by Fox for many of their superhero movies already. It’s a scene used to establish Reed Richards as a super-genius who as a teenager impresses Reg E. Cathey’s Dr. Franklin Storm, who recruits him to work on a project along with his adopted daughter Sue (Kate Mara) and a Latverian hotshot named Victor von Doom (Toby Kebbell). The idea is to teleport to another dimension that can be explored in hopes of fixing some of the problems on Earth, but the government wants to get NASA involved so Reed recruits Ben, Johnny and Victor to take a test run to the dimension that goes horribly wrong.
By the time the Fantastic Four finally get their powers, it’s about 45 minutes into the movie, almost halfway done, and that’s where the story falls apart as we jump forward a year and watch the evil government restraining the group and using their powers to do their dirty work while they “look for a cure.” Reed’s only concern is finding Doom, whom everyone else presumes is dead, and when they do find him, he’s gone quite mad from the power he’s gained and he wants vengeance for being left behind.
Setting aside the fact that the four main actors range in age from 28 to 32 and are supposed to be quite a bit younger, the cast itself isn’t the problem as Miles Teller works well as Reed Richards and actually all the actors have decent chemistry in the earlier part of the movie. Reg E. Cathy is particularly good as the glue holding things together, and Kebbell does a solid job instilling an arrogance into Doom that’s sorely missed from the dynamics when he disappears after the accident.
The second half of the movie is where we start seeing the FF’s powers come to play, and you might think that the progress made with special FX in terms of creating superpowers (even on television!), Fantastic Four would benefit, but the FX look dated and cheap, the biggest of the problems being Ben Grimm in his Thing form.
Trying to integrate Bell’s performance with the character just doesn’t work well, because The Thing is completely lacking in any sort of emotion. When you realize there are animation and FX houses that can create much more realistic CG characters than these—the apes in the “Planet of the Apes” movies, for instance, or Rocket and Groot in last year’s Guardians of the Galaxy—there’s no excuse to have such an awful effort. At times, the Thing looks as bad as the Ang Lee Hulk, and that’s a comparison that’s hard to get out of your mind, especially as things build to a bonkers CG battle between the FF and Doom where the dialogue gets so bad, you wonder if the writers have read anything other than comic books.
While there’s plenty of opportunities for this to be better than the Tim Story FF movies (which wouldn’t be too hard), it ends up feeling drab and fairly standard. That may have been fine if this were released ten years ago, but coming on the heels of much more successful attempts at bringing superheroes from the page to the screen, Fantastic Four reminds me of the problems I had with Bryan Singer’s original X-Men where it had so many issues but did a good job setting things up for the far superior X2. In this case, the problems clearly lie in a director being completely out of his league and a studio which seemingly gave up on trying to make a better movie. (The whole thing stinks of the contractual obligation Fox had to make another movie if they wanted to retain the rights to the characters.)
Basically, it ends up being another origin story with a couple of twists from what’s been done before, but when the FF finally come together, the movie just ends and not in a place where you’re left thinking, “Boy, I really want to see another movie with these Fantastic Four.” That’s a pretty bad thing for a movie that’s hoping to relaunch another franchise.
That said, it starts in the laziest and least creative way possible showing Reed and Ben as kids, which is something that’s been used by Fox for many of their superhero movies already. It’s a scene used to establish Reed Richards as a super-genius who as a teenager impresses Reg E. Cathey’s Dr. Franklin Storm, who recruits him to work on a project along with his adopted daughter Sue (Kate Mara) and a Latverian hotshot named Victor von Doom (Toby Kebbell). The idea is to teleport to another dimension that can be explored in hopes of fixing some of the problems on Earth, but the government wants to get NASA involved so Reed recruits Ben, Johnny and Victor to take a test run to the dimension that goes horribly wrong.
By the time the Fantastic Four finally get their powers, it’s about 45 minutes into the movie, almost halfway done, and that’s where the story falls apart as we jump forward a year and watch the evil government restraining the group and using their powers to do their dirty work while they “look for a cure.” Reed’s only concern is finding Doom, whom everyone else presumes is dead, and when they do find him, he’s gone quite mad from the power he’s gained and he wants vengeance for being left behind.
