[QUOTE=Primigenes;48394537]Great review/summary
Goddamn, this movie just gets more and more disappointing. How badly is Trank's career going to suffer for this[/QUOTE]
What career? He will spend years directing mockbusters or porn after what happened during F4 production [B]at best[/B].
[quote]- Reed is escaping through the world via a thing where he uses his rubberyness to change faces. I don't know how, don't ask. He's building a transportation shuttle for one. This never comes up. This never comes up again. Nothing happens, and things get dropped in an instant after being introduced. The army sends Ben after him. They have the worst superhero fight of all time when Reed- who is shown rubbering his away around a super fast taser- is incapable of dodging the most telegraphed headbutt of all time.[/quote]
Gave me an image of like that scooby doo episode or some cartoon/game from awhile ago where a guy would rub his face and turn into a different person.
[QUOTE=Damjen;48394548]What career? He will spend years directing mockbusters or porn after what happened during F4 production [B]at best[/B].[/QUOTE]
this movie is basically a mockbuster/porn plot
[QUOTE=SFC003;48394697]this movie is basically a mockbuster/porn plot[/QUOTE]
except it's you who's getting fucked
[QUOTE=Demeschik;48394704]except it's you who's getting fucked[/QUOTE]
in all holes, yes
[QUOTE=Primigenes;48394537]Great review/summary
Goddamn, this movie just gets more and more disappointing. How badly is Trank's career going to suffer for this[/QUOTE]
He was supposed to direct a Star Wars film. Rumor is Disney dropped him after hearing how badly he was fucking up the F4 reboot.
Video summing up rumours (and/or facts) about shit that went down during F4 production
[video=youtube;0OZY_Eno8GE]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0OZY_Eno8GE[/video]
I thought Sue was losing pigmentation in her hair because of invisibility based on the trailers, but it's apparently just because of reshoots. Wow.
[QUOTE=Zuimzado;48394143]REED: We gotta have a name.
BEN: bla bla bla -looks at base- You gotta admit, it's kinda fantastic.
ME: Oh no.
REED: What was that?
BEN: What was what.
REED: Say it again.
BEN: It's fantastic.
ME: -makes audible urgh noise which causes audience to laugh-
REED: That's right guys, I've got it. You ready?
- movie cuts to title - [/QUOTE]
[img]http://thumb9.shutterstock.com/display_pic_with_logo/67766/67766,1327928945,132/stock-photo-businessman-ready-to-commit-suicide-93915967.jpg[/img]
And here I thought Suicide Squad's namedrop was bad :v:
[QUOTE=Demon!;48395243]And here I thought Suicide Squad's namedrop was bad :v:[/QUOTE]
let's be honest, if you had to pick between "task force x" and "suicide squad", you'd call yourself "suicide squad" too
[QUOTE=Demon!;48395243]And here I thought Suicide Squad's namedrop was bad :v:[/QUOTE]
To be honest Suicide Squad probably has the most graceful name drop you could get, if you have to do it.
All you have to do is have a character sarcastically go "so that makes us the/so basically we're the suicide squad" or something along those lines after being first called Task Force X and being sent on an obvious suicide mission. I mean, it's best to avoid title dropping it at all, but you could make it a throwaway line pretty easily.
To be fair, "Suicide Squad' is supposed to be a nickname for Task Force X that they come up with.
I didn't even mention how Reed is found in Panama.
So when he meets Sue for the first time he brings up Twenty Leagues Under the Sea as his favorite book. After they talk about how Reed wants to change the world, Sue calls him Captain Nemo.
What codename is Reed using when he is accessing the internet? A leet hax version of Captain Nemo. What a genius!
[editline]6th August 2015[/editline]
Oh god, I didn't talk about the editing. Just wait until I get home.
[QUOTE=Zuimzado;48393480]DON'T WATCH THIS FILM.
Extended thoughts coming soon.[/QUOTE]
WHY DIDNT YOU POST THIS SOONER?
I'll have my thoughts later but for now I'll just say that I was in a theater with 30 other people. Nobody walked out but nobody clapped at the end and people here clapped at the end of Tomorrowland. One guy who I saw it with said to me on the way out "These nachos were better than the movie"
So Fant4stic is fucking terrible as expected... I'm sitting here wondering, how do you make a [i]good[/i] Fantastic Four movie?
It's just way too goofy and silly if done in the style of the comics, and if you try and do it straight it's... well just look at the newest movie.
[QUOTE=teddthebucfan;48395532]WHY DIDNT YOU POST THIS SOONER?
I'll have my thoughts later but for now I'll just say that I was in a theater with 30 other people. Nobody walked out but nobody clapped at the end and people here clapped at the end of Tomorrowland. One guy who I saw it with said to me on the way out "These nachos were better than the movie"[/QUOTE]
Clapping at a movie seems like a silly thing to do.
[url=http://pbs.twimg.com/media/CLxW-YfUAAAFGy3.jpg]Told ya he'd be Josh Crank.[/url]
[QUOTE=Zuimzado;48395627][url=http://pbs.twimg.com/media/CLxW-YfUAAAFGy3.jpg]Told ya he'd be Josh Crank.[/url][/QUOTE]
He is having a fricking meltdown :excited:
I really hope someone will document Trank's road fo crazy land.
Judging by the special effects the movie probably had little enough budget that they can make it back easily.
[QUOTE=Mafia Insider;48395661]Judging by the special effects the movie probably had little enough budget that they can make it back easily.[/QUOTE]
122 millions actually.
