I broke down and saw Fantastic FOur this weekend. I had heard it wasn't that good and the previews certainly didn't make it look like it was worth watching. I think, maybe, if you weren't into comics, espcially the fantastic four, you might have liked it. Otherwise it was crap. They pretty much threw out everything from the comic storywise. There are also a lot of plot holes and weird stuff internal to the movie that have nothing to do with the comics and can only be bad writing.
Doom's mask was an award from the People of Latveria? WTF? What kind of an award it that? Thanks for building this hospital, here's a scary iron mask for you. Now the mask could have had some kind of Latveria significance, but this was not explained.
Ben Grimm, after being friends with Reed for over 20 years, quits the team after one conversation with Doom, who he hates.
Reed, who is supposedly completly broke, manages to get funds to build a machine that recreates the cosmic storm.
It takes all of Doom's power to turn "the Thing" back into Ben Grim but apparently not to change him back into the Thing.
Jessica Alba spends a lot of time running after people saying "No wait...."
The real tragedy is that Dr. Doom is the coolest villian in Marvel comics, and they completly threw all that away. They really just made up a complety new character and called him Dr. Doom.
Despite this It's not completly horrible. It's entertaining certainly. I'd like to hear someone take on it who had never heard of the Fantastic Four before. I think that's who they must have been targetting, cause it certainly wasn't the comic fans.
ok - so my only intro to the fantastic 4 was reading your graphic novel that sets all the superheros in the 1600s or something - if i ever get around to seeing it i'll let you know.
oh, don't get me wrong, i'd heard of them, but never watched or read anything about them.
Thanks... NOw you've totally ruined my outlook on the movie.. I didn't think it was spectacular, but it was somewhat entertaining and worth owning when it comes out on DVD. I've never read F4 and really didn't know much about them. I loved Jim Lee's cameo. It's like WTF? Jim Lee will do a cameo but he won't tell the muther-f'ers how to make the damn story right? grrr... Well i'm glad i didn't have to be dissapointed like you having not known the history of F4.
What, nobody freaking watched F4? Damn. Well, if it helps, Dark Water is the worst movie I've seen in ages. Beautifully shot, decent acting, but so bad Hooker and I were laughing through the whole thing. So there are worse things you could see. And I still haven't finished 1602 - didn't realize F4 were in it. Where is it...huh.
Monkey got me the Dark Water manga for my birthday. It's a pretty decent (while very short) read. I couldn't quite see how they'd make a full length feature out of it.
Finish 1602, you'll recognize F4 when you get to them.
How can Mr. Doom freeze Reed and not kill him? Totaly kooky. And the Thing, Is everything made og orange rock or what? What happens at toilet time?
Chris