Setting aside the fact that the four main actors range in age from 28 to 32 and are supposed to be quite a bit younger, the cast itself isn’t the problem as Miles Teller works well as Reed Richards and actually all the actors have decent chemistry in the earlier part of the movie. Reg E. Cathy is particularly good as the glue holding things together, and Kebbell does a solid job instilling an arrogance into Doom that’s sorely missed from the dynamics when he disappears after the accident.
The second half of the movie is where we start seeing the FF’s powers come to play, and you might think that the progress made with special FX in terms of creating superpowers (even on television!), Fantastic Four would benefit, but the FX look dated and cheap, the biggest of the problems being Ben Grimm in his Thing form.
Trying to integrate Bell’s performance with the character just doesn’t work well, because The Thing is completely lacking in any sort of emotion. When you realize there are animation and FX houses that can create much more realistic CG characters than these—the apes in the “Planet of the Apes” movies, for instance, or Rocket and Groot in last year’s Guardians of the Galaxy—there’s no excuse to have such an awful effort. At times, the Thing looks as bad as the Ang Lee Hulk, and that’s a comparison that’s hard to get out of your mind, especially as things build to a bonkers CG battle between the FF and Doom where the dialogue gets so bad, you wonder if the writers have read anything other than comic books.
While there’s plenty of opportunities for this to be better than the Tim Story FF movies (which wouldn’t be too hard), it ends up feeling drab and fairly standard. That may have been fine if this were released ten years ago, but coming on the heels of much more successful attempts at bringing superheroes from the page to the screen, Fantastic Four reminds me of the problems I had with Bryan Singer’s original X-Men where it had so many issues but did a good job setting things up for the far superior X2. In this case, the problems clearly lie in a director being completely out of his league and a studio which seemingly gave up on trying to make a better movie. (The whole thing stinks of the contractual obligation Fox had to make another movie if they wanted to retain the rights to the characters.)
Basically, it ends up being another origin story with a couple of twists from what’s been done before, but when the FF finally come together, the movie just ends and not in a place where you’re left thinking, “Boy, I really want to see another movie with these Fantastic Four.” That’s a pretty bad thing for a movie that’s hoping to relaunch another franchise.
Bryan Danielson
Jmare007 x Bryan Danielson x JLova = King Ghidorah
If only this movie had that Marvel Formula
Dillah810
Flat Girther
Airtrack360
All Star
Lol I'd hate to be on the Fox PR team. Trying to clean up his PR messes whiles he's still actively going on internet tirades contradicting himself and Fox and dragging everyone else through the mud.
I'm actually kind of glad this movie is getting so much negative reviews and press because it tells future comic book movie directors and producers that you can't cut corners and take short cuts and assume all will be forgiven just because there's a big comic book movie hype going on at the moment.
Fox greenlight the movie even though they knew it was terrible and they were banking on the comic book movie hype to carry it to some type of financial benefit.
This movie and all its short comings could of easily been Deadpool.
But Ryan Reynolds we blessed with a low budget which gave him a ton of freedom from the studio to basically make the movie he set out to make with little to no interference.
TheGodling
Los Ingobernables de Sala de Cine
That's what already happened in Wolverine Origins.
Notorious 1 E.Y.E.
Superstar
Double toasted ran a train on this movie lmao
They broke it down on why it was so bad so well it made me want to see it
Like I gotta see how bad this movie is
They broke it down on why it was so bad so well it made me want to see it
Like I gotta see how bad this movie is
TheGodling
Los Ingobernables de Sala de Cine
So box office reports are coming in saying that Mission Impossible might come out on top this weekend.
I really don't get this constant complaint about this film not getting the "humor or joy" of the comic. Fantastic Four #1 was an overly melodramatic downer for the most part. Ben's reaction to becoming the Thing was depressing as fukk and Sue did nothing but whine through the entire damn story.
And while this movie was not all that good it is nowhere near the disaster that everyone seems to be making it out to be. On the super-hero movie scale I would put it with on the same level as Ang Lee's Hulk or Thor 2 but not anywhere near the levels of a Catwoman or Batman & Robin.