First reviews for Trank's Fantastic Four hit.
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How do you fuck up a design this badly?
Funky Papa
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I mean, those fuckers tend to be negative and hateful about pretty much everything.
It would be an awesome seen if he looked even an ounce menacing. Kills all the cool things about it almost instantly.
This popped up on my phone and I just stared at it for a good 5 seconds.
I still don't know what I'm looking at.
I enjoyed that iteration of Doom. He was fun in a cheesy way.
"Let's all go for a spin."
WadiumArcadium
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Is it? He's just walking down a corridor.
Escape Goat
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Is that a Doombot?
Subpar Spatula
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Comic movies? You have to make the category smaller: Marvel comic movies. This doesn't occur with DC or other comics. It's strictly a one-way street to Marvel.
A better studio? Fox and Sony have shown to do great movies great while their sucky movies can suck badly. The top five best live action comic book movies come not from marvel but from Fox, Sony and WB(?) Superman. Marvel makes the safe middle ground. I would rather chance a great movie instead of a "well, at least it's solid" type movie.
You can say defiance of reality but the reality is no one cares that Marvel makes meh movies. They care that the owners of other Marvel characters fail so Marvel can get the rights back. It is a consistent issue. Disregard the realities of the law and look at how people react to bad movies when the it's a Marvel created character. Even so, the reality is even if a movie bombs critically or successfully Marvel won't get the rights back. It's a petty way to express your dislike of a movie. At least be thankful they're trying a different take. If it fails, it fails. It if succeeds it succeeds.
Funky Papa
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It really isn't that amazing, IMO, but whatever floats your boat.
Also, TETSUOOOOOOOO.
Also, TETSUOOOOOOOO.
Freewheelin'
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Blowing people's brains out.
And there it is.
This gif is so fitting, it hurts.
I see what you're saying—I guess I would rather risk getting one great movie and one bad movie (ie. Raimi's SM2 and SM3) than merely two mediocre to good films. I can swallow that failure if that is the cost of the gamble. Plus, often, failures make for just as compelling films as successes when they have a strong, sustained creative vision behind them—however misguided or poorly executed that vision may be. And I think there's value in that as well. I get more out of a "bad" Spiderman 3 than I do out of a dull, but competent, Amazing Spiderman.
As an aside, Life of Pi makes me so interested to see how Ang Lee would have handled Hulk with today's technology—I've always felt Hulk's biggest problem, critically and commercially, was that it was an ugly film that looked dated the day it came out.
Knastluder
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Except that the real Mandarin is still out there, & is pissed that he was impersonated as a joke.
Freewheelin'
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That doesn't negate the twist at all, what was done with it and how having an impersonator will impact him. It's still a new twist.
Plasticine
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The concept here is pretty cool. He's basically walking and causing people's heads to explode in Scanners fashion.
But it's Hobo Doom.
In a Fantastic Four movie.
There's no version of this scene that works, unless you go R rated.
I'm sure Josh Trank could make an amazing body horror based super hero movie for under $25 million. Unfortunately he wanted to turn a $100 million Fantastic Four movie into that. Unfortunately that's a wheel that simply wouldn't turn for him.
True, though I guess Marvel could just say that the real Mandarin took care of the imposters quietly.
George Oscar Bluth II
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If they eventually do the real Mandarin, they could do it pretty easily. Half Chinese half English triad member turned warlord once he found the 10 alien rings. Boom. No need to play into Fu Manchu stereotypes.
megashock5
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I'm perplexed by the 'Thanos hasn't done much' argument.
He's only showed up so far to be introduced to the viewers, so that when he gets up out of that throne to kick ass you know who he is. They're dedicating two Avengers movies to him as the villain and have been trying to build to that slowly.
He'll do something, hopefully it will be as glorious as it should be. Fingers crossed.
He's only showed up so far to be introduced to the viewers, so that when he gets up out of that throne to kick ass you know who he is. They're dedicating two Avengers movies to him as the villain and have been trying to build to that slowly.
He'll do something, hopefully it will be as glorious as it should be. Fingers crossed.
Escape Goat
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Hulk's story, at its core, is about Bruce Banner. Its about his struggle between his intellect and his rage. Peter Davidvwrote one of the best and longest runs of Hulk and issues woukd go by where Hulk never showed up. Clearly, execs go for the easier sell with the incredble, green rage monster. Ang Lee knew better but his film was clearly flawed.
PhoncipleBone
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But what if he had the power...to move you?
I can fix that scene with one pen stroke. Doom walks down the hall, they fire everything they got at him but too no effect. But he doesn't even look or strike back, he doesn't acknowledge them because they are beneath Doom
You mean the stereotype that hasn't been thing in 30 years
Pai Pai Master
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enigmatic_alex44
Whenever a game uses "middleware," I expect mediocrity. Just see how poor TLOU looks.
George Oscar Bluth II
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Yeah, I know that. It's just a lot (a lot) of people think that The Mandarin is some Fu Manchu guy who is outdated.
PhoncipleBone
Banned
Damn right.
and a lot of people think Wonder Woman still flys around in an invisible jet. Folks love being wrong.
It fucking sucks, because I can see glimmers of a pretty awesome movie there.
It's like the Fantastic Four is a child that has these incredible ideas and everyone has high hopes, and then his father (director) beats him repeatedly to try and get him to be the incredible person we know he can be. And then, as he grows up, his peers (producers) pick up on his faults and constantly badger and bully him and eventually transform him and cut enough away from his existence that he's left clobbered.
It's like the Fantastic Four is a child that has these incredible ideas and everyone has high hopes, and then his father (director) beats him repeatedly to try and get him to be the incredible person we know he can be. And then, as he grows up, his peers (producers) pick up on his faults and constantly badger and bully him and eventually transform him and cut enough away from his existence that he's left clobbered.
PhoncipleBone
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That shit was terrifying as a kid.
triplestation
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I think this is cool
E the Shaggy
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I can almost see in my head how this scene could have been so much more amazing if it was the actual Doom, walking slower and hold his cape in one hand. Shit would have been awesome.
He looks like a hairless Oscar the Grouch.
George Oscar Bluth II
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Yep. Even in these Fant4stic threads, we're seeing people think that Doom is outdated and irrelevant.
Oh God, the nightmares this spawned.
First time I saw that I didn't sleep at all, not as bad as The Dark Crystal tough
Funky Papa
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Don't remind me...
I was 8 years old or so when I saw it and it gave me nightmares.
Escape Goat
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I remember having to look away from the tv during that scene. I also hated when Like got his hand cut off in ESB.
Jill Sandwich
the turds of Optimus Prime
Thanks for bringing the nightmares I suppressed as a child back to me.
Sigh...
WTF. LMAO. That was like the... best part of the trailers.
Sibersk Esto
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Nope. The problem with Ang lee's hulk is that it's tonally all over the place. It wants to be a serious think piece, reflecting on the psychological relationship between banner and hulk, but then it has shit like hulk poodles, nick nolte going squirrel shit nutty, and comic book panel transitions. Hulk is just Eric bana's head stretched out on a muscular body, and the third act is a fight you can barely see while hulk and his dad gargle at each other.
Col WillieSharp
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Agreed, good points. Tonally, yeah, that movie is a mess
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