New Fantastic Four trailer

[hedrap]

Peter Travers didn't even give it a rating.

http://www.rollingstone.com/movies/reviews/fantastic-four-20150806

I think I'm going now. Probably wait until Tuesday when Cinemark does five buck shows. Few things nostalgically mean as much to me as the FF. So the chance to see something this off-base is now almost impossible to pass up.

[thunderbolt]

bwahaha Fant 4 Stic!!! Glad every one else notices how bad the logo is.

[Hector]

I love Jeremy Jahns...

[emeraldknight47]

I love Jeremy Jahns...

Freakin' HILARIOUS!!!

[clemso]

8% review rating on Rotten Tomatoes and dropping

[MIB41]

I'm guessing by the screen cap that he loved it!

You have three more guesses!

[palitoy]

I'm guessing by the screen cap that he loved it!

[MIB41]

I love Jeremy Jahns...

[The Bat]

I've read allot of reviews on this movie and the consensus, even from those who WANT to like this film, is it's really just too fundamentally flawed in story structure, effects, and climax. For me, the Fantastic Four is one of those odd exceptions that Hollywood can't get right. And it's perplexing when you consider they have one of the most celebrated villains in Dr. Doom, and this beautiful history of illustrations by the likes of Kirby and Burns that really shows them what the team should look like. In an era where superhero films are the current standard for huge profits and tent-pole style blockbusters every summer and holiday, the Fantastic Four seems strangely out of sorts and in competition only with the Roger Corman film that started this derailed series. When Hollywood can breath convincing life into the Guardians of the Galaxy and make Iron Man and Hulk function as they do in the comics, why is the Fantastic Four so insurmountable? I don't pretend to understand the problem here.

But what I do know is THIS Fantastic Four is going to be made an example by critics, because the playing field has gotten too competitive at this point. Hero films are no longer the new kid on the block. Quite the contrary. They are the new bully on the block. It's nearly routine to see these films pull in close to a billion dollars worldwide. Even b-named heroes are pulling in over half to three quarters of a billion dollars. That's a massive industry that has a built-in audience with expectations. This is no longer the 90's or early 2000's where you can have a underperformer in the bunch and still pull in a nice profit because no one is making these kinds of films. If you're going to take center stage, you better have come to dance because the audience and critics are ready to let you know about it. And honestly Fox Studios has had more than enough time examining how these blockbusters are made to know what NOT to bring to the big screen. I think this meltdown, critically and most likely commercially, will send a message to studios - 'Get your stuff together. You're playing in the big leagues now.'

Well said!!

[MIB41]

I've read allot of reviews on this movie and the consensus, even from those who WANT to like this film, is it's really just too fundamentally flawed in story structure, effects, and climax. For me, the Fantastic Four is one of those odd exceptions that Hollywood can't get right. And it's perplexing when you consider they have one of the most celebrated villains in Dr. Doom, and this beautiful history of illustrations by the likes of Kirby and Burns that really shows them what the team should look like. In an era where superhero films are the current standard for huge profits and tent-pole style blockbusters every summer and holiday, the Fantastic Four seems strangely out of sorts and in competition only with the Roger Corman film that started this derailed series. When Hollywood can breath convincing life into the Guardians of the Galaxy and make Iron Man and Hulk function as they do in the comics, why is the Fantastic Four so insurmountable? I don't pretend to understand the problem here.

But what I do know is THIS Fantastic Four is going to be made an example by critics, because the playing field has gotten too competitive at this point. Hero films are no longer the new kid on the block. Quite the contrary. They are the new bully on the block. It's nearly routine to see these films pull in close to a billion dollars worldwide. Even b-named heroes are pulling in over half to three quarters of a billion dollars. That's a massive industry that has a built-in audience with expectations. This is no longer the 90's or early 2000's where you can have a underperformer in the bunch and still pull in a nice profit because no one is making these kinds of films. If you're going to take center stage, you better have come to dance because the audience and critics are ready to let you know about it. And honestly Fox Studios has had more than enough time examining how these blockbusters are made to know what NOT to bring to the big screen. I think this meltdown, critically and most likely commercially, will send a message to studios - 'Get your stuff together. You're playing in the big leagues now.'

[Earth 2 Chris]

I disagree on your take of Sue...Jessica Alba was perfect...hotter than the Human Torch in fact...

Oh she was hot, but she just didn't seem the Sue type to me. Grufford would have been a fine Reed, but they wrote him too wimpy. The Lee/Kirby Reed was in the mold of the two-fisted scientist heroes popular in sci-fi movies of the time...not an an indecisive nebbish. That being said, they worked out okay in the end, for me at least.

Chris

[Hector]

Agreed ^^^^^^^^^^^^^

[emeraldknight47]

I think if I were Disney/MARVEL STUDIOS, I would issue a giant disclaimer stating that this film has no affiliation with Disney/MARVEL STUDIOS. And it seems like, if FOX and Trank actually have Ben Grimm killing, that would somehow negate FOX's rights to the FF and related properties simply due to the fact that, in all the issues I've EVER read of the FF, Ben Grimm has never killed a living human being (or maybe even anything alive). Yeah, he pounds the hell out of robots but that's BECAUSE they're robots...

[Hector]

I should say warning...SPOILERS...but I don't think anyone here cares, lol.

Apparently...the Thing has been deployed as a military weapon...and has 47 confirmed kills...

"Upon waking up from their accident, Reed Richards manages to escape the facility in "Area 57" and drop completely off the radar. A year passes, and Ben Grimm has accepted his new place in the world. He is a weapon, dropped into war zones and almost impossible to stop. We see some footage on monitors of him in action, and we see that he has something like 47 confirmed kills. Trank gives us a single close-up of the Thing, and that's supposed to be enough to tell us that he feels bad about it. Considering Ben Grimm in this film is just a dude who works at his family's junkyard right up until the second he's in this terrible accident, it seems like a pretty big adjustment for him to suddenly be a murderous wrecking machine without the film really dealing with it. You want to reinvent the character like that? Fine. But do it, and then really play it. Play it all the way out to a conclusion that feels honest based on what we as people know about our own feelings and experiences."

Source:

https://www.yahoo.com/tv/s/review-powerfully-mediocre-fantastic-four-033000517.html

Wow, just wow...Ben Grimm kills people now...

[Hector]

This quote from a movie reviewer says it all...

"It's not wickedly dark or bleak, nor is it tongue-in-cheek and enchanting. It's a disaster."