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Fantastic 4 reloaded?

Don't forget the the piles of crap known fondly as Catwoman and Batman and Robin. ;)
Catwoman doesn't count because it was Catwoman in name only. At least they didn't shit all over the character of Selina Kyle. B&R survives in it's sheer ridiculousness.
 
Tim Burton Presents... Peanuts
"For Charlie Brown, Lucy's pulled the football out from under him for the LAST TIME..."
"What happens when you find out your beloved dog is war criminal?"

Charlie- What did you bring home Snoopy?
*Snoopy spits out a dead rabbit*

AHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!

Charlie lives in gothic style castle as an outcast.

Or better yet

Charlie- This town.........my neighborhood........my hell......

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If they wanted "Dark" they could go for a story of them fighting off an invasion by Annihilus from the Negative Zone, but that would be too "far out" for audiences to accept.
Power cosmic, Galactus & Silver Surfer........all from outer space.
You can't get much more "far out" than that.

Which is why they made Galactus into some mindless cloud thing, the idea of a guy going around eating planets is too "far out" for audiences. Also why they'd make Annihilus into some mindless bug swarm or something.
 
If they do another one, I think it's key that they cast someone who actually looks old enough to plausibly have white streaks in their hair to play Mr. Fantastic (like Captain Pike in "Star Trek"), and someone who actually has blonde hair and blue eyes to play the Invisible Girl instead of dying the hair of the actress and giving her blue eye contacts. That's just absurd. I'm not saying every character in a movie has to look exactly as they do in the comics. I don't even mind the casting of Kingpin in "Daredevil", but these two choices were very stupid.
I kind of agree. Reed's streaks were ridiculous. I didn't even mind Jessica Alba as Sue too much, but the super-fake looking contact lenses pulled me out of the movie every time. I would have preferred if the stuck with her normal appearance an just explained it as "Sue Storm is a brunette now, get over it".

I didn't even know there was a problem until I read about the "travesty of Sue" on-line...
 
I don't think it's going to be possible to make fans happy with a Fantastic Four movie. The movies we got from Fox followed the spirit of the source material pretty well (read through some of those ridiculous early issues of the series), but fans have built up this high standard for FF that even they can't adequately express.

But now that the Tim Story version has been poo-pooed to death, we'll get something *really* different. Better the devil you know, kids.


I like the FF movies! What is wrong with these people? Didn't the movies do well? Are they beholden to niche-market comics fans now? The FF films were a welcome, family friendly change from the usual brooding fare we've been soaked in lately.

Where's the "clap" smilie when you need it?
 
Weren't Reed's steaks a side-effect of the cosmic rays in the movie?

Also, that Peanuts thing is friggin' awesome.
 
Maybe they will get it right this time. FF is hard to do as a comic book, so I know why it is hard to do as a movie. I like the FF but something is off about the premise. Always has been. I like it none the less but still wish it was better.
 
Isn't it a bit early to reboot this thing? Don't you typically allow some more time to pass for something like this? Anyway, I rather liked part 2. Wasn't great but was better than 1.
 
I was really kinda hoping Fox wouldn't do anything so that the rights could revert back to Marvel. Fox screws everything up.

I've been wishing the same for FF, X-Men and for Spider-Man. Those franchises have been pretty good (especially SM 2), but to me Marvel's recent films just feel right in a way in a way the others haven't. I'd like to see Marvel's take on those properties.
 
Exactly.. just like they did with Wolverine.

Instead of finding a 1,5m high, extremely hairy bum off the streets they went with a decent actor who's of normal height and build (and who made the character his own).

Blonde hair and blue eyes don't make the character of Sue.. it was just an artistic choice back then by the artist.


Yeah, I know, but this is the point I made in another thread - unlike Hugh Jackman, Jessica Alba wasn't chosen because she was right for the part. She was chosen because she's attractive and because she was sort of a hot property at the time (as in America's favourite babe of the moment, a title that Jessica Biel and Megan Fox seemed to inherit later on).

If you're going to cast someone who looks so different from their comic book counterpart, at least make the change justified by putting an ideal actor in the role. Michael Clarke Duncan is a different race than Kingpin of the comics and Ian Mckellan wasn't as physically imposing as Magneto has been drawn, but it didn't matter because they're good actors. What annoys me about Alba is she both doesn't look anything like Sue Storm and she's not a good enough actress to justify being cast in the role despite that.

Wholeheartedly agree.. Alba as Sue Storm was just miscast.

I literally drooled when i saw her dance in Sin City (you know the scene :drool:) but i also literally cringed each time they had her end up in her undies or totally naked and THEN fail her power and appear. That was cheap and unworthy of the FF.. this and similar things about FF is why i don't like them that much.
 
If they wanted "Dark" they could go for a story of them fighting off an invasion by Annihilus from the Negative Zone, but that would be too "far out" for audiences to accept.
Power cosmic, Galactus & Silver Surfer........all from outer space.
You can't get much more "far out" than that.

Which is why they made Galactus into some mindless cloud thing, the idea of a guy going around eating planets is too "far out" for audiences. Also why they'd make Annihilus into some mindless bug swarm or something.
No, the idea of a giant planet eating man dressed in purple is stupid.
That may have worked back in the days when people tripped acid but not now.
 
FF is kind of difficult to get right, IMO. I think Stan Lee, John Bryne and Mark Waid were the only ones who really got the FF, who are a mix of family/explorers/superheroes. The movies did OK with the family and superheroes bit, but apart from a few scenes here and there, there really wasn't a lot of exploring/scientific stuff going on.
 
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