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FANT4STIC 4OUR |OT| Fantastic 4/10

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Gordon Shumway

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Spork4000 said:
Guardians will probably be in avengers 3
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Undoubtedly. Question is, does Stark forget Pepper for Gamora..

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Parch

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Victor Lucas on EP Daily is a huge comic movie fan so he usually reviews these type of movies high, so I was shocked how much he hated it. He really, really hated it.
 
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Timu

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Just saw the movie...it's boring trash.

Seriously, this movie does so much wrong it's not even funny. The dialog and humor are just atrocious, and I'm not seeing what's so good about the 1st half, it's really nothing special and not that engaging though it has some interesting ideas. There's barely any action and what action was displayed wasn't even that impressive, there's no chemistry between the main leads, it has cringeworthy lines, character development is thrown out the window despite being an origin story, it has some really bad CGI, not much happens throughout the course of the movie, it felt really, really rushed, and a lot of things annoyed me about it. Even the villain's motivation to be evil was both forced and rushed, he may be threatening, but his motivations are worse than even the worst MCU villain.

However I did like when they 1st got their powers, I thought that was well done.

Honestly, the 2005 movie is better than this, heck I would say nearly all superhero movies I saw recently are better than this from the past 10 years. There was so much potential to be had here but they ruined it so badly by doing an awful job at nearly everything.

So, one of the worst movies of the year by far!!! I agree with Rottentomatoes on this one.
 
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serenewarfare

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Just saw it with a friend. The shortest review I can give this movie is that it is boring as fuck. It's a 90 minute movie in which almost nothing happens for 80 minutes. Almost all of the character development and evolution, what little there is that makes sense, is told and not shown. And the bits that are shown are montages. Doom's motivations are weak and never even attempt to be explained, the F4 members have little to no conviction in their actions, which makes the big "hero" moment flat as hell.

This is a bad, bad movie. I thought it would be below average. It is so much worse. Don't see this movie. It's not bad in a way you can appreciate or get any fun out of examining. It's bad in ways that have you either frustrated or disinterested.
 
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Miles Quaritch

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Did they cunt out the scene where the Thing is airdropped into an army facility?

I haven't seen it, but a friend told me it's gone. Although he said he stopped paying attention after they visiting that new planet because of how boring it was.
 
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StopMakingSense

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Miles Quaritch said:
Did they cunt out the scene where the Thing is airdropped into an army facility?
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Yes, the whole sequence was cut. Basically only thing that survived was the ridiculous shot of the tank top being ripped off and thrown, shown on a monitor. It's been suggested that it was cut because the effects work was not up to snuff.
 
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Donos

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chimpden said:
Well marks out of 10 are pretty arbitrary. Reading through the thread it seems that many posters think it's an unwatchable train wreck of a movie. For me it certainly wasn't the worst film I've seen this year at the cinema.
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Context. If you saw it at a Fantasy Movie festival and it's a trash/budget movie then 3/10 is not really a problem.

But 4/10 (IMDB) or your 3/10 for a 130 million $ (marvel) superhero blockbuster flick is totally a disaster. No doubt.
 
Mengy

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I just noticed my new tag. What the hell? Where did that come from?

TrumanBurbank said:
I hope FOX just keeps making shitty lower budget Fantastic Four movies every two years regardless of their success/failure. Just a giant F U to Marvel.
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Mengy said:
Is this a bannable thing to say? Because it sounds like a bannable thing to say, lol!
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Oh, yeah, right. LOL! o_O
 
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Rogan

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I remember that the first trailer of the movie was pretty wel recieved on GAF. Right?

Thought it looked like a movie with potential. After the 1st trailer everything was a mess.
 
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Slayven

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Father_Brain said:
If you're not already sick of postmortems on the film's troubled production, THR has a new one.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/fantastic-four-blame-game-fox-814764
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Days before Fantastic Four opened, director Josh Trank sent an email to some members of the cast and crew to say he was proud of the film, which, he wrote, was "better than 99 percent of the comic-book movies ever made."

"I don't think so," responded one castmember.
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Bwahahahahaha
 
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Slayven

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A crewmember acknowledges that Trank bears much of the fault for the film's problems but also says the Fox studio should not escape blame. The movie was "ill-conceived, made for the wrong reasons and there was no vision behind the property," this person says. "Say what you will about Marvel but they have a vision."
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As filming wound toward an unhappy close, the studio and producers Simon Kinberg and Hutch Parker engaged in a last-minute scramble to come up with an ending. With some of the cast not fully available at that point and Kinberg juggling X-Men: Apocalypse and Star Wars, a lot of material was shot with doubles and the production moved to Los Angeles to film scenes with Teller against a green screen. "It was chaos," says a crewmember, adding that Trank was still in attendance "but was neutralized by a committee." Another source says the studio pulled together "a dream team," including writer and World War Z veteran Drew Goddard, to rescue the movie. Whether the final version of the film is better or worse than what Trank put together is a matter of opinion, of course, but the consensus, clearly, is that neither was good.
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Sounds like an epic level shit show
 
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Neoxon

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Slayven said:
Father_Brain said:
If you're not already sick of postmortems on the film's troubled production, THR has a new one.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/fantastic-four-blame-game-fox-814764
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Days before Fantastic Four opened, director Josh Trank sent an email to some members of the cast and crew to say he was proud of the film, which, he wrote, was "better than 99 percent of the comic-book movies ever made."

"I don't think so," responded one cast member.
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Bwahahahahaha
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Slayven said:
A crewmember acknowledges that Trank bears much of the fault for the film's problems but also says the Fox studio should not escape blame. The movie was "ill-conceived, made for the wrong reasons and there was no vision behind the property," this person says. "Say what you will about Marvel but they have a vision."
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As filming wound toward an unhappy close, the studio and producers Simon Kinberg and Hutch Parker engaged in a last-minute scramble to come up with an ending. With some of the cast not fully available at that point and Kinberg juggling X-Men: Apocalypse and Star Wars, a lot of material was shot with doubles and the production moved to Los Angeles to film scenes with Teller against a green screen. "It was chaos," says a crewmember, adding that Trank was still in attendance "but was neutralized by a committee." Another source says the studio pulled together "a dream team," including writer and World War Z veteran Drew Goddard, to rescue the movie. Whether the final version of the film is better or worse than what Trank put together is a matter of opinion, of course, but the consensus, clearly, is that neither was good.
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Sounds like an epic level shit show
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Goddamn
 
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Pai Pai Master

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A crewmember acknowledges that Trank bears much of the fault for the film's problems but also says the Fox studio should not escape blame. The movie was "ill-conceived, made for the wrong reasons and there was no vision behind the property," this person says. "Say what you will about Marvel but they have a vision."
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But there's no Mr. Fox or Mr. Marvel! :p

It's absolutely true though. The only reason this movie was produced was to retain rights, regardless of whether or not Trank had a decent idea for it.
 
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~Devil Trigger~

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saw it

wasnt as horrifying i thought it was gonna be but my expectation was so low....

so many bad choices, i dunno where to begin
 
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