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re: Official Fantastic Four Review/RT 9%(SPOILERS!!!)-(by Fox)
Posted on 8/7/15 at 8:57 am to biglego
Posted on 8/7/15 at 8:57 am to biglego
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it's fashionable to hate this movie more than it warrants.
From the reviews I've read it seems like Trank made a unique and novel take on a superhero movie that for the most part worked as a cool scifi adventure. The problem is instead of making this as an original movie he tried to jam elements of the fantastic four into it so that fox wouldn't lose the rights.
That sucks because no only did we miss out on a cool original new superhero franchise, but fox also further fricked up the FF universe.
If I made a movie called Superman about an Ethiopian immigrant adopted by a Mexican family who is struck by a bolt of lightening and gains powers that he has to use to fight a janitor named Lex Luther who got his powers from a radioactive toilet, people would hate the movie.
If I made the same movie but called it Alien Hero and changed their names, people might not hate it so much.
Posted on 8/7/15 at 9:04 am to Breesus
Grantland review
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The entire experience is shameful — for us, for the filmmakers, for whoever at the studio had the job of creating the ads, in which the cast appear to be starring in hostage posters.
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The movie is all “why?” Why do these actors look drugged? Why is one big collection of set pieces staged in front of that boreal screensaver? Why is the other collection set in Ye Olde Science Lab? Why when Reed Richards stretches his arms and legs do they look like somebody overcooked the linguine? Why would anybody paying to see a 100-minute movie about superheroes want to spend more than an hour watching them become those superheroes when most of the same audience watched a version of the same story 10 years ago? (We just finished shrugging off another rebooting of Spider-Man!) Why hire Jamie Bell for three scenes, then turn him into a mound of steroidal debris? Why do the makers of our comic-book movies keep insisting upon the same government-soaked, anticapitalist plot?
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There’s a bar for the superhero adventures, and this one falls so far short of it that close study is warranted, hopefully by scientists played with more conviction that Teller and Mara. I’ve never seen good young actors this stuck. During one “climactic” scene, Mara has to bang away on a keyboard to make something crucial happen, and as I watched her slap away in a rendition of despair, I wondered how many takes it took to get that moment so wrong.
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Reg E. Cathey has a great smoker’s intonation that’s used to remind his black biological son, Johnny, that he’s never had it as easy as his adopted white daughter, Sue, even though he’s the brilliant bad-boy child of a well-compensated scientist who apparently has let him spend his nights combing the streets in a fast car looking for the casting director of the Fast & Furious series.
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Trank made Chronicle, a found-footage, non-comic-book superpowers movie that is generally regarded (by myself included) as innovative, at least as a movie about so-called origin stories. That was his first movie. It was largely independent, and, setting aside reports of his own errant behavior on the set for this second effort, it’s a giant studio contraption that appears to have crushed his imagination
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At every stage of Fantastic Four, you’re never watching this thing as a movie, per se, but as a dire, cautionary X-ray of one.
This post was edited on 8/7/15 at 9:06 am
Posted on 8/7/15 at 9:35 am to Breesus
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If I made a movie called Superman about an Ethiopian immigrant adopted by a Mexican family who is struck by a bolt of lightening and gains powers that he has to use to fight a janitor named Lex Luther who got his powers from a radioactive toilet, people would hate the movie.
FF isn't that far off from the original concept.
The problems began when they hired Trank based on his doing a realistic take on superheroes and then expected him to the usual comic book to film version. I can't put all of the blame on Fox because Disney had the same idea and hired him for Star Wars. Gunn went from Super to Guardians, so it's a process that can work. But Trank isn't Gunn and he didn't make the jump from indie to blockbuster.
It's similar to what happened with Marvel and Edgar Wright, only they were able to see the differing visions for the product and part ways prior to production. Whoever was monitoring Trank for Fox should've raised a red flag once the final script was handed in.
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