Fantastic Four reboot-- Casting, Rumors, Pix, ect;

Better than the first teaser. Less depressing. Still nothing amazing looking.

 

That looks, well, fantastic.

 

Looks good - might upgrade this from 'Bluray' to 'cinema'.

 

Based on everything that I've read about the film up until now I was expecting a disaster, but that trailer was good. Really good. I want to see this movie.

 

Oh, well now, that looks like a real movie - not another Marvel flick.

 

"You've opened a door that you don't know how to close," however, will not be nominated for any awards for originality.

 

I know once you lock on you don't let go but I can't see how that looks much different from any other superhero trailer.

How about the "especially from people who say I don't take orders well".

 

Uh, okay I guess.

 

As I understand it, he looks very like the Ultimate Marvel version of Reed, though I'm not familiar with that take myself.

Agreed on his acting skills.

 

A moron at CinemaBlend contributed this pithy observation:

How do people that dimwitted even learn to type?

Rant all one likes about how casting is approached and why, but the question as stated is as brilliant as starting a Miscellaneous topic titled "Do You Think I Could Find Out Something About Potatoes If I Googled 'Potato?'"

 

I'm totally unfamiliar with Miles Teller, but he seemed incredibly bland in the trailer. But as I said, everyone seems to be playing this in a subdued way. Jordan doesn't seem nearly as energetic or charismatic as he was in Chronicle, even though that's exactly how Johnny Storm should be. Honestly, I'm reminded of Superman Returns, a movie where it felt to me like the director was telling all the actors to play everything in the most subdued way possible.

 

There's no real resemblance between the style of the two films, but every so often people approach making one of these movies as if the characters in it might be people at least as they're generally portrayed in other films with some ambition to appeal to adults. Can't say how well that always works out.

 

Each trailer has made this look better. I'm still not totally blown away, and it's still fairly low on my list of movies I want to see, but it looks like it could be good. It definitely doesn't look like the total disaster a lot of us were expecting.

 

Meh. I'll wait for home video.

 

The whole "home video" thing always amuses me. If I feel like "waiting for the Blu-ray" or whatever, I can wait forever and save the time and money.

 

So what's the Storm family make-up?
Sue is adopted or are they step brother and sister?
Not really following all the news surrounding this movie and i wonder if it has been mentioned.

 

Or they could be biological siblings. There have been instances where the children of a "mixed" marriage -- even fraternal twins -- appear to belong to different "races":

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/03/02/biracial-twins-lucy-maria-aylmer_n_6787294.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/a...ple-birth-black-white-twins--second-time.html

Really, it shouldn't be any more surprising than a family where one child is brown-haired and another is blond. Children get a fairly random mix of their parents' genes, and often one child will strongly favor one parent over the other. So there's no reason it shouldn't be possible for parents of different ethnicities to have one child who looks more like the father and one who looks more like the mother.

It just underlines the fact that race is a cultural fiction with no basis in biology. The differences in appearance that we make such a fuss over are entirely superficial and genetically trivial.

 

If I watch it through Netflix or Redbox, then I am saving money. But I'm not going to spend $20+ in the theater to see a movie that I'm iffy on in the first place.