Fantastic Four Trailer

[palitoy]

[mego maniac mark]

I feel non plused about this still

[hedrap]

The Collider interview is interesting. Trank refers to Cronenberg a lot, which you can see in the "birth" of The Thing and telepods shots. I do like how craggy Thing's rock formation appears, sort of like the 80's or What If issue where he continued to Mutate. Those would fall in line with this approach.

Some shots are right out Ultimate FF. Nerdiest has a costume breakdown that says they are geared to harness their abilities, i.e - Torch has vents. Reed has retractable tubing.

Trank gets really lost in describing what the word fantastic originally meant, implying that was Stan's intention. I can see that argument to a degree, but it's also the kind of pretzel logic that Ang Lee and Jim Schamus came up with to justify their approach to The Hulk...and that trailer feels a helluva lot like Ang's Hulk.

It's an interesting approach, but it's also what was my biggest concern; FF becomes a stand-in for New Mutants.

[Earth 2 Chris]

Well, I'm going to admit it doesn't look like a bad movie. There's nothing here that looks like an FF movie, but...it's just a teaser.

Chris

[enyawd72]

LOL...they couldn't even get the logo right.

This will be the first Marvel movie I skip.

[MIB41]

Here's the dilemma... Teasers and movies are two different beasts. I've seen teasers and trailers that completely hijacked the final product (for or against what I thought I was getting). So whenever I see an advertisement for a movie, I look for the relevance in story and some studio confidence in showing us the product (especially as it applies to visually enticing characters like this).

Outside of another origin telling (did no one learn anything from the Amazing Spider-man?), I have no idea what these characters are facing or, more importantly, what they even look like in their heroic state. Everything is from a distance. Less than eight months from release and no one can see the "new" Fantastic Four? To me that spells zero confidence on the part of the studio. If I add in the context of what's been reported by insiders connected with the studio, this teaser really screams "scared".

As a generic sci-fi teaser, it reads fine. Great narration, solid soundtrack (probably not in the movie), and a consistent mood that commands your interest. If this were a Christopher Nolan film, I might be all in. But this is the Fantastic Four and all I saw was their silhouettes. Translation: I'm not fooled. Lets see these characters before the toy stores are crowded with product. Let's see the cream of the crop shots. Surely there is something to brag about that the studio can show the public. This teaser doesn't tell me that. "It's out there... waiting for us." Let's hope...

[cockyhoskins]

I agree with you 100%, MIB41!

Black suits, vented suits, square logos... none of it says FF4. This may be a great sci-fi movie, but it isn't the Fantastic Four.

I wonder if the editor kept saying to himself, "We need to fill up 90 seconds, but can't show the team or the villain! Can we extend that Marvel logo in the beginning? Or maybe roll it again every 30 seconds or so?"

[Earth 2 Chris]

After all the talk, I was surprised to even see the Marvel logo.

Chris

[WannabeMego]

"This is not the Movie you've been looking (Hoping) for...Move Along."

Kinda sums up how I feel...If I go to see it, I will have to keep telling myself, 'This is not an FF Movie...it's something else.'

Meh...What is sooo bad about the core of these old books that people feel compelled to change/manipulate the translation...I don't get it.

[MIB41]

After all the talk, I was surprised to even see the Marvel logo.

Chris

Good point Chris. My other buddy Chris (Emeraldknight) was talking about that the other day and he felt that if the movie tanks, would the public view this as the first blemish on the perfect run by Marvel? My thinking is no. First, this is not being made by Marvel Studios. This is a Fox studio product. Marvel just has the master rights to the property which is why their name appears. Personally I think they should have a different presentation when it's just a rights notification versus a studio product. I think they should use the comic pages only for the studio projects. But I don't think film critics or the industry will have any problem differentiating between the two. Everyone who pays the bills knows this is Fox doing it.

[Earth 2 Chris]

^Yeah, I think the public knows the difference. I think most folks now think of it as "The Avengers and Guardians of the Galaxy", for the actual Marvel Studios films. Now, that will have to change, but I think they know X-Men, Spidey and FF are in their own little world.

Marvel Studios did recently change their opening logo time a bit. Maybe for this very reason?

Chris

[pmwasson]

I agree with the comments in this thread. The trailer wasn't horrible and if it was an unrelated SF movie, I may be interested, but it doesn't seem to have anything to do with the Fantastic Four. I'll skip it, unless I hear its the greatest movie ever.

[RickD]

This is a rental for me.

This isn't the Fantastic Four that I know and love. I agree 100% with the comments so far

the younger kids will enjoy it, the toys will sell, Fox will make its money, and we still will not have a true Fantastic Four film.

[monitor_ep]

This might the first time that I just Redbox the movie when it gets released and but the actually movie when it hits the discount bid.

For a long time comic book media person, the trailer did not remind me of a comic book movie but a knock-off version that goes more Sci-Fi than superhero. I am not impressed with it being a F4 trailer.

[Nostalgiabuff]

this looks like the train wreck we have all been expecting. it might, I say might, be an okay sci-fi movie, but that is not what we all want to see in a superhero movie