New Fantastic Four

That's more than a meh. Looks like total and complete shite.

So is it just the comic kiddies hating on this?

Because, seriously, they hate everything...and I quite enjoy watching them wallow in their misery of it not being like the (children's) comics.

You mean as opposed to the more serious and adult audience for comic book movies?

Nah. They/we love Marvel Disney to bits. You know why? Because it's done well.

Not really, the comic kiddies bitch and whine just as much when a Marvel movie deviates from their precious comics....or when The Walking Dead does it...or Game of Thrones deviates from the books.


I'm to the point that I think all source material purists can go fuck themselves.

You should probably kill yourself. That will solve the problem.

Go read your comics, they're in the children's section of the store.

He can't, actually.
To spite Fox, Marvel ended Fantastic Four.
Seriously, look it up.

That would require a level of caring far greater than I can muster up.

Think it has potential. They are going with the Ultimate FF storyline, which was OK. Not thrilled with the casting choices, but at least it looks like they might get Doom right. And I'm psyched to see the Thing. May be a rental later, but if it doesn't get panned critically I might check it out in the theater.

So how does that work anyway. Do the sold off right renew indefinitely as long as they are used or do they revert back at some point no matter what?

Course, that needs to be updated so Spidey overlaps into the Marvel circle.

Mark Ruffalo has also said that Universal still owns the rights to solo Hulk movies somehow, so that's another overlap.

Here's the film's interesting twist on Mr. Fantastic that's a significant departure from the original. Might be a little spoilery.

I have to say...I'm intrigued. Let's see how that plays out.

They stole my idea right out of my head!!

*Crumples plans for super team based around differend gravimetric/warp effects*

So, in what's clearly a sign of the demographic they're aiming for, they're doing a marketing tie-in with Denny's. Yeah, ain't much hipper out there than Denny's.

I happened to be in a Denny's the other day and noticed the promotional menu. The Human Torch Skillet looks good.

Wait, you were in a Denny's? On purpose?

There's an old saying:

"No one goes to Denny's. They just wind up there."

That's certainly happened to me

Initial reviews are...not good.

<insert Frye saying he's shocked, then admitting he's not that shocked, here>

"Fantastic Four feels like a 100-minute trailer for a movie that never happens."

"Frankly, it's amazing this is watchable at all."

"Feels less like a blockbuster for this age of comics-oriented tentpoles than it does another also-ran -- not an embarrassment, but an experiment that didn't gel."

And that last one was the kind review!

Eh, I'm gonna see it Friday anyway.

Like I've been saying, this is gonna tank and tank hard. No respect for the source material, no freakin' clue who and what the FF are supposed to be. They ain't gettin' my money. Let the rights revert to Marvel and let's get a Fantastic Four movie done properly.

I'm still going to see it. Who knows? Maybe I'll like it.

But I'm guessing Josh Trank's abrupt departure from the Star Wars Anthology film a couple months back means someone at Disney/Lucasfilm saw an early cut of Fantastic Four and had second thoughts.

Is the consensus that Kate Mara looks/acts better when invisible in this? She wasn't bad in House of Cards.

She looks better when her clothes are invisible.

This is Adam Sandler bad...

This guy went to see the movie and did not like it. At all.

I sure as shit won't be seeing this in theaters. I'd rather take that same money and watch Rogue Nation or Ant-Man again.