First reviews for Trank's Fantastic Four hit.

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Gordon Shumway said:
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Stop taking pictures and start finishing Madvillainy 2, you fuck!
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E the Shaggy said:
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Lawnmower Man 3?
 
Looking forward to the new TV review spots..

Tom Huddleston says:
"Frankly, it's amazing"

while Todd McCarthy proclaims:
"Fantastic Four feels like..a movie"

Jamie Dunn raves:
"This is a film that's barely begun"

and Brian Lowry agrees that Fantastic Four:
"Feels like a blockbuster--not an embarrassment"
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Source..
 
Reading Secret Wars and then coming into this thread is rather depressing. Doom is such a good character in one, and a total flop in the other.
 
Alright, I figure I should drop my 2 cents here.

I was never going to watch another F4 origin story with Doom as the villain, it just doesn't interest me anymore.

My ideal for a Fantastic Four movie is a story that doesn't use a supervillain, something a lot more of a a sci-fi movie than an action one. Something focused on exploration.

Not saying any potential future movie has to be that, but I think that's where they should go if anyone ends up making another.
 
I found the actual 2015 F4 review from Empire.
Ali Plumb said:
Review
For better or worse — mainly for worse — the first two Fantastic Four films were a forgettable flurry of spandex, kid-friendly quips and bubblegum pantomime. Eight years later and Josh Trank’s take is the exact opposite, channelling Chronicle’s grittiness to make a dour, dank and thoroughly think-y version of Stan Lee’s original superhero team.

The film’s brave departure from Happy Meal territory brings out both its best and worst qualities. Where Mister Fantastic (Miles Teller’s Reed Richards, power to stretch), Human Torch (Michael B. Jordan’s Johnny Storm, power to fly and shoot fire), Invisible Woman (Kate Mara’s Sue Storm, power to disappear and project force fields) and The Thing (Jamie Bell’s Ben Grimm, superhuman strength and stone skin) once got their gifts from a space mission, it’s now down to a dabble in inter-dimensional travel.

But teleporting to another plane is not a simple task. In an attempt to ground matters, the film makes its heroes — as well as its villain, Toby Kebbell’s Victor Von Doom — young scientists working together in a scholarship programme. Unfortunately, finessing the equipment required to jump to another world takes up most of the film’s screen time, and the talented cast struggles to make welding, typing and examining blueprints cinematic.

Where you might expect biffing of bad guys and teamwork-orientated takedowns, this superhero movie is all concrete corridors and doohickey jargon. Expect liberal use of the word “quantum” and lines like, “His biochemistry is off the charts!” delivered with po-faced gravity.

And yet when the powers do come, there are enjoyable moments of horror as Johnny wakes up on fire and Reed finds himself strapped to an elongated stretcher: a werewolf mid-transformation, minus the hair. The emotional reaction to the catastrophic accident that, amongst other things, turns Billy Elliot into a walking, punching, sighing rock does hit home, in a way that Michael Chiklis could only dream of.

It’s a shame that come the inevitable third act face-off, the cartoonishness arrives and the tumbler turns into a clown car. Von Doom’s inevitable reappearance has him looking like a toy soldier nuked in an industrial microwave, only he’s also wearing a cape now, because the movie’s internal logic is disappearing through a wormhole.

He spends his precious minutes on screen dispensing pat “I will destroy you!” dialogue as the film descends into the obligatory boom and pow. Teller duly responds with similarly on-the-nose “He’s stronger than any of us, he’s not stronger than all of us” rallying cries in-between super-stretchy double-handed punches. The franchise catchphrases you presumed forbidden are promptly crowbarred in as “It’s clobbering time!”, “Flame on!” and the title drop land like a giggle fit at a mortuary. After all that effort at authenticity, Fantastic Four wants it both ways: funereal and fun.


Verdict
The first part of a two-part film you can’t watch just yet, Fantastic Four ends on an optimistic, just-you-wait-for-the-sequel note. But as an origin story that’s all origins and no story, there’s a hollow, stale feeling to this occasionally admirable attempt to Nolanise Marvel’s dysfunctional family.

