The trailer is selling the movie. You know who it's not selling the movie to? The tiny percentage of it's potential audience that actually reads Fantastic Four comics. Like all big budget comic book movies, it's selling to a mainstream audience. Of course the family dynamic is important, but I'm not going to act like Trank completely ignores it based on a two minute trailer.
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The trailer is selling the movie. You know who it's not selling the movie to? The tiny percentage of it's potential audience that actually reads Fantastic Four comics. Like all big budget comic book movies, it's selling to a mainstream audience. Of course the family dynamic is important, but I'm not going to act like Trank completely ignores it based on a two minute trailer.
Quarteto Fantastico? Why does everything sound better in Spanish?
Spanish?
I thought it would be Portuguese.
If it were Spanish, the trailer would probably be dubbed
crazy monkey
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one with jessica alba was fine. i mean jessica alba was fine. that is all i was watching in movie.
This movie looks like amateur hour honestly.
The new younger cast aren't appealing to me either.
Perfect.
The new younger cast aren't appealing to me either.
Perfect.
Callibretto
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full frontal view of The Thing
The Outsider
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butwhy.giffull frontal view of The Thing
Red Arremer
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Why does Fox hate colours so much? Why do all the costumes have to be black? :|
full frontal view of The Thing
Huh.
That looks dumb. Give the poor guy some pants.
True Savior
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Never read Ultimate FF4 then?
Red Arremer
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Colors make everything better
If this new film is as bad as the trailer looks, then that film you are posting here is still the best Fantastic Four film that exists.
Either way, Marvel can do colours and still make things look great:
But everybody in Fox films wears black in black in black. :|
Callibretto
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btw, is it just camera angles, or do they change Thing's face from this 3d prop
to this final version in the movie?
to this final version in the movie?
IbukiLordSA
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It looks good my only issue is the cast, none of them look or feel like the heroes they are portraying which is not putting me in that world and immersing me, they just look like random people thrown together and someone said ok you play this guy and you play this one.
Just doesn't feel right.
Just doesn't feel right.
Monocle
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The poor dude's transformation put him out of business.full frontal view of The Thing
The Hulk > The Thing confirmed.
TheSecondSpitter
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No, i have not. Are you implying that Fox included the scene to remain loyal to the books or because they wanted to appeal to kiddies? How does the scene fit in with the gritty and realistic adaptation?
Triggerhappytel
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Dr. Doom and Galactus are the main ones. I don't have a lot of familiarity with the FF comics, but these two are awesome super-villains and would fit really well into the MCU as the big bad after Thanos is dealt with. I'd love to see a Dr. Doom done properly facing off against the whole Avengers team - I just think with his intellect and superiority complex he would make an awesome and imposing villain; kind of like the opposite of Iron Man.
Namor and Silver Surfer are also affiliated with the FF, although I don't know if Fox have the rights to Namor.
TheSecondSpitter
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Fox never had the rights to Namor.
Red Arremer
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Universal holds the rights to Namor. Nobody knows what's going on with him anyway. There were rumours of them trying to make a film so they could keep the property, but somehow that was just a rumour I guess. The rights might expire soon.
Discotheque
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that's a shame the movie looks mediocre, toby kebbell could EASILY give us a doom that the fans wanted if he was written that way. he was good casting (and so was michael b jordan too imo) in a very meh looking movie.
i think it will end up being as average as most of the marvel studios movies, but that's not something i'm interested in watching tbh.
i think it will end up being as average as most of the marvel studios movies, but that's not something i'm interested in watching tbh.
Agreed. All Toby Kebbell needed was a solid script & we could have gotten a Doctor Doom that was accurate to the comics (& I truly believe that he could have pulled it off). As for Michael B. Jordan, I hope that Marvel continues the trend of letting former Human Torch actors graduate to MCU roles.
Glass Rebel
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Last year Feige said that if someone were to make a Namor film, it would be Marvel/Disney but the legal situation is a bit more complicated. Apparently they can't even use the character without involving other parties like they do for the Hulk.
Gordon Shumway
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Yes, it is a pretty awful movie..
Red Arremer
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Yeah some of the licensing rights are an absolute mess. I also know that Namor's game rights are owned by somebody else but Marvel, so he can't appear in any video games, but nobody knows exactly what's going on here either, and aside from a few "We can't use Namor, sorry" statements of a few less tight-lipped game devs, nobody at Marvel is just telling how things are exactly.
I really wish they would just say "OK, here's how we stand, and these are the contracts that are still live".
Edit: My bad, misunderstood. Here's the updated chart.
Everyone playing ball except Fox. Come one Fix, get it together. There's a massive pile of MCU money in it for you.
According to this article, the rights situation with Universal is complicated because they have the theme park rights to Marvel characters that Disney wants for their own theme parks.
Red Arremer
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I don't think it's as easy as that, really.
Broken Joystick
At least you can talk. Who are you?
Namor is owned by GAF?
This is all I want. Doctor Doom is my favorite villain for good reason. Why is it SO hard for Hollywood to get what every other medium of him gets right?
I just finished reading this the other day. While I'm just getting into the comics i don't know why people bring this scene up in a good light for Doom.
He was a God, but got his ass kicked by his own creations. This panel is after he was saved by Reed. I don't think this was a high point in his career.
It's highlighting his arrogance and ego, not his omnipotence.
Wag
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full frontal view of The Thing
He ain't got no dick! How does the poor guy take a piss? 😭
What is even going on here!? Who threw that... mass of rocks?
I think it was Doom who threw that.
Even if this film does really badly at the box office the fact that the studio has these 'rising' actors on (presumably) relatively cheap multi film deals mean that even if we don't get a 'full on' Fantastic Four sequel they will appear in some other Fox/Marvel production.
Basically I don't ever see a situation where this film's performance on any level could compel Fox to relinquish their theatrical rights to the F4 back to Disney.
I don't know what it is about the design of The Thing that I don't like, but it doesn't...., feel right. It doesn't look cheap per se but it doesn't feel like it fits with (what I've seen of) the rest of the film's aesthetic either.
The Thing looks closer to a character from a fantasy setting like a Middle Earth film rather than the 'lo-fi' science fiction design that the film appears to be going for.
Basically I don't ever see a situation where this film's performance on any level could compel Fox to relinquish their theatrical rights to the F4 back to Disney.
full frontal view of The Thing
I don't know what it is about the design of The Thing that I don't like, but it doesn't...., feel right. It doesn't look cheap per se but it doesn't feel like it fits with (what I've seen of) the rest of the film's aesthetic either.
The Thing looks closer to a character from a fantasy setting like a Middle Earth film rather than the 'lo-fi' science fiction design that the film appears to be going for.
Discotheque
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that pile of rocks going towards the thing and the tank explosion look hilariously bad.
full frontal view of The Thing
That is just undignified. Poor Thing.
They even took his schlong for gods sake.
Triggerhappytel
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I guess the most likely scenario is that it under-performs at the box office and/or gets critically mauled, and Fox either sell the rights back to Marvel or they reach a shared ownership agreement like they did with Sony. But I don't think they're gonna do that lightly.
No Spiderman for you then?
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