[URL="http://comicbook.com/2015/08/05/fantastic-four-cast-members-walked-among-comic-con-fans-and-no-o/"]so aparently the FF cast went to pick a cup of coffee on the comic con among the fans, yet no one recognized them.[/URL]
[QUOTE=Mafia Insider;48395661]Judging by the special effects the movie probably had little enough budget that they can make it back easily.[/QUOTE]
That video posted above does answer a lot of questions surrounding production. It completely makes sense that reshoots soaked up most of their budget leaving VFX a complete mess.
[QUOTE=Zuimzado;48395627][url=http://pbs.twimg.com/media/CLxW-YfUAAAFGy3.jpg]Told ya he'd be Josh Crank.[/url][/QUOTE]
honestly i feel bad for him. a newbie director getting pulled into a major blockbuster like this was never gonna end well. im sure a producer or two had their foot firmly up his ass for the entire shoot.
OR maybe he really is just incompetent and had no idea what he was doing?? or maybe both lol we'll probably never know for sure.
[QUOTE=postal;48396010]honestly i feel bad for him. a newbie director getting pulled into a major blockbuster like this was never gonna end well. im sure a producer or two had their foot firmly up his ass for the entire shoot.
OR maybe he really is just incompetent and had no idea what he was doing?? or maybe both lol we'll probably never know for sure.[/QUOTE]
if the rumors are true he's a major dickhead tbh
[editline]7th August 2015[/editline]
sucks to be in his position either way though
[QUOTE=Damjen;48392790]Introduce them like Spider-Man. Have references related to them, maybe a smaller role in some bigger movie and then their own movie, set year or two after their origins.[/QUOTE]
Introduce Richards, the Baxter Building, and Latveria in a movie, then give them their own film where they fight Mole Man or Namor.
Doom can be the big bad of an Avengers-style teamup movie, where his feud with Richards is the primary motivation that gets everything rolling.
Okay, let me tell you about the editing.
Usually when you have your characters talking, you let the conversation hang a little, you know, let the audience sink in. Have a reaction shot, have one of your actors do something else...
No time is wasted on this movie. If they can cut, they cut. Government Guy done expositing? Cut to airplane. Airplane guys done talking? Cut to base. Done? Cut. Cut. Cut. Cut. Nothing ever gets time to just [I]be[/I] itself... except the really shit conversations like.
REED: You're my best friend.
BEN: I'm not your best friend anymore.
Let's not even get started on the questions the movie accidentally brings up. Like if Reed's proto machine had the possibility to take out the entire western hemisphere (as Doom says) and it's said that Reed has been testing the machine several times over seven years, [I]why has it only taken the Baxter Building until now to notice him?[/I]
Is Reed's suit covered in circles so as to keep his rubbery form under control, and that's why he flops when Doom destroys the circles? If so, why can Reed control his rubbery form while in the suit?
How the fuck is the teacher responsible for the science fair capable to look at actual teletransportation- this is not one of those cooky 80's machines that doesn't actually works, he teleports a model plane, the guy sees it, then brings the plane back- utter the words "there's no science here"? Why didn't the other two teachers fucking speak up?
For that matter, why is almost twenty year old Reed doing a science fair project next to a kid doing his science fair project?
Why does anyone believe any of the main cast members are teens?
Why does the movie insist Franklin Storm is the reason why the Fantastic Four unite when not only did Reed share little to no screentime with him, Ben- the one who hates Reed the most at the moment- never actually spoke to the guy?
Why does Government Guy switch between "I'm being forced to do this" and "I'm an evil military man and I take pride on doing this?"
Why is it that when seeing video of the Negative Zone after one year and noticing it is clearly brown and dusty- as opposed to thunderous and grey like before- does Reed answer "I don't know" when asked if anything's different?
Why is Tim Heidecker in this? Seriously! He's not a small name and he has less than 10 seconds of screen time!
In the final battle, the Four easily break out of the attacks Doom sent against them when he was knocked into a ditch. Yet Reed says he's still active because the giant blue thing black hole thing is still active- so why didn't the attacks remain active and these characters fucking died? On that note, Doom easily created three giant fucking pillars, why can't he just do it again? Why can't he make the evil black hole [I]he created[/I] disappear when it seems like he isn't really trapped?
Why did Doom kill Franklin Storm? He really had no reason to. And for all accounts Franklin wasn't in the way.
Why is 40 minutes cut from the movie? Why is there a timeskip? It's practically an entirely different movie on the timeskip.
Why is Johnny's rebel attitude introduced and then so eagerly thrown aside so he can literally join up with the system? And why is that dropped just as fucking fast?
Why is it that I'm pretty sure Sue has no dialog lines that don't service the plot?
WHY DID NO ONE IN THE BAXTER BUILDING SEE THE FOUR DRUNK TEENAGERS GETTING INTO THE SUPER EXPENSIVE MACHINE THAT THE GOVERNMENT WANTS?!
In my opinion FOX doesn't deserve to get off the hook for this.
People are sucking FOX's dick because of Deadpool and Days of Future Past but you forget that the X-Men movies don't have the best track record of being a. faithful to comics or b. escaping the Synger formula of 'more of the same action scenes plus one cool as shit action scene with a mutant that'll never appear in the next movie'.
This was written by Simon [I]'We couldn't have Kitty Pride be the star of Days of Future Past because that relied on powers that don't exist in our canon, so we gave her powers that don't exist on ANY canon so Wolverine can be the star again'[/I] Kinberg. No surprise here.
Another fuck up from Fox how surprising! I just dont understand Fox logic, 90% of there movies are like this.