2/5 Stars
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The funny part is that it got the same score as the 2005 F4 review I accidentally pulled.

Also, this review has yet to be added on Rotten Tomatoes.
 
Yousefb said:
Anyone else listen to Fatman on Batman? I really have no idea why Kevin Smith is dedicating 4 freaking episodes of the podcasts to Josh Trank interviews (regarding Fantastic 4). I'm simply not interested 0_0
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Listening to the 2nd episode right now. Seems like a cool dude and I like his stories. Feel bad for him. I was all hyped to see this with my 12 year old too :/
 
I can't think of anything up to now that has made me want to see this so far. Not the announcement that it was going to focus on a teenage/YA Fantastic Four, not the news that it was another origin story, not the casting decisions (Miles Teller and Kate Mara? Ugh, give me the '05 film with Ioan Gruffud and Jessica Alba... they may not be the best actors but at least they were attractive and looked the part), not the awful CG we've seen in the flame effects and especially Reed's stretching, and not every single bit of info we have seen regarding Doom (outside of who is playing him, but I don't think he can salvage the role).

None of these reviews, newer commercials/footage, or quotes from the movie are making me want to reconsider. I would rather watch the '05 flick and RoSS.
 
Marvel need to offer those X-Men TV rights, I think they could get the FF back from Fox that way.

Or not, Fox may just fold them into that crossover thing...
 
Hahahahaha

On Tuesday, Kate Mara (House of Cards) was a guest on Live with Kelly and Michael. She was there promoting her new movie Fantastic Four and revealed that when she was at Comic-Con last month she wasn't even recognized when she and her co-star Jamie Bell (Turn) went to grab a cup of joe with the commoners.

"We spent a whole day there, sort of working and doing press, and you don't really get to meet the fans. So the next morning, Jamie Bell and I decided, 'Well, we want the experience of Comic-Con. So let's just go out, let's walk to get a coffee amongst all of the fans,'" Mara explained to Kelly Ripa and Michael Strahan. "And we were like, 'Well, maybe this is a bad idea. We'll get mobbed and it'll be crazy,' and not one person...not one person noticed us."
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http://comicbook.com/2015/08/05/fantastic-four-cast-members-walked-among-comic-con-fans-and-no-o/
 
Mr. Sam said:
Has Kevin Smith stopped bursting into floods of tears on Fatman on Batman yet? You could practically hear Kevin Conroy awkwardly leaning away.

I'm not one for religiously adhering to the comics but the tone that Trank seemingly was going for - i.e. a pretty similar one to the one that made me bored and repulsed by Chronicle - is just a total mismatch with the Fantastic Four concept.



Throw another hundred million at this, you're going to get the same movie with better special effects and post-converted 3D. This attempt just seems fundamentally misguided.
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Side note but yeah, seems like Smith is either layed off the pot or at least has better control of his emotions. The Kevin Conroy episode was prettt awkward at times, lol
 
SchrodingerC said:
They fucked up DOOM AGAIN! Why is his character so difficult for FOX to adapt? All you need to do is make an evil Iron Man who runs a fictional country. GOD!
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Evil Iron Man is probably too complicated for those Hollywood types. I'd just tell them to make him Darth Vader. Even if all the did was rip off classic Vader junk shot for shot, he'd have exponentially greater gravitas than he has in any film incarnation to date.
 
More tweets about the movie from Mathew Buck.

https://twitter.com/FB_BMB/status/629023824114225152

True fact on Fantastic Four: when Ben, Reed, Johnny and Susan band together at the end, it's the 1st time they're all in a scene together.
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https://twitter.com/FB_BMB/status/629024043086282752

In fact, I don't think Ben and Susan have even met each other before that point. Good team dynamic, everyone!
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https://twitter.com/FB_BMB/status/629024580523454464

So not only do you have to wait 80 mins for the Fantastic 4 to become that, you have to wait that long for them to even share space.
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https://twitter.com/FB_BMB/status/629025038109417472

The way they get split apart like that has to be an intentional creative decision. That or no one noticed, which would be ridiculous.
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