The World’s Most Mediocre Comics Movie Franchise!
by Will
Tomorrow, Kevin and I will see the new movie The Fantastic Four. We plan on being disappointed. Brian will be with us in spirit, even though he will be recovering from his Sinatra-like week in Las Vegas.
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Something about the FF makes me think it would be a lousy movie no matter who directs, writes or acts in it. They just don’t seem that cinematic. Mostly I think it’s that Reed Richards is kind of a goofy front-man for the group. Growing up I always compared him to DC’s Plastic-man. I also think it’s hard to focus on character development when there is a whole group you have to introduce.
That said, I also thought X-Men would fail as a film for similar reasons, and it and its sequel are two of the best superhero films out there. Maybe we’ll be surprised, but like you, I am skeptical.
I think the Fantastic Four could be a fun movie.
I don’t think this will be any good.
I am excited about seeing it anyway.
I confuse me.
There was a story in the New York Times talking about race, “Fantastic Four” and “Hustle and Flow.” — “Fantastic Four” is a mainstream Hollywood film directed by an African American. “Hustle” is written and directed by a white guy.
Anyway, I came away from the article feeling like any disparaging remarks I make about “Fantastic Four” will be at the expense of African American directors getting future opportunities. Which is a shame, because it looks awful, and his last film was “Taxi.”
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I think, as movies go, the “Fantastic Four” characters suffer from visual problems which I think Rob is mentioning (unless he just means in terms of character development). But I think the X-Men movies did a great job of having most of the main characters look unridiculous. Most of the villains in the first movie were pretty goofy looking, but I think they got Nightcrawler right. Other than him, the X-Men they featured were all pretty normal. I’m worried about how Beast and Angel will turn out, as you can’t ignore their powers/mutations like you can with Wolverine, Rogue, Scott and Jean.
In “The Incredibles,” ElastiGirl managed to fit in visually with the universe, but I still found some of her power usage silly – making a parachute of herself and holding up the RV at the end both pulled me out of the story momentarily because they seemed so implausible.