Anyone Here Excited For the Fantastic Four Movie?

[theenglish]

Sounds like it's about time for someone to start a "Cast the NEXT reboot of Fantastic Four" thread.

I actually really like the cast from THIS movie.

 

[JWPlatt]

I almost feel bad for him. The movie is tanking bad and its really going to mess up his career for a while. He can blame the studio but ultimately he made changes to the story that fans disliked. Trank also distancing himself from the movie and blaming the studio will ruin his chances of getting other properties to direct. No one will want to hire him for fear that he will blame any failure on the studio.

David Fincher did okay after Alien3, and opinions of the movie itself have improved with age... somehow.

Alien 3 while not great had some good things going for it. What pissed off so many people is that Michael Biehns character and the little Newt girl were killed off. It would have been cool to have them in the 3rd one so Ripley wouldn't have been the only one to survive. Also having Ripley die at the end really sucked.

Some of the parallels I allude to are story and production problems, including heavy studio interference for which the director remained bitter, refusing involvement years later at least through the Alien Quadrilogy release.

 

[the G-man]

Sounds like it's about time for someone to start a "Cast the NEXT reboot of Fantastic Four" thread.

I actually really like the cast from THIS movie.

Most reviews were kind on the cast, in fact. It was the story and direction they hated.

In any event, I think Klaus was commenting less on the quality of the cast and more on the fact there's no way there will be a sequel. Any FF movie hereafter is guaranteed to be a reboot.

You'll see George Clooney back as Batman before you see this cast back as FF

 

[theenglish]

Sounds like it's about time for someone to start a "Cast the NEXT reboot of Fantastic Four" thread.

I actually really like the cast from THIS movie.

Most reviews were kind on the cast, in fact. It was the story and direction they hated.

In any event, I think Klaus was commenting less on the quality of the cast and more on the fact there's no way there will be a sequel. Any FF movie hereafter is guaranteed to be a reboot.

You'll see George Clooney back as Batman before you see this cast back as FF

Funnily enough, George Clooney was the best thing about Batman and Robin as well.

 

[Relayer1]

Fox should have checked Trank into rehab first before giving him the director's chair.

I almost feel bad for him. The movie is tanking bad and its really going to mess up his career for a while. He can blame the studio but ultimately he made changes to the story that fans disliked. Trank also distancing himself from the movie and blaming the studio will ruin his chances of getting other properties to direct. No one will want to hire him for fear that he will blame any failure on the studio.

David Fincher did okay after Alien3, and opinions of the movie itself have improved with age... somehow.

Mine hasn't. And it won't.

Sounds like it's about time for someone to start a "Cast the NEXT reboot of Fantastic Four" thread.

I actually really like the cast from THIS movie.

I found Miles Teller and Jamie Bell pretty unlikeable.The west were O.K. though, especially Toby Kebbell. Doom being terrible wasn't his fault...

 

[JoeZhang]

Jamie Bell is given nothing to do in this film so I cannot judge him too harshly.

 

[theenglish]

We already know that Miles Teller, Jamie Bell, and Kate Mara are really talented actors. Any problems in their performances in this film is more likely to be an editing or directorial issue rather than an acting one.

 

[Turtletrekker]

The casting was the very, very least of this movie's problems.

 

[Relayer1]

We already know that Miles Teller, Jamie Bell, and Kate Mara are really talented actors. Any problems in their performances in this film is more likely to be an editing or directorial issue rather than an acting one.

I'm really not convinced about Teller and Bell. The rest of the cast seemed fine.

 

[the G-man]

I actually really like the cast from THIS movie.

Most reviews were kind on the cast, in fact. It was the story and direction they hated.

In any event, I think Klaus was commenting less on the quality of the cast and more on the fact there's no way there will be a sequel. Any FF movie hereafter is guaranteed to be a reboot.

You'll see George Clooney back as Batman before you see this cast back as FF

Funnily enough, George Clooney was the best thing about Batman and Robin as well.

Yeah, I've always said that if Clooney had been cast in the Burton movies, or maybe even Forever, he'd be easily considered one of, if not the best, Batman actors.

 

[chardman]

Damn... that has got to be the least exciting superhero movie I've ever seen. Sheesh!

 

[TRON JA307020]

Well the entertainment media outlets are officially calling The Fantastic Four a Fantastic Flop. Very few seem to like this turd of a movie. I'm glad I didn't waste my money going to see this.
The previews told me all I needed to know.

 

[JWPlatt]

Even though bad, I sense something of a pile-on or "dogpile" effect. You know, once a few people jump on it, everyone follows just for the spectacle and fun of it. And maybe a little groping.

 

[Marsden]

Or, perhaps it is just so bad that it's easy to get in on the fun of mocking it. Low hanging fruit, as it were.

 

[JWPlatt]

If the story of the making and release of Fantastic Four were itself a movie, this is where the montage of failure headlines (Worst Ever! Sequel Cancelled! Actors In Hiding! Sets Burn! Pitchforks!) scroll across the screen and, upon utter defeat at the lowest point in our heroes' story, they all stand up in a circle to declare it's not over yet, put their hands in the center for a morale-boosting team cheer, and that's when the asteroid smashes them all to bits.

 

[TRON JA307020]

Even though bad, I sense something of a pile-on or "dogpile" effect. You know, once a few people jump on it, everyone follows just for the spectacle and fun of it. And maybe a little groping.

Well the director helped. He was basically the first to rip on his own movie. I find it hard to believe that this disaster is none of his fault.

 

[Corran Horn]

Even though bad, I sense something of a pile-on or "dogpile" effect. You know, once a few people jump on it, everyone follows just for the spectacle and fun of it. And maybe a little groping.

Well the director helped. He was basically the first to rip on his own movie. I find it hard to believe that this disaster is none of his fault.

You can see somewhat of how the Trank movie would have been - at one point the Tim Blake Nelson character shows footage during a presentation that seems like it's from another version of the movie. Same for a lot of the footage of the Thing that was in trailer but in the finished film is always on a monitor.

 

[TRON JA307020]

Even though bad, I sense something of a pile-on or "dogpile" effect. You know, once a few people jump on it, everyone follows just for the spectacle and fun of it. And maybe a little groping.

Well the director helped. He was basically the first to rip on his own movie. I find it hard to believe that this disaster is none of his fault.

You can see somewhat of how the Trank movie would have been - at one point the Tim Blake Nelson character shows footage during a presentation that seems like it's from another version of the movie. Same for a lot of the footage of the Thing that's was in trailer but in the finished film is always on a monitor.

Yeah but was the thing always trunkless? Even snippets of the film do not look good. I am not sure if even a directors cut would help.

 

[Guy Gardener]

A directors cut at this point, considering the animosity, would be nothing.

Literally nothing.

You see the poster, you pay your money, and then you sit in front of a blank screen for an hour and a half.

 

[The Old Mixer]

The real question is, has anyone here exited the Fantastic Four movie? Did anyone buy a ticket and then walk out of the theater partway through the film?